ART. VII.-MR NEWMAN ON THE POLITICS' OF ARISTOTLE 128 The Politics of Aristotle; with an Introduction, Two Prefatory Essays, and Notes Critical and Explana- 1. Der Kampf um das Deutschtum: Die Weltstellung des Deutschtums: Die alldeutsche Bewegung und die Niederlande. By Fritz Bley. Munich: Lehmann, 1897. 2. Deutsche Weltpolitik. By Prof. Dr Ernst Hasse, Member of the Reichstag. Munich: Lehmann, 1897. And other works. - ART. IX.—A FORGOTTEN POET: GEORGE DARLEY 1. The Errors of Ecstasie. Whittaker: London, 1822. And other works. And other works. 1. The Temperance Problem and Social Reform. By Joseph Rowntree and Arthur Sherwell. Ninth edi- tion. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1901. 1. Nell Horn; Le Termite; L'Impérieuse Bonté; La Charpente. By J.-H. Rosny. Paris: Plon, Savine, 2. Workers in the Dawn; The Unclassed; Demos; The 1. Oke's Game-Laws. Fourth edition. Edited by J. W. Willis Bund. London: Butterworth, 1897. And other works. ART. IV.—THE ELIZABETHAN LYRIC - 1. An English Garner. Edited by E. Arber, 1877-1883. New edition. London: Constable, 1896. 1. Spaccio della Bestia Trionfante, or The Expulsion of 1. A Foreign View of England in the Reigns of George I and George II. The Letters of Monsieur César de Saussure to his Family. Translated and edited by Madame Van Muyden. London: John Murray, 1902. 2. Caroline the Illustrious, Queen Consort of George II and sometime Queen Regent. A Study of her Life ART. VIII. THE COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY OF JAPAN 1. Memorandum on the Comparative Statistics of Popu- lation, Industry, and Commerce in the United King- dom and some leading Foreign Countries. By Sir Alfred Bateman, K.C.M.G. Board of Trade; Com- 2. Japan and its Trade. By J. Morris. International The Text of the Mabinogion, and other Welsh Tales from the Red Book of Hergest. Edited by John Rhys, Index Librorum Prohibitorum, SSmi D. N. Leonis XIII THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. No. 391.-JULY, 1902. 360 Art. I.-AN IMPERIAL PILGRIMAGE. 1. With the 'Ophir' round the Empire. By William Maxwell, special correspondent of the 'Standard.' London: Cassell, 1902. 6 2. With the Royal Tour. By E. F. Knight, special correspondent of the Morning Post.' London: Longmans, 1902. 3. The Queen's Wish: how it was fulfilled. By Joseph Watson, F.J.I., Reuter's special correspondent. London: Hutchinson, 1902. 4. The Web of Empire. A Diary of the Imperial Tour of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York in 1901. By Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace, K.C.I.E. With illustrations by the Chevalier E. de Martino, and Sydney P. Hall. London: Macmillan, 1902. 5. The Life of Sir William Molesworth. By Mrs Fawcett. London: Macmillan, 1901. It was inevitable, but not unfitting, that the eventful journey undertaken by the Prince and Princess of Wales last year, when they were the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, should bear incidental fruit in the shape of various books describing the tour. Indeed the wonder is, considering the importance and picturesqueness of the subject, that the books have not been more numerous than they are. Six special correspondents, representing great newspapers and agencies, enjoyed the privilege of accompanying the heir-apparent and his consort during their travels of equal magnificence and significance. Three only out of these six persons produced books about the tour; and they caught the market early, to use a commonVol. 196.-No. 391. B place but expressive phrase. The remainder, for reasons of their own, kept silence. Then at last, in the fulness of time, and at the moment when the Imperial tour had been called to mind afresh by the presence in London as honoured guests of many of those who had proudly played the part of host, the most important volume of the group, that of Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace, was issued. It is introduced by a prefatory note, exhibiting a truly Scottish precision and caution. 'This may be called the authorised account. . . but it makes no pretension to having an official character and the writer, while gratefully acknowledging his numerous obligations, desires it to be clearly understood that for all statements of fact and expressions of opinion he is alone and entirely responsible.' Yet the impression left on the mind, after careful study of a distinctly interesting and thoughtful book, is one of regret that Sir Donald Wallace has felt it to be his duty, as an authorised but unofficial annalist, to exercise something more than his native caution, and to refrain from expressing views which he has no doubt formed. That, it may be suggested, is a public loss, since in ripe experience, in sobriety of judgment, and in knowledge of men and cities, Sir Donald Wallace has few equals in his own or any other country. We need make only one more remark about the books. The authors, or some of them, have been censured because, having spent a few days or a week or two in this or that colonial capital, they have formed their opinions almost as rapidly as a photographer's plate receives the impression of a scene. Snapshot views' has been a phrase of reproach in frequent use; but it was not quite a just phrase, because it was used in ignorance of the conditions in which these travellers in search of knowledge accomplished their work. It must be remembered that always, save while they were at sea (when they had abundant time for reflection), they were in the society of the statesmen, the men of business, and the leading thinkers of the colonies which they were visiting, and that their colonial friends of the moment were never weary of imparting information to them by word of mouth and in the form of literature. If, on the one hand, they never saw a colonial |