The Untilled Field. By George Moore. (T. Fisher Unwin. 6s.) . . . - . . I_ -The general aim of Mr. Moore's book-a collection ot thirteen short stories-is to show that the Celt...

I Clashmore. By Edmund Downey (F. M. Allen). (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 6s.)-This is a lengthy story, which, we cannon help feeling, might have been abridged to advantage. It...

The Stutbling-Block. By Edwin Pugh. (W. Heinemann. 6s.) I - -Mr. Pugh has made his heroine, Bria Ormathwaite, too whimsical to be seriously believed in. She is supposed to be...

C URRENT LITERATURE. ART-BOOKS. | Early Tuscan Art. By Sir Marttbr Conway. (Hurst andt Blackett. 7s. 6d.)-The author traces the evolution ot 'Tuscaa art in the light of the...

ide I Michel Angelo. By C. Ilolroyd. 'tDuAiotff id Co. T7. W.) - - ;: -.1_. . . . .. _ go -The first part of this excellent work-cnsMWI6f a translation oT the biography of the...

Semi-Society. By Frank Richardson. (Chatto and Windus | 6s.)-Mr. Richardson has a very alert pair of eyes, a ready if somewhat irreverent wit, and a considerable gift for...

The Paop4atet Shrim. By Paul Gwyune. (Constable and Co. 6s.)-&rtainly1this story- i a very powerful discourse on the textthhii1ePIlt Vices are turned into whips for scourging....

From the Unvarying Star. By Elsworth Lawson. (Macmillan I I and Co. 6s.)-There is a great deal of very pretty reading in this h book. The character of the heroine is specially...

A. PalamD of , spi.. By -Herbert Comptmn,

| EIncyclopaedia Britannica Index. (A. and C. Black.)-Tllis elaborate Index, consisting of more than a thousand fivecolumn pages, largely increases the usefulness of the work....

I George Douglas Brown. A Biographical Memoir by Cuthbert I Leunox. (Hodder and Stoughton. 3s. 6d. net.)-Mr. G. D. Brown s. wrote the novel entitled " The House with the...

Rama and the Mfoatkeys. By Geraldine Hodgson. (J. M. Dent and Co. is. net.)-A volume of the "Temple Classics for Young People." Miss Hodgson has adapted the story to the...

The City of London Directory, 1903 (W. H. and L. Collingridge, 12s. 6d.), contains the usual information which we expect in a directory, the lists of places and persons-as to...

I Sacificiai lWrorship. By Wiln. S. Gold, S.T.D. (Longmans and Co. 3s. 6d.)-Dr. Gold states his views with Such modesty and calmness, and in so unconitroversial a spirit, that...

Life and Wor1k of J. M. W. Turner. By Charles Alfred Swin- I burne. (Bickers and Son. 7s. 6d.)-Mr. Swinburne writes| pleasantly and sympathetically of the great landscape...

I Republics v. WFoman. By 'Mrs. Woolsey. (Gay and Bird. 3s. 6d.)-Mrs. Woolsey is not satisfied with the treatment which women receive in the United States and in Republics...

-My Kalendar of Country Delights. By Helen Milman (Mrs. Caldwvell Crofton). (Jvlm L: ;ct. ucc.)- I hzve Isia ! up my mind," writes the author of this book, " to keep a...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK. runaer this heading ire notice such Books of the week as hiare not been r. ,,ved for verietu il other forms.] History of the Pewterers' Comfpany. By...

I - _ I The visit has been watched in foreign States with acute. possibly even exaggerated, interest, the general view being that it will facilitate an Anglo-French alliance....

The King's visit to Paris has been marked by a singular and picturesque incident. It appears that in 1878 a chemist named Danval was accused of poisoning his wife, and that the...

I The news from the Balkans is most disheartening. The revolutionaries in Macedonia, finding that Europe is callous to their cries of distress, have determined to make the...

I - That Russia will fail to destroy our Indian Empire we I do not doubt, for our position in India is infinitely strong; but the struggle we are thus provoking, if it is...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. IT HE most momentous event of the past week was Lord Lansdowne's declaration of British policy in the Persian Gulf made in the House of Lords on Tuesday. We...

I . The reception of King Edward in Palis was most satisfac- I torY, and the cordiality was not confined to the President and the officials. From his entrance into the city on...

I Mr. Wyndham in his speech winding up the debate showed I Parliamentary tact and eloquence of a high order. The measure was a means by which a twenty years' feud could be...

I The debate on the Irish Land Bill was continued and con- I eluded on Thursday. Mr. Healy, who spoke with considerable feeling, declared that every shilling of the money voted...

Tno T)illnn wi;itpR txn Un that he monRidlrR that tfhA RtA+ 1Amlnt.; in the letter in last week's Spectator from the Rev. Edward B. Haskell replying to his previous letter...

I The Academy Banquet was held last Saturday evening. Within the space at our disposal we cannot, of course, do justice to the feast of oratory, which fills nearly five columns...

c;.. TT."rv Cramnbell-Bannerman. who followed Mr. Balfour. though not opposing the Bill, very naturally tried to draw attention to the various difficulties in the way. His...

- In the House of CommoB on Wednesday Mr. Chamber- lain, in a speech as clear as it was eloquent, expounded the financial arrangements made in respect of the South African...

Wood Carving. By F. G. Jackson. (Chapman and Hall. 3s.) |, -This is a sound and sensible book for beginners, both as regards the technical instruction and the carving patterns...

A Discussion of Composition as Applied to Art. By J. V. van Pelt. (Macmillan and Co. Ss. 6d.)-Tlie bulk of this book relates to architecture, as is natural considering that...

I Home Arts and Crafts. By Montague Marks. (C. A. Pearson. 3s. 6d.)-Here is to be found information upon a great variety of processes. The technical instructions, though not...

I Intarsia and Marqueiry. By T. Hamilton Jackson. (Sands and Co. 5s.)-This is an excellent treatise on a beautiful art, an art which, like so many others, was at its best...

Hogarth. By Austin Dobson and Sir W. Armstrong. (W. 1. Heinemann. £5.)-Mr. Dobson's part of the work has been seen before, being, if we mistake not, substantially the same as...

I The Burlington Magazine (Savile Publishing ComPany. 2s. 6d.) makes an excellent start with its first number. The quarto size allows of the illustrations being of good...

Holbein's Ambassadors Unriddled. By W. F. Dickes. (Cassell I and Co. lOs. 6d.)-The author dedicates his work to the Trustees and Director of the National Gallery, and says:-"...

A Pictoral Chronicle of Siena. By W. Heywood. (Enrico Torrini, I Siena. 4 lire.)-This little book gives an account of the curious historical record preserved at Siena known as...

Old English Songs and Dances. Decorated by Graham Robert- son. (Longmans and Co. X2 2s.)-The charm of this book is tue originality of the style of the pictures. Mr. Graham...

Lives and Legends of the Great Hermits and Fathers of the Church. By Mrs. Arthur Bell. (Bell and Sons. 14s.)-For those who wish I to make out the symbols and stories of the...

WANTED-AN IRISH SIR WALTER. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SiR,-Your note to my letter in the Slpectator of May 2nd tempts me into adding a final word upon the above...

POETRY. A WAVE OF THE SEA. o You who scan your faith with anxious look, And half believing still a sign require; Lest the new wisdom of the next new book Should show your God...

THE LAND OF THE BLACK MOUNTAIN. LTO THE EDITOR OF THE SPZCTATOR."] SIR,-Your notice in the Spectator of April 25th of a book called " The Land of the Black Mountain " gives...

A RT. THE ACADEMY. THE Summer Exhibition of the Academy is as large and as indiscriminate as ever, and thus the true answer to the yearly repeated question, "What sort of an...

The country must wait a little before it can fully understand I - I . 1 .I ' . the position in Somaliland. According to some versions of Mr. Brodrick's perhaps rather...

I In the House of Commons on Monday Mr. Redmond in his speech on the Irish Land Bill was careful to state that he only wished to press amendments which would better carry olut...

Tf. snnoav to be true that the Sultan has addressed a "Note " to the Government of Sofia so sharp that the Bulgarian Ministry declined to receive it until its terms were...

I In the House of Commons on Friday week Sir Gilbert Parker moved the second reading of the Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister Bill in an able speech. The measure, he...

On Monday in the House of Lords the Duke of Bedford once more raised the case of Colonel Kinloch. We do not desire to open up this painful case again in detail, but must...

It is surely unreasonable to allege that because Colonel Kinloch made a voluntary statement at a Court of Inquiry which in effect proved his inefficiency, that inefficiency was...

Americans need almost as much as our countrymen a I more exact comprehension of the Power with which they are dealing when that Power is Russia. They were profoundly annoyed by...

SOMALILAND. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Your excellent article in the Spectator of May 2nd on v Sonmaliland applies a healthy tonic to the jaded politicians t who...

WOMEN AND THE LONDON EDUCATION BILL. [TO THE EDITOR OF THUE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-The letter which has appeared in the Times from the secretaries of the Women's Local Government...

NATIONAL SCOUTS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."| le SIR,-The remarks of "A Kentish Man" on the subject of a 's Corps of County Guides in the Sectator of April 18th are very...

I e IRISH LAND PURCHASE AND THE NATIONALISATION OF FORESTS. - [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' :, . . .. _ SIR,-Your suggestion in the Spectator of March 28th that r this...

THE BIRD-SCARER. BIRD-SCARING, or "bird-starving," as it is more picturesquely called, is not a popular means of livelihood. In the first place, since the birds have no respect...

NOVELS. A BURGHER QUIXOTE.* SCORES of novels have been written in the last couple of years in which the war in South Africa has played a more or less important part. A Burgher...

THE IRISH LAND BILL. LV S the discussion of the Irish Land Bill proceeds it is NL impossible not to realise that a situation of the utmost gravity has been created by the...

I OUR PARTY GOVERNMENT AS OTHERS SEE IT.* I To the average Englishman who has taken the intellectual trouble to understand something of the meaning of the causes which have...

THE KTIC4TS RECEPTION IN PARIS. T is not verv e:isv-certainlv some of our contempoI Yaries find it a little difficult-to praise a King without using the lanuiage of adulation,...

MEMORIES OF A HUNDRED YEARS.* FEW men, we suppose, are better qualified than Dr. Everett Hale to write a history of the United States in the form of reminiscences. He is not...

RELIGION AND SCIENCE. IN moving a vote of thanks on Saturday last at University College to Professor Henslow, who lectured on the subject of "Present-Day Rationalism: an...

COUNTY HISTORY FOR COUNTRY SCHOOLS. WHEN the county authorities come to deal not only with W the finance of, but to some extent with the subjects to be taught in, the schools,...

BISHOP WESTCOTT.* IT must be seldom that a school can boast so remarkable a trio of alumni as were Brooke Foss Westcott, J. B. Lightfoot, and E. W. Benson. They were not...

MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S SOUTH AFRICAN STATE3MENT. l\lK. CHAMBERLAIN'S statement in regard to _LUL South Africa was satisfactory from the econonlic point of view. It wias equally so...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. A CADET BATTALION FOR LONDON WORKING BOYS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE I SPEcTATOR."] SIR,-So much is being written and said about the physical training of...

THE LONDON EDUCATION BILL. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECrATOR."] SiR,-In your article on this Bill in the Spectator of May 2nd you make the excellent suggestion to eliminate the...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE RELATIONS OF GREAT BRITAIN WITH RUSSIA. THERE are some points of foreign policy about which T our countrymen, sensible as they generally are, seem...

THE LESSON OF THE CORN-TAX. T HE Corn-tax has been killed in a great measure by the T injudicious praises bestowed on it when it was imposed last year. At that time Sir Michael...

THE MAGAZINES. THE chorus of acclamation which has greeted the Irish Land Bill is rudely disturbed by Judge O'Connor Morris's vehement denunciation of this " scheme of...

Supplementary Chapter to Professor S. R. Gardiner's History of I the Commonwealth. (Longmans and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)-It is a I disappointment to find that this chapter of...

The Book of the Wild Garden. By S. W. Fitzherbert. (J. Lane. 2s. 6d. net.)-This is the latest addition to the excellent series, often noticed in these columns, of " Handbooks...

BO OK S. T THE PROBLEM OF THE PERSIAN GULF.* WHAT is most of all wanted to illuminate the discussion of the problem of the Persian Gulf is a good supply of trustworthy facts....