scenes of disorder When M. Rallis attempted to take the oath, the New Testament was snatched from under his hand and carried out of the Chamber by a group of Independents. The...

cluded a sesret military understanding with Rumania. The announcement was followed by vaguely worded denials ; but it is certainly curious that the Turkish Grand Vizier, Hakki...

marks of honour on his visit to the Emperor Francis Joseph. On Wednesday he made a long speech at the Town Hall of Vienna. After thanking the Municipality for naming part of the...

he advised the late Military League to dissolve itself and summon a National Assembly, he recommended a revisionist body, and he meant what he said. The word " revisionist " was...

more closely into the orbit of Germany and Austria- Hungary, for a Hohenzollern site on the throne of Rumania, and his country has long been attached unofficially to the Triple...

M UCH excitement has been caused in France during the week by the statement that Hakki Pasha, the Turkish Grand Vizier (who has steadily refused to accept the terms which the...

case.

have appeared in the Times during the past two months were concluded last Saturday. In his final and recapitulatory article the writer enumerates the various conflicting...

follows :—Nationalists, 67; Unionists, 37; Labour Members, 4; Independents, 13. The Nationalists thus have a majority over all parties of 13. If the Labour Members vote with...

a balance of power as most Colonial Premiers would be glad to possess, the Unionists are really a much more harmonious party. The old political organisations, the Bond and...

took place, apparently at Mr. Roosevelt's request, at New Haven, Connecticut, on Monday. It has led to more speculation than ever as to their relations. The Washington...

by President Taft on the 18th inst., that he meant to ask Congress for £400,000 for the fortification of the Panama Canal, as he thinks the time has now come to begin work. The...

reopened by King Albert on Monday. King Albert assured the British Minister and the representatives of the Board of Trade and the British Royal Commissioner- General how deeply...

incomplete, show that, if the oversee possessions are included, the coveted total of a hundred millions has been reached. In 1900 the population of the continental United States...

on the question of numbers, reminds us of its serious aspect,—its bearing on the Apportionment Act, which readjusts representation in Congress on the basis of popula- tion. And...

21st inst. the Bishop of St. David's dealt at length with the Welsh Disestablishment Bill, which the Government were definitely pledged to reintroduce and carry through Parlia-...

sentiment of reverence for the Crown—the one tradition common to all races and creeds in India—the writer declares that we cannot reasonably look for loyalty from India in the...

absolutely necessary measure. There is no " gagging " of fearless criticism, but the Indian Press is no longer free to preach revolution and murder. The Western-educated Indian,...

the past week. On Monday the Welsh miners of the Cambrian Collieries rescinded their resolution to give a month's notice, and decided to take a ballot of the entire coal- field...

the memory of Mr. Thomas Ellis at a chapel near Bala on Tuesday, paid a generous tribute to the patriotism, sincerity, and high principle of the late Liberal Whip. He concluded...

Tariff Reform and land reform were the two features of the Unionist programme. Tariff Reform was "not dead and not dying." It had got a hold on the people which it would never...

at the Guildhall yesterday week by the Corporation of London. Before marching to the City the regiment, number- ing some six hundred men, were inspected and addressed by Lord...

9th. Consols (2 k) were on Friday 84—Friday week 80k.

THE TURKISH LOAN. THE failure of the French Government to persuade Hakki Pasha, the Turkish Grand Vizier, to consent to the only terms upon which a Turkish loan would be...

O NE of the most unpleasant features of the Socialist agitation for the reversal of the Osborne judgment is the absolute cynicism displayed by some of the leading members of the...

XFORD has had a good many suggestions made to ‘.5 her in the past few months. One of the most interesting, as it is also one of the most indefinite, was put before the institute...

T HE Egyptian Nationalists have not been permitted to hold a Congress in Paris. To judge from their proceedings at Brussels, it is improbable that they would have been able to...

greater number of " advantages " without more struggle is a problem which oppresses the most civilised portion of the civilised world. Is any solution to be found in the idea of...

E VEN to those who were most sanguine the results of the organised employment of aeroplanes in the French Army manceavrea in Picardy were a surprise. According to the testimony...

T HE reverence for saintly shrines remains a. factor in these extremely practical modern days, and it is good that it should be so. People go to look at the spot which is asso-...

THE MAIDEN AUNT OF EUROPE. rue TSB ED/TOIL or TM ."arxemvoz."] SIR,—Nations cannot prosecute one another for libel, and so it becomes the duty of their friends to defend them...

THE OSBORNE JUDGMENT. [To THIS EDITOZ Or THZ "SPHCTA.T01...1 Sra,—If it were not for the seriousness of the issues involved, infinite amusement could be got from the speeches...

[To ran EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—May we draw attention to a vulnerable point in the new Finance Act, and to certain strange anomalies that will result from the...

SIR,—In your article (September 17th) you say The real point—the only point we ourselves have eared to insist on—is that the language of Form IV. is hopelessly bewildering to...

[To THE EDPIO2 OP THE "SPECTATOL*] Sta,'—Will you allow me to call attention through your paper to certain difficulties connected with the valuation returns under the above Act...

is either so hope- lessly deficient in his perspective faculty or so callously in- different to truth—the whole truth—that his letter would not be treated seriously if...

TEE " Eincervroa."] Srn,—Your correspondent "An Irishman" says that I seem annoyed because he charged the United Irish League with intolerance at Bantry. I pointed out that he...

rTo THE EDITOR OF TUE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—In your review in the Spectator of September 3rd of Mr. Arthur E. P. Weigall's book, " The Life and Times of Akbnaton, Pharaoh of...

[To ThZ EDITOR OP xIIi " SPECTATOR:1 Snt,—As one of your Scottish eonstituents, I venture to trouble you with a few remarks called forth by the article in your issue of August...

[To THE EDITOR OT THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—With reference to " Cantab.'s " letter on the above subject in your issue of August 20th, I can from my own personal experience give...

[To THE EDITOR OE THE "SPECTATOR."] Snts—I am an Englishman who has been farming in Alberta, Canada, for the last seven years, and am now in England on a short holiday. I have...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Srp,—In his second letter which appears in your issue of the 10th inst. Mr. Shi-Chao Chang does not seem over-sympathetic to missionaries,...

[To THE EDITOR OP TER "SrEornos."] SIN, —Your American correspondent of last week, Mr. Haines, of course may repudiate for himself, and perhaps for other American Catholics, all...

Sin,—May I quote in connexion with your very interesting article on "The Paint and the Picture" (September 10th) a story told by the late Dr. Salmon, Provost of Trinity College,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Six,—Your correspondent Mr. Warrick suggests in last week's Spectator that Sir Oliver Lodge's simile may have been anticipated by earlier...

letter in your issue of Septem- ber 17th reveals the mentality of a type of Roman Catholic too common everywhere, which I have always suspected to be particularly prevalent in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—On reading the very interesting address of the Presi- dent at the meeting of the British Association on the great ice age, it appears...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Mr. William Watson's poem in your issue of Septem- ber 17th is a beautiful little lyric, so I hope I am not hyper- critical in pointing...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—Mr. S. Skelhorn is, I think, unfortunate in his appeal to your readers to consider the "fundamental difference" between Socialism and...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.”1 Sin,—I think it may perhaps be of some interest if I quote the following sentence from some "Reminiscences of the Crimean and Punjaub...

[To TEE EDITOR 07 THE "SritcrATos."1 SIR,—It is so interesting to notice how the good sown by quiet workers springs up and bears fruit an hundredfold, that I am sure you will...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR. "] Snt,—In your issue of the 27th ult. there appeared a letter giving an account of the supposed nidifieation of Muscicapa parva (red-breasted...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—Is it not time that a serious effort should be made to cope with a matter of national import, the spread of that vile perversion of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —May I, a Quaker member of the British Association, mention another instance of inherited self-control P I was at the firat 4u4er...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] have been glad to read in your issue of September 17th Mrs. Mortlock's defence of Mrs. Sherwood. It is true she belonged to the Evangelical...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, —It may interest many of your readers to learn that, walking in our kitchen-garden this afternoon (September 22nd), a strange bird...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR; — In a review of M. Fenillerat's study of Lyly (published by the Cambridge University Press) contained in your issue of September 10th...

[To THE EDITOR OP THY "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —The cruel practice of keeping dogs permanently chained is still not uncommon: Humane persons would help the cause of the animals did...

the name of the bankers who are to receive subscriptions for the Hong-kong University Fund is incorrectly described as "Messrs. Koch and Co." It should have been " Messrs. Holt...

AMERICAN SOCIAL PROBLEMS.* PROFESSOR HUGO MUNSTERBERG complains in one of the essays in this book that scholarship is held of no account by the American people ; the...

SIR, —I have just seen your review in the Spectator of Septem- ber 10th of my friend Professor Feuillerat's monumental work on Lyly. At the end you say :—" The Cambridge...

• ■■•■••••■••■• TRIM THAT THRAVELS ON THEIR FEET. IN blackberry time himself an' me We do be np by break of day : An' " God go with us now," says he, "The time we're...

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...

MB. ROUND is a writer with a mission ; for a quarter of a century he has waged war against peerage lawyers, pedigree- vendors, and pseudo-historians. He has victories to record...

France, and indeed on the Continent, something of the same position as the late Professor William James occupied among English- speaking peoples. Both are apostles of the plain...

Ws have already noted the generous tribute to the original editor of this work involved in the change of title from A Dictionary of Music and Musicians to Grove's Dictionary of...

AT a time when Bengali writers travesty the story of the great revolt of 1857 (from whose horrors their native land was happily exempted) in order to disparage British rule, and...

of National History," of which Mr. Hutton himself is general editor. We may doubt whether its subject comes properly within the scope of that series as defined in the...

IN a truly remarkable manner the varying fashions of mediaeval costume come to be identified in , the student's mind with the social characteristics of the periods during which...

THE LANTERN BEARERS.* MRS. ALFRED SIDGWICIC is not a great novelist in the strict sense of the phrase. She does not deal in elemental passion, whelm us in the depths of...

ALEXANDER JOHN ARBUTHNOT, son of an Irish Bishop, entered Rugby in April, 1832, as a foundationer or " town- boy," his mother having gone to reside in the town in order to...

of criticism are accepted,—the "editing" of St. Mark, for instance, by the other Synoptists. Whether the author goes far enough is another matter. The difference between the...

Man's Case for 1,000,000 Votes for Women. (Hodder and Stoughton. ls. each.)—In these two pamphlets we have the speeches delivered in the debate on the second reading of the...

(The Clarendon Press. 2s. Cel. net.)—This volume, for the tardy notice of which we apologise, contains the less-known works of Apuleius : his defence before the Proconsul when...

Alex. J. Philip. (Scott, Greenwood, and Son. 5s, net.) — A. book full of interesting and useful information. Libraries of all kinds, whether belonging to societies, or attached...

gomery. (Sir Isaac Pitman. and Sons. 6s.)—What did the son of Croesus do when his father's life was in danger ? That is the story of Kilmeny, and well told, too.—Mr. Poskilt's...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have net has reserved for review in other Jones.] A Charge. By Frederic Henry Chase, D.D., Bishop of Ely. (Macmillan and...

Murray. 6s.) — " Barker's" is a publishing house, a Church publishing house, situate in Holborn,—so does Mr. Watson throw U3 off the scent. When the story opens it is in low...

Longhurst. 2s. 6d. net.)—This is a publication of the "North London Christian Evidence League." A certain Mr. Vivian Philips took it upon himself to declare that "it is...

chart which serves as frontispiece exhibits the "Relation of Rainfall of 1909 to the Average of 1870-99." The red in various tints shows where the rainfall was below the...

Basingstoke. la.)—Miss Davidson is better than her word. She promises a "history of the Parish and Priory," and she gives us a very instructive little sketch of England in...