by a letter 'from , Mr. Chamberlain. We have dealt with this letter at length elsewhere, and will only say here that the leader of the Tariff Reformers "puts aside as un- worthy...

to deal with the revenue question has been at work all the week, the chief reform being an addition of 25 per cent. to the existing Custom-duties, the proceeds of the increase...

case.

F ROM.last Saturday till Wednesday the -newspapers were full of " scare headlines " describing the crisis in the Unionist Party, and editors vied with each other in producing...

The nen- ° otiations between the King and the Hungarian Coalition, from which so much was hoped last week, have failed. List Sunday afternoon it was known that his Majesty had...

must not be assumed that he has won. There is only one way.in which he can escape from the toils of the Tariff Reformers, and that isby a bold declaration that he accepts the...

both Houses the resignation of his Ministry. The simplest explanation of the event is that neither the Premier nor his predecessor could count on a working majority in their own...

Catechism, Canon Garratt proceeds " According to the Church herself, whatever may be the opinion of the majority of her clergy, the instruction of children ought to be...

the guests of the Municipal Council of Paris. The visitors, including twenty-one Members of Parliament, have not only been lavishly entertained by their hosts, but received on...

of Foreign Affairs by M. Rouvier, and at the Elysee by the President. M. Loubet, who proposed the health of King Edward, observed that the first visit be had received seven...

will afford but cold comfort to believers in our progressive commercial decadence. The figures for the month, as compared with January, 1905, are as follows :— Increase....

of religious education, but must notice here the remarkable letter contributed by Canon Garratt to the Times of Friday. Canon Garrett points out that the undenominational...

past week. Sir Henry Craik, Conservative and Balfourite, was returned for Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities, his majority over Professor Murison, the Liberal candidate, being...

by the memorial presented to the Metropolitan Asylums Board by Sir William Broadbent and published in the Times of Friday, the 2nd inst. Sir William Broadbent recommends first...

the wife of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, which took place last Sunday morning from the results of a carriage accident on the previous Thursday. Lady Grey was a...

undertakings was given by Mr. Justice Farwell on Monday in the case of " The Attorney-General v. The Manchester Corporation." That Corporation under statutory powers owns and...

College of Science was published on Monday. It will be remembered that this Committee, under the chairmanship first of Sir Francis Mowatt and then of Mr. Haldane, has been...

on Friday 90k.

THE CRISIS THAT FAILED. TURING the earlier part of the week it looked as if jJ the Unionist Party were about to go through a crisis which would rid it of the supporters of...

I T was with great regret that we read the letter of Lord Hugh Cecil to the Times of Friday, February 2nd. If the spirit in which that letter is conceived is to govern the...

T HE .paralysis of the Dual Monarchy bids fair to continue. The events of the past week have shown that the . Hungarian crisis is as far as ever from a settlement. Not since...

O N the last three days of next week the Labour Party will meet to draw up a, Parliamentary programme. Over three hundred delegates are expected to attend the Confer- ence at...

W E are no advocates of a pedantic consistency. The man who refuses to allow any development of his policy with changing times discredits his intelligence and does no credit to...

A N interesting article by the distinguished French author, M. Paul Sabatier, entitled "Les Consequences de in Rupture du Concordat en France," appeared in the Times of January...

title have recently been addressed to the Times (February 2nd and February 6th) by Mrs. Humphry Ward. They deal with a subject which when affairs of national education are up...

AS straws may show the way of the wind, so things of no importance may serve for signs of the times. The visit lately paid by certain well-known professional golf- players of...

THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE UNIONIST PARTY. [TO TIM EDITOR OF THE *SPECTATOR:1 see that you have very wisely closed your columns to the further discussion of the Fiscal...

SIR,—The doom which might have been foreseen when in 1903 Mr. Chamberlain stood up in the House of Commons to advocate a tax upon food has fallen upon the Unionist Party. It is...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — In your last issue you invite suggestions for the recon- struction of the Unionist Party. Here at least is a wise word of warning as...

the rank-and-file of the Unionist Party who earnestly desire that it should be reconstructed on a. Free- trade, and otherwise solid and secure, basis. But if we are to regain...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THIS "SPECTATOR:] SIR, In your issue of Saturday last I note a letter from my late opponent, Sir C. E. Howard Vincent. He omits to state that after his twenty...

a solution of the problem of religious instruction in the elementary schools may get some hints from the state of affairs at Bedford. The town has a population of nearly forty...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] find in Lord Roberts's "Forty-one Years in India" (Vol. I., p. 215) a curious military parallel to the situation of the Unionist Party at...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Many will be glad that you have,decided to reopen your columns to a discussion of the problem of retaining "funda- mental Christianity"...

To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR " j am afraid that your article under this heading in last week's issue is liable to an interpretation which I am sure no one would deprecate...

[TO TDB EDITOR 05 TDB “SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the Spectator of February 3rd your correspondent " W. R." complains of rash assertions on this subject, but he winds up his letter...

pro TRH EDITOR. UP Tlla "SPZOTATOR.-] Sin,—In an editorial note which appears in your issue of February 3rd you ask : " Why should a man have bestowed upon him a double dose of...

"SPECTATOR. " ] S,—Snowing the keen and deep interest that you take in naval matters, I make no apology for calling the attention of your readers to the recently issued "...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...1 Sin,—While the new Commission appointed by King Leopold —the composition of which I commented upon in my letter of November 18th, 1905—is...

ACCESSION. LTO THE EDITOR OF THY "SPECTATOR." J SIR,—The anniversary of the King's accession and the Form of Prayer appointed for it have come round again. The clergy, I...

"Sracriaoa.”] SIR,—In connection with your article in the Spectator of January 6th on the present Exhibition at Burlington House, it is interesting to note that the two...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sn,—May we call your attention to a paragraph on p. 100 of the Spectator, January 20th, referring to a novel by Mrs. Alice M. Diehl ? The...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR•"I SIR, —It would be interesting to know how far Wordsworth may have been influenced, consciously or unconsciously, in his celebrated " Ode on...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR, —I have been asked by the Commissione Sienese di Storia Patria to make a catalogue raisonne of pictures of the Sienese school in Great...

[TO TILE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR,—In your review of Mr. Stopford Brooke's "Ten Plays of Shakespeare" (Spectator, February 3rd) you allude to the author's analysis of...

"SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The erroneous statement regarding our mills made by one of the leading London papers on January 26th, and copied by numerous other papers, although...

[TO TIM EDITOR OP TIM .SPEOTATOR.1 Sin,—In view of the probability that we shall very shortly be in a position to commence engaging our recruits, it occurs to me that retired...

THE NEWLY DISCOVERED 1.0 ANERS. THE Exhibition of the newly discovered pictures by Turner now open to wondering visitors at the Tate Gallery raises mixed feelings in the mind....

ON THE DEATH OF A NOBLE LADY. TIME, when thou shalt bring again Pallas from the Trojan plain, Portia from the Roman's hall, Brynhild from the fiery wall, Eleanor, whose...

[Tax experiment proposed by Colonel Pollock for which we are askin g subscriptions may be briefly described as follows. Colonel Pollock declares that if funds sufficient to meet...

EMERSON.* THE centenary of the birth of a famous writer is a gopd vantage-ground from which to consider his position in the hierarchy of letters. It is far enough off to be free...

THE chief statements and most important statistics con- tained in this large and amply illustrated book were prepared to meet Parliamentary inquiry into the merits of the...

IF justification were needed for our use of the above title to distinguish these volumes from the accounts of eye- witnesses which we have noticed before, the Times Military...

WHATEVER may be the future of Russia, it is safe to prophesy that the works of Iviln Turgenieff will always remain among her classics. For nearly sixty years they have helped to...

IN the new Nineteenth Century—an excellent number, with no lack of topical contributions—Mr. Herbert Paul, whose return to the House of Commons will sensibly add to the...

their memories are as a rule dis- tressingly short, will retain grateful recollections, has enhanced our indebtedness to his ingenious pen by his new • "No. 101." By Wyniond...

6s.)—The chorus of praise with which this little story has. been received in the Press has caused the present writer to re- consider the opinion formed on reading the book...

B.A. , F.R.G.S., Vicar of St. Andrew's, Lambeth. With 50 Illustrations from Photographs. (Longmans and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—This is a very useful and pleasant book. It endeavours,...

Cobb has not much variety in the subjects of which ha treats. This is not to say that he has no variety in their treatment, but his characters are usually persons in the upper...

THREE BALKAN BOOKS. The Balkan Question. Edited by Luigi Villari. (T. Fisher Unwin. 10s. 6d.)—The Burden of the Balkans. By M. Edith Durham. (E. Arnold. 14s. net.)—Trouble in....

Smalley. By the Rev. Charles Kerry. (Bemrose and Sons. 45. 6d. net.)—Mr. Kerry deserves our thanks for preserving recollections and traditions which might otherwise have...

[Muter this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forma.] The Garden City Movement. By G. Montagu Harris. (Garden City Press,...

6s.)—Those readers who are fond of historical romance will find Yolanda decidedly above the average. Although the mystery of Yolanda's identity is from the first transparent to...

and Co. 3s. 6d.)—It is highly interesting to see what position a Roman Catholic divine to whom the function of teach- ing the teachers of the future has been committed takes up...

6s. net.)—It is very pleasant indeed to be able to read in this book what one most likes to hear about the most gifted and genial of American humourists. (If we hesitate to use...

(Westminster Press. 2s. 6d.)—This little work is, as the author says in his preface, intended to supply at a small cost a manual of facts and figures concerned with the navies...

Nash. 10s. 6d. net.)—Miss Karl received a commission to paint a portrait of the Empress-Dowager of China, accepted the commission with some misgiving, and found that the task...

Vol. VI. (Bernard Quaritch. 12s. 6d. net.)—This sixth and completing volume (sixth of the Saga Library and fourth of the Heiinskringla) appears after an interval of ten years....

the editorship of Professor Gollancz, we have Peg Tiro/ling- ton, by Charles Reade (1s. 6d.) How these new editions remind us of the lapse of time! It seems but the other day...

Co. 7s. 6d.)—Who would stop in a city when he could rent a nine-roomed house, with a barn and other outbuildings, an acre of buih fruit, five acres of orchard and six of...

and Co. 21s. net.)—We cannot honestly say that we think that Mr. Knipe has done well in putting his scientific story of the evolution of man into the form of verse. The highest...