12 MAY 1906

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As soon as the Duma had "come to order" it

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elected Professor Mouromtseff President He immediately called on M. Ivan Petrunkevitch, an old combatant for freedom and for years an exile, to mount the rostrum. His first...

E.,* The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript, in any

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case.

That the Czar is at present inclined to neglect these

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warnings is only too evident from his Speech from the Throne. Words of sympathy and trust, words setting forth the awful responsibility undertaken by the Duma, words warning...

NE WS OF THE WEEK.

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Sultan had not yielded on Friday afternoon. This, however, does not show that he will not yield, for previous experience proves that he is a believer in eleventh- hour...

The Russian Duma was opened by the Czar on Thursday

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with the utmost magnificence of ceremonial, but far more impressive than all the pomp was the haughty impassiveness with which the Delegates received the Czar's Speech, and...

The elections took place in France last Sunday. A second

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ballot will be necessary in 155 constituencies, but it is believed that it will result only in an increase of the Bloc majority. According to one estimate, the new Chamber will...

The efforts of the German Press to attach serious political

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importance to the visit of the Kaiser to Vienna meet with no support in the Austrian capital. While, however, Vienna is coldly polite, the Hungarian official journals adopt an...

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On Friday week, in the House of Lords, Lord Balfour

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of Burleigh did a useful service in raising the question of the cost of administration of the Poplar Union, to which we have already referred in our columns. In Poplar one in...

The Morning Post on Monday published from its Shanghai correspondent

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a very instructive article on the progress of Army reform in China. He visited recently the Chinese Aldershot, Paoting-fu, where the two best divisions of the Army are...

We may note that, according to the Report, twenty-three million

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out of the total of twenty-six million barrels produced annually in the United States are controlled bir the Standard Oil Trust, and that the price of illuminating oil is two...

Several important events are reported from Natal. On Friday week

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news came that Mr. H. M. Stainbank, the Magistrate of Mahlabitini, in Northern Zululand, had been murdered while collecting the Hut-tax. The outbreak of trouble in a district a...

On Tuesday the chief speaker in the debate was Mr.

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Lloyd-George. His speech, again, was a fighting speech, and, like Mr. Wyndham's, contributed little to a real settle- ment of the problem at issue. His defence, however, of the...

President Roosevelt has sent an important Message to Congress along

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with Mr. Garfield's Report on the Standard Oil Company's methods. After referring to the enormous benefits derived by the Company from secret rates—most of them clearly...

The second reading debate on the Education Bill opened in

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the Commons on Monday with a strong party speech from Mr. Wyndham. The first part of the Bill he denounced as a violation of the principle of religious equality. The State ought...

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Lord Welby, as Chairman of the Finance Committee, made his

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annual budget statement at Tuesday's meeting of the London County Council. Last year's realised income was 29,277,470, and the actual expenditure 29,237,288, of which 24,647,195...

Bank Rate, 4 per cent.

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Consols (21 per cent.) wore on Friday 89/.

On the question of law we are inclined to agree

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with Mr. Justice Channel', though we admit the hardship in this particular case. But we exceedingly regret that the senior Judge should have thought it necessary to import into...

In the House of Commons on Wednesday a Motion by

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Mr. H. Vivian pressing for the reduction of armaments gave rise to an interesting discussion. Lieutenant Bellaire maintained that naval supremacy was the pivot on which all our...

The trial of the Yarmouth election petition was concluded on

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Friday week. The main charges were those of corrupt treating at various times during and before the election, and of bribery on the day of the poll. As to the first, since 1904...

Mr. Birrelrs general reply was very able, but too witty

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to be judicious, and we regret to say he gave no indication as to the willingness of the Government to accept such amendments as have been proposed by the Bishop of Hereford and...

On Wednesday evening Mr. Chamberlain caused no little sensation by

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the frankness of his speech. He was strongly in favour of making concessions to the Roman Catholics, but what was given to them must, he urged, be given to " us,"— and by " us "...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE EDUCATION BILL. W E shall not attempt to deal with the rhetorical excursions and alarums of the second reading debate. The eloquence displayed on both sides was only...

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THE ULTIMATUM TO TURKEY. T HOUGH Turkey may not have actually

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yielded before these pages are in our readers' hands, we have little doubt that at the eleventh hour, or, to be more correct, on the eleventh day, Turkey will agree to the...

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THE FRENCH ELECTIONS. T HE elections in France have come and

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gone with more than their wonted quietness. Paris, as usual, was apathetic, and in the provinces votes were recorded without rioting and the results received without excite-...

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THE OPENING OF THE DUMA.

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O N Thursday, with every circumstance of pomp and ceremony, the new Duma was opened in St. Peters- burg by the Czar in person. Russia has before now stood at the cross-roads,...

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RATES AND RATEPAYERS. T HE discussion on local taxation raised in

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the House of Lords on Tuesday by Lord Denbigh was valuable as emphasising the determination of the Government to take the question in hand. The best intentions in a matter of...

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CHRISTIANITY AND REVIVAL " I F ever there was a divine

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attempt made to shake religion free of its wrappings it was the preaching of Christ," says Mr. Benson in the most intimate, and perhaps the most interesting, of the eighteen...

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MR. KIPLING'S ALLEGORIES.

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I T falls to the lot of distinguished public men, year after year, to make rather undistinguished speeches at the Academy banquet. The limits imposed by the occasion no doubt...

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FOREST LAW IN THE EMPIRE.

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F OREST law is a luxury for a nation, and therefore much open to the criticism of those who have little hinny) , in their lives. The peasant who with heavy toil had made a...

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CORRESPONDENCE.

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BISHOP GORE ON THE ART OF TEACHING RELIGION. 110 THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR,—The Bishop of Birmingham thinks that the public, when it puts on cap and gown, ought to...

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[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."]

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SIR,—I have read with much interest the article in the Spectator of April 28th under the heading "Churchmen and the Bible." The writer of it does not claim to be a...

• LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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THE EDUCATION BILL. [To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—A correspondent in last week's Spectator tells Church people that the Bill relieves them of the coat of repairing...

CHURCHMEN AND THE BIBLE.

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rTO THE EDITOR OP THE "erserrros."1 SIR,—I have read with much satisfaction your article in the issue of April 28th headed "Churchmen and the Bible," and I hope many of our...

SIMPLE BIBLE TEACHING.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—There is an aspect of this question which has been hardly discussed : the light to be gained from secondary- school experience in the...

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rro TRH EDITOR OF THE " SPHOTATOR.1 you allow me

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to remind your correspondents who write in praise of "simple Bible teaching" that no one has suggested that it should be forbidden, or placed at any dis- advantage? The least...

ROMAN CATHOLICS AND THE BIBLE.

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(To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR:] Snt,—In your issue of April 28th, which I have only just seen, you state in your article on "Churchmen and the Bible" : "The Roman authorities...

THE ALLEGED EXCLUSION OF THE GODHEAD OF CHRIST FROM THE

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SYLLABUS OF THE LONDON SCHOOL BOARD. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIM,—In this controversy it is important before all things to be scrupulously exact in our statements...

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[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPROTATOD-1

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understand that a member of the late London School Board has sent you an answer to Mr. Diggle's letter. I shall therefore spare your space by leaving the matter in his hands.

RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "EPROTATOR.1 Sr,—In your issue of April 28th there is a letter from Alderman Macfarlane, Chairman of the West Hartlepool Education Committee, sending you a...

THE EDUCATION BILL AND TRAINING COLLEGES.

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[TO TER EDITOR. OF TRH "SPROMFOR.1 Sin,—The Bill purports to be one of conciliation, by which the Christian character of our national education will be duly respected, and the...

WHO IS THE REAL ENEMY OF "BIBLICAL TEACHING"?

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To rag EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—We are reminded by a correspondent of yours last week that it is "openly stated by the Nonconformist leaders" that the "Biblical...

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THE TRAINING OF NAVAL OFFICERS.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THU "SPECTATOR.1 SIE,—In your issue of April 28th appears a letter from Lieutenant Bellaire containing statements which require some examination. The letter is...

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THE LAND—AND THE TELEPHONE.

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[TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTItTOR.") SIR,—In your issue of April 7th I read with interest Mr. Rider Haggard's suggestion that England should make more use of the telephone in...

GREECE AND THE OLYMPIC GAMES. [To THE EDITOR OF.TIIIC "SPECTATOR.")

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STR, — Some passages in the interesting article on "The Heritage of Greece" in the Spectator of May 5th recall to me a broad statement made by Mill in his essay on " Early)...

IRELAND'S FINANCIAL RELATIONS.

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[TO THE EDTIOR OF THE "SPECTAT0R:9 have read the Spectator for twenty years,—not always in agreement, but never without profit. But I do not remember to have seen any case...

THE ANTIQUITIES OF DURHAM. (To THE EDITOR OF THE "

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SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—The Spectator of April 28th, reviewing five volumes of the "Victoria County Histories," makes an interesting com- parison between the early conditions of...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."]

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Sin,—Lieutenant Canyon Bellaire writes against the Admiralty scheme with great ingenuity in the Spectator of April 28th, but his letter teems with half-truths and with...

CHRISTIANITY AND THE WORKING CLASSES. [To THE EDITOR OP TEE

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"SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—In your review of Mr. Haw's book in the Spectator of April 28th under the above title, you say you are impatient at my "extreme sacerdotalism." It is only...

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THE CURSE OF BIG GAME LTo THE EDITOR OF THE

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"SPECTATOR:1 SER?.4.11 a footnote to a letter written by Mr. T. M. Hastings in your issue of December 23rd, 1905, on the subject of game reserves in Central Africa you very...

THE "SPECTATOR" EXPERIMENTAL COMPANY— MR. HALDANE'S VISIT. To THE EDITOR.

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OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIlt,—As many of your readers have no doubt heard or read elsewhere of the visit paid to the Company last Monday by the Secretary of State for War and the...

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POE TRY.

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Down thro' the gloom a whirling glow A yellow leaflet from the tree Dives, like a goldfish, straight and slow. The tamarind leaves have closed each lid And hang like little...

ART.

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THE ACADEMY.—IL IN this year's Exhibition there are a large number of pictures in which a heraldic spirit in colour and design is observable. But in most of these works it must...

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BOOKS.

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THE POEMS OF WILLIAM COWPER.* IT is always a matter of convenience, for purposes of ready reference, to have the whole of the works of a poet in a single - volume with a good...

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GREGORY THE GREAT.* IN these days, when of the making

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of indifferent books there is no end, it is a pleasant task to welcome a work of the first rank. A prolonged study of these two volumes dealing with the greatest figure of the...

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THE MARCH AND BORDERLAND OF WALES.* Tars is a singularly

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attractive book. Mr. Bradley is already known as an authority on Wales, even more than on the other countries or provinces he has explored and studied. He is that ideal...

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RECENT TERSE.* OF the thirteen singers whose works lie before

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us, there can be no question whose is the most fresh and original voice. Mr. Charles Doughty, whatever his faults, is no imitator. Alike in conception and in execution, his...

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NOVELS.

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FENWICK'S CAREER.* MRS. HIIMPHRY WARD'S new novel, apart from its intrinsic excellences of style and matter, derives an added interest from the brief preface in which she...

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C URRENT LITERAT UR,E.

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MR. BELLOO'S ALGERIAN IMPRESSIONS. Esto Perpetua: Algerian Studies and Impressions. By H. Belloc. (Duckworth and Co. 6s. net.)—What is it that Mr. Belloc wishes to be perpetua...

An American Duchess. By Arabella Kenealy. (Chapman and Hall. 6s.)—The

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reader will suffer a good deal of disappointment if he takes up this book thinking, on the faith of the title, that he is about to have presented to him a subtle analysis of the...

Mr. John Strood. By Percy White. (A. Constable and Co.

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68.)—This is an exceedingly clever book, but it is also exception- ally irritating. It is written in what one may call the oblique style of tuuTative, the figure of the hero,...

The Light. By Mrs. Harold E. Gorst. (Cassell and Co.

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6s.)— Roughly speaking, Mrs. Gorst's new book deals with the same subject as Mr. George Moore's novel, published about twelve years ago, "Esther Waters." There is nothing...

The Labourer's Comedy. By Maud Stepney Rawson. (A. Con- stable

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and Co. 6s.)—We have often had occasion to praise the delicacy and truth of Mrs. Rawson's work. Her new novel carries the reader into an atmosphere very different from that of...

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SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

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[Under this heading we notice such Books of the wok as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] The Parliamentary Gazette (Howarth and Co., Is.) seems likely to be a...

The Minor Prophets. Edited by S. R. Driver, D.D. Part

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II. (T. C. and E. C. Jack. 2s. 6d. net.)—This is one of the volumes of the "Century Bible." The Prophets of whom Canon Driver treats are, to put them in the chronological order...

CATHEDRALS ON THE RHINE.

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Cathedrals on the Rhine. By Francis Miltoun. (Brimley Johnson and Ince. Os. net.)—We are much obliged to Mr. Miltoun for his book, dealing as it does with noble buildings which...

BIOGRAPHY FOR BEGINNERS.

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Biography for Beginners : being a Collection of Miscellaneous Examples/or the Use of Upper Forms. Edited by E. Clerihew, BA. With 40 Diagrams by G. K. Chesterton. (T. Werner...

Charles Lever : his Life in his Letters. By Edmund

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Downey. 2 vols. (W. Blackwood and Sons. 21s. net.)—This book is certainly in some respects disappointing. Most of it, we may say, is from Charles Lever's own pen, and we do not...

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We have received the first instalment of The Old Testament

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in Greek, Edited by Alan England Brooke, B.D., and Norman Maclean, M.A. (Cambridge University Press, '75. Gd. net). It is to give the text of the "Codex Vaticanus " of the...

Many readers will welcome a new edition of The Sacred

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Poets of the Nineteenth Century : James Montgomery to Anna Ladino Waring, Edited by Alfred H. Miles (Routledge and Sons, is. 6d.) Among the names we see Richard Mant, Heber,...

Kew Gardens Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information: (Wyman and Sons and

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others. 2s.)—We have received three volumes of this periodical (1903-5), and are glad to see that it survives or has been resuscitated. Features common to all the numbers are...

The United Free Church. By the Rev. R. Logan. (Macniven

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and Wallace. 2s. 6d.)—" The United Free Church," says Mr. Logan, "may be compared to a river composed of four streams,— the Reformed Presbyterian, the Secession, the Relief, and...

In the "Royal Library : Ethical Series" (Arthur L. Humphreys)

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we have an English translation of The Life of Jesus, by Ernest Renan (15s. net).

Values of Old English Silver and Sheffield Plate. By J.

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W. CaMicott. Edited by J. Starkie Gardner. (Bemrose and Sons. 92s. net.)—In this volume we have first a complete table of "hail-marks," London and provincial, and after these...

On the Queen's Errands. By Captain Philip Wynter. (Sir Isaac

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Pitman and Sons. 10s. 6d. net.)—Captain Wynter tells us about Oxford, where he was born—his father was Vice- Chancellor at the crisis of the Tractarian movement —about India,...

We must be content with the briefest notice of Modern

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Book. bindings : their Design and Decoration, by S. T. Prideaux (A. Constable and Co., 10s. 6d. net). Mr. Prideaux illustrates his descriptions with pictorial specimens by...

In the series of "Panel Books" (Sisley's) we have The

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Decisive Battles of the World, by Sir Edward Creasy (3s. net), and Don Juan, by Lord Byron (2s. 6d. net), handsomely bound.

Philippine Life in Town and Country. By James A. Le

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Roy. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 5s. net.)—Mr. Le Roy worked for two years on the United States Commission (the aim of which was to establish civil government in the Philippines). We...

• anything like the Stoke d'Abernon brass, and does not

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appear to have taken as much care as was their due of these curious relics of the past. At one place, which Miss Isherwood mercifully declines to name, the brasses were melted...