that we know is that a large number of Italian reinforcements have landed, and that an attack made on the Italian lines by the Turks or Arabs was repulsed, the newly arrived...

record that the full reports of the newspaper correspondents which have been received from Tripoli leave no doubt that the Italian troops, officers and men, lost their heads in...

Mr. Walter Long, or, again, a third man, is naturally a matter of great importance, but we venture to say this is nothing compared with the importance of giving whoever is...

of the Italians, we refuse absolutely to condemn or to insult a great, a generous, and a friendly people because a portion of their army has not come well out of an ordeal of a...

at a meeting of the Executive Committee of the City of London Conservative Association in Basinghall Street on Wednesday. The decision, he said, had been forced on him by the...

"DI Y far the most important event of the week is Mr. Balfour's resignation. We have dealt with it and the question of the succession elsewhere. Here we Will'only say how great...

case.

increase in the strength of the revolutionaries. At the end of last week fierce fighting took place at Hankan, which resulted eventually in the retreat of the rebels and the...

Clause 36, which states the position of soldiers and sailors under the measure. Mr. Lloyd George explained the effect of the various amendments which, in consequence of helpful...

made an important statement with regard to the tension which had been alleged to exist recently in the relations between this country and Germany. Two incidents had lately been...

Lord Mayor's banquet on Thursday night, but we must put on record our satisfaction at the tone and tenor of Mr. Churchill's first speech as the Minister responsible for the...

bitter tone of Mr. Lloyd George's speech last summer, which he com- plained was interpreted by the French and British Press in a Chauvinistic and spiteful spirit as directed...

defended the Morocco Agreement with France. The Agreement, he declared, was worth more than all the discussions on arbitrations and armaments. That is true enough, but...

of the speech, while praising it very strongly, declares that it was received throughout the Reichstag "in stony silence : at no point was there even a murmur of applause or...

openly applauded when the Chancellor mentioned the resigna- tion of the Colonial Secretary. He shook his bead when Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg, referring to Great Britain, denied...

issue, brings grave charges against the Committee of Union and Progress in connexion with the recent murders of Greek ecclesiastics. According to the detailed report which...

Burns from over one hundred and twenty guardians and ex-guardians on the subject of Poor Law reform. The memorial recognizes that the Commission has shown that reforms are...

Sept. 21st. Consols (29) were on Friday 78f—Friday* week 79i.

attracted to the long and important resolution passed by the Executive Committee of the Ulster Liberal Unionist Associa- tion at a meeting held at Belfast on November 3rd, under...

editor of the Railway Review, made a sensible speech at the Hatcham Liberal Club on Sunday night. After sum- marizing the findings of the Railway Commission, Mr. Wardle declared...

little spirit. We need hardly say how very strongly we hope that Lord Robert Cecil will be returned. Though from a purely personal point of view we could not endorse the...

been purchased by Lord Curzon. We are delighted to hear of this, for it means that the famous fortress house will be saved from the risk of any further acts of vandalism such as...

have just quoted, the Derry Standard, the only Liberal newspaper in Ireland, with the exception of the Northern Whig, which remained true to the Legislative Union, strongly...

W HO is to succeed Mr. Balfour ? That is the ques. tion of the moment for the Unionist Party, and in a sense for the country, since the nation cannot attain political...

MR. BALFOUR'S RESIGNATION. O UR readers know what overwhelming importance we attached to Mr. Balfour's leadership of the Unionist Party at the present moment. They will...

I F it were not so serious a matter Mr. Asquith's plan of picking up a policy for his Government by a system of manufacture in which the by-product is often vastly more...

France and Germany was reached last Saturday, when the two new treaties were signed by the German Foreign Secretary and the French Ambassador in Berlin. It will be well, before...

threat of the more violent section of the Amalga- mated Society of Railway. Servants to organize a railway strike at Christmas, which it is suggested should be backed up by a...

M RS. WARD'S new novel, " The Case of Richard Meynell" (Smith, Elder and Co., 6a.), has even more than usual of the excellences which the reading public has learned to...

A T the close of a baptismal service formerly used by some part of the English Church parents were solemnly warned that for seven years it would be their duty to protect the...

A BOUT a year and a half ago, when Mr. Edwin Pratt issued his little volume, "Canals and Traders," a writer in the Spectator expressed the opinion that "even in these days, when...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...I SIR,—Will you allow me, in view of the correspondence in your columns, as a Liberal Unionist, who was closely associated with the late...

"BETTING NEWSPAPERS AND QUAKERISM." ITO THE EDITOR OF THY " SPECTA.TOR.”1 SIR, —As we do not think that your readers would be able to gather from your article in your issue of...

SIR,—I heartily agree with you that it is useless to cry over spilt milk. I will add another proverb : " It is ill swapping horses when crossing a stream." But neither proverb...

[70 THE EDITOR Ol THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Accept my thanks for publishing intact my rather bluntly expressed letter last week, and especially for adding to it a note which, I am...

[To THR EDITOR or rag "SPECTATOR. "] Sra,—If a section of railway men decide early next month to "withdraw their labour," there is still time for the Govern- ment so to amend...

[To TER EDITOR OP TER "SPZOTAT03.1 Six,—It is a commonplace that the world is suffering from malaise. This fact cannot fail to impress itself upon the intelligence of anyone who...

"Grim-Luna.") SIR,—The following extract from Mr. Austen Chamberlain's speech at the dinner of the Tariff Reform League may be assumed to end the connexion between the two...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—Will you allow me to call your readers' attention to some recent important developments in the battle now raging in the Church of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR1 SIE,—May I through your columns put certain propositions to those who are interested in this subject P 1. Disestablishment is a question of...

[To PEP EDITOR OF Tax "STEM/T08. "] SIR,—May I enforce the appeal already made in your columns on behalf of the purchase for the public of this magnificent tract of the North...

[To TEE EDIT011 OF TKO " SPIICTATOB."] Sra,—The courtesy and common sense of the Council prevailed last week, and the question of building a new bridge at the cost of £4,000,...

[To TAX EDITOR OP Ta1 " SPPOTATOP.."] Six,—On August 27th, 1910, you kindly inserted a letter from me on the above subject, which resulted in £800 being subscribed to enable a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOE."] Sxn,—The week before last I was tempted to send you the lines from Pope beginning "Me let the tender office long engage," but on turning...

[TO TEE EDITOR OP TEE " SPECTATOR." J SIR, — Petronius ' dictum upon the style of Horace is surely as baffling to the would-be translator as many of the great poet's own...

To THE EDITOR OF THE " SFECTLTOR." Srn,—May I be allowed to make one criticism on the otherwise admirable review of "The Chronicles of Clovis" in the Spectator of last week P...

[To TUE EDITOR. OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, — The Mansion House Conference, which was held under the presidency of the Lord Mayor of London, to further the efforts of the Secret...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SrEcTATort."] SIR, — May I offer a belated protest against a poem which you published some weeks ago P It represents a woman of the French Revolution...

evident, a strong suggestion of " luck " in " felicitas," and as clear an idea of burrowing for mots images in " curiosa" ; and in an English translation the burden of conveying...

To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. 1 SIR,—The results of the municipal elections prove beyond words that Socialism is spreading over the country like a deadly miasma. Three years...

Sin,—The following quotation, which I take from the "Imperial Dictionary" s.v. "Curious," may possibly be of interest :- " Each ornament about her seemly lies, By curious...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Surely the epigram "Callidus imposuit," &c., which you quote in your review of Mr. Paul Nixon's "Roman Wit" (Supp. Spectator, Nov. 4th)...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—In reply to your correspondent's inquiry, about the end of September, 1898, a pair of woodpigeons built a nest and in November hatched...

THE AMUSEMENTS OF LONDON. iSiwcE the Renaissance England has been singled out from other great European nations by her neglect of communal art and for her exclusive fostering...

COURAGE. She has no need of sword or spear, She shelters in no guarded place, She watches danger drawing near, And fronts it with a smiling face. Not hers the dull, unseeing...

LORD CURZON IN INDIA.* Mx. LOVAT FRASER begins his book with an intimation, which has more than a personal interest, that his account of Lord Curzon's administration in India...

Tim classic life of Edward Hyde must always be his own imperishable History, but there was room for a biography which should discuss the Chancellor with a certain detach- ment,...

Dn. ALBRECHT WIRTH, the author of Die Entscheiclung fiber Maroklco, a pamphlet recently issued in Germany, is a Privat- dozed resident in Munich, who, though still in the prime...

IT is hardly possible for anyone to have lived much in France without wishing at some time or other to write about that brilliant race, whose unguarded riddle mocks the seeker...

Ma. BUCHAN has chosen the very best of subjects. Never was a life more full of splendid show or of deeper meaning than that of Raleigh, and he has handled it in a very ingenious...

list made by " Old Mr. Medley " of the entertainments provided for Lady Katherine and Lady Mary Grey when as children they paid a visit to their step-grandmother the Duchess of...

the excellent " Home University" Series is published at a most opportune moment. Everyone is anxious to have a more definite conception of the course of Chinese history and of...

Tim is an entertaining and instructive description of amateur farming in Devonshire. Mr. Garvice farms his own land, some fifty acres, and seems to have been very fairly...

Z1TLEIKA DOBSON.* IT was the good fortune of the present reviewer to attend one of the first performances of Mr. Shaw's Arms and the Man on the occasion of its original...

Co. 6s.)—Miss Bowen's book is more of a history than a novel, but it is not the worse for that. The tale opens with the deliberations and the plottings which preceded the great...

Crockett's "Smugglers," or "Last Raiders of Solway," as they more appropriately appear in the sub-title, are a very superior race, very much greater than anything that we can...

and Norgate. ls. net.)—Mr. Gooch gives a very fair account of the events of the last quarter of a century, though there is no mis- taking his Radical bias. To deal with all his...

6s.)—A modern study of the life of a woman. The great passion she develops for the hero will, however, not be. very easily comprehended by the reader.—Good Boy Seldom. By Oliver...

[Under this heading we notice such Baas of the week as lairs not been reserred for review in other forms.] The House of Tech. By Louis Felberman. (John Long. 12s. 6d net.)—The...

Three Lectures delivered in the University of London. (Hodder and Stoughton. 5s. net.)—We cannot discuss in detail the contents of this volume, as they are of a technical kind,...

Lane Cooper. (Smith, Elder and Co. 42s. net.)—There is in the United States of America a Concordance Society. A Con- cordance of the Poems of Thomas Gray has already appeared...

which come to us, but we must say a few words about a volume in the series of "Black's 3cAlo,?1 Geography (A. and C. Black). This is Climatic Control, by L. C. W. Bonacina....

Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Copping is an excellent guide to the now famous farming districts of the Canadian North-West. He sets down all that interested him in the methods of...

publishes here a number of critical and other notes on the Dialogues of Plato which have been contributed during the last eighteen years to the Classical Review and the...

we have eighty specimens taken from fifty papyri, almost all preserved in the Royal leirary at Berlin. Dr. Schubert has prefixed a bibliography. We are glad to see that English...

5s. net.)—This will be found a useful "guide." It deals with the past as well as the present. We can hardly appreciate a city without knowing something of its history and of the...