a tight place," it must by no means be supposed that his fall from power is imminent. It is far more likely that the talk of resignation is tactical, and intended to restore the...

D URING the greater part of the week the news from the Balkans was of an exceedingly disquieting kind. Happily things seem to have taken a turn for the better, and Thursday's...

consequence of a letter which the Emperor William addressed to the Czar. If this is true, it would seem to mean that the Emperor William has become alarmed at the results of the...

a remarkable character. In the first place, the Reichstag has voted the very large Naval Estimates unanimously, and without debate or protest of any kind, though the Socialists...

announcement that the Crown Prince of Servia had stated to the Prime Minister his resolve to surrender his right of succession to the throne in favour of his brother, and to...

are asking whether there is anything practical and immediate that they can do to help the nation, and to mark their determination to maintain our naval supremacy at all costs....

sistently refused to dismiss M. Simyan, round whose person the controversy has raged, as for some reason he has excited extraordinary personal animosity among the employees. On...

case to understand is to condemn—the reason why the Government have not taken the simple course of asking Parliament to enaction eight capital ships. The obstacle to that...

expressed as follows :—" We are not at all hostile to Germany, and want to be at peace with her. We mud, however, remember the temptation to which she will be exposed....

building programme which deservei notice, though, as far as we have seen, it has yet received none. We talk as if the sudden and tremendous advancement of the German programme...

our leading columns that we shall only note here that the public anxiety is still maintained, and that though happily there are no signs of the country losing its head, or being...

the German Government to statements as to their inten- tions in regard to shipbuilding. Even if the German Govern- ment were willing to be perfectly frank in the matter, their...

debate on the Navy Estimates came to a conclusion, the heart having been taken out of the discussion by the knowledge that all the questions concerned would be reopened in the...

Lord Percy and Mr. Massie (who had previously presented an anti-suffrage petition with two hundred and forty-three thousand signatures), Mr. Asquith explained the position of...

was held at the Mansion House on Tuesday, when it was decided that the scheme for establishing a National Shakespeare Theatre was practicable, and should be pro- ceeded. with....

that the total receipt* for the week ended on that date were £6,813,000, inoluding £6,251,000 from revenue. Though the figures compare unfavourably with those of 1908 owing to...

had been appointed to the Viceroy of India's Executive Council. Mr. Sinha, who will succeed Sir Homy Richards as Legal Member, is a distinguished Hindu lawyer who was recently...

by the recent International Conference in London was published on Monday. An agreement has at last been reached on the subject of contraband. Three lists have been drawn up of...

paper that no alternative will be proposed to the Payne Tariff Bill. The minority, however, has submitted a Report attacking the Bill, asserting that it will increase the cost...

Monday. The completed accounts of the year 1907-8 show a surplus of £306,000. The revised estimate for the year 1908-9 shows a total deficit of £4,292,000. The original...

every adult having a residential qualification of three months shall be entitled to be put on the register, plural voting to be abolished, and women to have the same voting...

in favour of graduating the Income-tax. He believed that if the system of declaration were carried right through the scale, £50,000,000, and probably £100,000,000, more...

THE NAVAL POLICY OF GERMANY. F ROM certain points of view the crisis through which the nation has been passing in the last fortnight has not been a pleasant spectacle. On the...

W E have dealt elsewhere with the main factor in what the public has almost universally come to call the naval crisis,—not perhaps a very good or a very appropriate name, but...

with the nature of the inquiry which we desire, let Us repeat that we do not want to make a victim or a scapegoat of Sir John Fisher. But we do want to ask very clearly where "...

took place in the House of Commons on Tuesday on the subject of the taxa- tion of land values would have been more interesting if the Chancellor of the Exchequer had found an...

T HE cable despatch from Lieutenant Shackleton to the 'Daily Mail of Wednesday is the fitting close of an extraordinary effort. The records of all previous Polar exploration...

certain amiable and sentimental persons in England, whose sincerity is unquestionable, to accept the opinions of the German Press, and above all its " inspired '...

C ROSSNESS, like a cold in the head, is so common and so catching a complaint that few people have much Sympathy to spare for it. We have all had attacks of catarrh and attacks...

W E are asked to believe nowadays that in most circum- stances the power of the individual has passed away for ever ; that in Parliament he is only a delegate suffocated by the...

W HEN the March snow melts ,slowly, under warm airs . by day and with frost at night to ,obeck the inrush of mountain streams and runnels from hillside streams, the Dee flows...

THE NAVAL SITUATION. [TO Till EDITOR OF Till " SPIZOTATOlt...] SIR,—Debates on the Navy Estimates this year have been unprecedented in character, and have produced throughout...

MR. BELLO() AND THE "SPECTATOR." [1'0 THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR:I 81R,—In your article, "The Antiseptic of the Press" (pub- lished in your last issue), you deliberately...

[To THE EDITOR or t HZ SPROTATOR."1 Sin,—Yon are to be thanked by all the members of our pro- fession, and by so many of the general public as care to fix their principles,...

[TO Till EOITOR OF Till “SPROTATOR.1 SIR,—There is an important aspect of this question of which, I think, none of your correspondents has so far made mention, and that is...

[TO THS EOITOR or TUN " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,-4t is really not necessary for us to promise not to pur- chase cocoa-beans grown in Portuguese West Africa, as we have never used...

cre THU EVITOR OF TO• "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—If Unionist Free-traders wish to see Liberal candidates stand aside on behalf of Unionist Free-trade M.P.'e (see Spectator, March...

rro THU nrwros. TIIN osrsoarroa..1 SIR,—I have read through twice carefully the article with the above title in your issue of March 20th, and I am unable to determine whether...

[TO TIIII nerron Or ril El " SP garkrori.-.1 am a parson and a man of peace. A while ago I got a letter signed by the secretary of a Society of Men of Peace asking me to exhort...

[To THE EDITOH.OF THE "SPEOTO-T0101 But,—Though your paragraph in answer to the letter of Mr. W. H. Alger in the issue of February .20th is an answer at once adequate and...

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...

LINES ON A BULLFINCH, FREED. Wu° once was held in durance vile Now flits among the leafy trees, Nor wit, nor will, nor food, nor guile May lure him back to captive ease....

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SFECTA.T011.1 SIR, — The author of the article "The North Wind in March " in your last issue asks: "Is there any country proverb about two o'clock in...

THE following firms do not use slave-grown cocoa:— Army and Navy Stores. Cadbury Brothers, Carr and Co. Co-operative Wholesale Sooiety, Epps and Co. Fry and Sons. Fuller...

MR. GALSWORTHY'S PLAYS. GALSWORTHY is without doubt one of the most interesting of our dramatists. His work is thoroughly original and absolutely sincere, and it concerns...

week suggesting the reprint of one of our articles on National Defence kindly communicate again with the editor, as is letter containing his name and address has unfortunately...

[To run EDITOR OF THE • 'SFILOTA.TOlt."] am oommissioned to ask you to help this appeal by giving it a place in your columns on Saturday next, the 27th.—I am, "Since the...

CANNING AND HIS FRIENDS.* THE authoritative Life of Canning, as Captain Begot observes in his preface to these two volumes, has yet to be written; and the present compilation,...

OF the three books before us, that by Mr. C. R. Buxton is the mo3t important, though it adds few new facts to what Englishmen already know. 1.ti% Buxton was a member of the...

due to Mr. S. E. . Winbolt for the attractive little book of Which the above is the subsidiary title. For if, as Mr. T. E. Page affirms in the - excellent introduction which he...

these two volumes fell on much the same dates and had the same objective. The proximate .goal in each case was the southern shore of Beaufort Sea,. west of Point Barrow; and the...

about. Las Caeas is that when he was a student at the University of Salamanca he owned an Indian boy who had been given him by his fathe r , Later on, when he had emigrated to...

charming book, quite outside the usual run of memoirs and collections of letters. It is only now and then that we are admitted to a late knowledge of women like Nrrs. La Touohe...

is a story chiefly concerned with the doings of an American lady and her daughters in London. Both the struggles of Mrs. Stanley Lansing over the brilliant marriages of her two...

stories are always interesting, and Idolatry is no exception to the rule. The scene is laid at a small station in the North-West of India, but the interest is purely European....

Mn. SNAITR bad declined so disastrously in his last two novels from the high standard set in Broke of Covenden that we are glad to be able to congratulate him on having scored...

learning about Japanese men and things, the opportunities afforded by a residence of a quarter of a century, and by the work of a missionary and of a University teacher. These...

Illus- trated with Reproductions of Drawings by Louis Sargent, Cuthbert E. Swan, and Winifred Austin. Vol. I. (T. C. and E. C. Jack. 10s. 6d. net.)—This first volume contains...

75. 6d. net.)—Mr. Sparrow deals with the useful as well as with the ornamental, and what he says on both topics is always to the point and vigorously expressed. Ho brings...

Chicago, U.S. 21s. net.)—Me. Dodd has collected the documents which define the Constitutions of twenty- two States (Austria and Hungary are reckoned separately, and there is a...

and Co. 21s. net.)—We do not know whether there is anything absolutely new in Mr. Haultain's book. What there is, be it old or new, is well put. The "mystery" of the game is...

Mister this heading we valise such Books of Ms week as haw, not been t eSerIllid for review in other forms.) The Official Year-Book of the Church of England. (S.P.C.K. 3s.)...

6s.)—A tale of the American Civil War, very picturesque, but a little hard to understand.—His Father's Honour. By David Christie Murray. (Ward, Lock, and Co. 6 ')—An old...

12s. Od. net.)—Mr. Lawton's "anecdotal narration," as he calls it, of thirty-seven years of French history is a very readable book. Its most valuable part, we think, is to be...

T. Robertson, D.D. (Hodder and Stoughton. es. net.)—Professor Robertson comes to his task very well equipped. He has studied the newest books on his subject and assimilated...

Auden. (Woodall, Minshall, and Co., Oswestry.)—This is a corrected edition. The years 1734-1798 are represented by about twelve pages, The register began with Dr. Samuel...

Sir Arthur N. Wollaston. (John Murray. 2s. 6d. net.)—The name of Pilpai is probably known to many readers, but his "Fables" are less familiar. Hero we have the best of them...

Sons. 8s. 6d.)—" The Cho.racters.and ,Scenes of the Novels and Miscellaneous Works Alphabetically Arranged ", is Mr. Philip's sub-title. Wherever it is possible the original...