LONDON : JUNE 26th, 1909.

BISHOP PERCY OF DROMOTt.* IT is a remarkable fact, as Sir George Douglas observes in his preface to Miss Alice Gaussen's book, that until Miss Gaussen undertook the task, there...

in Uganda dates back to 1877. The beginning was full of disaster. Two missionaries reached Lake Victoria Nyanza on January 29th in that year, and they were joined two months...

LIFE."* A "AMIABLE work, L'Enseignement Technique, Industriel et .Commercial, has just been published in Paris proving the Infinite importance of technical education for...

MR. HOLMES was a Police Court missionary when he wrote his Pictures and Problems front London Police Courts (re- viewed in the Spectator, December 29th, 1900). He resigned that...

has been populated solely by immigration, and the mere fact is pre- sumptive evidence of the hereditary quality of the American people. The crossing of the Atlantic, the making...

ONE must always welcome any book which enables one to understand, in however small a way, the springs that prompt another to action. This is especially the case when such a book...

Ma. TOYNBEE has produced another readable and well- illustrated book of that type which stands on the borderline between history and memoirs, and which owes its inspiration to...

RAMBLES IN SUSSEX. Rambles in Sussex. By F. G. Brabant. (Methuen and Co. Cs.)—The delectable county of Sussex has had many appraisers, but none more thorough than Mr....

WE must own that the general idea of a "Catholic" encyclo- Paedia pleases us no more than would be the case if the d istinguishing epithet were " Anglican," " Wesleyan," or...

.TFi ra "Contribution to the Apologetics of Judaism" is an able book. Mr. Goodman, whether ho attacks or defends "and his tactics are mainly of the offensive kind—shows great...

THEaes arc various ways of disregarding logic. What is much stranger is that there should be so many possible ways of treating a subject which might at first seem both too...

Five Months in the Himalaya. By A. L. Mumm. (E. Arnold. 21e. net.)—A very fine photograph, which serves as frontispiece to this volume, shows us a view of "Trisul from the...

George Watt. (Jolla Murray. 16s. net.)—This volume is an abridgment of the " Dictionary of the Economic Products of India," but it is Asa' of very considerable magnitude,...

Napoleon's Marshals. By R. P. Dunn-Pattison, M.A. (Methuen and Co. 12s. 6d. net.)—The story of how and why Napoleon made his Marshals is a curious one. He published his first...

Morals in Modern Business. (Yale University Press. 5s. not.) —In this volume we have six addresses delivered at Yale before the Senior Class of the Sheffield Scientific...

Ancient Jerusalem. By Solah Merrill. (Fleming H. Revell Company. 21s. not.)—Dr. Merrill has qualified himself for his task by utilising for purposes of study and research a....

Memoir of Colonel William Senyon-Slancy, M.P. Edited by Walter Durnford. (John Murray. 35. 6d. not.)—Colonel Kenyon- Slaney was the author of the clause in the Education Bill...

The Jew and Human Sacrifice. By Hermann L. Strack, D.D. (Cope and Fenwick. 10s. 6d. net.)—Professor Strack, who takes the opportunity of stating that he is entirely of...

The Dudley Book of Cookery and Household Recipes. Collected and Arranged by Georgians, Countess of Dudley. (Edward Arnold. 7s. 6d. not.)—This might well be called a...

The Public Health Agitation, 1833-48. By B. L. Hutchins. (A. C. Fifield. 2s, 6d. net.)—The origin of Miss Hutohina's treatise is curious : "The initial suggestion for this...

Canadian Types of the Old Ildginte. By C. W. Colby. (George Bell and Sons. 10s. 6d. net.)—Professor Colby, of McGill University, selects his types from the period 1608-1698....

OF LAZARILLO DE TOMES. The Los e Lasarillo de Tormes. Translated by Sir Clements Markham. (A. and C. Black. 5s. net.)—Doubtless this tale is not so well known as it should...

Readings in Modern European History. By James Harvey Robinson and Charles A. Board. Vol. II. (Ginn and Co. Os. 6d.)—This volume covers the period beginning with the Congress...

King's Hostel, Trinity College, Cambridge. By W. D. Carob, M.A. (Heighten, Boll, and Co., Cambridge. 102. Bd. not.)— King's Hostel is, so to speak, the nucleus of Trinity...

Faith : its Nature and its Work. By Handley C. G. Menlo, D.D., Bishop of Durham. (Cassell and Co. 8s. 6d. net.)—This is a book about faith written for those who already have...

Studies in Roman History : Second Series. By E. G. Hardy, D.Litt. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co. 6s.)—Dr. Hardy's new book is largely an historical commentary on Tacitus. In the...

The Ballantyne Press and its Pounders. (Ballantyne, Hanson, and Co., Edinburgh.)—James Ballantyne, born at Kelso in 1772, became in 1796 tho editor and manager of the Kelso...

A Grammar of the Old Testament in Greek. By Henry St, John Thackerses Vol. I. (Cambridge University Press. 8s. not.)— This is the first instalment of what will be, when...

The Acts of the Apostles. By Adolf Harnack. (Williams and Norgate. 6s.)—In Professor Harnack's new book, The Acts of the Apostles, he develops the position which he...

The Faith of a Modern Protestant. By Wilhelm Bousset. (T. Fisher Unwin. 2s. 6d, not.)—This book may be regarded as the continuation of the last chapter of Professor Bousset's...

In a German Colony. By B. Pullen-Burry. (Methuen and Co. Ss. net.)—Miss Pullen-Burry, who has wandered over no small portion of the earth, thought that she should like to...

Malaria and Greek History. By W. H. S. Jones, M.A. (University Press of Manchester. 58. net.)—This volume has a direct interest as a study in Greek history, an indirecbais a...

English Church, By J. H. Maude, M.A. (Methuen and Co. 2s. Bd. net.)—This volume belongs to the series of " Handbooks of English Church History," appearing under the editorship...

Novatian De Trinitate. Edited by W. Yorke Fausset, " Cambridge Patristic Texts." (Cambridge University Press. Os. not.)—We have hero, in most convenient and attractive form, a...

Days in Hellas. By Mabel Moore. (W. Heinemann. Cs.)— Mrs. Moore evidently has plenty of humour, plenty of good sense, and is quite capable of sentiment, always gracefully...

Quaint Subjects of the King. By John Foster Fraser. (Cassell and Co. Gs.)—This volume is, in its way, full of Imperial interest. Mr. Fraser takes us to many places in the "...

Some Reminiscences of Three-Quarters of a Century in India. By a Mutiny Veteran. (Luzao and Co. 2s. ad. not.)—Mr. Churcher, the author of this little volume, begins with some...

J. L. Myres. (A. Constable and Co. 2s. 8d.)—Among the varied contents of this number may be found reports of researches into the antiquities of Northern Greece. Thessaly has...

a reprint of a lecture delivered by Lord Esher on March 5th last at the Royal Institution. The lecturer speaks with authority, for he has, of course, seen much that is not pub-...

Freeman. (Jordan and Sons. 5s. net.)—This volume contains letters addressed to a periodical of which Manchester is justly proud, Our Dogs. " Dogs and their Owners "our readers...

Hi g h Holborn, W.C. ; and Published by Jon. Bats. for the "Spit:nava' (Limited) ire their Office. No. I Wellington Street, hi the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the County...

by Djavid Bey, Reporter of the Budget Commission, proved to be an extremely lucid and instructive exposition of the financial situation. After noting that the Budget Com-...

Report of the Parliamentary Commission on the Navy. According to him, the Report justifies in great measure the hostile criticisms passed in Parliament and in the Press. During...

explained by the Vienna correspondent of the Times in the issue of last Saturday. In a recent speech Professor Ma,saryk, t he well-known Czech, asserted that the Prince of...

FOR, Trup [ REGISTERED Al A I PRICE ...... -SD. NNwspApER. Dr POST, ,00. NO. 4,226.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1909.

I N the Reichstag on Thursday evening a division was taken upon the Government Bill imposing the Inherit- a . o ,,,. ilee "tax, and the Bill was rejected by 194 votes to 189....

on the occasion of the Steeplechase Grand Prix. The French and English lads and stable hands attached to the training establishments at Maisons-Laffitte have been agitating...

characteristic speech about his visit to the Emperor Of Russia :— la Majesty the Emperor and I are agreed that our meeting 0 ,.° he regarded as a powerful confirmation of...

important gathering of the London branch of the All-India Moslem League. His speech, though moderate in tone, showed the grave situation which has arisen through the recent...

a Socialist, because what is due to the growth of the community ought to belong to the community, is absurd. The community, having the power, can take any property which it...

the supreme control—entirely in British hands, while retaining as instruments of government members of any and every class and creed in India. If this principle is maintained,...

but may note here that on Thursday afternoon the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer made strong speeches at a political luncheon on their determination to carry...

that, speaking with a full sense of responsibility and after fully weighing his words, he unhesitatingly said that if in the final shaping of the plane of Government the pledges...

as particularly interesting. No Peers are created, 'but there are five new Privy Councillors,—Mr. Merriman, the Premier of Cape Colony, Mr. C. H. Hobhouse, Sir Hudson E....

occupied with the Committee stage of the Finance Bill. The frequent application of the Closure has, however, for the most part deprived the debates of any sense of reality. The...

that have been caused in the Mohammedan population of India—a population, remember, which is nearly one-fourth of the Indian community, and more than a fourth of what may be...

of the Federal Parliament since the recent change in the Ministry, spoke in detail of the proposals relating to Imperial defence. Colonel Foxton, who represents the Commonwealth...

voluntary enterprise with the object of making good the admitted arrears of our national defence in aerial navigation. Th e Morning Post has opened a subscription for offering...

dinner at Cambridge on Wednesday. After dwelling on the splendour of Darwin's achievements, which had now become part of the common intellectual heritage of every man of...

some very striking figures were given as to the value of work done by the unemployed,—figures which amply prove the truth of a remark which we have made again and again in the...

off D ungeness between the second-class cruiser Sappho,' attached to the Home Fleet, and the Wilson Line steamer Sappho,' of The liner struck the cruiser in a vulnerable part...

and eight units of the Territorial Army with colours. At half-past three the Royal Standard was broken from the flagstaff above the saluting base, and the King, accompanied by...

College, Eltham, on Thursday, referred to the increase in the armaments of different nations, but declared that what he cared about most was not the number of guns, bet the...

April loci Consols (2k) were on Friday 841---Friany week 841.

THE COUNTRY AND THE • BUDGET. T HE opposition to the Budget, and especially to the land clauses, has been growing rapidly during the week. On Wednesday a meeting of protest...

Members of the Duma and of the Russian Upper House, who began their visit to England this week will, we trust, see and hear a great deal which will be of interest and of use to...

NGLISHMEN lately returned from Paris tell us that respectable French people are alarmed at the frequency and viciousness of Labour riots, shake their heads at the signs of the...

A LL over the world the Parliamentary institutions of England have been copied with greater or less fidelity. It is in the land in which they had their birth that their...

O NE advantage of the visit of journalists from other parts of the Empire to the home country is that au opportunity is created for friendly and frank criticism. In some ways...

O N Tuesday, in a formula of fine simplicity and feeling. the Archbishop of Canterbury accepted on behalf of the Church of England the site and ruins of Glastonbury Abbey. It...

A T Cambridge this week the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin, and the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of " The Origin of Species," are being com- memorated by a...

I N the correspondence which has lately appeared in the Spectator on the subject of the call of the cuckoo, a writer signing himself " L. E. C." makes a remark which is...

attached importance to the limitation of Some of the birds' calls have been taken down in their armaments, since no nation can he expeoted to specifically names. Cuckoo is one...

ITO TUE EDITOR OP TITS "9PECTATOIL1 Sin,—If one may judge from the newspaper reports of the replies given in the House on Monday by Mr. McKinnon Wood to Mr. Leverton Harris's...

the Exchequer proposes to put a tax . of 20 per cent. on the difference between the price paid for a property and the price obtained for it, as if the difference between these...

[To Tee EDITOR or TRII " SPECTATOR."J SIR,—Although the Finance Bill has been under discussion for some weeks, it must be appiu•ent that, whatever may be said in favour of...

SIR,—By the Finance Bill the following duties are put upon laud :—(1) The Increment Value Duty of 20 per cent. (a) on any sale of land or grant of any lease not less than...

[To errs anrron or viii "sr so r.uroie."1 Sri,—In the letter signed "A German" published by you in the Spectator of June 5th the following passage occurs :— " There is one...

[To TRU EDITOR Or TI/11 "SPROTATOR.1 Szn,—Mr. Alfred Mond, writing in the Times of the 22nd inst., gives it as his opinion that land let at lls. 9d. per acre must be of "an...

[TO Mt EDITOR Or T1111 " SPROTATOL1 Sta,—In the concluding part of your article on "Land Taxation in the Budget" in last week's Spectator you refer to the Constitutional...

suppose it is no exaggeration to state that the men of this country are at last fully aroused to our extreme national peril, and intend to see that our sea and laud forces are...

EDITOR OF TIM "SPROTATOR."J SIR,-"eill your editorial comment at the foot of Mr. Rowland Hunt's letter re universal military training published in the Spectator of the 19th...

TII• “SPIOP1TOR:1 6 . nt,—Your correspondent " Quinque Filii" in last week's " s ae is, I think, in his estimate of a subaltern'. expenses, quoting from experience of a...

LTO TIM EDITOR Or TIM "SrimarAton."J LTO TIM EDITOR Or TIM "SrimarAton."J Eli / . ' 4 have read the rather weak-kneed letters of your c orrespondents " Quiuque Filii " and " M."...

of " Quinque Filii" in your last issue does a lot of harm to the Territorial Force. There may be regiments in which this magnificence of apparel is thought necessary, but my...

[To VIM EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR.") Eint,—After reading your interesting article on J. R. Green (Spectator, June 12th), I contrasted its tone with that of a passage in...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THR " SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—You who have clone so much to teach this country that young men can be trained to arms in a comparatively short time will, I am...

[To TOE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." SIR, — In your issue of the 19th inst. you say, referring to the recent Treaty with Siam :—" In return, Britain abandons her rights of...

should feel very grateful if you could find space in the Spectator for a plea on behalf of the preservation of birds. I have been resident this spring in a Berkshire village....

to abound in " (meaning " to agree entirely with "), is evidently reminiscent of the Freuch idiom " abonder dans son sons" (late Latin, abundare in suo aensu), meaning to...

SIR, —The correspondence you publish on the reasoning powers of animals prompts me to write to you of the fine saying many years ago of a man in Colyton, Devonshire. He had a...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " srxervron.1 SIR, —Perhaps when you said that you " abounded in every word hero used by Sir Edward Grey" (Spectator, June 1201) you were guilty of a...

"srscrocroir."] Slap—Until this summer the cuckoo has been to me" no bird, but an invisible thing, a voice, a mystery still longed for, never seen" ; but while playing golf...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sita.--The letter's which appear from time to time in your columns headed "Do Animals Reason P " ....

was walking along Upper Leeson Street, Dublin, and saw a King Charles spaniel standing on a doorstep looking up at the bell-handle and whining. As soon as he saw me approaching...

THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The letter in your issue of June 12th interests me very ranch, and I would write to the writer if I had his address, as Thy remarks may not appeal to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOTI."] Sin,—In your issue of last week you referred to the possi- bility of Archbishop Tait not having been confirmed according to the rite of...

AD MATREM DOLOROSAM. THINK not thy little fountain's rain That in the sunlight rose and flashed, From the bright sky has fallen again, To cold and shadowy silence dashed. The...

In your notice of the book entitled "Fifty Years of It," which appears in your notice of June 19th, you make reference to the author as "Mr. Macdonald." It would, I humbly...

giR, — The words, Ti trpoe•bfpxEO . 8i /2 ' Ilatuuro,, Tisca; quoted in the note on "A Dead Language ?" (Spectator, Juno 19th, p. 9%76), occur in I. 1040 of the Medea, not...

[To THE EDITOR OF TRH "SPECTATOR." ] SIR, —You kindly gave me opportunity last summer to plead through the Spectator for assistance towards the maintenance of a rest-room for...

THE NEW VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM. TODAY the King opens the new buildings of the great Museum at South Kensington, the foundation of which his father did so much to promote,...

Mayhew's difficulty (Spectator, June 19th) will, I think, have been shared by many of your readers. The Century Dictionary cites the expression, "To abound in (or with) one's...

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...

A DIARY OF THE NAVAL FIGHTING IN THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR.* A LITTLE more than two years ago we wrote of a remarkable book called The Battle of Tsu-Shima, by Commander Wladi m ir...

re-establishment of the Entente Cordiale with the French Republic has been the awakened curiosity on the part of our neighbours across the Channel concerning English...

To trace the influence of Dante in English literature is a fascinating task. It illustrates at once the association of England with Italy, varying in strength and in character...

THESE essays presented to Dr. Fairbairn by some of those " who have studied or taught in Mansfield College" during the twenty-two years since he became its first Principal are a...

not to be reprinted, is worthy of the great poem which it reproduces. The volumes are royal quarto, containing in all a thousand and thirty-eight pages, with sixteen of...

A CHANGE IN THE CABINET.* BELLOC in his amusing political satire has been guilty of several minor errors of taste and of one conspicuous error of judgment. He is careful to...

MR. LEADAM has found the common difficulty of keeping the proper proportion between unlimited material and limited space. He has to tell the story of three reigns, and in the...

[Under this howling tes notice such Books of the wink as haw not too* reserved for mien in other forms.] The English Child's Crusade. A Sermon by the Rev. John H. Skrine. (Holy...

the Rev. Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth. By John Collins Francis. (T. Fisher Unwin. 10s. 6d. net.)—Joseph; Knight was editor of Notes and Queries from 1883 till his death in 1907,...

8s. 6d. net,)—Lady Arundell has collected letters to friends and to periodicals, speeches delivered in the House of Lords, notes for speeches not delivered, and other...

0s.)—An amusing story of the adventures of an American woman in English sooloty.—The First Law. By Lady Troubridge. (Mills and Boon. Cise—A. novel with an ingenious plot,...

Untold 13egbio approaches his subject, which is that of marring°, on the lines which have been very frequently advocated in these columns. Ho regards crimes against marriage as...

a story of modern journalism, a theme which is wonderfully popular just at present, both on the stage and in fiction. The hero of the book, James Maxwell, makes an extra-...

(Western Morning News Company, Plymouth. 3s.)— " This book," we are told, "is the first to give a complete topo- graphical description of Dartmoor." It tells us, not about the...

Elder, and Co. 15s. net.)—This sixteenth volume of the now issue takes in XLVL-XLVIII. of the original edition, from "Ralph Pocock" to "Sanderson Robins." Among the " Robins "...

Richards. Cs, net.)—Mr. Wright thus describes the purpose of his book :—" It does not contain anything about Garden Art, nor about the general principles of gardening. It is...

Do Vinito Preis, New York.)--George Washington was the authentic founder of Pittsburgh. Ho chose the place as the site of a fort. He was present in 1758 when the British flag...