6 JANUARY 1906

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FROM JANUARY 6th TO JUNE 30th, 1906, INCLUSIVE. TOPICS OF THE DAY. BSENT, Criticism of the ... 413 .t1 Algeciras Conference, the ... 281-484.526 Aliens Act, the (The Surprises...

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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W HEN we wrote last week the issue of the conflict in Moscow still hung in the balance. Within a couple of days the flame of revolt was quenched in blood, the Presnia quarter...

Though the Moscow revolt is over, it must not be

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supposed that the revolution is in any sense crushed. From every quarter comes news of disorder and unrest. The St. Peters- burg correspondent of the Daily Mail, telegraphing to...

+V The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript, in any

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case.

The Times of Thursday published a valuable article from a

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correspondent on the present condition of the Yemen. The insurrection seems to have been a curiously fortuitous event, occasioned partly by famine and partly by the ambitions of...

The relations between Germany and France are still far from

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satisfactory in view of the near approach of the Algeciras Conference. Two views are held as to the attitude of the Emperor William. Count von Tattenba,ch's declaration that his...

The lessons of the Russian trouble in Poland have not

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been lost upon the Emperor William, and he is obviously concerned for the behaviour of the members of that race who are under his rule. He has accordingly addressed a letter to...

The other view is put with great ability by M.

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Clemenceau in the Aurore on Tuesday. He argues that it is idle to " hang on the lips of the German Emperor to know if on this or that day he is in good humour." German policy...

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Lord James of Hereford has addressed to Mr. T. Garnett,

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Chairman of the Freo-Trade League, Manchester, an ina:. portant letter on Free-trade and Home-rule. Lord James • observes that those who say it is dangerous to vote for a...

The Duke of Devonshire, in acknowledging the resolution recently passed

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by the Unionist Free-traders and forwarded to him by Mr. Arthur Elliot, has made an important pro- nouncement on the two great questions of home politics. Dealing with...

Sir Edward Grey, speaking at Belford on Friday week, defined

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the issue with his habitual frankness and moderation. Tariff Reformers, he observed, had apparently realised that they were getting the worst of the argument, because they bad...

The question of Free-trade, the Duke continues, occupies a wholly

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different position. Under cover of Mr. Balfour's appeal to sanction some undefined departure from the existing fiscal system, the Tariff Reform League, whose proposals are...

Mr. Chamberlain's election address, issued on Monday, denounces the new

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Administration as essentially a Home-rule and Little Englander Government. regards Home-rule, he would spare no efforts to defeat "the conspiracy of violence and treason" to...

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Mr. Chamberlain addressed two crowded meetings in West Birmingham on

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Tuesday night. It was true, he said, that the Nationalists were harmless as long as the Unionist policy prevailed, but with Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman in power there was every...

On Thursday Mr. Haldane made an admirable speech at the

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Cannon Street Hotel on Army policy, and effectually dis- posed of the bogey that the new Government intend to reduce the strength and efficiency of our national forces. " I have...

The tone of complacent and supercilious superiority dis- played in

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the address also marks Mr. Balfour's preface to his collected speeches and pamphlets on Fiscal Reform, published on Friday. Mr. Balfour acquits the "eminent persons "—including,...

On Tuesday Mr. Augustine Birrell, while addressing a meeting at

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Bristol, dealt with the Education question. One thing was plain—and h had two Bishops on his side—and that was that there must oe popular control in State-supported schools,...

Mr. Balfour, who spoke at a meeting at Leamington on

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Monday night, devoted the greater part of his speech to a defence of Chinese labour. If they were to carry out the " in- sane policy" of ejecting the Chinese insincerely...

We note with great regret that on Thursday night Mr.

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Chamberlain, who was speaking at Derby, was so much in- terrupted by a gang of roughs that he was practically unable to obtain a bearing. The excuses that have been made—...

While Mr. Haldane was laying the bogey that a Free-trade

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Government would neglect the duty of national defence, Me. Asquith was with equal success disposing at Sheffield of the equally ridiculous bogey of Home-rule. "He had only to...

Bank Rate, 4 per cent.

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Consols (24 per cent.) were on Friday 89i.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE AND UNIONIST FREE-TRADERS. T HE Duke of Devonshire's letter on the duty of Unionist Free-traders at the coming elections is in every way worthy of the...

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THE REVOLT IN MOSCOW. T HE defeat of the revolutionaries in

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Moscow, which appears to have been quite complete, furnishes one more illustration of the truth that when a regular Government uses artillery against its own subjects with as...

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THE LIBERAL PARTY'S DEBT TO THE HOUSE OF LORDS.

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I T is commonly believed that the House of Lords is the chief enemy of the Liberal party, and that it constitutes a continual obstacle in their path and menace to their power....

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THE NEW CHINESE ARMY. T HE two letters from the Times

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correspondent in China on the reorganisation of the Chinese Army, of which one was published on Thursday, December 28th, and one on New Year's Day, may prove—as we believe, will...

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THE SURPRISES OF LEGISLATION.

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W HEN the Aliens Act was under discussion in Parliament it was commonly said by the Opposition that it was merely a legislative farce. The Government had to redeem a promise,...

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THE HOME LIFE . OF THE POOR. T WO striking collections of

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essays on the subject of the poor lie before us,—" The Canker at the Heart," by L. Cope Cornrow]. (Richards, 3s. 6d. net), and "The Queen's Poor," by M. Loane (Edward Arnold,...

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THE VERSATILE GUEST.

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1141 HE past two or three weeks must have brought home to many an otherwise well-satisfied person a sense of his own limitations. At no season so strongly as at Christmas and...

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A WEST COUNTRY VILLA GE.

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i T is the quaintest haphazard corner of the world, lying under the lee of a common, and just in sight of the great road running southwards. So sheltered is it that you may walk...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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FUNDAMENTAL CHRISTIANITY AND THE EDUCATION QUESTION. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEcteron.1 SIE,—I do not propose to criticise Canon Beeching's letter in your last issue further...

(To THE EDITOR OF THU .EPECTA.TORPI was, I believe, the

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present Minister of Education who uttered the pregnant formula : "It is the Mass that differs." Your article in last week's Spectator excludes from the possible adherents to a...

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LTO TER EDITOR OF Tlis "SPECTATOR:1 STE,—May I enter an

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emphatic protest against one ex- pression in your otherwise admirable article, "Fundamental Christianity, " in last week ' s Spectator ? You say the clergy have not time for the...

[TO TRU EDITOR OP TSR "SPROPLTOR.1

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Sru,—Referring to Canon Beecbing ' s letter, and your valuable article thereon, in last week ' s Spectator, it may not be out of place to put on record the impressions received...

[TO TITR EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1

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SIR,—The two suggestive letters in your last issue, together with your leading article, go a long way towards a satisfactory solution of the education difficulty. They appear to...

(TO TRR EDITOR OP Till "sewarATOR:9 Si,—Allow me to point

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an obvious answer to your objections in last week ' s Spectator to letting the children be taught the religion their parents wish them to learn. (1) If the parents are...

[TO TRY EDITOR OF IRE "SPECTATOR:"]

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have read with great thankfulness the article under the above title in your issue of December 30th. " Fundamental Christianity " given by the school staff, and supplemented by...

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.1 SIB,-4 have read with

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much interest your article on "Funda- mental Christianity and the Education Question" in last week's Spectator. You refer to the immense number of lay- men who share with you...

THE EDUCATION DIFFICULTY: A SUGGESTED SOLUTION.

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[To rum EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOIL1 SIE,-111 a previous letter I suggested that the education difficulty might be solved by dividing the Education-rate proportionally to the...

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION—THE GERMAN SYSTEM.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOE."1 Snt,—Why does the Government not ask this country to adopt, respecting religious instruction in public schools, the principle which has been...

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THE WATER-SUPPLY OF ENGLAND.

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To TUB EDITOR OF TUB " SPECTATOR."] SIE,—The recent rains after the drought have brought a welcome relief, but the question of an adequate water-supply is not yet solved. It is...

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THE COMING ELECTION.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE u seiterevonm am a diligent reader of the Spectator and an ardent Free-trader. I am not only conscientiously opposed to Mr. Chamberlain's scheme of...

THE CLERGY AND PROTECTION.

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[To ms EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—On the eve of the Election I should like to make one more appeal to the clergy to sink their opinions on every other question in order...

THE DANGER OF PROTECTION-CUM-HOME-RULE.

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[To vas EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIB,—From the pen of a man who was a Home-ruler before Mr. Gladstone, and who hs-s recently thrown his mantle over that out-and-out...

THE PRESERVATION OF HINDHEAD.

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I To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — You were good enough, a short time since, to express your warm approval of the purchase of the manorial rights over the Hindhead...

THE DUTY OF UNIONIST FREE-TRADERS AT THE LINCOLN ELECTION.

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ET° THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — As between Seely, the sitting Unionist Member, disowned by the local party officials for his adhesion to Free-trade principles, and...

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RHODES, CAVO1JR, AND BISMARCK.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE " kirseratort." Sin,—I call it handsome in your reviewer of "The Empire and the Century" to find space at all to discuss my essay among so many better and...

THE PROPOSED EXPERIMENT IN MILITIA TRAINING.

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[TEE experiment proposed by Colonel Pollock for which we are asking subscriptions may be briefly described as follows. Colonel Pollock declares that if funds sufficient to meet...

CAPTAIN MAHAN AND THE NAVIGATION ACTS.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—In your issue of December 23rd, reviewing my "War of 1812," you note that "the conflict between those who would set a ring-fence round...

PERSONAL SERVICE FOR THE POOR.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") p. 1113 of the Spectator of December 30th you remark in an article on "London Pauperism" that "if the Guardians" (of a Union named in the...

THE STRANDING OF ASSISTANCE.'

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[TO THE EDITOR OF TUB "SPECTATOR."] &E, ---Your paragraph in the Spectator of December 16th on the decision of the Lords of the Admiralty in this case has awakened widespread...

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POETRY.

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EMIGRANTS. LIKE sea-pools on some restless, rock-strewn shore These bog-pools flutter ere they sink to rest, And o'er this surface, level as a floor, You blue reek trails its...

ART.

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THE WINTER EXHIBITION AT THE ACADEMY. THE collection of pictures to be found at Burlington House this winter is undoubtedly a good one. English painting from Dobson to Watts is...

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BOOKS.

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LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL.* MR. WraTeroN CHURCHILL, in accepting the commission of preparing from the voluminous papers at his disposal a Life of his father, undertook a most...

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THE NEW "IN MEMORIAM." *

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TENIrrsoN-movnas of the younger generation, even the more ardent, can hardly be expected to understand the sort of thrill which it gives some, at any rate, of the older, to see...

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MODERN GERMANY.*

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WE are always glad to welcome what may be called a bird's- eye view of the conditions prevailing in Continental countries, and this must be more especially the case with regard...

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A SUCCESSFUL FAILURE.*

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WHOEVER reads Fifty Years of Failure will make acquaint- ance with a very pleasant, cheerful book ; and are not those - the two qualities best worth having in an acquaintance P...

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THE MAGAZINES.

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No paper in the new Nineteenth Century will be read with greater interest than Mr. Keir Hardie's sensational article on "Labour at the Forthcoming Election." We cannot go into...

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NOVELS.

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THE CROWN OF PINE.' IP to write a good historical novel is a hard task, to write a good classical one is infinitely more difficult. It requires a wealth of learning which is in...

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HIS MOST DEAR LADYE.

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His Most Dear Ledge. By Beatrice Marshall. (Seeley and Co. 5s.)—This is a story of "Sidney's Sister, Pembroke's Mother," told by an English girl, who after spending the first...

Almanach Hachette. (Hachette et Cie. 2 francs.)—This Almanac relieves the

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gravity of its subject-matter with humorous sketches and anecdotes that its English contemporaries do not affect. And it fails to give information which in this country we...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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TWO BOOKS ON LONDON. London Vanished and Vanishing. Painted and Described by Philip Norman. (A. and C. Black. 20s.)—This is one of the "Beautiful Books" which Messrs. Black...

Soprano. By F. Marion Crawford. (Macmillan and Co. Ga.)- The

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troubles and difficulties by which the heroine of Mr. Crawford's new romance is beset in her efforts to storm the citadel of fame differ considerably from those encountered by...

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Annual Report (1904) of the Nottingham C.O.S. (Derry and Sons.)—At

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Nottingham last winter the Relief Fund was administered by the Charity Organisation Society, and this is the Report of their proceedings. More than a hundred voluntary workers...

Catharine Grace LOch : a Memoir. (H. Frowde. 4e. net.) —

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" The Memoir," says Surgeon-General Bradshaw, who edits the book, "has become practically an Autobiography." Miss Loch speaks for herself, and speaks with all possible vigour...

SOME BOOKS OF . THE WEEK.

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[Under this heading we notice such Books of MD week as have not been reserved for review in other form.] The facsimile of the "First Folio of Shakespeare's Plays" (Oxford...

Twenty - four Original Recitations, Songs, and Games for Children. By M.

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S. Clark and Gaynor Simpson. (0. Newmann and Co.) —Miss Clark and Miss Simpson give us in this volume another excellent collection of action songs and recitations which will be...

Collectanea. Fourth Series. (Clarendon Press. 31s. 6d.) —This is one

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of the publications of the Oxford Historical Society (it is the forty-eighth volume). It contains a "Description of Oxford" from the Hundred Rolls of the county, bearing date...

Prying Among Private Papers. By the Author of "A Life

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of Sir Kenelm Digby." (Longmans and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—" Private Papers," it is perhaps as well to add at once, "Chiefly of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries." The author...

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Burke's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage. (Harrison and Sons. 42s.)—Within its

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liberal boundaries of 2,288 pages of the largest octavo size, and closely printed, Burke is able to include a vast amount of matter. It is a history as well as a book of social...

We have received from Messrs. Hachette two handsome gift- books,

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well bound and excellently illustrated. They certainly do not fulfil Dr. Johnson's ideal of a book that you can hold in the hand as you sit over the fire, but this it would be...