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THE MANCHESTER -GUARDiANy TTJISdAY, DE(MMBEK 1, Mow Ready The Best Value in 7 Reading Matter of all Christmas Numbers. For BOYS and GIRLS. Prom the publishing house of W. R. Chambers, Ltd.there come samples of the client Juvenile- stories which ore a feature of their output each autumn.

The care si ciiciii nrc selected, and the attractive manna i "1. vltn house luc published, give sQCui vh- HOLLY HOUSE AND RIDGE'S ROW. A Tale of London, Old and New. 6- By MAY BALDWIN. 009 to writs iy '0d oa by thowia how en-Effi.

Shf Snb, made Mr-hollfay walks, jovsow "town and Illustrated by very Slof GW DMJf. THE SCHOOL QUEENS. Bv T. 36 MEADE. trn lve but admiration for the whole a storv wbUe the characters pocrt rayed axe and, Beto well JnfrtHtfd weH written, and haodtomely bound, it iw i i Plbl9 tflMooVs'--SCHOOL-HASTES.

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TO BE HAD OF ALL BOOKSELLERS. THE LIFE WORLD WORK OF THOMAS LAKE HARRIS. Written from direct personal knowledge by ARTHUR A. CUTHBERT, an almost life-long Associate. All Interested will Teceive, free, a copy of the Preface, showing the full aim and Durnose of the Work, by application to the Publishers C.

W. PEARCE 139, WEST REGENT STREET, GLASGOW. MISCELLANY. The decision in the Appeal Court against the trade unions on grounds of publio policy reminds a legal correspondent of a dictum of Justice Burrough in 1824. If (publio policy) is a very unruly horse, and when once you get astride it you never know where it will carry you." The inspector was examining a class of small boys at an Ardwick school the other day.

Pointing to a picture of an owl, he asked, What is that?" A goose," came the prompt answer from one of tlyj lads. After the upec-tor had gone the teacher interviewed that boy. Oh, I knew what it was all the time," the hopeful youth explained; I was only kiddin' im." On his retirement a short time ago the English Adviser to the Siamese Customs received from the Chinese and Siamese members of the staff a presentation and a warm testi monial. We quote below some extracts from the latter: 'Dear Sir, Having been informed, that vou intend leaving us at the end of this month, we ieel it as a shock of departure of our snirit from our body, it-is with feelings of regret and eorrow that we have ever perceived. What snail we do to he able to retain you as our Chief? May we apply to His Maiestv to have your presence in uie ufhee.

or mav wb lr for the Mercy of His Majesty King Luward to grant us such Grace? We dare obviously say that we have never come across a European as good and lr-i-tj i 1 r-r 'uu aa jfuu, auu we uttr.e repeat inai, naa ills jixajeeiy jving- jsawara, nimyeror ot India, sent out officials as righteous and kind as you to India, no public seditious acts of any kind would have been demonstrated. Let me reueat once more that it is you who aie the real Con queror or jraitn and lung of Justice under wnose control everyone prostrates and in whose presence everybody bows. Up to the present time we do not know how to exuress to you our gratefulness for vour exalted virtue in describable by words, for which please accept mis present as a memory 01 our uniorgetiui ieeiings 01 sympatny towards you. Xiiougn you try to go distant from us our heart will be always witn you. In return we will be ex tremely delighted to have a Small Souvenir of you to encourage us in our duty when we shall uecoine uispiriuea aunng your unexpected absence.

Wishing you a safe voyage and a lone happy Life in expectation for vour return to Siam once more to witness our grate- iui expression luture. We beg most respectfully to remain for ever, Your most humble and beloved Foster-children." The Tercentenary of Milton is being marked at the Manchester Reference Library by a de lightful exhibition of Milton books and pictures, which fill the showcases in the hall. It is exceptionally rich in first editions, and is rather a revelation of unsuspected riches, for the public knows little of the rare things in our Manchester "British Museum." Kimr-street possesses at least four "firsts," and they are all hero to be teen. The rarest of them is the scarce "Poems" of 1645. This is the edition that has the engraved portrait by Marshall, which shows us a severe, even an unprepossessing, Milton.

We know that Milton him self was dissatisfied with this portrait, and it does small justice to his known beauty. Perhaps the most interesting exhibit is a facsimile of the manusoript of Lycidas," now in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge, which enables one to study the poem in the making. It was the sight of this manuscript that filled Lamb with whimsical regret. In his "Oxford in the Vacation" he complains that the sight of its interlineations disillusioned him of his fancy that the poem grew perfect at once, and he says, I will, never go to the workshop of an artist again." The pictures are varied and interesting: Christ's College, Cambridge, as it looked when Milton was there; St. Paul's School in Milton's day; his homes the house in the Barbican where he lived after his reconciliation to his first wife, and the cottage at Chalfont St.

Giles, now a national shrine. The Chalfont St. Giles cottage is the only one of Milton's dwelling-places left. We were crossing from Heysham to Douglas on the Manxman (writes E. The wind was what sailors call fresh from the S.S.W.

The ship rolled heavily, and dense rain made it most uncomfortable on deck. I was, standing by the top of the companion leading to the saloon when I suddenly heard signals in tho "Morse code," which I under stood, being an old telegraph hand and able to read by sound. They were repeated many times. A young operator came hurrying up to the little cabin and "answered back." I knew meant Manxman; Heysham, thirty miles astern of us, wanted to know by wireless how she was doing. The reply of our operator, very slowly and deliberately given on the huge key," was It is blowing hard.

(Pause.) It is raining heavily. (Pause.) And she is bumping like blazes." My regular newsboy (writes a correspondent) was missing recently for a week from his usual "stand." He had returned when I passed the other day, and as I bought a news paper I asked, "Been ill?" The lad blushed to his eyebrows and stuttered out, "Ah-ve not been so well." As I walked away I wondered why my sympathetic question should have so confused him. Then it struck me that his hair had been cropped very short, and I am afraid I understand. I was in a Midland train on Saturday (writes it. passing through Bedfordshire.

Sud denly one of the passengers exclaimed Lambs and, looking through the window, I saw the familiar early winter spectacle of sheep on turnips, but the very unfamiliar spectacle for November of very young lambs, seven or eight of them, genuine November lambs, with' the sheep. "How one lady commented. "How unfortunate," said another. "Unfortunate?" another passenger asked. "Why?" The lady replied To have seen the first lambs through glass." I had heard that it was bad luck to have a first glimpse of the first moon of the new year through glass, but this application of the glass superstition to lambs was quite fresh.

Hap pily we reached our destination without mis adventure. Perhaps these lambs, born sc very much out of season, were not the right kind to influence luck. They may be not the first lambs of an abnormally early season, "but the last of an abnormally late one. A superstition about seeing lambs, which country people respect very generally, ia that the attitude of the young lamb the first lamb that the eye falls on is indicative of the luck that the seer is to enjoy-or put up with dur ing the next twelve months: In the Midland counties if a member of the family announces that he has seen a lamb' the inevitable com-; ment is, Head or tail?" If the answer is Head meaning that the head was seen first the company say, "That's all right," and if it is Tail there is a. significantly muttered, "Wonder what that means? Some country people attach significance to the immediate be haviour of the iamb when first seen.

If he is standing still the reading is'a tirahquU year; if he is eating, there" are hungry "days ahead; if tu lying down it means sickness, and if, he i romping there, are, to be strange nps and downs. inese. are very crude superstitions and country people cherish "them to-day" with the apology, Old Soand-sa used to say hut ivt. uiu vool- ubvk irom uut iw. otuxehoes of the yearto 'the behaviour, of tho met Bafw-.

at.it3 beginning. is- The -LOTdon Assodatioa. yes- NEW BOOKS Chbisttanity Its Nature and its Truth. By Arthur S. Peake, D.D.

London Duckworth and Co. Pp. xsii. 298. 2s.

6d. net. It is no disparagement to the value of Professor Peake' contribution to Christian apologetics to say that its first claim upon pur serious attention is to be found in the position and personality of the author. He has a wide reputation as a critic and expositor, and many people are anxious to know what he has to say upon the deep problems of faith, especially as they are affected by modern knowledge and his own chosen field of Biblical criticism. He has made an interesting attempt to satisfy this need in the series of papers which he has collected in the volume before us.

They are written with admirable clearness and warmth of religious feeling, and they leave no doubt of the side which Professor Peake himself is prepared to take, whether or no they convince the reader of the validity of his arguments or the completeness of his view of all the difficulties. A careful reading leaves the impression that, like many books of the kind, it is more likely to fortify the convinced than to help the perplexed. Professor Peake begins with an earnest plea for a highly emotional type of religion. There is no doubt truth in the distinction which he makes between religious emotion and morality, but it appears to us that so soon as we approach the distinctively Christian sphere it is a distinction without practical validity. Christian emotion can only exist in relation to an object with specific content, and this content must always embrace the moral qualities of justice and holy love.

When he approaches the metaphysic of Christian theology, Professor Peake surprises us by his strong reliance upon authority. He is engaged on the singularly difficult task of trying to justify the inherited mass of Catholic dogma embedded in popular Protestantism by a process of induction from the facts of Scripture and religious experience. He admits in many instances that the evidence as it stands is not absolutely convincing. Ho appeals to what we feel it fitting should have taken place, as though these personal feelings were evidence for historical fact or metaphysical truth. But in the last resort it is the instinct for authority, the appeal to the consensus gentium, which wins the day.

In the chapter which deals with Sin he occupies ground whore theological debate is keenest at the present fime. He gives us a long and deeply interesting exposition of the Pauline doctrine, but in the end he leaves us in doubt whether he himself acconits the view that physical death is the Divine judgment on human sinfulness. A still more serious difficulty occurs in his treatment of the origin o'f sin. If it is, as he describes it, an inevitable 6tage in the moral development of mankind, it is not easy to escape from the conclusion that God Himself is responsible for the guilt of his creatures. Professor Peake needs no commendation at our hands.

His book is serious contribution to thought, snd for that very reason invites comment in the spirit of 'freedom and candour which animates the Faculty of Theology over which he presides. Eighteen Years in Uganda and East Afrioa. By Alfred R. Tucker. London: JEdward Arnold.

Two vols. 30s. net. The names of Hannington, Mackay, and Tucker will always be honourably associated with the foundation of the Christian Church in Uganda. Bishop Tucker first went out in 1890, immediately after the death of Mackay, and only four years after the murder of Han nington.

The infant Church had just passed through period of relentless persecution characterised by ingenious ferocity. The result had been not merely to purge the native Uhurcn, leaving it resolute and de voted, but to attract to missionary work English men women of the finest type. It has been Bishop Tucker's task to direct their efforts over a continually widening sphere and to guide the policy of the Church through years of acute political stress. There were times when Uganda seemed likely to fall to Germany, and times when the official British policy was to consider merely a shortsighted political expediency. The Christian Uliurch Uganda had to run the gauntlet of all the possible dangers and difficulties which can assail a mission in what is politi cal a debatable land.

JNo one is more fitted to tell the story, which involves a re capitulation of the modern political history of Uganda, than Bishop Tucker, who has consistently shown himself both firm and moderate. At the present time the results are in the highest degree encouraging. Many chiefs profess Christianity. Excellent educational work is being done, for the most part on sound lines, for the Bishop disclaims any wish to create a nation oi black Lnglishmen. The superficial changes are striking, and not all for the better.

The up-to-date chief rides a bicycle, and likes a brick house with corrugated iron roof. The illustrations, which are from drawings by isishop iucker, are deserv ing of the highest praise. Not only are they extremely good technically, but they snow more successfully than any photographs we have seen the essential character of the country. Several of them are of quite excep tional beauty. Perhaps this is not surprising when we recall that the was a land scape painter before he entered the Church.

His four brothers are an painters, as tneir father and motner were berore them, and there can be few instances of such family unanimity. Yet we cannot regret that Bishop Tucker disturbed it. The Stoby of a Ltfetime. By Lady Priestley. London: Kegan Paul.

Pp. xiii. 334. 12s. 6d.

net. Readers of this autobiography should be grateful to those who have overcome Lady Priestley's confessed diffidence and induced her to give to the public what was originally written for her family and more immediate friends. Here and there, as was inevitable, there are details and allusions somewhat too intimately personal for general reading, whence come footnotes arid occasional irrita tion but few lives have a wider interest, for few have had a contact so many-sided with the men and movements of the time. Born in Edinburgh whilst still in its Augustan davs. dauchter of Robert Chambers, the author and publisher, the friend of Scott and all the literary circle of the period, Lady Priestley was cradled and nursed letters Thackeray and Dickens, most, indeed, of tho best-known Victorian writers, were among her personal friends.

Through her mother and her sister. she was always in touch with music. On her marriage to the late Sir William Priestley, the physician, she settled in London, and thenceforward added the interest of science. Perhaps the most interesting portions of the book sto those which mark the development of medical knowledge during the past half-cehtury, the immense change in hospital conditions, the introduction, through Sir James Simpson, of antesthetics, of antiseptic and aseptic precau tions 'through Lister, and the gradual recog nition ot tne propnyiactic-worK of of whom she was a friend and staunch cham pion. Of all theset movements she was' not merely an eye-witness bnt an apostle, as if to justify the happy inspiration of "Chloroform Simpson; -who, early in her married life, her M.D.

and' first woman graduate of Edinburgh University. The book is a record' of a -long and full life There is not much that is quotable, 'for Lady ley. cpnnnes nerseii to her own experi ences, ana aoes man tue naming of, a celebrity an excuse for ah irrelevant good story or sacrifice a friendship to a witty but it is charmingly written and full of interest in men and things. Birds of Great Britain and Ireland; Order Passeres. Vol.

II. By A. G. Butler. London: Caxton Publishing Company.

Pp. 216. 4. 4s. As an avicultural monograph oi the Passeres Dr.

Butler's book is excellent; he speaks with authority, for few can rival him in his art. The plates of eggs by Mr. Frohawk are accurate and splendidly reproduced they exhibit the more important variations, and no one knows better than the author how widely eggs of a single species do vary. He points out that it is impossible to distinguish between certain types of eggs or tne goianncn, reapou, twite, and. linnet.

Mr. Grbnvold's fifty-one plates of birds are life-liko, correct in colour, and characteristic. duo nis accessories are lamentable; surely he has never seen the nests of the spotted flycatcher or house sparrow. It is bad enough for an artist to produce such misrepresentations, but how comes it that the author has passed them, for we know that he is familiar with thesti nests? Why, too, -has he allowed the artist to draw erectile tufts on the head of the female shore-lark, when he correctly states in tho text that they are not present in the female? Dr. Butler has endeavoured to bring the work up to date with Tegard to casual visitors, but in many cases he has omitted to state his authority where was the occurrence of tho masked shrike recorded, for instance? He has not he pleads lack of time, which is ho excuse attempted to verify all the occurrences he mentions; had he troubled to do so, he would surely not have accepted the reputed Cheshire red-breasted flycatcher, which was said to have an "almost black and a "dark grey" back.

If, too, he had studied recent literature, even so far back as 1905, he would have had less occasion to speak vaguely about distribution, especially in reference to Wales and the Islo of Man. In spite of these defects, it is a- pity that so well illustrated a book should end with the single order. We hope that Dr. Butler will continue his work. Mr.

Cecil Headlam has chosen, or has been forced, to cover a very large, very important, and most diversified stretch of country in his new travel-book, Vbnetia and Nobthbbn Italy (Dent, pp. xiv. 347, 7s. 6d. net).

In "The Story of Venice, Lombardy, and Emilia there is no unity from any point of view. Perhaps the sutnect of Mr. JUorne pictures dictated the area comprised by the book. Be that as it may, the writer of the text undertook a most difficult and ungrateful task in his endeavour to note even the most outstanding facts, to bring to the light for a moment the splendid personalities and monuments suggested by Milan, Pavia, Modena, Bologna, Venice, Verona, Ravenna, Rimini, Mantua, and a score of other cele brated towns. Sometimes he tries to gain his end by severe compression, and the result is like extracts from a note-book.

Again, he tries selection, and omits the whole of the fascinatint; north-eastern Veneto. To make a very Teadable and enticing book out of such heterogeneous material was out of the ques tion, and we doubt even it he has made a very useful one, in these days of handy, cheap, and efficient guide-books. Yet the rather impossible task could not have been better performed than it has been by Air. Headlam, who is clear, business-like, and well informed. In conveying impressions of the various countries the.

illustrator should have helped him more, but ot the numerous coloured illustrations the less said the better. The publisher offers faT too much for the price of the book, and we doubt if he gives all this quantity in response to a popular demand. Mr. Brierley, under the familiar initials J. established' himself as one of the quiet and persistent forces of Liberal Re ligion.

His new volume of essays, Side lights on Religion (J. Clarke and pp. 286, 3s. 6d. net), proclaims at once its kinship with its predecessors.

He has chosen the religious essay, richly flavoured with his own wide knowledge of books, as his special instrument of teachine. It has its disad vantages. The treatment of many subjects has to be allusive scrappy, and the reader's mind is trained all too easily to Hhort discursive flights. But, after it is not by the information which it contains or the demands which it makes upon-tho reader for clear and consecutive thinking that a beok like this is to be mdeed. Its special value is in an atmosphere of breadth, the tolerance and charity in which all its thinking is steeped.

It is no reproach to Mr. Brierley that his books have no logical order. Every essay that he writes contains, in a sense, the essence of his message. His method is that of constant iteration, and in this he shows the patience of the wise; for it is the only way to undermine prejudice and to fill the popular mind to the point of saturation with the ideas which lie nearest to his Heart. The Organ of Fifty Years Hence, by Francis Burgess; F.

S.A.Scot. (William Reeves, pp. 32, Is. net), is a disappointing pamphlet, as the author takes up too much space in tracing the past history of the instrument, and barely hints at its future possibilities. Clearly Mr.

Burges3 does not anticipate any radical changes, for his suggestions are already exemplified in the work of all good organ builders. It is, of course, difficult to prophesy anything with regard to the organ. The dream of some players that expression mow Ta tained by finger pressure may remain a dream, or it may be realised. The application of electro-pneumatic action may bring about all kinds of improvements which will help the player. At present builders are occupied mainly in selecting and systematising existing mechanism, and Mr.

Burgess' discusses intelligently the pros and cons of various methods of control. Incidentally he has some sensible remarks to make about old organs, which many people invariably speak of as soft and' mellow, when in fact they are often only feeble and squeaky. But his booklet ought to have been called "The Organ of the Present." Wo are grateful to Mr. Clement Shorter for reprinting in his Napoleon and his Fellow-travellers (Cassell and pp. xsiv.

342, 12s. net) a series of contemporary narratives of the voyages of the dethroned Emperor from Aix Roads to the English-coast and thence to Saint Holena. Some of these stories are important, all of them are interesting, and a variety of circumstances has made it difficult for the student of Napoleon's last years to lay his hands upon them. Thus the circulation of the racy narrative of George Horne-was stopped, when; its. author was mulcted in 1,000 damages in a libel snit.

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