RECENT VERSE." A COLLECTED edition is a pleasant milestone in a poet's career : the reader rests by it and looks back upon the road which has been travelled. It would be bard...

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out, generally contained a chapter on the Mirabilia, or wonders, whether natural, preternatural, or artificial, of each of the countries described; yet in spite of the claims of...

THE title of this book is misleading. It would seem to pro- mise an history of the Roman Empresses or of the more celebrated among them ; and of these perhaps Faustina or the...

THE late Bishop Creighton, in his introduction to The Cam- bridge Modern History, while deprecating the arbitrary division of history implied in the term "modern," pointed out...

the small city-state of Geneva was a prey during the eighteenth century derive their main interest for the outside world from the curious manner in which they foreshadowed the...

of the present temper of the times. It is written in a vein of "unrelenting excitement." On the ground that there are, or may be, certain evils con- nected with boy labour,...

By careful study of a period and by something approaching enthusiasm for a cause Mr. Legge has made himself an authority on the Second Empire and its personages. That be is well...

and Stoughton. 15s. net.)—Miss Brickdale has tried to recreate the actual scones, and to paint them as if they wero before her in real life. The result is what always happens on...

No other artist at the present time, perhaps, can show a certain seamy side of life with the dazzling power of Steinlon, the Swiss who as a young man settled in Paris, the...

more volumes to his series : John Raphael Smith and Watteau and Boucher. Both these volumes deal with engraved reproductions of pictures. The most charming things here are,...

Vas very pretty book would be worth studying for the sake of its illustrations, even if the letterpress were less pleasant and less informing than it is. The sketches are...

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Sons, Os. net), is a good preliminary survey of the subject, but has one serious omission, that of media:Aral sculpture. Some of the French and German thirteenth-century work is...

(Chatto and Windus. 75. Od. net.)—" Nat" is too modest a title for this thoughtful and welcome study. Mr. Holmes has penetrated deeply into the art of Rembrandt and has a groat...

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Some books concerning gardens may be mentioned together. Roses and Rose Gardens. By Walter P. Wright. (Headley Brothers. 12s. 6d. not.)—" The Rose," Mr. Wright truly says in his...

English Songs of Italian Freedom. Chosen and Arranged with an Introduction by George Macaulay Trevelyan. (Long- mans and Co. 3s. 6d. not.)—This is not an anthology of the common...

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French Government stated that the twenty-nine Turks were members of the Red Crescent Society, who had received the express authority of the French Foreign Office to proceed to...

T HE abdication of the throne of China by the Manchu dynasty, which, when we wrote last Friday, was hourly expected, has not taken place. At the last moment evil influences,...

success. The Times correspondent at St. Petersburg, tele- graphing in Friday's paper, states that from the moment of crossing the frontier the British deputation found itself in...

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[ it RIESISTITRIED AI A PRIM NIVSPAPRR. liT POST...6111L, Posnon A.usorn

issues are so tremendous and fraught with such dire importance to so large a portion of the human race, it is not without its comic side. Unfortunately, however, there is not...

will prove correct, but it remains to be seen whether the revolutionary party will agree to the postponement of the abdication and, again, whether Tieh-liang's influence may not...

the position left by the earlier results. The most striking individual contest was that at Potsdam, where the Socialists captured the seat from the Free Conservatives for the...

auspices of the Lancashire and Cheshire Junior Conser- vative Association, the Liverpool Conservative Working Men's Association, the Union Defence League, and the Unionist...

to the proposed increases in the German Navy. But the German Press has been full of articles and paragraphs forecasting the Government proposals. Some of these are attributed to...

critics of his foreign policy. His references to home affairs were perfunctory and unconvincing. His treatment of the Parliament Act and the position of the House of Lords was...

Edward Carson was the principal speaker at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, and dealt trenchantly with the visit of Mr. Churchill to Belfast, "the most provocative speak er in...

not to hold his meeting in the Ulster Hall, a decision announced in a letter to Lord Londonderry pub- lished in Friday's papers. Mr. Churchill intends to visit Belfast and to...

account during the week of the strong attack which is being made on Count Aelirenthal. We little thought at the time of Count Aehrenthal's annexation policy that we should have...

Saturday and on Monday and Thursday. On Saturday last there were seventy-eight elections. The National Liberals, who hitherto had done very badly, won four seats, the...

Mr. Llewelyn Williams, the sitting member, sought re-election in consequence of his appointment as Recorder of Swansea. The result was that on a poll heavier than that at the...

Literature which waited upon him last Tues- day, was evidently favourably impressed by the view urged upon him that the police should not be deterred from prose- cuting...

last Saturday on the Refereatium.as the best means of im- proving, without repealing, the Parliament Act. He founds this view on several considerations : first, that the...

the Times of Thursday, seems much perturbed about the practical steps proposed by the Deputation. We have tried to allay hia fears by giving elsewhere a verbatim report of the...

on Wednesday. The proeeedings began with a speech by the chairman, Mr. Turner, who ranged over a great number of subjects of industrial interest. He expressed his satisfaction...

Malta on Wednesday, and were received with great enthusiasm. Several French men-of-war had come to Malta to join in the welcome, and the presence of the French blue- jackets in...

have been paying a visit to the United States, staying first at New York and afterwards at Washing- ton. The American Press has received them with character- istic emotions, and...

Sept. 21st. Consols (4) were on Friday 771 — Friday week 77i.

GERMANY AND THE AFRICAN COLONIES OF PORTUGAL. W E have no doubt whatever that it would be greatly to the benefit of the world if Germany could acquire the African colonies of...

S IR EDWARD GREY'S speech to his constituents last Saturday was a model of what such addressee should be. He did not attempt to take his audience into his con- fidence. Other...

T HE proposed conditions for a settlement of the cotton lock-out which we described briefly last week were duly accepted, and if the officials of the trade unions are obeyed by...

M ANY of those who differed from Mr. Gladstone's Irish policy are likely before long to be fighting his successors in the Liberal Party upon the same ground. Yet where other...

I N the account of the Duke of Connaught's visit to New York in the Daily Mail we read that interviewers who had joined the Duke's train at least a hundred miles from its...

I T is an axiom with art dealers never to offer a picture without a frame. For they know that the article, how- ever beautiful or genuine, is in that state practically...

A VISITOR lacking persistence might possibly be baffled in his attempt to view the Exhibition which is being held by the Selborne Society at 42 Bloomsbury Square. He might very...

W E cannot for obvious reasons comment on Mr. Strachers speech introducing to the Home Secretary the Deputa- tion on demoralizing literature. Since, however, there has been a...

WANTED: A SENSE OF PROPORTION, TTO ma EpITOZ3 OY nia "Simi-LA.1 , ml Saar—A new Session of Parliament will shortly be com- mencing, and it will be one fraught with matters of...

Ivo TWA EDITOR OF TRIO " EDROTATOR."1 BIR,—The institution of a War Staff is a step of such import to the Navy that I hope you will permit me to make a few comments on the...

rTo TRH EDITOR OF TRH " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Professor Caldecott endeavours to produce historical precedent for his strange proposal that we should hand over Western Australia to...

" Splarvroa."] Sin,—Whilst telegrams record startling new phases in China from day to day, and anxious ladies consider them from what they fancy the British workman's position,...

[To ran EDITOR OF TIIR "EIPRCTATOR."1 SIR,—It will, I think, be agreed that Dr. O'Donnell, the Bishop of Raphoe, speaks with more authority on matters of canon law than Mr....

[To THE EDITOR OP TUE " SPECTATOR." J SIE,—The letter appearing in last week's Spectator above the signature of Lord Heneage contains a passing reference to the relations of the...

[To TIM EDITOR 01 THE " EITHOTATOILl Si,—May I venture to suggest that, whatever the success of the Spectator Company. its value as an argument for support- ing the scheme of...

LTo TH2 EDITOR OF THE "EPICOTATOR."1 Stit,—I am sorry to see that Mr. Gun's letter in your issue of January 13th does not fully correct two errors which weakened your article of...

complete without Mr. Muyhew, but for once his criticism of my protest against the spelling " analyze " is, I would submit, a little beside the mark. He quotes the 'New English...

[To THE EDITOR OF ma "ernerkron."] SIR, — I am one of your constant seeders. As such I have greatly admired your persistence in advocating a military training for civilians and...

[To TUE EDITOR OP TilS " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Probably your critic is slightly doaf. At any rate I feel bound, in justice to Mr. Martin Harvey and his fellow- actors, to state that...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIEj — On the subject of the "duplicate spelling" of the suffix -ize or . -iee, the following letter from Mr. Herbert Spencer to the late Mr....

"K's" point P His argu- ment (and the N.E.D. note) is directed solely to words in -iee, which we may no doubt spell with an "a" or a " a," as the N.E.D. says, according to our...

vro Tux EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Now that the Insurance Bill has become law, all who are concerned with the welfare of women—whether they approvo of the Act or...

[To THE EDITOli Or THAI "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Surely the natural beauty of the Lake District is just as important a reason against the proposed aerodrome among the cliffs and...

THE SYMPOSIARCH.* TnE novels of Thomas Love Peacock have a quality unique in English literature. It is with the amused curiosity of Lucian, rather than the fierce mockery of...

Challenge ages as they pass,— Bunyan's pilgrim, bent of back, With the Avenger on his track, Trembling under Sinai's Mount, Where wrath's rod flame has its fount, Marked with...

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

Da. NANSEN'S history of early Arctic exploration—the most important work of its kind that has yet appeared—owed its origin to a request to contribute a volume on Arctic voyages...

now taking hold of the country that a Referendum should be taken on the question of "votes for women" makes the appearance of this volume, by Mr. Samuel Honey, a distinguished...

SOME of our readers will remember the old Montagu HOLM which was the home of the national collections down to the year 1849. In that year they were transferred to the present...

WILLIAM MACLAGAN was by inheritance a Scottish Presby- terian—not a bad beginning, as the see of York seems to prove, for the career of an Anglican clergyman. He w as not a born...

Tun editor feels the responsibility of giving to the world the intimate expression of thought and feeling which are to be found in these letters. And sometimes, as we read, we...

CABBAGES AND KINGS.t IT has taken six years—dating from the year in which this, his first book, was published in America.—for "0. Henry" to • Later ',Atm., of Matrons Dods, D....

gives one of his slight and cleverly drawn sketches of con- temporary life in his new novel, Enter Bridget, but he has not quite made up hie mind whether his heroine is an...

and Jackson. 6s.)—'A novel concerning modern lifo, of which the scene is laid partly in London and partly abroad. The catastrophe at the end of the book reveals to the heroine,...

one can complain of lack of incident in this book, which is composed of a series of hairbreadth escapes both from the police and from the forces of nature. The "high adventure"...

Tun Edinburgh, has no article expressly devoted to domestic politics, though some questions in this province are incidentally treated in "Changes of Current in Political...

may safely be said that this directory is as good as any that can be mentioned for the United Kingdom, and that for Ireland it does what is not done for either England,...

VIII. " See--Sonatory." By Henry Bradley. (The Clarendon Press, 2s 6d.)—It is scarcely necessary to say anything about the execution of this great work, but its progress, as it...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as hays not been rammed for review in other forma • paid over. Mr. L. Cope Cornford contributes an " Eulogy " ; Sir Edward...

(T. and T. Clark. 12s. Cal.) we have the second volume of the Minor Prophets (vol. 1., containing Amos and Hosea, was pub. bushed in 1900. In this Micah has boon treated by...