summary of his case :—" Consider some of the points on which I have commented in these notes : the injury which foreign protection is calculated to inflict on a free trade...

T HE meeting of the Cabinet on Monday was awaited with interest, and even anxiety, as it was supposed that some decision would be arrived at on the fiscal question, and that it...

to reproduce in. extenso — is an attempt to state the philosophy of the fiscal question. The Prime Minister considers Great Britain an island whose people have preferred an...

self for the moment to the furtherance of the policy of retaliation, Mr. Chamberlain, as a loyal but independent supporter of the Government, will devote his unmuzzled energies...

with Mr. Chamberlain in regard to the need of re- modelling our fiscal relations with other Governments and our Colonies, states that the only point of difference between them...

letter to the Prime Minister, which, with Mr. Balfour's reply, appears in Friday's papers. Mr. Chamberlain states that his hopes of an impartial inquiry into his policy have...

case.

speech at Treguier, in Brittany, where he had been unveiling a statue of Renan. The honour paid to the free- thinker of course annoyed the Roman Catholic Bretons, and it was...

in letters to the Times against the continued inaction of the British Government in the Near East. They all point out, what is, of course, patent, that Great Britain is...

as a rumour by other' journals, that the British Government has addressed a strong remonstrance to the Sultan upon the proceedings of his soldiers in Macedonia, and will...

there were three or four points of interest. The most conspicuous of these was the practically unanimous vote against Mr. Chamberlain's fiscal proposals,--certainly an...

year by violent altercations between the Theorists, of whom Herr Bebel is now the head and spokesman, and who wish to maintain the purity of Socialist doctrine whatever the...

outrages in Monastir, and the districts round Adrianople, have broken down the long-enduring patience of Bulgaria, and the people threaten, if their kinsfolk are not assisted,...

last Saturday, expressed his opinion on the War Commission Report and the situation created thereby. Leaving aside the question of the responsibility of the Government for our...

the Cabinet in their fiscal inquiry was published on Wednes- day. Protectionists will doubtless find support in the statistics which point to a diminished volume of exports to...

dealing with radium were of the greatest interest. Mr. Boys, the president of the Mathematical and Physical Science Section, in his review of the events of the year described...

Dr. Cunningham, in a paper on " The Failure of Free- Traders to Attain their Ideals," denounced the policy of laissez faire and advocated the imposition of retaliatory tariffs....

Education, made an admirable speech on our educa- tional needs at Manchester on Wednesday. Sir Norman Lockyer, be said, had advocated the founding and endowment of Universities...

last in Southport in a church attended by many of the British Association. He acknowledged heartily the many gains acquired by humanity from science, gains perceptible even in...

the East of Scotland, have followed Argyllshire, in the West, by declaring against the Government. On Thursday they returned Captain Ellice, the Liberal candidate, by 1,324...

Consols (2 per cent.) were on Friday 89.

question, as the four Bishops who have written to the Times seem to think, which is involved in our desertion of Macedonia. There is a moral question, no doubt, and a very grave...

MR. BALFOUR AS A NEW PROTECTIONIST. M R. BALFOUR, considered as a party leader, has managed his crisis with great adroitness, though not, we fear, with equal wisdom. He has rid...

A PART entirely from the purely military questions involved—such as the extent to which South African tactics are applicable to warfare over an English country- side—the...

O NLY, perhaps , in England would an essay towards the creation not only of a national, but even of an Imperial, conscience be attempted from the platform of a section of an...

THE resolve of the Admiralty to increase the Naval 1 Reserve by calling for an indefinite number of Naval Volunteers brings to the convinced Volunteer the most cheering message...

T " prayers put into the mouths of the characters painted in the Old Testament Scriptures are for the most part unexpectedly, we had almost said inartistically, fine. That men...

alakEDDE diem." One can read the words above the door- 11) way of each of the little one-storied cottages that form the backbone of this remote Northumbrian village, save...

I T has been said that Chinese art has sent us a million caricatures but not one. portrait ; while Edmond de Goncourt declared that Japan had only one indigenous animal; the...

THE NAVAL FORWARD MOVEMENT. [TO THE EDITOE OD THE "SPECTATOR.") Sia,—Bearing in mind the painful revelations recently made concerning War Office ineptitude and waste, it is...

to use your great influence with the English people to urge on Lord Lansdowne the duty of England to befriend the Bulgarians, and the political wisdom of such action. Lord...

THE MACEDONIAN QUESTION. [TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—My own information confirms the statement in the Spectator of September 12th that fanaticism is rising...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. ") SIR,—As a Militia officer who has been engaged in active service, and is now thrown out of employment, will you allow me to give the...

SIR,—Is it not amazing that in the twentieth century Christian statesmen should give the Sultan the very same counsel as that given to Ptolemy by the monstrum Pothinus ?- "...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,-4 have read with much interest the letters on " Army Reform," and your comments on them and on the subject generally, in the Spectator...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. ") have been away from home, and have only lately seen the Spectator of August 29th, in which you say, in an article on the Report of the War...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTLTORM have so often read in your columns that it is folly to attempt to legislate when your legislation may have a totally different effect from what...

is not expensive or extravagant per se. It is perfectly true that the pay of the officer is insufficient for his needs—that is, for his needs in respect of Army life—but a...

"SPECTATtlIt." . 1 SIR,—As the Times pretends that Adam Smith was an advocate of retaliation by imposing taxes on imports, I beg to send you an extract from the " Wealth of...

[To THE EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTATOR."] Sim,—Your very favourable notice of this little work has brought us orders for it from booksellers and others in different parts of the...

• [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 • Sin,—May I ask the indulgence of your columns for a few words with reference to the Union Jack Club, which is to be erected in the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "serscrA.Ton..] SIR,—In his letter which you published in the Spectator of September 12th Mr. W. E. Dowding evades the point alto- gether. My statement...

THE "SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—A minor cause of the declining popularity of the Post Office Savings Bank may perhaps be found in the vexatious regulations introduced of late years...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—In the review of Mr. Millar's " Literary History of Scotland " in the Spectator of September 12th the writer says : " The father of...

THE "SPECTATOR.") SIB, —Is not the enclosed extract from the late Tom Hughes's " Vacation Rambles " a propos just now ? It is part of a letter originally published in the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—You ask (Spectator, September 12th) if there is any evidence as to the frequency with which Bishop Andrewea received the Holy...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—The Canadian reader of the Spectator of August 1st notices with interest the article on " Imagination in Our Colonies," and the...

MIDDAY AT ABOUKIR. FROM a latticed cool verandah crowning a sun-kissed hill, Or prone in the deep blue shadow that grey walls cast on the sand, I watch the sapphire bay of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE ° SPECTATOR.") SIR; I read with much interest the article on the above- named subject in your issue of August 29th. The writer speaks with some hesitancy...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." .1 SIR,—After reading the interesting review of Mr. Lucas's edition of Charles Lamb in the Spectator of August 15th, I am anxious to call...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—The Bishop of Bangor's memory is quite correct. The incident be refers to is described in Kinglake's " Invasion of the Crimea," Vol....

A COLONIAL GOVERNOR.* SIR WILLIAM DES VCEDX has written an interesting book. Few men of his time have seen more of our Colonies than . he, and he has looked upon them all with...

Miss CLERKE has given us a remarkable book in this lucid and invaluable summary of our actual knowledge concerning the vast sidereal universe upon whose edge we seem to stand....

• laical Government in England. By Joseph Redlich. Edited, with Additions, by Francis W. Hirst. 2 vols. London: Macmillan and Co. [2rs.•net.] GEORGE HENRY LEWES, who wrote...

THOSE who look to Mr. Hammerton's book for a feast of anecdote and epigram will be disappointed. There is very little of either in Stevensoniana, the reason being that Louis...

of this story, but Marge is by no means a grisette. She is, on the contrary, a being so entirely without moral sense that she quite cheerfully and remorselessly becomes a thief...

SAID THE FISHERMAN.. WE are unfamiliar with the previous work of Mr. Pick- thall, the author of Said the Fisherman, but there are no signs of the amateur or the tiro in the...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as Lau not been reserved for review in other forms.] Ten Thousand Miles through India and Burma. By Cecil Headlam. (J. M....

gives us* a romance of the sea in Marjorie. But although the adventures are sometimes in themselves exciting, the book is not very well knit together, and the general effect is...

begins in a most cheerful manner in a lawyer's office, where the heroine unexpectedly learns that she has been left a fortune of twenty thousand a year. The plot of the book...

Co.- 6s.)—We cannot say that we like this book, but it is not so bad as the highly objectionable title would lead one to expect. Susannah makes a very pretty picture, though...

(John Murray. 9s. net.)—Miss Plunket's calcula- tions are too complicated to be put in a compendious form before our readers. Her first paper deals with the Accadian Calendar,...

"THE GREAT INQUIRY." "The Great Inquiry." By H. B. With Illustrations by G. K. C. (Duckworth and Co. ls.)—We have ventured to state, and up to the present time have had no...

3s. 6d.) tale of the Inquisition and of the " devildoms of Spain" is not likely to be wanting in excitement. Rupert Hamstead with two companions journey to Spain—the time is...

Mead puts together in this volume practically all that is known about the outside facts of Milton's life, and illus- trates them from the places in which he dwelt,—London,...

vols. (Macmillan and Co. 30s. net.)—A fourth edition, revised and brought up to date ; in fact, generally fitted to retain its place as a standard book of reference.—Rural...

must own that, in our lamentable Southern ignorance, we find these stories a little hard to follow. Our Northern neighbours have many dialects, of which the Aberdeen is, we take...

15s.)—" Thoughts upon a Healthy Imperial Policy for the Gold Coast and Ashanti" is the subtitle of Mr. Hayford's book, and the author's general object is given by him in his "...

than a hundred pieces in prose and verse, " legendary," "patriotic," "humorous," from various authors, among whom may be mentioned Archbishop Alexander, S. Lover, A.' P. Graves,...