that one of the first efforts of the allied Powers will be to force Italy to come once more into line with the two Empires, and so revive the Triple Affiance. For example, the...

interpellation was concluded on Thursday afternoon, the discussion taking place on a Resolution condemning the Government for having " deceived the hopes of the Republican...

W E have dealt with the more general aspects of the Paris postal strike elsewhere, and will only say here that the news received on Friday shows that the movement is proving a...

the Adriatic, on Thursday, and at once proceeded to Vienna, where a groat popular demonstration awaits him. The Politische Corresponclenz of Vienna publishes "an official Note "...

Germany used the big stick of her military power to bent down the opposition which the policy of Austria-Hungary was meeting in Russia throws a curious light upon the...

accused of dealings with Russian revolutionaries, has ended in his being found guilty of belonging to a criminal associa.. tion, and he has been sentenced to five years' hard...

ease.

the Constitution, and the other granting apolitical amnesty. The special correspondent of the Times states in Monda y 's paper that Nasir-nl-Mulk, who was Premier in the days of...

the Committee of the London Branch of the All-India Moslem League on Thursday week. The Committee record their "extreme regret and disappointment" at the telegram from Lord...

stated that every endeavour would be made by the Govern- ment of India and the Government at home " to remove any sort or kind of obstacle which may be found to lie within our...

The first of these was the Resolution providing for a new Customs-duty on foreign boar at the rate of 3d. a barrel. This was the direct result of Mr. Balfour's criticism last...

leading article in the Novoe Vronya, which the Times correspondent at St. Petersburg states " reflects authoritative views," declares that the Czar's recent Rescript to M....

The best points in a speech full of dry light were his condemna- tion of the . tax because it committed us to a valuation of land, " not as it was but as it was not," which was...

the investigation of Yildiz Kiosk after the late Sultan's departure. A locksmith who was opening a safe warned those who were present to stand back as he feared an explosion. As...

2.15 a.m. on Tuesday morning in discussing the new duties to be paid in respect of licenses for the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors. In the course of a discursive...

recently proposed reforms at Cambridge. One of the most important changes suggested by the Reform Committee is a scheme for preventing the overwhelming of expert opinion on the...

we should republish our article on " A New Way of Life" and the articles derived from it, we have arranged with Messrs. Macmillan to issue them in book form, together with three...

how far and in what manner the general supply, dis- tribution, and price of meat in the United Kingdom are con- trolled or affected by any combination of firms or companies "...

forward a strongly worded appeal for subscriptions to keep Holbein's "Duchess of Milan" in this country. The option holds good till the end of May, and although the sum required...

the Royal Institution last Saturday afternoon. Postponing the consideration of his style to a second lecture, Professor Raleigh asserted that among all English prose- writers...

Board of Trade to intervene with a view to terminating the deadlock which had arisen over the Channel Ferry scheme. Lord Weardale, who introduced the deputa- tion, explained...

met at Bloemfontein on Monday week, ended on Monday, and the revised draft Constitution was signed on Tuesday. An important amendment has been introduced, the principle of...

April lat. Consols (21) Weft du iriday 854—Priday week 854.

South African National Convention held at Bloemfontein finished its labours on Monday, and on Tuesday the draft amended Constitution was signed. The draft has still to go before...

I T is a bad sign that it should have seemed to the French postal employees worth while to declare another strike so soon after the strike of last March. The obvious inference...

P ERHAPS the most interesting of all the multitudinous point§ raised by Mr. Lloyd George's Budget is the question of the proposed taxation of unearned increment. This is an idea...

PRE two letters from Constantinople which we publish J– in our correspondence columns illustrate well the difficulties which lie before the Young Turks, or rather before the...

that landowners, and the Tory Party generally, " are much better fellows than they make themselves out to be." They may threaten to recoup themselves for tho inroads of the...

E VERY man desires to influence others, and perhaps it is the universality of the desire which causes the familiar elaboration of the ways and means. We hear of men trying to...

T HE Countess Martinengo Cesaresco, who bas worked so hard to get better treatment for animals in Italy, has written a fascinating book about "The Place of Animals in Human...

T HE present spring will be long remembered in the South of Englund for the number and the persistency of the fires which have blackened its heaths and commons. Only a few out...

THE PASSING OF THE TURK. [To THE EDITOR Or THE " SDEOTATOR."] SIR, —Abd-ul-Hamid the autocrat has fallen. Young Turkey is victorious and jubilant. We wish her well. Sincerely...

WELSH DISESTABLISHMENT. [To TRIO EDITOR OP TOO " SPROTATOR.1 Sin,—I have read with great interest the letter of Mr. John Owens in your last issue. Of its moderation and...

SIR,—There can be no lasting settlement at Constantinople without some satisfaction of Greek hopes, and, as its con- sequence, Greek acquiescence in the Constitution. Now the...

[To THU EDITOR or Tar "SPECTAT011.1 Sin, —I should like to point out how unfairly the Income-tax is assessed on agricultural landlords, and that this unfair assessment is a...

my letter on the above subject which appeared in your last week's issue you state that my letter in no way met certain allegations of the Bishop of St. David's on the question...

[To Tun immix Or THIS .. spscriTos. - j Srn,—I have not forgotten your article of July 25th last under the above heading : what is now passing drives it home. Without further...

"SPICOTAT08.1 San,—The moat serious result of the falling off in the national revenue last year, and of the heavy increase of taxation proposed in this year's Budget, is the...

L'ro THE EDITOR Or TAS "SPIICTATOR."1 Sln,—In connexion with the Budget proposals, it may be of interest to quote from a Memorandum prepared for the Royal Commission on Local...

[To TUN EDITOR Or T1111 "8rICCTATOlt."] SIR,-1u the article on "Land Values" in the Spectator of the 8th inst. an imaginary case is cited which so nearly resembles a real one I...

[To l'tio Borron. Or TIM " SrecraTort. " ] SIR,—In your article of last week, " Principles of Taxation," occur the words, " the simplest example is the Inhabited House Duty"...

[TO rue EDITOR OT Tan "SPROTATOR. " 1 SIR, -- I have during the past three years endeavoured to familiarise the public with the scheme for old-age pensions originated by my...

[To rue EDITOR Or TUN " SPICTATOR.1 new source of revenue having been discovered in " ungotten minerals," might we not with advantage extend the principle to other similar...

[To Tun EDITOR Or run " SPECITATOz."] Stn,—In your issue of May 8th Mr. Sturge takes exception to my statement that the behaviour of the Quakers in the West Indies during the...

Sturges letter in last week's Spectator, and venture to ask you to let me address you on the same side. The Friends are often spoken of as men for peace "at any price."...

interested in reading a letter to the Spectator of May let written by Mr. C. H. Thompson. The writer and others assume that if it had not been for the armed assistance of their...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR,"] Sin,—It is remarkable that whenever a centurion is mentioned in the New Testament he has never "a bad mark." I think it is most probable...

[TO TILE EDITOR OF TILE "EP EOTATOLL. ^ 1 SIR,^ " No such liberal invitation is ever given in Anglican churches" 1! (Spectator, May 8th). "C. S." is confusing want of with...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—From time to time you have pointed out, and with good reason, the great danger of corruption and chicanery which may follow the...

ITO THE EDITOR OF TIME “srRoverott.") Sin,—Probably the magpie seen by your correspondent Mr. W. M. Crook (Spectator, May 8th) is one of a pair that have nested this spring on...

[TO TEE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — While acknowledging with much appreciation the great assistance rendered to the cause of the new courses in home science and...

Sturge (Spectator, May 8th) naturally refers to the Pennsylvanian tradition, but this requires some modification, not as to the actual length of the peace, but as to the causes...

[To Tins EDITOR OP TRS " BPROTATOlt."] Sin,—When your correspondent " Senex " (Spectator, May 8th) draws. attention to the quaint blunder of the Quarterly Reviewer who suggested...

TRANSFORMATION. (FROM THE PERSIAN OP JALALHDDIN RUMI.) FOR as a stone, so Eastern legends run, Wooed by unwearied patience of the sun Piercing its dense opacity, has grown From...

ESSAYS OF POETS . AND POETRY.* Tale is a delightful book, and will, we predict, give an immense deal of pleasure. wherever sound learning, and true literature are loved and...

[To Tan EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOtt."] it not strange that in your quotation in your last issue of Mrs. Steel's letter from the Times you follow the Times in printing "Rurana"...

Sin,—With reference to Mr. Crook's letter in your issue of the-8th inst., I think the magpie is a newcomer, as I have not seen him until the last three weeks. He is fairly tame,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOTO] Sin,—Mrs. Sidney Webb, the well-known Socialist, has issued a circular letter to the Press stating " that it had been decided to form a...

MR. WILSON' STEER'S PICTURES AT THE GOUPIL GALLERY. AT least. Mr. Steer is exhilarating. How often do we corns away from a "one-man show" nowadays with a feeling of fatigue I...

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...

Ma, LIONEL JAMES is not the ordinary type of corre- spondent. He is not there mainly to see things, but rather to make stories about them. It is the drama which concerns him,...

matter of common knowledge that when General Kuropatkin returned from his disastrous campaign in Man- aerie. be lost no time in compiling a history which was promptly suppressed...

nor an economist, nor even a socialist, but at best a perplexed inquirer socialistically inclined." This is what "Professor Martin," the chief speaker in Mr. Dickinson's new...

Pentateuch legislation was humane, benevolent, and charitable; that it compares favourably with all the codes of antiquity, notably so with that which is associated with the...

readers of the Spectator as an expert in the difficult art of getting the best out of the recruit. As an acknowledged authority on company training he shares with many other...

THERE is a slight framework of fiction in this work ; but its contents are mainly fact, very pleasantly pictured. Bridget Goodenough tells the story of a year—i.e., an...

2s. 6d.)—An early essay of Mr. Vachon's. The story is laid in America, and is interesting as showing the first indication of the author's talent.—The Flying Months. By Frances...

Hall. 7s. ad. net.)—Mr. Harper, who has done as much as any man of. books to give us a knowledge of many things that it is a pleasure to sec and to road about—has he not written...

Sons. 6s.)—The Indian chapters of this clever story are very much better reading than the account of the relations between Mrs. Kirkham and her son Charles, who is the hero of...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Origins and Faith. By Sir Joseph Compton-Rickett, (Hodder and...

THE STORY OF THYRZA.* Miss BROWN is an author of whom her compatriots have good reason to be proud. For not only is she a delightful writer, but she writes stories of American...

novel is to some extent an essay on the theme that a sin which is no sin in itself becomes so if it be thought sinful by the perpetrator. It is apparent that Mrs. Dearmer...

Fisher Unwin. 3s. Gd. net.)—This is a powerful exposition of the working of Protection in the United States. Any one who may be tempted on this side of the Atlantic by Tariff...

7e. 6d. net.) —Mr. Vaile has had the help of George Duncan, attached to the Hanger Hill Golf Club, a young professional of the highest promise, in furnishing illustrations. It...

Helen and Lewis (G: Bell and Sons. 3s. Gd. net.)—Here we have a collection of what a number of people, famous more or less, have written about London ; and a very fine...

Year-Book (Hodder and Stoughton, le.) It is described as "A. Handbook for the Territorial Soldier and the Citizen, containing an Account of the Origin, Organieation, and...

6d.)-- This, the "thirty-ninth annual edition," really needs no recom- mendation. For completeness and attention to detail—we observe that the floor on which the office or...

"history" of Brighton—Mr. Melville writes of its "history, follies, and fashions "—practically begins with the sixteenth century, when a map was made of it ; its "follies and...