so far received no reply from the four protecting Powers to its suggestions as to the maintenance of their garrisons in Crete, and according to present arrangements the foreign...

only are the Emperor and Empress of Russia to visit the King at Cowes during Regatta week, but that the Presi- dent of the Duma and some of the chief men in the Council of the...

ease.

and Siam was issued last week as a Parliamentary paper. The new territory which is secured to Britain is an area of about fifteen thousand square miles stretching right across...

O N Thursday the meeting between the Emperor of Russia and the German Emperor took place off the coast of Finland. The German Emperor was accompanied by the Imperial Secretary...

of the Duma have shown what wo can only describe as an extraordinary instinct for Constitutional government, and the Russian Parliament is already beginning to take its place as...

regards the InMerial meeting with annoyance, anxiety, or misgiving. If the visit makes for the peace of the world, we shall experience nothing but pleasure, for peace on just...

dinner at Oxford given by the Vice-Chancellor and the teachers of the Indian Civil Service probationers. He had observed with rather a grim feeling the very small attention...

their provincial tour they witnessed an exceedingly interesting review at Aldershot on Friday, the 11th. No one who saw the troops and watched their work could doubt the high...

shown often on previous occasions, that in a matter of the highest Imperial concern he can be as firm as any of his pre- decessors in the great office he holds. In answer to...

of the Referendum in Natal. For the Union of South Africa there were 11,121 votes and against it only 3,701. Every constituency polled a majority in favour of Union. The Pieter-...

o'Clock Rule had been suspended, Mr. Asquith brought forward Resolutions for closuring the Housing and Town Planning and the Irish Land Bills. A hostile amendment was moved by...

undoubtedly gave a greater sense of British power to the delegates than any other sight witnessed by them. They saw ranged in stately lines some hundred and fifty vessels of all...

a summary of the new German Imperial Taxation Bill. The total annual yield of the new taxes is estimated at £7,000,000, made up as follows :—Inheritance-tax (after £650,000 has...

has been honoured by the presence and speeches of Mr. Balfour and Mr. Asquith. Mr. Balfour in a charniing address at Tuesday's meeting spoke of the reverence for the past which...

Mr. George Paish read a paper on " Great Britain's Capital Investments in Other Lands." He said that the statement of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue as to our income from...

1st. . Consols (2i) were on Friday 841—Friday week 84i.

Bill would be withdrawn without a second reading on the understanding that it will be the first measure taken next Session. On, the previous Thursday the Welsh Members decided...

to the Imperial Press delegates, Mr. Asquith described the place of the Press in the national life. A Government only held office temporarily by favour of the suffrages of their...

strength of the Navy as it was displayed at Spithead, any more than we wish to depreciate the magnificence of the spectacle. It is greatly to be hoped, however, that those who...

Monday, and were entertained at luncheon at All Souls on Tuesday by Lord Curzon, the Chancellor of the University. In an interesting speech Lord Curzon laid stress on the part...

mime on Whale Island, in which the sailors obviously enjoyed themselves hugely. There were trenches filled to bursting with bluejackets, in which mines and shells exploded, and...

LAND TAXATION IN THE BUDGET. Tr HE Budget is either going to be profoundly modified 1 by the dropping of the new and unprecedented proposals for the taxation of laud and...

P RINCE BOLOW'S speech on Wednesday on the first reading of the new German Imperial taxation proposals was a very curious commentary on the state of German parties and on the...

A MONG Tariff . Reformers in this country there are many who, in spite of their zeal for their cause, occasionally feel anxiety as to what may be the effect of a Protectionist...

T HROUGHOUT the present and the last Parliaments there have been a man and a constituency who seemed only waiting for the accident that should bring them together. The...

I N our final word on this subject we desire not only to say nothing that may wound the feelings or con- sciences of those who disagree with us, but also to offer our apologies...

W E have dealt in the preceding article with the legal merits of the question of Confirmation and Com- munion. We must now meet a point which we are well aware has given cause...

F RENCHMEN customarily show more respect than Englishmen for funerals passing iu the streets. They take off their hats almost invariably ; and the ritual of their • creed seems...

T O meet again with our friends after an interval of years may well be the greatest of all joys, but to meet again with our friendly acquaintance from whom we have been long...

T HE first scent of the garden calendar is the smell of a bonfire, and perhaps in the making of a bonfire you may come nearest to the beginning of a garden; nearest to the...

SLAVE LABOUR ON COCOA PLANTATIONS. [To Tits EDITOR or TIM " Snce racruit." I 8111 , --- I have recently returned from Portuguese West Africa, Where 1 have spent in all nearly...

OF TUE " SPROTATOR."J SIR, —Your article of May 22nd on "America and the Command of the Sea" reminds me of a talk I gave to some of the boys in my school earlier in the year. I...

[To Fes ]6DITO4 Or was o SFICOT AMR." SI R, — Your exeellent article on "The End and the Means" in last week's spectator gives me hope that you may publish a letter on the...

MR. ROOSEVELT AND SIR HORACE PLUNKETT. ere THE EDITOR OF THE " SPROT1T011.1 SIR, - -Various questions asked in Parliament have failed to -elicit any clear reason why the letter...

the letter in your issue of June 5th from Mr. John Temple asking whether you remember the American Civil War and on which side your sympathies were in that struggle, perhaps you...

should put her trust in outside aid :— "Nought shall make us rue If England to itself do rest but true." Still, when I read Mr. John Temple's letter in your issue of June 5th...

Taft "9tqcu1'1roit."1 Sin,—In your columns last week you expressed a hope that Lord Morley might publish his speech at the Imperial Press Conference in book or pamphlet form....

on the above subject in the issue of May 22nd you make one statement which is possibly open to question,—namely, that "American statesmen know that we are in reality silent...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sil to . " — I am the father of five boys. It is my desire to impress each with the duty of serving the State in some capacity outside his...

[To Tax EDITOR OP 9HE SPECTATOR."] SIR, — As a fellow-advocate of national service, may I briefly comment on the last two paragraphs of your "News of the Week " of June Sth? It...

this year, impelled by the general cry of national inefficiency, I determined to apply for a commission in the Territorial Forces. I bad, further, read of a lack of officers...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOE."1 SIR,—Upon the question whether the members of Serjeaut's Inn were justified in dividing the proceeds of sale (see Spectator, June 5th, p....

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin, — Before any program me le publiely , announced in connexion with the celebration on December 29th next of the centenary of the birth of...

EDITOR OP TRU "SPECTATOR:) SIR, — One of the small compensations for sleepless old age is to lie awake all night while the whole household is asleep and listen to what is going...

To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPEOTATOR.":1 SIR, — Relying on your welt-known interest in all international movements, I venture to ask if I may, through the medium of your columns,...

ITo THE EDITOR OE THE " Spscrwroa."J Sin,—There was a reference a week since by Lord Grey to the New Zealand School Journal which will interest readers of, the Spectator....

Sul,—Some few years ago a German, who spoke with know- ledge, told me that at that time fear of Russia was the dominant sentiment at his Foreign Office, but that it was hoped by...

P." of last week may be interested to know.that our cuckoos have had various calls this year ; in addition. to the major third and minor third, I have heard three triple calls,...

[To THE EDITOR OE THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sni,-eIn the " News. of thb Week" of the lad Spectator there' occurs the following sentence : " - We abound in every' word , here used by...

[To THE EDITOR OF TUB "'SPECTATOR. " ] was staying recently for ten days in the neighbourhood of Etaples, and during the whole time the call of the cuckoo was almost unceasing...

Rev. W. E. Jelf, as quoted by - your correspondent in last week's issue, that the Divine' Omniscience, being intuitive and independent of logic; partook of the. Maitre rather...

[To T1110 EDITOR or TDB SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Your interesting article on the reasoning powers of animals in your issue of June 5th might be carried farther in the direction of...

THE NEW ENGLISH ART CLUB AT SUFFOLK STREET. THE New English Art Club are to be congratulated on their migration from the mews in Bond Street to their new quarters in Suffolk...

A DEAD LANGUAGE P "Fru, high the bowl with Samian wine That made Anacreon's song divine ! " Cried Byron, pledging in taunting strain The sleeping Hellas he'd rouse again. But...

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...

THO " SPECTATOR."' Sin,—May I take this opportunity of thanking the kind friend who so regularly sends mo your paper, and of assuring him that the kindness is highly appreciated...

SPECTATOR."1 Sis,—At this moment when the question of a wider diffusion of news throughout his Majesty's dominions is prominently before the public, may we draw the attention of...

FIELD-MARSHAL SIR NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN.* IT was counted as one of the great merits of Montesquieu that be effected a complete separation between biography and his tory. We could...

PROFESSOR BRADLEY'S new collection of Oxford lectures baa not the unity of impression and interest of his previous book on Shakespearean Tragedy. In reviewing that work we...

PROFESSOR DICEY'S arguments against woman suffrage take the forM of private letters to a friend, but we have felt after reading them rather as though we had listened to a trial...

THE study of crime and criminals has been made by many eminent men, but, at the same time, the criminal still remnias a problem. True, the outcome of criminal research has led...

soldiering may have been " in the blood." It is not improbable, seeing that all of his six uncles on the father's side were soldiers. His own wishes had tended that way ; but...

" HAILEYBUItY College," we read in a well-known gazetteer bearing the date of 1888, " is an institution for the education of young men intended for the Indian Civil Service."...

ONE hundred and fifty years ago Prince Charles Edward, an exile and a disciple of Rousseau, compiled a little set of "Maximes," never published, for our guidance in the life...

THE VEIL.t NATIVE novelists may be roughly divided into three classes —the British, the cosmopolitan, and the exotic—and it is a characteristic sign of the times that the number...

worth and Co. 6s.)—This is a very able book, even though it cannot be called pleasant reading. Mrs. Garnett shows much skill in leaving her readers with a certain sense of...

[Woo' this heading we notice enok Books qf the week as Nava not WO roused for review other forma Round the Lake Country. By the Rev. H. D. Rawnaloy. (J. MacLehose and Sons,...

and Co. 6s.)—This book is well worth reading, if only for the picture of the heroine, " Silence " Whinnery. Furthermore, the descriptions of life in Westmorland nearly eighty...

Lock, and Co. 6s.)—A capital story to read, if one is not too exacting as to probabilities.—Indian Dust. By Otto Rothfeld. (Alden and Co., Oxford. Ss. 6d. net.) —Eleven sketches...

Bell and Sons. 15s. not.)—This is a very handsome volume, full of interesting and useful matter, not to speak of the artistic element, which is, of course, prominent. One great...

Drane. Os.)—Mrs. Richings gives us here some lively pictures of scenery and of life in the land of the Malay. "Java," " The Celebes," "The Moluccas," "Sumatra," and " Penang "...

25s. net.)—In this volume we have a glimpse of the ornamental side of literature, ?4r. Davenport gives us, duly emblazoned in heraldic colours, the devices with which...

barnton-Fraser. (Darien Press, Edinburgh. 6d. net.)—This is, so to speak, an educational guide-book. It tolls any one who 'Wants to study abroad how it may be done. He has, say,...

Una Silberrad and Sophie Lyall. (A. and C. Black. 7 s. ( M. not.)—We do not think that the pictures in this volume are, or indeed can be, as attractive as those that we find in...

and Co.,.2s. 6d. net per vol.), we have King Henry VI. : Parts!. and II., Edited by H. C. Hart and C. K. Peeler. Mr. Hart reviews in a very thorough fashion the state of tho...