26 JULY 1913

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On Thursday the King laid the foundation-stone of the new

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building of the Commonwealth of Australia in Aldwych. The King, who was accompanied by- the Queen and Princess Mary, after inspecting the guard of honour of King Edward's Horse,...

Apart from the determination of the Concert it must not

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be forgotten that none of the late Allies, who are now enemies, would be willing to see the Turk back in Thrace. Such a prospect would be equally disagreeable to Roumania....

The statement of the financial situation in France issued on

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Tuesday shows a surplus of about £2,000. But the Times correspondent explains that there is actually a deficit of £43,120,000. Expenditure amounts to £240,800,000 and normal...

The trial of strength, long predicted, between the North and

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the South in China developed in earnest at the end of last week. The Revolutionary Party nominated Tsen Chun- hsuan, a former Viceroy of Canton, as commander-in-chief of the...

On Tuesday an impressive ceremony took place in Henry VIL's

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Chapel in Westminster Abbey, when the Order of the Bath was reinaugurated by the King. The ceremony belongs to the series which was begun when King Edward VII. set apart a...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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W E have dealt elsewhere with the situation in the Balkans, and can only say here that nothing in Friday morning's news makes us think that the views expressed in our leading...

* * It The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript in any

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case.

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On Tuesday, when the debate was continued, the Bishop of

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St. Asaph repudiated the history of the Lord Chan- cellor, and showed that the Church in Wales had never been backward in educational work. Lord Lansdowne, after reviewing the...

In the House of Commons on Tuesday Mr. Pease gave

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an outline of the Government's scheme of educational reform which is to be introduced next year. We can only mention some of the chief points of his apeech.. Voluntary schools...

In regard to the education scheme, we must apply the

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two essential questions : (1) What will it cost ? (2) Where is the money to come from ? On the first question Mr. Pease gives little light except to say that it will be...

On Monday the House of Lords began the debate on

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the Second Reading of the Welsh Disestablishment Bill. The Ministerial benches were almost empty — a pertinent commentary on the unrealities of debate brought about by the...

Mr. Bonar Law, in criticising Mr. Asquith's statement, dealt chiefly

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with the Indemnity Bill. The position, he said, was this. The firm of Montagu & Co., to which Sir Stuart Samuel belonged, approached the India Office and asked for an order for...

The Times of Tuesday published from its Canadian cor- respondent

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a few words of advice to the increasing stream of British visitors who go to Canada at this time of year. The advice, which we may be sure would not have been uttered if it had...

On Tuesday in the Commons Mr. Asquith made a statement

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of the Government's legislative programme. After naming a number of minor Bills which are to be dropped, he said that the Government would probably also have to drop the Defec-...

The Morning Post of Tuesday published an extraordinarily powerful and

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cogent appeal from a large number of the best- known doctors in the kingdom, beaded by such men as Sir Thomas Barlow, SirWilliam Osler, and Si rVictor Horsley, for the...

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Anyone who recalls Sir Alexander King's evidence and his controversy

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with the Spectator as to the proper way in which officials of the State should conduct commercial bargains, will remember that he did scout the suggestion that the Government...

In a letter to Friday's Times Mr. Samuel, the Postmaster-

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General, in reply to Mr. Atnery's letter, gives " a denial to some statements of facts which it contains." It is not the case, he says, as Mr. Amery asserts, that Sir Alexander...

Unfortunately we have not space to attempt to give a

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précis of the two important letters from Mr. Amery upon the Marconi contract which appeared in the Times on Wednesday and Thursday. We can only summarize the conclusions reached...

Referring to Mr. Churchill's disclaimer as to certain rumours in

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regard to an oil company in Mexico, Lord Robert declared that he had never witnessed a more degrading exhibition :— "Either it was a very serious matter, which ought to have...

Lord Robert Cecil, in a speech reported in last Saturday's

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newspapers, dealt with the Marconi question. After describing the dealings of Ministers in American Marconi shares, he once more declared that he had never said, that he had not...

We desire to endorse and make our own the words

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we have just quoted. In our opinion they are just and discriminating, and in no sense exaggerate the importance of the incident. As we pointed out immediately after the evidence...

It is a preposterous policy to strain at every gnat

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of social hygiene and swallow this monstrous camel in silence. It is, we believe, sometimes urged that such disease is the just reward of vice, and should be allowed to continue...

Bank Rate, 41-per cent., changed from 5 per cent. April

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17th. Consols (4) were on Friday 73—Friday week 721.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE REFERENDUM AND HOME RULE. A CCORDING to newspaper rumours there are certain members of the Cabinet and a considerable number of ordinary Liberal politicians who are very...

THE BALKAN BALANCE.

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I N spite of the extreme and unnecessary slowness of the Concert in imposing its will on the Balkan States, events are not shaping themselves so unsatisfactorily as at one time...

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IRISH LAND PURCHASE AND THE UNION.

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T F the legislative union, the financial union, and the administrative union between Ireland and Great Britain are to be maintained, if we are to continue a United Kingdom with...

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THE TRICKERY OF THE LAND TAXES.

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AL THOUGH the introduction of Mr. Lloyd George's Revenue Bill amounts to a confession of the com- plete failure of the land value duties, the Unionist Party in the House of...

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PORTUGUESE SLAVERY AND THE LORDS' DEBATE. liv -E congratulate the Anti-Slavery

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Society most heartily on the results of the debate in the House of Lords on Wednesday. That debate may be regarded as an effective antidote to the White Book put forth by the...

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DOMINION HOUSE.

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-U NDER the title "An Imperial Covent Garden" the Spectator of March 8th contained an article which drew attention to a scheme, at that time hardly more than out- lined, of...

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[The reader is to understand that the interlocutors in the

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following conversation, though they may speak with all the air of a prudent statesman or of a brilliant divine, are in truth only two shapeless, idiot faced puppets. These...

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W GAMES AS MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS. E all know that Americans play

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games, and prepare themselves for them, in a different spirit from our own. They are more serious, more painstaking, more precise, and are more definitely " out to win." They...

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CORRESPONDENCE.

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THE RIGHTS OF RACIAL MINORITIES IN THE BALKANS. [To 11113 EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sia,—A fortnight ago I attempted to prove that the Balkan problem cannot be solved...

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GREEK VERSUS BTJLGAR.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—As an impartial traveller and observer, possessing a comparatively intimate knowledge of the Balkan races, and friendships of long...

THE PLIGHT OF ARMENIA. [To THE EDITOR or THE "

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SFECTATOE.1 SIR,—Wbile attention is riveted on the miserable war that is going on between the Balkan States may I be allowed to put in Armenia's claim to practical help ? The...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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PORTUGUESE SLAVERY IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS. [To THE EDITOR OF TER "SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Those of us who listened to the debate on this subject in the House of Lords on Wednesday...

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IRELAND A NATION AND UNITED ITALY. [To THE EDITOR o

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THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—All through her "Risorgimento " Italy had no bitterer, more inveterate foe than the Ireland now posing as " Nationalist." The heroes of that mighty...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE ..srEctAvon."1 SIR,—For over twenty years

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I resided in a part of Essex where practically all the old cottages and some farm houses are constructed of weatherboards. They are satisfactory in every way. I never knew one...

THE COTTAGE PROBLEM.

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[To THE EDITOR OP TRY "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The interesting description and plans of a weather- board cottage given in your last issue will raise thoughts in the minds of many as...

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THE VALUE OF AGRICULTURAL LAND. [To TEE EDITOR OF THE

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"SPECTATOR. "] SIR, I am not surprised that an Australian farmer in your issue of July 5th should express surprise at my statement, namely, that the net rents that we receive...

[TO TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.")

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SIR,—Weather boarding is doubtless a most artistic and com- fortable covering, but, as an architect, I cannot agree that a cottage covered with it would be fireproof because the...

f To Tim EDITOR 07 TIM "SPECTATOR.")

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SIR,—Referring to your article on cottages at £150 each, which was of interest to me as one who is considering the erection of some labourers' cottages, I beg to point out that...

LORD LYTTON'S SCITRIFE

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[TO THE EDITOR or THE "Spam...To/L.1 SIR,—I have read Lord Lytton's letter on this subject in your last issue with considerable interest, and also your comment upon the same. I...

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HEREDITY.

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[To 1111 EDITOR OF THE e spas-rams:9 SIR,—The following may be of interest to those who believe• in heredity, and that "the pride of the sword " passee from father:to son. The...

THE DECALOGUE IN NATIONAL SCHOOLS. Do THE EDITOR OF THE

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" EPECTATOR."] SIR, —I enclose an extract from the Church of Ireland Gazette of June 13th, containing a reply from the Bishop of Clogher to the paragraph quoted on p. 13 of your...

MR. RAMSAY MACDONALD AND LEICESTER, [To THE EDITOR or THE

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"SPECTILTOR:1 SIR,—When you were good enough a fortnight ago not only to tell me what I ought to do in reply to an offensive state- ment, but what I had to do, I was under the...

BULLFIGHTS AND HORSES.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 SIR, —In the review of Blood and Sand : a Novel, in your issue of July 19th, the writer closes his comments with the words : " But the...

MR. ALFRED LYTTELTON.

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[To THE EDITOR Or THE " STECTATOR." J SIR,—We who sign this letter are conscious of the general desire among Old Etonians to have a memorial of Alfred Lyttelton at Eton. We...

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BREVITY.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —Your " little girl" compressed the life-history of Joan of Are into some dozen words. But the most impressive instance of brevity I...

INTERESTING BIRDS NEAR LONDON.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—The interest of your readers in the above subject seems yet unexhausted and perhaps, therefore, the following items supplementing my...

LETTERS OF HORACE WALPOLE. [ To TEE EDITOR OF THE "

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sparmoroa."] Sra,—As I am collecting material for a supplement to the late Ildrs. Paget Toynbee's edition of the "Letters of Horace Walpole," Published by the Clarendon Press,...

SCHOLARSHIPS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "

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SPECTATOR." SIR,—There is an Eastern proverb that runs, "Hast thou sufficient for two loaves ? Buy one loaf and a bunch of flowers." But flowers need at least a vase and water...

NECESSITOUS LADIES' HOLIDAY FUND.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra,—You have been good enough to allow me to appeal in your columns for the last two years past for contributions towards a fund for...

INTER-COLONIAL CONFERENCE ON NATIONAL HEALTH, 1914.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, I beg leave to call your attention to the following matter. The Executive Committee of the Victoria League are arranging for a...

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POETRY.

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INSATIATE Death ! why haste to snatch The young, the brave, the half-Divine? Why thus anticipate thy dues ? A little while—and all are thine ! A. G.

MUSIC.

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"BORIS GODOUNOW." THE evolution and rapid development of the Russian school is one of the wonders of the history of music. Forty years. ago the world only knew of the existence...

THE GARDEN.

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IN spring She made a garden, near an orchard on a hill, And half that garden's Providence, the rest is all Free Will. It's Providence that plants the flowers, pure luck that...

ERRATUM.—We regret that the following item was accident- ally omitted

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from the Specification attached to the article upon " A Model Black Weather-Board Cottage" in our last issue:— "TILER Roof. — Cover the roof with Major's Patent Roman tiles,...

THE COMMONS PRESERVATION F CND. SOCIETY

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Donation. s. d. Subscription. s. d. PREVIOUSLY ACKNOWLEDGED 1006 3 6 171 1 0 Iiss M. C. Martineau 10 0 0 E. Ferry, Esq. ... 3 3 0 Captain and Mrs. H. W. Richmond... 2 2...

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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BOOKS.

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GERMAN SEA-POWER.* GERMAN sea-power cannot fail to be a subject of interest at the present time. Its latent possibilities were shown more than four centuries ago by the success...

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THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND THE EMPIRE.*

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THERE is a saying in the Talmud that "by the breath of the school children obeli the State be saved," and some conviction of the truth of this old-world adage is to-day, in...

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MORAL TENETS AND CUSTOMS IN CHINA.* *THis intensely interesting volume

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claims to set forth "the -essential notions of the three sects " (in China), the " Literati, Buddhists, and Taoists." These three philosophies have become one, we are given-to...

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BAPTISTS AND FIFTH MONARCHY MEN,* THIS admirable piece of research,

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which sheds light on a very obscure side of Commonwealth history, is one of the prize essays of the American Historical Association. Miss Brown has made a diligent use of all...

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TRAVELS IN THE PYRENEES.*

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Ma. SCOTT O'CONNOR gives us a very complete and a very delightful account of the Eastern Pyrenees and of the adjoin- ing coast, which is, as he says, but little known, "yet this...

A MODEL.*

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IN a passage so often quoted that one has to apologize for using it again, Carlyle said that every clergyman should write the history of his parish—to keep him out of mischief....

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THE BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURN.f NEXT year we celebrate the sexcentenary

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of the most famous of Scottish battles, and it is only right to get our minds clear as to what actually happened. In this little book the learned editor of Barbour's Bruce sets...

THE COMPLETE NIETZSCHR*

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WE desire to congratulate Dr. Oscar Levy and his colleagues on the completion of this monumental undertaking, a com- plete English translation of all Nietzsche's works ; for,...

WITH CAMERA AND RUCKSACK.* WE feel sure that the first

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conception of this book came to Mr. Malby in a delightful way. Instead of a botanical primer or a vague book of travel, he thought, this shall be a book where flowers and...

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THE QUARTERLIES.

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IN our last issue we commented at length upon an editorial article in the new Edinburgh on the effects of National Insurance legislation in Germany. Another political article...

FICTION.

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AN AVERAGE MAN.* Ix this story Father Benson shows himself once again to have something of that combination of the idealist, the scholar, and the man of the world which brought...

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SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

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[Under this heading we notice such Books qf the week as hays not boss reserred for review in other forms.] She was born in 1639, and died fifty years later, after a life which...

The Kingdom. By H. E. Goad. (William Heinemann. 6s.) —The

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main interest of this reflective writer's book does not lie in the plot, but in the views conveyed of the Catholic Church in Italy to-day. The story tells of a clever boy...

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Ancient Greece. By H. B. Cotterill, M.A. (George G. Harrap

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and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Cotterill's principal interest is with the art, literature, and philosophy of Greece; but he fits his account of them into a narrative of the external...

Among the new volumes of the " Home University Library

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" (Williams and Norpte, ls. net each), which have just been published, is one by Mr. Charles Tower upon Germany of To- Day. This is not so much a criticism of the spirit of...

Quiet Roads and Sleepy Villages. By Allan Fea. (Eveleigh Nash.

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7s. 6d. net.)—Startiug from Barnet Mr. Fea conducts the reader by a circuitous route through Eertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire,...