THE

QUARTERLY REVIEW.

VOL. 216.

COMPRISING Nos. 430, 431,

PUBLISHED IN

JANUARY & APRIL, 1912.

STANFORD LORARY

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

NEW YORK:

LEONARD SCOTT PUBLICATION COMPANY.

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CONTENTS

OF

No. 430.-JANUARY, 1912.

ART. 1.-THE HISTORY OF MAJORITY RULE

1. Journals of the House of Commons. Printed by order

of the House of Commons. London: n.d. [1744 (?)].

2. Journals of the House of Lords. London: n.d.

[1771 (?)].

And other works.

1. Lettres à Alfred de Musset et à Sainte-Beuve. Edited

by S. Rocheblave. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1897.

2. La véritable Histoire d''Elle et Lui.' By Vicomte

de Spoelberch de Lovenjoul. Paris: Calmann-Lévy,

1897.

And other works.

ART. 3.-FIJI AS A CROWN COLONY

1. The Broad Stone of Empire. By Sir Charles Bruce.

Two vols. London: Macmillan, 1910.

2. Narrative . . . of a Voyage in the South Seas. By

Captain Peter Dillon. Two vols. London: Hurst,

1829.

And other works.

ART. 4.-THE ELIZABETHAN REFORMATION

1. England und die katholische Kirche unter Elisabeth

und den Stuarts. Von Arnold Oskar Meyer. Erster

Band: England und die katholische Kirche unter

Elisabeth. (Bibliothek des Kgl. Preuss. Histor. Insti-

tuts in Rom.) Rome: Loescher, 1911.

By

2. The Reconstruction of the English Church.

Roland G. Usher. Two vols. New York: Appleton,

1910.

And other works.

ART. 5.-MUSIC AND DRAMA

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1. My Life. By Richard Wagner. English Transla-

tion. Two vols. London: Constable, 1911.

2. Musiciens d'Aujourd'hui: Musiciens d'Autrefois. By

Romain Rolland. Paris: Hachette, 1908.

And other works.

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ART. 6. THE EPISTOLÆ OBSCURORUM VIRORUM

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1. Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum: The Latin text with

an English Rendering, Notes, and an Historical

Introduction. By Francis Griffin Stokes. London:

Chatto and Windus, 1909.

2. Die Verfasser der Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum

(Quellen und Forschungen zur Sprach- und Kultur-

geschichte der Germanischen Völker, xciii). By

Walther Brecht. Strassburg: Trübner, 1904.

And other works.

ART. 7.-THE PHILOSOPHY OF HENRI BERGSON

1. Essai sur les Données Immédiates de la Conscience.

Matière et Mémoire. L'Evolution Créatrice. Le Rire.

Par Henri Bergson. Paris: Félix Alcan, 1889-1910.

2. Time and Free Will. Translated by F. L. Pogson.

Matter and Memory. Translated by Nancy M. Paul

and W. S. Palmer. London: Sonnenschein, 1910-11.

And other works.

ART. 8.-THE UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION -

Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on the Steel

Industry. Part I. Organisation, Investment, Profits,

and Position of the United States Steel Corporation.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1911.

And other works.

ART. 9.-TURKEY UNDER THE CONSTITUTION

1. Turkey in Transition. By G. F. Abbott. London:

Arnold, 1909.

2. Turkey and its People. By Sir Edwin Pears. Lon-

don: Methuen, 1911.

And other works.

152

177

202

ART. 10. THE GROWTH OF EXPENDITURE ON ARMAMENTS 224

Naval Expenditure (Principal Naval Powers). (White

paper No. 265 of the Session 1911.) London: Wyman.

And other works.

ART. 12.-THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE AND THE LIBERAL

UNIONISTS

The Life of Spencer Compton, Eighth Duke of Devon-

shire. By Bernard Holland, C.B. Two vols. Lon-

don: Longmans, 1911.

And other works.

ART. 13.-HOME RULE FINANCE -

248

258

Report from the Select Committee on the Taxation of

Ireland, with Minutes of Evidence and Appendices.

1864; H.C. 513. 1865; H.C. 330.

And other works.

€ 281

CONTENTS

OF

No. 431.-APRIL, 1912.

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ART. 1.-THE YOUNGER PITT

1. William Pitt der Jüngere. By Felix Salomon. Band 1.

Leipzig and Berlin: Trübner, 1906.

2. William Pitt and National Revival. William Pitt

and the Great War. By J. Holland Rose. London:

Bell, 1911.

And other works.

ART. 2.-BEAU NASH AND BATH

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1. Bath under Beau Nash. By Lewis Melville. Lon-

don: Eveleigh Nash, 1907.

2. Bath: a Poem. London: Longman, 1748.

And other works.

ART. 3. THE ELIZABETHAN AGE IN RECENT LITERARY

HISTORY

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1. L'Histoire Littéraire du Peuple Anglais. Par J. J.

Jusserand. Two vols. Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1894,

1904. English translation. Three vols. London:

Fisher Unwin, 1906–9.

2. The French Renaissance in England. By Sidney

Lee. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910.

And other works.

ART. 4.-CAVOUR AND THE MAKING OF ITALY -

1. The Life and Times of Cavour. By W. R. Thayer.

Two vols. London: Constable, 1911.

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2. The Dawn of Italian Independence. By W. R.

Thayer. Two vols. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and

Co., 1893.

And other works.

ART. 5. THE ST LAWRENCE

ART. 6.—THACKERAY AND THE ENGLISH NOVEL

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The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Cen-

tenary Biographical Edition). With biographical

introductions by Lady Ritchie. Twenty-six vols.

London: Smith, Elder, 1910-11.

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