Polish tyranny in Galicia. About a month ago some two hundred Ruthene students at the Polish University of Lemberg were arrested for rioting when the authorities refused to...

sity, last Saturday, and in the afternoon addressed a meeting of the undergraduates. Beginning with a defence of athletic sports, and especially football—so _ long as it was...

which has investigated the murder of M. Hertzenstein, has conclusively shown that the clime was organised by the Union of the Russian People, the leading reactionary...

an article in the Benue des DC= Mender by M. Tardieu, the foreign editor of the Temps, who is better known under his innudonym • of "George Villiers." It is an astonishing...

case.

correspondent a remarkable secret report on the siege' of Port Arthur sent to the Czar by General Smirlioff. Generals Stossel and Fock and Colonel Reiss will have to' meet the...

T HE debates in the Reichstag on the Estimates on Monday and. Tuesday were noteworthy for the speeches of Prince Billow and Herr Bebel. Herr Bebel, who spoke for two hours on...

the House of Commons the second reading of the Bill legalising marriage with a deceased wife's sister was carried by an enormous majority. The principle of this Bill had already...

that in order to mobilise a hundred and fifty thousand men on the existing basis we should need something like an additional fifty thousand men. A large number of these, roughly...

who remained on board the wreck of the 'Berlin' at the Hook of Holland were rescued after heroic exertions on the part of the Dutch lifeboat crew. The crew worked thirty-six...

of officers may be summarised thus. The minimum standard of training for an officer is to be a year's attachment to a Regular unit. If, however, a man has served with credit for...

by saying that we do not believe that at the best it can give us a better body of Auxiliary troops than we have got to-day, and may very well give us a worse. It is quite...

proposals, and our dread that if they are carried out they will mean a most serious reduction in our military strength. We may note here one or two additional , points. It must...

of the Auxiliary Forces in a speech lasting three hours. What ho proposes is roughly as follows. He asks to be allowed (1) to abolish the Militia altogether ; (2) to create a...

second line is to be three hundred thousand strong, and that the period of service will be four years, but a man will be allowed to withdraw before if he gives three months'...

letter substantially in favour of Lord Newton's Bill for the reform of the House of Lords. He urges the Unionist Party to make some policy of reform its own. He dismisses the...

Criminal Court at the Old Bailey on Wednesday. In reply to an address read by the Recorder, the King delivered a brief speech, in which he alluded to the growth of popula- tion...

in his Bill to relieve local education authorities of the cost of special religious instruction in non-Provided schools. Under the Bill, which consists of but one clause, the...

McKenna's speech or his Bill any signs of the approach of peace. It was an excellent thing to relieve the consciences of a certain number Of our fellow-citizens, but was the...

Lincolnshire, where a vacancy had been created by the retire• ment of Mr. Reckitt, the result, which was announced on Wednesday afternoon, being as follows:— Sir Berkeley...

THE LIBERALS, FREE-TRADE, AND THE . BRIGG ELECTION. W E are well aware of all the things that can be said, and truly said, in regard to the unwisdom of exaggerating the...

T HOSE who accept Mr. Haldane's premisses will find little difficulty in accepting his conclusions also. That, however, is not an admission which takes us very far, for it was...

W E are very glad that General Botha has virtually accepted the Premiership of the new Transvaal Government. Given a Het Volk majority over all other parties in the Legislative...

r 1HE debate on Disestablishment in the House of Commons on Wednesday proved that the Govern- ment have no intention of interfering with the principle of a national Church...

T O refer to a politician as devoid of ambition is to write him down a nobody offhand. Yet how seldom it happens that the epithet " ambitious," which ought to be, or at least...

S CIENCE has not yet succeeded in analysing the stuff that dreams are made of, and the modern world, which chafes under the thought of the inexplicable, tries deliberately to...

" W HY does golf make men so intolerable P asked that amusing writer, Mr. Rotheran Hurst, in a recent issue of the County Gentleman, and proceeded to make further searching...

T HERE is nothing in this world so clean and clear as the skyline at sea. The first sight of it on leaving land, when fields and hills and houses sink out of sight and all...

RATES AND MUNICIPAL TRADING, [To THE EDITOR OF TOO . SPE0ATOIL . 1 Sza, — In your last issue a letter on " Rates and Municipal Trading," signed by " S. B.," suggesting, as it...

[To van Emos or TIM "SPPOTATOIL"f Sia,—In your notice (Spectator, February 16th) of Mr. Robert Donald's excellent "Municipal Year-Book" you say that the case of Manchester...

[To 'Ms EDITOM OP TIM .. SPACTATOV . J Sin,—In view of the reports which have appeared recently in the newspapers with regard to the provision of billiard-tables in Battersea...

Sas —Your correspondent "S. B." in the issue of February 23rd seems to imply that Bounaemouth's low rate of 5s. in the pound is due to municipal trading. This is, however, not...

-srscreroa.") Sia,—Your correspondent "Latona " in his interesting letter in last week's Spectator takes rather too enthusiastic a view of the advantages of the depreciation of...

StR,—Referring to " Latona's " letter in your last week's issue, the appended few figures may be of interest. They forcibly demonstrate how great is the bearing ' on prices of...

(TO TOR EDITOR 01 TDB .8PROFATOR.1 Snc,—The cable reports to us here in Canada the startling language of the Attorney-General on the question of the House of Lords. He...

SIR,—The so-called depreciation of gold to which " Latona " refers in his letter of February 23rd is, of course, only another way of expressing the fact that the gold price of...

ITo Tea EDITOR or TOE "SPRoTATOR...) SIR,—The Wednesday of this week, February 27th, sees a century completed since the birth of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. I do not know...

"SPECTATOR. " ] trust that all those graduates of the University of Dublin who have not already done , so will sign the protest against the proposed changes in the constitution...

1.10 THE EDITOR OP TILE SPECTATOR:1 Sue,—In your issue of the 16th ult., p. 239, you write " The shipbuilding industry of Belfast, which is its greatest 'source of prosperity."...

Tag "SPECTATOR. "] SIE,—Two instances of the above well known to me seem rather striking ones. The present Vicar of Bishop's Cunnings, Wilts, is only the fifth since the year...

have just read in the Spectator of November 17th, 1906, your review of a translation of M. Lenotre's book, " The Flight of Marie Antoinette," and as a great-grandnephew of Axel...

[TO TER EDITOR OF TDB `SPUCraTOn..] SIR, . — A man whose speech is misunderstood has generally only himself to blame ; but at the risk of imposing such blame upon myself, I hope...

[To TUB EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTATOR"] Sre,—The result of the Referendum on the question of the separation of Church and State which was submitted to the people of Neuchiltel on...

[To TM EDITOR OF THE . SPECTATOR."] Sra,—In an article in the Spectator of September 22nd, 1906, on old-age pensions and their effect in discouraging thrift you: , quoted a...

Cro TER EDITOS or THE "Sroor,roo.1 Sra,—Enclosed I send you a postcard recently received from a " Swadeshi" firm. Comment is needless. The native Bengali papers dwell so much on...

[TO TUE EDITOR OP TUB SNOT/TOIL:"] Sra,—May I ask those who possess letters of interest from the Baroness Burdett-Coutts addressed to them or their forbears to send them to me...

(To ins Simon OP THE “Srsor/roo.'J SIE,—Surely apricot has nothinc , to do with either "pine" or " coque" (see Spectator, January ' 26th, p.134),—French abricot, Spanish...

To Tao Eorroo or vas "Sroororoo.".1 SIR,—The following views on native self-government in India written by General John Jacob, of Sind, in 1854, may interest your readers at...

DEAL Sit,—Have you with you any sort of tea, which you could." supply at 2as. a lb. in bulk P By ' bulk' we mean, we don't want them in lb. packets. We want them loose in...

r•re TIM EDITOR Or THE " SPROTATOR:1 Sra, — In your kindly notice of my article in the Contemporary you state: "It is surely incorrect to say that the chivalrous but ill-starred...

"SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Some time ago you were kind enough to publish some letters from the president of the British Central Africa Planters' Association and myself on the subject of...

THE BATTLE OF TSII-SHIklAl. CAPTAIN SEMENOPP, the author of this remarkable book, bad exceptionally good opportunities for clearly observing the battle of the Sea of Japan. He...

re g ereimperio populos, Romans, memento."—Vraort. The kingdom of God is within you."—Liss rTn. 21.] EASTER comes like the gleam of a dawn that delivers the slave, The drudge of...

WE speak of Mr. Malcolm's book in our beading as a scrap- book because it is in fact made up of a great number of serape. All the subjects are touched upon with a butterfly...

THREE is a tradition among reviewers that only big books deserve careful reviews ; but any one who will take the troUble to read " Pat's " Economics for Irishmen will be forced...

MB- HRtiltY James has issued to a highly curious world the first instalment of his impressions of America. The visit of such an inquirer to his native land after an absence of a...

has lately ceased to write with conviction, and the reader cannot help feeling that the entertaining scheme of his new novel is therefore rather wasted. His "amateur emigrants"...

novel entirely concerned with the doings of a Ladies' College in which the heroine finds herself. The author has thought it beat to use what she calls "fictitious place-names,"...

A COMMON-SENSE ARMY. The United Slates Army. By Colonel Sir Howard Vincent, K.C.M.G., M.P. (Cosburn, Newbury. Past-free, la.)—Sir Howard Vincent has done well to render his...

MEMOIRS OF A PERSON OF QUALITY.* THE long scenario of Mr. Hilliers's romance given on his title-page prepares the reader for something unconventional and unusual, and these...

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are two hundred and five daily papers in the United Kingdom, and two thousand two hundred and ninety-seven others published less frequently. "Of these all but an infinitesimal...

not less interesting than usual. No adequate idea can be given here of the variety and value of its contents. Certainly no antiquarian can afford to be without it. We may...

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