Ministers who have their hands actually on the lever of govern- ment, and are engaged in its daily work, feel much more need that the King's Government shall be carried on than...

Is likely to be the course of events both as regards the Budget and the attack upon the House of Lords, and will only say here that though we recognise the many difficulties of...

bread, meat, and cheese, and confined their demands to the taxation of manufactured articles, or generally to an enlargement of indirect taxation upon articles other than those...

so soon after these pages are in our readers' hands, we do not propose to give them in an imperfect form. It seems likely, however, that the composite majority of the Govern-...

LITERARY SUPPLEBTENT.

T HE elections are practically over, with the general result that though the Tariff Reformers have failed to secure either a majority of seats or a majority of the votes polled,...

case.

in the Prussian Diet on what is known as the " Katto- witz affair" in Prussian Poland. The Government recently took action against a number of petty officials, chiefly (the...

the Liberal Press to suggest that the Unionist Party are inclined to make an unholy alliance with the Irish, and secure their votes for Tariff Reform by granting them Home-rule....

States. It was begun in Cleveland by the Labour Unions, which declared that the dearness of beef was due less to the shortage of cattle than to the action of the Beef Trust. In...

Japan have refused to accept the American proposal, made by Mr. Knox: that the Manchurian railways shou:d be neutralised. Russia is willing to consider proposals for new...

rest of the 'Unionist Party by defending them against this preposterous attempt to create prejudice and dissatisfaction. There is not the slightest risk of treachery in the...

be safely counted upon to support the Budget through thick and thin when it is reintroduced, the Parliamentary correspondent of the Times notes a remarkable speech ma4e by Mr....

to purge the Army of its criminal elements. The Bill will revise the legislai ion of 1905 by which criminal "hooligans" (known: in Paris as apaches) are placed in home regiments...

life, great distress to the poor, grave disturbance of traffic, and immense damage to property, have attained the pro- portions of a national disaRter. In Paris, where the level...

order only by the action of the State, and for Socialists and Protectionists who cheerfully look upon the regulation of trade by the State as an advantage this is at least...

great advance made by electors in the high art of heckling. Many of the questions, however, have been provided ready-made from headquarters, and have few terrors for a...

on the Peers' disabilities and political posters. "The sensation with which a Peer paraded the streets at this moment recalled to his mind the melancholy position of David...

out of the alleged iniquities of the Unionist Peers, and their attempts to dictate to and intimidate the people, it is positively amazing to note that the most glaring instance...

recriminations in the three countries that it is extremely difficult for a foreign observer to get at the truth. On Wednesday the facts became further complicated by an alleged...

considerably fluttered by the account of a remarkable conversation with Count Aehrenthal which was published in the Novae Vrentya. According to the Vienna correspondent of the...

in March the Government said they might have to give orders for putting in hand the ships necessary to be built in the course of the year in order to maintain our naval...

the poll at Cork, made a violent attack on the Irish Parliamentary Party and Mr. Asquith at Fermoy yesterday week. He denounced Mr. Redmond and his following for having betrayed...

Jan. 20th. Consols (2i) were on Friday 821—Friday week 821.

THE COURSE OF EVENTS. ll E would be a bold man who would assert with any confidence at the present moment that he could predict the course of political events. Nevertheless, it...

W E have dealt above with the various possibilities connected with the passing of the Budget. Here we desire to discuss the next move on the political chessboard, and the...

IBERAL opinion seems a good deal divided as to the J meaning and outcome of the elections. The Chan- cellor of the Exchequer and his special supporters in the Press are, or...

the reconstructed Imperial Legis- lative Council at Calcutta opened on Tuesday under the shadow of another political crime. The day before Police-Inspector Shams-ul-Alam was...

W HATE V ER may happen in the few constituencies which still remain to be polled, it is now abundantly " clear that the Liberals, if they receive the support of the Nationalists...

T HE influence of our Lord's miraculous knowledge of the future appears to have kept many from an inquiry into His knowledge of the world. Yet when we have excluded the...

I F Englishmen were to believe all that has been said to their disadvantage by those who are displeased at the turn the voting has taken in the English county divisions, they...

W HAT was the origin of the proverb, " Fools build houses for wise men to live in" ? It is the proverb which is quoted by nine people out of ten to any one who decides upon...

THE REVISION OF THE PRAYER-BOOK. [To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:] Ein,—Now that the elections to the House of Commons are nearly over, your readers may have leisure to be...

[To THE EDITOR ON THE "SPECTATOR' Sin,—Your advice, and that of Sir Robert Giffen, appears to me so cogent that, though I am no longer young and the weather is very inclement,...

? [To TSB Burros or me "SrscvAroa."3 Sra,—I am a Liberal of twenty years' standing. I have lived for six years in a British Colony, and remain an unrepentant Free-trader. I...

[TO 1312 EDITOR Or TEE ospeersees.-3 should like to ask if any of your readers can suggest a verse in the Bible that would help to solve the following difficulty in which a...

Sra,—I am a Unionist Free-trader who at the last General Election voted with the Liberals, but I have this time fol- lowed your advice and voted with the Conservatives in three...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sus,—If Radical partisans have any saving sense of humour left, perhaps the following extract from Sir Walter Scott's "Old Mortality" may...

seen the letter in last Saturday's Spectator signed " Squireen." Curiously enough, my chief has restored a thirteenth-century priory entirely at his own cost, although I fail...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The letter from a " Nasik Resident" in your last issue reminded me of a conversation in a Mohammedan gentleman's house where I was...

[TO TEE EDITOR OF TEE - " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Tbe enclosed extract from a speech of Lord Morley's made at the People's Palace, Newcastle, in February, 1892, may be of interest in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In early days I lived in a constituency which was con- sidered corrupt. Both sides had bribed, till at last in self- protection they...

Sru,—Your article in last week's Spectator indirectly at least raises the whole question of the wisdom of educating the poorer classes of this country. The writer chides social...

l'ro ma Emma OF TER "Smc-rAToa.") SIR,—In your article on "The Elections So Far" in last week's Spectator you refer to "Abraham Lincoln's great principle that though you may...

[To ram EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:I Sus,—I greatly regret that statements should have been made which imply that the Bradfield College Ranch provides " soft " conditions for the...

[To TER EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." . 1 Srn,—One of your "News of the Week" notes in last week's Spectator contains extracts from an article of Herr Harden published in the...

in connexion with the above-named project, writes to the Spectator of January 8th to denounce the fatal desire of sons, and mothers even more, that ranch life should be "free...

SAILING AT DAWN. ONE by one the pale stars die before the day now, One by one the great ships are stirring from their sleep, Cables all are rumbling, anchors all aweigh now,...

SPECTLTOR:1 SIR,—It may seem almost churlish in me to cavil at a mere detail of the very flattering appreciation of my version of the "Epistolae Obscurorum VirorLun ' which...

[To THE EDITOR OP TER " SPECTATOR:1 Sza,—There is one mistake in your generous notice in last week's Spectator of the Life of Dr. Rigg. The College at Westminster of which he...

[TO THE EDITOE OF THE " SPECTATOR] Si,—In several references to the maiden who sought her lover through the streets of London by the one cry" Gilbert ! " I have seen no...

to express my thanks to your several correspondents who have traced to known speakers three of the cases quoted in my article as " anonymous " ? I should like also to say that...

SIR HUBERT PARRY ON BACH. ON a superficial and sentimental survey Bach might well be regarded as one of the most tragic figures in the annals of art. Here was a colossal...

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...

BRITAIN AT BAY.* PROFESSOR SPENSER WILKINSON has long caused us to admire the earnestness, the lucidity, and the erudition with which he has advocated various military reforms....

revive interest in a romance which had an enormous effect on the imaginations of our grandfathers. Information about Lady Hester Stanhope has till now not been very easy to come...

regarded as an ambitious hypocrite or a sincerely disinterested saint, there can be no doubt that she was a marvellously clever woman. This new biography, though not great from...

described the supersession of Gothic architecture by the art of printing : the word carved in stone by the word printed on paper. But where the written word fails us, we turn...

THE author of this book has given us an excellent work which will lead the beginner by easy steps from the place of "No Knowledge" to a good and comprehensive acquaintance with...

Wrro is sufficient, one might ask, for the task which the author of this book has attempted ? An angel might come down from heaven, to see with a clearer vision than is...

IB April, 1907, the Board of Trinity College, Dublin, made arrangements for the publication of speeches delivered on the occasion of conferring honorary degrees. Professor...

3s. 13d.)—This book is in effect a Roman Catholic tract which deals with the good results of rescue work by a Roman Catholic visitor among discharged Roman Catholic prisoners....

IIIASTE$ TrrEuE is a good deal of pleasant entertainment in Mr. Shan Bullock's new story. Pturporting as it does to be the narra- tive of an Irish car-driver, Master John may...

Testament narrative is subjected may be found in the current number of the Expository Times (T. and T. Clark, 6d.) under the title of "The Logic; of the Baptist." The writer,...

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(Greening and Co. 6s.)—This "Romance of the Seventeenth Century" brings us into familiar company and situations which the author knows how to manipulate.—Dulah the Forest Guard....

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IMPRESSIONS OF ENGLAND.* WE do not see how Mr. Howells makes out his seven English cities; an "English city" cannot be without a Bishop. Liverpool, therefore, Manchester, York,...

LONDON: JANUABY 29th, 1910.

We doubt whether in the long and brilliant annals of British achievement in the Tropics there can be found a more romantic story than that of the two white Rajahs of Sarawak,...

the prolific crop which the publishing season has produced, compel us to notice very briefly a large number of books that have little in common, except that they treat of Nature...

THE reviewer is debarred from treating The Story of the Thames as critically as he might from the unfortunate fact that the author's death occurred before he was able to correct...

Mr. Hardy we had a true poet—though he lacked most of the conventional poetic attributes—by virtue of his gift of intense passion and his extraordinary imaginative scope. In...

the painter not only of land- scape but of picturesque costume. Mr. and Mrs. Stokes in profiting by it have been able to give us a record of singular attractiveness. Mr. Stokes,...

slight but lively and very readable book. If it contains little that is quite new, things familiar to admirers of Miss Edgeworth's character and genius are cleverly arranged,...

lively and agreeable writer, and his books are always very readable, though his style, with its blanks and breaks and unfinished sentences, its hints and suggestions of "I could...

Sons. 7s. 6d. net.)—We like these illustrations better than the last. They are more direct and to the point ; indeed, the picture of Gulliver bombarded by the Brobdingnagian...

"POETRY more truly Scots than that of Mr. Murray is no longer written—was not even written by Mr. Stevenson." So writes Mr. Lang in his introduction to this book, and the...

M. STENGER has collected a mass of interesting information on the years 1813-15, and his book is exceedingly readable in English, thanks to Mrs. Rodolph Stawell's talent as a...

ILLUSTRATED BOOKS. Uncline. Adapted from the German by W. L. Courtney, and Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. (W. Heinemann. 7s. 6d. net.)— Mr. Courtney's adaptation of Fouque's...

Nicholson and Illustrations by Gilbert James. (A. and C. Black. 7s. 6d. not.)—Why any one should wish to have Omar illustrated, or why any artist should wish to make such...

Dent and Sons. 7s. 6d. net.)—The small hold the artist has on reality is very apparent in these drawings. The real characters we know—Cordelia, Lear, or Viola—demand for their...

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Illustrated by Eleanor Brickdsle. (Chatto and Windus. 6s. net.)—Browning is not an author who lends himself to illustration, and the connexion between the text and the drawings...

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Byam Shaw. (Sidgwick and Jackson. 12s. 6d. net.)—These pictures seem rather half-hearted. The artist has not penetrated far below the surface. Take, for instance, the scene...

net.)—Mr. Dula° has gone to Persian painting for many details and tricks of style, but he is able to use these for his own purposes. The most successful application of the...

The Symposium of Plato. Edited, with Introduction, Critical Notes, and Commentary, by R. G. Bury, M.A. (Heifer and Sons. 7s. net.)—It is certainly strange that the Symposium has...

tions by W. Heath Robinson. (Hodder and Stoughton. 15s. net.)— This poet perhaps is as difficult to illustrate as Browning. Mr. Robinson has tried hard to keep close to his...

Reminiscences of a K.C. By Thomas Edward Crispe. (Methuen and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Crispe's earlier chapters are devoted to dramatic and social recollections, experiences of...

Linton. (Hodder and Stoughton. 10s. 6d. net.)—After the pumped-up originality and pseudo-stylistic qualities of the illustrations in the books we have been reviewing, it is a...

The Epistle of Et. Ames. By the late F. J. A. Hort, D.D. (Macmillan and Co. 5s.)—It was intended that this Epistle should be part of Dr. Hart's share in the Commentary on the...

The Epistles of St. Paul to the Corinthians. By Gerald H. Kendall, Litt.D. (Macmillan and Co. 3s. net.)—Dr. Kendall rearranges the contents of the Epistles to the Corinthians....

How the Casual Labourer Lives. (Northern Publishing Company.) —This is the Report of a Liverpool Committee which under- took the task of investigating the conditions of the...

In the Days of the Georges. By W. B. Boulton. (Eveleigh Nash. 15s.)—We do not wish to be rude when we say that we could have done without this book. It is the subject that not...

Ran Celestine. By John Ayscough. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 6s. net.)—Mr. Ayscough describes his book as "an essay in reconstruction." The materials which he has to use are simple...

Thomas Scott the Commentator. By the Rev. A. C. Downer. (C. J. Thynne. 38. net.)—This is an interesting study of life, manners, and character. Dr. Thomas Scott made an unhappy...

The Aberdeen Doctors. By D. Macmillan, D.D. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)—This volume contains the first series of lectures delivered on the Ha,stie foundation. Dr. Hastie was...

Court Life in China. By Isaac Taylor Headland. (Fleming H. Revell Company. 65. net.)—Professor Headland explains that in writing this book he has had the assistance of Mrs....

Happy Schooldays. By Margaret E. Saunders. (Hodder and Stoughton. 2s. 6d. net.)—Miss Saunders might have entitled her book "How to be Happy though at School" but for the fear of...

Memoirs of Scottish Catholics, 1627 - 1792. , Selected from hitherto , Unedited MSS. by William Forbes Leith, S.J. 2 vols. (Longmans and Co. 24s. net.)—Father Leith has...

Diamonds. By Sir William Crookes. (Harper and Brothers. 2s. 6d. net.)—Sir William Crookes spent a month at Kimberley in 1896, and saw all that the managers of the De Beers and...

In the series of "Oxford English Texts" (The Clarendon Press, 188. net) we have the second and third volumes of Spenser's Poetical Works, Edited, with Critical Introduction and...

George Edward Jell. By his Wife. (Skeffington and Son. 88. 6d.)—Canon Jell represented a type of cleric which is to be found only in the Anglican Church. He was the eldest son...

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and Stoughton. 6s.)—This is not a book of which a reviewer is anxious to make an estimate. Mr. Black has seen much of New Zealand, of the Maori and the white man. He thinks...