with the most unfeigned regret, without noting the admirable peroration with which it closed :— "I appeal to every man, whatever be his traditions, whatever be his party or his...

cause deep disappointment not only to Unionist Free-traders, but also to many earnest and convinced Tariff Reformers. It virtually reiterates the argument he employed at the...

of the week is as follows. On Friday week Mr. Asquith had an audience with the King at Sandringham for the first time since the break-up of the Conference. In the course of...

case.

may be briefly summarised as follows. We must provide a Navy which shall secure our supremacy at sea. The House of Lords must be reformed by making it smaller, and by...

ways a speech of power and of insight, but, loath as . we are to weaken our cause by criticism, we are bound to point out how signally it failed in the essential need of the...

THE political crisis has absorbed the attention of the • ..1- nation daring the week. In the House of Commons on Friday Mr. Asquith made his promised announcement in • regard...

Wednesday's paper, is once again becoming prominent in Austria-Hungary. It is announced that the Hungarian Premier and the - Ban of Croatia have agfeeU to remove the Croatian...

paper the scheme for a railway from the Caucasus to Baluchistan. The promoters are well-known Russians, and they propose to form an international company and to seek the...

the Veto Bill should at once be introduced, of which he had given notice, traced the history of the rival proposals for dealing with the House of Lords. There were two separate...

was no reason for ending the discussion. " I venture to say that we have no right whatever to assume that because eight members drawn from the two Front Benches did their best...

follows, was discussed in the House of Lords on Thursday:— "That in future the House of Lords shall consist of Lords of Parliament: (a) chosen by the whole body of hereditary...

Patricia reached Livingstone, the capital of Northern Rhodesia, having visited the Victoria Falls on the way. Only four years ago Livingstone consisted, as the Times corre-...

character of the Bills he proposes to introduce for regu- lating the relation of the State to railways. The Times correspondent believes that there will be four or five Bills....

British Anti-Slavery Society which has gone to Portugal in con- nexion with the treatment of the natives in San Thome and Principe has been cordially received by the Pro-...

Berliner Neueste Nachrichten demanding that two Englishmen who are now under arrest charged with espionage should be made incapable of reporting what they may have seen. The...

the rights of the miners to use the powers of peaceful persuasion sanctioned by Parliament would be respected, a determined attempt had been made to break into the power-houses...

arrived in England, the First Division at Portland and the Third Division at Gravesend. It had been the intention of the Fleet to go first to the Mediterranean, but cholera in...

the first election Manifesto in Tuesday's papers. This document starts with the assumption that " the failure of the Conference leaves us confronted with the absolute veto of...

I. Shackleton, M.P., had been offered and accepted the post of Senior Labour Adviser at the Home Office. The official communiqué accompanying the announcement states that, in...

Lieutenant Siegfried Helm, of the German Army, was tried on the charge of having unlawfully made sketches and plans of the Portsmouth defences. He pleaded guilty. The...

20th. Consols (2i) were on Friday 78.1,--Friday week 79g.

Keir Hardie, who demanded the withdrawal of the troops from the scene of the recent Welsh riots as their presence was "very offensive to the law-abiding inhabitants," Mr....

• THE OPPORTUNITY OF THE LORDS. C IRCUMSTANCES and the skilful management of Lord Lansdowne have given the House of Lords a great opportunity,—the opportunity of placing before...

the Con- stitutional crisis pressed forward a policy which it has now advocated. for nearly twenty years,—the adoption of the Referendum, or poll of the people, as part of our...

N O writer of our time has had so high an average of influence on the civilised world as Count Tolstoy. The author of " War and Peace " and " Anna Karenina " is recognised...

I N another column we publish a very temperate and clearly argued statement by Mr. Atherley-Jones, K.C., M.P., in favour of the reversal of the Osborne judgment. Mr....

G _ Eugenius III., "who can never be sought in vain, even when He cannot be found." The words of the great mediaeval mentor apply almost as well to the search after...

"Between the business of life and the day of death a space ought to be inter- posed."—GEoaas HERBERT, "Jacula Pradentium." T HE flight of Count Tolstoy from his borne,...

T HE sunrise shines upon my window, and before the world is up to scent the autumn morning a starling comes out from his bedroom under the ridge-tiles to talk to himself. He...

GREAT BRITAIN'S INFLUENCE ON YOUNG CHINA. [To TIM Enrros OP TIM "Bracrrros.'] Sra,—A certain very small proportion of Englishmen realise that there are a few Chinese students...

Srn,—In the heyday of the Home-rule controversy in the " nineties " every Parliamentary seat in Bradford and the district was held by a Unionist. Now every Unionist M.P. has...

TARIFF REFORM AND THE CRISIS. LTo TEN EDITOR or TEE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—As a reader of the Spectator, with whose views on Free- trade I do not, however, agree, permit me to...

Sin,—Your advice to Unionists to " concentrate" is sound and well timed. Thousands of Unionists are uncompromising supporters of " taxation for revenue only," who would gladly...

of a Unionist pledge that a reformed tariff shall not come into force without having been submitted to the electorate for approval seems convincing to me, and doubtless to many...

article of last week you appeal to Tariff Reformers to put on the shelf the question of Tariff Reform in order to concentrate on the Union. Do you mean that a Government formed...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR...1 SIB,—Now that the evil necessity is upon us for another storm of platform oratory, is it too late to entreat Unionist speakers to,revise...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin, — It is, I think, very desirable that the views of those who are favourable to a revision by the Legislature of the Osborne judgment...

week upon Mr. Winston Churchill's message to the Tonypandy miners were all too well deserved. There is at least one organ of the Liberal Press which seems anxious to emulate his...

[TO THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—Regarding the "Osborne judgment" and the Labour Party in Australia, you have been seriously misled by the Melbourne Argus (see...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "Sr/crews."] SIR,—At the present crisis in the coal trade one is forced to look for the disturbing elements and to review the situation as a whole having...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIB,—I see from the Spectator of October 29th that you miss the point in Mr. Lloyd George's remarks concerning the pursuits of "the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "l SIB,—As a great deal of the support given to the land clauses depends upon the grossly erroneous belief that royalties were previously...

(TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—The suggestion put forward in the editorial note on Mr. Frank Fox's letter on " India and Imperial Defence" in your last issue—viz.,...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. " ] Sxn,—The Spectator is so accurate and so commonly quoted as an authority that I wish to correct a statement in the last issue to the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—That tardy annual, the Postmaster-General's Report on the Post Office for the year ending March 31st, has just made its appearance. A...

[To THE EDITOR OP TRY "SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—In your issue of June 4th last you published a letter from Miss C. Cochrane drawing attention to the virtues of Thompson's...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.'l SIR,—I am very glad you republished in the Spectator of November 5th Mr. St. Loe Strachey's letter and plans of a £150 cottage, as it has...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — As many persons have asked the proportion of gravel or sand to Portland cement in the blocks used by us in the construction of Mr....

[To THE EDITOR OF TH4 " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —A recent novel suggests to its readers that cruel experiments are made by the doctors on their patients in our hospitals. Practically...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR, — With reference to the article on this subject in a recent number of the Spectator, may not the so-called Mystery of Glamis be...

with interest your article upon subterranean passages in the Spectator of October 29th, and since you start with a reference to the traditional underground passages of the...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—In reference to the subject of rat-catchers, who were honoured by being described in an article in your columns on November 5th, it may...

space to make a correction arising out of figures quoted from the Anti-Suffrage Review in your last issue ? It is there stated as a result of a canvass of women municipal...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. ' ] SIR, - Will you kindly allow me to point out to you that Lady Chance (see Spectator, November 12th) was collecting the signatures of women...

asserted that an underground passage was used in the taking of Mortimer at Nottingham Castle, the following citation from a work almost con- temporary with the event may prove...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sgt,—In the matter of writing letters to the Press regarding reviews of one's own books ) I believe I am entitled to claim your indulgence...

SIR PEDIVERE. [" Sir Pedivere, having slain his Lady in a fit of jealous rage, was bidden by Launcelot ko carry her to Winchester there to abide the judgment of Queen...

[TO TEE EDITOR OF THE "SrEeraron."] SIR, —The reviewer to whom you have entrusted my edition of "The Ringis Quair, and The Quare of Jelusy," contrives in his eleven lines of...

LECTURES ON GREEK POETRY.* " WE are all Greeks," says Shelley, " for our . laws, Mir" 1 literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece and as regards literature...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of...

IN the preface to this Memoir of her late husband Mrs. Arnold-Forster tells us her reason for publishing it " after no long delay." The subjects with which Arnold-Forster...

" MUCH of this book," says Professor Firth, "-was writtei many years before the present controversy about the power and usefulness of the House of Lords arose" ; but the history...

Ma. DOOLEY would have been the ideal leader-writer for a daily paper. But we may be grateful that his lot has been different, for no one could deserve less than he the oblivion...

ALTHOUGH there. is even more of the magic and mystery of the sea in this book than in A Poor Man's House, Mr. Reynolds's great talent lies in the painting of human beings. The...

of Canadian history and a description of the Dominion as it now is, without omitting anything of real importance, is no small achievement. Where the author has not been able to...

this volume have, we believe, already appeared in Harper's Magazine. The ".Reminiscences " were written shortly after Samuel Clemens's death ; the " Criti- cisms " cover the...

THE FINER GRAIN:f WHATEVER 'verdict may be ultimately passed on the later novels of Mr. Henry James, it is impossible to avoid admiring his increasing disrespect for the...

(Hodder and Stoughton. Gs.)—A. good story about Galloway people, not quite as clear as Mr. Crockett's tales some- times are, but always readable, with its characters all alive.—...

6s.) — Any one who had the pleasure of reading "H.M.I." (a most humorous account of the experiences of an Inspector of Schools) will be eager to see what the writer makes of his...

tthider this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not ill* reserved for review in other forms.] Two Theban Princes. By Colin Campbell, D.D. (Oliver and Boyd. 3s. 6d....

in so many novels of South African life, this book is much more interesting in those chapters where the scene is laid in South Africa than later on when the hero comes to...

Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Schooling urges upon his readers the duty of insuring, and he gives some excellent advice on the way in which this is to be done. If he had put his conclu-...

Ball. (T. N. Foulis. 5s. net.)—Mr. Raymond gives us a long proce s sion of village characters,—the parson, the prosperous farmer, Old Abe (who still practises the almost...

complains that his book " has grown very far indeed beyond the limits originally contemplated for it." An outsider might think that it would have been the better for some...

Brothers. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Amundsen makes his description of life in Tibet centre in " Trashilamo, a Tibetan Lassie." He has lived, we are told, in the country and is a master...

Long. (Chapman and Hall. 6s. net.)—One of the volumes published by the Verulam Club.—Obiter Dicta. By Augustine BirrelL (Duckworth and Co. 2s. 6d.)—A volume of the "Readers'...

5s.)—These papers were written, we imagine, for a daily :newspaper. They doubtless served their turn of entertaining, possibly, now and then, of instructing, sufficiently well ;...

ls. 6d.)—In this volume, one of "Pitman's Common Commodities of Commerce" Series, Mr. Martineau tells us much about sugar, and lets us know where we may learn more. Probably...

Co. 5s. net.)—There is, it seems, at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore a " Lecturer on Transportation,"—i.e., on the methods of carrying about passengers and goods. Here...

Ainger (A. C.), Eton in Prose and Verse, 4to (Hodder & Stoughton) net 63/0 Allen (E. F.), Bed Letter Days of Samuel Pepys (Sidgwick & Jackson) net 3/6 Andreyer (L.), Anathema :...

County Printing Works, Erary-lane,-W.C. ; sad Published by Jouu-Baextrfor the uSrscrarou" (Limited) at - their Office, No. 1 Wellington Street, in the Pretimet or the .Silvdy,...

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OUR ISLAND STORY.* "As its title imports, this History will deal primarily with politics " : with England first, and then with Great Britain " as a State or body politic " ; but...

LONDON: NOVEMBER 19th, 1910.

ABOUT 1666 a certain Fleming, by name Alexander Exquemelin, came to Tortuga in the service of the French West India Company. He found his employment odious, and as there were...

[COMMUNICATED.) Boors and essays come apace on the need of more " spirituality " in the treatment of patients. Nothing need be said here of Mr. Hickson, his cures of cancer and...

Madame de Dino's Memoirs does not lessen as she advances in years. Though the leading figure of her earlier pages, and indeed the inspiration of her life—M. de Talleyrand—has...

PARADOXICAL as it may seem, this is an excellent book, the merit of which consists in its unrelieved dullness. It is written to describe the sensations of a group of repentant...

Talc first of Professor Deissmann's premisses is indis- putably true. This may be stated thus : we have learnt much from recent discoveries about the Greek language as it was...

CHARLES DE MONTPENSIER, Duo de Bourbon and Constable of France, is one of the most splendid and tragic figures of the early sixteenth century, and this is saying much, for that...

the Green Finch,' a fifteen-foot, half-decked, yard-rigged " day boat," a one-man craft. They will welcome the story of the Cock-a- Whoop,' a sloop of seven tons, manned by Mr....

THE SLOW COACH.* ONE day there arrives at the " Gables," Chiswick, the abode of the Avory family, then suffering under an acute dis- appointment in the matter of their yearly...

three are Charles Darwin, Frank Buckland, and John George Wood. The choice is an excellent one, though it would be a huge mistake to put the three on the same level Darwin made...

Ebbutt, M.A. (George Hama) and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Ebbutt has told in a satisfactory way a number of legends or semi-historical narratives, beginning with Beowulf and ending...

ls. 6d.)—These fourteen stories, which begin with Boadicea and end with the Princes in the Tower—we do not reckon "King Lear and his Three Daughters "—are admirably told. Miss...

WE have moved on not a little since Jules Verne stirred the wonder of his readers by his Round the World in Eighty Days. Mr. Herbert Strang must be congratulated on the...

bs. net.)—It will be readily understood that " stories from Dante" are not of the same class of literature as stories from the classical poets and others. They are necessarily...

and Stoughton. 6s. net.)-This volume is one of extracts from " The Little White Bird." More one need not say, except it be that the illustrations, twenty-four in number, are...

Co. 6s.)-The material of this, the twelfth in the series of colours, is drawn from a wide range of sources, from Brittany, from Ireland, the Scottish Highlands, India, and other...

W. Partridge and Co. 2s. 6d.)-This is a book about natural objects to be seen and, under the author's guidance, to bo studied on the seashore, in the lanes and the fields. All...

a prettily got up book, and the frontispiece, " Nausicaa" (after Lord Leighton), is excellent. The other illustrations are of vary- ing merit. The title seems somewhat oddly...

Settler : a Tale of the New Zealand War, by G. A. Henty (Blackie and Son, 3s. 6d.) ; Heroic Legends, by Agnes Grozier Herbertson (same publishers, 3s. 6c1. net); The Boys at...

by Githa Sowerby. (H. Frowde and Hodder and Stoughton. 3s. 6d. net.)-Here we have six plays, of which The Rose and the Ring may bo pronounced the best,-might not a word have...

Harrap and Co. 5s.)-Mr. Rolleston has drawn his material from a field of literature as yet little known to the average reader. There will be many, we feel sure, who will be...

by Frank Reynolds. (Hodder and Stoughton. 15s. net.)- Readers will probably be somewhat exacting when they see the well-known personages of the Pickwick Papers thus...

Sidney Meteyard. (Hodder and Stoughton. 10s. 6d. net.)-Mr. Meteyard's illustrations, thirty in number, while worthy on the whole of this very attractive subject-The Golden...

Macdonald's volumes (3s. 6d. net per vol.) The three arc At the Back of the North Wind, The Princess and the Goblin, and Remold Bannerman's Boyhood. There is no need to commend...

Illustrated by W. R. Robinson (T. C. and E. C. Jack, 3s. 6d. net) ; and The Water - Babies, by Charles Kingsley, with 8 Illustrations by Katharine Cameron (T. C. and E. C. Jack,...

Armfield. (Chatto and Winans. 7s. 6d.)-The flowers "confabulate," sometimes perhaps a little too sentimentally-one has to consider for whom these talks are meant-but still in a...

Lang. (T. Nelson and Sons. 5s. net.)-Mrs. Andrew Lang's introduction is a brief biography into which the important things about the poet and his work have been introduced. What...

Lee Warner. 5s. net.)-Twelve flowers have been chosen, and for each various passages in prose and verse have been gathered. The choice of these is all that can be desired ;...

Ewing, We and the World, Illustrated by M. V. Wheelhouse, and The Brownies, and other Tales, Illustrated by Alice B. Woodward. Both belong to the "Queen's Treasure" Series (G....

other children like to hear about them. In this book she does not attempt to break new ground. The healing of a breach between father and daughter through the agency of the...

angel, but she is what some people would think better, a Princess, and those who are kind and those who are not kind to her come by their deserts.—In Gervan and the Magic...

Stoughton. 6s.)—This is a story after a boy's heart, treating of smugglers and family feuds and French privateers. The hero, who is the only child of a much-decayed family in...

5s.)—It is quite clear from the adventure recorded in the first three chapters that Dick Harding was " meant for great things "; in due course the great things arrive. He...

ample field for fighting and adventure. But before leaving his native shore Sir Jeffrey Jones comes into collision for the first time with the " Spy " of the title, and makes a...

3s. 6d.)—" Just for a Joke " would have been a better title for this story of schoolboy life. Two boys force a school-mate's desk open, look at his rather famous collection of...

Bramston gives us, as is her wont, a well-conceived and well- constructed story. The family of Stanford Robins, who has robbed hundreds of people by his Excelsior Company and is...

Unwin. 6s.)—Fairy-stories are always delightful; but they gain an additional interest when they bear the stamp of the people among whom they circulated. This is certainly the...

35. &L)—This is an exciting story of adventures in the Balkans. A young Englishman goes out to see whether he can discover the truth about Turks, Greeks, Macedonians, and...

and Sons. 2s. O&)—There is no doubt that the writer of this pleasant dog- story loves his—or should it be her ?—subject. `Plot' is an Irish terrier of sorts, who by intelligence...

larity of title that causes one to feel such amazement at the difference of fare provided. Are girls really so different from boys, or does the explanation lie in the "and...

of Christmas books and cards, the needs of the blind are remembered by their tried friends, the editors of the Weekly Summary, Shere, Surrey. The provision made by them is on...

SPRINGS, STREAMS, AND SPAS OF LONDON. Springs, Streams, and Spas of London. By Alfred Stanley Foord. (T. Fisher Unwin. 10s. 6d. net.)—Londoners inter- ested in their city—not...

should please young readers of various ages. First we should put A Brave Child : a Child's Life of Joan of Arc, by Annie Matheson (3s. 61) Miss Matheson has taken great pains to...

Black. 3s. 6d.) —Colonel Mockler-Ferryman describes the life of a tiger from the beast's point of view. Man is an unscrupulous enemy; the "human smell" is the most odious of all...

3s. 6d. net.)—Miss Gask has searched far and wide for her stories, —we see with satisfaction the name of the Spectator standing first in a list of highly reputable authorities....

of course the chief feature of the Annual—some of them very highly connected cats—but the human element is allowed a place, and is made attractive. A very pleasant volume, and...

(3s. and 4s.), an old favourite which is as attractive as ever. It has chiefly to do with the qualities and humours of animals, showing them clever, affectionate, or funny. The...

3s.)—This is an excellent magazine, well written, well illus- trated; in brief, fulfilling as well as could be done the purpose indicated by the title. If the boys and girls of...

relied upon for an immense amount of excellent entertainment. Aeroplanes, coin-collecting, Boy Scouts, the Panama Canal, and Antarctic travel are a few among the subjects dealt...

Just for Two Cookery Book. By Jennie C. Williams. (Hodder and Stoughton. 2s. 6d. net.)—There are some useful recipes in this little American cookery-book, but the reader must...

International Council of Women : Quinquennial Meeting. (Constable and Co. 2s. 6d.)—The quinquennial meeting was held last year at Toronto. Hero we have a Report of its...

Popular Hymns. By the Rev. Canon Duncan. (Skeffington and Son. 5s. net.)—In a series of thirty-six discourses Canon Duncan deals with as many hymns, beginning with "All nations...

Our House. By Elizabeth Robins Pennell. (T. Fisher Unwin. 4s. 6d. net.)—Some years ago a lady from the other side of the Atlantic entertained us with her experiences in various...

Rambles in Surrey. By J. Charles Cox, LL.D. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—Dr. Cox is an acknowledged authority on ecclesiastical history and church architecture, and has contributed...

Initia Amharica; and English - Amharic Vocabulary, with Phrases. By C. H. Armbruster, M.A. (Cambridge University Press. 15s. net.)—Mr. Armbruster, who is a member of the Soudan...

A Modern Humanist: the Miscellaneous Papers of Kirkman Gray. Edited, with Biographical Introduction, by H. B. Binns. (A. C. Fifield. 5s. net.)-The sketch which Mr. Binns gives...

Practical Home Sewing and Dressmaking. By Isabella Short. (Blackie and Son. 3s. net.)-This is a useful little book, clearly written, and full of good diagrams. The first part...