THE PAGAN TRIBES OF BORNEO.* THE minute specialism of to-day almost necessitates in any scientific work some measure of co-operation. The book before us is clear evidence of its...

LONDON: APRIL 26th, 1913.

gallant soldier, and Captain Wilkin has written an interesting and useful account of his life. It does not pretend to be a study of character, but it is a faithful record of...

readers, for their own sake, are familiar with the preceding volumes by Mrs. Stirling, of which these two, now reviewed by us, complete a long and most interesting series. We...

merit. Mr. Lambert's family, since the days of King Henry VIII., has played a conspicuous part in the local history of Banstead, and be has used the special knowledge derived...

pours" might be said with much truth of the number of books on Japan which have appeared in the last few years. Through most of them there runs a family • Empires of the Far...

THESE two volumes in a new series of books of popular natural history are full of promise. If the rest of the Nature Library keeps up the same standard of text and plates its...

is fashionable to possess a little learning in architecture and the decorative arts, chiefly with a view to confounding the less learned. If this be not the intention, it is...

written by an intellectually able and very widely read author. But in the main it is disappointing. The meaning of Liberalism should surely have some fundamental connexion with...

CONSIDERING the paramount importance of Norman influence in the development of Europe, it is strange that one of the most typical chapters of its history should hitherto haw...

most recent work, the reviewer takes up his pen and his parable in fear and trembling. This is not so much because the Abbot-President of the English Benedictines is so minutely...

SIR HOWARD VINCENT himself was wont to declare that after his life-struggle had once begun "he never sat down," and those who follow the multifarious interests and activities...

AN anonymous author who has studied trade unionism in Great Britain, Australia, and the United States gives us here plenty of uncomfortable facts about recent strikes and...

British Birds' Nests: How, Where, and When to Find and Identify Them. By Richard Kearton, F.Z.S., F.R.P.S. Illustrated with photographs by Cherry and Richard Kearton. With...

FREDERIC SHIELDS. The Life and Letters of Frederic Shields, 1833 - 1911. Edited by Ernestine Mills. With Photogravure Portrait and 41 other illus- trations. (Longmans and Co....

In Abor Jungles. By Angus Hamilton, F.R.G.S. (Eveleigh Nash. 18s. net.)—In view of the avowed opinion of Lord Curzon and Lord Minto that the danger-point of our Indian frontier...

Chats on Cottage and Farmhouse Furniture. By Arthur Hayden. (T. Fisher Ifnwin. 5s. net.)—This is a useful book of reference, as well as an interesting account of such pieces of...

Lest We Grow Hard. By Edward F. Russell, MA. (Longmans and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Russell's book is a series of addresses to nurses given in connexion with the Guild of St....

Staircases and Garden Steps. By Guy Cadogaaa Rothery. (T. Werner Laurie. (is. net.)—This is the third volume of "The House Decoration Series." Mr. Rothery follows the evolution...

The it. L. Stevenson Originals. By E. B. Simpson. (T. N. Fauns. 6s. net.)—It is a singularly indiscreet curiosity that seeks to lift the veil which cloaks the lives of writers...

The Artistic Side of Photography. By A. J. Anderson. (Stanley Paul and Co. 12s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Anderson's book is welcome because it maintains that the interests of pictorial...

Trees and How they Vrow. By G. Clarke Nuttall, B.Sc., with fifteen autochromes by H. Essenhigh Corke, F.R.P.S., and a hundred and thirty-four photographs by the author. (Cassell...

auerilla Leaders of the World. By Percy Cross Standing. (Stanley Paul and Co. 6s.)-Guerilla warfare gives valour its most picturesque opportunity, and the romantic element...

Memories of Victorian London. By Mrs. L. B. Walford. (Edward Arnold. 12s. 6d. net.)-In this age of reminiscence, when the fireside seems to afford our grandmothers too little...

London and County Printing Works, Drury Lane, W.C. ; and Published by JOHN BASER for the • 4 4EcTATQH . ' tLinuted), it their Mee. No. 1 Weningtou Street, in the Preoinct of the...

and anxieties caused by the attitude of defiance taken up "for the present" by the Montenegrins, we are, for the reasons given in another column, fairly optimistic about the...

The expenditure for 1912-13 was estimated at 2186,885,000, but it was brought up to 2191,556,000 by Supplementary Estimates. In other words, the Supplementary Estimates amounted...

FOR TIlE 'No. 4,426.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1913. [ rAr BECISTEELD AS } PRICE 6D. NEWsEE. R BY POST...D. PCSTAGE ABROAD 210.

the Exchequer, commenting upon the general effect of the speech, declared that Mr. Lloyd George would make a magnificent writer of prospectuses because he was so sanguine. As to...

case.

LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

the Chancellor of the Exchequer might be expected to propose new taxation to meet the greater part of his estimated deficit. Such peddling pessimism, such dulness of spirit,...

speech. The past year, we are told, in spite of three great obstacles— the coal strike, the bad harvest, and the war in the Near East, was the most prosperous year that British...

O N Tuesday the Chancellor of the Exchequer opened his Budget. The essential fact is that there is not going to be new or increased taxation this year. The premises on -which...

the dinner of the London Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, used the following words :— " I really do not know what is going to happen at the coin'. mencement of a war in the way...

of the Dual Monarchy caused by the fall of Scutari and the threatened coercion of Montenegro by Austria-Hungary. Demonstrations, or rather attempts at demonstrations, have taken...

on National Service at Leeds on Friday week. Only Glasgow remains to be visited in the series of great provincial meetings which Lord Roberts undertook to address the earlier...

Liebknecht, brought charges of corruption against the great firm of Krupp and against officials of the Prussian War Office, which have produced a most painful impression...

that an agent of Krupps had bribed certain officials. The Prussian Minister for War admitted the acceptance of bribes, but declared that it was confined to some corporals and a...

Leeds on Monday, Lord Roberts mentioned the origin of the figure 70,000, which is taken as the maximum number of troops who could invade Britain :— " That is a purely...

issue : the Federal Council must yield or else maintain its constitutional objections and take the consequences of a conflict. Of course the disclosures are honey to those who...

wrong by events, what Austria-Hungary is doing is to try to bluff the Powers into doing what she dare not do herself. She is, as it were, trading upon her own recklessness of...

on the outer defences on Monday, but the town was not actually stormed. The garrison surrendered through the -want of ammunition and food. In spite of Montenegro's defiance of...

evidence which not only completely exonerated him from the charge of having opposed the Marconi contract because he was financially interested in a rival company, but showed how...

cardinal defects—the system of grants and doles to land- owners and farmers, and the grant of a million to local authorities. The urban grant was unfair and unnecessary, because...

begun on the previous Thursday. Lord Haldane declared that the Territorials, together with the Special Reserve and the Regulars left behind by the Expeditionary Force, would be...

dilemma is obvious. If the whole of the manhood of the nation is trained to arms, we may be quite certain that out of that great reservoir of trained men we shall always be able...

Monday Prince Louis of Battenberg, the First Sea Lord, said that there could be no more foolish or mischievous statement than that the Fleet alone was good enough to keep an...

in the main hostile, the view taken being that it was a measure to grant a bounty to landlords. But Mr. Roberts, the Labour member for Norwich, who urged that the problem should...

a speech by Mr. E. S. Montagu, Under-Secretary for India containing a most elaborate panegyric of the Insurance Act. The passage concludes as follows : "That was the result of...

Bill was moved by Sir R. Baker in the Commons yesterday week. He attributed the aggravation of the housing difficulty to the Budget of 1909, which checked building; to Old Age...

(2k) were on Friday 74—Friday week 75.

IS IT A DISSOLUTION BUDGET? T HIS is a year of marvels and surprises—a freak year. The Budget proves no exception. Indeed it may be said up to the present moment to be almost...

the fall of Scutari looks very dangerous, but for reasons which we shall give we believe it to be really less dangerous than it looks. At the first glance there is no denying...

N OT only is the Liberal Government and Party "an organized hypocrisy" in its treatment of Home Rule, but the Home Rule Bill may in itself be described by these words. Indeed,...

The first is from our issue of February 18th, 1899, when, of course, a Unionist Ministry was in power. This article, though entitled "Directors in Parliament," deals at length...

I F the Church of England is to remain a truly national Church it must comprehend the whole nation. It must not refuse its offices and ministrations to anyone who seeks them....

T HE story of King John and the Jew is being repeated in a modern setting. King John wanted money, and pulled out the Jew's teeth one by one until the Jew paid it him. To-day...

T HE so-called "Egg Train" which has lately been touring North Wales, under the auspices of the National Poultry Organization Society, in conjunction with the Agricultural...

• -•-•••••■■••• THE HOUSE OF COMMONS AND HOME RULE. TO TRH EDITOR OF TOM " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—We are threatened with a constitutional crisis, which very possibly may vie in...

[To nix EDITOR OF TER "SPECTATOR."] SIE, — Letters such as that of your correspondent "A Non- conformist Minister" obscure the real significance of recent revelations. We are...

[To THE EDITOR OF TER "SPECTATOR."] Slit,—The tyrannical rulers of Portugal are totally unable to refute the charges brought against them by Adeline Duchess of Bedford. To deny...

SIR,—The letter of your correspondent, Mr. Eden, suggests the inquiry, "Is it reasonable to expect that the status long associated in the public view with membership of the...

serious misapprehension here as to both the nature and the probable outcome of the British protest on behalf of the Portuguese political prisoners. In his statement in the...

[To THE EDIT011 OF THE "SPECTATOR.1 SrE,—Your correspondent " Germanicus " in his letters always speaks of Germany as " us " and assumes that "us," i.e., Germany, endorses his...

Srn,—By your footnote to " Germanicus's" letter in your issue of April 19th you appear to ridicule his suggestion of a Turkish menace to Egypt. Whether the Prussian system is...

[To MI EDITOR OF THE "Bpacri.roa..'] SIR,—Although you are closing the correspondence as to the pamphlet "Alma Negra," I am sure that in justice to Portugal you will not refuse...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "Simms/v[4n SM, — You no doubt have noticed how the Swiss Parliament, after a long and somewhat heated debate, has just formally and finally ratified the...

EDITOR OP THE “SPECTATOR...] SIR,—So far none of your correspondents on the National Service question has tackled the master-fallacy of the voluntaryists, who actually think...

[To THE EDITOR OF Tux "SPECTITOR...] SIR,—I read the interesting article on the Boy Scout, and I believe I admire more now a movement which I have much thought of before. It is...

SIR, — It is well to abuse the Government for not promoting National Service, but should not a word of admonition be also administered to the "manhood" of Great Britain ? They...

THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—You may rest assured I think that the above virile and common-sense article in your issue of the 19th inst. will be perused with interest and gratitude...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'] SIR, — In a multitude of counsellors there is confusion- On the 19th inst., speaking at Birmingham, Colonel Seely, Secretary of State for...

irrelevance of "Mobled Queen," permit me to protest against the hybrid " Paxa- mist " which you pronounce "good." In coining new words some regard should be paid to the...

[To TlIE EDITOR OY THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — I must say I do not like " paxamist." It is too much like "taximeter "; anyhow, that is how it struck me the moment I saw it. The way...

Sin,—Your correspondent, "H. W. B.," in your issue of April 19th, defends Whitson-Day against Whit-sunday. Is there a higher authority than the late W. W. Skeat? In his concise...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIB, — Your admirable suggestion of a site between the British Museum and Oxford Street for the University of London carries out the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—The first definition of a housebreaker in the Oxford Dictionary is "One who breaks open and enters a house with intent to commit...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — In your issue of April 19th your correspondent gives a very apt quotation from" Elegant Extracts" in the "Ode to Pitt," most...

I agree absolutely with the Scout- master who wrote "The Honour of a Scout" in your issue of April 19th? I have had my troop now for two years, and can endorse every word be...

[To THE EDITOR Of rag " SPECTATOR:] Sin,—May I try to interest your readers in "The Modem Churchman," a magazine which is entering on its third year of existence and does not...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEcreros."] SIR,—Perhaps some of your readers may be interested to - knaw that a full-sized bat was flying about this house on the evening of Saturday,...

HANS RECALLED. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SEF,CTATuk...] SIR,—I was very much interested to read in a letter to the-- Spectator that my friend Hans—" der kluge Hans," of Herr ....

" tiracr■-roa."] SIR,—Your correspondent of last week, referring to the late Mr. Max A. Macauliffe, says that some of the reasons of the Government for refusing his valuable...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOE."] Sin, — Now that the day is approaching on which the new statutes will be voted upon, we wish to be allowed through your columns to remind...

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...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR...3 Sin,—The interesting letter on "The Elberfeld Horses" (Spectator, April 12th) recalls Shakespeare's reference to "Bankes's Horse" in...

WE have received another very interesting letter from "Germanicus," but we feel a difficulty about publishing any • more letters from him unless he will disclose to us his name...

PASSE-PIED. (To M. S.) Strut cool peace as fills Dim solitudes with trembling light at eve Fresh after summer thunder : the thin leaves Stir gleaming, and grow still; then the...

THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY. As several prominent members of the International Society -of Sculptors, Painters, and Gravers have become associated with the Royal Academy, it...

THE WRITING OF HISTORY.* WHAT are the purposes of history, and in what spirit should it be written ? Such, in effect, are the questions which Mr. Gooch propounds in this very...

studies of the work of Whistler and Mr. Sargent. In this book on -du Maurier his materials are curiously exiguous, which was not the ease in the other essays. And we cannot help...

is not long since we noticed in these columns the admirable work of Miss Florence May—The Girlhood of Clara Schumann, in which the relations of the great pianist to her father,...

to be the -one phileeopher of to-day who has an audience ambng- the unlearned us %Prelims the. le arned - in technical ithilbeephy; -and for the -former a guide is desirabkt: to...

IF the clergy of the English Church can no longer lay claim to the epithet of stupor mundi, it must be acknowledged that they still produce sterling work in all_ branches of...

A SHORT life of Dr. Pusey in the "English Churchman's Library" has just come out by Mr. George Russell. It is, of course, a sketch of the Tractarian movement. In that move- ment...

Is an editorial article in the Edinburgh Review Mr. Harold Cox argues against the demands of the National Service League. He maintains that the four months' training pro- posed...

6d.)—A collection of short stories which, while some of them are very entertaining, are not all quite equal to the reputation of their author — Karen of Lowbole. By Una L....

is a realistic and, it must be added, sordid tragedy of middle-class life. The hero, whose full name is John Randall Fulleymore Ransom°, and who is always called "Benny," is a...

—In Mr. Benson's new novel he draws five admirably contrasted principal characters. The father of Eleanor, the heioine, Mr. Ramsden, a wise and benevolent country clergyman, has...

OUTLAW'S LUCK.* " KID " PREVOST, alias El Chico, the central figure of Miss Mackellar's engaging romance, was a very attractive yormg man without being good-looking. He was...

of the two ladies who, on a visit to the Petit Trianon, were under the impression that they saw their surround- ings as they existed at the time of Marie Antoinette will be...

Appleton and Co. 6s. net.)—Much amusement of a rather cynical kind is to be found in this "manual for reporters," written by the "Instructor in Journalism in the University of...

[ I'll der this heading Ire r olio: such Books of the week as hare not Leen reserred for review in other forms.] Towards a New Theatre. By Edward Gordon Craig. (J. M. Dent and...

(George Bell and Sons. 8d.)—This useful little book, by a Council school Inistress, lays great emphasis on the value of good management in little things, particularly as applied...