and President Taft remains, as we write, undecided. Friday's news seems to show, however, that Mr. Roose- velt's supporters will be beaten at the Convention. He will then have...

of which the Daily Mail correspondent speaks, has been, as we trust it may have been, successful, and if also the shipbuilding has been efficiently carried out, and, further, if...

A REUTER telegram from St. Petersburg published on Friday states that at Thursday's sitting of the Duma the Premier declared that the Russian fleet was necessary, not to protect...

1812 he would not have been driven to attack Moscow, but his army could have advanced through the Baltic provinces, with his fleet guarding their left flank, and the Russian...

part a carnival of music, megaphones, and flag-waving. According to the Daily News correspondent, who gives a most lively account of Wednesday's meeting, neither Senator Root...

" because an independent candidature for the Presidency would cost a million sterling, and his friends are not rich enough to find that amount. We very much doubt the necessity...

ease.

On Tuesday the Emperor Francis Joseph sent a remarkable message through the Acting Premier to the Ruthene deputies in the Austrian Chamber expressing his especial satisfaction...

Commons on Monday by Mr. J. A. Pease, the Minister for Education, in a speech teeming with unconscious humour. The main features of the measure are the addition of 2,500,000 men...

brought against the supporters of the amendment. He was opposed to Home Rule root and branch, but if the change was to be made, let there be an arrangement by which civil war...

belief that if Mr. Roosevelt stood as an Independent candidate, free from all money influences, he might perform the miracle and secure election as President. If, however, this...

the provisions of the Home Rule Bill was resumed on Tuesday by Mr. F. E. Smith, who empha- sized the democratic character of the resistance to Home Rule in Belfast and...

regatta on the Lower Elbe, was entertained on Tuesday at a banquet on board the Hamburg American liner ' Victoria Luise.' The Burgomaster, in proposing the Emperor's health,...

on Wednesday, when the principal amendment discussed was Mr. Dickinson's, which provided for the establishment of Single Chamber government in Ireland. This amendment was...

speech laudably free from facetiousness, admitted that there still were black spots in Ireland, but reiterated his conviction that only a local Executive, supported by the...

the Albert Hall yesterday week under the joint auspices of the Union Defence League, the Unionist Associations of Ireland, and the Conservative and Unionist Associations of...

end by the beginning of the week. The ballot of the Sailors' and Firemen's Union showed a large majority against a stoppage, as did that of the Scottish transport workers. In...

has been called the Right to the Communion case. It may be remembered that Canon Thompson refused to administer the Communion to Mr. and Mrs. Banister on the ground that Mr....

the Land Valuation Office gave the Opposition an opportunity to challenge the methods of valuation under the 1910 Budget. In his defensive speech Mr. Lloyd George announced that...

moved by Lord Crewe in the Lords on Monday. The ensuing debate was remarkable for the unanimity with which the three ex-Viceroys of India—Lord Curzon, Lord Minto, and Lord...

the previous evening before the Society of Chemical Industry by Professor Perkin. The lecturer announced the discovery of means of manufacturing on a commercial basis artificial...

May 9th. Consols (24) were on Friday ?GI—Friday week 761.

THE APOTHEOSIS OF PARTISANSHIP. T HE Government's so-called Reform Bill is the most shameless piece of political partisanship that has ever been introduced into the House of...

W E have always urged that Ulster was the weakest point in the Government's Home Rule Bill, and that it was through insistence on forcing North-East Ulster under a Dublin...

T "public is only beginning by degrees to appreciate the full extent of the mischief which results from Mr. Lloyd George's passionate eagerness to bring his Insurance Act into...

and to Herr Herggelet, a German resident in London, for a very frank portraiture of themselves. The painter aims not so much at improving us, greatly as he sees we need it, as...

T HE doctrine of previous existence has never appealed to the Western mind. It offers an easy explanation of almost all the problems of life. Yet most of ns instinctively set it...

T HE death of Dr. Verrall (which took place on Tuesday) removes from Cambridge society one of its most striking figures. In his own University his influence was obviously very...

T HE first stage in the use of dirigible air craft in war has been reached. A dirigible has been used to carry out a reconnaissance in actual fighting ; its crew has recon-...

"BriC7TATOIL."] think the Government have now permitted the true nature of their Bill to appear. It is a Bill for the Coercion of Ulster. I hope this title will be given to it...

Sin,—If, as you suggest, the Protestant counties of Ulster secede from the Empire on the passing of a Home Rule Bill, it is not likely that troops will be sent to coerce them....

[TO TRU EDITOR or THS " SPECTATOR." J SIE,—A letter under this head, by the Rev. W. S. Provand of Glasgow, refers to the Memorandum recently prepared by the Church of Scotland...

"THE CONFEDERATES." [To THR EDITOR OF TUX "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—It is stated in to-day's papers that this little band of wreckers is again trying its best to smash the...

kindly columns ask information from the advocates of the Insurance Bill as to the benefits to be derived from it by a private governess like myself P My first feeling was that I...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — In reviewing the second volume of "The American People" in your issue of April 27th your reviewer said :- " People think of the Roman...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIB, — Your article on the above subject, in connexion with Mr. Dibblee's book, illustrates the disadvantages of using the same word—here...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Having been a member of the Hearts of Oak Benefit Society upwards of 23 years, I think a clear statement of the position in which I...

ITO Till EDITOR 01 Till " SPECTATOR.",) Stn.,—Reviewing an article of mine in the Nineteenth Century entitled "The Failure of Post-Bismarckian Germany," you wrote in your issue...

[To Till EDITOR. OF Till .'SrscrITon."] SIR,—Miss Mary Gaunt writes to you implying that she alone appreciates West Africa, that the climate has been grossly maligned, that many...

[To TRNI EDITOR 01 TRII "SPROTLTOR.1 SIR, —You may be interested in the inclosed reprint of verses written by me some ten or fifteen years ago.—I am, Sir, &a., BEETRA.ND...

[TO TED EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—The report of the Committee, and what follows it, ought to put an end to the vile trade in quack medicines, for the protection of which...

rTo THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. ") Sin,—The National Reserve of the City of Edinburgh now numbers 5,568 officers, non-commissioned officers, and men, who are classified as...

[TO THE EDITOR 01 THE " SPECTLTOR."] Sin,—There is a passage in R. L. Stevenson's " The Dynamiter" (a book of which the satire has never perhaps received its full due) that I...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR, — If it were merely a matter of a difference of opinion between the Spectator and myself I would not trouble you with a comment upon...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEcTATore."1 SIR,—I am much pleased that the Cunard Line has adopted the suggestion of my brother, Marston Niles, U.S.A., con- tained in his letter of...

[TO THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Many people are now busily planning delightful holidays, eagerly debating where best they may find "a place in the sun." I would ask...

[To THE EDITOR OP TUB " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — When in the service of the Government of Sierra Leone in 1874 I had in my employ George Leigh, who had, a short time previously, been...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—I trust you may be able to find space for the enclosed announcement. In view of our alliance with Portugal con- siderable importance...

[To THZ EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin, — The readers of the Spectator will, I feel sure, be pleased to hear that Colley Hill has been saved from the builders and that this...

Smythe Palmer in his quotation from " Saints and Savages" in your issue of June 8th so staggers me that I cannot resist writing to you about it. " In the Western Hebrides," he...

[To THII EDITOR 01 THE " SPICTATOR."] SIR,—Your correspondent Mr. L. J. Roberts asks if it is not true that Coleridge was the first poet who accurately character- ized the song...

[To THE EDITOR Of Tam "Sracuroa."] SIR,—Surely the notion of " deriving " the term "rude health • from the Latin "crude salmi " is entirely uncalled for and misleading. No...

[To TIM EDITOR OF TER " SPILCTATOR."] SIR, — In his letter in the issue of June 8th on the derivation of these words Mr. Candler antiquem renovat d,olorem. The subject has been...

from Symonds's translation of the Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (p. 348) :— " Pushing the door open, I drew my sword and set the point at his throat. At the same instant I...

[To vs. EDITOR or Tar "Sraorkvon.." SIR,—It is probably known to comparatively few of your readers that there are at all times a large number of boys at large in London and...

[To THU EDITOR or ram "SrscrArop."] Sin,—On Saturday, June 1st, a swallow which had flown into my house and was caught was found to carry a small metal ring upon one of its...

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 »lode of...

MARY WAKEFIELD. THE debt which music owes to the devotion of amateurs— using the word in the high sense which links it with dia. interested affection rather than...

TO A FRIEND ON HIS FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY. WHEN Horace taught us in our youth, My Postunins, that years were flying ; 'We laughed; the venerable truth Was evident beyond denying....

[To TR1 EDITOR Of THE 4 1/PICCTATOR.":1 SIR,—In the review of "Parliamentary Reminiscences" in your last issue four lines are quoted from "The Deserted Village!' Macaulay...

THE LITERATURE OF POWER.* ENGLisvi critics at the beginning of the nineteenth century,. fresh from the study of German metaphysicians, were mucli concerned with various...

SELF-RBYELITION, whether in solitary men or in nations, is usually infinitely more illuminating than studies from without, except in the rare cases where the interpreter is a...

WITHIN recent times interest in national history has been much stimulated, in:Scotland. There has been no lack of good and painstaking historians. The long religious struggle...

IT is impossible in the limits of a single notice to do more than draw attention to the main features,of this monumental work, which sums up in six volumes, printed:and...

from the "Ensign and thirty men" stationed in Bengal towards the end of the seventeenth century to the great modern Line—perhaps the most wonderful military organism the world...

HERE is Mr. Belloc once more in his mood of "The Path to Rome," and once more the result is delightful. The Four Men meet near Robertsbridge on the Kent border, and for four...

singer, the orator can look forward only to the most shadowy of posthumous fames. However • exactly his words may be taken down by the shorthand writer, the essence of his...

the attention of the reading publics : Goethe : the Man and his Character, by Joseph McCabe ; and Goethe and his Woman Friends, by Mary Caroline Crawford. Not many lives of...

Os.)—This novel comes under a category of fiction which we may describe as " the luxury of woo," and, as might be expected from the name of the author, takes no inconsiderable...

TALES OF A GREEK ISLAND.° Irr introducing her charming volume to English readers Mme. Dragoumis enjoys an advantage shared by few foreign writers. She writes such excellent and...

Magruder. (Grant Richards. Os.)—This is a story of marrying in haste and repenting at leisure. The husband in question is an almost impossibly disagreeable person, and it is a...

and Windus. Os.)—The abrupt and dramatic ending of this story is certainly not in tone with its quiet beginning, but, as pointed out by Mr. Madox Hueffer in his introduction, it...

(Oxford University Press. 2s. 6d. net.)—Children are more Bucks Biographies : a School Book. By Margaret M. Verney. (Oxford University Press. 2s. 6d. net.)—Children are more...

Co. 4e. 6d. net.)—The epistemological theories of William James are sot out fully and, as far as that is possible, consistently in this series of essays. All of them have...

net.)—Our readers may be glad to know of a reprint of some articles and letters which have recently appeared in our columns upon this question.

Kenyon. Vole. I. and II. (Smith, Elder and Co. 10s. 6d. not each.)—Tho Centenary edition of Browning's poems is to be com- pleted in ton volumes, of which the first two are...

Theatre gives an opportunity for mentioning a few recently published volumes connected with the Irish drama. T. M. Synge: a Critical Study, by P. P. Howe (Martin Seeker, 7s. 6d....

ONII■1 4 1.•■■• (Tinder this heading vs notice ouch Books of the week as have not bun reserved for review in other forms.1 Prom ,Ibsen's Workshop. Translated by A. G. Chater....