12 OCTOBER 1912

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The Joint Note which, according to Friday's news, was presented

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to the Porte on Thursday evening, and which will be discussed by the Council of Ministers to-day, is of much too weak a kind to satisfy the Balkan League. It merely speaks of...

The Proclamation of the King of Montenegro to his people,

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published in Friday's Daily Mail, is so striking a document that we cannot resist quoting it verbatim :- " My hopes of finding a method by which Old Servians might be able...

The object of the King of Montenegro in thus throwing

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his cap into the ring has been much canvassed. In our opinion, the simplest explanation is that the King knew that strong pressure would be put upon him by Russia, to whom he...

As we write on Friday no act of war has

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yet been reported from Bulgaria, Servia, or Greece, and their Ministers are still at Constantinople. The fact, however, that the concentration of their troops is proceeding at...

Assuming, as we are bound to assume, that within the

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next day or two war will have become general in the Balkans, the question which must absorb the attention of Europe is whether the war can be prevented from involving the Great...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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O N Tuesday Montenegro declared war on Turkey, and fighting at once began on the south-east frontier of Montenegro, i.e., in the direction of Tuzi, a Turkish village not far...

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How ill-founded is the hope that a general Balkan war

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may still be averted is shown by the message which the Bulgarian Prime Minister has sent to the people of England through the Daily News and Leader of Friday :- " The impending...

Mr. Runciman, replying to a question of Mr. Ginnell's in

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the Commons on Monday, stated that he had decided to modify the restrictions on the Irish cattle trade in such a way as to afford some relief to exporters and graziers on both...

On Monday when the Autumn Session of Parliament began Mr.

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Leslie Scott severely criticized the draft rules of the Board of Trade on life-saving at sea. He said that ship- owners were prepared for the reconsideration of the whole...

It is too early to make any attempt to forecast

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the strategy of the war, but if we may venture a guess the Servians will not try to enter Turkey through the Sanjak of Novi Bazar or to move south, but will join their forces to...

On Friday week Mr. Roosevelt gave evidence before the American

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Senate Committee which is investigating the subject of campaign funds. He answered many questions about the Republican fund of 1904, and the packed audience listened (says the...

Mr. Bonar Law replied in a speech of great force

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and ability. The proposal was the climax of a deliberate and ignoble conspiracy. The Government's own Press was now letting them know that before passing the Bill they ought to...

The week has been full of rumours of the conclusion

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of peace between Italy and Turkey, but as we write on Friday no announcement has been made that the terms have been concluded. There seems, however, little doubt that within the...

In the House of Commons on Thursday Mr. Asquith rose

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to move the combined guillotine and kangaroo resolutions under which the Government mean to force the Home Rule Bill through the House before Christmas. Under his pro- posals...

After Mr. William O'Brien had declared that, though he did

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not oppose the resolution, the time allotted to the discussion of finance and land purchase was quite inadequate, and Mr. Lloyd George admitted that the Ulster question was not...

We cannot, unfortunately, find space to summarize the speeches of

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Sir Edward Carson, Mr. Churchill, or Mr. Austen Chamberlain, but we must note the impression of strength and sincerity made by the manner in which Mr. Bonar Law handled the...

The Neue Freie Presse puts the dots upon the i's.

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It declares that " Austria-Hungary cannot permit the aggran- disement of a hostile Servia," and that "Austria-Hungary will need to have a word on that subject with Russia when...

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Speaking at Southampton on Wednesday, Lord Selborne demanded reform of

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the House of Lords. He explained that the Upper House should not by any means necessarily have a majority favourable to Unionist legislation. But with a reformed House of Lords...

Dr. Fry, Dean of Lincoln, and Chairman of the Executive

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of the Liberal Churchmen's Protest League, has issued a circular letter to Liberal Churchmen throughout the country on the subject of Welsh Disestablishment. He is "con- vinced...

On Tuesday the Archbishop of Canterbury spoke on Welsh Disestablishment

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at Cardiff. The Archbishop answered what he described as the four chief reasons given in favour of Welsh Disestablishment. First, it was said that the elections show that the...

Lord Rosebery, who with Lord Murray was enrolled on the

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burgh roll of freemen of Peebles on Wednesday, made an amusing speech. After rendering homage to the qualities of patriotism and thrift associated with Peebles in two historic...

Mr. Balfour, who addressed a Unionist meeting at Hadding. ton

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on Wednesday, effectively dissected Mr. Churchill's " Home Rule All Round" speech. Applying the methods of the higher criticism to that much-misunderstood masterpiece, Mr....

We regret to have to record the death in his

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seventy-seventh year of Professor W. W. Skeat, who for the last thirty-four years had held the Professorship of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge. Graduating in mathematics, Professor...

The Toronto correspondent of the Times said in a message

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published on Wednesday that in conjunction with the emergency contribution of Dreadnoughts to the Imperial Navy the Laurier Naval Act will probably be repealed. The Naval...

Bank Rate, 4 per cent., changed from 3 per cent.

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August 29th. Consols (24) were on Friday 738—Friday week 74A.

Another lamentable disaster has befallen the British Navy, Submarine B

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2 having been sunk with a lose of fifteen lives early on the morning of yesterday week. The submarine, with others of the flotilla, had started out from Dover at 5 a.m. for the...

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THE TURKISH SOLDIER.

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P OPULAR fancy draws a picture of the Turkish soldier as a frenzied tiger of a man whose onset is irresistible in its ferocity. It is very intelligible that such a picture...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE WAR AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. T N spite of the proverbial warning against dividing the lion's skin before the lion is dead, men are naturally beginning to consider what are...

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THE IRISH POLICY OF THE UNIONISTS.

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T HERE is a point which we hope will be brought out strongly in the course of the debates on the Home Rule Bill—that is, the nature of the Unionist policy in regard to Ireland...

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THE PARLIAMENTARY SITUATION.

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I T is a commonplace of Parliamentary phraseology to describe a measure or a situation as unparalleled or unprecedented ; but surely even the most cautious critic would admit...

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COUNTY GUIDES. T HE Times of Tuesday last published a paragraph,

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headed " Territorial Guides. Proposed New Body," to the following effect :— " The Army Council has decided to allow County Associations to raise ' Corps of Guides' as part of...

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A FIJIAN THEOLOGIAN.

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T HERE appears in the current number of the Hibbert Journal a theological essay by a native Fijian. The writer did not dream that his work would see the light in a Western...

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THE PRINCE OF WALES AND OXFORD.

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T HE decision of the King to send the Prince of Wales to Oxford to live the life of an ordinary undergraduate is manifestly courageous, but we are certain that it is also...

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THE FASCINATION OF BEARS.

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A PARAGRAPH headed " The Duchess of Connaught : Escape from a Bear's Hug" may have aroused curiosity in the readers of Tuesday's papers. The "escape " turns out to have been...

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[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.")

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SIR,—The opinion of Mr. Robert Risk as to the proper method of administering the penal law seems to me so harsh and so extraordinarily noxious that his letter should not be...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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THE SLATER CASE. [TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SrEcrAros.'] SIR,—Mr. Risk's long letter upon this subject is full of inaccuracies. His idea of argument seems to be simply to make...

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "]

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Sin,—I had intended addressing you a short letter upon this subject last week, but I am glad I waited for this week's issue of the Spectator with the extraordinary epistle from...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In my letter

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in last week's issue there is a printer's error which you may consider worth correction. The judicial referees who assisted Lord Pentland in reviewing the case were given as "...

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—I hesitate to affirm

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whether or not Slater should be set free. It is a serious thing to impugn the verdict of a jury who have beard the evidence and seen the witnesses. But a not inconsiderable...

ULSTER AND THE LIBERALS.

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[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—You ask what Liberals are going to do on account of the Orange demonstrations in Ulster. Happily the Prime Minister has given a...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—May I offer

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the following comments upon Mr. Risk's letter in this matter P (1) No sworn evidence has been given of the alleged confession. Detectives are imaginative persons when anxious to...

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR: ] SIR,—Mr. de

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Montmorency's laughter recalls the noble words in which Scott summed up the devotion of the clansmen— words which, mutatis mutandis, would be no inapt reply to the "crackling of...

THE MARCONI COMPANY—A DISCLAIMER.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' Srn,—In a leading article in your issue of September 14th, which reaches me here, I find the following sentence :- " Sir Henry Norman...

[To as EDITOR OF TIM "SPECTATOR.]

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SIB,—Writing as an observer, and not as a partisan, I should advise your correspondent of October 5th to exhibit his faculty for merriment within the precincts of his Club in...

CARLYLE ON HOME RULE.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR'] SIR,—As a constant reader of the Spectator, I think the enclosed letter would be of interest to your readers at the present time. The letter...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I have met naval

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and military men who happen to be born Ulstermen. They say that when the tug of civil war comes they will be found—not in clubs and jeering—but in the ranks of their countrymen....

TOPSY-TURVYDOM.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Srn,—The satire of " Punch " was never better employed than in the last issue. Here is Belfast (Free Trade to the backbone) looking to the...

"ASPECTS OF THE IRISH QUESTION."

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—A publicist who attempts an impartial elucidation of a problem of current politics has no right to complain if his facts and arguments...

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SHORT WORDS AND LONG WORDS.

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[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTET011."] SIR,—Although the controversy between the Monosyllabic and the Polysyllabic factions in your columns may appear to be becoming somewhat...

THE BISHOP OF CARLISLE AND CHURCH DEFENCE.

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[To rra Eorroa or THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—You seem in such complete accord with the Bishop of Carlisle in your issue of September 21st (p. 395) with reference to the admission...

A NATIONAL VALHALLA.

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[To Tar EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR:] Sra,—A short time ago . I read in the Spectator an appreciative notice of the late William Booth. Are we to take it that this and similar...

THE EMPEROR FREDERICK THE SECOND. [To THE EDITOR OF THE

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" SPECTATOR."] SIB, —In your interesting review of Mr. Lionel Allaborn's book on the Emperor Frederick the Second (Spectator, October 5th) you say that in England the famous...

ANGLICAN -INTOLERANCE.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE ".SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Your views of religious liberty are well illustrated by the young cuckoo, which by its breadth is enabled to eject all the other...

THE POST IMPRESSIONISTS.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Your critic in last week's issue remarks that the Post. Impressionist idea of expressing sensation in place of reality is not really a...

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BOOKS.

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MARK TWAIN.* HUMOUR is not by any means necessarily a gift of tempera. meat. Some twisting and refraction of thoughts as they pass onwards to utterance may be the effect of a...

CHRISTIAN EDUCATION OF WOMEN IN THE EAST. [To ERZ EDITOR

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OP THE " SPECTATOR."] you allow me to draw attention to a Conference on the Christian Education of Women in the East which was held at Oxford early in September last ? The...

A CHURCH-GOING DOG.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.. "] SIR, — Some little amusement and doubt has been caused by an anecdote which lately appeared in a local paper telling of the sagacity of a...

QUAINT NORMAN SURNAMES.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.1 Sin,—Is not Croque-vielle probably " a poor player on the vielle or hurdy-gurdy "F Littre gives Croque-note : "musicien pauvre ou panvre...

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 views therein expressed or with the mode of...

TIMOTHY, Timothy, where have you been? . " Over the

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sloping meadows green ; The river called, but I could not stay, Into the copse I ran away." Timothy, Timothy, what did you see ? " A bunny scampering round a tree, A squirrel...

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PROBLEMS OF THE PACIFIC.*

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Mx. For has one excellent book to his credit and a great deal of valuable journalism, and his study of the Pacific question will be welcomed as the work of a. man who has...

TUB LOPE • OF NATURE 'AMONG THE ,,R0 DID the

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Roinans really "lore -Neter° " at -ise the- ileum whieh 'the phrase would convey to naloddriszeattf .41tid time that Primal sympathy" with herwhieh Ifiroecisiverth apatite • •...

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STUDIES IN BIRD MIGRATION.*

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THERE probably exists no one in the world better fitted than Mr. William Eagle Clarke to write this book. In the first place, the British Isles afford unrivalled advantages for...

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MADAME DE cAdrior,,Ion.*

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M. Feenketee Lowxa a recent book, excellently translated, as it was certain Co 'be, by Mr. MortOn Fullerton, is sure of a • thniomance of a Favourite. y {'Ztdfaric.t. ,...

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FRANCE UNDER PHILIP Al7GUSTUS. * Tars learned and interesting book comes

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to us from France by way of America in an agreeable translation. It was first published after the death of its author, M. Luchaire—a death which deprived France of one 'of her...

- WILLS.* In this stout volume Mr. Harris, who is Lecturer

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on Wills in the St. Louis University Institute of Law, has undertaken a prodigious, task. He has been attracted to it by the recognition, forced upon him by his researches as a...

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GLAMOUR.°

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iThis, we should say, is Mr.. Ethyl" -Lynch's first •book, ter judge front certain crudities of style and construction. Bub- if its defects are obvious, so are its nierita. To...

THE SHRINES OF BENARES.*

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POSSESSORS of the Rev. M. A. Sherring's work, The Sacred eitig of the Hindus, and Mr. E. B. Havell's more recent book on Benares, should also find a place on their shelves for...

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Taxation of Land Values. By John Orr, M.A. (P. S.

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King and. Co. Is. net.)—Any one who wishes to see the kind of argument which influences the enthusiasts for land taxation may usefully spend Is. upon a little book on the...

England and Germany. By Leaders of Public Opinion in Both

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Empires. Collected by Dr. Ludwig Stein. (Williams and Norgate. Is. net.)—The series of articles by prominent Germans and English- men published during the summer in "Nord and...

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 review in other forms.) Famous Speeches (Second Series). Selected and Edited with Introductory...

Early History of the Christian Church from its Foundation to

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the End of the Fifth Century. By Monsignor Louis Ducheine. Vol. II. (John Murray. 98. net.)—Monsignor Duchesne's famous history, which, it will be recollected, has now been...

English Lyrical Poetry. By Edward Bliss Reed, Ph.D. (Henry Frowde,

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8s. 6d. net.)—We can recall no other books specially con- cerned with English lyric poetry, and Professor Reed, who is Assistant Professor of English at Yale, has written a...

READABLE Novato —The Lighted Way. By E. Phillips Oppenheim. (Hodder

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and Stoughton. 6s.)—This is a story of business and adventure. It moves briskly and is worth reading, though the characters are not particularly interesting.

The Wind Among the Barley. By M. P. Willcocks. (Mills

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and Boon. 6s.)--It is difficult to award the palm to any one of the delightful sketches which Miss Willcocks has put together under the pleasant title of The Wind Among the...

Marriage. By H. G. Wells. (Macmillan and Co. 6s.)—Mr. Wells

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has put all his cleverness into this long story of an engage- ment and marriage between two attractive and, we may add, perfectly moral young people according to every standard....

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My Own Times. By Lady Dorothy Nevi11. Edited by her

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Son. (Methuen and Co. 153. net.)—Like the two earlier volumes by the same author, this book contains large numbers of disconnected anecdotes interspersed with reflections upon...