of course, has interests in Morocco, like all the other Powers, was justified in trying to hasten matters. But as it is, we can only say that Germany has laid herself open to...

wish to divert attention from home politics, or that they are making a flourish to impress the forward school, which has long and notoriously grumbled at the " weak " ending of...

ul-Aziz to be as complete as we supposed last week. It is said that he has frankly abandoned the struggle and will live quietly near Casablanca for the present. Practically all...

German Emperor said :—" I rejoice to be able to express to you my deepest conviction that the peace of Europe is not in danger. It rests on too solid foundations to be easily...

U NEXPECTED and regrettable friction has been reintro- duced into the relations of France and Germany. On Tuesday the semi-official North German Gazette announced that the...

case.

Admiral Sperry and Sir Thomas Gibson- Carmichael, the Governor, exchanged visits, and then a long programme was entered upon which had the disadvantage of being almost a...

gressing satisfactorily. The Heir-Presumptive to the throne has begun to show himself in the streets of Constantinople, and if all goes well we may hope that soon he will be...

evidence in the bomb outrage case, was shot in the gaol of the Court by two of his fellow-prisoners. Two. Europeans who rushed to his assistance .were hit, one of them being...

its special correspondent who went to Medina to see the inauguration of the new Hedjaz Railway from Damascus. This is certainly the first time that a message has been...

Japanese War to the Yalu timber enterprise are revived and confirmed in an article in the current number of McClure's Magazine, based on passages in General Kuropatkin's...

on Friday week in Dublin. Mr. J. H. Campbell, M.P., in a vigorous speech noted that in the year 1907 only five persons had been made amenable for three hundred and seventy-two...

with Enver Bey in Tuesday's issue. This young Turkish officer—he is only twenty-seven—who has played a leading part in the recent rising, discusses the situation with admirable...

sections of the British Association, we may note that of Sir Horace Plunkett on "Science and the Problem of Rural Life." That problem, he observed, had been forced to the very...

ended March 31st, published on Tuesday as a Blue-book, is a document of more than usual interest. The general results for the year show that while there was an increase of only...

Statistics Section, read a most interesting paper on the State in relation to railways. Mr. Acworth is claimed by the followers of Mr. Lloyd George and Mr Winston Churchill as...

largely in his championship of the doctrine of the inheritance of acquired characters so vigorously impeached by Weismann and other distinguished men of science. Some of his...

delivered an eloquent panegyric of Wales and the Welsh, "a nation that has lived through centuries of oppression, contempt, slander, and treachery, and is now as much alive and...

testing against the encouragement given to cattle-driving by the Government, said it was not with them a question of dis- crediting a Government. What they wished was to make...

at the meeting of the British Associa- tion in Dublin. After alluding to the loss sustained by the Association by the deaths of Lord Kelvin and Sir John Evans, Mr. Darwin noted...

longer, deeper, and broader than the Lusitania' and Mauretania.' It is said that the gross tonnage will be about eight thousand tons more than that of the Ounarders; and Messrs....

May 28th. Consols (24) were on Friday 854—on Friday week 86i.

GERMANY, MOROCCO, AND THE POWERS. T AST week we hoped that the relations of Europe J with Morocco under the new conditions would be arranged " without any fuss." It seemed a...

r E programme of retrenchment put forward by the new Japanese Ministry, and described in some detail- in Monday's Times, will hardly surprise those who have been following...

TH E Board of Education are evidently determined to clear themselves from the reproach of being unable to attend to more than one thing at a time. It is almost a commonplace...

T HE letters on Church finance which we have published in the last four weeks will, we hope, advance the demand for an important reform. Correspondence has a notorious habit of...

W HEN the Northbrook Club was founded twenty- nine years ago, its originators doubtless foresaw as possibilities some of the facts of to-day. The Club came into existence with...

T HE pleasures of reading cover a far wider field than the pleasures of re-reading. All the delights of novelty, the glorious astonishments of exploration, the interest of...

!" in the matter of colour photography, and they have all been little more than false alarms. At last, however, the wolf has really come, and the question arising is whether he...

T HROUGH the mist on the North River dawn was breaking : a full moon paled in the West. The smelter and his boy Martin were carrying their net down to the rowing.boat at the...

[TO THE EDITOR Of TUE " se rtere.ron."] SIR, —The correspondence on the above subject to which you have opened your columns during the last four weeks will have made clear to...

A FORECAST OF THE POOR LAW COMMISSION. • [TO THE EDITOR OH THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —The articles in the Times on which you commented in your issue of August 15th need not be...

[To THE EDITOR OT THE "SPECTATOR. ".] SIR,—My schooldays recollections of Xenophon's "Anabasis," refreshed, it may be, by more recent experiences as an examiner, bring to my...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " EINICT•TOR.".1 SIE,—The Government pension scheme is a deep disappoint- ment, as, indeed, any non-contributory scheme must needs be, to those who have...

appeared to me for a long time past that the clergy should co-operate in regard to the collection of their tithe. At present one employs the local solicitor, and the next a...

a line in support of the letter in your issue of August 22nd from Canon Greig on " Church Finance"? As a member of the Committee appointed lust year by the Archbishop of...

[To THE EBrroa OF TON " SPECTAT011.1 SIR,—In the article " New Maps for Old " appearing in the Spectator of August 29th your contributor repeats the suggestion that a skilled...

feared that the Survey Department have awakened about a dozen years too late to make much pecuniary gain by their belated spurt of energy. The maps they are now publishing are...

notice the article in the Spectator of last Saturday on "New Maps for Old," having long been astonished at the way in which the most useful Government publications are allowed...

By Professor U. VON WILAMOWITZ-MOL LENDORS. (Published in the Classical Review, August, 1908.) 4lAhpETH41 , T ?THIN KitTat ER/AbY 6,mA/1/4as , *cal croo2w iv BartAion...

interested in reading your article entitled " New Maps for Old" in the last issue, and trust it will make the work of the Board of Agriculture and their Ordnance Survey...

[TO THY EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—The recent Act has been bailed by Tariff Reformers and the Times as a measure of Protection. It is just the opposite. A patent is a...

June 20th last the world of British scholarship lost by the sudden death of Dr. Walter Headlam one of its brightest ornaments. Dr. Headlam, who had been since 1890 a Fellow of...

(To TM/ EDITOR OF 7115 "EinecTAToiz."] SIR,—To pose as Milton's counsel for the defence against the charge of harshness of character brought against him by "his first wife's...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THY "SPECTATOR.") SIR, — The writer of the review on "Shakespeare on Johnson" (Spectator, August 1st) remarks that "the greatness of Johnson—apart from his...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sza,—My apology for writing is that you have in former years kindly helped us in obtaining such land of national beauty as Brandelhow and...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR." J SIR,—There is a large walled-in garden in South Wales haunted by a ben blackbird, who for some time has played the part of a robin, the bird...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TIM " SPIICTATOR."1 SIR, —In reading the interesting article headed "The Wild Fruit Garden" in your issue of August 1st, I was struck with the writer's...

[To THE EDITOR OF Tile “ sescravoa.1 Sra,—In the illuminating article last week upon " The Annexation of the Congo State," the writer says that Belgium " desires to take over a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIE,-I hope you will allow one who has been a regular reader and admirer of the Spectator for many years to point out a serious grammatical...

CORE OF MY HEART. THE love of field and coppice, Of green and shaded lanes, 'Of ordered woods and gardens, Is running in your veins— Strong love of grey-blue dis- tance,...

MEDIAEVALISM.* CARDINAL MERCIER has done so good a service to religion, and, we will add, to literature, by eliciting Father Tyrrell's Reply, that we cannot bear him any lasting...

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...

are a rich vein for the man of letters, and Captain Harry Graham has wisely perceived this. Without any specially profound researches, be has collected a mass of data on various...

THE inequalities of the late Mr. David Christie Murray's writings had a curious parallel in the inequalities of his life. From disadvantageous beginnings he worked himself up,...

Tim is one of the books that count. It tells us more of the inner history of Russia in recent years than has been told, we venture to say, by any other volume. This and that...

WE have, within the last few years, noticed several books that dealt with the gigantic fishes which may be caught with rod and line on the coasts of Florida and California. But...

A CURIOuS feature of eighteenth-century history is the occasional incursion of foreign adventurers into the affairs of countries with which they had no obvious connexion....

the publication of the first edition of Mr. Vernon's Readings on the Purgatorio, and eleven years since the second edition appeared. Such a work, of course, with all its great...

M. ALFRED DE BILINECII'S paper on "The Turkish Revolu- tion" in the September Nineteenth Century derives an added interest from the fact that he served for several years in the...

6d.) —Mr. E. F. Benson has his own idea of a villain of melodrama. He pictures him as a gentleman of middle age and respectable habits whose attitude to life is that of a mild...

(Greening and Co. 6s.)—A Scotch story in which the heroine is a farmer's daughter.—Angel Esquire. By Edgar Wallace. (J. W. Arrowsmith, Bristol. 3s. 6d.) —A rather lurid...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] The Story of British Diplomacy. By T. H. S. Escott. (T. Fisher Unwin....

A LAUGHING MATTER.* SUBURBAN life, in so far as it has formed the theme of recent or contemporary fiction, has in the main been treated either from the standpoint of the...

Century Press. 6s.)—The publisher's note that the author of this book is a mate in a steamship "plying between London and Australia" lends a decided interest to the volume. It...

by Maurice Randall. (Chatto and Windus. 12s. 6d. net)—" The most important or most picturesque of the harbours and seaports" is the phrase with which Mr. Holland defines his...

Unwin. Is. 6d. net.)—When we say that the sub-title of this book is "An English Officer's Travels in the Near East" it will be understood that the Balkan Peninsula and its...

Molloy. 2 vols. (Hutchinson and Co. 24s. net.)—A writer who takes for his subject the reign of Queen Victoria—Mr. Molloy limits himself to the period between the accession and...

(Williams and Norgate. 3s. ,net.)—Dr. Wright again takes up the thesis that the Book of Daniel helou,es to the first half of the sixth century B.C., and not to the first half of...

Trench, and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—The Mendes occupy the Eastern part of the Sierra Leone Protectorate. They are, according to Mr. Migeod's description, an energetic race, who, now...

has been designed, handsomely illuminated with the National Arms, Wales contributing her token of the leek. It is produced by Messrs. Andrew Reid and Co., o f...

by Frank Castle (2s.) " An attempt has been made in this volume," writes the author in his preface, " to explain the ordinary processes of arithmetic in a practical manner in...

Co. 8s. net.)—The second title of this book describes it as "A Narrative of the Athabasca and Pease River Treaty Expedition of 1899." It may be as well to explain that the...