till Friday afternoon, that is, not till after these pages have gone to press. This makes it necessary for us to hold over all criticism till next week. Even a delay in our...

friends of the Slav nationalities hold that she was perfectly right, we cannot, if we are to be perfectly frank, pretend that the final result will be peaceful. Austria-Hungary...

which, if confirmed, is of no small moment. It is to the effect that the new Imperial and Prussian loans, amounting to eleven and a quarter millions, have proved a disastrous...

T HE Emperor of Russia has done a great service to the cause of peace. On Wednesday he told the Balkan Powers, and especially Bulgaria and Servia, that they would go to war with...

War, was shot dead in the streets of Constanti- nople on Wednesday while driving in his motor to the Porte. The assemble, who also killed his naval aide-de- camp, escaped, but a...

case.

refer the quarrel between Servia and Bulgaria to arbitration is to be found in the facts recorded in a telegram, dated Salonica, Wednesday, sent by its special correspondent to...

was a disciple of General von der Goltz, and spent nine years in Germany and France studying the scientific and practical sides of modern warfare. He was Vali of Kossovo in 1905...

Old Bailey of criminally libelling Mr. Godfrey Isaacs, sentenced to a fine of £100, and ordered to pay all the costs of the prosecution. The jury found him guilty on five of...

lusion," but the way to combat such delusions is not to refuse information or to find technical grounds for preventing inquiry, but to welcome the most ample investigation. A...

be followed by another in oil. Our readers may remember our recent article on the subject, followed about three weeks afterwards by the memorable statement in the Times. Since...

with so small a fine. He undoubtedly—indeed he admitted it himself—used language in regard to the whole Marconi business which could not in any way be justified by the...

Marconi shares, undertaken, of course, before the Committee was appointed, even if proved, would be in the slightest degree dishonourable to members of the Committee, but...

is, the supporters of the Government on the Committee have, with the exception of the chairman, Sir Albert Spicer, acted on strictly party lines. Liberals will no doubt retort...

we may remind our readers that he seriously accused the Spectator last autumn of attempting to shelter the Government in regard to the Marconi affair because we would not...

George Wyndham, which occurred at Paris on Sunday after a few days' illness. Mr. Wyndham, who was only forty-nine, served with distinction in the Guards before entering...

Irish novelist, is " one of those who believe that Ireland should be, and must soon be, allowed to manage her own affairs." Hence the value of his admission of the reality of...

Asquith was replying to Mr. Henderson's speech on the Finance Bill, a young man in the Strangers' Gallery flung a bag of flour and a packet of Suffragist leaflets at the...

constituencies in the country, on Thursday. The Unionist majority was enormous, 6,337. At the last election (December 1910) it was 4,614. What makes the figures all the more...

Daily Chronicle a summary of his grounds for opposing the Welsh Church Bill, which is so good that we desire to put at any rate a portion of it before our readers. He tells us...

Rule in Monday's Times. His Canadian experience causes Lord Grey to believe that the federation of the various parts of the United Kingdom on Canadian lines would relieve the...

(24) were on Friday 7%—Friday week 73i.

Presbyterian Church in Ireland adopted in Belfast on Friday week a memorial against the Home Rule Bill. The Moderator, Dr. Macaulay, defended the introduction of the subject...

the Putumayo atrocities was issued on Monday. The com- mittee find no evidence which would expose the British directors to a charge under the Slave Trade Acts. But they cannot...

THE ULSTER PROBLEM. - NAT E are surprised that the Government majority was not larger on the Second Reading of the Home Rule Bill. At the present moment, if there is one thing...

W E have a word to say to the Unionists who are, as we think very wisely, transferring the appeal against the Home Rule Bill from the House of Commons to the country. By all...

'E ARNEST Liberals profess to be shocked and dis- gusted at the special indignation shown by the public in regard to the newest Marconi disclosures, i.e., those relating to Lord...

by-elections, the Liberal Party appears to be growing conscious of the unpopularity of the Insurance Act. The authors of that Act hoped that the feeling against it was only due...

P ERHAPS the saddest spectacle in recent history is the contrast between the unity of the Balkan people in the hour of danger and their dissensions in the hour of victory. It is...

AN does not know much by instinct. Some men do not even know their own mind. It is one of the things no one can learn to know. It is a knowledge which comes naturally, or, to...

master- ship at X when you leave the University, and you wish to know what I think of schoolmastering as a profession. It is an absorbing profession. If you want your life to...

M OVEMENTS in this country spring up as a rule late rather than soon, and it was certainly high time that public spirit should call into existence a society to whose work we are...

CYPRUS. [To TER EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR :1 SIR,—Persistent rumours to the effect that Cyprus is about to be definitely made over by Turkey to Great Britain seem to indicate...

[To THE EDITOR CF THE -Sescr1Ton."] SIR,—Your correspondent, " A Constant Reader," in your last issue says, "I am firmly persuaded they (the people) do not want or desire...

[To THE EDITOS OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Is there any of your readers, man, woman, or child (if old enough to form any opinion on the subject), who believes that armed...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Whatever the House of Lords has done to the Church of Scotland, it has not put her into the same position as the English...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR..] SIR,—One cannot but feel instinctively when reading "Father Ralph" that the writer• is thoroughly acquainted with the life he portrays....

07 THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I think you overestimate the importance of Professor Bernhard's book on the undesired results of German social legislation. The very capable...

reference to the American civil war• is perhaps a little open to misinterpretation. The Southern States thought that they had the right to separate themselves from the North,...

[TO TRY EDITOR Cl THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—With reference to your notices of Major Pasley's work, perhaps the following extract from a letter written by Jane Austen to her...

THE "SPECTATOR.•] SIR,—I should like to point out that the decision of the House of Lords in the case of the Inland Revenue Commissioners v. Herbert and Others greatly...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—May I suggest that, merely as a display of intellectual gymnastics, it will be very interesting in the course of the next few days to...

fit,—As one of the earliest members of the Commons and Footpaths Preservation Society, and as one who has an intimate knowledge of the methods and work of that Society, may I...

THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. ") SIR,—No doubt history is apt to repeat itself, but if the writer of the article on the" Laureateship " in the literary supplement of the Times...

[To THE EDITOR 01 THE "SPECTATOR. ") SIR,—It may interest some of your readers—from your corre. spondence columns of last week I see it will certainly interest one—to...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Although absence from England has delayed knowledge of your public-spirited backing of Lord Everaley's appeal, I must write a line to...

inscription upon the proposed memorial to Sir John Moore at Shorncliffe may interest your readers :— Here, Where he trained the Light Brigade, We Britons give thanks to God...

[To THE EDITOR 01 THE "SPECTATOR."] Stn,—I enclose an attempt to supply an inscription for the proposed monument to Sir John Moore.—I am, Sir, &c., M. A. N. 3. TO THE...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I am not going to touch on registration. But will you let me comment on Lady Helen Munro-Ferguson's description of nurses as...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I have read with much interest the article in the Spectator of June 7th on " The English Governess." I heartily agree with the writer...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I am an Englishman. I have travelled about Canada, have met Canadians in the United States of America, where I lived for twenty...

your interesting review of the " Life of Octavia Hill" (Spectator, June 7th), certain dates and names men- tioned called up in my mind certain memories associated with one day...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Upon the question of the relation of early Christianity to slavery, on which "A. C. R." writes in the Spectator of May 31st, may I...

SIR,—Mr. Winslow seems not to know that, especially in the evening, violet leaves, when in quantities, smell as etrong as violets. He thinks that he has smelt the ghost of a...

"While arts improve in this aspiring age, Peers mount the coach-box, heroes tread the stage, And waltzing females with unblushing face Disdain to dance but in a man's embrace....

in connexion with my brother's letter under this heading in the Spectator of Saturday last, I feel I must send a few lines about our experience. There is, I think, hardly...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I beg you to be kind enough to correct a little mistake that occurs in the Spectator of June 7th, as it seems to imply what is...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The letter with the above beading in your issue of June 7th says, "And in any case this would not account for the scent (of the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] Siu,—Now that the countryside in England is so beautiful, may I appeal to those of your readers who can enjoy it at their will to think...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your correspondents at Hampstead and Sydenham have recorded observations of various birds that might hardly be counted upon so close...

COTON FIELDS. (Verses for May - Week.) IN far and famous Turkestan, Where desert winds are swift and strong, There dwells a sad and broken man Who hides old sorrows in a song....

[Cheques should be addressed to the Spectator,1 Wellington street, Strand, London, W.C., and made payable to the Spectator and crossed " Barclay and Co., Gosling's Branch,...

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...

M. BUSSY'S PASTELS. THE strongly decorative qualities of pastel which in English practice of the last fifty years have been largely neglected for the intimate calligraphic...

" ARIADNE IN NA XOS." [COMMUNICATED.] SOME few years ago a highly gifted German architect, known also as a poet and a broad-minded critic of music, who lived in a centre of...

THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE.* ALTHOUGH proverbial philosophy warns us never to prophesy -unless we know, experience has shown that political prophets -,have often made singularly correct...

Jane Austen—a category which surely contains all admirers of classical fiction—will welcome this book as affording them an opportunity of perfecting their acquaintance with...

Mn. ACHESON bas made another attack upon a mystery which, even after reading his book, one must still regard an insoluble. Stated briefly, his case is as follows. The Sonnets...

to the extra- ordinary remarks made by Mr. Acland on the subject of the Portuguese !colonies during the Foreign Office debate a fortnight ago. The publication of Mr. Harris's...

so good a one that one wonders it should have had to wait a hundred and twenty years for independent treatment by an English writer. Never was a • The Tragedy of an Army in...

THE last instalment of the " Loeb Classical Library" intro- duces to English readers two writers whose works have hitherto been practically inaccessible. For Quintus's Epic has...

frnder this heading we valve such Looks of the week as hare not hams seserred for review sts other forms.] Thompson's writings (two volumes of poetry and one of prose) will...

is an entertaining novel of contem- porary life, and is rather more serious in intention than some of Mr. Crawford's former work. The heroine is a mere figure-bead, and the real...

and Co. 6s.) — If the temptations of lovers, blameless hero and heroine, alone for a year on an uninhabited island, must be described, the right way is taken in this romance,...

the story of a poet who is most blessed when he loses everything which the world would hold dear. As may be surmised, the book has a mystical tendency, but it is cleverly...

AVERAGE JONES.* IN fiction much depends on the start, and the way in which Mr. Adams tells us the necessary facts about his hero and his antecedents in the opening pages is as...

K.C.V.O. (The Scientific Press. 10s. 6d.. net.)—This is the twenty-fourth issue of this useful reference- book. In addition to the directory proper, the history of the last...

the Rev. Walter Budgen, M.A. (Frederick Sherlock, Caxton House, Westminster, S.W. 10s. 6d. net.)—We are always glad to welcome the appearance of local histories, and the one...

Arsene Alexandre and Notes on the Ballets by Jean Cocteau, translated from the French by Harry Melvill. (Fine Art Society. t5.)—When the Russian Ballet first appeared in Paris...