Times says in Tuesday's paper that, according to official information in Canada, there is no difference of opinion between the Admiralty and the Colonies as to the contribu-...

Powers landed a party at Canea to remove the flagstaff on which the Greek flag had been flown for many days. The flagstaff was cut down before sumise, and therefore, we suppose,...

Conference has appeared in the papers during the week, but of course it is all unofficial, and should be received with a certain reserve. Renter's Agency learns that the results...

D ITRING the earlier part of the week the news from Madrid indicated that the Spanish troops were about to make an attack in force on the positions held by the Riffs. Since...

honour of the birthday of the Emperor Francis Joseph. Reuter's correspondent notices that whereas in former years the invitations from the King on this occasion were issued in...

South Africa next year and open the Union Parliament. Sir Francis Hopwood, Permanent Under-Secretary for the Colonies, will be a member of the Staff. We are very glad indeed to...

case.

fail to feel that it is unsatisfactory, nay, dangerous in a high degree. This is specially the case in regard to the internal con- dition of both parties. In spite of the great...

been appointed to report upon "the measures that may be taken for the promotion of closer trade relations and for the develop- ment of mutual trading facilities between Canada...

Bill in Committee, and after a debate in which Mr Asquith, Mr. Balfour, Mr. Harold Cox, Mr. Keir Hardie, and Colonel Seely took part, the measure was passed through without...

an invitation signed by several distinguished Oxford Professors, including Professor Firth and Dr. Osier, Dr. Arthur Evans had consented to stand as a Tariff Reform candidate...

the week engaged in debating the land clauses of the Budget, and in proving once more that the Government have dealt a severe blow at the cause of legislation by discussion. An...

and will only express here our satisfaction that the House of Commons acted with so much restraint and good sense as it did in refusing to run the risk of wrecking the Union of...

bad. One would have supposed that at such a moment there would have been a general desire amongst those respon- sible for the leadership of the party to combine all elements in...

Hugh Cecil. Every one must admit that through his detachment of mind, and his power of bringing a clear and scholarly intellect to bear upon political questions, Lord Hugh would...

protesting against the Finance Bill has been for- warded to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The memorialists contend that many of the provisions will cause grievous loss and...

demand " 2900 an acre for land wanted for a school, as asserted by Mr. Lloyd George, has been challenged as inaccurate. We pointed out that it was not the Duke, but an...

Superintendent of the Frontier Circle of the Indian Archaeological Survey, have had extraordinarily interesting results. We learn from a statement in the Times of Tuesday that...

rule, while admitting that they have been guilty of grave errors in handling a formidable task. The old Korean regimei was incompetent and extortionate—the sole exception being...

Martin, who died on Wednesday within a month of completing his ninety-third year. Well known as the trusted friend of Queen Victoria and the biographer of the Prince Consort in...

in the Far East are of remarkable interest. That on the Japanese in Manchuria in Monday's issue clearly shows that, so far from leading to an aggressive coalition of the yellow...

April1st. Consols (24) were on Friday 84—Friday week 844.

THE RESULT OF THE NAVAL INQUIRY. N O one can call us partisans of Lord Charles Beresford. Though we are opponents of the unhappy system under which Sir John Fisher has been...

IKE all political controversies, that over the Budget .4 is apt to grow confused, and to a certain extent irrelevant. The controversialists in manceuvring to bring what they...

T HE introduction of the South Africa Bill in the House of Commons on Monday was one of the most memorable events in Imperial history. Mr. Balfour did not in the least...

W E have been compelled so frequently to criticise the present Government that it is with peculiar pleasure that we note the statement that the Cabinet are resolved in no...

published in some of the newspapers advocating a "Press League of Silence." The writer, Mr. J. S. Wood, arg ues that the editors of newspapers might impose on themselves a...

T, ORD ROSEBERY'S speech at Cramond on Saturday last must have given the local magnates who heard it a feeling akin to despair. Every one nowadays may be called on to make a...

T HE student in his readings of history, or rather of the documents upon which history is built, comes every now and again upon a document so vivid, so poignant, so full of...

W E have reached an interesting stage in the progress of bird protection, and there will probably be many readers of an essay which has just been published on the subject by the...

THE TARIFF DEBATE IN THE UNITED STATES. • Pro THR EDITOR OF THR " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Before England accepts the invitation of Tariff Reformers to alter her fiscal system and to...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR... j Sia,—Free-traders seem unable to agree about the new land taxation. Some say "that it is just"; others, including the Spectator, "consider...

THE " SPECTATOR " AND THE LAND CLAUSES. [TO The EDITOR Or THE "SpHarsToH.-] SIR, - I am a thoroughgoing Liberal and Progressive who firmly believes that only by what is called...

so careful and interesting a writer on sociology as Mr. Harold Spender should have run clean off on these loose Colonial analogies which are not in the least relevant to our...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPFCTATOR."] SIR, — It may seem an ill return for your courtesy, but I am tempted to make one or two further remarks on your very moderate and...

[TO Till EDITOR Or Till " spsorarom.' SIR,—In one of your leaders of last week I think you under- state the recurring cost of the Government scheme of land valuation in the...

allow an old reader to give a plain recital of his experience under the English law relating to leasehold property ? The actual figures are altered, but the proportions are...

remarks of the 14th inst. on the valuation scheme, and the abandonment of the tax on "un- gotten minerals" and the substitution of a tax upon mineral royalties, that you truly...

[To THE EDITOR Or TIN . 8PROTATOR."] Slit,—It seems as if Tariff Reformers have never realised two things: (1) how small a following they have in Scotland, as is shown by all...

[To TIIE EDITOR. Or TIIII SPECTATOR:] SIR,—In your note on Mr. Harold Spender's letter iu last week's issue you rightly remark that Oberbilrgermeister Adikes of Frankfurt cannot...

[To THE EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTATOR:1 SIE,—The following lines from the Anti-Tacobin are worth noting just now :— " By confiscation, in whose sweeping toils The Poor Man's...

[To TEE EDITOR Or TEE "SPECTATOR." J SIR,—Honest men of all parties, whether or not they agree with you about Land-taxes, will hold that your censure in last week's Spectator of...

[To TUB EDITOR Or VIE "8PECTATOR:1 Sut,—One small point seems to be overlooked both by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr. Charles Mallet (Spectator, August 14th). The...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECT•TOR."] your article on "The Indian Budget" in the Spectator of August 14th you quote the following passage un a recent book on India by Mr. Keir...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPEOTATOR."] `Sin, — May a septuagenarian (who is neither a Duke n.or—as _Lord Althorp so delightfully said—an agricultural labourer) venture to comment...

[To THE EDITOR OF TIM "SescrsToo.."] SIR,—Those of us who remember Cheddar Cliffs before the quarry was opened on the north side of the road through -the gorge will agree that...

Scotland a collie about six months old. He was allowed, like several of the pets you have mentioned, to be with us at the breakfast-table, but never to be fed in the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I have been very much interested in the article on country names of wild flowers in' last Week's issue. But surely "eggs-and-bacon" is...

(To THE EDITOR OF TEl ^ SFICTAT011.1 SIR, — Mr. E. S. Robertson's letter in the Spectator of June 26th reminds me of a little rough mongrel terrier I once had. She would beg for...

SIR,—Can any of your readers say how it has come about that the English Martagon lily (which, by the way, grows wild in a remote part of the Forest of Dean and may be...

[To TOR EDITOR OF TUN •• 13TECTATOR.“1 p. 21 of the Memoir of Principal Story, lately reviewed in the Spectator, the following anecdote is extracted from his diary :— " March...

SIR,—Tbe illustration of the cow licking the stuffed skin of her dead calf is quoted in humorous vein by your reviewer, in the Spectator of Jane 5th, of Mr. Brewster'e article....

fond of carrying about a stick which be expects me to throw for him. The other day I was walking by a stream and be wanted to drink. He went into the stream and put down 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...

THE CHILDREN'S COUNTRY HOLIDAYS FUND, A WIND awakens with the day And sings a tune, And all the waves in yonder bay Will hear it soon, And leap and laugh the children's way...

[To TER EDITOR Or TUC "SPECTATOR.1 SIE,—As a biographical memoir of Father Tyrrell will soon be in course of preparation, I shall be greatly obliged if any of your readers who...

much interest the article in the Spectator of last week on the "Country Names of Flowers," and wonder if any correspondent would draw up a list of plants which are supposed—when...

Sin,—The old country names of flowers must vary greatly with the locality in which they are studied. In Essex thirty years ago the names common among the country people did not...

HIGHER EDUCATION OF BOYS.* THE authors of this book, pleading a lack of personal authority, which is unnecessary in view of what they regard as the urgency of their subject,...

Ma. A. J. WiisoN has collected some of his essays which have appeared—mainly in the Investor's Review—during the past twenty years. Old as some of them are, he considers their...

THE two words that stand at the head of this article are familiar to all schoolboys, and most of us would, no doubt, still be able to trace upon a map the general limits of the...

ENGLAND is of all countries the one whose citizens stand in need of a book of this kind. We have no general Act of Parliament, or, indeed, document of any sort, from whioh we...

THE tide of this book will attract alike the devotee of art and the devotee of Stuart sovereignty. Mr. Blaikie Murdoch sets at rest all doubt as to the source of his...

"Ws have more chance of seeing the man Napoleon at St. Helena than at any other period of hie career," says 'Lord Rosebery. "In the first years of the Consulate the man was...

WE have heard that a mother, consulting her medical adviser about the best way of preserving her child's teeth, received this answer : "You must begin with his grandfather."...

AVENGING CHILDREN.* MRS. MANN'S new romance is once more laid in East Anglia —the action passes mainly in Norwich—but it is mid- Victorian East Anglia, the date being fixed by...

Press. 18s. net.)—This book deals with a compilation which apparently dates from some time between 600 and 800 A.D. It is not an authoritative statement of law, for much of it...

proves the versatility of his talent in this novel by embark- ing on a book which makes as complete a contrast as it is possible to imagine to his former novel "Drakestone," or...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not bun reserved for review in other forms.] The History of Pembrokeshire. By the Rev. James Phillips. (Elliot...

Blackwood and Sons. 6s.)—A distinctly humorous, if somewhat undistinguished, story of English life, with a change of scene to Ceylon.—A Reformer by Proxy. By John Parkinson....

8s. net.)—This handbook is in its twenty-third edition. When we add that it is illustrated with more than a hundred maps, plans, &c., and has been in all respects carefully...

Unwin. 8s. 68. net.)—It is quite true that, as General Greely puts it, Alaska is a terra incognita to most people, even more than to the American public which has a special...

and Co. 12s. 68. net.)—Dr. Moncure Conway spent the first thirty years of his life in the United States. In 1862 he visited England as an envoy of the Abolition Society, and...

Ward. Edited by A. N. Boll. With Introduction by R. C. Leader, B.A. (Sir W. C. Lung and Co. 21s.)—Mr. Ward was a citizen of Sheffield whose life covered the ninety years...

Conference. (Horace Marshall and Son. 2s. 68. net.) — A Parliament of the Press forms a very interesting record of the very successful Conference at which the journalists of the...

net.)—Thomas M'Cullagh was born in 1822 in Athlone, where the scanty representatives of Protestantism had no easy time. He took up the occupation of surveying, was employed in...

and Co. 10s. 6d. not.)—Professor Munro, who occupies a Chair of " Government " at Harvard, describes in this volume French, Prussian, and English municipalitiea. His...