T HE news from Albania is still extremely conflicting, but there is no doubt of the seriousness of the rising. In a message published on Thursday the Constantinople corre-...

death of Li Lien-ying, Chief Eunuch of the Imperial Household at Peking. Readers of Messrs. Bland and Back- house's most interesting book on the late Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi...

break out. They hold that their trade is embalm injured by the recogni- tion of the inferior products of the Aube as champagne. The worst riots were at Ay and Epernay. At...

Rome was honoured by a State banquet at the Quirinal on Thursday week. In the course of his speech, which was delivered in Italian, King -Victor Emmanuel said : " After the...

from the Tangier correspondent of the Times published on Thursday. The situation is still very serious, as the rebels continue to receive reinforcements. Only the heavy rains...

to the action of the French Senate on Tuesday in passing a resolution unfavourable to the delimitation of the Champagne district. Directly the news of the resolution in the...

any case.

a very important question to the Prime Minister :— " He asked whether, in view of the increasing sea-borne trade of India and the Eastern Crown Colonies, His Majesty's...

the House of Commons on Monday and Tuesday. The progress made was at first slow, but on Monday evening Mr. Asquith unexpectedly moved what is known as the "kangaroo" closure,...

MacNeill called attention to the fact that the House allowed treaties and matters of the highest international obligation to be taken out of its hands. He was determined to...

propose to appoint such a Committee at the present time. " The Crown Colonies already make a considerable contribution towards the cost of the military garrisons maintained in...

a somewhat more conciliatory tone than on the earlier days. With regard to the principal subject of the day's dis- cussion, however—namely, the proposal that the Speaker is to...

the law of copyright was moved by Mr. Buxton on Friday week. Its main provision abolishes the various terms of copyright now existing, and substitutes a period consisting of the...

question of Imperial naval defence "in regard to the interests of the self-governing dominions " cannot be discussed adequately and fully unless some decision is come to as to...

Buxton described its object as to sweep away anachronisms and anomalies and reduce chaos to order. It rendered impossible the unauthorised reproduction of early editions of...

Pierre Prier, a young Frenchman, and assistant of M. Bleriot, who flew without a stop from Hendon to Issy-les-Moulineaux out- side Paris, a distance of 250 miles, in two minutes...

Election Petition ended on Tuesday in the unseating of Mr. St. Maur, the Liberal, and the return of Mr. Duke, the petitioner. At the general election Mr. St. Maur was returned...

last week in the House of Commons by Mr. Barnes, who attacked the new system as " undemocratic, costly, and inefficient." It is too soon to say whether the product of the...

showed that exports had reached the highest figure ever recorded—namely, a value of £40,863,912. The value of imports was £58,543,022, and of re-exports £9,174,666. The increase...

Mar. 9th. Consols (21) were on Thursday 81EFriday week 811.

Secretary, and Mr. Nigel Bond, the Secretary, of the National Trust, asking for assistance in acquiring for the public about sixty acres of land on Colley Hill. The property...

upon Stinie Morrison had been commuted to one of penal servitude for life. We feel that, on the whole, Mr. Churchill's decision was justified by the circumstances. The case was...

Friday week to hear a commemorative address on the late Mr. S. H. Butcher from Professor Gilbert Murray. Such discourses, Professor Murray observed, ought to be honest and...

Mr. Justice Ridley and Mr. Justice Channell, meeting with a very mixed reception as they left the court, while Mr. St. Maur, the unseated member, appealed to the citizens of...

Roman Catholics, and the attempt of the Turkish Government a year ago to plant colonies of Bosnian Moslems among the Christian Albanians along the Greek frontier was just the...

W E have always held and often declared in these columns that whatever he may say about Socialism or any other isms, what the working man really wants is higher wages,...

the well-known firm of Knight, Frank and Rutley, has been calling public attention to the injustice of the present methods of levying the Income Tax upon incomes derived from...

" L EARN what is true in order to do what is right." This sentence was not said by an ecclesiastic engaged in defending the theory that dogma is the only firm foundation of...

I T was the pig who started the whole business. Not that there was anything to be alleged against the personal character of the pig, who was, in fact, a much more honest and...

T HE man of letters in action is a permanently engaging character. The scholar-soldier, or the scholar-gipsy (for a gipsy worthy of the name and of Borrow, is a, man of action)...

THE DECLARATION OF LONDON. [To THE EDITOR OW THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Article 35 of the Declaration of London says that conditional contraband is capturable only on board a...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — I have received several letters concerning Miss Richard- son's letter published by you on March 18th, and headed "Reli- gious...

SIR, — To me, as an Irish Presbyterian, this talk of the impossibility of religious intolerance in Ireland, particularly when it comes from Lord Dunraven, who is, tant que...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTITOR.1 Six,—The letter of Mr. John Hawke in the Spectator of April 1st is deplorable in the extreme. In the now derided early Victorian days, and...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sra,—In an able and interesting article by the Rev. O. F. Andrews in the July number of The East and the West on "Race within the Christian...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin, — I attended yesterday at the R.U.S.I., when Mr. Coign- houn read a paper entitled "Sea Power in the Pacific." He showed clearly that...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—May I venture to advise the Editor of the Spectator that if he would wish many of us clergy to be less strict in our adherence to the...

[To THE EDITOR OW THE "SPRCTATOZ:] SIR,—I regret to see the Spectator giving its support to the notion that the gum trees of Australia are of any real value in our country. It...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.1 Sin,—We should like to remind your readers of a letter written last May by the Colonial Intelligence League on the Subject of careers for...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR " ] SrE, — I have probably more opportunity than most of your readers for observing how far natural beauty is possible in a colliery...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Adverting to an interesting article in your issue of January 28th which dealt with the subject of "animal training," it may be of...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIB,—Professor Arthur Keith, of the Royal College of Sur. geons, has recently stated that " the small man is invariably the intellectual...

"SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—On Sunday, March 26th last, I had an experience which is, I think, worthy of record. The verger of Holy Trinity Church, Richmond, which I have attended...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "Spacrexos. - 1 SIR,—In an article under the above heading which appeared in your issue of March 18th you write : " It is as much the duty of an individual...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR, —May I mention, for the benefit of those who do not care to sing tunes inseparably associated with other words to new hymns, that there...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sra,—The following lines are quoted from Boileau's Third Satire, " Le Repas Ridicule," published about 1664, and there- fore contemporary...

[To THE EDITOR OF THS " SPZCTATOR."] Sig,—In an interesting article you have lately expressed stir- prise that so little is known about the statesmen of the reign of George IL,...

[TO not EDITOR Or roc " SPECTATOR. " ] Srs,—The article in your issue of March 18th entitled "Advertisement by Violence" reminds me of the enclosed anonymous verses, written...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] 'Sin,—May I be allowed to say a word in reference to one point in your review of Mr. Hesketh Prichard's " Hunting Camps in Wood and...

THE ROMANY SWAY, I wren I were a gipsy free To dance beneath the rowan tree, To wade in. waters cool and sweet Or press the thyme with naked feet. I wish_ I wore a scarlet gown...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," • the .711ditor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with 'the views therein expressed or with the...

Tabs INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY AT THE , GRAFTON GALLERY. THE early exhibitions of the International Society reached a level of interest and achievement which can hardly be said to...

THE most enjoyable pictures at the Old Water Colour Society are Mr. Hughes-Stanton's landscapes and Mr. Sargent's two portrait sketches. Of these last, the one of a lady...

FALLACIES AND FACTS.* LORD ROBERTS' answer to Sir Ian Hamilton's Compulsory Service is, in our opinion, conclusive. Lord Roberts begins with what is in effect a grave rebuke to...

studying Napoleon the subject becomes a passion which dominates and directs other interests ; the lives and policies of other men are seen from the Napoleonic • William Pitt and...

a quotation from the chapter on " Sanitary Science," by Miss Alice Ravenhill. On page 292 she says that " knowledge of household administra- tion must soon become an...

knowing the conditions of an art, especially the drama, in any period. We are gradually getting a clear view of the soil from which that amazing growth, the Elizabethan drama,...

together, in a delightful little volume, certain articles from Blackwood's Magazine. The connecting thread is a slight one, but where each separate bead is so good this is a...

Iw the Middle Ages there was no great difference between secular and ecclesiastical embroideries, and the owners and wearers of good pieces of work often left them by will to...

Oun notice of this book will be descriptive rather than critical. Dr. Frere represents a very powerful party in the Church, and a pronouncement by him on a very important...

THE Dean of Gloucester is not a scholar of the first rank, like Han:tack ; nor, perhaps, of the second, like (let us say) the late Dr. Bigg, whose lectures on Early Church...

Co. 6s.)—These short stories are concerned with America, and are very interesting and entertaining sketches of different phases of life there. "The Make-Believe Man" is perhaps...

capital story this. David Sheldon with his can- nibal plantation hands and Joan Lackiand make a quite admirable hero and heroine. What a picture of life in Melanesia !—A Woman...

her book by the phrase " I Tale of Primal Asperities." "The Lot of Woman in the Backwoods" would have been more intelligible, if less dignified. This is the main subject of the...

POOR EhtlitA la THE announcement of a new novel from the pen of Miss Evelyn Tempest revived agreeable memories of The Mardis Peerage, and our anticipations of another...

Cecil dedicates his book to " The Memory of Thomas Carlyle, Jonathan Swift, and Charles Lamb." In which imitation, it may be asked, has he been the most successful ? Most...

P. Putnams' Sons. £2 2s.)—The alternative title better describes this book : "The Ventures and Adventures of the Pennsylvania Traders on the Allegheny Path, with Some New Annals...

D.M., and R. Dorothea Vernon. (Clarendon Press. is. 6d.)—This little book ought to have been noticed long ago, but has been somehow passed over. It gives a very pleasant and...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as hays not ism reserved for review in other forms.] The Composition of the Book of Isaiah. By the Rev. Robert H. Kennett,...

as may have a personal interest in one or other of the subjects dealt with, a series of little volumes entitled "Public School Life" (Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 2s. net per...

(John Milne 10s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Aflalo's book consists of two parts : impressions of the countries which he visited—Greece, Turkey-in-Europe, Palestine, Egypt, 3c.—and...

India Office. 10s.)—Mr. Tate tells us much about the past and present of Afghanistan and has some speculations as to its future. The country is, as the author says, a nut...

"Scouring—Sedum," by Henry Bradley. (Clarendon Press. 5s.)— This double section is mainly concerned with words of Romanic and Latin origin. (We cannot help doubting whether...