The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1910-09-17 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

THE MAGAZINES.  "The Spectator."—This week's issue contains an interesting article on The Military Spirit and Pragmatism," and the question of discipline in schools is exhaustively dealt with. The secretary of the Free Trade Union refers in a letter to an alleged challenge of the Tariff Reform League to the Free Trade Union to send a joint deputation to Germany. It is now some weeks since these statements appeared, and up to the moment of writing no such challenge has been received by the Free Trade Union." And thus the political world is kept alive. "The Spectator" has an abundance of good reading matter, and no one perusing its columns can refrain from gaining much mental exhilaration:  The assertion j. often vaade that in learning the scientific side of her work the trained nurse loses her human sympathy. , In the September number of "The Baby's World" the Editor discusses this question. "It is," he writes, "happily possible—in fact, it is almost certain—that by getting one of the highly skilled and highly trained nurses who have been through a three years' course at one of the great hospital medical schools, one will get not only skill. —at any rate sufficient to enable the nurse to do what she is told by the doctor (the very height and acme of all training)—but also you will get sympathy that is all the greater because it emanates from knowledge, and not merely emotion. We our selves,. if suffering from -peritonitis, pneumonia, or any other of the severe and fatal maladies that flesh is heir to, could afford to do without the sympathy which has often led to serious interference with the work of the doctor engaged in thr case, provided that we had the perket attention to our wants that is obtained from a really good trained nun.e. A kind word, a cool hand, does not make uo in the least for a ruck in the sheet, nor do they in any way, as far Ll 6 the result of the illness is concerned, make- un for an uncovered hot water bottle that burns the skin, or a cold poultice that chills it.°  Many people will be glad to find that engaging hero, Brigadier Gerard, making a re-appearance. The current issue of the "Strand Magazine" has, for its 'opening contribution, a stirring story by Sir A. Conan Doyle, "The Marriage of the Brigadier," and this will be read, with keen relish. Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch (" Q") writes a Cornish story of excellent quality, celled "The Cask Ashore"; and the contributors of complete stories include E. Phillips Oppenheim, Jellies Barr, Richard Marsh, and E. M. Janrson. Amongst the articles, one that possesses strong personal interest is entitled "My Parents." It sets forth the testimony of a number of noteworthy people on the influence their fathers and mothers exercised on their careers. Photographs that accompany it make it all the more interesting. Mr. S. Herbert Vivian, in an article on "Shoplifting," describestsome of the many devices adopted to effect thefts in shops. Colour-portraiture has some striking examples in this number of the "Strand," in a serifs of "Portraits of Reigning Monarchs" by Joseph Simpson, R.B.A.  The pages of "The Welldoer" abound with sensible criticisms and opinions in regard to pressing social questions from the pens of clever authors. The chief subject dealt with in the September-October number is "Shall it be Hemlock?" The article describes the effort of Mr. H. Lee J. Jones, founder and hon. director of the League of Welldoers, to prevent tie growing suicide evil through poverty, and goes on to refer to the appeal for £20,000 to aid the -benevolent scheme. On the same subject appears, a beautifully written poem from the pen of Mr. A. W. Allan, a Lverpool and Birkenhead journallet, entitled "Destroy Not Thyself," whilst the same author contributes several book reviews. Then, in a "leader," is restated the programme of "The Welldoer," whilst the "Roundabout Reflections" constitute a pleasing feature. This admirable periodical must be perused to be appreciated.  A profitable hour or so can be spent in reading the pages of that excellent journal, "Co-partnership," which is issued monthly. The September number contains a fund of valuable articles and notes, with some interesting photographic i4strations. A pleasing article entitled " TOwu and Country" deals with the Garden City ideal, whilst "Sketching from Nature" is the title of a well-written contribution from the pen of Miss Gertrude Toynbee. "Trade Unionist's" "Labour Notes" are worth reading, and ranch information is found in a description of "Liverpool's- Greatness." Other features in the journal there are too numerous to mention.  A really fine production, and one that ranks high in the magazine world is "Pear.. eon's," and the September number is well produced in every way. Its fiction element is good, the special articles are instructive and interesting, whilst its illustrations are numerous and elaborate. • The number is commenced with a chatty article dealing with the figure paintings of Mr. Henry Ryland. An amusing story appears from the pen of 'Mr: E. P.-Butler, dealing in a somewhat exaggeraited way with the ingenuity of a "yellow press" Titan. 31r. Xavier Paoli contributes his opinions of the late King Edward, whilst Sir Hiram Maxim describes "A test of the Tomsons." Other pleasing features are "Plollyooly and the Lump," "Professor Peterson's Experiments," and an &Miele "The Girl Guides."  In the latest instalment of "The Entyclopeedia of Sport" (W. Heinemann) the tiubject of camping-out is practically considered, with special referenoe to South Africa, North America and India. "Canoes and canoeing" is ano:her topic discussed, and several excellent diagrams of the construction of canoes are printed with the article. The most important feature of this number, however, is a chapter on coursing, in which the origin of the pastime is traced, the laws of the game are set forth, and the history °lithe Waterloo Coursing Meeting is recorded. Interesting notes of greyhound celebrities are given, and there are excellent portraits of a number of Waterloo Cup winners, prominent amongst them being the famous Fullerton, who divided the stakes in 1839, and won outright in the three succeeding years.  Government Publications.—Messrs. Wyman and Sons, Limited, official sale agents in England and Wales for Parliamentary papers and stationery office publications, beg to notify that they have published the following: Examination for Cadets of the Junior and Senior Divisions Officers' Training Corps: May, 1910, Report, 6d. Consular Report: Germany, District of Dusseldorf, 1909, 4id. Strikes and Lock-outs Report for 1909, 61-d. 9