farce of "Mr. Balfour opposed to Mr. Chamberlain" has come to an end, and that at last there is a clean division between the Unionist Free-traders and the Unionist anti-...

party, the concordat contained in the Valentine's Day letters was solemnly endorsed and ratified by the Unionist Peers, Commons, and candidates, and Balfourites and...

T HURSDAY witnessed the final scene in the break-up of the old Unionist Party, for on that day was published the letter from Mr. Balfour to Mr. Chamberlain in which Mr. Balfour...

going over" of Mr. Balfour to Mr. Chamberlain which we have always declared would happen when the proper moment arrived. Balfourism was for some time kept apart from...

be and, Mr. Balfour had come to an absolute agreement. "It was not a compromise ; it was a definition of the policy which they had placed before the country. There was nothing...

any case.

with the discussion of the details of the new Customs tariff and the' regulations for the prevention of contraband trade. But meanwhile a growing excitement has been evident in...

progress. A little while ago the proposal to increase the Excise upon beer and tobacco was rejected, and last week the Budget Committee of the Reichstag rejected or amended...

articles from correspondents on the new nationalism which is growing up in China. The gist of their argument is that the zeal for reform which China is professing is purely a...

American House of Representatives by 346 votes to 7, and nom; enters upon its stormy career in that old home of vested interests, the Senate. The purpose of the Bill, it will be...

opinion as to the nature of the reply to the King, for which Count Albert Apponyi was mainly responsible. In an article published on Friday week M. Kossuth declared that the...

Confer- ence coming to no satisfactory decision, it is a little hard to tell what may ensue. Germany argues that the basis of the Madrid Convention of 1830 will be restored; but...

Congo Free State has just been published in the shape of a volume by M. Felicien Cattier, a Professor at the University of Brussels, and a well-known authority on Colonial...

on Friday 90i.

W. Ma.ckail to succeed Dr. A. C. Bradley as Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford. Winners of the Newdi- gate have not invariably' distinguished themselves in after...

cogent letter on the true significance of the crisis in the Unionist Party which Lord George Hamilton contributed to Monday's Times. The real issue, as he justly contends, is...

been wisely kept secret, it is understood that she will carry ten 12 in. guns and eighteen quick-firing weapons of a new pattern. No previous battleship has carried more than...

resigned the editorship of Punch, and that be will be succeeded by Mr. Owen Seaman, who has occupied a prominent place on the staff of Punch for several years. Sir Frank proved,...

of war that has ever taken the water, was launched at Portsmouth by Sing Edward. In spite of the bad weather, the ceremony was witnessed by immense crowds, and the launching of...

the only business transacted being the election of the Speaker. Sir Wilfrid Lawson in moving that Mr. Lowther "do take the Chair in the House as Speaker" summed up his...

MR. BALFOUR'S SURRENDER. W E have always contended that when the proper moment arrived Mr. Balfour would haul down his own special flag, open the doors of the fort, and march...

TT is one of the conventions of our public life to speak with a certain contempt, even if it is what the "Nonsense Book" calls contempt mingled with affec- tion, of Bishops and...

W E do not think that too much importance should be attached to the present native trouble in Natal. So far as the facts appear, the disturbances would seem to be isolated and....

I T is with sincere regret that, in reading the Manifesto of Lord Roberts which is published to-day in the Press, we are driven to the , conclusion that a great oppor- tunity...

Peel and the hon. secretary Mr. Arthur Sherwell (Parliament Mansions, Victoria Street, West- minster, S.W.), has justified its creation by the issue of a carefully considered...

T O my cousin Turner's, where, having the last night been told by her that she had drawn me for her Valentine, I did this day call at the New Exchange, and bought her a pair of...

T HE qualities which go to make up the different types of feminine character alter with the times, not, of course, in kind, but in proportion. In the professional woman of...

O NE of the most important of social problems is the unrest in our villages. The brightest and most in- telligent of our boys are all possessed by one idea,—how to get away from...

THE LATE MR. C. J. CORNISH. [To TUN EDITOR Or TEE " SPECTATOR:] Sra,—The death of your valued contributor, Mr. C. J. Cornish, whose weekly articles on country matters were for...

NAVAL EDUCATION. • [To TUB EDITOR OP THE " see0TA:m."1 SIB,—Having never been able to understand or endorse the chorus of approbation with which the new scheme of naval...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—We are much indebted to you for your able article on the above subject, and also to your correspondent, "J. M. J.," in last week's...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Canon Garrett proves his paradox that the Church enjoins undenominational teaching by extracting one sentence of her exhortation and...

[To THE EDITOIG OP THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin, — The Spectator has often judged the relation of Mr. Balfour to Mr. Chamberlain, in the matter of Tariff Reform, by reference to the...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR." _1 have been reading in a local paper the proceedings of a Licensing Committee when holding a "Compensation Sessions." They afford a striking...

LTO TBX EDITOR, Or TH1 "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your correspondent, Mr. John F. Richards, of Bishop.. stone, Lewes, in last week's Spectator, is a fine example of a man straining at...

[To THE EDITOX 07 THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sra,—It was with great amazement that I read the passage in the Archbishop of Canterbury's letter dealing with "passive resistance" which...

[To TEE EDITOR OP TEX "SPECTATOR.,"] Sra,—In the article on the education question in your last issue the statement is made that the Church of England was the fret to engage in...

[TO THE Burros OF THE SPEC PATOIL1 SIE,—The following extract from a memorandum by that great and good administrator and soldier, Sir Henry Lawrence, on the project for a school...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPILOTATOR:1 Snt,—It is good news that you are still open to discussion on one at least of the aspects of the education question,—the point of view,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] . SIR,—*We clergy who followed your guidance and, gave our support to the Liberal Party at the late Election are being told frequently that...

review of " Emerson " in last week's Spectator you observe, among other things, that though be had "a great knowledge of books," he had " but little'exact learning." A flagrant...

LTO TH2 EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—In your review of Mrs. Wilkins-Freeman's book, "The Debtor," in your issue of December 30th, 1905, your reviewer remarks :— "The...

read with pleasure your very interesting article upon " Emerson " in your issue of February 10th. There is one rather sweeping remark made that, as a book- . Beller, I think...

[TO THZ EDITOR OF TIIS " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Your correspondent Mr. Henry Pethick, in last week's Spectator, makes the one point which can be made in favour of electoral districts...

[TO THE EDITOR Or TEE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —The article on "The Playtime of the Poor" in the Spectator of February 10th generously encourages Mrs. Humphry Ward's petition for more...

SIE,—In the Spectator for February 1011, p. 208, you write : "for some unexplained reason economy seems incompatible . with rates." From experiences of rate making and expending...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIE, — In February and March, 1905, your correspondence included valuable and interesting letters from Captain Broadbent, of the Conway,'...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR...1 SIR, — The Committee of the Royal Amateur Society will feel very greatly obliged if you will put this little notice of the forthcoming...

THE "SPECTATOR.1 an Englishwoman living in the Baltic Provinces, I venture to appeal to the generosity of your readers in behalf of these terribly devastated provinces. In the...

pro TICE EDITOTS OF THE "SrzerAxort.') SIR, — The view of Macbeth as a character of poetical imaginativeness may be found in the introduction to the play by Dr. Hudson, written...

TWO AGAINST FATE. L" When a child is born among the Thracians, all its kindred sit roundabout it in a circle, and weep for the woes it will have to undergo, now that it has...

[To THE EDITOR Of THE " Srscrrros."] Sin,—A large majority of the medical gentlemen who kindly responded to the appeal which I addressed to them last week having requested that...

£3,500 required for our Militia experiment, we cannot doubt that the remaining £600 will be subscribed, if not before the experiment is begun, at any rate before it is...

[Tax experiment proposed by Colonel Pollock for which we are askin g subscriptions may be briefly described as follows. Colonel Pollock declares that if funds sufficient to meet...

THE TEXT OF BLAKE.* A Goon editor is an immortal benefactor. His work, unlike the work of the critic, can never pass away. He loses hrmself, subordinates all his personal...

THE title of this instructive, brilliantly written, and well- printed contribution to the history of the Waterloo Campaign is a misnomer. Far from the text being restricted, as...

A GOOD deal of interest attaches to the history of the miscellaneous collection of old plays commonly known as the works of Beaumont and Fletcher. They include, it may be...

Mn. ANDREW LANG is most welcome when—all too rarely— he forsakes the role of the historian and anthropologist for that more cheerful domain where his first triumphs were won....

SCHOLAR'S DAUGHTER.* NOVEL-READERS cannot always be expected to be in the mood for books of a depressing, disquieting, or edifying tendency, looks that "give furiously to...

is not often that the reviewer of fiction finds real enjoy- ment in the task of reading the novels on which judgment has to be passed. Hr. Oliver Onions's new book,. - however,...

THE FOURTH PARTY. The Fourth Party. By Harold E. Gorst. (Smith, Elder, and Co. '7s. (Id. net.)—Sir John Gorst, who furnishes a preface for this volume, does not estimate highly...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of ths week us have not bulb reserved for review in other forms.] Lord Rosebery. By Samuel Henry Jeyes. (J. M. Dent and Co. 2s. 6d....

The Cathedrals of England and Wales. By T. Francis Bumpus. Second Series. (T. Werner Laurie. 6s. net.)—Mr. Bumpus has, as we expected, found it impossible to crowd the notices...

is a good deal of literary ability about Mr. Luther Long's stories. It is impossible to call them "short stories," as they are all in several chapters, and yet none of them...

6s.)—The reader who thinks that Mr. Sims is about to give him a detailed account of the feelings of a convict condemned to a life sentence will be disappointed in this novel....

7s. 6d. net.)—This work was first published in 1861. Additions have been made to it from time to time, and the result, including the very considerable changes of the present...

12s. 6d.)—The author takes up the story where she left it in her earlier work, "The Youth of La Grande Mademoiselle." The heroic period of the lady's life is at. an end ; she...

Warner, M.A., and Edmond Warner, B.A. Vol. I. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co. 10s. 6d.)—This is a voluble of " Trailer's Oriental Series." Firdausi's original extends to sixty...

Coles, MA. (Longmans and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—This volume contains a series of lectures given to students in the Theological Faculty at Cam- bridge. In many respects it is...

Directories. 16s.)—The words "Landed" and "Official" express the difference between this volume and the usual "Peerage, Baronetage, &c." Suffragan Bishops and other digni-...

(T. Fisher Unwin. 7s. 6d. net.)—This book is written throughout with direct reference to the conditions of American life. That the application to English affairs is not remote...

Brockley. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Pike gives us here twenty-four illustrations of birds and their nests, taken with no little skill, and, wo should imagine, risk. The first to be...

By Percy Macquoid, R.I. (Lawrence and Bullen. .R2 2s.)—Walnut was used for furniture in the early part of the seventeenth century, and even before, but only occasionally. After...