THE TOWER-HOUSES OF ENGLAND. LTO THE EDITOR OF THE I SPECrATOR."] SIB,-I venture to draw your attention to the article on " The Tower-houses of England " in your issue of...

OUR STRANGE LANGUAGE. [TO TiLE EDITOR OF THE "lSiLECrATOIl."1 Sir,-The following, from the pen of Edwin L. Sabin, appears I in a recent number of the Battgalore 3Magazine, and...

ACHILL ISLANDERS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Seeing in your issue of August 2nd a letter about Achill Island causes me to offer you an account of the proceedings...

CTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOB."] SIR,-The writel of the article on "The Tower-houses of England," in the Spectator of August 2nd, states that Tattershall Castle was built...

A COLOSSAL FLOGGING. [To THE EDIrTo OF THE "SPECrAToR."'] ),-May I plesume to dliffer from Mr. Durnford s statement (Spectator, August 2nd) that the best account. published of...

In regard to tile much-vexed question of cavalry and I mounted infantry Mr. Brodrick spoke with sense and reason. Ife was not going hastily to adopt the opinion that because of...

I The further debate on Wednesday on the same clause dealt with the machinery by which the denominational managers were to be elected. The Government recommended that there...

I It is satisfactoryv to note that Clause 7 was passed as amended in Committee on Thursday by the conclusive majority of 122 votes. The terribly lengthy discussion had, as the...

On Monday in Committee of Supply Sir Arthur Hayter, I supported by Sir Charles Dilke, raised the question of the supply of horses, denounced the system under which in a cavalry...

In the House of Commons on Wednesday Major Seely- an M.P. who won high credit for his military work with the Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa-raised a question of great...

The resumed debate on Friday week on Clause 7-the I Management clause-of the Education Bill dealt once more with the management of the denominational schools. The chief point...

The King's health, we are glad to say, unless medical I science is utterly at fault, will prove quite equal to the strain of the ceremony which he undergoes to-day. He bore the...

The coal strike in Pennsylvania is assurming very dangerous proportions. It is stated, says the Times correspondent in Thursday's issue, that numbers of Poles, Lithuanians, and...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. THE King, God willing, is to be crowned to-day, and in 1most cases these pages will not have been read by our readers before the completion of that...

I General de Galliffet is amusing himself by publishing his memoirs in instalments in a newspaper. Many of his revelations are somewhat indiscreet and injudicious, but hie also...

I The agitation in France, and especially in Brittany, over the closing of the unauthorised schools still continues, but though large bodies of troops have been called out, it...

In the " Library for Young Naturalists," edited by F. G. Aflalo (Sands and Co.), we have Types of British Plants, by C. S. Colman (6s.), a really fascinating book. No young...

In the "' Temple Primers " (J. M. Dent and Co., ls. net per vol.) we have Northern Hero Legends, by Dr. Otto J. Jinczek, translated bv M. Bentinck Smith. The various sagas are...

Great Mottoes with G'reat Lcssons. By G. Carrie Martiu. (H. R. i Allenson. 3s. 6d.)-In this volume we have a good idea well executed. Discourses, suited to young hearers, have...

Some Feudal Coats of Arms. By Joseph Foster, Hon. 3I.A. (Parker and Co. 12s. 6d.net.)-This is a smafler and cheaper edition of a volume published some nine months ago. 3Mr....

The Books of the Bible. By Adeline Campbell. (Alarlborough I and Co. 3s. Gd.)-Mrs. Campbell takes the books of the Bible, both Old and New Testaments, one by one, and...

I Country Life. (G. Newnes. 21s.)-This, the eleventh, half- yearly volume is as good, both as to letterpress and illustrations, as usual. It is quito impossible to enumerate,...

I Brittany. By S. Baring-Gould. (Methueu and Co. 2s.)-Tibe parts of Brittany known to most Englishmen are somewhat cosinopolitan. Yet it is easy even there to reach a truly...

Reliques of Stratford-on-Avon, Compiled by A. E. Way, with Lithographs by Thomas R. Way (John Lane, ls.), is one of the series of " Flowers of Parnassus." It is a neat and...

I The Book of the Strauberry. By Edwin Beckeit. (S. Lane. 2s. 6d. net.)-The strawberry has of late years become an important article of commerce. An area of 20,000 acres must...

Hammalia. By Frank Evers Beddard, M.A. (Macmillan and I Co. 17s. net.)-" There are nearly six hundred genera of living mammals known to science," writes Mr. Beddard in his...

We are glad to note that the settlement of English I immigrants in the Transvaal and Orange Colony is being, rapidly taken in hand, and that the scheme has apparently been well...

A Blue-book dealing with the supply of native labour in Southern Rhodesia, just published, is by no means pleasant reading, for it shows how impossible it is to trust a...

Sir Alfred Bateman's memorandum on the comparative I statistics of population, industry, and commerce in the United Kingdom and abroad, published as a Blue-book on Wednesday,...

The presentation of addresses to Lord Roberts and Lord I Kitchener at the Guildhall on Wednesday produced a brilliant scene. Lord Roberts in his speech of thanks (in which he...

The above is in truth a very strong indictment. It means that to the ordinary native the Government appears as the corvge personified. It is the great external force which...

The dinner at which Mr. Chamberlain and Lord Kitchener I were entertained on August 1st by the Grocers' Company was the occasion of an admirable speech by Mr. Chamberlain. His...

THE ELIZABETHAN MARTYRS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."j SrR,-Your numerous Roman Catholic readers cannot but feel deeply pained at the line you have taken of late as to...

WHITE LABOUR FOR THE RAND MINES. LTo THE EDIroitOI? TEHB "SPBCTATOIL"J SiR,-With reference to your note in the Spectator of August 2nd on the Times correspondent's suggestion...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-The writer of your article in the Spectator of July 26th thinks that the proposed compromise is really acceptable to reasonable...

MR. BALFOUR'S PROPOSED COMPROMISE. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-As a reader for many years of the Spectator, will you allow me to endorse the statement you make in...

POLO PONIES. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,- In the Spectator of July 19th I was interested to notice in a review of Captain Miller's excellent book on polo ponies...

WHITE v. NATIVE LABOUR. [TO Tuin EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-In your excellent article on the future of South Africa in the Spectator of August 2nd I notice this remark: "...

SIR HARRY JOHNSTON'S "UGANDA."'* THE two large and copiously illustrated volumes in which Messrs. Hutchinson have reproduced the mass of material coll ected by the former...

Barbara's Money. By Adeline Sergeant. (Methuen and Co. I 6s.)-Old ladies who will their money to their nieces on conditin that the said nieces say nothing of the source of...

The Passion of Mahael. By Lilian Bowen-Rowlands. (T. Fisher Unwin. 6s.)-Miss Rowlands aspires to the function of representing in fiction the life and character of the Welsh...

I Mrs. Clyde. By Julien Gordon. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)-Tliere is very little to be said about this "story of a social career." The scene is laid in the United States or in this...

CURRENT LITERATURE. THE UNIVERSITY SONG BOOK. i The University Song Book. (Grant Richards. 4s. 6d.)-'ITii large collection of words and music aims at being universal, and...

In Summer Shade. By Mary E. Mann. (John Lon,. 6s.)- Claude Garnett, attending the wedding of his brother, Rector of Gaythorpe, mistakes Mary Burne for her sister, the bride....

THE INCREASE OF ENGLISH GAME. LORD GRANBY contributes an article to the Badinintiton L Magazine for this month which has greatly interested both sportsmen and landowners. It is...

CLEMENCY TO PRISONERS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SiR,-As the appeal of the Humanitarian League for "Coronation clemency" to prisoners has aroused much interest, and...

LIMITS IMPOSED UPON PLANT-LIFE BY HEIGHT ABOVE SEA-LEVEL. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEUCATOR."] SIR,-Can you afford me your valuable space for a few remarks and queries on the...

THE FUTURE OF THRIFT. rTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Tbe writer in the Spectator of August 2nd on "The Future of Thrift" regards with mixed feelings the financial...

A CURE FOR SLEEPLESSNESS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOB."] SIRt,-I venture to send you a remedy for sleeplessness which during thirty years I have found almost infallible...

BO OK S. RELIGIO LAICI.* MR. BEECHING, the author of these pages, has long since earned himself a well-founded reputation, and one which gives lim a special claim to be beard...

P O E T R Y. TO HIS MAJESTY THE KING. DACK from the Gate of Death you stept, Back from the Houre of Pain;The slow shade o'er the dial crept, And made you ours again. Upon you,...

Ireland, Industrial and Agricultural. (Browne and Nolan, Dublin. 6s. net.)-This is a new and greatly enlarged edition of a work published last year in connection with the...

THE EPISTLES OF ATKINS. 'lhe Epistles of Atkins. By J. Milne. (Fisher Unwin. Gs.)-| rhe material out of which this book is made up is so good that the result ought to have...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK. [Under this hadinLg Are notice such Books of the Arcek as hare not been reurred for reinew in other forrms.] Morang's Ainuat Register of Cainadian AfTa...

THE MECHANISM OF WAR. The Mechanisin cof War. By "Linesman." (W. Blaekwood. I 3s. 6d.)-Readers of the Spectator are already familiar with the bulk of the present volume. In...

The Political Reorganisatioln of the People. By William Sanders. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co. is. 6d. net.)-Mr. Sanders's object is not to form a Constitutional party-that he...

SATIRE AND SATIRISTS.* WE were told recently that satire was dead, and the folly of this pronouncement does not seem to have been clearly understood. Satire is not dead, nor...

SIR W. WHITE: CONSULAR CLERK, CONSUL, MINISTER, AMBASSADOR.* Is the matchless trial-scene of Les Plaideurs the Judge interrupts the pleading as to the fowl with the protest:...

THE MAGAZINES. THE Nineteenth Century opens with a short poem by Mr. Swviniburnle on "The Centenary of Alexandre Dumas,"-a poem that gives us some of the master's famous long...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE KING. VERY soon after these pages are in our readers' hands V the King will, we trust, have been crowned with all the old rites and ceremonies that...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. ITALY AND TRIPOLL [TO THE EDISOa OF THE: " SPECTATOB. ' I SIP,-In your article " Lord Lansdowne on Italy," in the Spectator of July 26th, the concluding...

ROADS OF EMPIRE. THEY axe still in their places, many of them, those mighty Trivets that the Romans drove aforetime wherewith to hold together the greatest Empire that the...

JURIES AND PUBLIC OPINION. I TRIAL by jury, though from some points of view an T invaluable safeguard, has its full share of the inconveniences which commonly attend...

THE POSITION OF GERM.ANY. THE effusive nervousness with which Germany is at the present moment clinging round the neck of Russia is a very striking and significant fact....

CORRESPONDENCE . THE VERNACULAR SAYINGS OF OUR CORONATION VISITORS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SpEcTATOR."] SiR,-The very interesting article on " Civilisation" in the Spectator...

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF KINGSHIP. A PART from those repetitions of history that are due to Athe play of identical forces on identical social conditions, and are therefore in a...

THE IRISH VICEROYALTY. r HE announcement as to who is to succeed Lord L Cadogan has not been made as we go to press, but we note with deep regret the rumours that the proposal...

NOVELS. THE FORERUNNER.* M. MEREJKOWSKI is in process of giving a trilogy to the world. The first drama was entitled The Death of the Gods. The second bears in the author's...

THE VALUE OF VOLUNTARY SCHOOLS. THE two letters that we publish in another column with respect to Mr. Balfour's proposed compromise, containing a criticism upon the proposal...