M ANY arrests have been made In India in connexion with a widespread conspiracy, the progress of which has been watched by the police for some time. The Times correspondent says...

was unquestionably the most dangerous organisation outside India. It was there that the plots for murdering Sir W. Curzon Wyllie and Mr. Jackson originated. "India House "was...

Simla has passed the Bill renewing the Seditious Meetings Act till March 31st, 1911. If the Act had ever any justification— we believe, of course, that it had ample—it would be...

appeared in Wednesday's Times dealing with revolu- tionary organisations outside India. The writer begins by pointing out that the agitators have not been too proud to borrow...

the Under-Secretary for India, in which, speaking to his constituents on Thursday, he dealt chiefly with Mr. Mackarness's pamphlet on the Indian Police, and with the demand made...

case.

member of the Viceroy's Executive Council, has resigned on the ground that he wishes to practise again at the Calcutta Bar. The suspicion naturally arises that the reason he...

troops and the Fidais, who refused to surrender their arms. The Fidais, led by Satar Khan, were in a garden, and the Government troops completely surrounded them, firing into...

and at Turin the Premier, Signor Luzzatti, delivered an admirable address before a great gathering, which included the King, the Royal Princes, and all the Ministers. Comparing...

Mr. Gaynor, the Mayor of New York. He was starting for a holiday to Europe, and actually on board the liner, when he was shot in the neck from behind. His assailant was quickly...

of the Orthdox Church to a national assembly 'was published on Tuesday at Constantinople. The Times correspondent says that it is a vehement document which declares equality...

in Tibet is decreasing. It is considered doubtful whether the British troops which are held in readiness will be required to cross the frontier. We are convinced that the policy...

the Vatican which is likely to last fill the holidays are over and King Alfonso is back in Spain. In a conversation with the Times ccr:Tespondent on Wednesday, Sefior auialejas...

continue to show marked expansion. The imports, it is true, show a slight falling off as compared with July, 1909— this may be accounted for by the fact of there having been one...

paper some of the questions which are upper- most in the minds of Australians. He says that every one is on tenterhooks, as Labour has acquired for itself an almost autocratic...

Brockwell questioning the right of the Trustees of the National Gallery to hang the greater part of the Turner collection at Millbank. It is generally known that one of the...

scheme has been put forward by the Strand Magazine to raise funds for the benefit of his grandchildren, some of whom are in straitened circumstances. It is suggested that...

summary of the result of three years' work, as illustrated by the experi- ences of the present Territorial training season, which is given in Wednesday's Daily Mail. The report...

at Yonghal on Sunday last at a meeting of the All- for-Ireland League. The party that wrecked the Conference, he declared, would wreck itself at the polls in England, for the...

lively appreciation of the spirit, discipline, and efficiency of the troops. Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Douglas in a special Order commended the soldierly qualities of the...

cooking arrangements, and the horsing of the baggage-waggons. In fine, the general verdict on the Territorials is favourable, but we cannot feel convinced that the system...

up by Mr. E. T. Willows, a native of Cardiff, who has been experimenting with airships for the last five years. Starting from Cardiff at 8 p.m. last Saturday night, Mr. Willows...

W E have received from a correspondent in the North. West of Canada a letter expressed in very strong terms regarding the injury that is done to the Empire by our national habit...

THE TIBETAN PROBLEM. A S far as our knowledge of the facts extends, we believe that the Government are pursuing a. sound and reasonable policy in regard to the Tibetan problem....

Tal struggle between the Spanish Government and the atican is bound to go on; there is no possibility of a halt or a real relaxation of the strain until a settlement, comparable...

I N other circumstances than those in which the country is placed. at this moment Free-traders would have reason to be in the best of spirits. In the United States, which has so...

V ERY few of us have much to give away, except perhaps in the form of subscriptions. We have not much over to give to individuals or at odd times. Apparently the most compelling...

I N last week's number of the British, Medical Journal Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Buchanan, M.D., insists on the importance of keeping cats in India as a defence against the...

I T is unfortunately only too often that we hear of the destruction of what is old and beautiful to make room for what is new and perhaps necessary ; but it is seldom that so...

THE COCOA SLIVERY. [To Tim Eprros or ms ErscrAros."] Sin,—Yon ask my opinion of a large and copiously illustrated volume called "Manual Labour in San Thom6 and Principe," by...

LORD KITCHENER. Pro TH1 EDITOS Or Tint " SPXCTATOL . 1 Sfit, — The protests in your correspondence columns evoked by the Spectator's recent article on Lord Kitchener must voice...

[TO THR EDITOR OF TIM "SPNCTIT01.:] SIR, — I rubbed my eyes to make sure they were not playing off a joke upon me when I read of a paper of the grave character of the Spectator...

[To TIM EDITOR OF MR "EITICTATOR."] Syn e —Will you allow me to make some further remarks with regard to your article on the above subject in last week's issue? In order to...

[To THE EDITOR OF Tlia " SPECTATCS.."1 Ste,—An independent and impartial critic's opinion on our domestic politics is always worthy of attention, and therefore I should like to...

[To TILE EDITOR OF TER " SFTCTATOR:1 Snt,—Many of your English correspondents in 81)e:eking and writing of Ireland go on the assumption that there is only one Ireland, and that...

is the version of the original despatch quoted by Mr. Lowe in the Contemporary accurate? In Bismarck's own account, which you quote (also from Mr. Lowe), he says expressly :—"...

LTO TER Eprros or vas " Srscrivos..") Sin,—I have read with some surprise the article in your issue of July 23rd on "British Rule in India." My surprise is due to the fact that...

[To THR EDITOR Or TICK Srsarkroa.'] Sin,—I trust you will kindly grant me space for a few remarks on the subject of slave labour in the Portuguese islands of San Thome and...

[To ram EDITOR OF TH2 " SPIICTAZOR."1 SIE.,—Before the eyes of the world China has been to some extent misrepresented, and thereby misjudged. The reason is due, if I may say so,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sift,—In the last two issues of the Spectator you publish again the names of those firma who state that they do not purchase cocoa of San...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEl " SPECTATOR:1 Sr,—Is there not another aspect of the Crippen case against which a very strong protest should be made? I refer to the spirit of nauseating...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTITOR:] SM,—You say in your issue of July 30th that Land and Charles I. would have crushed the Quakers out of existence if Cromwell had not come to...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] Sin,—Some time back in the House of Commons Colonel Seely (Under-Secretary for the Colonies), in reply to a question, said that the...

[To THY EDITOR OF THE "Srscrtrom.1 Snt,—I am very glad to see that you support in a note the letter appearing in your issue of August 6th in favour of metric reform. Your...

only write under one alias, or, better still, sign his own name to his communications, you would find that one day he says Russia has adopted the metric system, and another day...

[To THR EDITOR OF TILE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,..A.2 I am aware of the interest that you have taken in the question of intimidation at elections, I think you may be glad to see the...

LTo THE EDITOR 07 THE spscrAToR."1 was much interested in your article on "The Naval Cadet Case" in last week's issue. But may I say that the concluding paragraph is hard upon...

the " Easters Daily Press." Sin—My attention has been called to a report of a meeting held at Attleborough on the 26th under the auspices of the 'Gladstone League: The meeting...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...1 SIR,—As ten years have now elapsed since I first ventured to draw your readers' attention to the steady improvement that is going on in...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.'9 Sin,—" Z." makes an appeal in your last issue that no shot grouse be placed still alive in "a beater's pocket or game. bag." One hopes that...

I To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.''] SIR,—On behalf of the Committee organising a visit of German University students to England this year I have been asked to draw the...

[To THE ELOILOIC OF THE " SPECTATOR." . 1 SIR,—The capture of the King's Prize at Bisley by young' Mr. Radice reminds me to submit to you an educational problem which I have...

THE ART OF LINLEY SAMBOURNE. "HUMOUR is so common in England, and consequently so little considered, that instead of two or three comic papers in each great city (as with us),...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...1 have pleasure in saying that during the nesting season which has just come to a close the Brent Valley Bird Sanctuary has been more...

name of Messrs. Van Houten among those firms who had " abandoned " the use of slave-grown cocoa. Messrs. Van Houten request us to state that during the eighty-odd years of the...

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...

AFTER THE VISIT. COME again to the place Where your presence was as a waft that skims Down a droutby way whose ascent bedims The bloom on the farer's face. Come again, with...

THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR.* WE welcome the completion of the Official History of the War in South Africa, and congratulate Captain Grant, or, as he is perhaps better known,...

these letters to the Pope without mingled feelings. They are written with an honesty and a simplicity which must appeal to every generous heart. Full as they are of tragic...

This book was shortly noticed in the Spectator of May 21st. We return to it because it seems worthy of a longer review. The "Bottom," as Mr. Irvine describes it, was very low...

Tait Duke of Argyll has brought together, mainly from his family papers, a collection of letters - which is typical of most sides of eighteenth-century life. They stretch from...

the compass of a single volume could never be easy, for • Titian. By Charles Ricketts. London Methuen and Co. [15s. net.] t Mighicags and Brings in Buckinghamshire. By Clement...

IT is a real pleasure to come upon such a book as the one Mr. Ricketts has written about Titian amid the deluge of insignificant writing upon art which nowadays pours from the...

A WELL-KNOWN Oxford don is reported to have said to an undergraduate who was not wanting in self-esteem : "We think very highly of you, Mr. C., very highly—but not so highly as...

A GLANCE at the names which supply the titles of Mr. Bradley's chapters suffices to show bow full a subject he has taken in hand. Tewkesbury stands first in the list and Rugby...

in this book are much more successfully drawn than the male, the young painter who fulfils the part of hero being a most objectionable person, with few of the instincts of a...

SIR GEORGE'S OBJECTION.* Mus. W. K. CLIFFORD'S reach certainly does not exceed her grasp in this story. She has set out to write a story for the sake of a story, a thing of...

and Co. 6s.)—This is the story of a Duke's daughter who escapes incog. from an unwelcome marriage. The young lady, and indeed all the characters, seem to hare a strangely high...

[Na.r the heading we notice such Boobs of the week se have net hen reserved for review is other forms.] Lives of the Popes in the Early Middle Ages. By the Rev. Horace K. Mann....

Elder, and Co. 6s.)—The title and sub-title of this book describe its contents most accurately. It is actually the chronicle of life in a village in early Victorian times. As a...

W. E. H. Lecky. (Longmans and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)— This is a cheap, a very cheap, edition of Mr. Lecky's great book. It was first published in 1835, and twice reprinted. The...

Westminster. 6d. not.)—This is a guide published by the Land Union for the benefit of the owners of property in view of the approaching necessity of filling up the Government...

Rapaport. (G. Rontledge and Sons. 5s. net.)—This volume contains (1) the essay on the Talmud by Emmanuel Deutsch, an admirable piece of work which at once made the author...

(Macmillan and Co. 28. net.)—This is a graphic representation of what has to be done for women in the East, and of what has been and is being accomplished in this direction....

:—The Century, the Pall Mail Magazine, St. Nicholas, the Review of Reviews, Harper's Magazine, the Windscr Magazine, the United Service Magazine, the Outlook, the Osford and...

Rouse, Litt.D. (Mackie and Son, 6d. each), we have Milton's Areopagitica, and other Prose Writings, Essays from the Spectator, Boswell's Life of Johnson, 1763-1767, and Gatty's...

LL.D., and Others. (The Clarendon Press. 2s. net.)—This is not an ordinary local history. We may even call it a sign of the times, for it has its origin in the recent foundation...