embarrass a situation so critical by any attack on the Government. We may, however, point out one or two facts which, though they may be ignored for the moment, are bound to...

had up till Friday morning refused to yield, a great deal of satisfac- tion was shown by them at the speech of the Prime Minister. And no wonder ; for the Government have not...

came to a conclusion which was fully set forth by Mr. Asquith in his speech to the National Miners ' Confer- ence on Thursday afternoon. The Government, he announced, had come...

ease.

on and Government intervention prove abortive, or else the Govern- ment must somehow or other induce the miners to accept their scheme, or, again, must give way to the men and...

of both sides to their scheme in order that they may avoid the admitted evil of legislation. By Friday, and after what we can only describe as very strong pressure, the owners...

MHE coal strike has begun. As we write on Friday between 800,000 and 1,000,000 miners have left work. We are not going to waste apace with rhetorical descriptions of the perils...

a total of £27,860,000, as compared with £27,690,000 last year, or an increase of £170,000. This increase is due to the growth of the provision for aviation services. In regard...

foreign news of importance ; but in Friday's papers there were reports of a serious outbreak among the troops in Peking. According to the Times correspondent, on Thursday...

last week came at the worst conceivable moment for raising money—the week of the coal crisis—we are glad to record the receipt of over £140. One of the subscribers, from whom...

the question of national expenditure. He pointed out that, whereas in the last financial year under a Unionist Govern-. ment the total expenditure was 2150,413,245, this year...

men upon the register, for we are convinced that this is quite possible. When that is done there will, we are sure, be neither any excuse nor any desire, either on the part of...

the action they have taken in regard to the owners, the more essential it is that they should preserve public order, and insist that, though the right of the men to strike is...

of much use to pro- phesy. It may be pointed out, however, that the Government have evidently come to the conclusion that though the men may have a week or a fortnight's holiday...

Division of Glasgow, when Mr. McKinnon Wood - was re-elected on his appointment as Secretary for Scotland. The figures were as follows :—Mr. McKinnon Wood, 8,580; Mr. Macquisten...

taken the initiative in a now quarter. On Saturday last a Turkish gunboat and a torpedo boat were sunk by two Italian cruisers at Beirut. The Porte has issued a protest to the...

ended on Friday week, after an amendment criticising the Govern- ment's land policy had been rejected by a majority of 56. On Monday the effective business of the Session opened...

what it is not too much to say was one of the most impressive and most important public meetings ever held in this country, the anti-suffrage meeting presided over by Lord...

on Wednesday by Dr. Chapple, who declared that if a measure similar to the Irish Bill were denied to Scotland "such a wave of indignation would spread over the latter country as...

tated by the explicit announcement, made at the beginning of the week by Mr. Roosevelt, that he will accept the Presidential nomination if it is tendered to him. He adds that he...

Committee, contributes a remarkable letter to Monday's Times. He points out that four weeks of medical benefit imply thirty-one days of actual medical attendance per year and,...

on the minimum-wage agitation is strikingly illustrated by a pamphlet, entitled "The Miners' Next Step," published in Tuesday's Western Mail. The pamphlet, which was published...

every industry, so as to enable the workers to gain control of and then to administer that industry. "Nationalization of mines does not lead in this direction, but simply makes...

Feb. 8th. Consols (2i) were on Friday 78:—Friday week 7910

THE COAL STRIKE CRISIS. O N Friday the miners of the United Kingdom came out on strike. We have told in our leading paragraphs how the negotiations failed, what are the...

T "great meeting to oppose woman's suffrage held at the Albert Hall last Wednesday, over which Lord Cromer presided, was a political event of the first import- ance. It is no...

O UR readers may remember that during the past five years we have from time to time pointed out that the greatest and. the most essential problem of foreign politics is that...

[COMMUNICATED.] G ERMANS who expected. a sudden or even a gradual democratization of the Empire by the first Left Reichstag which has existed since 1874 are already revising...

to do anything for the sake of one's own soul—anything right we mean. Wrong-doing for the sake of self-develope meat is less generally condemned. The new ideal of 'spirited...

T HE late Professor William James was of opinion that American business men did not get through so much work as they supposed. " Hustling " is generally taken to mean an...

T HE year from spring to spring is long enough to shorten the memories of most of us, and it may be that we persuade ourselves a little too often that in this or that respect...

interest the two articles and the letter from your correspondent which appeared in the Spectator of February 24th. A. parade in London will, I am confident, be most highly...

THE NATIONAL RESERVE: A. SUGGESTED PARADE FOR LONDON. [To TIM EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SITZ,—The proposal made in your issue of February 24th that a parade of the National...

[To TRE EDITOR OP TUN "SPEOTATOR."1 trust that you will allow me to endeavour to express in your columns the feelings with which a very large circle, not of personal friends...

[To rsa EDITOR 011. TIIR "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—You state week after week, and year after year, that Home Rule would mean the inevitable and speedy ruin of Belfast. Lord Pirrie has...

[To THE EDITOR OP TEl " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—Was Dr. Horton's "curious dream of getting rid of the large Irish population in Great Britain," by "a certain shift- ing of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPROTITOR."1 do not say that it is remarkable, but it is noteworthy that your correspondent, Mr. Harold Cox, in contrasting the competition of Japan and...

r To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The extract from Burke in Dr. Horton's second letter to the Tintea is somewhat misleading in the absence of the context. Burke, of...

[To TER EDITOR OP TRM " 5pEcTAToa.-] Sin s —The official members of the King-Emperor's suite in India seem to have been surprised at the semi-divine honours that were paid to...

will be grateful to Mr Harold Cox for having, in his letter of February 17th, pro- vided an opportunity for bringing to notice the long-standing grievance of the Cotton Excise...

[To TILE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sus,—Mr. Cumming asks from what source I derived my information with regard to the Indian excise question. The answer is very simple. I...

Sin,-1 received the Spectator for December Ntb,1911, by the mail last week, and this morning saw the questions of the "Soldier's General Paper." I set them to the highest class...

srscriros.."] Sin,—A map of England and Wales on the scale of twenty- five inches to the mile would very nearly occupy your suggested ten acres. It is usual in relief maps to...

[To TIM EDITOR OF Tur. ..Srrevorote."1 Snt, — .Re St. John Lucas's letter in the Spectator of Feb. 24th do you not think before running into print it would have been better to...

[To TUE EDITOR OP TRH "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Dr. Fisher must certainly know "The Confession of Faith," but if he believes, as Dr. Barnes appears to have done, that Calvinism has...

[To THE EDITOR OP rug "SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—The article on the White Slave Traffic in your issue of February 17th leads me to hope that you will be able to find space for • the...

Press and others have recently made a dead-set against the use of the split infinitive. Bat what is wrong with this grammatical form ? "To boldly strike" is, for example, a more...

as your corre- spondent calls it, is certainly very prevalent, especially in newspapers. But it is interesting to notice that once it was tolerated by good writers, e.g.,...

CATKINS. Or many a flower of famous note The Summer weaves her pall ; I give my love to one remote And less inclined to fall : The catkin in his yellow coat And grey fur over...

[TO THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPEOTATOR."] Sin, — Your correspondent "Murray Lindley" does well to protest against the growing use of what he calls the " irre- lative nominative...

We have received the following sums for this Fund a. d. 3, Bt. Loo Strachey ••• 100 0 0 Lord Midleton ,„ 10 0 0 Sir John Wolfe Barry ,.. 10 0 0 Philip 1Va1ker „, „,...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or arc marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily Is held to be in agreement with the views therein crepressed or with the mode of...

Lan THE EDITOR OD THE " SPEOTATOH.1 Sir s —The Committee of the Colley Hill Preservation Scheme would feel most grateful if you would kindly insert the inclosed in your...

[TO THE EDIT= OF THE "SPECTAT0R.1 Sia,—You kindly allowed us on a former oocasion to call attention to a proposed memorial to the Rev. Malcolm MacColl, DD., who for 23 years was...

STRAUSS AS A NATIONAL TYPE. Ma. W. H. Hamow's interesting paper on "Music and Drama" in the Quarterly Review clearly shows that we must revise our estimate of the age of opera...

CARDINAL NEWMAN.* NEWMAN attached so much importance to everything he said or did, wrote so many letters, and preserved so many -memoranda explaining the motives underlying each...

No biographer ever took more pains with hie subject than Dr. Knapp, the chief biographer of George Borrow ; he lavished time, money, and devotion, becoming the owner by purchase...

THIS little monograph is an excellent example of the good work which French scholars have been doing of late in the by-paths of English literature. English fairy poetry is...

IT is not easy for a critic who stands outside the community in whose interests this undertaking is being carried on to give a fair appreciation of it. It is defined by the...

CONSTITUTIONAL history is for the moment in little esteem. No Englishman can say with any confidence how much of the government which he has known still exists or bow much has...

VIEWS AND VAG ABOND To the critic as opposed to the creator, there are few gifts more attractive than that which enables a writer to keep half a dozen different characters going...

Lhude sing cucku Groweth seed and blowoth mead And springs the woode flea." Tins was the inward voice that through the middle ages called men from counting-house or convent,...

and Co. Os.)—In historical story concerning the days of Louis XV. The most remarkable chapter in the book is that containing an account of the hero's imprisonment in the...

iivder this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other formal Great Britain, Slavery, and Indentured Labour. By the Yen. Archdeacon...

net.)—The "Companion" has now reached its eightieth year, thus dating back to the Reform Bill of 183E. It gives the polling of the last election with the numbers of the several...

George S. Gray. (Bowes and Bowes, Cambridge. 15s. not.)—William Cole (1714-1782) was an antiquary of indefatigable industry in tho work of collecting. He was doubtful what to do...

10s. 6d. not.)—Mr. Thomas, who has been assisted in his work by exports in various branches of the gardening art, explains that ho means by " complete " complete for practical...

curious lights are thrown upon the medical problems of America in Mr. Robert Herrick's new novel, The Healer. Most English readers, however, will think it an exaggeration of...

Co. 6s.)-1 good story of the French Revo- lution of the senaatus' nal kind. But the "White Terror" came about in 1795, not, as ktiss Wynne puts it, in 1793, that is, before the...

Co. 78. 6d, net.)—This first volume—the series is to include eight in all — may be taken as preliminary, dealing as it does with matters common to all branches of business. This...