The strategic advantages of this will be so great that the Turkish Government, in spite of its lose in the past, is eager to continue the work of construction. The difficulty is...

of India is evidently giving great pleasure to our guest, and, we cannot doubt, will have the effect of improving the relations between him and the Indian Government. Though the...

ease.

from its correspondent at Constantinople on the subject of the Baghdad Railway. Two years have elapsed since the first section was opened to traffic, and the Company now...

the Shereefian troops attacked Raisuli's strong- hold at Zinat, some two thousand men being put in the field. At the critical moment they ran short of shells and cartridges,...

Peters- burg, was murdered, and on Wednesday morning General Pavloff, the Chief Military Prosecutor, suffered the same fate. He was shot in a small garden behind his rooms by a...

M UZIFFER-ED-DIN, the Shah of Persia, died on Tuesday night. The heir-apparent, Mahomed Ali Mirza, was acknowledged at once as successor by the Grand Vizier and the other...

the subject of the Hague Conference to be held this spring. Before leaving London, so Mr. Stead informed the represen- tative of the Malin, he had held conversations with Sir H....

Budget for the new fiscal year, which is to be presented to the Diet on January 21st. There is a consider- able increase in the figures, mainly owing to the closing of the...

letter from its Cairo correspondent describing a tribal war recently waged in Syria between Arabs and the Druses. It appears that in the autumn of 1905 a body of Druse raiders...

the field, and others fell during the pursuit, though the Druses only lost two killed. As the Times correspondent remarks, ".we have thus a spectacle of a pitched battle between...

Pope or not is still being vigorously discussed in the French and Italian Press. The Rome correspondent of the Times recently transmitted an official communiqmi clearing the...

paper some interesting comments upon the way in which the action of the Vatican is emphasising the difference between the Liberal French Catholics and the Ultramontanes,, the...

Oct. 19th. Console (2i) were on Friday 871—on Friday week 86k.

transfer four of their largest liners on the Atlantic service from Liverpool to Southampton. The announcement has created a good deal of excitement in shipping circles, but the...

Trans- van], and the omens seem to point to some curious results. On Friday week Sir George Farrar delivered a speech to his constituents in which, while advocating the loyal...

sity of Edinburgh, delivered the customary address in the M'Ewan Hall, the title of which was "The Dedicated Life." The end which the State and its members had to strive after...

Montreal Star, Mr. Chamberlain has sent a message to the people of Canada, which appeared in the Times and other newspapers on Tuesday. After cordially acknowledging the...

Conservative and Constitutional Association was published in Tuesday's newspapers. On December 20th the Executive Council of the former Association passed a resolution...

the education question from Canon Hensley Henson, in which he draws a parallel and a contrast between the situations in England and France. In France the "case for Christianity...

D IIRING the week two important attempts have been made to g ive a new direction to the policy of the Unionists, and to stamp the party with a special set of political...

RUSSIA, PERSIA, AND BRITAIN. T HE death of the Shah is chiefly important because it g ives an opportunity for Russia and Britain to place their Asiatic relations on a firmer...

D EMOCRACY always keeps its secret, more especially from its rulers, and this among the free-speaking races as much as among those which habitually appear reserved. Americans...

T HE gures of our foreign trade for the year, and of our revenue for the nine months, ending on December 31st enable us to form some estimate of our national prosperity. They...

D R. EVANS'S letter in Wednesday's Times is not pleasant reading for Englishmen. It reminds them of a worthless Treaty to which they were parties, and of the forgotten object...

T HE Bishop of Carlisle has published a volume of addresses delivered to ordination candidates, for which the Anglican laity owe him a debt of gratitude (" Quiet Hours with the...

T WO thousand years ago Sabaean Arabs, trading on the East Coast of Africa, and now and then making an expedition into the interior, came back with stories of a great inland sea...

A CORRESPONDENT'in another column draws attention to a question which has before now troubled the minds of certain University and school authorities, but which has not yet been...

ITO TRH EDITOR OP TUN "SPR0TATOR.1 Sin, — I must apologise for again intruding upon your space ; but I feel that it is due to those who, like myself, protest against the...

in the Outlook for January 5th is an instructive commentary upon your excellent leader of the same date. In it he says: "Tariff Reform both offers the direct road to closer...

TIM “SPRCTATOR.1 SIR,—The number of people who proclaim themselves unqualified admirers of Mr. Balfour ' s Parliamentary tactics appears to be few. This is strangely sad when...

. SPZOTATOR."] SIR,—The article headed "Mr. Balfour and the Unionist Party " in your issue of January 5th appears to me mislead- ing as to Lord Milner ' s attitude towards...

[lu Tus NoITOtt OF TOE • SPIV:TATOU:1 SIR, —One of the strongest reasons for a searching inquiry into naval administration lies in the loss of Parliamentary control over the...

" has fallen into an error in stating that "following upon this inquiry [the House of Lords ' Committee] came the restoration of the old Board system by Mr. Goschen (1872), and...

Sne,---In your issue of January 5th your correspondent " Civis " refers to a shilling brochure published by us, and entitled " The Truth about the Navy : with Some Account of...

[TO TUB EDITOR OF THII . SPR0TATOR.1 SIR, — The Church of England claims and strives to be a national Church, and the organisation is in some measure adequate to the claim....

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] 8112, — I read the article on this subject in your issue of December 22nd, 1906, with a considerable feeling of annoy- ance, and no little...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE"SPECTATOR.'] Sus,—Your article on " The Lord Chancellor and the Magis- tracy" in the Spectator of January 5th omits an important point which is omitted...

(TO Toe EDITOR OF TkIll 'SPECTATOR. "] Son,— " During the week beginning Tuesday, December 4th, there were some 430 boys being examined for scholarships and exhibitions at...

[TO TRH EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.] SIB,—As an admirer of the Spectator, I venture to send you an extract from Edmund Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution in France "...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPRCTATOR.1 SIN,—In the review of my novel, " Andrew Goodfellow," which appears in the Spectator for December 29th, 1906, the follow. ing remark occurs :-...

[To nag EDITOR or rue SPRCIATOR."] SIB, — An interesting review in the Spectator of December 15th, 1906. has drawn my attention to " The Cambridge Apostles," by Mrs. Brookfield....

[To TER EDTZOlt OF THR SPRCTATOR.."] Sla,—In connexion with Mr. Fowke's remark in your last issue as to the difficulty of framing a generally acceptable definition of the word "...

(To THE EDITOR OP TEE " SPECTATOR"] SIR,—The care which you have always shown for the pre- servation of places of historic interest tempts me to write to you about a glaring...

TO A MOTHER ON SEEING HER SMILE REPEATED IN HER DAUGHTER'S EYES A THOUSAND songs I might have made Of You, and only You ; A thousand thousand tongues of fire, That trembled down...

1 - 1.0 THE EDITOE Or TIM "SPECTATOR."' Sin,—The following may throw light on the " method" of Mr. and Mrs. Zancig. Some forty years ago my father, who held a country living in...

[To THE EDITOB OF THE SPECTATOR"' SIR,. - SOME months ago, while visiting a village in this province, a thunderbolt or aerolite—I am too ignorant to know which—struck one of the...

(To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPICTATOB." J SIR,—In your "News of the Week" in your last issue you quote the Nawab of Dacca as speaking of a " noisy majority of other races,"—that...

THE OLD MASTERS AT BURLINGTON HOUSE. IT is not easy to recall a winter Exhibition at the Academy of equal interest to the one now being held. The wealth of private collections...

FREDERICK YORK POWELL.* THE Life of York Powell was bound to be written, and it could scarcely have fallen into better hands. Indeed, the only fault we have to find with...

who are sufficiently concerned" in mysticism "to have ceased from talking nonsense." The author thus appeals, as it were, to but a remnant even among the chosen people. Procul,...

two extremely interesting and readable volumes by a quotation from a letter which Sir Joseph Hooker addressed to Mrs. Lyell, their editress :—" I am indeed glad to know that you...

WHEN a great personage, nearly related to the reigning Sovereign, and necessarily behind the scenes in the drama of national and social life, begins to keep a diary in his boy-...

6e.)—Mr. Oswald Crawfurd's new book is not quite an ordinary novel, being rather a series of country scenes described by a fictitious London journalist who is trying the...

HIS PEOPLE.• Ms. CIINNINGHAME GRA.HAM is a writer of signal talent whose disinclination to sail under false colours amounts to a veritable obsession. He has never learnt, and...

is much real charm about Mrs. Chesson's last book, besides the melancholy interest which unfortunately attaches to it. It is not exactly a novel, but rather a series of pictures...

The Citisen Rifleman. By E. J. D. Newitt. (George Newnes. 2s. net.)—Distinctly one of the best books published in recent years for the guidance of present and future civilian...

[Tinder this Loading ea voiles such Book. of she wows 04 how not been reserved for review in otter forms.] The Diary of John Evelyn. With Introduction and Notes by Austin...

CAMP FIRES IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES. Camp Fires in the Canadian Rockies. By W. T. Hornaday. (T. Werner Laurie. 16s.)—It is with considerable satisfaction that one notes the...

reviewed in our last issue is The Pillar of Cloud, not The Pillar of Fire, as was inadvertently stated.)

information about the personnel of the clergy, and the statistics of benefices—population, value, &c.—are given in this volume in as small a compass as possible. The number of...

"The Victoria History of the Counties of England," Edited by William Page, F.S.A. (A. Constable and Co., .41 lls. 6d. net per vol.) The three are Cornwall, Devon, and Somerset,...

21s. net.)—Miss Power relates her Indian experiences in a lively fashion, not without a certain tone of satire when she comes to describe the manners and customs of the British....

again this "petite Encyclopedic populaire de la Vie Pratique." We had the pleasure of welcoming its first appear- ance, and beg to offer our congratulations on its continued...

post- free.)—This little book, "prepared by the American Colony," will be found useful by travellers in the Holy Land. It is in as small a compass and as light as a book can be,...

William Wallace, LL.D. (W. and R. Chambers. 35. 8d.)—No one is better qualified to annotate in an effective and illuminating way the poems of Burns than Dr. Wallace. It is clear...

This is a book full of good sense, with certain characteristic extravagances that are hardly in keeping with it. There is a bitter attack on Dr. Johnson—Dr. Johnson supplies an...