MO-DAY polling takes place in sixty-seven constituencies. These include twelve London divisions and the cities of Manchester and Birmingham, as well as several Southern and...

Free-traders seem to have persuaded themselves that there is no real danger of a Home-rule Bill being passed even if the Liberals obtain a majority. In spite of the facts that...

of his colleagues will give such a pledge. Indeed, we feel we are laying ourselves open to an accusation of extreme political innocence in making such a suggestion. If any proof...

if Mr. Asquith were really under no pledge to the Nationalists, and had no intention of establishing a Dublin Parliament, he would not have seized this or some other opportunity...

which in our opinion should influence Unionist Free-traders and those men of moderate views who take what we may . venture to call the Spectator view in casting their votes. We...

un- questionably at this moment in far greater peril than it has ever been before, owing to the fact that if the Liberal Party carry the present Election, the barrier which has...

case.

an Eight-Page Supplement, containing the Tfalf-Yeirly Index and Title-Page,—i.e., from July 3rd to December 25th, 1909, inclusive.

Congress dealing chiefly with the proposed amendments of the Inter-State Commerce Law and with the question of Trusts. It contained two important proposals: first, that...

Count Khuen Hedervary succeeded him. Count Khuen Hedervary was Ban of Croatia from 1883 till 1903, and, as the Vienna correspondent of the Times says, earned the approval of the...

Association Lord Cromer delivered his Presidential address on "Ancient and Modern Imperialism." Putting aside the question of our relation to the Colonies, he stated that " the...

United States, was dismissed by Mr. Taft after a dispute which has disturbed Mr. Taft's Administration from the beginning. Mr. Gifford Pinchot was the originator of the policy...

proposal with regard to Manchuria made by Mr. Knox, the American Secretary of State. He has proposed to Great Britain, France, and Germany that they should join the United...

some criticisms of a letter from Lord Weardale which appeared in the Times of January 6th. Lord Weardale gave what he called " the real facts" about German ship- building " in...

Navy Act of 1900 does not fix expenditure for ten or for any other number of years ahead. It provides that the necessary funds for carrying out the law are to be set down year...

built, and to complete those which are in prospect, would be a very great financial undertaking. Moreover, the four Powers, even acting in conjunction with Russia and Japan, as...

demonstration in Edinburgh on. Monday, and devoted the greater part of his speech to the Navy and our foreign relations. He had not the slightest wish to deprecate any...

the future, it might be that there world be some agreement of a perfectly voluntary nature ; but it could not be the result of pressure on either side. "It must be simply the...

to illness has been a matter of general regret, has issued his election address. It is happily free from the strident accents with which we have become so painfully familiar of...

Monday in support of Mr. Benn, the Unionist and Tariff Reform candidate. He could not admit that the Lords had acted unconstitutionally in rejecting the Budget. At the same...

Mr. Lloyd George made a vulgar and gratuitous attack on Lord Midleton, who, as Mr. Brodrick, was a Member of the House of Commons and Minister for War. "Then a constituency...

of the Government has been the claim that the Budget is a Christian or a holy Budget. This claim reaches its climax in a leaflet entitled "The National Crisis: an Appeal in...

Rosebery has written to Mr. Harold Cox on the subject of his candidature at Preston. After saying that there is no one, excepting of course his own son, for whose return to...

THE DUTY OF UNIONIST FREE-TRADERS. rr choice which must be made by the electors in the itnstituencies that poll to-day is perhaps the most momentous that British electors have...

we deem to be the imperative duty of moderate men at the Election, and especially at to-day's polls. Here we desire to speak of what seem to us some specially ugly and dis-...

conviction of the indivisibility of the Empire, which grows deeper and more earnest in the British Dominions as time passes, and as one significant event gives place to another,...

T HE Speech with which the Emperor-King opened the Prussian Diet on Tuesday dealt with only one subject of general interest, and even upon this the announcement was of the...

W E are not alone, we believe, in being rather puzzled by some aspects of the new Sunday postal service by telephone for London, and rather doubtful of its advantages. But at...

S OME seven years ago the members of a branch of the Selborne Society bit upon an admirable idea. London grows outwards : every year the grip of the town fastens more and more...

ir AM going to write of the ships of the Navy, and of many things concerning them,—of that great sea which is their playground, of those fair harbours which are their nursery....

TRADE CYCLES AND UNEMPLOYMENT. tTo THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The Royal Commission on the Poor Laws, which lately reported, had the following as the second item...

[To TEE EDITOR 01 TILE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—In company, I trust, with the majority of Unionist Free-traders, I intend to vote for the Unionist candidate, Tariff Reform...

[TO TIM EDITOR Of TRY Sr iCTATOR..1 SIR, —In your last issue Mr. J. Ulic Burke asks me whether it is not " the fact that Home-rule, by giving the people of Ireland some stake...

[To TOR EDITOR Of THE "SPRCTATOR."1 venture to send the enclosed extracts, which I made for my own use, on the chance of their being of use to others at the present time. The...

CHURCHMEN AND THE ELECTION. [To THE EIWTOR Of TER " SPIICTITOR.'1 SIR,—It may be a defect in our Constitution that it is impossible to isolate particular questions as the only...

(To EDITOR 07 THE TEl " SPECTATOR.''l SIR,—I feel very much at one with your correspondent "22 10s. a Week," whose able and sensible letter is printed in your issue of the 8th...

To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOZ.P1 SII2j-It is difficult to reconcile the statements made by M. Renkin quoted in your correspondent's letter in the Spectator of January 1st...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."' Sin,—Taxing the food of the people is one of the burning questions of the coming Election ; the discussion of it relates usually to bread...

THE " SPECTATOZ."] SIR,—" Seldom if ever has the City entered upon a New Year with so pleasant a prospect to justify its hopes of still better times than it enjoyed in the...

(To TUB EDITOIL or via " SPZETAT08. 4 1 SIR, — In your review of Dr. Abel-Musgrave's book, " Das kranke England" (Spectator, December 18th, 1909), you indicate as the right...

SPZETATOS.1 SIR,—My advocacy of the Public Schools League for Imperial Land Settlement in the Oversee Dominions at the Head- Masters' Conference at Cambridge on December 22nd...

[To TRY EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—The question put by your correspondent "Blue Pill " in your last issue sufficiently indicates his frame of mind. He asks : "Did you...

[To THE EDITOR of THE " BrzciAios.") SIR,—In the last number of the Spectator there is a letter signed " Nonconformist" in which the following amazing statement occurs : " At...

[To TRY EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR:9 SIR,—An historical parallel must indeed be striking in order to command attention. But I venture to think that the following extract from a...

ARMY. [To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—In your issue of last week you quoted a remark of Mr. Asquith's at Haddington, supporting a boast of Mr. Haldane's which I...

Sin,—Your correspondent of last week, " Blue Pill" (a more appropriate nom de guerre would surely have been "Beecham" or " Cockle " !), is apparently unable to distinguish...

go THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR." I SIR, —In the article on "Animals in Nursery Rhymes" in your issue of November 20th, 1909, mention is made of an old Welsh belief that the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —In his notice of Mrs. Conger's and Dr. Geil's recent books on China, under the heading " The Wall of China," in the Spectator of...

[To TBX Eamon or THE "Srscraroa."] SIR, —Your adherence to the honourable tradition characteristic of the Spectator in giving both sides a hearing where you admit one will...

A PLEA FOR THE POLITICAL CELT. ["Were they going to trust those who understood the question of national defence, or a playful, pathetic, romantic, Celtic Chancellor of the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTITOR."J SIR, —The evil that is eating into the stability of this country is not so much unemployment as =employability. So long as the unemployed...

January 1st appears a letter drawing the attention of all Parliamentary candidates to the Research Defence Society, and suggesting that they should write for pamphlets to a...

SHERIDAN.* IF Mr. Sichel had no other merit, he would command our respect for his industry. The sight of these two large and handsome volumes, containing nearly twelve hundred...

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...

IT is always a pleasure to read the work of Professor James Long, as he is one of the few students of social affairs who know the country and the town equally well. We find much...

EvERY European, whether by domicile or by descent, has to own that Italy is "the mother of us all." It was into Rome that all the ancient civilisations, including the Hellenic,...

A PERUSAL of the three works named below reminds us of the rapid and often fundamental changes which take place in the theory of Socialism as it is presented to us by its...

IN the preface to a volume of most charming appear- ance on Egyptian Birds Mr. Charles Whymper expresses his indebtedness to Captain Shelley's book. He does not profess to add...

THE essay from which this volume takes its title is as excellent piece of work. The subject is St. Patrick, and this is introduced by a very illuminating account of the Roman...

THIS volume has qualities of its own which make it stand out among the many volumes which have been called forth by the Lincoln Centenary. Mr. Putnam's recollections go back to...

Tars will, we think, be pronounced by every reader a very interesting and original book. Whether the intellectual position therein taken up is tenable is quite another question....

Co. 6s.)—Readers who remember Mr. Major's "Dorothy Vernon" will expect a good story, and will not be dis- appointed. The scene is laid in Prussia in the days of Frederick the...

THE EDUCATION OF UNCLE PAUL.• Tun evolution of Mr. Blackwood's talent is interesting to watch. He began as a writer of sensational short stories, in which the crudities of...

[Under this heading we notice such Books a/ the reek aa hiss not hen Maud for raviolis in other forms,] The House of Lords and the Constitution. By J. H. Morgan, M.A. With an...

I. Pitman and Sons. 3s. 6d. net.)—This volume is described as " A Handbook for All who Take an Interest in the Questions of the Day." The information is conveniently arranged...

6a)—An interesting story of the war of 1812 between England and the United States.—Buse o' Bushy. By W. A. Allan. (J. W. Arrowsmith, BristoL 6s.)—A rural love- story, the...

and Almanac (J. Nisbet and Co., 2s. net) is a very convenient volume. It is furnished with an almanac and with some . interesting notes on Church matters.—The Scottish Church...

Palmer. 2s.)—The title is too ambitious. No one can be sure that he knows the "true history" of Jack Cade. At the same time, we are quite ready to weigh Mr. Clayton's...

Co. 4e. 6d. per voL)—These two volumes contain "The Life and Divine Writings of Joanna Southcott." Many years ago the writer of this notice saw a poster which recommended the...

C. Ingrouille. (C. J. Thynne. 3s. 6d. net.)—This is a carefully studied statement of the Anglican doctrine of the Eucharist. We have no fault to find with Mr. Ingrouille's...

and Sons. 6.3. net.)—We may describe this volume as the "Swiss ' Statesman's Year-Book.'" It gives details of matters political, commercial, and social, illustrating them by...

(S.P.C.K. 5s.)-Mr. McClure allots about a third of his space to the Roman occupation. His plan is to give a narrative which he illustrates as he proceeds with examples of...