Da. Mammies book is scarcely equal to the expectations which the reader naturally forms from its title and its general appearance. Nearly half of its contents belong to Part I.,...

MAC.AITLAY'S MARGINALIA.* Tnrs interesting little volume contains a selection from the manuscript notes inscribed by Lord Macaulay—" in immense profusion," as his nephew tells...

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black zone—probably the indigenous home of the negro—which stretches across Africa from the Atlantic to the Red Sea between the latitudes of 4' and 18° N. Practically the whole...

has received little attention from English writers, though the genius of Velazquez has made the King and many of his Court strangely familiar to us. When Philip came to the...

MR. RUDYARD KIPLING'S "BRUSHWOOD BOY."• A FEW weeks ago there appeared in the Spectator a very able letter the upshot of which, briefly put, was this,—the best thing that can...

E. C. Jack. 6s.)—Very little is required to male the early story of the French settlements in Canada interesting—it is indeed a suc- cession of romantic and picturesque...

(Seeley and Co. Ss.)—Mr. Elliott's industry has collected a large pot- pourri of facts curious and entertaining, and set out with some skill and cohesion ; but there is much...

2s.)—Petilius Cerialis, 'a Roman of whom we would gladly know more than we do, is the hero of - this story. The aeon° is first laid in Britain, and is afterwards changed to...

has a religious purpose, and we'wish to Credit the writer with all sincerity in seeking to farther lb. 43 ut it is a pity to do this by ridiculing the ways and inetheRislef...

"FISH " is a term which, for tbnvenience" sake, is made to include various things which cannot in strictness be so described. Some of these, as the various kinds of whale,...

(Hodder and Stoughton. 3s. 6d.)—We have here short bin. graphies of Patrick Hamilton, the first &Wish , thaebyr of the Reformation ; George Wil3hart ; Cameron, "the Ilion of the...

Co. 5s.)—The first siege is that of Gibraltar (1779-82), the last Port Arthur (1904). There is no need to draw comparisons between these two, but it is significant that both...

Harrison Fisher. (E. Grant Richards. 7s. 63. net.)—The illus- trator of Hiawatha has a difficulty before him which he can never quite overcome. The poet's braves, and fair...

Ernest Waltham. (A. and C. Black. 3s. 6d.)—Thoso pages are exactly what w9 should expect from the sub-title,—impressions of Tangier such as a girl might put in her letters. The...

and Co. 6s.)—The fairy-tales in this volume come from various sources,—India, France, Turkey, Armenia, and Denmark. Mr. Lang talks to us in the preface of Perrault, the...

Bouverio Street, 8s. each), the yearly volumes of these periodicals, will be as welcome as ever. We have staid on more than one occasion that they are well adapted to the...

as more wild creatures were added to the list, and in later years gaining form and consistency as he learnt the conditions of wild life. He gives chapters from the lives of the...

and Son. 6s.)—Dick Stapleton finds himself at Cape Coast Castle with a business that is sadly on tho wane. When he is in the lowest water his chance comes to him, and he uses...

3s. Od.)— Dick's sister turns out to be by no means angelic ; in fact, she runs away, and Dick, ever loyal to her, thinks the best way of taking care of her is to go with her....

3s. 6d.)—The " Sniper," so-called from his surprising skill with a catapult, distinguishes himself at school, at Woolwich, where he qualifies with great success for the...

5s.) — There are stories which cannot bo told too often, and Mr. Sanderson tells them well. We begin with Walter Raleigh, and the man who is rightly called the " real founder of...

Agnes Leigh (Wells Gardner, Dayton, and Co., ls. 6d.), are between thirty and forty in number, gently didactic—the naughty boys and girls escape the awful fate of "Don't Care...

O'Connor. (G. Bell and Sons. 5s. net.)—This book, with its story and its pretty pictures—quite original and vigorous bits of work—is "intended to enable children to revive their...

Two Dianas in Somali/and. By Agnes Herbert. (John Lane. 12s. not.)—Chivalry and fair criticism alike force us to give the place of honour among recent sporting books to the Two...

THE CAMBRIDGE MODERN HISTORY, VOL. X. The Cambridge Modern History. Planned by the late Lord Acton, Professor of Modern History. Vol. X., " The Restoration." (Cambridge...

Gd. net.)—This is a very pretty, simple story of a Burmese beauty who marries a chief from the mountains, goes through various troubles, and comes happily out of them. The...

Ilumpty- Dumpty Books," such as Jack and the Beanstalk, and of their " Stump Books," such as The House that Jack Built. The price of each is 6d. net.—Other well-got-up...

George Buchanan: Glasgow Quatercentenary Studies, 1906. (J. MacLehose and Sons, Glasgow. 12s. 6d. net.)—The quitter- centenary proper of George Buchanan, who was born in...

Big Game Shooting on the Equator. By Captain F. A. Dickinson. With an Introduction by Sir Charles Norton Eliot. (John Lane. 12s. 6d. net.)—Captain Dickinson is nothing if not...

A Woman's Trek from the Cape to Cairo. By Mary Hall. (Methuen and Co. 16s. net.)—Mrs. Hall has performed a very remarkable journey. Since Captain Grogan's great expedition eight...

Flowers and Trees of Palestine. By Augusta A. Temple. (Elliot Stock. Os. net.)—Miss Temple has had predecessors in the task which she has undertaken; but her volume, which is...

Sir Rowland Hill: the Story of a Great Reform. By his Daughter. (T. Fisher Unwin. 5s. net.)—Mrs. Smyth, after an "introductory" sketch of Rowland Hill's anoestry, his father,...

Factors in Modern History. By A. F. Pollard, M.A. (A. Con- stable and Co. 7s. 6d.)—Mr. Pollard is one of the few writers on matters historical whose views are sufficiently...

Christus Futures. (Macmillan and Co. 5s. net.)—Some years ago an anonymous author published a small book called " Pro Christo et Ecolesia." The book made a good deal of stir,...

The Discoveries in Crete. By Ronald M. Burrowes. (John Murray. 5s.)—The writer states that it is his aim in this volume to give "a picture of Cretan civilisation as a whole, and...

The Story of a Beautiful Duchess: being an Account of the Life and Times of Elizabeth Gunning, Duchess of Hamilton and Argyll, By Horace Bleackley, M.A. Illustrated. (A....

A History of Milan under the Sforza. By Cecilia M. Ady. Edited by Edward Armstrong. With 20 Illustrations and a Map. (Methuen and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—This appears to be the first...

The Parish Clerk. By P. H. Ditchfield, M.A. (Methuen and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—The judicious parson nowadays declines to appoint a parish clerk, for this reason : the office is a...

Agricultural Botany : Theoretical and Practical. By John Percival, M.A. (Duckworth and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Percival is the Director of the Department of Agriculture at...

Forty Years of Paris. By W. F. Lonergan. With 32 Portraits. (T. Fisher Unwin. 10s. 6d. net.)—As a correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, Mr. Lonergan knew Paris exceptionally...

Europe and the Turks. By Noel Buxton. (John Murray. 2s. 6d.)—Mr. Buxton tells us that the issue of his small and useful handbook is "prompted by a desire to reason with those...

AND ROME. Malaria: a Neglected Factor in the History of Greece and Rome. By W. H. S. Jones, M.A. (Macmillan and Bowes, Cambridge. 2s. 6d. net.)—Greece was conquered, to put the...

Pictures of Travel. By Heinrich Heine. A New Translation by Russell Davis Gillman. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. 10s. 6d.)—This is an excellent and painstaking, though here and...

" de iure Earl of Llandaff "-we are reminded of a parson who described himself as "de iure B.A." because ho ought to have passed but did not-would have done better for his case...

The Last Empress of the French. By Philip W. Sergeant, B.A. (T. Werner Laurie. 12s. 6d. net.)—This is loss objectionable than are most biographies of living persons. The book...

Bright Ideas for Entertaining. By Mrs. Herbert B. Linscott. (Hodder and Stoughton. 3s. 6d.)-This is the kind of reference- book a hostess must be grateful for. How often has one...

and 5 Dean Street, Holborn, W.C. ; and Published by JOHN Bears for the "SPECTATOR " (Limited) at their Office, No. 1 Wellington Street, in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, the...

Swiss Army Law was announced. According to the Times, there was a poll of about 590,000 out of a total electorate of 785,000 and the majority in favour of the new law was...

T HE German Emperor and Empress arrived at Ports- mouth on Monday afternoon on board the' Hohenzollern,' after being delayed some time by fog in the Channel. They were met by...

the general unconcern of the nation. The new and more narrow Electoral Law has Undoubtedly done what the Czar and his Government -wanted; the Times correspondent says that for...

London, and were entertained by the City Corporation at the Guildhall. The crowds received them cordially. The route was decorated and was lined by troops. The Corporation...

Yellow. book on Morocco was begun on Tuesday, and was continued on Wednesday. It is clear that the Government have the confidence of a large enough part of the country to enable...

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peerages have been bestowed, an omission which the present attitude of the Government towards the House of Lords rendered, we suppose, expedient; but baronetcies have been...

was doing its best to put this thing down, At the same time, he would not be bullied or cajoled by any persons or newspapers here or in Ireland into a departure from a course...

on Tuesday, and devoted most of his speech to a. defence of his administration of Ireland. He described the cattle-driving in Roscommon and Galway as an illegal con- spiracy, a...

to the question of Socialism. Though he is, no doubt, a convinced anti-Socialist, we cannot help wishing that he had used some- what firmer language in regard to those who...

are glad to think, not serious, indisposition of the Prime Minister. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was taken ill at Bristol in the evening after his speech at the Colston...

Saturday last. A special interest was lent to the pro: ceedings by the presentation of the Oullinan diamond, the gift of the people of the Transvaal to the King. In...

the gathering of Unionist delegates at Birmingham. After declaring that it was impossible to lay down rules as to party loyalty, and making an appeal to "every man not to...

interesting review of the Session of the new Finnish Diet. It is the only legislative body in the world to which both men and women are eligible, which is elected on the basis...

strongest possible proof of how entirely unnecessary it is to foster an industry by Protection, or rather, we should say, how Free- trade is by far the best foster-mother. If...

financial condition of America, except that there are as yet few, if any, signs of a real restoration of public confidence. But till such confidence is restored the prospect...

past week with accounts of the immense strides made by the motor industry throughout the United Kingdom. The Daily Mail declares that "no disinterested spectator can examine the...

comes from taxation intended to force the public to buy a home-made article rather than the best article and the cheapest article, they were obliged to turn out something which...

significant and disagreeable commentary on Sir John Fisher's optimistic speech at the Guildhall last Saturday. It appears that, in consonance with instructions from the...

Thaneb Conservative and Unionist League a copy of a letter addressed by him to the president of the Isle of Thanet Conservative Association,—the body which supports Mr. Marks....

Oxford to familiarise himself with the duties of his office, as he generously conceives them, and on Monday after- noon he visited Ruskin College and made a short and excel-...

Nov. 7th. Console (2k) were on Friday 81i—on Friday week 81k.

MR. BALFOUR'S SPEECH AND THE " TIMES " LEADER. "W E cannot, as Unionist Free-traders, profess ourselves satisfied with Mr. Balfour's speech. But in making this declaration we...

H OPEFULNESS for the future relations of Britain and Germany is justified, we trust, by the friendly words of the Emperor in the City of London on Wednesday. These words are...

W E wish it were possible to obtain the real opinion of the more thoughtful Liberals upon the Prime Minister's speech at Bristol. Unless we are greatly mis- taken, that opinion...

T HE Kings are in front just now. They have been gaining upon the statesmen in popular imagination for some years, and at this moment few speeches by Cabinet Ministers are read...

M ANY of us can remember when the Lord Mayor's Show was an object of common ridicule. Only the intense conservatism of the City kept it alive, and certainly it seemed hard that...

O THER persons than ourselves, we fancy, must have felt that the naval speech of Sir John Fisher at the Guildhall Banquet last Saturday was pitched in a wholly unfamiliar key,...

i F I had read as much as other learned men, I should be as ignorant as they are," said Hobbes the philosopher, who had perhaps read more than any man of his time, and knew what...

A WIDE river skirting the base of the gentle knoll upon which is situated—or, rather, upon which reclines, for it is so remarkably peaceful-looking an old place—the ancient town...

THE ISSUES IN RUSSIA. LTO TIM EDITOR Or TIM 'SPECTATOR."] Sra.,—Repression is now far stronger and far more systematic throughout Russia than it was in 1904, before the first...

LTO THU EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR] SIR, —The letter in which Mr. Harold Cox had set forth the monetary doctrine which I maintain in "La Science &ono. mique" has provoked an...

MR. BALFOUR'S LEADERSHIP. (TO TIM EDITOR of THE "SPEOTATOR.1 SIR,—I sincerely trust your article in the issue of Novem- ber 2nd in support of Mr. Balfour will be widely read,...

[TO TILF EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR; SIR,—I have just read Sir Henry Campbell-Ba,nnerman's speech on the Lords. It is that of a skilful party leader as well as a. highly respected...

" of money is a very essential postulate of political economy. The "iron theory " of M. Guyot merely distracts and misleads. If the "iron theory" of the rise of prices after the...

Sew riTos.-] Six,—Will you allow me, who am a thoroughgoing Pro- testant, to beg ministers and lay members of the Free Churches to consider how the influence of the whole...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPROTATOR:1 Sin, — I have just been reading the article in last week's Spectator in which you try to remove the doubts of a corre- spondent who fears...

[To TH2 EDITOR OP THE “SPROTATOR."1 Sra,—In view of the increased activity among the advocates of Socialism, the views of one in whose interest it is supposed to be designed may...

[TO TER EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I read with great interest your most able article on the above in last week's Spectator. May I, as a mere provincial ratepayer, give my...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It may be claimed that Lady Bell, whose book, "At the Works," was reviewed in the Spectator when it appeared, has not shirked action in...

(To THE EDITOR OF TRH "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The letters on abstention from voting and on the Tasmanian electoral system, both of which appeared in your issue of the 9th - inst.,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —May I point out one reason which would not probably occur to your correspondents in favour of Prayer-book re- vision P As a...

ITO THE EDITOR OF TRH " SPEOTLTOR.1 SIR,-It is a pity to spoil a good story, and the story of the Mameluke'slamous leap, which is recounted to every visitor to the citadel of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' Sin,—In your interesting article of last week you are quite right in regarding hotel life as a danger to good citizenship. Whatever other...

THE following correspondence has passed between the editor of the Spectator and Mr. Sydney Buxton, Postmaster- General, in regard to the passage of objectionable matter through...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.'] DEAR SIR,— Cannot you use your undoubtedly great influence in some practical effort to rouse the Postal or Home Office authorities to some...

ITO TRH EDITOR OF TUN " St.itCrrATOIL"] SIR,—I have to thank you for yorr very careful and well- considered review of ." The Children's Book of Stars " in your issue of...

LTO THE EDITOR OF TUE "EPROTATOR.".1 notice in the Spectator of last week a letter from a correspondent stating that two black-headed gulls were recently witnessed in St....

AN EPISTLE PROM THE VILLAGE PARSON TO THE DOCTOR. DEAR DOCTOR, If they tell me true, Labour has loosed his grip on you, And now, since you have done your best So long, you...

I entirely agree with and sympathise in the view expressed by your• correspondent and yourself, that these most pernicious advertisements should, if possible, be sup- pressed....

WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM.* IT is remarkable that hitherto there has been no good biography of Chatham by an English writer. The only work of a size at all adequate to the...

UNDER the somewhat ambitious title of Drama and We Mr. A. B. Walkley has gathered together and reprinted a number of his dramatic criticisms and essays. There is, perhaps, no...

IT - was too much to expect that a second draft upon Lady Dorothy Nevill's wall,filled, if disordered, note-books should be as productive as the first; and it cannot be said...

besides the romance and picturesqueness that hang round the name, Mr. Hare should represent his hero as having been born "in the very heart of old Touraine, within the ancient...

Duchess° de Montpensier known in her own day and ours as "La Grande Mademoiselle," is a fascinating and adventurous figure well deserving more attention than she has hitherto...

WE do not doubt that beginners can learn a great deal about the art of angling by studying carefully the books of experienced fishermen. Mr. Shaw's book (which by additions and...

VALERIE UPTON.t Miss SEDGWICK is a writer of such undeniable charm that we welcome her return in her new novel to paths in which she is able to give full play to her most...

net.)—Mr. Walter Crane contrived to see a good deal of Indian cities, landing at Bombay on December 7th and leaving Ceylon about three months afterwards, and he tries in this...

Blackett. 6a.)—A striking little story containing a portrait of an almost superhumanly delightful old lady.—The Heart's Banishment. By Ella Macmahon. (Chapman and Hall....

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as hare not been reserved for review in other formal Deep Questions. By the Rev. C. T. Ovenden, D.D. (S.P.C.K. 3s. 6d.)—Dr....

net.)—Our author belongs to the class of born travellers to whom travel is an existence in itself, and who need little edneation or training for their part. Fe- such happy...

a very well contrived tale, and told so excellently that the clever contrivance is set off to the best advantage. Mr. McCarthy's style is never otiose. Ho always writes well,...

6s.)— Sir George Hale, the principal character in this novel, is repre- sented as having died some months before the beginning of the story. None the less, he is the most living...

and Co. 4e. 6d. net.)—Here we have a "Treasury of Verse and Prose from the Works of Dante." Dr. Toynbee has gone to Cary's version for his extracts from the "Inferno," and to...

and Son. 8s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Lauder explains the constitution of local governing bodies, and then discusses in detail the various matters with which they have to deal. These are...

parts (2s. each) of Wagner's Ring of the Niblung—Rhinegold, The Valkyrie, Siegfried, and The Twilight of the Gods—in which the text of Wagner's poem is printed page by page with...

10s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Hackwood writes on a subject which is always interesting to Englishmen. He does not tell us anything new, but he knows what he is writing about, and has a...

and Notes, by T. F. Henderson. 5 vols. in "Rontledge's New Universal Library." (G. Routledge and Sons. ls. net per vol.)—Mr. Henderson's introduction gives an appreciation of...

(H. Frowde, 25s. net). Now that the Royal Society may be said to restrict its proceedings to science, the Academy has before it the aim of occupying the fields of literature,...