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 INDEX TO VOL. XLVI The titles of articles are printed in italics ABE CHR American Negro and his Place, Barnett (Rev. Canon), Charity versus Batson (Mrs. Stephen), Town and Black and white race difficulties in Bohemia and the 'Cisleithanian' Par- liament, 1008-1019 Brains, Our, Why are they deteriora- Bushby (H. N. G.), Parliamentary 250 CABINE 6 NABINETS and Parties in Japan, Canadian trade and Sir Wilfrid Cape Colony, A Voice from, 522-526 334-344 CHU FRE Church Crisis, The, and Disestablish- ment, 673-684 Church, The, Is there really a Crisis' Churchman's Politics, The, 982–987 Clarke (Col. Sir G. Sydenham), The Clifford (Mrs. W. K.), A Supreme Cobb (Rev. Dr.), The Church Crisis and Disestablishment, 673-684 Collins (Edwin), The Teeth of the Colonies, Great Britain's trade with Young men in the, depending on Colvin (Sidney), Mr. Stephen Phillips's Comets and shooting stars, their com- Eccles (Miss C. O'Conor-), The Hos- Education and industrial progress, and Irish language, 213–222 Electricity in India, 556-559 Elsdale (Col. H.), Why are our Brains England's treatment of Newfoundland, English and Dutch in the Past, 891- English Masque, The, 102-111 of the Church of England, 673–684 Exorcising devils from a sick woman HALLETT (Holt S.), The War-cloud in the Farthest East, 988-995 Hill (Miss Octavia), The Open Spaces Historical study and Carlyle's works, Holland and England, their former co- Horticulture as a Profession for the Hospital, The, where the Plague broke Hotels for poor men, Rowton Houses, Hungary, Austria, and Cisleithania,' 1019 IMAGINATION and art of poetry, Lambeth and Liberation,' 685-692 Leaves from a Diary, 603-612 Letters, The Father of, 432-444 Liberalism and its Cross-currents, 'Liberation,' Lambeth and, 685–692 Lord's Day observance in Middle Ages, Low (Miss Frances H.), A Woman's 192-202 Low (Sidney), The Future of the Lützow (Francis Count), Austria at 352-366 America, 966-968 MACDON MAC ACDONAGH (Michael), The Evo- Mahaffy (Professor), The Recent Fuss Marlborough Gems, The, 251-261 Masque, The English, 102-111 Mediaval Sunday, The, 36-50 Mental deterioration in modern times, Meteorites and comets, 934-946 NATIVE Australian Family, The, 51-64 Native Unrest in South Africa, 708- 716 Percival (Rev. Dr.), The Future of the Phillips (Claude), The Van Dyck Philosophy of Poetry, The, 504–513 Plague in Oporto, The, 833-847 Play in one Act, A Supreme Moment, Poet and Mystic, A Tibetan, 613–632 Politics and parties in Japan, 142–152 Powder and Paint, 633-640 Protectorate of Sierra Leone, 475-483 |