SIR EDWARD BURNE-JONES.* THIS book cannot be considered a final Life of the great painter, for in a final work we expect critical analysis and generalisation. But if the last...

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years of South American history. Yet it should have been a halcyon period. The whole of the continent had thrown over simultaneously the rule of Spain, and there were not...

his early Victorian cousin. His verses are, as a rule, admirably printed and prettily bound, while his unfortunate relative's were presented in the guise of a Sunday-school book...

"Little Books on Art" (2s. 6d. net each),—Ho/bein, by Mrs. C. Fortescue, and Corot, by Ethel Birnstingl and Alice Pollard. Both these books are interesting and worth reading,...

seems well satisfied with the works of the painter, and everything is taken very seriously. If not in the best of taste, this appreciation is at any rate authoritative as...

A useful series of books is now being issued under the title of " Newnes's Art Library" (G. Newnes, 3s. 6d. net each). Each volume contains a number of process...

us is "now done into English by Herbert P. Home, and newly printed at Boston in the United States of America, at the Merrymount Press." From the form of this announcement the...

2s.)— Biographies and appreciations of living artists written by admirers are not uncommon. In the present case Mr. Joy

(Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. £2 2s. net.)—The history of Sir Gareth of Orkney is one of the most human and beautiful of the stories in the "Norte Darthur." It has a different...

net.)—Where the author quotes acknowledged authorities this book may be depended on. When, however, she makes state- ments on her own responsibility we must employ caution. In...

a medley of extraordinary confusion. We are glad to welcome another charming book of coloured illustrations by Mr. Graham Robertson. This artist gives us beauty of form and...

12s. 6d.)—This is a general summary of modern English art written in a popular manner, and as such may prove a useful book, for there is discrimination in the criticism. The...

Edited, Minutely Revised, and Largely Rewritten by Russell Sturgis. 2 vols. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 36s. net.)—When we consider that this work deals with sculpture,...

by Sir Walter Armstrong. (F. Warne and Co. 25s. net.) —In the introduction we find a good deal of interesting informa- tion concerning the creation of the National Gallery. At...

(G. Bell and Sons. 6s.)—There is a great deal of really interesting and valuable matter in this treatise on drapery, both from the theoretical and practical sides of the...

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net.)—Rossetti's own pictures have fitly been used in this edition, which is printed on good paper from thick black type. Mr. W. M. Rossetti has written a short notice of his...

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Charles Hughes (Sherratt and Hughes. 10s. net.)—" Willobie his Avisa, or the true picture of a modest maid and a chest and constant wife," is a minor Elizabethan poem...

A. Free- man. (Macmillan and Co. 10s.)—This volume contains a series of lectures delivered by the late Professor Freeman, and intended by him to be worked up into a history of...

of Haileybury College. (Macmillan and Co. 5s. net.)— The editor of this posthumous volume of verse expresses the hope that it will have an interest for readers to whom the...

late Mrs. Child Sargent, has published the present volume, which gives generally two, and sometimes more, versions of the three hundred and five ballads in the original work. In...

T. Clark, Edinburgh. 8s. 6d.)—The author of this interesting volume was in 1895 offered an appointment on the staff of an expedition that was about to set out for Mesopotamia...

Cowper. With Prefatory Essay by D. Macfadyen, MA. (James Clarke and Co. 3s. net, leather.)—These translations, made in 1782-83 to please a friend, the Rev. John Bull, were...

W. Robinson, C.B. (W. Blackwood and Sons. 16s. net.)—The Robinsons of Virginia and Upper Canada were a distinguished and loyal family, men of unusual ability and character,...

Sir J. Luther Vaughan, K.C.B. (A. Constable and Co. 16s.)—Sir J. Luther Vaughan's recollections date from the Crimea and the Mutiny,—it was his regiment, the 5th Punjab...

Constable and Co. 3s. 6d.)—Major Evans-Gordon deals in this book with a now familiar subject, and analyses what is now also the tolerably familiar evidence as to the...

give no adequate idea, are Some English Gardens, after Drawings by George S. Elgood, with Notes by Gertrude Jekyll (Longmans and Co., 42s. net) ; and Italian Villas, with their...

millan and Co. Os. 6d. net.)—This study in the " principles of personality" by the President of Bowdoin College is one of those extremely clever and almost painfully...

Gillespie, LL.D. (W. Blackwood and Sons. 3s. 641.)—Of the rather too numerous books which have followed in the wake of the cele- brated " Reminiscences" of Dean Ramsay, and...

(A. and C. Black. 7s. 6d.)—A number of excellent books dealing with that Edinburgh which seems to have an equal charm alike for inhabitants and for visitors have appeared...

United Free Church of Scotland ; and considering that the late Dr. Duff was a missionary of the Church of the Disruption, is appropriately enough "a study of our Lord's...

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Dent and Co. 7s. 6d. net.) — Our standpoint, especially on the ethical aspects of literature, is other than that taken by Mr. Symons. We cannot help thinking that he shows...

Withers. (The University Press, Manchester. 45. 6d.)—The Memoir, with selections from letters, which serves as an introduction to the papers of the late Mr. Withers, who...

(Elliot Stock. 7s. 6d.)—This is a curious and interesting book, and deserves to be widely read, even although the scholarly student will discover a good deal to find fault...

Appleton. 3s. 6d.)—The " Amy " with whom Sir Philip Burne-Jones made a week's trip was the motor-car of a pair of cousins, and the little volume in which he describes the tour...

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Fisher Unwin. 12s.)—There is a want of cohesion about this work ; it seems more a collection of papers than a treatise. The work will be found useful when any important event...

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of Book-Collecting" is, we see, the label on the binding, and is, perhaps, more descriptive of the contents of the volume. The subjeet abounds with stories, for, indeed, in a...

work is " based on 'Casaell's Concise Cyclopaedia,' " it contains a fifth more matter, and this matter is, for the most part, brought up to date. We say "for the most part"...

8s. 6d.)—This is a very readable book dealing with one of the most interesting periods in the life of one of the sprightliest of French women, that in which she sought relief...

and Co. 5s. net.)—It was quite right, regard being had to complete- ness, to add to other " College Histories " an account of Durham. Somehow or other, one cannot help feeling...

T HE great strike in St. Petersburg has ended in a great catastrophe. The workmen who "went out" agreed to make a petition to the Czar, and resolved to present it to the Emperor...

was evidently drawn up by workmen and Socialists together, and contains, besides requests for reasonable improvements, such as a minimum wage of 12s. a week, many unreasonable...

point the narrative becomes confused. It is said, for instance, that the Czar remained at Tsarskoe Selo ; that be fled to Peterhof ; that he escaped to Gatschina ; that he...

for unscrupulous severity, has been appointed Governor-General of St. Petersburg—a new office —with practically absolute powers. He supersedes the Minister of the Interior...

Moscow ; of a furious struggle at Radom (Poland), where the Reservists joined the strikers and fired on the soldiery ; of grave apprehensions at Odessa ; of a kind of revolt at...

case.

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financier among French politicians," to form a new Cabinet, and M. Rouvier has succeeded. He retains: M. Delcasse as Foreign Minister, to the satisfaction of Europe, and M....

at the moment of our going to press. The Liberals. have lost heavily in the provinces to the Kossuthites, or Independents, and the results at midnight on Thursday , covering...

report from General Kuroki's headquarters that a large Russian force has crossed the River Hun, and is trying to turn the Japanese left flank. This may be the beginning of...

the Mission to Kabul has been instructed to ask for permission to construct railways and telegraphs, and upon this the Amir has consulted his people, who, as we expected last...

sounds a little absurd ; but the first action attributed to it is very clever. According to the state- ment which appeared textually in the Daily Telegraph, this Committee...

Balfour advocated his objects as strongly as any Tariff Reformer could desire. As for the policy of the Government, he charged them with never having thought out their problems,...

the civilised world, and with quiet exultation in Japan, where it is felt that a Government thus weakened at the centre cannot wage war successfully. The horror is increased by...

Gorton division, as set forth in his speech at Manchester on Wednesday, is on all fours with that of Mr. Arthur Elliot. Elected as a Unionist when his party was Free-trade, he...

to be. He repudiated, in our view rightly, the idea, apparently held by the Opposition, that Governments were elected on a specific mandate for a specific task, and that when...

as the chief end of all true education has been sent to the local education authorities in England and Wales. The signatories, who represent almost every shade of opinion in...

illustrates from his own experience the extraordinary situation in which the Unionist party has been landed by the reticence of Mr. Balfour and the exuberance of the Tariff...

reassure Free-traders. He accepted Mr. Morley's challenge to put his policy on a sheet of note-paper, and read out as its contents :—(1) Such alteration in our present system...

in the House of Lords, and that was one reason why Ireland might claim somewhat more than her exact numerical proportion in the popular branch of the Legislature. We entirely...

Haggard has been nominated by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to proceed to the United States to inquire into and report upon the conditions and character of the...

THE MASSACRE IN ST. PETERSBURG. I T is not difficult to trace the motive force which pro- duced the massacre of Sunday last in St. Petersburg. The Princes of the Continent are...

look at political questions with some measure of detachment. The morality of the present action of the•Government is a question which lends itself to this treatment. Is Mr....

the external consequences which may flow from it, must be very great. In the first place, General Kuropatkin must be almost paralysed. His army has Veen strengthened by the...

tons, which, even in view of .the advancing rate of output, appeared to indicate that some hundreds of years would pass before the scarcity or . dearness of coal would become a...

for War, made a speech on. the Monroe doctrine in which be pointed the moral of the recent Presidential Message. We urged at the time that such a statement of the. doctrine,...

the mental quality, which allows a man to look without emotion at a sight of that kind? The man who had seen in a few hateful hours unarmed working men shot and slashed and...

were few farmhouses near IDL. to the sea. In those days when Britain only ruled the waves intermittently the sea was as much the enemy's as it was ours. A warship, whether...

I N 1 x0, a year before his death, Lord Beaconsfield's last term of office came to an end, and he had a little leisure to turn to his old pursuits and moralise in peace over the...

since you permitted me in your columns to advocate the increase of small cultivators by means of special legislation. Either by the connivance or the oversight of Parliament,...

I quoted to him the collective authority of the Government of India and of its most experienced officers, to prove that the fact of India possessing a tariff has enabled that...

your interesting article on "Revival" in last week's issue, allow me to point out the distinction between a revival and a mission. There is a revival in Wales; there is to be a...

in the first place, to acknowledge the courtesy and cordiality with which Dr. Rose (Spectator, January 21st) welcomes my intrusion into a field which has hitherto been, in...

of interest at the present moment. It refers to the way in which Richard II. dealt with the insurrection of Wat Tyler "The insurgents entered Southwark, and pillaged the palace...

of January 14th the old saying that " no one could ever be as wise as Lord Thurlow looked" appears as here written, except the italics, of course, which are mine. Should it not...

following extract from a letter written by Edmund Burke in July, 1746, about a month after he had obtained a scholarship in Trinity College, Dublin, may interest those of your...

last week on the great strike in Germany you say: "The men complain of the breach of an old custom under which miners received coals without pay, and of the deduction of all...

[To THE EDITOR OP THY "SPECTATOR. "] Sra,—Having had some years' experience of the work of apprenticing boys, as a member of the Jewish Board of Guardians' Industrial...

a distinct statement to the effect that Sir Robert Wilson, personating one of the Russian sentries on the raft moored in the river, overheard the con- versation between the two...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR-1 SIR,—In an article under the above heading in your issue of December 3rd, 1904, the following sentence occurs : " In the forests they were...

SIR,—I have just received a letter from one of the few survivors of Professor Conington's intimates which contains an anecdote resting on the Professor's authority. My corre-...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—May I crave space to correct an opinion which has been expressed in several notices of my book, "The Edge of Circumstance," and which...

SIB,—An authorised biography of the late Canon Ainger, embodying a selection of his correspondence, has been in the course of active preparation for some months past. Friends...

to the above Fund, and have forwarded them to the County Gentleman :- The Rev. Dr. Abbott... — S1 1 0 A. Frewin ... ... ... 22 2 0 Margaret Evans ... ... 1 1 0 E. F. C....

[0 THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—You may care to print the following bird story, whicl has reached me from a trustworthy and accurate observer.— " Here is a little...

of the spacious times of that older Oxford in which the epigrams were composed. It is indeed the very antithesis of the essential neatness of the epigrammatic, as also of the...

Each setting sun beheld his force laid low, Borne down by their confederate attack. Around the citadel from day to day Those watchful troops in deadly ambush lay. Till from a...

action and some of the personages so that they may assume in our imaginations a shape a little less un'ike the shape they wore in the imagination of their creator." Such is'the...

exaggeration to say that it is as good as a novel, for it is composed in all respects like a work of fiction. Miss Burney treated all the people whom she met—and they were...

a good sense, we should be inclined to say that the late Dr. Moberly had a double portion of the Sophistic gift, which consists in dressing up a case with all the advantages of...

are not topographical or antiquarian, which do not concern the disposition of streets and squares, of wharves and bridges, the aspects of buildings, public or private, or even...

nickname might lead one to suppose. One of the principal characters is a politician; but politics play an altogether insignificant part in the story, the interest of which is...

Edin- burgh. 6s.)—At one time novels of Scotch peasant life ran in the ,groove of amiable sentiment, and village worthies were depicted as only a little lower than the angels....

The Edinburgh Review is very full of historical articles. There is a long analysis of the English Reformation, a paper on Spenser in Ireland, one on the fall of the Directory,...

Clarke and Co. 6s.)—It has become a platitude to say that every new book of Mr. Crockett shows his characteristic merits and characteristic faults ; and yet it is almost all...

Housman has written a very graceful collection of fairy. tales, which deserve to be classed as fiction, since in each case the conception is elaborated into a proper story and...

week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Robert Louis Stevenson. By Dr. A. H. Japp. (T. Werner Laurie. 6s. net.)—Dr. Sapp has much to say about R. L. Steven-...

Age Press. 2s. 6d. net.)—This new Life of Garrison has, we are told by its authors, for its raison d'être the fact that it is the work of writers who hold Garrison's...

any Fish. By Philip Geen. (P. Geen, Richmond. Is. 6d.)—Mr. Geen gives more than half of his volume to his Irish experiences, and he is manifestly right in doing so. He seems...

R. B. Cunninghame Graham. (Duckworth and Co. Is. 6d. net.)—Miss Taylor, who has already given us excellent literary work in her Lives of Sir Walter Raleigh and Lord Edward...

Co., Bristol. 9s.)—Dr. Fernie arranges in alphabetical order a vast amount of information about what we should "eat, drink, and avoid." He is not a bigot, holding, as it seems...

is to be the last number of The Ancestor in its present form. We are promised, however, a revival of the publication about a year hence, when it will take the form of an annual...

Morton, Edinburgh, 15s. net), is a handsome and amply illustrated volume to which justice could be done only by the knowledge of an expert. After an introductory chapter, Mr....

Is. 6d. net.)—Tho "Oxford Shelley" is a fit companion of the " Oxford Wordsworth," brought out not long ago under the same editorial care. It contains, we may say, everything...

a Handbook of Inland Navigation. By Henry Rodolph. (H. Blacklock and Co. 21s. net.)—This is not a portable volume, after the fashion of the familiar " Bradahaw." Such would be...

and F. N. Spon. 5s. net.)—This volume would make an excellent present for a lad with a taste for mechanics, or for a young man thinking of an engineer's occupation. The "...

of "Handy Classical Maps " published by Mr. John Murray. Wo have now from the same publisher, Murray's Classical Atlas, Edited by G. B. Grundy, D.Litt., constructed on the same...

M. Pritchard). (W. Heinemann. 10s. net.)—Unfortunately, all the industry used in collecting the materials for this account of Cardigan Priory has not been able to recover much...

no family papers and no old plans." The story of the house, however, as far as it is known, is sufficiently curious. Early in the second half of the eighteenth century there was...

Magazine," entitled The Interpreter (Brown, Longhorn, and Co., 6d. net). It is to be, we imagine, the organ of liberal orthodoxy in the Anglican Church. Such, in general, is the...

The Muses' Library" (G. Routledge and Sons, ls. net per vol.) The poets included so far are as follows, arranged in order of birth, each author being furnished with...

of the Day" is now in its twentieth year, and has achieved a position so well recognised that a brief notice may suffice, for the whole thing is, as usual, well managed, though...

Sons. ls. net.)—The utility of the work is increased by a new index.—In the " Little Quarto Shakespeare," with Intro- ductions and Footnotes by W. L. Craig (Methuen and Co.,...