THE INFLUENCE OF THE PRESS.* Mn. SCOTT-JAMES begins his inquiry into the influence of the Press with a list of instances in which history has been made through the possession...

LONDON: JUNE 27th, 1914.

FEW of the great old Houses of Europe can surpass in historical interest that of La Tremoille. Its archives, first carefully collected in the sixteenth century, stored honour-...

THE new issues of these three well-known cheap " libraries " fully maintain the standard of the earlier volumes. A vast field is covered (from the natural history of the flea to...

THE ten books which we have selected for notice in this review have little in common except that they have to do with animals. We will begin with the animal stories, of which...

ENGLISHMEN have good reason to be grateful to any writer who can help them to understand Russia better. They have learned from experience in two opposite directions how closely...

ONE hundred years ago, in the months of January, February, and Match, 1814, Napoleon was making a hopeless fight on the frontiers of France against the combined forces of the...

Tars is a book which all who are interested in one of the most important questions of the hour should be sure to read. Sir Charles Fortescue-Brickdale analyses our present...

BOOKS ON INDIAN SUBJECTS. Th,e Fundamental Unity of India (from, Hindu Sources). By Professor Radhakumud Mookerji. With an Introduction by J. Ramsay MacDonald, M.P. (Longmans...

Amulets. By W. M. Flinders Petrie. (Constable and Co. 21s. net.)—The present volume is the first of a series dealing with various branches of Egyptian archaeology as illustrated...

A Text-Book of Elementary Building Construction. By A. R. Sage and W. E. Fretwell. (Methuen and Co. 3e. 6d. net.)—Most people have, at one time or another, felt that desire to...

Terry's Japanese Empire. By T. Philip Terry. (Constable and Co. 21e. net.)—Travellers are regretfully aware that there is as yet no Baedeker for Japan, though there is an...

The Law and Practice of Bankruptcy. By G. L. Hardy. (Effingham Wilson. 2s. 6d. net.)—A useful summary of bankruptcy law designed both for lawyers and laymen, embodying the...

The Life of Henry J. Pope, by his Son (5s. net); The Life of Thomas Bowman Stephenson, by William Bradfield (5s. net); Love and Life : the Story of J. Denholm Brash, by his Son...

The Bed-Book of Happiness. By Harold Begbie. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s. net.)—The Bed-Book of Happiness is an anthology of prose and verse, which thus describes itself: "A...

The Biddle of Mars the Planet. By 0. E. Housden. (Longmana and Co. Be. 6d. net.)—The author of this striking essay starts from the observations which have led Mr. Lowell to...

John Napier and the Invention of Logarithms, 1614. By E. W. Hobson. (Cambridge University Press. 18.6d. net.)— The present year is the tercentenary of the publication, by John...

A History of Japanese Mathematics. By David Eugene Smith and Yoshio Mikami. (Open Court Publishing Co. I2e. net.) — In her long centuries of seclusion, Japan developed a science...

Muireclach, Abbot of Monasterboice, 890-923 A.D. By R. A. S. Macaliater. (Hodges, Figgie, and Co. 75. 6d. net.)— This delightful book is a reprint of three lectures delivered by...

West Indian Fairy Tales. By Gertrude Shaw. Illustrated by H. J. Stock, IL!. (Francis Griffiths. 2s. 6d. net.)—As there is no preface to this book, many questions which the...

Nursery" (only children with strong nerves should be invited to this) to "A Summer Holiday and Entertainment for Boy Scouts" in the chapters allotted to indoor and outdoor games...

Garment Construction in Schools. By Ada Hicks. (Mac- millan and Co. 4e. 6d.)—Dressmaking in the School. By J. C. Cooke and H. M. Kidd. (Longmans and Co. 4e. 6d. net.)—If...

Some Oxford Libraries. By Strickland Gibson. (Humphrey Milford. 28. 6d. net.)—Oxford libraries ! What words could be more sleepily redolent of bookish charm ? Mr. Gibson writes...

(Eyre and Spottiswoode. 42s. net.)—This is the first volume of a valuable addition to the literature of parish registers. It was inspired by the Dean of Durham when he was...

and Sons. 7s. 6th net.)—If grown-up people are as fond of reading about railways as children are of playing with toy trains, there should be a wide demand for Mr. Protheroe's...

6cL net.)—Mr. Leith, who belongs to the University of Wisconsin, deals in this book with "the interpretation of structures produced in rocks by earth movements." His purpose is...

and Co. 4s. 6d. net.)— Ever since Mr. Street published his witty Autobiography of a Boy, his too rare appearances in the literary market-place have been welcome to those who...

$2 . 50 net.)—When she was quite a little girl, Dr. Munson tells us that she was keenly anxious to "hurry and grow up" so that she might go out to India and "save those poor...

T. Fraser. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Christie, who is the Minister of Rerrick, has produced a laudable study in local history with this account of the Abbey of Dundrennan, the...

for the University of Chicago Press. 10s. net.)—This translation (by Mr. W. 0. R. King) of Dr. Loch's account of his experiments on artificial parthenogenesis has been revised...

Psychology and Social Sanity. By Hugo hifinsterberg. (T. Fisher Unwin. 5s. net.)—Since Professor Miinsterberg made his reputation as a critic of national life with The...

M. Dent and Sons. 5s. net.)—Mr. Picktball is well known as a close and sympathetic student of the Oriental mind. In February, 1913, he visited Constantinople—where be had not...

Selections from, the Correspondence of Arthur Capel, Earl of Essex, 1675 - 1677. Edited by C. E. Pike. (Royal Historical Society.)—Lord Essex was Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland from...

Savage. — Isolation Hospitals. By H. Franklin Parsons. (Cambridge University Press. 7s. 6d. net and 12s. 6d. net.)— These admirable monographs form the second and third volumes...

Co. 8s. 6d. net.)—" The problems met with in actual engineering practice often differ greatly from the text- book form of exercise." Mr. Duncan has made this fact the...

Werner Laurie, 12s. 6d. net.)—The author of this read- able volume was stationed at Buxa Duar, which guards the pass into India from Bhutan. He describes the daily incidents of...

shire. By T. J. Walker. (Constable and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)— When Stevenson was engaged in writing St. Ives, his pre- conceived notions of the treatment of French prisoners in...

Crossland. (Cambridge University Press. 10s. 6d. net.)— This fascinating book deals with one of the least-known coast- lines in the world—the western shore of the Red Sea...

and concluding volume of Mr. Moore's artless and informal autobiography. We regret to say that it combines some very interesting, and even beautiful, passages with many which...

and Co. 8s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Moseley filled the important post of Secretary of the American Interstate Commerce Commission from its organization in 1897 until his death in 1911....

Jenkins. 12s. 6d. net.)—This amusing book, well translated by Miss Lilian Wiggins from the French original, bears testimony to the enduring fascination of Romney's and Nelson's...

58. net.)—This candidly egotistic volume is the record of what Stevenson would have called a "compendious lark." Its author—who is a well-known American landscape painter—...

6d. net.)—This learned and laborious "record of the old buildings and associations of the City" is intended to call attention to the treasures of beauty and antiquity that still...

J. A. Follows. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. Is. 6d. net.) —The title of this book is rather a misnomer. It is an attempt to sketch the causes and results of the French Revolution...

Edited by Stewart L. Mims. (Yale University Press. 10s. 6d. net.)—Moreau de Saint-Wry played a part of some importance in the early days of the French Revolution—he used to say...

an interesting record of one of the protagonists in the Trade Union movement. Mr. Applegartb, who is still living, was born in 1834, and, after spending three years in America,...

(Methuen and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—This work, at once readable and scholarly, is a notable addition to The Antiquary's Books." The life of the recluse is now " seldom chosen and...

MacLehose and Sons. 4e. 6d. net.)—Mr. Steuart takes us along a little-known by-path of history. His researches show that the first Scottish settlement in Russia was formed about...

the Bookman contains several "appre- ciations" of Dickens and numerous illustrations—chiefly of persons and places associated with the author of Pickwick. Sir W. Robertson...

University Press. 15s. net.)—This valuable work is founded on the Black Book of Chirk, which is shortly to be edited by Dr. J. G. Evans, but the words and phrases explained are...

64. net.)—In this agreeably discursive and well-written essay Mr. Crippen dissects the elements of "what is called Progress," and asks us to consider how far we have fallen from...

Son. 65. 84. net.)—The annual revision of this well-known work of reference embodies so much of the legislation of 1913 as is of general interest. The legislation of the year...

(G. G. Harrap. 3s. 64. net.)—The earlier sonnet anthologies are mostly out of print, and this excellent selection of two hundred turd thirty sonnets, from Wyatt to Mrs. Meynell,...

the London and Comity Printing Works, Drury Lane, W.C., end Published by JONI BAKED for the "lerscrarea" (Limited), at their Olfre, No. 1 Wellington Street. in the Precinct of...

Albania, the news is still very bad. Though Dmazzo holds out, rebel successes-are reported in most other parts of the country. It is very doubtful whether the Mpret will much...

the Times, writing in Friday's issue, sketches the policy of the Lords exactly as we have sketched it in our issue of to-day, and in those of the last three or four weeks. The...

like the Greeks and Trojans, "know the Morel:tee " now that Achilles is returned. When the ship *bieh took him to America on Thursday reached port he at einett made a statement...

THE menace an menace of war between Greece and Turkey g h (3 over the Near East. During the past week the principal event in this connexion has been the decision of Congress and...

with great hospitality in Russian waters. On Saturday last a deputation of members of the Duma came on board the 'Lion,' and M. Rodzianko, the President, delivered an address of...

the Amending Bill. We have dealt with the whole subject elsewhere, but may say here that the best thing that can be said of the Bill is that it is a dummy Bill, intended to be...

to precipitate a state of war. They fear that as soon as the Turks have the advantage at sea they will attack them. If, however, the Powers were able to give a joint guarantee...

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Opposition were entirely to blame for the temporary postponement of the grants-in-aid. They had pressed the Government for years to relieve the sorely burdened local...

the extraordinary confusion in which the Amending Bill leaves the question of finance, Post Office, and Customs. Here we may remind our readers that this task, though a...

note that Mr. Asquith's speech was very adroit and, from his point of view, very sagacious. If he has a talent for letting the ship drift into difficulties, which a little...

at Denmark Hill on Saturday lad. The Chancellor of the Exchequer began by insisting on the need for nerve, courage, and determination in the last stages of their political...

Finance Bill muddle on Tuesday. Mr. Hayes Fisher moved an amendment regretting the delay in granting aid to the local authorities, and condemning the setting up of the new...

that the Govern- ment will, to begin with, only agree to a portion of the Lords' amendments. Then the Lords, in order to save the face of the Cabinet, will probably accept...

on the motion of Lord St Aldwyn, to appoint a Select Committee to inquire into certain matters connected with the Welsh Church BILL The first question for consideration was...

to tax wealth was not to atinek wealth. To levy fair contributions on wealth for the necessities of the State was to strengthen all fair wealth, and the Budgets of 1909 and 1914...

ominous for the Government in no ordinary degree. Their majority in a full House was only 38—it was supposed that at the worst it would not be below 50-265 voting for the...

Bell, the well-known ironmaster, the subject being Mr. J. J. Hill's recent speech at Washington. Very wisely, as we think, Sir Hugh Bell dismisses as unproven the allegation...

the Middlesex Division of the National Reserve, about eighteen hundred men taking part in the march-past- a very fine achievement, upon which we very warmly con- gratulate the...

will be delighted with Sir John French's admirable speech. He touches the problem in exactly the right spirit. As a matter of fact, nothing has done more to help the nation to a...

The workmen have themselves, he holds, rendered nugatory "our endeavours to meet their demands for higher wages." Loss of time he gives as a universal complaint, and points out...

of a humdrum order. An earldom has been granted to Lord Kitchener—his third step in the peerage—and the Master of the Rolls (Sir H. Cozens-Hardy), Sir Edgar Vincent, General...

Tuesday at a dinner at the Imperial Institute given by the Government to the delegates and representatives of the International Congress of Tropical Agriculture. In the course...

"Apparently with a light heart, Parliament passes a Minimum Wage Act, or Pony Inspection Act, or what not, quite regardless of the economic effects of such enactment, failing to...

Mr. Lloyd George spoke of the "many subtle, far-reaching ways" in which Providence redressed the seeming partiality with which it dispensed its favours, and appealed to all...

THE AMENDING BILL. W E do not wonder that Lord Lansdowne expressed deep disappointment with the outline of the Amend- ing Bill given by Lord Crewe us the House of Lords on...

T HE best way of arriving at a general outline of the form that Exclusion should take is to consider how the task of Exclusion would be performed if a man of clear and...

T HE Unionist Social Reform Committee, a body chiefly composed of Unionist Members of Parliament, but including also such well-known men as Professor Ashley and Mr. Christopher...

C ONGRATULATIONS are due to Mr. R. D. Holt and to those of his Liberal colleagues who stood by him for their part in securing the drastic modification of Mr. Lloyd George's...

following conversation, though they may speak wit!, the air of elegant virtuosi or of nonchalant men of the world, are in truth only two shapeless, idiot-faced puppets. These...

TIQUE'l Lb-BOOKS are like cookery-boas—very few 1 1 are practical. Really good cooks keep their secrets. Perhaps they could not impart them. Certainly they do not wish to. We...

L ORD FARRER'S letter on the threatened disfigurement of the beautiful road between Albury and Shen will have been read by many with deep interest; by a few with a renewed sense...

THE SOLDIER'S WIFE. (To 1 . 89 FanTell OF TH. sssacrivos." - i Sra,—May I draw the attention of your readers to the extra- ordinary recommendations of the newly published...

[To THE EDITOE OF THE n SPECTATOR:1 Suit, — I venture to express my dissent from the proposition that the object of the Irish National Volunteers is the coercion of Ulster. They...

[To TE1 EDITOR Or Tel ° SPECTATOR:1 thoroughly agree with the suggestion contained in Mr. Oliver's letter to the Spectator of June 6th, that the Lords should reject any amending...

SIR, — Mr. Richard Crosbie in his letter in your last issue on the above subject draws a contrast between the Northern and Southern Volunteers. He writes: "In Belfast Volunteers...

drawn to a letter in your last issue from a Mr. Crosbie regarding the Ulster Volunteers, in which he stated that the members of this force are paid. I should like to know what...

[To THE EDITOR Or TRY . 137ECTATOR."1 Sin,—In an editorial footnote to a letter under the above title which appeared in the Spectator of June 20th you remark that the writer...

MENTONE. [TO PRI EDITOR OP PRA SPBCTATOR. ° 3 Slit, — It is a grand thing for a man to have seen the Riviera, its sea of sapphires and emeralds, its valleys and hilltop...

4. tirecraeo."1 Sin,—Lord Murray of Elibank, erstwhile Liberal Whip and colleague of Mr. Lloyd George in the Ministry, recommends a Referendum on woman suffrage (Times, June...

[To TEN Eorron or Tax "SrxrrarOn."1 Sra,—To give poor children even a single day each year in the pure air and ameliorating influences of the country is to do a great good. It...

[To ran Roma or ran "tirscraros."1 Sin,—May I join with Captain Holmes in expressing our great indebtedness to the Sheriff of Surrey for the Whitsuntide Camp, for, apart from...

prove too much P He proves to his own satisfaction that confirmation is not necessary for attend. ance at Holy Communion, except in certain cases, although the rubric at the...

[To TYE EDITOZ 07 TRH "srecriree."1 Si,—"All actors live in dread of ' marrowskyieg,' that curious transposition of syllables which illustrates the truth of the saying that from...

Sit,—The case of John Evelyn fully bears out the correctness of "A. CL's" contention. Evelyn was a convinced and loyal High Churchman, the son of wealthy parents, and an under-...

f To THY EDITOR OF THE "873HTZTOH:q SIR,—We have an Old Age Pension Law which is at the same time a Charitable Aid Law ; but the promoters did not fail to state that it would...

[To =V EMT= 07 TEM ..SPHGTZTOlt."] SIE,—In your issue of June 13th yon speak of the need for some concrete example of a system of universal military training. May I point out...

Richard Baxter, "the illustrious chief of the Puritans," as Lord Macaulay calls him, may be of interest at the present time. In his treatise on Confirmation, published in 1658,...

Sta.—Happening to take up General Gordon's letters to his sister in a London club, I found on. the second page the following words, which may be of interest to some in your...

[To MI EDITOR or THZ "spec...roan Srn,—I have long been convinced that a highly lucrative source of revenue lies ready to the hand of any Chancellor of the Exchequer who will...

THE RUSSIAN INVASION. MEL NEWMARCH, who has already laboured with admirable results as an interpreter of Russian culture, has happily timed the issue of her new volume.* Books...

THE OULD HAS-BEEN. ALL down by the harbour a. walking one day, I saw an old hulk by the wharf-side that lay, Her topmasts lopped off and her paint weathered bare, Red rust...

or initials, or with a pseudon i ym, or are marked " Communicated," the Editor tenet not necessartly be held to be in a g reement with the views therein expressed or with the...

THE FIRST ILPFORM BILL.* Ma. J. R. M. Brrmart is a welcome recruit to the ranks of English historians. He has taken for his subject a period just beyond the reach of living...

THE q ualities of g e n ius are not Characteristic of an a g e. WO speak habitually of the ei g htee n th century as thou g h it pr6:. 'tented to us certain definitely marked...

THE revelations that continue to be made of the labour con- ditions over a large area of Latin America seem to pour scorn on all the efforts of the past to alleviate the lot of...

THE fascination of previous stones goes far deeper than is thought by those who have only seen them in the shops of the jewellers and on the necks of women. A friend of the...

THR REV, CHARLES WATTS WHISTLER, who died in Juno, 1913, was a man distinguished in various walks of life. Born in 1856, he was educated at Merchant Taylors' and trained at St....

THIS is one of the most remarkable records of travel which we have come across. Mr. Ridge;, while engaged in business in London, was filled with a great desire to see the world....

THE readers of Mrs. Hugh Fraser's A Diplomatist's Wife in Many Lands will remember the chapters which described her childhood in Rome. 1a her new "Collection of Memories" she...

Mr. Norton must study the art of stage management before he can join the ranks of the really first-rate novelists. "Let us go back over the last month or two," says Dick on p....

TENTS OF A NIGHT.* WHETHER she writes independently or in collaboration with her sister, the work of Miss Mary Findlater is always welcome. The quality of exhilaration may be...

Bowden was not a youth to be admired, and we confess that we are easily able to withstand his "animal magnetism." He was educated at the Council school of a Lancashire factory...

Tract Society. lie. (3d. net.)—The author of this book settled in Canada a good many years ago, and is, there- fore, able to put herself in the position of the intending...

Boon. 6s.)—This book belongs to what might be called the country-house type of novel—that is, most of the characters are "county" people living in excellently run...

(Macmillan and Co. 5e. net.)—We heartily envy Mr. Hutton his pleasant teak, and do not wonder that "it is with a sigh that the pen is laid down, the books put away, the feet no...

Mader Otis Itutding notico such Books of lie owls as Sass mg hot roserood for review Ot othsr fora',.] The Portuguese Amnesty. By the Earl of Lytton. (L. Tfpcott Gill and Son....

this portly volume one of the most important food-grains of the world is studied with great thoroughness. The author is a botanist and agricultural expert in the service of the...

of life in an English country town. "John Ayscough's" usual readers will not be surprised to find that most of the good people in the book become Roman Catholics.—The Price of...

(3d. net.)—This is a rather disappointing book. The author is a well-known American novelist of the neo- realistic school, and we expected that his first impressions of England...

and Co. 5e. net.)—Mr. C. K. Ogden's excellent translation of Professor Drieech's well-known book has bad the advantage of a thorough revision by the author, who has also...

Press. 9s. net)—The point of view and the methods of treatment adopted in this learned and thoughtful essay are those suggested by Driesch and Bergson. Science, says Driesch, is...

map of Australia is on the scale of 1: 2,500,000, or 39.5 miles to an inch. It embodies the results of the latest surveys, and shows rivers in blue, railways and roads in red,...

very desirable volume contains the Essays in Criticism (first series only, the second series being presum- ably still copyright), the lectures on translating Homer, and five...