NAPOLEON AND THE INVASION OF ENGLAND.* Tim title of this book may perhaps have given rise to expectations which will be disappointed. The joint authors have not achieved an...

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mountains contain all the pomp and glory of life this book will be, in Biblical phrase, a feast of fat things. The ordinary man may be a little bored by it, for Mr. Abraham, one...

MR. G °Imes work on London is in many respects of a highly controversial character, and his conclusions, indeed even his evidence, are likely to be challenged in many vital...

THE " Bounty Boy " is Christmas Bounty Adams, born some fifty years ago on Norfolk Island, to which place, it will be remembered, when it ceased to be a convict settlement, the...

THE WONDERFUL INVENTION.* Miss CORNWALL LEGH shows her wonted skill in her drawing of character•. The situation is not capable of such fine treat- ment as was Mary's prison...

Bramston has made a bold experiment with success. She has found a subject in the troubled period which followed the fall of Jerusalem. Her hero is Gedaliah, the ill-fated ruler...

with the briefest notice, some stories for girls :—Three Girls from School, by L. T. Meade (W. and R. Chambers, 5s.) ; and from the same publishers, That Troublesome Ursula,...

Danish by Alex. Teixeira de Mattes. (Methuen and Co. 6s.) —Our author's idea of the "fairy-tale" which a few wise men and many women and children will prefer to anything else...

by E. T. Reed. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 6s.)—We must confess that we have not been able to get as much pleasure from this book as we expected when we saw the names of the writer...

R.N. (R.T.S. Ss. 6d.)—Dr. Gordon Stables is an old hand at tales of adventure, whether the scene be laid in the Tropics or as near as may be to the Pole. This story is full of...

romance of a very romantic type indeed. The hero, a manager in an engineering firm, falls on bad days, emigrates, and on a voyage from San Francisco to Yokohama is wrecked and...

C. Black. 3s. 6d.)—Mr. Warren Bell knows boys and schools, and how to pitch a school story in the right key, to give us plenty of stirring episodes—a rebellion, a fire, and...

mann. 6s.)—Lady Tennant makes a very successful combination of literature and art in this volume. She takes twenty-one famous pictures by English artists, portraits by...

Sons. 2s. 6d.)—Mr. Bryden gives us a healthy romance of an English schoolboy whom circumstances compel to join his uncle in Bechuanaland. Then comes the search for the " gold...

Vaizey. (S. W. Partridge. 2s. 6d.)—Una Sackville leaves school on p. 1, and on p. 330 describes herself as unspeakably happy because a certain Will clasps her hand in his and...

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Black. 3s. 6d.)—The hero of this vigorous and lively school story shows the " white feather" early in the narrative, but redeems his character triumphantly. This climax is...

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(Seeley and Co. 6s.)—These "adventures " are within the period 1760- 1860. So they do not include one of the most remarkable that ever happened to travellers,—Stanley's...

Gardner, Darton, and Co. 2s.)—This story of a silver mine in the mountainous region of the Andes, the Pascoe Plateau, is a little . out of the usual run as regards locality,...

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an old favourite which keeps up, both as to literary matter and illustrations, to its high standard of merit. This year it gives us two serial stories-one by Mr. Fred Whishaw,...

and Stoughton, 5s.), is a tale of English school life, turning on the custom, which seems so strange to outsiders, but, on the whole, works so well, in which the boy is...

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Scott (Blackie and Son, 2s.), a story which has been seldom surpassed ; Hendricks the Hunter, by W. H. G. Kingston (H. Frowde, and Hodder and Stoughton, 3s. 6d.) ; The Cat of...

The Letters of Samuel Reynolds Hole. Edited by George A. B. Dewar. (G. Allen and Sons. 15s. net.)-This book is, we must own, something of a disappointment. We see, indeed, Dean...

THE GOSPEL OF BARNABAS. The Gospel of Barnabas. Edited and Translated from the Italian by Lonsdale and Laura Ragg. (The Clarendon Press. 163. net.) -The Gospel of Barnabas...

is to be found in Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, Illustrated by Helen Stratton (Blackie and Son, 5s.) Miss Stratton's pencil lends itself with much adaptability to the nature of...

recurring "Fifty-two Stories" arranged by Frederic H. Miles (Hutchinson and Co.) This year we have Fifty - two Excelsior Stories for Boys, and Fifty - two Excelsior Stories for...

some spirited pictures of fighting, showing the darkness as well as the silver lining of the cloud.-From the same publishers : Tales and Talks about Children (2s. 6d.); Our...

L. T. Bloxam, Eltham, Kent.)-1 seasonable supply of embossed literature is published by the editors of the Weekly Summary, a Braille newspaper which holds an honourable record...

Thomas. With Coloured Illustrations. (Hodder and Stoughton. 8s. 6d. net.)—This is an entirely novel book about the open-air world, and is made up of a collection of forty-six...

2 vols. By Arthur G. Butler, M.B.O.U., Ph.D., F.L.S., &a. Illustrated by H. Gronwald and F. W. Frohawk. Vol. I. (Caxton Publishing Company. £4 4s. per vol.)—When the second...

by R. H. Buxton. (Hutchinson and Co. 6s.)—Wild Life Stories depicts in a series of prettily written tales the lives and adventures of various British mammals and birds. But...

The Haunters of the Silences. By Charles G. D. Roberts. With many Illustrations and Decorations by Charles Livingston Bull. (Duckworth and Co. 6s. net.)—It is hardly necessary...

200 Illustrations reproduced from Photographs and Photo- micrographs taken by the Author. (John Lane. 5s. net.)— Among recent books that can be recommended to the amateur...

M.B.O.U. With 138 Illustrations from Photographs and 8 Coloured Plates. (Robert Culloy. 5s. net.)—There is a great deal that is excellent in The Story of Insect Life, but Mr....

with 21 Coloured Plates and numerous Photographic Portraits of Famous Dogs. (Cassell and Co. 25s. net.)—We can only give a mere mention of this great book for lovers of dogs....

Mandalay, and other Cities of the Past in Burma. By V. C. Scott O'Connor. With 235 Illustrations and 8 Coloured Plates, together with a Plan of the Palace of Mandalay by an ex-...

English Church Furniture. By J. Charles Cox, LL.D., and Alfred Harvey, M.B. (Methuen and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—This is one of the "Antiquary's Books" Series, and is more than...

The Pirates of Malabar. By Colonel John Biddulph. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 6s. net.)—The story which Colonel Biddulph tells in these pages is deeply interesting, but not to be...

George Meredith, Novelist, Poet, Reformer. By M. Sturge Henderson. (Methuen and Co. Os.)—This is one of the most serious of the many serious books which the Meredith worship...

French Colonists and Exiles in the United States. By J. G. Rosengarten. (J. B. Lippincott Company. $1 net.)—This little book is written in so condensed a style that some pages...

A Sister of Marie Antoinette : the Life - Story of Maria Carolina, Queen of Naples. By Mrs. Bearne. With 32 Illustrations. (T. Fisher Unwin. 10s. 6d. net.)—Mrs. Bearne's...

The White Man's Work in Asia and Africa : a Discussion of the Main Difficulties of the Colour Question. By Leonard Alston, M.A. (Longmans and Co. 3s. net.)—This little...

Fanner George. By Lewis Melville. With 53 Portraits and Illustrations. 2 vols. (Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons. 24s. net.)— Mr. Melville accepts all that has been written to the...

George Sand and her Lovers. By Francis Gribble. (E. Nash. 15s.)—Mr. Francis Gribble has done his work in this volume, as in his "Madame de Steel and her Lovers," very well, so...

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and was continued on Saturday last. The Government are deter- mined to adhere. to indirect taxation, but Baron von Stengel would not say more with regard to their proposals, as...

Prussian Diet to expropriate Polish landowners in Prussian Poland in , order to plant the land with Germans excited demonstrations of resentment among Poles in Austria- Hungary...

A SERIOUS crisis in the affairs of Germany arose on Wednesday, and • although Prince Billow has suc- ceeded ' in.' making the' various sections .of - the Bloc respond humbly...

attack, and declared . that he had lettei-E of the' most compromising -kind written by Count - Hohenau from - Wil- helmshohe Castle on paper which bore the Imperial crown. He...

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at Kilskeer, Co. Meath, on Sunday last, which constitutes the gravest indictment of the Chief Secretary's administration of Ireland that has yet been placed on record. He...

Mr. Clifford Sifton, lately Minister of the Interior in Canada, opened a discussion on the "All-Red Route." The mails between New Zealand and London now took thirty-eight days...

Zululand. The Government have hitherto maintained an attitude of extreme reticence ; but in view of the nature and extent of their preparations—the proclamation of martial law...

published in Brussels on Thursday. It is a voluminous statement, and we do not feel justified in commenting on it till we have something more before us than brief summaries. The...

to be wondered at in view of the result of the recent trials in Dublin. Twenty-six men were charged by the Crown with unlawful assembly, riot, and conspiracy in connexion with...

is doing for the Empire and Free-trade in providing such occasions as this for discussing the means of attaining greater Imperial unity. Misunderstandings are bound to be...

House of Representatives at Washington on Tuesday. It is of extraordinary length, and took about three hours to read. No less than fifty subjects are dealt with. The Message is...

into a State insurance fund such sums and at such times as he thought fit, and the sums so paid in could be augmented at a fixed high rate of interest,—say four per cent. The...

to the grand jury at the Leinster Assizes on Monday by Chief Baron Palles in connexion with what he describes as "these somewhat novel offences." In a Court of Justice they knew...

Tuesday night. His speech, which was constantly interrupted by woman suffragists, was chiefly noteworthy for an important announcement in regard to the scheme, which has been so...

intervention of the President of the Board of Trade in the Lancashire cotton - trade dispute has proved successful. The terms of the settle- ment, which were announced at...

Mr. Ginnell's speech and the sentence passed on the five men by Mr. Justice Wright, the Westminster Gazette finds itself obliged to abandon the "passive policy" advocated by Mr....

where a vacancy had been created by the succession of the late Member to the Peerage as Lord Nunburnholme, with the following result:— Mr. Guy G. Wilson (Liberal) ... ......

before the Society of Arts on Wednesday night. As the Chancellor of the Exchequer had only two and a quarter millions at his disposal, such a scheme as that sug- gested by the...

Nov. 7th. Consols (2i) were on Friday 83—on Friday week 82k.

MR. ROOSEVELT'S MESSAGE. B OTH in America and Great Britain the latest Presidential Message to Congress is charged with excessive length and vain repetitions. We cannot honestly...

TIHE Government of Russia has taken a great step back- 1 wards. It had hitherto been imagined both in Russia and abroad that the Czar, while declining to grant a Consti- tution,...

r 11HE object and the effect of Prince Billow's words seem perpetually at variance. His function as Imperial Chancellor is to be the mouthpiece of a policy which makes for the...

T HE London County Council is in danger of forgetting one of its chief responsibilities. It is coming to be dominated by a single consideration which dwarfs all others. When in...

1l H E general meeting last week of the National Trust forPlaces of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty introduced a new era in our attempts to save our most precious...

I N his inaugural lecture at Oxford Professor Freeman complained that, while he was required to lecture on "Modern History," and various details as to the number and place of...

T ALK at country tea-tables is not what it used to be. Everything has changed except the talkers. Gossip no longer plays a pre-eminent part. • There is gossip, of course, but...

M ANY people, amongst them the majority of painters, deny that pictorial photography has any claim what- ever to rank as a fine art. Photographers themselves, rather naturally,...

UNIONIST REUNION. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SescreToa.1 SIR, — I have watched with great interest your endeavour to unite the Free-trade and Protectionist wings of the Unionist...

LTD THE EDITOR OF THE " SpEcT , uroa." J SIR, — May I correct some of the statements contained in your "News of the Week " and in a letter signed by "Scotus Viator".(November...

any reasonable policy, of conciliation in Ireland is all the more welcome because of the. prevailing cry for coercive measures. It is almost impossible to get any Englishman to...

[TO TILE EDITOR OF THE "SPEOTATOE:q Sin,Inthe article in your issue of November 30th on " The Ignoring of India" you say : " The advocates of Protection no doubt deliberately...

[TO TEE EDIT011 OP TEE " SPPCTATORn Sin,—A debt of gratitude is due to you from all law-abiding people in Ireland—whether Unionist or Nationalist—for the attitude you...

(To TEE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR."] StR,—In your issue of November 2nd, under the heading "The American Presidency," and anent Mr. Roosevelt's " pledgee not to seek...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE * SPEOTATOR."] Sit,—The Church of Christ here to-day in this twentieth century, the Christian folk of our own Christian land, are becoming conscious (so...

THE SHIP OF FOOLS. WE are those fools who could not rest In the dull earth we left behind, But burned with passion for the West And drank strange frenzy from its wind. The...

THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sra,—In your issue of November 30th (p. 852) this phrase is attributed to Peel. Was it not Castlereagh who used it in 1816 ? (" Dictionary of National...

Hooper, whose letter I was glad to see in your last issue, denies that the Methodist Recorder is "the official organ" of Methodism, and affirms that the "Prayer-book " is in use...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " EP EDFATOR.1 "Reminiscences of George Eliot," a paper contained in Mr. Frederic Harrison's interesting volume called "Memories and Thoughts," I came upon...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Su , — May I call attention to remarks made in a letter printed in your issue of November 23rd signed by Mr. Sydney H. Carr? As one of...

[To THE EDITOR OF TRH "SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—I observe a letter by Mr. Alison Phillips on the subject of his article in Vol. X. of "The Cambridge Modern History." Without desiring...

DR. JOHN BROWN'S LETTERS.* Is' it were given to those who write to choose the fate of their reputation, many would select the lot of the author of Bab and his Friends. He is...

one to readers of eighteenth-century memoirs and letters, though doubtless in the. majority of cases the familiarity does not extend further than to the name. She appears...

THE experiences with the French Foreign Legion which Mr. Manington relates in this volume began seventeen years ago, and lasted for the usual period of five years. A good deal...

THIS is essentially a book the proof of which is in the reading of it, for its title is slightly suggestive of "parochialism," and that literary tittle-tattle which all too...

has found, perhaps, too many. They burden not only our shelves but our minds, weighing down fancy and imagination with their heavy bulk. But there is nothing ponderous or...

Tha Right Rev. Monsignor Canon Moyes undertakes the defence of the Papal Encyclical against Modernism in the Nineteenth Century in an ably written article. The pith of hie...

ANCESTORS.• THE late Hans von Billow used to call Madame Carrel) "the tropical pianist," and, in view of the exuberance of her invention and the ardour of her style, the...

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