elected to the temporary chairmanship of the New York Republican State Convention by a majority of 122 (567 to 445) over Mr. Sherman. The " Old Guard " know that they are...

T HE chief event of the week on the Continent has been the Berlin riots. Serious street-fighting took place on the nights of Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, but on Thursday...

case.

correspondent at Lisbon and Senhor Branco, the Foreign Minister. The situation is admittedly critical. Half the seats of the Members elected to the Cortes have been challenged,...

At Buffalo on Tuesday he declared that unless the House of Lords surrendered its power to reject Bills, the fight against it would instantly revive, and there would be a...

the aeroplane, but unhappily at the cost of the airman's life. On Friday week M. Chavez succeeded in flying across the Alps by the Simplon Pass. The route chosen was that by the...

took a very serious view of the rioting,—a fact which will cause little surprise when it is remembered that, though no very large body of workmen was involved, the mass not only...

an exact definition of the sense in which the Archbishop uses the word " Church " when he speaks of the Church in potential conflict with the State,—in the matter of...

of the Bishop of Ely on this subject may be dis- covered in his admirable presidential address to the Congress. In tracing the influence of the Congress during the last fifty...

the first Congress met in 1861. Services were held at Ely Cathedral and at Great St. Mary's, Cambridge. At Ely the Archbishop of York preached on the growth of the corporate...

New Zealand Times containing a striking poem entitled " The White Peril." The writer, Mr. Edward Tregear, takes for his text three passages from the Labour Reports of 1908,...

the Executive of the Labour Party held on Thursday it had been decided that they should recommend the Annual Conference, which meets at Leicester next February, to eliminate...

Responsibility" took place on Wednesday morning. Dr. G. E. Shuttlewortb, who read a paper on the duty of the State towards its feeble-minded children, expressed the -view that...

of the revision of the Prayer-book. We cannot find space to enter into the subject in detail here, but we may note that Dr. Swete, Regius Professor of Divinity, Cambridge,...

battle, of Germany, or of Asia. Utter destruction cannot come from " the men of the Failing Broods " ; and why should the Asiatics " leap at our rifles' mouths who have only to...

Asquith, which was published in the papers of Wednesday, on the naval situation. He says that if steps are not taken in the next few weeks, the defence of the Empire will be "...

Wednesday in an argument with some suffragists from his constituency upon his action in voting against the second reading of Mr. Shackleton's Bill. He declared that he had been...

interesting letter on the real significance of the Trade- Union Congress vote. After pointing out that the machinery of the Trade-Unions has been captured by the Socialists, and...

asperity for our statement two weeks ago that " the country is now face to face with a well-engineered conspiracy on the part of the Socialists to lay hold upon Trade-Union...

ford to Mr. Asquith on Thursday, in which he deals with the unguarded state of our sea trade. British trade in the event of war would be exposed to the attacks of privateers on...

of the Territorial Artillery during the recent training, and quoted Colonel Gaedke's observation that "of the three chief arms the artillery came out best." He goes on:—" This...

officers and men who attended the Army Manoeuvres were much struck by the physique of the British troops:— " They think that all the forces might be better led, but they do not...

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY AND TURKEY. THT statesmen who are responsible for the conduct of r e urkish affairs have been deluged of late with declarations from various sides that "...

T HE Army Manoeuvres are over, and we are now face to face with a good deal of heated controversy as to the way in which they were carried out, and as to the dis- positions of...

T HOSE friends of the Roman Church who hoped that the Vatican would not be guilty of more practical mistakes in dealing with Modernism than were embodied in the Encyclical...

THE Tariff Reform Press has naturally seized upon the Report of the Royal Commission on Trade Relations between Canada and the West Indies as a point in favour of Colonial...

TT is very difficult to read the New Testament without theological emphasis. The Gospels have been "pointed" by the theologians just as the Psalms have been "pointed" by the...

(Died September 281k, 1895.) T HERE are more than sixty Pasteur Institutes : but I am thinking of the Paris Institute. At the end of one of its long corridors, down a few...

last twenty years have added quite a little library to the literature which has grown up round that fascinating subject, the road taken by the pilgrims of the Middle Ages...

MR. STEPHEN GWYNN AND '111.E1 HOME-RULE DILEMMA. [TO TEE EDITOS O7 TKO SPECTATOZ."] Sic, It is difficult to express in becoming language the indignation which the two letters...

" SPsCTATOR.1 Srn,—It is only to-day (September 24th) I have seen Mr. Stephen Gwynn's apologia for, if not indeed apotheosis of, his friends who organised the ambuscades at...

to find Mr. Gwynn, the literary' apostle of the Irish Party, and Mr. Aston, of the defunob Devolution movement, joining hands to attack me. It is a matter for thankfulness that...

[To THE EDITOR OE THE " SPECTITOR..1 Sn2,—Week-end parties of ardent Tariff Reformers continue to prove conclusively how it happens that iu Germany a nation is made prosperous...

[To TIM EDITOR Op IRE ..sreceeroa..i SIR,—About half the nation are at any rate sufficiently satisfied with the contents of the Book of Common Prayer, provided by national...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Mr. Skelhorn (Spectator, September 17th) really ought to study definitions of terms used in current political con- troversies before...

[To THE EDITOR OP THII "ErscrAroa."] Sin,—With some part of Mr. D. Scott Moncrieff's letter in your last issue I cannot agree, but he is certainly right in his strictures on...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, —I shall be glad to be allowed through the medium of the Spectator to advocate concurrent endowment for Wales. In Mr. Asquith's Bill it...

[To TS. EDITOR 07 TEE " SPECTATOR "] SIR,—In connexion with the valuable series on "Indian Unrest" published in the Times, it may be of interest to note that nearly...

Sin,—The Inland Revenue have issued a circular calling the attention of law-agents to the fact that the new Land-duties are payable on the deaths of proprietors in addition to...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR "] SIR,—Acquaintance with actual conditions seems to show the impossibility in very many cases of getting a fair and antis- factory basis for...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR " ] Snt,—As I feel that harsh and unjust judgments are often passed by members of the middle classes on the character and motives of the Labour...

SIR,—Mr. Leslie Ashe might misconstrue my silence, other- wise I should not trouble you with a second letter on this subject. Part of my contention he concedes when he says that...

[To TUX Eorroo or THE "Szooraros."] Sin,—Your article of September 24th is most enlightening, and will, I hope, disabuse the minds of some who think that Universities are...

reviewer in his courteous and oomplimentary review of my book, " Spain from Within " (Spectator, Septem- ber 10th), observes with truth that amassment has began in Spain of...

[To Tug EDITOR OF TER "SPECTATOR " ] Eint,—In a letter signed "L. C. F. C." published in the Spectator of September 24th the writer makes a kind reference to the London...

THE PORTRAIT PAINTERS. WITH the passing of the New Gallery into the hands of practitioners of another and more popular art, a somewhat serious situation has arisen for...

TIM "sexcreron."1 SIR,—The enclosed cutting from a recent issue of the Leeds Mercury will be of interest to your readers.—I am, Sir, &c., Y. " The strange secret of the...

may care to publish a sere Virgtliana on the tragical. expleit,,of X. Chavez, in flying, over 4he Simplon:-- "petierunt aethera pinnies • • • • • • • • . —et scopulos lacrimosis...

THE FORD. ["So that the Night Watch of Byddyscloill shall join tho Night Watch of Tyndaill at the Stoneyford."—Leges Marchiarunt.] First Watchman. 0 WATCHER at the ford, your...

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...

BISHOP BUTLER.* BISHOP BUTLER has never been, and can never become, a popular writer, though he has always had enthusiastic admirers outside the ranks of professed students of...

memoirs a few years ago will, of course, turn with pleasure to this new volume. After reading it we are tempted to say that Lady Dorothy Nevill might go on indefinitely writing...

Ma. STRAUB gave us not long ago a very interesting volume on Baskerville, the great English printer of the eighteenth century, and now he has increased our indebted- ness by his...

difference between Frenchmen and Englishmen when they engage in speculation. The French- man is without embarrassment ; he is positive even when Ire is fanciful, and, having...

WE have failed to find much about the " marvel and mystery" of China in this volume ; but the failure has not hindered our enjoyment of it. Mr. Liddell went out to paint...

well, we think, to , keep silence about the family quarrel which he relates at length. Such statements are justified when a man has to defend himself from unmerited obloquy. We...

work in bringing out the handsome and comprehensive guide to the British Empire of which this volume is the first instalment. In writing Imperial history it is difficult to...

Dn. HENSLEY HENSON'S sermons are always interesting. A moment's reflection will turn this commonplace sentence into great praise. Interestinguess is the quality which the great...

THE DAY'S PLAY.* "A. A. M." or Punch needs no introduction. For the last few years he has contributed with such an admirable consistency to the gaiety of the readers of that...

(John Murray. 6s.)—The most important story is that which gives a name to the volume. Of the rest, we prefer "The Lights of Jerusalem"; but all are worth reading.— Queen Sheba's...

6s.) —Early in the story Barbara emerges from the condition of the household drudge, "put upon" by her elder sisters, into the capable woman of business. The activities of such...

the Rev. Joseph H. Pemberton. Fifth Edition, Revised and Enlarged. (Skeffington and Son. 2s. 6d. net.)— Mediaeval London. By William Benham, D.D., and Charles Welch. (Seeley and...

[Under this heading ws notice such Books of the week as hays not Leer reserved for review in other forms.] Medical Supervision in Schools. By Edward Millar Steven. (Bailliere,...

Trench, and Co. 12s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Koebel gives to the subject of his former work, " Modern Argentina," a fuller and more detailed treatment, and adds to it a sketch of the...

(Harper and Brothers. 2s. 6d. net.)—This is one of the " Harper's Library of Living Thought" Series, and contains an admirable summary of expert judgments and opinions on the...

H. Alden, Stow-on-the-Wold. 21s.)—Mr. Evans goes carefully through the Radnorshire parishes. All of these, with one unimportant exception, he personally visited, examining the...

entitled Prevention, the organ of the National Social Purity Crusade, and published by them (Craven House, Kingsway, W.C., fid.) No doubt there will be differences of opinion in...

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BLACK PRINCE.* 'Pi:1mm are certain names which live in the popular imagination as representing a great epoch. Our school-books for generations have taken the Black Prince as the...

THE main lines of Mr. Thompson Seton's fascinating volumes are, as might be expected, a little different from those of other natural histories. The author of Wild Animals I have...

to give us a broad and concise presentation of the Civil War considered from causes to results, while avoiding the technicalities and personal details which help to swell a...

IN the year 1520 according to Mrs. Rawson, in 1518 thinks the writer in the Dictionary of National Biography, Elizabeth Hardwick, the daughter of a small Derbyshire squire, was...

Ix describing for us the development of our English system of local government, in attempting to discover some principle of division as between subjects proper for local and...

THE idea of Miss Smith's volume is excellent. It is to take a sheet of the one-inch Ordnance Survey—in this case the map of Reigate—and to write the geography of it in full. By...

Mn. CAMERON has chosen a topic of exceptional interest, and one on which, in that he has carried out important experi- mental investigation, he is entitled to speak with...

THERE is a wide gap between the Bennettitem of the lower Mezozoic rocks and the Ranunculacez of the high Alps. But some day, perhaps, botanists will have worked out the con-...

THE DISSOLUTION OF THE MONASTERIES. The Dissolution of the Monasteries. By Francis Aidan Hibbert, M.A. (Sir I. Pitman and Sons. Cs. net.)—Mr. Hibbert confines his...

Quiet Days in Spain. By C. Bogue Luffmann. (John Murray. 8s. net.)—Mr. Luffmann tells us that he has wandered over forty- two of the forty-nine provinces of Spain. Sometimes he...

A History of Abingdon. By James Townsend, M.A. (H. Frowde. 7s. 6d. net.)—The one notable thing in the history of Abingdon is the Benedictine Abbey. This was one of the earliest,...

The South Devon and Dorset Coasts. By Sidney Heath. (T. Fisher Unwin. 6s. net.)—This volume is one of the " County Coast Series." The subject is full of interest, even above the...

Master Worsley's Book of the Middle Temple. Edited by Arthur Robert Ingpen. (The Chiswick Press. 30s.)—Charles Worsley (1670-1739), member of a family now represented by the...

Sicilian Ways and Days. By Louise Caico. (John Long. 12s. 6d. net.)—This is a very interesting and curious book. The author has lived for some time in a remote region of the...

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The Works of Sir John Suckling. Edited. with Introduction and Notes, by A. Hamilton Thompson, M.A. (G. Routledge and Sons. 6s.)—Sir John Suckling wrote between two and three...

Bailey's new version, therefore, has justification. He is, of course, under obliga- tions to his illustrious predecessor : of these he makes ample acknowledgment ; and he has...

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The Church of England as Catholic and Reformed. By the Rev. W. L. Paige Cox. (Elliot Stock. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Cox describes his book as an " eirenicon," nor is the description...

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