Exchequer is per se a small one, and need not further trouble us or our readers. We feel bound, however, to express our deep regret that one who holds so high an office in the...

amid a continuous uproar—some of the Deputies stood up and made menacing gestures at him at intervals — he declared, according to the Times report, that the Government had...

on Tuesday, when M. Briand was called upon to explain the action of the French Government in the recent railway strike. At the beginning the Socialists caught sight of M....

genuine was in which our contemporaries in the Press have defended the Spectator from the attacks of Mr. Lloyd George. The journals with which the Spectator has often found...

Saturday, and was in accordance with expectations. It pro- poses that the suggested surcharge on the Customs three months hence should be made at once, and that the Persian...

O N Saturday last the Chancellor of the Exchequer made a speech at Crediton in which he vehemently attacked the editor of the Spectator. We publish elsewhere a verbatim report...

ease.

against the proposed reversal of the Osborne judgment. He pointed out that Parliamentary government would be at an end if Members no longer repre- sented constituencies, but...

been continuing, apropos of the Veto Conference, his Constitutional studies in the Times. In effect he proposes, though in terms so cloudy that we may presume they are based...

setting forth a new scheme for the solution of the education question. The scheme, which was prepared jointly by three Committees, including one of the House of Laymen of the...

quieting despatch to Thursday's issue on the condition of Macedonia. The "Macedonian Internal Organisation," which suspended its activities after the Turkish Revolution of July,...

be bound to show that Unionist policy has done a great deal already for Ireland, and that it would be an enormous mistake to throw over a policy so promising. We believe, also,...

Defence Society was held on Monday, with Dr. Osier in the chair. Lord Cromer, the president of the Society, delivered a powerful speech in support of the movement. The ease for...

on a visit to the King of the Belgians. It will be remembered that the first official visit of King Albert and Queen Elizabeth after their accession was to Berlin. It is...

M. Venezelos, decided to dissolve the National Assembly. The Times correspondent says that of the 208 votes lately cast in favour of the Government, only 157 were given without...

a very important statement asserting that the German shipbuilding programme has been suddenly delayed owing to a radical alteration in the type of gun now being mounted in the...

the proprietors of the Morning Post travelled on Wednesday from Moisson, near Paris, to Aldershot with eight passengers. The journey of two hundred miles occupied nearly five...

nearly five days, Dr. Crippen was convicted last Saturday of murdering his wife, and condemned to death by the Lord Chief Justice. In spite of a most ingenious defence, the...

on Tuesday night that the four mysterious deaths in Suffolk during the last week of September were caused by plague. Although an examination of a part of the remains failed to...

"The New John Bull, after the Proposed 'Federalise, tion ' of the British Isles." He has discarded his historic costume, and is dressed instead in a kilt, a cut-away coat and a...

at one time as low as 7814, though there was afterwards a rally. A fall to such a point became only a matter of time the moment it was decided to restrict the Sinking Fund as it...

Francis of Teck, the second brother of Queen Mary, who passed away after a few weeks' illness last Saturday in his forty-first year. Prince Francis of Tack, who retired from the...

South Shields caused by the appointment of Sir William Robson as a Lord of Appeal was announced on Thursday night:— Mr. Russell Rea (L.) ... ... 7,929 Mr. Vaughan Williams...

Oct. 20th. Consols (2i) were on Friday 79k—Friday week 80A-.

presided at a dinner given on Friday week to celebrate the publication by the University of the eleventh edition of the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." Mr. S. H. Butcher observed...

!r HE FOlTNDATIONS OF UNIONISM. O NE of the most curious things about the sudden plunge that a certain number of Unionists, including the able editor of the Observer and the...

!TIRE Trafalgar Day celebrations have naturally turned 1 men's attention to the question of the Navy, and sea power. Those who are not content with a superficial view of the...

I T would be useless to guess exactly how far the excited meeting at Constantinople which appealed to the German Emperor to act as the saviour of the Moslem world expressed the...

m R. LLOYD GEORGE in his speech at Crediton claimed for himself the credit of the Old-Age Pensions Act. This is a little inconsiderate to his colleagues in the Cabinet. The...

at new forms of humour for no better reason than that the old is thought to grow stale. Every generation has its humour, and thinks poorly of that which went before, as much...

I T has been said that during the recent disturbances in Lisbon several Jesuits escaped from their establishments by underground passages. Whether these reports are literally...

G ARDENING as a lesson for children is an idea new to the age. In the old days a child's garden was a very simple business. It had certain rules and traditions. It began,...

SOME MODERN FRENCH BOOKS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIB,—Once more you will allow me to begin my occasional letter with Madame de Dino's now famous Chronique,...

i70 TRY EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:9 SIR,—Many English Churchmen will feel indebted to you for your consistent advocacy of the greatness and largeness of the English Church,...

MIL LLOYD GEORGE AND THE "SPECTATOR." MO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] Sin,—I enclose a verbatim report made by me of the portion of Mr. Lloyd George's speech at. Crediton...

[To TIM EDITOil OP TEl " SPECTATOR:1 SIR, - 4 have read your two articles, "The Need of the Hour" and "An Immortal Speech" (Spectator, October 22nd), with special interest and...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTLT011."] Sra,—It may be profitable, now that Federalism as a substitute for Home-rule is being dangled before the English public, to recall the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.1 Sin,—I have been considering bow to reply to the letters about Mr. Patrick Ford, and have decided to leave the expression of my very sincere...

pro THE EDITOR OF THE "SNECTATOR:'] have only just read Mr. Stephen Gwynn's letter in your number of October 8th. Others have dealt with his dealings with Patrick Ford, but...

SIR,—In regard to your comment on the above in your lead- ing article of last week, in which you desire to unite all conservative forces to turn out the Government, there is...

[To TEL EDITOR OF THE " SFECTATOR.1 SIN,—I dare say your attention will have been drawn to an extremely violent speech directed against you which was delivered at Crediton,...

the observance of decencies in our public life must regret the ill-mannered attack which the Chancellor of the Exchequer has thought fit to make upon the Spectator and upon...

need to be defended by its friends, even when its editor is violently assailed on a public platform by a Minister of the Crown ; indeed, in the opinion of many, to be the object...

not surprised, to read in the Sunday Chronicle of the 23rd inst. a report of a speech by Mr. Lloyd George which shows that he has reverted to his Lime- house style, and...

SIR,—I am sorry you have allowed the champion opportunist, Mr. Lloyd George, to advertise himself in connexion with your journal, although you get before the public as well as...

SIR, — As a working man and a Liberal, I have some difficulty in following politics from your point of view, but am quite willing to correct my views if any of them are wrong....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' x,—The difficulty which you found in your article "An Immortal Speech" of reconciling Mr. Lloyd George's denunciations of motoring and...

W. Jacobs's "The Skipper's Wooing" it is 'observed of Henry's mother that she "possessed a tongue -which was famed throughout Wapping, and obtained honour- able mention in...

ITO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 SIR — After so much rather flabby patronage of Mr. Lloyd George's City Temple speech, your article of last Saturday is very bracing and...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Referring to the Conference of County Councillors - froin different parts of England, shipowners, and others interested in this...

[To TILE EDITOR OE TEl " SrEcrATos."] SIR,—Mr. Lloyd George's anxiety to find employment for the "idle rich" reminds me of a story told by Lord Avebury in his address at the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'l SIR,—Having just returned from eight months' travelling under the Crescent and the Star in Turkish Arabia and Syria, perhaps the following...

pro THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."1 SIR, — May a Welsh Unionist shy in your impartial columns a word upon the critics of the Chancellor of the Exchequer P Granted that Mr....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Stn,—This subject was discussed in the Congress of the Royal Sanitary Institute at Brighton on September 9th,— see Times of September...

[To THE EDITOR OF TER "SPECTATOR."3 Sue,—Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote a long ballad entitled "Agnes," a very beautiful and pathetic one, it is true, but most inaccurate. It was...

"SPECTATOR."] Sin,—That my reference to the late Father Tyrrell should have given offence to his friends is a matter of regret to me, the more since it has caused one of them...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.) Sra, — By way of extolling the Holloway Societies, your corre- spondent "W. S." in your last issue attacks the Friendly Societies of which...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sta,—Your correspondent who signs himself "A Priest of the Church of England" in last week's Spectator puts forward a question which is...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In your issue of September 24th you publish a letter from Mr. C. F. It. Allen, in which he quotes a passage from an early Chinese...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTAT0R."1 Sia,—May I call the attention of your readers to the institution, of teaching of Russian subjects at the University of Liverpool ? For the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR."' venture to write and tell you what a great success, thanks to your kindness, my National Plant League has been (see Spectator, June 25th). I...

LTO Tim EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' Sin,—The secretaries of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel are asking for £3,000 to fight "against Ramanism and Materialism"...

THE GARDEN FOUNTAIN. Fon my delight comes dipping wing About your shallows fluttering. Where, fearless, on the mossy brink The blackbird dips his bill to drink. The sun for my...

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...

THE LIFE OF BENJAMIN DISRAELI.* WE congratulate Mr. Monypenny upon the first instalment of his Life of Disraeli. If he maintains in the succeeding volumes the very high level...

many qualities deserving of praise. He has collected and arranged his material with care and patience, his criticism is intelligent and moderate, and some of his chapters, more...

our Proconsuls," died he left instructions that his private papers should not be published for fifty years. The fifty years have passed, and • Private Letters of the Marquess...

THE " middle " articles in the Nation are always remarkable for their range and the freshness of their point of view, and in this volume Mr. Hobson has collected some of his...

THIS illustrated catalogue of the collection formed by Dr. Richter for the late Dr. Ludwig Mond gives us some idea of the pictures which eventually will belong to the National...

collects the sketches which he- • has contributed to various papers and publishes them, with an addition or two, in a small volume with a characteristic title.. The latest of...

THE island of Tristan Da Cunha is in the South Atlantic, about as far south of the Equator as Crete is north of it, with St. Helena for its nearest inhabited neighbour. It is...

thoroughly painstaking and valuable study upon the movement of wages in the cotton trade during the past hundred years. From the figures which he has collected with so much...

THE RETUEN4 Mn. DE LA MARE'S somewhat rare excursions into the field of fiction are welcome for their twofold distinction,—of style as well as of thought. In his earlier...

THIS is not a handbook to Norwich, though the visitor who wants to make an intelligent use of the occasion will do well to study it. It is an account of the industries of the...

of the readers of this tale of Anglo-Indian life will be entirely with the Eurasian heroine. It cannot be doubted that Mark Rennard's marriage to the beautiful Teresa was an...

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