a quarrel of their own with Dr. Theal, whose industrious researches into the history • The 7:Winning of South African History. By George McCall Thee, Litt.D., LL.D, London i T....

HUMAN FLIGHT.* THE authors of this entertaining volume have given us a popular and most admirably illustrated, though somewhat ill- arranged and unscientific, history of aerial...

LONDON: OCTOBER 4th, 1902.

To write the Life of le pen Dumas is a difficult undertaking. There never was a man or a writer so various, so many-sided, so hard to characterise without meeting with...

THE ELEMENTS OF MIND. The Elements of Mind : being an Examination into the Nature of the First Division of the Elementary Substances of Life. By H. Jamyn Brooks. (Longmans and...

University College, Oxford. By W. Carr, MA. (Robinson and C). 5s. net.)—The story of University College is not quite as interest- ing as one might have expected to find it. On...

The Tale of the Great Mutiny. By W. H. Fitchett, B.A., LL.D. With Portraits and Maps. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 6s.)—By an unfortunate oversight this very admirable book, which...

Everyman: a Morality Play. With an Introduction and Notes. (A. H. Bullen. la.)—Mr. Bullen does the public a good service in presenting it with this charming brown-paper-covered...

Delhi, 1S57: the Siege, Assault, and Capture, as given in the Diary and Correspondence of the Late Colonel Keith Young, C.B., Judge-Adrocate-General, Bengal. Edited by General...

Church and Reform : being Essays Relating to Refonn in the Government of the Church of England. (Bemrose and Sons. 2s. 6d.) —It would be difficult to overestimate at the present...

The Memoirs of Francois Rene, Vicomte de Chatectubriatui, some- time Ambassador to England. Being a Translation, by Alexander Teixeira de Mattes, of the " Memoires...

Papal Negotiations with Mary Queen of Scots during her Reign in Scotland, 1561 - 1567. Edited by John Hungerford Pollen, Si. — . The Cromwellian Union : Papers Relating to the...

Studies in. Irish History and Biography. By C. Litton Falkiner. S4ligniansmaid Co. 12s. 6d.)—Although Mr. Falkiner does not, la- sicaling with those questions of Irish politics...

Human Nature a Revelation of the Divine. By Charles Henry' Robinson, M.A., Canon Missioner of Ripon. (Longreans and Co. 6s.)—The Canon Missioner of Ripon is a distinctly...

Lamarck, the Pounder of Evolution : his Life and Work. By Alpheus S. Packard. (Longmans and Co. 9s. net.)—Professor Packard is an eminent American member of what is known as the...

Victoria : sa Vie, son Rate, son Regne. Par Abel Chevalley. (Ch. Delagrave, Paris. 3 fr. 50 c.)—It was not, we think, a happy thought in M. Chevalley to combine in this volume...

The Origin and Propagation of Sin : being the Hulsean Lectures Delivered before the University of Cambridge in 1901-2. By F. R. Tennant, M.A. (Camb.), B.Sc. (Lend.), Student of...

John . Chinaman and a Pew Others. By E. H. Parker. (John Murray. 8s.)—The charm of this book—a charm which is scarcely spoiled by a certain mild middle-aged cynicism—is very...

Malarial Fever : its Cause, Prevention, and Treatment. By Ronald Ross. (Longmans and Co. 2s. 6d.)—In this excellent little book, which is the first Memoir published by the...

The Preservation of Open Spaces and of Footpaths and other Eights of Way. By Sir Robert Hunter. Second Edition. (Eyre and Spottiswoode. 12s. 6d.)—We are very glad to see that...

The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley. Vol. IV. (Mac- millan and Co. 30s. net.)—The handsome edition of the late Pro- fessor Huxley's scientific papers which has been...

Broadland Sport. Written and Illustrated by Nicholas Everitt. (R. A. Everett and Co. 12s. 6d.)—Mr. Everitt's book contains a great deal of information on the sport to be got...

Across Many Seas. By Alfred Kinnear. (Simpkin and Marshall. 6s.)—This is a book of stirring incident, worthy of a place by the bedside of a boy, to be taken up and devoured by...

Charles Dickens : his Life, Writings, and Personality. By Frederic A. Kitten. (T. C. and E. C. Jack. • much has been written about Charles Dickens that it might well have seemed...

. Progress of Canada in the Century. By J. Casten Hopkins. • (W. and R. Chambers. 6s.)—Of the three parts into which Mr. Hopkins has divided his review of Canadian history, we...

The Lower South in American History. By W. Garrott Brown. (Macmillan and Co. 6s.)—We have read this lecture on "The Lower South" with considerable pleasure and interest. The...

A Medley Book. By George Frost. (Longmans and Co. 3s. 64.) —This little volume of essays and stories has many of the characteristics of the previous work from the same pen,...

The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller. By Calvin Thomas. (G. Bell and Sons. 15s.)—It can hardly be said that there is at present any very special interest in Schiller ; there...

Great Rettig ions of the World. By Various Writers. (Harper and Brothers. Is. 6d.)—This book is a skilful concession to the , Populaifletnand for treatises dealing with all...

James Chalmers : his Autobiography and Letters. By Richard -Lovett. (R.T.S. '75. 6d.)—This book is too long ; other- wise it may be said to be very nearly a model work of the...

Roses for English Gardens. By Gertrude Jekyll and E. MawleY. (The Country Life Library. 12s. 6d. net.)—It is perhaps churlish to complain of having too much of a good thing, but...

The Gentle Art of Book Lending : a Suggestion and an Experiment. By George Somas Layard. (Privately printed by Stevens and Co., Malvern.)—This slender volume comprises two...

Great Queen Street, W.C. ; and Published by Joan BASER for the " Sewers:ma " (Limited) at them Office, No. I Wellington Street, in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the...

New Jersey, on Wednesday, under the name of the International Mercantile Marine Company, the capital being increased from £3,000,000 to 224,000,000, half of which is to be...

apparently on any good authority, to the effect that there will be great difficulty in obtaining the money required to float the Combine. .To these the prima facie conclusive...

birth of a son to the Princess Hohenberg, who as Countess Chotek married the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, the ultimate heir of the throne. The marriage was only sanctioned by the...

at the Sheffield Cutlers' Feast on Tuesday that the Govern- ment has made an agreement with Mr. Pierpont Morgan, under which, when he acquires a leading share in any British...

?THE result of the negotiations which were known to be proceeding between the Cunard Company and the Govern- ment with the object of preventing the Cunard steamers being sucked...

any case.

FOR TRII WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1902. [ RZSISTIZID AS • PRIMO Nsw BT POST...1D. POSTAOS A.BILOAD ..........-......1 D.

LITERARY SUPPLXMINT.

about the coming Durbar at Delhi has now reached England in extenso. It does not differ essentially from the telegraphic report which we quoted three weeks since, but Lord...

States, and their effect is even felt in this country. They have now lasted for months, and they have driven up the price of coal, as sold by the pound to the poor of New York,...

state of affairs in Hyderabad, the most powerful of all Indian States, with a territory almost as large as Great Britain, ten millions of people, and a revenue of forty millions...

Balkans. The Bulgarians have been holding a grand celebration of the struggle of 1877 in the Shipka Pass, and the revolutionary leaders of Macedonia have thought the occasion a...

of Pan-Germanism in Hungary as of great political importance. He says that several Germans within the kingdom have recently been punished for sedition, and the newspapers of...

tember 29th. He was asphyxiated in his own bedroom by fumes from a charcoal fire lighted under an imperfect chimney. There was the usual talk of suicide, but it seems clear from...

Hicks Beach's speech made at Bristol on Monday which was con- cerned with the War Office, and will only say here that, consider- ing its source, it demands the most serious...

Beach's speech,—i.e., the passage in which he dealt with the question of what proportion of the cost of the war should be imposed on the new Colonies. "We had got to set the...

Tuesday, made an excellent five-minutes speech on the war. As for the calumnious charges against the British troops, they had been repudiated, not only by the people of this...

of an Act of Congress, is about to conduct a most extraordinary experiment. This is nothing less than the opening of a scientific boarding-house, at which twelve normal...

of Thursday in a most ably written leader deals strongly, but by no means too strongly, with the monstrous exclusion of a soldier of the Grenadier Guards in uniform, and merely...

on the lessons of the war lately published by Captain Ram, one of the Dutch Military Attaches who accompanied General Botha's army. The pamphlet is in the main an answer to the...

actively as ever, but we doubt whether, outside educational and strongly political circles, the nation is as deeply moved on either side as is asserted. There have been rumours...

an "American Mother" to the Times on the subject of undergraduates' rooms at Oxford. A casual visit in the vacation revealed such squalor that the American mother is seriously...

New Consols (2!) were on Friday 93.

SIR MICHAEL HICKS BEACH ON THE WAR OFFICE. W E are deep ly g rateful to Sir Michael Hicks Beach for his s at Bristol on Monday in regard to the War Office, but it is clear that...

TN the October number of the National Review the 1 editor, who is often well informed on matters con- nected with foreign policy, raises what is, if his facts are torrect, a...

of subordinate self-government., having grown gaining the power of living its own life in civilised security, seldom resisted military pressure, and though Nicholas and each...

E see some hope that the rather absurd panic which American capitalists have recently produced in the British public, and indeed in the public of all Europe, is at last passing...

TT was always probable that to a certain section of those British subjects in South Africa who remained loyal during the war the idea of our doing anything to help the Boers...

sight one who, though in no sense the foremost man of letters in the world, was perhaps the most widely known and most keenly discussed of literary men. "'Whatever our personal...

W E talk of a haunted house, but surely all houses are haunted unless they are brand-new and have never been lived in. Every house has a " spirit " of its own,—some effluence...

O DD friendships between animals of different kinds are often seen, but an adventure recorded in Nature by Mr. L. C. Hurst is rather out of the common. It often happens that...

THE FLEMISH "PRIMITIFS " AT BRUGES. [To TIM EDITOR Or THZ " STZCTATOR.1 Sin,—Among the many loan exhibitions of recent years illustrative of special schools of art, few, if...

THE PHYSICAL DETERIORATION OF THE NATION. [To THZ EDITOR Or Till "SPICTATOR.1 SIR,—In your article on " Physical and Military Training in Scotland" in the Spectator of August...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:1 Srs,—Will you allow me to point out that the advice attributed by your correspondent "J. N. B." in the Spectator of September 27th to Ruskin...

Srn,—I have read with much interest the correspondence in your columns about "A Simpler Life." But I venture to suggest that the conclusions arrived at by some of your...

Devonshire lane last Saturday I overheard the following fragment of conversation between two respectable-looking men of the artisan class, who were on their way with spade and...

(To viz EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR: 4 1 Sin,—If the rifle club movement serves no other purpose, it may at least show how shooting can be learnt at the minimum cost in ammunition,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SEE,—I notice that you state in the Spectator of Septem- ber 27th that the Government, if it applied compulsory purchase to the voluntary...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPETAToa."1 Sin,—The child's comment on "the gentleman in the sailor- hat" painted on a church window, as recorded by your correspondent in the Spectator...

THE esescraroa."1 Sin,—The opinion expressed by so earnest a Wesleyan minister as Mr. Burrows in the Spectator of September 20th, that the object of the Education Bill is to...

SHAKESPEARE AT ELSINORE. [It was decided on September 25th to erect a monument to Shakespeare at Elsinore. The poet's bust will face the "Hamlet Terrace" of Kroubor g...

ICTO THE EDITOR 01 TUS " SPECTALTOR."1 Sra,—Tn your " News of the Week" of September 20th you remark upon the interpretation put by the French Radicals on the silence of the...

MR. KIPLING'S NEW STORY-BOOK.* THE first verdict on this book will come, not from the critics in the newspapers, but in the nurseries. And a perfectly honest and unprejudiced...

[To THE EDITOR 01 TH1 " SPECTATOR:I Sin, — In connection with the suggestion made in your columns (June 21st last), and to the approval you expressed of it, you will be glad to...

THE character and achievements of Jeanne d'Arc, Maid of Orleans, have long passed beyond the range of controversy. Her simple courage and her splendid faith, which so pro-...

that Mr. E. J. MacGillivray in this important work upon the Law of Copyright should not have thought fit to deal at greater length with the history of copy- right. To have done...

THZ most readable article in the Nineteenth Century is that by Sir Robert Anderson, the late Assistant-Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, on "Professional Criminals and...

THE WINGS OF THE DOVE.* IT was pointed out in a recent article on the Boer generals in the Spectator that towards the end of the campaign De Wet became the victim of a veritable...

(Methuen and Co. es.)—There is something of a " Tom Jones 'S character about this book. The Baronet is, indeed, wholly unlike Fielding's hero ; the aim of the story, if it can...

mann. 6s.)—This little collection of love tales is decidedly above the average. There is a touch of poetry and imagina- tion about the stories to which the diligent reader of...

premised that, like some other books which have from time to time enlivened this column, An English Girl in Paris is not, strictly speaking, a novel. It is rather a series of...

anything but edifying before he is married to Betty. It is not merely immoral, but so extraordinarily mean that one would think nobody with the most rudimentary ideas of decent...

from the Life of an Immortal" are characteristics of Mr. Leland's genius. Flaxius is a "Wandering Jew," but with a difference, for there is nothing sinister about his...

[1:nder this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not Lep reserved for renew us other loins.] Progress in New Zealand in the Century. By R. F. Irvine, M.A., and 0....

ventures" takes us to various parts of the world, to the English seas, to the Solomon Islands and other parts of the Pacific, to America, to Australia, &c. The "Pacific" stories...

Children : a Short Life of Christ (3s. 6d.) We have no fault to find with this as far as the letterpress is concerned. The illustrations are of varying merit. The frontispiece,...

The Boy's Own Annual. (R.T.S. Ss.)—This volume is, as usual, admirably adapted to its purpose, which is, we take it, to enter- tain, and in entertaining also instruct, a...

6s.)—This volume is made up of short stories, commonly dis- appointing when they are thus brought together, but in this case so skilfully managed as to produce an effect of...

Vaughan. (C. Arthur Pearson. 3s. 6d.) — Colonel Vaughan has put together in this volume a narrative of the doings of the Indian part of the British force in China, — i.e., of...

Besant. (A. and C. Black, Is. (3d. and 2s. not.)—This is one of the pleasing little volumes, well written and well printed, which bear the general title of "The Fascination of...

Is. 6d.)—The directors' Report gives a favourable account of the operations of the Society. Its chief fields of work are China, India, Madagascar (where "the missionaries are no...

6d.)—Mr. Halsey puts together in this volume some interest- ing facts, and exercises a sound and sober criticism. We think that now and then he is a little hard on books that he...

M.A. (Methuen and Co. 6s. net.)—Mr. Bellot gives us in his first chapter a short history of the Order of the Knights Templars. This is not insufficient for its purpose. But his...

R. Ashington Sullen. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co. 2s. (3d.)— This volume, a second edition revised and enlarged, describes with admirable lucidity a prehistoric (neolithic)...

MA. (Hampshire Chronicle, Southampton. 7s. 6d.)—Mr. Portal tells us that the earliest settlements of Protestant refugees were made in London, Norwich, Canterbury, and...

and Co. 12s.)—This volume is a practical proof of the vastness of the subject of "London." Here are some sixty chapters on all kinds of phases of London life—museums, churches...

Dram. la.)—The counsels of this book are not commended by professing to come from a "society beauty "; but, as a matter of fact, they are full of good sense. "Every one," says...

Stock, 5s.)—This is an exact reprint of a volume published in 1784. It gives in the order of precedence (except so far as the Spiritual Lords are concerned) a list of the Peers...