13 APRIL 1901

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HERE is little fresh news to chronicle from the seat of war, except that General Plumer has occupied Pietersburg, captured a gun, destroyed a large quantity of ammunition, and...

The Times correspondent at Pekin strongly advises the im- mediate

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withdrawal of the international army of occupation from Pekin. The troops have nothing to do, there is much " friction " between them, and one day there may be "a serious...

The report that the Russian retreat in the matter of

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the Manchurian Treaty was due in great measure to Japanese remonstrances gathers strength, and with it the rumour that an alliance between the two countries is now probable....

The event of the week has been the reception of

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the Italian Fleet at Toulon, which has been -attended by President Loubet. The visit, of course, was intended to display the friendliness of Italy under its new and more liberal...

It should be noted that the Queen-Regent of Spain sent

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a man-of-war to the festivities at Toulon, the idea being to demonstrate . to the world the friendliness of the Latin races on the Mediterranean. There is no doubt that if the...

Letters from St. Petersburg are all alike in their account

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of the situation there. The student question has divided Ministers, society, and even the Army, and the Government appears unable to resolve upon a policy. The Czar, who is...

"„,* The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript, in any

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ease.

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The Times correspondent at Moscow sends a translation of a

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most striking letter from Count Leo Tolstoy to the Czar urging his Majesty to put an end to religious persecution in Russia, which, he says, not only exists, but is on the...

Among the special Army Orders issued by the War Office

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on Thursday was the following :—" Any officer or soldier who when in the presence of the enemy displays a white flag or other token of surrender will be tried by general Court-...

We regret to note the death on last Saturday, at

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the age of seventy-seven, of Mr. George Murray smith, the publisher. Mr. Smith, -who succeeded to the control of his father's business when he was only twenty-one, was...

An interesting letter appears in Tuesday's Times calling attention to

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the needs of poor ladies,—the forlorn class which finds a "comparatively costly and very comfortless' home in furnished lodgings." The writer points out that to assist this...

As to the effect of the Memorial itself, everything will

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depend on the manner of treatment. It is arranged that the statue of Queen Victoria shall be executed by Mr. Brock, while five archi- tects—Mr. T. G. Jackson, R.A., Mr. Aston...

A sketch-plan of the site and altered surroundings of the

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proposed National Memorial to Qaeen Victoria is given in the Daily Telegraph of Tuesday. From this we gather that the Mall will be carried through into Trafalgar Square and an...

Messrs. Agnew, the picture dealers, have recovered th e great picture

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by Gainsborongh of the Duchess of Devonshire which was stolen from them in 1878. It was on exhibition . , and the thief, said to be of rank in his profession, outstayed the...

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When the movement for self-propelled traffic has ob- tained its

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'full development, and when motor.cars are 'both efficient and cheap, they will not only enormously facilitate living in the country, but will help to make all rural industries...

A far sounder view 'of our fiscal system is supplied

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bilitr. Harold• Cox, secretary' of the Cobden 'Club, in his letter to Thursday's' Times. He points out that the four main principle's whielt haVe hitherto Marked its development...

• Thursday's Morning Post, contains a letter from Colonel MacLeod,

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who writes deprecating any large expenditure to satisfy what he describes as "the craze for long ranges for rifle practice." In his opinion, marksmanship is not developed...

The Times lately printed a number of extracts froin diary

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Written between September and December last by an Englishwoman, the wife of a miller living in Yeutersdorp. AS that town has been, more often alternately occupied and reoccupied...

We are very glad to see that persons interested in

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the motor- car industry have addressed a memorial to the members- of County Councils of England and Wales, protesting against the recommendations for farther interference with...

. The approach of the Budget has produced a most

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vehement attack on our present system of taxation from the Times, both in a leading article and in an article "from a correspondent" entitled "The Reform of Taxation." The...

Bank Rate, 4 per cent. New Consols (21) were on

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Friday 95i.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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BRITAIN'S TRUE POLICY. D URING the Easter Recess the very able publicist who often writes on foreign as well as on military affairs in the leading columns of the Horning Post...

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THE KING'S PAY. T HE true argument which justifies the expenditure

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of half-a-million a year to maintain the Monarch in splendour seems to us to have been a little overlooked. A . great deal has been written about the estates of. the Crown which...

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MODERN WAR AND CONTINENTAL ARMIES.

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W E trust that our chief statesmen and leading politicians, and also those who help to form and direct public opinion in the Press, will give a very careful study to the...

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EMILE LOUBET. F RANCE seems to have discovered a "p1 in

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man" who suits her. To those who remember the cir- cumstances of his election in February, 1899, the rise of M. Emile Loubet in public estimation is nothing less than amazing....

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WHERE SHALL WE RETRENCH?

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T HERE is something strangely confusing in the con- templation of national expenditure. Really it is subject to very much the same laws as personal expendi- ture. Nations, like...

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THE MISCHIEF OF MILLIONAIRES.

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I T is, we suppose, quite right that millionaires who give large sums for public purposes should be praised by the' newspapers. They probably wish it, to begin with, or they'...

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AN IDEAL .A.ITSTRALIA.N CAPITAL.

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A N Australian correspondent writes to draw attention to the unique opportunity shortly to befall the new Com- monwealth. In a year or so the Confederation must design...

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VILLAGE SAWS AND SAYINGS.

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I N the backwaters of rural England, which the tide of modern life stirs but just enough to avert stagnation, linger many survivals of old-time words and quaint forms of speech....

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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THE EDUCATION OF OFFICERS FOR THE REGULAR ARMY AND THE SUPPLY OF . SUBALTERNS FOR THE MILITIA. [To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—The supply and the training of officers...

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OUR " ADMIRABLE " SERVICE RIFLE.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTATOR.') Srn,—I am afraid that ordinary people who do not go in for rifle-shooting themselves will be quite panic-stricken on read- ing Mr....

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AGRICULTURAL RATING.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —Some four years ago I lived at a place very similar to the village of Little Pedlington. It was about twenty miles from London. and my...

RIFLE-SHOOTING.

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(To THE EDITOR OP THE ' , SPECTATOR:1 Sra,—Having collected donations to supplement a Govern; ment grant towards the construction of a Volunteer rifle range in this district, I...

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THE TERMS OF SETTLEMTINT.

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[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Again to-day (Thursday) the papers tell us that Botha is negotiating for peace, or for time. On the last occasion our troops in...

STEALING PICTURES.

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[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.') Sin,—The recovery of the stolen Gainsborough reminds me of an incident which made a great stir at the time, now between forty and fifty...

THE QUEENS MEMORIAL.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Will no one say in public or in the Press what many of us, nay, most of us, are saying to one another, that the pro- posed application...

FRANCHISE IN SOUTH AFRICA.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sim, — Your correspondent, Mr. J. M. Ludlow (Spectator, April 6th), discussing the future of the South African Colonies, advocates a...

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THE FOOD WE EAT.

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• [TO THE EDITOR OF VIE "SPECTATOR."] Stu, — I have been extremely interested in your review in the Spectator of March 24th of Dr. Hutchison's work on "Food and the Principles...

- . April 66, you may care to recall some

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words of C. H. Pearson, "National - Life'and Character," pp. 104-5' (second edition, 1894) "Nowhere in the world has the struggle for existen ce been so fierce as in Great...

TOWN VERSUS COUNTRY.

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(To THE EDITOR OF TUB "SPECTATOR.") Sig,—For some years I hunted with a pack of foot , beagles, and as is frequently the case, the hunt was joined in by the uninvited outsider,...

LEAD-GLAZING IN THE POTTERIES.

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Fro TUE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sig,—In. your review of Mr. Baring-Gould's novel, "The Frobishers" (Spectator, March 30th), you say that it deals largely with the formidable...

THE KING'S DECLARATION.

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[TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sig,—I observe in your editorial note on p.495 of your israe of April 6th the phrase, "Toleration is part of the essential spirit of English...

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MR. WELLER'S STORY OF THE CRUMPETS.

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(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—Without rashness your correspondent, Mr. Howard, in the Spectator of April 6th, might have distinctly charged" Boz" with conversion of...

QUEEN VICTORIA AND CATS.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sru,—During these latter days I have observed several times, and notably once in the Spectator, the statement that our late good Queen did...

IRISH WIT AND HUMOUR.

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(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sr,—Your article on "Irish Wit and Humour" in the Spectator of February 16th reminds me of a humorous reply made to me last August in Green...

POETRY.

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AN ALPINE APRIL. AMARYLLIs has deserted Shady vales where once she flirted With the shepherds round their flocks ; In the sunshine of the ether, Leaving lovers far beneath her,...

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BOOKS.

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THE LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF MR. CHILDERS.* COLONEL CHILDERS mentions in the preface to these very interesting volumes that it was his hope that his father's biography would...

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MR. BERNARD SHAW AND HIS PLAYS.*

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IT is one of the peculiarities of the age in which we live that a variety of duties, originally entrusted to a recognised func- tionary, are now informally and unofficially, but...

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MEMOIRS OF THE COUNTESS POTOCKA.* THE writer of these Memoirs

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was a lady of high rank and lineage. Her father was Count Louis Tysldewicz, her mother a niece of Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski, the last King of Poland. Prince Joseph...

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THE 11.1.EtF.*

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Is' anything were necessary to prove the firm hold which the Turf has upon England and Englishmen, the rapidly increasing literature of sport would be sufficient. Here,...

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NOVELS OF THE WEEK.* THERE is no novelist alive whose

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work is more penetrated with appreciation of the delights of rusticity than Mr. Raymond, who is doing in prose for Somersetshire much what Barnes did in verse for Dorset. We...

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THE BOOK OF PEACE.

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The Book of Peace. Made by Pamela Tennant. (The Chiswick Press. 6s.)—This is a Very good selection of passages from the Bible, the Apocrypha, and the Imitation of Christ,...

THE GREAT NORTH ROAD.

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The Great North Road. By Charles E. Harper. ' (Chapman and Hall. 32s.)—Every pessimist should read this book, not for the purpose of gloating over the sufferings of our...

C ITRRENT LITERAT URE.

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HIGHWAYS AND - BYWAYS IN BAST ANGLIA. Highways and Byways in Bast Anglia. By William A. Dutt. With Illustrations by Joseph Pennell. (Macmillan and Co. Os.) —Mr. Dutt begins by...

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OUR HOUSE OF COMMONS.

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Our House of Commons. By Alfred Kinnear. (W. Blackwood and Sons. 3s. 6d.)—A great deal both of entertainment and of information is peeked into this book, although its author is...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

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[L' ruler this heading we notice such Books of the week as hare not been • reserved for review in other forms.] Practical Licensing Reform. By the Hon. Sidney Peel. (Methuen and...

The Age of Decision, By P. N. Waggett. (Longmans and

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Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—This is a volume of practical discourses addressed to undergraduates at Cambridge, and is in many ways an excel- lent piece of work. The preacher does his best...

HUMANITY AND UNIVERSAL FEDERATION.

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The Ideal of Humanity and L'sri - :ersal Federation. By K C. F. Krause. (T. and T. Clark, Edinburgh. 5s.)—Professor Hastie, of Glasgow University, who edits this contribution to...

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The Banner of St. George. By M. Bramston. (Duckworth and

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Co. 3s. 6d.)—This is a story of the Peasants' Revolt in the second half of the fourteenth century, the great popular move- ment which we commonly connect with the name of Wat...

John Knox. By Marion Harland. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 5s.)

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—This is one of a series of "Literary Hearthstones," a connection in which one would hardly expect to find the name of John Knox. It may be taken as certain that he would have...

development throughout the world. Here we have a sketch of

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our history in what we may call our non-Imperial period. A chapter is given to "Progress at Home," by which liberty was assured. Then we have " Growth of Sea-Power" treated at a...

The True History of the War, Parts (Harrison and Sons.

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Gd. per part)—Messrs. Harrison reprint here the official despatches from the seat of war, with the schedules annexed, &c. Part I. begins with Sir George 1 7Thite's despatch...

Dundee Advertiser Centenary Memoir. By A. H. Millar. (J. Leng

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and Co., Dundee.)—The Dundee Advertiser appeared for the first time on January 16th, 1801. Three newspapers that still exist had preceded it (the Aberdeen Journal, Glasgow...

A New History of the Book of Common. Prayer. By

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Francis Procter, M.A. Revised and Rewritten by Walter Howard Frere, M.A. (Macmillan and Co. 12s. 6d.)--Mr. Frere's title-page is curious. This is "A New History" "on the Basis...

The Day of the Sun. By Conrad Noel. (D. Nutt.

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is.)— There are some interesting things in this monograph on the weekly holiday. It is curious, for instance, to see how rigorism reappears in the most dissimilar places, how...

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Navy EniTroxs.—In the "Warwick Edition of George Eliot's Works" (W.

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Blackwood and Sons) Adam Bede (the first volume of the series) (2s. net). It runs to eight hundred and twenty-six pages, which have been compressed into a volume of easily por-...

The Staffordshire Potter. By Harold Owen. (Grant Richards. 6s.)—This is

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a book which we will describe rather than criticise. Mr. Owen, whose interest in the subject is hereditary, gives a narrative of the long struggle between employers and workmen...