"for the Province of Brandenburg," and made an optimistic speech. He complimented his audience on being members of the present prosperous community of Branden- burg. They were...

for an opening to launch some policy larger than has yet been thought of is to be found in the Reichspost. According to the Vienna, correspondent of the Times, the Beiehspost...

plicated during the week. General Lyautey has decided that Colonel Mangin's column shall advance on Marakesh. That city is still in the hands of the Pretender, El Ribs., and the...

Turkish Government should extend to the nation- alities the concessions already granted to the Albanians. We may remark here that the Albanian question does not seem to be...

by Mr. G. D. Turner, a member of the Y.M.C.A., as to the atrocities committed on Persians at Tabriz some months ago, and the terrorism exercised since then. It has attracted...

has been matched by the massacre of Serbs at Berane, near the Montenegrin frontier, on August 14th. An account in the Times of Wednesday says that though the Serbs of the Berane...

outspoken article on Southern Slav Nationalism in Monday's issue. The main argument may be thus summarized. If Austria-Hungary wishes to lay a sound basis for her Balkan policy,...

T HERE has been a buzz of diplomatic activity in con- nexion with Count Berchtold's Turkish proposal which has already been communicated to the Chancelleries. Count Berchtold,...

was read from Sir Edward Grey stating that the Government were making representations to the United States on the subject of the Panama Canal Act. We are very hopeful of the...

out to be exaggerated, since they are not supported in most respects by the reports from the British Consul at Tabriz, lest it should be said that we ignore facts which tell...

Wednesday night, when Professor Schafer, of Edinburgh University, delivered the Presidential Address on the Origin, Nature, and Maintenance of Life. After commenting on the...

Tuesday. It was watched with extraordinary interest through- out the United States, as it was generally thought that it would indicate the result of the Presidential election....

Schafer enumerated the elements which when combined into a colloidal compound represented the chemical basis of life, and declared that when chemistry succeeds in building up...

origin of life on this planet as open to fatal objections and inherently improbable. The origin of life, we were driven to believe, was due, not to any sudden alteration, but to...

Professor Schafer discussed the question whether the phenomena of senescence and death were a natural and necessary sequence to the existence of life. He could not admit that...

by a President of the British Association since Tyndall's famous Belfast utterance, though in the main a thorough-going vindication of the "mechanistic" position, is marked by...

read before the British Association on Thursday. Mr. H. Samuel, the Postmaster-General, discussed the question of Federal Government with specific reference to the Empire, and...

Will Thorne, M.P., who delivered the presidential address, said that he believed the coal strike had brought them one step nearer to the nationalization of the coal mines. In...

steam- ship built in the United Kingdom for passenger traffic, was fittingly celebrated as a public holiday on Clydeside last Saturday. Henry Bell, the constructor of the '...

recent Military Aeroplane Competition. The first prize of £4,000 in the competition open to the world and the first prize of £1,000 for aeroplanes made wholly in the United...

of 1,868,000 to 39,000, or about 50 to 1, calling on the Parlia- mentary Committee to oppose the Government Trade Unions Bill unless it completely restores to the unions the...

29th. Consols (2I-) were on Friday 74I—Friday week 751.

clear of water, and the situation was improved by a fine week-end. The extent of the damage done in the county was revealed in the report presented to the County Council on...

it distin- guishes Professor Schafer from such ultra-materialists as Haeckel. As for his peremptory' rejection of the cosmic theories of the origin of life, we cannot see that...

from the subjects of discussion. This result was due to the votes of the miners, who have been convinced by experience of the dangers to unionism of pressing the secularist...

IMPERTATI DEFENCE AND FOREIGN POLICY. I T is probable that very soon after these words appear in print Mr. Borden will make a statement on the nature of Canada's naval...

changed completely since it was last necessary for the British Government to decide what their policy should be. Changed conditions no doubt require a changed policy ; no...

TN some ways the prolonged electoral contest in Mid- lothian is even more interesting that the North-West Manchester election. In Manchester the contest was only between two...

fertile in unforeseen consequences. In the opinion of a section of English Liberals it was a triumph of unadul- terated constitutionalism, and as such it was to bring peace...

"y ou will think me an illiterate dog : I am, for the first time, reading 'Robertson's Sermons.' I do not know how to express how much I think of them. If by any chance you...

F ROM the church the ground falls in a slope which carries the eye gently down across meadows of lush green grass to the lake, lapping softly at their marge. To right and left...

I T has been a great year for nuts, and it looks like becoming a wonderful year for blackberries, but the mushroom crop is best described by the term which is invariably applied...

MACAULAY ON THE POLITICAL "SIAMESE TWINS." [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SrEcraToa.1 Sin,—When lately reading " Macaulay's Speeches in Parlia- ment " I was struck by his defence of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—"When one reads in the Radical Press the vehement denunciations of Russian policy in Persia and Chinese policy in Tibet, by which, as...

[TO THB EDITOR OF THE ..SPECTATOR."3 Stn, — " Ulsterman " accuses me in your issue of August 31st of misrepresenting the attitude of Unionist Ulster on Home Rule. At the same...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTAT011.1 SIR,—I was rather speaking of the under-representation of the Ulster Unionists relative to the rest of Ireland than to the...

August 31st, in the course of the leading article on "The Panama Canal Act," you say : (1) " For what other reason did Great Britain give up her right to be joint-builder and...

if the strife of our political parties is comparable to cricket, then the practical abolition of the House of Lords amounts to an expulsion of the umpire ? Such an act in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—It has not come as a surprise to me that your corre- spondent "Yager" should have experienced the benefit which young men obtain from...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—Apart from the question of the violation of treaties, there appears to be only one valid reason why the American Senate should not give...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—My reference to the Quebec Marriage Law and the judgment of the Privy Council was an illustration only, and illustrations hardly ever...

Sia,—My son, aged seven, learnt all his music by colours : E brown pink, G yellow, and so on. I can send any one interested his music book, all coloured. He always sees colours...

A. EDGHILL. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin, — The boys of South London have lost in Ernest Edghill a chosen friend and leader. No one will ever again be just as he...

to Bathsheba illustrate the point you make ? "Ask on, my mother, for I will not say thee nay." Compare with this the English King's response to a like entreaty for the life of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — The writer of the article on "The Mighty Monosyllable " in your issue of August 31st would have added force to his contention if his...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —I have followed with much interest the correspondence in your paper on the colours of names, having myself this peculiar...

AUDENARDE. HE was round and ruby-faced, he was belted, frogged, and laced, And he stood just four feet nine ; I can almost see him now, with his jolly tow-row-row, And his...

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...

NOVELS OP CHARACTER AND ENVIRONMENT.* IN the preface to the new edition of his works Mr. Hardy has the following passage:— "Positive views on the whence and wherefore of things...

journalist who followed his profession during the struggle between the Imperial and rebel forces for the possession of Wu-chang and the neigh- bouring group of industrial cities...

These are the first words of Mr. -Plidraic Colum's new book, My Irish Year. He does not- dear-With the North of Ireland, nor with the towns, but he claims to have represented "...

'THERE are certain charges which the name of Edward Montagu will always haie to Me - et. One of them assails him common with all statesmen whO have at one time or linother...

was well known as a patient and polemical Protestant historian. This posthumous volume, the manuscript of which was already with the printers. at the date of his sudden death,...

IN the Nineteenth Century Major Clive Morrison-Bell, M.P., writes with force and cogency on "Redistribution before Home, Rule," a subject which he has made peculiarly his own....

Mail a few weeks ago organized a correspondence from prominent men on the subject of labour unrest. The letters and articles thus accumulated have now been put together in a...

THERE are two reasons why Mr. Edward Jenks's new book must rank as one of the best works of He kind yet given to the public. The first is derived from its comprehensiveness— it...

[trader this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not beat reserved for review in other forms.] Old-Age Dependency in the United States. By Lee Welling Squier....

and Co. Os.)—A treasure-hunt in Peru, packed with exciting adventure.—Clara. By A. Neil Lyons. (John Lane. 6s.)—Sketches of Mr. Lyons's friends around " Arthur's " coffee-...

LAMORNA.• THERM is a certain family resemblance between Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick's novels, in so far that she has a predilection for heroines who have come down in the world and...

and Boone 6s.)—The English reader will find it hard to fathom exactly why Sarasvati, the heroine of this book, should have been called "The Daughter of Brahma" and elevated to...

and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—This book is in many ways inge- nious and agreeable. If it is not particularly original, neither is it quite like those unbearably dull and trivial "books...

(Simpkin, Marshall and Co. 2s. ad. net.)—" This little book is the outcome of several years' constant experience in nursing cases of infants suffering from malnutrition. The...

(Methuen and Co. 7s. 6d. net.) —This book `Teats swimmi g from a variety of standpoints, ranging, indeed, at will, from the platform of the professional diver or the...

Leslie and E. A. Shipley. (Smith, Elder and Co. 12s. 6d. net.)—This book, embodying the Report of the Grouse Disease Inquiry Committee, now appears in a cheaper form, and has...

and Co. 12s. 6d. net.)—This new volume of Mr. Smalley's Memories is in reality a book of word portraits. The American journalist draws for his English and American audience a...