THE FIRST EARL OF LYTTON.* " WHO now reads Bolingbroke P " wrote the ingenious Mr. Burke; and a similar question might be asked concerning "Owen Meredith," whose very name and...

LONDON: DECEMBER 1st, 1906.

of the island, initiated improvements in the ports, and proposed after the Napoleonic genuflexions of M. Masson, who has to make Porto Ferrajo a free harbour to serve as a place...

and interesting book without realising that he is an enthusiast; and to be an enthusiast in the most difficult of all arts, the art of giving, is calculated to disarm the...

Sin Triomes GORDON, whose books, The Roof of the World and Persia Revisited, have rightly caused him to be regarded as an authority on subjects with which the public is not...

FORGOTTEN TALES.* "OF Long Ago," indeed, Mr. Lucas ! You cannot call "Peter Parley" long ago. The world has, it is true, mostly forgotten him; but some of us have a vivid...

THis is an excellent specimen of that very agreeable hybrid, the gift-book-novel. It has in perfection all the characteristics of its kind. There is a heroine, and a heroine's...

and Sons, Os.), takes us back to the sixteenth century. The story begins with a spirited fight between the Half Moon' and some Barbary rovers. The slave market, the experiences...

(Cornish Brothers, Birmingham. Os.- net.)—Most of Miss Dixon's stories are fairy-stories, or, to put the case more generally, have an element of the preternatural in them....

a selection of more or less familiar stories of the romantic order. We notice among them "The Lady of the Guillotine," by Washington Irving ; "The Tapestried Chamber," by Sir...

and Sons. 3s. 6d.)—This is a story of the tenth century, when the Norse seafarers were making havoc far and wide about the Northern seas. It opens with a very spirited scene...

Congo. By Herbert Strang. (Hodder and Stoughton. 5s.)—Mr. Strang, as we have already taken an opportunity of saying, is an excellent teller of stories. And Samba, which, as the...

and Co. 3s. 6d.)—This story is distinctly above the average of its class. The scene opens in New Zealand, and introduces the hero in his thirteenth year, a lad of the woods,...

drama of this very spirited story is, it may be said, in two acts. The first act is gold-digging and gold-washing, with a scientific process, on which we must decline to...

5s.)—This is a tale of the days of Queen Elizabeth, when the Spanish Main was the great field of adventure for English youth. Two lads take service under one of the great seamen...

and the publishers of Chatterbox take a legitimate pride in the long and successful career of their magazine. It first appeared about forty years ago under the editorship of the...

and B. Chambers. 3s. 6d.)—Here we have nine short stories. some with and some without a plot, as it may be put. On the whole, we prefer the latter. The charming little sketch,...

a work on a considerable scale, and is of a serious purpose. If we include it among the class of books now under review, it is because we think it likely to be of real use as...

Chambers. 5s.)—Miss Margaret Power, alias "Peg," is sent by her misguided parents to learn manners and deportment in a French school,—not a favourable specimen of its class, as...

.E. Marshall (T. C. and E. C. Jack, 7s. 6d. net), is a handsome-looking book, both without and within, and in every way, we should say, well adapted for its purpose. The...

for "best stories" for boys, girls, and children, and the three which were successful in the competition are published by Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton. The titles are For the...

H. R. Curlewis). (Ward, Lock, and Co. 3s. 6d.)—" Ethel Turner" continues in this volume, and to very good purpose, her series of Australian stories. The humorous part of the...

THE LIFE OF SIR GEORGE WILLIAMS. The Life of Sir George Williams. By J. C. Hodder Williams, (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)-We have no right to be surprised at the beginnings of a...

and Co., is. 6d. and 2s. net), is a "Simple Explanation of the Apostles' Creed," an attractive-looking book, with illustrations of the usual type, and some appropriate hymns,...

(Methuen and Co. 6s.)-Here we have "the story of St. Francis [of Assisi] told for children." Of course, as the title indicates, the singular dealings of the saint with the...

have a story of adventure, the scene of action being what is called the educational ladder. Bob Merchant wins a scholarship at " Meridale Road Higher Grade Board School," which...

had an even worse lot. He was a petted puppy, when he was stolen by some ill-disposed fellow who had a grudge against his master, and turned loose in a Canadian city. Ho* he...

Darton, and Co. 3s. net.)-We are always glad to have what we may call cosmopolitan selections of fairy-tales and folk-lore, such as we have in Mr. Andrew Lang's many coloured...

and Son. Cis.)-This is a handsome, and even stately, volume, of folio size, with full-page coloured illustrations, and others in black-and-white, all of excellent quality. Mist;...

With the Cossacks. By Francis McCullagh. (Eveleigh Nash. Is. 6d. net.)—Since the Manchurian War the Cossack has been rather under a cloud. As a cavalry soldier he was almost...

A Treatise on the Geology of Armenia. By Felix Oswald. (Published by the Author at Iona, Beeston, Notts. .21 Is. net.)— Dr. Oswald's admirable treatise on the geology of Armenia...

Wild Life in East Anglia. By William A. DIAL With 16 Illustrations in Colour by F. Southgate, R.B.L. (Methuen and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—There is a great deal of interesting matter...

In the series "Makers of Canada" (T. C. and E. C. Jack ; by subscription, 20 vols. at 21s. net each) we have Count Prontenae, by William Dawson Le Sneur, and Bishop Laval, by...

The Printers, Stationers, and Bookbinders of Westminster and London, 1470 - 1535. By E. Gordon Duff, MA. (Cambridge University Press. 5s. net.)—Mr. Duff tells us all that there...

Griffith John : the Story of Fifty Years in China. By IL Wardlaw Thompson. (R.T.S. 7s. 6d. net.)—It may be easy to write the biography of a man who yet lives, but it is not easy...

Confessions of an Anarchist. By W. C. Hart. (E. Grant Richards. 2s. 6d. net.)—To have "spent some ten years among Anarchists," to have been "for some time secretary to two...

Alfred Jones. (Bemrose and Sons. 21s. net.)—The remoteness of this North Wales diocese did not save it from the hands of the spoilers. There is but one example of pre -...

2s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Cornford prefaces his book with one of Ruskin's most extravagant utterances to the effect that all good things come out of war, all evil things out of peace....

This volume consists of three parts. Mr. Theodore M. Davis, who originated the enterprise, tells the previous history of the tomb, and how it came to be examined again ; M....

net) we have Naval Battles in the Century, by Rear - Admiral Francis J. Higginson, U.S.N. The " century " is the nineteenth ; consequently the epoch-making battle of Tsushima...

6s.)—The sub-title of this volume reads thus : "A Book of Chapters and Extracts Taken from the Writer's Novels by his Daughter Kate (Mrs. Perugini)." The first extract is from...

Merton College, Oxford. By H. J. White, M.A. (J. N. Dent and Co. 2s. net.)—Mr. White vindicates the claim of Merton to be the oldest College in Oxford. That there were earlier...

A German Pompadour : being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine von Gravenitz, Landhofineisterin of Wirtemberg. A Narrative of the Eighteenth Century. By Marie Hay. (A. Con-...

Cranmer- Byng and Dr. S. A. Kapadia (John Murray, is. net), we have Sa`cli's Scroll of Wisdom, with Introduction by Arthur N. Wollaston. It does not seem quite certain that the...

the Law, Privileges, Proceedings, and Usage of Parliament, by Sir Thomas Erskine May, Edited by T. Lonsdale Webster (Books I.-II.) and William Edward Grey (Book III.) (W. Clowes...

and 5 Dean Street, Holborn, W.C.: and Published by JOHN BAKER for the " srscvrroa" (Limited) at their Office, No. 1 Wellington Street, in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in...

in the French Chamber. They reach the figure of £152,973,734, the highest in Western Europe, and if new taxes are not imposed there must be a deficit during the coming year. M....

T HE long-expected debate on the administration of the Congo Free State began in the Belgian Chamber on Wednesday. The Premier, Count de Smet de Naeyer, opened the discussion...

Dernburg, the new Director of the Colonial Department, and delivered a speech upon German colonial policy. For two thousand years Germany had been a colonising Power, and she...

to Panama. He reached Colon on November 14th, crossed the Isthmus next day, inspected the Canal, and then visited Panama City, and was received publicly by the President. An...

promise on the Education Bill. In the Upper House on Thursday Lord Lansdowne announced the modifications of the Lords' amendments which he was prepared to advise. These were in...

case.

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issue, we agree with the Daily Chronicle in thinking that a settlement may be secured by the adoption of the compromise which that journal has repeatedly urged,—viz., the...

on Wednesday by Lord Monkswell, who called attention to the Report of Sir Edward Ward's Committee on the civil employ- ment of ex-soldiers and sailors, and asked what steps were...

the Junior Constitutional Club on Wednesday, and spoke at length on the educational crisis. Dealing with the Lords' amendments to the Education Bill, he maintained that, so far...

was chiefly noteworthy for the new clause proposed on Tuesday by Lord Robert Cecil, and the declaration made by Mr. Balfour in supporting it. The object of the clause is to...

length with the Report stage in the Lords prevents us from giving in detail any account of the deputations against the Bill which waited this week on the Archbishop of...

mandatory form, and to the abolition of any distinction between urban and rural areas. They, however, struck out the bare majority, and substituted a majority of two-thirds,...

showed no very great clerical bias during Thursday's debate, and that their efforts to meet the criticisms that have been made on the original amendments were perfectly genuine....

Office on Friday week to the Committee recently appointed to advise the Army Council on all matters affecting the spiritual and moral welfare of the Army. Mr. Haldane admitted...

Lords gave their decision in the earldom of Norfolk case, and decided unanimously that Lord Mowbray had not made out his claim. The earldom was created in 1135 for Hugh de...

been appointed to examine the operation of- shipping " rings " and the system of deferred rebates, and to inquire whether such operation has caused injury to Imperial trade, and...

Empire League the Postmaster-General has made a decidedly reassuring statement with regard to newspaper postal rates to Canada. It will be remembered that in the Times of...

has resulted in the return of Mr. Sherwell, the Liberal candidate, by a majority of 340 over the Labour candidate, and of 918 over the Unionist. Last January the majority over...

Chamberlain's policy, and of his declarations that the only way to save us from ruin is to adopt the policy of Tariff Reform, published on Wednesday an article entitled "The...

Oct. 19th. Consols (2i) were on Friday 86i—on Friday week 861.

THE HOUSE OF LORDS AND THE EDUCATION BILL. W E do not think that any very special importance is to be attached to Mr. Balfour 's speech at the Junior Constitutional Club. It...

informal address with which the Austrian Emperor on Sunday last followed his speech to the Delegations of the Dual Monarchy contained matter of grave importance. It included a...

issued the Report of its Agricultural Committee. The general result of the Report is to represent British agriculture as in an exceedingly unfavourable position. The ordinary...

(IN Monday there appeared in the Times a letter to kJ the Speaker of the House of Commons signed by sixteen electors of the Thanet Division. This letter called attention to...

had a short but eventful life. It has been the object of an unusual amount of popular dislike. Traders and buyers at once detected in it the inseparable characteristic of all...

"A SYSTEM cannot both claim to teach all the world and erect an impenetrable partition-wall between itself and the educated portion of that world." These are the words of a...

T TIE Celtic cross unveiled last Saturday as a memorial to Thomas Moore in the Wiltshire churchyard where he is buried is typical of the kind of reputation which that poet has...

rir FIE sport of snipe-shooting fully answers the great test of the true field sport,—its capability of exciting intense enthusiasm. There are some forms of shooting about which...

THE STATE OF THE NAVY. HI.—ADMIRALTY METHODS. [TO TH8 EurroR THU " SP NOTA.TOR." Sin, — Admiralty methods, as well as Admiralty organisation, have been greatly changed during...

THE SMALL LANDHOLDERS (SCOTLAND) BILL. [TO THZ EDITOR Of THY "SCRCTATOR...j SIB,—The underlying, and at present unnoticed, difficulty in regard to the Small Landholders...

SIR,—In his second letter on "The State of the Navy" in last Saturday's Spectator your contributor " Civis " attacks Admiralty organisation in a very loose and, I think,...

second point of Sir N. Bowden. Smith's letter in last week's Spectator—viz. : "The enor- mous increase in fighting power at reduced cost produced by the withdrawal of small...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] Sin,—Admiral Sir N. Bowden-Smith in his letter of last week charges me with taking "exception to the fact that when Sir John Fisher came to...

LTO TIIR EDITOR OR TDB " SPEOTATOR.".1 SIR,—A8 a reply to Mr. Talbot-Orosbie's letter in the Spectator of November 10th would really be a criticism of the views of that journal...

[To Tea BDITOIL Or T II EC " SPILCRATOR."1 Sin,—In the very interesting article printed under the above beading in the Spectator of November 24th you express some doubt as to...

rm TILE EDITOR OF THE " Se Sal'ATOR:11 SIR,—Your correspondent "B. S." in the Spectator of November 17th calls attention to what might have occurred in the steel trade under a...

[To TUT EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] Sin,—The Spectator can engage in no better work than the systematic defence of the State, the family, and the individual against the creeping...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." . 1 remember hearing from my dear friend North Pinder, now, alas ! gone over to the majority, a curious anecdote of Mr. Auberon Herbert. He...

insert in your issue of November 24th a letter from Mr. Tallack referring in contemptuous terms to John Bright's sisters. The time is opportune. The grave has only this month...

[To Tilt EDITOR OF TOR " $psenToR."1 snt,—Mr. Ward Muir's pathetic verse under the above title in last week's Spectator recalls, especially by its last two lines, an inscription...

[To TAR rams or Tax "SPECTATOR'] SIB,—Mr. Lloyd-George is reported to have described the House of lords the other day as an assemblage of "dead- heads." The word I know, and I...

of the Spectator, I note a letter describing an interview with John Bright. So closely follow- ing the death of his dearly loved sister, Priscilla McLaren, it seems...

"A Bishop there was of Natal, Who had a Zulu for a pal ; Said the Zulu: 'Look here, Sure this Pentateuch's queer.' Which converted my Lord of Natal." There was another rhyme...

COMPOSERS AND PUBLISHERS. THE complimentary banquet to Mr. T. P. O'Connor, M.P., for his services in connexion with the passing of the Musical Copyright Bill gave Sir Charles...

"A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM "— A SUGGESTION. THERE in the midst he stands,—the little Child Whom all men love but not all understand, While in divided camps, unreconciled,...

MR. SIDNEY LEE ON SHAKESPEARE.* SHAKESPEARE is a standing dish at the literary board ; and to this no one can take objection. Apart from the splendid flavour of the fare, the...

manners and from very different points of view, sing the praise of pilgrimage& Both writers have the aboriginal love of wandering and * (1) The Mirror of the Sea: Memories and...

Gallery in the spring of 1905 cannot fail to remember Mr. Sargent's fine portrait of Sir Frank Swettenham, and will recall how it dominated the entire Exhibition, bow it drew...

(Kurd and Blackett. 6s.)—Mr. Oliver Onions has given his readers good measure pressed down and running over in his new book. He is not content with the first story, "Back o' the...

6s.)—Very few authors after writing a successful story of school life can resist the temptation to carry the process one step farther. The results of these attempts are too well...

the writer who, after achieving success in some special field of fiction, endeavours to break ground in a fresh direction. Yet the disparity in quality between Mr. Pickthall's...

old friend, and we feel certain, when we open it, that we shall find the accustomed supply of entertaining and profitable reading. We not sure, however, that the "serial story,"...

L. Simon. Vol. I. (Wyman and Son. 55. net.)—Mr. Simon has collected here a vast mass of facts. Perhaps it would have been better—if we may venture to say so much to an...

(John Murray. 6s. net.)—" This in army nursing, you know ; it is quite different from civilian"; so. spoke the Reserve Sister to Sister X, when she was introduced to the College...

tender tins heading we 'notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Italy of the Italians. By Helen Zimmern. (Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons....

Co., is. and 2s.), is a valuable little volume of the mullion, in parvo order which we are accustomed to receive from its publishers. It contains a history of the English stage...

Dent and Co. 6s.)—This is a story of the Renaissance, and no less a figure than that of Michael Angelo is introduced among the personages. Miss Whiting reproduces the life and...

by J. K. Benson. (C. Arthur Pearson. 5s.)—This is a dictionary of sport beginning with "Acetylene Lamp "—a toy lamp, it seemi,_ may be constructed ; we are not told whether...

and Son. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Irving divides his book almost equally between the two classes of subjects. It should be said, however,- that two of his four dramatic essays are...

the Name of the Bodleian, and other Essays, by Augustine Birre (Elliot Stock, 2s. 6d. net).—A new edition of Dr. Pusey's Minor Prophets (James Nisbet and Co., 2s. 6d. net per...