11 MARCH 1911

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On Monday in the French Chamber M. :Monis, the new

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Prime Minister, made a statement of policy. The chief financial proposal was an income-tax scheme which is only in accordance with expectations, as M. Caillaux is Minister of...

The question of the Baghdad railway has been very prominent

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during the week, owing first to rumours of an agreement, and secondly to Sir Edward Grey's guarded but very firm statement in regard to British rights and interests made in the...

It is hardly necessary to add that the action of

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the United States is in no sense unfriendly to the existing Mexican Government, and that it has not behind it any sinister move- ment either in the direction of annexation or of...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE most striking event in foreign affairs has been the sudden mobilisation of the American Army. Some 32,000 troops are under orders to proceed to the Mexican frontier, while...

In our opinion the powers we thus possess should be

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used in no dog-in-the-manger spirit. On the contrary, it is our desire, and we believe the desire of the British Foreign Office, that they should be employed to secure the true...

*** The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript, in any

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case.

Whilst negotiations are proceeding perhaps the less said about the

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details the better. We may point out, however, that it is absurd to talk as if the British position were a weak one. Not only do our treaties with the Sultan of Koweit make our...

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Last Saturday the fiftieth anniversary of the emancipation of the

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Serfs was celebrated at St. Petersburg. The Tsar attended the thanksgiving service at the Kazan Cathedral, and there was a very interesting ceremony in the Tauride Palace, where...

In the Lower House of the Prussian Diet, on Tuesday,

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Herr von Bethmann Hollweg spoke of Prussian relations with the Vatican. He reminded his hearers how the Pope's letter to Cardinal Fischer had shaken the understanding that...

On Tuesday, in the House of Commons, the second reading

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of the Revenue Bill was taken, and the discussion turned principally upon the new land taxes. In tbst ()aurae of it Mr. O'Brien attacked vehemently the Goveenzaesat's financial...

On Monday, in the House of Lords, there was a

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discussion upon the proposed Reciprocity Agreement between Canada and the United States. We cannot help deeply regretting the attack made by Lord Ampthill upon Mr. Bryce, and...

We record with much regret the illness of Lord Crewe

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from overwork. On Friday week he was present at a dinner at CLaridge's Hotel given by Lord Morley of Blackburn, and after dinner fainted and fell, striking his head so severely...

One of the most interesting announcements in connection with the

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Coronation was made on Monday. The King has decided to entertain 100,000 London children at a fete at the Crystal Palace on Friday, June 30th. Sir William Carington, Keeper of...

The Times special correspondent in Portugal contributes an article in

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the issue of Tuesday on the Anarchist element in Portugal. Making every allowance for the difficulties of the Provisional Government, he strongly condemns their com- plaisance...

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It was announced last Saturday that Sir Edward Tennant had

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been appointed Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. In accordance with the usual practice, a Peerage has been conferred upon him at the same...

The Navy Estimates were published on Friday morning. It is

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impossible ifor us to discuss at short notice so long and important a document. We may note, however, its salient features. Five new Dreadnoughts are to be laid down this year,...

, We have dealt with Mr. Haldane's speech at the

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Mansion House on Tuesday elsewhere. Here we wish to express the hope that the able and energetic men who have the organisation of the London Reserve in hand, whether under the...

Mr. Will Crooks made some excellent remarks on the betting

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evil at the Harringay Congregational Church on Sunday. He said that the man who had the moral courage to keep his money in his pocket when he was given a " certainty " for the...

Bank Rate, 3 per cent., changed from 31 per cent.

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Mar. 9th. Consols (24) were on Friday 811—Friday week 814.

What they must keep before Londoners is the fact that

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every trained man who does not now belong to any unit should at once send his name and address on a postcard to The Secretary, Veterans, Friar's House, New Broad Street, E.C.,...

Sir Wilfrid Laurier went on to declare that if his

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voice could reach the Americans, he would say (we quote from the Times) : — "Remember that if you have founded a nation upon separation from the Mother Land, we Canadians have...

Sir Wilfrid Laurier made a memorable speech in the Canadian

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Reciprocity debate on Tuesday. It was received with enthusiasm by his supporters. He twitted the Conserva- tives with going back on the policy of Sir John Macdonald, who had...

We are glad to hear that there is a considerable

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feeling among supporters of the Government in favour of the aboli- tion of the Cocoa Duty. It will be remembered that the difference in the amount of the duty upon raw and...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY,

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MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES. T T-TE news of the mobilisation of the American Army on the Mexican frontier and the fitting-out and putting to sea of a large portion of the...

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THE DECLARATION OF LONDON.

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I T is seldom that so complicated a subject is laid before Parliament as that which was discussed in the House of Lords on. Wednesday and Thursday. It touches at all points the...

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THE BREAK-UP OF BIG ESTATES.

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T HE present position with regard to agricultural pro- perty would be humorous if it were not so serious for many of the persons most intimately concerned. During the past few...

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THE VETERAN RESERVE. T HE speech made by Mr. Haldane at

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the Mansion House on Tuesday in regard to the Veteran Reserve gave one more proof of the gain to the nation of having at the War Office a man of wide mind and liberal spirit,...

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THE AUTHORISED VERSION.

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S OME recent letters to the Times by Canon Beeching have called attention with force and reason to the desirability of emending the Authorised Version of the New Testament in...

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IMPENETRABILITY.

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T HERE is a suggestion of emptiness about a too great receptivity ; a man should not have a spare room in his mind for the accommodation of every stray notion! That is the...

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SOME PROBLEMS OF SALMON.

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W E have reached a curiously interesting stage in the gradual accumulation of knowledge of the habits of salmon. The last three or four years have been occupied with the...

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THE BETTER WAY WITH THE UNEMPLOYED—. AN APPEAL.

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Pre ring Eorros or ram "Brzorkros.'1 SIR,—Among the various suggestions for dealing with a family in distress through unemployment, it has been generally agreed that...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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) 1:1:111 CORONATION EXHIBITION. [To ring EDITOR OF THIN "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—M' ay I through your columns draw the attention of your influential circle of readers to the...

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A VOICE FROM CALIFORNIA.

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tTo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTAT014."3 Sin,—Anyone who lives in California and attempts to write of the future in America (see Spectator, Dec. 10th) can hardly fail to quote...

MR. BRIGHT AND OTHER SPEAKERS.

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[To THE EDFFOR OF TEE "SPECTAT011."1 Sri',—In your interesting review (Spectator, February 25th) of Mr. Smalley's "Reminiscences," you quote his reluctant com- ment on Lloyd...

THE BRITISH WOMEN'S EMIGRATION ASSOCIATION.

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[To THE EDITOR. or THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIB., —Will you kindly allow me a corner of your valuable space to inform your readers that the annual meeting of the British Women's...

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THE POLL - OF - THE - PEOPLE BILL. [To TEEN EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, —In

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his speech introducing this Bill, Lord Balfour of Burleigh is reported as saying "in certain of the States of America the Referendum was resorted to;" and the Earl of Crewe, in...

MR. LECICY AND HOME RULE.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—We observe in the Spectator of last Saturday a letter from Mrs. Lecky deploring the republication by us of the lets, Mr. Lecky's...

THE REFERENDUM.

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[To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR, — Is it not somewhat singular that among the strongest opponents to the Referendum in the present House of Com- mons, both on the...

THE REFERENDUM IN AUSTRALIA.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] San,—It seems to an Australian an extraordinary thing that, in the endless disquisitions in Great Britain on the subject of the...

AUSTRALIAN LABOUR, - PARTY RULE.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, — The purpose of my letter of November, 1910, was to show that the Labour Party in Australia, with an Osborne judgment expressly...

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PAYMENT OF MEMBERS.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."1 SIR, — In your article of February 11th on "Payment of Members" you say : "Every thinking man admits that it is a most serious evil to...

HOME RULE AND SECTARIANISM.

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[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The danger of the renewal of bitter sectarian animosity and consequent civil strife in Ireland in the event of Home Rule has been...

THE BURDEN OF LOCAL EXPENDITURE.

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(To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR, —In your article on " The Burden of Local Expenditure" (Spectator, February 18th) you draw attention to the real reason why economy in...

LEGISLATION IN THE DARK.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOE."1 Sin,—The public are entitled to some information as to the proposed Home Rule Bill. The demand of the Irish Nationalist and the desire of...

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A LEAGUE OF ENGLISH SPEECH.

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(To THE EDITOR OP THE "SFECTATOR.1 SIR, —Your issue of January 28th reached me late. If the subject of Sir Bampfylde Fuller's letter is not shelved I should like to add a...

DEVASTATION BY RESERVOIR.

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[To THE EDITOU OP TIIE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,,— Apropos of your article about the proposed new reservoirs in the Thames Valley, may I be allowed to remind you that Londoners have...

THE SPECTATOR IN A RED INDIAN'S GRAVE.

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[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR, —While making a survey of a small island in Quatsine Sound, on the West Coast of Vancouver Island, last fall. I found an old Indian...

THE CONFIRMATION TEST FOR ENGLISH CHURCHMANSHIP.

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[TO THE EDITOR OP THE ''SPECTATOR."] SIR, —In your issue of October 29th, 1910, I read with great interest and satisfaction the article by the Bishop of Carlisle on " The...

A CORRECTION. [To THE EDITOR OP THE " SFECTATOR."I SIE,—In

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your paper of March 4th the reviewer of " The Common Growth," by M. E. Loane, is pleased to insert by way of quotation :— " Gently comes the World To those who are cast in a...

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FROM THE HOUSE PIGEONS OF LONDON.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. ") Sin,—The kind hospitality of your columns has been asked for our marauding kinsmen, the gulls, who should have long flown back to their...

BOOKS

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• THE JESTER WITH A PURPOSE.* Hitherto the prefaces, if not the best part, have been as good as any part of the fare Mr. Shaw sets before us when he publishes a volume of...

POETRY.

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SHEPHERD'S SONG. O BLACK and white the shepherd's plaid That haps me warm and weel, And black and white the shepherd's dog That follows at my heel. O black and high the...

AUGURS MEETING AND LAUGHING.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I am much obliged to you for your notice of my book, "The Profitable Imbroglio.' Your reviewer, however, has missed an essential...

LORD ROBERTS AND ETON.

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[To TER EDITOR or rHa " erscreroa."] Sra,—Will you kindly allow me, through your columns, to bring before Old Etonians a matter of interest to them and to the School ? The...

NOTICE.—When "Correspondence" or Articles are signed toith the writer's name

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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...

ROOKS, CROWS, AND CHOUGHS.

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[To THE EDITOR. OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sul,—The writer of the article on " Gulls in Winter," in your issue of February 18th, appears to consider that the rook has only recently...

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" THE BACCHANTS OF EURIPIDES." •

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IN what is perhaps the most beautiful of his epigrams, the poet Ausonius addresses his old tutor, Nepotianus, as "lotentis agitator mete," and the happy phrase may be...

SIR WILLIAM BUTLER.*

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SIR WILLIAM BUTLER was all example of what might be Called the rebel mind. In this most interesting autobiography he proves that more surely (because undesignedly) than any...

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THE book before us is written by two English ladies

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who are convinced, severally and jointly, by certain personal experiences that they saw and heard, in the Petit Trianon, in 1901, the sights and sounds of Marie Antoinette's...

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THE FIRST FOLIO.*

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WE must congratulate the publishers a This reprint upon the conclusion of their design of issuing fee:similes of each of the first four collected editions of 'Shakespeare's...

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THE MAGAZINES.

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IN the new Nineteenth Century Sir Roper Lethbridge leads off . with a paper on "Imperial Disintegration," prompted by the , Reciprocity Agreement between Canada and .the United...

THE JOURNAL OF EDUCAT CON.1-

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WE have noticed from time to time the annual volume of the Journal of Education, not unfrequently differing from its con- clusions, but always admiring the thoroughness with...

A SOCIAL SETTLEMENT IN CHICAGO.*

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HULL ROUSE is a woman's settlement which 'Miss Addams and her friend, Miss Starr, founded in Chicago early in 1889. It is not easy to define the purpose of these undertakings....

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NOVELS.

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ELIZA GETTING ON.• THIS is a very short book, but it is just seven pages too long, and, unluckily, those seven pages come at the very beginning. There are certain subjects...

Thorpe's Way. By Morley Roberts. (Evelekh Nash. 6s.)— Mr. Morley

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Roberts, like many other writers of the present day, is in full revolt against existing social conditions, especially those regulating marriage. Like those of his...

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The Next Crusade : a Cautionary Political Story. (Hutchinson and

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Co. ls. net.)—This witty and suggestive little book should be in the hands of every serious politician. The author has evidently suffered in a recent crusade, and he takes his...

The Great Texts of the Bible. By S. F. Pells.

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(Simpkin, Marshall and Co. ls. net.)—Mr. Pells is very anxious to establish the Septuagint as the Bible of the Christian Church. It certainly has the great advantage of being...

The Love of Jesus : a Manual of Prayer, Meditation

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and Prepara- tion for Holy Communion. By Sir Henry Lunn. (Hodder and Stoughton. ls. 6d. net.)—Sir Henry Lunn has put together in this little volume a number of devotional...

READABLE NOVELS.—All the World Wondered. By Leonard Merrick. (Methuen and

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Co. 6s.)—A collection of theatrical stories, of which the first, which gives the book its title, is by far the best.—The Shadow on the Purple. By a Peeress. (Lynwood and Co....

Domesday Book: Cambridgeshire. By the Rev. C. H. Evelyn- White

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and H. G. Evelyn-White. (Elliot Stock. 5s. net.)-- Messrs. Evelyn-White have done well in bringing out this portion of Domesday Book. The details of the great survey have to be...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

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[under this ;wading we notice such Books of the week as have not hum reserved for review tin other forms.] The Revolt in Canada Against the New Feudalism. By Edward Porritt....

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Cats' Cradles from Many Lands. By Kathleen Haddon. (Long- mans

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and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—It is not so much the cradles that interest us as the lands from which they come and the peoples which amuse themselves by making them; and then there...

In the series of "Black's Geographical Diagrams and Land Forms"

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(A. and C. Black) we have The British Isles, by H. T. Snape, M.A. (1s. 6d.)—The object of the book may be explained by giving examples of the illustrations. We have on p. 37...