T HE Daily Mail of Tuesday published an extract from the Berliner Neueste Nachrichten (a newspaper directly associated with the great firm of Krupp's) which prophesies that when...

speech. If they were to govern India, the country must be protected from evils which were far worse than the evil of so-called coercive legislation. " The un- flinching...

from its correspondent at Alexandria of the effect of the new policy of firmness in Egypt. An entire change, he says, has taken place since Sir Edward. Grey declared that no...

to Liberia last year is that the . United States has decided on the important step of taking over the financial responsibilities of Liberia and administering the country very...

case.

tion to continue the Tea-duty at 5d. a pound gave rise to a debate on Colonial Preference. Mr. J. F. Hope moved. that the duty be reduced to 4d. In return for the reduction of...

House of Commons on Tuesday, was able to speak more hopefully than his predecessors for the last two or three years. The winter crops of cotton, rice, and wheat have been...

cellor of the Exchequer had announced that the House would adjourn next Tuesday or Wednesday until Tuesday, November 15th, a long discussion took place on the Com- mittee stage...

he has got himself into a difficulty and has to get out of it, moved the second reading of the Declaration Bill. After tracing the history of the Declaration, he dealt with the...

its very frank, and as we believe truthful, treat- ment of Charles II. "Did any one suppose that Charles II. would have hesitated to make the Declaration P He did many things...

a. speech which can only be described as "rollicking." In con- sequence of this admirable discussion and delightful debate the House for the first time for more than two...

India," while at the same time dis- avowing sympathy with political crime or with agitation likely to lead to it. He asked whether we wanted India to become ultimately...

have a team to draw the coach of State consisting of a goat, a mule, a galloway, and an elephant. Freeman, when "Home-rale all round" was first proposed, remarked that when he...

on Monday Mr. Birrell made some allusions to the possibility of com- bining Home-rule with Imperial Federation. He believed that in the last few weeks opinion had been ripening...

and we congratulate the Government upon the change they have made. But what are we to say of men whose deliberate . practice it appears to be only to do sensible things after...

is common-ground between the Government and the suffragists that in the Parliamentary handling of this question women bare laboured under what the Prime Minister himself...

Lytton and the Prime Minister. Lord Lytton's first letter, which is dated July 19th, begins by asking Mr. .Asquith to receive a deputation to ask for further facilities for the...

yet inclined as a Radical to find excuses for the majority which has so greatly deceived her, might make the metaphysical apology for that deception which Donne made in his poem...

spoke of gambling and betting in exactly the right manner to impress his audience. " I have now," he said, "been connected with the turf and racing for nearly thirty years, and...

brought upon himself by his unwise use of vague qualifying words in his original statement in answer to Mr. Shackle- ton's question on June 23rd, the Prime Minister replies by...

try to hold the House of Commons to what they declare is its pledged word. They will fail because the greater number of Members of the House of Commons who have expressed...

Walter Judd drawing attention to the law of libel as it relates to newspapers. Any man of straw, abetted by an unscrupulous solicitor, can start an action for libel against a...

the new Bill for altering the Law of Copyright. The principal changes proposed were that the formalities of registration should be abolished, that all species of work should be...

THE CONFERENCE. M R. ASQITITH'S statement in regard to the Con- ference has not yet been made as we write. It seems, however, to be admitted that he does not intend to go into...

has denounced the Monarchy as an extravagant institution and the members of the Royal Family as idlers ; and newspapers have published angry retorts upon Mr. Heir Hardie,...

W E are altogether in agreement with the spirit in which Mr. Winston Churchill is attacking the subject of prison reform, and as far as we can see the practical details of his...

I T was inevitable that the Viceregal Commission on Irish Railways should be of two minds. Even in the period during which it has been at work the advocates and the opponents of...

AV HAT are the peculiar tenets of the Society of Friends P That is a question often asked. "It is natural to man to have a supernatural light," said William Penn. These word lie...

T HE temptation to kill, if not more common than is usually supposed—and we believe it is more common— may take shape in the most unlooked-for places. It may appear in the...

T HE question was asked in the Spectator of June 18th whether it was worth while for a householder to protect his building with lightning-conductors, and we think that Mr....

SELF-GOVERNMENT BY EASTERN PEOPLES. [To TER EDITOR or me a arsorsroa."] SIB,—I was present a short time ago at a meeting of "The Conference for the Defence of Nationalities...

WAR AND THE ARME BLANCHE. [To THE EDITOR OF Tan "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I appeal to you on a point of controversial etiquette. An author writes a book. It is reviewed favourably...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."J SIE,—In the strenuous efforts some women are making to obtain " votes for women," it must not be forgotten that there are means at their...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—There is a point in connexion with criminal trials which seems to leave a loophole for some failure of judicial fairness to a...

LTO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.".] Srn,-I have cordially to thank you for publishing my letter on this subject in your last issue, but I submit that your remarks entirely...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sts,—It is not often that I find myself differing seriously from you on a question of Imperial magnitude, nor do I remember having ever...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOE." ] SIR, —There is one- important aspect of the Anglo-German naval question which, although incidentally touched on by such letters as those...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Referring to the letter of "Medical Inspector" in the Spectator of July 16th, may I suggest that habitual criminals should be classed...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR. "] notice that in your article in the Spectator of July 23rd on " The Art of being a King," speaking of Queen Victoria, you say : "She looked...

[To TER EDITOR Or THE " &ROTATOR.," J 131R, —A few weeks ago you referred in the Spectator to correspondence which had taken place between the Anti• Slavery and Aborigines'...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—The fear that the method employed in the application of the Referendum will not safely guard the principle is surely akin to the...

P PTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 Sra,—In your editorial comment on " The Foreigner in China : Ought he to be Attacked P" in the issue of April 23rd you very rightly speak...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "srscrAroa."1 SIR,—My attention has been drawn to a letter appearing in your issue of July 2nd, written by Mr. W. Fletcher, com- menting on your review...

ITO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—How to get a horse for nothing, and so to have the pleasure of riding at the cost of its keep, sounds, to those who have not the...

ABSENTE REC.* Tam is a book of essays, very brilliant essays, cast in the form of letters from a parishioner to a country parson. We are not told who tLe parishioner is—we do...

" The Polish Race in America " it was stated, owing to a misunderstanding, that " since the partitions of 1830 and 1863 the Poles have never been more race-conscious than they...

WHITE HEATHER. I, TOO, have seen the foam flash white Before the advancing prows, I, too, have shared the swift, glad flight Along the coast from Cowes, And felt the sea's...

Ix response to a demand from our readers, we reprint the list of cocoa manufacturers who have abandoned the use of slave-grown cocoa:— Army and Navy Stores. Cadbury...

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...

To read a book by Dr. Frazer is more than a mental treat, it is a moral tonic. The spirit that burns within him is an ardour for truth as real as it is rare. If reader or...

MRS. SHERWOOD'S name was once familiar to many generations of children. It is now almost forgotten, like most of the three hundred and fifty published works which can be...

ONE fact must strike any reviewer of modern poetry. Not only is the level of technical accomplishment high, but the impulse to sing, to re-create the world in the terms of...

M. °HAMLET, a prominent member of the "Colonial" group in the French Chamber of Deputies, has made a particular study of British administrative methods in India. His book is...

Ma. C. Y. C. DAWBAB.1{, whose book on Liberty and Progress was recently reviewed in these columns, has now produced a smaller but equally interesting volume called The Social...

advantages of Sir Francis Vane with regard to Italy. The Italian language is to him, evidently, as his native tongue; he has Italian relations or connexions ; he has something...

MEREDITH'S UNFINISHED NOVEL.t THE unfinished novels of great writers do not all excite the same quality of regret. The acutest regret is associated with a novel that was under...

Ore one who wishes to acquaint himself .with the, condition of the Roman Catholic body in England during the eighteenth century cannot do better than study this book. Richard...

10s. 6d. net.)—Dr. MacGillivray, son of an officer in the Cameron Highlanders who was killed at Corunna, spent his early years in Harris, where his uncles were breeders of...

Co. 2s. 6c1. net.)—In this volume, one of the "Handbooks of English Church History" Series, Mr. Blaxland does his best to supply a fair and impartial treatment of the subject....

[Under this heading we notice suet Books of the spook as hats not boon reserved for review in other forins.] Oxford English Dictionary. Vol. VIII., " Sauce-alone—Scouring! By...

Gilman has forgotten the truth that the happy woman has no history. The hero and heroine, to whom he introduces his readers on their wedding-day, and who are supposed, to...

6s.)—A good story of a man doing his best to deal with social questions. But why has it been spoilt with a nauseous underplot of love ?—Sinsmen's Clay. By Mary Crosbie....

Mary Baird Bryan. 2 vols. (Funk and Wagnalls Company. 8s. 6d. net.)—We have in these volumes twenty-one political speeches, and fifteen on religious, educational, and other...

the disguise of a novel Mr. Upton Sinclair in Samuel the Seeker gives the world a treatise in defence of the right of free speech, and an exposure of what he considers the...

stable and Co. 42s. net.)—Mr. Dawson tells us about many interesting things, and arranges them, so to speak, with Hastings for a centre. But the castle itself is not...

Murray. 5s. net.)—In the republication of the theological works of the Rev. F. N. Dimock (Longmans and Co., 2s. net each), The History of the Book of Common Prayer and The...

Chisholm. With Pictures by M. Dibdin Spooner. (T. C. and E. C. Jack. is. 6d. net per vol)—This is published in four volumes, steps, so to speak, making the " Staircase." The...

Lewis B. Meredith. (Williams and Norgate. Is. 6d. net.)—Mr. Meredith writes of experiences gathered in Ireland, but he has submitted his list of rock-garden plants to one of...

2s. 6d. net) we have Leviticus and Numbers, by A. R. S. Kennedy, D.D. Professor Kennedy's view of the composition of the Pentateuch is briefly this. The constituents are " JE,"...

6d. net) is St. Ives, Cornwall, with its Surroundings, by Ethel E. Bicknell. All needful details are given, and the book is illustrated with photographs, and a map of West...