29 JANUARY 1921

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But a much more important part of his speech was

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his statement that he hoped the next Budget would be for 940 or 950 million pounds. An important task immediately before the Government, he said, was the reform of the House of...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE signs accumulate that the need of economy in public expenditure is at last seriously impressing itself upon the nation. If the public have a real political sense, and we...

While, however, we are greatly encouraged by Sir George Younger's

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speech, we must remember that it is always the habit of Governments to slip back into extravagance if they are not watched. Sir George Younger's speech must not be taken as in...

If that barrier can be maintained we shall be safe,

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but nothing else will save us. In their letter to the Prime Minister the Association of British Chambers of Commerce, while asking for the abolition of the Excess Profits Duty,...

Sir George Younger no doubt showed his wisdom in this

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matter, for it is the tendency of intellectual youth—Heaven bless them I—to be impatient of existing abuses. It has been said that every thinking boy ought to be a Socialist....

It is obvious that the first need is for Labour

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to co - operate with the Government. However callous a Government might be—and as regards unemployment the Government are by no means callous—the only hope of achieving anything...

So much for the good signs. One of the bad

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signs is that the Labour Party has plunged heavily for more expenditure. As we go to press on Thursday we learn that the special Con- ference summoned to receive the report and...

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M. Briand, the new French Premier, explained his policy in

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the Chamber on Thursday, January 20th. He began by saying that, for the security of France, Germany must be disarmed, and that she must give the reparation due under the Peace...

Mr. Masterman, who would appear to be the chief author

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of the Independent Liberals' new programme, has been constrained to defend it, in the Manchester Guardian for Wednesday, against fellow-Independents in Manchester who...

The Independent Liberals, not to be behind the Coalition and

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the Labour Party, published on Saturday last a draft of an industrial policy. A National Industrial Council, representing employers, workmen, and the community, with a Minister...

M. Briand spoke again in the Chamber on Friday, January2lat.

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On the question how and what Germany should pay, M. Briand warned the Chamber not to compromise the future for an imme- diate advantage by under-estimating Germany's capacity...

Signor Giolitti ended the strike in the Italian metal trades

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last year by promising to introduce a Bill giving the workmen a share of the control in each industry. The Bill was published on Tuesday. In each of the ten main industries, one...

The Committee rightly denounced more relief works as demoralizing. Work

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must be found in other ways, especi- ally for the skilled workmen. The working day must be re- stricted to eight hours, so that more persons might be employed. Overtime must be...

The Labour Party Executive and the Parliamentary Com- mittee of

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the Trade Union Congress appointed their committee on January 11th, and this body on Saturday, January 22nd, published a lengthy exposition of policy in regard to unemploy-...

The Supreme Council of the Allies met in Paris on

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Monday and is still sitting as we write on Thursday. It decided on Tuesday to deal with the Near East at a later conference in London, to which Greek and Turkish delegates will...

President Wilson sent a Note to the League of Nations

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last week in which he declined to propose American help for Armenia unless the Powers made " a public and solemn engage- ment " to guarantee Russia against aggression. The...

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The Sinn Fein criminals are still active. In County Clare

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on Thursday, January 20th, a police patrol was ambushed near Sixmilebridge ; six policemen were shot dead, two wore severely wounded, and two escaped. The houses of persons...

Last Saturday Sir Hamar Greenwood addressed the Auxiliary Division of

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the Royal Irish Constabulary at Dublin. He said that the Government were determined to crush the conspiracy of crime. His remarks to the Auxiliaries were excellent. He reminded...

We desire to draw the sympathetic attention of our readers

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to the appeal made on behalf of St. Hilda's Hall, Oxford, which is to be found in our correspondence columns. The appeal is one to which we attach a special importance because...

On Tuesday Sir Edward Carson declined the invitation to continue

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the leadership of the Ulster Unionists. The leadership in the new circumstances will, of course, mean responsibility for the setting up and working of the Northern Parliament in...

More agrarian riots are reported from India. There was another

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outbreak at Rai Bareli, in the United Provinces, on Sunday, and there have been disturbances further east at Fyzabad and Muzaffarpur, where the riotous peasants looted a number...

The National Art Collections Fund asks for £3,500 to complete

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the purchase of an exceptionally fine picture by Pieter Brueghel the elder for the National Gallery. Brueghel is the only Flemish master who is not represented in the...

These words, which we record with much satisfaction, leave no

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room for unauthorized reprisals. General Strickland's report upon the burnings in Cork, which rumour says lays the blame upon Government forces, has not yet been published. We...

The Navy sustained a grievous loss on Thursday, January 20th,

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when the large submarine K5' was sunk with all hands about 120 miles south-west of Scilly. A flotilla of the K' class was exercising with the Atlantic Fleet. The five sub-...

There was a very bad accident on the Cambrian Railway

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on Wednesday. The express from Aberystwyth, running on the single line between Newtown and Abermule, crashed into a local train going to Aberystwyth. Both trains were wrecked....

Bank rate, 7 per cent., changed from 6 per cent.

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Apr. 15, 1920 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 841; Thursday week, 86i ; a year ago, 91k.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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AMENDMENTS TO THE COVENANT WHICH MIGHT SATISFY AMERICA. LT OW can that pact between the majority of the Powers 11 which we call the League of Nations be modified SO as to...

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WHAT IT MAY COME TO IN IRELAND.

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W E have been greatly interested in an article in the current number of the Edinburgh Review by the editor, Mr. Harold Cox. Mr. Cox frankly and boldly advises that the Irish...

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THE PIOUS DEFENCE OF MURDER. L AST week, in commenting on

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the apology offered by the editors of the Irish Theological Quarterly, published at Maynooth, for the appearance in their October number of an article by Professor O'Rahilly...

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QUACK REMEDIES FOR UNEMPLOYMENT. T HE Labour Party's claim that it

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is " fit to govern " is not strengthened by the lengthy proposals for dealing with unemployment which it put forth this week. The Labour leaders show only too clearly that they...

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NO JUDGE. N OTHING absolute can ever be said about the

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mental difference between men and women. The exceptions to all rules which can be laid down on the subject are numerous and obvious. There are certainly women with the minds of...

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SOUL GUARDIANS.

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A QUAINT but perfectly true story of one man's solicitude for another's eternal welfare is current in a certain fair Northern city. In years gone by—it cannot be far short of a...

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FINANCE—PUBLIC AND PRIVATE.

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THE OUTLOOK—TRADE AND LABOUR PROBLEMS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, —The influences operating on the financial situation at the present time are of a more than...

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THE JIITLA.ND DISPATCHES.

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[To THZ EDITOR or THE " STECTATOR."] Sjz,—In reply to Lord Sydenham's letter I will make one more attempt to show why practically every admiral afloat in the late war decided to...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] PROBLEMS OF ZIONISM. [To THE...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra.,—I have read

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your leading article and review on The Voice of Jerusalem with great interest. It seemed to me that one inadmissible assumption has led you to utterly false con- clusions.. The...

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTLTOR."] SIR,—It took Captain

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Harper and his assistants (of whom the writer was one) seven months to reconstruct the Battle of Jut- land, working continuously within the Admiralty, and having access to all...

RATIONING OF DEPARTMENTS.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 think your readers may be interested in the following extracts from a letter of advice given more than one hundred years ago by the then...

GREEK AND HINDU PHILOSOPHY [To THE EDITOR OF THE "

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SPECTATOR."1 Sia,—May I refer your learned controversialists to the late Professor Huxley's Romanes Lecture (May, 1893), in which before an audience of those whom he described...

APPEAL FOR ST. HILDA'S HALL, OXFORD, EXTENSION FUND.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sre,—May we, through your columns, draw the attention of the public to the appeal for an Extension Fund of -860.000 which is now being made...

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THE PLUMAGE BILL.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—" We are all bird-lovers here," was Mr. Bartley Denniss's- remark when he and his little band were strangling the Plumage Bill by...

THE INDEX FIGURE.

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[To THE EDITOR. OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—There has been correspondence in your columns on the Index Figure and Post-Bellum Family Budgets mainly with reference to people of...

THE NEW RAILWAY DISPUTE.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SHL,—I have always read the Spectator with satisfaction until your last week's issue on the above subject, which has given me something of a...

POST-BELLUM FAMILY BUDGETS.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—" North Countryman's" letter has set me making a com- parison of my own carefully watched expenditure. We reduced our domestic helpers...

A SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM OF UNEMPLOYMENT [To THE EDITOR

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OF THE " SPECTATOR."] the letter signed "Common Sense" in your issue of January 15th the writer puts the case fairly. Is there any reason why the working man should not be his...

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THE " TOUR DE BEURRE."

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sui,—Is the writer of the recent article in your columns, "Money Matters," correct in saying that the Tour de Beurre arose from the giving...

THE ROMAN CHURCH AND IRELAND.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—Referring to your recent articles on the attitude of the Roman Catholic hierarchy to the Sinn Fein movement in Ireland, and to the...

COLOUR IN OUR STREETS.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, I am much interested in the two letters in your issues for January 1st and 8th on " Colour in Our Streets," for I have long wondered...

THE LATE BISHOP OF DURHAM. [To THE EDITOR OF THE

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" SPECTATOR."] SLE,—I have been entrusted with the task of preparing a Life of the Right Bev. H. C. G. Motile, D.D., the late Bishop of Durham. I shall be grateful if I may say...

THE POWER OF THE PRIEST IN IRELAND. [To THE EDITOR

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OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I, very briefly, add to the testimony of Colonel Haggard in your last issue as to the power of the priest in Ireland? I was talking to a...

THE MOON " LYING ON HER BACK." [TO THE EDITOR

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OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,— As a constant reader of the Spectator I shall be much obliged if you or any of your readers can give me any informa- tion about the moon "lying on...

NOTICE.—When " Correspondence" or Articles are signed with the writer's

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name 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...

The Editor would be obliged if the writer of a

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letter on profit-sharing which appeared in the Spectator of Decem- ber 25th would communicate with him, as the Editor has mislaid his address.

Vitt Y3p.ertator

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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Including postage to any part of the United Kingdom .. 0. OS OVERSEAS POSTAGE. Including postage to any of the British Dominions and Colonies and...

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POETRY.

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THE GHOSTS OF BRISTOL. More.—The 4th Gloucestershire Regiment (the Bristol Rifles), whose hon. colonel is •always the Lord Mayor of Bristol for the time being, claims descent...

THE THEATRE.

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BALLET AND A STANDARD OF CRITICISM. MME. KARSAVINA (Coliseum) ; AL JAQUES DA.LCROZE'SERrythM.iCS (Queen's Hall, and later in the provinces) ; Miss ELSIE JANIS in lea All Wrong...

SOME PLAYS WORTH SEEING.

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,AMBASSADORS.—The White-Headed Boy .. 8.30-2.30 [An amusing piece of sarcasm of the Ab bey Theatre sort, particularly well acted.] GALETY.—The Betrothed • • . • • . .....

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BOOKS.

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THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND HIS TIME.* THE biography before us does not profess to be a final Life or appreciation of Theodore Roosevelt. It is simply, as the title- page tells us,...

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THE PHILOSOPHY OF M.Il'iORITY RULE.* A GENERATION ago students of

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our public affairs would not have believed it possible that the representatives of Labour would to-day be arguing in favour of an oligarchy. Yet by the turn of events that is...

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THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS STARTS.* Now that the first Assembly

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of the League of Nations has held its sittings at Geneva and adjourned for a year, the League is recog- nized by every one as a definite entity, existing apart from, and in no...

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ANDREW CARNEGIE.*

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TICE late Mr. Carnegie left an autobiography, which has been prepared for publication and annotated by his friend Professor J. C. Van Dyke. It is an interesting document, for...

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THE REACTIONS BETWEEN DOGMA AND PHILOSOPHY.* To those who have

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even a moderate acquaintance with the philosophy and theology of the mediaeval schools the vogue which Dante enjoys in England is perplexing. For, great poetry as the Diving...

SECOND LINE TERRITORIALS.*

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T313 original Territorial Force was planned for hcme defence, but a very few days after the declaration of war with Germany it became obvious that its admirable fighting...

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MR. GEORGE MORROW'S " PUNCH " DRAWINGS.*

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Ix writing an introduction to a most delightful collection of Mr. Morrow's drawings Mr. E. V. Lucas describes himself as one of those who open Punch backwards. We may expand...

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POETS AND POETRY.

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MR. HAROLD MONRO'S ROD OUT OF PICKLE.* " OUT of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaketh." It is a long while since we have read anything more amusingly bitter than Mr....

READABLE NOVELS.—Three Lives. By Gertrude Stein. (The Bodley Head. 5s.)—To

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elucidate three lives in 280 pages seems an ambitious task, but Miss Stein is unexpectedly successful, and we have a curiously clear impression of the three woman she deals...

FICTION.

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THE LOST GIRL.* Alt interesting essay was written nearly a hundred years ago on " The Bores of Fiction," in which the point was discussed whether it is good or bad art so to...

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SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

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[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] Kiel and Jutland. By Commander Georg von Hase. (Skeffington. 16s. net.)—The author was first gunnery...

POEMS WORTHY OF CONSIDERATION.—Lillygay. (The Vine

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Press. 5s.)—The anonymous poems in this anthology are mostly written in time-honoured metres, and they are of a studied and deceptive simplicity reminiscent of the ancient...

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Histoire du Canada. Par Francois Xavier Garneau. Revue par son

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petit-fils Hector Garneau. Vol. II. (Paris : Alcan. 30 fr. net.)—The well-known history of Canada by a French- Canadian, the late M. Garneau, is appearing in a carefully revised...

William Bolts, a Dutch Adventurer under John Company. By N.

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L. Hallward. (Cambridge University Press. 15s. net.) —Clive on his last visit to Bengal had to discipline the servants of the East India Company and restrict their private...

The Contemporary Art Society has issued a report of its

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work during the years of war. Its purpose is to acquire works of modern art for loan or gift to public galleries, and the report, which is illustrated, shows that the society...

The Story of My Life. By Philip Meadows Taylor. New

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Edition by Henry Bruce. (Milford. 16s. net.)—Meadows Taylor, the author of the Confessions of a Thug, was assuredly one of the most gifted and tactful Englishmen who ever served...

A Miscellany of the Wits. Edited by K. N. Colvile.

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(Philip Allan. 15s. net.)—This scholarly and exceptionally well-printed volume in " The Scholar's Library " contains some satirical pieces of Queen Anne's day—" A Journey to...

An Embroidery Book. By A. K. Arthur. (A. and C.

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Black. 10s. 6d.)—Perhaps now the war is over women have leisure for embroidery. It is a gentle and pleasing art, and this volume should be of assistance to all would-be...

Shorthorns in Central and Southern Scotland. By James Cameron. (Blackwood.

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12s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Cameron, an expert writing on his special subject, has produced a book of real value to anyone concerned in the breeding of Shorthorns. Moreover, his...

The Kaiser's Letters to the Tsar. Edited by N. F.

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Grant. (Hodder and Stoughton. 12s. 6d. net.)—This book contains the The Kaiser's Letters to the Tsar. Edited by N. F. Grant. (Hodder and Stoughton. 12s. 6d. net.)—This book...

Science Progress (Murray, 6s. net), the valuable quarterly edited by

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Sir Ronald Ross, gives in its January number an article on " The Inheritance of Acquired Characters " by Professor E. W. MacBride, who maintains on the evidence of experiments...

Government and Politics of France. By E. M. Sait. (Harrap.

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10s. 6c1. net.)—Professor Sait of California University has written a most valuable and illuminating account of the way in which France is governed to-day. His chapters on the...

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WORK.S OF REFERENCE.—Who's Who in America, .7920-21, edited by Mr.

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A. N. Marquis (Stanley Paul, 45s. net), is the eleventh issue of this comprehensive and well-edited book of reference, which, we are told, contains 23,443 biographies. When it...