week by the agitation of Indians against the peculiar restrictions to which they are liable. We have written on the subject fully in a leading article, but we may add here that,...

• T HE Mexican situation remains much as it was when we wrote last week. President Wilson is still playing a waiting game in the hope that General Huerta's power will tumble...

throne, is paying a visit to England accompanied by his wife, the Duchess of Hohenberg. They arrived last Saturday and stayed in London till Monday, spending their time in...

and Captain Morshead, who have been exploring the San-po river, have returned to India. They proved that the San-po and the Brahmaputra are the same river. No falls were found....

a survey of the difficulties which have arisen from the extension of compulsory insurance in Germany. Under the new regulations, which are to come into force on January 1st,...

speech covering the whole political field. We have dealt at length elsewhere with what he said about the exclusion of Ulster and negotiations with the Government, and also with...

case.

the Dublin City Hall on Tuesday by three inspectors of the Local Government Board, the Lord Mayor, while declaring that the Corporation courted the most searching...

the Albert Hall meeting organized by the Daily Herald League, with Mr. Lambury in the chair. The announcement that the Parliamentary Committee of the Trade Union Congress had...

property as well as land should be subject to rates, or rather, had always been subject to rates, and that the exemption gradually acquired by personal property was totally...

an open-air meeting of the All-for-Ireland League at Mitchels town on Sunday. Mr. O'Brien observed that the Redmondite Party had killed the Land Purchase Act of 1903, and, since...

Hall, Birmingham, on Wednesday night. He said that the bitterness between the two nations had been assuaged. English prejudices had been modified, and the old feeling in Ireland...

is increasingly employed by the merchants, and great quantities of goods have been removed from the quays to the warehouses. As regards the general condition of life in Dublin,...

chaff of Lord Lincolnshire's "pompous, futile, and pretentious" declaration—to borrow a phrase from the Chancellor of the Exchequer—made lately to a newspaper. He has, he...

his improvements. As for the owners of land, any course of action which discouraged them from continuing to do what they have done for generations in the past, that is, to spend...

but if we get it through the Government building 120,000 cottages we shall pay so dearly for the reform that it will be of very doubtful value. The danger is that the County...

on the Safety of Life at Sea were entertained at dinner by the Government on Tuesday. The Conference was opened at the Foreign Office on Wednesday of last week. It is hoped that...

prompted by the success of the Rhodes scholars at the Freshmen's sports, cannot be regarded as a satisfac- tory settlement of an admitted anomaly. It is now proposed to rule out...

Bill, called together by the Houses of Laymen of the two provinces, was held in the Albert Hall on Thursday night. The Archbishop of Canterbury said that he doubted whether upon...

is taking up the subject which has several times been mentioned in these columns, namely, the duty which lies upon bodies like County Councils, District Councils, and other...

Tuesday, when indignant attacks were made on Mr. Churchill. The conference professed to be non-party, but it was mainly composed of Liberals. Lord Welby said that Ministers bad...

seemed almost on the rocks under the "full speed ahead" order, the reason was that the old captain and admirals were no longer on the quarter-deck and the wheel had been taken...

came to be at the meeting and to attack a Cabinet Minister we are utterly at a loss to explain. If the precedent is to be followed, it will be an evil day for the Civil Service....

LORD LANSDOWNE'S SPEECH. "We have pressed, and mean to go on pressing, for a general election. From the speeches of his Majesty's Ministers it seems clear that they intend to...

O N a former occasion we endeavoured to show what civil war would mean on the political and strategic side. We must now touch upon what it would mean in the Army itself. The...

T HE problem which has arisen in South Africa owing to the active discontent among the Indians is so complicated and delicate that the most experienced states- man might well...

R. BIRRELL'S speech at the Colston Day cele- brations in Bristol last week is typical of the combined cynicism and flippancy which have signalized his administration of the...

I N his address on the "Conduct of Life" at Edinburgh University last week Lord Haldane proved once more that the results of deep thinking, so long as it is clear thinking, are...

- 1 - xTrumsicALITY is delightful, but not to the general. V V Lady Bell has written a whimsical little book which will greatly please a few people. It is called Little Games...

"F LO does not bark at the moon only sometimes, and then she has some reason." I knew Ned Treves, Flo's master, well enough to be sure that, whether the dog had reason or not...

THE HUNTING- OF THE LANDLORD. • [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—The hunting of the landlord is the meanest and most dishonest political manceuvre of a period...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—Fortunately I do not possess extensive wind-swept, barren tracts of wild deer forests, but I possess a peaceful and compact dairying...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Lady Wantage is acting with enlightenment and humanity in giving her farm hands a half-holiday on Satur- day. It is not only farm...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—May I emphasize one passage in your excellent leading article in last week's issue on the Land Inquiry ? You there maintain, "We...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I was very pleased to see the letter of Mr. H. S. Verschoyle which appeared in your issue of November 8th, as there are still a vast...

[To THE EDITOR OF THZ " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your valuable paper has always been on the side of the strict administration of public relief, less from the point of view of saving...

[To TUE EDITOR 07 THE " SPRCTATOR.'] Sin,—Mr. John Dillon, speaking at the Canterbury Music Hall on the 15th inst., said, "There are at this moment in Ulster thousands of...

[To Inn EDITOR OF THE "SPZCTATOR."3 SIR, — Your interesting and timely article on the Mexican Imbroglio should be widely studied. It is difficult to see how the United States...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I have in my possession a letter written by the late Dr. Russel Wallace to a friend of mine, whose executor I was, which appears to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Mr. Bernard Shaw and the authors whom he defends appear to be indifferent to the general history of human evolution, or of what poets...

[To ma EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Please allow me to combat some of the statements made by the author of an article on " Saints " in the Spectator of October 25th. He...

[To TIM EDITOR OP TEE "SPECTATOR.") Sru,—The article upon the Styhead Road appearing in your issue of October 25th is calculated to strike a sympathetic chord in the hearts...

reply to my letter (Spectator, Novem- ber 8th), that the Jesuit failure is a spiritual failure, and all you say in support of this is, "Go into any great Jesuit church such as...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Bisbop Mylne, in his letter to you under the above heading, cites the case of a lady, lately deceased in her hundredth year, whose...

"How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! " [To THE Enrros OF THE "SPECTATOR."' S111, — Nine years ago I made the acquaintance of an English- man who had emigrated...

August 29th last there was a leading article on the foundering of the 'Royal George' at Spithead on August 29th, 1782, just a hundred and thirty-one years ago. I can just...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—J. D. Davis's remarks on the Jesuits in your issue of November 8th recall a leaflet I once read, the reprint of a sermon preached at a...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...1 SIR,—The letter of your correspondent, W". Fletcher, in your issue of November 8th, reads like a modern curious, if not endorsing,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] have been much interested in your effort on behalf of cheap cottages in the Spectator, and desire to draw your attention to a type of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In the Spoctator of October 18th a correspondent, "W. A. C.," a propos of the use of oil as a wave-stiller during the 'Volturno'...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Kensington Gardens have at present an interesting exotic addition to their more permanent avifauna in the presence of a bright green...

your correspondent's inquiry re pise I built a kraal about seven years ago, which will probably be standing for another seven. It was my first essay in this country, and I used...

SrE,—The following story was told to me so many years ago that it may be as good as new to some of your readers. Two boys disputed as to whose father said the shorter grace....

your varied list of thanksgivings a grace which I heard uttered at a political banquet in Ireland before the speeches commenced ?—" For all the material blessings we have...

[To THE EDITOR 07 TUE "SPECTATOR.") Stn,—Possibly some of the following "Graces before meat" may be of use to your correspondent of November 8th, though they do not all...

God bless," always answers my purpose.

[To TEE ED/TOR 07 Tux "SPECTLTOR."1 Stn,—Noticing yesterday that there were for the time of year an unusual number of plants flowering in my garden, I took a count. Counting...

Smith, asks for a form. Let me suggest this: "For these and all His bounties God's holy name be praised."—I am, Sir, &c., A THANESGIVER. [This correspondence must now...

SrE,—A monosyllabic Saxon grace : "Grant us Thy grace, 0 God, with these Thy good gifts, for Christ's sake—Amen."-.-

SIR,—" Grace before meat" implies asking a blessing ; "Grace after meat," giving thanks. I have heard the former thus expressed by Archbishop Trench: "God bless His gifts to...

send you a short quotation from a sermon by the late Provost of Trinity College, Dublin :— " One of my early recollections is hearing a charity sermon from one of the most...

SIR,—In reply to your correspondent, M. Smith, may I suggest a grace I once heard used by Professor Chiene, of Edinburgh ? "To Thy bounty add Thy blessing.—Amen."—

is given in Bright's Ancient Collects. With some slight alteration it might suit your correspondent's purpose.—I am, Sir, &c., C. H. T. "Bless, 0 Lord, Thy gifts, which we...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the interesting article in your issue of November 8th I notice that one article of the badger's diet is not mentioned. This is 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...

"GREAT CATHERINE" AT THE VAUDEVILLE. EVEN though Great Catherine is one of the slightest of Mr. Bernard Shaw's plays, that is a very poor reason for abusing it. To a superficial...

FOUQUIER TINVILLE.* "REVOLUTION," Mr. G-. Trevelyan says with truth in his history of England under the Stuarts, "is the historian's touchstone, by which to try the quality of a...

A LAY OF LARKIN. WHEN Larkin, who in former days had been On friendly terms with gentle Aberdeen, With revolutionary fervour flown Not only levelled insults at the Throne, But...

LORD SELBORNE has accomplished a useful work in his little book, The State and the Citizen. It is in effect a popular handbook to the Constitution, or rather to the problems...

IN the heading to this article we have combined the titles of the two books before us, which may well be read together— the one for practical instruction in the craft and art...

CAPTAIN HARRY GRAHAM, most agreeable of social satirists and light versifiers, has presented us in the book with a gallery of rather melancholy prose portraits. Satire and irony...

last exhibition will be delighted to meet his caricatures again in this small octavo volume. We are not quite sure, however, whether we really like to see the drawings so...

Petronius, and the gross indecencies which deface it, have long since removed it from our educational library, and that is too apt nowadays to mean complete extinguishment for a...

A BAND OF BROTHERS.t SCHOOL stories may be roughly classified under three head- ings: the sentimental, the orthodox, and the discontented. Sentiment in the extreme form—as...

DR. HYAMSON'S inspiring idea in issuing this book is suffi- ciently explained in his preface. He thought that the work which be has edited would furnish an admirable stepping-...

pages! Fifteen shillings ! A hundred and six illustrations! And all about a murder which has been already told by Robert Browning from at least ten points of view." The reader...

as the title-page seems to indicate, The Truth about Camilla is really a first novel, the reader may well expect great things of Miss Hall in the future. The book shows a...

6s.)—There is nothing new under the sun, and even Mr. Phillpotts's studies of Dartmoor life are not unfamiliar : here is, as usual, the fresh atmosphere of the moor, where the...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been roserved for rniow in other forms.] The Book of Public Speaking. Edited by A. C. Fox-Davies. Vol. IV....

Catherine Durning Whetham and Margaret, her daughter. (Longtuans and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)--We have often had occasion to say a word in encouragement of parish histories, for, as...

Head Press, Stratford-upon-Avon. 3s. 6d. net.) —Centenaries demand a chronicle, and certainly the well- known firm of Westley Richards have taken their share in the making of...

Drillien. (John Lane. 3s. 6d. net.)—A little study of two children which may be tolerable in the original French ; in a translation it has no especial charm, and shows little...

book as this, which was published in France in 1886, should never before have been translated into English. But we must remember how much slower has been the growth among...

(Henry Frowde and Hodder and Stoughton), was reviewed by us last week as a new book, there being no indication that it had been published previously. We find on reference to our...

10s. 6d. net.)—The history of the growth of Letchworth Garden City will be found in these pages, which are illustrated with a number of photographs. We notice that Mr. Purdom...

M.A. (Cambridge University Press. 7s. 6d. net.) —Students of the growing science of place-names will wel- eome this book, which deals with the part of the West Riding that...