that Russia bad presented a Note to China with regard to the position of Outer Mongolia. Russia is stated to have asked that, as regards internal affairs, the independence of...

Committee was adjourned by M: Bourgeois, the President, and after a long private conversation with the Prime Minister, M. do Selves called on M. Fallieres and tendered his...

were held on Friday, and the results will probably be known before these words appear in print. We can therefore do nothing beyond chronicling the fact that on the eve of the...

A GRAVE Ministerial crisis has arisen in France. The resig- nation of M. de Selves, the Foreign Minister, has pre- cipitated the fall of M. Caillaux, who had already been...

Minister of Finance in the Monis-Cruppi Ministry he entered into negotiations with the German Embassy at Paris to promote a Franco-German Congo-Cameroons Railway scheme is ad-...

case.

Lord of the Admiralty announcing the immediate formation of a Naval War Stall was published in Monday's papers. By way of explaining the changes involved in the new scheme Mr....

of their duties, to recur to the War Staff for general information, but the War Staff must work at all times directly under the First Sea Lord. It will be organized in three...

settlement in the cotton dispute have unfortunately so far been unsuccessful, and the conferences which he had been bolding with the two parties were adjourned on Tuesday until...

strike to establish a minimum wage was held by the Miners' Federation on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. The exact result will be known early next week ; but some preliminary...

on Friday week in a magnificent Indian pageant held on the Maidan. From their seat on two golden thrones, the central point of an amphitheatre on the west side of the Maidan,...

demonstration of public enthusiasm which is described as even more striking than that which greeted their arrival. They proceeded by train to Bombay, with an hour's stop at...

the new scheme will secure for the Navy a body of officers afloat and ashore systematically trained for Staff duties, and will enable the First Sea Lord to decide and advise on...

in New York destroyed the Equitable Building in Broadway early on Tuesday morning. The building stood in the heart of the financial quarter of the city, and itself contained the...

is to be Chief of the War Staff and Captain Thomas Jackson, Director of the Intelligence Division, succeeds the present Director of Naval Intelligence, Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sir...

Sept. 21st. Consols (28) were on Friday 76 Friday week 77k.

the Staff rests with the First Sea Lord. This provision needs to be studied in connexion with the rhetorical passage quoted above as to the comprehensive brain of the War Staff....

Women " the Daily Chronicle of Thursday gives special prominence to a remarkable article urging resort to the Referendum on the question of woman suffrage. If, as the Chronicle...

ton—at which Mr. Hall Blyth, the Unionist candidate for East Lothian, was presented with his portrait—and made his first political speech since his retirement. In a vigorous...

the Channel on Monday and proved extremely satisfactory. According to an account in the Times the eight hours' full- power trial was run " in probably the most severe weather...

THE EUROPEAN SiTuATION. B ISHOP BUTLER is said to have discussed the question whether a whole nation could go mad. If he were alive to-day he might have extended the inquiry to...

A S we write the question of whether there shall or shall not be a general strike of miners is being decided at the men's ballot. We are bound to say that all the omens seem...

I F a prolonged strike takes place, a strike, that is, of six weeks or two months, we do not hesitate to say that the miners will have injured their material interests in a...

THE world has anxiously watched the progress of the involved in in China, knowing well the peril nvolved in the dissolution of empires. So far, the hopes raised by the accession...

the newly created Naval Staff which has more than a professional interest. For reasons the force of which cannot be denied Mr. Churchill lime determined that the Third Sea Lord...

M ANY people have no memory at all for faces. They see them apparently quite clearly, but they receive no lasting impression whatever. Now and then they pro- nounce a verdict...

pro. duct of a motor at work. Its quality depends upon the nature of the motive fuel, its quantity upon the speed of the revolutions. It has but two constant characteristics,...

CHANGES IN ADMIRALTY ORGANIZATION. [To TIM EDITOtt OP TIII " SPECTATOB:1 Sirs,—Memoranda issued on Monday last by the First Lord of the Admiralty contain details of changes...

I T was at the end of October. A chill windy day had been followed by a chillier night. I was glad that my work could be done in a room where a good fire looked cheerful and...

[To TDB EDITOR. or TED "SrEcrAton."3 Six, — Public discussion of the state of international relations existing during a great part of last summer has taught us one or two...

[TO TEl EDITOR OF TEl "Srecutoa."] Six, — I must commend you on your very able and sensible article on Professor Caldecott's suggestion that Great Britain should hand over a...

THE NAVAL WAR STAFF. [To TEl EDITOR OF TER "SPECTATOR."] Sin, — It may be well to warn your readers not to place too much faith in the latest Admiralty Memorandum. The words...

Ssa,—I am sure you will pardon me if I mention that your footnote to my letter you were good enough to find room for last week attributes to me a belief the precise contrary...

I To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR." I SIR,—You announced a fortnight since a paper on " Wages and Prices" which Mr. Hooker had prepared for the Statis- tical Society. This...

ITO THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR.1 SIR, — Surely Signor Villari, in his letter which appeared in your issue of December 30th, 1911, rather over-estimates the Italian approval...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPEOTATOR.1 Sra,—Thinking that it might be of interest to some of your readers, I have asked a Swedish correspondent to send me a few details of the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I think many of your readers will be interested in the enclosed quotation from Sir Henry Maine's "Popular Govern. ment " (ed. 1885,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sue,—In your article in your issue of January 6th you appear to agree with the Liberal contention that there is a majority of Home Rulers...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Sir Henry Burdett states in the Spectator of December 16th that, judging from my letter (written on December 5th, published on...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR., --At a meeting of the residents round the shores of Win- dermere last Friday a letter was read from the promoter of a hydro-aeroplane...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin, — Ben Jenson loved Shakespeare as much as mortal could love bia "on this side idolatry." Judging from the warmth of his delightful...

[To THE EDITOR OF TUB "SPECTATOR."] think I am entitled. to reply that your correspondents offer no evidence, but merely advance opinions. I do not think that such phrases as "...

ITO THE EDITOR OF THE " SFECTATORfil Bashford is clearly mistaken as to the duties of apprentices to apothecaries at the period of Keats's service,. illustrated 'by elm...

SIR,—Before correspondence on this subject is closed permit me to recall to your readers the following passage from Cole- ridge's " Table Talk " (1858, p. 272, note) :— "...

ITh THE EDITOR Of TUE " SFEOTATOR."1 SiEr - dt is only lately that I have been able to identify a criticism on English hexameters by an Elizabethan poet. The following passage...

SIR,—I must apologize for being so far behind the times, but I seldom have the chance of seeing an English newspaper, and I have only quite lately seen the correspondence that...

THE POETICS OF ARISTOTLE.* THE Poetics of Aristotle is undoubtedly, as Sir J. Sandys has, observed, a work which was "without a rival in Greek litera- ture as a model of...

MR. ROGER FRY'S PICTURES. Tina prophet of the Post-Impressionists has been putting hiss theories into practice, and the results are now to be seen at the Alpine Club Gallery....

A BIG BOY'S LULLABY. FAIRIES and shadows all have had their day, The tender glamour of " good-night" is past, You shut the door— as men do—when you pray, In grief or joy...

SIR,—The cold snap suggests my asking your kind permission to re- mind your readers that during bard weather wefeed the birds in the Brent Valley Bird Sanctuary. For this...

donor Who sends him the Spectator that his address is now United Free Manse, Poyntzfield, near Invergordon.

correct use of the expressions "under way" and "under weigh" quite frequently comes up for discussion amongst seamen. My experience, however, is that a very little reflection...

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...

essay on the comic has proved the most widely popular of his works. It has all the familiar qualities of his genius such as superfine analysis sand grace of style, a grace, we...

BISHOP BOYD CARPENTER does not give us, and, indeed, could not be expected to give us, much about his strictly' mg LT,. By the Rt. Rev. W. Ddyd Carpenter. London Williams and...

first visit to Denmark in 1872, when the country was slowly regaining vigour and life .after the "'dreadful time of the war of 1864. lie does well to introduce us into the...

on New Zealand as" the sociological experiment station of the world," and, as the authors of this very impartial survey point oat, the conditions in New Zealand are extremely...

Tins is essentially a judicial book. The author is himself under no illusions. He does not preach a gospel ; he does not try to make converts ; be merely sets down as fairly as...

THE HUMAN CRY.* Afnu. ErrouIE belongs to that enviable minority in the regiment of literary Amazons whose past achievement stimu- lates a confident anticipation of further...

justice to this magnificent work. It does not pretend to give anything like a complete history of Chinese porcelain. There is a slight sketch of this subject which does not aim...

SIR H. RIDER HAGGARD is a master of the art of writing im- pressively : he has seen much of the life of the English countryside, and he knows how to introduce just that amount...

(John Long. 12s. ad. not.)—The "Isles of Penance" are the Andaman Islands, where the Indian Empire has its convict settlements. Mrs. Clifton gives a more vivid and minute...

[Under this heading we notice ouch Bode of the 'seek as have not been reserved for review in other formal A Bishop amongst Bananas. By Herbert Bury, D.D. (Wells, Gardner, Darton...

55. not.) — A prudent reviewer will bo content to make his notice of this volume as purely descriptive as possible. The first two sections, "Manufacture" and "Distribution,"...

is an historical novel in which Mr. Bloundelle- Burton takes his readers to the Court of Louis XV. Tho account of the trial at the end of the book is extremely curious, and if...

erected at Aldershot in memory of Lieutenant Roy Maurice Ozowski, the young officer who died while doing duty with his regiment, the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, when it was in...

(G. P. Putnam's Sons. 6s.)—A "romance," and romantic at that, full of improbabilities, but worth reading. The Money Moon. By Jeffery Parma. (Sampson Low, Marston and Co....

C. Fifleld. Gs.)—There are fifteen stories here, all worth read- ing, though, we are constrained to say, not all pleasant to read. We do not hesitate at placing "The...

the Earliest Times to the Present Day. By Vincent A. Smith. (Oxford : The Clarendon Press. £3 3s. net.)—Architecture, painting, and sculp- ture are all treated of in this...

(J. Nisbet and Co. 3s. ad. not.)—Dr. Grenfell gives us hero another selection from his experiences. Such books aro always welcome. We cannot hear too much of the fine fellows...

(Marshall Brothers. is. not.)—This is an appeal for the maintenance of a property well known to all interested in the Holy Sites question. General Gordon thought that he had...

P. H. Stephenson. (Longmans and Co. 5s.)—This book appeared for the first time in 1894 ; another edition was published in 1903, carrying on the catalogue of names down to that...

its customary annual increase, amounting this year to 165 pages. What is to be the result if this indispensable volume grows to an unmanageable size ? We are reminded of tho...