12 JUNE 1915

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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A MAGNIFICENT feat of airmanship was performed at three o'clock on Monday morning by Flight-Sub- Lieutenant R. A. J. Warneford, R.N., who single-handed attacked a Zeppelin...

On Monday the Admiralty made the following announce- ment: "A

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Zeppelin visited the East Coast during last night. Incendiary and explosive bombs were dropped, causing two fires, and resulting in five deaths and forty injured."

The Germans have only succeeded in Galicia because of the

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supremo effort they have made both as regards men and the expenditure of shell. But if they continue to wage the Polish war in this strenuous manner, it is clear that they will...

In the Black Sea the Russian Fleet has during the

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week been active and successful. It destroyed several Turkish coaling-places and also sunk two Turkish steamers. In the Baltic, as we learn from a Petrograd telegram published...

In the eastern theatre of war fighting still continues on

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a huge scale. The Germans under General Mackensen are striving their hardest to reach Lemberg. Though it must be admitted that they have made a considerable amount of progress...

Yet another French official Note issued on Thursday describes in

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detail the capture of a strongly fortified position at Quenne- vibres on June 6th. After the French artillery had smashed the German defensive works, an assault was made by four...

In the western theatre of war the advance of the

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French continues. They now hold all the villages of Neuville St. Yeast, and they have made great progress in the "Labyrinth " and in the region of Ilebuterne. Thursday's papers...

TO OUB BlielDEBS.—The "SPzew.wron" is now published on Friday afternoon,

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and is on sale at ail Messrs. Smith and Son's Bookstalls and all other Newsagents'. All country readers can now obtain the paper on Saturday morning, and should instruct their...

V' The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript in any

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case.

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During the week the Italians have been pushing on steadily

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on the Stelvio, on the Brenner, and, most important of all, on the Isonzo. They now occupy, indeed, a considerable portion of Austrian territory, and hold both sides of the...

We have dealt at length elsewhere with Mr. Bryan's resignation

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and the situation which has arisen from it The terms of the Note sent by Mr. Bryan's successor, which was despatched on Thursday from Washington, are not known, and will not be...

At the same sitting Mr. Balfour, First Lord of the

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Admiralty, announced that another German submarine had been sunk, and that six officers and twenty-one men had been captured. He added that in future the treatment of sub-...

The National Government met Parliament for the first time on

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Thursday week. Several new Ministers were absent, waiting for the passage of the Bill which will relieve them from the necessity of re-election. Sir John Simon, the new Home...

In the House of Commons on Wednesday the Prime Minister

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stated that the total British casualties in the Flanders and Mediterranean Expeditionary Forces, including of course the Dominion and Indian contingents, up till the last day of...

On Wednesday, while the House of Lords was discussing the

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Munitions Bill, Lord Stanhope, who was at the front as lately as last Saturday and returned there on Thursday, made a striking speech in which he pointed out that while the...

The American papers are full of a sensational story that

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the German Government batched a gigantic scheme for obtaining control of all the leading gun and munition factories in the United States, with the object of preventing them from...

The reports of the fall of Przemysl to the Germans

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provide some interesting details. In the early hours of Thursday week the Germans broke through on the north and entered the town. The 10th Austrian Corps then advanced from the...

In the Commons on Tuesday a resolution was proposed providing

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for a salary of £5,000 for the Minister of Munitions. The critics were again persistent Sir Henry Dalziel asked whether it were true that Ministers bad arranged, "behind the...

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The trial at Lahore of Indians charged with conspiracy under

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the new Defence of India Act was the occasion of remarkable revelations. One of the ringleaders, Amar Singh, bad emigrated to Canada in 1909, and there came in contact in 1913...

Last week Mr. Asquith spent four days at Sir John

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French's Headquarters. During his visit he conversed for half an hour with General Joffre, General Pooh, and M. Millerand. He informally inspected a brigade which had just come...

The speech, though eloquent, strikes us as unfortunate in many

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respects. A call for action in the abstract is very dangerous. The problem is not to do something or anything, but to do the right thing—to act wisely, not merely to act. If...

At Dundee last Saturday Mr. Churchill, in the first speech

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he has made since he ceased to be First Lord of the Admiralty, gave an account of his services to his constituents. He avoided recrimination, and said that the only thing for...

As the new Minister of Munitions, Mr. Lloyd George visited

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Manchester on Thursday week and addressed a meeting of engineers. His message, he said, was the most urgent ever delivered to Manchester. He had come to tell the truth. The...

We are glad to know, however, that the conscience of

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many young Quakers has directed them to a different conclusion, just as Quakers in the American Civil War took up arms because they saw that the cause which they judged to be...

Mr. Lloyd George continued

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"Pray, don't talk about conscription as if it were anti-demo- cratio. We won and saved our liberties in this land on more than one occasion by compulsory service. France saved...

Mr. J. W. Graham, the Principal of Dalton Hall, Manchester,

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wrote to the Westminster Gazette of Wednesday to say that, though the Society of Friends "has decided not at present even to consider the wisdom of removing from membership the...

Bank Rate, 5 per cent., changed from 6 per cent.

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Aug. 8th.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE ESSENTIAL NEED. U NLESS we beat the Germans they will bleed us to death, and grind their heels upon our faces. Those who in their hearts nourish a secret feeling that if...

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THE UNITED STATES AND GERMANY.

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filHE resignation of Mr. Bryan, the powerful American J. Secretary of State, which took the United States by surprise, must of course affect considerably the methods by which...

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CABINET SALARIES AND CABINET PENSIONS;

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T HE National Government have very wisely taken a step which we strongly urged upon the late Government on February 28th, 1914, and again on July 4th of the same year. They are...

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THE INDUSTRIAL RESERVE.

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W E have dealt elsewhere with the main problem of increasing the national production of munitions of war. Here we desire to point out how voluntary effort may supplement the...

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THE CASUALTIES.

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L AST week we wrote of the serenity with which soldiers at -1-4 the front accept the prospect of death, having put behind them all speculation as to their chances and all...

LONGS AND SHORTS.

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TN the sphere of expression all people can be divided into two classes, abbreviators and expanders, though it does not follow that laconic utterance betrays a lack of ideas or...

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CONVALESCENTS—SOME PORTRAITS,

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B ETWEEN October and February we had more than fifty convalescent Belgian soldiers in the Hill House Convalescent Home. By profession they ranged from Univer- sity students to...

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A NATIONAL CENSUS.

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[To r. Errroa or nu 4.8rEcr,roo."] Sin,—Germany's war is upon all the men, women, and children of its enemies. Neither age nor sex affords exemp- tion from its armed attack....

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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A VOICE FROM AMERICA. [To Tax EDITOR Or Sea .. 8PECT•70...] San,—The trouble and difficulty which the War Office is having to procure adequate supplies of munitions of war...

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NATIONAL ORGANIZATION.

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(TO Tan BPITOIS Or tan n SP.S.0."1 SIR,—As a result of the very extensive notice which the Press of the country was kind enough to give to nay recent letter on National...

COMPULSORY SERVICE.

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iTo ens EDITOIL or re. • "sraeeseoe."l Sin,—Doee this interest you P Almost all the names of mew fit for service in my district are on the church-door as having gone to the...

NATIONAL SERVICE IN SWITZERLAND.

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[To ens EDITOZ or ran SPECSAT011...] SIR, I am asked by a friend who is going as chaplain to the front to forward to you the following document which was passed at a meeting...

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VOLUNTEER TRAINING CORPS.

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[To Tea EDITOR. or TEE . sracTaToR - ] Sin,—As you have taken such a deep and practical interest in the above corps, may I venture to ask your opinion on one point ? Would it...

BIRD LIFE IN THE BATTLE ZONE. [To roe Emros or

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rat "Srroraxor.."] Sot,—I have read a letter on "Bird Life in the Battle Zone" taken from your paper dated May 29th, and the following may interest you. On April 27th I was...

THE MOST INSPIRING WAR IN BRITISH HISTORY.

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[To ens EDITOR or Tax "ErICTATOR..] Sin,—In your issue of Tune 5th Mr. L. G. H. Horton-Smith writes "The can has got to set—now, once, and for ever— either on the British...

HOME DEFENCE AND THE INVINCIBILITY OF OUR FLEET.

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[To sus Enrros or raz Srrcrnroa."] SIR,—YOUT reference in last week's Spectator to the nation's "profound belief in the invincibility of our Fleet" raises an im- portant...

POISONOUS GAS.

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[To TER EDITOR or ran .. E.C111 . 011."] SIE,—The following facts witnessed by me during the last German attacks upon our portion of the line might help people at home to...

F. D. MAURICE AND THE PRESENT WAR. [To ras Elul.oa

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or ear "Eracraros."] SIR,—All those of your readers who have been accustomed to find in the teachings of Mr. Maurice a philosophic prescience may like to recall in 1914 what...

CHINA AND THE WAR.

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[To TEE EDITOR or TUB ESTMCTATOR") SIR, —Will you kindly allow me to call the attention of your readers to a valuable paper to be found in the last Annual Report of the China...

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THE QUESTION OF WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE.

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[To en EDITOR or ens ntirsc-mon...) Sun,—What part can women take in agriculture ? Is there a living for women on the land P Can they to any extent take the place of the men...

RECRUITING IN IRELAND.

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[To rex Elmos or ear ••srsorsros."] Sin,—Permit me to correct a misapprehension which might arise in the minds of most people from what Mr. Andrew W. Arnold says in his...

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LATENT CREEDS.

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[To .a EDITOS or ear Sxn,—Like some other people that I know, I regard the Spectator as the best of newspapers for Sunday reading. Its outlook on the world of men and things...

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THE CENTRAL ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTEER TRAINING CORPS.

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PRESIDENT r LORD DES130ROUGH. Hors. Szcairreav PERCY A. HARRIS, Esq. HEAD OFFICES: Judges Quadrangle, Royal Courts of Justice (Carey Street entrance). The aims and objects of...

POETRY.

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ENGLAND'S DEAD.* ("Mahe them to be numbered with thy Saints: in glory everlasting." HOMEWARD the long ships leap; swift-shod with joy, Striding the deep sea-dykes fast home...

THE SINKING OF THE 'LITSITANIA.'

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[To T. EonOs or nal "SrrOTATOR."] Sin,—Will you give me leave to name a small tragedy involved with many greater in the above crime? We learn that a consignment of field...

EAST AFRICAN FIELD FORCE FUND. [To TAN Eynon or ras

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" RenTATOS...] Sia,—Will yen allow me once again to appeal for help for our troops in British East Africa through the columns of your paper P My letter asking for comforts to...

THE "SPECTATOR" HOME GUARDS FUND.

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SUBSCRTPTIONs fir this Fund should be sent to the Spectator Office, or direct to Messrs. Barclay and Co., Goslings' Branch, 19 Fleet Street, London, E.C. Cheques should be made...

NOTICE.—When "Correspondence" or Articles are signed with ihe 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 times therein expressed or with the mode of...

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BOOKS.

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THE DARWIN FAMILY LETTERS.* L/TCHFIELD has laid the reading public under a heavy and abiding obligation by these two delightful volumes. They cover a solid century, and deal...

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THE CRIME AND ITS AUTHOR.* ENGLISH readers who are acquainted

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with the general litera- ture of the war may not find much that is new to them in this remarkable volume ; it was not written for them. It is a valiant and very powerful attempt...

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THE BIG GAME OF THE - ARCTIC SEAS.* WHEN Mr.

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E. M. Scull writes of hunting in the Arctic he means what Americans call bunting and we call shooting. He has told hie story well, for a narrative about big-game shooting and...

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SOME WAR BOOKS.* Many of the beat class of readers

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will sympathize with Mr. Arnold J. Toynbee when they learn that he attributes the inception of hie extremely interesting book on Nationality and the War. to "an ingrained habit...

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SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL-BOOKS.—II.*

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LITERARY studies and literary " Histories " abound in these days, and that is much to the good. The function of such books is aperitif; they are the guides which set an...

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TWO BOOKS ON THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.*

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"Amseen ROBBERY WITH VIOLHNCIL—While riding his bicycle between two and three o'clock yesterday meaning along the un- frequented locality of the Pimlico Road, a young man of...

RATIONAL RECRUITING.*

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Ma. COULSON $1111NAHAN, whose delicate and ingenious fantasies have beguiled so many pleasant hours for us in the remote past of " before the war," has turned his remarkable...

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LITTLE HOUSEHOLD BOOK.S.*

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Itr what tidy houses we should pass our well-ordered lives if we were all willing to buy experience in a shilling handbook. The teachers are there with attractive little volumes...

FICTION.

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THE PRETENDER:I. Tam is not a story of the '15 or the '45. The bizarre wrapper as well as the sub-title make that sufficiently clear. The pretending in which the hero of Mr....

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Another volume in the same series is A Bibliography of

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Samuel Johnson, compiled by the late Mr. W. P. Courtney, and revised by Mr. D. N. Smith (7s. 6d. net). It is in reality far more than a mere bibliography, and, owing to the...

Allen and Unwin. 68.)—A consideration, under the guise of fiction,

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of the modern position of women; it is coloured with a superficial optimism.—Beating Back. By Al Jennings and Will Irwin. (D. Appleton and Co. 6s.)—How Mr. Jennings lived as...

Summer Friendships. By Dorothy Muir. Illustrated by Photographs by Ward

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Muir. (Grant Richards. 6s.)—There was Jim McClure, who consulted the Contour Road Book and saw to all the practical arrangements, and Betty his wife, lovable, irresponsible...

The Jealous Goddess. By Madge Mears. (John Lane. 6s.) —This

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novel seems to be Miss klears's first contribution to fiction ; we rather hope it is, for good and bad are so mingled in it that it would be pleasant to attribute to...

Mr. Charles W. Hale's book upon Domestic Science, of which

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Part I. has appeared (Cambridge University Press, 3s. 6d. net), emphasizes the scientific aspect of the subject. The matters dealt with are largely those which are needed as...

Mr. Filson Young has published a collection of miscellaneous essays

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under the title of New Leaves (Martin Seeker, fie. net). The contents of this new book show that Mr. Young has lost nothing of his power of easy and agreeable writing. He can...

Jaunty in Charge. By Mrs. George Wemyee. (Constable and Co.

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6s.)—Here is an example of the dialogue of Mrs. Wemyse's latest novel "' Shall you put a cow in the fore- ground? One hardly likes to put a bull, because of Paul Potter—but...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

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[Notice Si au ohms does rot swami-fly preclude nitsequentreoieva The Near East from Within (Cassell and Co., 10s. 6d. net) belongs to the familiar clams of books that may be...

A volume has been added to the series of "

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Oxford Historical and Literary Studies" upon Henry Tubbe, by Mr. G. C. Moore Smith (Oxford University Press, 6s. 6d. net). Henry Tubb* was born in 1618 and lived till 1655. He...

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MAPS.—Messrs. Stanford have published a Railway Map of European Russia

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in two sheets on a scale of about fifty miles to the Mob (12s. 6d.).—The same publishers have issued two maps which will be useful for the purpose of studying the operations...

NEW EDITIONS.—The late Professor Charles Gross, of Harvard University, brought

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out in 1900 his compilation upon The Sources and Literature of English History (from the Earliest Times to about 1485). A Committee of his Harvard colleagues have now made a...

NEW AND FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS.

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Arch (P. IL), Domestic Work for Rural School., or aro (1. Pitman) net 2/6 Baker (ELS.), Ship Form, Besiatan., and Screw Propulaion, 8ra (Constable) net W6 Brent (C. EL),...

ERRATUM. — In the review of Quaker Women in the Spectator of

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May 29th the author should have been described as Nisi Brailsford, not Mrs. Braitsford.]

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Now EDITIONS.—The late Professor Charles Gross, of • Harvard University,

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brought out in 1900 his compilation upon The Sources and Literature of English History (from the Earliest Times to about 1485). A Committee of his Harvard colleagues have now...

MAPS.—Messrs. Stanford have published a Railway Map of European Russia

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in two sheets on a scale of about fifty miles to the inch (12s. 6d.).—The same publishers have issued two maps which will be useful for the purpose of studying the operations...