The Attorney-General was able to show in the most con- I elusive manner possible not only that the King had never contracted a bigamous marriage, but that it would have been...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. ON Wednesday Edward F. Mylius was tried before the 0 Lord Chief Justice and a special jury for having pub- lished a libel on the King in a paper known as the...

The trial from beginning to end was conducted with conspicuous fairness. The Lord Chief Justice not only did everything possible to enable the prisoner to defend hiimself, but...

I In our opinion, the King and his advisers acted most properly and most wisely in proceeding against Mylius. Contemptible as was the prisoner. ridiculous as were his charges,...

The prisoner, in effect, made no defence except to demand I that he should be allowed to subpoena the King to give evidence. The King, he declared, had made no sworn denial of...

I According to the official Turkish report on the Yemen revolt, though the force blockading Ibha (the capital and military headquarters of the Assyr Sandjak) had been dispersed...

THE MAN WITH THE UNCONGENIAL TASK. THE generality of Christian people are unaccustomed to think of Jeremiah as peculiarly near to the spirit of Christ, yet be was the first...

Lost Endeavour. By John Masefield. (T. Nelson and Sons. 2s. net.)-This is a seventeenth-century story of the kidnapping of an English man and boy at Deptford and their being...

THE NEW POEMS OF THOMAS TRAHERNE.* MR. BELL has discovered among the Burney MSS. in the British Museum a sheaf of poems by Traherne which contains slightly different versions...

WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY.t DR. NOAH WEBSTER published his Dictionary in 1827. It was in two quarto volumes, and contained ninety thousand words, a number considerably greater than...

NOVELS. THIE PASSIONATE ELOPEMENT.* ONLY a fortnight ago we noticed in this column Mr. Farnol's genial fantasy of the Regency, The Broad Highway, and now comes Mr. Compton...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. THE POSITION OF ULSTER. [To TEE EDITOR 0P THE "BSPCTAToR.'1 SiL,-I am glad indeed to see that you call attention in the Spectator of January 21st to the...

Speaking to the Austrian Delegation Committee on I Monday, Count Acbrenthal mentioned " the disposition of Germany to collie to an aereemcnt with England upon recIprocal...

The Times of last Saturday published an interesting article from a correspondent on the status of Koweit. The question is rather important, as Koweit is one of the places which...

The limes states that the new Persian Regent, Nasr-ul- Mulk, is about to arrive at Teheran. Four months ago he was elected to the Regency on the death of Azud-ul-Mulk. We...

I The IDule of (Connaught was presented with an address by the City Corporation at the Guildhall on Monday, and delivered an admirable speech on his tour in South Africa. The...

The Czech leader, Dr. Kramarzh, answered Count Aehren- I thal in a caustic and witty speeeh. Berlin, not Vienna, was now the centre of interest. The German Ambassador bad...

I The Duke then sketched the events of his tour, dwelling on the friendships he had made or cemented, and the welcome extended by every class of the community alike at populous...

On Tuesday Count Aehbenthal replied to Dr. Kramarzh I w;tiM what seems from the imes account to have been an ineffective scrut of irony. He professed to agree with his critic...

At a dinner in Washington on Tuesday in honour of I President McKinley's birthday Mr. Taft spoke strongly in favour of the Reciprocity Agreement with Canada. He recalled words...

Art Prices Current. Vol. III. (Fine Art Trade Jourmal. lOs. 6dO) -This is a catalogue of pictures, drawings, and engravings sold between November 27th, 1909, and July 13th,...

READABLE NOVELS.-Martin the Hummer. By Dorothy Margaret I Btuart. (Constable and Co. 6s.)-A tale of France in the I tifteenth century,-over-long, it seems to us, with its...

I The Garland of Childhood. Compiled by Percy Withers. (Grant Richards. 4s. net.)-Here we have yet another anthology, intended, it should be said, not so much for...

With Stevenson in Samoa. By H. J. Moors. (T. Fisher Unwin. I 5s. net.)-Mr. Moors is a very plain-spoken person indeed. His admiration for Stevenson is great, but it is not...

I A Good Fight. By Charles Reade. With Introduction by Andrew Lang. (]E. Frowde. 2s. 6d. net.)-This is described as "the original version of 'The Cloister and the Hearth,"'...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK. [Under this heading wre notice such Books of thM wUek as 1havo not *s ireservcedfor etview in otherforms.] Spenser's Minor Poems. Edited by Ernest de...

A Little Cloud of Dust. By Hugh Naybard. (The Century I Press. 6s.)-This is "a novel with a purpose," and its purpose is to draw attention to the extreme state of unrest in...

I Manual of Library Bookbinding. By H. T. Coutts and G. A. I Stephen, . (Libraco, Ltd., London. 7s. 6d. net.)-This deals with a technical subject of considerable importance....

I We have received Vols. V. and VI. of the "Centenary Bio- I graphical Edition of Thackerays Works" (Smith, Elder, and I Co., 6s. net per vol.) Vol. V. contains The Yellowplush...

I In the "Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis " (The Clarendon Press, 3s. 6d. paper, 4s. cloth) we have Cornezi Taciti Historiarum Liber, Recognovit C. D. Fisher. The...

RECIPROCITY AND THE EMPIRE. IT is evident that there is an increasing volume of opinion both in the United States and in Canada in favour of the proposed Reciprocity Agreement....

TENNYSON AND LUCRETIUS OR SCOTT P [TO TEX EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SiR,-May I reply to the letter of your correspondent Dr. Alexander Macphail, which appeared in your issue...

MODERN FIGURE-SKATING. [To m EDrOm 0oP TAD U SwuoAroiLU Srn,-The interesting article on " Modern Figure-Skating " in your issue of January 21st has just come to our hands in...

READABLE SPEECHES. I To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."1 SIn,-In the interesting review on " Famous Speeches" (Spectator, January 21st) stress is laid on the fact that...

THE ENCYCLICAL " PASCENDI." LTO THE EDITOR 0? THE SP1ECTATOR."I SiR,-A writer gives in your issue of December 24th, 1910, advice to " Catholics who are being asked to sign the...

BO O KS. THE ENGLISH CHURCH IN THE NINETEENTH CENT URY.* THE editors of the History of the English Church are much to be congratulated on their selection of a writer for the...

POETRY, - COURAGE. IF in the past should brooding sorrow dwell, Look not that way; Let not the echoes of a tolling bell Ring in another day. Be brave in thought-the fearless...

DISRAELI ON THE HOUSE OF LORDS. [TO THE EDITOR oF TE " SPECTATOR"] SiR,-The following prophetic warning uttered by Disraeli when the House of Lords was being freely denounced...

A NEGLECTED GARDEN PLEASURE. [TO THm EDITOR oF TB " SPECTATOR."] Sin,-Many readers of the Spectator are evidently interested in wild birds, but are probably without opportunity...

" VANISHING ENGLAND."-A CORRECTION. [To Tox EDIOnR Or THX "SPECTATOR."] Si,-The " delightful entry " which your reviewer of the abovementioned book (Literary Supplement,...

| Lord Rosebery presided at the annnal meeting of the Old Edinburgh Ulub on Monday and made one of his happiest speeches. Speaking of the summer walks of the Club in which some...

The Houses of Parliament held their opening sittings on I Tuesday, the only business done being that of electing the Speaker. Mr. Eugene Wason, in proposing Mr. J. W. Lowther,...

Mr. F. W. Jowett, M.P., ex-Chairman of the Independent I Labour Party, was interviewed by a Press representative last Saturday on the Constitutional crisis. After stating his...

I The 'Thunderer,' built by the Thames Ironworks Company, was successfully launched on Wednesday. The huge veswl has a displacement of 22,680 tons, a horse-power of 27,0(0'),...

I Judgment was delivered in the second trial of Savarkar. in which he was charged with abetment to murder, on Mou(bty at Bombay. The special tribunal, composed of the C1iiof...

On Friday week Lord Morley, as president of the English I Association, delivered a most delightful address upon "Language and Literature." He dealt chiefly with the two great...

A jarring note was struck by Mr. Ginnell, who charged I Mr. Lowther vith having infringed the rights of private Members, and denied him (Mr. Ginnell) a hearing in debate during...

I A most interesting paper was read by Mr. P. J. Hartog on Wednesday before the Royal Society of Arts on t he bearing of examinations upon national efficiency. The discussion...

ORNITHOLOGY.* A COUPLE of new and magnificently expensive works on ornithology may be conveniently included in the same article. The one is intended for the general public...

A MUNICIPAL REFERENDUMJ [To Twx EDITOR or m "SPrCTATIO."1 SIR,-An instance of the working of representative government and the Referendum, or Poll of the People, haa recently...

THE CASE AGAINST HOME-RULE. rTo TOX EDITOR Or mxx "SPECTATOR."] FIR,-In your admirable article of January 21st, "The Case against Home-rule," you " ask in despair what there is...

THE RISK OF INVASION. [To Tor EDITOR 0 TM " SPECTATOR."] SiB,-As an old Rifle Volunteer, I was greatly delighted with your article of January 21st on "The Risk of Invasion."...

THE GLENBERVIE JOURNALS. AT the auction of the Sheffield and Gibbon documents the Journals which Mr. Sichel has here edited were sold unclassified to a well-known bookseller....

FEBRUARY PIKE. THE Dorsetshire Stour wanders through the fields above Wimborne as a quiet river should. It takes no short cuts; it runs by its reedy banks, under its thorns and...

POACHING IN WARWICKSHIRE. THE net is now spread out for a hundred yards or more along by the hedge of the Rung Hills Spinney in Shakespeare's greenwood. It is most singular to...

SIR CHARLES DILKE. [COMMUNICATED.] SIR CHARLES DILKE'S death removes from the political stage an actor who but for a particular incident in his career might have risen to a...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE POLITICAL SITUATION. C AUTION, patience, discretion, and a careful estimate VJ of what is possible and what impossible in the Parliamentary situation...

THE PRICE OF AN ANGLO-GERMAN " ENTENTE." THE new number of the Contemporary Review contains Tan article by the distinguished German historian, Professor Hans Delbriick, on the...

I FIVE CENTURIES OF ENGLISH VERSE.* MR. STEBBING makes a graceful answer to an imaginary question,-How can you dare to sit in judgment on all these poets ? " I have not sat in...

THE MATERIALS OF THE PAINTER'S CRAFT. DR. LAURIE has produced a very valuable book. In it we have a survey of the methods of painting from the earliest times, the result of an...