10 JUNE 1911

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M. Bouvier, whose death was announced in Thursday's papers, is

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best known as the Prime Minister of France who decided that the retention of M. Delcasse as Foreign Minister was a dangerous defiance of German susceptibilities. The part he...

The settlement of the Champagne question proposed by the Conseil

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d'Etat, by which the wine grown outside the Marne dis- trict is to be described as "second-zone champagne," has failed to conciliate the discontent of the Auboia. On Thursday...

We should be the last to ignore the just claims

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of Spain in regard to that part of Morocco in which she already has her settlements, and to which she is the nearest neighbour, but we are sure that no good friend of Spain can...

* it * The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript, in any

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case.

There is nothing new of importance to record in regard

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tc Morocco. General Moinier and his column are stated to have returned to Fez from the Sherarda country on June 3rd, and will leave in a few days for Mekinez. During the...

The Times correspondent states that Hakki Bey "is a young

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Turkish Jacobin from Anatolia, and- is totally ignorant of the Albanian language and character." As long as he is per- mitted to control intercourse between the Albanians and...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE situation in Albania grows worse, not better, for the Turkish Government. The past week has been marked by the open revolt of the Mirdites, one of the most powerful of the...

Austria-Hungary is said to be doing her best to secure

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a pacific settlement between the Turks and the insurgents, although the official press is once more adopting a menacing tone towards the Ottoman Government. It is feared, how-...

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After Sir Edward Grey had explained and defended the Declaration

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of London with great ability and ingenuity, and had promised that the Dominions should be consulted before the instructions were issued to our delegates at the next Hague...

A remarkable instance of suttee, which oocurred at l3eliaghata, was

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reported in the Statesman of April 27th. A Hindu gentleman named Surendra Nath Ghosh, who had been dangerously ill for some time, was pronounced by his doctor to be on the point...

The German Emperor, who has been on a visit to

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Meeklen- burg-Strelitz, at the State banquet on Wednesday last made a very cordial reference to King George and Queen Mary. After having referred to Queen Louise as the "model...

A severe earthquake took place at Mexico City on Wed-

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nesday, a few hours before General Madero's triumphal entry into it. The oscillations, which moved from north to south, began at 4.35 in the morning and lasted for six minutes....

The sittings of the Imperial Conference on Thursday and Friday

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in last week were devoted to a discussion on the Declara- tion of London. Mr. Fisher, the Commonwealth Premier, moved a resolution expressing regret that the Dominions had not...

An item of world-wide interest is reported from Washington in

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Thursday's Times. A meeting between President Taft and Mr. Roosevelt in Baltimore on Wednesday—the third meeting since Mr. Taft became President—has been followed by the...

At the afternoon sitting of the Imperial Conference on Friday,

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June 2nd, Mr. Sydney Buxton moved a re- solution in favour of expanding the Labour Exchanges into an Imperial Labour Bureau, but the proposal met with no support and was...

At the Imperial Conference on Thursday, Mr. Harcourt brought forward

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his proposals by means of which the con- tinuity of the Conference was to be preserved by the esta- blishment of a Standing Committee of High Commissioners or other officials...

The Finance Committee of the Senate decided on Thursday to

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report, without recommendation, the Reciprocity Bill, with the Root amendment appended thereto. The motion to report favourably was lost by two votes, and the Root amendment was...

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Mr. Fisher, the Prime Minister of the Australian Common- wealth,

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and other Australian Ministers made interesting speeches on Imperial Defence on Saturday. In reply to an address presented by the Working Men's United Empire League at Sa.ndon...

Late on Thursday afternoon the announcement was made that the

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Birkbeck Bank had suspended payment. An official statement was later issued by the directors to the effect that the suspension was due to the depreciation in the market value of...

The Annual Congress of the Co-operative Societies of Great Britain

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and Ireland opened at Bradford on Monday. The figures quoted by Mr. G. Thorpe, of Dewsbury, the President, showed that there was an increase in membership of 76,506 for 1910 as...

An incident like this and the splendid work done by

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the Commons Preservation Society in fighting the enemies of commons suggest very strongly that the time has come for appointing a public officer whose business it shall be to...

Sir Charles Elliott, who died suddenly on Sunday week, was

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one of the most efficient, the most high-minded, and the most indefatigable of our public servants. Entering the Indian Civil Service in 1856, he distinguished himself in the...

The Annual Conference of the National Union of Clerks was

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held in Leeds on Monday. In the course of the proceed- ings complaints were made that the clerks employed by various other unions (such as the Amalgamated Society of Railway...

The proposal of the Royal Patriotic Fund Corporation to sell

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twenty acres of land, once part of Wandsworth Common, but now in their possession as a freehold, has attracted a good deal of attention and, not unnaturally, been the cause of...

The third reading of the Corporation of London's Bill for

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building a new bridge across the Thames near St. Paul's Cathedral will be debated in the House of Commons next Wednesday. Opposition to the Bill has been growing, and a motion...

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At Edinburgh on Saturday Lieutenant and Mrs. C. A. Cameron

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were each sentenced to three years' penal servitude for attempting to defraud Lloyd's of 26,500. The prisoners had insured a non-existent pearl necklace and then tried to obtain...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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AN IRISH PARLIAMENT AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS. O N the day before Parliament adjourned for the Whit- suntide Recess Mr. Dillon—whose injury in a motor car accident we note with great...

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THE TRADE UNIONS BILL.

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O F the many unsatisfactory features of the Trade Unions No. 2 Bill perhaps the most unsatisfactory is the manner in which the Bill was received by the official Unionist Party....

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VIRT w AND ITS COST.

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W E are indebted to a contemporary for a very instrue. tire exposition of the difficulties that sometimes beset the ardent aspirant after the detection and punish- ment of...

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"THE GREAT ADULT REVIEW."

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W E have not this month included any notice of the English Review in our account of the magazines, nor do we intend to do so for the future, unless the tone of the magazine...

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DOCTORS AND ADVERTISING. P UBLIC opinion has been considerably excited during

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the last fortnight by a decision of the General Medical Council in regard to some doctors who were associated pro- fessionally with a well-known gymnastic institution. The exact...

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FASHIONS W EMOTION. MHE first quarter of the nineteenth century

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seems a long -IL- way off now. People looked and behaved so differently that sometimes one is tempted to believe that they felt differently. The letters of the period reveal an...

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BIBLE NATURAL HISTORY.

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N O more interesting collection of its kind has been shown in London than the Bible Natural History Exhibition now to be seen at the Natural History Museum in South Kensington....

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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TRAMS AND MOTOR 'BUSES. [To THZ EDITOE OY THE " SPECTAT071.1 Sia,—At a meeting of the London County Council held on May 23rd Sir John Williams Berm, M.P., is reported to have...

GERMANY AND THE STATUS QUO.

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[To THE EDITOR Or THE " STECTATOE. " 1 SIR, —The following passage occurred in one of your leading articles on Saturday, May 20th :— "We have said enough to show why there is...

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THE ALLEGED MEDI2EVALISM OF SIR JOHN FRENCH.

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[To ma EuaoR OP THE firscrtroa."1 Sin, — The argument which Mr. H. F. Prevost Battersby sets up in discussing "German Influence on British Cavalry" in the Morning Post some six...

THE NEED FOR AN ARMY.

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[To TILE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' Sin, — I am probably not the only reader of the Spectator who has forgotten how long ago the inhabitants of these islands were well warned...

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SIR ELDON GORST AND THE COPTS.

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[To THZ EDITOR OP VTR "SrEore.Tos."] SIB,—In your remarks about "The State of Egypt" in a previous issue you expressed your satisfaction with Sir Eldon Gorses reply "to those...

A QUESTION OF IMPERIAL RESPONSIBILITY.

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[To THS EDITOR Of THE " &ROTATOR." J SIE, — As a regular reader of the Spectator for more than thirty years past, I am aware of the high line you always maintain in advocating...

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THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN SCOTLAND.

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[TO TR& EDIT011 03 . THE "SPZCTiT011,."[ SIR,—It is possible that the recent proceedings of the Pro- vincial Synod of the Episcopal Church in Scotland may have an interest, for...

PURIT A.NISM.

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[TO ms EDITOH OP THZ "SPEGTAT0101 STEr . 41 Mr. Johnson will expend threepence on the May number of the Commonwealth, and read an article by Mr. Anson, he may see that that very...

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THE SALE OF DRUGS.

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[To THE EDITOR 01 THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—I am deeply grateful to the Spectator for having pub- lished my letter on the Sale of Drugs, and for the excellent letter from Germany...

PANEM ET CIRCENSES.

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[TO THE EDITOR Or THE 'SPECTATOR.] S,—May I be allowed to criticize the following in your issue of February 18th ?—" There remains over the problem of the idle and the luxurious...

THE RUBBER PLANTATIONS ON THE AMAZON.

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cm THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sru,—In July last you permitted me, on behalf of The Anti- Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society, to draw the atten- tion of your readers...

CANADIAN-AMERICAN RECIPROCITY.

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LTO THE ED/TOR Or THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR,—In reading your issue of March 4th I came across a letter by "Emile," under the above title, in which he states, "even to-day half the...

WOMAN AND LABOUR.

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[TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I be allowed to say a few words on the subject of the review in your issue of May 27th on Olive Schreiner's book, "Woman and Labour...

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POETRY.

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TIRED of the clamour and the heat Which now oppress the expectant town, To-day I turn my weary feet To where the Minster huge looks down Upon St. Margaret's subject tower ; Here...

WESLEYANS AND BAPTISM.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] StE,—The argument from silence is so manifestly precarious that it is a little surprising to find the Master of Magdalene (Spectator, June...

THE ALLEGED BIAS OF JUDGES. [To THE EDITOR OF THE

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" Srverstos."] SIR,—I agree with you that it was an error of judgment on the part of Mr. Churchill to make the remark which he did regarding the decisions of the Courts in...

SNAKES SWALLOWING THEIR YOUNG.

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[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR,"] SIE,—In your notice of the book, "A Gallery of Animals," in our number of May 6th, you refer to Mr. Robinson's scepticism of the fact "that...

ICOTICE.—When "Correspondence" or Articles are signed with the writer's name

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or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Communicated," the Editor must mot necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of...

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BOOKS.

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VENICE.* ALL history has an element of romance, because it appeals to the imagination, and stirs the various faculties on which the inner life depends ; and of all stories,...

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LADY GIFFARD'S LETTERS.*

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Iie the Golden - Book of Mine: de Tleatteacq, beneath the -- question eat votre lecture favorite?" a eharming- woman— . , to . judge by lieranswer—wrote-simply "Une letire";...

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.JAMES II. IN IRELAND.*

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DR. Mtataar may fairly claim to have made good his position that" unless the inner,meaning of French statecraft be pene- trated the history of Ireland at the time of the...

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ESSAYS ON ROMAN HISTORY.*

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THE late President of Trinity College, Oxford, was for many years one of the most notable figures in the University. He took a prominent part in its administrative work, and, as...

MR. LANG'S BALLADES.*

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MR. ANDREW LANG deserves well of all who care for the lighter side of verse for having republished his charming Ballades in Blue China and Rhymes a la Mode. There is a quality...

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CRICKET OF TODAY.* "MR. WARNER has something to say about

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modern cricket which no one else, perhaps, can say with the same authority. He has seen more of cricket in different parts of the world than any player of his time, and he has...

IN AND OUT OF PARLIAMENT.•

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DR. FARQUHARSON will move his readers to very various emotions as they pass through his volume. Sometimes he seems full of commonsense, judging of men and causes by their...

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THE NATAL ANNUAL*

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THERE is nothing of unusual interest in this year's annual, but we may indicate subjects which are coming to the front again, such as the rights of neutrals, the coaversion of...

THE MAGAZINES.

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THE Nineteenth Century leads off with two articles on Canadian autonomy. and American reciprocity, both hostile to the proposed treaty. The first is from the pen of the Hon....

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NOVELS.

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THE SHIP OF CORAL.* Ma. STACPOOLE'S new romance of tropical seas makes very good reading for summer weather. It is full of adventure,. colour, and emotion, but involves no...

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The Dweller on the Threshold. By Robert lichens. (Methuen and

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Co. 6s.)—Mr. lichens has borrowed Bulwer Lytton's title for his new novel, and although his "dweller on the threshold" is apparently less terrifying than the creation of the...

READABLE Novas.—The General Plan. By Edmund Candler. (W. Blackwood and

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Sons. 6s.)—A volume of ten short stories, all powerfully written, though not all equally pleasing. The first, telling how a young Indian official" finds himself" in difficult...

SOME BOOKS OF TIIE WEEK.

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[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Canada of To-day. By W. Maxwell. (Jarrolds. Is. net.)— The original...

Double Lives. By Francis Gribble. (Eveleigh Nash. Cs.)— Mr. Francis

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Gribble frankly puts up a danger signal in the title of his new novel. One thing, and one thing only, is generally meant when people say their neighbours live double lives, and...

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In a series of which we have often had occasion

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to speak with praise, "Handbooks of Practical Gardening," edited by Harry Roberts (John Lane. 2s. 6d.), we have The Book of Roses, by Louis Durand. In no branch of the gardening...

The Natural History of Coal. By E. A. Newell Arbor.

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(Cam- bridge University Press, is. net.)—This volume, one of the "Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature," goes thoroughly into its subject, and naturally includes much...

Old Chinese Porcelain. By A. W. Bahr. (Cassell & Co.

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30s. net.)—The North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society held at Shanghai in November, 1908, an exhibition of old Chinese por- celain. Here we have a catalogue of some of...

We have received "Coronation Numbers" from two of our con-

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temporaries, the Illustrated London News, edited by Bruce S. Ingram (2s. 6d.), and The Sphere (2s. 6d.). Both aro handsome productions and well worth the modest sum which is...

Memories of a Manager. By Daniel Frohman. (W. Heinemann. 55.

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net.)—Mr. Frohman was for many years a manager, and, it would seem, a successful manager, in New York. American play- goers will find much to interest them, and English...

An Atlas of Textual Criticism. By Edward Ardron Hutton. (Cambridge

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University Press. 5s. net.)—It would not be right to pass over this very laborious work without notice. It is to quote the sub-title, "An attempt to show the mutual relationship...

British Dominions. General Reviews. Edited by W. J. Ashley (Longmans

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and Co. 6s. 6d. net.)—Eight of the nine papers here published were delivered as lectures in the University of Bir- mingham in the winter session of 1010-11; the ninth gives an...