T HE foreign situation is strange in the extreme. War is being waged in Tripoli and on what would not long ago have been called a great scale, for there are some 80,000 or...

in consequence of the vigorous action of the Government it was considered practically at an end on Wednesday. The organizers of the movement, the Workmen's Federation of...

case.

an unqualified success, all classes and parties vieing with each other in manifestations of friendliness and goodwill. The " English week" in St. Petersburg included a reception...

by "Scotus 'Plater" in our correspondence columns, has entered on an acute stage. A telegram from the Vienna corre- spondent of the Times in Monday's issue announces that the...

Imperial Chancellor on the occasion of his birthday oele- brations and of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederick the Great. The Rescript begins by remarking that in a...

the Empire last Saturday, proved the occasion for a remarkable article in Die Post, the organ of bellicose patriotism in Germany, which is quoted in the Daily Mail of Tuesday....

Prime Minister had told them that it would be a national disaster and in the same breath declared his readiness to be the instrument for perpetrating that disaster. The...

in the Albert Hall, attended by 10,000 Unionists, including some sixty M.P.'s, with Mr. Walter Long in the chair. Mr. Boner Low, who had a great reception, dealt effectively...

last, Mrs. Fawcett dealt at length with the movement in favour of subjecting the woman suffrage ques- tion to the Referendum. Neither Mr. Asquith nor Sir Edward Grey had said...

on Wednesday a Spanish squadron from Algeciras, with the Infante Don Carlos on board, steamed to the Rook and saluted their Majesties. The same morning the King presented new...

correspondent to the effect that the Home Rule Bill has now been drafted and that it is a "reproduc- tion, more or less in skeleton form, of the Home Rule Bill of 1893." The...

industry and lucidity of Lord Haldane, but his merits could not conceal the extent of his failure—his reduction of our Army without reducing its cost or maintaining the...

there is not a permanently " In " provision for the Irish, Scotch, and Welsh representatives, he will be in the position of a man who has bailiffs in the house. There will be...

of the Duke of Fife, which took place at Assuan on Monday from pleurisy. There is something particularly tragic in the fact that the Duke, after escaping from the immediate...

can be no doubt—namely, that Great Britain will be called upon to pay a very large subsidy to the Irish Exchequer, while at the same time shouldering many purely Irish burdens,...

no service whatever under the Insurance Act, issued by the Practitioner for the signature of members of the medical pro- feesion, has been signed by more than 21,000 doctors out...

Daily Chronicle also has a forecast of the Bill which differs in many essential particulars. It declares that the Irish Parliament will have full control over the Customs, but...

which would be unfavourable to the Protestant minority, and called first upon the Government and then upon the Presby- terians of Great Britain to save the Presbyterians of...

when a number of interesting resolutions were passed upon a great variety of topics. Among them was one criticising the Insurance Act in what Mr. Ramsay MacDonald described as "...

Ipswich by Mr. Moir of the earliest human remains yet found in England. The skeleton was discovered beneath an undisturbed layer of boulder clay, and therefore, if the evidence...

well-known " Histoire Ancienne de l'Eglise" had been put upon the Index. This action on the part of the Vatican comes as the climax of a long campaign of oppression against the...

of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, was held in Belfast on Thursday to protest against Home Rule and to explain the attitude of the Church on this question. Over 50,000...

Persia, spoke at a dinner given in his honour by the Persia Committee at the Savoy Hotel. Mr. Shuster described in detail the circumstances of his appointment by the Mejliss as...

Sept. 21st. Consols (2i) were on Friday 77i—Friday week 77g.

opinions obtained from Sir Edward Clarke, Mr. W. 0. Danckwerts, and Mr. Stuart Bevan on the six cardinal points under the Insurance scheme. These opinions show clearly how...

THE RETURN OF THE KING. T O-NIGHT or to-morrow morning King George and Queen Mary return to the land which is specially their own. It is not indeed any foreign journey that they...

W E have no quarrel 'whatever with Mr. Bonar Law for the manner in which he dealt with the Unionist Free Traders in his Albert Hall speech. Liberals have talked as if there was...

I N the course of the next few weeks the winter will come to an end in the Balkans and the psychological moment of the " melting of the snows " will have arrived. It is at this...

George's first Budget we pointed out the strange cult of taxation which possessed the Liberal Party. Whereas taxation used to be regarded as an evil, even if a necessary evil,...

verbal inspiration has become a fact of the past, a great fact which moulded men's lives. We cannot quite account for its dominion, we cannot altogether see why it prevailed so...

N ATRONA, my dear, I received your last letter and glad I was to get it. The education of all the human race, be they sixteen or sixty-five, is a matter of concern to us all and...

I F the student of the outward development of London will take a map he will see that it was always certain that the city on the Thames would develop in a particular way towards...

THE PROBLEM OF TEE FEEBLE-MINDED. [To rim EDITOR OF see e ssaceseon. a ] Stn,—This problem is, we are told, at last to be grappled with by the Government with a definite...

MR. BONAR LAW'S SPEECH. (To Tea EDITOR or THE " Br acrArou."] Sin,—The speech of the new Unionist leader OM% Bonar Law) at the Albert Hall shows how short political memories are...

Siu,—Mr. Bonar Law with the generosity so characteristic of popular orators has offered the Conservative Free Traders the liberty to choose by which sauce they will be...

[To TIDO EDITOR Or TEM esezersees."] Srn,—For the past five years the so-called Southern Slav Question has occupied a prominent place among the many internal problems of the...

LTO THE EDITOR Or TRU " SPROTATOIL'I Sin,—The Bavarian satirist A. 0. Weber probably reflects the opinion of many of the middle classes in Germany generally, and especially of...

[To TRIO EDITOR OP TICS "Erreraroa."J Sin,—The enclosed is an extract from a private letter which I received from a friend in Bombay last Saturday. It is so interesting, and...

Via " SPROTATOR..1 SIR, — I have received certain inquiries regarding my letter to you on the above question, to which, with your kind permis- sion, I will endeavour to make a...

[To TER EDITOR or Ti's "SPROTATOR."] Stn,—The Press Agency of the United Irish League, in its letter in the Spectator of January 27th, appropriately quotes from a letter of...

Sin,—Your issue of January 27th contains a speech delivered by Mr. St. Loe Strachey on introducing to the Home Secretary a deputation on demoralizing literature ; and in your "...

To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTAT0101 SIR,—I venture to think that Mr Bray cannot have read my letter in your issue of January 20th, or else that he must have failed to appreciate...

rTo TDB EDITOR Or TUB "SPXOTAT0101 Sit,—In your friendly notice a week ago of Dr. Marcus Dods' "Later Letters" you quote certain words of his, from which it might conceivably...

have front the beginning been interested in the Spectator Experimental Company, and I follow all you have to tell us about the subsequent careers of its members with very great...

SIR HUBERT PARRY ON STYLE. Sin litnEnT PARRY presents the unusual spectacle of a man who has won equal distinction on the creative and the critical sides of his art. He has...

[To Tax EDITOR Or Tax "SrECTATOR."1 SIR, - -We are most anxious to make known our need of secretarial help among the thoughtful and leisured section of the public, and as we...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the Tiews therein expressed or with the suede of...

DIANA OF THE EPHESIANS. Amin after hour, when the tidings came, They called on the great Diana's name ; A loud and a long defence they made Of a threatened creed, and a...

[To TER EDITOR Or TUX " EIrrrTATOR.".1 Sin,—In your review of " The Cambridge Medieval History," vol. i., you find fault with the words of Professor Gwatkin in connexion with...

HENRY FOX, FIRST LORD HOLLAND.* READERS of historical studies of the eighteenth century are familiar with several pictures of Henry Fox, the rival of the elder Pitt and the...

him gave pleasure to all members of his profession—has written a most excellent book, full of wisdom and of sympathy. He is of the highest authority on all questions relating to...

present volume traces the career of Pitt from the year 1791 to his death—the years of strife when the reformer and the economist were sunk in the Minister of War. His previous...

Mu. RANNIE entered upon his duties as a Queensland Govern- ment Agent to supervise the labour traffic in June 1884, and held the post for nine years. What he writes is therefore...

Tirs bibliography of the Napoleonic period is rapidly creasing. It requires 120 pages of the " Cambridge Modern History," volume ix., to chronicle a list of the works, and since...

In saying that it is hardly altogether satisfying, we do not mean to suggest that the author's facts are not to be accepted, but that his work as an historical biographer is se...

author on the title page is a guarantee of good entertain- ment, and in this agreeable category past experienossinclines us to place the works of Mr. Desmond Coke. And if any...

Prioresson, Derr in this interesting and ingenious book raises an economic problem of first-rate importance. "Generally speaking," he says, "Englishmen believe in what may be...

Hutchison Stirling, M.A. (T. Fisher Unwin. 10s. 6d. not.)— J. H. Stirling wrote, as it is put in this book, where he is com- pared with Carlyle, "for the very few." It is a...

—Mr. Bindloss is always great in the scenery of his novels. This' time Wallace Vane, the hero, is a prospector, who after long years of weary failure makes a lucky hit. The...

(H. G. Common, Bournemouth. es. ed. not.)—Not much of a story but with some good impressions of country life.—The Wilderness By Joseph Hocking. (Hodder and Stoughton. 3s. 6(1)-1...

[trader this heading we notice such nooks of the week as have not beta reamed for review in other forms.1 The Race Conflict. By W. P. Livingstone. (Sampson Low„ Marston and Co....

This novel, which bears the sub-title of "A Story of a Woman," is of what we may call the "George Gissing " type of fiction, and may describe as an interesting presentment of...

D.D. (Oliphant, Anderson and Fortier. 2s. 6d. net.)—James Fraser (1639-1(398) was a Scottish minister and a fervent Covenanter who suffered many things—imprisonment at the Bass...

ton. 6s.)—Here we have some scenes from Scottish life in which the minister, Free or Established, or even belonging to some minor Presbyterian body, figures prominently. Ile...

2s. 6d. net.)—In his thirty-five years of work as an inspector of primary schools Mr. Swinburne saw some important changes of administration, and it would have been well if ho...

net), with its 742 Pages, closely printed, but not difficult. to read, gives lists of the clergy and of benefices, with other informa- tion, brought into a very small compass.