30 MARCH 1907

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‘A vigorous attack on the administration of the French Navy

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was made in the Chamber on Thursday by Admiral Bienalme, formerly Naval Prefect of Toulon. The succession of naval disaiteri, culminating in that of the 'Una,' which be...

NEWS OF THE WE EK.

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MELE French Government, after long forbearance, have decided to protect their citizens in Morocco, and a French force has been ordered to occupy Oujda, near the Algerian...

The Roumanian peasant insurrection, which began in the North of

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Moldavia early this month, has been acute during the week. Although Moldavia has become comparatively tranquil, Wallachia, whither the rising has spread, has been given over to...

. The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript, in any ease.

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M. Pobiedonostzeff, ex-Chief Procurator of the Holy Synod, died last

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Saturday, at the moment when M. Stolypin was promising to lead the country forward in those Constitutional methods which Pobiedonostzeff bad unfalteringly resisted all his life....

A Russian squadron has paid a visit of three days

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to Ports- mouth. It arrived on Monday, and official visits were at once exchanged between Admiral Bosanquet and' Commodore Roussine. In the evening there was a dinner party at...

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More than once during the week the House of Commons

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has discussed the new procedure which was proposed by the Prime Minister on Wednesday week. The Prime Minister, it will be remembered, moved that when a Bill bad been read a...

With the substance of Lord Rosebery's criticisms we find 'ourselves

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in complete agreement. There is hardly a single subject touched upon in the speech on which his views do not coincide with those repeatedly expressed in these columns. We detest...

Lord Rosebery's third apprehension was connected with the Irish policy

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of the Government. He did not expect that their Bill would be either violent or extreme; it would very likely deal chiefly with administration on lines which the Liberal League...

Lord Rosebery broke his long silence on politics at a

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meeting of the Liberal League at the Westminster Palace Hotel on Tuesday. He proposed to speak quite frankly of the new Government, to which he outed neither allegiance nor...

Last Saturday a banquet was given to the new Transvaal

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Ministry at Johannesburg. Sir George Farrar and other members of the Opposition were present, and it is impossible to draw anything but good auguries from the spirit of the...

The House of Commons adjourned on Wednesday for Easter. The

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last debate was raised by Mr. Keir Hardie, who declared that the Unemployed Workmen Act had not been worked with sufficient vigour. Mr. Burns in reply asserted that the Act had...

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Even if the protest made by Trinity graduates bad not

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been so strong and so united, we should have felt obliged to condemn the Government's proposals on their merits. Under the existing system we have at any rate an institution...

We are glad to see that a Committee is being

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formed to erect a statue to the late Lord Salisbury in the Foreign Office. For more than thirteen years be was Minister for Foreign Affairs, and during that time, as Englishmen...

The past week has been characterised by a great deal

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of unrest and uneasiness on the Stock Exchange, and at one time it was feared that the settlement on Wednesday might cause something in the nature of a crisis. Fortunately, how-...

Bank Rate, 5 per cent., changed from 6 per mt.

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Jan. 17th. Consols (2i) were on Thursday 85f---on Friday week 85}.

Though we think that Mr. Burns has administered the Unemployed

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Act as well as it was possible to administer so unsound a piece of legislation, we are convinced that in reality no special enactment was required, and that it would have been...

At a meeting of the Society of Naval Architects held

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on Friday week, Sir William White read an interesting paper on the results of the experiments made with Dr. Schlick's gyroscopic apparatus for steadying the motion of ships. The...

On Monday afternoon a meeting of graduates of the University

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of Dublin was held in the Middle Temple Hall. Lord Rathmore, who presided, declared that Mr. Bryce's scheme would at once inflict a grievous injury and injustice on the...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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SHALL THE MILITIA BE ABOLISHED? wish. from the bottom of our hearts that the facts Y.Ir as to the services rendered to the nation by the Militia during the South African War...

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• THE STATE OF EGYPT.

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rilHOUGH we are most anxious not to take up an unnecessarily alarmist attitude in regard to Egypt, we feel obliged to return to the subject treated by us some three weeks ago....

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FRANCE AND MOROCCO.

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F RANCE is acting energetically in Morocco in order to obtain reparation for the numerous injuries her citizens and interests have suffered. We are glad to think that for this...

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THE ROUMANIAN " JACQUERIE."

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T HIS Roumanian faze/Aerie is for many reasons a most serious affair. In the first place, it is an explosion based upon grievances which are felt, not only by the six million...

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LONDON AND ITS GUARDIANS.

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TIRE indifference which the London ratepayer has 1 shown in the election of the Poor Law Guardians does little credit to his common-sense. No one on Monday would have supposed...

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CHRISTIAN OPTIMISM.

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(IN the first Sunday in this month Dr. Inge, the new Lady ■ -.1 Margaret professor of Divinity, preached before the University of Cambridge a profound and eloquent sermon upon...

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THE ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE.

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A HUNDRED years ago last Monday the Bill for the Abolition of the Slave Trade in the British Empire received the Royal assent. If the British people are not so ready as the...

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MERCY AND MURDER.

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J DRIES, fortunately, have not yet made it a custom to add to a verdict of murder the rider "during temporary insanity." But the public, or at all events a considerable section...

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CORRESPONDENCE.

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THE REMARKABLE DEPRECIATION OF GOLD. iTo TER EDITOR On THE SPECTATOR.") 8x,—I contributed to your columns on February 23rd a short letter on the evident depreciation of gold....

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LETTERS TO Tli t EL) I TO R.

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MR. MARKS AND THE UNIONIST PARTY. (To THE EDITOR Or TEE . SZZOTATO...) Sin,—In thanking you most warmly for the encouragement you have given us in endeavouring to put an end to...

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EGYPT.

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[TO 'rue EDITOR Or TIM "RrIOrATOR...1 SIE,—May I, as a "man on the spot," be allowed to add one or two remarks after reading your very interesting article on " A. Parliament...

THE ALLEGED DEPRECIATION OF GOLD. pro THE EDITOR Or TRH

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o 5rsercroa."1 Sin, — Your correspondent "H. W." in the Spectator of March 16th has shown very effectively that the facts in regard to the output of gold in the world and the...

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[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR...1 SIE,—We women have always

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been considered by men to be deficient in the sense of humour, and some of us have resented this accusation; but recent events seem to prove the mere man to be correct in his...

A SECT.

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TIIII EDITOR OPP THE . SPECTTATOR."1 SIII,•-4t is certain that "a sect" does not mean "a piece cut off." But is not Professor Skeet (Spectator, March -23rd) rather too positive...

WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOE."1 SIE,—Your correspondent "G. C." (Spectator, March 23rd) applies, I think, a false analogy to the question of woman suffrage. A woman takes her...

fro THE EDITOR Or THE “SPEOTKIOR.1 Six,—Your timely article on

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female suffrage in the Spectator of March 16th shows admirably the danger that would follow from the extension of the suffrage to women. Your con- clusions would be strengthened...

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MISSIONARIES AND THE "SPECTATOR." (To TEE EDITOR OP TEE “SPECTATOR."

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have recently had some most interesting correspondence with a missionary in India in which a story is told of the influence for good of a much-used old copy of the Spectator,...

DUBLIN UNIVERSITY AND THE LIBERAL PARTY. (To THE EDITOR Or

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TOT SPECTATOR.") En,—When Home-rule comes we may be sure that the Bishops • and their creatures will give a short, shrift to Dublin University. But why must the party of Mr....

TO HEAD-MASTERS AND HEAD-MISTRESSES OF SCHOOLS.

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[To Tar Roma OP THE "SPECTATOR.") Sra,—The Education Committee of the Victoria League will be grateful if you will allow me space to remind your readers of the valuable prizes...

RUBBISH IN CO*NTRY DISTRICTS.

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iTo TEl EDITOR OP TEE SPECTATOR...I SIR,—With reference to the inquiry of "E. E." in the Spectator of March 23rd, it may be stated that in a normal rural parish there is no...

PRODUCERS AND CONSUMERS.

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[TO THE EDITOR OP THE .SPECTATOR..) Sia,—The following passage—the italics are mine—from the first volume of Gibbon is not without its bearing on a vexed question in the Fiscal...

MR. WALTER ROTHSCHILD'S WORK ON • EXTINCT BIRDS. .

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[To TER EDITOR Or TEE SPECTATOR:1 SIE,—I write to thank you for the extremely flattering notice, in your issue of last week, of my forthcoming book on "Extinct Birds." I trust,...

AMENDMENT OF THE WORKMEN'S COMPENSA- TION ACT.

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[To MS EDITOR OP TIER SPECTATOR.") STE,—It is with profound satisfaction that I have read in the Spectator of March 16th Mr. Tallack's letter on the Work- men's Compensation...

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THE AGE OF SPENSER.—A CORRECTION.

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ITo TIDO EDITOR ON EPROTATOR: . _1 S111,—Referring to your highly interesting review (March 23rd) of M. Jusserand's "Literary History of the English People: from the Renaissance...

'POETRY.

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THE BORDER LOVERS. [By Border Law (administered at the time of this ballad by Lord &rope as En g lish and the Eon of Bucclench as Scottish Warden of the Marches) inter-...

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MUSIC.

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AUGUST MARRS. Twonaw Sir August Manna had withdrawn from the musical arena for several seasons, his interest in the art he had served so long and faithfully remained unimpaired...

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BOOKS.

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SIR IAN HAMILTON'S SECOND VOLUME.* WE are glad that Sir Ian Hamilton has been encouraged —nay, more, allowed—to fulfil the promise he made in his first volume, and to give us in...

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THE POSITION AND INFLUENCE OF WOMAN IN GREECE AND ROME.*

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To estimate justly in an article the "position and influence" of women in a single epoch and a single nation would be a hard task. To do so in the case of Greece and Rome during...

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LAFCADIO HEARN.*

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THERE are numerous instances of men who have exchanged one civilisation for another, but few have told the result. Still fewer have maintained in all the excitement of change a...

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A JOYOUS TRAVELLER.*

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THE English have ever been travellers. The instinct which drove Angles and Saxons from their own bleak shores "by way of the whales" across the storm-ridden German Ocean to the...

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NOVELS.

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THE COUNTRY HOUSE.* WHETHER as the result of a natural process of mental development, or owing to the mellowing influence of success, evidences of a more conciliatory attitude...

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POPE'S ILIAD.

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Pope's Iliad of Homer. Edited, with an Introduction, by Pro- fessor A. J. Church. (Cassell and Co. 29. net.)—We welcome this edition of what must always be considered a great...

COMMERCE IN WAR.

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Commerce in War. By L. A. Atherley-Jones, KC,, M.P. Assisted by Hugh H. L. Bellot, M.A., D.C.L. (Methuen and Co. 21s. net.)—Recent years have seen a considerable output of books...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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THE STORY OP LORD CLIVE. The Story of Lord Clive, By John Lang. "The Children's Heroes" Series. (T. C. and E. C. Jack. Is. Bd. net.)—Though our notice is somewhat belated, we...

The Woman (Malombra). By Antonio Fogazzaro. (T. Fisher Thswin. es.)—It

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was the popularity of "The Saint" in England, we suppose, which caused Mr. Fisher Unwin to publish this revised translation of Malombra. Malombra was written twenty- five years...

Recite. By II. Rider Haggard. (Cassell and Co. Cs.)— Mr.

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Rider Haggard has before now, we fancy, followed the dangerous example of Sir Walter Scott, and explained the foundations of his story in a preface. Mr. Haggard's followers,...

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Church Plate in the Isle of Man. By E. Alfred

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Jones. (Dam- rose and Sons. 10s. 6d. net.)—The Isle of Man is not better off in the matter of old church plate than are the mainland dioceses. Only two pieces of pm-Reformation...

Puritan Manifestoes. Edited by the Rev. W. H. Frero and

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the Rev. C. E. Douglas. (S.P.C.K. 7s. 6d.)—This is one of the publica- tions of the Church Historical Society. It is eminently useful as giving original documents, but this is...

literary Forgeries. By J. A. Ferrer. (Longmans and Co. Si.

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6d. net.)—Mr. Ferrer, whom Mr. Lang introduces to the public; in his best style, has written a very readable book. At the head of literary forgers stands George Paalinanazar....

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

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Pude this headin g us notice such Books q f the luck at have not been reserved for resins in othtr forma.] 'Peaceful Personalities and Warriors Bold. By Frederic Villiers....

The Nursling, By Pierre Budin: .Authorised Translation by William J.

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Maloney, C.B. (Caxton Publishing Company. 21s. net.) —M. Bain professes obstetrics in the University of Paris, and directs the Clinique Tartsier, where the treatment of the...

Dutch and Flemish Furniture. By Esther Singleton. (Hodder and Stoughton.

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42s. net.)—There are many interesting things in this volume. To the connoisseur and collector it appeals by its descriptions and delineations of various articles which are...

The Religious Persecution in France, 1900-1906. By J. P. Brodhead.

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(Kagan Paul, Trench, and Co. 5s.)—It is too soon to discuss the question of which Mr. Brodhead sets forth one side. Mr. Brodhead does not altogether commend himself by the tone...

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The Small Town Garden. By H. M. Swanwick. (Sherratt and

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Hughes. 2s. net.) — The title of this admirably written book describes its object. It is addressed to the hundreds of thousands of people who have more or less opportunity of...

" The New Hudson Shakespeare " (Ginn and Co., 2s. each voL)

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is a revision by Dr. E. C. Black, with the co-operation of Dr. A. J. George, of an edition originally edited by Dr. Henry Norman Hudson. Two volumes are now before us, The...

A Smaller Dictionary of the Bible. By Sir William Smith,

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LL.D. (John Murray. 25.65, net.) — The preface bears the date of 1888, and the book has been reprinted, it would seem, without any attempt at revision, for the use of " Schools,...

"The Subject of Al/ Verse." An Inquiry by Philip Sidney.

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(H. Frowde. 25. net.) — Mr. Philip Sidney believes, but without being certain — and certainty, perhaps, is • scarcely attainable — that the famous epitaph on Lady Pembroke was...

Croclforcrs Clerical Directory, 1907. (Horace Cox. 20a.) — Croceford is a

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well-known institution of which it is needless to say much. It is acknowledged that it contains information which cannot be found elsewhere. We see that this year ' s issue, the...

We have received two numbers of a new series, " Douglas

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English Nature Books " (Bonsfield and Co., Is. per vol.) No. 1 is 100 Photographs from Life of the Shrew Mouse, Dormouse, 4-e.. by Douglas English ; • No. 2, 100 Photographs of...

A Glossary of Ancient Words. Compiled by Arthur Betts Gent.

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(Stevens and Sons. 10s. ed. net.) — Tho words here explained are connected with fines and mulcts, services ecclesiastical, manorial, and other. Allamenta, e.g., " includes any...