are asking, "Was it worth while P" At present this question is only asked privately and in an undertone, but as soon as the excitement of the elections has passed away, and the...

Unionist Party, but must dwell here upon one point. If the Unionist Party is to regain its tone, and to become worthy once more of the confidence of the nation, it is essential...

of Free- trade is beyond dispute. It was the knowledge that Free-trade was in peril, and that unless it was successfully defended Protection, with all its waste and all its...

NEWS OF THE WEEK N OTHING is more odious, hothing is less worth doing, than to triumph over the vanquished. Thus, though our sense of gratitude and relief that Protection has...

gratis, an Eight-Page Supplement, containing the Half-Yearly Index and Title-Page,—i.e., from July 1st to December 30th, 1905, inclusive.

traders must not suppose that the cause is safe for all time. It can only be that if the vigilance and care used to guard what we have gained are equal to the keenness and...

case.

strongly an Wednesday, when 12 more seats were won in London, thus bringing the Liberal total up to 40 out of 61. Two seats were won in each case at Nottingham, Portsmouth, and...

which 76 seats were contested, 52 of them having been held by Unionists, the net gains of the Liberal and Labour candidates sufficed to wipe out the entire Unionist majority....

note that the overwhelming set of the tide towards Liberalism showed itself from the very outset. Ipswich was carried on Friday, and the net result of Saturday's polling in 35...

Election has been the large vote cast for the Labour Members. .We have never disguised our dislike for class representation; in other words, we hold that a man has no better...

ex-Ministers—Mr. Gerald Balfour and Mr. Walter Long— were defeated, and 41 more seats were captured by the Liberals. In London all the divisions of St. Pancras were captured;...

so that many of the results were not announced till Thursday The same remark applies to Thursday; but 10 seats were won on that day's pollings, or 26 on the day's announcements....

Mr. Balfour at the Manchester Conservative Club after the declaration of the poll naturally claims first attention. They had suffered the common lot, and would suffer the common...

last Saturday gave some account of his recent journey to what has hitherto been the most mysterious mountain-range in the world,—Ruwenzori, or the Mountains of the Moon. Known...

auspicious first appearance on Monday—the Black Monday of Protection—we note a very useful analysis of the provisions of the British Guiana Labour Ordinance, which Mr. Balfour...

condemning the ingratitude and fickleness of Man- chester, went on to say:—" Mr. Balfour in or out of Parliament is our leader. Now that he is out of Parliament be is more our...

Grant Duff, which took place in London on Friday, the 12th inst. Sir Mountstuart was distinguished as a political thinker and student in days when the instructed politician was...

guest of honour at a banquet given by the Berlin Chamber of Commerce, and delivered a speech on Anglo-German rela- tions. He rightly insisted upon the fact that any other...

with the policy of opposition to President Roosevelt's action with regard to the Algeciras Conference. This week it has been the tum.of the Republicans, as last week it was that...

Consols (21 per cent.) were on Friday 891.

THE RESULT OF THE ELECTIONS. T HE will of the people on the question whether we shall or shall not abandon the policy of Free-trade has been taken in half the constituencies,...

the complete victory that has been achieved over the cause of Protection and so-called Fiscal Reform with intense relief. The country has decided—as we always believed it would...

as M. Loubet's successor is another example of the peculiar caution which seems now to govern the French people in the conduct of their relations with other countries. Their...

Conference at Algeciras forces on the political mind, and that is the increasing importance of the diplomatic body. For the • protection of their closest interests, their...

O NE of the foremost, if not the foremost, of the problems which the new Government must face is the con- dition of the national finances. We, do not mean to imply that economy...

this generation. The English world has conceived an unreasonable horror of the commonplace. In men, women, and books we desire the unexpected. We follow after wisdom, but refuse...

E LEVEN years ago, at the time of the last General Election but one, it was technically illegal to drive a motor-car on the public roads. One of the pioneers of auto- mobilism,...

T HE golden glory of the ragwort is long since over; the purple crane's-bill has vanished; the coarse grass of the bents has lost its green and taken on the grey tinge of...

[To THE EDITOR 07 TEE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—In a letter to the Manchester Guardian dated June 2nd, 1903, I said: "There can hardly be any doubt that Lancashire will be found to be...

THE TRANS VAAL CHAMBER OF MINES' MEMO- RANDUM AND CHINESE LABOUR. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Srn,—The Chamber of Mines, adopting their old tactics of trying to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 . Sin,—Sir Edward Law's answer in the National Review to Sir John and Sir Richard Strachey, which is 'so briefly referred to in the Spectator...

[To TER EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.] SIE, — These two words in conjunction look very impressive, and by all accounts are doing good service at the polls. But to one who reads...

[To TEE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR, — In your last issue, in a criticism of Madame Serao's "In the Country of Jesus," your reviewer says : "Possibly the New Testament is...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE .SPEOTET011:1 SIR, — The Bishop of Manchester has criticised the proposal of the Manchester education concordat, which associates repre- sentatives of the...

[TO TIER EDITOR OF TUE "sescrwroa.1 Si,—Under the above heading appeared a letter in your issue of November 11th, 1905, from Mr. J. S. Trotter (Pro-Boer) in which he says :...

[To THE • Erwron Or TRU "SPIV:MANOR:1 SIR,—May I point out that the writer of the interesting article on St. Thomas Aquinas in last week's Spectator has inadvertently...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — " C. B.," of Madeira, in a recent issue of the Spectator, is mistaken in supposing that the Admiralty reversed the decision of the...

TUE ..spscrsroa. - ] Si,—May I be permitted to supplement your answer in last week's Spectator to Mr. Edward Chapman's letter re the hat- trimmers of Romily ? The - remedy is to...

enclose a letter sent to the Blackburn Times in October, 1902, which describes the result of ten years' working of a Church elementary school, conducted very much on the lines...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Referring to your excellent article of December 30th, 1905, and the interesting correspondence that has followed it, I have waited in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sr,—The solution of the religious difficulty suggested by Dr. Hodgkin (Spectator, December 30th, 1905, and January 6th) is excellent in...

is certainly a great advance, and points out a way in which the religious difficulty in schools might be overcome, but I cannot help thinking that a simpler reform might be as...

IN MEMORIAM HERMAN C. MERIVALE. (BORE 1839; DIED 1906.) Calm after storm, and after battle peace, As when the wildest winds drop suddenly, And the long moanings of the tempest...

gas experiment proposed by Colonel Pollock for which we are asking s ubscriptions may be briefly described as follows. Colonel Pollock declares that if funds sufficient to meet...

COWLEY AND THE METAPHYSICAL POETS.* THE enormous influence of Johnson on English criticism is nowhere better seen than in the general acceptance by later critics of his views on...

the hero of a romance, the world would have condemned the portrait as too grossly improbable for art. For a more incredible character has rarely trod the boards of history. The...

always comforting, to read Mr. Birrell. When he is writing about books he is commonly delightful, though even here he cannot resist the temptation to "get his knife into"...

Miss TAYLOR'S already considerable literary reputation will be much increased by this very able and admirably illus- trated book. Here we see all the historical knowledge that...

and Sons. 6s.)—This novel deals entirely with Court intrigues in the days of Louis XIV. The scene moves from the provinces to Paris, but the motives which actuate the characters...

Blackett. 68.) —The long arm of coincidence is very long indeed in this book. The . author, however, probably intends her readers to understand that the astonishing old lady of...

'ART-BOOKS. The Royal Collection of Paintings. 180 Photogravures, with Descriptions by Lionel Cust. (W. Heinemann. 20 guineas.)— The first portfolio, dealing with the pictures...

THE LADY NOGGS, PEERESS.* IT would be interesting to trace the development of the atti- tude of novelists towards children within the last twenty years or so. Roughly speaking,...

and Windns. 3s. 6d.)—It may be doubted whether it is really possible that any woman should be born with such a genius for domesticity as Maud, the heroine of this book. But the...

Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—There is abundance of sound sense in this volume, expressed with no little eloquence, though a little strained in tone now and then. The "Modern Matron"...

7s. 6d.)—This is, on the whole, a wise and sensible book, full of wide-minded appreciation of art. Considering that the author treats of painting from Giotto to Sargent, it is...

Holmes. With Illustrations by Howard Pyle. (Gay and Bird. 6s.)—The illustrations are quite in character with the text, and reflect the quaint humour and the atmosphere of...

[Under this heading sot notice Such Books of the week as haw not bun r usrud for soviets in other forms.] Napoleon, Roi de Me d'Elbe. Par Paul Gruyer. (Hachette et Cie. 20...

two in which the work is to be included, History of the Company of Cutlers in Hanamshire, by Robert Eadon Leader (The Com- pany of Cutlers, Sheffield). The first chapter deals...

illustrated by various artists, at 3s. 6d. each. The work of Miss Jessie King seems strangely unadapted to " Comus," for in it is to be found little more than a dilution of...

The main interest of the new Quarterly lies in its economic and financial articles. The writer of the able paper on the "Cost of Government," noticed by us elsewhere, takes a...

Drawn by Bruce J. Home (S. Bagster and Sons, Is. net the' number). We noticed the first two numbers of this series some months ago, and are glad to see the first volume...

of universal knowledge, which it compresses within the quite moderate compass of something less than a thousand pages. First we have an "English Dictionary," not of words in...

may be best described by quoting from its title-page: "Containing a complete series of sermons for the liturgical year." The sermons, more or lead in outline, are provided for...

Westminster) are collected in a volume edited by W. Paton, M.A. (2e.) Any one of them—there are fourteen in all—may be obtained separately. There are also obtainable pamphlets...

Publishing Company. is. 6d. net.)—Here we have notices of a number of British heroes, among them Caradoc (Caractacus), Arthur, St. David, Cadwallon, Griffith, Llewellyn, and...

Boston, U.S.A.)—The "Dictionary of Musical Terms" covers two hundred and eighty-nine pages,—it will be understood that these terms are explained as well as enumerated, and that...

by Theodora Thompson. (John Lane. 5s. net.)— This book—the title is an allusion to a famous quatrain of Omar Khayyam—contains a number of well-chosen apophthegms, sentiments,...

The alphabetical list of newspapers, &c., occupies about half of the volume (two hundred and four pages). Following this comes a classification,—a list, for instance, of the...

Boutledge and Sons, 6d. each) are Old Christmas, by Washington Irving, and Songs Irons Shakespeare, Illus- trated with Reproductions of Etchings of the Etching Club by T....