10 MAY 1913

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The Daily Telegraph, in its issue of Friday, states that

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the assent of all the Great Powers and also of Turkey has now been given to the draft treaty of peace. Though the Allies have not yet replied, it is believed that they will all...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE great event of the week in foreign affairs has been the passing, at any rate for the time, of the menace to peace. On Tuesday it was announced that King Nicholas of...

According to Friday's papers the Austrian and Italian Ambassadors at

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Thursday's conference in London submitted the draft of a proposed Constitution for Albania, which was drawn up by the two Cabinets concerned last December. The general...

On Monday, in the Commons, Mr. Dickinson moved the second

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reading of his Woman Suffrage Bill for enfranchising not only widows and spinsters with the household qualification, but also the wives of men having that qualification. The...

King Alfonso arrived in Paris on Wednesday and was very

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heartily received, although anarchists had issued manifestoea of protest. In the morning there was a review in front of the Invalides. At the Elysee, where the King had...

Tuesday's Times reports the revision of the Swiss Constitu- tion

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by a Federal Referendum on Articles 69 and 31—the proposed alterations having been accepted by a majority of 57,000. As a result of this vote the Government and not the cantons...

No extension of the franchise, said Mr. Asquith, had ever

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been on such a large scale as that proposed by the Dickinson Bill. The existing electorate had expressed no approval of it. Of course, the House could deal with the question if...

*** The Editors cannot undertake to retrrn Marimcript in any

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case.

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On Friday week seven women and two men, who had

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been arrested as a result of the police raid on the headquarters of the Women's Social and Political Union, were brought before the magistrate at Bow Street. Among the women...

That is thoroughly sound advice. In this connexion we may'

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quote the following sentences from a leading article which appeared in these columns five weeks ago—on April 5th :— " Though perhaps it may open us to the accusation of...

An abominably wicked attempt, which is attributed to militant suffragists,

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to wreck part of St. Paul's Cathedral was discovered on Wednesday morning at eight o'clock. A bomb, of which the clock-work mechanism was still ticking, was found under the...

At the Mansion House on Monday the Lord Mayor presided

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over a meeting organized by the Aerial Defence Committee of the Navy League. Admiral Sir Edward Seymour moved the first resolution, that it was absolutely necessary for Britain...

This means that the attempt to get up a case

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against the landlords as ruthless and profligate feudal tyrants, after the manner of Mr. Booth's attack on Sir John Ramsden, which was fathered by the Daily News, has proved, as...

Before Parliament adjourned on Thursday till May 27th, Mr. Lloyd

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George made, to what is described as a some- what listless and frigid House, a statement on the new land policy which the Government are considering. He laid stress upon the...

It was announced at the end of last week that

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the Prince of Wales is to spend another year in residence at Magdalen, Oxford. The Times says it is understood that this decision " has given much satisfaction to the Prince...

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The London County Council decided without discussion on Tuesday to

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act on the recommendation of the General Purposes Committee and seek from Parliament authority to subscribe £30,000 towards the purchase of the Crystal Palace and grounds. At...

In a very able judgment Lord Shaw emphasized the dangers

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involved in the unwarranted encroachment of the courts on the rights safety and freedom of citizens by violating the principle of the open administration of justice. It was in...

The installation of the Duke of Northumberland as Chan- cellor

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of Durham University on Saturday opened a new chapter in the history of the foundation, this being the first time that the Chancellorship has been separated from the Deanery...

We are very glad to see that Sir William Lever

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has renewed his generous offer to the nation of the twenty-eight years' lease of Stafford House. The offer originally made last December was withdrawn in March, in consequence...

In his speech at the annual demonstration of the Primrose

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League at the Albert Hall on Friday week Lord Curzon referred to the Marconi affair. The prudence and candour, as well as the honour, of public men were a precious possession of...

The " oil " crisis has, we confess, come into

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practical politics rather sooner than we expected, but that is no subject for regret. If those who are weak and are also exposed to pecuniary temptations in the matter—and the...

An appeal case of the utmost importance was decided in

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the House of Lords on Monday. The petitioner in a nullity suit, which the judge had ordered to be heard in camera, had after judgment in her favour sent transcripts of the full...

On Wednesday the Marconi Committee received the report of the

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expert accountant who, with the Chairman, had been through the pass-books of the two Ministers. The report showed that the pass-books contain no evidence of any other...

Bank Rate, 41 per cent., changed from 5 per cent.

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April 17th. Consols (21) were on Friday 75 ? a —Friday week: 741.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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CIVIL FORTITUDE. W E do not wonder at the reception which Lord Roberts had at Glas g ow. His speech was very simple, very characteristic, and extraordinarily movin g . No one...

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SIR EDWARD GREY AND EUROPE.

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A COMPLETE change has come over the European scene since last week. Vienna, which was breathing war, is now breathing peace and blessings. There is talk of demobilizing the...

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THE COLLEAGUES OF MR. LLOYD GEORGE AND SIR RUFUS ISAACS.

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O N Monday the Daily News in a leading article took the Spectator very severely to task for having, as it asserts, misrepresented Mr. Churchill's evidence before the Marconi...

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WHAT THE TWO MINISTERS DID.

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T EST in what we have written we should be held to I have exaggerated, let us once more remind our readers what the two Ministers concerned did. They took from the brother of a...

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THE PRIME MINISTER AND THE SUFFRAGE BILL.

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I F it were the custom among us to print and distribute throughout the country Parliamentary speeches of special importance, we should like that tribute to be given to those...

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JUSTICE FOR THOSE "IN STATU PUPILLIRI."

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T HE prosecution in a public court of a Sandhurst cadet on the charge of stealing from fellow-cadets—the case is still sub judice and we must not discuss the question of the...

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THE MORECAMBE FESTIVAL.

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A S the writer was nearing the end of his outward journey on what proved to be one of the most interesting adventures of his musical life, a friendly fellow-passenger nudged his...

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A WAY TO PRESERVE RURAL BEAUTY.

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T HE following petition has been forwarded to the Chairman of the Surrey County Council. It is, we believe, the first active attempt to bring into being a body of persons...

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CORRESPONDENCE.

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"IN CAMERA." [To TIEB EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] STR,—The decision of the House of Lords in the case of Scott v. Scott has completely changed the whole law, as it has been...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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MR. ASQUITH ON BILLS WHICH HAVE NEVER BEEN APPROVED BY THE ELECTORATE. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—All those who are opposed to a Dublin Parliament and Executive...

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THE COMMAND OF THE AIR.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—As a citizen of London, as a subject of a nation at peace with all the world, I protest against the insolent and vapid claim which some...

THE SEVENTY THOUSAND INVADERS.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTAT014.1 SIR,—Althougb Lord Roberts's suggestion, to which the Spectator gives support, regarding the origin of "the 70,000 invaders" is an...

CONSERVATIVE POLICY.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Conservatives are encouraged to believe that the country is tired of excessive change and kangaroo practices, and desires a time for...

THE HOUSE OF COMMONS AND HOME RULE.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIE,—May I make one or two remarks in regard to the foot- note which you appended to the letter you did me the honour of publishing on April...

THE MARCONI CASE.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR, — Mr. Lloyd George and Sir Rufus Isaacs must indeed pray to be delivered from their friends, as we have Mr. Handel Booth (backed up by...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —I came upon the

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following passage quite by accident yesterday when reading one of Scott's novels :- " When a man of talent shows himself an able and useful partisan, his party will continue to...

MR. CHURCHILL'S INDIGNATION.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—I am not concerned to defend either Mr. Churchill or the Chancellor of the Exchequer, but I think that your corre- spondent, Mr. T....

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THE CRIME OF SLAVERY.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—As one who is prepared to bear the burden of responsi- bility which you say falls to the lot of him who defends slavery in the...

DIVINITY DEGREES AT OXFORD.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 SIR, — From your remarks with regard to the action of Con- vocation held at Oxford on April 29th, with reference to granting the B.D. and...

SCOUT LAW.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—May I touch on your query* as to whether the code of honour given in "Loneeraft " is intended as a substitute for or merely an...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9

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Sin,—You say that slavery is the crime of crimes, venial under no conditions, and that the man who defends it even in the abstract partakes in its guilt. Isn't this rather hard...

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HOW NOT TO TRAIN THE CLERGY.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF TUE "SFECTATOR.1 Sin,—I am much obliged to Mr. Johnston for pointing out that the resolution of the Bishops is not as strict as I had supposed. I can only...

ANTHONY TROLLOPE AND THE CLERGY.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—A year or two before his death I was sitting drinking coffee with Mr. Trollope in a pension in the Vosges mountains, and remarked to...

ITALIANS AS EMIGRANTS

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[To THE EDITOR OP TEE "SPECTATOR...] SIR,—I have just read Dr. Richard Arthur's letter in the Spectator's issue of March 22nd, and entirely approve of his remarks as well as of...

PHINEAS FINN.

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fTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The article in the Spectator of May 3rd, bearing on " Phineas Finn" and "Phineas Redux" has plenty of interest. But there seem reasons...

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" THE COMMON TASK."

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rro THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Unlike " S. H. E. L." I was not privileged to see your review on " The Common Task," but have had sent to me the copy of your paper...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In your issue

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of January 11th, in an article on "The Common Task," you say, " We should have liked some more information about the lives of women in the Colonies." I am the wife of a country...

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BARK-STRIPPING BIRDS.

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I To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sris,—I was staying in a house last week in front of which was a row of lime-trees. One at least of these trees was attacked by certain...

THE GYPSY PROBLEM.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your correspondent of April 5th on the "Gypsy Problem " appears never to have learnt, or perhaps cared to learn, the difference between...

DOMESTIC SERVICE AND NATIONAL INSURANCE.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—May we ask the hospitality of your columns in order to draw attention to the work of the "Employers' and Servants' Inquiry Association...

THE NATIONAL INSURANCE ACT.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SrEcrxraz."] SIR,—I see that in your notes of the week ending May 3rd you again refer to the position of the deposit contributors under the National...

CAESAR'S WIFE. I To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1

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SIR, —Was it Calpurnia of whom it was said that "Caesar's wife must needs be above suspicion" ? My schoolday recollection tells me that it was his first wife (whose name, alas...

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ART.

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THE ROYAL ACADEMY.—IL USE and wont have made it difficult for an Englishman to see the thing in its full oddity, and only a foreigner could do justice to the fantasy ; still,...

BIBLICAL STUDY.

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rro THE EDITOR 01 TEE "SPECTATOR."] 1.11., — May we call the attention of your readers to the eleventh Vacation Term for Biblical Study, which will be held this year at...

POETRY.

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ON BEACHY HEAD. GOLD of the gorse-hill, sapphire of the sea! Oh that such grace were granted unto me That cheaper than this vision I might hold A sea of sapphires and a hill...

CONTENT AND ASPIRATION.

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THUS far forth on the march I have fared to a region of darkness ; Winds blow loudly and stern ; pondering, doubting I stand. Yonder the plain of the homes of the people, the...

NOTICE.—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 not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the Mews therein expressed or with the mode of...

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BOOKS.

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THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY.* SHELLEY, himself a translator of one of the best-known of the epigrams of the Anthology, has borne emphatic testimony to the difficulties of translation....

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PAN-GERMANISM.* THIS book, by an American professor of history, is

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an experi- ment in the art of seeing a question from somebody else's point of view. Mr. Usher has tried to get inside the mind of Germany, and appreciate Pan-Germanism as it is...

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THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF BURKE.* STUDENTS, whether of political theory

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or of English consti- tutional history, owe a great debt to Professor MacCunn for Ilia excellent little volume on Burke. It fills a place which till now has remained vacant....

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SLEEPING SICKNESS.t

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AMONG recent " medical books," one of the best can be bought for fourpence : it is Dr. Sandwith's Gresham Lectures on Sleeping Sickness. He writes with distinction and authority...

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THE AMERICAN MIND.*

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THE peoples of Europe were already old when they first became conscious of nationality. But the American people were still inordinately young when the - Union loomed before them...

MEN AND MANNERS OF MODERN CHINA.* Ma. MACGOWAN'S work on

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China embodies the conclusions of fifty years' observation, and one need only read a few pages to feel convinced that if not an ideal writer—in all probability ho had no such...

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Harry the Cockney. By Edwin Pugh. (T. Werner Laurie. 6s.)

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—The London boy can seldom have been so mercilessly diagnosed as he is under the lens of Mr. Pugh. Wo here have his career in autobiographical form from his birth in the home of...

READABLZ Nover.s.—Requital. By Mrs. J. 0. Arnold. (Methuen and Co.

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6s.)—The sacrifice entailed by a girl's ambitious, loveless marriage, pleasantly recounted with discursive sentiment about the Boer War.—If it Please You. By R. Marsh. (Same...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

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[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for renew in other forms.] A Modern History of the English People. By R. H. Gretton. Vol. II....

FICTION.

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THE ADVENTURES OF DR. WHITTY. * Is' anyone wants a cheerful book to take away with him on his Whitsuntide holidays, he cannot do better than buy or borrow The Adventures of Dr....

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The "Country Life" Book of Cottages. By Lawrence Weaver. (Country

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Life. 5s. net.)—Plans and descriptions of a large number of cottages (varying in cost between £150 and £600) will be found in this excellently produced volume. Mr. Weaver claims...

Cubism. By Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger. (Fisher Unwin. 5s.

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net.)—Aesthetics is certainly not the easiest branch of philosophy, yet it is the one into which amateurs always seem the most anxious to rush. Painters especially have a...

Boors OF RagRHENCg.—The Britannica Year Book, 1913. Edited by Hugh

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Chisholm, M.A. (The Encyclopaedia Britannica Com- pany. 103.)—This is a year-book on a much larger scale than any we have hitherto come across. It is in effect a supplementary...

Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Edited by Edward Waldo Emerson

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and Waldo Emerson Forbes. Vols. vii. and viii. (Constable and Co. 6s. net each.)—Two further volumes of Emerson's " Journals " have been published. They cover the years from...