their friends. Last Saturday M. Goreinykin, the Premier, read to the Duma the Ministerial reply to the Address. It traverses directly nearly all the recommendations of the...

Prince Hohenlohe, had resigned. Dr. Wekerle, the Hungarian Premier, asked that the new Austro-Hungarian tariff should be voted in Hungary as a Hungarian tariff alone, and that...

NEWS OF 'ME WEEK ♦ • O N Thursday evening the civilised world heard with horror that an attempt had been made to kill the King and Queen of Spain while the Royal procession...

and upon the importance of treating all such outrages as quietly and with as little sensation as possible, since the mad- men who perpetrate them are invariably eaten up with...

appeared in Thursday's issue notes the " cordial wish " of several peasant Deputies to visit London in July, when the Duma will probably be prorogued, " in the hope of seeing...

case.

against Bambaata have been split up into strong mobile commandos, and with them Colonel Mackenzie con- tinues to scour the country around Nkandhla. Colonel Leuchars was attacked...

yielding on the Customs question, but their conduct is still far from satisfactory. The original Edict has been com- municated to all the chief officials, and the result is said...

the retired list the officers, six in number, who were principally concerned in the murder of the late King and Queen. King Peter and his Prime Minister, M. Pasitch, are to be...

seems to call for further investigation. Two young Transvaal Boers, Muller and Lelyveld, it is alleged, enlisted, like others of their countrymen, in the Transport Corps of the...

Clause I. of the Education Bill. Its first business was to vote on Mr. Maddison's secularist amendment. Mr. Birrell declared that the Government intended to maintain the...

asked by Lord Avebury, discussed the possibility of the reduction of armaments. Lord Fitzmaurice declared that the Govern- ment hoped to be able to reduce expenditure next year,...

of undendminational teaching, during which Mr. Birrell defended the syllabuses of the County Councils, and affirmed once more that they satisfied the great majority of parents....

the House of Commons was issued on Tuesday. The most important of the recommendations of the Committee are :— (1) That, excepting Bills for imposing taxes, or Consolidated ....

and by several Unionist Members,:but on Mr. Asquith's reminding the House that it had been unanimously condemned by a Royal Commission, and that his predecessor had been pre-...

.Console (2i par Gent.) were on Friday 891.

the course of the debate Mr. Austen Chamberlain, who was cordially received on his return to the House, subjected Mr. Asquith's Budget to a general criticism on the ground of...

of the British Weekly in regard to the question of contracting out, which he strongly favours, not merely on the ground that such an arrangement would act as a safety-valve, but...

which took place in Dublin on Thursday morning. Mr. Devitt, though essentially an extremist, and prepared to go great lengths to carry out his views, was, as is often seen in...

buildings of the Hearts of Oak Benefit Society in the Euston Road last Saturday afternoon. In the interesting address read by Mr. Sim, the Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies,...

THE QUEEN OF SPAIN. T HE monstrous outrage perpetrated o n Thursday during the return of the King and Queen of Spain from their marriage has filled the whole world with horror...

N IVHATEVER pain and disappointment one may feel in regard to the greater part of the education controversy, on one ground, at any rate, there is cause for unmitigated...

place last Saturday in the Reichstag sheds much light, not only on German colonial administration, but upon the whole question of democracy and the government of dependencies....

Court and the Duma is becoming sharper, but we do not feel so certain as many observers do that it will end at once in the dismissal of the representatives of the people. That...

a very courteous reference to our intention of including old-age pensions in our articles on " The Manufacture of Paupers." Whether a good case can be made out against such...

relief " was used by the Poor Law Commissioners of 1832 to describe the grant of allowances or relief to the poor at their own homes at the expense of the ratepayers. The Act of...

provided society with a leisured class,—a class which has attained, or has ceased any longer to pursue, the various aims with which its members set out on their journey. The...

It is there that the vastness of cities, and the speed and silence with which a man can put miles of streets between himself and his pursuers, become so insistent a problem. The...

A SSUREDLY the genius loci of the classic Hoylake course would be more than a little surprised if it could be reincarnated such as it was in the days of the old bar-parlour and...

THE EDUCATION BILL. [TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.''] SIR,—I have read with much interest and warm sympathy the articles and letters upon the education question which have...

Sin,—Although I have been a reader of the Spectator for many years, the letter of the Rev. W. G. Spurrell in your issue of May 19th, escaped my notice until to-day (May 28th)....

Spectator of May 26th why, if Church- men disapprove of the Cowper-Temple Clause, they did not oppose it in the Bill of 1902 ? The answer is obvious, that it was tolerable while...

ITO TER EDITOR OP THE " SPICITAEOR."1 Snr,—The Bishop of London has rightly said that Churchmen did not build their schools in order to get rent. But when they are obliged to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."3 SIR,—After thirteen years' experience of the House of Commons, will you allow me, as a well-wisher, though not a blind admirer, of the...

[To THE 'EDITOR OF TILE " SPECTATOR."] SID,—Many of us thought that in returning a Liberal Govern- ment with an immense majority we were at any rate insuring the principles of...

[TO THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your counsel to Unionist Free-trade Members of the House of Commons is no doubt opportune and most useful (Spectator, May 19th)....

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The letter of the Rev. F. D. Cremer in your issue of • May 19th in reference to Christian unity must have been read with great...

[To ran EDITOR OF TRI "SPIOTATOR."1 SIE,—In your article of last week on " Germany and England" —an article which must in the main commend itself to all reasonable...

were once reminded that there is a great deal of human nature in man. If the same might be conceded of woman, we should be saved much impertinence (using the word in a...

['re TIM EDITOR OF Till ... SPECTATOR:1 Slit,—Yon have recently referred in your columns to the system of compounding for rates, and have pointed out how it tends to minimise...

SIR, , —When I was British chaplain at St. Petersburg a quarter of a century ago, and held occasional services at' great mills and factories many versts from the city, my...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPRCTATOR." Srn,—The cost of construction here in Spain is materially lessened by the use of bricks about an inch in thickness laid endwise for...

LORD CURZON'S INDIAN SPEECHES.* THIS collection of Lord Curzon's Indian speeches, together with Sir Thomas Raleigh's admirable introduction on the nature of the Government of...

THISTLE-SONG. BRIEF is the slender harebell's hour, Frail the wild arum's hiding flower: Let but the zephyr stir in sleep, The wind-flowers do him reverence deep: And fragile...

WE have postponed our notice of this series in the hope that it would be further developed. Lives of " Leaders of the Modern Church written exclusively by laymen," and so...

educated English- men unable to name a single Archbishop of Canterbury between Tillotson and Howley. A similar challenge with regard to the Presidents of the United States...

expresses well what many of us have felt but few can express, the feeling of a distinct personality that belongs to Venice. " Venice is always there herself, sleeping or waking,...

CAMP AND TRAIL STORIES' Tun two volumes before us are excellent examples of a branch of literature in which our Transatlantic kinsmen particularly expel, and in which Messrs....

THE CORRESPONDENCE OF HENRIK IBSEN. The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen. The Translation Edited by Mary Morison. With Photogravure Portrait. (Hodder and Stoughton. 12s....

(W. Heinemann. 63.)—A writer who makes no concessions to current mannerisms in fiction, and is resolved to be scrupulously faithful to her own reading of life, is always to be...

and Blackett. 6s.)—The title of this book is of the delusive order, and obviously has only been chosen as an attractive name, and not for any reference which it has to the story...

[Under this heading is notice slugs Book, of the aka as have not been reserved for review in other forms,] Edwin M. Stanton. By Andrew Carnegie. (Doubleday, Page, and Co., New...

instructions for many contingencies. Here the beginner may learn how to start a business, how to buy or sell one, how to succeed, how to advertise, how to keep accounts, how to...

recognised utility, to which it is sufficient to call attention: London (Ward, Lock, and Co., ls.),—" A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to London and its Environs."

(Swan Sonnenachein and Co.), we have The Annals of Tacitus, Translated by Aubrey V. Symonds, B.A. (3s. 6d. net). Mr. Symonds gives us a very readable, and, as far as we have...

(Hodder and Stoughton. 3s. 6d. net.)—This is likely to be a useful volume. A gardener has many enemies, and it will take all his time and all his ingenuity to cope with them....

Rev. J. D. James. (Longmans and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—The external evidence for the Pauline authorship of the three Letters lass strong as it could be. It is impossible, however, to...

Ling, Dorchester. 15s. net.)—The Dorsetshire crosses, of all kinds, number between sixty and seventy. Some are possibly pre-Christian, or non-Christian ; but most it is possible...

a large motor map (George Phillip and Son, 10s. 6d.) in which the main roads throughout England, and Scotland as far north as Edinburgh and Glasgow, are clearly shown. Though...

we regard them within or without, in the series "Little Books for Bookmen " (Hodder and Stoughton, 6d. net per volume). These are Dante Alighieri, by John S. Carroll, and...

of Paul Frederic Girard by A. H. F. Lefroy, MA., and John Home Cameron, M.A. (Canada Law Book Company, Toronto.)—It should be noted that this, as a history of Roman laws, begins...

new to be said about this " Review of Public Events at Home and Abroad." The thing is done as well as it can be done. We may give as an instance the very lucid account of a...