Churchill's repeated use of the word " temporary." He speaks, for example, of "the temporary absence of the representation of North-East Ulster" from the Dublin Parliament. This...

just made, but if Unionists do not bear it in mind, and get involved in a general discussion of Home Rule, we may find the door of escape from civil war, which has now been...

at dinner in New York on Friday week by his Progressive supporters. He explained that he was going to visit Brazil, the Argentine, and Chile, because "the three great...

to the Concerted action of Hanoverian newspapers in asserting that Prince Ernest Augustus, who is now the husband of the Emperor's daughter, has not renounced his rights to the...

war must remember that the Unionist leaders have also a most difficult task before them. Many of their supporters will not quite understand what is being done, and will talk...

O N Wednesday Mr. Winston Churchill addressed his con- stituents at Dundee in a speech which we trust will prove to be of historic importance. We have dealt at length elsewhere...

Mr. Winston Churchill's speech in regard to Ulster. We shall not say anything about the rest. We could not do so with- out controversy, and controversy at the moment is what we...

case.

on the connexion between the unrest in Bengal and the position of the Indian Civil Service. The attempts now being made to disestablish the Service and break up its solidarity...

the nature of an excellent measure which he hopes to pass next session. This will enable poor prisoners who, under existing conditions, are sent to prison in default of paying a...

despatch from the Lisbon correspondent of the Daily News in Monday's issue. He points out that the liberty, granted to the two hundred and sixty-eight prisoners who took but a...

charge of murdering a little Christian boy to obtain blood for ritual purposes opened at Kieff on Wednesday. The indictment is based chiefly on indirect and contradictory...

week. The failure of the land taxes is by far the The Inland Revenue Report for 1912-13 was issued on Friday week. The failure of the land taxes is by far the most noticeable...

Chinese Republic for nearly two years, was formally elected President for five years on Monday at Peking. Though twenty candidates, including Sun Yat-sen, were voted for, the...

in support of the candidature of Mr. Hubert M. Wilson, dealt with the controversy between Mr. Lloyd George and members of his family on the Marconi question. The various charges...

Daily Mail of Monday that Lord St. Aldwyn, in a letter to the Tewkes- bury Record, has shown, as, of course, we knew he would have no difficulty in showing, how grossly unjust...

by suggesting to the War Office that they should buy in another part of England. When they refused, and said in effect that they must have his estate, Lord St. Aldwyn did the...

the Rouse of Commons direct to the contrary," but upon the use of the word " passed." We hold that the word " passed " in this context means passed through the House of Commons...

the meeting of the Baptist Union at Manchester on Thursday week. We quote from the report in the Daily News of Friday the 3rd inst. :— ""The Romanist is asserting,' he cried,...

first notice of the Life of Lord Lyons—which is in effect an apology for diplomacy by one who was himself among the ablest of diplomatists. With that apology we are in general...

UnionistAssociation, asks very pertinently in the Times of Monday whether this is "a reference to the Roman Catholic Nationalists of Ireland who, by the help of Dr. Clifford and...

masterish " tone, reproves the Spectator for its " inexcusable" carelessness in saying that a general election might take place between the passage of the Home Rule Bill for the...

MR. CHURCHILL'S SPEECH. " When we were drifting into a quarrel with the Boers, Liberal minds sought to understand their point of view, and many—I daresay there are some in this...

N O student of foreign politics could fail to have his fancy engaged by the analysis of the origin, the intention, and the working of the Triple Alliance which Dr. Friedjung has...

I F Mr. Winston Churchill's offer to exclude North-East Ulster in order to avoid civil war is accepted in principle by the Unionist leaders, as we cannot doubt it will be, it...

S IR GEORGE ASKWITH has achieved a remarkable - public reputation throughout the kingdom as an industrial pacifier, but that reputation will hardly be enhanced by the report...

regular Army is a subject of eternal discussion, for the authorities are never able to get all the men they want, and are perpetually dissatisfied with a large proportion of the...

O NE of the most envied accompaniments of high birth in the past is becoming almost universal. Almost every- one nowadays is possessed of family portraits. That is, they are...

AN enterprising shopkeeper issued a catalogue some years ago—and still does so, for all we know—in which lie attempted to make the choosing of Christmas presents easy. Perhaps...

T HERE is not much difference between the gardens of September and August, but in October the seasons meet. The summer flowers are not all of them over; the winter flowers are...

ULSTER AND THE UNION. [TO TEE EDITOR OF TILE " SFRCTATOR.1 SIR, —One fact emerges clearly from the more recent speeches of the Unionist and Nationalist leaders in Ireland. Sir...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—In your issue of last Saturday Lord Ebury challenges the last paragraph of my letter in the Spectator of this previous week as being...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Stn,—I have read with great interest the article in your current issue headed " The Problem of Civil War." I fear that our views do not...

[To TIE EDITOR OP THE "13PRCTATOR."] SIR, —Radicals are constantly quoting the Union of South Africa as a precedent for and as being analogous to Home Rule for Ireland....

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Many Liberals agree with the Spectator that the uneasy suspicions generated by the Marconi affair can only be dis- pelled by measures...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SFECTATOR."1 Stn,—I do not accept as a fact the latest amazing financial scandal which Mr. Maxse claims to have unearthed. We have yet to bear from the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—The policy of the Young Turks towards the Christians in Turkey was the cause of the first. Balkan war ; that of the Bulgarians towards...

THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sin, — An interesting point is raised by a remark in your article on " Fancy Flying. " " Nature has not put any of her brute creatures on wheels, nor given...

SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The following Sorg Horatiana seems appropriate to latest demands of Turkey :— " interfusa nitentes Vites aequora Cycladas," which a Greek has thus translated...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] Sia, — The Land Union has up to the present, in spite of repeated applications, considered it undesirable to define its attitude in regard...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—A few facts on this subject might be of interest to your readers. The chief vice of the inhabitants of Java is opium-smoking. The...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR. "] SI11, — A man's social standing may be judged with tolerable accuracy by the cut of his clothes, and the same is true, in some degree, with...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—As a connexion, by marriage, of the family of "Tottenham in his boots," perhaps I may be allowed to contribute an exact version of the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "Sesorwroit."; Sin,—Mr. Acworth has written to you a letter on " Canals and the State," and, quoting the example of the Manchester Ship Canal, doubts the...

five years ago an influential committee was formed for the purpose of inaugurating a memorial to Charles Lamb, the essayist and author, who lived and died in Edmonton, and lies...

[To Tag EDITOR OF TER " SracTATon."] Stn,—In his letter on "A Village School Competition," I. E. Page speaks of a white blackbird which came under the heading of things not...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR "] BIR,—As the writer of the article on " Songs, Naval and Military," which appeared in your issue of September 20th, I wish to express my...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the review of Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey's " High Pheasants in Theory and in Practice" which appeared in your issue of October 4th, the...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The interesting instance of aphaeresis in your columns a week or two ago (amore) might have finished with " e corde pleno : wth full...

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 espreered or with the mode of...

SPANISH PAINTING AT THE GRAFTON GALLERY. THE activity of the National Art Collections Fund has enabled us to survey Spanish painting from the thirteenth to the nineteenth...

A BALLAD OF PLACE-NAMES. I'vz stood beneath the fall of Glora ; I've roamed amid the bents at Brora ; I've seen the level meads expand At Matlaske and at Irming- land ; But...

LORD LYONS.* [FIRST NcyncE.] LORD LYONS was not a man of 'genius. It cannot even be said that he possessed any very conspicuously brilliant talents. But he was a great...

• The Empress Frederick : a Memoir. With 6 Illustrations in Photogravure, London : James Nisbet and Co. [15e. net.] IT was a happy thought of the anonymous author of this work...

THE principal object of this volume is to tell the peaceful story of the eight months which David Livingstone spent at Newstead Abbey during the years 1864 and 1865. Living-...

military experience, bad served as tin Aesistant-Secretary for Native Affairs, wag instructed by the Natal Government to prepare a history of the Zulu Rebellion of 1906. When...

NOT only the Evangelical party, of which the Dean of Canterbury is a veteran leader, but the whole Church of England, owes a debt of gratitude to the writer of this volume for...

IN spite of the great and increasing number of Englishmen Who visit Switzerland yearly, and must feel at least a passing interest in the carved inscriptions with which houses,...

" LIBERTY is the right to be in the wrong." Mr. Norman calls this the finest definition of liberty. Why then does he so impartially blame everyone for differing from him? The...

THE LODGER• STORIES concerned with mysterious crimes for the most part focus the interest of the reader on the efforts to detect the perpetrators, the really prominent roles...

THERE have just appeared two books by American writers which almost justify the Englishman in taking up the attitude of the Pharisee and expressing thanks that be is not as...

Sons. 6s.)—It cannot be denied that Miss Ashton has an unusual sense of the poetic. The central idea of her book is far from prosaic: so is the figure of Anatole (Pierrot) the...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not beef► reserved for review in other forms.] Cecil Rhodes : the Man and his Work. By Gordon Le Sueur. (John...

(Andrew Melrose. 6s.) — A rather unpleasant story of Indian' life, with a melodramatic native villain, a multitude of adverbs, and a young man who, "plunging both hands in his...

Sir Francis Piggott. (Butterworth and Co. 3s. net.)—This, little volume contains a series of letters contributed by Sir F. Piggott, late Chief Justice of Hong Kong, to Chinese...

the reprint in a permanent form of the eontents . .of the " Special Irish Number '•' of the Times, which appeared-on March 17th of this year. Two or three articles have been...

and Stoughton. 2s. 6d. net.)—It is a little difficult to understand why Mr. Bennett thinks it worth while to- publish these uninspiring though well-intentioned little sermons....

par Hector Garneau. Tome I. (Librairie FeliX Alcan, Paris. 10fr.)—M. Garneau's grandson has revised and brought up to date this well-known work and secured an interesting...

(Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—It is a pity that the translator of Mr. Dahlke's collection of Buddhist stories should here and there have attempted to reproduce the...

Scott Moncrieff Penney. (Edward Stanford. 10s. 6d.)—It is ten years since the last edition of the Guide was published, and the present one, which is the ninth, shows signs of a...