SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as haze not been reserved for review in other forms.] Addresses to Earl Grey and Speeches in Reply. (S. E. Dawson, Ottawa.)—This volume includes addresses made and replied to from December 10th, 1904, at the beginning of Lord Grey's tenure of office, down to 1907. Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, Regina, Winnipeg, Victoria, Vancouver, Quebec, St. John, are among the places at which these functions took place. Some were municipal welcomes ; others public dinners. The theme was, in one way or another, the development of Canada. Lord Grey's replies seem to be uniformly excellent, judiciously suited—to speak of one of their merits—to the time and place. It is interesting, for instance, to see how the speaker rises to the opportunity when he has to accommodate himself to such an occasion as an address from the municipality of Quebec. His reply is on a much loftier plane of sentiment than we commonly find. He could not, it seems clear, have adapted himself more admirably to his theme.
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