of Death-duties in the United States. The principle of the progressive taxation of inheritances in money had been authoritatively recognised by the United States Congress, and...

any case.

Friday week, and show, as compared with May, 1906, an increase in exports of 25,200,000. On the import side a slight decline in volume is noticeable, raw materials increasing by...

Tuesday, when Mr. Gretton, the Unionist and Tariff Reform candidate, was returned by a majority of 851 over the Liberal candidate, Mr. W. F. H. Lyon. The figures were 2,213 to...

the Standard and Morning Post of Monday as to the decline in German trade, showing that the unparalleled period of industrial prosperity which began in 1902 is now approaching...

rilHE wine crisis in the South of France does not become less 1- acute. The Mayors and municipalities are resigning office daily throughout the coast Departments, and at this...

demonstration at the Queen's Hall to protest against the Irish policy of the Government, declared that !ie new Chief Secre- tary for Ireland had in the course of his i;tiv...

he excels, and pointed out how extraordinary were the incon- sistencies of the Government in their treatment of the land question. In Ireland they were trying to get rid of dual...

the House of Commons on Wednesday Mr. Harcourt denied that small holdings could be obtained quite easily, as Mr. Chaplin had said. As to the Government plan of granting...

Army Estimates ware discussed in Committee of Supply. Much amusement was caused by Mr. Robertson's statement about the rum ration, in the Navy. At present the men who do not...

was a gross and criminal perversion of the fads to represent Ireland as a country poverty-stricken, ground down, and honeycombed with want and disease." The real canker in...

the second reading of the Qualification of Women (County and Borough Councils) Bill. Lord Come, in appealing to the House to assent to a moderate and modest reform, reminded his...

• interesting by a speech against the Bill from Mr. Wedgwood, conceived on old-fashioned Radical and Free-trade lines. The Bill, he declared, ran counter to the principles which...

Education and Improvement was held at Devonshire House on Tuesday. The League, which is worthy of all support, most wisely refuses to assume the existence of progressive...

the Government were provoking conflict with the Lords for party or tactical purposes. They were in deadly earnest, and would rather go down in the assertion of their rights than...

Oxford Examination Schools on Wednesday Lord Rosebery delivered a speech eloquent and brilliant, and yet in no sense marred by over-emphasis or decorative rhetoric,—a kind of...

Hall demonstration, the Unionist Party united in advocating the policy which called that party into existence, and in forwarding its true work. For the moment the spectre of...

at Westminster on Tuesday afternoon, and, after four hours' discussion, issued a Manifesto signed, on behalf of the party, by Mr. John Redmond. The Government, it declares, in...

Walter Long about the new Grand Committee scheme which deserves the serious consideration of all who desire to maintain the fullest possible Parliamentary discussion. Mr. Long...

of the "Union Jack Club," which appears in Thursday's papers, announces that the King, accompanied by the Queen and the Prince and Princess of Wales, will formally open the club...

Apr. 25th. Consuls (2i) were on Friday 83t—on Friday week 88i.

T HE old saying that the Irish are the worst people in the world to run away from has received abundant confirmation in the course of the last three weeks. The Government have...

T HE ladies and gentlemen who have signed the Memorial in regard to an agreement between Britain and Russia published in Wednesday's papers have probably had a reason for...

T HERE seems good reason to believe that, thanks to a timely suggestion by Mr. Balfour and to the wise and conciliatory attitude adopted by Mr. Haldane, the Militia has been...

W E read in the Independence Beige that the Belgian scheme for annexing the Congo State will be presented very shortly, and that an extraordinary Session of Parliament will be...

I N the New Testament it is laid down as an absolute axiom that "no man bath seen God at any time"; yet the Hebrew Scriptures are full of visions of God—of sudden revelations of...

T HERE is a tendency, we think, to exaggerate the political meaning of the astonishing story from Idaho. It is no doubt a little bewildering to perceive that the hatred between...

fi'HE Bishop of Bath and Wells is to be congratulated upon a public-spirited enterprise. Some time ago it became known that the Glastonbury Abbey Estate, some thirty-six acres,...

T HE principles of British rowing have almost become part of the Constitution. At all events, the majority bf Bishops, Judges, Head-Masters, and Cabinet Ministers would probably...

POLITICAL PROSPECTS IN AUSTRIA AND IN HUNGARY.—II. (TO THU EDITOR OF Till .EPROTATOILl SIE,—But by far the most important effect of the elections will be the new spirit in...

THE GOVERNMENT AND THE FUTURE. rTo Toe EDITOR OF Too “Soecmeros."1 SIR,—Many Liberals of long experience argued before the General Election that fair play should be given to...

[To TR. EDITOR Or TRIO ..ErscrATOR.”J Sr,—Now that the Government have decided not to proceed with the Education (Special Religious Instruction) Bill, may I ask you again to...

(To MI EDITOR Or TR. Brno...v.1 SI11,—I was asked some time ago to define Belgian politics, and I answered: "Clericalism v. Anti-Clericalism; in fact, religious wrangling," this...

ITO Tim EDITOR or TIIII "SPECIATOR.1 S1R, — The Irish question apparently halts. Now comes the question of the Lords, and it comes with the call of urgency, for the horizon is...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."J SIE,—In your last issue you printed a letter signed "Major • (Retired pay)," upon which, with your permission, I should like to make a few...

[To THE EDITOR 07 TEM - srsorsrov • Sra,—May I call the attention of your readers to the subject of medical inspection of schools,--a subject likely to come prominently into...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE . SPROTATOR.1 Snt,—The importance of the subject must be my excuse for addressing you again. You remarked that unhappily it is not the case that those...

senwoa."1 SIn,—It may interest your readers to know that a sum of £38 Ss. has resulted so far from the appeal you were kind enough to insert in the Spectator on behalf of church...

[To MIR EDITOR or MI SPIOTATOILI Si,—.In reference to your article on Waterton, the naturalist, in last week's Spectator, in regard to his irritability, it may interest your...

LTO THZ EDITOR OV rat Snt,—You will help us much if you can call attention in the Spectator to this meeting and appeal.—I am, Sir, Stc., "A meeting of the Committee which has...

Si, — While thanking you for the appreciative notice of the above work in the Spectator of Jane 8th, may I correct one statement ? Notwithstanding a great moral change, Lewanika...

rTo TUE EDITOR, Or Tint Sp earAros."1 SIR,—Your correspondent Mr. McClintock in last week's Spectator quotes from Tennyson that the Celt's imagination "does not allow of Lis...

(TO VIZ EDITOR 05 TUB .. SPECTATOLL . ] Sm.,—Mrs. W. E. H. Lecky would feel very much obliged if those who possess any letters from the late Mr. Lecky, which might be of use...

MO TB. EDITOR Or TIM .. SPECTATOR..1 • Svn,—In your very friendly notice of my book bearing the above title in last week's Spectator there is one slight misstate- ment which,...

LTo THE EDITOR 01 . TER “91FROZATOR."] SIE;A homing pigeon markedon ring on leg RP/N-1906/4028 settled on the house and was enticed inside and caught this afternoon. I shall be...

rTo TRH EDITOR 01 THE .. 31•847TATOR.1 8m,—I find that in my letter of June 8th my memory played me false in attributing to Professor Skeet a derivation of sycophantes, which I...

REFORM LEAGUE. WE have been asked to publish the following correspon- dence:— " 73, Eaton Square, S.W., 7 Juno, 1907. Mr. HENRY Tams - num, Organising Secretary, Ashford,...

ODE TO DISCORD. HENCE, loathed Melody, whose name recalls The mellow fluting of the nightingale In some sequestered vale, The murmur of the stream Heard in a dream, - Or...

PROFESSOR RALEIGH'S "SHAKESPEARE." Tax writer of this happy volume has the art of forgetting that be is a Professor. He does not address • us tX cathedra, but familiarly, and,...

TROIS whatever political point of view we may consider it, there are few more important developments of public interest in recent years than the notable increase of serious...

XL KITSON has made some discoveries about the life of the great explorer, Captain Cook, which are well worth the trouble he has expended on them, and they leave the voyages...

THE CALL.* MR. DESMOND COKE made a most prosperous start in fiction with his excellent school story, The Bending of a Twig, and followed it up with an ingenious and suggestive...

is like Cardinal Newman's in one respect,—that its strength lies in its sincerity, and not in its arguments. From each writer's history of his religious career we can understand...

es.)—A novel of the "problem" order which will not please all tastes.—The Cardinal's Secret. By Garrett Mill. (W. Blackwood and Sons. Os.)—A romantic story. The principal...

Fisher Unwin. Os.) —This is a mock-Royal romance concerned with one of the con- venient countries in the South-East of Europe which have lately done the writers of these stories...

is a story of a German invasion of this country, which is supposed to take place while the present Government is in power, whatever may be signified by this note of time. The...

La Mere. Par Joseph Crepin. (Hachette et Cie. 7 fr. 50 c.)— This is in some ways the best goat book yet publishtd. It is scientific, comprehensive, and up-to-date, and the...

Alcohol and the Human Body. By Sir Victor Horsley and Mary D. Sturge, M.D. (Macmillan and Co. ds. net.)—No one can question the formidable character of the indictment brought...

SIR OLIVER LODGE'S CATECHISM. The Substance of Faith. By Sir Oliver Lodge. (Methuen and Co. 2s. net.)—When Sir Oliver Lodge's Catechism was first published in the newspapers,...

by Edward H. A. Koch, MA. (The Priory Press. Is. 6d. net.)—Professor Shuttleworth was accustomed to send to his friends during the last years of his life Christmas and Easter...

[Under this heading ye notice such Books of the week as haoe not been reserved for review in other forme.] King Leopold's Soliloquy a Satire. By Mark Twain. (T. Fisher Ellerin....

Principal Rainy. By Robert Mackintosh, D.D. (Andrew Melrose. Is. 6d. net.)—In this " Biographical Study" Dr. Mackintosh tells us something about Dr. Rainy, but more about his...

M. Dent and Co. Is. 85. net.)—This is a really delightful book. Miss Lees, with no little courage, began her Tuscany experiences by domiciling herself in a family which had not...

Co. 55. net.)—The "Land" so described is America, and the teller of the story of a certain English writer, Davenant by name, is Mr. Preston, an American publisher (was it...

(Spottiswoode and Co. 15e)—The lists are not continuous. The earliest is of 1678; then there is a blank interval of twenty years, followed by another of seven. In the forty-six...

5s.)—It would be difficult to exaggerate the usefulness of "Mrs. Beeton." In this new edition we are first given excellent information on the theory of cooking and tables of...

Preston bluddeck). (T. Werner Laurie. 16s. net.)—Mr. Muddock's first three chapters are largely occupied with experiences in India, Australia, and the Far East, but most of his...

and Sons. 108. 6d. net.)—Mr. Penfield, who hails from the other side of the Atlantic, begins his wanderings in Ceylon, but not till he has had his say about the Panama Canal and...

net) we have The Cathedral Church of Llandaff, by E. C. Morgan Waimea. Llandaff Cathedral is not very striking in itself, and has gone through periods of neglect, but it has a...

and Son, Oxford. 21s. net.)—All persons who are interested in the history of Oxford and Cambridge Colleges are familiar with the views contained in the "Oxonia Illustrate" of...