and Princess Mary, drove to the Crystal Palace through South London on Friday week to open the Festival of Empire. The route taken by their Majesties, who were escorted by a...

ease.

day's paper a statement which Professor Delbriick has made about the proposed Anglo-American Arbitration Treaty. Professor Delbriick is reported to have said :- "It is simply a...

T HE event of the week in Foreign Affairs is the resignation of President Diaz and the consequent triumph of the insurrection and the prospect of peace. President Diaz has...

on Friday stated that it was possible that the French troops would on that day reach a point some twenty-five or thirty miles from the capital. Meantime there seems to be no...

States and Great Britain and the United States and France was submitted to the British and French Am- bassadors at Washington on Wednesday. The Times corre- spondent says :— "...

told a correspondent, according to a telegram from Vienna in the Times of Tuesday, that he did not expect much result from the proclamation requiring the Albanians to sur-...

for next year—that is, for the financial year 1911.12. The prospective balance-sheet is as follows Estimated Revenue ... • " ••• £181,621,000 Estimated Expenditure • .• •••...

opened his Budget. The first question that is always asked in such cases is : Are there to be any new taxes P The second is : Is any taxation to be taken off P In both cases the...

took place in the House of Commons on Monday. The rejection of the Bill was moved by Mr. F. E. Smith, who re- capitulated the principal arguments against it. He urged the...

Times, of Thursday, strongly supports the action of the Bishop of Hereford in inviting Nonconformists to the cele- bration of Holy Communion in Hereford Cathedral a few days...

was begun in the House of Lords on Monday. Lord Lansdowne, in opening the discussion, said that he had never pretended that his Bill provided a solution of the whole con-...

gave his opinion that the Reconstitution Bill, if passed, would provide no remedy for the grievances of the Liberal Party. There would remain a permanent handicap in favour of...

otherwise, attempt to give any summary either of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's speech or of the debate which followed. We must point out, however, that Mr. Austen...

course, mean the necessity of raising some extra five millions a year by taxation. The Chancellor, however, looks for what he calls "a sunny year." Our trade has gone up by...

the presence of the Queen and the German Emperor and Vmpress. Lord Esher read an address to the King on behalf )f the Executive Committee, and the King's reply was full of...

on Tuesday. The new Statute renders Greek an optional subject in responsions for candidates who afterwards take honours in Mathematics or Natural Science. It was supported by...

issued by the Non- conformistITnionist Association to Nonconformist Unionists in Great Britain. It is pointed out that if the Parliament Bill becomes law, the Home Rule crisis...

Millmead Meadows at Guildford. The gathering is one of great interest, for the Reserve has now, which it had not when it was paraded before the Secretary of State for War last...

last week for the delay in collecting the railway companies' income-tax is the subject of some very damaging criticism in the Manchester Guardian of Friday, May 12th. After...

of ten thousand at Newcastle on Thursday night. The people, he declared, had to choose between two solutions of the Constitutional problem offered to them by the two political...

we are in entire agreement. There never was a greater political crime than the creation of the interregnum in order to pass Home Rule against the will of the nation. But though...

Mar. 9th. Consols (2-1) were on Friday 811—Friday week 81i.

Hendon, organized by the Parliamentary Aerial Defence Committee with the help of Mr. Grahame-White. A particularly surprising series of experiments was that of dropping...

seem to think differently, we are convinced that the best would not be made of a bad business, but the worst, by forcing the creation of Peers. To do so would, no doubt,...

THE DUTY OF THE LORDS. liATE regret Lord Rosebery's speech in the House of Lords on Wednesday for what he said, but we regret it infinitely more for what he left unsaid. If he...

no new taxes and practically no remissions of taxation, for the alteration in the Cocoa Duties can hardly be called a remis- s sion. Here the Chancellor of the Exchequer merely...

Meeting for Men pub- lished in the newspapers in the form of a letter from the Duke of Devonshire is a document which makes one like both the idea and the writer. The meeting is...

T OUIS STEVENSON coined the word " opinionettes' when he was twenty-one, and applied it to the obstinate little conclusions which the Edinburgh University students brought with...

T WO of the most attractive of the animals recently arrived at the Regent's Park Zoological Gardens are the young lions brought back by Miss Olive Macleod from her African...

THE BISHOP OF HEREFORD AND NONCON- FORMISTS. [TO TR' EDITOR OF TER " SPECTATOR:'] Sia,—In your last issue a "Presbyterian Layman" writes: "It the English Church would accept...

is interesting to compare the views of Lord Halifax, representing the Church Union, expressed in his letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury published in the Times of Friday,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Last August you were good enough to insert a letter of mine on the need for a Conservative Party, and I venture to again address you...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR,—As a clergyman, working in a parish chiefly composed of residents with good and large incomes, I am writing to say how glad I am to...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,-I would ask for a little space in order to draw attention to the recent utterance of Mr. Reddy, M.P., as reported in the Irish Times of...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, I hope you can find space to confer a deserved im- mortality on the enclosed extract from the Daily News of Thursday, May 11th. " WHO...

ITO TES EDITOR or TEN " Srscuroz."J Srs,—I cannot help being amused at the consternation with which the overwhelming defeat of Prayer Book Revision it the House of Laymen has...

[TO THZ EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.'] Siu,—The projected visit of representative Englishmen to Russia will not take place, as at first planned, during this spring. The...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THZ SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—As you were good enough to allow me to announce in your issue of May 6th, a special meeting of the Unionist Party in the New Forest was...

[TO TEl EDITOR 07 THU "SPECTATOR. " ] Sra,—As Lord Lytton's play, " Money," has been acted this week, perhaps an extract from a letter to.my mother, the late Mrs. A. S....

SIR,—Those interested in the subject are referred to a long correspondence in Notes and Queries, 1906-8, in which I and others took part. The matter was finally settled in June,...

SIR,—The question as to the - right of British subjects to fly the Union Jack on land in this country was settled on July 14th, 1908, when the Earl of Crewe, speaking as...

SIR, —May I submit a remark with reference to the editorial comment on a letter dealing with the above subject in the Spectator of May 6th? Your statement of the law of the case...

Srn,—Thank you for inserting my letter. I believe that there is no Statute against flying the Union Jack in a military port, but there is a stronger reason than a Statute, viz.,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Regarding the Red Ensign, I do not remember the year that I took the trouble to find out what is correct for one and all of us to...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Your readers will, I am sure, be interested to learn the result of the division on the motion introduced to Convocation of the...

"SPECTATOR."] SIE,—In connexion with the recent letters in the Spectator on phantasms, the following description of an apparition, not, indeed, of a living person, but of a...

correspondents reminds me of a tale related by the late Dr. Littledale of "the good old Roman Catholic Bishop Milner." "A lady came to him for spiritual counsel one day, and...

Srn,—The letters published recently in your columns con- cerning phantasms of the living encourage me to send you the account of a curious incident which occurred to me about a...

Srn,—May I be allowed to amplify " Locuplea' " argument against the theory that the phantasm of a person implies that person's immortality P As " Locuples " trustworthily...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sra,—Yon were good enough some time ago to publish a letter of mine with reference to the nesting boxes made from natural logs, which the...

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...

Sin,—Permit me under this heading to give you my own experience of something somewhat similar to what your cor- respondents write about. About three hundred yards from my...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Many are the legends about that chief bird of augury, the cuckoo (the husbandman's time - keeper), and many also are the flowers which,...

Sis,—Your correspondent, Mr. R. E. Longfield, inquires in the pages of the Spectator of May 6th for information as to 'Kettledrum's' exact height. The following is a description...

MAYSONG. I am weary of winter; the cold days tarry Though April is over with long delay, And I would that desire and delight that marry In song could carry me swiftly...

MODERN CONSTITUTIONS.* HA PPY is the country without a written Constitution. Net that there are not happy countries with written Constitutions, but it is certain that a...

FROM the coronation of Charlemagne on Christmas Day, 800, to the death of Hemy VII. in August, 1313, is a period of five hundred years, though, until the figures be realized,...

Miss MOBERLY'S Dulce Demurs is a very unusual book and has its origin in circumstances scarcely lees unusual. "At this moment," she says, "my father and mother's immediate...

IT requires considerable patience to read Mr. Zangwill's Itakdn Fantasies through, and at the beginning it is necessary to disabuse ourselves of the notion that Mr. Zangwill is...

this collection in his preface, and the answer he gives is eminently the right one. Instead of a scientific, literary, or historical reply to his own question, he gives us a...

IT would seem that Mrs. Wri - ird was bound to be an artist. - Her grandfather, .James'Ward, R.A., was a painter of great • The Encyclopedia of Sport and (lames. Edited by the...

THE new edition of this Encyclopaedia will be complete in four handsome and bulky •volumes. There are photographs in profusion, many excellent drawings by Mr. Caldwell, and some...

bequest to the League of Empire which was to enable it to publish, without risk of loss, text-books dealing with Imperial subjects. This is the second volume of the series; the...

THE MAJOR'S NIECE.* THERE were occasional moments, we confess, in the last of the Ballymoy Series—The Simpkins Plot — when we found the irresponsible exuberance of the Rev....

a certain extent Clara E. Laughlin might be described as an American Miss Loans, though she is fonder of the form of fiction than is her English.prototype. This novel gives an...

Wales). By G. Glover Alexander, LL.M. (Cambridge Univer- sity Press. ls. net.)—This is a very instructive and useful little volume. It describes the qualifications and functions...

Co. 4s. 6d. net) we have a second edition of India, by A. Wyatt Selby. It has been revised throughout and two new chapters have been added : one on the "Maratha War" ; the...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have act bun reserved for review in other forms.] Stock Exchange Ten - Year Record of Prices and Dividends. Compiled by...

of a modern girl who develops her artistic talents to the detriment of her love affairs, — Fhyllis in Iliddlewych. By Margaret Westrup (Mrs. W. Sydney Stacey). (John Lane....

By Arthur D. Innes. (Eivingtona. 6s.)—Mr. Innes seems to have done his work well; anyone who masters the manual which he has given us will have made a fair start in historical...

the forty-third time. Its special characteristics are well known, but two may be briefly mentioned. It gives the literary achievements of the clergy and the details of their...

and articles under the heading of " Literature," and lliiiztyafoureartoons, making up tbe section "Art,"are the .entertain- meat which Mr. Spottiewoode providesfor the readers...