part of a night-watchman as the cause of the fire, and complaints of the inadequacy of the fire brigade service are apparently well founded. The attendants on the British...

was celebrated throughout Austria-Hungary with much enthusiasm. The Emperor passed the day at Ischl, and received telegrams of congratulation from all over the world. Nowhere...

• T N the United States there are reports that attempts are being made to heal the breach in the Republican Party by a surgical operation. According to one report, Mr. Taft...

is provided by the fact that the old-fashioned " bosses " of the Republican Party at New York have refused to accept the pro- posal that he should be temporary Chairman of the...

at the Brussels Exhibition; and by the time the flames were got under, some . Eve hours later, the British section was wholly destroyed. The Belgian and French sections were...

case.

Cloudesley Brereton in Wednesday's Times. He maintains that not a little of the talk on the Continent about British commercial decadence was due to the haphazard way we have...

that the dispute at the Stambul quays has been provisionally settled. The dispute was rather signifi- cant, and is worth understanding. On the Stambul side of the Galata Bridge...

is based on a conversation held with several leading Moslems of Delhi in the porch of the famous Mosque of Kuwwat ul Islam. The attitude of these gentlemen is described as one...

of Saturday last deals with the depressed castes, the pariahs, or, to speak more correctly, the Pan- chamas,—i.e., all Hindus who do not belong to the four highest or clean...

that the new Turkish loan in F ranee is exciting astoni-hment and misgiving. Djavid Bey arrived in Paris a few weeks ago to conclude a loan without guarantees. Guarantees, he...

striking speech delivered last year by the Gaekwar of Baroda, denouncing the evils of the existing system and urging not only upon all Hindus, but on the Government, the duty of...

Southern Italy a bad vintage and a failure in the wheat- crop have aggravated the agrarian discontent against the food-taxes, and at Bari, the scene of recent riots, an outbreak...

that a meeting of Socialist Deputies has been held in the Chamber to discuss the increased cost of living. It was decided to urge upon M. Briand the necessity of reducing the...

and in the neighbouring prefectures. The official returns state that 1,380 persons are dead or missing, and that 3,700 houses were washed away, while 393,000 were damaged. The...

correspondent in India on the resignation of Mr. Sinha from the Viceroy's Executive Council. We suggested last week that the resignation of the only native member of the Council...

has almost ceased to marvel. A few months ago a height of three thousand feet was spoken of as the limit likely to be reached, yet now a height of six thousand feet has been...

decided to found and endow an Anglo-German Institute as a memorial to King Edward VII. The object of the Institute, on which the founder is spending £200,000, is defined as " to...

issue, the Times correspondent points out that the antagonism between the two communities is not the creation of, or the result of, British rule; it is the legacy of centuries...

between Richard Arnst, of New Zealand, and Ernest Barry, of London, for the championship of the world. Barry took the lead, but Arnst quickly overhauled him, and eventually won...

read a second time in the Senate on Thursday. It extends the age of training to twenty-five, and exacts an annual eight days' continuous camp training, besides forty-eight...

ninety-first year on Saturday last, has been a household word to two generations of Englishmen. Entrusted by Mr. Sidney Herbert with the task of reorganising the hospitals in...

June 9th. Consols (24) were on Friday 81—Friday week 818.

appears in Friday's Times from Lord Blyth. The change would, in his opinion, ultimately bring in a substantial increase of income to the Post Office ; it would increase commerce...

T(I ltKEY AND THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE. T HERE have been curious rumours lately of an expansion of the Triple Alliance in order to take in Turkey. There is no proof yet that Turkey...

Some of these questions are simple enough, and can be answered. without much trouble; but there are many others which the average owner could not possibly answer without...

C OURAGE, single-mindedness, and a capacity for organisation and command unequalled among her sex combined to set Miss Florence Nightingale on a plane of her own. She died last...

W E have lost in Lord Spencer a man who combined in an exceptional degree qualities that are specially dear to Englishmen. He did not seek greatness, but great- ness came to...

C ONTEMPT is an emotion readily cultivated. It is easy with the help of a little self-deception to force a spurioas growth which is very useful in helping us to forgive our...

T HE Archer-Shee case has produced in the Morning Post a discussion of the whole theory and practice of expulsion from schooL In some ways the discussion has been a little...

R USKIN has told us how, in the midst of his enjoyment of an Alpine scene in the Jura, he endeavoured for a moment to imagine the same landscape, with himself still as...

[To THR EDITOR or TIER "SrECTI.TOR..1 Sta,—There is much food for thought in the interesting article on "The Art of Saving" in the Spectator of August 6th, and though it is...

THE METHODS OF THE ADMIRALTY. [To THR EDITOR or THIL " SPECTATOR...1 Stn,— " A demand that such a wicked proceeding should be rendered impossible in the future" (" The Naval...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—Although it is by common consent never wise to prophesy before the event, yet—unless present signs are very misleading—one need, I...

SIR,—Will you allow me to thank you heartily for your article on " The Swiss," in which you correct some of the exaggerated statements in Miss Sellers's article in this month's...

Sin,—A letter in your issue of August 13th about good and bad units makes me venture to express the terror I feel that we are going to lose our precious dozen, and be reduced...

[To rim Forms or ram " Sricrkroz."1 Srn, — The letter from Mr. Harold Cox appearing in your issue of the 13th inst. is a fine example of theory v. practice. Does Mr. Cox know...

note in "News of the Week ' • (Spectator, August 6th) and "H.'s " letter on the above subject, it may be interesting to recall to mind the fact that the two-shilling piece,...

way to the metric system and a decimal coinage be to decree that after a certain date, say January 1st, 1912, ten pence instead of twelve should go to the shilling P The...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—I should be well content to leave the correspondence about Lord Kitchener where you leave it if the readers of the Spectator were mainly...

[To THE EDITOR OP THR " SPECTATOR. "] SIR; I have noticed that for some time past you have been urging the need for a system of proportional voting in Parlia- mentary elections....

last week in a letter concerning Lord Kitchener Sir George Arthur makes the following statement:— " The strictures of the editor of the Spectator on the policy of blockhouse...

lye THE EDITOR 01 TEE " SPECTATOR:1 Ent,—As a long subscriber of the Spectator, I have been very much interested in your articles with regard to the well- known incentive...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra,—Readers of Professor Oman's "Peninsular War" will remember how in his powerful portrait of Wellington the character of our soldiers in...

THE " SPECTATOE:1 SIR,—In the first place, the name "Indian" Police is a misnomer, and to speak of the " Indian " Police as if it were a homogeneous body is misleading. There...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SneeTATos."1 Sra,—In your article (Spectator, August 6th) and the sub. sequent correspondence the explanation which Bismarck himself gives (and it...

[To Tos Eorroa or THE "Sescriros."1 Sru,—A propos of your leading article on India (July 23rd) the following may be of interest, as it tends to confirm the view you there took...

[TO TUE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—May I draw your attention to one of the crying evils in our country which greatly tend towards the increase of consumption? This is...

[TO TEE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR' SIR,—The common flycatcher (ilaseicapa grisola) is a constant visitor to my garden. For the last three months there have always been...

[TO THE EDITOR OP TEE " SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—In your article on " The Dangers of Self-Depreciation" in the issue of August 13th you " doubt whether the courtiers and people of...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sin, —A terrible anecdote in the striking article so named in your issue of July 30th reminds me of an incident almost exactly similar told...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR "] Srn,—My attention having been drawn by correspondence in the papers to the wretched plight of pit ponies, I was some- what surprised to find...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—It was an odd coincidence that on the day after the announcement of Florence Nightingale's death Ikshould have read of her the...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—With reference to the letter of Mr. Shi-Chao Chang in your last issue on the work of Christian missionaries in China, I should like to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "' SIR,—I gather from your review (June 11th) of Mr. J. C. Lawson's "Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion" (which I have not yet...

LTO TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...1 Sta,—In the Spectator of August 13th you mention an admirable scheme put forward by the Strand Magazine for a memorial to Charles Dickens...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—As you are an active opponent of the deterioration of the English language, can you find space for a protest against a gross...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Bridgeman (Spectator, August 6thl is incorrect if he asserts that the word " Cabal" came into existence in 1670 formed out of the initials...

A LIFE. (In Memoriam L. T. H. — August, 1882, to August, 1909.) DEEP in the heather, in sound of the sea, Rose a burn that is dear to me: Softly, softly it sprang. It caught...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therm& expressed or with the mode of...

rro THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Will you of your courtesy allow me to appeal through your columns for a little information ? I am editing Mr. Goldwin Smith's "...

ACCOMPANISTS AND SINGERS. Tus recent jubilee concert of Mr. Henry Bird sets the middle-aged amateur thinking on the extraordinary develop-, ment of the art of accompanying that...

WALTER HEADLAM.* WALTER HEADLAM when he died two years ago was prob- ably, with one exception, the most distinguished Greek scholar in Britain. He was also in a peculiar degree...

THIS book is Vol. VIII. of " The Political History of England," edited by Dr. Hunt and Mr. R. L. Poole. The period 1660-1702 is full of varied interest, and in the five hundred...

THIS book is opportune, for the walls of Constantinople have lately been on the conscience of all who feel that it is the duty of civilised men to preserve the relics of their...

THERE are few periods -of modern history on which the average Englishman of to-day is worse informed than the rise of the South American Republics ; and Mr. Loraine Petre, who...

Mn. AND MRS. WEBB'S controversy with those who still presume to attach importance to the economic competence of the individual citizen has already reached the stage of tedious...

THE authors of this interesting little book are quite frank about their methods of collaboration. Mr. Owen Jones has spent some ten years of his life as a working gamekeeper in...

MR. BROWNING is to be congratulated upon having added Swift's poems to the complete prose works which already form part of "Bohn's Library." His new edition will give a con-...

the tenure of the " Carnegie Research Fellowship," is a very interesting study in compara- tive religion. It is not too much to say that an English traveller, looking on at the...

THE VARMINT.t THE difference between The Varmint and tales of English public-school life can be readily illustrated by an episode in Mr. Owen Johnson's spirited story. "Dink"...

Boon. 6s.)—The " enemy " is the passion for the vote. It certainly makes a stormy time for Meg Marsh and her friends.—For Prince or Pope ? By James Gissingham. (Greening and Co....

Unwin. 4e. 6d. net.)—We noticed this little book when it first appeared, and it is needless to repeat our criticism. It is so interesting, however, that we return to it for the...

Gardner, Darton, and Co. 6s.)—We have not had much success in finding out what Mr. Chesterton means ; but the search has been decidedly interesting, and we would recommend our...

this story Mr. Macdonald repudiates his talent for character-drawing and condescends to frank melodrama. The hero of the book, Marie-Joseph Casimir de Mont-Lussae, is an...

William F. Ganong, Ph.D. (The Champlain Society, Toronto.) —This is one of the publications of the Champlain Society. Gaspesia is a region bounded on the north and west by the...

[Under this heading tee notice such Books of the *oak as hese not boss reserved for review in other forms.] Prayer-Book Revision at the Lambeth Conference. With Preface and...

Co. 2s. net.)—Dr. Grenfell, whose work as a medical missionary in Labrador is known to all men, tells here the story of an adventure which well-nigh proved fatal. He was called...

William H. P. Greswell. (Barnicott and Pearce, Taunton.)—The battle of Edington was a very important event, so important that it may almost be considered as one of the decisive...

Parish is two and a half miles south of Penzance on Mount's Bay. Here we have a guide to the antiquities of the church, with a general description of the locality. The church...

R. Steel. (T. Fisher Unwin. le. net.)—We welcome the fourth instalment of this very useful little book. The authors deal successfully with a very difficult task, the application...

P. Putnam's Sons. 3s. 6d. net.)—Here we have twelve chapters in which utterances of the ex-President are collected and set in order, "utterances " including not only speeches...

Duckworth. (A. and C. Black. Is. 6d. net.)—" I have not attempted a guide-book to Chester," writes Mr. Duckworth in his preface, "nor yet a history." He has tried to "catch and...

(A. and C. Black. ls. 6d.)—First we have the physical geography of these islands, coasts, mountains and hills, rivers and brooks, do., with modifications made, as by harbours,...

a "London Citizen" is meant an inhabitant, or, we may say, ratepayer, of " Greater London," a map of which serves as frontispiece. The administration of this region is a complex...

Long. 12s. 6d. net.)—Mrs. Younghusband has many instructive things to tell us about East Africa and its inhabitants, about English life out there, and about sport, sure to...