I ND EX • FROM JULY 6th TO DECEMBER 28th, 1912, INCLUSIVE. TOPICS OF THE DAY. A CCIDENTS, Superfluous 195 11 Adjournment of Parliament, the... 192 Adventurer, Political : What...

the London and County Printing Works, Drury lane, W.C. : and Published by Jong BARER for the • 'ItirsCreroa" (Limited) at their Office, No. 1 Wellington Street, in the Precinct...

its correspondent at Prague describing the Sokol festival which has just taken place there. The Sokol movement is one for physical culture among the Slays, and at Prague 35,000...

nominated as the candidate of the Democratic Party for the Presidency of the United States. This result was reached suddenly and dramatically on the forty-sixth ballot. On the...

the Labour member, moved a resolution to express the opinion of the House that it was expedient that repre- sentatives of the employers and men should meet with a view to the...

in intention, but no doubt very differently expressed, will go on between the Ministers and diplomatists. The Germans will make suggestions for common action which "cannot...

T HE chief event of the week in foreign politics is the meeting between the Russian and German Emperors, who arrived on Thursday at Baltic Port. The two Emperors were in their...

excep- tions, is coldly critical in its references to the Imperial meeting, and that close to the news from the Baltic are placed telegrams describing the Russo-French military...

case.

not apparently been finally settled yet, but there is evidence that it is now receiving the close attention of , the body whose prime duty it is to consider such matters—the...

motion " that Clause 1 as amended stand part of the Bill," and this led to a more general debate. In the course of it Mr. Birrell made some observations with regard to Ulster....

Labour revolt, but may give here shortly the facts connected with the strained relation's between 'the Labour Party and the Liberals. On Tuesday the Executive of the Labour...

when they pretend that Unionists ought to accept the rest of the Bill if the demand for the exclusion of North-East Ulster were to be granted. Of course Unionists will do no...

Mediterranean garrisons because the Prime Minister was to make a full statement on the strategical aspect of the subject in ten days' time. He went on to point out that, as far...

the consideration of the Home Rule Bill in Committee. The earlier parts of the debate were concerned with the question of the supremacy of the Im- perial Parliament, and it...

Estimates. Mr. Amery, who opened the debate, asked for explicit assurances that the War Office recognized the duty of providing forces of such strength as to make it unlikely...

House of Lords on Tuesday, when Lord Selborne con- demned the withdrawal of ships. He pointed out that a reduction of our strength coincided with a steady effort by Austria,...

was reported from LiverpooL Within forty- eight hours the appearance of the disease in several other places was announced, and the President of the Board of Agriculture took...

provocation by Orangemen. We do not pretend to know the whole truth, though there can be no doubt that the Hibernians behaved infamously in letting themselves loose among young...

down the advice given above. It was that each member of the party must pledge himself to be at the disposal of the officers in order to assist at the contests at Hanley and...

May 9th. Consols (21) were on Friday 761—Friday week 761.

Insurance Commissioners to the demands of the British Medical Association. That reply is dated June 26th and deals with the demands of the Association in their letter of...

Monday Colonel Seely was returned by a majority of 1,211. The figures were Colonel Seely (L.), 9,049; Mr. Marshall Freeman (II.), 7,838. This was a fall in the Liberal majority...

on Tuesday at the opening of the Congress of the Universities of the Empire which is now being held. He began by dwelling upon the immense growth in the number of universities...

asked, and could not answer very satisfactorily, several questions about an attack by a body of Hibernians on a party of Presbyterian school children. Last Saturday, at Castle-...

at an emergency meeting decided to postpone the recep- tion in honour of the Prime Minister which had been fixed for Friday. The Committee felt themselves unable to guarantee...

London with his three colleagues to discuss Im- perial questions, and received an extremely hearty welcome. The chief question to be discussed is naval policy. The Laurier...

A FOOD-TAX REFERENDUM. T9 Ilkeston election and the growing want of con- dence between the Liberals and the Labour Party are indications that it is quite within the region of...

the Labour revolt, as it has been called in the newspapers. He regards it as nothing more than one of the tiffs between the Labour Party and the Liberal Party to which he has...

which is at the beck and call of the present Chancellor of the Exchequer has for some time been throwing out suggestions for a new Lloyd Georgian campaign. Like the famous...

M EN of all shades of political opinion turn to an address by Lord Morley of Blackburn with com- plete confidence in one respect. They may not expect to agree with him—though no...

lATE publish in another column a letter from Mr. John Murray calling attention to the admirable scheme of home defence organization devised and actually set going for a time by...

D O ordinary well-to-do people keep accounts—minute accounts we mean? We are inclined to think they do not; if they did there would be more outcry than there is about minor...

T HE words at the head of this article might have seemed a gloomy title for Lord Rosebery to apply to the medical profession in his address to the students of the London -...

A DEFINITE stage has been reached in the process of estate planning with a view to building, and not every estate owner seems to be aware of it. It is a stage which is partly...

THE SWISS REFERENDUM AND TARIFF REFORM. pro THE Ermos OF TR "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—In Switzerland customs, tariffs, and treaties of nom-. merce are a Federal matter, while direct...

W. A. Peck (Spectator, June 29th) asks me whether I consider that Conservative Free Traders who place Free Trade above all other con- siderations are really Conservative, a...

FOOD TAXES AND A REFERENDUM. [To TEl EDITOR 01 THR SPICTATOR.1 Sra,—Will you allow an old-fashioned Conservative who is also a Free Trader to put in a plea in defence of the...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sis,—Many of your readers are asking themselves how much longer the Spectator will feel bound to continue its able and strenuous defence of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIE,—In your Notes for the Week of June 22nd you take a line on the above subject which is only too familiar to your readers, and which...

[To THE EDITOR or THE -srsciavon."1 SIR,—Mr. Lloyd George and the Nonconformists tell us that Disendowment will be for the spiritual good of the Church. Do they realize that...

[To vas EDITOR OF THZ "SPZCTATOIL"1 Sig,—When public opinion is less distracted we shall secure attention for the recent great rise of prices and its causes. But in the...

[TO TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR, —It is to be hoped that the National Reserve has taken a permanent - place in the activities and resources of the nation. All honour...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—When. the Old Age Pension Act came into operation a good deal of the work in connexion with it was given to the Customs and Excise...

[To Tam EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—"If only we could escape from this Triple Alliance !" " If only England could offer us an alliance which would give us more than moral...

esracaeroa."1 Sre.,—On April 27th you were kind enough to allow me to an- nounce an experiment of "Military and Industrial Training for Boys," which it was then proposed to make...

[To Tax EDITOR or TER "SPECTATOR:1 SIR, — A comparison of the phenomena of to-day with those of a century and a half ago may be of interest to some of your readers. The years...

tTo Tax EDITOR Or TER "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —Your readers will, I hope, be more generous than ever this year in their response to the appeal for the Women's Holiday Fund, which...

SPECTATOR. " ] have followed with much interest the correspondence: on " Mother ! Mother !" which is appearing in your paper. . The following passage—a marvellous piece of...

[To TIIR EDITOR Or TED " SFICTATOR."1 SIR, — At the meeting of the Indian Church Aid Association held at the Church House on June 27th, the Bishop of Madras referred to the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR." STR,—Messrs. Longmans will before long publish a complete -edition of my husband's (the late Walter Bagehot) works, to which will be...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIB, —Yon have been so uniformly sympathetic in promoting the various schemes for securing open spaces for the people. and have appreciated...

THE MULE. I AM the Mule along the precipice's utter edges T. walk demurely, stepping surely Across the slippery ledges Of smooth worn rock ; derisory I grin The while 1 note...

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...

"SPECTATOR. "] Sra,—Being engaged on an illustrated work dealing with the "in- comparable Samuel Cooper" (acknowledged to be the greatest English miniature painter), his brother...

THE GREEK GENIUS.* IN recent years much admirable work has been done in expounding the inner meaning of the Greek legacy to civilization. The labours of Wilamowitz-Moellendorff...

ENGLISH royalty was never perhaps at a lower ebb than in the years from 1811 to 1820, the years of the Regency. The lives of the Prince of Wales and several of his brothers bad...

THIS volume consists of three parte. First comes the memoir of Ambrose Bonwick, a very admirable young Cambridge scholar, who died in 1714. He was the son of a Jacobite divine...

Oracles in the New Testament — in effect, Old Testament Oracles fulfilled in the New—is one which, although exhibiting great learning and research, will, in our judgment, fail...

IT is a misfortune for Mr. Bailey's book that the component parts of it should have first appeared in the columns of a daily paper. In the first place, to reprint reviews of...

Mn. 0043i is a young writer, and in this prize University essay he has tried his wings for the first time, we believe, as a writer of historical biography. His subject is well...

Ix the Nineteenth. Century " The Outlook from Australia " is discussed by Mr. J. Hogue, who was lately Minister of Public Instruction in New South Wales. Mr. Hogue argues that...

Mu. J. A. LOVAT-FRASEE has written a small book, in reality an historical essay, and as such eminently readable, upon "John Stuart, Earl of Bute." The object of the writer is to...

is a book to take up in an idle ten minutes—the minutes will pass quickly and -very pleasantly. These short papers, most of which are reprints, deal with all sorts of subjects,...

itm ARRIVAL OF ANTONY.• Has. CONYERS'S stories of sport in Ireland have so many genuine qualities of atmosphere, gaiety, and humour that one • Tits Arrival of Antony. By...

intended in the first instance to serve as a companion volume to " The Cambridge Modern History," this atlas is at the same time designed to stand by itself as an atlas of...

is inevitable that a " clever daughter" should in her first book invite comparison with her "cleverer mother," and Miss Blundell's work being a little immature she must, of...

a long history of one of the most disagreeable persons it has ever been the lot of the present writer to meet in fiction. As a character study it is extremely clever. Hector...

(Oxford University Press. 5s.)—This new section of the ninth volume of the Oxford English Dictionary contains altogether 3,203 words, as compared with 282 words in the same...

ITN der this heading we 110iie. such Books of the weak as have not been 'cursed for review in other iiirms.1 The New Irish Constitution. Edited on behalf of the Eighty Club by...

Co. 6s.)—The story of an orphan who makes a most unfortunate marriage under compulsion from a disagreeable aunt. The heroine is attractive, but the same cannot be said for many...

6d. net.)—Among the papers printed in this volume are the Bishop of Lincoln's Presidential Address upon "Hellenism as a Force in History " and Professor Gilbert Murray's lecture...