24 DECEMBER 1904, page 21

The Return To Protection. More Difficult Than So To Restate

the well-known considerations on the subject as to attract the attention of practical men. This feat Professor Smart's work is admirably adapted to accomplish. He writes not......

Dialstone Line.*

A. NEW volume from Mr. W. W. Jacobs is always welcome, doubly so at Christmastide, when a reaction against the convention of cheerfulness has deprived us in great part of the......

One Of The Strange Delusions Entertained By A Large Number

of Mr. Chamberlain's followers is that they advocate a pro- gressive policy, and that their opponents have been successful hitherto owing to the reluctance of Englishmen in......

Sally : A Study, And Other Tales Of The Outskirts.

By Hugh Clifford. (W. Blackwood and Sons. Os.)—In the first of these striking sketches Mr. Clifford touches on a problem which must constantly confront the men who rule over......

Paths Of Judgment. By Anne Douglas Sedgwick. (a....

Co. 6s.)—Miss Sedgwick in her new novel gives admirable pictures of two types of men,—types which we are apt to think the invention of the end of the nineteenth century, but......