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The Mistress of the Robes; by SIDNEY HER- BERT BURCHELL Loudon: George Ball
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Mr. Barchell is one of our best historical romancers, and in this "tale of Queen Anne's days" has given us a fise picture of the times and people, and a deeply interesting story at the same time. One wonders if that romarkable woman, Sarab, Duchess of Marlborough, has not been a little misunderstood, perhaps, for eko is in this story an out-and-out hateful character, Abigail, her humble cousin who
ares-and if it were also desired to reduce the annual putlay, the work conll be extended to, say, twelve years, instead of ten. The width of the inner barbour would be 1,7000 feet, and consequently, at the cast and there would ba a distance of 600 foot on either side of the jetty. Besides the satrance to the harbour already described, there would be a lock at the top and, for the harbour would com municate with the canal into the Kelaui river,
Thus the Jarbour would be connanted with the whole and the canal would be widened. canal system; and produce coming down the Kelani river could be brought alongside restele, whether they sore in the inner or the outer whenever thero word a brenkwater. Further,
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leaves the souliery of a country squire to become, by abrowd intriguing and knowledge of human nature, the mistress of the rober, is not the accessful tour de force she is intended to be. One is always just on the brink of loving, or at least admiring, the character, but never got quite over it. There is plenty of dramatis interest to keep the reader engrossed to the Inst of the 426 closely printed pages; and the style is good throughout. The manners and converen tion of the times seem happily caught, and it is quite a wrench to qunu lack inte au England. where lords are less lardly, ratos less impudently prodigate and immoral, and the throns les unsettled. We can heartily recommend the book to those who like a good historical romanos. The Benefactor; by FORD MAX HUFFER
London: George Bell and Sous This is a poculiarly interesting novel of modern society, smacking of John Oliver Hobbes, but not eu obtrusively epigrammatic. The author must be an eminently saac parson, with a dryly humorous outlook on society, which he has probed to its inmost heart. The tale bristles with what we foul manst be real per-methods by which the Japanese nation strave, sonages, still walking the earth, cleverly hit off, by suggestion rather than portraiture, Georgs" isa cariously simple yet composite character, who seems at times to be unable to
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ME, DIONY LECTURES AT SOUTHSEA. Mr. Arthur Diony, who is so well known in connection with the Japan Society, lectured on Japanese Methods" at the St. Jude's Min- sion Hall on Nevamher 30th, under the auspices of The Society, a ladies organisation. founded some years ago by Lady Seymour and the Rev. Cosmo Gordon Iraug (now the Bishop of Stepney). The president ie Lady Douglas. wife of the Coramander-in-Chief, and there was large audience. Mr. Diosy said that on the ad- last occasion he had the great pleasars of dressing the society he spoke, as some of them by might remember, about the ideals porsucd the Japanese untion, by that marsellons people -and he thought he might use that adjective with full justification with whom they now stood in even closer relationship than when he was here in January of this year. That day he proposed to speak on the subject of the
and trose successfully, to attain those ideals, and be could think no place in the king- dom more appropriate for its consideration thau Southsea, adjacent to their great naval port, of Portsmouth. It was possible that he might let fall some remarks that world in duce a train of thought on the part of the audience from which some beneft might acerae to the nation, for at that moment the the air. They all subject of efficiency was felt that there was something lacking in that respect in the country, and therefore, if they standable as she appears, with the proviso, of were wise, they would consider how it was that course, «n in real life, that everybody, including another nation had attained what was practically the reader, think they know all there is to complete efficiency. There was not the slightest doubt about it that the untion. to the study of know. There are some defects of styla: the which be had devoted the greater part of his author is not so discriminating in the selection life, kad sohioved results in the way of national of adjectives and adverbs as be might be; bute of the earth, and by that term he meant the eficiency not attained by any other folk on the
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on the whole, he has given us a book that orrests employinent to the best advantage, and the high- attention, and "gives us furiously to think."
very
eat purposes of the natural advantages, capacities and gifts of the nation. He would endeavour to The House of Mirth; by EDITH WH&Bron. point out that the ideals followed by the Japan. 6 people were isouleated into them very early London: Macmillan and Ca,, Ld.
in life, for the efficiency of Japan had its root This is a book about American Society, the
the in the nursery. From the earliest age Upper Ten, or the First Hundrl, and makes Japanese male or female was taught that it was his or her duty to make the fallest use possible their lives as hollow and useless and selfish as
of nay gifts with which they might be endowed, did over any society murelist's attack on British
not primarily for their individual benefit, but aristocracy. It tells of a fine young woman for that of the commonwealth. The general high ideal, and as to the question of how with tastes and cravings i pelling her to keep average of the people undoubtedly lived up to "in the swim" although somewhat restricted
that came about he might say that it was entirely as to the rauans of doing so; how she trans to be put to the credit of those wise and good grossed or was believed to have transgressed themen-almost supernaturally wish who, bed social code, and in a spasm of independence made Japan what it was that day. It was thirty- seven years ago, in 1868, that they determined became a working woman, and falled at that. that if Japan way to take te raak amongst She was a woman of honour, however, and we the great nations of the world, it she was to watch her struggles with interest until she be safe, strong, prosperous, happy, and, above independent, it was Dory that the all, to should comes to the stago where she feels "the sense of injury, the souse of failure, the passionate changed altost in tole, and to seek abroad craving for a fair chance against the selfish for new ways of doing almost everything. They Now
did not waste precious years in a food of talk despotism of society. She had learned by ex-
and oceans of so-called literature, as was the parience that she had neither the aptitude nor the case in England, but immediately sent the elect moral constancy to re-make her life on new amongst them to travel all over the world to examine in every country into the condition lines, to become a worker among werkers, and of the people, to see in every land what lot the world of luxury and pleasure swoop by might be the best in the ways of that .. Jaberited tendencies laod, and then to bring their experiences kome her unguarded.
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The Progress of Priscilla; by LUCAS CLEEVE.
London: T. Fisher Unwin.
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less easily and harmoniously falulled among social than in world That it is apt to be hampered of natural necessities or complicated by moral soraples hardly got say further time repying the head Life, the New York journal, warmly praised gear when their exemplars got thoroughly Japanese did not copy the externala so much, this book, and they are in a better position than beaten by somebody else (Laughter.) The bat went to the root of affairs. In the way of education they also went to the very best
They compounded a system Sources, national education second to none
in the world, and did that by taking part of the various systems prevailing in Switzor- land, Holland, and Sweden, recognising those as the countries where the best education w in parted, and most widely disseminated, The elementary system of Japan was largely influ enced by the admirable common schools that existed in the United States of America, and with regard to their public charity and bospitals they learnt a great deal from Great Britain. So these rulers went on taking everything back to Japan, where it was cast in the melting pot, and brought out suitable to the climate, cendi- tions of life, and manners and onstoms of the country.
Then they set to work and asked themselves what was the purpose of Government? The purpose of Government was not the placing of a set of inefficient amateurs into highly psiď positions of great inflnence, but to secure in the most rapid manner, and at the least possible cost, the safety, security, prosperity, health and intelligent happin' us of the greatest possible. number of the nation. That was the aim the governors of Japau hat always had before
If the New Yorkers are half so redolent of anabbory as this tale paints them, they are fulsome lot. It is a slight book, tracing the
" parvenn love affairs of Priscilla and a young not in her sot" who hired a devil" and posed as an author in order to gain the entron It turned out that Priscilla was not such a snob as the rest of her people, and would have loved the young man for himself alone, but what he confessed what he had down to gain her regard, she was quite unreasonably sugry, and in the sad she had to chase the stricken swain and almost ask him to marry her, for in the mean- time he had discovered that Society was sour grapes "and that commerce was the real back. bona of America after all. It is a realable book enough, and handles the foibles of universal sodisty mercilessly in an unforcedly sarcastic
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