Fez is invested by the rebels, and the main body of the Sultan's army is cut off from communication with the capital. On March 26th, according to a despatch from the Tangier...

The Captain-General of Madrid, it appeared, had visited the President of the Chamber of Deputies and had complained, on behalf of the heads of the army, that the judges who pre-...

its way from Bombay to check the gun-running trade on the coast of Persian Mekran, and to protect the ludo- European telegraph line. Admiral Slade will patrol the coasts of both...

the Albanian rising. Messages from liskub speak of a rebel- lion all over the country, but Turkish official accounts are expressed in optimistic phrases. Probably, as the Vienna...

case.

July guarantees to the subjects of both countries equal treatment in respect of travelling, residence, the conduct of trade, the leasing of houses and land, the disposal of...

O N Monday the important new Anglo-Japanese Commer- cial Treaty was signed, and the text was published in the papers of Thursday. The Foreign Office is to be congratulated on...

House of Commons on Monday. The most important amend- ment discussed during the first day's debate was that moved by Mr. Younger, to the effect that the clause abolishing the...

short document, and dealt solely with Canadian Reciprocity. Without advancing any new arguments in favour of the arrangement, the Message emphasises the fact that "in its intent...

received with loud cheers from the Government's sup- porters, and was later described by Mr. Asquith as " one of the finest vindications of the representative and independent...

had been rejected, it was suggested by various speakers that the Government were determined, in order to facilitate the progress of the Bill, to accept no amendments of any...

the Bill originally published by Lord Gladstone—was moved by Mr. Masterman in the Commons on Friday week. The essential feature of the Bill is the limitation of the hours of...

the first time for fourteen years the Democratic Party finds itself in a majority in the House. The business of the first day was entirely formal, though it included the...

expressing dissatisfaction with the inadequate military arrangements of the Government for the defence of this country and our oversee Dominions. Lord Roberts, in a long and...

Parliament" at a dinner at Dundee on Saturday, paid an extraordinary tribute to the efficiency of the House of Lords. It might, he said, be indefensible on paper and yet work...

a criticism of the scheme for the reorganising of the Regular Army put forward in Lord Roberts' book. Lord Roberts, he contended, was insisting on preparing for the logically...

to the Holmes circular. After some details as to when it was written, issued, and first brought to the President of the Board of Education's notice, Mr. Runciman explains that...

Scheme for the Memorial to King Edward has been abandoned. The Executive Committee of the Fund met at:the Mansion House on Tuesday and unanimously resolved, in view of the...

administration, to which great improvements were due, maintained that our power of expansion was substantially unaltered. The debate was continued on Tuesday by 'Lord Midleton,...

the Junior Imperial and Constitutional League in Lambeth. The most important part of his speech dealt with Home Rule, which, he said, the Government had deliberately plotted to...

at the offices of the Times on Wednesday. His connection with the paper began forty-six years ago. For twenty-five years he served as its correspondent in Egypt, and since 1890...

was discussed, and Mr. McKenna made a full and hand- some apology for the great wrong done to the boy in the long series of events which began with his dismissal from Osborne....

Mar. 9th. Consols (91) were on Friday 811—Friday week 81j.

THE SAFETY OF THE REALM. W E do not intend to discuss here in detail the debate in the Lords on the state of the Army, opened by Lord Roberta in his powerful and moving speech,...

that the movement for a general arbitration treaty between this country and the United States seems to be well under way in both nations, and we see no reason why it should not...

T HE proposal made in the House of Commons on Tuesday that voting on the third reading of a Money Bill should be by ballot caused Mr. Balfour to deliver a fine and sincere...

T HE national accounts for the year 1910-11 have now been published, and it is possible to take stock of our financial position. Owing to the postponement of the Budget for...

T OGICALLY speaking, of course, you cannot put yourself ./ in the right by acknowledging that you are in the wrong. Practically, however, it is always being done, and those who...

I N our issue of March 25th Miss Octavia Hill made an appeal which it is a pleasure to recommend to the good- will and the generous purses of our readers. Miss Hill has already...

T HE fact that Oxford beat the record in the Boat Race of this year by sixteen seconds does not mean that they were a better crew than ever rowed before. There was an exception-...

[To TRY EDITOR OP THIS "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—I did not reply last week, as I was acquiring the precise information for which Mr. Gwynn asks. I do not intend to trouble you with...

VIE DECLARATION OF LONDON. [To THY EDITOR OP Till "SPECT1TOR."1 SIE,—Any expression of opinion by Mr. Westlake upon questions of international law must be regarded with pro-...

[To TBM EDITOR OF THF "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the Spectator of March 25th " An Australian* writes as follows of Mr. Gladstone and Home Rule :— "In the speech which introduced his...

directed to a letter from Miss Anne W. Richardson, of Moyallan, Co. Down, in your issue of March 18th last, which contained statements as to the state of feeling existing...

[TO THIL EDITOR Of TEM "SPECTATOR"] Sin,—Throughout the discussion which has recently recurred in the Spectator on the tests for English Churchmanship, one is inevitably...

Sin,—Will you kindly allow me so far to correct the footnote appended to my letter in your issue of the let inst. as to point out that I had no authority or knowledge upon which...

[To TIER EDITOR OF TIER "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—In this sorry business of the Cadbury and Rowntree connection with the Star I have found a crumb of comfort which your readers may...

[To TER EDITOR OF Tin " SPECTATOR " ] SIR, — Although the latest struggle over the shaping of the Russian political system is passing here without public com- motion, its...

[To THE EDITOR of sax " SPECTATOR.") SIB,—In your interesting and suggestive article under the above-named heading in the Spectator of March 25th, I am glad to see you take up...

on " The Destruction of Beauty," in the Spectator of March 25th last, you recommend the Eucalyptus Gunnii as a hardy and quick-growing tree for planting out. You also mention...

stating that in India an American missionary was refused the Holy Communion by a Government Chaplain recalls to me the following incident at Foochow, China: The Chaplain to that...

[To TEE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR,—Parliament has imposed upon the local authorities the duty of providing special and necessarily expensive education for physically...

[To THE EDITOR ON THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR, —" The delusion that a nation can sell without buying" is a stock-in-trade Aunt Sally of early Victorian dress and structure, and it is...

PHIL THE FIDDLER. (WESSEX SONG.) WHERE be to, you lads and lasses, Droo the furrow, droo the grasses P Here be Phil the fiddler passes, For to set 'ee all in trim. Look, the...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] 11110R,—With reference to the letter from Lord Avebury in your *rue of March 25th, appealing to your readers for financial aid in carrying...

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 OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 SIR, — The letter of Mr. Alfred Wheeler in your last issue affords a very apt illustration of the suppressio yeri which, unfortunately,...

BARBAROUS MEXICO.* Tax author of this book brings profoundly grave charges against the Government of Mexico, and in those parts of the book which tell of slavery, disguised...

at all events, of the qualifications required of one who seeks to explain to the predominant Saxon partner the real inwardness of the social and economic problem of Ireland. He...

annewn, homely Scottish common-sense is the most charac- teristic feature of Sir Andrew Fraser's amusin g and interestin g volume of reminiscences—a common-sense which is...

IN the north Of the Argentine and the north-west of - Paragu" ay lies one of the strangest countries in the world. All down. the right bank of the.Paraguay river stretches a...

Mn. BAIN's new fable is no less delightful than its pre- decessors. There is the same learned and fantastic preface, . and the tale told by Maheshwara to Parwliti is as...

of the books which does for the people of a remote part of the world what Lord Salisbury's " large-scale maps " do for the country—that is, it makes the people real. Major Sykes...

MOST of these twelve papers are published for the first time, thou g h Ian Maclaren's "Books and Bookmen," "Humour," " Burns, the Voice of the Scottish People," and " The...

PROFESSOR J. H. MORGAN writes at considerable len g th on " T he Cons titu tional B,evolution" in the new Nineteenth Century. As we have had occasion to notice before, thou g h...

Ma. RENWICK tells us that he ha s had two objects.in. writin g his book. These may be briefly characterised as political and literary ; he desires us to enlist for the Finns our...

INGRA M.* MR. Gurrroies romance of to-day is very clever, very characteristic of certain modern tendencies, and delight- fully immune from others. We have grown familiar of...

and Co. 6s.)—An Irish story of a girl of mixed parentage who is brought up in a convent, but who finds her true vocation in marriage, not in the life of religion.

Co. 6s.)—The hero of this story is a banker who is con- demned to penal servitude for a forgery which he knows to have been committed by his manager, but which he has sworn to...

[17ncter this heading we notice such Books of the wish u have net been reserved for renew in other forms.] Mark Twain. By Archibald Henderson. (Duckworth and Co. 5s. net.)—Mr....

Unwin. 10s. net.)—Miss Dunn, having spent many years in the East, has learnt much about rugs, about their making, their dyeing, &o., and this information she has put together in...

Paisley. 2s. 6d. net.)—We can sufficiently indicate the character and object of this book by giving (abbreviated) the titles of the chapters : "Churches," "Parliamentary,"...

magazine entirely devoted to pedigrees. Here we have a volume containing the issues of the three years, June, 1907, to March, 1910, with a copious index in which the important...

R. Beget. (Longman and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—This is a very graceful memorial to an accomplished artist and critic. Thirty- eight sketches have been excellently reproduced....

Handbook of Canada, edited by Ernest Heaton, B.A., and J. Beverley Robinson (Heaton's Agency, Toronto. 50. net). It gives a great variety of information, political, mercantile,...