some resistance, but soon retired to a fortified position in the hills. The Turkish governor then surrendered the town of Rhodes. The Turkish garrison numbers about three...

F R1DAY'S news from the Near East is distinctly alarming. 1 Telegrams from the correspondents of the Times in Constantinople, Athens, and Vienna all point to a sudden increase...

." blood accusation" in Russia. A Jew at Kieff is accused of the murder of a Christian boy, and some Christian fanatics are formally pressing an entirely extraneous charge that...

lead to a better understanding between his countryman and ours. That being so, and if any one so humble as a journalist may aspire to advise an Ambassador may we he permitted a...

has been appointed to London. The announcement has created extraordinary interest, as Baron Marschall, as he is usually called, ie the most conspicuous figure in the German...

newspapers as saying that in regard to the Franco- Spanish boundary dispute in Morocco both Governments were awaiting a proposal from Groat Britain. This statement was described...

the House of Commons during the past week, was read a second time on Thursday by a majority of 101 (372-271). It is impossible for us to attempt to summarize in these para-...

' Titanic' Court of Inquiry which has continued its work during the week. On Monday the Court visited the Olympic,' the sister ship of the ' Titanic.' On Tuesday some curious...

absolutely unconvincing speech on the text that the giving of a Constitution to Ireland would strengthen the position of the British Empire in the world, and Mr. Russell had...

the papers of Thursday that important progress has been made with the proposal for building a Trans-Persian railway. A series of conferences have taken plate in Paris and...

had been made to deal with the argument that the character and persistence of the Irish demand was one which oould not be ignored by a democratic Parliament. As to Ulster,...

country life is again illustrated by the interesting announcement made in Thursday's Daily Mail. Having decided to introduce fox-hunting into his domains, the Kaiser...

a correspondent with the problem of Ulster, but may point out here our regret that Mr. Bonar Law did not boldly meet the hints dropped by the Government speakers as to their...

two branches of the Unionist Party brought about by the amal- gamation of the National Conservative Union and the Liberal Unionist Council, and we trust that this amalgamation...

honours done to Browning throughout the country during the past week. Browning's great and outstanding quality is his knowledge of human nature. The enthusiast who addressed him...

May 9th, Consoli (20 were on Friday 78i1--Friday week 74.

comment. The best was that of the Archbishop of Canterbury, who deplored the prosaic and drab-coloured surroundings in which our statesmen and administrators and public servants...

to amend a Bill in Committee and then to vote against the Third Reading. Though one objects to the Bill as a whole, if it must pass it had better pass in its least bad form. An...

poet except one—assuming with Milton that poetry to be complete must be "simple, sensuous, passionate." Every line he wrote is instinct with passion, and the appeal to the...

gallery on the evening of Friday, the 3rd inst., and, in responding to the toast of his health, made a genial speech. It was a formidable ordeal, he observed, to stand up before...

and the Association of English Country Bankers on Wednesday night, dealt in his speech with the fall in Consols and with industrial unrest. After noting amongst other factors in...

• THE PREVAILING PESSIMISM. B UT for the records of history, wo might just now be excused for entertaining a feeling of exasperation almost approaChing to despair. The word is...

• numerous in recent years that the honest citizen who used to be able to talk in the old days with glib con- fidence of the Channel Squadron and the Mediterranean Squadron is...

T HE new move taken by the medical profession in defence of their interests under the Insurance Act is certain to be misrepresented by that section of the Press which looks upon...

A S a result of the article and letters in regard to the White Slave Traffic which have lately appeared in our columns, we have been repeatedly asked by men and women how they...

I T would be, perhaps, unwise to assert that Browning is not read in Italy at all. The interest in all things English is as keen in Italy at present as it ever was. But one may...

T HE results of the coal strike and of the previous railway strike are numerous, both direct and indirect. One of the direct results is apparently to be a permanent reduction of...

or The first age of the game is assumed to be the thirteenth intelligent design, the walls and their variations, the tambour century. By the end of the fourteenth poets like...

A NEW METHOD OF OBTAINING NEW-LAID EGGS. [TO THE EDITOR or Tax "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — About a year ago, on a large farm of 600 acres situated near Birmingham, I saw for the...

E. Harlow, in last week's issue, says that " while much impressed by your plea for a State Church . . . I find it difficult to resist the Welsh case for Disestablishment ......

[To TUX EDITOR OF TIIR "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—Mr. Lloyd George in his speech in the House of Commons on the Welsh Church refers to this parish.(10 parish iu which he was brought...

WELSH DISESTABLISHMENT. ITO TRY EDITOR OF TRH "Srecnioa."] Sin,—What are the "exceptional and invulnerable preroga- tives" which your correspondent in this week's issue says...

CHURCH IN WALES. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "BPROTATOR. "1 SIE,—The following extract from the British Weekly of October 19th, 1911, fully corroborates your remarks in your article...

LTO TEE EDITOR OP TILE " SPECTATOIL".I SIR,—I do not think that it would be reasonable to ask the men of 'Ulster to accept Home. Rule and ask their Parlia- mental" ,...

would be more than kind of Mr. A. S. Comyns Carr if he would enlighten myself and many other perplexed householders on certain points which arise out of his letter published in...

properly commented upon Mr.' Asqeith's argument that Ulster is, after all, nearly equally divided upon Home Rule and upon his deduction therefrom. A reference to Schedule I.,...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " BP ECTATOR." I SIR, — It is difficult to follow the reasoning of your corre- spondent, Mr. Crosbie, in the Spectator of April 27th. He complains of your...

• LTO THE EDITOR 07 THR "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—The whole-hearted support which has been given to the 'Titanic' disaster fund reflects the greatest credit on the charitable public,...

[To TUR EDITOR OF Till " SPRCTATOR."] Sia,—Italy, more than tired of her North African war, now, these seven months, dragging its slow length along to the tune of 2,000,000 fr....

[To THE EDITOA 07 TUN "SeacTarou.1 STU.--Herbert Spencer wrote in the 'eighties :- " Hot-headed philanthropy, impatient criticism, is, by helter- skolter legislation, destroying...

[To THE EDITOR OF TIER "SPROT&TOR. 1 SIR,--I have just received notice that the " Tariff " insurance companies are raising their premiums, in this business at all events, 300...

THE " SPECTATOR." 1 SIR,—The question of the proper sea-education of our seamen is a matter so pertinent to the issues now being raised that it is necessary to again call public...

letter by Mr. Kenny on the question as to where the rule of " women first" comes from, and if it is more binding on the English-speaking races than all others. may I suggest...

line of Euripides (Iph. in Aul. 1394): A ' S 'y ' avbp mpetecon , yuvatmeZv pvphav dpiiv Odor, " Worthier than ten thousand women is one man to see the light." By a sudden...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] Efu,—Even if no one else raises a note of protest, I hope you will allow me to express my feelings of disgust and shame at the way my...

conscience discussed by Cicero in his "De Mollie" (III. xxiii. 89) it is of sad interest to find a passage (quoted from the Greek casuist Hecate) which puts clearly the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR, — As a. contribution towards the history and limits of the nautical rule in shipwrecks, " Women and children first," an American lady...

Sin,—By omitting a paragraph in my letter last week you rather spoilt the sequence of my remarks, and you compel me now to correct your own biographer. The subject for the...

THE " SPECTATOR, "] Sin,—I have read with pleasure your leader and Mr. Hudson's appreciative letter on the late Professor Church. Mr. Hudson concludes his letter thus : "I...

SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—In a letter under the above heading "Two Nurses" refer• to your kind notice of my book "A Nurse's Life in War and Peace," and from their letter one would...

[To VIE EDITOR OV THE " SPECTATOR."] have the pleasure to inform you that the memorial to Heine about which I wrote to you in my letter published in :the Spectator of January...

attention is being paid to working .;hours in many lines of industry, it seems strange that Am voice should be raised in protest against the terribly long hours (and poor food)...

[To VIE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin, — It is proposed to erect a memorial at Delhi to the late rtleneral.Sir Alexander Taylor, G.C.B., R.E. I enclose a copy eof a circular...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE ""SPECTATOR.""] it permitted to one American born, which surely Amust be regarded as a misfortune rather than a fault, to make /rejoinder to her English...

SIR,—With reference to your article on " Fuss-oats " perhaps the following motto I came across on the other side of the Atlantic might provide some comfort for the species you...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SFECTATOR."] SIR,—I have been an observer of hirundines in this parish- Tunstall—for many years. They were very plentiful here formerly. For the last...

Sia,—I have of late come to the melancholy conclusion that swallows are rarer in England than they used to be and that their places are being taken by starlings. Ten or fifteen...

AT MAESTRICHT. [(In 1673 Louis XIV., assisted by Vauban, besieged Maastricht. The Duke , et Monmouth, John Churchill (afterwards the great Marlborough), and many other...

[To THE EDITOR OW THE "SrEcTATon.1 SIR,—We have no wish to be rude--indeed, we do not know how to be rude—but guouagve tandem. P It cannot be many moons ago (though, indeed, we...

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...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—We desire to commend earnestly to the notice of your- readers, and in particular of the members of any school or college which has not...

Mr. W. H. Gleuny's letter in youi impression of May 4th, it may be interesting to note then . scarcity of swallows in this island during the last two years. I don't think I have...

THE ACADEMY.—II. SOME four or five years ago a rumour reached the outside -world that there were dissensions at the Academy over the question of accepting for exhibition a...

CONSERVATISM.* THIS exposition of the spirit of Conservatism is as interesting and able as Lord Hugh Cecil's political philosophy always is. He frankly tells us that in...

IN his latest contribution to Byzantine history Professor Bury continues his former work from the fall of Irene to the rise of Basil the Macedonian. The period is only...

volume is founded on the assump- tion that as regards the foreign policy of Great Britain " the ,ublie is not allowed to know the essential facts." This is not a true account of...

Sin CHARLES CROSTHWAITE gives us in this book a com- plete account of the various small expeditions and the administrative methods by which peace and order were achieved in...

need of recommendation, and it will be enough to say that the new volume which he has collected possesses all the qualities with which his former work has made us familiar. His...

BIOGRAPHIES are of two kinds—monuments and quarries, where the materials for monuments are to be found. Mr. E. T. Cook's life of Ruskin is a quarry. In these two thick volumes...

set of historical and didactic lectures which lie delivered to students. Certainly they were well worth preserving in book form. The writer deals with Early Church...

Corzimr, FOSTER has produced a useful work on Military Organization. Without going into too great detail he treats his subject systematically, so that the reader is not...

THE INVIOLABLE SANCTUARY.t THE title of Mr. Birmingham's new book suggests a relapse to his earlier manner before he abandoned the tragi comedy of Irish politics for the...

book is chiefly concerned with the same prOblem as "Tess of the d'Urbervilles," but the author gives it a different solution. The story of Anglo-Indian life is well and fully...

rather a disagreeable book, which concerns the fall of a perfectly virtuous woman owing to pique at her husband leaving her to become a missionary in Africa for the good of his...

of Chicago Press. es. net.)—The author of this book has practised as a medical man in Galileo : to any one with the gift of intelligent observation this occupation is a groat...

[Under this hrading we notice such 33004 of the week as have sot NM retorted for review in other forms.} The Mansions of England in the Olden Time. By Joseph Nash'. With...

short stories, all reaching a creditable level of literary ability, not all equally pleasing to read.—Christina Holbrook. By Margaret Hope. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—A well-written...

in colour by G. D. Armour. Introduction by E. D. Cuming. (Hodder and Stoughton. 15s. net.)—Handley Cross. By R. S. Surtoos. With illustrations in colour by Cecil Aldin, 2 vols....

by H. S. Wilkins, D.D. (Bristol : J. W. Arrow- smith. 125. Od.)—The Registers hero printed cover the years 1559-1713. (Westbury, we may remind our readers, is now for the niost...

Black- wood and Sons. ls. 6d. per vol.)—These two books cover the period from Hengist and Horsa down to Waterloo, the dividing point being the Spanish Armada. They aro meant, it...

E.C.), compiled by Mr. IL J. Hanson, will com- mand the admiration of amateur yachtsmen. Tho sailing directions for entering the chief harbours all round the coast are lucid and...