LONDON: NOVEMBEE 7th, 1903.

THE PENINSULAR WAR.* IT was the opinion of one of the minor contemporary writers on the Peninsular Campaign that" a man must, like Xenophon, march with an army before he...

THE literatures of France and Germany, and especially of his native Italy, are rich in works dealing with the life and philosophy of the marvellous Dominican monk and martyr of...

MR. ARTHUR WIIIJAht A BEcEETT, who bears a name well known in literature, has drawn upon his memories of Victorian journalism for a readable and entertaining book, though it...

A TALE OF THE FUTURE.* WE shall be surprised if the author of On the Heels of De Wet does not make a decided success by this very spirited story. What are the campaigns of...

Is' Miss Evelyn Sharp had only known when to hold her band! The picture of the two children in the desolate big house in London is excellent; so is the story of how they ran...

—"Is it too soon," asks the author of this "Romanc‘of the Ards of Down," "for Romance, daughter of History to tell in her own way of the Great Rising?" Well, the fires are very...

is an actuality about Mr. Knight's story which ought to make it attractive. It is told by one Everard Brooke, midship- man in the 'Ariadne,' then stationed at Muscat, and the...

—This "Story of the Dutch Struggle with Spain" has for its theme a subject which has been treated we know not how many times before. This is told with spirit, and with as much...

(Ward, Lock, and Co.)—The first of these twelve stories, which gives its name to the book, is the best, as it is the longest. The children of a doctor's widow set up a shop to...

is something conventional in the lines on which this story is built. The figures of the drama which it presents are familiar. We recognise the aristocratic Vanstones, poor and...

has, as most young readers know, a gift of picturesque description, nor does he fail to make good use of it in this story, if story it may be called. It is not a little...

5s.)-4t is quite unnecessary at this time of day to recommend Dr. Gordon Stables's books to young readers. This particular story is supposed to be told by "Silas Grigg,...

story has the look of having been written by an expert. The details about whalebone and blubber; about " blackflsh," which the novice mistakes for whales, and are indeed whales,...

Black. Rs. 6d.)—Take away the cricket from this story, and there will be very little left. The " uncle " is a mauvais sujet. What school may have been in the author's mind when...

(Rontledge and Sons. 5s.)—We have said our say about modern fairy-tales again and again. Whatever their merits—and Mrs. Spielmann's work may fairly be credited with a good share...

to do without competitions and prizes.

Farrow is the proprietor, so to speak, of a not =fertile vein of humour, which many of our readers will, it is probable, recognise when we mention the " Wallypug." New things...

of comical pictures, of beasts by preference, though now and then we have a fairy prince or princess by way of a change. These royal personages seem to us particularly well...

is a volume in the "Red Nursery Series," pleasantly told and adorned with unusually good illustrations.—Sea Children, by S. Hope Evans (T. Fisher Unwin, 2s. 6d. net), records...

35. 6d.)—This is a collection of most enter- taining stories of boy-life. An uncle, who has been crippled by an accident, tells us about the adventures of a graceless nephew,...

us how good and great men have been fond of cats, and what services have been rendered by cats to the world. And the book itself is a story which is intended to inculcate...

and Co. 2s. 6d.)—This is one of the "Little Blue Books," and, granted that it is a joke to be a "bad child," entertaining. The children, however, are not really "bad," and they...

The American Advance. By Edmund J. Carpenter. (John Lane. 5s.)—Some critics will find "Jingoism" in this book, which its author quite frankly, indeed, terms "a study in...

MR. CHAMBERLAIN: HIS LIFE AND PUBLIC CAREER. Mr. Chamberlain : his Life and Public Career. By S. H. Jeyes. (Sands and Co. 16s.)—The chief problem that Mr. Jeyes has set...

Wild Sport with Gun, Rifle, and Salmon Rod. By Gilfrid W. Hartley. (William Blackwood and Sons. 12s.)—Perhaps the most abiding impression that is left by this delightful book is...

J. M. Sloan. (Chapman and Hall. 10s. 6d.)—It would be unfair to expect new light on the over-discussed Carlyle problems. The general public, and even the Carlyle student, will...

illus- trated magazine for boys throughout the English-speaking world." Here, too, we are glad to see that the competition bribe can be dispensed with, not without success, for...

author of The Yellow Satchel ingeniously contrives to get into his tale two stories of treasure-hunting,—the owner of the satchel hunts, and the lad to whom he leaves it hunts....

Natural and Artificial Sewage Treatment. By Lieutenant - Colonel Alfred S. Jones, V.C., and H. Alfred Roechling, M.Inst.C.E. (E. and F. N. Spon. 3s. 6d. net.)—Colonel Jones is a...

The Advance of Our West African Empire. By Captain Braithwaite Wallis. (T. Fisher Unvrin. 21s.)—This is a freshly written, and, as becomes a young soldier, full and particular,...

The Scots in Eastern and Western Prussia. By Th. A. Fischer. (Otto Schulze and Co., Edinburgh. 6s.)—Mr. Fischer, who surely deserves well of Scotland, since he has done his best...

When I was a Child. By an Old Potter. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—There is a wholesome lesson to be drawn from the otherwise saddening pages of this striking little autobiography. In...

Principles and Problems of Imperial Defence. By Lieutenant- Colonel G. S. May. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co. 7s. 6d.)—Colonel May says that he has been induced to write this book...

The Fifes in South Africa. By 9,176 I.Y. (A. Westwood and Son, Cupar, Fife.)—Major Gilmour, of the Fife and Forfar Imperial Yeomanry, who writes an introduction to this book,...

is still as far off as when O'Curry died. Being myself rather a student of history than of histories, I regard O'Sullivan's work more in the light of material for an Irish...

The Crossbow. By Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey, Bart. (Longmans and Co. £3 3s. net.)—This is an elaborate work on a subject which the author has made his own, and is quite, we may...

The Bloody Bridge, and other Papers rotating to the Insurrec- tion of 1641. By Thomas Fitzpatrick, LL.D. (Sealy, Bryers, and Walker, Dublin. 7s. 6d.) — "The Insurrection of 1641...

Selected Letters of the Younger Pliny. Edited by Elmer Truesdell Merrill. (Macmillan and Co. 6s.)—Professor Merrill has expended a great amount of labour on this edition. It...

The Birds of Tennyson. By Watkin Williams, BA. (R. H. Porter. 6s. net.)—This is a very pleasant book on an interesting subject. Tennyson ranks with Wordsworth and Shakespeare in...

The City of Liverpool. Edited by E. W. Hope, M.D. (Lee and Nightingale, Liverpool.)—This "handbook "—it is not, we hope, a frivolous criticism to question the propriety of the...

• volume than we expected. It is becoming difficult to describe the ordinary route of travel, and people seem to have lost the art of enlivening literary landscapes with the ups...

Literary Landmarks of Oxford. By Laurence Hutton. (Grant Richards. 55. net.)—Mr. Hutton is not a little contemptuous of the ignorance which he found in Oxford residents...

(T. Fisher Unwin. 10s.)—This is a good specimen of the kind of books —pleasantly personal and informing, if not specially pro- found—which the author of " England : its People,...

(Philip Welby. 3s. 6d. net.)—Here we have between four and five hundred mottoes, sometimes with the places given where they are to be seen. The Latin mottoes are translated....

By John Jamieson. (.ZEneas Mackay, Stirling. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Jamieson's contention, put briefly, is that the Reformers were not responsible for the destruction or ruin of the...

9d.)—Miss Bramston, whose delightful books for young people are known everywhere, gives us here a pleasant variety. There is much spirited verse in this little volume; both...

of Friedrich Nietzsche" (T. Fisher ITnwin) is The Dawn of Day, translated by Johanna Volz (10s. 6d. net). A most curious book it is, and hardly worth, we should think, all the...

and Stoughton. 6s.)—Dr. Matheson here gives us a second but independent volume of popular psychological studies of Old Testament characters. These studies have evidently been...

tells in this volume the story of the Guild of Weavers at Dunfermline, a society which endured an unknown number of years—the first document in existence is of the date 1596—and...

(R. A. Everett and Co. 108.6d. net.)—Mrs. Wilson seems to have put together this volume in breathless haste. A King and Queen had been assassinated ; what could be more...

(Methuen and Co. ls.)—Miss Marie Corelli appeals to us, not a little, we must own, to our surprise, to do justice in the "Shakespearian houses" controversy. Mr. Sidney Lee...

2s. net.)—This is one of the series of "Handbooks of Practical Gardening," but it stands on a different plane from its fellows. It has much more in it than belongs to "practical...

Russell and Co.)— These seven stories of East African experiences are decidedly powerful. "R. V." does not like the Portuguese, and is glad to see them "bested," witness his...

(Index Publishing Company, Bloomington, Indiana.) —This index, originally limited to American books and reviews, is now extended to England. Of the "Leading Periodicals,"...

Brothers.)—This is a story of persistent effort which, after some years of apparent failure, is now beginning to show results. We cannot profess to be quite clear about the...

with an Introduction, by Virginia M. Crawford. (Methuen and Co. 3s. 6d.)—Mrs. Crawford's introduction, in which she describes the life and work of Ernest Hello, is highly...

Great Queen Street, W.C. ; and Published by Joan BAKER for the " SrEcraroa " (Limited) at their Office, No, 1 Wellington Street, in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the...

which one would greatly like to have been present. The Russians, after evacuating Mukden, have found a pretest for reoccupying it, and have accordingly driven out its Chinese...

and the Emperor-King, appears to be calming down. Count Tisza has accepted the Premiership ; all military concessions asked for have been made, except the language for words of...

T HE Czar has written a letter to the President of the French Republic which is an important political document. To the amazement of the world, and possibly of his own...

McClellan—the son of the famous Northern General, and a Democrat—being elected as Mayor by a majority of nearly sixty-four thousand votes. Mr. McClellan, though himself a man of...

Panama, that State of the United States of Colombia declaring itself independent and proclaiming a provisional Govern. ment. A Colombian war vessel has since been doing its best...

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Agriculture in London on Tuesday speeches were delivered by Mr. Rider Haggard and Mr. Chaplin. Mr. Haggard de- clared that if the Government programme were passed, the effect on...

in the Vatican last Sunday, and for three hours threatened the price- less library, will prove an historic event, but the accounts of it reveal a new tone as prevalent in the...

Balcarres by a majority of 1,428 votes. He polled 6,226, and his opponent, Mr. Lawrence, 4,798. The last time there was a contest was in 1885, a year when the Liberals won at...

entertained at a banquet in Toronto on Monday, and made a remarkable speech. After dissociating himself from the attacks made on Lord Alverstone and the other Commis- sioners,...

commerce. Our foreign trade relatively to other nations was declining, our trade in neutral markets was stationary ; only in otu- Colonial trade was there any sign of advance....

out into the open in the present fiscal struggle. His long political career, and the good work which he has done in his time at the Exchequer, entitle him to be heard with all...

After commenting on the makeshift character of "the policy of the half-way house" adopted by the Govern- ment, Mr. Asquith addressed himself to the consideration of Mr....

thousand people at Birmingham. His speech, which was the longest he has yet made in his campaign, was a remarkable example of his great powers of popular appeal. He began with...

On Wednesday two more Armenians were shot down on Peckham Rye by a compatriot, who immediately committed suicide. There seems to be little doubt that the assassin was the same...

sanatorium for tuberculosis at Midhurst. In a very interest- ing speech he paid a tribute to the generous donor, whom he was not permitted publicly to thank. He explained that...

and convincing speech at Manchester to a non- party meeting of business men,—a speech which absolutely disproves the silly rumours that Sir Michael's opposition to the new...

Canterbury to Dr. Horton expressing his firm conviction that the differences dividing Nonconformists and Churchmen on the education question are much smaller than is commonly...

told a very interesting story. He was recently, he said, talking to a foreigner who had made his fortune and had settled in England, and he said to him : "You come from a land...

been as notable for their moderation as for their cogency, addressed a great meeting at Nottingham on Tuesday. He dealt chiefly with Mr. Chamberlain's astounding pledge that the...

history of the Councils—came to an end on Wednes- day. The result has been a remarkable victory for the Progressives, the figures showing 594 Conservative members and 616...

Consols (2f per cent.) were on Friday 881.

FREE-TRADE AND THE IMPERIALIST IDEAL. W E are always glad to meet Mr. Chamberlain when he deals with the question of the Empire, and, in effect, accuses those who oppose him of...

flUR contemporary the Daily Mirror—the daily paper kJ for women so happily named by Punch the Daily Female, which has made so promising a start this week, and to which we offer...

rrHERE has rarely been in English politics a per- sonality whom it is so difficult to read as Mr. Chamberlain. It is not that he appears to his admirers and to his adversaries...

I T would seem that the quarrel between the Hungarians and their Emperor-King is at last dying away, the Old Liberals, who with the Conservatives make up a clear majority of the...

THE statements as to the intention of the Government to introduce an Irish University Bill during the coming Session are so precise and so uncontradicted that we may safely...

AT his death Professor Mommsen occupied a unique posi- tion in contemporary Europe. By common consent he was the foremost scholar, both by virtue of the extent and variety of...

A "Wphrase has been invented by a writer in the Daily Chronicle. Like other papers, the Daily Chronicle has lately devoted a good deal of its space to the discussion of fiscal...

:E XCELLENT progress has been made with a scheme for converting some of the ugliest features of the "Black Country" into beauty spots in a landscape apparently ruined beyond...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE 'SPECTATOR."] Sur,—In one of your articles on Mr. Morley's book you. observethat Mr. Gladstone was not the author of many "purple patches." A like remark...

MEMORIAL TO THE COLONIAL TROOPS IN ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL. rro THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR...1 Sin,—It may interest your many readers who supported the Colonial Troops Club last...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR:1 SIE,—Your article under the above heading in the Spectator of October 24th reminds me of a conversation I lately had on the subject of white...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOH.1 Sra,—I had noticed the slightly incorrect inference in your article, but hardly thought it worth referring to till I saw the letter in the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "STEcTATOE.1 venture to ask, not controversially, but in a spirit of pure inquiry, a question which it seems to me, in view of certain recent...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—May I ask you to spare me space to reply to Major Rankin's letter on "The Government and the Army" in the Spectator of October 31st? The...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your correspondent Major Rankin in the Spectator of October 31st states that men would become Volunteers even if by so doing they...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — The contention of the editor of the People's Friend in the Spectator of October 31st is, of course, a common-sense one ; but the whole...

EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' Stn,—Knowing how anxious you are that your paper should supply accurate information to your readers, I venture to ask you space for a short letter....

[To THE EDITOR OF THY " SPECTATOR."] Stu,—Mr. Chamberlain is strong in his assertions that an import-duty is not necessarily paid by the consumer, but in great part by the...

our Warwickshire village tells me that the average consumption of bread in a working man's family is about four and a half small (i.e., 24d.) loaves per head per week. And the...

without any preface, my experiences in this matter. In 1853 I went to a curacy in a rural parish of Wiltshire; in 1892 I was presented to a small benefice in the same county...

mentioned by Mr. Marion in the Spectator of October 31st whose "cash wage" amounts to lls, a week, and whose family consumes fourteen large— apparently quarteni—loaves in the...

(To WM EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' Sin,—Though you are (rightly) going to protect letters dealing with subjects other than fiscal by giving them a preference, perhaps you will...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "Srsore:rou."J SIR,—Mr. Chamberlain referred at Liverpool to injury done to the plate-glass industry of this country by "dumping" from America. Without...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your correspondent "C. H. L." in the Spectator of October 24th quotes a German lady as having reported the cost of living in this place...

Sin,—With reference to your estimate in the Spectator of October 31st of the amount spent by the labourer on bread, may I draw your attention to the Board of Trade Blue-book, p....

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your definition in the Spectator of October 24th of the "question - begging" term " dumping " reminds me of Bentha.m's of the word...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.') Si,—Can any one practically acquainted with the glass trade explain why glass chemical apparatus is so largely, if not exclusively, made in...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TILE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—I think that many who, like myself, started in the present controversy with "no settled convictions," but are inclined to come down on...

OF THE "SPECTAT011."1 SIR,—The moral side of the fiscal question has, I think, received too little attention from the advocates of Free-trade. Stress has, however rightly, been...

LTO TIM EDITOR OF TUB " SPECTATOR." J SIB,—It is very clever on Mr. J. W. Gordon's part (Spectator, October 31st) to try to play off upon an ignorant public that Germany's sole...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TUB "SPECTATOR."] Sui,—In your article, "Fiscal Policy and Church Schools," in the Spectator of October 31st, you appeal, not actually, but by implication, to...

usegancoa.1 Sra,—I have read a good deal lately about the manufacture in Belgium of rails for English tramways. Mr. Chamberlain would no doubt like to put a duty on these...

[To ma EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR"] SIR, —In the Spectator of October 3rd you were good enough to publish a letter from me on this subject. In that letter I expressed my opinion...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—May I add my voice to'those that would dissuade you from endeavouring to upset the present Government upon the ground that it disagrees...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SLII,—The following extract from a letter of a foreign officer now holding a scientific post in the United States may possibly be of...

MISS BAUGHAYS POEMS.* READERS of the Spectator will not be unfamiliar with some of the poems in Miss Baughan's volume,—with "The Ship and Reaben, and other Poems. By B. B....

SHERWOOD. Snuawoon in the twilight, is Robin Hood awake ? Grey and ghostly shadows are gliding thro' the brake ; Shadows of the dappled deer, dreaming of the morn, Dreaming of...

Mn. LANG has attempted a bold task, no less than to find a light to some of the very darkest alleys in history. In most cases he has only deepened the mystery; but then he has...

in us is regret that he has not given us a biography in a fuller sense. As a monograph, or biographical and critical essay, it could not well be better ; the pity is that Mr....

THE November Nineteenth Century is singularly varied in its contents and in the quality of its articles. Thus we have Mr. Archibald Hurd in an interesting article discussing the...

—The reader who may not be acquainted with the literary ability of Mrs. Fraser must not suffer himself to be discouraged by a somewhat unpromising beginning in this "Tale of Old...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as haw not been reserved for review in other forms.1 Within the Pale. By Michael Davitt. (Hurst and Blackett. 5s.) —Mr....

Dickens will remember Mr. Pecksniff's perplexity about the name of "those fabulous animals (pagan, I regret to think) who used to sing in the water," and the readers of Rachel...

A NEW book from the pen of Mr. Whiteing agreeably diversifies the monotony of the novel - reader's existence, as this accomplished writer belongs to the honourable minority who...

have Surrey, by F. A. H. Lambert, illustrated by Edmund H. New (38.), an excellent little book, with its information arranged in alphabetical order. Among the interesting facts...

6d.)—Mr. Omond gives us in this volume a criticism and a bibliography of the attempts made to reproduce classical metres in English verse. Our own opinion leans, but with no...

Gamma d,ella Letteratura /ta/iana (Barbera, Firenze ; Frowde, London ; 358. net), Professor Bingham has collected some seven hundred specimens of Italian literature from the...