15 APRIL 1905

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The great German demonstration as to Morocco seems to

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have produced no result, M. Delcasse remaining quiet and declining to open negotiations with the German Foreign Office. His steadiness greatly irritates official circles in...

We suppose we shall know when the trials are over

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whether there was any seriousness in the " plot " for the overthrow of the Republic with which the French Courts are about to deal; but at present it suggests rather an inferior...

The unanimity of the Russian " intellectuals " in desiring

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a revolution bas received a remarkable illustration from the action of a Congress of barristers in St. Petersburg. Repre- sentatives attended from all parts of the Empire, and...

NEWS OF THE WEEK

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I NTEREST in the Far Eastern War has been suddenly revived by the arrival of Admiral Rozhdestvensky with his entire fleet in the neighbourhood of Singapore. He passed that port...

The Duke of Devonshire presided at the dinner given by

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the Unionist Free-Trade Club at the Hotel Cecil on Monday night, and in proposing the toast of the evening, "Success to the Cause of Free-trade," delivered an important speech...

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

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case.

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On Monday the Chancellor of the Exchequer made his Budget

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statement in a shorter and clearer speech than this occasion usually receives. He had to tell a more hopeful tale than he had expected. A year ago he estimated the Revenue at...

Of this surplus, the Chancellor proposed to allocate £1,000,000 to

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increase the Sinking Fund, which would then stand at £28,000,000, and the balance to take off the addi- tional twopence per pound on tea which was. imposed last year. This would...

The debate on the proposed Colonial Conference in the Lords

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on Tuesday was opened by Lord Balfour of Burleigh, who succeeded in eliciting an important statement from Lord Lansdowne which undoubtedly throws new light on the situation....

In the House of Commons on Thursday Mr. Murphy raised

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the question of Irish University education, and insisted that no solution of the problem would be successful which did not give Irish Roman Catholics facilities for University...

The Home-rule Motion designed to " draw " Sir Henry

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Campbell-Bannerman was introduced by Mr. Tuff, the Member for Rochester, in the Commons on Wednesday night, in a speech almost entirely composed of extracts from the utterances...

That is both good sense and justice; but unfortunately Mr.

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Balfour thought it quite a sufficient explanation of why he had done nothing to carry out his policy to say that his views were "personal," and not acceptable to his colleagues...

The Duke of Devonshire went on to point out that

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while the Unionist Free-traders might be driven in self-defence to measures of retaliation and reprisals, be did not think it their duty, even if it were in their power, to...

He next turned to the year which has just begun.

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The following table shows the details of estimated receipts on the basis of existing expenditure :— Customs £35,600,000 Excise ... 30,200,000 Death-duties 13,000,000 Stamps...

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Here is the passage in question, which we will not

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spoil by condensation :- " By what authority does Mr. Chamberlain pose as interpreter of Canadian sentiment and ambition ? What has he seen of Canada, and what does he know of...

We dwelt a few weeks ago on the splendid restraint

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and self-control with which the Colonies had declined Mr. Cham- berlain's lures to hustle and harry the Mother-country into believing that they would regard a refusal to alter...

The much-talked-of meeting of the Tariff Reform group in the

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House of Commons took place under the presidency of Mr. Chamberlain on Thursday evening. Those present were pledged to secrecy, but an official communique was issued on Friday...

Mr. Frederick Greenwood, the founder and first editor of the

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Pall Mall Gazette and St. James's Gazette, was entertained at a complimentary banquet at the Trocadero on Saturday last. Mr. Morley, who presided over a remarkable gathering...

Sir Frederick Pollock at the Colonial Institute on Tuesday sketched

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a scheme for an Advisory Council for the Empire. The easiest way of establishing such a body would be in the shape of a Committee of the Privy Council, its province being...

Mr. Chamberlain's speech at the annual meeting of the Liberal

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Union Club on Wednesday was noticeable in more ways than one. His reference to Lord Lansdowne's diplo- matic achievements was both generous and well deserved; but it was a...

Meantime we cannot see that anything is altered in the

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Chamberlain policy. The names have been changed, but the things remain just what they were before. The ingenious tradesman, when he finds that he cannot sell certain goods,...

Bank Rate, 21. per cent.

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Consols (2i per cent.) were on Friday 90i.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE AND THE UNIONIST FREE-TRADERS. W ITH the general principles laid down by the Duke of Devonshire, and with his statement of the aims and aspirations of...

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THE BUDGET.

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T HE Budget produced by Mr. Austen Chamberlain on Monday is a sensible one, and disinterested besides. The classes which support the present Government were longing for a...

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LOCAL NEEDS AND LOCAL LAWS.

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T HE Bishop of Hereford's little Bill of which we spoke last week came to an undeserved end before what we had to say in its behalf had appeared. We hope that a still smaller...

OBSTINACY OR FIRMNESS?

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W E have no sympathy with Russia under her present system of administration. That a great, and in many respects admirable, white people, professing and really reverencing the...

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CHAMBERLAINISM : THE LAST PHASE. the essential principle any more

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than a one-shilling duty ; that if it did we must not be pedantic, as the Duke of Devonshire observes, about the application of a principle ; and that, if we again mitigate our...

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VICARIOUS PUNISHMENT AND REWARD. T HE earthquake in India, and the

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less widespread, though scarcely less appalling, disaster due to the collapse of a great reservoir in Madrid, call attention to a question of daily life concerning which the...

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I T was some years ago that the Daily Telegraph, seeking

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to propound something agreeably stimulating by way of controversy to tide over the " silly season," asked its readers the question, " Is Marriage a Failure ? " The question, for...

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T HE great increase of wild-fowl already seen in England is

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due, in the first place, to the Protection Acts, which prevent the shooting of the birds when nesting ; and secondly, to the recent fashion of breeding artificially enormous...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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THE EXCAVATIONS IN THE FORUM AND LATIN CIVILISATION. [To THE EDITOR Or TER "SPECTATOR. "] Sit,—On returning to the Forum I cannot but speak of what I had occasion to observe...

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SIR,—In your issue of April 8th in a letter on

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the above your correspondent ignores the fact that every officer and man in my brigade (three batteries) volunteered for service in or out of the country, and actually served...

FOR WHAT PURPOSE DO THE VOLUNTEERS EXIST ?

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[TO rims EDITOR UP THE "SPECTATOR"] SIB, —May I be allowed to add a mite of experience of an original Volunteer in a good City regiment? At that time there were two schools...

UNIONIST FREE-TRADERS.

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[TO THE EDITOR or TRIO "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Is it not a little difficult to ask for Liberal votes for Unionist Free-traders, if we put party interests in the front of the...

SIB.,—I have been very much interested in the letters of

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" Volunteer Field Officer," especially that in your issue of April 8th giving the numbers of Volunteers who patriotically offered their services hi South Africa in 1900. I have...

letter which you printed in your last week's issue ?

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The in- correct returns are as follows :— I. III. IT. Strength Volunteered Went with Went with Corps. on for South Vol. Service other Nov. lst. 1899. Africa. Company....

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THE COLONIES AND THE TARIFF REFORM LEAGUE.

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[To THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—The following is an extract from the Morning Post of April 8th, reporting a meeting of the Tariff Reform League, with Lord Ridley as...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "]

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STR,—As one among the many wellwishers of your vigorous campaign to uphold the united cause of Free-trade and true Conservatism, it has appeared to me unfortunate that there...

THE COLONIAL CONFERENCE.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:'] SIR, —The Lord Chancellor is reported as saying in Tuesday's debate in the Lords on the subject of the Colonial Conference : " Supposing a...

A STATE TRUSTEE.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIB, — When reading the interesting and able article in the Spectator of April 1st on this subject, I notice with surprise that no allusion...

CANON LYTTELTON'S OPPORTUNITY.

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[To THE EDITOR Or TIM "Snore:role:1 SIR,—I may be able to relieve your mind on the subject of the Master of Haileybury's attitude towards Latin verses. Whilst he may hold that...

SPIRITUAL EXCELLENCE AND CRITICAL INTELLIGENCE.

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(TO TIM EDITOR Or TUE 'SPECTATOR:1 SIR, — Your correspondent " E. A. A." in the Spectator of April 1st does not apparently consider that St. Peter's expres- sion, " us, who did...

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[To mum EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."]

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Sin,—John Schorne, rector of this parish at the end of the thirteenth century, was not so famous as Thomas it Becket, but pilgrims came almost as numerously to his shrine from...

have been much interested in reading the article in the

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Spectator of April 8th under the above heading. My father (Mr. Paget, of Ruddington Grange, Notts) solved the question for himself in a very practical way more than fifty years...

[To TIM EDITOR OP TDB "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—An earneht appeal has

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been made to the public by Lord Rosebery and the other officials of the University of London to avert a disaster to the advancement of women which would be brought about should...

[To TER EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR: 8 ] SIR, —The story referred to

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by Mr. Lionel Tollemache in your issue of April 8th was thus told by my father, the late Lord Cottesloe. Dr. Goodall, formerly Head-Master of Eton, but then a. Canon of Windsor,...

[To VIZ EDITOR OP THH " SrzerkTOR. - 1

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Sin,—In reference to your article of last week, may I point out that the proposal to exempt lads of twelve from attend- ance at the elementary day-schools, subject to certain...

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BIRD-KINDNESS.

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[To THE EDITOR OR TOR "SPECTATOR "] SIR, — Noticing an extremely interesting letter in the Spectator of January 28th, I would beg to give you an account of bird-kindness...

POE TRY.

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THE VOICE VOICE OF THE GWRYD. [It Is through the valley of the Gwryd (pronounced "Gooryd ") that the new Snowdouiau Railway is to run.] , O FOR the voice of the Gwryd, Rippling...

ANIMAL "PASSIVE RESISTERS."

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[To TILE EDITOR OP TIM "SPECTATOR "] SIR, — In reference to your article in the Spectator of March 25th, the following instance of an animal "passive resister " may be of...

BOOKS.

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THE EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE.* SIR CHARLES ELIOT has found a good use for his leisure since his retirement, for out of the fulness of his knowledge he has written one of the...

CHEAP COTTAGES EXHIBITION FUND.

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THE amount of subscriptions and fees received up to April 13th for the Cheap Cottages Exhibition is £1,108, besides £420 promised to the Prize Fund, making a total of £1,628....

[TO TUN EDITOR OP TITS "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Do wood-lice curl up

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(see Spectator for March 25th) ? Miss Pbcebe Allen, the well-known author of " Garden Pests," Kays " No." " Pill-millipedes " as they are popularly called, Glomeridae as known...

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MR. RIDER FIAGOARD'S delightful volume is the record of the

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year's work done in his Eastern Counties gardens at Ditchingham and Kesaingland in 1903. At the outset he tells us that he has still much to learn, and so places himself in...

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IT would be interesting enough to make a study of

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the students of Montaigne, and of the various effects of his mind upon theirs, from Shakespeare and Pascal downwards to Charles Lamb, Sainte-Beuve, Renan, Edward Fitzgerald, and...

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TOM MOORE.* IN one of the later entries in his

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Diary—in 1843, when he was sixty-four—Moore describes a meeting with Miss Berry at one of her famous soirees. He writes :- " She reverted in her odd way to the early days of...

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NOVELS.

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TALES OF CHINA AND THE CHINESE.* IT is surely no mere coincidence, but an evidence of a growing interest in the Far East, that three independent efforts to interpret the mind...

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Peter's Pedigree. By Dorothea Conyers. (E. Arnold. 6s.)— Mrs. Conyers

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knows her audience, and is sure of her popularity. Peter Reidy is the son of an Irish peasant who, having made a, great fortune in England, goes back to his native district and...

The Bed Cravat. By Alfred Tresidder Sheppard. (Macmillan and Co.

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6s.)—Mr. Sheppard's name is new to us, and if this be a first book, it is a notable performance. It is an historical romance, in the old-fashioned full-bodied style, of the...

The Manitoba's. By Henry H. Bashford. (John Lane. 6s.)— The

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old-fashioned type of novel in which the various characters were formally introduced to the reader has completely passed away, and the personalities of hero and heroine, to say...

Helen of Troy, N.Y. By Wilfred S. Jackson. (John Lane.

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6s.) —One of the characters most appositely remarks in the fourth chapter of this novel, "All Bedlam's loose to-night," and this sentence gives the keynote to Mr. Jackson's...

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C URRENT LITERATURE.

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A NEW MANUAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW. International Law. Part I., Peace. By John Westlake, K.C., LL.D. (Cambridge University Press. 9s. net.)—We heartily welcome the first...

The History of the Society of Apothecaries. By C. K.

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B. Barrett, M.A. (Elliot Stock. £1 ls. net.)—The "apothecary" of Eliza- bethan literature was a tolerated practitioner, not conforming to the highest standards of the medical...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

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[Under this heading we notice smolt Books of the look ess have not boos reserved for review in other forme.) Church and State in England. By W. H. Abraham, D.D. (Longmams and...

The Teaching of Latin. By W. H. S. Jones, M.A.

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(Blackie and Son. ls. net.)—Mr. Jones gives some very valuable hints. The truth is that the results of the teaching of Latin, so far as they are visible—say to an examiner—are...

Robert Browning. By C. H. Herford. (W. Blackwood and Sons.

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2s. 6d.)—In this volume, one of the series of " Modern English Writers," Mr. Herford is quite equal to himself. More one can hardly say. We are not wholly in agreement with his...

The Oxford English Dictionary. (Clarendon Press. 2s. 6d.)— This part

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carries us on a little further,—from "ee " to "er" in R," or Vol. VIII. Within this range we have 1,496 words, of which the greater part have a Latin or French origin. It is...

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Two volumes in " Bell's Miniature Series of Great Writers

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" (G. Bell and Sons, is. and 2s. each) may be mentioned together. These are Dr. Johnson, by John Dennis, and Dickens, by W. Teignmouth Shore. Both are very readable and useful...

The Labour - Day. By M. Maltman Barrie. (G. Vickers. ls.)—Mr. Barrie

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moves with a very certain step in regions which to us, we must own, are obscure. There are, he tells us, a million adult males in the United Kingdom who live in "volun- tary and...

An Angler's Hours. By H. T. Sheringham. (Macmillan and Co.

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6s. net.)—Many people write, and many more wish to write, about angling, as no one, it is probable, knows better than Mr. Sheringham. (The editor of a sporting magazine once...

Naw EDITIONB.—Worship Song, with Tunes. By W. Garrett Herder. (Novello

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and Co. 58. net.)—Some hymns, found for various reasons unserviceable, have been omitted from this edition ; some new compositions have been added ; but the novel feature of the...

The City of London Directory (W. H. and L. Collingridge,

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12s. 6d.) appears for the thirty - fifth time. The information about City matters, the Corporation, the Companies, the Schools, &c., is, as usual, very full. There is a...

Poisonous Plants of AU Countries. By A. Bernhard Smith. (J.

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Wright, Bristol. 2s. 6d. net.)—The further description of the book given on the title-page is : " with the Active, Chemical Principles which they contain, and the Toxic Symptoms...

The Civil Service and the Patronage. By Carl Russell Fish,

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Ph.D. (Longmans and Co. 10s. 6d.)—This volume deals with a subject which primarily concerns the citizens of the United States, but has also no inconsiderable interest for...

Our Sudan : its Pyramids and Progress. By John Ward,

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(John Murray. 21s. net.)—Mr. Ward modestly says that we may skip his letterpress and content ourselves with looking at the photographs. Of these there is, it is true, a quite...