Union and Progress is foreshadowed by the Constantinople correspondent of the Times in Tuesday's paper. The Com- mittee will not unnaturally "run" their own candidates, but they...

an identical British and Russian Note was presented to the Shah on Tuesday drawing his attention to the disturbances in the provinces, and especially to the danger to foreigners...

T HE international negotiations as to Morocco have not yet led to any definite act. But the French and Spanish Governments have been unremitting during the week in drawing up...

abandoned the struggle, and is waiting near Casablanca to hear what his future is to be. The Tangier correspondent of the Times says in Tuesday's paper : "It is astonishing how...

article on German Imperial finances, which is summarised in Thursday's Times. The need for a thorough reorganisation of the entire financial system is emphasised by a...

the week's news from Turkey; but nothing has gone too far to be remedied if the Young Turk Committee has the will and the ability. Among the good news is the announcement on...

case.

letter by the Aga Khan, the most prominent of the Indian Mohammedans, which was read at the opening meeting of the Deccan Provincial Moslem League. This is a branch of the...

cases disputable, or even dangerous, but we gladly recognise the temperate tone of his address—his reference to Anglo- German relations in particular—and the moderating...

relations has elicited an outspoken letter from Herr Bebel addressed to Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, M.P. The Socialist leader, who endorses the view expressed in the resolution,...

on Saturday last at Youngstown, Ohio. His recep- tion was most cordial, and the large number of Trade- Unionists present showed that the Labour vote will not all be cast for Mr....

M.P., who delivered the presidential address, recognised the "great step" made by the Old-Age Pensions Act, but declared it was the duty of Trade - Unionists to work for the...

values in both imports and exports. The &dins in imports amounts to 26,544,396, while exports have decreased by 27,012,368, the decline in articles wholly or mainly...

exports for the first eight months are six and a half millions more than in the corresponding period in 1906, and it is only with the " record " figures of 1907 that those of...

the gloomy reports of unemployment in our great industrial centres, is to be found in the admirable speech of Mr. Franklin Pierce, the distinguished American Free-trader, who...

ments of aeronauts and aviators. On Sunday last the French, military dirigible balloon 'Republique' made a journey lasting six and a half hours from Chalais-Meudon vid Paris to...

service in Westminster Cathedral. Cardinal Vincenzo Vannntelli, the Papal Legate, was met at the great door by the Archbishop of Westminster, and was conducted to the' high...

Association on Tuesday, when Sir Robert Matheson, the Registrar-General for Ireland, described the campaign started in that country at the instance of Lady Aberdeen. On the same...

has led to friction between the rural occupiers and the town tenants, who wish the sale to be delayed until they are included. A meeting at which four Members of Parlia-...

May 28th. ()wools (24) were on Friday 86—on Friday week 85g.

AUSTRALIAN PROBLEMS. B Y one of those rather unforeseen effects which make the affairs of the Empire so vividly interesting, as well as incalculable, the visit of the United...

I T is typical of the national detachment from the practice and institutions of the Church of Rome that the Eucharistic Congress now being held at West- minster should come upon...

O N Thursday Count Leo Tolstoy was eighty years old, and the civilised world paid its tributes to the most renowned of living writers. There are many authors, not Russians,...

A COMPARISON of the papers read on certain agri- cultural questions before the British Association at Dublin emphasises some rather interesting contrasts. They have chiefly to...

P ROFESSOR RIDGE WAY'S address as President of the Anthropology Section of the British Association contained a serious warning against a little-noticed tendency in our dealings,...

P UBLIC opinion nowadays is against coercion. The man who would rule, in however large or small a sphere, must know how to humour. It is more than half the art of government,...

T HE Royal review at Glasgow. on Saturday last of the Glasgow Battalion of the Boys' Brigade, and of representative boys from other battalions and companies throughout the...

D EEP in the south-west corner of New Zealand ; far from the familiar scenes of travel, lies the celebrated Milford Sound,—an inlet of the sea said to surpass in magnificence...

THE GERMAN FOREIGN OFFICE AND MOROCCO. [To TIM EDITOR OP TRII "SPROTAT011."] SI11, — It is a curious coincidence that the article of the Pan- German writer Dr. Wirth in the...

(TO T It EDITOR 0 TH " SP ROTATOR.' ] . SIR,-If the British Empire is to persist for an indefinite period, there must be a change from the policy of laissez-faire and the lack...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR?'1 Sin,—The comic report comes to us that a member of the Government, and one likely to have had a great hand in the Pension Bill, having...

offer a word about existing societies P Canon Greig (Spectator, August 22nd) thinks that the vested interests of these societies are "the liou in the path" of the reforms that...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—In your issue of August 8th in commenting on the letter contributed by " Scotia " you express doubt regarding the advisability of the...

t To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] was pleased to see in a letter in the Spectator of the 5th inst., written by an old friend, Canon Cowley-Brown of Edinburgh, the embodiment...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The presidential address of Mr. Francis Darwin at the British Association has revived the old controversy as to the inheritance of...

George Venables never ceased to advocate the simple and feasible plan of starting a fund in every parish for endowment or increase of endowment. He advised that as soon as £100...

Sr,—In the interesting article on colour photography in the Spectator of last week the writer seems to have left out of account one fact which, I think, destroys his argument...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Will you permit me a few words of comment on the very interesting article on "Photography in Colours" which appeared in last week's...

[TO TIER EDITOR OP TIER 'SPHCFAT011." SIR,—In a recent interview with Mr. Will Thorne, M.P., the Paris Matin reports him as saying that in his projected Socialist Citizen Army...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.".1 Sr,—.Will you permit me to refer to Mr. Fred. Edmondson's letter on the West African Regiment in the Spectator of August 15th? He says that...

[To THE EDITOR or Tllt "SPECTATOR." J SIR,—Your correspondents in last week's Spectator who mention that the Ordnance Survey maps are almost unknown to the public, and therefore...

STR, — Referring to your "News of the Week" note in the last issue upon the Report of the Inland Revenue Commissioners for the year ending March 31st, you have made a misleading...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—Hundreds of your readers must, in common with "London Suburbanite" (Spectator, August 29th), have risked a guess at the identity of the...

[To THE EDITOR Or THU " SFRCTATOR."3 SIE, — In the kindly and discriminating review of my novel, "A Laughing Matter," printed in your issue of Septem- ber 5th a very interesting...

Letters, and even later, it was a keenly debated question whether it was from defective Nature- study that the Greek and Roman poets always made the female bird the singer,—not...

will, I feel sure, admit a word in ' favour of the much-abused Government Department which issues the Ordnance maps. Some time ago (in July, to be precise) I wished to obtain...

Pro Till EDITOR Or TEl " arnorwroml have read with interest the letter of "Senex " in the Spectator of August 29th, but would ask with all respect and humility whether it is to...

English" (Clarendon Press, 1906, 5s. net) has the following remarks on the above subject :— "A difficult question arises with relatives after than. In the next two examples whom...

And viewed the glories of the bay. We moderns come in jaded mood To seek a careless holiday. For one blest moon we'll cat the bridge That links us to this complex life, And...

Sra,—You err with Milton :— " Which when Beelzebub perceived, than whom, Satan except, none higher sat." —"Paradise Lost," Book II. Your usage is quite idiomatic, I...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] Sin,—May I be allowed to say that I agree with Mr. M. Wilkins (Spectator, September 5th) that the phrase "than whom" is ungrammatical P And...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:9 Stn,—I see that in one of your "News of the Week" para. graphs last week you speak of "Port Arthur and Kwang- tung." Forgive me for pointing...

regret that you did not append an editorial note to the letter regarding "than whom" in your last issue. In colloquial speech most Lowland Scotsmen use " than " as a preposition...

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...

A MEMORY OF GLADSTONE.* EARLY in 1890 Mr. Gladstone paid a visit to All Souls College, of which he was an Honorary Fellow. He came in the way in which any visitor of the same...

book the authoress describes a conversa- tion with a passing acquaintance in which these words occur : "'You like to write ? ' she asked politely, but questioningly. No, I...

begin in February, 1873, and end in September, 1882, and which leas than a year ago appeared in the Revue de Paris, constitute an important, but in parts slightly hysteric,...

IT is rare indeed that a prize poem attains the excellence of Mr. St. John Lucas's Gallic , . The conditions of the Oxford prize for a poem on a sacred subject make it a...

SUCH a book as this must in some measure be taken on trust, for few know enough of the science of Egyptology to criticise it adequately. This, at least, is the first impression...

history will be grateful to Mr. Hertz, if only for two of the essays in this volume, those on the Jewish Emancipation Bill of 1753 and the * British imperia/isrn is, ths...

a book like A Little Land and a Living, but it is hardly to be expected that it should sell in this country. Our people do not go back to the land to grow sweet corn, lima...

FURTHER EXPERIENCES OF AN IRISH R.M.* THE wide and richly deserved popularity of the authors of this volume was illustrated not long ago in a rather curious manner. A French...

Elder, and Co. 6s.)—Dr. Fitchett shows himself at his best, as might be expected, in narrative, and especially when the narrative is historical. The scenes in Egypt, the life of...

—Mr. Fletcher does not quite convince us that a man could be so weak—especially if he were of an amiable disposition—as to behave as badly as the gentleman who passes himself...

with Introduction and Notes, by Francis Augustus MacNutt. 2 vols. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 42s. net.)—These letters cover the period from 1519 to 1526, and contain the narrative of...

[Under 11.is hearring we notice such Books of the week as hare not been reserved for review in other forms.] In the "Century Bible " — General Editor, Walter F. Adeney, D.D.—we...

a devotional treatise by Gerard of Zutphen, one of the brethren of Deventer, and showing very much the same characteristics as are to be seen in the " De Imitatione." I brief...

German by Muriel H. Trollope. (Hutchinson and Co. 6s.)—A good story of life in a little Alpine community.— My Lost Self. By Arthur Marchinont. (Cassell and Co. Os.)— The tale of...

Avenue, W.C.)—We need hardly say that this volume is, as usual, interesting from beginning to end. Sir Alfred Sharpe's valuable paper on "Nyasaland" begins with some curious...

Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Bradley treats a subject full of interest of many kinds with his accustomed skill. He begins by claiming for Northumberland its proper place, vindicating,...

2s. 6d. net.)—This is a volume of "The Popular Library of Art.' As to the illustrations there can be no doubt. There are more than fifty of them, and they represent Cruikshank's...

and Co. 3s. 6d.)—This book, which certainly, has the merit of giving much in a small space and at a small price, may fairly claim a place among historical manuals. The account...

Indicator Map of London. This is a most ingenious contrivance. The method used in atlases for indicating the position of the places given in the index is used with a difference....

Karl Breul, Litt.D. (Bowes and Bowes, Cambridge. 1s. net.) Dr. Breul sketches in a graphic way the life of a Cambridge under- graduate, its sportive and its serious side; tells...

Pitman and Sons. 2s.)—This book contains directions for the preparation of Income-tax returns, the most important details being naturally what deductions may and what may not be...

Newman, and Co. 10s. 6d.; 12s.; 5s. unmounted.)—This chart measures, we may say, eight and three-quarter feet by two and a quarter. Each century has a column allotted to it, the...