The Elizabethan Prayer-Book and Ornaments. By Henry Gee. I D.D. (Macmillan and Co. 5s.)-Dr. Gee, who gives us in this volume a revision of lectures delivered at Oxford last...

I lWebster's International Dictionary. Edited by W. T. Harris, I LL.D. (G. Bell and Sons. Cloth, X1 1Oa.)-This, the "Twentieth Century" edition, presents various improvements...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEEK. (Under this heading ice notice such Books of the week as hars not been reserved Jcr revietc in other forms.] The British Empire Series: Vol. V.,...

From the Cradle to Ule School. By Ada S. Bailin, (A. Constable and Co. 3s. Cd.) -This " Book for Mothers " is the work of a ladly who has already made a favourable impression...

CHILDREN'S Booiis.-The Beechnut Book. By Jacob Abbott. Edited by E. V. Lucas. "Little Blue Books for Children." (Methuen and Co. 2s. 6d.)-Mr. Lucas has made a pleasant little...

I History of the Town andu County of Wexford. By Philip I Herbert lore. (Elliot Stock. 20s. net.)-This second volume is mainly devoted to the history of Dunbrody Abbey, a...

Homeric Society. By A. G. Keller, Ph.D. (L-ngrnans and Co. 5s. 1 net.)-Dr. Keller's " Sociological Study of the Iliad aud Odyssey" has been composed with much intelligence,...

Lady Joan's Companion. By Florence Warden. (Digby, Long, I and Co. 6s.)-After real tragedy, Miss Warden's slightly meretricious mystery is quite a relief. No ona has ever had...

Audrey. By Mary Johnston. (A. Constable and Co. 6s.) | -Miss Mary Johnston's new novel is a very charming book, against which there is nothing to object except its...

I Picturesque Surrey. By Gibson Thompson. Illustrated by | Duncan Moul. (Robinson and Co. lOs.)-This is a pleasant gossiping book, in which Mr. Thompson gives many quotations...

The Theft of a Heart. By Lilias Campbell Davidson. (C.I Arthur Pearson. 6s.)-An ingenious plot and an attractive hero and heroine make of The Theft of a Heart a very readable...

I Bonds of Steel. By T. S. Fletcher. (Digby, Long, and Co. 6s.) -Holme Rosse wrote six novels which had great success and gave offence to no one. Then he met Hope Temple at...

C URRENT LITERATURE. HORSES ON BOARD SHIP. Horses on Board Ship. By Captain M. Horace Hayes. (lHrst and Blackett. 33. 6d.)-In view of the present agitation over the Remount...

I The Art Workers' Quarterly. (Chapman and HalL 2s. 6d.)- This is the first number of a new publication, edited by Mr. Paulson Townsend, treating of decorative and applied art...

More Famous Homes of Great Britain. Edited by A. H. Malan. (G. P. Putnam's Son,-. 21s. net.)-These articles, reprinted from the Pall Mall Magazine, make an agreeable volume....

Twenty-six Men and a Girt. By Maxim Gorky. Translated| from the Russian by E. Jakowleff and D. B. Monteflore. (Duck- I worth and Co. is. 6d.)-The cheery youth who, tempted by...

RELIGION AND ART. rTO THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTkTOR."J Sir.-As an artist, I am deeply grieved at the point of view expressed by your correspondent on the above subject in your...

A COHERENT CONSERVATIVE PARTY. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SJR,-The party in power is an unwieldy mass, the party in opposition a dislocated fragment. The country...

'TO TiE EDITOR. OF THP "SPrECTATOR."1 SiR,-Under the head of ' Compulsory Volunteering" in the Spectator of March 1st you notice a letter from Mr. Samuel Smith which appeared...

` COMPULSORY VOLUNTEERING." rTO THP EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOP."1 Sip.,-Your article on the above subject which appeared in the `pcrlator of March 1st concludes with these...

LORD KITCHENER OR SIR WALTER SCOTT? ei [TO TIE EDITOE OF THE "SPEcTATOE."I a: SIR,-In Sir Walter Scott's " Lady of the Lake (Canto VI., i: Stanza XVII.) the lines occur:- t....

Thle Titcs of Thursday contains along letter signed by a large number of prominent persons interested in motor-cars and the automobile industry,in which they setforth the...

When the question of the concentration camps came I up again on Tuesday, Mr. Chamberlain observed that never before had a belligerent force attempted to worst the enemy ly...

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was the principal guest I at a dinner given by the National Liberal Club on Wednesday, and made some uncompromising references to the newly...

Bristol enjoyed on Wednesday a day wich may prove to I be of importance to her commercial history. Her importance depends upon her trade with America and the West Indies, and...

On Monday was issued a Parliamentary paper on the working, of the Remount Department. Two main points are noticeable. First, the Department became hopelessly disorganised at...

The Socialists of France, who are at all events so strong that X. Waldeck-Roussean earnestly desires their adhesion at the elections, have published their programme. Much of it...

We may note that in the early p art of his speech Mr. Brodrick defended his Department in regard to the remounts. To a certain extent we agree with Mr. Brodrick's plea that...

On Thursday the Volunteer offic ers in the House, perhaps not unnaturally, did their best to " get back" on Mr. Brodrick for some unguarded remarks as to the Volunteers made by...

Another important point in 31r. Brodricli's Duoarramme is I hbe proposed formation of Reserves for the Volunteers, the I Yeomanry, and the Militia. The Volunteer Reserve is to...

On Thursday the full text of the Convention by which the signatory Powers agree to abolish all bounties on sugar was published at Brussels. Under it the British Government is...

On Tuesday Mr. Brodrick, in introducing the Army Esti- I mates, outlined one of the boldest and most comprehensive schemes of Army reform ever presented to Parliament. He...

In a subsequent debate on the same day the Chancellor I explained the visit of Prince Henry to America. It was not political, but Germany had had good relations with the Union...

We do not suppose that Holland is in much dauger from these menaces, for she is not only protected by Great, Britain, but by France and Russia, which greatly dread the...

Count von Billow made some important speeches in the I Reichstag on Monday. The Government had been asked by the Budget Committee to withdraw the German troops-a whole...

The Vienna correspondent of the Times, a man of remark. able keenness of judgment, published on Thursday a careful analysis of a book just issued by Professor von Halle, under...

M. Waldeck-Rousseau met with a severe accident on Friday week, his carriage being overturned by an electric tramear. He was thrown out, his shoulder injured, and his face and...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. THE war news is again meagre. This means that Lord Kitchener is preparing another of his sweeping move- ments, but the result may not be known for some time...

MR. BALFOUR'S ALLEGED INDIFFERENTISM. WE are delighted to learn from the newspapers that WMr. Balfour is well again, and that next week. he will be doing his work as usual....

THE WILD ANIMALS BILL. IT was inevitable that the Act passed for the protection of wild animals in captivity would raise questions involving distinctions between sport and the...

Lazarre. By Mary Hartwell Catherwood. (Grant Richards. Gs.) -" Good wine needs no bush," but the publisher of the present volume has planted out quite a little shrubbery round...

N 0 i E L S. MR. HORROCKS, PURSER.* WHIATEVER may be said to the prejudice of contemporary British fiction on the score of dreariness and decadence, it is pleasant to think...

THE MAGAZINES. THE new Nineteenth Century, though it contains no article of shining merit, is full of varied and instructive reading. Mr. Bushby's paper on the Agreement...

'PAOLO AND FRANCESCA" AT THE ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. OUR readers already know our opinion of Mr. Stephen 0 Phillips's play as a poem. In reviewing it some sixteen months ago, we...

THE MECHANISM OF WAR. V.-THE HORSE. ULTITUDINOUS as grains of sand upon the sezi. L shore have been the "lessons" derived from the Transvaal War. No Scotch ministerwas ever...

POETRY. YOUNG HOTSPUR. iThe Eighth New; Zealand Contingent started on Jan.uary 29th.] FArEWELL to you, iully and paddock and peak, And you, lonely old Srhare* aside of the...

TRAINED r. UIJNTRAINED SOLDIERS. (1o THIE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sir.,-I have read with much pleasure your interesting article, "Inquiry into War Questions," in the...

BO OK S. I MR. MACKAIL'S "BIBLIA INNOCENTIUM."f MR. MACKAIL describes his book as " the story of God's chosen people after the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, written anew...

ROMAN AFRICA. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Ihile thanking, your reviewer for his general appreciation of. my work on "Roman Africa" in the Spectator of March 1st....

LITTLE ENGLAND BEYOND WALES. [TO THE EDITOR OF THEF ` SPEc(rATO~r"] SiR,-In regard to the ancestry of the people of Southern Pembrokeshire, it may be of interest to mention...

A CORRECTION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-The author of the couplet in the Spectatol of March 1st"Une immense esp~rance a traverse le3 cieux, Mal-gr6 nous vers les...

MR. SAMUEL SMITH ON "NATIONAL DEFENCE." [To THIE EDITOR OF TIHE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I beg to thank you for your very appreciative article on my letter to the Titmes on "National...

GREAT BRITAIN AND GERMANY. [TO TIlE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-All the English caricatures of the late Emperor William which I have seen seem to me to be "sonietiing very...

ST. LUKE AS ARTIST. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." SIR,-I have just now seen in your issue of February 22nd Mr. Jerramns remarks on my letter of the 15th ult. on the above...

CRIME AND EDUCATION. [To TUE EDITOr; OF TILE "SPECrAToI1.' ] SIR,-You say (re the " Goudie " case) that " crime, more especially violent crime, seems on the whole to diminish...

THE HOUSING PROBLEM IN THE COUNTRY. LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Some months ago you were willing to take up the cause of sufferers under by-laws. Perhaps you may...

THE GERMANS AND THE BOERS. [TO THl. EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Siiz,-Your correspondent "BR., in the ,S'pectator of February 22nd, has pointed out a misunderstanding in...

THE LETTERS OF ERASAIUS.* MR. NICHOLS S edition of The Epistles of Erasmus reflects the greatest possible credit upon English scholarship. The mere arrangement of the letters...

BIRDS AND MAN.* SIR EDWARD GREY, in an address delivered some years ago on birds and the pleasures of the ornithologist, declared that the study of birds was better than many...

Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed, and Official Classes, 1902.| (Kelly's Directories. 16s.)-A very conveniently arranged guide to the knowled ge of "the Upper Ten," now in...

NEW EDITIoNs.-In the "New Century Library" (Nelson and I Sons, 2s. 6d. net), Ths Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson. Of course only the out-of-copyright poems are...

A NEW ANTHOLOGY.* ALL verse written during the reign of Queen Victoria has been held to be eligible for inclusion in this volume. The writers are divided into three classes:...

DOES "THE INDIVIDUAL WITHER"? WE greatly doubt the truth of the impression, now so widely prevalent, that democracy and increasing intelligence are diminishing the influence oi...

COUNT VON BULOW ON CBNA. THE speech delivered by Count von Billow on Monday about the situation in China is a very important one, for it explains with unexpected clearness the...

TORPEDO WARFARE. LTO Tim EDITOR OF TwInM SvBcrATOR."] SiIz,-Can you or any of your readers solve the following problem ? Great Britain is at war with a maritime Power, and one...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. LORD ROSEBERY. [TO TIIE EDITOR OF TIML "SPECTATOR."] SiR,-In reference to your paragraph in the Spectator of March 1st, may I, who have been a keen...

PARLIAMENTARY GADFLIES. IF Papublic speaker, having in his mind certain recent occurrences in the House of Commons which have led to a kind of Apologia pro Lingua Stia from a...

THE HOUSING QUESTION. THE " rehousing of the people " will, it is quite clear, T soon become a question of practical politics, and as no one disputes the existence of...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. MR. BRODRICK'S RECRUITING PROPOSALS. I W E congratulate Mr. Brodrick most heartily on his NV' new proposals in regard to the recruiting of the Army. Thev...