of Mace , donia and Albania from its Balkancorrespondent. We are glai t learn that the local authorities have appreciably changed their policy towards the subject races in...

upon German Finance by the Councillor of the British Embassy at Berlin. It is especially interesting, as it gives some idea of the working of the new taxes which were estab-...

moved a resolution condemning the "enormous increase" of expenditure on armaments. He admitted that the expenditure should be such as to provide for the security of the Empire...

With such excellent feeling among the heads of the Dominions we need not fear that the various parts of the Empire will fail to co-operate adequately in Imperial defence. We...

• A T Sydney last Saturday Sir Joseph Ward, the Premier of New Zealand, suggested the creation of an Imperial House of Representatives, returned according to the population of...

case,

Tuesday, when attention was drawn, the Times correspon- dent says, to the comparatively unprotected state of the north-eastern frontier between Mezieres and Longwy. Paris, it...

which took place on Thursday, was Mr. Balfour's speech on Arbitration with the United States. We have dealt with the whole subject in our leading columns, but must find space...

so clearly and so well. It is most important that America and the world should realise what is the undoubted fact— that the people of this country are anxious to enter into an...

of the Admiralty in Sir Ian Hamilton's book, Sir Edward Grey replied for the Government. He said that they relied on the two-Power standard as regards European Powers. The...

For ourselves we should be perfectly willing to take three judges from each country and let one retire by lot in order to avoid the risk of the court being equally divided. If,...

international agreement, and was soon followed by Lord Charles Beresford, with whose speech we have dealt else- where. Mr. McKenna explained that the growth of British...

by stating that the first concern in military matters was the preservation in their full strength and efficiency of our overseas garrisons in India and elsewhere, and recorded...

with the state of the Navy, insisted on the special point raised by Mr. Arthur Lee—namely, that the spring of 1914 would be the critical period. According to Mr. Lee we shall...

men who had served with the colours and passed through the reserve but who in many cases were only a little over thirty, Mr. Haldane expressed the hope that the recruit- ing to...

victed on Wednesday of the murder of Um:. Beron and sentenced to death. The evidence for the prosecution showed that Morrison, a journeyman baker out of employment, was...

paper containing reports from His Majesty's representatives in America and Switzerland respecting the Referendum. Both reports show that the principle of the Poll of the People...

upon the Budget estimate for the current financial year. Acoording to Wednesday's Daily Mail, the revenue during the previous eleven days had been slightly over eleven millions....

Monday introduce his Bill to provide for the better repre- sentation of the people and the redistribution of seats in the House of Commons—i.e., One Vote, One Value. Sir Henry...

Palace, Professor Albert Visetti makes an excellent suggestion in Monday's Times. Such a gathering, he notes, " offers a musical possibility beyond the wildest dreams of the...

Mr. McKenna in opening the debate. We may note, however, his re- mark that comparison between German and British estimates, if made in money, is fallacious. Germany's estimates...

given notice of an amendment to Clause 2 of the Veto Bill, under which a Poll of the People is to be made obligatory on Bills embodying important constitutional changes. By his...

course, in a great measure upon the very delicate and difficult question whether we ought or ought not to count not only the Austrian but also the Italian Dreadnoughts' as...

ARBITRATION WITH I'M; UNITED STATES. S IR EDWARD GREY'S sympathetic words in the House of Commons on President Taft's proposal of arbitration between Great Britain and the...

T HE Navy debate must be regarded as on the whole satisfactory. In the first place it exposed the weak- ness of the advocates of the Little Navy. In truth, their position has...

we desire to say a word on Lord Charles Beresford's speech, for he raised a point of the highest importance. We must never forget that though it is absolutely necessary to build...

F ' people have yet realised the full significance of the rapid growth of expenditure since the present Government has been in power. All the estimates for the coming year have...

W HEN Mr. Haldane published first the Memorandum by Sir Ian Hamilton on Compulsory Service, and later Admiral Wilson's views in regard to invasion, we felt that, quite apart...

T HERE has been a tendency lately among some of the woman suffragists who profess constitutional methods to wonder whether, after all, the " suffragettes" with their violence...

T HE late Sir Francis Galion was a strong advocate of the view, which his own investigations did much to support, that heredity is more effectual than environment, or, in his...

T O arrive at a Highland railway station in March, to look out with eagerness from the carriage-window at the river parallel with the railway, and to find it running at its...

RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE IN IRELAND AND THE MOLLY MAGUIRES. [TO THE EDITOU 07 THE "SPECTATOR,"] SIR, -It is amazing to read of Mr. Joseph Devlin addressing Mr. Horne's...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIB,—May I be allowed to say a few words in reply to the letter of Mr. Lloyd and Mr. Cruise O'Brien in last Saturday's Spectator ? They...

[TO THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR:'] SIR, — In view of the zeal presently manifested by the British Weekly for the men and the measures of the Home Rule order, some former...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THZ "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —An article in your issue of March 11th admirably ex- presses the sense of the recent letters to the Times in which Canon Beeching has...

[To THZ EDITOR OF THZ " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I should be sorry to do anything whatever to damp the ardour of the advocates of peace by universal arbitration, even though I...

[To THE EDITOR Or Tar " SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—A new set of regulations dealing with commissions in the Army was issued from the War Office last week. The first concerns the limit...

[To MI EDITOR OF THZ " sPwn:TOa. "] SIR, —Your readers generally will, I am sure, share with me admiration and thankfulness for the well-timed and brilliant article on the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIB,—In a review of a new book by Miss Loane, which appeared in the Spectator of March 4th, your reviewer spoke of the instinct for words as...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.”] Six,—In case it may be of any interest to yourself or to any of your readers, I am writing to inform you that the large map of England on...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TUB " SPECTATOR: '1 SIB.,—One of the many evils which are bound to follow if the Payment of Members Bill becomes law has been strikingly brought to my notice...

[TO THE EDITOR 07 TRB "SPECTATOR." Stn,—Arrangements are being made for numerous large bon- fires on Coronation night all over the country, and as a little foresight now may...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Your righteous article on the break-up of big estates, in last week's issue, opens out a question that deserves deep consideration. I...

[To THY EDITOR 01 THY "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Your correspondent„" C. J. E. P., Chaplain, R.N.," in last week's issue writes of the very possible case of a Wesleyan sailor who may...

[To THY EDITOR 07 TIER "SPECTATOR."' SIR, —We hear a good deal about " unrest " in many quarters just now, and " unrest among women " has been made the occasion for renewed...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—May I venture to ask you to use your influence in inapport of the proposal which is being made by the London County Council that the...

[To THE EDITOR 07 Till "SPECTATOR. " ] Srn, — I read with a certain shuddering interest the article in your issue of March 4th on the liability of gipsy camps becoming centres...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Snt, — I have read with interest the contributed article headed "An Adventure," in your issue of March 11th, but it contains one...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sra,—Quite a number of thrushes in the Brent Valley Bird Sanctuary now have eggs, the blackbirds and robins are building, and the birds...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Bra, — In a letter to you in the Spectator of May 21st, 1904, I gave a list of seventeen epigrams and witticisms which had been used by...

[To THY EDITOR OF TRY " SPECTATOR:1 SIa, Will C. B. Bray, Berks, kindly discontinue sending the Spectator to Hensingham Vicarage, and communicate with A. W., at 48 Grove Road,...

TO HANS RICHTER. (A VALEDICTORY ODE IN RHYMED PROSE.) RICHTER ! for nearly five-and-thirty years A household word, a name to conjure with, Familiar in all music-lovers' ears...

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...

THE NEW ROOMS AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY. THE thing that art lovers for many years have hoped for has at last come to pass, and the National Gallery has been enlarged by a new...

THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SWIFT.* THE task of editing The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift was entrusted originally to the late Mr. C. Litton Falkiner, a scholar in whom the love...

this volume is called a monograph. The word itself is both technical and foreign, and therefore should be branded with italic letters. As it is not in Johnson, it was not...

sea in small yachts and act as their own navigators the publication of the journal of the Royal Cruising Club is an annual event of deep interest. The members of the club await...

speech and many newspapers the treat- ment of abuses in foreign countries is a question of much difficulty. It is so especially in England, because tradition and habit have bred...

PROFESSOR SANTAYANA'S slim volume contains some of the most acute and philosophical criticism we have met with for long. It is superfluous to praise the style. The author of The...

lovers and also doggy people who are lovers of horseflesh. These three books are devoted to pet dogs, sporting breeds, hounds and foxhunting. The Dog Lover's Book, by Mr. Edwin...

THOUGH Sir William Forwood had the good fortune, for which he does not seem to be altogether thankful, to be able to retire from business twenty years ago, he has much to tell...

Fos sixteen years and more a number of Biblical students have been accustomed to meet for the discussion of the Synoptic Problem under the presidency of the Lady Margaret...

is something which one might almost call inartistic in the construction of this novel, but it is very good to read. We are much interested in the fortunes of Rupert Malcolm, and...

THE PATRICIAN.* GLLSWORTHY'S new book is quite the most remarkable act of literary homage to the hereditary system which has been paid in the realms of fiction for a long time....

printed ; New York.)—Some little time ago Mr. Pierpont Morgan purchased at the sale of another American book-collector this beautiful manuscript. It had previously gone through...

Benson's new book contains a very clever oharaoter-sketch of an elderly woman who, from indulgence in various small decep- tions, falls to the telling of a lie of such enormous...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week es have not ion reserved for review in other forms.] God and the Sinner. By J. Denton Thompson. (Longmans and Co. 2s. 6d....

White and Co. 6s.)—Mr. Anstruther befriends an old lady in Bath and so gets mixed up with the affairs of the kingdom of A quazilia. The story is brisk—and who cares about...

new edition is Sermons to Young Boys. By F. de W. Lushington, M.A. (John Murray. as. net.) It is clear that the discourses have been found to meet a want, and we can easily...

Dent and Sons. 5s. net.)—Mr. Scott-James saw Ireland from a canoe and from other, sometimes more advantageous, standing or sitting points. He describes the boat, which he found...

6s. net.)—Mr. Oxenham has given us here, as it is his wont to give, an excellent story. The "coil" is a very complicated entangle- ment, which indeed is never actually undone,...

6s.)—This is one of the " Books of the Verulam Club," volumes in which we get good literature set off by excellent paper and print. They are imperial l6mo, the paper is...

and Co. 5s. net.)—Captain Francis Fordo was one of the officers of the 39th Foot when it landed in India in 1754, being the first King's regiment that was sent to that country....

Stoughton. 2s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Macdonald has done well to share his recreations with others. Comnaseel seria ludo ; both kinds of ingredients are of excellent quality, and the...

and Boon. 6s. net.)—The " we " of the title is, it may be explained, Mrs. Butcher, who writes the book, and her husband, the late Dean Butcher. They knew Egypt as it was under...