Committee of the Hague Conference, and expressed the desire of Great Britain to abandon the conception of contra- band. Only. tact had prevented grave consequences arising from...

T HE most important external news of the week comes from the Far East. On Friday week the Emperor of Korea abdicated in favour of the Crown Prince. The abdication was forced on...

Hagron, who was in effect the Generalissimo of the French Army, although that title bad not been officially used for some months, bad asked to be placed on the retired list. His...

spondent a summary of an interview which M. Jules Huret, a well-known writer in the Figaro, has had with Prince Billow. Prince Billow dismissed the possibility of war in almost...

caused much less interest than that of Pius IX. caused in 1864. The new Syllabus is regarded as a continuation of that Syllabus. As the Paris correspondent of the Times remarks,...

case.

received with extraordinary enthusiasm, both parties in- differently doing him honour. Speaking at Ottawa on Friday week, be reminded his hearers, according to the Times corre-...

Prime Minister to complain of the present condition of the Magistracy. Their chief point was that even under a Liberal Lord Chancellor perfectly suitable Liberals are con-...

occupied with the Evieted Tenants Bill, with, a not very im- portant personal incident (also from Ireland), and with the details of Irish Supply. On Wednesday the Prime...

the Times of Tuesday. It is written in answer to an article entitled "India: 1857-1907: Retrospect and Prospect," which was published in Blackwood's Magazine last May, but not...

and as a rule meet the essential test, — tbat is they are men not swayed, in doing what they believe to be justice, by external considerations. This is the reason for, as a...

Wednesday night, spoke in a spirit of optimism in regard to the unrest in India. Vigilance and firmness, coupled with the sympathy of comprehension, will, we are convinced, get...

the Bands Matarans given in Thursday's Times. The Bands Matarans in a passage of some literary merit depicts Mr. Morley as being blinded by the Divine Providence in order that...

Canterbury, in a speech of great moderation, and also of great lucidity, showed how unfair and bow impracticable were the new regulations for Training Colleges. Churchmen were...

has intimated to the Kent Education Committee that rifle. shooting is not a subject which it will permit to be taught to children in elementary schools. The Board, therefore,...

difficult matter in detail, but may say that in our opinion the Arch- bishop made good his case. We have dealt elsewhere with the general aspects of the question, and the...

meeting at Guildford in furtherance of the aims of the National Service League. Nothing could have been plainer or more straightforward than Lord Roberts's repudia- tion of the...

has done in connexion with the housing problem on co-operative lines, has made a most spirited reply to the General Council of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners,...

ham Clarke, the very able soldier who was one of the Com- mission of three which made the plan for the reconstitution of the War Office, and who since then has been secretary to...

week, and the country has once more had first-hand evidence of how world-wide and how strong is the great spiritual organisa- tion founded by John Wesley. The Wesleyan Church is...

THE MENACE OF SOCIALISM. A GREAT deal of exaggerated language has been used in regard to the triumph of Socialism in the Colne Valley election. It is reported, indeed, that one...

J APAIsT has made the first great addition to her dominion, increasing its area by ninety thousand square miles and its population by about twelve millions. That seems to be the...

AS representing those who desire an equitable com- promise on the education question, which, while making our educational system efficient, shall also leave it founded on...

M R. BALFOUR'S indignation at the application of the " guillotine " to the Evicted Tenants Bill probably seemed much more genuine to himself than it did to the House of Commons....

9111E interesting debate in the House of Lords on -1 Wednesday on the Bishop of Birmingham's plea, for a Royal Commission to inquire into the endow-; ment, government,...

W HEN a Combe Hollow boy happens to pass through . Fordbridge, any of the local youth who chance to meet him will instantly blow a shrill, derisive " Too-whoo," taken up and...

A CORRESPONDENT signing himself " Oxonieusis," whose letter appears in another column, writes to us this week on the subject of the preservation of rare or beautiful wild...

S OME information has reached us about a certain new scheme of examination for school scholarships, and as we have sympathised with such a reform in the slightly different...

THE REVOLUTION IN PERSIA. MO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR,'] Sin,—To judge from the newspapers, it would appear that the English public is little aware of the revolution that...

OLD-AGE PENSIONS. lTo THIE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sut,—The article on "Old-Age Pensions" in your last issue contains a suggestion to the effect that the Government would...

and illuminating article on "Old-Age Pensions" in last week's Spectator it is very forcibly pointed out that "the proper plan is a compulsory system of insurance against old...

article on "Old-Age Pensions" you give convincing reasons why they will have less effect ih reducing the Poor-rate than is popularly supposed. I would venture to go a step...

wages stamps a huge reserve fund could be amassed to meet the proposal to find 5s. weekly pensions to workpeople on attaining sixty years. Workmen making less than E1 a week...

[To THE EDTTOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:"] Sfd,—The telegram sent by Mr. Joseph Chamberlain to Sir Robert Bond expressing the hope that Newfoundland would shortly join the Dominion of...

last week's Spectator in your article on "Old-Age Pensions" you say :—" No doubt the amount expended in out-relief would be considerably diminished." Will this be im? At a...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I feel somewhat diffident in venturing to comment on your article in the issue of July 20th headed as above, for it displays, as indeed...

Sin,—I am making an investigation into the detailed working of contributory pension schemes in Germany and Austria, with a view to finding out haw far they could be applied in...

(To Tea ECrrolt Or rue " SCSCraTos.1 SIR,—I am sincerely sorry to find that we do not yet agree with regard to the " All-Red " Route. You apparently are willing to support this...

[To THE Emma OV ias "SPECTATOR:I SIR,—I remember reading in a letter from an Englishman in Japan the opinion that if the Japanese conquered Russia, it would be impossible to...

[To THE EDITOR OW THZ "SPXOTATOR." SIR,—I should very much like to be allowed to add a few words to the appreciations which have appeared in the Press of the late Dr. W. G....

[TO THZ EDITOR OF TER "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Your article of July 6th, able as it is, does not fully expose the injustice or the stupidity of the present system of rating the land....

[To THZ EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — W ill you give me a little space to record two coronation sermons- by the same preacher, which beat the record of the two peace...

[TO THU EDITOR OF THE "SPECTA.TOFt."] Si,—In connexion with your article on "American Immi- grants" in your issue of July 13th, it may be of interest to some of your readers to...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." J Sr,—With reference to your notice of the booklet entitled "The Preservation of Places of Interest and Beauty" (Spectator, June 29th), may I...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TUE"SPECTATOR."1 SIR, — The Spectator is a good port to put into for an etymologist in distress, and so I venture to ask its help as to the derivation of two...

Assist all ye muses and join to rehearse An old English sport never praised yet in verse. 'Tis cricket I sing, of illustrious fame, No nation e'er boasted so noble a game....

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR:9 beg to enclose an appeal about to be issued for subscrip- tions to a memorial to the late Mrs. Oliphant. The Committee would feel greatly...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sm,—I have been honoured by a request from his executors that I should prepare for early publication a biography of my lamented friend, the...

go Tile EDITOR OF TEE "SescrAT0R.1 SIR,—Those of your readers who enjoyed the excellent review of Mr. E. V. Lucas's "The Hambledon Men" which appeared in your issue of July 6th...

FEAR not, Cornubia, whose enchanting borders The young and emerald Atlantic laves, That I would join those rhythmical recorders Who hymn the glories of your coves and caves. My...

THE RELIGION OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.* DURING recent years the Protestant professors in German Universities have made what is for them an entirely new departure. They have long...

these columns not long ago to comment upon certain American characteristics, personal and national, which hinder the speedy and effective adminis- tration of criminal justice in...

"HISTORY in its more frivolous aspect !" This, according to If. Loliee, is the idea of his book. It is a picture, or a series of pictures, of the more conspicuous figures of the...

THE author of A History of the English Turf has completed A task which was worth the patient work he has bestowed on it. The history of the most famous of all racehorses, "the...

COMPANIONS IN THE SIERRA.* This story is so loosely composed and so episodical that we ought perhaps to warn the reader that, although it is fiction, * Companions in the...

that they are written by a woman. The stories, both in subject and in treatment, are extremely virile, and will certainly not remind any reader of the work of other women...

THE QUARTERLIES. The article on the Imperial Conference in the Edinburgh Review is a particularly brilliant contribution to a brilliant number. Nothing could be better than the...

mood should begin the Quarterly Review by studying the article on "British Investments Abroad." The figures for 1906 are £3,220,000,000, showing an increase on those of 1897 of...

Co. 6s.)---An interesting modern story, of which the scone is laid in Mexico.—Chance thb Changeling. By Maude C. Knight. (Greening and Co. 6s.)—A story in which the...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] The Keswick Convention. Edited by Charles F. Harford, (Marshall...

Company, Philadelphia. 8s. net.)—The story of the origin of the Samaritans is eminently characteristic of the time and place to which it belongs. Immigrants from a distant...

vols. (Brown, Langhain, and Co. 30s. net.)—Miss Marks tells the story of the strife of parties in England and of the war which ended in the acknowledgment of American...

is a volume of the "Spanish Series," and, as might be expected, is not surpassed—perhaps, one might say, equalled—in interest by any other. Little or nothing is to be seen of...

C. Jack. 215. net.)—We hear, and are glad to hear, something in this volume about many poets,—between fifty and a hundred, to make a rough guess. Most of them are fallen into an...

Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—Captain Pollock began his Transatlantic life in Wisconsin in the service of a very close-fisted German, of whom he speaks very considerately in view of the...

Edited by Harry Roberts (John Lane, 2s. 6d. net), is The Book of the Chrysanthemum, by Percy Penwell. The chrysanthemum, which is the national emblem of Japan, seems, like many...

63s. net.)—Mr. Kermode has devoted himself to the study of Manic crosses for many years. He published a catalogue of them in 1887, revising and enlarging this work five years...

North Wales, by Alfred T. Story (2s. Od. net). The arrangement, we may remind our readers, is to give introductory chapters Oh. boundaries, physical features, flora and fauna,...

and Co. 4s. 6d. net.)—Captain Cradock believes that sea- manship will survive all the changes introduced by mechanical progress, and writes this book to supply some practical...

tustoe Road, London.)—The "London Female Preventive Reformatory Institution" completed its fiftieth year in Sane last. The story of its work is told in this volume,' which also...

and Hughes. 3s. 6d. net.)—" The Miracle Play," says Mr. Moore, "Caine into being when the Bible was a closed book." It was wanted because the religious services of the day,...

Murray. 6e. net.)—The pseudonym of "W. B. Anderson" is perhaps not unfamiliar to readers of "Forest and Stream." Mr. Schultz, now that the links which connect the day of the...