Rule Bill, but would be only " temporarily " excluded in the sense that when a general scheme of Federalism was Introduced she would have the same treatment as any other new...

Government intend to offer to Ulster nothing but Home Rule within Home Rule. It is quite certain that this would not be accepted by the Protestants of the North. Civil war would...

a coal cellar by Colonel von Reuter were examined. In proof of the allegations of insolence all that could be estab- lished was that children and boys had jeered, whistled, and...

T HERE is unfortunately no progress to record in the Ulster negotiations. During the week it was stated in the Morning Post that the attempt to reach a settlement has failed,...

sian regiment recently stationed at Zabern, and of Lieutenant Schad, of the same regiment, opened at Strassburg before a special military tribunal on Monday, and has continued...

of War with the rank of Brigadier-General and the title of Pasha suggests that the Committee means to go full steam ahead with an active military policy. Already a large number...

is said to keep the figure of Napoleon con- tinually before him, and who was a leader in the movement which led to the assassination of Nasim, in control of the Army, and makes...

case.

describing what they call the "iron boycott" of the Unionist farmers, who are said to be in full revolt against the Edinburgh compact on Tariff Reform. Incidentally, we learn...

31st, 1913, surpass all previous records both in imports and exports. The gross imports are valued at £769,000,000, of which £110,000,009 were re-exported, while we exported...

stage. The railwaymen's leaders have called their men out, and the Federation of Trades has promised, if a settlement has not been reached to-day, to order a general strike...

congratulations and good wishes to Sir Frederick Lugard on the amalgamation of Northern and Southern Nigeria. The new Nigeria, of which Sir F. Lugard is Governor-General,...

the great financial firm of J. P. Morgan and Co. had surrendered no lees than thirty directorships in various corporations. This is significant news. It means that the heads of...

but of course there were many evils which were indicated by that general title—such, for example, as the concentration of enormous financial issues under the hand of a single...

pass resolutions calling for reductions in naval expenditure, which coincided with the now famous Criccieth interview with Mr. Lloyd George, has elicited a vigorous and...

Company announced in Wednesday's and Thurs- day's papers. The company proposes to distribute two millions sterling among its employees, whose wages at present start at 10e. 6d....

the New Year, has retired from the post of Secretary to the War Office, which he has held with great distinction since 1901, and is succeeded in that office as well as on the...

correspondence columns of the Times. Having already fully stated our views on the points at issue, we do not propose to comment further on the subject, but may note the remark-...

Wolfe birthday dinner, held at W esterham on Friday, the 2nd inst., and delivered a most interesting speech. Those who like him- self were advocates of early military training...

con- formity with the Trade Union Aot of last year, were announced - early in the week. The Act, which grew out of the Osborne Judgment, makes it lawful to apply the funds of a...

" Our Perishing Army" by Colonel A. W. A. Pollock in the January Nineteenth Century. With Colonel Pollock's criticisms of War Ministers and War Office methods we are not...

notes a perceptible decline in the influence and prestige of permanent officials, and ascribes it to recent relaxations of the salutary principle of Ministerial responsi-...

Times of Thursday as to the treatment of cancer by radium at the Middlesex Hospital. All the cases treated were beyond, the possibility of operation. From June to Sep- tember,...

aeroplanes before the Aero Club of America, and has declared that it will make aeroplanes "absolutely fool-proof." He flew many miles without touching any of the controls. The...

Jan. 8th. Consols (2k) were on Friday 71k—Friday week 71i.

TEL LIBERAL PARTY AND ARMAMENTS D URING the week attempts have been made in various Liberal newspapers to explain away the interview which Mr. Lloyd George allowed to be...

F RIEND and opponent will alike acknowledge that Mr. Chamberlain's announcement that he will not stand again fur Parliament at the next General Election takes finally away from...

T HE railway strike in South Africa will perhaps help to arouse English public opinion to the serious dangers attending railway nationalization. So far from State ownership...

M R. BRYCE—he may have chosen his new title before these lines are in our readers' hands—has promptly been made to turn his well-earned leisure to account. A man who has had his...

C OMPARATIVE poverty is very agreeable—when you are not used to it. The situation evokes a sympathy not accorded to the nouveaux riches. Thoroughly to enjoy and make , the best...

Lloyd George's deer forest 1 campaign are probably not recalled with peculiar gratification by their author, if he ever thinks about them, but they must be set out in order to...

F AMOUS people often write their reminiscences , but as it is a task rarely undertaken by those whose lives have been bumble and olicure, the dim world in which, to our eyes,...

NATIONAL AFFORESTATION. (To rsa Essen Os Tee "Srscraron."] feel bound to reply to Sir John Stirling Maxwell's letter on this question, because it might be supposed by those who...

for Mr. Asquith or the Liberal Government, I feel I must protest against the remarks- on the subject of State forestry which appear in the Spectator of December 13th. It is...

are attacked (Spectator, January 3rd) for saying that afforestation is the most risky of enterprises. May I give some reasons for agreeing with you.? I believe one of the...

Sta,—In your issue of January 3rd my friend Sir John Stirling Maxwell challenges your criticism of the policy of the Government in regard to afforestation. I hope he will...

Sin—In an article on "Mr. Lloyd George's Memory" in last week's Spectator you speak as if the Chancellor of the Exchequer received not only £5,000 a year, the salary of his...

Stit,—Writing from a Wesleyan manse, I beg to share your correspondent's lament in last week's Spectator that undenominationalism in the State schools is threatened with...

[To mu EDITOR or vas .23norAroo."1 Six,—This Dominion flattered itself that it was teaching the world an object-lesson with its Arbitration Courts and com- pulsory Territorial...

[To Tar Emma Or roe "Memo.") Sia,—Mexico is a federated Republics of twenty and more independent self-governing States. Its Constitution is, to a large extent, modelled on that...

[To ens Enemas or ens "error/am:] Sre„—May I be permitted to voice the thanks of all loveis of animals for the admirable letter which appeared in your last - week's issue in...

[To ras Roma or Tar "SPECT■201...] Sza,—Before leaving Batavia, I visited the Dutch Govern- ment's opium manufactory in that city, and was shown all the processes by which the...

[To rem Elana or ass ..Sreeraroa."1 SIR,—It is noteworthy that when Rhodes passed, eighteen months or so ago, back from the Turk to the Christian, scarce a comment was made on...

[To an Rerrea or an “Eirecraroan Sra,—Yesterday is often hard put to it, in the twentieth century, to hold its own against to-day ; and little notice has been taken of the...

Tar "Sreararoan Sra,—Last week, in your summary of the articles in the January Fortnightly Review, there is a reference to an alleged remark made by the Emperor Francis Joseph...

[To rer Eorroa or rue .Srsouroan Sin,—We have a very picturesque old waggon lodge some twenty feet by forty feet, built of oak throughout with heather-thatched roof, standing at...

[To THE Earns Or THE ''SrECTATor.n Sis,—One of your readers does indeed "learn with sincere regret" of the death of Mr. Frank Taylor. Those who knew him personally will feel...

allow me a small share of space to refer to Mr. J. J. Mallock's letter (in reply to mine) in the Spectator of January 3rd. 1 dare say Mr. Hanoi* is well qualified to speak on...

Eint,—In a very interesting article on "Eloquence as a Fine Art" (Spectator, January 3rd), the Athenians, in the great days of Athens, are represented as having lived under "an...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or ore mortar/ "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily In bead to Is in agreement with the rims therein reprersed cr tills the nude of...

Lbc TEE EDITOR or rev ..Srearerox."1 Sra,—Professor Salmon is quite right in supposing (Spectator, January 3rd) that the words quoted by Mr. Chesney are a motto. They appear in...

[To THE EIHTOE or THE ':len-mon:I • Eis,—With a little reflection I think " Inquirer " must fall into line with your leader-writer as to the proper plural for hyphenated...

Tea "SPECTILTOR."1 SITC,—It will surely come as an unpleasant shock to most of your readers to learn that such a degrading and barbarous pastime flourishes in our midst as the...

[To on Emma or VIZ SescrrrEE. - 1 SIR,—I am collecting information about the English Church in Rome from its earliest date, and I should be much obliged if anyone possessing old...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE .. SELCIAT01.1 SIR,—Will you allow me to correct the misspelling of the name of the Irish harper mentioned in the Spectator of December 27th, 1913? It...

[TO rxe EDITOR or THE “Srecreros'] SIR,—It is clear that the English language, a heritage to us from Chaucer, Shakespeare, and the English Bible, is but a poor thing and in a...

1907. The Bulletin of the Museum for April of that year made the following announcement :— "The guidance of visitors in the galleries has been made the special duty of one of...

THE GREYS. [1706.] Yesterday Lord John Hay, Colonel of the Royal Regiment of Scots Dragoons, died of a lingering fever, after about tweet, days' illness, lasing generally...

FORMAL POETRY" Mkt G. L. BICKERSTETIL'S Carducci is a selection from the poems, with verse translations, notes, and three introductory essays. It is in many ways an interesting...

Ma. J. A. DEVENT88 has done well to publish this diary of his great-nixie John Pester, who fought under Lake in India, and day by day recorded his military and sporting...

to open out a wide field for reflection and discussion. The reader, and still more the reviewer, is tempted at every page to digress and to- deal with some one or more of the...

IT is not too much to say that at this moment France and Italy have taken thelead in the work of constructivespeculation, and it is pleasant to note that we in England are...

BRITISH ornithology has good reason to be proud of Floor British Bird Book, of which the twelfth and last section has been published. We reviewed some of the earlier parts as...

Mr. Thirkell White was appointed to the Civil Service in " Upper Bengal," but on arriving in India found himself ordered to Rangoon. he probably felt some not unnatural regret...

Tuz author of this study of Leonardo has confined himself to the early or Florentine period of the master's activity, and has devoted to it immense industry and minute...

eighteenth century, in the latest days of that old society which was then making its vain effort to assimilate so much that was new, there were few prominent people more...

A HATCHMENT.* Hs CIRCNINGHAMB GBAIIAld alike in letters and in public life is perhaps the most notable, and certainly the most engaging, representative of the type which the...

beginning of Mrs. Watts's book fills an with despair : the slow length of family history and introductions unrolls itself, with no hurry and no evident sequence, until we grow...

IX.), by W. A. Craigie. (Oxford: Clarendon Press. 5s.)—The great Oxford dictionary pursues its pre- destined career with admirable punctuality. Seven volumes out of the ten are...

Jenkins. 68.)—This story is timely at the present moment, as throwing light on the character of the Boers, though the date is in the " seventies" of the nineteenth century. The...

Boon. 6s.) —This story deals with the French Foreign Legion, into which most of the male characters enlist in various stages of despera- tion. The personages of the drama are...

vols. (Waverley Book Co. 75s. net.)—This new edition of Dickens has many good features. The volumes are handy in size and clear in type. The illustrations are comparatively few,...

Furniture, by Andre Saglio ; Sheffield Plate, by B. Wyllie; Old Pewter, by Malcolm Bell; Dutch Pottery and Porcelain, by W. Pitcairn Knowles; French Pottery and Porce- lain, by...

promising beginning the story develops on somewhat dismal lines, the hero's bankruptcy being in everything that makes life worth living. The author, however, displays...

[Under via hooding us notice much Book, of tin week ae Moo not boon rettereed for review other forms.] Bibliography of Road-Making and Roads in the United Eingdons. By Dorothy...

Directories. 4i0e)—Amongst Lamb's "books that are no books" the Post Office Directory holds a high place. Everyone knows its value for reference. To dip into its pages helps us...