THE LITERATURE OF WAR.* MB. COCKLE'S bibliography of military books is perfect in its kind. Simply arranged, admirably printed, and embellished with a valuable set of...

MR. MYER seems not to be thoroughly at home in the English language. He generally contrives to make himself under- stood, but his style is feeble and awkward in the extreme, and...

LONDON : OCTOBER 6th, 1900.

MRS. BEA.RNE has again given us a delightful book, and, with all due allowance for the former volume containing less familiar information, we must congratulate her on the...

published his Thoughts on Hunting, and founded for all practical purposes the literature of the sport. Since his day we have had innumerable volumes on every detail of the...

A HAMPSHIRE GUIDE AND A NORFOLK NOTE-BOOK. Hampshire, with the Isle of Wight. By G. A. B. Dewar, John Vaughan, and others. With Illustrations. (J. M. Dent and Co. 4s. 6d....

King Alfred's Version of the Consolations of Boithius. Done into Modern English, with an Introduction, by Walter John Sedge- field, Litt.D. (Henry Frowde. 4e. Gd.)—This...

The Mammals of South Africa. By W. L. Sclater, F.Z.S., M.A., Director of the South African Museum, Cape Town. "Primates, Carnivore, and Ungulate." (T.'. H. Porter. 2 vols., 30s....

The Care of the Child in Health. By Nathan Oppenheim, A.B. (Harv.), M.D. (Coll. P. and S., N.Y.) (Macmillan and Co. 6s.) It would greatly improve this book to substitute the...

Darnley. By David Graham. (A. Constable and Co. 5s.)— Mr. Graham's Darnley sustains, without adding to it, the reputa- tion won by his Rizzio. But to say this is to imply an...

J. M. Barrie and his Books : Biographical and Critical Studies. By J. A. Hammerton. (Horace Marshall and Son. 5s.)—Mr. Hammerton, in common with an immense section of the...

Researches into the Origin of the Primitive Constellations of the Greeks, Phcenicians, and Babylonians. By Robert Brown, jun., F.S.A Vol. II. (Williams and Norgate. 10s....

Studies in Fossil Botany. By Dukinfiold Henry Scott. 161 Illustrations. (A. and C. Black. is. net.)—Mr. Scott, who is well known to botanists as the Keeper of the Jodrell...

Law Without Lawyers. By Two Barristers-at-Law. (John Murray. 6s.)—The title of this book is hardly suitable for a work written by two barristers ; and, indeed, the authorship...

has written the story of Cargill with sense and moderation. It ia difficult—especially for a Scotsman—to relate with calmness the proceedings of the men who ruled Scotland...

The History of Education. By Thomas Davidson. (A. Constable and Co. 6s. net.)—Mr. Davidson tells us that "to be strictly accurate, the title of this book should have been A...

The Church of the West in the Middle Ages. By Herbert B. Workman. Vol II. (Charles H. Kelly. 2s. 6d.)—With this volume Mr. Workman brings down the story of the Church in the...

The Royal Navy: a History. By William Laird Clowea and Others. Vol. V. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. 25s.)—This, the fifth volume of a very handsome series describing and...

Wild Sports of Burma and Assam. By Colonel Pollok and W. S. Thom. With Maps and Illustrations. (Hurst and Blackett. 16s.)—Mr. Thom describes the game of Upper Burmah and...

Mechanical Traction in War. By Lieutenant-Colonel Otfried Layriz. Illustrated. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. 3s. net.) —Mr. R. B. Marston has translated this compact and...

Through the First Antarctic Night, 1898 - 99. By F. A. Cook. With Illustrations. (W. Heinemann. 20s.)—It is difficult, we should say, to write with a continuous enthusiasm of...

Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed : the Conspiracy of the Nineteenth Century Unmasked. By C. H. Thomas. (Hodder and Stoughton. 35. 6d.)—There is a fine vigour about the...

Three Surrey Churches. By the Rev. H. R. Ware and others. (F. Lasham, Guildford.)—The "Three Churches" are St. Nicholas Compton and St. Mary Guildford. Compton (a name which...

Hugh Latimer. By R. M. Carlyle and A. J. Carlyle, Chaplain and Lecturer of University College, Oxford, Examining Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Worcester. (Methuen and Co. 8s....

A History of the Jewish People during the Maccabees* and Boman Periods. By James Stevenson Riggs, D.D. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 6s.)—This is an interesting addition to the...

The Council of Constance to the Death of John Hus. By James Hamilton Wyllie. (Longmans and Co. 6s.)—In this volume, which gives the Ford Lectures delivered in Oxford during...

A Review of Irish History in Relation to the Social Development of Ireland. By John Patrick Gannon. (T. Fisher Unwin. Os.)— Mr. Gannon's aim is to show that the course of...

Shaksper, not Shakespeare. By W. H. Edwards. (The Robert Clarke Company, Cincinnati.)—We are not inclined to take Mr. Elwards seriously; he is too thoroughgoing and too...

In the Wind of the Day. By the Rev. J. M. Blake, M.A. (George Allen. 3s. 6d.)—This little book of parables for children comes from Mr. Ruskin's publishers, and it is evidently...

The Soteriology of the New Testament. By William Poreter du Bose, M.A., Professor of Exegesis in the University of the South. New Edition with a New Preface. (Macmillan and Co....

All about Dogs. By C. H. Lane, Breeder, Exhibitor, and Judge. With 87 Illustrations from celebrated Champion Dogs by R. H. Moore. (John Lane. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Lane writes...

A Glimpse of the Tropics. By E. A. Hastings Joy. (Sampson Low, larston, and Co. 6s.)—The beat that can be said of this pleasant book is that it does not pretend to be more...

Mr. W. H. Hudson's Nature in Dowaand (Longmans and Co., 10s. 6d. net) tells the story of wild life in the great chalk region of the South with truth and appreciation. A critic...

Elizabeth Lucas. (Grant Richards. 6s.)—This is a book of suggestions for "games and employments." The authors begin with "Blind Man's Buff," and suggest a number of different...

Lane. 5s.)—Neither title-page nor preface informs us that this is a book intended for the young. We can, however, hardly believe that any but ehildren will appreciate this...

Great Queen Sireet . ,V.C.; and Published by Joel BASER for the " SPECTATOR" (Limited), at their Office, No. 1 Wellington Street, in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the...

Balfour has been returned by an immense majority. In 1895 he only carried the seat by 776 votes. On the present occasion he has won by 2,453. That is, he has more than trebled...

to organise the international force which will act under him. He has already taken possession of Sban-hai- kwan without resistance, and is said to be making prepara- tions for...

events in regard to China. All that can be said with cer- tainty is that the Powers are still negotiating, but that out of the mist of notes and protocols and counter-proposals...

up to Friday Conservatives Liberal Unionists • •• ••• Liberals (including Labour) ... Nationalists •.• Total returned UniOnist majority • 239 42) 281 ... *...

had addressed a letter to the German Emperor apologising for the murder of the German Minister. His subordinates, says the Emperor, have acted disgracefully, and he his ordered...

T HE elections will result in a large majority for the Unionists. That fact is abundantly clear, though many of the elections are still undecided. It may be that the Liberals...

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spoke at length on the subject of military defence. He said that they were no longer content that the Home Army should serve merely as a recruiting office and an elementary...

appointed to succeed Lord Wolseley as Commander-in-Chief. That the appointment is as wise as it is popular we do not doubt. Not only is Lord Roberts a hero to the soldier and...

char - acter. After stating that be has observed with satisfaction that the Emperor of China endeavours "to atone for the infamous murder of my Envoy," he goes on to say that...

to Lydenburg, having reached and taken Pilgrim's Rest. Buller's force brought back with it 600 cattle, 4,000 sheep, 150 waggon-loads of supplies, 184,000 rounds of ammunition,...

few of them are of sufficiently abiding interest to deserve comment. We except that of Mr. Wyndham noted below, which deals with facts and policy, and does not consist merely of...

tions. It speaks well for the good sense of "canny Newcastle" that the electors did not allow themselves to be distracted from the main issue by so engaging and romantic a...

to Lord Fairfax, whose death took place on Friday week at his plantation, Northampton, Prince George County, Maryland,—a house a hundred and fifty years old, with an estate of...

Unionist candidate in Dublin County, has very pluckily refused to promise to vote against giving Irish Roman Catholics the kind of University education they desire. If he is...

an excellent story of Lord Kitchener. A certain Yeomanry commander whilst on parade rated his men in unmeasured terms. Nothing was right that the troopers did. They sat their...

very striking poem on the entry of Australia into the circle of the free nations of the Empire, entitled "The Young Queen." The poem must be read in its entirety to obtain a...

recondite quotation, gives in its issue of Tuesday a striking passage from a letter addressed by Bolingbroke to Harley while the latter was first Minister of the Crown. He told...

Italian Government under the new regime, though it acts very sternly in regard to actual disaffection among the Bishops and clergy, is doing the Church a real service by...

Barton, the Federal delegate from New South Wales, in which he gives his impressions of the leading British politicians. He expresses the opinion that Lord Salisbury is "still...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 98i.

THE ELECTIONS. T HOUGH the elections are little more than half over as we write, there can be no sort of doubt as to the result. The great Unionist majority in the Rouse of...

C APTAIN F. E. YOUNGHUSBAND has a right to be heard upon the Chinese question. He has much official experience, he has traversed China from end to end, not as a globe-trotter...

W E referred last week to the dead-set that has been made against Mr. Chamberlain during the elec- tions, and the grossly unfair charges brought against him by the baser sort...

of the Times declares that "there has seldom been a period of greater national discouragement and anxiety" than that through which the German Empire is now pass- ing. The hot...

W E can scarcely give too much praise to Mr. Goschen's determination "to keep the administration of the Navy entirely apart from party politics." Perhaps the importance of this...

T HERE passed away the other day, in a hospital at Montreal, a really great American scholar, who might have easily laid claim to having been, at the time of his death, one of...

C HILDREN, who dislike ceremony as much as they resent familiarity, love ceremonials of nearly every kind. They delight in taking a part in them themselves and invent or...

1101 EMEMBERING gratefully, as all students should do, .:1-1d the immense literary value of the Bible, it is not with- out a pang of regret that we are obliged to confess that...

THE UNIONIST ATTACK ON MR HORACE PLUNKETT. [TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPEcrATon.1 SIR,—In the Spectator of September 29th there are two letters . commenting upon the unhappy...

. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " snarrron.1 Sfit, — Brought up on the land in the late "fifties," I went S through all , the gradations common to country lads from eight years of...

the respect of every one, but his letter in the Spectator of September 29th appears to show that, in common with many Irish Unionists, he ignores the essential. point. Mr. Gill,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIE, --- The Emperor William is, we know, a student of his family history. " Fugleman he," too, "to the European nations, just about bursting...

(To TFIE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTAT'OR.") SIR,—The world is poorer by a great store of wit and wisdom and kindliness now that Harry Jones is dead. He was not a learned man, nor a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") role of the superior person is always offensive. It is not less SO when assumed by a person so informed and eminent as Mr. Edward Clodd. I...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Si,—In the Graphic of September 22nd there is a sketch entitled "Breaking up Captured Boer Rifles in the Fort" (Johannesburg). Can nothi ....

[TO THE EDITOR OF TEX "SPECTATOR."] your interesting article on " Abdurrahman Khan" in the Spectator of September 29th you complain that the chapter of autobiography which...

• [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—" Elder-flower wine," referred to in the letter of your correspondent "X." in the Spectator of September 29th, is not yet extinct....

• [TO TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sna,—The writer of the charming article upon our English hedges in the Spectator of September 22nd does not seem to be acquainted with...

r To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Your correspondent, "4 High Churchman," in the Spectator of September 29th, reverses the meaning of the verse he misquotes. The " day...

THE ASH WALK. A POINTED arch inthe grey wall Leads where the slanting sunbeams fall On the white path of river sand, And, ranged in rank, great ash trees stand. Not theirs the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:] SIR,—As an American who believes England right in this South African War, I have noted the various statements con- cerning the artillery in...

• [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Owing to a misprint in my letter in the Spectator of September 22nd, I appear to say that it costs nothing to carry electric...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR"] SIR,---" X. X. X.'s " touching confidence (Spectator, Sep. tember 22nd) that an efficient Army would follow upon the adoption of certain...

[TO THE ED/TOR OF THE "SPECTATOR-1 Sm—An officer now on active service in South Africa who has had much experience in rifle-shooting writes :—" Our rifle is certainly a...

AFRIK ANDER ASP]:RATIONS.* IF Sir George Cornewall-Lewis were alive, he would probably add a chapter on conspiracy to his Use and Abuse of Political Terms. The word is one to...

THE " sixth hereditary degree of the higher nobility of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland" has found in Mr. Pixley an enthusiastic and industrious historian. It is...

111 the course of last year we welcomed the appearance of the first instalment of a projected series on the history of the English Church, under the joint editorship of the Dean...

THE historic justification for the main motive of Mr. Morrison's admirable story of Essex in the middle " fifties " is contained in the fact, alluded to in the dedicatory...

Tniz two most readable articles in this month's Nineteenth Century are "A Nation of ' Amateurs," by Mr. Geor g e Brodrick, the Warden of Merton, and "The Breed of Man," by Dr....

is likely to be a useful volume. The facts that are most difficult of access are the facts of quite recent history. It is tedious work to hunt through the files of newspapers,...