A PROBLEM IN MILITARY EDUCATION. H* OW is it that I am alwa s meeting clever Subalterns IL and stupid Colonels? That is the question once addressed to the present writer by a...

On Thursday Mr. F. E. Smith tried to induce the House to believe that we ought to abandon the right of capture ot private property at sea. This gave occasion to Sir Edward Grey...

What this means translated into action is well brought out by a statement in Friday's Daily Mail. In 1905 Great Britain voted 78,000 tons of fighting ships, while Germany voted...

In the House of Lords on Thursday Lord Curzon made a speech of great power, informed by his minute knowledge of the whole subject, on the Convention between Britain and Russia...

I The assessors appointed by the London County Council to consider designs for the proposed County Hall have unanimously chosen that of Mr. Ralph Knott, a young architect...

| Lord Fitzmaurice concluded the debate by an able and well- reasoned defence of the Convention, in which incidentally he touched on the Baghdad Railway, though in guarded...

! At Guildford on Friday, January 31st, Lord Cromer pre- sided at a meeting of the West Surrey branch of the British Constitution Association. The main object of this body is...

Mr. Birrell's extraordinary speech-at once an apologia for Is . - A . . - lawlessness ana a contession ot impotence-was warmly extolled by Mr. O'Brien and Mr. T. P. O'Connor,...

Referring to Dr. Rutherford's speech, Mr. Morley said:- "The speech of my hon. friend .... . illustrates what is to my mind one of the grossest of all the fallacies in...

The debate on the Address in the Lords was resumed on Ic Monday, when Lord Dudley dissociated himself from his party C by upholding the ordinary law as adequate to the...

We record with great pleasure the release of Kaid Maclean, I who arrived at Tangier on Friday in good health. The Daily Mail of Friday publishes an interesting and picturesque...

The result of the polling for the Ross division of Hereford- I shire, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Colonel Alan Gardner, was declared on Saturday last. Captain P....

On Friday week in the House of Commons Mr. Morley I disposed of the chimerical and mischievous suggestion of Dr. Rutherford in favour of an "Imperial Duma," and justified his...

Mr. Birrell's reply, interesting as a piece of self-revelation or an intellectual entertainment, was an astonishingly inconsistent and deplorable performance. He detested and...

On Wednesday Lord Robert Cecil moved an amendment to the Address expressing regret "that the recent action of the Board of Education has not been in accordance with the...

On Monday in the Commons Mr. Walter Long moved an I I amendment regretting the omission from the King's Speech of J ti all reference to agrarian crime in Ireland, or of any...

READABLE NOVELS.-Bettina Beguiled. By Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd. (Cassell and Co. 3s. 6d.) -A very pretty little story, the scene of which is Long Island, in America.-Beau...

Missions to Hind us. By Bishop Mylne. (Longmans and Co. :3s. 6d. net.)-PIishop Mylne had an experience of more than twenty years-he held the See of Bombay from 1876 to...

The Paxton Plot. By C. Guise Mitford. (John Long. 6s.)- This story has an extremely exciting opening, in which the Prime Minister of England and an international Anarchist...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK. [Under this heading ice notice such Books of the week as hare not been reservedfor revieo in, otherforms.] I The Lives of the British Saints. By S....

I Gran, Lincobz, and the Freedmen. By John Eaton, LL.D. In Collaboration wvith Etlhel Os iood Mason. (Longmans and Co. 9s. net.)-Jolhn Eaton, after somne years s1)ent a.s a...

Daughters of the Pttritans. By Seth Curtis Beach. (Philip Green. 3s. 6d. net.)-Of these " Daughters of the Puritans" there are seven. It would be too much to say that the...

I Ireland and the Home Rule Movement. By Michael F. J. McDonnell. I. . .. (Maunsel and Co., Dublin. is. and 2s.)-We have no intention of arguiug the Home-rule question in...

THE LATE DICTATORSHIP IN PORTUGAL. LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Will you permit me, as an Englishman born in Lisbon, and a continual visitor to that city, to say a...

NATIONAL DEC tlDEN-CE. LTO THS EDITOR OF THK "SpKcrAToR."] SIR,-In an article under this title (Spectator, February 1st), commenting upon Mr. Balfour's Henry Sidgwick Memorial...

A "LITERARY" BIBLE. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'] |SiR,-A book published by Messrs. Chapman and Hall, and arranged by Mr. W. L. Courtney, has recently appeared I called...

THE REFERENDUM. LTO THE EDITOR OF THE sPEcrrATOR."] SIR,-As a subscriber for many years to your valuable journal, and having noticed of late your numerous expressions in favour...

TOPICS OF THE DA-Y. I 'HE civilised world has been filled with horror and pity 1 bv a detestable crime. On Saturday last, late in the afternoon, the King and the Crown Prince...

THE CANT OF COERCION. JAT would be difficult to iniagine a more deplorable I I Parliamentary spectacle than that which we have witnessed this week in the attempts of the...

The resignation of the Cape Premiership by Dr. Jameson has been followed by the acceptance of office by Mr. Merriman, the leader of the South African or reconstituted Bond...

Mr. Roosevelt's latest Message to Congress, dealing with * I I 1*- 1 I _ _ _- t. -- __ - _ _.1 ^ :- 1. A commerciat ana pOLLtICal COIr1PLILuu, w'its Pii)Iibueu ILL labu...

It is a very small satisfaction, but wve are glad to think that in this case the attacked were able to retaliate, and did so I heroically. Royal persons are generally helpless...

NEWS OF THE 'WEEK. 4 rI HE whole civilised world has been profoundly shocked by 1 the assassination on Saturday last of the King and Crown Prince of Portugal. The Royal family...

THE NEW PROTECTION. ETHE " Explanatory Memorandum in regard to New 1 Protection " which has been issued by the Parliament of the Australian Commonwealth is a very renmarkable...

DISORDER IN IRELAND. i i (To T'HR EDIrroIt OF TIRI SPMcrA TOlt."j | 1 Sxt,-The somewhat characteristic letter of Professor Goldwin I I Smith in the Spectator of January 18thl...

"THE LOST OPPORTUNITY." I < LTO THE TI)ITOnl OF TIIR SPgcrA'rOR."j I I SIR,-Ordinary individuals who think as I do on the subject of Tariff Reform as expounded by Mr....

THE PROGRESS OF PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION. LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."J SIR,-I beg leave to direct your attention to the enclosed copy of the first number of...

A " SPECTATOR" PARTY. [TO TUH EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SiR,-I must certainly be one of many who in the present position of political parties find themselves in a strangely...

" EXCEPTIO PROBAT REGULAM." [To THIS EDITOR OF THE ISPEarA'rot." 1 SIR,-In the course of a letter from Mr. Francis Caulfeild in your issue of January 11th on the use of " a "...

BIRDS IN CENTRAL LONDON. LTO THE EDITOR OF THER SPECTATOR."1 SIR,-Last spring a number of redwings settled in St. James's Park for a period of about two months. Yesterday...

A LONG-LIVED UNDERGRADUATES' SOCIETY. [TO THE EDITOR OF TUB 'SPECrATOR."j SIR,-On January 31st, 1903, you were good enough to publish, and with an expression of interest, a...

MOTHERLESS HEROINES. LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SiR,-Mr. Herbert Allport's note on the motherless condition of Scott's heroines (Spectator, February 1st) is not quite...

THE PROSE STYLE OF MEN OF ACTION. LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'j SIR,-The following extract from Queen Elizabeth's address 'o her troops at Tilbury at the time of the...

SCOUTING FOR BOYS AND THE LADS' DRILL ASSOCIATION. [TO Tir EDiIroR OF THE: "SPEcrATOR,.'1 SIR,-In your article in the Spectator of January 25th on Lieutenant-General...

I Eve's Apple. By Alphonse Courlander. (T. Fisher Unwin. 6s.)-The most remarkable thing to be found in this book is the picture in the frontispiece of the heroine's hat. This...

NOVELS. SOMEHOW GOOD. I THERE are in all departments of life a certain small number of persons who achieve success by unorthodox means. 'lllUS, to take an illustration from...

I THE LIFE OF CHRIST IN RECENT RESEARCH.* THiIS is not a Life of Christ. It is a summing up of the various criticisms of the Gospel narrative made by recent writers of weight,...

LETTERS TO A WORKING MAN. LTO THE EDITOR OF TIHE "SPECIATOR.]' SIB,-You may be pleased to learn that your writings on Socialism can claim at least one earnest student. The copy...

THE PROBLEMS AND PERILS OF SOCIALISM. I LETTERS TO A WORKING MAN. I VI.-THE NATIONAL WORKSHOPS OF 1848. DEAR MR. I want to state shortly what happened in Paris in 1848. On...

IS THE ULTIMATE FORCE PHYSICAL? LTO THER EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SiR,-The Spectator still states its reason for refusing wvomen direct political power to lie that the...

ARE FREE-TRAkDE AND TARIFF REFORM INCONSISTENT ? To TH(E I' Ero r oF rev "SPECTATOR. I SIn,-Your article on The OstaLC ismn of the Unionist FreeTraders' (Spectator, January...

THE APPIN MURDER.* THAT the identity of the man who killed Camnpbell of Glenure on May 14th, 1752,. should still be handed down from father to son, a solemn trust, among a few...

The Bank Rate. Compiled by A. H. Gibson. (Simpkin, .I Marshall, and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)-The tables in this volume give all the possible facts and figures about the variations of...

Some Special Studies in Genealogy. By C. A. Bernan. 4 (Simpkin I and Marshall. 2s. Gd. net.)-This is the first volume of a projected series,-"The Genealogist's Pocket...

Dod's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage. (Simpkin, Marshall, I and Co. lOs. 6d. net.)-There is no more handy volume among the many "Peerages" than this. It gives the average...

In "Nelson's New Century Library " (T. Nelson and Sons, I 2s. net) we have Vol. XV. of " The Works of Charles Dickens," I Our Mutual Friend. A volume of nine hundred and...

Keys to the Drooci Mystery. By Edwin Charles. (Collier and Co. is. net.)-Any one who may be disposed to spena time anu labour on the " Drood " problem wvill find such help as...

THE HOUSE OF HOWARD.* IN the dedication of one of his best books Sir Thomas Browne, the immortal author of Religio Mefcdici, tells us that "'tis opportune to look back upon the...

WILLIAM PENN.* SENTIMENT is certainly on the side of Mrs. Grant when, as " one of Penn's direct descendants, she ventures to put forth this volume." But the fact is not a...

THE MAGAZINES. THE title of Mr. Hoare's paper " The Impotence of Socialism," in the new XNietceaent century is a little misleading. What he means is not that Socialism is...

ELIZABETHANISM. 1HE Elizabethan spirit is the greatest force in English literature,-a force whose influence wvill live, it is safe to prophesy, as long as the language itself....

THE POLITICAL PRIESTHOOD OF IRELAND.* IT may be that the more balancing ED9nglish mind would leave been just as easily convinced by a cooler method of argument than is to be...

1 O E, T t rY. AMELIE D'ORLUANS. (FEBRUARY 1ST, 1908.) I WHERE some had crouched, she rose; where some had cowered, She struck, and struck again; and leonine, Over her dead...

130 OK S A DIPLOMATIST'S REMINISCENCES.* SIR HENRY DRuMMOND WOLFF has chosen-the proper epithet for his recollections. They are very rambling, for, as he tells us, he kept no...

LI'i'UTLERS TO H THEE ED)ITOR. I WANTED, A NEW WOMAN'S PARTY. To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SiR,-May I be allowed, as a " good, quiet woman," and feeling I strongly with...

THE "ODD WOMEN " AND THEIR SUBJECTION. (To 1riI, Eurron or 'r "Sprcir'AronI."l Sip.,-Is this subject too explosive to warrant a mere man in trying to explain in your...

A LITERARY HISTORY OF THE ARABS.* THAT the Arabic tongue is one of the most expressive, flexible, virile, and copious languages in the world, and that its literature is worthy...

THE ADMIRALTY AND THE PRESS. W ~RITING in the ,S'pecialr)s, our correspondent " Civis" W once described the policy of the present Board of Admiralty as a combination of secrecy...

SECULAR EDUCATION AND CRIME. MANY persons who favour secular education as a solution of the religious difficulty plead convenience. "It is impossible for the State to satisfy...

WRENS. I T has been recently stated that in the porch of a church I in Berkshire a pair of wrens have taken possession of a disused swallow's nest and have been making...