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The splendour of yesterday's scene at Windsor Castle is the theme upon which those who were present at the banquet have been dilating to-day. That no other Court in Europe can rise to the height of magnificent display which our ordinarily sober Court attains on special occasions has long been known to the initiated. Yesterday Windsor seems to have surpassed itself, and though there be no special political importance in the fact, no one will maintain that it is wholly devoid of significance. By a curious accident the names of the members of the late Ministry who were invited were omitted from the list of guests in many of this morning's papers, whilst Sir Henry Fowler's name was omitted in all. As a matter of fact, the company was representative of both political parties, as well as of all the public services.

The way in which the red-hot reviewing now fashionable in our daily newspapers is carried on must be rather disconcerting at times to authors. The only implement of the reviewer seems to be a pair of scissors by means of which he guts' unmercifully the volume with which he happens to be dealing, snipping out any story that attracts his attention, and thus compiling a column of nuggets, no doubt to the delight of his reader, though hardly to that of the author who is reviewed in this summary fashion. Still some knowledge should be displayed even in wielding the scissors. In the review of Sir Algernon West's Reminiscences in to-day's Daily News, it is assumed that the story of Mr. Forster's offer to return to Dublin at the time of the murder of Lord Frederick Cavendish is now given to the world for the first time. As it happens, it was duly set forth in the Life of Mr. Forster published in 1888. As for the joke repeated by Sir Algernon, and quoted by the Daily News, about the ice being the only dish at a certain bad dinner that was not cold, it is almost as ancient as Joe Miller. Evidently the red-hot review has its disadvantages even from the reader's point of view.

WEMYSS REID.

The Editor of THE NINETEENTH CENTURY cannot undertake
to return unaccepted MSS.

INDEX TO VOL. XLVI

The titles of articles are printed in italics

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American Negro and his Place,
459-474

Barnett (Rev. Canon), Charity versus
Outdoor Relief, 818-826

Batson (Mrs. Stephen), Town and
Country Labourers, 570-582
Benson (E. F.), Plagiarism, 974-981
Birchenough (Henry), The Imperial
Function of Trade, 352-366

Black and white race difficulties in
America, 459-474, 957-973
Boccaccio, Italian villas pictured by,
289-301

Bohemia and the 'Cisleithanian' Par-

liament, 1008-1019

Brains, Our, Why are they deteriora-
ting? 262-272

Bushby (H. N. G.), Parliamentary
Government in Japan, 142-152
Byron, Did he write Werner? 243-

250

CABINE

6

NABINETS and Parties in Japan,
142-152

Canadian trade and Sir Wilfrid
Laurier's Preferential Tariff, 94-
101

Cape Colony, A Voice from, 522-526
Carlyle as an Historian, 493-503
Casus Belli in South Africa, The,

334-344

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Church Crisis, The, and Disestablish-

ment, 673-684

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Church, The, Is there really a Crisis'
in? 112-121

Churchman's Politics, The, 982–987
Cicero's Correspondence, 432-444
Clare, North: Leaves from a Diary,
603-612

Clarke (Col. Sir G. Sydenham), The
Limitations of Naval Force, 180-
191

Clifford (Mrs. W. K.), A Supreme
Moment, 153-172

Cobb (Rev. Dr.), The Church Crisis

and Disestablishment, 673-684
Colchester (Lord), Lord Ellenborough,
238-242

Collins (Edwin), The Teeth of the
Schoolboy, 84-93

Colonies, Great Britain's trade with
her, 355-363

Young men in the, depending on
remittances, 827-832

Colvin (Sidney), Mr. Stephen Phillips's
Tragedy of Paolo and Francesca,
915-933

Comets and shooting stars, their com-
mon origin, 939-946
Commons preservation and open spaces
of the future, 26-35
Congress of International Council of
Women, 18-25, 192-202, 455-458
Conscience Clause for the Laity, A,

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Eccles (Miss C. O'Conor-), The Hos-
pital where the Plague broke out,
591-602

Education and industrial progress,
550-555

and Irish language, 213–222
Egypt, a trip to, by Sir Wemyss Reid,
1020-1034

Electricity in India, 556-559
Ellenborough, Lord, 123-130
a reply, 238-242

Elsdale (Col. H.), Why are our Brains
deteriorating? 262-272

England's treatment of Newfoundland,
223-237

English and Dutch in the Past, 891-
904

English Masque, The, 102-111
Establishment and Disestablishment

of the Church of England, 673–684
Eustace of Flai and Sunday observance,
36-42

Exorcising devils from a sick woman
in Ceylon, 814-817

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HALLETT (Holt S.), The War-cloud

in the Farthest East, 988-995
Hatching of salmon, shad, trout, and
carp, 396-409

Hill (Miss Octavia), The Open Spaces
of the Future, 26-35
Hindu Home, A, 996-1007

Historical study and Carlyle's works,
493-503

Holland and England, their former co-
operations, commercial rivalries, and
contests, 891-904

Horticulture as a Profession for the
Educated, 769-781

Hospital, The, where the Plague broke
out, 591-602

Hotels for poor men, Rowton Houses,
445-454

Hungary, Austria, and Cisleithania,'
present political relations, 1008-

1019

IMAGINATION and art of poetry,

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Lambeth and Liberation,' 685-692
Land and the Labourer, 570-582
Lawless (Hon. Emily), North Clare:

Leaves from a Diary, 603-612
Leonids and other shooting stars, 934-
946

Letters, The Father of, 432-444
Liberal Party, The, and Lord Rose-
bery, 729-733

Liberalism and its Cross-currents,
527-540

'Liberation,' Lambeth and, 685–692
Literature before Letters, 798-813
London County Council, work of, 543–
547

Lord's Day observance in Middle Ages,
36-50

Low (Miss Frances H.), A Woman's
Criticism of the Women's Congress,

192-202

Low (Sidney), The Future of the
Great Armies, 383-395; South
African Problems and Lessons, 865-
880

Lützow (Francis Count), Austria at
the End of the Century, 1008-1019
Imperial Function of Trade, The, Lynching in Southern States of

352-366

America, 966-968

MACDON

MAC

ACDONAGH (Michael), The Evo-
lution of the Parliamentary
Oath, 317-333

Mahaffy (Professor), The Recent Fuss
about the Irish Language, 213-222
Mallock (W. H.), The Intellectual
Future of Catholicism, 753-768
Manuring with Brains, 782-791
Marksmanship, national rifle matches,
367-382

Marlborough Gems, The, 251-261
Marriage customs of Australian blacks,
51-64

Masque, The English, 102-111
Massingham (H. W.), The Future of
Lord Rosebery, 729–733
Maurice (Major-General), Terms used
in Modern Gunnery, 905-914
Maxwell (Hon. Marcia C.), Madame
Necker, 302-316

Mediaval Sunday, The, 36-50

Mental deterioration in modern times,
262-272

Meteorites and comets, 934-946
Milaraspa, the Tibetan poet, 613-632
Militarism and its results, 387-394
Milne (Arthur D.), Life on the Nile
south of Fashoda, 273-281
Mivart (Dr. St. George), What Church
has 'Continuity'? 203-212
Mnemonic literature before the inven-
tion of writing, 798-813
Moreing (C. A.), An All-British Rail-
way to China, 484-492
Morris (Hon. Martin), The Philosophy
of Poetry, 504-513
Müller (Professor Max), Literature
before Letters, 798-813

NATIVE Australian Family, The,

51-64

Native Unrest in South Africa, 708-

716

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Percival (Rev. Dr.), The Future of the
Christian Religion, 514-520
Persian Lustre Pottery, Thirteenth-
century, 560-569

Phillips (Claude), The Van Dyck
Exhibition at Antwerp, 734–752
Phillips (Stephen), his drama of Paolo
Malatesta and Francesca da Rimini,
915-933

Philosophy of Poetry, The, 504–513
Plagiarism, 974-981

Plague in Oporto, The, 833-847
Plague Story, An Indian, 410-431
Plague, The Hospital where it broke
out, 591-602

Play in one Act, A Supreme Moment,
153-172

Poet and Mystic, A Tibetan, 613–632
Poetry, The Philosophy of, 504-513
Political parties in England, present
position of, 527-540

Politics and parties in Japan, 142–152
Politics, The Churchman's, 982-987
Pottery, Lustre, Thirteenth-century
Persian, 560-569

Powder and Paint, 633-640

Protectorate of Sierra Leone, 475-483
Protestant and Catholic parties in the
Church of England, 112-122
Protestantism, effect of scientific criti-
cism upon, 753-768

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