THE RUSSELLS OF BIRMINGHAM.* Ix the last quarter of the eighteenth century Birmingham and its neighbourhood enjoyed a society of rare culture and distinction. Without...

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choose those to whom it has to entrust some part of its authority." This is a celebrated dictum of Monteequieu, and its refutation forms the main theme of M. Emile Faguet's...

our own time whom; life's history deserved to be put on record surely it was the adven- turous Irishman, best known to his contemporaries as Financial Member of the Viceroy's...

country is to put the whole world in a man's debt. The conditions of spontaneous folk-song are so hard to discover nowadays that it is with a start of glad. surprise that we...

"AY, but Mr. Coleridge talks fine," a peasant of Cumberland is reported to have said. "I would go through fire and water for Mr. Coleridge," said another. To this day, we...

DR. JOHNSON ' S remark that "there is a good deal of Spain that has not been perambulated" remains, happily, almost as true to-day as when it was made. Defended for the most...

MR. LEHMANN'S " Admiral Thunder," who explodes amongst the lesser inhabitants of the present volume like a rather sulphurous rocket amongst a handful of squibs, is un-...

noisseur. 10s. (3d. net.)—England seems early to have taken to the black profile portrait, for it appears Mrs. Pyburg "cut" the portraits of William and Mary ; and in this book...

ART BOOKS. Vasari's Lives of the Painters. Newly translated by Gaston du C. do Vero, (Macmillan and Co. and Tim Medici Society. 25s. each volumo.)—This new translation aims at...

net.)—Mr. Briggs has made some very careful drawings, most of them to scale, which give the details and colours of various decorated walls, fountains, seats, and other things....

Stirling. 21s. not.)—The subject of this book was renowned as a printer of etchings, and to him went Whistler, Seymour Haden, and many other distinguished etchers. In the ease...

(Chatto and Windus. 12s. (3d. net.)—Mr. Cust has collected various writings by himself and others which have appeared in the Burlington Magazine with reference to pictures in...

Society at Royal Tunbridge Wells in the Eighteenth Century— and After. By Lewis Melville. Illustrated from Rare Prints and Portraits in the Collection of A. M. Broadley....

Guide to the Mercantile Marine. By R. A. Fletcher. (Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons. is. not.)—This BOO= to us a most useful littlo book, and probably much wanted, for we doubt if...

Hind. (Constable and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—The writer of this book has the art of compressing his knowledge, and at the same time always being readable. Although primarily a book...

Church Embroidery. By Alice Dryden. (A. R. Mowbray and Co. is. 6d.)—This is one of the volumes of "The Arts of the Church" Series, and is a capital little handbook to the...

Panama. By Albert Edwards. (Macmillan and Co. 10s. 6d. not.)—Panama is one of the newest of States, and is a product, we may say, of the Canal. Up to 1903 it was a part of the...

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7s. 6d.)—Although the writer does not break any new ground he has written a useful little book, treating of various forms of designing and their practical application. A good...

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Charlotte Sophie Countess Bentinck: her Life and Times, 1715 - 1800. Ty hor descendant, Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond. With 72 Illustrations. 2 ye' 3. (Hutchinson and Co. 24e. net.)—This...

The work was originally assigned to Dr. A. B. Davidson ; but that eminent divine had made very little progress with it at the time of his death. No one who is acquainted with...

The Bishops of Scotland. By the late John Dowden, D.D, Bishop of Edinburgh. Edited by J. Maitland Thomson, M.D. (James Maclehose and Sons. 125. 6d. net.)—This is one of the...

North - West Frontier. By the Hon. Arnold Koppel. (John Murray. 9s, net.)—Mr.Keppere object in writing this book is "to emphasize the connexion between the operations of the...

The Story of the Manchester High School for Girls, 1871 - 1911. By Sara A. 13urstall, M.A.. (Shorratt and Hughes for the Univer- sity of Manchester. 5s. net.)—Hore we have the...

Through Greece and Dalmatia. By Mrs. Russell Barrington. (A. and C. Black. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mrs. Barrington's diary, with its excellent illustrations, is likely to attract many...

The Gentle Art : Some Sketches and Studies. By Henry Lamond. With 8 illustrations by the author. (John Murray. (Is. net.)— Mr. Lamond's book is likely to appeal to Scottish more...

Outlines of Liberal Judaism. By Claude G. Montefiore. (Mac- millan and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Claude Montellore tells us that his new book consists of "rough notes and...

Complete Yield Tables for British Woodlands. By P. Trentham Maw. (Crosby Lockwood and Son. 75. 6d. net.)—We cannot do much more than recommend this volume to the attention of...

The Railway Conquest:of the World. By F. A. Talbot. (W. Heine- mann. 6s. net.)—The subject is too big, we are inclined to think, for one book. The survey of the whole system of...

Unwin. 5s. not.)—We can recommend this book to people who wish to identify their old ornaments and also to those who want advice as to what to choose and what to reject in a...

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i. (Cambridge University Press. 10s. 6d. net.)—This work, which is to be completed in another volume, was undertaken at the request of the Greek authorities, and it has been...

Mackenzie, M.A. (Clarendon Press. 2e. 6d. net.)—Mr. Mackenzie has done well to select these extracte, which make a connected series of incidents of the Civil War. Clarendon as a...

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(Arranged by Helen Allinghain.) (Longinans and Co. 5s. not.)—Mrs. Allingham has collected into a pleasantly light and dainty volume a number of fragments which she discovered...

F.R.S.E. (Williams and Norgate. 15s. net.)—Mr. Guppy has made an exceedingly painetaking study in detail of an intricate subject. He writes of experiments he has made in tho...

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is No.6 of a series of repertory plays, The interest centres in the character of a Scotch divinity student, who is tempted and falls, but who is expected to rise again on...

the London and County Printlwr Works, Drury Lane, W.C. ; and Published by Joni Wake for the SPEOTATelt" (Limited) at their °Mee, No. 1 Wellington Street, in the Precinct of the...

began on Tuesday. On reaching Cardiff, where they were received with great cordiality, the King and Queen were conducted to the City Hall, where an address of welcome from the...

to what is happening or as to what may be the ultimate results of the mutiny, but it is clear that the situation is very grave, and that if the Turkish Government cannot...

F RIDAY'S news in regard to the mutiny of Turkish troops in Albania, reported earlier in the week, is of a very sek:ious character. According to the Vienna corm* spondent of the...

the Democratic candidates for the Presidency in Tuesday's issue. Of the Radicals Mr. Bryan claims first attention by his extraordinary tenacity, his reputs-. tion as a...

specific account of the demands of the mutineers. They are as follows :- • (1) The impeachment of Hakki Pasha and certain members of the Cabinet; (2) The resignation of Said...

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the Chamber for the fetes in celebration of Rousseau's bicentenary. The case against Rousseau was stated with great ability by M. de Las-Cases, who observed that it was not as a...

these come strangely from those who, like ourselves, hold that, since Parliament has refused to exempt from the Home Rule Bill those counties of Ulster in which there is a...

must exist in regard to constitutional measures, we hold also •• that the greatest possible care :dust be taken not to invoke that right except in the last resort. It is for...

letter by Mr. Masterman, the Chairman of the National Health Insurance Joint Committee, which was published in Friday's papers. The object of the letter is to explain hew the...

Insurance Act was again the Subject of criticism in the House of Lords on Wednesday. Lord Homage drew attention to the leaflet recently issued by the Commissioners, which...

of Commons on Tuesday. In reply to an appeal from Mr. Healy to release all the remaining Suffragist prisoners at Holloway Mr. Asquith replied that it was not for him to...

domestic servants in the Insurance Act was held in the Albert Hall on Thursday night. Ellen, Lady Desert, who presided, proposed a resolution declaring the intention of those...

as interesting and marked with equal enthusiasm. On Thursday the King and Queen spent the whole day in inspecting colliery and iron works and in visiting and talking with the...

tions was taken in the House of Commons, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer made a statement as to the destination of the realized surplus of six and a half millions. The...

bestowed on Mr. E. T. Cook. Mr. Cook has a very distin- guished and honourable record as a journalist. His associa- tion with the Pail Mall Gazette and the Westminster Gazette,...

Service League Lord Roberts, in a speech marked throughout by a note of grave anxiety, insisted upon the necessity of applying the principle of universal military training and...

few days of completing his 77th year, will be best remembered as the defender of Ladysmith ; but he was a very noble-hearted gentleman as well as a gallant soldier. His record...

St. Asaph called attention to the figures recently given by Mr. McKenua, in comparing the work of the Church and the Calviniatio Methodists in Cardiff. He had professed, in...

the threatened withdrawal of our ships from the Mediterranean. We have dealt with that question elsewhere in detail, but we must not leave Lord Roberts's speech without...

of the surplus, but in the course of his reply remarked that after all the surplus was appointed by law for the repay- ment of Debt, and to apply it otherwise would be much the...

at Gray's Inn, made a speech which can only be described as one of the most felicitous he has ever made. With a nice sense of proportion Mr. Balfour refused to regard Bacon's...

• OUR GUARANTEE OF SLAVERY. W E are glad to see that the Anti-Slavery Society is giving proof of its determination to awaken the country in regard to our responsibilities for...

I N our opinion the Mediterranean problem, which has been discussed of late with such vehemence and sensationalism, has been badly handled. Considerations academic and practical...

ik. FTER all the turmoil of the recent strike of trans- port workers one fact clearly emerges, namely, the necessity for a prompt and thorough inquiry into the question of what...

time to time for dis- trusting Sir Edward Grey's foreign policy there is one which, when first stated, had its share of plausibility. Does, it was asked, the policy which you...

He begins as any modern man, arguing that faith is reasonable thing, might begin — by turning his reader's mind to the fact of creation. He takes it that every one is agreed...

T WO years ago, in the summer of 1910, an exhibition of modern French pictures was held at the Brighton Pavilion under the spirited auspices of the Mayor and Corporation. This...

I F any cricketer might be expected from his record to be able to give practical instruction in the science of cricket it would be Mr. 0. B. Fry. He has all the qualifications...

"TEE ABANDONMENT OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA." [To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE, — It appears from Mr. Churchill's replies in Parliament that the Mediterranean is to be...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") snt,—Mr. Austen Chamberlain has recently told Us how having submitted it to four approved tests "no fund can be more confidently recommended...

[TO THE EDITOR Or TIER ° SPECTATOR...I SIR,—May I explain briefly the raisons d'être and aims of the Soldiers' Land Settlement Association? The need for the work which the...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPICTATOR.1 Sur,—A description of the recent review of the National Reserve says : "Many of the onlookers treated the colour with due respect." It is...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Szu, — I know nothing about the Confederates, but I should like to ask your correspondent, Mr. E. L. Oliver, a question. He says, " Are...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."" Srn, — Mr. Lloyd George says that in all such questions as that which Mr. North raises one has to come back to the land, and that the low...

[To THE EDITOR OF TUE" SPECTATOR."' Sin, — You published a most important letter on June 1st signed St. M. Bolder°. Those who are fixing the details of the law ought to get...

P.m—Would it be too much to suggest that those wide. minded Nonconformists who object to the present lamentable Welsh Church Bill should draw up in the form of a petition a list...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SritoTATos..1 SIR, — In an article under the above heading on June 15th you say that you do not wish to take sides as between union and non-union labour....

[To TEE EDITOR. OF THE "S1'ECTATOR.1 Sta,—May I be allowed to express a doubt whether what Mr. .Dore calls "the curiously helpless evidence of Mr. Guy Stephenson" is not...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."1 Sta,—I fear that though Sir Branclford Griffith has tilted a lance at my book he has not done me the honour of reading it. Had be done so he...

[TO TUE EDITOR Or TUE " SPECTATOR:] SIE,-My kind but unconvinced critic in the Spectator of June 22nd is rather generous in allowing that my book is "a valuable contribution to...

[To THE EDITOR Or TER " STEOTATOR..] SIR,—In the artistic poem on the above subject which you recently published reference is made to the pitch of colour. The basis of pitch...

[TO MR EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR." I Sin,—The following, taken from the South Wales Daily News of June 22nd, further shows the power of a mother. As no one but herself knows what...

MARSHAL VORWARTS. "Blucher's loyalty saved the cause of Europe."—Major-Oeneral Sir J. F. Maunior, K.C.B. HERE'S to him who, bruised and ill, Wrote from Wavre, "Come I will!"...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEoTATOR."1 SIR, — As I am collecting materials with a view to publishing a "Life of Mien Catherine Maria Fanshawe, " I should be most grate- ful if any...

[To THE EDITOR OF TUN "SPECTATOR.") Stn,—As you concern yourself for the purity of the English language, may I protest against an absurd use of the word " convincing " which is...

THE " SPECTATOR.") should be grateful if you would permit me the Use of your columns to thank the donor of the Spectator sent me regularly (post-mark Bournemouth), a gift much...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Thore is only one charitable society in London providing the consumptive poor, irrespective of creed or denomination, with sanatorium...

"The Buxton Coroner, Mr. Sydney Taylor, held an inquiry Thursday on George Roberts. Deceased was employed at the Peak Dale Asphalt Works. John Bradwell, of Peak Dale, said he...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR,") SIR, — It would seem that the first week of July will furnish us with the longest recorded instance of the active exercise of sovereignty....

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin.,—It is now well known and admitted that the poem called "The Flower and tho Leaf" was not written by Chaucer. Its probable date was...

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

PRONTO.* FRoNTo's reputation is a curious example of the vicissitudes which may attend literary fame. By his contemporaries and through the following centuries he was extolled...

travel inspired by any genuine love and understanding of the countries they purport to describe ! Mr. 'Stephen Graham's Undiscovered Russia —which we regret to have been so...

GEBHARD LESERECHT VON BUCHER.; Field - Marshal of the Prussian Armies, Prince of Wellstadt in • Silesia,•.• well deserves a place among the heroes of' the nations., - Hisname is...

THIS would be an interesting boa if it were written by an Englishman. It derives additional interest from being the work of a foreigner, who has so identified himself with...

Tun late Mr. A. H. Beedy, the well-known Marlborough master, who was a younger brother of Professor E. S. Beesly, the veteran Positivist philosopher and publicist, was himself...

Mn. NOVIHOW has taken unnecessary pains to show that war bringsno advantage to the countries which are foolish enough to wage it. He is evidently convinced that if he can but...

Hall. (is.)—A careful study of is girl who with every worldly advantage is cut off from a woman's natural life by a slight deformity. What, however, strikes the reader as a...

and Boon. 6s.)--Mr. Jack London's new volume contains a collection of short stories to which the epithet "strong" may fitly be applied. In fact, it would hardly be too much to...

THE LAST RESORT.* Mn. PREVOST BATTERSBY has given us an interesting if not altogether conclusive romance on the ethics of patriotism based on the recent history of Somaliland...

(Under ate heading we notice such Books of the week ae hare not been seemed for review teL other forma.] The Art of the Orator. By Edgar R. Jones, M.P. (A. and C. Black. 3s....

burgh Geographical Institute. 25s. net.)--This sumptuous atlas, with its sixty-eight plates, will be a delight to all lovers of maps. It consists of a complete series of maps,...

By Aleyn Lyell Reade. (Privately printed at the Arden Press, Norfolk Street, Strand.)—Every fact that could possibly throw any light upon the life of Francis Barber has been...

Cantlie and C. Sheridan Jones. (Jerrold and Sons. Os. not.)—It will be remembered that it was Dr. Cantlie who in 1896 was informed of' Sun Yat Son's imprisonment at the Chinese...

(John Lane. 3s. 6d. net.)—A series of short sketches chiefly concerned with young ladies of the description designated by the title. Some of the sketches are graceful, some...