20 JANUARY 1923, page 26

The Quarterlies.

THE QUARTERLY. We are delighted to find in the new Quarterly a vigorous and well-reasoned article on "The Burden of Taxation," rein- forcing the Spectator's plea for a full......

The English Hfstorical Review.

Professor Pollard completes in this issue his valuable essay on "Council, Star Chamber and Privy Council under the 'udors." He maintains that Elizabeth kept her executive Privy......

The Edinburgh Review.

Mr. Bernard Holland's excellent article on "Central and Local Government" deserves special notice. As the editor, Mr. Harold Cox, points out in "A Conservative Programme," "one......

The Library. (h. Milford. 5s. Net.)

In a recent issue the Library contains a valuable paper by Professor H. B. Lathrop on The First English Printers and their Patrons." The American scholar is chiefly concerned......

Finance-public & Private;

By ARTHUR W. KIDDY. MARKET OPTIMISM. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—During the past week developments in external political and financial affairs do not, to the ordinary......

The Army Quarterly. (clowes. 7s. 6d. Net.)

There are many good articles in the January number, notably an account of the defeat of the Bolshevik invasion of Poland in August, 1920, when British Labour leaders threat-......

The Geographical Journal.

Mr. C. Gillman's account of his ascent of Kilimanjaro, the great isolated East Africa mountain which, though close to the Equator, is covered with eternal' snow, is peculiarly......

The Scorrish Historical Review.

Mr. Walter Seton completes the story of the Scottish Regalia which were hidden during Cromwell's occupation of Scotland and brought out again at the Restoration. It seems that......