auspices of the French Government, ended in disaster. The first stage of the race from Toulon to Minorca was completed without mishap ; but so violent a gale sprang up shortly...

opponents without submitting to the revolutionaries. It recently liberated the Orthodox sects, the Roman Catholics, and the Lutherans from the penal laws against their religious...

incident. The German Emperor while staying near Metz summoned his Chancellor, Count von Billow; Cardinal Kopp, Prince-Bishop of Breslau ; and Cardinal Fischer, Arch- bishop of...

an appeal to the common-sense of the people. These strikes were formidable because the employers brought in an organised band of "strike breakers," many of whom were negroes....

Berard, publishes in its issue for May an interesting statement about the foreign policy of the German Emperor. We quote from the Times's translation :—" During the last ten...

take place, probably in the Formosa Channel, within the next ten days. The Daily Mail of Friday states that there is some reason to surmise that the Russian fleet has entered...

the Organised Labour Branch of the Tariff Reform League in a speech which was frankly Pro- tectionist in the old sense. He had had two objects in his political career. One was...

Hamilton, who, in view of the growing incapacity of the House and the Cabinet to control expenditure, and the practical deposition of the Treasury, advocated the formation of a...

by Mr. McCrae, who condemned the extravagance of the Government's financial policy, and asked how we were to reconcile the Premier's assurance of our invulnerability to invasion...

said that while the Ordinance had jarred upon him whichever way he looked at it, he had satisfied himself in regard to two essential conditions that there was no ground for...

up again on Tuesday in the House of Lords by Lord Coleridge, who asked a number of questions relating to the treatment of the coolies, and contended that while the mine- owners'...

by an amendment moved on the second reading of the Finance Bill by Mr. Clancy on Monday, and com- plaining of the unjust treatment to which Ireland had been so long subjected,...

Lawrence's letter iu the Times, in which it was stated that we had some six hundred million pounds invested in industrial concerns in foreign countries, and that this investment...

1st Cadet Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) at Hampstead on Monday, and made a most sensible and valuable speech. He had been much im- pressed during...

to give Mr. Chamberlain all the answer he requires in regard to his apparent dilemma. We may point out, however, that the essence of Trade-Unionism is collective bargaining with...

before the Royal Geographical Society on Monday by Major Ryder, R.E., who has been awarded the patron's gold medal for his services to geographical science. Major Ryder, who was...

of account by the leader of one of the great political parties in the State. It is worse than useless to thrust upon them meat too strong for their digestion, and it is...

House of Commons on Thursday gave a firm reply to Mr. Keir Hardie when the latter tried to force the Government to promise to hurry on the passing of the Unemployed Bill by...

only say, as Free-traders, that we are exceedingly glad that it was made, and that Mr. Chamberlain raised so clearly the question of more employment. It is an issue from which...

are we that, in spite of its brilliancy and suggestiveness, it constitutes a not inconsiderable danger to the State, and that the cause of Imperial defence, for which all...

Admiral Rozhdestvensky from the coast of Indo- China ; but he may return as he did before, and we wish once more to emphasise our belief that the anxiety felt upon the subject...

of the Unionist party practically unchanged—are living in a fool's paradise. They are for the moment going about the country saying that Mr. Balfour has " done " Mr....

the German Emperor at Metz iu his Conference this week with the great Roman Catholic ecclesiastics of his Empire was something more serious than the reception of the insignia,...

question of Chinese labour than the debate in the Lords on Tuesday, we should not have advanced very far. That some of the predictions which were hazarded when the im- portation...

M ANKIND elects to live in crowds," says Mr. Ford Madox Hueffer in his new book about the greatest crowd in the world (" The Soul of London," Alston Rivers, 5s. net). He writes...

T O set out to make a list of the things that have to be done every day, and are generally done badly, might certainly prove a rather lengthy undertaking. A writer in the Daily...

nest or home. If the joint is removed, it fails to recognise its nest. By the second joint it detects its relations, and distinguishes the home ants front strangers. The third...

MR. BALFOUR AND THE INVASION OF INDIA. [To TRH EDITOR OD TRH EPROTATOR."1 SIR,—May I be permitted to draw attention to what seems to have been an omission or an oversight...

[TO Talc EDITOR OP TIIH " SPECTATOR...1 SIR,—With regard to the Prime Minister's statement that England is safe from invasion, you will no doubt in your comments call...

SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—May I make one or two remarks on Canon Hensley Henson's criticism in your last issue of my letter to you on the above subject ? (1) Living in the West...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] fear that it is impossible for me to reply fully to Mr. Jesse Quail's contentions in last week's Spectator without going again over some part...

interest your article on the situation in East Ham in the Spectator of May 6th, in which you suggest that no one foresaw the financial difficulties of the Act of 1902. Will you...

MO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.1 Sin,—May I add a few lines to the appreciation of Sir Robert Herbert in the Spectator of May 13th by " W. R. M.," under which initials I...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I think I am able to throw some light on the " million- stamp " fallacy, or myth (see Spectator, May 13th). At least I can place the...

Sin,—According to the well-known " French Grammar" of Messrs. Eve and de Bandies, it was neither 011endorff nor le Pere Bohours, nor even Vaugelas, who perpetrated the...

the million-stamps superstition in your last issue pitches on to the horns of a dilemma the many charitably inclined sceptics who have received a current " snowball " appeal...

SIR,—In an article in your issue of May 13th it is implied that there is no use for old postage-stamps. I beg to quote the following from a Girls' Friendly Society paper :—...

[To THE EDITOR OF THY "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — In the article on "The Magazines" in the Spectator of May 6th the reviewer says that Dante placed Henry HI. in Purgatory, non per...

THE amount of subscriptions and fees received up to May 18th for the Cheap Cottages Exhibition is £1,194 18s., in addition to £420 promised to the Prizes Fund, making a total...

WAGNER'S "RING" AT COVENT GARDEN. THE recent performances of Wagner's " Ring " at Covent Garden, interesting and admirable in themselves, assume a fresh significance when...

SIR,—With reference to the article, "A Million Stamps," in your issue of May 13th, I should like to say that an aunt of mine did collect a million stamps (French and English),...

substitute " about the fifties" for " about the sixties,'" in your amusing article, " A Million Stamps" (Spectator, May 13th) P Early in 1856 I sailed for India as a cadet in...

THE FOREST FINCH. WHERE beech and pine, fresh leaves and tassels knitting, Fashioned a very shrine of forest peace, In quiet so profound we two were sitting, Earth's cares...

—4— MORE WALPOLE LETTERS.* " WELL, I never read Walpole's letters—are they clever and bright ? Should I like them ? He lived in a horrid set of years and people; all the...

with the times, though the four biographies in the New Testament remain the only authorities common to us all. Even they present pictures which are not identical. This much is...

Thomas Aquinas : Utri eves ibi angeli. Whether he would have included owls we are • (1) Bird Life and Bird Lore. By R. Bosworth Smith. With Illustrations. London : John...

ropes of pearls, which generally suggest such an amazing family likeness among the ladies of the early seventeenth century, seem to leave unsoftened the handsome and proud but...

READERS of Miss Barlow's earlier books do not need to be reminded that she is no chronicler of the knockabout humours of Donnybrook Fair, and that the Erin she depicts has the...

Co. 6s.)—Lively expectations of adventure are roused in the mind of the reader by a book which opens with the shooting of an old gentleman who is lunching at a, smart...

6s.) — This novel starts in the manner made famous by Gaboriau—i.e., with an inexplicable murder—and continues to follow the traditions of the same master by proving the...

The atmosphere of romance which readers of "Allen Raine's " former novels have taught themselves to look for almost of right is present to a large extent in her now historical...

Citizens" of the title are "fifty-eight little children of Israel" in a lower East Side school in (presumably) New York. The series of sketches which contain their adventures...

THE RELATION OF NATIONAL SERVICE- TO THE WELFARE OF THE COMMUNITY. The Relation of National Service to the Welfare of the Community, By T. C. Horsfall. (Sherratt and Hughes....

There are papers on cottages—as, for instance, on " Cottages to Cost Less than £150 each "—on the Management of Estates, on Farm and Estate Accounts, on Fruit-growing, on...

Co.)—We cannot discuss all the questions raised in this book. They are indeed of a nature which makes them mostly unsuitable to these columns. Dr. Churton seems to hold views...

not, it is true, let the public into any secrets—there is nothing, for instance, about the alleged intention of the Continental Powers to interfere on behalf of Spain—but ho...

Claude Delaval Cobham. (E. Stanford. 2s. 6d. net.)—A handbook, compiled by the Chief Justice and the Commissioner of Larnaca, which introduces itself by a quotation from the "...

W. Arrowsmith. 6s. and 7s. 6d.)—Mr. John Allen, a Friend, who followed the occupation of a brewer at Wapping during the latter decades of the eighteenth century and the first...

Henderson. (T. and T. Clark. 4s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Henderson takes in a period of something less than two centuries. His first chapter relates to the " Simson Affair "—John...

and C. Black. 2s. 6d.)—This is substantially a reprint from the series of "History in Biography." There are twenty-two biographies, of which King Alfred is the subject of the...

(G. Allen. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Andrew Carnegie in August, 1903, gave £500,000 (producing £25,000 per annum) to Dunfermline, as being his native town. A trust was constituted...

Son. ls. net.)—Mr. Bright has given us hero a seasonable little volume consisting of lectures delivered before the Motor-car Act came into operation. He regards the subject...