SOME MODERN FRENCH BOOKS.* Tun best French memoirs now being published are those of Princesse Dorothee de Courlande, Duchesse de Dino, niece by marriage of Talleyrand, and the...

LONDON; OCTOBER 2nd, 1909.

THE first book, New Poor Law or No Poor Law ? is an epitome, with some slight comment, of the Reports of the Commission. It has the great merit that by its title (we fear that...

THERE are in India, if we calculate by the ordinary rule, more than eighteen millions of boys of the school age ; of these rather more than three millions and a half attend...

about the management of the Fleet are not perhaps an unmixed evil. They at any rate direct popular attention to naval questions, and induce a good many citizens to form some...

Tins book, of which a new and revised edition has been published in commemoration of the fourth centenary of St. Paul's School, gives us an interesting glimpse into the twilight...

IT is not easy to write a continuation of Miss Strickland, whose work, we fancy, will be more highly appreciated as time goes on. The measure of its merit may fairly be taken,...

BOTH Mr. Trench and Mr. Roberts have been struck with a good idea, and the pity is that Mr. Roberts could not have seen Mr. Trench's book before compiling his own. He would then...

FOR variety of experience and amplitude of incident the special correspondent is the nearest approach to the knight- errant which these drab centuries can supply. And though a...

Ma. Saimaa reserves for a future edition of this book "an explanation of the somewhat remarkable circumstances under which the clue to the authorship of the Letters of Junius"...

THE daughter of Mr. W. P. Frith, R.A., is already known as the writer of a volume of reminiscences, and Fresh Leaves and Green Pastures merits much the same criticism as was...

fishing like Mr. W. Earl Hodgson will be read with interest and amusement even by anglers who disagree with some of his views. In An Angler's Season he is at his best, for he...

THERE is no pretence to political or historical import about the diary kept by Mr. John Mayne in the tour he made through France and Italy after the abdication of Napoleon and...

The Dawn of Mediaeval Europe, 476-918. By the Rev. I. H. B. Masterman. (Methuen and Co. 2s. 6d.)—This is the first in order of time of the six volumes in which the "Six Ages of...

THE KINGS AND PROPHETS OF ISRAEL AND J17DAH. The Kings and Prophets of Israel and Judah (Hodder and Stoughton, Gs. net) is the third volume in the "Historical Bible," by...

• Leaves front a Madeira Garden. By Charles Thomas-Stanford. . (John Lane. Gs. net.)—Mr. Stanford tells 11B about various 'things • besides - gardenirrg, about the - Portuguese...

Body and Soul. By Percy Dearmer, M.A. (Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons. Gs. net.)—We cannot follow Mr. Dearmer into the details of the very difficult subject which he treats in these...

The American High School. By John Franklin Brown, Ph.D. (Macmillan and Co. 6s. net.)—We have, of course, in this country schools that resemble the American high school, but we...

Thomas Chatterton. By Charles Edward Russell. (Grant _ Richards. .7s. 6d. net.)—It was - inevitable that. Chatterton should have his turn in the whitewashing process which . is...

In "The Westminster New Testament" (Andrew Melrose, 2s. net) we have Thessalonians and Corinthians (1 and 2), with Introduction and Notes by the Rev. Professor R. Mackintosh....

Human Documents. By Lionel North. (Robert Caney. 2s. 63) —"Lives Re-written by the Holy Spirit" is the sub-title of the book, which relates a number of spiritual experiences....

Modern Stray of the Old Testament and Inspiration. By F. U. Sprott, M.A. (Cambridge University Press. 3s. net.)—Mr. Sprott traces for us in this volume what seems a very...

Typical English Churchmen. By Rev. J. Neville Figgie and Others. (S.P.C.K. 4s.)—There are six biographies in this volume,—John Wyclif, William of Wykeham, Archbishop Courtenay,...

Notes from a Knapsack. By George Wherry, MA. (Bowes and Bowes, Cambridge. 5s. net.)—Mr. Wherry is a lecturer on surgery and a member of the Alpine Club. From these descriptions...

Sir John A. Macdonald. By George R. Parkin. (T. C. and E. C. Jack. 12s. 6d. net.)—John Macdonald was born in 1815, was called to the Canadian Bar when he had just completed his...

Worcestershire. Painted by Thomas Tyndale. Described by A. G. Bradley. (A. and C. Black. 7s. 6d. net.)—" The most con- spicuous physical facts in Worcestershire," says Dir....

The Last Days of Charles II. By Raymond Crawfurd, M.D. (The Clarendon Press. 5s. net.),—Dr. Crawford has carefully examined the evidence bearing on the cause of King Charles's...

The " Log " Series (Gerrard's, 55. net each) is one that should be both interesting and valuable to the Naval Service and to the nation in general. The sailor learns what his...

A Little Mary/and Garden. By Helen Ashe Hays. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 7s. 6d.)—A very pleasant little book this, which an Englishman may certainly enjoy, and from which he may not...

PBS (John Murray. Os. net.)—It eoems a far cry from the time when "the land manured "—the words are from "Robinson Cruse° "—meant merely the land dug. The discovery and...

F. Powell. (G. P. Putaam's Sons. 5s.)—The " Emmanuel Move- ment," it may be as well to explain, takes its name from Emmanuel Church in Boston, U.S. The rector of this church is...

Napoleon and America. By Edward L. Andrews. (Lamley and Co.)—Mr. Andrews conducts us along an interesting bypath in history. The American Colonies felt an interest in the...

and Co. 21s. net.)—This handsome volume is intended primarily as a memorial to the genius of Tom Moore, as displayed in "Lana Reekh." The writer of this notice is inclined to...

Register of the Parish of Knodishall, 1566 - 1705. Transcribed and Edited by Arthur T. Winn, MA. (Balinese and Sons. 6s. net.) —We are alsvays grateful to those who take the...

Round the World in a Motor Car. By Antonio Scarfoglio. Translated by J. Parker Hayes. (Grant Richards. 15s. net.)— Signor Scarfoglio and his companions started from the office...

A. R. Hope Moncrieff. (A. and (1. Black. 7s. 6d. net.)— This is a very handsome volume, good to look at and good to read. The "Heart of Scotland," it should be understood, is...

Dutton. (Cambridge University Press. Is. 6d.)—It would be difficult to imagine a better short account of Somerset than that to be found in this little book. The authors have...

A Dog's Life in Burma. Told by the Dog. (Henry J. Drane. 3s. 6d.)—The "Dog" is evidently a shrewd observer, and has' a pretty gift- for sarcasm. "My master," he tells us, "is a...

(Hurst and Blacked. 16s. net.)—Mr. Carter started on March 14th, 1907, from Newfoundland, reached Halifax on the 17th, and New York on the 21st. He made his way across North...

Morice, (Jarvis and Foster, Bangor. 2s. 6d. net.)—By "Welsh Literature" is meant, not books written by Welshmen, but the literature of the Welsh language. The volume covers a...

7e. 0d. net.)—Mr. Kirkham spent three years in Mexico "wandering over the country from the Border to the Isthmus and from the Atlantic to the Pacific." The result of these...

County Printing Works, Drury Lane, W.C. • and Published by Joint Bixes for the " &Norms" (Limited) at their Mee, No , I. Wellington Street , in the Precinct of the &Yoh etrend,...

a dinner of the German Verein fur Sozialpolitik, which is holding its meetings at Vienna. The burden of the speech, according to the Times correspondent, was the import- ance of...

W E have stated at length elsewhere our belief that the House of Lords would be wise not to reject the Midget. We do this, not because our view of the injustice, inefficiency,...

so far was achieved on Monday, when Zeluan was taken without a, casualty. The object of General Marina's move- ment, in which fifteen thousand men were employed, was to get...

before a Spanish Court-Martial, has aroused sympathy in many parts of Europe. In Paris, in particular, urgent demands are being made by M. Anatole France and others for his...

be obvious considerations, there is, we fear, every reason to believe that the House of-Lords will reject the Finance Bill, and that a Dissolution will take place in January. If...

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poned Clause XXV., which exempts from the new Land-taxes land held for public or charitable purposes. Sir P. Magnus, who moved an amendment exempting Universities, secondaty...

a Royal Decree, dated July 29th, 1909, which suspends for three months the recruiting of labour in Angola for the cocoa plantations in San Thome and Principe. The Times of...

Finance Bill, which imposes Customs and Excise Duties on motor-spirit, and applies to its manufacture or use regulations enforced on the making and selling of saccharin, was...

people was organised to support the programme of civil and military reforms which the Military League recently forced upon M. Mavromichaeli. The resolution, as we learn from the...

support his Motion on the ground that there would be ample opportunity of discussing and amending the Bill in Committee. As it stood, it was no mere expansion of the Act of...

interest in New York. Hudson was employed by the Dutch East India Company to under- take his famous voyages of 1607-1610. The Company had a monopoly of the trade to India by the...

Land Bill in the House of Lords on Tuesday declared that the Government had no desire for general compulsion to deal with congestion, but they would have to keep it as a weapon...

laid stress on the need of scrutinising the finance of a measure which was really more English than Irish, and on the centagions Socialistic principles on which it was based,...

cussed during the week in Grand Committee. Much to the surprise of Members, the discussion showed that Mr. Lloyd George was still intent upon maintaining his special motor...

bound to prevent this or any other felony by all the means in his power. This salutary rule of law is, however, according to Mr. Keir Hardie and certain other extremists, not to...

constituents at Preston and explained his reasons for opposing the Land-taxes. Mr. Frank Calvert, the well-known Unionist Free-trader, presided, and Mr. Cox was supported by...

that the Finance Bill started from a false principle. The only sound principle of taxation was to tax people according to their means. A rich man should pay more because he was...

April 1st. Consols (4) were on Friday 84—Friday week wk.

more sincere, criticism of the Budget cannot be imagined than that provided by Mr. Cox. Whether the Liberal "machine" will succeed in driving Mr. Cox out of Preston remains to...

THE PEERS AND THE BUDGET. " 1)ASSION and impatience seem to be sweeping every one away ; but I think eighteen months' experience of .Mr. Lloyd George's finance would be the...

r have given above the general grounds on which V V we deprecate the rejection of the Budget by tho Lords. Perhaps, however, the strongest reason of all why the forcing of an...

W E have several times invited attention to the danger of a naval policy which may lead Germany on to new and still greater efforts in the struggle for supremacy by making her...

Q OCIAL reform as understood by the Liberal of to- kJ day—and in too many cases by the Conservative of to-day as well—has many terrors, but we doubt whether the most alarming of...

TN dealing last week with an attempt to represent our view of the duty of national defence as pagan, we promised to introduce our readers to Thomas Adams's noble sermon on "The...

mllERE is always a Cage of vulgarity about present "display," and almost always an atmosphere of romance about the " display " of the past. It is of course no new theory that...

A LAW case recently decided has led to some correspon- dence in the Times on the jurisdiction of the Chancery Court,—a Court which is in several ways characteristically British,...

THE ADVANCE OF SOCIALISM. rTo THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR-"l SIR,-I venture to make an appeal through your columns to moderate Liberals. With them lies the power to check the...

possible to discern in our present things political an interesting parallelism with that era of remark- able unrest in the United States which culminated at the polls of 1896....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Siu, — That the present Budget introduces into party polities the novel principle of legislation (and thence revolution) by finance has...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 Snt,—Is there not something rather inconsistent in the whole Quaker attitude towards war ? If the Gospels are to be interpreted literally...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] trust that the importance of the issue between, or, as you would put it, the harmony between, Christian idealism and your "New Way of Life"...

S13, — Not a few of your readers will, I think, take exception - to Mr. E. D. Stone's way of expressing himself when he writes about "the distinctively Roman features of the...

pro THIS EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sfs,—In a letter which appeared in your columns last week the writer speaks of "Roman features of the Prayer-book, left there in the...

Sin,—As a member of the Society of Friends, I have read with deep interest both Mr. Grubb's article, "A Pagan Way of Life," in the British Friend, and the reply thereto in your...

THE " Erscraroz." experience of English ladles, being derived from a different and, I think, wider point of view than some of your correspondents, coincides entirely with the...

pro THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOE."1 SIE,—S0 far as one gathers from the speeches of Mr. Lloyd George and his friends, the benefit to be' derived from these roads by motorists...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.'] Sin,—I cordially agree with the observations upon this Bill made in your article of September 25th, and I think I can nsefully enforce your...

[TO THE EbrIVE OP THE "SPECTATOR:I- SM—May I point out that the sense-development of " holy ' 1 is not clear, and that the etymological connexion of the word With " whole " is...

[To THE EDITOR Or TEE " SPECTATOR:7 Sin,—I wish it were possible to compel large steamers to carry sails, but practical experience does not justify this. Sails are desirable...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Srn,—Physical strength, brains, eyesight, hearing, a good digestion, Sm., are all aids to making one's living ; these are gifts which we...

[To Tux Enrron or THE " SFECTAT011.1 Sni,—My letter which you printed last week has a fatal blunder,— not mine. For "permit" read "not permit." (The "mirth without images " is...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TEX "SPECTATOR') Sin, — Writing on September 13th from a somewhat distant part of the Empire, I have before me a copy of the Spectator dated August 21st last,...

THE MOUND IN THE MEAD* THIS is the mound that holds the slain Who fell at the ford, by the sword of the Dane; Who fell as they came from hut and hall, Fair-haired Saxons lusty...

[To THE Enrron oy THE "SpacraToR."1 Si,—With your permission I will make brief comments on the different solutions that have been tendered of the moon- puzzle. Mr. Lewis 0....

Ws have received the following contributions in answer to the appeal of the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines' Protection Society, on behalf of the deputation to the United States :—...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are ntarked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of...

FRANCIS ATTERBLTRY.* Mn. W. H. HUTTON, the general editor of the series of "Makers of National History," has been wise in selecting subjects who have not already done duty as...

SIGNOR FERRERO more nearly reaches the conception of history as philosophy teaching by examples than any modern historian. These chips from the workshop in which his famous...

learned with peculiar interest that in the secret preparations for that event a material part had been played by women. But there were two stages in the action of Turkish women...

that he is not highly imaginative in artistic matters, though he is a fairly sound judge of what he sees before his eyes. If artists tell town Planning. By H. Inito Trion....

IT is long indeed since we have met with a volume of art criticism so wise, so attractive, so suggestive as "Vernon Lee's" new book, Lawras Nobilis. Needless perhaps to say that...

series which is intended to give information about the British Empire and about countries within the sphere of British influence. It would be easy to find in it texts for many...

Mn. HUTCHINGS does wisely to bespeak the charitable con- sideration of readers who may not find something which they would have included had they had the writing of the book. He...

THE STREET OF ADVENTURE.t Ix the middle of the General Election of 1906—to be precise, on the Monday following the Saturday on which Mr. Balfour was defeated in Manchester and...

depict their heroines as Wring a most serious view of life are seldom endowed with so keen a sense of humour as that shown by Mrs. Havelock Ellis. This is an immense comfort to...

Mr. Tracy always tells a very good story, and in The Message he gives his readers an exciting mixture of high politics and attacks by savages. The sentimental intrigue is not so...

the author of this book is herself quite sure what she is driving at, she leaves her readers in considerable perplexity. It is not certain whether she means the heroine of her...

Henry Jordan and Baldassare Labanca. (Henry Frowde. 6s. net.) —Nearly twenty years ago Professor Labanca published a pamphlet which he entitled "Early and Late Hindrances...

Boon. 6s.)—A novel of which the theme is political adventure in one of those vague kingdoms of Europe which are so convenient to the novelist.—A Country Corner. By Amy Le...

ErNa.r this heading we nota such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forrns.1 The Christian Church and the Congo Question. By John M. Harris. (E....

DT. Cowes Lalcaca, giving an account, with portraits and other illustrations, of the brave man who lost his life on July 1st in the attempt to save Sir Curzon Wyllie. As all...

by Lieut.-Colonel William Wood. (The Champlain Society, Toronto.)—Every one knows something about the conquest of Canada in 1759-60; but it is probable that this something goes...

Es. net.)—Mr. Leeds has furnished a biography of commendable brevity, such as we are given to understand Dr. Lefroy would have wished to be written. The facts are soon told....