22 SEPTEMBER 1917

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HERE have been cornyrumours of petite proposals during the week, all traceable, as might be supposed, to Germany. We would warn our readers to pay little attention to these...

President Wilson is therefore every bit as firm in his

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resolution to follow the one and only way of peace as Lincoln was throughout the Civil War. Lincoln was in the best sense a humanitarian— e, lover of mankind—and so we believe...

Sir Douglas Haig, through another week of broken weather, confined

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himself to local operations on the Western Front, until on Thursday morning he resumed the offensive on a wide front east of Ypres. At the time of writing we know only that our...

No doubt if Belgium is mentioned at all in the

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answer to the Pope, even in the disingenuous manner which seems to be fore- shadowed, our Pacificists here will tell us that another goklen opportunity for peace has arrived. We...

The French line has been in a state of violent

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agitation through. out the week. North of Verdun, the enemy on Friday week made a determined attack on the positions lately retaken by the French to the north of the Cauriares...

Orders signed by General von Ludendorff, chief of the German

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General Staff, have recently been found on German prisoners in Flanders. The peculiar interest of these Orders is that they urge a strict economy in mon as well as in munitions....

Certainly a frank undertaking tq b retire front Belgium would be "something

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to go on with," though it would be but a fragment of the conditions required by the Allies. But no for as rumour has shaped itself in connexion with Belgium, it cannot be called...

The Allied airmen, undeterred by the weather, have been busy.

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The Naval Air Service has made throe more raid f on West Flanders, where life in an enemy aerodrome must now be a daily penance. Besides attacking the aeroplane shelters, our...

THE PAPER SHORTAGE.—We trust that readers of the "Spectator" will

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give definite orders to their newsagents for a copy of the Spectator " to be reserved for them each week till countermanded.

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MM. Cheidze, Skobeleff, Tseretelli, and Chernoff, has resigned as a

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protest against the passing of the - Methodist resolution which demanded that the Soviet itself should erasure the powers of government. We imagine that the issue will now be...

Another Swedish diplomatist acting as a tool of Germany has

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been exposed by the American Government. A letter written by Herr von Eckardt, the German Minister to Mexico, to the Imperial Chancellor on March 8th, 1916, which has been made...

M. Painter& the new French Premier, who has formed his

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Ministry without the assistance of the Socialists, made his first speech to the Chamber on Tuesday. His task was, he said, " to gather together all the material and moral forces...

Germany and Austria have appointed a Regency Council of three

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members for the Russian Kingdom of Poland. This Council is to summon a State Council and appoint a Cabinet. Its acts are, how- ever, to be subject to the approval of the German...

Our Italian Allies are still hotly engaged with Austrian reinforce-

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ments on the slopes of Monte San Gabriel°, at the south-east corner of the Baineizza plateau north of Gorizia. They hold the summit and the north and west slopes, but have not...

IL Isvolsky, the former Russian Ambassador in Paris, has given

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in the Temps some astonishing details concerning the secret anti- British treaty which the Kaiser induced the ex-Tsar to sign at Bjorkii in Finland in the summer of 1903. The...

The Russian Army seems to have been positively invigorated by

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the loses of Riga and the suppression of General Korniloff. Instead of retreating further into Livonia, it has been advancing on a wide froit and pushing the enemy back towards...

The Admiralty in last Saturday's papers published brief and businesslike

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notes, of eight recent encounters with enemy sub- marines, four of which were certainly sunk, while four more were probably destroyed by bombs exploding under water. In one...

In the wild hills on the borders of Macedonia and

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Albania, the French completed at the end of last week a well-planned little move, which established them on the shores of Lake Ochrida. The enemy were driven from their...

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We still hope that there may b3 some places of

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honour found for industrial workers in the new Orders. We should like to see working nten and women given Orders as distinct from =dole. If popular opinion regards honours...

President Lowell of Harvard, in a speech to the National

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Safety Council in New York last week, declared that Germany must not recover her lost colonies. The German military autocracy, he said, must be subdued, or the world would have...

The Tariff Reform League had a lively meeting at Manchester

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last Saturday, when a propenel that the League should bo merged in the new National Party aroueed hot opposition. The funds of the Tariff Reform League are, we suppose,...

The future of the colonies that were once German will

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be decided hereafter, and the Dominions will have a word to say in the matter. Meanwhile we may reflect that, before the war, so little were the British Government actuated by...

The difficult position of Dominion or State Governors is discussed

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by Professor A. B. Keith of Edinburgh in an important letter appearing in Tuesday's Times. Professor Keith, who speaks with authority on the Constitutional law of the Dominions,...

Sir Auckland Geddes, the new Minister of National Service, out-

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lined his policy in a speech at Glasgow on Saturday last. His Department, he said, was to be the central authority to deal with the man-power of the country for all purposes,...

America has taken the short way of dealing with the

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European neutrals who have been helping to feed the enemy. The Exports Administration Board has announced that it will be virtually impossible for any nation not at war as one...

The most notable feature of Sir Auckland Geddee's speech was

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his description of the modern army as a big community in which men of all ages were needed for its various activities. " To raise men purely on an age basis was not really a...

The King has spent four busy days this weak on

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the Clyde, visiting the shipyards, factories, and munition works between Greenock and Glasgow, and the great steelworks in Lanarkshire. On Tuesday, on a Glasgow football ground,...

Bank rate, 5 per cent., changed from 51 per cent.

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April 5th.

We are interested to observe how the much-lauded " business

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man," when called in to help the mere politician, makes it his first business to shatter the popular delusions fostered by those who eulogized his coming. Lord Rhondda, on...

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TOPICS OF THE . DAY.

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THE WAY OVER. "LIVER since the battle of the Marne we have never Ail hesitated to believe that we were winning the war. We need hardly say, therefore, that we agree most...

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THE SITUATION IN RUSSIA.

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S INCE we wrote last week the duel for power in Russia between M. Kerensky and General Korniloff has come to an end—or let us rather say that there is a distinct pause in a...

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WEARING DOWN THE ENEMY.

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TN the apparent lull caused by bad weather in France and 1 Flanders, General Smuts's cheery account of the military position for the Paris Journal is timely and encouraging....

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A LEVY ON CAPITAL.

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A S regards the economic situation of this and of most countries after the war, there is at any rate one thing that can be predicted with some certainty—namely, that there will...

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THE CHILD AND THE WAR.

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W HEN peace comes there will be many children who have no clear recollection of anything before the war. In after years, when they turn back—as we all turn—to scrutinize their...

THE " LIAISON " OF IDEAS.

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I WAS sitting in my rooms, anxiously waiting for a bell to ring, then to hear footsteps coming up the stairs two at a time, and then for the door to be burst open as it used to...

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" THE SNOTTY."

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TF ever a youngster has been misrepresented in literature and 1 popular imagination, it is the Midshipman of to-day, alias "The Snotty," never " The Middy," plesse nolo. A howl...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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[Letters of the /moth of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than chose which fill treble the space.] THE CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR....

CORRESPONDENCE.

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BLIND SAMSONS. [To TNT EDITOR or Tee " Sescraroa."l Sift,—In the Chapel of the Foundlings' Hospital is Handel's organ, mud of that organ a story is told which embodies the...

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A CONVERTED PACIFICIST.

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[To rue Burros or ma "Seeerwroa."] Sta,—I have been trying to grasp the Pacificist theory at the present juncture of affairs. I was a Pacificist once and am ,a sort of...

BADGER HAMS.

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[To ran Earree or visa " SPEOTATOR."[ Sur,—It is gratifying at this time of scarcity to see that some ore has called public attention to an animal whose qualities as a food have...

CHEAP BREAD AND WAR ECONOMY.

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[To TICE EDITOR or THE Secession."] SIR, —In your last issue you criticise the Food Controller for reducing the price of bread from the standpoint that higher prices tend to...

A PACIFICIST'8 HOPE FOR THE FUTURE. [To THE EDITOR or

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THE " SPECTATOR.'] Sta n —You are apt to be hard on the Pacifieists, and yet I cannot help thinking that this extract from a letter written by one of them to a German lady of...

THE ROOT OF SOCIAL REFORM.

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[TO THE EDITOR or THE " EPECTATOR."] Sts,—In your last issue "L. W." writes that if certain suggestions of his are carried out the housing problem will be solved, by individual...

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BEEKEEPING.

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(To MR EDITOR or THE Sereraron.-] Ste,—With respect to the Isle of Wight disease, my experice:ca may be interesting to some of your readers. I started in 1915 with one hive in...

TREES IN THE SUBURBS.

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[To Inn EDITOR or me "Sesersroa."1 Sin,—Will you kindly allow me through the medium of your columns to call the attention of your readers to an important question which is...

[To TOE EDITOR OF run " EIPLCTITOR.'9

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Sin, — The infornintion about badger hams for which "G. I. H." is seeking may be found in The Wild Foods of (treat Britain atoutledge and Sons, Is. 6)1.), pp. 20 and 21 " The...

[To rim Roma or rim " Sercrivon."] Flo,-1 count upon

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your fairness and generosity to print the enclosed. There are mid to be only twenty-six wild animals left which can fairly be called British.—I am, Sir, Lc., F. E. M. "0 fie!...

(To me EDITOR or nit "Sercriroa."1

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Sm.—There is no economy in badger hams. An old friend of mine, who was rather an epicure, often had them. He considered it acesesary to fatten the badger for a good many weeks...

THE TEETH OF THE ARMY.

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(To THE EDITOR or TR' " SPICTITOR.'l Sta,-1 . write as a general medical practitioner. As compared with Canada and the United States of America, the knowledge that the teeth...

MEAT PRICES AND CATTLE REDUCTION.

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[To can EDITOR or TIM SPECTATOR:1 Fle,-1 have read with interest your article on Food Control and beg to say that farmers in Lincolnshire predict a great scarcity of beef in the...

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THE ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS.

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Pro ens Eerree or me “Srecrcroa."1 13m,—The public and temporary officers of the R.A.M.C. welcome the appointment of a Committee of Inquiry to investigate the medical work of...

GERMAN OFFICER PRISONERS.

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fro sue Emma or me - ErscraT011."1 Sea, — I would again strongly urge the desirability of publishing from time to time, and after each great push, a nominal-roll of the German...

A COLONIAL VIEW OF BRITAIN.

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ITO Tan Kerma or ma "SraeraMa."1 SIR, — The letters of Lance-Corporal Richards and " M." have stirred me up to write upon a subject that has come before - me in various aspects...

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PERISCOPES AND TELESCOPES FOR GUNNERS. (To ssz Farms or TEl

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"Sererseoa."1 Ste,—Thanks to the publicity afforded by your valuable paper and to the generosity of the subscribers to this Fund (registered nosier the War Charitiee Act, 1916)...

CAPTAIN BOWEN.COLTHURST.

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(To THE Eerron or me "Sercraroa.") ins,—Having seen your note to "Fiat Justitiee " letter in the Spectator of September 8th, I wish to state that all medical reports on my...

AKBAR'S FORMER BIOGRAPHER.

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[To THE EDITOR or ran " SPECTATOR.") Sta,—May I assure "A Friend of Many Orientalists" that I intended no disrespect to the memory of the late Count v. Noer ? My rather...

THE GERMANS IN OLD RUSSIA. •

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[To THE EDITOR or env "SPELTAT011."] Sza,—The following account of earlier German inroads into Russia, which I quote from the introductory cbapter of The Chronicle of Novgorod,...

LORD ACTON ON GERMAN BARBARISM. (To THE EDITOR or THE

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SPECTATOR29 fin,—Anti-German theories of history written since the war may be suspect, but tide extract from the late Lord Acton'. Lectures on the French Revolution is above...

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MR. -LANSING'S ADDRESS.

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ITo ens EDITOR or THE n SeECsTOZ."1 Sts,—Permit me to express my warm appreciation of the service you have done in publishing in full the speech of Mr. Robert Lansing, the...

SKATING ON THIN ICE.

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[To ran Burros or Tax " Sexersroo."1 s ie ,—j a Mrs. Pioszi's (Mrs. Thrale's) anecdotes of Dr. Johnson she says:— " We had got a little French print among us at...

THE SENECAS.

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Ito TES EDITOR or THE " SPECTLIOR.'.1 Sm,—Your reviewer of some recent translations in the Loeb series seems, if I understand him aright, to hold unauthorized views on the two...

COMFORTS FOR SICK AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS. [To THE EDITOR or

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THE " 8PECTAT011."1 should be greatly obliged if you would let it be known that I have Alpine and herbaceous plants in large quantities for sale this autumn for comforts for...

ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN HOUSE PROPERTY MANAGERS.

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CTo me EDITOR or THE " 131.60TATOR."1 Sie,—Having in view the consideration given to housing matters at the present time and the likelihood of their being brought even mere...

THE TRAINING OF DISABLED SOLDIERS.

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[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR:1 Snt,—The wide powers of the Local and Joint War Pensiota Committees under the last Royal Warrant for pensions of disabled soldiers and seamen...

THE PSALMS IN MODERN LIFE.

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[To me EDITOR OF THE " SPELTATOIL") Sia„—With reference to Mr. Gladstone's; appreciation of the Psalms, as mentioned by a correspondent in last Saturday's Spectator, perhaps...

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BLINDED SOLDIERS' CHILDREN. (To THE ED/TOR OF ran SPECTATOR:1

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SIR,—I want to carry one step farther the endeavour which during nearly three years past has been made to brighten and render serial the lives of the soldiers and sailers who...

POETRY.

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IN FRANCE. THE silences of maternal hills Is round me in my evening dreams; And round me music-making bills And mingling IVIIIVS . of pastoral streams. Whatever way I turn I...

"BURY Olt BURN."

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Tae article under the above heading, dealing with the desecration of beautiful places by the scattering of pieces of paper and other picnic 'labels, which appeared in our issue...

Calling all the hounds of Finn Must be in a

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lark's nest born When the moon is very thin. I, who have the gift, can hear Hounds and horn and tally-ho, And the tongue of Bran as clear An Christmas bells across the snow....

"A STUDENT 1N ARMS."

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Tun leading article in the Spectator on the death of Lieutenant Hankey and his article " Don't Worry " have been republished as a leaflet by Messrs. W. Speaight and Sons, 98-99...

"FROM A V.A.D. HOSPITAL."

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Miss MART-ADAIR MACDONALD'S three poems ("In the Ward." "Epiphany Vision," and "In Last Year's Camp") hate been reprinted from the pages of the Spectator in pamphlet form under...

"CHRIST IN FLANDERS."

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OWING to the large and continued demand for copies of the poem entitled "Christ in Flanders," which appeared in our issue of September 11th, 1915, it has now been reprinted in...

TUE Rev. Owen Lewis writes from " The Cascade Inn,"

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Shawinigan Falls, Que.. Canada, thanking the unknown friend who sends him a eopy of the Spectator every week, and asking us to say that his address has been changed to "Magog, P2."

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BOOKS.

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GONIMECOURT.. ONE of the most heroic, though one of the most disappointing, episodes of the first day of the battle of the SO1 lllll o on July lst, 1910, was the attack...

" TONI KETTLE...*

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UPON the roll of Mehemet, Roman Cathodic and Nationalist and sworn enemies of " England," who have laid down their live. in the fight for civilization against the Prussian...

NOTICE.—When" Correspondence" or Articles 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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THE GERMAN SPY IN AMERICA.•

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Tee facts relating to the activities of German spies in America were obtained by Mr. Price Jones as a reporter on the New York Sun, when he devoted a year to no other work. "...

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FICTION.

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UNFINISHED STORIES BY HENRY JAMES.f IT is tantalizing to be presented with two unfinished stories by the late Henry James, neither of which is carried far enough to show how...

WHAT IS QTJAKERISM? • Tow doctrine of the Inner Light

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is, as every ono knows, the keynote of Quakerism. Scoffers take this to mean that every man should do what is right in his own eyes and nothing more. The Society of Friends...

A STUDENT UNDER FIRE.•

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MR. BERNARD BITE, assistant-master at the Coopers' Company's School, and well known for his lectures on English literature et the Working Men's College, joined the Border...

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SOME BOOBS OF THE WEEK.

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Malice in this column does set neceesarily Mead , cnbcdPeni The August number of The New East, the new magazine no ably edited by Mr. Robertson-Scott (Tokyo : 12 Ichibei -Cho...

READABLE NOVELL—King of the Khyber Rifles. By Talbot Mundy. (Constable

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and Co. 5s. net.)—A story of the North-West Frontier in the first months of the war. The hero is a Secret Service man, and the heroine an Eastern lady possessed of extra....

The House in Marylebone. By Mrs. W. K. Clifford. (Duckworth

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and Co. 2e. 8d. not.)—The first ten chapters of Mrs. Clifford's new book have no little to do with the rest of the novel that they might. quite well have been published as a...

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The Natural History Museum, South Kensington, has published an excellent

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series of "economic pamphlets" at a penny apiece, describing dangerous insons and showing how they should be dealt with. The pamphlet on The House-Fly as a Danger to Health, by...

Nelson's Last Diftry. With an Introduction and Notes by Gilbert

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Hudson. (Elkin Mathews. 2e. 6d. net.)—Nelson's private diary from September 13th, 1805, when lie left Merton, to the morning of October 21,4, when he wrote a last prayer and a...

In the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library for August

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(Man- chester University Press end Longmans and Co., le.) will be found a most interesting paper on "Mediaeval Town Planning," by Pro- fessor Tout. Ho shows how Edward I....

Seen Natio, Nobleman. By K. G. Ossiannikson. (r. Fisher Unwin.

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3s. 6d. net.)—This" open letter " from a Swedish friend of the Allies, translated by Mr. H. G. Wright, is an effective exposure • of Mr. Sven Hedin as a pro-German of a virulent...

Lee Doctrines Midrersfee chez Donne. Par MaryPaton Ramsay. (Oxford University

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Press. 7s. Od. net.)—This learned and able essay, written as a thesis for the Doctor's degree in the University of Paris, deserves the attention of those who are interested in...

John Milton : Topical Bibliography. By Elbert N. S. Thompson.

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(IL Milford. 55. net.)—This very useful book, by a teacher in Iowa University, deserves to lie noted. It gives references not only to Milton's works, but also to the authorities...

Zionism and the Neo-Zionists. By Laurie 3lognus. (St. Clemsnt's Press.)—Major

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Magnus urges in this pamphlet that in view of the Russian Revolution, which is setting free the Jews, and the coming collapse of Prussia, the chief anti-Semitic State, there is...

Books and Persons. By Arnold Bennett. (Chatto and Windus. Bs.

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net.)—Mr. Bennett in always an amusing writer, and his " com- ments on a past epoch," reprinted from the New Aga for the years from 1908 to 1911, are as entertaining in their...

Shells as Evidence of the Migrations of Early Culture. By

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J. Wilfrid Jackson. (Longmans and Co. Cs. net.)—Mr. Jackson, of the Manchester Museum, has accumulated in this little volume much instructive evidence as to the geographical...

The Babylonian section of the Pennsylvania University Museum has issued

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four parts of the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth volumes of its scholarly publications of tablets from the Nippur collection. The most important is a collection of Sumerian...