Y ET another week has passed without bringing any relief to the international situation. France is directing all her efforts to end the crisis by bringing the negotiations to a...

case.

life of M. Stolypin, the Russian Prime Minister. M. Stolypin is lying seriously wounded. He was with the Tzar at a gala verformance in the theatre in Kieft when two shots were...

that the Volkssion refers at length to Mr. Phillips's recent assertion that General Hertzog was trying to undermine General Botha's position. The Vollesstem says that General...

Note to the Portuguese Foreign Office announcing that as a Constitution had been voted and a President elected Great Britain now definitely recognized the Portuguese Republic....

Cabinet has arrived at its decisions with a promptitude and unanimity unknown in France for many years. The statements of French policy both by the Government and the newspapers...

rents. M. Caillaux promises that the next Budget shall deal with this matter ; nevertheless the Paris Rentpayers' Association announces that it will "strike" next January. The...

There has not been so much violence as before, though Charleville and Creil are in great disorder. In Paris the General Confederation of Labour has quite failed to stir up...

Railway Carters' Union, declared his opposition to arbitra- tion and arbitrators. He said the men of his union desired the preservation of their right to strike on their own...

evidence was heard from Mr. Charles Shipley, a driver on the North Eastern railway, on the working of the Special Concilia- tion scheme adopted on that line. Differing widely...

most part satisfaction with the Conciliation Scheme. If a change were made they favoured going back to the old system. The case for the companies was opened on Thursday by Mr....

attack on Mr. Taft's Arbitration Treaties. The Washington cor- respondent of the Times says, in the issue of last Saturday, that Mr. Roosevelt describes Mr. Taft's policy as...

and Sunday last. Speaking at Treharris he said that the labour movement did not depend absolutely on the leaders, but upon the rank and file. Had it depended on the leaders he...

Constitution Association, contains an excel- lent article on the railway strike by Mr. W. V. Osborne. Starting with the assumption that organized labour has always had to depend...

year, died at Torquay on Tuesday in his eighty- eighth year. Dr. Alexander, who was the last survivor of the pre-Disestablishment bishops, held the Bishopric of Derry for thirty...

universities, has been fittingly celebrated this week. On Tuesday 200 delegates from more than 100 universities and upwards of 40 learned societies in America and almost every...

in Great Britain which participate in the grant of £100,000 made by Parliament was issued on Tuesday as a Blue Book. In the introduction, which is signed by Mr. Runciman, Mr....

con- verted into a veritable pandemonium by the " possessed ones " groaning, contorting themselves, and clambering up the altar screen. The mania, according to the schoolmaster,...

the auctioneers have issued an interesting account of the property and the building. After the Hyde Park Exhibition of 1851 a company was formed to rebuild Paxton's great glass...

sively shown by a letter signed "Medians " in Wednesday's Daily Graphic. The writer, after recalling Mr. Will Thorne's statement that officers " by their conduct drove thousands...

Unionist Members of Parliament who have refused to accept payment for their services and have disposed of the first instalment of their salaries as they thought fit. The most...

Mar. 9th. Consols (23) were on Friday 77I—Friday week 77k.

in last Saturday's Times by an English correspondent who has been settled for many years near Yenishehr, the ancient Sigeum, in the Troad. In two cases of nervorn paroxysms...

TELe MOROCCO NEGOTIATIONS. F RANCE is meeting with more difficulty than she had expected in her wise policy of bringing the negotiations with Germany to a head. Nothing is more...

by the series of strikes and by the meeting of the Trade Union Congress has subsided, it is worth while to pause for a minute to take a broader view of the whole movement which...

T HE summer of 1911 has gone far to deprive the English people of their customary conversational resource. They are not, as a rule, over-anxious to be original, and when a...

THE Order in Council for the deportation of Mr. ialbraith Cole from British East Africa may excite casuistical protests from those who are ignorantly indifferent to the calamity...

B AND I first met ten days ago in the dark smoking- • room of a private hostel which lies hidden in a depressing quarter of a dingy manufacturing town. Generally I am alone in...

" r ERE were great searchings of heart" among the little Channel ports during the summer of 1690. Disunion—not to say downright treachery—had paralyzed the action of the fleet ;...

I T is no doubt owing to the attention which has been given to the main subject of the report of the Grouse Disease Inquiry Committee that not very much notice has been taken of...

THE TRUE SOURCE OF UNREST. [To rim EDITOR 01 ma "Sracrklon."] SIR,—A. great though unfriendly critic in the past called us a nation of.shopkeepers. I think that some critic in...

[To THE EDITOR 07 T'RE "Sracvirox."1 SIR,—May I ask the courtesy of your columns , to reply to some of the criticisms which have been made on my letter of August 26th ? Mr....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, —There is a general idea prevalent, as expressed in a letter from Mr. W. M. Cooper in your last issue, that "it is the business of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—May I contribute to the correspondence growing out of Miss Loane's letter to you on " Children's Country Holidays" an account of a...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—As one who has followed the Labour question with great interest for many years, and who has been associated with men in large...

were in the Upper Sixth under Edward Thring at Uppingham are not likely to forget the early .morning "Bible talks" through which that king of boys sought to impress upon our...

Sin,—Your correspondent whose letter is signed "R. W. Harris" (Spectator, September 9th), and who has such a satisfactory account to give of the working of the C.C.H.F. in...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR..1 SIR, In relation to the recent correspondence regarding numeration it may be mentioned that the Indian shroff and cashier reckons in fours. As...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — May I be all awed to summarize the explanations prod pounded in your columns in regard to the passage from "In Memoriam," to which I...

SIR, —May I correct an error in my letter of last week on this subject ? I did not intend to say " many cottagers . . . are glad to receive four boys and girls for the summer...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Referring to the letter from the Hon. Secretary of the Decimal Association in your issue of the 9th inst., may I respectfully suggest...

do not profess to offer an explanation of the quatrain quoted by " J. D. A." in your last issue :- " Forgive what seem'd my sin in me; What seem'd my worth since I began ; For...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] "SIR,—I think you may like to be reminded of an epitaph in Derry Cathedral written by the late Archbishop Alexander, but not generally known,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your review of "Syndicalism and Labour" in your issue of the 2nd inst. you quote the author as saying that " Tortelier first...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In my paper on "Plant Protection" which I read at the British Association meeting at Portsmouth I stated, with the authority of Sir...

blowing season" as " the blossoming season." See ed. of " In Memoriam " anno- tated by the author, p. 246.—I am, Sir, &c., T. S. LINDSAY.

`Sru,—The connexion of pre-natal suggestion with birth-marks is treated with curious detail in Sir Kenelm Digby's Discourse Touching the Cure of Wounds by the Power of...

SIR,—In the scattered writings of Joubert, collected and edited by Chateanbriand and published in 1838, after Jonbert's death, are to be found the following thoughts which may...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.",] SIR,—Among the 240 homeless eats taken in by the Bywater Street (Chelsea) Shelter during August, 64 were too weak from starvation to be able...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be is agreement with the rietrs Mersin expressed or with the made of...

GREEK FIRE. A BYZANTINE BALLAD; The City of Constantine drew in her breath, For the realm of the . Ctesars lay sick unto death, And the panther of Islam stalked round the last...

THE COMIC SPIRIT IN GEORGE MEREDITH.* MEREDITH does not lack acute and sympathetic interpreters.. Mr. G. M. Trevelyan has brilliantly expounded his philosophy, and Mr. Richard...

his roving Commission to inquire into and report on the Indian police Sir Andrew Fraser and the other members of the Commission must have thought' wistfully of Balak the son of...

and this brief !biography with its collection of appreciations by Furnivall's friends is a tribute to the human man rather than to the man -of letters. On Furnivall's...

to his remarkable record of work on the kinciples and practice of taxation a new volume dealing specially with the Income-tax. This new book is a mine of information both upon...

THERE can be no doubt that the clipper era was the most remarkable instance of shipbuilding skill in history. .It sprang up suddenly on the discovery of gold in California, that...

THE foundation of Beaulieu (vulgo Bewley) Abbey was the act of a king who was not much given to such exercises of piety—John Lackland. It would take too long to discuss his...

MISS DODD has produced a very readable book on a technical nubjeet. Economists and statesmen are more and more realizing the necessity of recognizing the inevitableness of the...

MRS. MAXON PROTESTS.* Ma. ANTHONY HOPE makes in his new novel an eminently characteristic contribution to the perennial controversy, " Is marriage a failure?" It is turned out...

Me. GREW has to take us back into a very obscure region indeed when he asks the question, " How did our earth come gnto being P " He discusses Laplace's nebular hypothesis and...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as hays not teem reserved for review in other forms.] We notice together, and with a brevity which is not suitable to their...

—It is not an easy task to review this book ; perhaps there is a special difficulty in reviewing it in the columns of the Spectator. One can hardly help thinking wt at would...

Pitman and Sons. 6s.)—A pleasantly fanciful picture of young life in which the chief figure is a great actress of the future.-4 Rolling Stone. By B. M. Croker. (F. V. White and...

6s.)—Dr. Kumm has seen many parts of Africa, but in this book he concerns himself chiefly with the Sudan, and indeed this is a region large enough and important enough in every...

Ph.D. (Macmillan and Co. 6s. 6d. net.)—This is a book to which it is not easy to do justice. When we say that eighty pages are given to "the Oriental Nations," about two hundred...

Charles H. Ashdown. (A. and C. Black. 5s. net.)—This is the second volume of the series (so far as it deals with England), the first treating of the Southern " South of the...

Other readers besides those mentioned in the title may learn much from this little book. There are valuable hints about driving, putting and other strokes, about the use of...