SCYTHIANS AND GREEKS.* THE weighty volume before us sprang from a modest yet truly philanthropic intent. About 1889 Russia adopted the natural, but to the rest of Europe...

LONDON: NOVEMBER 15th, 1913.

Dedicated to the 71,965 electors of New South Wales who voted Yes' on June 3rd, 1S98," is, as the preface states, a "record by an eyewitness of the making of the Commonwealth...

just over• ten years since the present writer contributed an article to the Edinburgh Review, in which he stated that it was still "too early to believe that the problem of...

"C'ETAIT notre politique, et que voulez-vous ? " one of Napoleon's entourage once remarked to a British officer who bad been on duty at Longwood. They were discussing in later...

large and so varied that one cannot hope to do more than give the merest suggestion of their scope within the limits of a review. The work contains a selection from the...

PROFESSOR SAINTSB1JRY reveals two qualities which are peculiarly welcome in historical criticism. His keen enjoy- ment of his subject is very infectious, and his analyses are...

of Marie Antoinette's dressmaker, the woman, a genius in her own way, who was responsible for the marvellous fashions which adorned Paris for nearly twenty years, from 1770 till...

SOME ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS.* PunLicAmron in large illustrated editions may generally be taken as a proof of the general affection for an author's work and a gauge of public taste...

PROFESSOR RAWLINSON has gone from Cambridge to Poona. in order to initiate young Marathas at the Deccan College in the delights and the discipline of English literature, and...

THERE is a great deal of solid reading in Miss Steedman's When They were Children (I), and, unlike most of the new books for young people, it is not illustrated. It may perhaps...

THERE seems to be this year an excellent crop of boys' story- books, full of adventure, and generally containing some sort of instruction of a period or place which will be...

THAT indefatigable purveyor of ample fare for young people, the Religious Tract Society, has sent us its usual hundred- weight or so of Annuals. How far these volumes follow a...

W. Hattersley. (R.T.S., 2s.)-Many books are written about Uganda for older readers ; they are concerned with the religion, the anthropology, the economic development, or the...

WE all know Mrs. Sherwood's The Fairchild Family by name, and now that it has been so well edited by Lady Strachey, its old popularity will be revived. For as she says in her...

A NEW Edward Lear's A.B.C. (Henry Frowde and Hodder and Stoughton, ls. net) is sure of a warm welcome from every- body. This book, we are told in the preface, " was done by Lear...

6s. net.)—Mr. Falls has made a pleasant book out of the stories which form the basis of Offenbach's Conies d'iroffmann. He has written an introduction in praise of Hoffmann's...

look no further than the cover will take this for a child's book, but it is an arrangement of varying thoughts on such allegorical beings as " Wayward Fancy," "Experience," "The...

the Landon and County Printing Works, Drury Lane, W.C. ; and Published by JOHN BAKER for the Spectator" (Limited), at their Office, No. 1 Wellington Street, in the Precinct of...

the Lord Mayor's banquet at the Guildhall on Monday. Mr. Asquith first surveyed events in the Balkans. It was an easy task to blame the Great Powers because they had been...

T HE news about Mexico on Friday morning afforded a vague hope that events might shape themselves more favourably for the United States than has seemed probable for many days....

without resorting to the ultimate step of invasion, by blockading the ports. When General Huerta has been "eliminated" the United States will try to find a President acceptable...

Saturday, when Herr Brandt, the Berlin agent of the famous firm of Krupp, was sentenced to four months' imprisonment for bribery, and Herr Eccius, the director in charge of the...

Britain was naturally anxious to see a stable central govern- ment existing in China. As for Mexico, the commercial interests of that country called for vigilant care. There...

case.

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division, when Sir Stanley Buckmaster, the new Solicitor- General, was returned by a slightly increased majority, the figures being: Sir S. 0. Buckmaster (Liberal) 4,730. Lord...

communication to the press that the Government, "taking into consideration the fact that the jury acquitted Mr. James Larkin on two counts of the indictment, including that for...

at Norwich on Thursday night, the most interesting point being that when the Unionists came into power they would try to appoint an impartial committee to consider whether it...

to set up in place of casual arbitration and umpiring an official judicial, statutory body, and to entrust to the new Land Ceesmisisioners the power of adjudicating upon the...

gow, both declared last Saturday, are most encouraging to Unionists. At Reading, where the average majority of the last ten contested elections has been 300 and no Liberal has...

possible for the present or likely in the immediate future. On the contrary the unbroken development of the German navy and the building by the Powers all over the world of...

Church in Ireland, having quarrelled with Mr. Larkin, were anxious to see him punished and put out of the way. Again, the Nationalist Party, partly because it always yields,...

Thursday night Mr. Birrell assumed full responsibility for sanctioning the prosecution, and explicitly declared that " we did not release Ale Larkin till the moment came when,...

on Saturday, where he addressed two meetings on urban land reform. After some preliminary gibes at his critics, Mr. Lloyd George deprecated strongly any distinction being drawn...

article entitled "The Creation of a Deer Park." It describes how Lord Pirrie, following in the steps of William the Conqueror, has created a kind of New Forest in Surrey by...

faction to stockbrokers and stock-jobbers and to the City generally. It is to be hoped, however, that rules will now be made which will prevent further scandals of this kind. We...

in extent. Four farms stood in the way of its creation, one of 500 acres. Here the tenant was given £850 to clear out. He took some of the labourers with him. The others are...

does not more often perturb the Liberal game- preserver. We fear the explanation is one which will sound rather cynical. The Liberal millionaire has not the slightest fear of...

to point out with pride that he has not closed the right of way through the park, though its users have been warned that their dogs must always be on the lead. The great game...

last week, in his ninety-first year, removes the last of the great Victorian men of science. In early life he exchanged the hum- drum career of a land surveyor and architect for...

decision they had come to in regard to the introduction on the Stock Exchange of the shares of the Marconi Wireless Company of America in April, 1912. It is to the following...

of his action, and it would be most unfair to pass a final judgment until he has been heard. It is difficult, however, to see how his defence can in any way differ from that put...

2nd. Consols (2t) were on Friday 72-1—Friday week 72l.

THE MEXICAN IMBROGLIO. P HILOSOPHERS and historians have often pointed out the ironic tendeucy in the decrees of fate. Especially does this irony seem dominant in the case of...

O N Tuesday Mr. Lloyd George, at a dinner given at the National Liberal Club to the members of the Land Inquiry Committee, launched into a general eulogy of that body and its...

T HE acquittal of the Jew Beiliss, who was tried at Kieff on the ancient charge of " ritual murder," will help to bring to an end, we trust, the monstrous traditional slander...

T HERE is a constant succession of books and pamphlets upon industrial unrest, but few of those recently published are more interesting or more illuminating than a small...

TF the present age is a happy one, the fact is not reflected in the literature of the hour. The excellent thought has occurred to Mr. Thomas Burke of putting together "an...

that some performers in music-halls have taken too long a step beyond the line of decency, has proposed that it should be illegal for any alterations to be introduced into a...

I N Sir Robert Hunter the country has lost a friend and a servant whose place it will be almost impossible to fill. Both in his public and his private capacities his life's work...

[To THE EDITOR 07 TRW' SPECTATOR"] SIR, — While ink and eloquence are pouring upon the deer forests almost as heavily as their annual rainfall, the most persistent speakers on...

[To TRR EDITOR 07 TIM " SPRCTATOR."] SIR,—You will doubtless recollect that cheerful if some- what puzzled-beaded local French mayor whose report to the Convention, a short...

THE SECRET OF SUCCESS. [To TIER EDITOR 07 TER "SPRCT•TOR...] SIR. — Just now, when the sound of victory is still in our ears, it might be well if our English and Scottish...

[TO tar EDITOR OF TDB " SPECTATOILl Sin,—Last week your correspondent " Homo" drew attention to the need of some free time of leisure for agricultural labourers. It may...

[To TUB EDITOR or TUB " SPECTATOR."1 should be very glad if, with the open-mindedness with which the Spectator always deals with questions of public interest, you would explain...

[To TUB EDITOR OF no "SpecTrros."] SIR,—I have read your remarks in your last week's article entitled " The State as Land Speculator." It is no doubt hard for the townsman to...

SIR,—With reference to the latter part of the article on "The State as Land Speculator" in your issue of Saturday last, I venture to suggest that anyone who will behave himself...

[To TBS EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTATOR."] S114,—Mr. John Belcher, the leader of the architectural profession in England, is dead, and the daily journals have told us little—in many...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE “SPECTATOR.") SIR, — On Tuesday, November 4th, the Portuguese Minister in Madrid, Senbor Jose de Relvas, in a series of statements to the special...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR, — I am now able to give precise information on this question. The profit derived from the Dutch Government in Java from its opium...

[To THE EDITOR Or THY . SPECTATOR. ” ) Six., — In the concluding notice of Lord Lyons, Lord Cromer states that the early defeats of the Federal armies " were largely due to the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your correspondent last week, "H. W. H.," does not seem to have grasped the point of my former letter to you. I never suggested that...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."1 Sia,—May I direct the attention of your readers to the international dinner in support of the principle of propor- tional representation, to...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Undoubtedly there is a superficial resemblance between Mr. Troup's scheme and that of my standard cottage. The vital differences are :...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR...1 Sin,—In reading the Life of Lord Lyons by Lord Newton, I find on page 74, regarding the embarkation of Slidell and Mason, that he says : "...

[To THE EDITOR or TRY "SPECTATOR. "' Sin,—On p. 689 of the Supplement to your issue of Nov. let last, as a specimen of the humour of the sixteenth-century evicted peasant, are...

ITO THE EDITOR or THE " STECTATOR.'l SIR,—The Prime Minister certainly hit the nail on the head in his warning at the recent meeting in the Queen's Hall lest those who...

question, " Plagiarism or Coincidence ?" raised by a correspondent in your issue of November 8th, I beg to state that the stanza he quotes (the third) of "The Farewell," by...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR...1 SIR, —If your correspondent will turn to Hogg's Jacobite Relies he will find the ballad, "It was a' for our rightfu King," in every respect...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—In your issue of November 1st there is a quotation from Thackeray that " We have God's own word (in His com- mandments) that He made the...

[To THE EDITOR or THE •• SPECTATOL'I Sin,—In the Spectator for October 18th you devote an editorial to my essay on "The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent," which appeared in...

has touched on Scott's delightful lyric, " A Weary Lot is Thine, Fair Maid." Can you find room for a concluding stanza, written, I think, by an Irishwoman P- " The lady heard,...

correspondent I know of no more beautiful and appropriate form of grace before meat than the second verse of the 103rd Psalm in the Authorized Version. " Bless the Lord, 0 my...

" Grace Before Meat," he tells of a pleasant school-fellow, C. V. L., who, when importuned for a grace, used to inquire, "Is there no clergyman here P " significantly adding"...

Sin,—A common Oxford form is, or was, as follows : Before, " Benedictus benedicat" ; after, " Benedict° bene-

forms of "Grace before Meat" for M. Smith to choose from: (1) "May God supply the wants of others and give us grateful hearts "; (2) " For these and all His mercies God's Holy...

following form of grace before meat as brief and reverent ?—" Bless, 0 Lord God, thews Thy gifts to our use and us to Thy service."—I am, Sir, Oxford. Oxford. [We have been...

[To THY EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR. 1 SIR,—My ambition as a critic is always to talk the plainest sense in the simplest English. I am therefore greatly troubled by your...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Your correspondent desiring forms of grace before meat stipulates that they shall be in English. He may not object to be reminded of...

SIR,—What grace can be more brief, pithy, and reverent than that of the German peasant :— "Komm, Herr Jean, sei unser Gast, Und segne was Du uns bescheret hast." ("Come, Lord...

Smith, asks for a pithy yet reverent "grace before meat." I wonder if she knows the following quaint verse of Herrick's, which I venture to send " Here, a little child, I...

SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION.* s • THE finest of.modern tales of heroism in exploration has been produced in a manner worthy of the men concerned in it and ,thedeeds they performed....

CUDLAWE. [The village of Ondlawe, in Sussex, was given to Earl Roger Montgomery after the Battle of Bastings . It formerly belonged to Earl Godwin. It was submerged. Ville sea...

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...

to be and has given us here a capital example of the art. it is written to the scale of the importance of the various events in Florence Nightingale's life, and never wanders...

Lox]) CLARENDON'S life covers the first seventy years of the last century. Some of the most important events with which he was connected during the close of his career are fresh...

London : Hodder and Stou g hton. • A History of the Boyd &Arty of Arta. By Sir Henry Truman Wood. L60.1 London: JOTue HurraY. [154 net] MR. HICHENS has written an account of...

• The Holy Land. By Hobert Hi c hen s. London : Hodder and Stou g hton. • A History of the Boyd &Arty of Arta. By Sir Henry Truman Wood. MosT Londoners are familiar with the...

WE have all heard of Bohemia, and some of us may have fancied that in former days we knew something of that land of romance. Whether it exists in any sense now, even as the...

whom is a "practical clock maker," tell us that "this book was written, primarily, to supplement another work, English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century (already reviewed in...

Miss Jane Barlow represents truly or not the life and thought of that present-day Ireland where party politics seem more at home than humour, her Irish tales are already too...

BEHIND THE BEYOND.* Ma. STEPHEN LEACOCK, who presides over the department of Political Economy in McGill University, Montreal, indemnifies himself for his official allegiance...

6s.)—Mrs. Mann's new book appears at first sight to be comedy of the lightest order : it is really a tragedy, the tragedy of hereditary weakness in dealing with money matters,...

Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—The socialistic political and economic theories of the late Dr. Wallace find vigorous expr es- sion in these pages. Perhaps, however, the most interesting part...

[Budsr this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Trans-Atlantic Historical Solidarity. By Charles Francis Adams....

Major O'Brien. (Alston Rivers. 6s.)—There is no particular interest or subtlety in this Indian story. It has, indeed, much in common with a Lyceum melodrama, including the...

and Co. 42s. net.)—Great variety of subject-matter distinguishes as usual the new volume of essays issued by the British School at Rome. The questions discussed in the several...

By Charles G. Harper. (Methuen and Co. 7e. 6d.. net.)—This work is now completed by the issue of the fourth volume, which deals with the part of Scotland lying south of Glasgow...

Nash. 10s. 6d. net.)—The history of that most anomalous institution, the Impress System, has been written vivaciously, if not very seriously, by Mr. Hutchinson. Although...

Exeter. Is. 6d. net.)—Acrostics have gone nude- servedly out of fashion, and we can promise anyone who takes up Lord Iddesleigh's collection some enjoyable moments. The little...