Bedford called attention to the reductions in the Regular Army and the Regular Reserve, to the deficiency of officers in the Regular Army and in the Special Reserve, and to the...

V ERY little of importance in foreign affairs has been recorded during the week, but we note that the corre- spondent of the Times at Teheran, telegraphing to Wednesday's paper,...

the highly important protest against the Budget by a number of London merchants, bankers, and business men. The protest, which was published in the papers of last Saturday, was...

and those strikers have practically all returned to work whom the Government were willing to receive back. Some hundreds, however, have been dismissed. M. Clemenceau is to be...

marked pessimism. He confirmed all that the Duke of Bedford had said as to the lamentable want of officers. He was utterly amazed at the Army being treated in both Houses as a...

Salisbury's formula, "the vision that rises before us" is of some notable pirate like Captain Kidd or Morgan or Jones, who, it will be remembered, are always portrayed in boys'...

any case.

been proceeding throughout the week, but without much result, and there are already signs of flagging interest. The interest was, however, somewhat revived on Thursday night...

the distinguished novelist and poet, who died at his house in Surrey early on Tuesday morning. There has been during the week a loud expression of public opinion that the...

a somewhat stormy scene in the House of Commons on Wednesday. Mr. McKenna made it clear that Captain Bacon had no notion when he wrote these letters that they would be printed...

of the Dean is very limited, and that each fresh burial in the Abbey makes the difficulty of conferring this signal honour greater than before. We doubt if there is room in the...

in the Budget the wealth represented by the signatories of the protest could be called upon to contribute its proper share to the national expenditure. In Prance, under the...

of the letter written by Captain Bacon, R.N., reflecting on officers of superior rank, and printed privately by the Admiralty for the instruction of the Board. But we felt that...

Hall . to inaugurate the True Temperance Association. The aims of this body are set forth in a letter signed by Lord Halsbury, Mr. C. A. Grippe, K.C., Lord Plymouth, Mr. J. F....

journalists to notice this incident without a very considerable sense of humiliation, for we are proud of our trade. We are no enemies of journalistic enterprise, and can...

April lat.. °enrols (21) were on Friday 851—Fritlay wool; S.

speech, stated his belief that the bulk of thoughtful and intelligent women were opposed to this proposal. But they must not underrate the seriousness of the question. The...

illuminative than the first, noted by us last week. Dealing on this occasion with Burke's style, he observed that it was an outgrowth of his matter and his mind, and all the...

by a section of the Press over the fact that Mrs. Asquith asked a certain number of her friends to look at some Paris gowns in Downing Street has, we trust, received its quietus...

Mr. Justice Bray, and Mr. Justice Lawrence, gave judgment in the case of a refusal of Holy Communion. A rule 'nisi had been obtained by Canon Thompson calling upon Sir Lewis...

Woman Suffrage, presided at a dinner held by the League at the Hotel Cecil on Tuesday, and introduced the toast of the guests—Lord James of Hereford and Lord Curzon—in a brief...

AMERICA AND THE COMMAND OF THE SEA. T HERE are no better diplomatists than the best of the American Ambassadors and Ministers, and the State Department at Washington has a high...

M R. ASQUITH spoiled what would have been an admirable speech on the Roman Catholic Dis- abilities Removal Bill by one weak and inconsistent sentence. He made out an...

T HE broad principles of the scheme for insuring work- men against unemployment, which Mr. Churchill described in an important statement in the House of Commons on Wednesday,...

W ORKING men who are employed by the Govern- ment, or whose friends are so employed, are in the habit of using a phrase which is highly instructive. They speak of So-and-so as...

published in to-day's Spectator will be found one signed "E. M. L." which is of very painful import. It describes how a lady was refused the Communion in her parish church on...

T HE death of Mr. Meredith on Tuesday morning was a great bereavement to the English race. Perhaps it is a bereavement without regrets, for his work was done, and we could hope...

p a OUSE-PRIDE is a thing of recent growth ; at any rate, it is a thing of recent and widespread revival. The rich burghers of the past Who etnployed great artists to paint the...

O NE of the most delicate fancies of that airy Elizabethan pastoral, John Day's Parliament of Bees, is kept for the close of the play. Oberon bas settled disputes and given his...

[To Till EDITOR or Till "SPECTATOR."] Srn,—There seems to be a hopeless state of confusion with respect to Welsh religious statistics. In your last issue the Bishop of St. Asaph...

REFUSAL OF THE COMMUNION ON THE GROUND OF NONCONFORMITY.' , [TO TII1 EDITOR OF TIll " SFROTAT011.1 &L .- 7/ , was much struck by the concluding sentences of your review in the...

grave disagreement between two men obviously well-informed and sincere, the Bishop of St. David's and your correspondent Mr. Owens, may I point out that no religious census will...

SIR,—Your correspondent Mr. John Owens denies that Non- conformists "have accumulated funds which make permanent provision for the ministers of religion," and he further states...

[TO THI EDITOR OF THU " SPZOTATO R." Snt,—We know from the example of Mr. Ramsay Macdonald that even Socialist opinion in this country on the question of the minimum wage is by...

Sin,—Mr. John Owens has endeavoured in your issue of May 8th to correct some of your statements. Your editorial comment disposes of his first paragraph, which claims the...

[To TDB EDITOR or THU “sesareree."1 Sin, — On the subjeot of "The Quakers and their Principles," the following extract from a sermon preached by Dean Stanley in Philadelphia,...

upon His followers that resistance of evil the absence of which was to be the very essence of the Kingdom He had sent them to proelaith. (Luke xxii. 36): "He that bath no sword,...

[To Tits EDITOR OF THR "SPECTATOR.") Sru,—I have read your fine article on " Preparation " in the Spectator of April 24th, and I should like to venture the assertion that if...

Mr. Thomas Thwaites in your last issue must not be mistaken for those of the Society of Friends, which has always maintained that all war is incon- sistent with the spirit and...

ITO THIO nurron or TIIR "SPROTATOR.1 Sin, — The world, as far as the British Empire is concerned, surely does not end in 1912, though that date seems fixed upon by some as the...

Tile " SPKOTATOR." Sus,—Permit me, not for the first time, to urge that the Unionist Party, at all events before the approach of a General Election, should adopt as a definite...

[To THE EDITOR OF THR "Srzorrros."] SIR,—As the operation of the Old-Age Pension Act in Ireland is just now a question of some interest to the public, may I be allowed to state...

ITo Tan rcnieon Of Tall "Slie

To TIM EDITOR OF TUE " SPUCTATOR."] Snt,—A very good friend and helper of England in her work in India died on April 5th in the person of Mr. N. N. Ghosh, the editor of the...

[To TIM EDITOR Or run SPROTATOR:] Sut,—In the interesting article in the Spectator of April 17th entitled "A Book of the Road," virtually a review of Owen's "Britannia Depicta,...

[TO TUN En lT011 Of TUN " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—In reference to the theory advanced in your last issue that heath fires may occasionally be started by the focussing of the sun's rays...

[To TIM ED/T0111 01' TIll "SPROTATOM".1 SIR, — Since the Congo Reform Association issued in pamphlet form the Report of the Hon. W. Thesiger, our Consul in the Congo, on the...

[TO Tax EDITOR OF TES SPIBOT8TOR."1 Bra,—In the Spectator of May 8th Miss Tait calls attention to an error in your review of Mrs. Diver's book, "The Englishwoman in India,' as...

A FARMER IN SEARCH OF A WIFE. MY head's in a muddle, My heart's full of trouble, And little the wonder, as soon you may see. I want a wife badly, And marry I'd gladly, But...

THE " BPROIATOR."] SIR,—In response to the wishes of Lady Gairdner and her family, I have undertaken to edit the medical and scientific papers and articles of the late Sir...

[To Tax EDITOR OY TRIO "SPECTATOR...3 Si,—Your review of my novel, "Gervase," in your last issuer will undoubtedly convey to the reader that "the book is a piece of clever...

[TO THR EDITOR OW THR "SPICOVATOR,1 SIR —The article in your issue of March 27th on the plucky attempt of Lieutenant Shackleton to reach the South Pole has put me in mind of a...

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 SPRINGS OF HELICON.* OXFORD Professors of Poetry have given to English literature in the past some of its best work in criticism. The occupant of the Chair is often a...

English life and character is more thoughtful and better expressed than anything on similar lines by an American that we have read for a long time. These papers, which have...

a fool of a saint" (John Wesley, Journal). "Catherine is a saint of a typo (hysterical) of woman not uncommon, which is a general nuisance" (Baring-Gould, Lives of the Saints,...

"THE money of modern English commerce and finance is the cheque, and the credit dealt in in the London money Market is the right to draw a cheque." This terse sentence will give...

Queen of Scots falls naturally into four divisions: her infancy in Scotland, her childhood at the French • The Meaning of Money. By Hartley Withers. London 1 Smith, Elder, and...

FAIRFA_X MORESBY left school, where he had Sir Robert Peel among his junior contemporaries, to join the Volage' as an A.B.—this was a backway for lads who had friends in high...

WHETHER a child will like this or that book of stories can , scarcely be known for certainty without actual experiment,. but the volume before us has every look of being likely...

Mn. BAKER, who presents the somewhat rare combination of ' an historian, a lawyer, and a student of military affairs, has written an admirable and most practical guide to the...

DAPHNE.* 'Tron ethical element has always been more or less prominent ;in Mrs. Humplwy Ward's stories, but she has never so frankly or undisguisediy committed herself to the...

Charles Marriott has written a novel which would be more edifying did he not take a standpoint in regard to matrimony which we have never countenanced in these columns. From his...

spite of the fact that this book is written with considerable stiff- ness, and that the characters are so magnificently aristocratic that the reader sometimes longs for the...

6s.)—A terrifying story of thirty or forty years hence. It shows England under the yoke of China. A Christian persecution, mediaeval in its details, is the chief subject of the...

circulation of this most successful venture increases by leaps and. bounds ; from ten thousand in 1003 it grew to a hundred and fifty thousand in 1908. As everything is...

Dumsday (Itadden, Best, and Co., 5s.), is a ca reful account of tho Act of' 1906, a piece of legislation which super Boded all the enactments. of the years 1887-1907.

Od.)—Miss Whiting is evidently one of the good Americans whose aspiration is to go to Paris when they die. She writes of it with more than enthusiasm, with, we might say,...

(A. Constable and Co. 5s. net.)—Mr. Seton tolls one of his stories of woodland life with all his accustomed skill and sympathy. We are introduced at the beginning of the book to...

[Vidor this indi,, iso natio such Books of lIts wrak as hays not does vossrvs4 for review in other forms.] St. John, Apostle, Evangelist, and Prophet. By the Rev. C. E....

by W. Rennie. (E. Arnold. Os. net.)— The Acharnians is the oldest extant comedy in the world, and certainly one of the most amusing. The scenes in the Assembly, with the Eye of...

(The Scientific Press. 7s. Od. not.)—"The area of givers has been very largely increased, and the number of those who do something each year in the cause of the sick is an...

accord to them, some books dealing with provincial English life, past and present. These are :—Memorials of Old Lancashire. Edited by Lieut.-Colonel Fishwick and the Rev. P. H....

is. net.)—In this pamphlet we have an abstract of the Report of the Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble- Minded, a most necessary work if the subject is to be...

(T. Fisher 17nwin. 1St'. neb.)—A "fourth revised edition," of which, in view of the world-wide fame of the series, we need only record the appearance.—With this we may mention...