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BOOKS.

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THE STORY OF THE NATIONS.—WALES.* Mn. OwEN EDWARDS, in summing up the character and policy of Llywelyn the Great, uses a very felicitous and sig- nificant phrase : "He had...

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LONDON : JANUARY 25th, 1002.

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FROM EAST AND WEST AFRICA.* THE reviewer of books is

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often constrained to ask himself what makes the difference between an interesting book and a dull one, and that question is forced on us by the comparison of these two volumes,...

A CLASSIC OF THE PRAIRIES.*

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SINCE the trunk lines of railway joined the Atlantic and Pacific the prairies of North America have been almost forgotten. When the fringe of white men was ,advancing across the...

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C URRENT LITERATURE.

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CONSTANTINOPLE AND ITS PROBLEMS. Constantinople and its Problems. By Henry Otis Dwight, LL.D. Illustrated. (Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier. 6s.)— Missionaries' books about...

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THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD.

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The Living Animals of the World. By C. J. Cornish (editor), F. C. Selma, Sir Harry Johnston, and others. Vol. I. (Hutchin- son and Co. 10s. 6d.)—This is a book which we must...

AN ARABIC MANUAL.

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Arabic Manual : a Colloquial Handbook in the Syrian Dialect in English Characters. By F. E. Crow. (Luzac. 7s. 6d.)—Uni- form with Rosen's well-known " Modern Colloquial Persian...

THE CONFESSIONS OF A CARICATURIST.

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The Confessions of a Caricaturist. By Harry Furniss. Illus- trated. 2 vols. (T. Fisher tlnwin. £1 12s.)—One could make a very fair guess at what the tenor and style of these "...

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THE SPINSTER BOOK.

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The. Spinster Book. By Myrtle Reed. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.50 net.)—The Spinster Book does not justify its title until it comes to its last chapter, wherein it discusses " the...

A TRIP THROUGH FINLAND.

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Finland as it Is. By Harry De Windt, F.R.G.S. (John Murray. 9s. net )—" It was on the 25th of July, 1900," says the author in his first chapter, "that I set out from Paris for...

SELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS OF J. A. FROUDE.

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Selections from the Writings of J. A. Froude. Edited by P. S. Allen. (Longinans and Co. 3s. 6d.)—It is surprising that an anthology was not made long ago from the works of Mr....

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MR. NAOROJI'S " POVERTY IN INDIA."

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Poverty and Un - British Rule in India. By Dadabhai Naoroji. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co. 102 ad.)—The tone of Mr. Naoroji's somewhat chaotic book is sufficiently indicated by its...

A CONCISE DICTIONARY OF EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY.

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A Concise Dictionary of Egyptian Archaeology. By M. Brodriok and A. Anderson Morton. 80 Illustrations. (Methuen and Co. 3s ad.) —This is a serviceable pocket-book for travellers...

THE SACRED BEETLE.

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The Sacred Beetle. By John Ward, F.S.A. 500 Examples of Scarabs and Cylinders. The Translations by F. Llewellyn Griffi. h. (J. Murray. 10s. Ca. net.)—To most people who have...

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The Acts of the Apostles. By R. B. Rackham. "Oxford

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Com- mentaries." (Methuen and Co. 12s. Gel.)—This commentary upon the Acts of the Apostles is practically a paraphrase of the book, and is 'herefore far easier and pleasanter...

SOME THEOLOGICAL BOOKS.

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Neglected People of the Bible. By Dinsdale T. Young, (Hodder and Stoughton. 3s. 6d.)—These sermons contain some eloquence and a great deal of shrewd humour and sound common-...

Bible Characters. By Alexander White, D.D. (Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier.

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3s. 641.)—Another book of the same kind is Dr. Alexander White's Bible Characters. This volume is the fifth of a series. All the portraits are taken from the New Tests. meet,...

THE WOODLANDS ORCHIDS.

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The Woodlands Orchids. By Frederick Boyle. Coloured Plates by J. L. Macfarlane, F.R.H.S. (Macmillan and Co. 21*.) Parts of this book have already appeared in the Pall Mall...

THE FOUNDATION OF BRITISH EAST AFRICA.

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The Foundation of British East Africa. By Professor J. W. Gregory, D.Sc. (H. Marshall and Son. Gs.) — Professor Gregory has produced a very readable work in this volume, which,...

Memoranda Pauline. By George Jackson. (Isbister and Co. 3s. 6d.)—This

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is a collection of " Sunday Readings in St. Paul's Epistles," which originally appeared in the pages of Good Words, They are very simple and practical in tone. The keynote of...

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THE FINANCE OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR.

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The Confederate States of America, 1861 - 1465 By John Christopher Schwab. (Edward Arnold. 10s. 6d.)—This is a valuable rather than profoundly interesting or eminently read-...

A GENERAL HISTORY OF EUROPE, 3.',0-1900.

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A General History of Europe, 350 - 1900. By Oliver J. Thatcher, Ph.D., and Ferdinand Schwell, Ph.D. (John Murray. 9s.)— This book, the work of two Assistant Professors in the...

Why I am a Churchman. By Joseph Hammond, LL.B. (Mow-

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bray and Co.)—Canon Hammond gives the reasons which led him to leave the Wesleyan community for the Anglican Church, and gives them in sober, moderate language. He dots not,...

STAGRUNTING WITH THE DEVON AND SOMERSET, 1887-1901.

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Staghunting with the Devon and Somerset, 1687 - 1901. By Philip Evered. (Chatto and Windus. 16s.)—The chase of the wild red-deer on Exmoor has formed the subject of several...

THE GREAT EPIC OF INDIA.

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The Great Epic of India. By E. Washburn Hopkins. (Edward Arnold. 10s.)—The sub-title of this kook, " Its Character and Origin," indicates the purpose of its author in dealing...

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LES LOISIRS D'UN ETRANG ER AU rA - is BISQUE. Les Loisirs

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d'un Stranger an Pays Basque. Par le Rev. Went- worth Webster. (Chillon-sur-Sa6ne ; non mie dane le com- merce.)—Mr. Webster has employed his leisure to good purpose : the...

THE LETTERS OF ST. PAUL.

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The Letters of St. Paul. Translated by Arthur S. Way, M.A. (Macmillan and Co. 5s. net.)—Mr. Way, after acquitting himself with great success in versions of Homer, Euripides,...

ROMAN LAW AND HISTORY IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.

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Boman Law and History in the New Testament. By the Rev. Septimus Buss. (Rivingtons. 65. net.)—Mr. Buss gives us a very carefully prepared and useful book. The student of the...

ICE SPORTS.

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Ice Sports. Edited by B. F. Robinson. (Ward, Lock, and Co. 5s.)—The best chapters in this new volume of the "Isthmian Library" are those on "Tobogganing" and "Curling." We would...

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WORD AND PHRASE : TRUE AND FALSE USE IN ENGLISH.

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Word and Phrase: True and False Use in English. By Joseph Fitzgerald, A.M. (A. C. McLurg and Co., Chicago $1 . 25.)—The author of this strange work is much exercised over the "...

GALLOWAY GOSSIP.

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Galloway Gossip. By R. de Bruce Trotter. (Courier and Herald, Dumfries.)—Dr. Trotter claims to write the Scots language in its purity. Commonly, it seems, it is corrupted from...

A STUDENT'S HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY.

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A Student's History of Philosophy. By Arthur Kenyon Rogers. (Macmillan and Co. 8s. Gi.)—The author of this book means it in the first place to be an educational text-book,—" an...

MEDIEVAL LONDON.

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lifedireral London. By Canon Benham and Charles Welch. With Illustrations. (Seeley and Co. 7s.)—This is a fascinating book, and c nitains an astonishing amount of information in...

SOME WEST SURREY VILLAGES.

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Some West Surrey Villages. By E. A. Judges. With an Intro- duction by Lord Midleton. (Surrey T.mes Printing and Pub- lishing Company, Guildford. 10s. Gd.)—In a profusely...

CHRONICLES OF THE HOUSE OF BORGIA.

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Chronicles of the House of Borgia. By Frederic, Baron Corvo. (Grant Richards. 21s.)—This clever volume, which relates in part to certain historical enigmas unsuitable for...

THE TEACH.[NGS OF DINI`E.

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The Teachings of Dante. Bf Charles Allen Dinsmore (Houghton, and Co., Boston. Gs.) — This is an interesting and not too bulky volume, written from the religious point of view by...

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COUNTY AND TOWN IN ENGLAND.

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County and Town in England, Together with Some Annals of Churnside. By Grant Allen. With an Introduction by Frederick York Powell, Regius Professor of Modern History, Oxford...

MODERN BILLIARDS.

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Modern Billiards. By John Roberts, jun., and Others. Edited by F. U. Hotine. (C. Arthur Pearson. G+.)—The first part of this book gives a history of present-day billiards. Early...

Bardell v. Pickwick. Edited by Percy Fitzgerald, M.A. (Elliot Stock.

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6s)—Mr. Percy Fitzgerald has made a really amusing book out of this well-worn subject. He shows that there is plenty of good fun in it; that it is really tine satire on various...

The Country Month by Month. By J. H. Owen and

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G. S. Bonlger, F.L.S. (Duckworth and Co. Gs.)—This is a new edition which can only receive a short notice in our columns. A vast deal of pleasant reading on Nature and natural...

Johnnie Courteau. By William Henry Drummond. (Putnam's Sons. 5s.)—Charming is

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a much misused word, but we can find no other to express the peculiar quality of these French-Cana- dian verses. They deal with the life of a simple and wonder- fully lovable...

SAINT DOMINIC.

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Saint Dominic. By Jean Guiraud. Translated by Katharin de Mattos. (Duckworth and Co. 3s.) — This is one of the " Saints " series, and appears with Cardinal Vaughan's imprimatur....

PRESENT IRISH QUESTIONS.

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Present Irish Questions. By William O'Connor Morris. (Grant Richards. 6s.)—Judge O'Connor Morris is well known as one of the most voluminous writers that even Ireland possesses...

The English Catalogue of Books, 1S H - 1900. (Sampson Low, Marston,

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and Co. 30s. net.)—This volume (the sixth of • tin series to which it belongs) gives an alphabetical list of "the works published in Great Britain and Ireland," and of the...

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The monthly instalment of The Oxford English Dictionary (Clarendon Press,

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5s.) is a double section, forming part of Vol. VI., and containing words from "Lap—Leisurely." Among these are to be found "Latin" and "Law," no insignificant portion of the...

Notable Masters of Men. By Edwin A. Pratt. (A. Melrose.

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3s. Gcl.) —This is intended, we presume, to serve two purposes : to collect the author's occasional papers and to furnish a prize- book for blys. It seems successful in both...

In Our County. By Marion Harland. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.

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6s.)—Miss Harland's short stories, of which there are ten in this volume, have something of the charm which her gatherings in historical byways possess. "The Big Revival at Pine...

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LONDON Printed by tors & Wrnate (Limited) at 74' va-714

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Great Nos. . - . Queen Street, W.C. ; and Published by JOHN B A S ER for the " SPECTATOR " (Limited) at their Office, No. Wellin g ton Street, in the Precinct of Savoy, Strand,...

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE war news calls for no . great amount of comment. There have been a fair number of captures throughout the field, and several laagers have been seized and broken up by Lord...

In the House of Commons on Monday Mr. Henry Norman

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elicited from Lord Cranberne a very interesting statement as to the attempt of the European Powers to intervene in the war between America and Spain, and the absolute refusal of...

There was a great field-day on foreign affairs in the

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French Chamber on Tuesday. . M. Delcasse in a long and interesting speech claimed that in the collective work undertaken by the Powers in China, it was the measures demanded by...

That the Americans should feel gratified is not., of course,

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to be wondered at, but in truth there was never any doubt or difficulty about the matter. It would have been utterly impossible for our Government—even if they had been die-...

Pekin, according to the interesting telegraphic despatct in Wednesday's Times,

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is very much herself again,—the city seeming more crowded and busy than before the upheaval. In many respects the Times correspondent considers the out- look most...

*„' The Editors cannot undertake to return 3fanuscript, in ang

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case.

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FOR THE [REGISTERED AS 1.) PR:CE -.,....81 WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1902. Saws'.Arra. Br Posr 6to POSTAGE ABROAD Ito.

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Mr. Chamberlain in dealing with the question of peace pointed

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out that if and when the Boers made overtures to us, as Lord Rosebery suggested, it would be necessary to ask whether those who had made the overtures were responsible persons....

The .debate was continued on Tuesday by Sir William Harcourt,

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who took great pains to prove, by copious and eulogistic quotations from Lord Rosebery's Chesterfield speech, that the Imperialist Liberals ought to vote for the amendment. He...

On Wednesday a very interesting debate took place in regard

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to Persia and Russian and German influence in the Persian Gulf, raised by Mr. Walton, who was very anxious that we should stand up to Russia and maintain the integrity and...

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman closed the debate in a speech which

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added little to the discussion, and when the division was taken only 123 Members followed him into the lobby. The amendment was negatived . by a majority of 210 (333 to 123)....

Mr. Chamberlain went on to deal with the pessimistic prophecies

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as to the permanent alienation of the Boers. Yet we had at present two thousand ex-burghers of the Transvaal fighting for us, and it was found in Ceylon that as many as eight...

The debate on the Address was continued during the week,

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and on Monday Mr. Cawley moved the " composite " amendment intended to bring together the Pro-Boers, the official Liberals, and the Imperialist Liberals in the con- demnation of...

The Isthmian Canal Commission has reported to Congress in favour

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of the Panama route, and there now seems little doubt that the United States will purchase the Panama Com- pany's concession, work done, and plant for £10,000,000, and will then...

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On Saturday last Dr. Krause was convicted of an attempt

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to incite to murder Mr. Douglas Forster, and sentenced to two years' imprisonment. The prisoner, who had been First Public Prosecutor under Mr. Kriiger's Government, came into...

The Dally Express of Thursday publishes a forecast of intended

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military reforms which seem almost too good to be true. If the Daily Express is to be credited with official inspira- tion, the War Office is going to do a great many of the...

Sir Edward Grey intervened in the debate with a really

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excellent speech, in which he strongly advised our coming to an understanding with Russia in regard to Asian questions. Our only regret is that he did not go a step further. He...

An important Blue-book on the working of the refugee camps

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was published on Friday week. In it the coup de grdce to the charge of " methods of barbarism " is administered in the remarkable despatch from Lord Kitchener dated December...

On Thursday night the House of Commons was busy with

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an Irish debate raised by Mr. Redmond in a speech full of rhetorical fire and fury, but otherwise of little importance. It was, in fact, the conventional Nationalist attack on...

We note with sincere regret the death of Mr. Aubrey

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de Vere at the age of eighty-eight. The son of the Sir Aubrey de Vere whose "Mary Tudor" won the admiration of Glad- stone, Matthew Arnold, and other distinguished critics, he...

It is,impossible to review this case without expressing sur- prise

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and indignation at the carelessness shown by the supporters of the Boers in the Press and out of it in reposing political confidence in Dr. Krause, who ever since his coming to...

Bank Rate, 31 per cent.

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New Consols (21) were on Friday . 94.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE TRUE BASIS OF OUR FOREIGN POLICY. E trust that the moral of recent events in regard to Germany has not been lost either on our statesmen or on the country as a whole. The...

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LORD ROSEBERY'S POSITION.

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H OW does Lord Rosebery stand at the present moment? Has he improved his position since the Chester- field speech, or has it declined ? We have no wish to say anything to...

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THE KING'S FIRST YEAR Q UIET perhaps, and not effusively proclaimed,

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but very deep and genuine, is the feeling of satisfaction with which, in this week of anniversary celebrations, the British race has reviewed the first twelve months of King...

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THE EMPLOYMENT OF SCHOOL CHILDREN.

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S ELDOM has a Bill, or rather a subject on which a Bill is to be founded, received such sudden promotion as that which is shortly, we hope, to regulate the employment of school...

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AN AUTOMATIC REDISTRIBUTION BILL.

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O UR readers know our views as to the immediate need for remedying the gross electoral injustice at present suffered by England, and for remedying it by an Automatic...

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EUTHANASIA.

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I T is reported in the telegrams from the Continent that a Deputy in the Saxon Parliament recently introduced a Bill permitting doctors to pnt patients whose recovery was...

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KEW GARDENS IN JANUARY.

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D URING the first weeks of January there are not many visitors to the Royal Gardens at Kew. Some few people, for the most part residents in the neighbourhood, may be met with...

THE BATTLE OF THE COWLS.

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I TENTILATION being one of the aims of modern builders, and smoky chimneys a domestic nuisana2. the tin tops known as cowls must have a place on most houses. But we were hardly...

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CORRESPONDENCE.

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THE BOER CAMP AT UMBALLA. [To TIM EDITOR OF THE " SPECTAT011."3 Sir,—Umballa lies on a dead-fiat plain running to the foot of the Himalayas, which rise in bold relief to the...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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THE NEED FOR WOMEN SETTLERS IN SOUTH AFRICA. [To vax ED1T31; OF vax "SPECTATOR."] Sin, —Schemes for helping Englishmen to settle in Boutl. Africa as soon as the war is over are...

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FROM THE KOPJES OF SOUTH AFRICA. [To THE EDITOR OP

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TEE " SPECTATOD.1 have at present growing in my house what is a most extraordinary plant, and as it came from the kopjes of South Africa I have no doubt its history will be...

MODERN GREEK.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR:1 Pylarinos, in a letter which appeared in the Spectator of the 11th inst., ridicules Mr. Psicari and his dis- ciples by citing a few words...

THE "ODIUM THEOLOGICUM" IN FRANCE.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —There has been of late in many minds a disposition, fostered by the Law of the Associations, to charge against the Anti-Clerical party...

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A SUGGESTION.

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[TO THE EDITOR OP THE •• sracrarort.1 Sru,—Reuter tells us on January 17th, in a telegram dated Mafeking, January 14th, among other things :—" Getting among the tents close to...

" RECREATION " : A MAGAZINE FOR THE BLIND.

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[To TIM EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:] SIR,—May I have a few words about my magazine for the blind in your paper ? It is just being enlarged by the British and Foreign Blind...

SEPOY GENERALS.

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[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Ste,—There is a material error in the interesting review of " Sepoy Generals " which appeared in the 'Spectator of January 18th. The...

THE 'DUKE OF WELLINGTON AND ATHLETIC SPORTS.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Six,—I observe that two of your correspondents in the Spectator of January 11th refer the well-known saying of the Duke of Wellington that...

CONSCRIPTION.

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[To THE EDITOR OF TILE 'SPECRI.TOR:1 SIR,—Is it not a pity to use this ugly word in connection with Mr. Kipling's poem ? Conscription connotes the selection by lot or otherwise...

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[To VIE EDITOR OP TUE "SPECTATOR.")

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S112,—Your correspondent, Miss M. Bramston, in the Spectator of January 18th, doubts yew-berries being poisonous, having eaten them as a ch.ld. I also ate many in the far-away...

THE MEDICAL SERVICE OF. THE ARMY.

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[To TEE EDITOR OP TEE "SPECTAT011.1 do not suppose that you will be disposed to open your columns to a discussion of the interminable question of how to provide an efficient...

ENGLISH GOOD HUMOUR.

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[To TUE EDITOR OF TUE "SPEOTATOR. ") SIB, —In your interesting article in the issue of January 18th on " English Good Humour" you mention Mr. Chamberlain and Sir Richard Temple...

POISONOUS PLANTS.

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[To TUE TUE EDITOR OF "SPECTATOR.") read with great interest the letter on yew-berries pellished in your paper of the 18th Inst. Some years ago I was introduced to yew-berries...

THE STANDARDISING OF ABBREVIATIONS.

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[TO TUE EDITOR Or TUE "SPECTATOR.") SIE,—This is an age of abbreviations and symbols, and as our books more and more abound with them, it would save the student much time and...

THE LITTLE ENGLANDER.

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[To TUE EDITOR OF TIM "SPECTATOR.") Stn, — May a Little Englander (New School) make his version of Mr. Mills's verse in the Spectator of January 18th ?- We stand protesting,...

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POETRY.

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ALMA MATER. WHEN I am dead my soul will come To where, beside the sluggish stream, The old grey city's sleepy hu m Drones on like music in a dream ; From the pale meads of...

INDOOR RIFLE PRACTICE.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SP IICTALTOR."] SIR, —As you have for a long time taken great interest in rifle practice, I enclose a cutting on that highly important subject taken from...

VILLAGE SUPERSTITIONS.

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[To THY EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Six,—The opinion of an old Lancashire gamekeeper who was my instructor in the art of shooting nearly fifty years ago on the subject of ghosts...

HISTORICAL ART.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I was surprised to read in your notice in the Spectator of January 18th of the historical pictures at the New Gallery that there is no...

RUSSIAN . FINANCE.

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[To THE EDITOR OP TER "SPECTATOR.' SIR, In the leaderette in the Spectator of the 18th inst. touching last year's deficit the writer has converted the Russian into the English...

THE CONCENTRATION . CAMPS. [TO THE EDITOR OP THZ " SPECTATOR."]

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SIE,..-S0 much has been implied lately as to the unwilling- ness of the authorities in South Africa to let the public know the exact condition of the women and children in the...

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ZUSIC AND GENERAL EDUCATION.

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THE progress of civilisation and the spread of education have undoubtedly tended to the elimination of the illiterate, or at least the non-lettered, musician. Yet before the...

BOOKS.

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THE ADVENTURES OF ANDREW BATTELL.* WHEN the Rev. Samuel Purchas had speech in his Essex vicarage with returned mariners from oversee he heard such tales as might make The...

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MARY BOYLE : HER BOOK.*

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Miss MARY BOYLE'S " sobriquet," she tells us, among her young companions, was " Vanessa," and she calla her auto- biography the " Life of a Butterfly." If to rejoice in sunshine...

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TWO BOOKS ON ROME.*

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PROFESSOR LANCIANI ' S beautiful new book, New Tales. of Old -Rome, may be described as a companion volume to his well-known Pagan and Christian Rome. It is divided into eight...

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A Corner in Ballybeg. By Nicholas P. Murphy. (John Long.

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6s.)—We have here some very pleasantly written stories, full of Irish humour and pathos. There is a wonderful person called Hogan, who appears in several of them. He is a...

NOVELS.

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111E GRAND BABYLON HOTEL.' SnwE Miss Braddon abandoned the field of sensation so diligently exploited by her for a quarter of a century fpr the more tranquil domains of...

A Soldier of Virginia. By Burton Egbert Stevenson. (Duck- worth

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and Co. 6s.)—Here is yet another story of America in the time of Washington. They are almost as plentiful as if there had been a copyright in that period which had just lapsed....

.4 Bid for E'mpire. By Major Arthur Griffiths: (Digby, Long,

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and Co. 6s.)—This is a book of adventures in Egypt and the Soudan at the time of the last campaign. The local colour is laid on with an unstinting hand, and we have scenes in...

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Wild Sport in the Outer Hebrides. By C. V. A.

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Peel. (F. E. Robinson and Co. 7s. 6d.)—Mr. Peel, who has already told us about big-game shooting in Somaliland, now takes us to the Laws, to Dist, North and South, and to other...

History of Stretford Chapel, Vol. IL By H. T. Crofton.

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(Chetham Society.)—About the Chapel itself there is little in this volume, nothing, in fact, beyond some " Church- wardens' Accounts," beginning 1717. These are followed by...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

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[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as bare not been reserved for review in other forms.] Tales of the Spanish Main. By Mowbray Morris. (Macmillan and Co....

The Lady Poverty. Translated and edited by Montgomery CarmichaeL (John

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Murray. Ss.)—This is a very pleasing trans- lation of a religious allegory written in the thirteenth century. Its authorship is unknown, but it is evidently the work of an early...

Venus Victriz, and other Stories. By Helen blathers. (Digby, Long,

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and Co. 6s )—The four stories in the volume called Venus Vietria are calculated to stimulate the interest of the most languid reader. In two of them manslaughter is done; in...

His Own Ghost. By David Christie Murray. (Chatto and Windus.

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2s.)—His Own Ghost is a highly ingenious and intricate story, in which a millionaire from South Africa finds it de- sirable to feign death and burial in order to save his life...

The Holy Sepulchre. (Marshall Brothers.)—This reply to Canon MacColl is

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at least written with moderation and in a tone which the disputants in this controversy do not always maintain. The subject, at least, borders on theology, and is apt to be...

The Beleaguered Forest. By Elia W. Peattie. (William Heinemann. 4s.)—The

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first chapters of The Beleaguered Forest are occupied with the vagaries of a young woman who has thought herself an artist, and had her eyes sud- denly opened to the fact that...

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Poems by John Clare. Selected and introduced by Norman Gale.

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(G. E. Over, Rugby. 3s. Gd. net.)—Mr. Gale's introduc- tion contains a biography of Clare,. a quite plain-epoken piece of writing, in which to attempt is made to gloss over the...

The Social Gospel. By the Rev. T. Rhondda. Williams. (Lurid,

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Humphries, and Co. ls. net.)—" Men," says Mr. 'Williams, "ought not to be wasting their life in getting a liveli- hood." We disagree; it is a goo , ' thing for men to be...

Hilda's Dia-y of a Caps Housekeeper. By Hildagonda J. Duckitt.

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(Chapman and Hall. 4s. 6d )—Here are no grave ques- tions of policy, no discussions of Briton a Boer. . Mrs.. Duckett was born at the Cape, and is herself half Dutch, having...

ScnooL-Boolte.—The Aeneid of Virgil, I. Edited by H. B. Cotterill,

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B.A. (hackie and Son. 2s.) —This is one of the books which seek to make, and largely succeed in making, learning attractive. While scholarship is not neglected, there is abund-...

We may very briefly commend two volumes of sermons to

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our readers. In the Palace of Wisdom, by the Rev. Cornelius Withetby (Siding . on and Son, 2s. 6d.), and Twenty Lent Sermons, by the Rev. Alfred G. Mortimer (same publishers,...

A Bit of Shamrock. By Mark Guy Pearse. (H. Marshall

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and Son.)—This is a very pretty little idyll. Mr. Pearse, atter the unusual experience—that it is unusual every angler will testify—of finding fish rise greedily in a...

The Story of Burma. By Ernest George Harmer. (Horace Marshall

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and Son. 1s. 6d.)—This volume, one of the "Story of the Empire" Series, is not less interesting than its predecessors Burma, which has been British, in its present extent, for...

The Story of Our Weights and Measures. By Edward Nicholson,

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(D. Fraser, Liverpool )—This little book is an earnest of a more important work to come, and a very promising earnest too. We have seldom seen so much interesting matter put...

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Summits of Success. By James Burnley. (Grant Richards. 6s.)—This is

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an eminently readable book. It reminds one of the story-books in which the hunting for, and finding of, a treasure is the main incident. In Mr. Burnley's pages many sorts of...

• Behold a Sower!- (The Bible House.)—This is a record,

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illus- trated with highly interesting examples from very diver:e regious of the world—Kaffraria to Belucbistan, for instance—of the work done by the Bible Society. The library...

Essays Theological and Literary. By Charles Carroll Everett, D.D. (Houghton

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and Main. 7s. net.)—We cannot follow Dr. Everett into his discussions on theological, ethical, and literary subjects. The theological essays are to us specially interesting,...

Of periodical volumes we have received Thom's Official Directory (Alex.

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Thom and Co., Dublin, 21s.), with its mass of special info, nation about Irish persons, things, and affairs. A new map of Dublin is added, which may be obtained separately...