T HE chief event of the week has been the suffrage debate in the Commons. On Tuesday the Bill to give women occupiers the Parliamentary vote was read a second time by 299 votes...

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to twenty-three million voters, and women would have an actual majority. The Bill meanwhile would give votes to rich women, not to working men's wives. He was sure that the...

wish we had room to do justice to Mr. S. H. Butcher's admirable speech in which he pointed out that universal adult suffrage and the entry of women to Parlia- ment were the only...

a very important and representative meeting of persons opposed to the granting of the suffrage to women. Unfortunately we have not space to notice the speech made by him, or...

is treated by us at length elsewhere. He frankly believed in recognising the difference of sex. It was not undemocratic to do so, as this was a natural distinction. He did not...

gratis, an Eight-Page Supplement, containing the Half-Yearly Index and Title-Page,—i.e., from January 1st to June 25th, 1910, inclusive.

received condolences and congratulations from the Con- vocations of Canterbury and York, the Universities of Glasgow, Durham, Liverpool, and York, several municipalities, and...

the reduction of the Navy Vote by two millions, and called forth a debate of great importance. Mr. Asquith, who followed Mr. Dillon, used language carefully chosen to wound as...

and his speech on Thursday was no exception. He dwelt with gravity on the terrible evils which had flown from the relaxed shipbuilding programme. He also pointed out that though...

Turkish Budget from its Constantinople correspondent. The revenue is estimated by the Budget Commission at £T26,015,191, and the expenditure at 2T35,693,083. There is therefore...

George made at general defence of the finance of the Govern- ment. Replying to the criticism that they were financing the expenditure of this year out of the surplus of last...

arrange- ment with Germany by which the rivalry for the com- mand of the sea can be stopped, Mr. Asquith was no less clear and no less emphatic. The German Government had. been...

Cretan Government an ultimatum declaring that unless the Government undertook to admit the Moslem Deputies to the Assembly the chief Cretan ports would be occupied and the...

to be a'.le to inform our readers that since the publication of Lord Cromer's letter he and those with whom he is acting have met with a very wide, a very influential, and a...

was considered in Committee, and on the motion of Lord Newton a column was added to the schedule providing for the state- ment of religious opinion. Lord Newton could not...

S. Rolls, who was killed at Bournemouth on Tuesday when flying in his biplane. He was trying to descend at a given mark on the flying ground when the strain put upon the tail of...

of safety, and would much prefer that Mr. McKenna had taken a line less likely to be represented in Germany as indicating a slackening, or a possible slackening, of effort, and...

criticises the amended form of Royal Declaration. While expressing his willingness that the offensive phrases should be expunged, be demands that the Declaration should con-...

a striking speech. When interrupted by Mr. Dillon with the outcry "Your Estimates would be up to a hundred millions," he gave the very sound answer : " They would be up to a...

of the Peace was published on Wednesday. While the Commissioners think that the appointments should still be made by the Lord Chancellor on the advice of the Lords-Lieutenant,...

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which in another part of this issue Sir Arthur Conan Doyle draws the attention of our readers. Lord Cromer points out that it is largely due to the efforts of Mr. E. D. Morel,...

attention to the financial relations between the Imperial Exchequer and local authorities. He pointed out that the present local expenditure was £160,000,000 a year, while the...

THE SUFFRAGE DEBATE. 'E VERYTHING connected with woman suffrage seems to go topsy-turvy when the question reaches Parliament. For example, the House of Commons on Tuesday night...

T HE discussionof Mr. Lloyd George's Budget for 1 this year, which will have sooner or later to be renewed, turns so much upon the provision made for dealing with the National...

admira- tion the efforts of M. Briand to save French Parlia- mentarism from sterility, to implant tolerance in French political life, and to make the title of " Republican "...

W E publish in another column a very remarkable letter from our correspondent " Civis," who writes from expert knowledge of the highest kind, on the battle- ship of the future....

T HE late Father Tyrrell expressed before his death a strong wish that his friend Mr. Richard de Bary should write an autobiography,—should tell to the Churches the story of "a...

A DEMAND has been made in the Observer, and has A been supported in the House of Commons, that Buckingham Palace should be replaced by a palace worthy of the Sovereign and of...

T HERE must be a large number of Old Etonians who will regret to the end of their days that chance or misfortune prevented them from seeing the finish of the Eton and Harrow...

THE BATTLESHIP OF THE / ITo TSB EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."' Slit,-In a review of some naval books of reference appearing in the Spectator of July 9th the opinions of certain...

THE SLAVONIC ASSEMBLY AT SOFIA.. pro THE EDITOR OP TEE "SPECTATOR."] Sne,—The special delegates representing the various branches of the great Slavonic family have already...

"SFECTITOR."1 Sis ,--In your issue of May 21st there is a review of Mr. Childers's book, " War and the Arme Blanche." I am sur- prised to find that you support the false...

[To THE EDITOR OF TER "SPECTATOR. •• ] SIR, — No one who knows the facts in regard to the labourers imported into the islands of San Thome and Principe can question the truth of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 Sra, — I should be much obliged if you would draw the attention of your readers to the movement inaugurated by Lord Cromer to present Mr....

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—Last winter my husband and I with our little girl of six and a half years old and her nurse spent three months in the South of...

Silk—Your timely action in calling attention to the instru- ments Great Britain possesses for searching, and possibly seizing, slave ships and boats on the West Coast of Africa...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR." J SIR, — I have read the letter of " Rescue Worker " on infanti- cide in your issue of the 9th inst. with much sympathy and interest. I agree...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR,''] S114. - 1 - 011 will permit us to thank you for the encouragement which the hospitality of your columns has given us, and for the notable...

OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Would you kindly allow me to draw the attention of those in the home country who are interested in the work of the Young Women's Christian...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."' Sin,—In reference to your notice of "A New Shakespearean Dictionary" in last week's issue, may I say that my gardener uses the word "kecksy"...

(TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "' Sin,—As an original member of this corps in January, 1860, I very gladly availed myself of the opportunity of joining other former members...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — I send you the following lines from Pindar's fourth Olympian, hoping that you will think them as appropriate to King Edward VII. as...

THE king is dead On his golden bed, His prayer is said And his lesson read. From pining for heaven, And fear of the grave, From taint and leaven And lusts that enslave, Now...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—May I call the attention of the public to the fact that Miss Rosa Waugh is compiling a book of reminiscences of her father, the late...

result of two cases tried in the Courts in Cheshire, it is now apparent that no legal offence is committed (a) if you dismiss your workmen for showing Liberal colours in a Tory...

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...

CARDINAL YAUGHAN.* THE Roman Catholic Archbishops of Westminster occupy a strange position in our public life. They rule, and represent directly, the million or so of Roman...

A NEW edition—the seventh—of Baedeker's Great Britain has been published, and those who are unfamiliar with that admirable book may be interested to learn that in its latest...

Argentina has been becoming a synonym for El Dorado, a land of fabulous wealth with all the familiar lightning.changes of such places. But it is a new kind in history, for for...

IT is not likely that any future book on heredity will surpass in width and thorouglmess Dr. Archdall Reid's Laws of • (1) The Laws of Heredity. By G. Arehdall Reid, M.D.,...

THE main part of Mr. Loch's book first appeared in the Times supplement to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and naturally it retains much of its original character. It gives a...

PROFESSOR DOWDEN has done well to bring these essays before the public in a form which gives them a better chance of surviving. Among the sixteen the most interesting, wo are...

Tars is a small book, but it contains a great deal of matter, and increases our knowledge of a man remarkable for his genius, for his work, and for his character. Professor...

WHEN rival associations, even rival nations, are at work in the field of archaeology, and every year brings new discoveries, we want in books of this kind something like the...

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Miller, Ph.D. (Columbia University Press, New York. 5s. net.)—This volume gives us a very interesting literary and biographical study. Leigh Hunt as a writer of verse typified...

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