position it can only be described as full of anxiety. Except for the city of Constantinople, Turkish rule may be said to have already been banished from Europe, and many well-...

standing, either approaching or completed, between Germany and Great Britain as to their relative strength in naval armaments. Such rumours should be dismissed. Germany will...

week Grand Admiral von Tirpitz and the Foreign Secretary, Herr von Jagow, wade important statements. Tho proceedings, of course, were private, but authorized reports were...

of no small public interest. On Wednesday Mr. Maxse, the editor of the National Review, was called as a witness before the Committee. In his evidence, though he refused to have...

T HE impenetrable nature of the veil which shrouds the operations at Adrianople, at the Tchatalja lines, and in the Gallipoli peninsula makes it impossible for us to give any...

case.

had received the report of the Committee, but that it was not for him to take any action unless so directed by a Resolution of the House. On this Mr. Asquith, as Leader of the...

shows conclusively that we were right when, at the beginning of this business, we said thatthe proper way for Ministers to defend themselves from the allegations made against...

party in Captain Scott's Antarctic expedition. A search party discovered the bodies of Captain Scott, Dr. Wilson, and Lieutenant Bowers in their tent only eleven miles from the...

a very able and important speech, raised the whole question of the Territorial Force and also of the Special Reserve. We have dealt with the essentials of the problem elsewhere,...

is dangerous and would lead to the unbridled licence of the press have entirely mistaken the situation. The editor's assertion of a right, or as we should prefer to say...

the battle of the whole press with such spirit and ability. In our opinion he took the only course that an honourable man could have taken in refusing, no matter what the...

Committee appears to us throughout to have blundered badly. Sometimes it treated witnesses as a Con- tinental judge would treat them, and sometimes seemed to expect them to act...

Roberts's plea for universal training or Lord Haldane's defence of his system. It is important, however, to note that Lord Lansdowne, though be was critical, would not commit...

Bill in the Lords on Tuesday in a cold and unsympathetic speech. His main argument was that the majority of the people of Wales asked for Disestablishment, and that the Welsh...

October 17 th . Consols (2k) were on Friday 74k—Friday week 741.

Bill, the former on the ground that it was a measure of justice long delayed which would mean the dawning of a better day for Wales. Lord Balfour of Burleigh having noted that...

in the last week, and the Madero regime has been seriously shaken if not overthrown by a rising headed by General Felix Diaz, nephew of the late President, who had been recently...

tried before Mr. Justice Ridley at the Central Criminal Court, ended in the acquittal of the accused on the charge of man- slaughter. The facts, which were not in dispute,...

demolishing some astounding statistics of Lord Beauchamp's before proceeding to discuss the faulty precedent of the Irish Church Bill, and the momentous results of an attempt to...

moved for the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the administration of Indian finance, especially in relation to the recent silver purchases and distribution of...

THE UNGUARDED DOOR. N OTHING would be easier than to write a scathing yet unexaggerated leading article on the strange figure cut by the Government in the debate upon the...

I N our issue of last week we said something as to the Radical proposals for solving the land question, and pointed out the danger and absurdity of the minimum wage. We desire...

W E had become accustomed to regard Antarctic exploration as less hazardous than Arctic explora- tion. There was no logic in the assumption. It only happened that no disaster...

O N March 6th the municipal electors of London will have to choose the County Councillors who are to rule them for the next three years. So far as party divisions are concerned,...

T HE new conception of matter brought about by the discovery of the radio-active elements revolutionized the theories of the nineteenth century and left the ordinary man...

I F Miss Austen could come back to an English village to-day, live its life and go into its society, how very little change she would perceive when once she got used to the...

N O point comes up for discussion more frequently among anglers than the question of what fish see under water. It is a point on which many other questions turn, particularly...

THE ENGINEERING BRANCH OF THE NAVY. [To ras EDITOR OF 773i "SPECTATOR." Silt,— " We are rapidly drifting towards the serious position of a steam Navy minus engineer officers."...

Sin,—Your readers will be interested to see the enclosed letter, which was addressed to twenty thousand residents in Bristol by Lord Roberts on the day of the meeting at which...

[To TRH EDITOR OF Tax "SPECTATOR. "] Sits,—It is well that the apology for war, and for vast preparations for war, should be effectively and forcibly stated, as the Spectator...

[To THE EDITOR or Tae "SraCTI.TOE." j SIR,—The National Reserve movement, in which you, Sir, have borne so able a part, has shown us that we possess a con- siderable potential...

to my letter published February 8th still suggests a doubt, may I mention that the " Centro Colonial," Lisbon, have now cabled confirming my disclaimer on their behalf P They...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." SIR,—Here is a rebuke from the old Roman to our laggards towards " National Service." He says :- " Our country has not given us birth and...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—If the account of the horrible treatment of Royalist prisoners by the Portuguese Government be correct, is it not rather humiliating to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Will you permit an Irish Liberal Unionist to thank you most cordially for the magnificent series of articles in defence of the Union...

SIR,—In your issue of the 1st instant I read under the above heading a letter where the Portuguese " Centro Colonial " is accused of having altered the wording of a document...

by the Rev. J. H. Harris that the Lisbon " Centro Colonial " has deliberately " garbled" a British Government despatch comes as a cry of distress from one who is still more...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I am glad to see from Colonel Wyllie's letter that the " Centro Colonial " is not responsible for the recent publication of a British...

last week you support Sir Joseph Compton Rickett in his suggestion that the question of women's suffrage should be submitted to a Referendum, and make it clear that those to be...

[To Tug EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —In your issue of February 1st I notice a letter referring to the way in which the Chancellor of the Exchequer has behaved with regard...

[To THE EDITOR OP TIM " SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—Is not Mr. W. P. Rawneley, in his letter to the Spectator of February let, rather unjust to the owners of cottage property generally,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECIATOR."1 SIR, — Will you permit me a word of explanation with regard to the Referendum on woman suffrage, to which you devoted a leading article in...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sra,—The following passage, taken from a book recently published in Paris (" La Volonte d'Harmonie," Bernard Grasset, 1913), gives a...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR." ] SIR,—It is not the first time that the Unionist candidate at Derry has been defeated, and on this occasion the Liberals (not the...

STE,—Mr. Frank Perks's letter in your issue of the 8th inst. has evidently been written without due consideration of the pro- visions of the Finance Act, otherwise he would have...

A LOSS. [To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —I am not at all astonished that you should in your note question the accuracy of my reading of the rules, or what are known...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—Mr. Lloyd George has now explained in the House of Commons that the passage quoted in my letter last week from the Prime Minister's...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, I have read with much pleasure and, on the whole, with cordial agreement your review of "A Housemaster's Letters" in the Spectator of...

SIR,—Apart from the enormous cost of the valuation, it now appears that it will cause a loss to the revenue in ways not anticipated, one of which is in stamp duties. Small...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I do not write for the mere sake of thanking you for the kind things you have said about our effort to save Kingston Yale for London,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPICTLT011."1 SIR,—It is understood to be the duty of all good Roman Catholics to defend the Pope, and one can only admire the courage with which your...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Slit,—A correspondent writes in the Spectator of February 1st that Easter falls this year on the earliest possible date, March 23rd. This...

SIR,—In fairness to an Oxford College and to our public schools I ask you to insert this mild remonstrance. "L. S. H.," in his letter to you on "Theological Tests at Oxford"...

to your correspondent "L. S. IL" for his kind testimony to my qualifications for the degree of D.D., but I think it ought to be known that there is no foundation for his...

must be many residents in London who will wish to follow your suggestion that a contribution, however small, to the fund for saving Kingston Vale from the builder might be...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR, — At the National Liberal Club Mr. Lloyd George compared the House of Lords to a dog on the chain, and he expressed the-hope--that the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sra,—My attention having been drawn to a review which appeared recently in your journal of a book on the Rothschild family, I was astonished...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Surely you omitted the last stanza of Mr. A. C. Benson's pretty verses in your last issue. The last stanza, without which the rest is...

THE " SPECTATOR...1 SIR,—You are so consistently generous in devoting space to appeals for help to save for thecountry "beauty spots" which may otherwise be destroyed by the...

"SPECTATOR:1 SIR, — On my rounds last week I called on an old widew-of eighty-four years, who is expert in the almost lost :; -t of pillow lace. She showed me the following...

[To THE EDITOR OP THY "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I took our two small -dogs for a walk in the fields last Sunday, and during our tramp the little fox-terrier got a thorn into his foot,...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR'] SIR,—Your correspondent, Mr. A. J. Robertson, might have reminded you that the air which, in " Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre," is satirical,...

GREATER ROME AND GREATER BRITAIN.* Fos an imperial race the government of the Roman Enipire is a fascinating subject of investigation. It must be admitted that the average...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the kolitor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the liens therein era rested or with the mode of...

writer, the editor, the proof-reader, and three other members of our staff all saw yet failed to notice that " Gulliver's Travels " was by - a slip of the mind attributed to...

SORROW. MY sorrow; 0 my sorrow, when first you came to rest Crouched huddling on my hearthstone. I held you to my breast And cuddled and caressed you, and rocked you o'er and...

[TO THE EDITOR 01 THE " srEcaeros.'1 Spa,—The aims and objects of •the Personal Service Association ,- are now so well known that it is unnecessary to describe them at length in...

matter for congratulation that Sir Reginald Custance should have decided to put the materials collected for use in his lectures, at the Royal Naval War College, during the past...

MESE two books deal with animal life from different aspects. One treats of the growth and evolution of the individual, the other of the evolution and growth of forms or species....

" Q " GIVE,13 the world little of his verse, though there are. certain catches of his which cling to memories only . too • (1) The Vigil of Venus and other Poems. By " Q."...

Mas. CAMPBELL PRAED has done well to give this collection of letters publication, and although her taskin editing them has been an extremely difficult one, she has probably...

the want of any compre- hensive book on Austria in the English language, and in the present volume he sets out to remedy the defect. He brings to the task an almost lifelong...

AMONG all the children of science it is probable that none gets more happiness out of his vocation, more reward for his pains, than the good all-round naturalist. The world is...

a mystical' theologian are unaware that he was also a great physicist. 'Science from an Easy-Chair. A Second Series. By Sir Bay Lankester, K.C.B., F.R.S. London Adlard. [66....

HELENA BRETT'S CA_REER.* WE cannot think at the moment of any other novel in which the role of heroine has been assigned to the wife of a popular novelist, but in an age in...

6s.)—Miss Robins's writing is hardly up to her usual standard in this book. Perhaps the fact of its being a novel with a purpose has a little blinded the author to the canons of...

6s.)—A clever story of the Revolution, in which the least credible thing is the personality of The Mysterious Monsieur Dumont.—The Common Problem. By Rachel King. (Lynwood and...

6s.)—A book of short stories on the same subject is Broken Pitchers by Reginald Wright Kauffman. These are less concerned with kidnapping than with the various motives which...

[Under this heading we notice sach Books of the week as 7 aro: not been reserved for review in other forms.] them will have their imagination stirred by this collection of...

Publishing Co. 27s. 6d.)—With the publication of the fifteenth volume the main part of this work is completed, though we gather that an index volume is to follow. The...

6s.)—As a help to tourists Miss Hargrove's book is likely to be of some value. The author is more at home in dealing with outdoor life and winter sports than with Swedish...

(Chapman and Hall. 7s. 6d. net.)—On his title-page Mr. Henry Arthur Jones quotes Keats's words, "Receive the truth, and let it be your balm" ; and we are at once reminded of the...