that the Japanese are becoming increasingly indignant at the failure of China to answer Japanese communications on the various points at issue between the two countries. The...

resignation of M. Clemenceau. The debate on the state of the Navy went very well for the Government up to a certain point, but it ended in a fierce personal encounter between H....

not yet been formed, but, unless something unforeseen happens, H. Briand, who was summoned to the Elysee on Thursday, will succeed in his task. M. Briand, who has hitherto been...

E VENTS in Persia have moved rapidly during the week. The act of the Shah in taking sanctuary at the Russian Legation, which we recorded last Saturday, was of course tantamount...

attention to a letter written by the Duke of Norfolk to Mr. Profumo, the Unionist candidate in the Peak division. He complained that the Duke of Norfolk's letter violated the...

a tribute to the wisdom and good faith with which M. Sablin, the Russian Charge d'Affaires, has acted. The special correspondent of the Times says that the greatest pressure was...

has been the announcement on the state of public business made by the Prime Minister in the House of Commons on Thursday night. Though it was of the colourless order, it shows,...

Sir Charles Dllke made a general attack on the foreign policy of the Government, dealing with Austria ana the Balkans, our policy as regards Turkey, the general position of...

has been given during the week to our contention. that if the Lords, as we now feel sure they will, throw out the land clauses, but pass the rest of the Budget, the Government...

task of proceeding with the Budget on the present lines has become hopeless, and, that no attempt will be made to deal with it before August 9th. If, however, as seems likely,...

the Government point of view will be to do this at once, we realise that it is far more likely that the Government will take two bites to their cherry. During the coming...

sing his famous song, "They Never Will be Missed—They Never Will be Missed," he did not mention any politician by name, but would alter his voice or change his look, sink his...

the. general sense of the House would not permit an act of marked discourtesy to the head of the Russian State-to-bring about a division not merely between the Governments but...

was held under the auspices of the British Constitution Assooiation at the St. James's Hall on Tuesday to consider the Land-tax proposals of the Budget. Lord Balfour, who...

can value his own land; but the vast majority of owners would be afraid of doing so, and would feel obliged to employ expert valuers, and probably to employ them through a...

are a very good-tempered and not at all an envious people, and also are always inclined to admire and pay a certain tribute of deference to position or success. It is, however,...

been during the past week publishing some very interesting criticisms of English life by Mr. Frank Fox, an Australian journalist. Mr. Fox, very rightly, does not spare our...

April let. Consols (2i) were on Friday 841--Friday week 84f.

been lying in the Thames, stretching from the Nore to Westminster, and has been "at home" to the people of London. It is a curious fact that the Fleet has never visited London...

in his monoplane in an attempt to fly across the Channel. The French destroyer Harpon ' steamed ahead in order to render help if necessary. When the monoplane had flown about...

prize in the Spectator Competition was won by the City of London Rifle Club, the second by the Brislington Rifle Club, and the third by the Cambridge University Rifle Club. The...

the Liberal candidate, by a majority of 292 votes. At the General Election Mr. Gulland was returned by a majority of 633 votes. If we consider the small number of electors, this...

from expressing our deep regret at the death on Friday fortnight of Lord Ripon, who was in his eighty-second year. He was born ten years before Queen Victoria came to the...

THE LORDS AND THE BUDGET. T N dealing with this question we have set forth certain propositions founded on justice and common-sense. We venture to say that during the past week...

the Turkish Parliament are in themselves so dis- tinguished that they would have been received here with the highest respect had they enjoyed no representative character. Since...

N OTHING seemed more certain than that M. Clernenceau would survive the naval debate on which he entered on Tuesday with his usual air of confident and rather disdainful...

has been before:the House of Commons for more weeks than the mind tares to record, it is worth while to take stock of 'the , situation reached. Nine clauses have been agreed; to...

E NGLAND, fortunately for most reasons but unfor- tunately for one, is a manufacturing country, and when Englishmen bad "left the land" a knowledge of the affairs of the land...

T HERE is a prevalent opinion that English country people are not dancers. It is assumed, because we hear nothing in country places of national figure- and step- dancing, that...

the religious education controversy we, in a poor man's house, do not care two pins. Some few people, no doubt, feel very earnestly in the matter—all honour to them—but in the...

may be interesting to those of your readers who have followed in sympathy Father Tyrrell's strenuous and fearless career, and now mourn over his death, to be reminded of some...

THE LORDS AND THE LAND CLAUSES. !To THZ ELHTOH Or TIM " SrICTATOR.."J SIR,—I have observed with great interest and much satis- faction the letter of Sir Francis Channing...

rTo THY EDITOR. Or TES "SrliCTATOR."1 Siu,—You need not entertain a particle of doubt as to whether the people of the United States "would allow Japan to take the State of...

LTO THE EDITOR Or TES "Sexeraoroo."] Sin,—The "Bank Director" who writes in your issue of the 10th inst. has evidently very little idea of political matters. If the House of...

EOTATOR."1 SIR,-With regard to the letter in your issue of the 17th inst. headed "Why Not Popularise Consols ? " it may be of interest to some of your readers to know that our...

SIR,—I remember one dark night some years ago I was returning home from a meeting at Stonesfield, Oxon. Driving down the rather steep road from the village, I was surprised to...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your interesting article of last week on "Presenti- ments" reminds me of Newman's lines on "Warnings." It would seem that he also...

SPECTATOR." SIR,—" More than a centary ago Gilbert White remarked that the maxim that defines instinct to be that secret influence by which every species is compelled...

TOR."] SIR,—A horse I rode in Australia, 'Sportsman,' was very fond of shamming lameness when he was sulky. I have sometimes in the course of a ride got down two or three times...

[TO THE EDITOR 01 THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR, — In your kindly notice of my book, "Our Island Church" (Spectator, July 17th), you direct my attention to "the offer made by this...

[To THR EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—A recent visit to one of our great public schools has strengthened my conviction that public-school masters, while condemning and...

bay horse for twenty-four years in regular work in Ireland. He was known to be at least four years old at the time we bought him. Latterly we let him have only ' light work,...

[To TIER EDITOR OF THE " SrlICT.LTOR."] Sus,—Whether the practice of resorting to " week-ends " be decried or advocated, it is generally referred to as a modern innovation. Yet...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THU "SrZOTLFOlt." . 1 SIR, — In last week's Spectator you use the words "rule the roost." I wonder if any of your readers can explain the origin of the phrase....

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SFECTLTOR.1 . SIR,—We shall be grateful if you will allow us space in your columna to bring before the public, the 'excellent work being carried on by...

TER "srscrArea...'fj Sia,—To.w.ards the cost of the. Spectator Tent. atliisley, 1908; we have received the following amounts :— The Spectator 40.5 5 0 CoL Sir Reginald Henna,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 SIR, — I write from a camp in Somerset to which children' come from the. poorest parts of Bristol. It is now ten years since I went first to...

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 UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY. (To an Air by Henry Lawes, published 1652.) Tan flowers that in thy' garden rise Fade and are gone when Summer flies, And as their sweets by' time...

LORD - BROUGHTON'S RECOLLECTIONS.* FIFTY years ago Lord Broughton privately printed his Recollections of a Long Life in five volumes. With this work as a basis, his daughter,...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SP ECTI.T014" should esteem it a great favour if you would bring to the notice of your readers the work of the Factory Girls' Holiday Fund. At the...

• THITASFIELD'S new volume will be welcomed by all serious students of naval affairs. It resumes and systematises the teaching on Great Britain's naval problems which for a...

Wilkinson* ministerial life were spent in London parishes. Two years in the poor district of St. Peter's, Windmill Street, showed what he was. His preaching attracted...

• Social Life at Rome in the Age of Cicero. By W. INarde Fowler. London: 'tarn:Hist and Co. [10s. net.] To illustrate the social life of remote antiquity must, we think, always...

EARLY in 1906 Dr. Karl Weule was sent to study the ethnology of German East Africa on the spot. He spent some six months in that country, acting with considerable energy, and...

THIS map, which has been prepared by Mr. Percy Fisher under the direction of Lieutenant-Colonel a Court Repingtan, the well-known writer on military subjects, shows the dis-...

6s.)—The plot is of an ordinary kind,—a marriage made in haste and repented of at leisure. And the hero is not heroic; courage and, we may say, honour fail him when the need is...

THE SCORE.t IN the two long stories in "Lucas Idalet's " new book there is only one thought in common so far as we can discover, and that is the perverted idea that "all men...

history of some thirteen hundred years in about a third of that number of pages is a very difficult task ; to write it so as to satisfy all ideas of proportionate importance and...

Tau concluding article in the July number of the Edinburgh Review is an emphatic condemnation of the Budget, all the more forcible because the writer goes far in his general...

Stevenson. (B. T. Batsford. 23. 61.)—Several attempts have been made at restoring the mausoleum. Most of these have naturally not gone further than the hands of the draughtsman....

Dorothea Conyers. (Hutchinson and Co. 6s.)— Thirteen stories of unequal merit. Where the horse comes in the story is pretty sure to be good; but the best of all is "What the Red...

wives of Mrs. Belloc Lowndes's collection are, generally speaking, an extraordinarily unpleasant set, and the episodes which she chooses to relate are extremely disagreeable....

[Undor this hooding we such Books of the week as have not bens reserved for review in other forms.] Hellenic(' Oryrhynchia cum Theopompi et Cratippi Fragmentie. Recognoverunt...

(A. Constable and Co. 12s. 6d. net.)—We all know how Greek and Roman history has been supplemented and made exact by the study of inscriptions. Here work of the same kind has...

educa- tional volumes. First we would mention The Orkney Book, Compiled and Edited by John Gunn, D.Sc. (2s.), bearing as its sub-title "Readings for Young Orcadians," and...

2s.)—Among these "tales" are the stories of Peter Waldo, Wyclif, Hus, Martin Luther, the St. Bartholomew, and Gunpowder Plot.

Donald Maxwell. (John Lane. 103. 6d. net.)—Miss Herbert touches upon many things, history, archaeology, social matters, business, scenery, &c., and always with a light and...

2s. 6d.)—This number contains some further details about Gezer, especially a description, with ground plan, of a con- siderable house of the Hellenistic period. The discussion...

By E. Denison Ross, Ph.D. (The Asiatic Society, 57 Park Street, Calcutta. 6s.)—We are glad to bring to the notice of ornitholo- gists with knowledge of the East a very...

Bingham, Ph.D. (T. Fisher ITnwirt. 10s. net.)—Dr. Bingham's object in making this journey was to explore the route of Bolivar's march in 1819 and the battlefields on which he...