in the strong measures he has taken, and have nothing but reprobation for the violent and revolutionary methods adopted by the ringleaders of the strike, we have no desire to...

The agitation among the French railway servants has been in progress for some months, and as long ago as last May some. thing approaching to a general strike was organised on...

I N the region of foreign affairs sensational events follow each other with bewildering rapidity. Though "the drums and tramplings " of the Portuguese Revolution are still in...

case.

to make use of military mobilisation for the purpose of ending the strike. An Order for that purpose has been served in regard to some hundred and fifty thousand railway...

made in 1845, in which with the usual French clearness of vision the difficulties that might arise in regard to the maintenance of railway traffic owing to Anarchical movements...

Thursday morning the prospect from the point of view of law and order was much ameliorated. The Government struck a blow which gave them command of the situation. Upon hearing...

more our suggestion that the change in the system of government in Portugal ought to be seized by our Foreign Office to insist that Portugal shall carry out her international...

his policy of apaisement, and the consequent disaffection from the Government of the Radicals and Socialist-Radicals. He repudiated any idea of compromise with the reactionary...

not ancient history, but depicts a state of things which is now going on. At this very moment—as we write these words— there are long strings of miserable men, women, and...

pleasant " official " transformation of being called "con- tracted labourers," and of signing a contract for labour on the islands, with all sorts of humane clauses as to...

deal of talk about subterranean passages. In one ease, indeed, a tunnel two miles in length is said to have been discovered. We shall be very curious to know whether these...

The most important of the documents laid before them was a Red-book on the crisis which followed the annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina. According to a summary supplied by the...

the Portuguese Revolution has subsided almost as quickly as it began. During the earlier part of the week there were a certain number of disturbances owing to the expulsion of...

enjoying the hospitality of Sir Archibald Hunter, the Governor of Gibraltar, but King George, with a kindly forethought for the unhappy exiles which no Englishman, however much...

the disposal of a London newspaper which had attacked him. In this case, too, his letter was ignored. He has made other similar offers, but all have been refused. Mr. Osborne...

speeches of the Delegates, of the Emperor, and of the Foreign Minister were not of very great moment, but two facts are worth recording. The President of the Austrian...

last Saturday throughout the Empire. The Unity is the greatest and richest Friendly Society in the world. It had a small beginning in Salford in 1810, and since then has had a...

Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. His place as Attorney-General is taken by Sir Rufus Isaacs, who is succeeded as Solicitor-General by Mr. J. A. Simon. Sir William Robson is...

which took place in Vienna on October 2nd to protest against the high prices of food. According to the police estimate, three hundred thousand men and women marched in...

Mr. W. V. Osborne, whose name is well known in con- nexion with the "Osborne judgment." It has been said per- t sisteutly by Mr. Osborne's opponents that in taking action in the...

spondent—Mr. Dawson—urging that a Veteran Reserve should be established throughout the Empire. We most earnestly hope that Mr. Dawson's suggestion may bear fruit, and we gladly...

Saturday at Haddington, and again on Tuesday at Sheffield. On the former occasion he declared that nobody knew when the next Election would come, but that "he had his own...

of Berlin University on Tuesday, and reminded his audience of the theory of Humboldt and of Frederick William III.—so amply justified as men all over the world gladly testify...

Sept. 29th. Consols (2-0 were on Friday 80: 1 —Friday week 80i.

PORTUGAL AND SLAVERY.—AN APPEAL TO THE REPUBLIC. T HE manner in which the Portuguese Revolution has been conducted so far is certainly deserving of praise. If we admit the need...

rilHOSE French Labour leaders who have long been .1_ trying to guide industrialism along the path of revolution have come nearer than ever before to their ideal of a "general...

Tuesday published an exceedingly interesting article "by a special corre- spondent on Tyneside," in which an attempt is made to analyse and account for the restlessness and...

W HEN Socialists get together there is always material for much amusement to the outside public. They are so deliciously frank with one another, so instinctively individualist...

C HARACTER is not generally very strongly marked in youth. Needless to say, there are great exceptions to this rule. There are families whose features, both mental and physical,...

W E print elsewhere a proposal from a oorrespondent which we commend to the attention of the Agenda Club. Our correspondent believes, and we think that there is truth in what he...

T HE year 1910 will mark an era in the chronicling of the history of the country. It will be remembered as the year in which was published the first of what we hope will be a...

"DEUTSCHE MACHTHABER." [To THE Eorros OP TEEZ SPEC/1701..1 SIR,—Recent utterances of the Kaiser have recalled to our minds the famous incident of the Daily Telegraph interview...

SECTARIAN ANGLICANISM. [To THE EDITOR 01 TEl " SPECTATOZ:9 Biz—The Church Congress has gone by, and its numerous papers and discussions are being duly embalmed in the official...

[To TER EDITOR Or THP "SPZCIATOE.") SIli,—It is much to be wished that the Archbishop of York should answer your challenge or confess that it is unanswerable. Canon Beeching has...

[TO TIM EDITOR OP MP "SPICTAP011.1 SIR,—The opinion expressed in last week's Spectator that some steps should be taken to secure assurances from the new Portuguese Government...

Maitland (who in his "Roman Canon Law in the Church of England," cap. II., p.86, numbers himself among those "whose object is not to silence the papist, but to understand a...

(To THZ EDITOR Or TIM "SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Innumerable readers and in many lands will mark the cumulative indiscretions of Mr. Stephen Gwynn with interest and, too, with great...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE " SFECTATOR.'"] S/R, — In an article on "The Unionist Party and Payment of Members" in your issue of September 17th you say : "In the United States...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — The founders of the Agenda Club, by the mere announcement of their aims, have rendered their first great service to a too material...

To TUE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR.") Sir.,—The demonstrations organised by the Junta Catolica in some three hundred different towns and villages on October 2nd to protest against...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE " Sescm - roa. - ] Sin,—A further stage has now been reached and another annual survey can be made. The ordinations on October 2nd at St. Paul's Cathedral...

[TO-THE EDITOR OF TIER "SPECTAT011."] Suz,—The appropriation in the United States of literary work not specially protected by copyright is inevitable, and not perhaps...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—In last week's Spectator your reviewer performs a real public service in calling especial attention to Canon Beeching's pamphlets. They...

EMPIRE. rTO TER EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.'] Sta,—Now that the registration of trained men, which in its beginnings owed so much to your influence and encourage- ment, has...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sut.,—The letter entitled "Virgil on the Airmen" in your issue of October 1st brings to my mind a sors Horatiana on the same subject :— "...

[To THE EDITOR OF THZ "SPECTAT0R:] SIR,—The hasty legislation of revolution often in result perpetuates in another guise the exceptional abuses the exist- ence of which has...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."1 SIR, — Your readers who are Cambridge men, and many others besides, will have learnt with real personal sorrow of the death of Mr. John...

TIIE "SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—Would you perhaps draw the attention of your readers to the need there is for a convalescent home entirely for infants,— infants of the very poor, who...

OLD ENGLAND. OUR armies march, and scour the plain; Oar navies guard our shores ; Our cities strain with might and main To fill the world with stores; Brave workers toil, both...

ALEXANDER MACMILLAN.* Fr would not be easy to find among the men who, to use a• common phrase, have made their fortunes, a match for Alex- ander Macmillan. He was the son of a...

LYSISTRATA IN JOHN STREET. Miss GERTRUDE KING8Tc N was scarcely wise in selecting the Lysistrata of Aristophanes as her opening production at the Little Theatre. It is, in...

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...

created more interest intwo heraiepheres than any sporting expedition that history baarecoadot The most typical and the most powerful citizen of . a great State cannot take his...

IT is with a very deep and genuine pleasure that we welcome these volumes, and make them known to the Englisb public, by whom, we trust, they may be read widely, with all the...

IT may perhaps be doubted whether much is to be gained at the present stage of the investigation into psychical pheno- mena by repeated examinations and analyses and discussions...

his book of reminiscences tells us of many things besides the work of the City of London Police with which his name is chiefly connected, but we shall pass by these other things...

publishers on the completion of this very important work. That it is the final Greek Testament it would be rash to assert ; but its present .pre-eminence is tertainly assured....

T HE wilderness was not difficult to discover. When we reach p. 6 we find ourselves in the midst of it, a huge expanse of mangrove extending for many miles on either side of the...

good book. It ie the best popular handbook to the Navy of to-day that we ;know, and also one of the most eloquent arguments on behalf of an Imperial system of defence. Like Dr....

REST HARROW.* IT will be remembered by those who have followed the fortunes of the incomparable Sanchia Josephs, Percival in an earlier phase of her career that she was so...

Edited by W. P. Trent (G. Bell and Sons, 7s. 61. net per vol.), are before us. These are Leadinj American Essayists, by William Morton Payne, LL.D., and Lsacliny Amt.rican...

and Hall. 63.)—This is a pleasant little story of modern life, though the coincidences in it are .rather difficult to credit. The central figure, that of Sybil Kent, who cannot...

"[Under this heading tee notice inch Books of the wee: as hay. not been reserved for review . in other forms.] The Sermons, Epistles, and Apocalypses of Israel's Prophets. By...

(Charles H. Kelly. Ss. 6d.)—Mr. Beet carries on the story of a previous volume. In that he dealt with the Roman See, first under the pagan and then under the early Christian...

Murray. 6s.)—We must say that the aspect of Dart- moor revealed in this volume does not stir our hearts. These " Tales" are somewhat squalid, with an occasional relief of a grim...

has done in this book what, for all his literary ability, he has not always succeeded in doing,—given his readers a very well constructed and interesting story. After...

of the forty-second Congress, is, as might be expected, full of interesting matter. It is illustrated also with photographs of various objects and portraits of delegates. We...

6d.) we have The Spectroscope and its Work, by H. F. Newell, M.A. Professor Newell warns his readers not to expect too much. If his book moves them to study the phenomena for...

and Co. es.)—In this volume we have what we may call a practical application to the purposes of the collector of such portions of the information contained in the author's...

2s. net.)—The words "In Moral and Religious Education" are added on the title-page, and they in a way differentiate the book. The author occupies the Chair of "Religious...

Stockton Littell. (A. R. Mowbray and Co. 10s. net.)—Mr. Littell seeks to provide the teacher of Church history with a valuation of the sources to which he must have recourse. He...

--This third volume contains various maps and plans which illus- trate Bernal del Castillo's story. There are plans of the city of Mexico (1562), and of the city and lake...