A COMMONPLACE-BOOK.* " CommonmacE-Boon" is very often a misnomer. We persuade our youth, frequently for reasons which they cannot then appreciate, "to find and make a note of,"...

LONDON: NOVEMBER 21st, 1908.

toRoyal estate is that the luckless infant is trained out of all faculty for any other profession. George I. of England, the son of the Elector Ernest Augustus and his...

we begin at the beginning of Dr. Galton's Memories, we find ourselves plunged, so to speak, into the midst of the subject with which his name is specially connected. He tells us...

THE author begins his treatise with a definition and a dis- tinction which suggest a very important line of criticism. Co-operation, he tells us, is a way of conducting...

MR. STRANG has done well in giving such honour as his pen can confer to the memory of John Benbow. A great seaman—that is evident enough from the impression which, without...

HEROINES OF MISSIONARY ADVENTURE.* THE woman missionary is largely a development of modern Christianity, though from time to time there have been instances of this kind of...

include this in "Gift-Books," though it might not improperly take its place among "Novels," and very high up among them too. But it has a distinctly didactic character, a thing...

puts the scene of her story in Australia, as is her custom. This time it is in a seaside suburb, and we read, not without an ill-natured satisfaction, that there, too, people...

a hundred and seventy years or so from 1090 onwards with the ',undertakings of which Mr. Gilliat tells us the history in this --very attractive volume. There is no need to...

net.)—Mr. Strang has got together a dis- tinguished company of writers and artists to help him in his new venture. The Annual is a well-appointed volume of nearly two hundred...

- and Co. 5s.)—Mr. Hyrat is to be congratulated both on his -subject and the excellent account to which he has turned it. He has had fine material to draw from, and as wild...

Ba. 6d. net.)---This is a quite pretty and attractive book, and the little people ought to find both pleasure and profit in reading it. On the whole, they will take from it...

Elsie Finne- ntore Buckley. With Introduction by Arthur Sidgwick. (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co. 6s.)—Miss Buckley comes with the commendation expressed by laudari a laudato...

LL.D. With Illustrations from J. M. W. Turner, G. F. Watts, and others. (T. Nelson and Sons. 6s. net.)—This is a very handsome volume, giving with pen and pencil a succession of...

This a "Tale of the Plague Year." Elias Hodgson conies to seek his fortune in London, and at a most unlucky time. Not only are the "wells of charity dried up" by the prevailing...

B. Macy. (T. Seeley Clarke and Co. 6s. and 7s. 6d.)—This is the Bible story from the Creation down to the death of Joseph, told in the simplest language, for the teaching of...

"Story of 1187" we bear bow the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem came to an end. It is a subject which lends itself to picturesque narrative. With the great Saladin on the one side,...

D. C. Lucas. (R.T.S. is. 6d.)—This is interesting,—a book about dogs is bound to be that. If we have a fault to find, it is that it is really more about "humans" than dogs. It...

Rev. J. Sinclair Stevenson. (R.T.S. Is. net.)—Here we have told in appropriately simple language the story of St. Patrick of Columbkille, the "Dove of the Churches," of St....

a quite readable story, though we find ourselves in a somewhat unfamiliar world. Matthew Reece, for instance, who would be equally at home in a prison and a lunatic asylum, does...

HALF-HOURS WITH THE HIGHWAYMEN. Half - Hours with the Highwaymen. By Charles G. Harper.--, 2 vols. (Chapman and Hall. 428. net.)—Mr. Harper, having told us much about the...

Reciter Series" and of "The Boy's Own Reciter Series" (4 Bouverie Street). The titles of the first are The Cry of the Children, and other Popular Recitations, A Ballad of Brave...

Hope. (A. and C. Black. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Hope, who knows well how to put what he has to say, begins with England and takes us from there over the whole world,—to Europe, to the...

and Hall. 10s. 6d. net.)—Here we have a collection of between eight and nine hundred illustrations of Dickens, "printed from the original woodblocks engraved for the Household...

book which will delight all dwellers in the country—and in town too— if they are of the open-eyed sort. There are few, we take it, who will not learn something from it. How few...

the blind, the editors of the Weekly Summary, whose office is at Shere, Surrey, not only provide them with news from the outer world, but make special provision for their...

Plagues and Pleasures of Life in Bengal. By Lieutenant - Colonel D. D. Cunningham, C.I.E., F.R.S. (John Murray. 12s. net.)—It is well to point out to those who are unacquainted...

Coins and How to Know Them. By Gertrude Burford Rawlings. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—" This book," to quote a sentence from the preface, "offers concise epitomes of the coinages of...

of a Regiment of the Line. By Colonel lkt. Jacson. (Hutchinson and Co. 6s. net.)—Colonel Season tells us what the 1st Battalion of the Devonshire Regiment did in the South...

The Londons' of the British Pleat. By Edward Fraser. (John Lane. 6s.)—The story of the 'Londons ' of the Fleet throws some interesting sidelights on the dark pages of naval...

A Plant Book for Schools: being an Easy Introduction to the Study of Plant Life. By Otto V. Darbishire, B.A. (Oxon.), Ph.D. (Kiel). Containing 108 Illustrations from Photographs...

Nature Studies by Night and Day. By F. C. Snell. (T. Fisher Unwin. 5s.)—The naturalist-photographer who publishes a volume of slender natural history studies, illustrated with...

Some British Birds. Edited by Edward Thomas. With 12 Illus- trations in Colour. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)—These seventeen essays on birds and bird life, which are now...

Tart of the "Historical Series for Bible Students" which Pro- fessor C. F. Kent and Mr. Frank K. Sanders are conducting, and accordingly it has the characteristics of a...

The First English Conquest of Canada : with Some Account of the Earliest Settlements in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. By Henry Kirke, M.A., B.C.L., F.R.G.S. Second Edition,...

Italica : Studies in Italian Life and Letters. By William Roscoe Thayer. (A. Constable and Co. 6s. net.)—In Italica, to speak widely, we have the impressions made by modern...

Close to Nature's Heart. By William McConachie, B.D. With Frontispiece. (W. Blackwood and Sons. 3s. 6d. net.)—The writer of these sketches is minister of Lauder, and the Nature...

contains the conclusions at which, after many years of study, Dr. Sutherland has arrived. He sees in the recidivists two types,—the habitual criminal and the petty delinquent....

The Kingdom in. India. By Jacob Chamberlain. (Fleming H. Revell Company. 5s. net.)—Jacob Chamberlain, a native of New England, born in 1835, went out as a missionary to India in...

A Short History of the English Bar. By Bernard W. Kelly. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co. 28. 6d.)—Mr. Kelly writes in a lively way, tells some good stories, and gives us some...

The Book of Kings. By E. A. Wallis Budge, Litt.D. 2 vols. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co. 6s. net per vol.)—These two volumes, the first containing the Egyptian Dynasties L-XIX.,...

6d. net.) —This is a very agreeable narrative of how the writer and a companion visited the Roman Wall, and saw what it has to show from Chollerford, where for the purposes of...

Putizanis Sons. 7s. 641.)—This is a readable book, with plenty of anecdotes and other good things, and written in an excellent spirit. Mr. Robinson is what the Romans called...

The Lace Book. By N. Hudson Moore. (Hodder and Stoughton. 8s. 6d. net.)—There are many curious and interesting things about lace, and the people who made and wore it, in this...

5s. net.)—Mr. Hutton knows Italy well, and this book, dealing, as it does, with a very favourite resort of English travellers and abode of English residents, will be found a...

J. Richards, D.D. (Beinrose and Sons. 2s. ed. net.)—The native Christians of Malabar are a highly interesting community, with a history which is well worth study. They are...

Holborn, WX. ; and Published- by JOHN BAKER for the " Sercriros" (linuted) at their Office, No. 1 Wellington Street, in the Precinct ol the Savoy, Strand, in the County of...

such was the official announcement made on Sunday at Peking ; but there had been some rumours that he really died earlier in the week. He declined, as the Times correspondent...

W E note with very great regret that efforts are already being made, efforts which unfortunately have the encouragement of the Westminster Gazette, to whittle away the meaning...

chief foreign events of the week. Here we will oniy say that the situation in the Near East seems on the whole improved, though there are still grounds for grave anxiety. In...

that at a meeting of the Imperial Maritime League held in the City under the presidency of Lord Ampthill on Thursday after- noon, a resolution was passed urging his Majesty's...

to note that Sir Edward Grey, speaking at Scarborough on Thursday night, emphasised Mr. Asquith's recent speech at the Guildhall banquet, and declared that it expressed the mind...

friendly and unfriendly Powers will carry us. If we •cut out the United States and Japan because they ale friendly, how can we possibly resist cutting out the Navy of France P...

ease.

LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

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paper M. Chaumet's gloomy Report on the French Navy. It points out that, adopting the German basis of twenty years for the life of a battleship, France has only twelve...

yesterday week. In his reply to the interpellations of the Centre Party and Socialists, Herr Bethmann-Hollweg, the Imperial Secretary of State for the Interior, contended that...

on the Report stage of the Licensing Bill. We do not propose, however, to attempt to deal with these guillotine- haunted debates. The real interest has already been transferred...

that the Constitutionalists in Teheran had just held their first meeting since the coup d'etat. Three thousand Persian Cossacks were present, but they did not intimidate the...

many difficulties. It ensured the restoration of the rightful succession, and saved the country from another regency by the late Empress-Dowager. As things have turned out,...

banquet at Windsor Castle on Tuesday evening. In the course of his speech of welcome King Edward remarked :— "Our two countries have always had so much in common in regard to...

the archbishopric of 'York was announced on Monday. In view of Dr. Lang's youth—he is only forty-four—and the lack of precedent for promoting a suffragan to an archbishopric,...

statement as to the nature of the compromise which is to be found in the political notes in Friday's Times. The chief points on which it is understood that an agreement has been...

the auspices of the Free-Trade League, Lord Cromer dealt with the questions of Tariff Reform and unemploy- ment. "He was absolutely sure that Tariff Reform offered no solution...

been marked by another sensational incident. On Friday week Mr. Francis Heney, the chief prosecutor of the "grafters," was shot in the head and dangerously wounded by a man...

on the whole subject. We must, however, point out the great courage which the Archbishop of Canterbury has shown in acting as he has acted. He has brought upon himself the...

of the Government to power, but with a considerably reduced majority. The Government Whip, Mr. Kidd, was heavily defeated, the Minister for Lands lost his seat—the first time...

in answer to a question from Mr. Akers-Douglas, announced that the proposals which the Government were about to submit to the House on the subject of education would not take...

Trade, which was appinted in August, 1907, issued its first annual Report. Its purpose is to supplement the Report of the Royal Commission on London Traffic published in 1905....

May 28th. Consols (2i) were on Friday 84I—on Friday week 84i.

THE FINANCIAL PROBLEM. w - BITING last summer (on August 1st) on the next Budget, we pointed out that if the Chancellor of the Exchequer was to pay his way he would have to...

WHATEVER may be the final result of recent events V V on the German Constitution, it must be admitted 'that the Emperor has behaved with good sense and good feeling. It must...

T HEprogramme proposed by the Young Turk Com- mittee for a European Conference on the Near Eastern question, and published in the Times of Thursday, is on the whole a very...

Forbidden City of Peking has been for a moment dispelled by the presence of death. On Saturday last the Emperor Kwan g - Hsu, twelfth of his dynasty, after .thirty-siz troubled...

M R. ALFRED MARSHALL'S Memorandum, on the Fiscal Policy of International Trade has the merit of giving unqualified pleasure to nobody. We call this a merit in reference to the...

T _TOW near ought one to keep to the letter of the law, . that letter to which it is fatal to cling, and hardly less fatal to forget ? As Englishmen, we are all secretly proud...

I S not Lord William Ceeil too sensitive ? We only ask to know; as Rosa Dartle says. Others may differ from us, but it deitainly - seems to us that byperseiisitiveness Is the...

I N a year when winter comes so quietly to the woods as it has come during the last few weeks, November can show how ill she deserves the name of the dullest and dreariest of...

ON THE SUSSEX DOWNS, SEPTEMBER 1/T11. [To THR EDITOR 0? TEN " SPECTATOR." J Si. - Our directions ran as follows :—" Sonthover High Street to road to Brighton by the mills. Turns...

Sin,—Last Saturday's deliveries brought me the enclosed circular on the education crisis, signed by Lord Hugh Cecil, the Dean of Canterbury, and Lord Halifax, and the Spectator....

THE EDUCATION COMPROMISE. • [To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.'J Sre,-01(1-standing ties of friendship and obligation towards the conductors, past and present, of the...

following impossible settlement :— (1) One type of school throughout England; only teaching in accordance with the tenets of the Church of England to be given, supported by the...

on the above subject appearing in your issue of November 14th you are pleased to refer to those who are not enamoured with what you designate as the Archbishop of Canterbury's...

manifesto published in the Times from the extremists of the High Church party and Dean Wace to the clergy, it becomee a serious question for the moderate lay folk in the English...

[To THE EDITOR OF THY "SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—I hope you will forgive me when I say that your con- troversial methods are rather "slim." I wrote you a very long letter containing not...

SIE,—While heartily agreeing with your article on the above subject in last week's issue, something more is needed. There must be a very large number of clergy and laity who...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPRCTAT011...] SIR,—Your interesting article in last week's issue on the cotton dispute contains a suggestion of much practical value in regard to the...

SIR,—Mr. Hernmerde in his letter in last week's Spectator on your article on "Land Values Taxation" quotes a particular case in Wales intended to illustrate the difficulty...

fTo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOE."] Si,—The urgent need for improvement in our roads is everywhere admitted; but so long as our public highways are owned and administered in...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TIIR "SPROTATOR..1 Sin,—In your issue of November 14th "Lancastrian" wants workmen to do more work. Quite so. He is the managing director of a large...

[TO TOR EDITOR OF TUX "SPROVITOII:1 STE,—It has become very much the fashion in these days to bemoan the decline and ruin of our agriculture, as if farming in England were an...

[To THE Eorroa OF THE "SPECTATOR.] SIR,—A letter signed " Lancastrian " appears in your issue of November 14th in which the writer asserts that the Friendly Society of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.] BIR,—I am sorry that I failed to make my point clear to " J. B. F." (Spectator, November 14th). I had no intention of discussing the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—In a recent issue of the Spectator you printed a most excellent article on the preservation of ancient monuments and historic places,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The materials of Crosby Hall, stored by the courtesy of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China for re-erection upon some...

[To THE EDITOR OF TulS "SP ROTATOR."] STa,—In your most interesting article on "The Lessons of the Cotton Dispute" in last week's Spectator you assume that the masters agree...

[TO THE EDITOR OF SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The story of the parrot on p. 711 of the Spectator of November 7th reminds me of an incident told me by the late Canon Courtney, of Bovey...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your issue of August 29th there appeared an article on the English ortolan or wheatear. The following incident may be of interest to...

[TO TRW EDITOR OF TIIR "SPECTATOR.") STE,—In the Spectator of August 29th the author of "Milton and the Brute Creation" remarks : "The hungry sheep of Lycidas' are of course...

rro TB& EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIB,—In a recent review of "A Little Land and a Living" you say that "you have yet to hear of any one who makes a good living exclusively...

FLOREAT ETONA1 (November 18th, 1908.—His Majesty opened the Memorial Hall built at Eton in memory of Etonians who fell in South Africa.) What message do they send us, here,...

[To vas EDITOR OF TLIE "SPECTATOR:1 Snr,—During the last six or seven years public attention has been drawn from time to time to the slavery still existing in the Portuguese...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'.1 SIR,—Considering the general interest which has lately been manifested in the question as to whether bloodhounds can be successfully...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPERTATOR.1 SIR,—Would the Spectator give a hearing to the case of the gypsies under the Children Bill ? Their position, if the Bill passes in its...

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...

THE CULT OF THE ORCHESTRA. No one who has watched the course of music in the last twenty or thirty years can fail to realise the enormous change that has been wrought by the...

HYMNS.* THE use of hymns as an integral part of public worship is one of the great legacies which Hebraism has bequeathed to Christianity. With the Hebrew race religious...

THE Italy of the Renaissance is one of those vast and fascinating subjects which can never be written about too much or in too many different ways. Indeed, the chief difficulty...

"discovered" Mr. Andrew Carnegie as an economist. Mr. Carnegie had written an article in the North American Review on the uses and taxation of wealth, and Mr. Gladstone, much...

THE Italy of the Renaissance is one of those vast and fascinating subjects which can never be written about too much or in too many different ways. Indeed, the chief difficulty...

" discovered " Mr. Andrew Carnegie as an economist. Mr. Carnegie bad written an article in the North American Review on the uses and taxation of wealth, and Mr. Gladstone, much...

THESE two volumes give an account of the voyage and exploration of the Gjoa' (1903-1907) in her successful attempt to find the North-West Passage. Many bold endeavours were...

a master of the "touch-and-go" manner of essay-writing. It is easy enough to choose light subjects. The difficulty is to write about them lightly, for while nothing is more...

I rma volume may be described as a manifesto of the con- servative party in the Church. The Scottish divines, a class which has been specially touched by the critical movement,...

SALEH t Saleh is the sequel to the story which Mr. Hugh Clifford wrote some six years ago. In it he described the experi- ences of a young Malayan Prince who was so thoroughly...

Mn. FRANCIS GRIBBLE'S agreeably written book on Rousseau appears at an opportune time. We are inclined to think that, since his own day, Rousseau's spirit and his doctrines have...

6s.)—A. story concerned with that particular section of the world of horses which goes in for the sport of trotting.—Tormentilla. By Dorothea Deakin. (Smith, Elder, and Co....

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not bees reserved for review in other forms.] The Cardinal Democrat : Henry Edward Manning. By I. A. Taylor. (Kegan...

points of view the heroine of Mr. Benson's new novel, The Climber, may be likened to the immortal figure of Becky Sharp. Like Becky, Lucia is absolutely unscrupulous,...

Sherwell. Vol. I. (Macmillan and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—We may call the attention of our readers to this "revised and enlarged" edition of a book published about two years and a...

White in this story of the follies of a rich widow employs his gift of brilliant analysis of modern society with great effect. We may venture to hope that be will acknowledge...

of Songs, by G. Currie Martyn, B.D. (T. C. and E. C. Jack, 2s. 6d. net). The publication of this volume marks another step towards the completion of the work. The whole of the...

F.R.S. (For the author, Oxford.)—Dr. Church gives in this pamphlet a list of the authors of a multitude of papers pre- served in the archives of the Royal Society. Of these...

Baily's Magazine (Vinton and Co., 5s. net). Among its contents are key-maps and lists of meets, a description of packs of fox- hounds, &c.,—there are no less than four hundred...

Gd. net.)—Macaulay said that there was a time in a man's life when writing good Latin prose was the most lucrative of occupa- tions. There is still some trutb in the remark,...

6d.)—The speciality of auction bridge is that the dealer is bound to declare —he cannot "leave" it—and that the other players may outbid him. He declares, e.g., to win one trick...

and Stoughton, 7s. 6d. per vol.) The two volumes before us are Ezekiel—Malachi and S. Luke i. - xii. It will be remembered that Dr. Maclaren's method is homiletical rather than...

K. Lake, in the series of "Oxford Church Text-Books" (Rivingtons, Is. net).—Dictionary of National Biography, Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee, IX., "Harris—Hovenden"...