boasting that it has out- grown Ruskin. Whether this be true or not, it has certainly grown tired of him. His nobility of thought is forgotten, his petulance magnified; the...

TWO BOOKS OF ITALIAN VERSE.* THE chief aim, we imagine, of such an anthology as The Ozford Book of Italian Verse is to show clearly the historical development of a national...

LONDON: JANUARY 28th, 1911.

PROTECTION.* CONTROVERSY in France follows a more logical course than with us in England. Here the writers and speakers who declaim against Socialism are many of them Con-...

Ma. BOULTING'S new book is full of curious and out-of- the-way information. Roughly speaking, its subject ranges through five centuries ; the author's idea being to trace the...

Ma. FERRI/IAN'S book on modern Greece should interest any intelligent reader ; it will appeal with especial force to those who as they pass from page to page are continually...

EVEN in a book of four hundred pages it would be impossible to make a really comprehensive survey of the features of English life which belong already to the past, or which are...

Mr. Chesterton believes that Blake was mad, not because ho imagined that he had spiritual visitations, but because these really did occur. Speaking of ordinary and sceptical...

ART BOOKS. The Arts and Crafts of Our Teutonic Forefathers. Ry G. Baldwin Brown. (T. N. Foulis. 5s. net.)—The author of the lectures here collected investigates the question of...

Wicksteed. (J. M. Dent and Sons. 6s. net.)—This study is the exact opposite in method of the book we have just been considering. Instead of brilliant generalisations and the...

is no doubt that the art-loving public owes a great deal to the illustrated monthly magazines like the Art Journal. By means of such publications it is possible to keep oneself...

Raisonne of the Works of Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, by C. Hofstede de Groot, based on the work of John Smith (Macmillan and Co., 255. net). The present volume is...

10s. 6d. net.)—The painter has found a most determined champion in his biographer. No critic may suggest a fault, even in a newspaper article, without Mr. Shaw-Sparrow confuting...

Great American Universities. By Edwin E. Slosson. (Macmillan and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—Dr. Slosson describes, compares, and generally criticises the constitutions of fourteen...

C. Jack. 21s. net.)—It is best to skip the first four chapters of this book, which describe the unimportant youthful feelings of the author. The rest of the volume is enlivened...

Middle of the Nineteenth Century. Translated from the German of A. Speltz by R. Phene Spiers. (B. T. Botsford. 15s. net.)—The plan pursued in this book is to give a very short...

Parsons, A.R.A. (John Murray. 21s. net.)—To judge by the first portion of this work, which is now appearing in parts, it will be when finished an exhaustive study of the rose...

(The Studio. 158. net.)—The interest of this port- folio of pictures lies in the fact that they are by an Indian artist, who has wisely not tried to assimilate Western art, but...

Illustrated by Janet Harvey Kelman. (The Caxton Publishing. Company. 3 vols., Is. 6d. each.)—A large number of plants are described, and spirited drawings full of intelligent...

0/d Kensington Palace, and other Papers. By Austin Dobson. (Chatto and Windus. 6s.)—Mr. Austin Dobson has republished here in a somewhat expanded form, and with occasional...

W. Lawrence and B. L. Dighton. (Lawrence and Jellicoe. .f.,5 5s. net.)—This is a book for collectors, being a catalogue raisonne of the plates produced just before the...

Mackenzie. (A. and C. Black. 7s. 6d. net.)—This illustrated guide-book will be useful for refreshing the memory after a visit, or for giving a general impression of what to...

Old Country Inns. By H. P. Maskell and E. W. Gregory. (Sir I. Pitanan and Sons. 7s. 6d. net.)—This book does not stand on the same level with those which commonly deal with this...

Romance of imperial Rome. By Elizabeth W. Champney. (G. P. Patnam's Sons: 15s. net.)—This is a handsome volume, with some good things in it, and adorned by effective...

Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely. By the Rev. Edward Conybeare. (Macmillan and Co. 6s.)—Mr. Conybeare gives about two-fifths of his space to the University and the...

Life and Death. By Colonel Thomas H. Lewin. (Constable and Co. 21s. net.)—Colonel Lewin tells us that he was struck by a passage in Montaigne—" Were I a composer of books, I...

The Records of Rochester. By the Rev. C. H. Fielding. (Snowdon Brothers, Dartford.)—Mr. Fielding has gathered these records with most laudable industry. First we have a list of...

Where Ghosts Walk. By Marion Harland. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 9s. net.)—This is the second volume from Miss Harland's pen bearing this title, to be explained, we may say, by what...

The Expositor's Dictionary of Texts. Edited by the Rev. Sir W. Robertson Nicoll and Jane T. Stoddart. With the Co-operation of James Moffatt, D.D. VoL I. (Hodder and Stoughton....

The Merry Wives of Windsor. By William Shakespeare. Mus- trated by Hugh Thomson. (W. Heinemann. 15s. net.)—This masterpiece of Shakespeare's broader humour has never appeared in...

Douglas Jerrold and "Punch." By Walter Jerrold. (Macmillan and Co. 12s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Walter Jerrold's book is in two parts. In the first we have described the founding of...

Papers of the British School at Athens. (Macmillan and Co. 42s. net.)—The first paper deals with "The Text of the Odyssey," and is from the pen of that eminent textual scholar,...

The Nation and the Army. By Major Roper-Caldbeck. (Grant Richards. 2s. 6d. net.)—Major Roper-Caldbeck has produced a useful and suggestive little book dealing with the military...

The Medieval Church in Scotland. By Bishop Dowden. (J. MacLehose and Sons, Glasgow. 15s. net.)—This book, which Dr. Dowden left ready for the press at his sudden death in...

In the Footprints of Heine. By Henry James Forman. (Con- stable and Co. 6s. net.)—The journey which Mr. Forman made was from Gottingen into the Hartz country. At Gottingen...

John G. Paton: Later Years. By A. K. Iangridge and Frank H. L. Paton. (Hodder and Stoughton. 3s. 6d.)—This book, written by a friend and a son of the great missionary, takes up...

Fly - leaves front a Fisherman's Diary. By Captain G. E. Sharp. (Edward Arnold. 5s. net.)—This is a little book which, the author tells us modestly, does not aspire to rank as a...

John Barton : a Memoir. By his Son, (the late) C. E. Barton. (Hodder and Stoughton. Ss. 6d. net.)—John Barton went out to India after graduating at Cambridge. He was chiefly...

The Origins and Aims of the Four Gospels. By the Rev. J. M. Wilson, D.D. (Macmillan and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—Dr. Wilson gives us here a moderately conceived and clearly expressed...

the Waverley Novels, by G. Husband (8s. 6d. net), and I Dictionary of Thacheray, by J. G. Mudge and M. E. Sears (same price). The plan in both works is to give an alphabetical...

Chambers. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)-Massena had about sixty-two thousand men in the field; Wellington fifty-two thousand, about two-fifths of the latter being...

W. Hobby. (Cambridge University Press. '7s. 6d. net.)-This is one of the books for which a reviewer can do little more than express a general sense of the service which such...

County Printing Works, Drury Lane, W.C. ; and Published by Join( BARER for the " srscraxoa " (Limited) at their OfUce, No. 1 Wellington Street, in the Precinct of the Savoy....

in a noticeably lukewarm spirit by Tariff Reformers in Great Britain. Great Britain obviously cannot give a preference to Canadian corn if the American and Canadian markets are...

statement in the Turkish Chamber. According to a Reuter telegram, he said that the Potsdam interview, as he understood it, "exclusively concerned the recognition of Russia's...

the doctrine of Imperial Preference ? It is obvious that the United States will give to Canada advantages which she does not propose to give to Great Britain. This will be a...

T HE terms of the very important Reciprocity Agreement between Canada and the United States were published on Thursday. The Agreement is not, of course, a Treaty, but only a...

L LEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1911. [EXGISTIRED II • Paws P0112101 A.BEOLD BZWSP•PER. BY POIT 6ID. liD. 65.

regard to the Panama Canal with unprecedented frankness and precision in a speech delivered in New York last Saturday. The right to fortify, he contended, was incontestable. It...

in Canadian waters was rejected by the Canadian Com- missioners, but an arrangement was reached by which American fishermen are to be admitted to Canadian waters at a nominal...

ease.

Queen hope to visit Dublin and Edinburgh during the month of July next. It is generally believed that on the occasion of this, his first visit to Ireland since Ilia accession,...

Gazette of Wednesday is an example of how the Persian policy of the British Foreign Office may be misinterpreted by the friends of Persia,—misinterpreted in such a way as to...

a statement made by the Minister for Foreign Affairs at a meeting of foreign Press representatives on the subject of the payments to the Royal Family. He declared, in evidence...

of London and Smiths Bank on Wednesday, made an interest- ing speech on the various ways of "popularising Consols." He strongly approved of the granting of greater...

in the Japanese House of. Representatives. He spoke of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance as "constantly gaining strength and solidity." The Japanese Agreement with Russia had excited...

Treaty are said to have broken down. Since the • declaration of Bulgarian independence Turkey has continued to treat Bulgaria as though she were still part of the Turkish...

join the colours, and it is supposed that a considerable part of them will be sent to Yemen, where the Arab rising is becoming more serious. According to a Renter telegram in...

Times of January 18th objecting to 'the issue by the Chancellor of licenses for the marriage of divorced persons, and conveying to that official his desire that no such licenses...

a fresh Note to the Persian Government. The three months allowed to Persia to re-establish order and security in her Southern dominions having expired, Sir George Barclay states...

took place on the Taff Vale Railway on Monday morning just before 10 o'clock. A train running from Swansea to Cardiff, and containing some two hundred passengers, dashed into a...

brilliant and witty speech on proportional representation at a meeting in Manchester on Tuesday. He said that if a democratic Government was not to become a tyrannous...

lined the case for the Crown against the five prisoners brought up in connexion with the Houndsditch murders. The three men, Josef Federof, Jacob Peters, and Yourka Dubof, are...

on the day of the attempt, and the details of the shooting, the Crown ease being that Gardstein on being wounded was assisted from Exchange Buildings back to Grove Street by...

his action in the case of the old shepherd of Dartmoor. Mr. Churchill states that the case attracted his attention early last year when he was "looking into the working of the...

traffic in scandal and tittle-tattle which it should be the object of every decent person to try to kill at the source by refusing to countenance newspapers which publish such...

Jan. 26th. Consols (2i) were on Friday 791—Friday week 79i.

THE DECLARATION OF LONDON. D URING the week a hot attack, notably in the Daily Mail, has developed against the Declaration of London, and the issue has become bewildering to...

fight in the .1_ Cambridge University election, the candidates being Sir Joseph Larmor, secretary of the Royal Society, Mr. Harold Cox, and Mr. T. E. Page. As we said last week,...

IIIHE _Economist has recently issued a very useful I little pamphlet dealing with the national expendi- ture of the United Kingdom. Such a pamphlet is all the more valuable as...

which was heard before Mr. Justice Darling last week, has attracted more attention than libel actions commonly do from the unusually heavy damages awarded to the plaintiff....

A CORRESPONDENT of the Field, lamenting the gradual disappearance of the pollarded oaks which so often afford sites for nesting birds, inquires whether owls can be induced to...

T HE purpose of all modern organisation, whether political social, or economic, is the elimination of waste on the principle of "how many men, so many pairs of boots,"—to make...

T HE impression above all others which the Englishman new to the Bush receives is one of stillness and space. The stillness is such that he can hear, or thinks he can hear,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Si,—There are majorities and majorities. A majority of one may well suffice for a committee of a hospital or club, or for the directors of a...

AN ILL-GROUNDED DESERTION. [To THE MATCH OP TH2 " Brzorxroa."1 Sin,—In the "News of the Week" in your last issue you note an astonishing utterance of Lord Courtney which it is...

[To THE EDITOR Or Tlis SIE,—I plead guilty to an error in giving the Home-rulers a majority of one in Ulster. The majority is the other way,— viz., seventeen Unionists, fifteen...

[TO THR EDITOR OF THZ "SPECTATOR...1 SIR, — Conservatives, as a class, do not usually look to pro- fessed Republicans for a lead. Little, if anything, from that point of view...

[To THZ EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR,—The finest and most inspiriting of our political ideals is surely the brotherhood of English-speaking men,—of the peoples of the British...

[TO TER EDITOR 07 TIM "Srxcrsros."1 SIR, — As I had the pleasure of listening to Mr. Long's address at Bristol on January 18th, you will perhaps allow me to comment on the...

[To TH2 EDITOR, OF TH2 " SF2CTIT02.1 SIR, — On behalf of the Incorporated Association of Assistant- Masters I beg to enclose a letter which is being sent to the members of the...

PAGE. DEAR SIR,—Mr. T. E. Page will be nominated for the vacancy in the representation of the University of Cambridge caused by the death of Mr. S. H. Butcher. There are strong...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOft."3 SrE.,—I was much interested in reading the letter on Mrs. Sherwood which appeared in your issue of last week, signed "Eighty-five." I am five...

Srn,—Will you allow me to "break a lance" on a passage in a review of a recent work embodying Tennyson's observations in natural science which appeared in the last number of...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTkTOR..1 rely upon the Spectator's sense of fairness in requesting leave to refer to some facts, not opinions, in connexion with Dr. Chalmers as an...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPICTATOR."1 Srs,—I think your correspondent Mr. Ladbroke Black (Spectator, January 21st) has mistaken the meaning of the phrase "put party before self."...

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...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTAT011.1 Srn,—In a recent issue of the Spectator you quote from "Federalism and Home Rule" by " Pacificus" "It is true that there was once a...

SIE,—I see you speak in last week's issue (p. 79) of the letter in the Times on Home-rule by Mr. A. W. Richardson. You may be interested to know that the writer is Miss Anne...

words "public and elementary schools" should read "public elementary schools."]

THE DOOM OF SAILS. ALAS I must ye utterly vanish, and cease from amidst us, Sails of the olden sea? Now dispossessed by the stern and stunted ironclad, Wingless and squat and...

CLARA NOVELL°. CLARA. NOVELL°, whose Reminiscences* have all the charm that belongs to a record never intended for publication, was a great early and mid-Victorian musical...

THE REAL FRANCE.* THE value of Mr. Jerrold's book—reprinted essays which spread over a considerable period—might easily be over- looked. Publishers, we know, are wary of...

SECCOMBE makes a bold bid for a public in the " Fore- word " which he writes to this book. "Even now," he observes, "the real truth about Oxford's charm is not perhaps, in...

THERE is, we hope, some propriety in bringing these two volumes before our readers in the same article. Sir H. Wood's concise and lucid narrative of the conditions of industry...

THE difficulty about Mr. Lloyd Sanders's Old Kew, Chiswick, and Kensington is that it might have made three books. Any one of the districts named in the title would have...

THE life of William Minnie, which has never been worked out before, touches a great many subjects of interest in the sixteenth century. He was born about 1530, and was trained...

THIS is a list, not of the "hundred best books," but of the "ten thousand," the "upper ten," so to speak, of literature. The volume now before us, dealing with bibliography,...

WE wish that biographies were more often constructed on the modest scale which Mr. Pearce has here employed. In a volume of little more than two hundred pages he gives us a...

Boon. 6s.)—This story has much in common with the ordinary tale of adventure and crime, the escape of the criminal, the peril of the innocent. But it has much that is...

THE FIDDLER.* Mits. J. 0. Aim= is not the first novelist to bang a tale on the peg of the fetish-worship of Family with a very big F. But if she is not the first in the field,...

6s.)—"A Love Tale" is the sub-title; but the love is a tame affair compared to the crime.—Gilead Balm. By Bernard Capes. (T. Fisher Unvein. 6s.)—Mr, Gilead Balm organises a...

which the heroine seeks is con- cerned with social matters. In the search she takes a position as assistant-secretary with a certain Paul Arrington, a quite definitely outlined...

"Tan Political Predicament" is the title of the article in the Edinburgh which deals with current affairs, and it exactly describes the situation. "An unfortunate or trying...

A. M. D. Hughes. (The Clarendon Press. 8s. 6d.)—The volume of 1820 contained "Prometheus Unbound," and nine miscellaneous poems, of which "The Sensitive Plant" and "To a,...

[17ndsr this heading ws notice such Books of Da *Mit VI ham sot boot resereedfor revirte nt other forms.] A Proposed New Hymnal. Compiled by the Rev. Arthur Wollaston Hutton....

the Quarterly, "The General Election, and What Next ? " there is an emphatic and salutary repetition of some old truths. But the past may be dismissed ; we are more concerned...

2s. 6d. net.)—Joseph Toynbee was an aurist of great reputation (he received the honour of F.R.S. in his twenty-seventh year and was called in to see Queen Victoria) ; Arnold...

net.)—The term "impostor" is practically extended to swindlers and pretenders of all kinds, and even to some persons whom it might be unfair to include in these classes. There...