TH11. IRISH QUESTION IN 1690.* MR. Doi:monies aim is to provide a consecutive narrative of the fighting in Ireland up to the Treaty of Limerick and of the formation of the...

LONDON: DECEMBER 2nd, 1911.

Ma. BARRINGTON on the first page of the magnificent volume which he has dedicated to Dundee's memory sets down very appropriately two different views of his hero. One is...

THE title, Marvels of Fish Life, which Dr. Francis Ward has chosen for his book hardly prepares the reader for the amount of interesting and original observations which it...

MR. BANERJEA'S book " is intended to be an introductory manual for those who wish to make a serious study of Indian economics." He confronts us at the outset with the'problem,...

PIONEERS. * CANADA and West Africa! What could be more unlike ? And yet there is no little significance in thus putting these together ; it makes us feel something of the...

will join " her enchant- ing companions, Cinderella, Red Riding Hood, the Sleeping Princess," and other fair ones of Fairy Land. It may be so • (1) Pioneers in Canada. By Sir...

THERE is a certain boldness, we might even say grandeur, in the conception of Mr. Herbert Strang's tale, The Air Scout. He projects himself and his readers into the future. The"...

(Long- man and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—At first sight pins and pincushions might seem to afford scanty material for a book, but the authors of this volume have known how to...

W. Hackwood. (T. Fisher Unwin. 10s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Hackwood has many interesting things to tell us, from the discoveries made in the " kitchen raiddens " of primitive man to the...

and Sons. 7s. 6d. net.)—Here we have twenty of the plays " told and chosen "—should it not have been " chosen and told" P The choice is not altogether to our taste. Othello, for...

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W. R. Dakin. (Williams and Norgate. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Thurston spent a delightful spring holiday in wandering about some of the canals of England in a barge called the `Flower...

—A good tale of the days of James I., in which the characters of the time are given with considerable success. The gracious figure of Bishop Andrewes is introduced with no small...

; Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)—This volume belongs to a series entitled "The Romance of the World." Australia in the matter of romance more than holds its own, if we remember how...

Voyages " of Richard Hakluyt.) By Albert M. Hyamson, F.R.Hist.S. (G. Routledge and Sons. 3s. 6d.)—Mr. Hyamson has chosen his title wisely : the Spanish Main is still a name to...

eventful year which Mr. Harrison has set himself to describe is one of the last of the eighteenth century. Great days those of highwaymen and smugglers, and our tale opens with...

and Co. ls.)—The " Chief Scout" is, of course, Sir Robert riacitU- Powell ; it is his life story which Mr. Aitken tells, and verb interesting it is. About the early Indian...

Story Book, and The Princess's Story Book. Edited by Sir George Lawrence Gomme. Illustrated by John W. Campbell and W. H. Robinson. (Constable and Co. as. 6d. per...

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somewhat amateurish adventures of young Oscar Layne this story of an isolated Californian ranch does give the reader a notion of the life led by a settler's family. The...

MA. (George G. Harrap and Co. 5s. net.) —Mr. Monro explains lucidly in his Preface the sources from which he gets the material for his stories. These are, to put it briefly, the...

(Cassell and Co. 3s. ed.)—There is a certain originality of plot in Captain Shaw's book. Jack Ambrose has to leave the Grammar School at 13attersfield. His father finds money...

—Miss Nesbit has a very lively imagination and a very pretty gift of humour. Three children go on a visit to their uncle Charles. They are learned in the language of flowers,...

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a pretty little story of how a boy and girl help the family by industry and courage—possibly, we might add, by their good fortune. Selling flowers and vegetables does not always...

"Annual" is as full of good things as the names of the contributors would lead us to expect. There are school stories and historical stories—one by Captain C. Gilson, of the...

Illustrated in colour by Frank Reynolds. (Hodder and Stoughton. 15s. net.)—This is a handsome volume, not unworthy of a masterpiece. The printing, paper, &c., are excellent, and...

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Robin, lineal descendant, as he tells us, of the historic " Cock Robin," is a very interesting person, especially when he relates his experiences of human society. Evidently he...

Stoughton. 3s. 6d.) — Mr. Lighthall tells us the story of Hiawatha in a new guise, in which he bears no resemblance to the hero of Longfellow's poem, but is depicted as a Mohawk...

by Florence E. Dugdale. (H. Frowde ; Hodder and Stoughton. 6s. net.)—Mr. Detmold has given us here some very pretty pictures, twenty in all, including the "Rabbit on the Cover....

and Co. 5s. each.)—These two volumes show the customary differ- ence—advocates of equality must look to this—but they are both good in their way. The boys will find exciting...

Charles S. Olcott. (Cassell and Co. 6s. net.)—Mr. Olcott has made a very careful study of his subject. And, indeed, it was worth making, not only because "George Eliot " was a...

The Story of Ancient Egypt. By Robinson Souttar, D.C.L. (Hodder and Stoughton. ls. net.)—The title goes on to include tho "neighbouring peoples." "The story of the Hebrews" is,...

THE PROGRESS OF JAPAN, 1858-187L The Progress of Japan, 1853 - 1871. By 3. Gubbings. (The Clarendon Press. 10s. 6d. net.)—There are not a few persons still living who can...

Wakana Uti gawa. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s. net.)—This book is a reissue of a sentimental story of a young widow who goes to Japan as a missionary to get over the effects of an...

We are too apt to accept results without caring to inquire how they came about. This knowledge is to be made easy for us. Nor could there be a better choice than sugar, if only...

DIARY. The Dangerous Age : Letters and Fragments from a Woman's Diary. Translated from the Danish of Karin Micheelia With an Introduction by Marcel Prevost. (John Lane. 3s. 6d....

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Henry W. Clark. (Herbert and Daniel. 3s. 6d. net.)--Mr. Clark's idea for another anthology is a very good ono. He takes the famous passage from As You Like It, " All the world's...

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with the agitation against the Bill, but we may say here that we hold that the best way in which the House of Lords can deal with the intolerable situation created by the...

B Y far the most important political event of the week was the action taken by Mr. Bonar Law in the House of Com- mons on Thursday night. A quarter of an hour before the guil-...

the merest and meanest he quoqv,e. The Opposition had used the closure as drastically as he had. He went on to twit the Opposition with having taken up forty or fifty days in...

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their own Parliament Bill, and declare that if the House of Lords do what they call "reject" the Bill—i.e., hang it up—the Government will be forced to drop their measure. Why...

fear of con- tradiction, that it is, are we not right in declaring that the whole thing is an outrage ? In all these circumstance we say once more that the best way out of the...

case.

an ultimatum to Persia calling for the dismissal of Mr. Shuster, the American financial expert. The Mejliss, we are informed by a telegram in Friday's Times, has unani- mously...

Govern- ments are in accord, and that we could not support Mr, Shuster in his erratic and ill-considered action without a breach of faith with Russia. Taking the question as a...

the leadership of the Opposition meant no change in the Opposi- tion view of foreign politics. He was convinced that every step taken by the Government and described by Sir...

the debate on the Morocco question. He spoke with approval of the Anglo-French Agreement of 1904, and asked why it should not be possible to conclude a similar agreement with...

grave warning, the German Government made no further communication (with the exception of a colourless statement to our Ambassador in Berlin on July 12th) till July 21st, when...

made his promised statement on foreign affairs—a statement which had been awaited with almost unexampled curiosity and anxiety. He announced that he would deal exclusively with...

profound regret to Lord Courtney's speech—a regret which will be shared by all sane people, fora more mischievous public utterance we find it difficult to recall. Lord Courtney...

Humphry Ward on Mr. Lloyd George's speech at Bath. Mr. Lloyd George had declared that women ought to be consulted on education, housing, sanitation, pro- vision for old age and...

announced. The Chairman is to be Sir Robert Moran; and the four others are Mr. John Bradbury, Mr. D. J. Shackleton, Mr. J. Lister Stead, and Miss Mona Wilson. A cynical observer...

of Commons was begun on Tuesday and continued on Wednes- day and Thursday. On Tuesday the discussion centred chiefly in the new clause which Mr. Lloyd George pro- posed to add...

Albert Hall to protest against the inclusion of domestic servants in the Insurance Bill. The meeting is described by the Times correspondent as "an astonishing manifestation";...

great international service. There was no desire to divide Europe into hostile camps. He was glad the Government had consented to publish the secret articles of 1904. He thought...

appointed to succeed Sir Arthur Wilson as First Sea Lord, Prince Louis of Battenberg succeeding Admiral Egerton as Second Sea Lord, and Captain Pakenham becoming Third Sea Lord...

a judicious reference to foreign affairs, he plunged into a heated defence of the National Insurance Bill, which was "swimming along through a murky flood of misrepresentation,"...

at Eastbourne on Saturday last. The industrial unrest was due to their setting men, for the sake of their votes, above the law. And now they had to settle with the Irish...

SIR EDWARD GREY'S TRIUMPH. W HEN we wrote last week we expressed our confidence that Sir Edward Grey would emerge victorious from the attacks made upon his conduct of Foreign...

Report stage by the time these pages reach our readers' hands, and will be ready for Third Reading. That being so, it may be worth while to set down some of the salient facts...

THERE has yet been nothing in the reports from China 1 to show that the future lies decisively in the hands either of the republican rebels or of Yuan Shih-kai and the moderate...

T HE excellent French weekly journal L'Opinion has just published the answers given by some French recruits to questions in general knowledge. It is the custom of French...

secret and arbitrary authority of the Lord Chamberlain's Examiner of Plays has long been ridiculous, but it has now reached such a point of ridiculousness that one almost...

T AST week we said something about English hexameters. The subject is worth returning to. It is the misfortune of English hexameters, as we have pointed out before, that they...

W HEN the Walrus remarked to the Carpenter that the time had come to talk of cabbages and kings, he really suggested a very proper combination of subjects. Cabbages, looked at...

GERMAN UNREST. [To THE EDITOR OP TES " SPECTATOR."' Sin,—Even the most cordial friends of the German people must admit that the German Empire is to-day pre-eminently the...

NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL. [To THE EDITOR OP TER " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—While well aware of the many grave defects of the National Insurance Bill, defects of which some may be...

been definitely refused repre- sentation on the governing bodies to be set up under the National Insurance Act, it is essential in the interests of the industries which they...

that the first really popular and wide- spread demonstration against the present Government should have its origin in the Insurance Bill. The Old Age Pensions Act is a...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SFECTATOR."] SIR,—In his speech at Bath on November 24th Mr. Lloyd George said:— "Well, now, why do they distrust the democracy ? Democracy has never...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTAICIR.1 Bin,—The recital in the Times (Nov. 16th) of John Bright's pathetic account of his interview, just after his first widow- hood, with Cobden...

[To lax EDITOR or mils "Spice-ramie."' Bra,—Whatever the Lords may do, I trust they will not, as recommended by a correspondent in the Spectator of Novem- ber 25th, accord...

contention that Ireland is not overtaxed because individual Irishmen pay the same taxes as individual Englishmen is a delusion and a snare. One instance is enough to destroy...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The answer to the conundrum raised by you in the issue of November 25th, " How can Ireland be overtaxed, as compared with England,...

SIR,—Are not the letter of "A Liberal and a Nonconformist" and your note on the same based upon two serious misappre- hensions respecting the identity of the tithe-payer and the...

of the importance of the question of Anglo- German relations at the present time perhaps you will allow me to refer• to the remarks in your issue of November 4th in connrxion....

are terribly in the bondage of tradition- alism, as " J. W. B." implies, and it would be a happy event for the Church if, without loss of continuity, its bondage could be...

[TO THE ITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—May I, with your permission, reply briefly on this interesting correspondence (1) It has been well worth while to elicit a widespread...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOTI."3 SIR,—Will you allow me to say in reply to Mr. McAlpin's letter in last week's Spectator that at the Leys School assistant masters are to be...

SIR,—May I trouble you with a short statement of fact by way of comment on a letter which appeared in your last issue from Mr. Kenneth MeAlpin ? One head master of Mill Hill...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPRCTALTOR:1 Sin,—I was disappointed not to find in your issue of Nov. 25th any reference to a series of articles that have been appearing in the...

me to make a few remarks in reference to the letter from " A Liberal and Nonconformist " in the Spectator of November 25th in reference to the question of tithe ? The writer...

OP TEE " SPECTATOR. "] Sra,—In his latest book Mr. A. C. Benson writes : "He- [Matthew Arnold . ] did not care for Shakespeare, Tennyson, Shelley, Keats, or Thackeray." As...

article by Miss Loane on; "The Saving of Child Life " in your issue of 11th inst., may I point out that in my district—a very poor one quite in the country—I find no urging...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "' Sin,—In reading Miss Loane's article in your issue of November 11th I was surprised to find that she made no reference to the schools for...

SIR,—I15 it too late, or too soon, to remember that some men of letters have seen nothing to admire in the phrase of Petronius P Dr. Joseph Walton, in his " Essay on the Genius...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sag,—The following rendering is to be found in "The Dic- tionary of Classical Quotations." "Carlow. felicitas," Petr. Arb. : "Studied...

been considerably passed round before it comes to my bands in New Zealand; consequently I have only just received the number of August 19th containing - -the-interesting article...

[To THE EDITOR. OF THE •‘ SPECTATOR."] SIE,—In reference to the interesting letter and earnest appeal from Sir Robert Hunter may I be permitted to call your readers' attention...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Some of your readers will probably be glad to know that Dr. W. B. Graham, Director of the Medical. Research Institute at Lagos, has...

Srn,—"'Curiosa felicitas" may well be an echo of the argu- ment by which Socrates founds n'n-exia on (rage in Plato's Euthydemus," p. 280.—I am, Sir, &e., C. G. C. ['We must,...

TO SLEEP. AFTER STATIIIS SYLV., V. 4. KIND sleep, boy sleep, of all the gods most kind, What is my crime that of all living things I, I alone, must lack thy solaces ? The...

SEEMS SO!* HR. STEPHEN REYNOLDS is already, well known to our readers through his books, A Poor Man's House and Along- shore. His new book, a collection of sketches and essays,...

Sm.,—Would you allow me space in your valuable paper to. call attention to the feet that a vast number. of boys are unable to join .a Boy Scout Troop ? Sir Robert Baden-Powell...

[TA THE EDITOR Ol THE " SPECTATOR."] Zut , ,—I have read with much agreement your article of last week on " Military Manceuvres and Game Preserves," and I may say at once that....

lT0 ma EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —In the Supplement to your issue of November 18th you are grateful to Mr. Maio for his application to golfers of the 'Virgilian...

name 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...

Europe—Russia has for the last century been a terror, a riddle, and, at last, a dis- appointment. Until a short time ago the aphorism, " Scratcir a Russian and you find a...

• (1) Secret Service in South Africa. By Douglas Blackburn and Captain W. Waithman Caddell. London : Cassell and Co. [10s. 6d. net.]—(2) John Bops: King of the Wa-kilatyu....

THOUGH Mr. Graham has, perhaps, never quite reached the Olympian heights of his first book of verses, ".Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes" with their almost divine calm -and...

- developments of chemical and ptiyaicaltheory, is very farfrom being-one-Of those scientists who despise the applications of pure discovery. Indeed, two-thirds of the volume`...

Mn. 'BENSON'S title was not suggested by the 'Homeric °Ye ars!, ep6XAcev yeveC loin Si Ka! avSpay, but by reasons touching the moral and spiritual foundations of life which our...

6s.)—One is inclined to wonder whether both the books by Miss Tempest which have appeared since the pub- lication of " The McArdle Peerage" were written before or after that...

ADRIAN SAVAGE.* Lucia MALET'S new novel raises several interesting ques- tions. It prompts us to ask, to begin with, whether any .-entirely satisfactory work of fiction was...

and Co. 6s.)—One of Mr. Keble Howard's usual sketches of -middle-class life. It is written in his customary style, though perhaps it is not quite so clever in its detail as "The...

Co. 6s.)—Mr. Edgar Wallace gives a series of convincing sketches of life in Western Africa in his study of the adventures of Mr. Commissioner Sanders. Some of the stories are of...

We cannot say that all are to our taste, but many are all that could be wished. In some cases pictures by old masters in private collections have been utilized to excellent...

/mod, M.A. (Oxford : B. H. Blackwell. is. net.)—Professor Norwood gives us the Greek text, with a few modifications, on one side and a spirited translation in rhymed verse, most...

and C of Scripture Postcards, reproduced from the Illustrated Bible, by Mr. Harold Copping. Each packet contains twelve cards (four relating to the Old Testament and eight to...

[ruder this heading we yolks such Ras of the week as hare not been 4-coerced for review in other forms.] Fads and Figures of Church Finance : Supplementary Volume. (Longmans and...

diary and calendar, intended for the writing table, as we have proved by personal experience for some years past ; a very serviceable arrangement of blotting-paper which does...

Christmas Cards under the general titles "For the Empire Series" and the " Rubric Series " of motto cards. There is much good and tasteful work in them, with here and there a...

in the style of ecclesiastical art which we connect with their name. Prominent among them is The English Churchman's Almanac, ls. net, showing us on the front page the "new High...

from which we would single out for special praise The Garden. Lovers' Calendar, a very elegant little affair with some well-chosen quotations.

Jun. (Macmillan and Co. 8s. 6d. net.)—This book, first pub- lished just seventy-one years ago, now appears with a brief introduction by Sir Wilfred , Grenfell—not without a...