Opera House at Cairo. It was a memorable occasion, and the speech was more than worthy of it. The most important declaration was that the British Government intend indefinitely...

central Representative Council, consisting of eighty-two elected members and twenty-four nominated members, plus the Irish Chief Secretary, who would, however, have no vote. The...

of the forthcoming entente , between France and Japan. It is not usual, as the Times correspondent points out, for a Government to announce a fact of this sort before the Agree-...

Bill into the House of Commons, declared that there would be found in it no trace of any proposal to confer legis- lative powers. Again, it did not authorise the levying of a...

T HE news from India is not good. Troops of all arms and police have been drafted into Lahore. The demonstra- tions against Europeans there, on which we commented in our issue...

case.

Lords (Reform) Bill on Monday. The Bill, he explained, had five objects :—(1) To reduce the preponderance of the hereditary element by only allowing hereditary Peers to sit in...

on behalf of the official Opposition moved as an alternative the appointment of a Select Committee to con- sider and report on the entire question. Lord Crewe moved as an...

dealt with the scheme with great force and vivacity. Why, he asked, if the creation of a Board elected by the County Council electors of Ireland is necessary for their• self-...

of the Bill. It did not conflict with the aspirations of Home-rulers for complete self-government, and therefore might be accepted. Needless to say, Mr. Redmond made no...

to express the hope that Mr. Lloyd- George would return a more sympathetic answer than , Mr. Asquith, and asked leave to move a resolution in favour of preference on articles...

the Government bad decided to make a free gtant of £150,000 to the sufferers by the earthquake in Jamaica, and to lend £800,000 to the Colonial Government mainly for rebuilding...

of the Government in indefinitely delaying their proposals after the bold words used in the King's Speech, Lord Crewe's speech implied that the Government would have nothing to...

A separate fund called the Irish Fund is to be established, and it is proposed to constitute by an Order in Council a separate Irish Treasury. To the new Council are to be...

public performances of The Mikado has excited a good deal of hostile criticism and ridicule. We have never approved of the existence of the censorship on plays, holding that...

granted by Canada, Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand, but for the spirit of comradeship and affection which inspired the policy ; but when asked what they were prepared...

upon four of the Colonial Premiers on Saturday last was the occasion of a remarkable speech by General Botha. General Botha, who was received with very great warmth both in the...

cussion at Wednesday's meeting. It is asserted in the Press that the British Government, on the motion of Mr. Deakin, has consented to the cancelling of the subsidy of £240,000...

Thursday night. Speaking of the relations between the Opposition and the Imperial Conference, he said: "I think we were justified in hoping that the responsible bead of a great...

THE NEWIRISH BILL. A S our readers are aware, we should welcome any juit and prudent scheme for administrative reform in Ireland, and' for ameliorating her social and material...

T HE Nile, as we have learned, is Egypt, and Egypt is the Nile. To-day one might say that Egypt is Lord Cromer, and Lord Cromer is Egypt. Nor in reconstruct- ing the ancient...

I T is impossible to read Mr. Balfour's speech delivered to the Primrose League on Friday, May 3rd, without feeling that he has dealt a heavy blow to the cause of Unionist...

ITIHERE is no reason why we and other friends and 1 supporters of Lord Newton's Bill need regret its withdrawal. The proposals contained in it could not in existing...

T HERE is undoubtedly unrest in India, and there are dangers lurking in that unrest, but they do not take, and we feel confident they will not take, the form they took in 1857....

J OWETT'S "Interpretation of Scripture and other Essays 7 have lately been republished (G. Itoutledge and Sons, 2s. 6d.), to the satisfaction of those who knew them of old, and...

W E are frequently told that the old model of classical learning, known to a former generation more commonly than now as the " humanities," is about to pass away and give place...

111HE Council of the Staffordshire Chamber of Agriculture 1 has issued a circular to owners of rookeries in the 'county suggesting that it will be advisable, in view of the...

"PASSIVE RESISTANCE." [To TIM ED1TOO. or rs. "SEIZOLLToR.. 1 Sin,—It was with the greatest pleasure that I read your com- ments in last week's Spectator on the letter...

.SracTsroiLl SIR,—When Mr. Brodrick introduced the system of a three years' engagement, with an option to the soldier to extend his service for a further period with the...

[TO THE Ronan. or Tam "eracrsro,a'] Sin,—Amongst your readers very many assuredly sympathise deeply with the viewswhich you have powerfully expressed during the last few months...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE V SPECTATO6...] Sra,—I am receiving many letters from all over the country of which, roughly, this is the burden " What can I, as a unit, do to register...

[To TIM EDITOII OP TEN SPROTATOR.1 SIR, — It is not easy to agree altogether with Mr. Haldane, Dr. Hodgkin, or your correspondent Mr. B. H. Holland (Spectator, April 27th) as...

ITO TUB EDITOR OP TUB " SPECTATOR"' SIR,—In your article of April 27th on "The Incident at Lahore" you deprecate any interference—except, perhaps, by "strengthening and widening...

THY ..SPECTATOE."" STR,—If you can afford any more space for the discussion of this subject, I will inform your reviewer that I am acquainted with all the books he mentions...

[To THE Bones or THE . BPICTRTIMI:] Si ,—Please let me say, in bringing this correspondence to a close so far as regards myself, the reason I wrote you a month ago concerning...

OF THE "SPECTATOIL".1 Siu,—Is it from partiality for a bright child, a little brother of the April winds, that I fancy a gleam of precocious genius in the following very faulty...

[TO THE EDITOR Or FRE Seim:Ms:9 Snz,—Acting upon the information of your correspondent "M." (Spectator, March 30th), I wrote to the Pariah Council, enclosing both "M.'s" letter...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE •• SPECTAT06") think it may interest your readers to know•that Dr. Stephen Leacock, Professor of Political Science in McGill University, Montreal, has...

[TD TUE EDITOR OP THE . 3PHOFATOR:1 Sin,—Though I am sure there will be no difference of opinion among your readers as to the almost intolerable evils caused by smoke in our...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "srserAroa.1 Sra,—A propos of your article on the salmon leap in the issue of May 4th, the following ingenious explanation given by John Speed in his...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE '• SPECTATOR."] SIR, — I think it may interest some of your readers who are lovers of our birds to know that a robin has taken up its abode in one of the...

Snt,—There is now residing at Lancaster a well-known Quake: lady, one of whose early memoriess is that of a great-aunt whc as a child had to lie flat on her nursery floor at...

curious instances of hereditary longevity is that of the Due de Saint-Aignan and his son, both members of the French Academy. The father lost his first wife when he was...

THE ACADEMY.—II. Ma. CAMPBELL TAYLOR has painted a picture of real beauty and interest called The Rehearsal (No. 487). Five musicians, two ladies and three men, are gathered...

Snt,—The father of the present venerable Earl of Leicester was born on May 6th, 1754; the birthday of the youngest son of the latter was August 19th, 1893. Assuming this lad...

IN MEMORY OF THE CHILD-POET, L. L.* (Who died at School, February 18th, 1907, aged ten years.) THIS was a song the great Musician made, So brief, so brave, one smile and all...

[To THE Enema or THE “SeECTATOR..1 Snt,—Mr. Moreton Frewen in his interesting letter in your last number is only wrong in one particular,—the old man referred to can hardly have...

A NATION IN ARMS.* Ix is with no small satisfaction that we note the republication, under the title of A Nation in Arms, of the speeches on the question of national service...

that could be desired. The- paper is band-made and of sumptuous quality, the type clear, well shaped, and liberally spaced, with something of a seven- teenth-century look about...

Ma. Fumita-Marmawn continues to make good progress with the revised edition of Grove's Dictionary. The third volume, which covers the letters "M" to "P," has been recently...

AMERICANS, who have invented the most vivid sling in the world, know the value of occasional recourse to understate- ment. This may be satirical, or it may seem to English ears...

6a.)—If marriage is to be considered as an institution solely ordained "for the mutual society, help, and comfort that the one ought to have of the other," there would be...

FRKULEIN SCHMIDT AND MR. ANSTRIITHER* IT was a commonplace of criticism not very long ago that the epistolary form in fiction bad become hopelessly hackneyed ; but Mr. Lucas,...

The Making of a Merchant. By H. N. Higinbotham. (Eveleigh Nash. 2s. 6d. net.)—Here, we suppose, we have the made millionaire instructing the beginner how he may raise himself to...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as haat not been reserved for renew in other forms.] The Right Honourable Sir James Stephen. Letters, with Biographical...

6d.)—Mrs. Wharton's sketches of French manners, and of the unhappy position of a free-born American caught in the meshes of a "family council," make a short but interesting...

Sons. 3s. 6d.)—An exciting short story which has points of resemblance with the libretto of Meyerbeer'a opera, "The Prophet"—Sweet Rogues. By Owen Vaughan (Owen Rhoscorey1)....

THE PRESERVATION OF THE WILD FAUNA OF THE EMPIRE. Journal of the Society for the Preservation of the Wild Fauna of the Empire. Vol. III. (Secretary, Rhys Williams, 2 Temple...

(W. Brandon, Plymouth. ls. 10d., post-free.)—Mr. Martin is chiefly familiar with Midland streams,—witness his sobriquet of "The Trent Otter." He writes, it should be noted, of...

Palmer, D.D. (G. Routledge and Sons. 2s. 6d.)—This is a treasury from which even a random snatch is sure to take some- thing of interest. " Donkey," for instance, is a word of...

contains the address delivered at the seventh annual meeting of the Society by the vice-president, Mr. Philip Norman, and the Proceedings ; a paper on "Recent Demolitions at...

(Longman and Co., and others. 80s.)—This volume contains the additions made to the MSS. Department during the years 1900-5. It is not possible to give more than the numbers, for...

10s. 6d. net.)—There is savagery everywhere in Europe, but "savage Europe," par excellence, is to be found in the South- East. So thinks Mr. de Windt, and he has had not a...

net.)—That problematical individual, the "man in the street," has so much to occupy his attention that he only occasionally notes technical progress. Yet few who travel much can...

Press, Stratford-on-Avon. 3s. 6d. net.)—This volume contains two essays reprinted from Notes and Queries. The first is an examination of the borrowings by Webster and Marston...

Fisher lJnwin. 3s. 6d. net.)—In this "Year's Parallels in Prose and Verse" we find a number , of good things which we are glad to make or renew acquaintance with, even though...

C. M. A. Peake (Methuen ad Co., Is. 6d. net), describes itself sufficiently by its title. The plants are arranged in alpha- betical order, and with each item we have brief...