23 APRIL 1898

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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F OR the first time in her history America is at war with a European Power other than her parent State,—for the purely nominal war with the First French Republic need not be...

NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.

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With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, April 30th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE CAUSES OF THE WAR. W AR has come, as we have again and again declared it would. It is true that we write before the cannons have actually fired, but we can hardly doubt...

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A FORECAST OF THE WAR.

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O UR deep sympathy with Americans, both as kinsfolk and as the first nation which has risked a great war to stop a great oppression, does not blind us to the fact that they are...

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ENGLAND'S ATTITUDE AND THE WAR.

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`TF there was ever any doubt as to England's attitude in regard to the war it is now, we are glad to think, entirely over. As we ventured to predict it must be, Eng- lish...

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THE WEAKEST POINT OF REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT.

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I F the end of government is the happiness of the governed, representation is the best instrument yet discovered. The " common-sense of most," when strained through the higher...

A PROSPERITY BUDGET. T HE Budget will be sufficiently popular even

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though there is no reduction for people with more than £700 a year of the heavy Income-tax. Nobody is asking for such a remission with the energy that induces Members to vote....

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SIR JOHN GORST AND MR. LLOYD GEORGE.

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S IR JOHN GORST has earned a reputation which, as not infrequently happens, stays by him even when he does not deserve it. We do not mean that he has abandoned that perfectly...

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THE AMERICAN TEMPERAMENT.

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N O character is quite so interesting to thoughtful Englishmen as that of the Americans ; it is so like our own yet so unlike, so complex and yet so simple, so intelligible and...

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THE OPERA-BOX FEELING IN REGARD TO WAR.

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I T would be hypocrisy to deny that thousands of men—yes, and women too—feel at this moment as if they were sitting in an opera-box at a great theatre waiting for the...

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GAME PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES.

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A T the present moment one of the burning questions of domestic interest in the United States is the enactment of Game Laws. The origin of the movement is curiously unlike that...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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THE SPANISH TEMPERAMENT. [To THE EDITOR 07 THE " BpscraTos."] n, In your very interesting article on Spanish character in the Spectator of April 16th, you allude to the "...

OFFERTORIES.

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have always looked to the Spectator as giving us in everyday language the spiritual view in Church matters. In this matter you say in the Spectator of April 16th "The offertory...

BRIBERY IN BUSINESS.

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[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — By a curious coincidence " A Military Officer," in referring to my letter which appeared in the Spectator of April 9th, lands a...

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OUR DUTCH COLONISTS AT THE CAPE.

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[TO THE EDITOR 07 TEl "SPECTATOR."] Stu,—I think it will be of interest to your readers, who must during the last few months have heard frequent accusations against the...

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POETRY.

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A CURLEW. Bird of the Marshland ! 'Voice of the Wasteness ! Who with thy poignance Woundeth the air, Why should thy song of Mating and nesting Sound as an agony Taunting the...

BOOKS.

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MR. GEORGE WYNDHAM ON SHAKESPEARE'S POEMS.* WE have no hesitation in describing Mr. George Wyndham's introduction as a masterly piece of criticism. There are things in it with...

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ANGLICAN ORDERS.*

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POPE LEO XIII. found the Anglican Ordinal to be defective on account of the omission of four essential matters. Com- paring the Edwardine form with that of the Sarum Use, which...

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AN AMERICAN IN SPAIN.*

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THE author of this book has recently laid all Spanish scholars under a lasting obligation by his sumptuous edition of the unique MS. of the Poema del Cid in the • d Note-Book...

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THE FAITH OF CENTURIES.*

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THIS volume belongs to a class of literature characteristic of our own day. It treats of religious beliefs of vital importance, and of their groundwork, in a popular way, in a...

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A GREAT SCOTTISH COUNTY.•

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Du. CAMERON LEES has produced a fairly readable book upon the district of Scotland in which he is specially interested, but he has missed a very considerable oppor- tunity....

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MR. FRAZER'S PACTSANIA.S.* THIS is a great work, which will

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go a long way to remove the reproach that English scholars content themselves with • Pausanias's Description of Greece. Translated, with • Commentary. bf J. G. Frazer. In 6...

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The Insurance Register. (Charles and Edward Layton.)— Among the contents

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of this volume are the abstracts of the income, expenditure, funds, rate of interest obtained, of the various insurance companies. We observe that of seventy-one life assurance...

The Clergy List, 1898. (Kelly's Directories. 10s. 6d.)—The annual issue

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of this veteran directory is carefully edited, and probably gives as good an account of the Church, the clergy, the dignities and dignitaries, benefices, and so forth, as could...

The Bible and its Transmission : being an Historical and

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Bio- graphical View of the Hebrew and Greek Texts; and the Greek, Latin, and other Versions of the Bible (both MSS. and printed) prior to the Reformation. By Walter Arthur...

A New English Dictionary. By Dr. James A. H. Murray.

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" H- Haversian.' (Clarendon Press.)—This part, the first instal- ment of VoL V., contains 3,815 words, mostly Teutonic in origin, almost exactly eleven times the number in...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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Decorat ive Heraldry. By G. W. Eve. (G. Bell and Sons. 10s. 6d.) —If Mr. Eve had done no more than publish these examples of the successful treatment of heraldic devices which...

The Queen's Empire Illustrated from Photographs. (Cassell and Co.)—The pictorial

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presentment of the Empire contained in the large photographs collected in this handsome book will give people who understand things best by pictures an excellent idea of the...

A Lowden Sabbath Morn. By R. L. Stevenson. With 27

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Illustrations by A. S. Boyd. (Chatto and Windus.)—These illus- trations to Mr. Stevenson's " Scots" poem are distinctly clever, especially in their characterisation of the...

New EDITION8.-A. Study of the Saviour in the Newer Light.

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By Alex. Robinson, B.D. (Williams and Norgate.)—The Early Days of Christianity. By Dean Farrar. (Cassell and Co.)— Natural Religion. By F. Max Muller. (Longmans and Co.) The...

Gossip from a Muniment Room. Transcribed and edited by Lady

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Newdigate-Newdigate. (David Nutt.) — This book contains "passages from the Lives of Anne and Mary Fytton." It may be remembered that Mr. Tyler attempted to show that Mary...

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of business, should NOT be addressed to the EDITOR, but to the PUBLISHER, 1 Wellington Street, Strand, W.C.

PUBLICATIONS OF THE WEEK.

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Aglen (A. IL), Lessons in Old Testament History, cr Svo (Arnold) 4/6 Baker (W. M.), Examples in Analytieal Conics for Beginners, cr 8vo ...(Bell) 2/6 Barker (S. D.), Mars, cr...

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' Boom; RECEIVED. — The Process of Creation Discovered. By James Dunbar.

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(Watts and Co.)—A Treatise on Magnetism and Electricity. Vol. I. By Andrew Gray. (Macmillan and Co.)— Review of Historical Publications Relating to Canada. Edited by 'George...

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