14 NOVEMBER 1908

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The anxiously expected debate in the Reichstag on the Kaiser's

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interview opened on Tuesday. Herr Bassermann, who moved an interpellation on behalf of the National Liberals, spoke of the "boundless astonishment and deep sorrow" excited by...

The financial results of the Government's decision cannot but be

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exceedingly grave; but, grave as they are, we accept them as inevitable. To let the Fleet fall below the standard of safety because of the expense would in the end prove the...

Dr. Wiemer, on behalf of the Radical People's Party, followed

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on similar lines. The German nation, be said, was angered because its prestige had suffered severely. The remedy his party sought was in a genuinely Constitutional system of...

The best foreign news of the week is the settlement

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of the Casablanca incident. The deadlock caused by Germany's insisting on a one-sided preliminary expression of regret by France lasted till Tuesday morning, when the French...

NEWS OF THE WEEK

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• • B Y far the most important event of the week is the statement as to the standard of British naval strength made by the Prime Minister on Thursday night. Mr. Lee asked...

After short speeches from the Conservative spokesmen, Prince Billow replied

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in what we do not hesitate to call a very extraordinary speech. Without impugning the authen- ticity of the interview, Prince Billow said he must "presume" that all the details...

Germany's surrender of an untenable position is officially attributed to

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the Report of the French Commissary of Police at Casablanca, which revealed radical differences on questions of fact from the German account ; but it is hardly too much to say...

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

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case.

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We cannot find space to give a detailed account of

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the reception of the debate abroad, but we may mention that the French papers have shown great dignity and restraint in their comments, and have evinced no desire to make...

Mr. Asquith made an important speech on foreign policy at

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the Lord Mayor's banqUet on Monday night. Referring first to the decline in trade, he was optimistic enough to think that, "if the peace of the world were maintained...

Prince Billow then went on to describe the efforts which

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the Emperor had made during two decades, often in very difficult circumstances, to bring about friendly relations between Germany and Great Britain. The purity of his motives...

The debate was resumed on Wednesday. The most unsparing criticisms

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of the Emperor came from Herr Hausmann, leader of the South German People's Party, and Herr Heine, the Socialist Deputy. The former noted that not a single Deputy had expressed...

It was announced on Thursday that, after consultation with Sir

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Eldon Gorst, the Khedive had appointed Boutros Pasha to succeed Mustapha Pasha Fehmi as Prime Minister of Egypt, and that the British Government had expressed approval of the...

Herr Heine, in an audacious speech, dwelt on the danger

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of the servile admiration paid to the Emperor, thanks to whom national unity had been brought about again, " but it was the unity of indignation." Prince Billow, whose position...

Mr. Asquith insisted that this principle alone would govern the

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whole policy of the Government, for it was an all- important principle. Subject to its observance, they would do all they could to bring about a peaceful settlement of the...

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Last Sunday evening a daring attempt was made at Calcutta

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to assassinate Sir Andrew Fraser, the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal. Sir Andrew Fraser was about to take the chair at a lecture by Professor Burton, of Chicago, when a student...

The Birthday Honours List, published on Monday, was chiefly conspicuous

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for the absence of new peerages. Mr. J. A. Pease, the Chief Liberal Whip, Mr. Herbert Samuel, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Home Office—and one of the Ministerial...

On Tuesday Mr. Asquith received in his room at the

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House of Commons a large deputation, representative of all sides in politics, organised by the Proportional Representation Association, and introduced by Lord Courtney of...

We are glad to record that Mr. Asquith, in a

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very able speech, met the views of the deputation most sympathetically, and, without committing himself to any particular plan, virtually agreed that an inquiry ought to and...

A Reuter's telegram from Pretoria published in the papers of

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last Saturday summarises some curious revelations in the Volksatem. Several of the messages telegraphed from Europe by Dr. Leyds before the South African War are reproduced, and...

On Friday week a Session of surprises in the Parliament

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of the Australian Commonwealth culminated in the announce- ment by Mr. Fisher in the House of Representatives that the Labour Members withdrew their support from Mr. Deakin. The...

There is not much to report in the work of

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Parlia- ment during the week ; but on Thursday night something of a storm was raised by Mr. Henderson, the bead of the Labour Party, moving the adjournment of the House in order...

Bank Rate, 21 per cent., changed from 3 per cent.

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May 28th. Consuls (2) were ou Friday 84k—on Friday week 841.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE DANGER-SPOT IN THE " KAISER CRISIS." T HERE is a point of danger in the internal crisis caused in Germany by the Emperor's interview which has not received the attention it...

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EDUCATION.—THE PROSPECTS OF A SETTLEMENT.

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T "question whether there shall be a settlement of the education controversy still hangs in the balance, but on the whole the signs seem favourable. At any rate, we have reached...

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THE HOUSE OF LORDS AND THE LICENSING BILL.

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M R. ASQUITH has drawn up and explained to the House of Commons his time-table for the discussion of the Licensing Bill in the Report stage. No one denies that, if such things...

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AMERICA AND HER EX-PRESIDENTS.

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O NE of the charms of a simple society has always been the ease with which great public servants return to obscurity when their duties are ended. Cincinnatus at the plough has...

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THE LESSONS OF THE COTTON DISPUTE. T HE settlement of the

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Lancashire cotton dispute has naturally been welcomed by everybody, with the possible exception of a few business men who stood to gain by a further reduction in the output of...

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THE " LATITUDE-HEN."

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ir CAN come into no company of late, but I find the chief _L discourse to be about a certain new sect of men called Latitude-men. . . . The name of Latitude-men is daily...

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TOWERED CITIES.

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T HE " skyscrapers " of New York have already begun te outlive a good deal of their disrepute, and indeed to command the credit that belongs to all strong and original building....

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MONSTER PIKE.

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I N the weedy fastnesses of some great Irish lough, deep- bellied, insatiate, urged by ogreish hungers, lies the monster pike of dreaming fishermen. It is a savage sweep of...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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THE SOCIAL PROBLEM. [TO TIRE EDITOR OF TRE "SPECTATOR. - ] Srn,—The speech of Mr. Lloyd George on property and class relations which has just reached us, the speaker being a...

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[To THE EDITOR OP TIM "Sescuroa."] SIR, —May I point out

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an error of fact regarding the road from Balaclava to the British camp in your comment ou the letter of Mr. Martineau in your issue of the 7th inst.? Instead of being easy to...

LORD RAGLAN.

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[To THE EDITOR OP TRIO " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I be allowed another word in reply to your rejoinder to my letter of last week ? First, as to Lord Raglan's alleged neglect in...

LAND VALUES TAXATION.

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[To THE EDITOR OP TIM SPRCTATOR."1 SIR,—In an article entitled " Land Values Taxation " which appears in the Spectator of October 31st the following passage occurs :— "It...

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THE POLITICAL WISDOM OF BURKE.

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[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.' SIR,—Allow me to thank you for your remarks on my letter to the Spectator of last week, but to add, however, that I do not conceive it to...

[TO TAR EDITOR Or VTR "SPECTATOR."]

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SIR,—I give below some more examples of Burke's language which justify the position you have taken up. Here is an instance of Burke's attempting to smother evidence, given by...

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[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Your severe criticism on

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Bnrke's character• (Spectator, November• 7th) reminds me of a strange scene at the close of Warren Hastings's trial which was told me in the " fifties " by a Mr. Forbes, who...

IS GREAT BRITAIN LIVING ON HER CAPITAL ?

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[TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — In your issue of November 7th your correspondent " A. B." draws attention to the fact that income from foreign investments has,...

THE OVER-REPRESENTATION OF IRELAND.

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[To THE EDITOR Or THE " EPECTATOB."] Sin,—It is a pity that in this twentieth century one cannot write what one believes about the Ireland of the eighteenth century without...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "' SIR,—Is not your view

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of the character of Burke corroborated by the following lines, written by the junior• counsel for• the defence of Warren Hastings, afterwards Lord Chief Justice Dallas ?...

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Lord Morley when

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dealing out acts of lenity in India has much misread his Burke, or much misunderstood the condition of things in that assemblage of countries. "Nobody shall persuade me," wrote...

[To THE EDITOR OP THIS "SPECTATOR "] SIR, — It was with the

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profoundest amazement that I read Professor Herford's verbose letter in your last week's number, a letter which I might have passed over in contemptuous silence had it not been...

SEDITION IN INDIA.

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[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR"] SIR,—Mr. Irwin's scheme in your issue of November 7th for cutting at the roots of Indian treason by limiting, through a Training College,...

THE " RIGHT TO WORK."

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...1 SIR,—In your issue of November 7th Mr. J. Edward Francis raises a most important question. There would, I think, be very little...

THE GERMAN EMPEROR AND BRITAIN. [To THE EDITOR OF sae

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" SFECTATOlt."1 SIR;I do not wish to prolong this discussion unduly. But in view of the editorial comment upon my letter of last week, inviting me to "take note of what is...

THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

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[To THE EDITOR or THZ "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—Some time ago you were good enough to offer some advice to working men on Socialism. I have as yet seen no response. May I...

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A LITERARY CENSORSHIP.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SFECTATOR."] Sin, — Many men of very divergent views are agreed that, in view of certain tendencies of modern literature, a censorship of books is...

"SALOME."

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[TO TRI EDITOR Or Tab " sewn-con."] Six,—I observe in the Spectator of October 31st the following editorial comment upon the letter of Mr. F. G. Montagu- Powell :—"It is...

SOCIALISM AND SAVAGERY.

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[TO TER Boma ov vas " Sevorkvos. " ] Snt,—The unique position held by the Spictator secures for it readers of all shades of opinion, but for sheer divergence of views your...

COMPULSORY ARBITRATION IN NEW ZEALAND. [To TIM EDITOR OF TSR

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"SPECTATOR. " ] Sra,—Yon were good enough to publish an extract from the letter of a leading New Zealander referring to this subject in your impression of May 23rd. No...

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"ROMAN CONFESSORS."

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The Spectator of October 10th has an article on Mr. Kipling's speech to the students of the Middlesex Hospital. In that article the...

PROTESTANT AND ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSIONARIES.

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[To ins EDITOR OF THE PECTATOR."1 Sra,—In his letter in last week's issue referring to your review of " From Ruwenzori to the Congo," your correspondent " R. B." asks for an...

PERSONAL SERVICE AMONG LONDON POOR.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SrR,—The unemployment with which we are threatened during the coming winter has stirred in hundreds of people a painful anxiety and a...

THE ASCENT OF MOUNT MoKINLEY.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEC'rATOR."] SIR, — In your excellent review of Dr. Frederick A. Cook's "To the Top of the Continent" in the Spectator of October 17th I find this...

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BOOKS.

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WHISTLER.* MR. AND MRS. PENNELL have written a remarkably interesting Life of Whistler. Their qualifications for the task were numerous. Not only were they intimately...

POETRY.

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MY COMRADE. Snit does not come on summer days, Or on those nights when moonlight fills The garden with a glimmering haze ; And in the time of daffodils Far, far apart from me...

NOTICE.—When Articles or "Correspondence" 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...

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LADS' CLUBS.• Ma. C. E. B. RUSSELL, part author of

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this book, is already well known to those who have studied the training, by voluntary effort, of boys of the working classes. As honorary secretary of the Heyrod Street Lads'...

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A MOUNTAINEERING CLASSIC.*

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IF mountaineers were polled as to the chief classic in the litera- ture of their sport, The Playground of Europe would probably stand highest. It is the only mountaineering-...

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THE POTTERS OF TADCASTER.*

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IN all ages the growth of the "new men" is a fascinating- study, whether they be the merchant aristocracy of the later- Plantagenets, or the Tudor nobility enriched by Abbey...

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CLIMATE.*

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As there is no more comm* topic of conversation than the weather, a ,book on climate ought to be interesting. And apart from the technical passages in Mr. Ward's work, there is...

THE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE.*

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THE private affairs of all who were related by blood or marriage to Napoleon have been so pitilessly ransacked of late years that it is no reproach to Mr. Sergeant's volumes if...

THE HONEY.BEE.t IT is certain not only that we know

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a great deal more about the ways and manners of the honey-bee than it was possible • Climate. By B. de Conroy Ward. London : John Murray. [6s. net.] The Lore of the...

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NOVELS.

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A POOR MAN'S HOUSE.* TROUGH Mr. Reynolds's book is in reality the raw material for fiction rather than fiction proper, the form .in which he has cast this transcript from life...

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Amabel Channice. By A. D. Sedgwick. (Edward Arnold. 6s.)—This is

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a story of maternal love, as opposed to the usual tales of love in the more ordinary sense of the word. The heroine, being married to a man rather older than herself in early...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

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[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as haw not boon reserved for review in other forms.] The Navy League Annual. Edited by Alan H. Burgoyne. (The Navy League....

Salthaven. By W. W. Jacobs. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—Here we

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have another of Mr. Jacobs's delightful stories about seafaring men, their wives, the ladies whom they seek for wives or who seek them, and their belongings generally. These...

Naval Supremacy : Who? By A. M. Laubeuf. (Siegle, Hill.

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and Co. ls.)—This is an excellent summary by an able French. man of the naval situation of the day. 14f. Laubeuf has the gift of his countrymen for expressing ideas and facts...

READABLB NOVELS.—The Conventionalists. By Robert Hugh Benson. (John Long. 6s.)—A

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polemical tract, in the shape of fiction, in which the social sketches are very clever. But have , we not seen more than once the Colonial Bishop who thought he "could do more...

What We Know about Jesus. By Charles F. Dole, D.D.

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(Chicago Open Court Publishing Company.)—If this book sets forth the " Christianity of To-day "—this is the title of the series to which this volume belongs—we are quite...

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Dr. $. Blount Cheshire, Bishop of North Carolina, publishes a

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new edition of The Country Parson of George Herbert (Thomas Whittaker, New York, 3s. net). He has supplied an introduction, in which he urges the advantage of making a practical...

Pearls and Parasites. By Arthur E. Shipley. (John Murray. 7s.

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6d. net.)—Six of these essays appeared originally in the Quarterly, and many readers will, we are sure, be glad to see them again in this collection. They deal with very...

Now Enrnows. — History of the United Stales of America. By Henry

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William Eisen. Illustrations Selected and Edited by Charles Henry Hart. 5 vols. (Macmillan and Co. 31s. 6d. net.) —A reprint of the edition of 1905, and carried down to the...

The Declaration of Indulgence, 1672. By Frank Bate, M.A. (A.

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Constable and Co. 6s. net.)—This " Study in the Rise of Organised Dissent" is, in respect of the industry which has been expended on it and the research of which it is the...

The taw Relating to Ecclesiastical Discipline over the Clergy of

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the Church of England. By Lewys L. Yeatman. (Sweet and Maxwell. 5s.)—The average layman will read this book with interest, and, we venture to say, with some surprise. He will...

Two anthologies of English verse may be mentioned together. First

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we put the more diversified, The Call of the Homeland, Selected and Arranged by R. P. Scott, LL.D., and Bath. T. Wallas, M.A., Books I. and II. (Blackio and Son, is. 6d. net...

A 'Guide to the Exhibition Illustrating Greek and Roman Life.

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(British Museum. Is. 6d.)—The " Exhibition " itself is a new departure. As Mr. Cecil Smith explains in his preface to this volume, "an attempt has been made to bring together...