Daily Telegraph. He states that the Vienna Government, recogniz- ing the difficulties of a campaign in Montenegro, will, if it takes military action, operate not there but...

the Budget was opened by Mr. Pretyman, who dealt with the land value duties. There was a conspiracy of silence among Ministerialists ; they would talk of everything but this...

expected much revenue from the increment value duty and the undeveloped land duty. The effect of the new taxation on the building trade had been grossly exaggerated. The...

case.

took place on Thursday, and that no one retired from it or refused to play, and that another meeting was arranged for Monday—in itself a very hopeful sign. It is also stated...

Lord Crewe expressing the "intense gratification" which his Majesty and the Queen had experienced in their visit to the Potteries. " Throughout our journeys, covering upwards of...

T HE week, so far as the foreign situation is concerned, has been full of anxiety and of rumours and threats as to the terrible things that Austria-Hungary will do if the Powers...

Beaulieu asked for a return of our dirigibles, aeroplanes, and waterplanes. He pointed out that we were far behind our chief competitors in the bid for what he called " sky...

of the Insurance Act served the useful purpose of showing the multifarious details in which such a measure, rushed through without proper discussion, needs adaptation. Mr. Lloyd...

tending to bring a Parliamentary Inquiry into ridicule and contempt, but what was even worse was the way in which the Committee took his bullying. One would have thought that...

it extended beyond the subject of the land taxes, and was chiefly remarkable for a grandiose tribute to Mr. Lloyd George's " social reforms " by Mr. Masterman. Mr. Masterman...

the Committee has been a very general demand in the press that the Committee should now bring its investi- gations to an end. Though we very greatly resent any attempt, either...

was the evidence of Mr. Winston Churchill. The editor of the Financial News, in the course of his evidence, stated that the name of another Cabinet Minister had been mentioned...

which the Housing of the Working Classes Bill was referred, Mr. Burns announced that the Government would not find the money required by the financial clauses of the Bill. As a...

Stuart Samuel by a majority of 166. In January 1910 his majority was 561. In December 1910 it was 540. There has therefore been a decrease in the majority from the last election...

posed changes in the statutes relating to Divinity Degrees. By these changes the limitation of the B.D. and D.D. degrees to priests in the Church of England is abolished. At the...

Division of the National Reserve held their first Mess dinner and entertained a number of distin- guished military guests. Colonel Hyslop, the secretary of the Joint Committee...

Marconi Committee, and of the justificatory articles which have appeared in the Liberal Press, certain conclusions become stronger and stronger. If there were two Ministers who...

and dexterity in drill, is their short service with the colours and the consequent immense strength of their reserves. This renders the Guardsman, strange as it may seem, a...

• ■■■■••■• PROSPECTS OF DISSOLUTION. I N spite of the protestations of Government newspapers, and in spite of the pledge to the Irish members, of which we...

Liberal Party for the last few months have been very apt to thank God that they are not like their unfortunate Unionist rivals. They do not dispute among themselves. They are a...

I F Machiavelli could look upon the spectacle of Essad Toptani, the ex-commander of Scutari, talking of himself as the Prince of Albania and offering to Turkey the continued...

A T a time of widespread rejoicing that Great Britain's social legislators have overtaken and even gone past Germany's, it seems a little late to appeal to Englishmen to study...

I N 1813, as the Rev. C. C. B. Bardsley tells us in a letter to the Times of Tuesday, the Chinese Emperor published an edict that of " such Europeans as shall privately print...

W HEN the supply of anything is short, i.e., when the demand increases and the supply is stationary or grows less, a rise in prices must take place. Such a rise in prices is...

A POLITICAL novel is not as a rule attractive to the general public. It is apt to seem to them like a novel interleaved with newspaper. They love newspapers and they love...

[The following dramatic sketch was lately discovered among a large number of papyri, mostly Greek, found among some ruins in the Fayum. The sketch was probably a light piece,...

THE COLLAPSE OF THE LAND TA XTIS. [To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOE."] Sri, — I was very glad indeed to see by the article on " The Collapse of the Land Taxes" in the issue of...

right but prudent to give the devil his due. Your scathing indictment of the Land Value Duties is not quite fair to their author, because the figures quoted extend only to the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...1 Stn,—The country—that is, the mass of floating opinion which turns the scale of elections—welcomed the advent to power of the Liberal...

CrO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTITOR.1 SIR, — I shall be very grateful if you will allow me to put before you the point of view of an Englishman who is the friend of Old Turk,...

[To THE EDITOR OD THB SPECTATOR...3 Six, — I have just come across the following passage in a letter from E. A. Freeman to M. Bikelas, dated December 6th, 1880, which may be...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR...3 SIR, —In an article on " Agriculture and Politics in Ireland," which appeared in the Spectator of November 23rd last, there were some...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—In one of your discussions of the Foreign Office and the Portuguese colonies you speak of slavery as "the greatest of crimes." I am...

THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—You may perhaps be willing to publish in the Spectator a few lines dedicated to the memory of a man who was remark- able both for what he had already...

[To THE EDITOR. OY THE "SPECTATOR."1 SIR, —Mr. T. J. Bennett's letter suggests a parallel application in India. Take the Finance Member of the Viceroy's Council and the Legal...

SIR,—I have read your article in your issue of April 26th with interest. But I do think there is another point of view from that which you put forward, while I acknowledge...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May we not fairly say that the folly of one Minister may be measured by the indignation of another P What the First Lord of the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —In the review of " Sir David Baird " by Captain W. H. Wilkin, in the Spectator of April 26th, it is stated—presumably from the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The opponents of Compulsory National Service are always abusing somebody. The obvious reflection that this shows a weakness of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—It has hitherto, I imagine, been a cause of gratification to many of your readers that a result of the training carried out at their...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' Sin,—The enclosed extract from the "Annual - Register," touching the last invasion of Pembrokeshire, may interest your readers. Doubt has...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' Sia,—Having read with interest an able article on the above in the Spectator of April 19th, I as a Scoutmaster in a country village should...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "Srsonaos.1 SER, — Froude begins his " English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century " thus : " Jean Paul, tjna German poet, said that God had given to France...

[To THE Ennou or THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR, — Perhaps I may be alloWed to supplement your corre- spondent's note on the appearance of a bat on the evening of , April 19th. I saw...

OP THE "SPECTATOR,"] Stu,—In the latter part of your interesting article on "How not to Train the Clergy," Dr. Headlam has seriously misled you. You follow him in commenting...

readers to know that my orchard, which is one of the most tempting to boys, and the guarding of which was always a great irritation in former years, is now, since I have been a...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. " ' Six, — In your review of Mr. Lambert's "History of Banstoad," you quote A.uhrey's statement that, the place "is famous for its small...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Just after reading the article on Box Hill in the Spectator of April 26th I came upon the following in one of R. L. Stevenson's...

To Tna EDITOR OF THE "SpacTrToR. - ] SIR,—Iu the review of Mr. T. Martin Wood's "Du Manner" contained in the Spectator of April 26th, you describe Mrs. Ponsonby de Tomkyns as...

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 THE EDITOR or THE " SFECTemOR."] SIR,—You published some months ago a correspondence upon the possibility of constructing a large-scale relief map of England. The enclosed...

THE ROYAL ACADEMY.—I. IN its hundred and forty-fifth exhibition, which opens on Monday, the Royal Academy presents to the world an assembly of works of art representative of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR,—Whilst thanking the Rev. E. D. Stone for his kind letter and acknowledging the accuracy of his assertion that The Modern Churchman...

SIR,—Will you kindly allow me a few lines in which to make known that the Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, will lay the foundation stone of the new Hostel in Vincent...

• THE OLD FIDDLE. BY Chinese Charley's junk-store, by the Panama Saloon, Where 'longshore loafers lean and spit, at morning, night, and noon,— All among the keys without a...

SIR ALFRED LYALL.* Tins is a plain, straightforward biography of a subtle personality. It is arguable that such a personality would have been better suited with a more highly...

IN A Small Boy and Others Mr. Henry James appears in two parts, both of which are new to him. He is in the first place a biographer. His object is " to place together some...

THERE are Arctic stories the interest of which lies in the achievement, and there are others which are valuable not for the results but for the spirit of the quest. Captain...

A NEW volume from Mr. Watson is always an agreeable event ; and if in the present collection there are a few things which are scarcely equal to much of what their author has...

SPECULATION as to the parts of this American book which should be assigned to the respective collaborators would be difficult. Only rarely is there a plainly masculine or...

No poet has bad more written about him than Dante. Indeed one is amazed to think that the commentators can still find anything new to say of him. And yet there is no need for...

FIVE years ago Sir Robert Baden-Powell cast his bread upon the waters in the shape of a book called Scouting for Boys. In it he elaborated his idea and formulated his...

Mi. D. C. LA.THBURT . contributes to the Nineteenth Century. an'article . npon ",The Failure of the Opposition." He main- • (1) Boy Scouts Beyond the Seas. By Sir Robert...

NASH AND SOME OTHERS.* THOUGH it may not be strictly correct to say that Mr. Evans is in the happy position of exploring loco nulling ante trila solo, we doubt whether any of...

which the author has selected for the writing of this story is a little irritating, as the "point of view" from which each chapter is written has to be discovered by the reader...

a collection of stories, of which the first deals again with the gentleman who is generally known as "Gloomy Fanny." The story is anything but gloomy, and is the most amusing of...

new " Crockford," which is the forty- fifth issue, has been somewhat altered in its arrangement, with a view to increasing its usefulness and at the same time to economizing...

edition is the sixteenth, and it contains 54 snaps and 101 plans. Among the chief towns occurring in this section of Germany are Berlin, Hamburg, and Dresden. The Harz Mountains...

6s.)—This volume contains nineteen very pleasant short stories, all of which have some mystical touch in them. They range in scene from Bethlehem to Quebec. Mr. Van Dyke can...

of Man. By the Right Hon. Sir Edward Fry, G.C.B. !Williams and Norgate. ls. net.)—In these few pages Sir Edward Fry summarizes in an admirable manner the more important...

M.A., LL.D. (Oxford University Press. 5s.)—The latest section of the Oxford Dictionary contains 3,084 words, as com- pared with 251 in the corresponding portion of Johnson's...

[Trader this heading ire notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for resists in other forms.] Romantic Ballads Translated from the Danish and Miscellaneous...

describes with much penetration the mar- riage of a genius, of fine character but secretive, with a shallower girl of uncontrolled imagination. Mrs. Holt sees tho human mass...

Henry Hudson. (George G. Harrap and Co. 4s. Gd. net.)—An appendix added to a second edition of Mr. Hudson's book contains new sections upon the short story and the essay as...