RUMANIA AND TURKEY. rTo THz EDITOR OF ToZ "SPECTATOR."] Si.,-As regards the important discussion of an understanding between Rumania and Turkey, we think it is our duty to give...

SIR FR AN CIS YOUNGHUSBAND ON TIBET. [TO TUE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SiR,-I have read with interest your paragraph upon Tibetan affairs in your issue of August 6th. May I...

LOUIS PASTEUR. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SiR,-I cannot resist the impulse, immediately after reading the eloquent article on Pasteur in last week's Spectator, of...

NOVELS. MR. INGLESIDE.* READERS of Listener's Lure and Over Bern erton's will know what to expect of Mr. Lucas in his new adventure into the fields of fiction. But while...

The Golden Rose. By Mrs. Hugh Fraser and J. I. Stahlriann. I (Hutchinson and Co. 6s.)--From the vivid description of an imaginary battle fought under modern conditions by...

SOME BOOKS OF TIHE WEEK. [Under this heading wre notice such Books of the week G hare not bet.* reserred for reriewc in other forms.] The Pudding Lady. By M. E. Bibby and...

The latest addition to "Evervinan's Library " (J. M. Dent an& Sons,ls.iietpervol.)containsbooksofverygreatvialue. Among thesewe may mention, in the "Reference " department, Sir...

READABLE NOVELS.-Jehanite of the Golden Lips. By Frances G. Knowles-Foster. (Mills and Boon. 6s.)-An historical romance having for its subject the daughter of Robert I. of...

Messrs. John Heywood, Limited, a well-known book- I distributing firm carrying on business in Manchester and London, were yesterday week at Bow Street proceeded against by the...

Opening a publiclibrary, presented by Mr. Carnegie, at Luton I last Saturday, the American Ambassador gave some remark- . able figures as to Mr. Carnegie's benefactions. Mr....

I Speaking at Cold Ash, Newbury, Sir Evelyn Wood said it was now admitted that nine-tenths of the difficulty of Service shooting might be overcome on a miniature range....

In bis address to Congregation at Cambridge on Satturday last the retiringr Vice-Chliancellor, Canon A. J. Mlason, announced two generous gifts to the University. Sir Harold...

Lord Kitchener, who gave away the prizes at the Middlesex Hospital on Monday, spoke of the progress made by medical science in the Army. Enteric fever, he said, is yielding to...

An important official announcement was made on Tuesdav I by the War Office. " With a view to meeting Army requirements consequent on recent developments in aerial science," the...

For a short time on Wednesday the trice of ConsolR f1ll below 80. It is worth while to point out that the true explanation of this is not that our credit is lower than that of...

Mr. Balfour went on to deal at some lenath with the land question. He believed especially in the need for more small owners who are also occupiers. But three conditions were...

It is more difficult than usual to draw any conclusions from the revenue statement for the first six months of the year 1910-11 published on Saturday last owing to the fact...

Lord George Hamilton has made a spirited, and, as we I believe, perfectly sound and justifiable, reply to an invitation to attend a Free-Trade Conference in the City at which...

The Chinese National Assembly was inaugurated at Peking I on Monday, and thus another step has been taken towards Constitutional government. The special correspondent of the...

Mr. John Redmond has made a remarkable statement to! the New York correspondent of the Daily Express on the subject of Home-rule. The leader of the Irish Party explicitly...

M. Isvolsky's appointnient as Russian Ambassador at Paris I has been the signal for an explosion of outrageous detraction in the Austro-Hungarian Press. The Neue Freic Presse's...

An interesting incident connected with the revolution is the fact that it was watched by Marshal da Fonseca, the Presidentelect of Brazil, who was visiting Lisbon on the new...

They do not, continned Mr. Redmond, want to discontinue Irish representation in the House of Commons, but wish to retain Irish Members as a nucleus of the ultimata Federal...

We are glad to see it stated that Spain has no intention ot interfering m kortuguese affairs so long as Spanish rights and the interests of the large number of Spaniards...

I Mr. Balfour opened his speech at Edinburgh on Wed- nesday (which we discuss elsewhere) with a reference to the Conference. He thought that, whatever were its results, "they...

I What weight are we to attach to these words ? In the first place, we must remember that only three years ago Mr. Redmond said at New Ross:-" We from this county of Wexford...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] I Sin,-In a communication to the Spectator of September 17tb, just received, Mr. Chas. 0. Haines, writing from New York, says of the author...

AN OLD (?) CUSTOM. [TO THE EDITOR OF THA "SPECTATOR.") SIR,-I thank you most cordially for your kind and appreciative review in the Spectator of September 3rd of my new book, "...

SOME LETTERS TO PIUS X. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I hope that I am neither insensible to just reproof nor incapable of amendment; but your reproof in the issue...

THE TERRITORIALS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-At the present time we frequently hear that the Territorials are a failure, and that the limit of the voluntary...

THE CLIMATE OF IRELAND. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,-I have read the letter in your issue of September 24th signed " Bog Trotter," and I can corroborate his...

R~EST ROOMS FOR GIRLS AT THE JAPAN-BRITISH EXHIBITION. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-In response to the letter which you kindly inserted in the Epectator of...

BOO KS. REWARDS AND FAIRIES.* IN this keenly wrought and delight-giving book Mr. Kipling provides another series of the history pictures which " Puck of Pook's Hill" showed to...

MISS CATHERINE MARSH AND OTHERS. [TO THE EDITOR O THE "SPECTATOR. 1 SiR,-Will you allow me to correct in your next issue a ' rather unfortunate misprint, due to an error in my...

POETRY. e _ :1 MORITURUS TE SALUTAT. t BLACKI§IRD, whose music is liquid rest, Pour me a draught of your flawless delight; Heron, blotting the saffron west, For me, for me, be...

CAGLIOSTRO.* MP.. W. R. H. TROWBRIDGE requires that those episodes of history which he honours with his consideration should be "romantic." That is the word he applies more...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE REVOLUTION IN PORTUGAL. T HE revolution in Portugal is an event which may T conceivably have grave consequences, and profoundly affect the general...

MEDICINE AT WESTMINSTER. THE Medical Exhibition which opened at the Horticultural Hall Westminster, on Monday and closed on Friday invited doctors and not the general public....

[TO THE EDITOR OF THlE "SPECTATOR."] | - . ,.. . _- . _ .. . . .. _ . . - SIR,-The letter signed "X." in your issue of the 1st inst. I is a dreadful arraignment, shooting far...

WORDS AND DEEDS. [To THE EDITOR 0 THU "SPECTATOR.' SIR,-Many English people must have been puzzled by the discussion which has arisen out of the letters on "Indian Unrest "in...

As we have pointed out elsewhere, the British Government and the British people have not the slightest desire to dictate the form of government adopted by the Portuguese. We...

Though so large a number of the troops bad revolted, the I Municipal Guard remained loyal, and a good deal of streetfighting took place before they were overcome. The struggle...

We note with satisfaction that President Braga in his telegram to the Daily 3lail expresses his desire to respect all the national covenants of Portugal, and that he hopes to...

We do not wish. however. in anv wav to ureiudge the new Government, and sincerely hope that Portugal may be able to find men capable of cleansing the Augean stable and giving...

Senbor Braga, the President of the provisional Government, I who clearly recognises the importance of "a good Press," addressed a telegram to the Daily Mail in which he states...

In urging upon our Government to take this opportunity to strike an effective blow against slavery we are not acting in any unfriendly spirit towards the new Republic. If we...

-NEWS OF THE WEEK. THE Portuguese Monarchy has fallen and a Republic has been proclaimed, and the King and Queen-mother have fled in the Royal yacht to Gibraltar. The history...

THE ETHICS OF ST. PAUL.* MR. ALEXANDER'S volume on the ethics of St. Paul is very interesting, if a trifle lengthy. The greater part of St. Paul's moral teaching is simple in...

THE EGYPTIAN DOCTRINE OF IMMORTALITY.t THESE nine volumes belong to the series of " Books on Egypt and Chaldaea" which Dr. Wallis Budge has with indefatigable industry been...

A SWINBURNE MORALITY.* IT was in 1S64 that Mrs. Disney Leith began writing a story about the choir-boys in Queen Elizabeth's Chapel Royal. This story, which (as its author...

Spread the People. By Captain G. S. C. Swinton. (London i MSIunicipal Society. 3d.)-This ably written pamphlet is founded upon an article contributed by its author to the...

The Ozford English Dictionary. Edited by Sir James A. If. I Murray. (Clarendon Press. 5s. net.)-This, the beginning I -of "T," continues the work as far as "Tealt." It has...

The Open Window. (Locke Ellis. Is. net.)-We have received I the first number of a new monthly periodical which, from the list ,of its future contributors, seems likely to be...

Various anthologies may be mentioned together:- -Lyrical Verse. I 'Selected and Edited by Oswald Crawfurd. 2 vols. (Chapman and Hall. 3s. 6d. per vol.)-Vol. I. contains the...

NEW EDITiONS.-The Dawn of Civilization. By Gaston Maspero. Edited by A. H. Sayce. Translated by M. L. Mcflure. (S.P.C.K. 24s.)-This, the fifth edition, is a reprint of the...

THE LIBERAL PARTY AND THE OSBORNE JUDGMENT. ONE of the most interesting political questions which 0 will have to be finally determined within the next few weeks is the attitude...

THE MAGAZINES. THE new Nineteenth Century opens with an informing articleI on " The Story of the Osborne Case" from the pen of Mr. Harold Cox. Apart from the narrative of the...

CORRESPONDENCE. THE NAVAL " CRISIS." [TO THE EDITOR 0P THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-It is becoming the fashion to have a " crisis " in our naval history announced each autumn, and...

PRAYER-BOOK REVISION.* THE first of the seven pamphlets which constitute this series is from the pen of the editor, and maintains the " Desirability of Revision." He urges the...

GEORGE SAND.* X ANATOLE FRANCE, writing some years ago about George Sand, compared the realistic with the romantic or ideal school of fiction, and came to the conclusion that...

MR. BALFOUR'S SPEECH. M R. BALFOUR never made a better speech than M that which he addressed to the Scottish Conservative Club at Edinburgh on Wednesday. It was exactly, the...

THE DRAMMA-TIC CENSORSHIP. TOWARDS the end of 1907 a strong attack developed against the Dramatic Censorship, and it ended in the appointment of a Joint Committee to make...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."1 SIR,-" Z.'s" beautiful article in last week's Spectator brings to mind Punch's epigram in the issue of October 12th, 1895, which some of...

WHAT IS THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND? [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SiR,-You ask in last week's Spectator (p. 502) for a definition of the sense in which the Archbishop of York...

CAPITAL VALUE TAXATION IN AMERICA. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SiR,-When the question has been raised as to the expediency of introducing the system of capital value...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. MR. STEPHEN GWYNN AND THE HOME-RULE DILEMMA. [To TV= EDITOR o0 THo "SPECTATO ."1 SIR,-I propose to deal as briefly as I can with three letters which you...

ST. PAUL AS ORATOR. ST. PAUL as Orator" (by Maurice Jones, Hodder and Stoughton, 6s. net) is the title of a new and exhaustive book on the speeches of St. Paul as reported in...

THE COTTON DISPUTE. NOT often has there been a threat of an industrial war N of the first magnitude for so apparently small a cause as that which has lately been agitating...