MARSHAL 1. U _RENEE.* THERE are many reasons why Britons should know some- thing of Turenne. In the first place, Turenne was Marl- borough's "Tutor in War." The "handsome...

LONDON: APRIL 25th, 1908.

MAJOR DARWIN is one of those candid writers whose method renders the work of a critic almost superfluous. He begins characteristically with some depreciatory remarks on the...

THE rehabilitation of all the Stuarts, with the single exception of the Young Pretender, goes on apace. Mary, her " divine right" son, the first and second Charles, have had...

BACON classified -books according to their fitness for being "tasted," "swallowed," or "chewed and digested." To the great Lord Chancellor's first category we should assign the...

ART BOOKS. Vittorio Carpaccio. By Pompeo Molmenti and the late Gustav Ludwig. Translated by R. H. H. Cast. (John Murray. ..432 12s. (3d.) —Some biographies have been described...

(Dollard, Dublin. ls.)—From this well-illustrated catalogue it is passible to form an idea of the really wonderful collection recently acquired by the Dublin municipality. There...

Boston ; A. Constable and Co., London. 31s. 6d.)—The great sculptor whose life and works are set before us in this volume was the son of a Frenchman married to an Irishwoman,...

(Methuen and Co. 2s. 6d.)—The author has given a short and attractive account of Constable not encumbered with too many biographical details, and he has wound up with a well-...

of an art magazine makes us realise how great a debt we owe to modern methods of photographic reproduction. By means of this method of illustration we can follow not only...

Press, Glasgow.)—This is a collection of poems, prose, and pictures intended for those who cultivate the Celtic spirit in the High- lands. Mr. Neil Munro writes of those strange...

biography of Rembrandt has been written so often, and of late so exhaustively, that in a fresh book it is useless to expect anything that is new. All the same, Professor Brown,...

2s.)—Since Mr. Holman Hunt's Memoirs have been published there is not much new to be said on the subject of the origin of the "Brotherhood." Mr. Hueffer tells the story of the...

is written with sympathy and insight, and will be appre- ciated by those who have not time to read the author's longer book treating of the greatest figure in European art of...

£.4 4s.)—This voluminous work might be well described as a dictionary. Its plan is to give alphabetically an account of the mythological persons who are often represented in...

and Co. 38. Od.)—This directory of artists and book of general information about picture exhibitions is as useful as ever. In the present issue is to be found an account of the...

The Life of an Empire, by Walter Meakin (T. Fisher Unwin, 6s. net), is an "attempt to write of the British Empire as if it were one vast country inhabited by numerous different...

Society Recollections in Paris and Vienna, 1879 - 1904. By an English Officer. (John Long. 12s. net.)—A title may often be most misleading, and reviews are useful in dispelling...

Lisbon and Cintra. By A. C. Inchbold. Illustrated by Stanley Inchbold. (Chatto and Windus. 10s. 6c1. net.)—Nowadays there is such a desire to crowd everything into our already...

Pekin to Paris : the Account of Prince Borghese's Journey across Two Continents in a Motor-Car. By Luigi Bimini. (E. Grant Richards. 16s. net.)—It is a true joy to come across a...

of Wagner make quite a large book Many are, of course, of local and political meaning. Those which relate entirely to the works of the composer are the most intelligible and...

By Edith Browne. (Land C. Black. Ss. 6d.)—This book is put together ina very sensible way. First COM illustrated explana- tions of architectural terms ; after this we get a...

Life on the Ocean. By George Little. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. 6s.)—This is a republication of the seafaring adventures of an American of nearly a century ago. As Mr. W....

The Rating of Land 'Values: Notes upon the Proposals to Leer Rates in Respect of Site Values. By Arthur Wilson Fox, C.B., Secretary to the Royal Commission on Local Taxation....

Whose Home is the Wilderness. By William J. Long. Illus- trated by Charles Copeland. (Ginn and Co. 5s. net.)—A new volume of studies of animal life from the pen of Mr. Long-...

West Ham: a Study in Social and Industrial Problems. Being the Report of the Outer Loudon Inquiry Committee. Compiled by Edward G. Howarth, M.A., and Mona Wilson. (J. N. Dent...

The Legends of SS. Ninian and Hachor. Edited by W. N.. Metcalfe, D.D. (A. Gardner, Paisley. 10s. 6d.)—The scholarly editor of this book trusts that it will "contribute to the...

The Poultry Industry in Denmark and Sweden. By Edward Brown. (National Poultry Organization Society, 12 Hanover Square, W. ls.)—The Danish egg bulks so largely in our shops that...

An Enquiry into Socialism. By Thomas Kirkup. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. (Longmans and Co. 48. 6d. net.)—Now that Socialism aspires to take its place in practical...

Adam Smith and Modern Sociology : a Study in the Methodology of the Social Sciences. By Albion W. Small. (T. Fisher Unwin. -55. 6d. net.)—"An objective Science of Economics...

Oversee Britain. By E. F. Knight. (John Murray. 6.9.)— This volume, as announced in its sub-title, is a "descriptive record of the geography, the historical, ethnological, and...

Wild Bees, Wasps, and Ants. By Edward Saunders, F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. With numerous Illustrations in the Text and 4 Coloured Plates by Constance A. Saunders. (George Routledge and...

Post - Exilic Prophets. By W. H. Bennett. (T. and T. Clark. Os. net.)—This is the first volume (first in date of publication, but sixth in order of subject) of a, series which...

Capital : a Critique of Political Economy. By Karl Marx. Tel. II., "The Process of Circulation of Capital." Edited by Frederick Engels. Translated from the Second German Edition...

The Magi: How They Recognised Christ's Star. By Lieutenant- Colonel G. Mackinlay. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)—Colonel Mackinlay rejects the notion that the Bethlehem Star was a...

A History of the Christian Church since the Reformation. By B. Oheetham, D.D. (Macmillan and Co. 10s. 6d.)—Dr. Cheetham has produced, as might have been expected, a very...

Abraham Lincoln. By Carl Schurz and Truman II. Bartlett. (A. Constable and Co. 42s. net.)—This handsome volume consists of two parts. First, we have reproductions of various...

The Palaces of Crete and their Builders. By Angelo Mosso. (T. Fisher Unwin. 21s. net.)—Signor Mosso is primarily an anthropologist, and modestly describes himself as an "amateur...

BACON. The Record of an Aeronaut : the .We of John M. Bacon. By his Daughter, Gertrude Bacon. (John Long. 168. net.)—John M. Bacon was born in Jane, 1846, the son of a...

Philosophy and Popular Morals in Ancient Greece. By Archibald E. Dobbs. (Ponsonby, Dublin. 5s. net.)--Students of philosophy and history will find much that is valuable in Mr....

A Catholic Atlas. By Bishop Grafton, S.T.P. (Longmatis and (Jo. 10s. 6d. net.)—Dr. Grafton has put his statement of doctrine into a very unattractive form, a sort of table of...

Richard Hooker Wiltmer, Second Bishop of Alabama. By Walter C. Whitaker. (G. W. Jacobs, Philadelphia, U.S.A. 8s. net.)— Bishop Willmer, a Virginian by birth, came of a clerical...

The Log of the Sun: a Chronicle of Nature's Year. By C. William Beebe. With 52 Full-page Illustrations by Walter King Stone and numerous Vignettes and Photographs from Life....

Is It Worth While ? (Universities' Mission to Central Africa.) —There is an illustration in this little book whioh of itself goes a long way towards proving the case. It shows...

Henry Hudson. By Edgar Mayhew Bacon. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 6s.)—We cannot say that this volume throws much new light on the obscure subject of Hudson's career and character. The...

Pesel. (Truelove and Hanson. 3s. 6d.)-This is a new edition of a useful little book published about nine years ago. There are a number of good reproductions of old work, mostly...

The Religion and Worship of the Synagogue. By W. 0. E. Oesterley, B.D., and G. H. Box, M.A. (Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons. 10s. 6d. net.)-The authors limit their subject by...

and 5 Dean Street, Holborn, W.C. ; and Published by Joss Barna for the "SrEcratos " (Limited) at their Office, No, 1 Wellington Street, in the Precinct of the Savoy. Strand, in...

to the Turkish Ambassador in Rome on Monday. On that day the Turkish Ambassador announced the yielding of the Porte as to the post-offices. The right to open them in the fire...

on the Mohmand frontier. It seems that the Mohmands rallied to the appeal of fanatical Mullahs during the recent expedition against the Zakka Khel. But before they could come to...

rather mysterious mobilisation of the Italian fleet at Gaeta. The fleet, which consisted of three divisions, was intended to force the Sultan to concede certain Italian demands,...

W E deeply regret to record the death of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, who passed away on Wednesday morning, having survived his resignation of the Premiership little more than...

unexpected, has evoked the deepest regret and sympathy throughout the United Kingdom and the Empire. Among the messages which have poured in from all quarters we may specially...

case.

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LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

Affairs, explained to the Duma his views on the Macedonian question. He said, as the Times correspondent tells us, that his duty was solely to safeguard the interests of his...

explanation of the dispute between Lord Selborne and the three members of the Inter-Colonial Council —Sir George Farrar, Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, and Mr. Quinn— who have resigned....

that Sir Robert Hart, the Inspector. Generalof the Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs, left Peking on Wednesday for Europe. The largest international gathering ever seen at...

spondent about the prospects of a new British Treaty with Siam. Negotiations for the new Treaty have been going on for some time, and it is said that by the proposed arrangement...

the - United States Congress on Mon. clay, and led to some pointed allusions to alleged devia- tions from Republican simplicity on the part of the Ambassadors in Berlin, London,...

Portuguese elections from its Lisbon correspondent. Immediately after the elections we remarked that, while the special correspondent of the Times thought that the elections...

home during the week. On Monday night Mr. Winston Churchill made two important pronouncements. The first related to the prospects of a concordat on the education question on...

support of Mr. Churchill on Tuesday. His chief speech, delivered at the Gaiety Theatre in the afternoon, was a brilliant piece of electioneering advocacy and excited great...

delegation of Irish Nationalist Members, elicited a manifesto from the United Irish League of Great Britain signed by Mr. John Redmond and Mr. T. P. O'Connor. The manifesto...

but it was a great pacificator. It was "slowly but surely clearing a path through the dense and dark thicket of arma- ments to the sunny land of brotherhood among nations." But...

papers, in which he confidently anticipated the success of Mr. Joynson-Hicks. Mr. Balfour draws this hopeful conclusion from the contrast between Liberal promises and...

Professor Dicey appeals to Manchester Unionists to reject Mr. Winston Churchill as a Home-rule candidate, so stalwart a Unionist as Mr. Arthur Elliot supports his candidature in...

was seeking re-election on his promotion to the Cabinet, wail declared on Thursday night as follows :— Mr. W. Runeiman (L.) 5,594 Mr. W. B. Boyd-Carpenter (U.) ... 4,078 Mr....

19th. Consols (24) were on Friday 861—on Thursday week 874.

THE LATE PRIME MINISTER. T HE death of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, which the whole British Empire deeply mourns, turns the thoughts of all who are interested in men and...

mentioned last week, is felt by educated Germans at the poverty of the Imperial Exchequer, while the political position of the Empire has been so greatly aggrandised, is...

will lay before the House of Commons in about ten days' time will be of supreme importance both to the Liberal Party and to the cause of Free-trade. So far as the Liberal Party...

T is very easy to overdo the memorials of eminent men. Their deeds are their monument, and to give the name to a statue or a building produces often the sense of anticlimax....

Licensing Bill, feeling possibly some uneasiness at the amount and variety of the criticisms it has met with, seem disposed to cheer themselves with the assurance that the...

T HE old Greek philosopher whose theory of the underlying principle of the universe was that "Allis water " might have pointed, were he alive to-day, to Egypt for at least a...

T HE frequency with which the custom of giving tips is discussed expresses the degree of tyranny which it is felt to exert. Yet the tyranny, so far from being removed, becomes...

T HERE are modern folk who will tell you that the fairies are all dead, that no one to-day ever bears of those kindly actions which they were accustomed to shower on simple...

QUEBEC TERCENTENARY.—WOLFE AND MONT- CALM MEMORIAL. [To THE EDITOR OF THIC " SPECTATOR:1 SvR,—In July of this year Canada celebrates the three hundredth anniversary of her...

[TO TI111 EDITOR OF TUN sesankron.1 SIR,—With the approaching introduction of the Budget the question of the provision of old-age pensions by the State becomes urgent. May I,...

rTO TUN Eraros Or TEM " Srsorsroa.'1 Sin,—The observations of your reviewer in his notice of Professor Clark's "Essentials of Economic Theory" in the Spectator of April 4th...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR...1 SIB, —Are you quite sure that informed moderate opinion is in favour of the Bishop of St. Asaph's proposal in its entirety ? I greatly...

Um Wm EDITOR OF THE "Bpsernos.1 Sra,—Mr. Ambroseden and I are not, I hope, in substantial disagreement. It was not my intention to put the dilemma, Submission or secession P It...

[TO THE Eorros Or THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sra,—No one in India just now who is sensitive at all to the movements in the minds of the people about him can help being greatly troubled...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE " Er ELT/TOR:1 SIR,—" A Constant Reader" attempts in last week's Spectator to confuse the issues of your admirable article on the Govern- ment and the...

" SPECTATOR." J SIR,—I am not sure whether the reviewers have noticed a curious slip in Mr. Dasent's "Life of Delane " a propos of the plan proposed by Benedetti to Bismarck for...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE ..EFECT•TOR."1 Si,—Your article on "New York" in the issue of March 21st has this allusion :— " But these chapels-of-ease [Brooklyn and Jersey City] were...

Sharpe says (Spectator, April 18th) that "since Huxley could find no evidence of the existence of a divine Creator, it follows that the occurrence of miracles in the sense...

[TO T II II EDITOR OF THE " SF ECTATOR.1 SiR, — Your article in the Spectator of April 18th is very a propos, and, indeed, the cost of living in Germany is much higher than is...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR:'] have read with much interest the letter of "An Englishman Long Resident in New Zealand " in your issue of March 28th; but I am afraid that if...

MAN. XVII.—NATIONAL AND MUNICIPAL TRADING. DEAR Mn. 9 Those who, though not Socialists, have Socialistic Leanings often ask me whether I object to all national and municipal...

FORERUNNERS. (A PREPARATOR Y SCHOOL SONG.) Ws have no high historic roll, No list of glorious names, Like Harrow on her steepled hill Or Eton by her Thames. But we are heirs...

SHAKESPEARE ON THE STAGE. IT is difficult not to sympathise with those fastidious people —so great a critic as Charles Lamb was one of them—who refuse to see Shakespeare acted....

HEINE'S BOOK OF SONGS.* THERE is a notable passage in Heine's prose writings where he describes the playing of Paganini, and tells how he saw behind the performer's shoulder a...

development of the German war-fleet is exceptionally great just now ; it has been increased by recent debates in both Houses of Parliament. It has been frankly admitted that in...

FOR a long time the small tradesman has been struggling with adversity, and we suspect that the fight is even harder for him now than it was when Mr. Bullen kept a shop and went...

Is' it is the mark of a good travel hook to make the reader earnestly desire to go to the places described, then this is a highly successful work. The library of Newfoundland...

THIS work, like the late author's The Scots in Germany, is a notable piece of research executed with characteristi- cally Teutonic thoroughness and minuteness. The labour of...

THE ALIEN SISTEMI' MRS. DEARXER's new novel, though its ultimate lessons are sound enough, probes the seamy side of human nature too * The Soots in Sweden. By the late Th. A....

THERE is nothing in the history of our English political life more reassuring to lovers of Constitutional government than the patriotism with which the elected representatives...

6s.)—A ludicrously impossible story of modern life. It is, however, amusingly told.--Ths Master Knot. By Alice Birkhead. (John Lane. Os.)—A stoty of a marriage of convenience,...

Lucy," the neglected child of a squire's family, marries an under-gamekeeper at the age of seventeen in despair of finding a congenial home in her own class. This is the intro-...

is a pleasantly written little story about a young lady who gets so tired of a quiet life in the country that she determines to spend half her Capital in having what Americans...

THE writer of "Parties and Politics" in the Edinburgh expresses clearly enough what reasonable people are thinking and doing. Groups of all kinds are claiming victories; the...

Gibson, D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester. (Longmans and Co. 5s.)—Bishop Gibson begins with a chapter on "Creeds in General," in which the "Development of Creeds" is the most...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Palestine Exploration Pund Statement, April. (38 Conduit Street. 2s....

6s.)— Mr. Bryant describes his book as the "story of worthy success achieved in many paths of life by men and women of yesterday and to-day." It is now about fifty years since...

H. Borns. (Harper and Brothers. 6s. net.)—" The evolution of the Universe" is the problem which Dr. Arrhenius attacks, and he attacks it from something of the same standpoint as...

net.)—The modesty of a critic is much tried when he has to appreciate these" hints and instruction for progressive players." Of course, he is not so foolish as to decline the...

Described by Francis H. Gribble. (A. and C. Black. 7s. 6d. net.)—Everybody may not know that Montreux is at the eastern end of the Lake of Geneva; that it is one of the two...

National Biography, Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee (Smith, Elder, and Co.. 15s. and 21s. net), in its new form. It takes in the lives "Beal, William" to " Browell,...

By Scotus Viator. (A. Constable and Co. is. net.) —"Scotus Viator" has reproduced in this pamphlet the sub- stance of two articles which have already appeared in print, one of...

vols. (Macmillan and Co. Sc. net.) — The book first appeared in 1881. This edition brings it into the " Eversley Series."- Time-Table of Modern History, A.D. 400-1870. Compiled...