any sign of improvement in the Mexican tangle. At present the prospect is that there will be something very much like an exchange of courtesies between the United States and the...

T HE long-standing Mexican problem became critical during the week owing to the treatment of a party of American marines and General Huerta's reluctance to give the satisfac-...

upper river States) and South Australia (the lower) over the irrigation, development, and navigation rights of the Murray bat at last been composed by the intervention of the...

an interesting statement in the Berlin Vossische Zeitung. During the last two months coal orders for this year to the extent of over one million tons have been placed in Germany...

a summary of a statement on naval policy by Mr. Millen, Minister of Defence for the Commonwealth. Mr. Millen's criticism of Mr. Churchill's treatment of Australia in his recent...

on Aziz Ali, el Masri, had been commuted to fifteen years' penal servitude. A further commutation seems to be possible. But nothing short of an honourable acquittal can satisfy...

Hope, Mr. Asquith stated that he saw no sufficient grounds for instituting a judicial inquiry into circumstances connected with the recent contemplated military operations in...

the means of raising money for electoral purposes. The Inde- pendent Labour Party has seven members in the present House of Commons, and it was announced that, though many...

Thursday, Mr. Clancy raised the question of the housing of the working classes in Dublin. He defended the Dublin Corporation against the charge of inaction, and declared that...

Mr. Lloyd George had not recovered his voice, the Budget would be postponed, and the second reading of the Welsh Church Bill would be taken next Monday. Several questions were...

began to celebrate the occasion at Bradford last Saturday with as much rejoicing as might become the son of a mere lord of many acres. Mr. Keir Hardie, who was the first...

Fife on Tuesday afternoon and was greeted with great enthusiasm by his party. The House was occupied for the entire sitting with the Committee stage of the East African...

to the Ulster crisis. If we are to judge by appearances and by experience, Mr. Asquith is indulging in his favourite device of " waiting and seeing." His plan seems to be to let...

T. E. Page, the well-known ex-Housemaster at Charterhouse. He appeals to the Universities to do what the party politicians will not do for fear of losing votes, and what the...

what we said when, some two years ago, the matter was raised in our columns. The Universities would, no doubt, go beyond their powers in insisting on military service, but they...

to Aberdeen at 4.55 a.m. on Tuesday morning. The "Flying Scotsman," which leaves London at 8 p.m., had crossed the Forth Bridge, and was travelling at a high rate of speed, when...

this context. He begins by declaring that all students should be taught "the exact use of their weapon" and be practised " in all the locks and gripes of wrestling, wherein...

into the Civil Service two years ago was issued on Tuesday. The proposals, which amount to nearly a hundred, are prefaced with a handsome tribute to the competence, zeal, and...

to politics, the Commissioners content themselves with some general recommendations of a tentative character, and advise the institution of a special inquiry to deal with the...

Jan. 29th. Consols (2k) were on Friday , 751—Thursday week 76k.

THE PLAN FOR MMITABY AND NAVAL ACTION IN ULSTER. T HE Government, in our opinion, were very ill-advised not to make a clean breast of their plan for com- bined military and...

I T is hardly an exaggeration to speak of the political situation as one of nightmare, so perplexed, so con- fused, so irrational is it from every point of view, and yet so...

F IVE weeks ago we said that President Wilson's policy had made intervention in Mexico inevitable, and that the sooner he decided to undertake it the better. The latest events...

D URING the Easter holidays various Socialistic and semi-Socialistic bodies have been meeting in Congress to discuss their grievances and their policies. Prominent among these...

Polity (William Heinemann, 3s. 6d. net), consists of a series of brilliant lectures, delivered to audiences of very various types, in which the arguments and conclusions set...

" ARLYLE suffered ceaselessly, though never unutter- V1 ably," says Mr. A. C. Benson in his new " Book about Fear," Where No Fear Was (Smith, Elder, and Co., 6s. net). Mr....

A CORRESPONDENT has sent us a copy of a school XL magazine containing some " howlers " which strike us as exceptionally amusing ; they are obviously genuine blunders. The secret...

T campaign against the house-fly grows. Recently RE Morning Post published a letter signed by one hundred and twenty-three medical officers of health, in which an appeal is made...

THE CRISIS AND CONTINENTAL FEELING. [To Tax Emma or mu “Srnoraroo."1 818, — I claim to be a Conservative and Unionist. I have been detained abroad for some time by ill-health,...

Friends to express themselves in reply to the letter you publish from " Irish Friend " (Spectator, April 11th). What does your correspondent wish us to do? Surely not to...

ITo rag EDITOR Or ran .. 811ECTAT014 . 1 Sra,—As a member of the Society of Friends, an English- man (and octogenarian), I am pleased to see in the columns of last week's...

SIE,—I hope that you will permit me to reply to your foot- note to my letter in the last number of the Spectator. Your answer would do if the Army was a corps of politicians or...

SIR,—I quite admit the force of your answer to ray letter of last week on the above. Of course, every question has two sides ; but, while admitting this, I still say that the...

[To THE EDITOR or TH. •' Sir.,—The recent military incident has been described in two ways. From one point of view, it was a plan for coercing Ulster and (if necessary) shooting...

[To eau EMOS 07 rat Sin,—Arising out of the interesting correspondence on this subject is the question whether a Referendum should be decided by a bare majority or by, say, a...

[To rum EOM. or Tux “Srscrarou.'1 Sra,—" Every person subject to military law who . . . dis- obeys . . . any lawful command . . . shall on conviction be liable, &o."—Army...

SIR,—The suggestion of " Nominie Umbra " in the Spectator of April 4th that there shall be a Referendum on Home Rule coincidentally with a General Election is reinforced by the...

. SPECTAT084 1 Ssn,—A most striking illustration of the new Liberal political ethic occurs in a notable letter addressed, on the eve of Easter, by Sir West Ridgeway to the...

Srecraree."1 Sin,—It will perhaps interest some of your readers to see the text of an open letter to Mr. Asquith from Australian citizens which ie to be sent to him within the...

[To THE EDITOR or THE t'Sraerarox.1 SIR,—Thousands of your readers will, I am sure, warmly endorse your admirable suggestion that, in case of need, the Unionist Party in the...

verses which may seem to you A ROMAN POET ON A ROMAN SOLDrEa's CONSCIENCE. "Frangit of adtollit wires in milite muss ; guae, nisi justa subest, excutit arms pudor."...

" Brscrarea.”1 SIR,—Why should not the Home Rule question be settled by a Referendum? A petition with that end in view, a copy of which is enclosed, along with an editorial that...

[To ells Runes or re. "Sraervrov.."] have read with much interest the article on "Logic and Disease" in the Spectator of April 11th. On p. 601 the following sentences are to be...

[To ram EDITOR or ens "Sescraroe."] Sin,—It is generally assumed by controversialists that those who desire that the use of the Athanasian Creed should be made (at least)...

[To in EDITOR or ram “Sercrwroa."] SIIL — When on March 7th Lord Lytton, as Chairman of the British Protest Committee, criticized the text of the Portuguese Amnesty Bill, he...

(To in Barron or rsx "Srscraros.") SIR, — What Mr. Arnold did was to accuse a public official of disgraceful conduct without sufficient reason to believe that the accusation...

[To ram Roma or Tao " Broorrroo."1 see in the Spectator of February 28th some remarks about descendants of officers who served at Trafalgar. I think I am one of the very few...

[To ran MIME. or Tat ..SFECUTOX.1 SIR,—I should be greatly obliged if you would allow me to appeal through your columns, which I know reach a largo circle of readers, for help...

[To TIM Tones Or TIM "SPECTATOR. " ] SIB,—My attention has been drawn, by a layman, to your article dealing with the cleavage between clergy and laity (Spectator, March 14th)....

SIR,—Sortes Vergiticrnae are out of fashion. But might not Prayer Book revisers profit by glancing at the third Georgic? There they would find these lines :— • "Non tamen ulla...

[To rmx EDITOR or ram .8recrarom."1 SIR, —I was particularly pleased to nee in your issue of April4th a letter on the above subject. It advocates, as I-do, the main- tenance of...

be of interest to many of your readers to know that the Cookham Rural District Council, acting upon the rural by- laws of the Local Government Board which they are adopting,...

[To rag EDITOR. or TIM Britlf , T0 , 4”1 have just read the excellent article on this subject in your issue of January 10th. An object-lesson of the result of State-owned...

to read in the Spectator of April 4th an article on "A Coast Path Round England," especially as the idea has always appealed to me, As regards the Penzance district, I myself...

(To UM EDITOR OF Tan usreerares."i S114-2 propos or my letter of last week to you regarding a circular received Ma formal notice from the London County Council, it is rather...

[To Vas Eames or nes A•ersomeros."] Sna,—In your article of April 4th on a cliff path round England you sound a note of warning that the undertaking should not be too long...

..SrscrAron."1 SIa,—All friends of the blind will welcome the articles and letters with which the Spectator has called attention to the splendid work inaugurated by Mr: C. A....

MARRAIIIRE [To Imo Mono. or roz "Brooraroo."1 Ste,—There is a slight inaccuracy in the otherwise interest. ing review of the new work on the Mormons by Messrs. Cannon and...

THE CUTTERS. They that go down to the sea in shipe . . . These see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep."—Peal. 107. 23-4. "But they that go down to the sea in...

THE AGE OF HENRY THE NAVIGATOR./ THE story of the foundation of the Portuguese Empire is -one which can never lose its appeal to the imagination of mankind. It came suddenly,...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily to held to to in agreement with the views therein expressed cr with the mode of...

Harry Rawson may be said to give a survey of the typical life of a successful British naval officer of the Victorian era. Sir Harry Rawson took- part in no war that will resound...

Dr. Joyce's Irish Nantes of Plates upon their bookshelves for ready reference, whenever pleasant occasion arose, will have been much gratified when the third volume of this...

LADY SOUTHWARK introduces her reminiscences with the warning that to many of the modern pursuits of her sex she is a stranger. She has been neither a traveller in unknown...

very attractive woman, who will have her own place in an impartial history of English education, if such is ever written. Miss Ottley was one of the moat distinguished among the...

and paper and bound with an attractive severity, is far from being the work of the usual traveller or student of architeotirre, however intelligent. It is the attempt of an...

IN this pleasantly discursive volume Mr. Randall Davies, who. has already written authoritatively on the old church and.' other features of Chelsea, follows the history of the...

an extremely painful and poignant story of the utter devastation which a term of imprisonment causes in the life of a woman of education. The ruin of such a woman's later career...

THE AWAKENING.* Ice the romantic literature and fiction of pre-Victorian times heroines were pre-eminently distinguished by their youth. According to some authorities, Juliet...

in the figure of Colonel Tresley, drawn the portrait of an elderly man of distinction and charm, but his novel, as a whole, resolves itself into a study of the ethics of...

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[Under this handing w. notir. ouch Books of tho weak as has, noll Imns reoetroed for rosisso in other Jonas.] St. Margaret's, Westminster. By the Rev. H. F. Westlake. (Smith,...

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