paper that Russia has sent 800 troops and ten guns to Khoi. When a Russian consulate was recently founded at Khoi, which is north-west of Tabriz, the Russian Government...

Bill in the Lords on Monday. In a speech which lasted for an hour and a-half and was marked throughout by a bland optimism, Lord Haldane maintained that the mind of the country...

both Houses of Parliament on Tuesday. This was done in the House of Lords by Lord Morley, who re- frained from adding any comment. Lord Lansdowne drew attention to the immense...

115 clauses of the Bill had not been discussed, Lord Lansdowne turned to the question, What could the Lords do with the Bill under the Parliament Act? They could hold up the...

Mr. Asquith. Mr. Boner Law, in his reply, remarked upon the extreme gravity of the changes. He felt sure the Prime Minister would recognize that it was a subject which should be...

the people of India was held outside Delhi on Tuesday. All accounts agree in praising the splendour and impressiveness of the spectacle and in erephazing the loyal enthusiasm of...

I N the region of foreign affairs there is not much of special importance to record. The war news from Tripoli is practically nil, a sign in all probability that the Italians...

long and rambling debate on foreign affairs, but nothing new was added to our knowledge. Sir Edward Grey in the course of his speech very properly pointed out that it was...

Anti-Suffragists in his room at Downing Street. The deputation was introduced by Lord Curzon, and Mrs: Humphry Ward, Sir Charles Henry, a Liberal M.P., and Miss Violet Markham,...

the House of Commons on Wednesday. In the course of the debate a vehement attack upon the Government was delivered by Mr. Snowden. After protesting against the growth of Naval...

to the country. If the Bill was injurious it must certainly be rejected. He regarded the Bill as "the most mis- chievous and reckless proposal" ever placed before the House....

the Prize Court Convention and the Declaration of London, was rejected by a majority of 145 to 53. Lord Beauchamp moved the second reading and the rejection was moved by Lord...

their assent to the legislation sent up from the Commons, the Archbishop of Canterbury made a strong protest against the manner in which the Upper House were being treated. The...

weather near Cape Spartel, about ten miles from Tangier, early on Wednes- day morning. The situation of the liner becoming critical, as she was beached broadside on and was...

Asquith's speech, we must congratulate him upon the manly, straightforward, and clear way in which he defined his own position. He made not the slightest attempt to shelter...

facts we may briefly notice the speech delivered by Sir Edward Carson on the following day. In 1893 England was asked to grant Home Rule because Ireland paid too much to the...

circumstances was not to publish charges in this vague form, but to wait till he had investigated them, and then, if the evidence convinced him, to have included such...

in company with Mr. Devlin and delivered a speech on Home Rule. After observing that he believed he was the first British Minister to stand on a Nationalist platform in Ulster,...

Forces, issued on Wednesday, in dealing with the Territorial Force, makes the following very serious charge against the National Service League :— " I think it right to place...

great age of 94, was the most widely travelled, the most industrious, and the most famous botanist of his time. In 1865 he suc- ceeded his father as Director of Sew Gardens, and...

to answer them, we should like to point out that the best answer to Sir John French's endorsement of the grumblings of certain officers is to be found in the notorious fact that...

Sept. 21st, Consols (2-1) were on Friday 774—Friday week 76k.

results in 47 constituencies gave the Opposition 25 to the Government's 22, an Opposition gain of four. In 33 con- stituencies second ballots will be necessary, and three Maori...

THE NEW CAPITAL OF INDIA. T HE transfer of the capital of India from Calcutta to Delhi is one of the most momentous events in the his- tory of our dominion in India. The first...

or Aurungzeb gazed on from Delhi was small compared with the possessions of the King-Emperor who faced a great multi- tude of his subjects on the Delhi plain on Tuesday. And if...

W E deepl y regret the action taken by the Lords in regard. to the Insurance Bill ; and in spite of our admiration for Lord Lansdosvne's political powers and our general...

A NEW phase of the Turco-Italian War, pregnant with doubtful and perilous issues, has been opened by the effective occupation by Italy of the Tripolitan Oasis. On November 26th,...

extraordinary character of the answers given by French recruits to a paper in general knowledge. A large proportion of the recruits seemed to have forgotten the simplest facts...

T HERE was a time when Weybridge was something very like the ideal suburb of London. It was a, time which followed the breaking-up of the Oatlands Park estate into building...

A NECDOTES of animals are proverbially untrustworthy, and the standard of veracity in those told of children is very little higher. In both cases the value of the relation...

THE LORDS AND THE INSURANCE BILL. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—The action of the House of Lords in reading the Insurance Bill a second time, after its condemnation...

SIR,—Why should the House of Lords pass an Insurance Bill which has not been properly discussed in the Commons, and which, so far as its inchoate nature enables it to be under-...

[To THE EDITOR OP TEM "SrEcarore."] SIR,—It seems that this crude and inequitable measure, with all its imperfections on its head, is to be allowed to pass into law practically...

HOSPITAL SYSTEM. [To THB EDITOR OF TILL " SFECTITOR."] SIR,—It is the fact, and it is quite excusable, that your - corre- spondent, Mr. H. W. Burleigh (Spectator, December...

[To THE EDITOR Of TEl .. 8rscrAvos.".1 Sr, — Your article last week on "German Expansion " inter. ested me very deeply. I have just returned from a tour to—amongst other...

Stn,—Your leading article under this heading in your issue of December 9th calls for widespread attention. If your surmise be correct, the danger is, indeed, great. All the...

your first leading article of November 25th ycli ['ro THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR."] write Sift,—Mr. W. G. Brittan will find the figures he asks for in " We rave Germany...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPRCTATOIL") SIR, — In your issue of December 9 Mr. W. Guise Britt= writes as follows : " I have not been able to obtain actual figures showing the cost...

pro TBZ EDITOR OF TSR "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Haying had the misfortune to have been educated in the economics of the 'fifties, now generally disregarded, I am very much perplexed...

asks for in " We rave Germany Heligoland; yet ever since that cession of the Times of December 12th and each month in that paper for the last thirty years—Mr. Augustus...

Siu,—The Statistical Society has recently published figures on this subject that may answer Mr. Brittan's question. They were recently referred to in the Journal of the Royal...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOIL."] Stu,—All readers of the Spectator must have been delighted that Mr. Justice Ridley escaped with comparatively little injury though he was...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "Spiscr.reros."1 SIB,—In your issue of December 2nd, commenting on "The English Churchman's Almanack," your reviewer says: "'High Altar,' we may remark,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The author of your very amusing article on "Walruses and Carpenters" (Spectator, December 9th) seems to have fallen into the very...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR." SIR,—May I draw the attention of your valuable paper and of all lovers of the picturesque to a scheme -which is now under consideration for...

Sin, — I think the following letter which I have received from a friend who is now living in Italy may be of interest to Tour readers. It shows in a very striking way the bad...

have followed the discussion on classical metres in English with a special interest, for it brings back the memory of a brilliant young scholar who, if he bad lived, was...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOE."] Sra,—We believe that the friends of the late Bishop of Oxford would be gad that some account should be published of his life and of his...

TO THE RUSSIAN DANCERS. MEMBERS of the Russian ballet, spring-heeled Jacks and spring-toed Jills, As I ponder on your prowess, so provocative of thrills, Admiration mixed with...

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...

'Twas the hexameter verse, not the iambic, he meant. Nor did the poet write with alliteration ungainly : "Moulded by mouth of man" ; "moulded," he wrote, "by the lips." [A...

Tan Editor of the Spectator is inviting those members of the Spectator Experimental Company who are in England and within reach of London to tea on Tuesday, January 16th, 1912,...

[To TEE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR." J am editing a new and enlarged edition of "The Register of Old Pupils of Mill Hill School, London," from 1807 onwards, and should he greatly...

VOX CLAMANTIS. , "I PREACH to partisans who do not wish to be converted, for . . . their partisanship is the mainspring of their political activity. But I preach to all...

WE have often declared our belief that the Southern Slav question is the most important in South-Eastern Europe. It is the starting-point of all the racial rearrangements which...

THE experiment of setting a poet to write Bampton Lectures cannot be pronounced an unqualified success. A lecture appeals to the critical side of our intellect; and to find...

THE two publications before us are contributions of varying degrees of utility towards the enlightenment of the typically British ignorance of Imperial affairs and towards the...

MR. REGINALD LIMAS'S new book belongs to the class, by now sufficiently familiar, which always proves a difficulty to persons whose business it is to draw up lists of "recently...

Mn. MOORE makes out a good case when, arguing against Macaulay, he maintains that Dr. Burney did well for his daughter when he accepted for her the post of Keeper of the Robes....

Mn. DYER BALL must have made good use of his opportunities as a Hong Kong Civil Servant, for there cannot be many people who blow the "inner man" of the Chinese as he does. He...

THESE are the candid reminiscences of an amiable man who has one obvious defect. He lacks the sense of proportion, the modest humorousness which enables us to make a shrewd...

MOONSEED.1- THE remarkable talent shown by Miss Murray in her tint book makes it impossible for a reviewer to judge its successor by a lax or ordinary standard. Many of the...

[Under Ode heacTimg we notice such Reeks of the wadi as hoof not bass reserved for review in other forms.3 Dr. Arthur Jackson of Manchuria. By the Rev. Alfred J. Costain....

Rivers and Co. 6s.)—The story of the fortunes of a danseuse and incidentally of an author.—Margaret Harding. By Percival Gibbon. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—A powerful illustra- tion...

6d. net.)—Mrs. Gouverneur's recollections go back for a period of nearly eighty years—dates are not as frequent in the volume as they might be. Her father was a Campbell,...

book with its detailed account of certain phases of the Boxer rising cannot fail to interest readers at a moment when the world's eyes are turned so constantly toward affairs in...

Black, s. net.)—This book, which is sufficiently commended by an Introduction from the pen of the Head Master of Eton, tells us about winter sports, not at all in the fashion of...