may cite his own case. In 1905, owing to Tariff Reform, he felt obliged, though remaining a Unionist, to stop his subscription to the local Unionist Association, and to cease...

and Arab gun-runners took place at Dibai, in the Persian Gulf, last Saturday, when five seamen were killed and nine wounded. The natives are believed to have lost about forty....

Hamilton on Tariff Reform and the Referendum. lie points out that at the recent Election, for the first time during ten years, the Unionist Party have shown a united front. The...

Aga Khan has suggested that the forthcoming visit of the King to India should be commemorated by the foundation of a Moslem University at Aligarh. We believe that such a...

that some two thousand Albanians who are still under arms have made demands of the Turkish Government which are in effect a claim to autonomy. The demands are in two sections....

appointed for the purpose delivered judgment at Bombay last Saturday upon the Nasik conspiracy case. It will be remembered that the prosecution, which involved thirty-eight...

the Persian Minister of Foreign Affairs had resigned. His resignation is generally connected with the fact that the three months of grace allowed by the British Government for...

W E have dealt elsewhere with the general European situation, and noted that on the whole it is satis- factory. There are, however, signs of further unrest in Lisbon. Friday's...

ease.

not to say : "Therefore we will not ask that the Home-rule principle shall be applied justly." We should rather insist on such application in order that the capital political...

by the consequences just named to force a Dublin Parliament upon the North, even though it will be detested by the greater part of Ulster. Their whole case is that people who...

take up is this :—" We protest against any form of Home-rule because we believe it will produce ruin to ourselves and to Ireland as a whole, and will bring untold miseries in...

would no doubt produce a great deal of confusion and diffi- culty, and would be a thoroughly bad arrangement as compared with the maintenance of the Union. It would, however, be...

a solvent of Unionist internal difficulties has come to stay. In six months' time we venture to say that there will not be a secretary of any Unionist Association throughout the...

who object to the appeal which we made to Ulster last week to destroy the Home-rule Bill by demanding that if the Government insist on applying their Home-rule principles to...

of the Tariff Reform League, attempts to answer Lord George Hamilton's letter. Lord Ridley says that he is not afraid of the Referendum, but declares that the whole question...

course thinks it wrong. At any rate, the conflict of opinion in regard to the Fiscal question produced a deadlock in the Unionist Party. Then came Mr. Balfour's statesmanlike...

Ridley's letter, we must note that he misses the point. Up to 1904 the Unionists were able to command large working majorities in Parliament and to carry the most democratic...

the Midland Scotch express, which left St. Pancras at midnight, when it was running between Hawes Junction and Kirkby Stephen. It dashed into two light engines. By some mistake...

Westminster is to be filled by Dr. Ryle, now Bishop of Win- chester. The appointment is one which has given universal satisfaction. The new Dean combines scholarship and wide...

paper of very great ability and weight, deals with the Spectator's appeal to Ulster in the spirit in which that appeal was made. Though pointing out certain difficulties and...

S. H. Butcher, M.P. for the University of Cambridge, which took place on Thursday evening. Mr. Butcher's life was divided into two parts. In the first, that of the scholar, his...

last Saturday's Times with regard to local memorials to King Edward. The letter signed by Lord Eversley, president of the Commons and Footpaths Preservation Society, and by...

the gradual decrease in the frequency of London fogs. The figures are based upon the last twenty-seven winters. The results are best seen if this period is divided into three...

the Mansion House Advisory Committee of Associa- tions for Boys by which boys from the organisations repre- sented by the Associations may be brought into touch with employers...

in all probability two Ulster counties—namely, Donegal and Cavan—will elect to go under the Dublin Parliament, and so will be cut off by a strip of country which will belong to...

that the Sir Robert Geffery Almshouses, in Kingsland Road, Shoreditch, have been saved from destruction. They were built at the beginning of the eighteenth century, in what was...

THE EUROPEAN SITUATION. HIRE the New Year is on the whole hopeful. We do position of international affairs at the beginning not, of course, mean that there are not risks and...

W E do not suppose that the point will be reached when the Ministry will think it expedient to advise the King to create five hundred. Peers as the only alternative to leaving...

the old .1 Home-rule controversy, are in the habit of lazily asking why Ireland should not be allowed to run herself as a separate concern as Australia and Canada and New...

L AST week in writing about the Houndsditch murders we threw out a casual suggestion that the murderers might be Anarchists in search of money for their treasury, and that the...

E NGLISHMEN have been reproached with backwardness in the study of what is known as criminal anthropology. But Englishmen shrink naturally from theories which explain too much,...

I T is pitiable to see the men and women doomed from infancy to a life of physical suffering; it is pitiable to see strong men and women shattered and maimed by some cruel...

" TMPRIMIS, or firstly, the mere sport of it, which lasted 1 ten days, drew 'em most markedly out of their melancholy. I'd defy sorrowful Job himself to lament or scratch while...

THE PROPOSED TRANS-PERSIAN RAILWAY. [To THZ EDITOR or THS "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—" East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet," like all other sweeping...

THE REFERENDUM. [TO THE EDITOR 01 THE SPECTATOR...1 Srn,—May I point out what seems a fair test of the probable utility of the Referendum P Let us inquire how it would have...

[To TIER EDITOR OP THE "Brzorrros."1 SIR, In your article of December 17th on " The Political Situation " you say that when the " Veto Bill " reaches the House of Lords, that...

made that Ulster Protestants are weakening in their opposition to Home-rule, and in support of this theory it is claimed that the Tyrone seats could not be held by the...

Ulsterman, but, perhaps, not qualified to speak for my own people. If I may obtrude a little family and personal history, my position will be clamed. My family has been settled...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SrEcrieroa."] SIR,—It is with feelings of the utmost dismay that Ulster Unionists have seen the advice tendered to them in the article entitled "An Appeal...

SIR,—The somewhat halting defence made by " C. A. G. B." of the Declaration of London in the Spectator last week will not go far towards reconciling those who are opposed to...

finished reading the article in your last issue headed " An Appeal to Ulster." For the past twelve months, and especially since the late Election, many of us in Ulster have been...

like many other critics of the Declaration of London, ignores in your last issue both the document he criticises and the situation as it at present exists. Apart from the...

[To TEE EDITOR Or TEE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The criticism of " The Great Illusion " which appeared in the Spectator of November 26th was in form and spirit so entirely fair, and...

understood to say that "in practice " neutral merchantmen are liable to be sunk uncondi- tionally by a belligerent ship of war. Will he tell us of one instance in which that has...

[To Tits EDITOR OP TES "SPECTATOR. "l Srn,—Having read the grotesque outburst of Anti-Semitism with which your correspondent Douglas Lewis sullies the pages of your last issue...

[To TIM EDITOR OF TER "ST2CTATOR."] Sra,—I am grieved to have hurt the feelings of your corre- spondent Mr. Lewis of Somerset (Spectator, December 24th), but he must not blame...

[To ass EDITO6 01 raR " Srscraros.1 Srn, — North Durham and Surrey are as the poles asunder, but I sent the Spectator twin-cottage plan to the former district as a suggestion in...

[To Tire EDITOR OF TER " SPECTATOR:1 do not know what proportion of the fluid goes to compose "a nearly full-blooded Welshman" (see Spectator, December 24th, p. 1132), but "...

interest the correspondence on this subject which has lately been appearing in the columns of the Spectator. Perhaps it may be useful to those who are engaged in the work of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'] Sra,—After your footnote to Mr. Masterman's letter last week, I feel that you would hardly permit me to deal at length with this subject....

SOUTH WILTSHIRE. " Show nes a country pleasanter than this country, Or a land, dearer than this land." TEE waters flow between reed-beds, and the meadows are green in all...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Stn, — I venture to doubt whether, as stated in the article in your last issue, submersion of chrysalises by winter floods is injurious. I...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] She,, — In referring to my little book, "Shakespeare's Sea Terms," in the last issue, your writer gives himself away. I do not think he is a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—An instance of the mildness of the season in the West of England came to my notice on Christmas Day. During a country walk within two...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR...1 SIR,—Thirteen years ago I travelled to Samarkand and back, going by Ostend and Vienna, and returning by Odessa and Berlin. The whole way...

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...

FEDERALISM AND HOME-RULE.* " PaernCUS," whose letters to the Times on what is called Federalism (but ought, as he says, to be called delegation) are here republished, has a...

THESE lectures were given by Lord Acton, as Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, during the years 1895 to 1899. They are edited and published by Dr. Figgie and Mr....

TILERS will never be an end to the books written about Madame de Maintenon. Her career is so extraordinary, her • Louis //Y. and Madame de Maintenou. By Charlotte, Lady...

YEARS ago Mr. Belloc published a squat little green volume of verse which has long been unprocurable. Since then his prose has been sown with delightful lyrics, and...

THERE is no doubt that night operations will have to be employed in the warfare of the future far more than they have been in the past. This fact has been accepted for some...

MARIE-CLAIRE.* IN view of the sceptical indifference, if not hostility, which the word genius proverbially inspires when used of a new writer, to apply it to the exquisite...

Mn. AINGER begins with an introduction in which he tells the story of Eton, of its foundation by the pions Henry —never was a good man more unfortunately placed—of its...

ENOCIC has written about the Pacific Coast, about Mexico, about sundry parts of South America ; he now essays a more difficult task. To speak of our cousins on the other side of...

novel of the wilds of South Africa, and the adventures of the boy hero, Oliver Longworthy, among the savages are most exciting. It is too much to expect subtle character-drawing...

10s. 6d. net.)—" An Account of the North Derbyshire Village of Norton," says the sub-title; and the biographical dictionaries tell us that Francis Chantrey was born there in...

is a very charming American story, of which the chief interest to English readers is the description of the journey which the characters take through Yellowstone Park. The...

[Under this heading tee notice such Books of the week es have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Church Congress Official Report. (George Allen and Sons. 10s. 6d....

and Hall. 6s. net.)—It was a doubtful matter whether Charles Dickens would be as actor or a writer. He actually wrote to the stage-manager of Covent Garden offering himself,...

6s.)—A modern story which begins by the hero receiving by parcel-post the severed head of an unknown girl.—The Innocent Murderers. By William Johnson and Paul West. (Sampson...

duction by Arthur Rackham. (A. and C. Black. 12s. 66. net.)— Mr. Gibb gives us here some excellent reproductions in colour of fine examples of porcelain from the Victoria and...

Clarendon Press. 5s. net.)—The idea of this anthology is a happy one. It is to bring together what English poets have said about Greek things, about persons and places and the...