and that in fact we have so managed things that Germany is much more friendly to France than she is to us. Those who say that and think that are merely yielding to diplomatic...

a conversation which its Peking correspondent had with Yuan Shih-kai. Yuan Shih-kai, while admitting the enormous difficulties of the situation, clung to his plan of retaining...

which are so bewildering in German affairs the officially inspired Press of Germany—and almost the whole Press is officially inspired in regard to foreign matters—is now...

any case.

N EITHER from Tripoli nor from China has any news of real importance been received during the week. In the case of Tripoli we presume that this means that the Italians are...

in the recent discussions about Germany, we may note that at the thirty-third annual meeting of the National Liberal Federation at Bath on Thursday Sir John Brunner, the...

Germany in anticipation of the debate which is to take place on Monday. We have not the slightest doubt that Sir Edward Grey will be able to show triumphantly that our foreign...

the Committee stage of the Insurance Bill in the House of Commons. The ornacipal amendment discussed on Tuesday was one moved by Mr. Hamersley for the exclusion from the Bill of...

on Friday week before the Budget Com- mittee of the Reichstag was officially published in Berlin. Herr von Kiderlen-Waechter said that an announcement (July 1st) as to the...

on July 22nd. An answer was immediately sent from Berlin, in which the Ambassador was instructed to express regret that Sir Edward Grey had insinuated that Germany had thoughts...

Grey has been heard we venture to say that no impartial man will be able to assert that our Government (1) acted unfairly or aggressively towards Germany ; (2) egged on France...

by Mr. Asquith's announcement, emphasized the difficulty of being certain as to the men's acceptance of the Report, and criticised the Government's proposed action with some...

has resulted, we are delighted to see, in the return of Mr. Aubrey Herbert by a majority of 148. Sir Edward Strachey's majority in December, 1910, was 467. What makes the result...

the House of Commons on Wednesday by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, who moved a resolution censuring the directors of the companies for refusing to meet the men's representatives to...

We must, however, protest against the unworthy sneers of the Saturday Review at the new leader of the Unionist Party. It was quite right to oppose his leadership or to treat it...

Council of Agriculture, by 47 votes to 33, has refused to support the application of Sir Horace Plunkett's Irish Agricultural Organization Society for a grant in aid from the...

culture in the Liberal Administration of 1892-5, has completely associated himself with Mr. Sonar Law's condemnation of the Government proposal to set up a separate Board for...

a statement on the Territorial Force. He was informed by the General Staff that the force was sufficient to provide for coast defence and for defence against raids, as well as...

Sept. 21st. Consols (21) were on Friday 78I—Friday week 781.

to deal with education only in the lifetime of the present Parliament, waited on the President of the Board of Education on Tuesday. They urged on him the need of bringing in a...

our opinion, to the National Service League when he represented it as discouraging young men from joining the Territorials. A considerable proportion of the Territorials are...

nothing for this unworthy detraction, but we can assure the Saturday Review that there are plenty of men who belong to the bodies they have named who have read the paragraph...

" that "the desirability is being discussed among Opposition peers of introducing into the National Insurance Bill a Referendum clause when it conies before their House. It is...

Fletcher Moulton and Farwell declared Form IV. and Form VIII. invalid, faulty, and unauthorized. The judg- ment makes it clear that the Inland Revenue Commissioners acted ultra...

• THE COMING DEBATE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS. A N amazing amount of nonsense has been talked about foreign affairs during the past fortnight. Indeed, a record in fatuity may be said...

cause to be angry with the Press. It has brought into the field two classes of opponents whom he had altogether left out of his calculations. Mistresses and servants seldom...

I F the Establishment of the National Church is to be successfully defended, as we believe it can be defended, whether from attacks from inside like those of the Bishop of...

W E have written in a previous article of our relations with Germany, and here we shall examine the outlook on foreign affairs in other troubled parts of the world—in Turkey,...

A LADY who wrote a letter to the Daily Express of Monday pleaded with strong feeling and apparent sincerity for the establishment of " a code of honour " for women. She thinks...

R ULES and regulations are instinctively repellent to the natural Englishman. Fundamentally he is law-abiding, but by-laws he cannot endure. Sometimes reason forces him to...

T HE letter which Mr. H. C. Gooch sent to the Times of Tuesday on the subject of the Military Manoeuvres Act expresses, we believe, the opinion of all soldiers and of the great...

people of this country should be afforded the opportunity of stating their own wish in regard to the adoption or otherwise of their own national insurance is one which in...

THE INSURANCE BILL. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.”] SIR,—The National Insurance Bill has many sides, but the recruiting of over 400,000 hospital in-patients each year,...

[To TEE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —In stating the case for the Parliament Act the Prime Minister conceded to a Second Chamber the right of revision and delay. In a few...

tTo THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I hope some better pen than mine will answer " Z's" plea of an explanation of the present acute unrest in the labour world, but if you...

Mr. Oliver (Spectator, Nov. 18(1), seems to be right in every point. No one with sound judg- ment is likely to reply to him. It is only a question of how long the people will...

in the leading London Unionist papers. Ulster Unionists feel their disabilities in this matter very keenly. The Separatist issue is a matter of life and death to them, and the...

rTo THE EDITOR OF TRH "SFECTATOR. " 1 SIE,—In your article on "Home Rule Finance" last - week there are some statements which are, I fear, misleading, as well as omissions the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. •• ] SIR,—I must not impose on your kindness, but I beg you to let me make a last appeal to the Unionist Party to do their duty regarding the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In reference to a letter of Dr. Mazfadyen in your impression of the 11th inst., as you have answered his sugges- tion of " religious...

and unedifying controversy over Welsh Disestablishment I have seen no notice of the difficultposition of those who (like myself) are in favour of Disestablishment (believing...

Sin,—I wonder whether you will give me room in the Spectator to explain why my fellow Churchmen and Unionists need not regard the disendowment of the Church in Wales as so great...

Sin,—Dr. Macfadyen in his letter to you in your issue of November 18th states that " a sufficient reply to the statement that Churches are at present equal before the law is to...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In his letter to you of November 16th Dr. Dugald Macfadyen affirms that Disestablishment would render "a free interchange of pulpits...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTITOR."3 SIR,—I have been reading the review of "Inspired Million. aircs " in the Spectator as if it were about some book I had never heard of...

[TO THE EDITOR OT THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The Spectator of November 18th has a notice of the continuation of " Old and Odd Memories " which is—not unseasonably—called "Nuts...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—The Copyright Bill will, it seems, become law without any substantial change. The story of its passage through Parliament is not a...

(To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In reply to one or two inquiries on the matter, will you permit me, to say that I shall be very pleased to lend to any local...

[TO THE EDITOR Cr THE " SPECTATOR.") your review of M. Maeterlinck's essay you speak, when you " come to pages of less value." of " M. Maeterlinck's notion that doctors ought to...

[TO TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Omond's letter shows that Lear was by no means the inventor of a certain type of epitaph. Nearly thirty years ago I bad a collection of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Will you allow me to ask the readers of the Spectator to help with donations, however small, towards this ? As the son of my father,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—Last week you published a resolution passed by the Churchmen's Union protesting against Dr. Talbot's action in depriving the Rev. J....

• [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] • Sin,—I venture to suggest "felicitous nicety."—I am, Sir, &c., JOHN M. PLETC HER. -9 Stanhope Street,_ffyde Park Gardens, WI

are. THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] 'SIR,—In a letter over the signature " C. Fox" in the Spectatm• of November 4th the words, " My God, I think Thy thoughts after Thee "...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOD.."] do not know whether you have room in your valuable columns for a few lines on the present Manchu troubles, but on going over some old...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sta,—The Government Insurance Bill will apparently be forced through the House of Commons in the next few weeks. It was not introduced in...

thit ringleaders and inciters of insurgent labour boast loud and openly that thanks to their handiwork the middle class is done. That assumption appears to be founded on the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...1 Snz,—On Monday a few razorbills were to be seen among the culls near Blackfriars Bridge. Their black and white plumage, peculiar-shaped...

0 I am so sick of the Big Things —The Big with a Big, Big B— The Important Things That Are Strictly Such, The Great Big Things That Matter So Much, They never can leave you...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIlt,—As one under the spell of the moor I read with much interest the article on " Autumn on Dartmoor" in your issue of November 18th. But...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be its agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode Of...

ALFRED STEVENS. Hoaroun is now being done to the memory of England's greatest sculptor at the National Gallery of British Art. Last week the Stevens Room was formally opened,...

A TRANSLATION OF THE "ODYSSEY."* 'Tan English hexameter still presents, we think, one of the puzzles- of literature. The metre of Homer and of Virgil, " the stateliest measure,"...

Stevenson and his work will wel- come this charming, well-printed, and easily handled collection, of which the first ten volumes are now published. On a future occasion we may...

ME. JAMES BONE is a member of an accomplished family. His brother, Mr. Muirhead Bone, the artist, is justly cele- brated ; another brother, Mr. David Bone, is known as a writer...

IN nine cases out of ten the publication of posthumous writings is a dangerous experiment, adding little to the repu- tation of the author and bringing little credit to the...

IT is in her character as the mother of Marie Antoinette that the great Empress-Queen is most familiar to many of us. Those many letters to Mercy-Argenteau and to Marie...

AIRS. HUMPEIRY WARD has prefixed to each of the works contained in this edition an Introduction, in which she explains how it came to be written. We must limit our com- ments on...

THE NEW BROOM.* Ws congratulate Mr. Turley on the- inclusion of his new school story in the excellent two-shilling series of new novels inaugurated by Messrs. Nelson. As we...

THE fierce raiders of old Norway, who rode their " foam deer" over the running seas to Britain or set their great flapping sails at the mouth of the Nile when the hot south wind...

is a story of the efforts made by an admirable and attractive widow to bring up her family of children. The book is a little spoilt to English eyes by the rather luscious...

& Co. ls. net.)—What better recommendation could there be than good reading, good pictures—look at Mr. G. K. Chesterton's presentment of "Rashleigh Osbaldiston " and Mr. J. A....

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[Under this heading re notice such Itcoks of the neck as hare not been reserved for review in other forms.] Betting Newspapers and Quakerism.—We have received a copy of a...

Bounden, Earl of Selborne. (Macmillan and Co. ls. net.)— This book, sailed forth by some observations made by Mr. Glad- stone in an election address in September 1885, has been...

and Co. 6s.)—The story of a Socialist journalist with whom the author is in complete sympathy. The reader will be inclined to inquire what action the hero's principles caused...

season- able 'reprint of the Indian articles which appeared in the " Empire Day " edition of the Times (May 24th, 1911).