has announced in a letter to the Premier of Western Australia that he intends to submit proposals on the shbject of immigration at the coming Conference of Australian Premiers....

T HE Algeciras Conference seems to have sunk into a slough of confusion. Early in the week it looked as if it would drag on for a week or two without any hope of ultimate...

case.

our African possessions is now over. In Natal the field force has returned and been disbanded, and the unrest which threatened among the tribes seems to have disappeared with...

home on Monday, took farewell of India i,n replying to a municipal address at Karachi this day week. In his speech the Prince assured all his friends in India that be left it...

action. The disaster at Courrieres has been followed by a great strike, the .workmen accusing the mineowners. of making undue profits and neglecting, the comfort and safety of...

the possibility of important developments in the internal conditions of Morocco. A body of the Pretender's cavalry has appeared at a spot a few hours east of Fez, is urging...

a Bill to amend the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894-1901. Its main intention is to compel -foreign vessels to con- form to the rules we have made for the safety of our t w - n....

came up before the House of Commons. PrOfessor Butcher, the Member for Cambridge University, in an admir- able speech urged that it was futile to attempt any solution of the...

of which was moved by Mr. Courthope in the House of Commons on Friday week, proved pure waste of time, but was conducted with perfect good humour and was enlivened by some...

Fund Bill in the Commons on Wednesday, Mr. Chamber- lain moved an amendment demanding the appointment of a Royal Commission to report on Chinese labour in the Transvaal, both on...

seconded a Resolution censuring Lord Milner for- authorising the flogging of Chinese labourers. Mr. Chamber- lain in an eloquent speech indignantly repudiated the idea that Lord...

Army Estimates were under discussion, Mr. Lee expressed his regret that the Secretary of State had stopped or reduced the expense of the military reconnaissance of defensive...

Mr. C. S. Loch read an interesting paper on the " Statistics of Population and Pauperism." The period taken was between 1861 and 1905. His main points were the importance of...

Consols (2-1- per cent.) were on Friday 901. '

Monday in reply to an earlier letter of Professor Hewins on'Fiscal policy. We would especially call attention to his treatment of the argument that an increase in the prosperity...

the system of University education in Ireland was generally admitted to be unsatisfactory, but he was not at present in a position to make any statement as to the intentions of...

Roman Catholics of Ireland should be given the University which they want—that is, a University with a Roman Catholic atmosphere —and not the University which Protestants or...

people in the world of art and letters was held at the Royal Academy on Monday to consider the memorial to the London County Council supporting the scheme of the Further Strand...

THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, . LORD MILNER, AND CHINESE LABOUR. W E deeply regret that the debate in the House of Commons on the proposal to censure Lord Milner should have taken...

St. Petersburg is 'most discouraging to friends of Russia, among whom we count ourselves, for we hold an entente with that Power to be essential to the tranquillity, of Asia and...

which is now in progress at Algeciras is ' not, we think, sufficiently understood by the British public. The ordinary man has a friendly feelbig towards France, and, since his...

rrHE Daily Mail has done a very useful service in .I. • printing four articles on London workhouses. They supply valuable heads of inquiry for the members of the Royal...

AS our readers know, we have always held the Militia to be an absolutely essential part of our military system. Therefore we have considered the improve- ment and development of...

The Christ of English Poetry," the Dean of Ely (Dr. C. W. Stubbs) has republished the deeply interesting Hulsean Lectures which he delivered before the University of Cambridge...

the history of the great questions of casuistry when they cannot be dragged up again for discussion without doubt arising as to the motives of the questioner. Why does he want...

O N April 1st (absit omen ! as the careful Roman would not fail to observe) it becomes lawful to catch salmon in the river Thanies. That is, at least, the date at which the law...

MR. CHAMBERLAIN AND THE VETO-POWER. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SP Ear...Toll:1 SIR,—In the debate upon Chinese labour, as reported in the Times of March 15th, Mr. Chamberlain denied...

SIE,—In your article on "Mr. Balfour and the Fiscal Debate " in last week's Spectator you warn us very wisely that "the Protectionist only asks for a very little to begin with,"...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEHCATOR.1 Sn1,—In your last issue you praise the way in which the Chancellor of the Exchequer has dealt with the subject of old-age pensions, and you...

SIR,—Permit me to reply to a letter in your last week's issue from Miss Margaret Baines, a distinguished member of the Leeds Board of. Guardians. Miss Baines states that it is...

"SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—As one interested in the conservation of parents and parenthood, I thank you for your protests against altogether superseding us. It would almost seem that...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " SIR,—In reading your article in the Spectator of March 17th on "The Chancellor of the Exchequer on Economy," I . wondered whether you were...

[To TER EDITOR OP THB "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —In reference to the Rev. E. H. Polehampton's suggestion in your last week's issue that because some Unitarian parents are satisfied...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — In your article, " Children's Meals and Parents' Pockets," in your issue of March 10th, you write: " When Mr. Charles Booth began his...

[TO TRH EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It would be interesting to know whether the Bishop of Carlisle (Spectator, March 17th) really considers the State so far entitled to our...

1T0 THE EDITOR Or THR "SPECTATOR•"1 SIR,—The suggestions of English Ministers with regard to disarmament have received precisely so much notice in Germany as was to bb expected...

EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—May I call your attention to one misprint in your • admirable article of last week on the above subject? The number of Volunteers who...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR;—I should like, with your permission, to say a few words in tribute to the memory of my gifted friend Dr. Greenidge, whose recent sudden...

[TO TRY EDITOR OP TRY " SPECTATOR:1 SIR; I am much interested in your observations upon this Bill in the Spectator of March 17th (p. 405). Nine years ago I inherited a purely...

rTo TEE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:] SIR,—The Spectator passes through many hands before it reaches me, and it is only quite recently I read Mr. J. S. Trotter's letter in your...

[TO THE EDITOR OP VTR "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Much has recently been written about the art treasures that have been hidden away for years in the cellars of the National Gallery....

Up THE EDITOR OF THE " ersoneron.'i SIR,—May I again venture to beg for a little space in order to call the attention of your numerous readers at home and abroad to the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." ] SIR,—In that most delightful little book, " Byways in the Classics," by Mr. H. E. P. Platt (issued last year)—a volume that every classical...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—Some few years ago I published a sixpenny pamphlet showing " How Dissent is Established and Endowed," of which very few copies remain....

THE " SPECTATOR:9 SIR,—You are perfectly correct in saying last week that the proposed six weeks' annual training of Militia will create obstacles in the labour market. Last...

SIR,—In your article, " Nature Study and Modern Verse," in last week's issue, you accuse Wordsworth of being "occasion- ally quaintly mistaken on matters of common knowledge."...

"SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I think the writer of the charming article in your last issue on "Nature Study and Modern Verse" is wrong in saying that Wordsworth is "quaintly mistaken" in...

EDEN GARDEN. (A SOMERSET BALLAD.) THERE'S a dream that comes when daylight's dying, And the noisy craws are homewards flying ; When the tews and toils of day are ended, The...

Officer," vindicating the Admiralty's consistency in regard to the " interchangeable ' officers. If the writer will conform to the journalistic rule and send his name, not for...

To TIER EDITOR OP TUN 'SPECTATOR:9] think that very many of your readers, not only sub- scribers to our funds but also others, will be interested to hear a few particulars...

LONDON'S CONCERT-HALLS. DISMISSING the establishment of national or municipal opera as a project which for the' moment hardly falls within the sphere of practical musical...

HENRY SIDGWICK.* HENRY SIDGWICK represented the most modern type of University teacher, the type which is closely in touch with all sides of national life and exercises an...

WITH this admirable translation of the concluding half of the story of the South African War, as compiled under Major Baick in the Historical Section of the Berlin Great General...

man, who once stumbled' into the writing of a very good book. Nollekens and his Times is a masterpiece of its kind, and it proves that the author had qualities of observation...

qualified to write a history of Old Provence. It is a greater and more difficult undertaking, for it was not necessary to begin the story of Touraine further back than the...

LADY SARAH'S DEED OF GIFT.* To say that Lady Sarah's Deed of Gift was an edifying novel would do violence to the conscience of the honest reviewer. But that it...

and Co. 6s.)—This book, though by no means a great novel, is an extremely readable story of modern society. The conduct of the heroine is not always quite credible, notably the...

A Draught of the Blue. Translated from the Original Manuscript by F. W. Bain. (Parker. 5s. net.)—Mr. Bain's storehouse of Indian romances is inexhaustible. The title, as he...

the details of this book are so complex as very ofte.n to be tedious, the romance attaching to the ill-fated Maximilian's Empire in Mexico is so 'great that any novel dealing...

THE MUSEUMS AND RUINS OF ROME. The Museums and Ruins of Rome. By Walter Amelung and Heinrich Holtzinger. English Edition, Revised by the Authors and Mrs. S. Arthur Strong,...

Burmese story, and the plot is neatly worked to include the various superstitions which actuate the mind of the Burman. The story is exciting reading, and, as far as the person...

Edinburgh. 2s. 6d. net.)—Much of this book seems to us to be irrelevant. The question of the identity of the Headsman might have been treated without giving a dozen pages or...

[Under this 'heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forme.] Mackenzie: Selkirk : Simpson. By Rev. G. Bryce, D.D. (T. C. and E....

(Elliot Stock. 2s. 6d.)—Wenhaston,. besides the matters of interest which may be said to be common to all parishes, is notable for two things,—the possession of an ancient...

Salmon. (Chatto and Windus. 6s. net.)—This book answers well to its title. Mr. Salmon knows his subject thoroughly, and pro- duces from his stores of knowledge not a little that...

6d.)—Bishop Awdry, in the preface with which he introduces Miss Arnold's book, writes as followa : "I could give an instance of a man of unusually vigorous common-sense who,...

Edition of Sir Richard C. Jebb, Litt.D., by E. S. Shuckburgh, Litt.D. (Cambridge University Press. 4s.)—It is quite possible that many schoolmasters will be glad to have the...

House of Commons in which there are " over three hundred Members who did not sit in the last Parliament" gives a special interest and value to this, the eighty-second issue of...

Reich (Swan Sonnensahein and Co.), we have Plutarch's Lives, Vol. I., Translated by W. R. Frazer (3s. 6d. net). The translation is satisfactory, expressed, for the most part, in...

Druitt. (Alexander Moring. 10s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Druitt begins with an introductory chapter on monumental brasses, in which he shows the interest and importance of the subject. He...

Co. ls. net.)—These " speeches and letters" have one subject, "Imperial defence." This is enough to commend them to the reader ; if he needs any other reason for acquiring the...

Press. 6s. net.)—Sir H. Burdett returns—and is quite right in returning—to the subject of hospital expenditure. The income of ninety-four voluntary hospitals in the county of...

Player by "Cut Cavendish" (T. Werner Laurie, 2s. 6d. net). Chapters have been added on "Misery Bridge," which the editor thinks is an excellent game,—" a popular card-game for...

the Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, Written by Many Hands, and Edited by ,Tames Mark Baldwin (Macmillan and Co., 42s. net).

(Hurst and Blackett. 42s. net.)—Mr. Binns, after some intro- ductory remarks on the technique, material, &c., of porcelain, proceeds to describe the various seats of the...