T HE news from Turkey is as bewildering, as sensational, and, we fear we must add, as Utopian as ever. Up till now the Turkish people generally, including the mob at Con-...

and fifty square miles in Eastern British Columbia. The mischief is attributed to long drought in the forests a hundred miles north of the National Park, near Banff, where fires...

British - Ambassador, who presented his credentials to the Porte on Thursday afternoon, was exceedingly well received by the large crowds in the street. Kiamil Pasha, the new...

vain wish, that the real depositaries of 'power in Turkey at the moment., whom we take to be the Young Turks of the Army, would try an experiment in revolution, and make up...

Labour in consequence of the attitude of the Govern- ment towards the French Anti-Militarist Labour Party has proved a complete failure. A minority of the compositors, coerced...

case.

Cobden Club, has been in session in London. The Congress has been attended by a very large number of prominent European and American Free-traders, and we desire to express the...

at the Hotel Cecil yesterday week by Mr. Harcourt on behalf of the Government, and Mr. Asquith in proposing the toast of the evening, "The International Peace Movement," made a...

are beginning to awaken to the needs of national defence. Mr. Blatcbford, of the Clarion, writes in the current issue of his paper a most sensible article on "The Danger of...

on Saturday last, and resulted in the return of Mr. Rupert Guinness, the Unionist candidate, by a majority of 1,143 over the Liberal candidate, Mr. Warren, and of 157 over both...

Canada with the greatest affection and sympathy, made an admirable farewell speech when on Wednesday he received the Mayor and City Council of Ottawa and a deputation of over a...

Mr. Lavino, who since the death of M. de Blowitz has been the Times correspondent in Paris. Mr. Lavino was born in Manchester in 1846. He belonged to a Low Countries family, his...

made excellent Free-trade speeches, but, unfortunately, we have little to be thankful for there. Any man of intelligence and with the oratorical gift can make a good Free-trade...

draw attention to that of Mr. Franklin Pierce, an American. In a striking history of the American tariff he showed how it was in origin a tariff for revenue, but how it had...

from Quebec and arrived at Cowes on Monday night, has established a new and remarkable warship record for long-distance steaming. Her average speed from land to land was over...

that he has constructed—has ended in disaster. Leaving Friedrichshafen, on Lake Constance, in Switzer- land, at 6.4.5 a.m. on Tuesday morning, and passing over Strassburg—where...

and art teaching was opened on Monday in the Hall of the University of London, South Kensington. Lord Carlisle, who delivered the presidential address, dwelt at length on the...

In the final heat of the eight-oared race, the great event of the meeting, the Leander crew met the Belgians, who had previously defeated Cambridge University, and after a...

of the hydroplane Ricochet II.,' designed and con- structed by the MM. Le Las of Paris. The little vessel, which is described as resembling a short fresh-water punt some...

appointed in 1901, and empowered in 1906 to inquire further into the case of the certified insane, was published as a Blue-book yesterday week. The Report is so voluminous—the...

form part of the Poor Law system of the country, while indicating possibilities of effectual and economical co-op era tion; recommends the inclusion in every local Committee of...

May 28th. Consols (21) Were on Friday 861—on Friday week 86g.

MR. ASQUITH AND THE COBDEN CLUB. M R. ASQUITH'S pose as the cheery, nay, rollicking, optimist does not suit him as well as his old character of the self-possessed, cool-headed,...

rr HE accounts of the frantic scenes and wild fraternisa- tions that have been going on of late in Turkey remind one of a delightful story of the experiences of Lear, the...

MHERE was a Russian Professor living for a time in Iondou some thirty years ago who used to toll eTgri one he ruet that, compared with the Russian Reign of Terror when it came,...

T 1TE sudden outbreak and the equally sudden suppression of the Revolutionary Socialists in Paris furnish a useful warning and a useful lesson to people on this side of the...

now fills the corre- spondence columns of the newspapers, remains, if not unsolved, at least unsettled. Before Parliament rose last week there were discussions (on Wednesday,...

T T is very commonly said that people are less religious than they used to be, and there is a sense in which the state- ment is true. Since the Reformation there has never been...

S OMERSET roads below Mendip are steep beyond the capacity of anybody except Somerset men and horses. They have a trick of startling you with an exaggerated descent at some...

T HEgreat bustard, which became extinct in the British Islands about 1840, still survives in unexpected places on the Continent. In Spain, as every one knows, the bustard is not...

CHURCH FINANCE. [To TH• EDITOR OT TUB "SPUTATOR.") Srn,—One of the immediate gains of the recent Pan-Anglican Congress is the widespread demand for a system of Church finance....

[To THB EDITOR 0? TUB "SPECTATOR." J SIR,—I have read with interest the article in your issue of August 1st on the above subject, and I ask you to extend your courtesy to me in...

[To THE Emelt OF THE " SPEOTATOR.1 SiR, — Shelley ' s almost forgotten epic poem, "The Revolt of Islam," reads like a prophecy of the events now occurring in the Ottoman Empire....

[TO TUB EDITOR or , rap "SrEoT*Tog."1 Sia,—The article on this subject which appeared in your issue of July 25th contains so many charges against those grocers who hold licenses...

[To THE ICDITOR Or TI1/1 SPECTATOR." j Siu,—Permit me to offer you an illustration, taken from the late Sir Francis Doyle's lectures on poetry, of the lines of Mr. Newbolt- "...

[To ma EDITOR 01 THE " SPRCTATOR."f SIR,—I wish through your columns to draw the attention of thoughtful and intelligent citizens to certain conclusions of serious moment...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] year the growth of London makes access to the country more difficult for the poorer citizens of London. On no one does this fall more hardly...

Of village roofs, on April days, The bloom of peach and cherry weaves A mist of white, a coral haze. You hear along the narrow street The splash of churning water-mills, The...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—For many years a pair of graceful swans have sailed on the lakes in the grounds of Meldrum House, Aberdeenshire, each like "the swan...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."I SIR,—May I suggest yet another motto for the National Service League, a slight but significant variant from the Psalmist ?—" When they...

THE WORKS OF W. E. HENLEY.* A COLLECTED edition of the late W. E. Henley's works in prose and verse presents an opportunity which will be welcome to a large number of readers...

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...

greeted the' appearance in 1838 of The Diary Illustrative of the Times of George the Fourth. Never was a more indiscreet book given to the world. It contains a plain record of...

deal adequately in the space of a short review with such a work as this. It is one of those immense compilations treating of little-known districts of Africa which we associate...

THE old so-called elements of fire, air, earth, and water have long been relegated to the limbo of extinct theories. In their place we have the chemical elements, some eighty in...

THIS volume (representing two in the French original) completes a work of which instalments were given to the public in 1902 and 1904. It covers the last twenty-two years of...

thirteen essays is the apologia for Lord Randolph Churchill. We have neither the right nor the wish to traverse its statements so far as they con- cern Sir Algernon's relations...

Is the Nineteenth Century the Prince di Teano writes on "The -Roman Empire : a Lesson on the Effects of Free Trade." He does not intend, he tells us, to take part directly in...

THE SLIM PRINCESS.* Tina desire of Turkish women for education and for emancipa- tion from the strict seclusion of the harem, as any one who has lived in Turkey or Egypt will...

we reviewed this novel in October, 1899, with a dos appreciation of its undoubted merits, it was entitled "Purple and Fine Linen : a Tale of Two Centuries, by William Pigott,"...

amusing collection of schoolboy stories. — The Dazzling Miss Davison. By Florence Warden. (T. Fisher Unwin. 6s.)—A story with a mystery which will be rather trans- parent to the...

Broomhall. (24 St. James's Street. .B1 ls.)—The con- tents of this volume are legislation in 1907, variou s articles on agricultural subjects, fences, fowls, forestry, cab bits,...

Fifth Series (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 5s. net). These are reprinted from the Nation and Evening Post (New York), and in one instance (" Centenary of Longfellow ") from the...

13indloss's novel will be read chiefly for the interest of its pictures of West Africa. The story itself is a little con- fused and vague, but the reider is left with a vivid...

and Bowes. 7s. 6d. net.)—In this volume is accomplished an interesting task, which one is surprised, as Dr. Clark suggests, to find so long delayed. Dr. Clark sets forth its...

and Evans. 2s.)—This is a volume of the "St. Nicholas Series," edited by Dom Bede Camm, and appears with the • imprimatur of the Censorship. Father Benson tells the story of...

(Chatto and Windus) we have the first in- stalment of a projected edition of "The Works of Jane Austen," to be completed in ten volumes (3s. 6d. net per vol.) Pride and...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as haze not been reserved for review in other forms.] Addresses to Earl Grey and Speeches in Reply. (S. E. Dawson,...