Chamber on Tuesday that Queen Wilhelmina, who was in perfect health, was in the happy expectation of an heir to the throne. The announcement was greeted with hearty cheers, and...

European Press, and especially that of Berlin, and exciting the cupidity of concession-hunters, shipbuilders, and the manufacturers of warlike stores, the Opposition in...

the very near future the world would be chiefly occupied with the question of the South Slays. We shall hardly be called rash prophets if we renew our prediction, and assert...

T HE present is the last issue of the Spectator which will appear in the year 1908. On the whole, it may be said that the outlook in foreign affairs is better than could have...

may be got over, there will of course remain the question of how to deal with the claims of Servia and Monte- negro. As these, however, are general rather than specific claims,...

ease.

Bill for annexing Bosnia and Herzegovina was read the first time in the Auz.trian Reichsrath. It was referred to a Committee, where it will be rigorously examined, and the Times...

Labour Members, including Mr. Thorne and Mr. Crooks, on the ground that the Bill dealt a heavy blow at the expression of political opinion. Mr. Crooks declared that all the salt...

been previously given to forty-four public and private Bills. The King's Speech, though a long document, contains, as usual at the end of a Session, little but a formal review...

devoted to consideration of the Lords' amendments to the Public Meeting Bill introduced by Lord Robert Cecil. Mr. Morton having moved their rejection and condemned the Bill as...

the plot. General Gomez next issued a proclamation justifying his action, and declaring his intention of finding a decorous and pacific solution of the country's international...

of Ways and Means at Washingtsn, and repeated the arguments in favour of Free-trade for the steel industry which be employed lately in an article in the Century Magazine. He...

that affairs were moving quickly at Teheran, that the Shah was weakening, and that the fall of the camarilla was imminent. The Nationalists have once more flocked to the...

attention to a singular act of the Government which is particularly interesting in view of their relations with the House of Lords. On the report stage of the Education...

Commons (Admission of Strangers) was issued last Friday. The Committee, which consisted of Mr. Buchanan (chair- man), Messrs. Fenwick, W. Redmond, Shackleton, Stuart,...

by a very large number of representative persons. The letter expresses the deep satisfaction with which the signatories have perused Sir Edward Grey's reply to the Belgian...

that before many weeks have passed the Meteorological Office will probably receive a regular supply of wireless messages about the weather in the Atlantic from many of the great...

demon- stration organised by the National Reform Union at Liverpool on Monday night, devoted most of a long and vehement speech to the attitude of the House of Lords to Liberal...

the able- bodied men of London to support the Territorial scheme. It was issued on Monday, and is signed by the Duke of Fife, Lord-Lieutenant of the county, and by Lord Esher,...

free institutions and Free-trade, and, on the other band, privilege and Protection, taxes on bread, meat, and timber, and he was perfectly ready to take the opinion of his part...

which, after asserting that Mr. Wyndham had said he was going to tax the bread of the poor, Mr. Lloyd George went on:—" We mean to raise the taxes of the—now I am not gOing to...

May 28th. Consols (24) were on Wednesday 831—last Friday 83i. Bank Rate, 24 per cent., changed from 3 per cent. May 28th. Consols (24) were on Wednesday 831—last Friday 83i.

INDIAN REFORMS. T HOUGH we feel obliged to make certain criticisms in detail of Lord Morley's plans of Indian reform, and to express certain misgivings as to their practical...

W E have spoken above of that part of Lord Morley's scheme of reform to which we can give a general assent. We must give separate and special treatment to his most important,...

TI NDER the heading of "National Finance in 1908 and After" (T. Fisher Unwin, Is. net) Mr. Bowles has published a very remarkable pamphlet. The work, as he describes it, is a...

I N spite of the existence of a Turkish Parliament, the veil is not yet lifted from before the mysterious Committee which has directed one of the most romantic revolutions in...

I N a letter to the Times last week Sir William Chance gives an admirably concise account of the financial results of a recent experiment in the establishment of national...

W E. are indebted to a Committee, composed in equal numbers of members of the University of Oxford and of working-class representatives, for a very able "Report on the Relation...

W E have dealt elsewhere with the political side of Lord Morley's speech, but may notice here one point of wider interest. Lord Morley tells us that he has been exhorted to...

C OUNTRY roads in winter have a charm and a mystery that summer loses. There is an inimitable purity of atmosphere in a wet mild season when the air is full of chill...

M OST practical naturalists will tell you that gamekeepers are very unobservant men, and it is true enough that among them are to be found some of the most sturdily con-...

SrE, — In your issue of February 15th, 1908, there was a letter signed "F. M." suggesting that at the next General Election we ask Unionist Tariff Reform candidates the...

[TO THIS EDITOR OF THI "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The division in the ranks of Unionists on the question between "Tariff Reform" and Free-trade has become so serious that it must be my...

FREE-TRADE AND "DOWN WITH THE LORDS." [TO Till EDITOR OP PHI "SPECTATOR...I Sr,—In the Spectator of December 19th you protest against what you describe as Mr. Asquith's...

SIR,—Whilst warmly appreciating your article on the above subject in the Spectator of December 12th, may I draw attention to a phrase which I think gives an erroneous impression...

[To THE EDITOR or THE SPECTATOR." SIR,—With reference to the proposed reforms in India, it may be worth while to remind your readers that the election of popular...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR,—In the present House of Commons the Labour Party appears to be in the position of the bolder of the magic lamp, while the Government...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR,—As one who lived, in an official capacity, for many years in Nyasaland, I desire fully to endorse—with the reservation of his...

[TO TIM tOITOR OF THE SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—There have been many changes of recent years in the design and matter of school-books,—mainly beneficial changes. The use of photographs...

j SIR,—I send you some more object-lessons in Protection from an article in the Winnipeg Free Press. Comment is "Some years ago a New York jeweller bought his supply of...

[To THE EDITOR. OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—I am one of those who consider that the only equitable course to be followed in the raising of revenue is to tax each man according to...

rro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 Siu,—The Spectator has from time to time given many excel- lent reasons for its resistance to the demand for female suffrage. Will you...

[To THZ EDITOR Or THZ " SPROTATOR;9 should be much obliged if any of your numerous readers, learned in Scottish history, could inform me who the "Seigneur Dakimkempert" was....

[To THE EDITOR OF TRH " SPECTATOR:9 SIR — r have just seen Miss Whyte's letter in your issue of December 5th, and cannot help feeling that it suffers from a most unfortunate...

attention has been called to a paragraph on p. 1055 of your issue of December 19th headed "Flaming Flannelette." As we are the sole manufacturers and patentees of Dr. Perkins's...

Sia, — May I recommend to your correspondent " Mistress " (Spectator, December 19th) the National Deposit Friendly Society, 37 Queen Square, Southampton Row, W.C., for the...

[To TEM EDITOR OF TUE " SPICTATOR."1 SIE,—The interesting article in your last issue on " Bores " reminds me of a definition of a " bore" which I heard from the late Bishop...

SIR,—Will you kindly allow me a few words in reply to youF correspondent "A. B." in last week's Spectator For the last six or seven years there have been in trade and other...

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 mods of...

REMEMBER now thy Creator In the days of thy youth ; Perlege, siste, viator, Remember the days of ruth : Days when we may not hearken To the music that they make ; When the...

A PLAY FOR CHILDREN. WHY i8 it that the theatre is the most slow-moving of institutions ? Why is the stage the refuge of lost causes, and the faithful mirror of modes of...

FREE-TRADE IN BEING.* Ma. RUSSELL REA has done well to collect in this little book some of the articles and letters he has written and lectures he has delivered during the last...

history, his name, no doubt, would have come down to us enshrined amid a cycle of legends, and modern criticism would have begun to discover that, like other demigods, he never...

most entertaining chapters Mr. Tollemache says :—" And now, as I look back on this winding bout of linked stories long drawn out, a fear seizes me lest my critics should...

THE issue of the fourth volume of Grove marks the steady progress towards completion of the revised edition of that indispensable work. Turning to the new articles, one may note...

Brereton tells us, upon a great mass of original material collected by Irving and his friends, and upon information and documents supplied by members * The Life of Henry...

IT is now over fifty years since the last edition of this quaint and fanciful book was published. In 1852 Cayley set out with a companion to ride through Spain from Andalusia to...

MAMMA, THE fact that Miss Broughton's first novel, Cometh up as a Flower, was published in 1867 makes it impossible for the reviewer to notice a new work from her hand without...

Mr. Benson shows himself a little sore at the criticism some of his writings have met with, and he pictures to himself the reception of .At Large by not too friendly reviewers....

sets himself a thoroughly unpleasant task in the plot of his new novel, and he does not succeed in carrying it out without offending against many of the canons of good taste....

6s.)—" John Wisdom" writes so well that the critics cannot appreciate him, and, not unnaturally annoyed, he throws up his occupation, and meets with the adventures here...

The Tempest. Illustrated by Paul Woodroffe. With Songs by Joseph Moorat. (Chapman and Hall. 10s. 6d. net.)—The figure of Ariel is disappointing. He is too thin and etiolated,...

and Co. 6s.)—Readers who remember "The Strayings of Sandy" will not neglect this new example of Miss Conyers's humour, all the more welcome because it moves an unaccustomed...

Norman Wilkinson. (Published for the Florence Press by Chatto and Windus. £2 12s. 6d. net.)—The style of these illustrations is distinctive, and, though based on mediaevalism,...

have a record of pictures, good, had, and indifferent, which have been prominent during the past year. It is amusing to speculate what would be the position of modern art...

Edited by R. R. Marrett. (The Clarendon Press. 60. net.)—Here we have six lectures delivered at Oxford in the course of the term just come to an end at the instance of the...

Illustrated by Eleanor Brickdale. (Chatto and Windus. 6s. net.)— The original drawings no doubt contain beauties of colour which are entirely lost in their reproduction by the...

Hind has written a short, sympathetic intro- duction to this collection of photographs of the sculptor's life- work. Although American by adoption, Saint-Gaudens in his art...

Bumpus. (T. Werner Laurie. 16s. net.)—The architecture of these churches ranges from fine specimens of Romanesque at Lund to pointed Gothic at 17psala. At the latter place, too,...

With an Introduction by Henry Newbolt and Illustrations by Frank Brangwyn. (Gibbings and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—Here is the document which inspired Tennyson, and here we can see how...

(Hodder and Stoughton. 10s. 6d. net.)—Lovers of the book itself will perhaps like to have these selections with their illustrations. They are full of cleverness, though, it...

By Members 'of the Goncourt Academy. Illustrated by Yoshio Markin°. (Chatto and Windus. ' 20s. net.)—We are already acquainted with this Japanese artist's version of London, and...

[Under this heading UV indict such Books of the wok as handl not been reserved for revitw in other forme.] Alcuin of York. By the Right Rev. G. F. Browne, D.D. (S.P.C.K....

Warwick Lane, 2s. 6d. net). As usual, it can show enlargement of size and improvement in arrangement. Of the Almanac itself it is needless to say anything but that it gives all...

W. W. Vaughan). (T. Fisher Unwin. 10s. 6d. net.)—The first edition of this book appeared fifteen years ago, and received a very warm welcome from the Spectator. It has now been...

(Cambridge University Press. 6s. net.)—It is a common belief that there were no, or very few, schools before the sixteenth century, or before the religious movements which...

W. Robertson Nicoll (Hodder and Stoughton, 78.6d. net), is not less full of interesting and valuable matter than its predecessors. We would mention especially the notes on more...

Sons. 7s. 6d. net.)-31r. Monroe tells us that his book is "the result of two vacation trips to Norway, and rather wide reading of the extensive literature of the country." He...

net) has now nearly completed its second century—the exact number of issues is one hundred and ninety-six—and has a title to respect which is patent to all. It has the further...

Edited by Arthur Ha.ssall, M.A. (Lougmans and Co. 7s. 6d. net.) —Mr. Hassell is quite right in anticipating that students of European history will be glad to have this volume....