Wednesday as a Blue-book. As the Imperial Government, the United States, and Newfoimdlarrd were all agreed that that very vague instrument, the Treaty of 1818, should be...

scanty, and not altogether reassuring. A marabout, or holy man, from Bejad, who commands two thousand five hundred horsemen, and is said to exert great influence, arrived at...

we have said, a ground for denouncing her as an enemy of the human race, and we desire strongly to condemn any attempts to do so. It is, however, a reminder to us and other...

any case.

were published at the end of last week, but the later reports are less alarming. "Stationary but not unfavour- able," says the Vienna correspondent of the Times in the issue of...

T HE Hague Conference held its last sitting on Friday. We cannot attempt here to make any general review of what it has accomplished, but we fear that when the successes and...

published from its New York correspondent on Monday there is a revelation of the methods of the Standard Oil Trust. The complicated and almost impossible system under which...

did not attempt to avoid the question of lynching. "Judge Lynch" was, he declared, "rarely if ever accused of punishing the innocent." Here we cannot help thinking that Mr....

published at Blantyre on August Slat, containing a strong article on the connexion of sleeping-sickness with the tsetse- fly. The arguments of the writer . may be thus briefly...

Queen Victoria at Leith, and delivered one of those public orations of which he is almost the only remaining master::: Queen Victoria was not merely the Queen, but the mother of...

last week was particularly interesting, as the majority had to decide whether they would break with the Unified Socialists who adhere to the detestable teaching of M. Hera&...

M. Cheradame, writes of his impressions during a recent visit fe England. The paper is summarised by the Paris corre- spondent of the Times in the issue of Tuesday. M. Cheradame...

survey of the "Lebanon Experiment" in Monday's issue. In certain important particulars the scheme has worked well. "In most of the essentials of civilisation the province is far...

Raine asking how a Liberal should have voted in the Kirkdale election, is published in Tuesday's papers. Lord Rosebery states that he has no difficulty in answering the...

office where an enthusiastic railway director is throwing himself into the arms of an astonished official of the Amalga- mated Society :— ‘" RAILWAY DIRECTOR (to...

development of wireless telegraphy, the Transatlantic service between the Marconi stations at Clifden (Galway) and Cape Breton (Nova Scotia) being formally inaugurated on that...

Mr. W. W. Astor to the Oxford University Appeal Fund. It may be remembered that Mr. Astor originally subscribed £10,000 to the Fund. He now promises a second donation of...

occurred early on Tuesday morning outside Shrewsbury Station. An express train of fifteen carriages from various parts of the North for Bristol, which left Crewe at 1.20 a.m.,...

of Ireland to Tuesday's Times. After noting how Mr. Birrell's statements in Parliament as to the satisfactory con- dition of the country were followed at the end of August by...

Aug. 15th. Consols (24) were on Friday 824—on Friday week 82. Bank Rate, 41 per cent., changed from 4 per cent. Aug. 15th. Consols (24) were on Friday 824—on Friday week 82.

LORD ROSEBERY AND ABSTENTION. L ORD ROSEBERY deserves the gratitude of all men of moderate and " Left-Centre ' opinions for the bold and sagacious advice contained in his letter...

S PEED is the passion of the hour, and it is quite natural, therefore, that the success of the Lusitania ' in razing across the Atlantic at a pace faster than had hitherto been...

W E have dealt on previous occasions with the question of Socialism and the family, but have hitherto avoided the problem of the relations between men and women, and of the...

S INCE we last discussed the railway dispute the Railway Companies' Association has answered with a blank negative the request Mr. Richard Bell made on behalf of the Amalgamated...

T HE public feeding ef children in elementary schools appeals to many , who ordinarily have very little sympathy. with Socialist ideals. The victims of in- Sufficient food are,...

T HE last volume of the new edition of Sir Thomas Browne's works (edited by Mr. Charles Sayle; and pub- lished by E. Grant Richards, 15s. net) completes a really beautiful book....

I N the appreciative estimates of the late David Masson which have appeared in various quarters since his death last week he has been almost uniformly d4soribed as u/timics...

I N his glowing speech at Leith when he unveiled a statue of Queen Victoria Lord Rosebery did something to remind his countrymen of the true character of the Victorian Age, and...

HALF OR WHOLE REFORM? LTO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—You seem to feel assured that an hereditary House of Lords, with its power reduced to a five years' veto,...

SIR,—In your article on "The Prime Minister's Crusade" in the issue of October 12th you note that the probable course of events will be a Dissolution and an appeal to the...

LTO TIM EDITOR Or Tun " SP5OTATOR:1 Sfit,—Permit me to ask you to admit to your columns a few words on the question between the directors of the railway companies and the...

[To THZ EDITOR OF THH "Srseraroa.1 Sin,—The following instance of imagination being verified by fact may interest students of such matters. Two years or so ago I wrote an...

LTO TRH EDITOR OR TUE • SPRCfrATOR.1 SIR,—May an old friend be allowed to find space in your columns for a very few words concerning one who has lately gone from among us,...

Mr. Burnell in the issue of October 12th allow me to say—(1) Socialism does not say to the individual, You must sacrifice yourself for the society. It merely says to him, You...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR,—I think any one who reads my letter in the Spectator of October 5th, and the reply to it of your cormspondent the Rev. N. E. Egerton...

Swann in his letter in your issue of October 12th on Socialism says: "Under Socialism a man's earnings would be his own as much as now, awl certainly every one's earnings would...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—" J. L. C." raises in the Spectator of October 12th a very important point. The only organisation in this country which is devoted...

to the Bishop of Truro that we owe the follow- ing apt distinction between Christian and non.Christian Socialism ? Non-Christian Socialism says : "What is yours is mine ";...

the conclusion you draw from the case of the N-rays (Spectator, October 12th) no one can quarrel. Certainly the guardians of physical truth may themselves need guarding. " But...

rro THE EDITOR. OF It "Sewn:role] SR, —With reference to the interesting ealticle on thia subject in your last issue, I beard a whimsical illustration last winter in a lecture...

"SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—Will you give me space for a reply to the editorial appended to my letter published in the Spectator of October 12th? (1) You say : "Instead of ordering...

SOME NOTES ON THE LEEDS FESTIVAL. THE success of the great triennial musical Festival held at Leeds was all the more remarkable when the untoward circumstances by which it was...

MEVAGISSEY. YEW'M from Lunnon, are 'ee, yew, • Traiipesin' down along o' we ? Us can shaw 'ee thing or two Peart as ivver yew may be ; Lunnon yolks dew fleer an' fuss,...

THE MORAL IDEAL.* Two book—first published twenty years ago, but now prac- tically a new work—consists of ten chapters, and each is a whole in itself, though a connected...

THE fierce. light that beats upon a throne has left Charles II. with a questionable character. In the • period with which the volume -before us deals there was no throne ; but...

HERR SCHILLINGS'S earlier book, With Flashlight and Rifle in Equatorial East Africa, made him famous as the author of the most remarkable photographs of big-game ever published....

'THE study of Latin is less dominated than it was by the utilitarian spirit. Editions which are not meant for school or -college purposes occasionally appear. Much still remains...

ANNUAL OF THE BRITISH SCHOOL AT ATHENS. Annual of the British School at Athens, 1905 - 6. (Macmillan and Co. 25s. net.)—Crete again occupies a considerable space in the...

6s.)—A series of marvellous adventures and escapes for which "hairbreadth" is a quite inadequate epithet. Ross Durham, Surgeon. By David Lyall. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)—A...

Church and Empire. Edited by the Rev. John Ellison and the Rev. G. H. S. Walpole. (Longmans and Co. Ss. 6d. net.)—The first. partof this volume is entitled "Principles of...

and Co. 6s.)—Mr. Bullen need not be apprehensive of the failure whieh often happens to continuations. We aro all glad to see Frank Brown again and follow him - till he reaches...

THE STOOPING LADY.* WE take it that so far as regards the treatment of misalliances in fiction, the formula adopted in the legend of King Cophetua claims priority in time over...

Bell and Sons. 2s. 6d.)—This is a new departure and one to be praised. It is not from books of the Horace type that such collections are commonly made. But without doubt there...

Crooke. (John Lane. 2s. 6d.)—In The Book of Fruit Bottling we have a most .welcome addition to the "Handbooks of Practical Gardening." Whether regarded from the housewife's...

Philip and Son. Is. 6d. net.)—Commander Maznab gives some practical advice to the parents of intending sailors and to the lads themselves. He tells them about shipping firms,...

, [Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been ereserved for review in other forns.1 The Privy Council under the Tudors. By Lord Eustace Percy....

Knight, LL.D. (Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier. 3s. f3d. net.)--This book was originally published in /870, shortly after the death of Dr. Duncan,—he was Emeritus Professor of...

Borrow" (John Murray, 2s. 6d. net per vol.) we have, completing the set ("The Bible in Spain" and "Lavengro " having been already noticed), The Zincali : an Account of the...

(E. Stanford, Is.) should be most useful. It gives the home region from Ohelsfield, Purley, Epsom, Oashott, on the south : Claygate, Hampton, Hounslow, Watford, on the west ;...