CONTENTS

OF

No. 424.-JULY, 1910.

PACH

ART. 1.-THE CHARACTER OF KING EDWARD VII

1. Private Papers in the Royal Archives of Windsor

Castle. By permission of His Majesty the King.

2. Letters from Sarah Lady Lyttelton, 1797-1870. Pri-

vately printed. London, 1873.

ART. 2.-THE PROSE OF WALTER SCOTT

1. The Waverley Novels.

2. Memories of Sir Walter Scott. By James Skene.

Edited by Basil Thomson. London: Murray, 1909.

3. Sir Walter Scott's Friends. By Florence MacCunn.

London: Blackwood, 1909.

ART. 3.-SOME RECENT STUDIES IN THE PROBLEM OF

CANCER

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1. The Scientific Reports of the Imperial Cancer Re-

search Fund. London: Taylor and Francis, 1904, etc.

2. The Reports from the Cancer Research Laboratories

of the Middlesex Hospital. London: Macmillan,

1902, etc.

And other works.

ART. 4.-THE GENIUS OF THE RIVER

1. Rivers and Streams of England. By A. G. Bradley.

London: Black, 1909.

2. The Hudson River.

London: Putnam, 1902.

And other works.

By Edgar Mayhew Bacon.

ART. 5. THE BEGINNING AND THE END OF THE SECOND

EMPIRE-

1. L'Empire Libéral. By Émile Ollivier.

vols. Paris: Garnier, 1895-1909.

Fourteen

2. L'Évolution Constitutionnelle du Second Empire.

By H. Berton. Paris: Felix Alcan, 1900.

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33

54

80

104

ART. 6.-BIRDS AND THEIR COLOURS -

1. Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom. An

exposition of the laws of disguise through colour and

pattern. By G. H. Thayer. Illustrated, 4to. New

York: The Macmillan Company, 1909.

2. Farbenphotographie durch Körperfarben und mech-

anische Farbenanpassung in der Natur. Von O.

Wiener. Annalen der Physik.' Vol. 55. Leipzig,

1895.

And other works.

ART. 7.-SOCIALISM: II. ITS PRESENT POSITION

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1. Modern Socialism. By R. C. K. Ensor. London and

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1910.

2. Socialism and the Social Movement. By Werner

Sombart. Translated by M. Epstein, Ph.D. London:

Dent, 1909.

1. Origin of the Sikh Power in the Panjab, and Political

Life of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. By H. T. Prinsep

and Captain William Murray. Calcutta: G. H. Hutt-

many, 1834.

2. A History of the Sikhs, from the Origin of the

Nation to the Battles of the Sutlej. By Joseph

Davey Cunningham, late Captain of Engineers in the

Indian Army. London: Murray, 1849, 1853.

And other works.

ART. 9.-THE FIRST CONTACT OF CHRISTIANITY AND

PAGANISM

The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire.

By T. R. Glover. London: Methuen and Co., 1909.

And other works.

187

210

The Government of England. By A. L. Lowell. Two

vols. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1908.

And other works.

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ART. 11.-JOHN STUART MILL

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The Letters of John Stuart Mill. Edited, with an

Introduction, by Hugh S. R. Elliot, with a note on

Mill's private life by Mary Taylor. London: Long-

mans, 1910.

CONTENTS

OF

No. 425.-OCTOBER, 1910.

ART. 1.-INTERNATIONAL FINANCE IN TIME OF WAR

1. Economic Inquiries and Studies. By Sir Robert

Giffen, K.C.B. Two vols. London: Bell, 1904.

2. Finanzielle Kriegsbereitschaft und Kriegsführung.

By Dr J. Riesser. Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1909.

And other works.

ART. 2.-FOUR GREAT COLLECTIONS

1. The Royal Collection of Paintings at Buckingham

Palace and Windsor Castle. With an introduction

and descriptive text by Lionel Cust. Two vols. Lon-

don: Heinemann, 1905-6.

2. Wilton House Pictures. With an introduction by

Sidney Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, and a

history of Wilton House and other matters by

Captain Nevile R. Wilkinson. Two vols. London:

Chiswick Press, 1907.

And other works.

ART. 3.-THE CENSORSHIP OF PLAYS

Report from the Joint Select Committee of the House

of Lords and the House of Commons on Stage

Plays (Censorship); together with the proceedings of

the Committee, minutes of evidence, and appendices.

His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1909.

ART. 4.-THE AUTHOR OF VATHEK'

1. The Life and Letters of William Beckford of Fonthill

(Author of ‘Vathek'). By Lewis Melville. Illustrated.

London: Heinemann, 1910.

2. Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents; in a Series

of Letters from Various Parts of Europe. London:

Printed for J. Johnson, MDCCLXXXIII. (Reprinted in

"The History of the Caliph Vathek and European

Travels.' London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1891.)

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303

330

352

377

ART. 5.-DANTE'S THEORY OF POETRY

1. Dante: De Vulgari Eloquentia. Ed. Pio Rajna, for

the Italian Dante Society. Florence: Le Monnier, 1897.

2. Guiraut von Bornelh. By A. Kolsen. Berlin: Vogt,

1894.

1. Pascal. By Viscount St Cyres. London: Smith,

Elder and Co., 1909.

2. Euvres de Blaise Pascal. Edited by L. Brunschvicq

and Pierre Boutroux (in course of publication). Paris:

Hachette, 1904-8.

And other works.

ART. 7.-THE PROMISE OF LATIN AMERICA

1. The South American Series. Edited by Martin Hume.

London: Fisher Unwin. Chile, by G. F. Scott Elliott,

1907. Peru, by C. R. Enock, 1908. Mexico, by C. R.

Enock, 1909. Argentina, by W. A. Hirst, 1910.

2. A History of South America.

London: Murray, 1904.

And other works.

ART. 8.-COPYRIGHT LAW REFORM

By C. E. Akers.

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1. A Bill to Amend and Consolidate the Law relating

to Copyright. London: Wyman, 1910.

2. Memorandum of the Proceedings at the Imperial

Copyright Conference, 1910. London: Wyman, 1910.

And other works.

483

ART. 9.-CONSERVATISM

501

ART. 10.-GLADSTONE ON THE RELATIONS OF CHURCH

AND STATE -

522

The Correspondence of William Ewart Gladstone on

Church and Religion. Selected and arranged by

D. C. Lathbury. Two vols. London: Murray, 1910.

And other works.

ART. 11. THE NAVAL CRISIS

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The Navy League Annual. Edited by Alan H. Bur-

goyne. London: Murray, 1909.

And other works.

ART. 12.-THE POSITION OF TRADE UNIONS

Reports of the judgments given in the Osborne case by

the Court of Appeal (November 28, 1908), and by the

House of Lords (December 21, 1909).

And other works.

ART. 13. SPAIN AND THE VATICAN

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THE

QUARTERLY REVIEW.

No. 424.-JULY, 1910.

Art. 1.-THE CHARACTER OF KING EDWARD VII.* 1. Private Papers in the Royal Archives of Windsor Castle. By permission of His Majesty the King.

2. Letters from Sarah Lady Lyttelton, 1797-1870. Privately printed. London, 1873.

'NEVER was British Prince baptised under happier circumstances than Edward, Prince of Wales, the son of Queen Victoria. At a period of all but universal peace throughout the world, such as can scarcely be paralleled since the great epoch from which our religion takes its date, a peace cemented not merely by mutual interests and the bonds of a common civilisation, but by the growing recognition of deeper principles of duty, at this period our new Edward takes upon him the vows of a soldier in what is pre-eminently the kingdom of peace. Our hopes of the era which will be known to posterity by his name may rise, in this respect, to a far higher flight than the half-inspired prophecy of the Roman poet, who wrote that, in the golden age of his Pollio, "Erunt etiam altera bella,

Atque iterum ad Trojam magnus mittetur Achilles." 'Our First Edward ravaged Scotland and Wales; our Third Edward, and his son, the gallant Black Prince, carried desolation into France. But Scotland and Wales belong to this Edward, and he to Scotland and Wales; and France is the nearest and most honoured ally of his Mother's Crown. May it be his office to consolidate goodwill and unity throughout the world, and may war never be heard of în his time.'

This passage appeared in the leading article of the 'Times' on January 24, 1842, the morning after the day when King Edward was received into the Church of Christ

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