14 JANUARY 1911, page 3

In View Of The Controversy Excited By The Exhibition Of

the Post-Impressionist painters, we make no excuse for quoting the following passage from the remarkable letter addressed to the Nation of January 7th by Mr. Sargent, R.A. He......

The "old Shepherd Of Dartmoor," Who, According To Mr. Lloyd

George's statement at Mile End, was serving a sentence of thirteen years' penal servitude for stealing two shillings from a poor boy, has shown a strange lack of consideration......

Knowing As We Do The Sincerity And Depth Of Feeling

of many Tariff Reformers, we recognise that it would be folly to ask them to abandon their faith. But the quality of their faith is surely to be measured by their willingness to......

Mr. Harold Spender Recently Sent To The Times A Com-

munication from Professor Roget of Geneva to prove that the Swiss Referendum was inapplicable to England. A letter from Mr. Evelyn Cecil, the Member for the Aston Manor......

The Paper Of Thursday Published A Letter From Mr. Balfour

to a correspondent who had asked whether the impression in Canada that the attitude of the Unionist Party towards Preference had changed was justified. Mr. Balfour replied that......

The Collection Of Autographs Of The Late Mr. E. C.

Stedman, put up for sale by auction this week in New York, contains a number of extremely interesting unpublished letters on spiritualism written to his mother, Mrs. Kinney, by......

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The Details Of Lady Meux's Will, Published In The Times

of Wednesday, are of more than ordinary interest. Thus her col- lection of eighteen hundred Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities, including stelae, limestone figures, mummies and......

Professor Naville Sums Up By Pronouncing The Referendum...

the strongest safeguard against a despotic majority.—In Switzerland there is a Radical majority in both Chambers.— So far from always endorsing the views of the Chambers, the......