week without drawing attention to a very remarkable disclosure made in Wednesday's issue by the correspondent of the Times in Paris,—i correspondent, we may add, who both by...

T HE week has been crowded with events of the highest moment. On Monday Prince Ferdinand assembled his Ministers at Tirnovo, the ancient capital of Bulgaria, and at the church...

ference, and will only say here that, on the whole, it seems probable that Turkey will agree to the suggestion. We cannot, of course, blind ourselves to the fact that such a...

ment, but the Turkish population generally, have. received these reiterated blows has been quite admirable. Dignity of demeanour under disaster is no doubt natural to the Turk ;...

Turkey has actually made, from the military point of view, a gain of territory. The Austrians have hurriedly evacuated the Sandjak of Novi Bazar, which hitherto has been in the...

case.

reference to foreign politics, but dealt exhaustively with the home policy of the present Administration. Mr. Lloyd George (fleetly desired a second elective Chamber, and it was...

the flogging in Natal of Mabeketshiya, a cousin of Dinuzulu. Mabeketshiya was in prison at the end of December, 1907, awaiting his trial on a charge of sedition. He was...

the same principles for British action in the Near East as Sir Edward Grey. Nothing could be recognised as valid that had not the consent of the Poweri. Turning to domestic...

in the Near East was defined by Sir Edward Grey in his speech at Wooler on Wednesday night. After commenting on the remarkable change which had come over the attitude of the...

Turkish Plenipotentiaries and submitted to the Austrian Government. They refused to sign it, declaring that Austro-Hungarian public opinion would be roused to violent...

Wednesday's paper a gloomy picture of the situation. When business reopens, only ninety per cent. of the small traders will be able to meet their engagements. There is no...

stituents yesterday week at Crawshawbooth, near Rawten stall, strongly reprobated the naval scaremongering of a section of the Press. In order to avoid being organised as - a...

Monday. Although there hare sometimes been informal international meetings of those interested in the making and maintenance of roads, this Congress will be the first meeting on...

On Wednesday Sir Christopher Furness proposed to a Conference of Trade-Union representatives a scheme of co-partnership in his shipyards. He suggests that the workmen should...

of the new Turkish loan. The Ottoman Bank engages to issue the loan, at option, at 85. The loan is for the nominal total of £T.4,711,124. When all the deductions have been...

one of the strongest and ablest figures in the industrial world. There never was a more striking example. of the success of specialisation. Entering the South Metropolitan...

the philanthropy of the past had been lavished came the demand not for philanthropy but justice, and also what purported to be a message of hope, based upon schemes of a great...

burgh of Kirkcaldy. Speaking of the British tradition of public service, he said :—" If this work is to reach its highest level, there are, I think you will agree with me, two...

presidential address remarkable alike for its earnest- ness of thought and its energy of expression was delivered by the Bishop of the diocese. After welcoming the members of...

May 28th. Console (2k) were on Friday 841--on Friday week 65g.

THE CRISIS IN THE NEAR EAST. S INCE we last wrote Europe has been thrown into violent agitation by two flagrant breaches of the Treaty of Berlin. Bulgaria has proclaimed her...

HE various Socialist organisations throughout the • country are now actively engaged in exploiting the " unemployed." Everywhere persons thrown out of employment by trade...

T HE East, Near and Far, is in a state of flux and change. By some inscrutable means of tempera- mental communication, the aspirations of one country are quickly adopted by...

J AMES ANTHONY FROUDE'S half-apologetic intro- duction to " a few light sketches of the country in which England is beginning to be interested " reads strangely now, since the...

W E print elsewhere an able letter from a corre- spondent, " Constitutionalist," who reads the signs of Parliamentary affairs with courage and fore , sight ; and we would ask...

A T the opening of the Medical Session on October 1st Mr. Rudyard Kipling made a speech to the students of the Middlesex Hospital in praise of doctors. It was such a speech as...

O N Saturday last we had in London an object-lesson on the degree to which modern science holds us in thrall. For two hours at the busiest time of the afternoon the electric...

A LTHOUGH Lancashire is not pre-eminently the county to which anglers and sportsmen would now preferably resort for sporting purposes, it should not be forgotten that only about...

THE "AMERICAN WOMAN."—II. [To TUE EDITOR OF TUE " SPECTATOft." . 1 Sin, — It is proper to repeat the reservation which was made in the outset that the term "American woman"...

THE SELECTION OF PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATES. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SpEcTAros.1 SIR,—Wage-earners such as ironworkers, pitmen, factory operatives, together with Socialists at...

[To THE EDITOR OF TIER " SPECTATOR:1 SIE,—Half-a-century ago my father sometimes took me to attend trials in a provincial town. One of those trials was for infanticide. I was...

[To THE EDITOR OF THY "SPECTATOR.1 Sra,—The " vivid " communication you published last week is, as you rightly say, so " suggestive" that I hope you will be good enough to...

SIE,—Is it not possible that the appeal of the " helpless infants," whose cause you uphold (Spectator, October 3rd), to the heart of an unmarried mother may tell on the side...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' Sin,—Tbougb I disagree with most of your dramatic critic's article on What Every Woman Knows in the issue of September 26th, I shall...

timely remarks in last week's Spectator on the Daisy Lord case by the following quotation from the essay on " Solitude" in Mrs. Meynell's " Spirit of Place " ? The perusal of...

should like to thank you in my own name, and in the name of many others, for the stand you are taking in regard to the matter of child murder, and the many kindred subjects...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR; I notice Mr. Carr in your last issue closes his interesting analysis with the old false reproach against the democracy of fickleness....

[TO THE . EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —I am much obliged to Mr. Ritch for supplying in your last issue official confirmation of the fact which I asserted in your issue...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPROTATOR."] SIE., = - 1 r1r111118 to the generosity of friends, and helped by the appeal which you so kindly allowed me to make in the Spectator, the...

[TO THE EDITOR. OF THE "IREOTATOR."1 SIR,—May I ask if any of your readers heard what I fully believe I beard last night (October 6th) between the hours of two and three...

[To THE ED/TOR or THZ "SPECTATOR.'l SIR,—When walking in the country this week, I picked a wild rose in full bloom from a briar-bush by the wayside. The bush was completely...

• [To TER Eorroft OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —At the risk . of tiring you, I feel I must write a few lines once more in reply to Mr. Gardiner's letter ye egret feathers in...

TRUTH UNVEILING. Awn do you weep, discrownbd man, Who strove upon the moonless way P Whose torch, that led the early van, The Sun of Truth has quenched in day 1 1 Weep not....

[To TUN EDITOR OF THE " SP ROTATOR." . 1 Sin,—The Press in general has been so generous in its reports of the International Moral Education Congress recently held, and has so...

[To THE EDITOR. or THE " srscrAros."] Sin,—In your last Saturday's issue your reviewer in his criticism on Colonel Maude's book on "The Leipzig Campaign, 1813," falls into an...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of...

HOME LIFE IN ITALY.* THIS book is likely to be the most informal of the capital series to which it belongs. It is nowhere expository ; it is a succession of sketches, often...

of a song written for music ? Why does it happen that it is not always the finest lyric which is the best song; or, to put it otherwise, why may a good song have indifferent...

IN one of his letters published in Dr. Duncan's Life Mr. _ Herbert Spencer pessimistically remarks that he does not see . from _what section of the _public effective reaction...

EURIPIDES is one of those writers about whose real opinions there is still much doubt, and the most painful students cannot always determine his exact meaning. In dialogue he...

IN the country especially we are all co-operators now. We are ready to support both the National Poultry Organisation Society and the Agricultural Organisation Society. There...

phantom of the Revolutionary tragedies," the unhappy Duchess's d'Angouleme somehow missed that halo of romantic interest which glowed round so many of her fellow-sufferers. She...

published under the auspices of the National Service League, and contains a preface by Lord Roberts advocating compulsory training, will be read with interest by those who are...

LORD MILNER'S paper on "The Value of Canadian Pre- ference" in the Nineteenth Century is an answer to an article in the July Edinburgh Review. The object of the Reviewer was to...

OVER BEMERTONTA THE narrator in Mr. Lucas's new book, which entirely justi- fies its sub-title, "An Easy-going Chronicle," is a man of fifty- five who, after thirty-three years...

Elder, and Co. 6s.)—This is an excellent story of society. We are inclined to think that it would have been better without the adventure ; but all else is admirable.— The...

6s.)—A small suburban villa is just the scene which we should expect Mr. Pett Ridge to choose for his story. The hero is a railway official not very highly placed, and not,...

Launspach. (G. Bell and Sons. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Launspach brings out into strong relief the religious element in the development of the Roman State. In this ho does good...

and Son. ls. 4d., ls. 6d.)—Mrs. Boas in putting together this volume follows, as, indeed, she could scarcely avoid doing, the accepted tradition. Still, she handles her...

George Borrow " (John Murray) in another form, printed on thin paper (which, however, we may say, admits of quite good printing) at the low price of ls. net and 2s. net...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] The Resurrection of Jesus. By James Orr, D.D. (Hodder and Stoughton....

Blue-book contains a multitude of interesting figures, from which we select what is doubtless the most important item. In 1906-7 there were 6,137 Council schools, with accommo-...