correspondent of the Times in Thursday's issue. The total revenue is estimated at £E16,130,000; the ordinary expendi- ture at £E14,909,000, and expenditure under special credits...

delegates consented to allow the Greeks to be included in the negotiations, but asked in exchange for the revictual- ling of Adrianople. This led to a further delay, for the...

December 14th, gives a deplorable account of the condition of the district. Arriving on the scene in a spirit of scepticism, he is now bound to admit that the peasantry, mostly...

held at the Foreign Office, and it was subsequently announced that the six Governments had agreed in principle upon two points, namely, upon Albanian autonomy, and upon a...

case.

W E greatly regret to record a terrible outrage at Delhi on Monday, when Lord Hardinge rode into the city to proclaim it the new capital of India. Lord Hardinge and Lady...

outrage, as owing to the trees in the middle of the road a procession is compelled to pass close under the houses, and the howdahs of the elephants are as high as the upper...

the Government had definitely refused to accept the Association's alternative scheme, which " would involve the expenditure of public money without adequate public control," and...

to the medical profession embodying the Association's scheme was drawn up. Very strong feeling was expressed upon many sides that it would be highly dishonourable for any of...

regard to the administration of the Insurance Act is so uncertain that we propose to postpone all comment until next Saturday ; we will here only give a short summary of the...

differences between himself and General Hertzog. He pointed out that General Hertzog had violated all constitutional etiquette in making public what had happened at Cabinet...

scheme proposes shall be done; and, indeed, the whole attitude of the Association to the friendly societies has undoubtedly undergone a considerable change since the pledge was...

Lancashire Division of the National Unionist Association, Lord Derby, who presided, proposed that the discussion should be private. He frankly pointed out that they were about...

ance in his letter headed " Liberia and Principe " in Tuesday's Times. It appears that arrangements were recently made to recruit labour for the cocoa farms on the islands of...

the adjournment of the House, Mr. Fitzroy brought forward the question of Sir Francis Bridgeman's resignation of his post as First Sea Lord. The debate was remarkable for a "...

of the North-Eastern Railway on a charge of drunkenness and disorderly conduct, made an important statement on Monday. Mr. Martin, the senior magistrate, in making the...

Sea Lord that he should resign, in language so gentle as to be vague. Sir Francis Bridgeman misapprehended the letter and stated that his health was improved and that he was...

This year's report is most disappointing, especially so when we remember that the year has been a record one for trade and industry. According to the latest return, on December...

of land values appeared in Thursday's Times. It will be remembered that Lord Eversley has all his life been a Liberal in politics and, as Mr. Shaw-Lefevre, sat in Liberal...

Tariff Reformers themselves is setting more strongly than ever in the direction which we foresaw. The latest estimate of those Unionist members and candidates who are anxious to...

to consider whether Sir Stuart Samuel had vacated his seat, in consequence of his firm having transacted business with the India Office, was issued yesterday week. The report...

THE OUTRAGE AT DELHI. T HE opinion is said to be general in India that the deplorable attempt on the life of the Viceroy at Delhi was not one of those crazy acts of...

_I - REVIEW of the debates in the House of Commons on the Welsh Disestablishment Bill during the past few weeks provides some curious reflections. In some respects the Bill, as...

N TV are all conscious of the difficulty of discerning the right remedies for any troubles until the causes are remote enough to be seen in perspective, and then it is usually...

T HE Times of April 10th in the present year contained a letter from Count Vladimir Bobrinski, a member of the Russian Duma, giving particulars of a religious persecution...

T ARRE are many substitutes for talent; some cheap, some dear, and all of them looking very much like the real thing at first sight. Perhaps the commonest of all the substitutes...

M OST of those who trouble to think about Australia at all picture to themselves a flat, sandy country, monotonous in its scenery and comparatively uninteresting in its fauna...

C ONINGTON'S translation of Virgil is as familiar to readers of the classics as the Latin of Virgil him- self, and in certain respects it is hardly likely to be bettered by a...

of the views of the rank and file of the Unionist Party in the House of Commons, I have no hesitation in saying that there will be very general agreement with the substance of...

UNIONIST POLICY. [TO THE EDITOR ON THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—Lord Heneage has most wisely and usefully reminded us bow the great majority of the Liberals was obtained in 1906....

Law said that if he were asked why the tariff as agreed upon in the Conference could not be sub- mitted to a Referendum, his answer was that it would be unfair to the Colonies....

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Mr. Whitbread and Mr. Holland-Hibbert both mistake the question in discussion. No one disputes that children have rights which are and...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " Brzerwroa."] Sra,—The Government made generous concessions last week, and it is evident, from statements made by Mr. Asquith, Mr. McKenna, Mr. Lloyd...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—To those who have personally witnessed the ugly incidents of the war, the news of the armistice brings a sense of relief that cannot...

Holland-Hibbert state the case for the N.S.P.C.C. in dangerously wide terms, and it would be well to know how far some of their dicta on the effect of the Children Act, 1908,...

SIR,—Whilst also upholding the rights of parents, I cannot see that the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children deserves to be brought to book over the case of Alice...

Sin,—The letter of the Vice-Chairman of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in your paper of December 21st is so important and so likely to mislead...

thing that Lord Roberts and the National Service League should again and again avoid what is for Liberals the vital objection to every scheme that• has so far been put forward....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Your repeated collection of opinion on this great question is most valuable. The evidence you give this week marks what may be called...

Sin,—As a Liberal may I accept your invitation to comment on the proposals of those who advocate National Service and universal training You have done well to summarize, in your...

Snt,—Lord Hugh Cecil has invited discussion of the very important question of the "supersession of the discretion of an injudicious parent," and, notwithstanding your hearty...

"SPECTATOR " ] Sts.,—In your interesting article entitled " A Pound a Week " in your issue of November 30th you allude to the importance of "developing to the utmost" the...

enclosed quotation from Russell Lowell's essays has point in modern conditions when the idea of Federal Home Rule for the various parts of the United Kingdom is becoming...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR " ] Sin,—The letter which you published last week with reference to evening communion, and also the condition of the Welsh Church Bill when the...

notice that the opponents of National Service con- stantly make use of the argument that National Service on the lines advocated by the National Service League would in all...

the appeal for the Gordon Hospital, Vans - hall Bridge Road, published in our last issue, left it uncertain what the special fund was for which donations were solicited. There...

[To THE EDITOR OF TER "Srsoreros.n Srn,—In view of the general agreement as to the necessity for more cottages in rural districts, will you allow me to call the attention of...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "Sracuroa."] Sin,—There are not a few prejudices of the table enumerated in your recent interesting and amusing article on the subject to which I must...

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...

MILITARY BANDS. THE primary function of military bands is admirably summed up in two lines in the " ..Eneid " in which Vergil speaks of a famous trumpeter, "Quo non...

NEW YEAR'S EVE. OH, let me dream, as Earth herself is dreaming In murmured songs and broken sighs of sleep! Oh, let me seem, as Life itself i3 seeming, A thought of God,...

TROY: A STUDY IN HOMERIC GEOGRAPHY.* Tam author of this noteworthy book is one of those men— unhappily very rare—who, like George Grote, are equally conversant with commerce and...

THE section of eighteenth-century political history which Mr. Winstanley has chosen for his monograph is one of the romances of our constitutional chronicle, and as important as...

To those who love sea-lore Mr. David Hannay has done a real service in writing this book. It is a genuine pleasure to a reviewer to find invariably in Mr. Hannay's work the...

able men, men sound of heart and head, do not always make interesting biographies. John Forster, friend and biographer of Dickens, was one to whom all these adjectives might be...

SIB. EDWARD RUSSELL did well, we think, to " arrest " these " fugitive " papers and lectures, and confine them within the boards of a volume. They are all very popular, but that...

ONE would not willingly find fault with anything the authors have to tell us in Arabic Spain, for seldom have we come across a book which shows more loving and painstaking work,...

thousand pages." It is from this mass of material, hidden away for many years in a provincial library, the Municipal Library of Clermont-Ferrand, that M. d'Hauterive has chosen...

THE HEROINE IN BRONZE.t IT would be interesting to illustrate the distribution of literary talent in the United States geographically, and to contrast the characteristics of...

Studies. By Colin Campbell. (Oliver and Boyd. 7s. 6d. net.)—Dr. Campbell gives a detailed description and interpreta- tion of the series of sculptures on the west wall of the...

(W. Heinemann. 6s.)—A modern story of diplomacy and spying. It is well written, as may be expected of such practised hands, but the thread is somewhat hard to follow.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.) Lord Roberts's Message to the Nation. By Field - Marshal Earl Roberts,...

incisive and analytical talent of Anne Douglas Sedgwick does not lend itself quite happily to the production of the short story. Although almost all the stories in this...

honour among year-books, and no one who has any dealings with facts can hope to avoid using it daily. This year we have in addition to welcome its younger brother, The Inter-...

Pesaacas. — Berke's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, 1913 (Harrison and Sons. .e2 2s.)—Here we have the seventy-fifth edition of this most elaborate of peerages, with close...

quite unlike all others, in that it is not merely useful, but also of great psychological interest. Needless to say, we are referring to Who's Who, 1913 (A. and C. Black, 15s....

Intro- duction by the Right Hon. the Lord Alverstone. (T. Fisher linwin. 5s. net.)—It is scarcely necessary to remind our readers that Waugh was the founder of the National...