LONDON: JANUARY 25th. 1913.

EDWARD THE SEVENTH.* WE have no intention of reopening the controversy which followed the publication of the second supplement to The Dictionary of National Biography. Sir...

THE problem which Mr. Reginald Enock has set out to unravel is the mysterious origin of the races existing in Central and Southern America at the time of the Spanish...

lie before us approach the subject of war from diametrically opposite points of view. General von Bernhardi preaches the religion of war, Canon Grane the religion of peace. The...

A GOOD many years ago, among the earliest of her works, Miss Betham-Edwards published a book on Algeria, called A Winter with the Swallows. This book is now out of print, as...

Cholmeley writes with great care, and in a very pleasant style, of John of Gaddesden and his "Rosa Medicinie." John of Gaddesden (1280-1361) is a long way back. He does not...

IT is not to be wondered at that Mrs. Strachey has given over a large proportion of her Life of Frances Willard to an account of the early years in America. Nowadays there is a....

THOSE who are unacquainted with the excellence of Mr. Stephen Graham's earlier work might open A Tramp's Sketches with some suspicion. How many Nature-lovers write nowadays, and...

us in his preface that he "was asked by the publishers to supply some letterpress illustrative of the drawings" that Miss Warren had for several years been • Frances Willard :...

ART BOOKS. If we make up our minds to bear with the affectations of the writer and the horrors of the three-colour process, there is much interesting matter in Mr. Lewis Hind's...

THE Dutch have achieved such a brilliant success, not only in creating land for themselves out of the sea, but also in cultivating it to the highest state of efficiency, that it...

to the National Gallery (Macmillan and Co. 2 vols. 10s. each net) has been issued. It deals with both foreign and English schools. Its excellence is well known, and we are glad...

another edition in a condensed form of his great book on the Van Eycks. He himself for reasons of health was unable to undertake the labour, and accordingly called to his...

appointing, partly because they are so near to being good. The drawings of the great amorphous works of the locks somehow lack the unifying power of the imagination. The...

Howe has done his work well and made an attractive volume. The illustrations are gathered together at the end, and the fact that the selection has been made for a special...

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William George Ward and the Catholic Revival. By Wilfrid Ward. Reissue with a new Preface. (Longmans and Co. 6s. 6d.) Readers of Mr. Wilfrid Ward's "Life of Cardinal Newman"...

Among My Books : Centenaries, Reviews, and Memoirs. By Frederic Harrison. (Macmillan and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Harrison's last book is a collection of articles and essays, re-...

In this series there have appeared volumes dealing with Courbet, Manet, and Puvis de Chavannes. In each case there is a short introductory note and a description of each...

E. C. Jack. 21s. net.)—A selection of some of the most important pictures from this great collection has been made, Mr. Konody has written notes upon them, not too long and not...

Life in the Indian Police. By C. E. Gouldsbury. (Chapman and Hall. 7s. 6d.)—This unpretentious record of thirty-three years' service in the Indian police was more worth writing,...

English Epic and Heroic Poetry. By W. Macneile Dixon (J. M. Dent. 5s. net.)—From Beowulf to Matthew Arnold, Professor Dixon treats of our epic and narrative poems with judgment...

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The Inner Life of George Eliot. By Charles Gardner. (Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons. 5s. net.)—Much shall be forgiven to Mr. Gardner, for he has loved much. To him George Eliot is...

The Evolution of the English Drama up to Shakespeare. By Charles William Wallace. (Berlin : Georg Reimer.)—The investi- gation of the early history of the English drama has by...

Algernon Charles Swinburne : a Critical Study. By Edward Thomas. (Martin Seeker. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Thomas's study upon Swinburne is of the class which it is usual to describe as...

The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. Chosen by Arthur Quiller- Couch. (Oxford University Press. 7s. 6d. net.)—By Victorian verso is apparently meant everything between Walter...

The Dramatic Works of St. John Sunkist. With an Introduction by John Drinkwater. 3 vols. (Martin Seeker. 21s. net.)— Admirers of St. John Hankin's work will welcome this...

My Autobiography. By Mme. Judith (of the Comt.die Francaise). Edited by Paul G'Sell, and translated by Mrs. Arthur Bell. (Eveleigh Nash. 108. 6d. net.)—"Now I begin to feel a...

A Bremen Family. By G. Meinertzhagen. (Longmans and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—The annals of a Hanseatic household, leading generation after generation from the fifteenth century onwards...

In Northern Labrador. By William B. Cabot. (John Murray. 12s. net.)—Labrador seems to be in the fashion. A country so near at hand, and yet so absolutely unexploited, has caught...

Malta and the Mediterranean Race. By R. N. Bradley. (T. Fisher Unwin. 8s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Bradley's conclusions may or may not be final. His main contention is that all primitive...

Twelve Years with My Boys. (Methuen and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)— The whole growth of philanthropic clubs in London has come about in the last fifty years, and there are still very...

The Letters of a Post-Impressionist : being the Familiar Corre- spondence of Vincent van Gogh. Translated from the German by Anthony M. Ludovici. (Constable and Co. '7n. 6d....

The anonymous author of Intimacies of Court and Society, by the Widow of a Diplomat (Hurst and Blackett, 10s. 6d. net), has been unfortunate in her choice of title, for it does...

The English Housewife in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. By Rose M. Bradley. (Edward Arnold. 12s. 6d. net.) Miss Bradley's genial style is well suited to her subject,...

Soldiering and Sport in Uganda. By E. G. Dion Lardner, F.R.G.S. (Walter Scott Publishing Co. 10s. net.)—"For to admire," the motto of Kipling's private, is no less evidently...

The Feet of the Furtive. By Charles G. D. Roberts. Illustrated by Paul Bransom. (Ward, Lock and Co. 6s.)—This volume is by a great master of the art of writing animal stories....

Intensive Culture of Vegetables. By P. Aquatias. (Upeott Gill. 3s. 6d. net.)—The number of smallholders and market gardeners who grow vegetables on the French system of...

The Man Farthest Down. By Booker T. Washington, with the collaboration of Robert E. Park. (T. Fisher Unwin. 6s. net.)— In the course of a seven weeks' tour of Europe Mr. Booker...

Embroidery Stitches. By M. E. Wilkinson. (Herbert Jenkins. 5s. net.)—Needlewomen, or, as the writer of this book prefers to call them, needle-artists, will here find a great...

Napoleon's Son. By Clara. Tschudi. Translated by E. M. Cope. (George Allen and Co. 7s. 6d.)—It was one of history's most cruel ironies that the son for whom Napoleon longed so...

The Diary of a Free Kindergarten. By Lileen Hardy. (Gay and Hancock. 2s. net.)-This is a very interesting record of hard and successful work. The first entry tells us that " St....

the London and County Printing Works, Drury Lane, W.C. and Published by JOHN BAILER for Hie • "tirwc - mros" (Limited) at their Office. No. 1 Wellington Street, in the Precinct...

to Sir Edward Grey's Note on the Panama Canal was issued on Thursday night. It disagrees with the British interpretation of the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, and declares in effect...

of the French Republic by the National Assembly The first ballot deprived M. Fame of the advantage which he bad gained in the ballots of the Republican groups of the Left. M....

on the course of public business. The Government hoped to finish the Welsh Disestablishment Bill and the Franchise Bill by February 12th. They would then ask the House to...

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an appeal, which was worthy of him, for the strict observance of the spirit of the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty. The arguments in favour of exempting American coastwise shipping from...

T HE prospects of peace, which seemed bright in the middle of the week, were on Friday suddenly darkened. On Friday morning came the news that a coup d'etat had taken place in...

case.

the Queen's Hall to protest against the proposal for woman. suffrage. Lord Curzon explained that Sir Edward Grey's amendment to the Franchise Bill was an enabling amendment to...

from Mr. Godfrey Isaacs requesting that the Government would regard the contract with the Company as "no longer binding upon either party." Mr. Isaacs pointed out that since the...

decidedly satisfactory. The Liberal majority, which has varied between 347 and 09 at the last four elections, was reduced to 211, the figures being Mr. T. H. Parry (L.) 2,152,...

finance and member of the Stock Exchange, gave evidence before the Marconi Committee. He said that the Government ought to have bought out the Marconi Company at a fair price....

at Cannon Street Hotel on Monday, Lord Avebury presiding. In an admirable speech Lord Balfour of Burleigh observed that while Free Traders were in a much better position than...

upon the more violent women. And we are bound to say that the past treatment of the suffrage question by the supporters of the Government has naturally disposed women...

Defence were duly honoured at a meeting at Apsley House on Wednesday. In celebration of his eightieth birthday members of the National Service League and others presented him...

woman suffrage amendments be accepted by the House the Franchise Bill will vanish. Perhaps the Government will replace it by Mr. Harold Baker's Bill for the Abolition of Plural...

of the Referendum to municipal politics at Bournemouth. The question of a Sunday service of tramways, rejected by a majority of 903 in 1906, was again submitted to a poll of the...

British Cotton-Growing Association that the Govern- ment had decided to guarantee the interest on a loan of £3,000,000, to be raised by the Government of the Sudan for the...

decided by a hundred and fifteen votes to thirty-five to release the members from their pledge to support the policy of the Association in opposition to the Insurance Act. The...

Bill was held at Cannon Street Hotel on Tuesday. Lord Rothschild, having moved a resolution urging Parliament to reject a proposal which would, amongst other evils, reduce the...

builder's labourer named Townsend, who was insured under the National Insurance Act, and died last Friday. From the evidence given it appeared that the man, who was at work...

Post on the manning of the Navy drew attention on Monday to the shortage of men. " A careful calculation shows that, if the existing Fleet were to be fully manned,...

Dr. Woodrow Wilson's Cabinet has been started by the Gaelic American and is being vigorously backed by the Jingo anti- arbitration newspapers. The Irish claim is admittedly...

the woman suffrage amendments to the Franchise Bill has brought a gale of intrigue during the week through the lobbies of the . House of Commons. Everyone must have known long...

THE COUP D'gTAT IN TURKEY. D URING the earlier and middle part of the week the world was cheered by the news that the Grand Council of the Turkish Empire had decided to make...

M R. LLOYD GEORGE has now announced that he has no intention of introducing legislation to deal with the situation created by the judgment in the Lumsden ease delivered on...

O N the 15th of January the Secretary of State for War gave an interesting and important answer to a question in regard to the National Reserve. A scheme, he stated, had been...

T HE public have been learning, piecemeal and slowly, the story of the splendid devotion of Dr. George Turner, who received a knighthood in the last list of honours. According...

A CCORDING to Berard there are no Urals; the mountains are a fiction of the geographers, who wanted a long caterpillar to mark the Asiatic boundary on their maps. The...

T HE future historian of the London Zoological Gardens will without doubt regard the year 1912 as an annits mirabilis. No other year in the annals of the Zoological Society has...

HONORARY DEGREES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL. ITo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sis,—Public attention having been called to the honorary degrees conferred by the...

[To THE EDITOR OF IRS " SPECTATOR. "] Siu,—We are instructed by the Council of the Churchmen's Union to express to the Dean and Chapter of Hereford its sympathy with their...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — You may be glad to find space for the subjoined poem. which appeared in the New York Times and was reprinted in Unity (Chicago) on...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.1 Sin,—For years I have been an assiduous reader of your valuable weekly, especially enjoying the articles on Italy, which show in the writers a...

[To THE EDITOR OP IRS "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—Your correspondent last week did well in drawing attention to the want of experience in those gentlemen appointed to carry out the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Persistent rumours, which I have reason to believe have now some basis, are being made to the effect that a British syndicate is about...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Whether we doctors have been wise in our struggle or not, what we feel very bitterly is that our liberty and freedom as English citizens...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." SIR, —The Home Secretary has stated in the House of Commons that the report by a Departmental Committee of the Home Office on the use of...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — As a medical man practising in the division of the British Medical Association that Wembley is included in, I should like to traverse...

[To yes EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SID, —In your issue of January 11th you published a letter pointing out the necessity for highway authorities to build cottages for their...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—The interesting review, in your issue of January 11th, of Dr. Macmillan's recent study of the philosophical writings of Immanuel Kant...

business, I have not had the advantage of following the correspondence on this sub- ject in your columns, but as the owner of between two hundred and three hundred country...

TO THE EDITOR OF Taa " SPECTAT08:] SIR,—May I add a word on Canadian affairs, supple. menting a letter in your issue of November 16th, in which your correspondent refers to the...

[To THE EDTTOR OY THE "SPECTATOR."' note a reference in your correspondence columns to the work of the late Sir George Livesey in connexion with the question of co-partnership...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR,—The case mentioned below may have many previously recorded parallels, but is, all the same, apparently of a sufficiently special kind to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." - J Sin,—Please permit me to say, in reference to your corre- spondent's letter (" B. M. B.," January 18th) that your reviewer's comment is...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR, —The word for Slavonic is in Russian Slavyanski, and is probably connected with the word " slovo," "the spoken word," so that the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Through all her centuries of sorrow Armenia has never suffered more than at this moment. The present war has taken the husbands and...

"SPECTATOR."' Six,—Being away from home and unable to refer to the Hungarian census returns, I can only reply to the last letter of "X" under unfavourable conditions....

THE FESTIVAL OF TORCHES. " ACLIAT'aSta fXOYTES &cadet-ow:7.a , laxhiots."—PLATO, Rep. 1. SWIFTER than arrow from thy bended bow, Goddess, they go, As though from branch and...

[To TUE EDITOR Or TUE "SPECTATOR."] SIB,—Allow me to return most sincere thanks to you for inserting our appeal on behalf of the blind clerk. I am happy to say that he has...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor Invst not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed cr with the mode of...

MAHLER'S SEVENTH SYMPHONY. GUSTAV MAHLER, whose Seventh Symphony was heard for the first time in London at the Queen's Hall Symphony Concerts last Saturday, had only just...

FROM STEELE AND A.pDisoisr TO POPE AND SWIFT.* Tun period which this rather misleading title suggests is a short one, and one which, on the first thought, does not promise a...

Du. PAnKIN, on behalf of the Trustees who administer the Rhodes scholarships, has written this book to make known to the world in a popular form the motive of Cecil Rhodes in...

that, proud as we are of our military exploits in the Peninsular War and of the part played by these islands in the down- fall of Napoleon, so very little should be known of the...

SIRI REVOLUTIONIST.t WHOEVER the anonymous author of Siri Ram : Revolutionist may be, there can be no question that be is singularly well • The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson....

is perhaps somewhat too ambitious, for it indicates a subject of immense range, whereas the reader is Only called on to take, as it were, a series of short excur- sions to...

those qualities necessary to volumes which are to lead an active and useful life. Each volume is light in weight and of a moderate size. The paper is solid, the type pleasant,...

Co. 6s.)—It is really difficult for the reader to choose his, favourite among these delightful stories. Miss Findlater touches: both grave and gay with so delicate and yet sure...

highly original, partially satisfYime study of the Duke loving honourably the young wife of a cold,. unhappy prig ; she is rapt from them by a 'whirlwind Of a poet, with what...

exceedingly clever novel. The scene at the' beginning, in which the hero, Rayniond Lanchester, &Ines back unexpectedly at night to find his wife with her lover,is - almost - too...

binder this heading we %aka snot Books of the week as Lore not boon reserced for rerioc in other foriosj The kNovik' and the Part She Played in the Russo-Japanese War, 1904. By...

M.A. (William Hodge. 5s. not.)—The latest volume in the "Notable English Trials " series deals with a case which excited extra- ordinary interest at the time, and is indeed...