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THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, THURSDAY, APRILM2. 1906, 5 MISCELLANY. NEW BOOKS. added. Three hundred houses altogether are to be built on a space of three acres just here.

A mere three acres would not confine the activity of the builders, bat, fortunately, as many residents in Moss Side are inclined to think, Lord tiBBRT BROWNING AND ALFRED DOMETT JSgerton estate bounds the plot, and it is a case of thus far and no further." It will perhaps The path of the social investigator is not always smooth, says a correspondent, apropos of the Citizens' Committee's effort to throw light on Manchester's dark places. Some time ago I was investigating in one of the dingiest corners of Ancoats. My business was to make house-to-house calls and gather information as to the sixe and general conditions of the houses. The foot-rule and note-book of the aspiring investigator were busily employed, and all went well till one evening, when, in the depths of one of the districts of "back-to-back" houses, I met misfortune. A huge woman, from whose door I had been surlily sent away, pursued me ttle by little, thanks partly to the zealous Lry of inquirers like Professor Hall partiy t0 the co-operation of the of unpublished letters, the rather onvironment of Browning's early is becoming clear.

The present tending volume contributes more to this than anything that has appeared sine famous Letters of 1845-6. Domett has vd Ion" been familiar by name as the one of the early the of another; as the friend who one betook himself to the world ena" to return, after thirty years, as 4 Minister of New Zealand, yet was so unconscious of his own worth and phco lie held in the hearts of his old paries that he read the Guardian Angel," "Alfred, dear friend," without a down the street, and denounced me to the neighbours as a swindler. They've got him in the evening paper," she shrieked. "'Ave nothin' to do wi" him." In vain I protested my bona fides. I was, I said, a mere humble ser be surprising to many to learn that the bricks of which these houses axe being made are all from the site of the Royal Infirmary.

Already clay enough for 20,000,000 has been taken thence. The brickworks behind Moss Lane will, it is stated, be supplied from the Infirmary, without having to call on their own material, for two years. Not far away, in the field opposite Piatt Church, the builder has 'also begun to work-Its long-threatened margin is lined ominously with bricks and mounds. A contractor has, in fact, an order to erect no fewer than five hundred houses on this field, and as the builder has for some time been advancing with lines of terraces from the Mess Lane border we may expect another Tapid transformation here. The coming summer will probably be the last in which the youth of Rusholme will drag for beetles in the pools and play crude cricket on the lumpy greensward of this ancient open expanse.

Perhaps its occupation, desolate as it has been for several years, is not much to he regretted. One sees, however, with Teal sorrow notice-boards announcing that the land on the church side of Piatt Lane is to be given over to the builder as well. In a short time we shall probably have lost the beautiful park-like view of the Piatt fields that the lane affords the finest, perhaps, within a three-mile radius-from the city. vant of social reform gave name and address, and produced the "literature" of my society in confirmation. It was fruitless.

A crowd gathered, who regarded me as something evil caught in the act. Wait till I fetch a police man, the woman shouted, and I found it pruaeni io nee. a lew nours afterwards a that he himself was umi xie knock was heard at the door of my quarters ron Cammerer's criticisms is greater than their value. His general thesis is that the battle confirmed the German tactical regulations, and it is these that he makes the canon of criticism. If Kuropatkin or Oyama acted in accordance with the "Infantrie Exercier Reglement," or Instructions for Superior Officers," Von Cammerer approves; but otherwise he is inclined to shake his head, however srccessful the issue may have been.

Oyama, for instance, concealed Nogi's army behind Oku's before the battle opened, a disposition which involves both a wheel and a flank march, and Part n. pars 74 and 84 of the "Infantry Training" points out the dangers of such movements. Again, Kuropatkin thought that the main Japanese blow was to be struck from the east, whereas Part II. par 85 conveys a clear implication that the attack might have been expected from the west. The German critic is so eager to champion his tactical regulations that he deals in formal argument and ignores the human factor, which never influenced the fate of battle more conspicuously than at Mukden.

The Japanese understood their enemy so well that they deluded, and counted on deluding, Kuropatkin into expecting the attack on the east; they knew so much of his dispositions and concealed their own so well that they could venture to take the risk of a flank march. The result was a great Victory and Von Cammerer is dissatisfied that the requirements of the text-books were not satisfied. Here an interesting point arises. General von Cammerer may be a pedant only in peace time, but if the German commanders conducted a great war in the spirit of some of these comments we might see some strange results. To Von Cammerer, Kuropatkin, Oyama, and their Staffs are pawns, to be moved this way and that by paragraph and rule; he forgets that on the field of battlo they are rival intelligences battling against each other and all the chances of war.

The Game of Ju-Jitsu. By Taro Miyake and Yukio Tani. London Hazell, Watson, and Viney. Pp. 86.

5s. We have had plenty of spectacular Jiu-Jitsu. The new development of this gymnastic art is towards its conversion into a game, and as such it has previously suffered much from its exploiters. The aim of this book, which is issued in connection with the Japanese school established in London, is to help boys and men to learn the game without instruction, and to grasp its excellence, not as a gladiatorial exhibition with deadly possibilities, but as the science of the game of rough-and-tumble. It is edited by two Cambridge undergraduates who are the interpreters of the eminent Japanese exponents of the art now teaching in London.

Before their unequivocal allusions in we to tue in Ancoats. The woman had tracked me to We now have, oesmes i but onp my lair, and by her side stood a detective. A what is known or uomeu nv- few words to the latter put things right, and 'T and romantic career, a series of his t.ii more tne woman went away convinced that a great malefactor had slipped the leash of the law. to urowiuiifi) 7 Of of Browning's letters to him. a A copy of the evening paper explained matters.

Some householder had written to warn people against a plausible young man with insinuating AUSTRALIAN FINANCE. speech, who purported to be what he was not, and departed with the cash of the credulous. The names of suburban houses, a correspondent thinks, show a painful lack of originality. Curing a walk last week I made a few notes of the names which decorate the gateposts. The a young barrister, later on Man ju.l and a number of irn lotted are now first published xhese as letters, the freshest and most Eristic of all; perhaps it is not too sav that they make us for the first rwillv'intimate with the brilliant circle irh offer, hero-worship to the young of our poet," as they 'tlvZ'li himself cannot be reckoned lotter-writers, and his letters iCh overflowing with bonhomie and genial have, like much of his later more muscularity than savour, and i Zl- attain the finer expressness.

One 1 of ihonu however, contain really titles may be roughly divided into four classes "denes," "leas" or "leighs," "hursts," and "The" followed by the name of a tree. So we have Ingledene." Glendene," "Oak-dene," Sunnyhurst," "Pine Hurst," "Beeoh- COMMONWEALTH AND STATE LOANS. At yesterday's sitting of the Australian Premiers' Conference at Sydney, it was resolved that the different States should co-operate with regard to loans in order to avoid competition and to the best terms in the matter of interest and other oharges. The resolution also provides that the States shall mutually assist one another in regard to the exchange of remittances and the payment of interest, and dhall agree upon a uniform rate of brokerage for local loans. nurst, "Ash "Ash Leigh," "Summer Wlnrations ot his mmu nti rnnr.

wnmk ilia art. It IS nDiwunji Lea," and "The Laurels," "The Whins," and The Cedars." The tree from which the house takes its name is nearly always most conspicuous by its absence. They do this thing better abroad. In Holland, for instance, the name of each house like the picture in the advertisement tells a story. What a blissful life must be led by the family whose home is Free from Care." Joy and Plenty is another favourite, and Peaceful Rest is chosen by many of the phlegmatic St ko momentous eighteen months no breath of the new and that had come into his life ever his pa-o.

At most, a dark allusion knowledge of the sequel to divine. "You know," he in July, 1846, six weeks before the Frederick Warne Gfs PUBLICATIONS. AT ALL BOOKSELLERS AND LIBRARIES. "in uu worm jr. fT.v!game, the schools and universities are already Dutchmen.

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great merit of this book, as compared with at lenst American didactics, is its amateur savour. The game is not presented as too God willing! ji on the. other hand, he wrote rr't's poem. to Domett about the time difficult, and the point of view of the man that first fetter or eager pi. f.i! which opened their friendship.

mt ivro have rome out some divine things by Mi- Barrett," he suddenly exclaims, turn-U aav abruptly from a story of literary 4 Ytic nDnnrniii; nature. The Squire's Daughter (Beproduead by -Fcrmluloa of tbs Froprltoi ot rliHUisliness iiiirnjvuig who lias no time for more than a smattering of skill is realised throughout. It is very difficult to learn anything without some initial help from an instructor; but these diagrams are so clear, the letterpress is so precise, and the exercises selected are so involved in the principles of balance and anatomy wherein lies the distinction between Jiu-Jitsu and wrestling that any two physically capable persons could improve their fighting value out of mind without other aid than the text. What all our gymnasiums ln another letter we hear how Browning re-roiwl the nohle tribute of Landor memor- FELLOW-SUFFERERS. THIS CAN'T HURT YOU MORE THAN IT'S GOING TO HURT ME." Dr.

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"Ground-work," utterances is his reply, in the already which is illustrated with great variety in this quntwl letter of July, 1846, to Domett's stric- i book, is of the essence of the game, and the tun upon hit; ohscurity and imperfect ox- neatest of all throws are made by an which the friend thought more tional fall of the aggressor. No text-book The Squire's Daughter The Squire's Daughter We have received the following books, fco. QUEENSLAND From Franolg Griffiths: a kind of classified survey of tne entire thought-world of one of the richest minds of our time, hardly to be found elsewhere. THETCME8. ArchaoJogy ud Criticism.

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HOCKING. THE FLAMING SWORD. THE SCARLET CLUE. THE TEMPTER'S POWER. Burns.

Dr. Bige is thoughtful and sugges- lished, and it is safe to say that a three weeks' study of it, with a little practice, would make a comparative weakling a most dangerous opponent for the most lusty in any of the unorganised "rags" in which all youth delights. The Bkiohton Road. By C. G.

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ti erratr, or whatever they call it as well ui'leavnur to add the cubit to your Xa.vifur pacta, and that conceded to li.illi.ii. the one object of labour is naturally ilia; ymi recommend to me, and I to myself My knows better with what indifferent iiice.sk But here is, without affectation, the why I have gone on so far, although uiLiv'lmp si) indifferently: I felt so instinc-tivtly from the beginning that unless I tumbled -at the dozen more or less of conceptions. I bear them about for ever. Mine vii the better way, I do certainly believe, for moment 1 feel as everybody does who m- in vain I No matter, if the rk was real. and misunderstanding the actors genius.

Call, and Mr. Ernest Barker introduces The Oaks." (By the bye, does anyone know of a house called "The Mr. Seddon's allusion to the Eyre case as a blot on the escutcheon of the Empire and a warning to be remembered in the Natal affair will set many people wondering what blot the Empire can possibly have on its escutcheon except, of course, Majuba and the criticism of Lord Milner. In October, 1865, there was a negro riot at Morant Bay, Jamaica, which collapsed at once on soldiers being sent down. There was no armed resistance to the soldiers and no sign of a general insurrection.

The Governor of Jamaica, Mr. Eyre, proclaimed the whole county of Surrey one of the three into which the island is divided under martial law, and the soldiers were sent out to repress the insurrection which had never begun and, as far as is known, was never intended. The Royal Commission which afterwards inquired into the affair reported that there was no widespread conspiracy of any kind. The work of repression," which, in fact, was one of pure terrorism, was carried on by Englishmen in a manner worthy of Cossacks or Bashi'Bazouks. Negroes were hanged and flogged on mere suspicion.

According to the report of the Commission, 439 persons were put to death for no offence actually committed, be it remembered, over six hundred, including many women, were flogged, and a thousand houses were burned. In some of the floggings cats made of piano wire were used. The Commission saw some of the scourges, and observed that it was painful to think that any man should have used such an instrument for the torturing of his fellow-oreatures." All attempts to bring Eyre to book in England failed. He was repeatedly indicted for murder by the Jamaica Committee, which took up the cause of the negroes, and of which John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, Huxley, and Mr. Gold-win Smith were members.

The opposing association for the defence of Eyre was supported by Carlyle, Ruskin, Kingsley, and Tennyson. The grand juries always threw out the bill, and the case never came to trial. Eyre's defence expenses were afterwards paid by the Government. To-day most people will agree with Mr. Seddon that the affair is a blot on the escutcheon of the Empire.

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net), describes it as empiricist matter ivmpare his power arising from experience that of another who-has been confirm-im; himself all the time in the belief that wood is incredible labour. 1 at present and wait like such a follow tlv tirt of those; if the real work should U'm itself to be done, I shall begin' At cmce and earnest." HariJiv Jrss welcome, however, are the m.mv vivid glimpses of the poet afforded by the Jitters of his friends, especially those of Annul,) to Domett. '-Glorious Robert Bfi'wninc is as ever," Arnauld reports, in l4o, '-but more genial, more and more anecdotical than when knew him four years ago." Arnauld still, ton believes as devoutlv as in 1 Varaoel.M,' and found himself "read-- it and the Dramatic Lvrics "more often anything else in verse." Of Carlyle, 'v and Dickens, and the contemporary im-fSNon made by their books, interesting tiiis are told. Dickens is "doling ninthly numbers cf a Xicklebv tale called Chuzzlewit but Arnauld finds in os. mil than there used to be, in spite of olonant composition and would-be vein of thought; "instead of Sam things, we have much too often Charles Dickens's good Car-'V.

Past and Present." reported upon in same letter', disturbs his hearty admira-t-mt in the same way; for Browning and OCiUDU AJ. 1 1 ,1 1 nresenteu 111 a raiuuauM; 0 uuuua, auu road, especially sporting events. In the second part he travels more or less steadily all the way from London to Brighton, and with unclassified interludes plays the chatty guide with charm and zeal. Bits of journalismthough Mr. Harper is always severe on the modern press are thrown in descriptions of crowds, topical dialogues, personal dis-cursuses.

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