fact that the Lord Chancellor is not selected by the Lords but imposed upon them from outside makes him a repre- sentative of the Government, not of the Lords' House), and the...

NEWS OF THE WEEK F RIDAY'S papers announce that a letter has been sent, or will shortly be sent, by the Prime Minister to Mr. Balfour inviting the Leaders of the Opposition to...

said, to favour .the adoption of the wise suggestions of " Pacificus " in his letter to the Times, by which the Conference should be left absolutely free, the words of limita-...

in our leading columns, as in all probability public discussion just now will do more harm than good. We will not, therefore, treat the subject further, except to say that we...

success of a Conference, if not actually to forbid its meeting. In gatherings of this kind absolute freedom is essential. For men who are trying to find something which has...

lines as these is that the House of Lords would remain unreformed. That is a result which we should view with very deep regret, and we believe that this regret would be shared...

case.

the Kaiser and a Prussian Lutheran pastor on the Bible. In the course of his remarks the Kaiser is reported to have observed that he read the Bible often and with pleasure. "A...

Duma on Saturday last was marked by some effective protests from thechampions of Constitutionalism. Thus MM. Maklakoff and Efremoff pointed out that all the arguments invoked by...

more indignant., although we cannot discover that it is justified by any new or sinister turn of events. The Powers have sent a Note to the Cretan Government in which it is...

if a compromise should " break out," the Nationalists have the power to upset it. We doubt it. We believe that if the leaders do arrive at a compromise the public opinion of...

officers do not admit that they are engaged in a war at all. They regard the insurrection as the very opportunity they need for training their troops in order that they may...

Monday, said that the insurrection was officially announced to be at an end. He thinks the announcement prematuie. The insurgents are still in possession of important positions...

much-dis- cussed Encyclical attacking Protestants is probably revealed in an interview with an anonymous prelate in the Giornale cr Italia. This cleric expresses amazement that...

find the Spectator, having answered our question, proceeding to ask us one on a wholly different subject, about which, for reasons that seem to us sufficient, we have as yet, at...

To judge from some of the letters published in our issue of to-day, the Daily News and certain members of the Cadbury and Rown- tree families are under an obligation to hitch...

showed a remarkable amount of agreement amongst the very representative women who took part in the Conference. Miss Hilda Oakeley, the head of the Women's Department of King's...

of the Regency Bill, or as to who is to be named Regent in the event of the demise of the Crown before the Duke of Cornwall reaches the age of eighteen. In our opinion, Queen...

editor is one of the ablest of English journalists and a man whose ability is equalled by his high charaoter—but we are bound to say that we read the above with a sense of...

held at the Japan-British Exhibition. All the dis- cussions have been well attended and have dealt with subjects of importance, but perhaps the most interesting was that which...

years in South Africa as High Commissioner. His countrymen would be ungrateful and very blind to merit if they did not acknowledge most heartily the part Lord Selborne, with...

in disgusting personalities and raking into the question of people's private business, while others, like the Westminster Gazette, resent as if it were an outrage being asked to...

eighty-seventh year. Four months ago he met with a severe accident, breaking his thigh by a fall, and though he rallied to the extent of seeing his friends and resuming his...

9th Consols (21) were on Friday 821—Friday week 81f.

POLITICAL VIVISECTION. u - NDER the heading " Some Forecasts of the Coming Dispensation " Mr. Stephen Reynolds makes (on June 2nd) a very interesting contribution to the New...

even when we do it unconsciously, of every political and social question in the terms of Darwinian science. This habit, in the main just and necessary, is the unavoidable cause...

W - E earnestly hope that the Government will take note of the remarkable appeals which have appeared in successive issues of the Times for immediate legislation to carry out...

W do not think that any good ' purpose will be served by prolonging the discussion of the responsi- bility of the proprietors of the Star for the policy and action of that paper...

T T is not an agreeable occupation for one publication to act as the censor of other publications, for in setting itself up in judgment upon its fellows it is in extreme danger...

I T is difficult to say what qualities go to make a good letter-writer, but we think an exceptional capacity for intimacy is a sine qua' non. The correspondents who boast that...

I T does not happen often that we get in England so prolonged a series of thunderstorms as those of the early part of the past week. Monday in some parts of the country, and...

THE BRITISH ARMY IN A EUROPEAN WAR. [To TEE EDITOR OP TRH "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—It may be remembered that a party of French military experts and writers paid WI a visit last...

of words, most of your correspondents seem to have missed the point, which is surely this,—either the Star can exist without its racing tips or it cannot. If it can, it is...

THE " STAR'S " BETTING TIPS. 17 0 TIER EDITOR OP TER "SrEcTAToR.1 SIR,—I observe with considerable interest that the Spectator has taken to lecturing Messrs. Cadbury and Fry...

Sin,—Mr. Parke in his letter to you of last week makes a personal reference to the World and to myself. I must there- fore ask for the hospitality of your columns in order to...

Sin,—Yott hardly make the best of the case against the Star. Many papers publish tips ; not another one directly incites to gambling. The following paragraph appeared last...

Srn,—Are you sure of your facts ? You describe the Star as "the great inciter to betting." You state that it urges "men to put their money on a horse." Can you quote a single...

Sin.,—The upshot of the correspondence on the above subject seems to prove (1) that the publication of betting news is detrimental to the public interest; (2) that it is...

an old and appreciative reader of the Spectator, point out that the simile you have adopted, and frequently recurred to, in the Rowntree-Cadbury controversy is not quite a fair...

correspondents who urge the impossi- bility a the best of men running a London evening halfpenny paper without interesting the betting people, you give and repeat certain...

sometimes wonder if the big cocoa works which fill the streets at closing-time with countless boys and girls, none of whom are learning a trade, or, judging from the streets...

Sra,—The paper you are editor of attacks evil ; but are you sure that you and it do not support evil in some cases simply because if you did not you would do far more evil by...

have read with disgust the nauseous attempts of Mr. Parke, "A Working Journalist," and Mr. Reid in your last issue to justify the Cadburys and the Rowntrees in their practical...

years' reader of the Spectator, I am much interested in the ethics of the Press as given in your issue of the 4th inst. May I be allowed to point out two other factors which are...

" srecreroa."] Sin,—In addition to the points raised in your columns by recent correspondents, there is one matter that seriously impugns the consistency of the proprietors...

defence of the betting tips in the Star deserves your scathing comments. Men who believe that the tipster is doing more harm than almost any other worker of evil cannot employ...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In his letter to the Spectator of last week Mr. Ernest Parke, referring to the subject of slave-grown cocoa, and to Mr. Burtt's visit...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—It is to be hoped that in the discussion of the important issue, the publication of " betting tips," the main questions of...

[To TEE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."' SIB,—May I add to your list of local guides in last week's Spectator the county surveyors, assistant county surveyors, and the surveyors...

SIR,—Your article in last week's issue on the above subject reminds me very forcibly of a certain "field day" in which I partook a few weeks ago. Our battalion entrained for a...

To THE EDITOR 01! THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR,—I have only just had brought to my notice your weighty article on " Underpinning the Empire " in your issue of April 9th, founded on...

I To TEE Ennos or nix "SracrAmE."J SIR,—Some time ago you were kind enough to publish an appeal from us for funds. I write to thank all those who have sent us contributions...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR,—The above quotation cited by Major Ormsby-Johnson in your issue of the 4th inst. from my article on the late J. H. Shorthouse is...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—A propos of Mr. Roosevelt's remarks on the increased prosperity of the Soudan under British guidance, I was stationed in my ship at...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."1 SIB,—A neighbour of mine has a two-wheeled cart, with the usual box in front over the shafts, covered with a lid. In this box a pair of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Referring to the article under this title in the Spectator of May 14th, I venture to suggest, with great respect, to the writer that...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SID,—The secret of the popularity of our late King Edward, and also of Queen Victoria, is surely given in 1 Kings xii. 7, which,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR.,—In reading the " Recollections of a Long Life," by Lord Broughton, Vols. III. and IV., just published, I came across the diary...

" SPECTATOR."1 SIR,-With a view of collecting material for the Life of Alexander Agassiz, any one having any of his letters will confer a favour by sending them to me at the...

THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —Although I am sorry to trouble you, yet I feel bound, both out of respect to your readers and in justice to myself, to ask if I may correct a sentence...

the letter addressed by them to the Foreign Office, denying the accusations made by the Anti-Slavery Society, to which we referred last week. They declare that these accusations...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sur,—It has been suggested that the motto Montis insignia Calpe borne on the colours of certain regiments in com- memoration of the...

FAREWELL. MOTHER, with unbowed head Hear thou across the sea The farewell of the dead, The dead who died for thee. Greet them again with tender words and grave, For, saving...

• The Quest of the Historical Jesus. By Albert Schweitzer. London : A. and C. Mick. [10e. &L not.] THE QUEST OF THE HISTORICAL JESUS.* READERS of theology who remember the...

an old officer of the 61st Regiment of a story which for its part can never grow old. Captain Griffiths's notes must have been ample or his memory must be particularly good. The...

book which, whether we accept his conclusions or not, is a remarkable and stimulating con- tribution to the study of Hellenic life. He is deeply read in classical literature,...

Fellow Citizens, is a remark- able example of the thoroughness with which the work of economic investigation is carried on in the United States. She modestly claims nothing more...

satisfaction that discussion on the problem of Poor Law reform is now proceeding in a more reasonable spirit. There was a moment when the zeal of the " paradoxer " seemed likely...

Tars volume is rather a memorial to its author than a new contribution to the " interpretation " of Horace. Mr. William Medley was apparently one of those men who, being...

THE plot of this book may be thus briefly described : A London solicitor does some business for an American client, and in due course presents his bill. The client, as he reads...

READERS interested in Biblical criticism cannot do better than carefully study this volume. Dr. Skinner intimates a general agreement with Dr•. Driver's work in the "...

THE HEART OF MA.RYLEBONE.t SCOTSMEN, doctors, and nurses will welcome The Heart of Marylebone,—and with good cause. A few years ago we remember reading a novel of some note...

Allen and Sons. 5s.)—Miss Banks is better as a writer of short stories than as a novelist, and in one, at any rate, of these sketches, "Ma's Vacation," she contrives to...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the wec:: as hate not been reserved for review its other forms.] Canada, the Land of Hope. By E. Way Elkington. (A. and C. Black. 3s....

Winston Churchill gives the subject of his novel in his title, the book being in very truth what Elizabeth of the German Garden would have called sehr modern. Honora Leffing-...

Murray. 2s. 6d. net.)—A modern story of the way in which an unscrupulous lawyer is frustrated in his attempt to get a rather weak-minded but innocent girl into his...

welcome Songs and Poems, Compiled by D. R. Broadbent (John Ouseley, 7s. 6d. net). There is a great gap, it is true, between Herrick and Burns. Not a specimen is given of what...

the subject we mention Electrical Distributing Networks and Trans- mission Lines, by Alfred Hay, D.Sc. (Cassell and Co., 10s. 6d. net). The book is illustrated with one hundred...

5s. net.)—Lady Moss left Victoria Station on February 17th and got back to England by the ' Mauretania,'—she does not say when, a serious omission, as, if we are to admire a...

Public Events at Home and Abroad" is as carefully made as usual. It is divided into two parts. In this wo have (1) a section dealing with "English History" (a brief chapter is...

" Books that Marked Epochs" (2s. 6(1. per vol.) These are The Essays of Francis Bacon, with Introduction by W. H. D. Rouse ; Poetical Works of William Blake (W B. Yeats); The...

(Macmillan and Co. 5s. net.)—This is, we gather, the first volume of a "Picturesque River Series." It is a pleasant blend of the historical and descriptive, and gives a...

Stock. 4e. 6d. net.)—The main part of Mr. Cuthbertson's book is given to his experiences as an official in public libraries. He tells us about the eccentricities of...

views of Oxford buildings Wadham College (Hyman and Co., Oxford). The College, with its compactness and its unity of design, lends itself with much felicity to Mr. New's art....

millan and Co. 6s. 6d. net.)—The English essayists hero appreciated are Jeffrey in his capacity of critic, William Hazlitt, Charles Lamb, De Quincey, "Christopher North," and...