GEORGE BANCROFT.* Pon many years previous to his death in January, 1891, George Bancroft, statesman, scholar, and historian, occupied a unique position in the social and public...

LONDON: NOVEMBE1 7th, 1908.

THERE is a refreshing frankness in this book which will com- mend it to all, and especially Anglican readers. "The purified national Church, the most catholic and most tolerant...

of Political Economy must accept our respectful congratulations on this new proof of the continued success of his great undertaking,—the reissue of the third volume with the...

PRINCES AND PRINCESSES.* MR. LANG in a charming preface—surely no one ever wrote better prefaces and introductions !—acknowledges, more in sorrow than in anger, that...

begins the moment they are fledged—and who can doubt that they feel something of the wonder of their first migration?—but we know for certain that it becomes a fact, as is...

6s.) —This is a continuation, so to speak, of Mr. Crockett's " Red-Cap Tales." The "Adventures" have been " stolen "—we quote Mr. Crockett's own words—" from the...

a definite purpose, excellently worked out. George Stanbridge has a very strong reason for looking after Bert Ellwood, a good fellow who is in danger of becoming a drunkard....

Richards. 6s.)—Mr. Howden prefaces this interesting account of steamships with a really valuable and most lucid historical sketch of ancient and mediaeval shipping. We have no...

6d.)—Once again, under Mr. Collingwood's guidance, we fight the battle of Hampton Roads between the Virginia' and the `Monitor,' and at the last the combat of the Alabama' and...

as.)—Mr. Bullen sets out with a purpose,—that of dispelling the cloud of romance which in meat boys' minds clings to the pirate. Through- , out the story of the El Vengador...

story, in which we begin with the seamy side of life and end with the smooth. Jenny is a characteristic London child, with the curious readiness of speech which that race seems...

complications and difficulties brought about by a second marriage make a suggestive subject, which Miss Everett-Green handles with sufficient taste and skill. The new brothers...

ordinary "day at the Zoo." We see actual cages, things which stand up, and have creatures inside them. It is true that these creatures— the rhinoceros, the vulture, and the...

may be described as a "Tale of the Educational Ladder." Jack Earle, the son of a poor widow, glad to help his mother by spending his leisure hours in a pawnbroker's shop, gets...

the articles which will attract most attention in this volume are those which are carried on from an earlier issue, " The Reminiscences of Lady Randolph Churchill (Mrs....

a history of three-quarters of a century scarcely needs praise. Let it suffice to say that though it is old it is not old- fashioned, as the excellent illustrations, to speak of...

Richards. 3s. 6d. net.)—Russian fairy-stories are not unlike those of other nations. Still, there are some things which have a peculiar look. All step-daughters are badly...

just escapes death from an explosion on board the vessel in which he is travelling, is taken on board the ' Don Juan,' and finds himself in Havana. This was in the days when...

and Co. 8s. 6d.)—This magazine has a quite imposing list of contributors. We notice that Mrs. L. T. Meade is among them ; she never fails in producing a sensation. Miss Ethel...

in its thirtieth year ; The Girl's Own Annual (same publishing office, 8s.) does not state its age. We seem to remember the two as a par amabile for a considerable time. We see...

Tramps Bound the Mountains of the Moon. By T. Broadwood Johnson, M.A. (T. Fisher Unwin. 1613.)—Mr. Johnson is a Cam- bridge graduate who has been for some years past attached...

(T. C. and E. C. Jack, 2s. net), is one of the "Grandmother's Favourites" Series, not a little altered from The Fairchild Family that the writer remembers in far-off years, but...

All Things Considered. By G. K. Chesterton. (Methuen and Co. 5s.)—Mr. Chesterton " cannot understand the people who take literature seriously." There should be something...

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THE STORY OF THE WHITE HOUSE. The Story of the White House. By Esther Singleton. 2 vols. (Hodder and Stoughton. 21s. net.)—The " White House," we need hardly explain, is the...

Kingston. (H. Frowde, with Hodder and Stoughton. 3s. 6d.) —The Bending . of a. Twig. By Desmond Coke. (Same publishers. 5s.)—Alice in Wonderland. (Cassell and Co. 5s.) —A...

(T. C. and E. C. Jack, is. net), both t3xt and pictures are all that could be desired. We begin with "sticklebacks "—every boy begins with them ; sturdy little creatures that...

Atlas Reminiscent. By Alfred W. Yeo. y (J. M. Dent and Co. ls. net.)—The Atlas Fire and Life Insdrance Company was founded in 1807, or, rather, the preliminary meetings were...

From an Easy Chair. By Sir E. Ray Lankester. (A. Constable and Co. is. net.)—An "easy chair" is not the thing which we should naturally associate with Sir E. Ray Lankester....

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Across the Broad Acres. By A. N. Cooper. (A. Brown and Sons. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Cooper is known as " The Walking Parson." This time, however, he does not tell us about his...

The City of Genoa. By Robert W. Carden. (Methuen and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—He who writes about Genoa has his task simplified by the fact that the place has practically no...

Concerning Lafcadio Hearn. By George M. Gould, M.D. (T. Fisher Unwin. 8s. 6d. net.)—Dr. Gould disclaims the intention of writing a biography. He thinks, indeed, that no...

Craftsmanship in Competitive industry. By C. R. Ashbee, M.A. (Essex House Press. 5s. net.)—This volume brings us face to face with some difficult social and economic...

The Burial Customs of Ancient Egypt. By John Garstang, B.Litt. (A. Constable and Co. 31s. 6d. net.)—Professor Garstang adds to his title " as Illustrated by Tombs of the...

Sketches from the Diaries of Bose, Lady Graves Sawle. (For private circulation.)—Lady Graves Sawle, who was born in 1818, celebrated her golden wedding in 1896, and in this...

The Tower of London. Painted by John Fulleylove. Described by Arthur Poyser. (A. and C. Black. Is. 6d. net.)—Mr. Pulley- love's pictures have all the charm which we are...

Ndtional Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904: Meteorology, Part I. (The Royal Society.)—This volume contains the larger part of the observations made on wind, temperature,...

Some Old Devon Churches. By John Stabb. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Stabb gives particulars, copiously illus- trated by photographs taken by himself, of more...

The Barbarians of Morocco. By Graf Sternberg. Translated from the German by Ethel Peck. (Chatto and Windus. 6s. net.)—Count Sternberg some time ago was good enough to give us...

Sermons by the Late' Dean Butcher. (J. M. Dent and Co. 4s. Gd.) —Charles Henry Butcher spent the first eight years of his clerical life (1856-1864) in London (St. Clement...

Some Passages in the Early History of Classical Learning in Ireland. By the Right Hon. Mr. Justice Madden. (Hodges, Figgis, and Co., Dublin.)—Perhaps it is unreasonable to...

vols. (Hodder and Stoughton. 3s. 6d. per vol.)—The first of these' volumes deals with " Genesis to Esther," the second with the remainder of the Old Testament, the third with...

Peter Moor's Journey to South - West Africa. By Gustav FrenSsen. Translated by Margaret May Ward. (A. Constable and Co. 4s: 6d. net.)—It seems that the conscription in Germany...

A Temperance Eirenicon. By a Christian Minister. (14 The Terrace, Greenhithe. ls.)—We cannot discuss all the questions which the "Christian Minister" raises, for he goes over...

Vyrnwy Morgan, D.D. (Jai - lies Nisbet and Co. 16s.)—No one can complain of any want of catholicity in Dr. Morgan's selection of his leaders. Bishops such as Dr. Burgess...

The Description and Natural History of the Coasts of North America (Acadia), by Nicolas Denys, Translated and Edited, with Memoir, &c., by William F. Ganong. Nicolas Denys came...

Highways and Byways in Hampshire. By D. H. Moutray Read. With Illustrations by Arthur B. Connor. (Macmillan and Co. 6s.)—Hampshire, though the author has perforce to limit...

Bell and Sons. Is. 6d. net.)—St. Bartholomew the Great, to give the church its popular name, is as interesting a study in architecture as any that can be found in London, and...

(J. C. Southall, Newport. 6d. net.)—Mr. Evans furnishes, by way of introduction, an account of the phonetic changes which Latin words undergo in passing into the Welsh...

The Doctrinal Position of the Assyrian Church. By the Rev. W. A. Wigram, M.A. (S.P.C.K. 6d.)---The Bishop of Salisbury has furnished a memorandum on the relation of the Anglican...

By the Rev. S. Levy. (Ballantyne and Hanson, Edinburgh.)— Mr. Levy in commending to the Society over which he pre- sides the study of Anglo-Jewish history gives an account of...

Freeman O'Donoghuo. Vol. I. (British Museum. 21s.)—This first volume includes the letters " A—C" ; four, possibly five, volumes are to follow. Mr. Sidney Colvin prefixes a...

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previous Friday Prince Billow had tendered his resignation, and that the Emperor had refused to accept it. At the same time there was issued through Reuter's Agency an official...

in explicit terms; but though we do not wish to do anything to increase the present friction, we are bound to state our belief that the German Government suddenly insisted on...

and the country, refused in any way to agree to these demands, and up till Thursday evening it looked as if a deadlock had been reached. We are glad to say, however, that Friday...

T HE latter part of the week has been marked by a period of grave anxiety owing to the revival of the Casablanca incident in an acute and menacing form. On Wednesday, though it...

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the progress of the negotiations which are known to have been proceeding between the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Government on the subject of the Education Bill, there has...

clamation employs these words :— " From the first, the principle of representative institutions began to be gradually introduced, and the time has come when, in the judgment...

by the interview, and then by the Casablanca incident. Happily, however, such news as there is cannot be regarded as bad news. Though the Conference cannot be said to have been...

Procla- mation which the King has addressed to the Princes and peoples of India. The occasion was the fiftieth anniversary of the assumption of the government of India by the...

with the right of the head-teacher in single-school areas to give, if he or she so desire, denominational teaching, and the power of the local authority to deny the right of...

Tuesday, and resulted in a signal victory for Mr. Taft. The complete returns are not yet known, but Mr. Taft has certainly a majority of over a hundred in the Electoral College....

had been taken on the important question of the new Imperial taxation. It is necessary to raise an additional annual revenue of £25,000,000. It is proposed to do this by...

holding the Professorship of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow University for twenty-seven years, was appointed Master of Balliol in 1893, retiring owing to ill-health last year. The...

Friday week produced a speech from Mr. William Johnson, a Liberal-Labour Member, which is well worth noticing. It was very amusing, but it was also very shrewd. Mr. Johnson was...

greater detail now. We would, however, with all the earnestness at our command, ask the Nonconformists, who may now be said to hold the matter in their hands, not to forget the...

with those of recent Parliamentary by-elections, the returns showing that the Unionists have gained one hundred and thirty-one seats as against thirty-three gained by Liberals,...

as a weapon than a means of illumination. Professor Lewis Campbell's gentleness and courtesy may be illustrated by the following true story. Some years ago he was in the chair...

given by the chairman of the City of London School Committee on Friday week, acknowledged in feeling terms the compliment paid him by the Court of Common Council in founding a...

in Monday's Times. The history of the experiment, begun three hundred years ago, proscribed from the reign of Charles II. till 1799, and again from 1831 till 1898, is a...

long discussion upon Clause XX. of the Licensing Bill, which gives Justices powers to attach various conditions to the renewal of a license. Mr. Asquith announced that, having...

May 28th. Consols (2i) were on Friday 84k—on Friday week 84g.

THE CASABLANCA INCIDENT. T HE latest news encourages the belief that the Casablanca incident, which as we write is causing no small amount of anxiety in the diplomatic world,...

M R. TAFT'S victory at the end of four months' furious campaigning is a much more • decisive one than the Republicans expected or the Democrats feared. It is a strong national...

done nothing else, has performed one public service ; it has caused people to think about the future of our highways. For the long period between the departure of the...

M RS. INCHBALD is a long-forgotten playwright and novelist who was famous at the end of the eighteenth century. Her best story has just been reprinted by the Oxford Press, and...

presence in Court of the sister-in-law of the prisoner, whose dress would be described in detail, not omitting the large picture-bat and the feather boa." Some persona may re-...

T HE wood lies on a hill with three faces, north and east and south, that runs down to the wide waters of an Irish lough. There are three hundred acres of it, and under its oaks...

THE SLAVS, RUSSIA, AND AUSTRIA. [To yes EDITOR or Tas "SPXCFATOn.1 MONSIEUR LE RiDACTEUR,—Les graves evenements qui se sont produits et qui se preparentsur la peninsule...

[To THE Eurrogt. or THE "SPECTATOR-`] was brought up on the Spectator, and though in these latter days I rarely agree with it, I yet dissent with regret, as from the waywardness...

THE HISTORY OF THE "INSPIRED" PRESS IN GERMANY. [TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra,—The ingenious explanation of the " calculated indis- cretion" which is now...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR." J Sin,—Your reviewer of my Life of the Duke of Newcastle in last week's number says that I "almost out-Kinglake Kinglake in [my] defence of...

(To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPEC IATOR." . ] Sin,—In the strange eagerness which . Mr. Ellis Barker shares with Fiscal Reformers of his type tetpublish to the world the supposed...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—Some little confusion of mind exists upon this subject, and, owing perhaps to the wild talk occasionally indulged in about the...

170 THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR." J Sin,—" Burke had the authority neither of character nor of high office," so writes your contributor in an otherwise admirable...

SIR,—Mr. J. Ellis Barker in his doleful letter tells us that -• "the Royal Commission on Agriculture estimated in 1896 that the decay of our rural industries had caused a...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—Though efforts, more or less successful, are being made in India to punish sedition-mongering and bomb-throwing, no measure appears to...

Sra,—May I call the attention of Mr. Ellis Barker, and any of your readers who have been startled by the suggestions he has recently made in your columns, to an article in the...

[To THE EDITOR OF TRE "SPECTATOR. "] fear the "fixed work fund fallacy," assumed as a truth by your first correspondent, still hinders many women front doing useful work. When...

SM.—It is possible that the following case may interest your readers. It came under my personal observation at the time when " processions of the unemployed " were in vogue in...

Sp marATon..] Sin,—May I take exception to one remark in "J. R. F.'s" letter in last week's issue ? He says that " Grattan's Parlia- ment steered Ireland into anarchy,...

"SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—I am unfortunately convinced, being an employer of labour in a small way, of the discouraging fact that workmen will enter into a contract to work for so...

[To TER EDITOR OP TEE " SPECT&TOR."1 Stu,—Tn your very interesting review in last week's issue of Mr. Wollaston's book, "From Ruwenzori to the Congo," the author is shown to...

[To TIIR EDITOR OF TOR sr KorAToio] Sin,—In your issue of October 31st you have dealt impartially with Mr. John Burns in showing his merits and the attitude which he has...

[To THE EDITOR OF rue " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Many of us have read Lady Blomfield's letter in your issue of October 24th with the keenest feelings of just indignation and disgust...

[TO THY EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:'] SIR,—Yottr very interesting article on " Cross-Correspond- ences " (Spectator, October 31st) as evidence of the activity of " a third...

SIR,—With regard to the letter in your paper of October 24th on " Dogs in Quarantine," I think it right that it should be known that I left two dogs in quarantine at the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THU " SPECTITOR."1 SIR, —" A Nation without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation." So Burke. Put " Church " instead of "...

know, Leaning along the quay,— Old giants crippled by the loud Wild anger of the sea,— Surging in awe and wonderment The souls of mon would be ! Could you but tell the...

[TO THE EDITOR OE THE "SPEOT&TOR.1 Stn,—Could you kindly allow me to call your reader's attention to the "Coleridge matinee" which is to be given at the Hay- market Theatre on...

[TO TIER EDITOR Or visa "SPECTATOR:'] Sin,—The following extracts may be commended to the con- sideration of those Members of Parliament and others who favour the schemes of...

letter we published on October 21th, calling our attention to the fact that he is a man, not a woman. We regret to have made the mistake in question, but there was nothing to...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of...

THE ADMIRABLE BOILEAl7.* "IF I could only cross the seas," says Dryden in his Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire, "I might find in France a living Horace...

MR. BERNARD MALLET, the author of this extremely pleasant biography, is to be congratulated on several things. The book is well proportioned (a rare quality in modern...

WE know so much about Holland House and the men and women who frequented it that we are glad to have anything on the subject of its mistress. Lord Ilehester has done well to...

take the public into their confidence, and print for general circulation the valuable series of official Reports sent home by the officers who represented our Army in Manchuria,...

THE first of these volumes opens with some diagrams which exhibit in a striking way the urgency of the case. First we have columns which show the frequency of the disease as...

ANY really thoughtful book on so acute, and yet so perennial, a problem as the contrast between wealth and poverty deserves a welcome, and such welcome should be given to Mr....

"THE Crisis in the Near East" is treated from three points of view in the November Nineteenth Century. Dr. Emil Reich, who undertakes to vindicate the policy of Austria-...

THE CHILDREN OF THE NILE.* - Even since the publication of Said the Fisherman Mr. 'Picktball has been in the curious position of one who illustrates the maxim, Le miens est...

wonders what is to be the limit in regard to the physically horrible in fiction. What is to be thought of a novel in which the heroine is made to die of cancer of the...

6s.)—It is difficult to excuse the conduct of the hero of this book towards the heroine, even on the plea advanced by one of the characters that he is a politician. Having a...

[IIeuter this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been moved for review in other forms.] The Black Bishop, Samuel Adjai Crowther. By Jesse Page. (Hodder and...

- Whyte, D.D. (Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier. 2s. 6d.)—This volume is the fourth series of "Bunyan Characters." That Dr. Whyte can write very effectively we all know, nor do...

(Eveleigh Nash. 6s.)—Some of the stories are unconvincing ; one or two needlessly painful; but the reader will find good things.—Leonore Stubbs. By L. B. Walford. (Longmans...

Putnam's Sons. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Podmore is so sincere and so level-headed an investigator of psychical phenomena that the appearance of a book from his pen dealing with such...

net.)—This is described as "constituting the Second Volume of a Complete Work on Aerial Flight." It is. of course, of a highly technical character, and we must be content with...

(3d net) and The Stars of the Year (1s. net), both by H. P. II. The first is a sheet measuring two feet six inches by one foot eight inches. In the corners are discs giving the...

(The Clarendon Press. 2s. 6d. net.)—Here we have a collection of information such as may be useful for the common affairs of life. The renting of houses, and all the various...

certainly the appearance of the cheap edition of The Letters of Queen Victoria, Edited by A. C. Benson, M.A., and Viscount Esher, 3 vols. (John Murray, Os. net). It speaks for...

Madge Syers. (Edward Arnold. 15s. net.)—The winter sports here described and illustrated—the illustrations have been carefully collected from various sources, old and...

duction by Charles F. Richardson. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 7s. 6d. net.)—We are glad to get a complete edition of Poe's poems. This, too, is set off by a portrait and various...

(George G. Harrap. 5s. net.)—Here are sixty-four poems, some of them famous—" The Song of the Shirt," for instance, and " England's Welcome to Alexandra "—all of them...

Co.) we have two of Jane Austen's novels, Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park, both delightfully illustrated in colours by Mr. C. E. Brock. No illustrator ever caught the...

Activity : a Symposium by S. Alexander, James Ward, Carveth Read, and G. F. Stout."