A SQUADRON OF YEOMANRY IN SOUTH AFRICA.* THIS diary of his own participation in a" sort of war" by a "kind of soldier" is a valuable contribution to the literature of the...

LONDON: DECEMBER 6th, 1902.

by his biographer, and the title is no exaggeration of filial piety. There never was a man who deserved it better. If any one would see a practical exposition of how the...

My .dastrulian Girlhood. By Kra. Campbell Pined. London: Fisher unwln. [leo, net.] Fon over three centuries the great Southern land has fasci- nated in turn such .discoverers...

PALACES, ROYAL AND OTHER.* IN beginning her description of Windsor Mrs. Tooley remarks that " it alone redeems the countiy from the opprobrium of • (1.) Royal Palaces and their...

Sunday at Home one cannot but be struck by the almost entire absence of articles of a secular nature, such as appear in other magazines of this description. We venture to think...

dispossess the Tales from Shakespeare: Designed for the Use of Young Persons, by Charles and Mary Lamb, from their place as the popular version of the Shakespeare stories. The...

5s.)—There are good things in this annual volume, but they are not all shown to advantage. It would be better, we should think, not to have a serial story running through tl:e...

7s. Gd.)—The Sunday Magazine. (Same publishers. is. 64.1.)— Good Words is content with one serial, " A Daughter of the Sea," by Amy Le Feuvre ; among the short stories we see...

3s. 6d.)—When we remind our readers that Mr. Habberton is the author of "Helen's Babies," and further inform them that "Tiger" and," Insect" are nicknames for two children whom...

upon history. Logan—he was a pure Indian by birth, notwithstanding his Scottish name—is a personage known to frontier history ; another of the dramatis personae is George...

runs through the greater part of this volume, Mr. Baring-Gould's " Nebo the Nailer," was noticed at length some time since in the Spectator. It is not without faults, but it...

and Son. 5s.)—This is not one of Mr. Henty's historical stories, though it is, in a way, founded upon history. Almost all famous treasures have given rise to legends of how part...

Illustra- tions by Alan Wright. (C. Arthur Pearson. 6s.)—Of this con- tinuation of the Wallypug theme we do not know how we can give a better or more succinct account than that...

is republished from the Quiver. Patrick Chisholm manages the estate of Tomnagarrich for his cousin Captain Drummond. Chisholm is a shrewd man of business; Drummond is somewhat...

6d.)—We cordially recommend as a gift-book from one sensible person with literary tastes to another of like mind the charming little volume called Twelve Types. Newspaper...

Johnson. (Macmillan and Co. 8s. 6d.)—This is a very pleasant and instructive volume. It takes us through the country and among the people British readers know best as they are...

and Co., 3s. 6d.), transports us to the days of the Covenant, when " Claverhouse and his fiendish hordes "—a somewhat strong expression, whatever the provocation—were harrying...

Co. 3s. 6d.)—This is a "fairy story," and relates adventures which are summarised in what may be called a preface. "These records tell how we were wrecked on the Almond Rock,...

(Blackie and Son. 3s. 6d.)—Dr. Gordon Stables takes us first to the Arctic, and then to the Antarctic, regions. The latter of these two voyages is the main subject of the story....

is one of "The Dumpy Books for Children," in which we have set forth both by pen and by pencil how Dr. Fmniyman and his boy Toni taught "Little White Barbara" to laugh -and...

6d.)—Pollie Quebe, the "new pupil," would have been a hand- ful in herself, but when she presents herself with a parrot, and, throwing off her cloak, reveals the fact that she...

(Blackie and Son. 5s.)—It is probable, may even be taken for granted, that this story was prepared before the Boer War came to an end. It must be regarded accordingly, and no...

Co. 5s.)—We venture to think that the place which Mr. Metcalfe chooses for the beginning of his story is not quite appropriate. "The Trade Winds had left us in latitude 55...

2s. 6d.)—The writer of this tale has a moral to enforce, not a commonplace moral by any means, yet not to be called far- fetched. Faithful is one of those women who have a...

5s.)—This story of the Commonwealth time is a good piece of work, and not by any means unworthy of the well-known name which the title-page bears. The late Mrs. Emma Marshall...

M. Dent and Co. 33. 6d. net.)—We presume that this is an allegory. Happily, however, it is allowable to read an allegory and not worry oneself about the interpretation. So young...

which we have before noticed in the Spectator is described as "Illustrated Readings for the People,"—i.e., these papers are not meant primarily for children, but are suitable...

and Co. 12s. 6d.)—This is a helpful book, because the author does not set out merely to expound some particular theory or praise some one tendency. What we find in the book is a...

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Erromanga, the Martyr Isle. By the Rev. H. A. Robertson. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)—Erromanga, one of the larger of the volcanic group of islands known as the New Hebrides, and...

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An Introduction to Psychology. By Mary Whiton Calkins. (Macmillau and Co. 8s. 6d.)—This is, for a philosophical work, wonderfully interesting and—which perhaps comes to the same...

The Autobiography of a "Newspaper Girl." By Elizabeth L. Banks. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—This is a very entertaining, though also in places too strident, book. It is the story of a...

In a Tuscan Garden. (John Lane. 5s.)—This is a delightful, because delightfully personal yet not unpleasantly egotistic, book. The author tells, in the first instance, how,...

Next to flu! Ground : Chronicles of a Countryside. By Martha Mcculloth-Willianis. (W. Heinemann. 6s.)—The country life which is here described is that of Tennessee, west of the...

Evil Eye in the Western Highlands. By R. C. Maclagan. (David Nutt. 7s. 6d.)—This is undoubtedly an interesting collection of stories dealing with a familiar Highland...

Anglo - Jewish Calendar for Every Day in. ,the Gospels. By Matthew Power, S.J. (Sands and Co. 2s. 6d.)—The result of the author's elaborate investigation of the Jewish Calendar...

Gentlemen of the House of Commons. By T. H. S. Escott. 2 vols. (Hurst and Blackett. 15s. net.)—These two volumes do not contain, as the title might possibly lead one to expect,...

Bain. (Macmillan and Co. 6s.)—Professor Bain is beyond doubt quite right in his contention that the simplicity of Ovid makes him preferable to Virgil for beginners. The...

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new phase. On Friday week the Emperor ended a speech at Gorlitz by saying that he desired for his people intellectual freedom, freedom of scientific investigation, and freedom...

T HE President's Message was read to Congress on December 2nd. It was not very log, and though it contained some striking sentences, it had been to a great extent anticipated by...

business affairs. The President wishes for a Minister of Commerce with a seat in the Cabinet, and demurs to any " dislocation " of the Protectionist system, under which, he...

produce a ghastly effect if only we could be absolutely sure that they are true. They amount to this, that the Sultan is pursuing in Macedonia the policy of slaughter, ravage,...

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the eighteenth clause on Friday week, and disposed of before the House rose, the only amendment accepted—apart from those put under the Closure—being that of Mr. Yoxall to the...

has recommended a large widening and improvement of its programme. The "Afrikander Bond" is to call itself "The South African Party," and admit any person born in South Africa....

to convert the new Sessional Orders relating to procedure into Standing Orders. Mr. Gibson Bowles, who deprecated the stereotyping of the Order passed earlier in the year, and...

favour- able. The garrison of Bohotle has been stricken with rnalarions fever, and the Somali levies have shown such signs of indiscipline, and, according to the messages, of...

Spain. The Liberal Dynastic party has broken up, and Senor Sagasta, deserted by many of his followers, and betrayed, as he com- plains, by many friends, has handed an...

last week. In a letter addressed to each member of the Irish party, and published in Monday's Free- man's Journal, he admits that their abstention has been mis- understood by...

inquire into sentences passed under martial law in South Africa was issued on Monday. The Commissioners (Lord Alverstone, Mr. Justice Bigham, and Sir John Ardagh) having recited...

authority of the New York Herald, a statement which, if subsequently verified, is of unusual historic interest. Mr. Morris Jessup's expedition, he says, has returned from its...

on Thursday. The Duke of Devonshire described the genesis of and need for the measure, and Lord Spencer, in moving its rejection, relied on arguments already all too familiar...

Jebb defended the measure as promoting the efficiency of the public elementary schools, co-ordinating the different kinds of education, and rendering education a popular feature...

respect to the capacity of the Upper House to propose amendments to the Education Bill raised a question of considerable moment. Lord Spencer asked the Govern- ment whether they...

2nd a most striking speech to the British Chamber of Commerce. A change, he said, had crept over his pro- fession. When he entered it he still believed that there was a secret...

resumed in the Commons on Thursday. As now amended by the Government, the number of representatives on the Board is to be seventy-three, including ten from the County CounciL To...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 921.

THE NEW TASK OF AMBASSADORS. T HE nations are wild to enrich themselves, and diplo- macy and legislation are both subordinated to con- siderations of trade. That is the keynote...

N O one, we think, who has any acquaintance with the feelings current in leading Nonconformist circles twenty years ago would deny that the prominence to which Dr. Joseph Parker...

W E must almost apologise for returning to a subject which to many of our readers must seem tiresome, but this collapse of German Parliamentarism in the face of the...

A NY fresh contribution to the study of the never- ending Irish problem is welcome to thoughtful per- sons in this country. However we may be divided in our ideas as to the...

is an event of the first order in the scientific world, and St. Andrew's Day is therefore an occasion for the assemblage at Burlington House, and at the subsequent dinner, of...

TA ME a pack of beagles changing bares, it sometimes happens that a newspaper correspondence relating to a particular question raises another which goes farther afield. That is...

L ONDON clay and the Essex marshes are two factors which help to keep the soil and air of East London cold, and so to condense the vapour in the air till it turns to fog. But as...

TT may be said at once by some that the religion of a man, even though he be dead, is a matter sacred to himself and to those yet surviving to whom he was most near and dear;...

PATRIOTIC PARALYSIS IN GERMANY. [To THE EDIT= Or THE "SPECTATOR...1 SIR, — I find this very excellent phrase in the letter of "Au Englishman," writing from Shanghai, in tlie...

[To THZ EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,"] SIR,—I venture to appeal to your courtesy and sense of justice to allow me to supplement one statement in your recent "short notice" of...

[To THU EDITOR OF TER "srscv.roa."] SIR,—The excellent article in the Spectator of November 29th upon Dr. Richter appears to do rather less than justice to the great conductor...

[To TRH EDITOR OF TRH " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—Your article in the Spectator of November 29th is most interesting, and I hope, as one who has taken an active part in the matter for...

CECIL RHODES. ELSEWHERE, the impartial wings of time Sad-vestured autumn bring. Only in Oxford's happy clime Reigns an unfading spring. Youth with its own immortal gifts,...

WITH THE EYES OF DE WET.* IT has long been acknowledged (that the lessons of the war would not be rightly read until we had their own view of the stubborn struggle and its...

JUSTICE has already been done in these columns to the admin. able papers which compose this volume. They lose nothing by being collected from the pages of the venerable magazine...

THE word " musings " has a suggestion of a quiet peaceful. ness of which there is nothing to be seen in the attitude of "Annalist." Nor is he without a "method," if it is a...

THE interest awakened in the Imperial responsibilities of the United States is strikingly indicated in the new number of the Nineteenth Century. Mr. Archibald S. Hurd in...

MOTH AND RUST.* THIS author of Red .Pottage, unlike some modern novelists,. has not been seduced into overproduction by the resounding success achieved by her last book. This...

King's Agent is an historical novel dealing with a sham plot for the restoration of James II. concocted by Robert Young in 1692, a plot into which the name of the Duke of...

[u.a., this heading we notice such ItosAs of the week as have not bees reserved for review in other forms.] In the "Century Bible" (T. C. and E. C. Jack, 28. net) we have St....

Moulton is an American millionaire, the husband of the beautiful Mrs. Moulton. In this story the hunger for money and the feverish love of work for work's sake so common to-day...

6s.)—If there is any one who cherishes the romantic conceptions of the Red Indian which were commonly accepted a couple of generations ago, let him read Children qf the Frost,...

Pearson. 6s.)—This is a volume of short stories, or rather, sketches, some of which have already appeared in the Pal/ Mall Gazette and the Westminster Gazette. They are...

is a powerful study of the Nemesis of conscience. Arthur Wilson, a minister and an eloquent preacher, plays a friend what his elder brother with brotherly frankness describes as...

of a book written by Franz Delitzsch some thirty odd years ago. We need hardly say that it is full of interesting and valuable matter. The order in which various trades and...

Truth ). (Grant Richards. 6s.)—Mrs. Huruphiy begins with "Royalty" and proceeds to "Servants," and then takes us through a variety of subjects: meals of various kinds, balls,...

Ipswich. 2s. 6d.)—We think that Canon Garratt, who writes a preface for this book, would have done well to advise the author against including among the "seventeen martyrs" the...

together by that indefatigable collector and selector, Mr. Alfred Miles. These are Captured by the Navajos Indians, and other Thrilling Stories, 4c.; The Merry Middies of the...

Lacordaire. A Revised Translation. (Art and Book Company. 2s. 6d. net.)—In the series of "The World's Classics" (Grant Richards, Is. net each )De Quincey's Confessions of an...

Held at Northampton, edited by the Rev. C. Dunkley (Bemrose and Sons, 10s. 6d. net). We cannot, of course, even attempt to deal with the multifarious contents of this volume ;...

Davenport Adams. (Grant Richards. 5s.)—This is an anthology Df extracts from notable writers. There are some hundred and fifty authors, "from Plato to Ruskin," from whom...