T ITTLE has occurred during the week to illuminate the 4 negotiations between Russia and Germany. It is still said officially that they do not in any way affect the present...

the proposed fortification of Flushing by Holland—a fortification which would block the approach to Antwerp, and thus render difficult any operations from the sea in support...

of the Russo-German negotiations that Great Britain will now be obliged to enter into an agreement with Germany for the building of the Baghdad Railway, and must also recognise...

case.

disaster. The submarine ` II3 ' sank in Kiel Harbour on Tuesday morning, and though the crane tugs were soon at work, the vessel was not raised until 4 a.m. next morning. Three...

the visit of the German Ambassador to Rifaat Pasha at Constantinople last Saturday. The German Ambassador said that he could not explain the Russo-German negotiations in detail,...

an Eight-Page Supplement, containing the Half-Yearly Index and Title-Page,--i.e., from July 2nd to December 31st, 1910, inclusive.

who was in one of the public galleries, fired two shots at M. Briand. The first shot struck the floor between M. Briand's feet, and the second wounded in the leg M. Mirman,...

Irish League was held in Dublin on Wednesday, with the president, Mr. John Redmond, in the chair. On the motion of the chairman, it was decided "that no settlement of the Irish...

in the Sidney Street affray was concluded on Wednesday. Evidence having been given by Superintendent Stark, of the City Police, and Superintendent Mulvaney, of the Metropolitan...

Court of Bombay in the Nasik conspiracy case reached England at the close of last week. In view of Sir Henry Cotton's utter- ances—notably his expression of hope that Savarkar...

the Houndaditch murders were brought up again before the Guildhall Police Court on Monday. Inspector Bryant, who was wounded on the occasion, described the shooting of Sergeant...

Journal as a sign of the times. Lord Courtney's letter is a long discourse on the text video meliorci probogue, deteriora 'seguor. He is still " in wish and desire a Unionist,"...

Last Saturday night the railway strikes on the North-East Railway were settled on the basis of concessions in regard to pay, hours of work, and holidays, involving an extra...

that an agreement on reciprocity with Canada was reached on Wednesday between the American and Canadian officials. Certain details appear to have been referred to Ottawa, and...

of meteorology and anthropology, died on Tuesday at tle age of eighty-eight. Sir Francis Galton, who first made his mark as a traveller sixty years ago, was the father of the...

there will be a wholesale exodus of Irish Protestants—representatives of that free-bred minority of Ireland who have done splendid service in every department of British...

it was quite untrue that by accepting the Referendum Mr. Balfour had pushed Tariff Reform into the background. So long as the Constitutional problem was unsettled, Unionists...

as an Independent Unionist has been approved by an influential Committee, has issued an admir- able election address, which appears in Wednesday's papers. Dealing with the...

Mr. A. W. Richardson, a member of the Society of Friends resident in County Down, which appears in the Times of the 13th inst. Mr. Richardson, while maintaining the view• as a...

of Monday. The writer, the Times Parliamentary Correspondent, lays chief stress on organising the con- stituencies on the democratic basis adopted in the Liverpool area, where...

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is certain that it is from every point of view undesirable that Members of Parliament should vote salaries to themselves without first obtaining by means of a Referendum the...

O NE satisfactory feature of the Home-rule controversy is the willingness of the Nationalists at last to admit that on a Home-rule basis Ireland could not pay her way. This is...

1.11E1 RISK OF INVASION. I N a peculiar and unexpected form the Admiralty has issued its opinions on the risk of invasion, and it is obvious that no statement more important in...

D ISAPPOINTMENT at elections is invariably followed by recriminations and by a vast deal of wisdom after the event. The revolt against the Unionist leaders, which has made...

I T is unfortunate when the area of a considerable public improvement lies within the jurisdiction of more than one authority. Any collision between them is certain to raise the...

T HE destruction, as a world-Power, of the Roman Empire in the fifth century of our era offers a theme of never- ending interest. The worst evil against which the Roman Empire...

T RAVELLERS on their first journey on the new line laid by the Great Western Railway Company from Padding.. ton through Gerrards Cross to High Wycombe have probably been...

F EW athletic arts have had a more rapid and complete development in recent years than this fascinating creature of balance and speed. And in this development English skaters...

GAME PRESERVATION AND THE SLEEPING SICKNESS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SrEcTATOR.1 Six,—Some time ago I wrote to you pointing out the evils of game preservation in a...

Sra,—I was surprised on reading Mr. Moreton Frewen's letter (Spectator, January 14th) to learn that he only pays his gardener in Cork 8s. a week. In Belfast, a city much...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Snt,—I chanced to-day on the following passage in Lord Morley's "Oliver Cromwell," just at the beginning of the chapter headed " Growing...

THE CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sra,—I cannot help regretting that in your comments on my letter in the Spectator of January 7th you left its...

[To THE EDITOR OP TER "SPECTATOR."] Sni,—Mr. Murrough O'Brien argues (Spectator, January 7th) that, because the population of Ireland was in 1841 approxi- mately thrice that...

SIR, —If I may reply to your note (Spectator, January 7th), admittedly no resident in Ireland is taxed more than if he lived in England, and geographical areas are not taxed,...

the one thing in public affairs which is altogether a matter of sentiment. No man cares a button about his pocket so far as taxation is concerned; what he cannot stand is having...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR, I am really sorry to charge Dr. Rouse (Spectator, December 31st, 1910) with yet another shortcoming, but surely so lamentably to lack...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR, — Will you allow me to draw your readers' attention to a particularly flagrant example of Magyar administrative tyranny towards the...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."' although an Irish Protestant, I have not, or rather my cruel ancestors have not, preserved my blood " pure from Celtic taint." On one side...

1.1 . 0 THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIB,, More than six months have elapsed since this movement was started, and, so far as obtaining a large number of names on the roll is...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, — Before many weeks have sped this country will—if the Government attempt to make good their oft-repeated threats— be plunged...

your correspondent the scientific name of the bird which he describes as observed by him in Northern Nigeria, I can at least assure him that the origin which he gives of its...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—The notices of Mrs. Sherwood and her works which have appeared in your columns must seem to the general public like references to a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sta,—Twenty years ago the late Dr. Furnivall spread con- sternation among the representatives of the Forster and Browning families by...

[To TILE EDITOR 07 TER "SPECTATOR.") SIE, — In your last week's issue I have read a letter from Major H. D. Larymore asking for the name of a bird from Nigeria. The species he...

ISFECTATOR."1 STR,—I hesitate to criticise my critic. But I should be glad if you would allow me to correct a somewhat misleading inference that might be drawn from the short...

THE GREAT GALLEON. ["The operations in Tobermory Bay carried on so successfully for the past three weeks have now been temporarily discontinued until stronger suction plant,...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In the Spectator of December 31st, 1910, I read a review of Madame Marguerite Audoux's book. On December 13th I received a letter...

[TO THE EDITOR OE THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Surely, if the object of the League of St. George is to uphold righteousness in politics," the sixth object of the League, which is...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Eta,—The South African Native Races Committee desire to draw attention to a scheme for establishing a South African Native College for...

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...

TENNYSON AND NATURAL SCIENCE:* A CERTAIN kind and amount of Nature knowledge are appro- priate to poets. The general aspect of the visible world of things, earth, sea, and sky,...

THAT which people have been content to regard as the 4' soul " of John Brown the Abolitionist—a simple symbol— still "marches on." But John Brown's soul was by no means so...

IT was Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, we think, who said that most republished oratory was little better than " mouldy _wedding-cake." It is difficult to see how it could be...

written a really interesting and valuable book. She has evidently read widely, and has studied the actual buildings with loving attention ; the resulting volume is in...

OFFICERS.* This book meets a want which has existed longer than the Territorial Forces, for whose benefit it has been expressly written. It contains within some hundred and...

' FLOWERS" stand last of Miss Mothersole's three Scilly subjects, yet they are, in a sense, the most important. It is through them that the islands touch the life of the world....

WE have just received the first half of this new edition. The most self-confident of critics would hesitate to pronounce an opinion at so brief a notice of the literary and...

'ilia BROAD HIGHWAY.* Mn. JEFFERY FARNOL, whose name is new to us, the title. page of his novel containing no record of previous works, deserves a cordial welcome as a writer...

is the exercise of a full mind on the three primal ideas,—God, Immortality, and the Will. It states fairly the present fashionable monism ai la Haeckel, and, with equal...

• [Under this heading ws notice such Books of the week as have net isn► reserved for review in other forms.] A Short History of the Church of England. By the Rev. J. F....

and Co. 6s.)—A freshly written little book con- cerning* a young woman who runs away from Mayfair to try the simple life, with astonishingly good results.—Fedora of the...

character in Mr. Cobb's new novel is that of Stephen Maurice. Though he does not occupy any official position in the list of characters, he has an extraordinary faculty for...

6s.) — Father Benson does not contrive to be entirely articulate in his new noveL He leaves so much to the reader's imagination that the book itself is only a very bare...

(Methuen and Co. 6s.)—This novel begins in an admirable fashion with the escape of a young man wrongfully condemned to death for murder, and his subsequent rescue by a girl....

and Pickersgill. 6s. net.)—This "Journal of a Stargazer" will furnish its readers with much useful information. It is in the form of a diary, made last year, but serving, of...

and Hughes, Manchester. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Wood tells us some- 'thing about the history of golf, and illustrates what he tells with pictures of articles connected with the game...

Hemstreet. (T. Werner Laurie. 3s. 6d. net.)—The authors have taken much pains in collecting a number of facts connecting with various localities various men and women more or...

Series (Wells Gardner, Dorton, and Co., 3s. 6d. per vol.) One of these is 'The British Museum of Natural History (South Kensington), by W. P. Pycraft. In nothing is the...

Dunn- Pattison. (W. Blackwood and Sons. £2 2s. net.)—It is quite impossible to do justice to this book, a handsome quarto of more than four hundred pages, crowded with...

Sir James A. H. Murray (Clarendon Press, 2s. 6d.), contains an instalment of Vol. IX., " Si—Simple," by W. A. Craigie, LL.D. It is interesting, to take the last word of the...

and Son, Edinburgh.)—The best thing in this little book is, we think, the adaptation of an Arab legend which 'Lamar-tine relates in his "Voyage en Orient." It tells how...

Ferrier. 2s. 6d. net.)—The World Missionary Conference held at Edinburgh in the year just concluded is represented by a con- siderable literature. Various Commissions which...

Dixon, Cambridge. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Griffinhoofe begins with William Lyndewode of Lionville and Pembroke (1375-1446), and -ends with Sir Michael Foster of Trinity (1836-1907),...

our customary welcome to the annual volume of this excellent periodical,—the forty - second, we observe. It has won a very high place—it would not be too much to say the...

Exploration, Edited by Eustace Reynolds-Ball (Witherby and Co., Is. 6d.) This is "an Illustrated Monthly of Travel, Exploration, Adventure, and Sport." We wish the undertaking...

3s. 6d.)—Tho tin of Nigeria is a recent discovery, between five and six years old. The ore varies considerably in richness, some of it cant:lining as much as 63 . 5 of...