D URING the taking of an inventory of Church property at Boeschepe, a place near the Belgian frontier, the gendarmes came into collision with the mob, and a Catholic...

new Navy Bill Admiral von Tirpitz, the Secretary of State for the Imperial Marine, explained the Government programme. It is proposed to build six large cruisers, and to...

concessions on the Railway Rates Bill have increased the number of his supporters, though, it is doubtful if they will enable the measure to pass; but on the Philippine Tariff...

but it is constantly producing minor sensations. One of these was the suspension at the end of last week of the autonomy of Pest County by M. de Rudnay, the new Royal...

Thursday the Times correspondent reported, apparently with some foundation, that the Conference would discuss the bank and the police questions together, and that there was a...

ease.

held in London on Tuesday, the Duke of Devonshire addressed his followers on the future policy of the Unionist Free-trade party. After pointing out that the victory for...

Act was the principal subject of discussion. Mr. Herbert Gladstone defended the action and bona-fides of the administrators in regard to several alleged cases of harshness, but...

Duke insisted—and as we think very wisely insisted—that the Unionist Free-Trade Club should direct its energies rather within the party than qutside the party in order to...

of the matter in him. His speech introducing the Army Estimates on Thursday has been highly praised in the news- papers as a remarkable Parliamentary effort. What we value it...

important statement on the reorganisation of the Consular Service. While admitting that thtre was room for improve- ment, be asserted that much had been done to remedy the...

House of Lords on Tuesday. Lord Goschen cordially approved of the numerical redistribution of the Fleet, and the action taken as to the Reserves. But while he admitted that the...

may note here one or two of his chief points. In the first place, there is to be a wise reduction of unnecessary expenditure on such things as the Dorking or North Downs...

and implied that its opponents were more noisy than numerous. It was, he said, a strange thing that those who had absolute control of the propelling power of the ship should be...

a letter from Mr. Haldane declaring that rifle clubs are a part of our military machinery to which "we at the War Office attach much importance, and think that we are likely to...

the Departmental Committee on Vagrancy. After examining a very large number of witnesses, the Committee arrive at the conclusion that among casuals, except in a period of...

in the Lords last week, to discredit the evidence of Mr. Creswell and Mr. Wybergh has had one very satis- factory result. It has elicited a trenchant and convincing letter from...

on Friday 90i.

England for the year ending Easter, 1905, just published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge is a very interesting document. The total amount exceeds eight million...

PAYMENT OF MEMBERS. --v% 7'E greatly regret the decision of the House of Commons in regard to payment of Members. We do not resist the proposal because we think that an unpaid...

question which seriously divides the opinion and exercises the conscience of a nation is that the majority are apt to show an uneasy vigilance as to the carrying out of the...

W E are in full sympathy with those Members of the House of Lords who desire to increase the activity , of that body, to make its debates a weighty and instructive criticism of...

clouds about in the world of international and colonial politics that it is natural to apprehend a storm, but perhaps we are all a little too pessimistic. Neither in the natural...

on the provision of meals for school children soared into a region with which the House of Commons has till now been unfamiliar. Mr. W. T. Wilson, who moved the second reading,...

T HE Biblical critics have, come to few conclusions. No sooner is one decision accepted than it is exploded by a new theory. One fact, however, they have forced the religious...

p ERHAPS it is only that the wave of brick and mortar has rolled back the wilder life of the country into far and out-of-the-way corners, or perhaps the gypsies are really...

T HACKERAY, rebuking a young man for complaining of a bad dinner, told him that no dinner was bad, but that some dinners were less good than others. In the same way, we should,...

THE ATMOSPHERE OF A SCHOOL. [To TRIM EDITOR OY THE "SPROTATOR..] SIE,—Atmosphere, we know, is a necessity to every form of life : physical atmosphere to physical life, moral...

THE SITUATION IN SOUTH AFRICA. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "Senors:mit." J SIE,—May I trespass on the hospitality of your columns with a few remarks on the two political topics which...

iTo TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." j sympathise with your correspondent "Landsman" in the Spectator of February 17th in his inability to understand or endorse the chorus of...

LTo THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTA.TOR..] SIR,—Your correspondent "Naval Officer" (Spectator, March 3rd)—should it not have been "Naval Officer (Retired) "P—has permitted himself...

SIR,—In a letter on the danger of secularisation contributed to your issue of February 17th, Mr. P. D. Thomas speaks of" an effect on the average teacher himself, which is...

I To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIB, — Your reference in last week's Spectator (p. 323) to Dr. W. H. Fitchett's article in the Tribune on Australian education points...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR."1 Sin,—May I be permitted to give a practical illustration in support of Mr. Jas. A. Craig's statement in your issue of February 17th...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPEOTATOR."1 "religion, irreligion, and Birrelli,gion " contend for the chief place in our schools, are not both Churchmen and Nonconformists, an even...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—There can be no doubt that he democratic spirit will sooner or later force payment of Members of Parliament. The capacity already shown...

TUE "SPECTATOR."] Sta,—In an interesting review of Dr. Cobb's "Book of Psalms" in last week's Spectator the writer, in justly praising the Prayer-book Version, compares a verse...

your issue of February 24th you contend that it is possible to agree on a fundamental Christianity to be taught in all schools, and you instance as a case in point the Free...

[To TUB EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR...] SIR,—It seems to me that just now, when so much is being heard of the Imperial idea in connection with the Navy, the Army, the Volunteers,...

[To TRH EDITOR OF THE "SPROTLTOR." SEE,—Encouraged by the late mention in your columns of Shakespeare readings, I have tried the long-wished-for experi- ment. Two farm...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTAT0R.1 Smt,—As so much attention has been called of late to the "playtime of the poor," may I supplement Mr. Beckles Willson's short note of last...

OF HIS HISTORY. [TO TEE EDITOR OF TRH "SPICUTATOR." J Sra,—Under pretence of reviewing the fourth volume of my "History of Modern England" in last week's Spectator, you...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIE,—As a retired official, may I point out, with reference to a " News of the Week" paragraph in the Spectator of March 3rd, that the...

"SPEcrATon."1 SIB, — It was hardly a great matter, but an important principle was at stake, and Lord Cromer's action in Egypt in respect of the Cotton Duties and Excise...

[To TEE Eorrog OF THE " SPICTATOR."1 see that your correspondent, Mr. (1 A. Momber (Spectator, March 3rd), objects to my letter (February 17th), and considers that I have made...

THE COLONIST'S CRY. IT'S cruel of you, Springtime, when folks are growing old, To set their hearts a-longing for banks of primrose gold, Green willows by the river, gold...

ARCHBISHOP TEMPLE.* THERE are some men who even yet in our artificial and highly civilised days stand out as Nature's great men, men who at any era of the world, and in any rank...

[THE experiment undertaken by Colonel Pollock for which we are asking sub- scriptions may be briefly described as follows. Colonel Pollock declares that in six months he will...

WE have before this had occasion to call attention to the width and exactness of Mr. Colqnhoun's knowledge, and the acumen and sobriety which he shows in his treatment of the...

order of precedence comes "Harry Keppel," born in 1809, who died, still a boy, in 1904, for, as his biographer felicitously puts it, be was "an example of the truth and beet...

OF Mr. Hutton's Burford Papers it may be said that the part - would have been greater than the whole. There are certain chapters of the book which we could easily have spared....

TIM most striking paper in the new Nineteenth Century is Lord Hugh Cecil's appreciation of Mr. Gladstone,—showing, amongst other things, what virtue may reside in a belated...

THE BENDING OF A TWIG.* WITHIN the last few years we have had quite a plethora of schoolboy stories, — Godfrey Marten and Maitland Major and Minor, by Mr. Charles Turley ; Mr....

BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. Notes on the Life History of the British Flowering Plants. By the Right Hon. Lord Avebury, P.C. (Macmillan and Co. 15s.) —Lord Avebury has given the...

Blackwood and Sons. 6s.)—It is more than a little difficult to accept the Czar of All the Russias as the hero of a modern novel. Although the date of the book is in the future,...

—In The Sea Maid the reader must prepare himself for a story on lines which may be called credibly fantastic. That is to say, the novel, although it does not deal with everyday...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as hays not been reserved for review in other fortes.] " EVERYMAN'S Lisaanv."—We have received some specimens of a new...

6s.)—This is a pleasant little story of no great literary merit, but with a certain freshness in the writing which makes the book agreeable. Those very silly young people, Belle...

Stoughton. 7s. 6d. per vol.)—Dr. Maclaren is going on energetically with his great work. We hope that he may be able to bring it to a conclusion, for it is a most valuable...

Dom Columba Edmonds. (Sands and Co. 6s. net.)—The object of this book is controversial. Dom Columba Edmonds seeks to establish the Roman character of the doctrine and discipline...

(Houghton, Mifflin, and Co. 8e. net.)—This farce, the work of an unknown author, dates from about 1469 A.D. It was printed by Le Roy of Lyons in 1486, and in 1490, with...

16s. 6d. net.)—No notice that we can give of Dr. Abbott's labours can be anything but inadequate. It is difficult to give even an idea of -what they include. They remind us of...

Moring. 7s. 6d. net.)—This is a very delightful book, and instructive withal, even to those who cannot command the lordly spaces which glow with sunshine or are obscured with...

A. Hamilton. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)—" Protectionists," writes M. Guyot, "seldom define what they mean by Protection"; and he quotes one of these rare definitions,—from an...