the question. Rejection by the House of Lords is equally out of the question. It would mean, as Mr. Balfour says, to repeat his own language, the bringing by the action of the...

T HE chief event of the week has been the speech of Mr. Balfour at Birmingham, which has been almost universally accepted as indicating that the House of Lords will reject the...

any case.

the allegation that Lord Rosebery and others who oppose the Budget propose no alternative except Tariff Reform. That is, of course, a pure delusion. As we showed last week,...

nonsense talked about the destruction of capital. The capital taken in taxes did not disappear. It was devoted to public purposes, such as education, sanitation, the preserva-...

which took place on Wednesday evening, also at cue Bing,ley Hall, Birmingham. We have dealt elsets*,re with its mean- ing, and with the meaning of Mr. Okaiitberlain's message,...

the Budget by the Lords, possibly because he is anxious to defend himself in advance from the charge that the House of Lords is simply a body which registers his decrees, he...

Protection, an even greater diminution is caused by that lack of security which Mr. Balfour rightly described as the essence of industrial success. A sense of insecurity...

was marked by some interesting incidents. on his arrival the Duke of Cumberland, Prince Ernest Augustus of Brunswick, was presented to him for the first time, and at the...

remarkable Chinese document. This is the testament of Yung Lin, a Manchu official of subordinate position, who being unable to present in person a petition to the Regent dealing...

ins-ease the number of people ready, willing, and able to give employ. As the unemployed labourers in the Gospel so well .expressed it, they stood all the day idle because no...

find ourselves in the heartiest agreement. No doubt be declared himself in favour of Tariff Reform, and appeared to make Tariff Reform the essential principle of Unionism in a...

sittings on Tuesday, Was marked by two excellent speeches from Mr. Sydney Sexton and Sir Edward Grey. The Postinaster-Genersd, who incidentally observed that no Government in...

the signature " Memor," pointed out an extraordinary coincidence between the farewell speech of Lord Curzon in 1905 and that of Lord Kitchener in 1909, in which whole pas- sages...

Cox in reference to the electoral position in Preston, which we are glad to reproduce in. full:—" You may say, and I authorise you to say, that whilst I am always anxious to...

Liberal Member for the Cleveland Division of Yorkshire, has informed Mr. Herbert Samuel, M.P., that he can no longer support him or the Government. The reasons for his...

by Mr. Birrell in the Commons yesterday week. He justified the measure on the ground of the collapse of the financial basis of the Act of 1903, and indicated the new conditions...

of newspapers in home and foreign affairs. In the former they engaged in open controversy and contention for victory between themselves on a party footing. In foreign affairs...

on Sunday last in connexion with the Johnson bicentenary. Comparing Johnson with the author of the Book of Ecclesiastes, he noted a triple similarity in his gloomy view of the...

ending March 31st, 1909, is by no means reassuring. The most formidable feature in the Report is the apparently unanimous opinion of the local prison authorities throughout the...

tail BUDGET AND A REFERENCE TO THE PEOPLE. M R. BALF01JR'S speech, and still more Mr. Cham- berlain's letter, show that it is the desire of the leaders of the Unionist Party...

At home the great manoeuvres in Wiltshire, Berkshire, and Oxfordshire, in which no less than fifty thousand men have been engaged, have focussed attention upon our soldiers. A...

A LTHOUGH the Chancellor of the Exchequer clearly indicated, in the earlier stages of the Budget discussions, an intention to make a concession to the owners of agricultural...

M R. BURNS well deserves the success which we sincerely wish to his Housing and Town Planning Bill. He has worked hard at its preparation. Except in one particular, he has...

step towards carrying out the recommendations of the Poor Law Commission, the Government have wisely chosen a measure which is the least contentious of all before the public. It...

big volume of seven hundred pages, written by M. Frederic Plessis, Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Letters in the University of Paris. The book is called "La Poesie Latine...

S HE was a Maori girl of, possibly, sixteen, and by profession a guide in the thermal district of Rotorua, and we yielded ourselves without a struggle to her guardianship when...

p OPULARITY is a desirable thing. Even those of us who would not be at the trouble to gain it for ourselves consider bow we may best obtain it for our children, and are grieved...

THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT AND THE PRESS. [To THE EDITOR or mu "Erscusoz.1 Sin,—Ever since the Catalonian riots the Spanish Government has been performing the operation colloquially...

NATIONAL SERVICE IN AUSTRALIA. [To Tim EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The Australian Coalition Cabinet has brought down to Parliament a Bill accepting completely the...

[To TER Enrroa OF TEN "svEcrevea."] SIR,—I venture, with your correspondent Mr. E. P. Hill (Spectator, September 18th), to hope that the Lords will not reject the Finance Bill....

[To TEE EDITOR or TEl "SpEcrATori."] SIR,—As a mere woman with no knowledge whatever of soldiering, may I add my testimony to the excellent results, both physical and moral, of...

[To TEE EDITOR OP TIER " SFECTATOR. " 1 Sin,—May I ask if your readers are to interpret your article in last week's issue that you really believe Mr. Lloyd George intends to...

[To TH2 EDITOR OF THH " SPECTATOR:9 SIR, — A letter in the Spectator of September 11th draws attention to the fact that it is not only the Roman Church which exhibits signs of...

rTo TER EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 Sin,—Mr. Asquith asked in a late speech, Where would people invest capital to greater advantage than in England? As a matter of fact, they...

" SPECTITOR."1 Sin,—May I venture to enclose a little cutting from the Alliance News ? The Rev. R. J. Campbell's influence is con- siderable. It would be well if he could be got...

[To THE EDITOR OF TSB ..srserevos."3 Six,—Please find enclosed my letter to the New York Times of August 2nd, which was prompted by your appeal to the American people to make a...

has lived in a Colony for four years, may I be allowed to agree entirely with your article in reply to the letter of " A Returned South African," especially with your opinion...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—The writer of the letter on " English v. Colonial Life for Girls " in the Spectator of September 4th gives us her views on the lives,...

Returned South African" (Spectator, September 4th) have evidently been limited. Among the English girls I know in the class she speaks of there are some who give more devotion...

[To TRH EDITOR OP TEE "SPECTATOR. " ] STE,,—I hope it is not too late for me to express my con- currence in your protest against this barbarism (Spectator, August 28th, p. 295)....

[To THE EDITOR OW THE "SPECTATOR. "] , Sitz,-- , -Does not the etymology of the word " holiness " in our :English tongue give the reason why the thing is so rarely ' _found P...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. " ] .SIE,-,Appreciation of " Rasselas " is so scarce to-day that one demurs unwillingly to your phrase in last week's issue, a " great book"...

OF THE " SP i ECTATOB.":1, SIR,—With reference to the extracts from "India in 1983" in your issue of the 7th ult., and the concluding paragraph of your remarks, in which you...

[To THE EDITOR or am "Brzaszos."] Bensusan, whose article in last week's Spectator I read with much interest, seems to have been unfortunate with -his bees.- My observation...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Silt,—It is an interesting fact that the county of Surrey, which was the birthplace and residence of the famous publicist John Evelyn...

but disclose his moon mystery, it might perchzince throw light on Mips's words- " Just when. out of her soft fifty changes . No unfamiliar face might overlook me " e .‘ PrpPa...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "Bram:roan Sra,—I should be greatly obliged if you would kindly allow me to make a few remarks upon your review of " An In&oduction to the Articles of the...

writer's name 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...

of the sun occurred about noon_ near midsummer, the moon would be seen that day on the sun's disc. The previous day she would be about thirty-two hours distant from the anti on...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The following has occurred to tne as a possible explana- tion of your correspondent's puzzle. On June 17th last there was an eclipse of...

Stn,—The conditions required by Mr. G. C. Whitworth's lunar puzzle (Spectator, September 4th) are these : an eclipse of the sun occurring near midday at the summer solstice....

'THE STONES OF STANTON DRENir:C BLAND was the morn, no speck or flaw Troubling, her mien and hue, When, mid the April fields ! I saw The Stones of Stanton Die*.: V.S:k Join...

WE have received the following contributions in answer to the appeal of the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines' Protection Society, on behalf of the deputation to the United States :—...

possible to see the old moon rising shortly before the sun one morning, and to see the new moon setting shortly after the sun on the evening of the following day. Indeed, this...

F. E. L. Gower, St. Philip's Rectory, Antigua, B.W.L, desires to thank his unknown friend who regularly sends him a copy of tho Spectator.

A LITTLE MASTER. SOME years ago Mr. Flack, one of the most vivacious as well as suggestive of American musical critics, vigorously attacked in an essay on Chopin that...

THE SIEGE OF PORT ARTHUR.* MORE than four and a half years have passed since the down- fall of Port Arthur—that most dramatic of all the events of the struggle in the Far...

LADY MABEL LINDSAY gives us in this volume what will be found, we think, a very profitable work. While we are fighting the battle of criticism, whether it be on the side of...

THIS book does not belie its sub-title. It is in every sense of the word a manual of sound citizenship. General Baden- Powell had an inspiration of genius when he conceived the...

A CRABBING water-colour painting, one of the last portraits ever taken of the ill-fated Duc de Reichstadt, the eaglet of M. Rostand's drama, represents him seated with a chubby...

WE may say at once that the author of this book does not always show the discretion which the subject imperatively demands. It could not in any case have been made suitable...

CANON VAUGHAN has done well to give a permanent form to these contributions to the periodical Press. Most of them have to do with botany, of which he is a keen and indefatigable...

THOSE who know and love Touraine will be the first to thank Mr. Lees, not so much, perhaps, for his histories of Blois, Chaumont, &c., in which he upsets various traditions in a...

THE SEARCH PARTY.* hr Mr. Birmingham did not exactly invent a new bland of humorous romance in Spanish Gold, at any rate he was responsible for a new blend or a new method of...

6s.)—If the reader can once believe in the extraordinary physique of the "last Lord Avanley," the book becomes easy to read and interesting. It must be confessed, however, that...

first part of this book, the scene of which passes in New England, is excellently written and most interesting to the reader. The picture of the household of the little farm— of...

Gs.)—A modern story chiefly concerned with the temperament of the hero, which, in the peculiar circum- stances of his life, is an extraordinarily awkward one for him to...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not beet reserved for review in other forms.] Ecclesiasticus. Edited, with Textual Commentary and Prole- gomena, by...

Hancock. 6s.)—This novel, though slight, possesses a good deal of charm, and is extremely suitable for holiday reading. The story is divided into two books, of which the first...

Masternasza (Headley Brothers. ls. net.)—It is distinctly instructive to be con- ducted by Professor Masterman along the "high a priori road" of political science. He shows us...

and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Baldwin has been at great pains to collect from many sources details of the Roland legend. He takes us, for instance, to the Court of Prester John, and...

Black. 8s. 6d. net.)—This book was originally published seven years ago in Messrs. Black's series of illustrated volumes. It then accom- panied, or was accompanied by—how should...

Road. ..£1 7s. 6d.)—Here we have another contribution to the efforts which are being made to counteract malaria in tropical regions. "The present volume deals," we are told,...