of the American delegates, unexpectedly demanded a vote on the American proposals with regard to arbitration and the recovery of debts. According to these proposals, the Powers...

T HE most important news of the week comes from Morocco, and is' of a very serious character. On Tuesday the tribesmen in the neighbourhood of the port of Casa Blanca, on the...

secretary- treasurer of the Western Federation of Miners, for com- plicity in the murder of Mr. Steunenberg, Governor of Idaho, was a unanimous acquittal on Sunday morning last,...

a very distressing account of the interracial con- flicts of Greek, Bulgarian, and Servian bands in Macedonia. The authority whom the correspondent quotes as " unim- peachable "...

twenty thousand men would again attack the town on Thursday, but We are glad to say that up till Friday at midday there was no news of any fresh outbreak. The French cruiser...

case.

Mr. W. Redmond in an utterly wrong-headed and unfair speech, which was listened to on both sides of the House with impatience. Ur. Grayson, the new Socialist Member, also...

ment as to the Bills which the Government mean to pass. Chief among them are :—(1) The Army Bill, (2) the Small Holdings and Allotments pill, (8) the Eyicted Tenants (Ireland)...

Admiralty with stinginess we can sympathise. For ourselves, we have never thought or said that too little money was being spent, but we have the gravest doubts whether the...

stead to open the newbilildinga of University College School. The King in acknowledging the address of the Goyernipg ) 41(1y expressed his great and special interest in the...

attention to the government of the Congo Free State, declaring that it was impossible any longer to look on idly. The Archbishop of Canterbury said that he did not believe...

E. Sa.ssoon moved the adjournment of the House to call attention to the Report of the Select Committee on the Radio-Telegraphic Cenyention, and the intention ef the CApvernment...

Estimates were considered for the last time this Session. Mr. Robertson answered criticisms of the Shipbuilding Vote under four heads,—cordite, destroyers, cruisers, and...

Bannerman moved that 250,000 be granted to Lord Cromer in recognition of his eminent services as Agent and Consul- General in Egypt. Hitherto such grants had been made only to...

by no means uncommon, and often operates very powerfully to prevent full and honest inquiry. Our readers may remember Pepys's querulous objections to a very moving Quaker tract....

has resulted in the victory of Mr. Stanley, the Liberal and Free-trader, over Mr. Twyford, Tariff Reformer and Unionist, by a majority of 2,349. At the General Election Sir A....

a further appeal that the great street improvement in the Strand shall not be ruined by the London County Onuncil insisting on a line of frontage which will in effect run oat...

the Unionist Party will never return to power till it has, dropped Protection and Preference, and reunited on the old basis. If only it could get rid of the terrible handicap...

a very interesting step. It is sending a representative Com- mittee to Switzerland to study the Swiss military system. Among those who have joined the Committee we are glad to...

and on Thursday all the sections sat to hear the presidential addresses. Unfortunately, we cannot find space this week to deal with any of the papers in detail, but must be...

Tuesday's Times that a movement is on foot to pay a personal tribute to Sir Horace Plunkett in recognition of the work he has accom- plished in Ireland during the past eighteen...

the hon. secretary for the Society for Checking the Abuses of Public Advertising, drawing attention to the action of Sir Frederick Banbury in blocking the consideration of the...

I IHE situation in Morocco, serious and difficult enough before, has been rendered doubly serious by the news received on Thursday that a massacre has taken place at Casa...

THE IDAHO IDAHO TRIAL. T HE importance, the very great importance, of the murder trial in Idaho is not much affected by the acquittal of the accused man Haywood. It seems to...

W E are using no conventional language, but the words of sobriety and truth, when we say that no money grant could in any sense be an adequate recognition of the work which Lord...

A PAMPHLET on the convict system established in many of the Southern States of America (by Clarissa Olds Keeler ; the Pentecostal Era Company, Washington) has reached us, and is...

A N eminent man who recommends a method in the success of which he has obviously no personal interest ought always to be sure of a hearing. It would be well if this rule could...

A N interesting, if rather elusive, document came to light in the columns of the Daily Express of Saturday last. It is described as a "private and confidential" circular,...

W HEN the Quarterly Review comes out with two pages of photographs of goats the cause of "the poor man's cow" would seem to be making progress. In the current issue "Home...

T HE arrangement of one's time is a familiar cause of self-reproach. We do not map out our days, perhaps, so as to yield the best results in work and the greatest amount of...

OLD-AGE PENSIONS. [TO THZ EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR.'] SIR, —A national Insurance Society is a very different thing from a State-paid pension scheme, and need not interfere or...

SIR,—In the article which you devoted on July 20th to old-age pensions attention was drawn to the financial aspect of the question, and some suggestive comparisons were made...

SIR,—Some of your correspondents ask what weekly contribu- tions are required to pay for an old-age pension at sixty-five. The Postal Guide and the printed rules of the Friendly...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sut,—The article with this heading in your issue of July 27th touches several points of interest to all teachers. May I comment on two of...

SIE, - It is hardly possible to discuss effectively the points raised by Mr. Jukes in your last issue without getting on more technical ground, and writing at greater length,...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your correspondent's comments upon the article in your issue of July 20th call for a few remarks from myself. While recognising that...

TRH " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—In your article of July 27th on "The Government and the Education Question" you say that you "attach the greatest possible importance to the State...

Sin,—The prominence given in England to the disdussicrn on preferential trade has come as a surprise to the Majority of Australians. One would believe from Mr. Deakin, the...

pro THE EDITOR OF TES "SPECTATOR:") Sin,—In your article on "Oxford and Cambridge" in last week's issue you dwell on "their power to provide a social broad-mindedness and...

[To TEll ZDITOR Or THII "8picerwroa.1 Sr,—In an article on this subject the Spectator in its issue of July 13th makes the following remark :—" The most myeberious question in...

LTO TUC EDITOM OF Tel ..erecrarott.'1 Sin,—As I have received a good many letters expressing approval of the announcement that the Executive Committee of the London Municipal...

ero TUB EDITOR OF THE "SPRCTAT011.1 should think that there can hardly be an etymological English dictionary in existence which is so bad as not to be equal to giving the...

Sin,—If Dr. Steele (see Spec.fator, July 27th) has a copy of Diez's " Worterbuch der Romanischen Spracben" beside him, he will find on p. 39 the following interesting...

SIR, —The following letter received from a working man to whom I had given a copy of "The Manufacture of Paupers," and whom I had invited to comment thereon, will, I feel sure,...

[TO TRY EDITOR Or TER "SPECTATOR.") SIR, —Your article in last week's Spectator has a melancholy interest for one who has watched the painful extinction of many scarce plants in...

[TO TUE EDITOR OF VIZ "SPECTPATOR."] Sin,—On July 25th, 1906, a labourer digging for flint in Grovely Wood, South Wilts, unearthed a small vessel con- taining three hundred...

THE STORM WIND. I AM the Wind, I am the Wind, The great Voice of the Lord. Then wherefore are ye deaf and blind, And list not what I tell your kind ? Of the deep workings of...

the verses quoted by your correspon- dent, Mr. F. J. C. Hearnshaw, in the Spectator of July 27th, they appear in "Chronicles of Cricket "—facsimile reprints of Nyren's "...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—The verses sent to you by Mr. Hearnshaw—who, having mad the review, ought, I think, to have gone on to read my book [Henry Frowde, 2s....

rro TEM EDITOR Of Tun SPECTATOR:] SIR,—Could not " C. L. G." manage to work into his charming stanzas (Spectator, July 27th) the name of St. Endellion, a word almost as lovely...

GREEK EDUCATION.* True is a work of considerable interest, for it is well written and based on original study, while, as Dr. Verrall justly remarks in the preface, "no English...

Mueu is being said and written about small-holdings to keep people on the land who are already there. It is obvious, how- ever, that there is a considerable demand for...

THE publication of a new work by the author who calls himself John Halsham is an event which cannot leave cold that small but select body of readers who want a book to be...

Tins addition to the present cyclone of Napoleonic literature seems to justify Scott's prophecy that although Agincourt might soon be forgotten and " Blenheim's name be new,"...

IN the Nineteenth Century Lord Eversley in his "Tents- phobia "—economically cut down from " Teutonophobia "- has something to say to the Spectator, an " alarmist croaker of the...

THE GIANT'S STRENGTH.* Ifit. Beam KING has chosen a theme round which a great novel—a novel which should be bone of the bone of our own age—might be written. We have here the...

(W. Heinemann. 6s.)—This is a powerful but sombre story of a woman who, deprived of love for the first thirty-five years of life, succumbs to an unworthy passion, and thereby...

(Chap- man and Hall. 5s.)—Mr. Arnold Bennett is at his best in short stories of the "Five Towns," though it must be confessed that he very much oversteps the boundaries of good...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Dublin. By Samuel A. Ossory Fitzpatrick. (Methuen and Co. 4s. 6d....

6s.)—An American story, made up of love and municipal politics, which seem to be more interesting there than they are here.—.A Mirror of Folly. By Harold Wintle. (Brown,...

THE COMEDIES OF ARISTOPHANES. The Comedies of Aristophanes. Edited, Translated, and Explained by Benjamin Bickley Rogers. The Plutus. (G. Bell and Sons. 8s. 6d.)—It is quite...

Lord Dorchester. By A. G. Bradley. (T. C. and E. C. Jack. 21s. net.)—This volume belongs to the "Makers of Canada" Series, and it may safely be said that it is not surpassed by...

by A. H. Church, D.Sc., F.R.S. (Printed for the Author.)— The Royal Society was a development of the Philosophical Society, and with this was connected a Committee of Trades....

Wagnalls. 5s. net.)—Mr. O'Rourke gives us here, together with his own appreciation of Victor Hugo's beliefs, ways of thought, and literary methods, a translation of various...

W. Littlehales (Lippincott Company, .£5 5s. net). We must be content with giving the description of its contents as supplied by the title-page. It comprises, then, "graphical...

(Carruthers and Sons, Inverness.)—This volume mainly consists of extracts from the Inverness Courier for the years 1825-41. The introduction occupies forty-four pages, arid...

(Macmillan and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—The birth-year was 1607; the place what is now called Jamestown; the child what seemed at that time a very feeble bantling, the Virginian...

in a revised form, to the series of "Mediaeval Towns" (J. M. Dent and Co., 4s. 6d. net). It is Well worthy of its place, both for its own sake and on account of Mr. Herbert...

stable and Co. 103. 6d. net.)—Mrs. Whitaker prefixes an "historical Introduction," which takes us back to the eleventh century. Sicily had very much the same start as England,...

Sons. 12s. 6d.)—This volume is, of course, mainly technical. Nevertheless, there is much in which the ordinary reader may take an interest. There is the question, for instance,...

Sons. 21s. net.)—Gold-plate proper, as distinguished from silver- gilt, which is often confounded with it, is a rare thing, much rarer than it was five or six centuries ago. The...

Wildham. (Brawn, Langham, and Co. 5s.)—This book will be found better than its " funny " title would lead one to expect. Experiences of travel, some of them a little out of the...

is the sixth volume of the cheap edition of "Mark Rutherford."