the Army Bill. The debate was in many ways confused and con- fusing, but we must endeavour to make one or two points clear. The Government wisely, as we think, yielded to the...

meetings held in Calcutta after the publishing of Mr. Morley's Budget speech. The, chief speaker was Mr. Bepin Chandra Pal. There was no denying the fact, he said, that the...

be denied that if the Japanese were inclined—though we do not think this is the case—to press their view with inexorable logic, the posi- tion would be a most critical one. At...

a very succcessful flight over Paris, travelling, according to the Daily Mail, at a speed of thirty-one miles an hour with the wind and at eighteen miles an hour against it. A...

Victoria, laid the foundation-stone of the new buildings of the North Wales University College at Bangor, and had an enthusiastic reception. Their Majesties then crossed to...

W E have dealt elsewhere with the rumours prevalent this week of serious friction between Japan and the United States, and need only say here that though we hold that there is...

case.

on the Yeomanry, in which the Yeomanry officers urged strongly upon the Government the importance of maintaining the pay of the troopers. Lord Roberts and Lord Midleton dwelt...

authorities were anxious to do all they could to meet the wishes of the Militia. The Government " would under- take as far as possible, subject, of course, to the supreme...

merely the land war as it still exists in Ireland, but also towards anything which will serve to put out the last embers of the Land League conflict. But though we would stretch...

Bill was read a second time after a heated debate. Mr. Moore, the Unionist Member for North Armagh, pro- tested strongly against the compulsory powers in the Bill. All the bona...

moved that from October 1st the Sugar-duties imposed by the Finance Act of 1901 be reduced by one-half. The retention of war taxation could no longer be justified, and he...

Liberal Members to avoid any appearance of disloyalty to their pledges, while supporting the Government. Some, however, stated that their pledges must take precedence even over...

on . June 30th show that our commercial prosperity is greater than ever. The total imports amounted to £328,365,300, as compared with £300,549,553 in the first half-year of...

the Houses of Parliament, observed, in regard to Lord Hugh Cecil's astonishing statement as to Mr. Balfour, that if "Lord Hugh would nominate him as a member of the club,...

resulted in a team from the Cambridge University Rifle Club winning the first prize of five rifles, with a total score of 326. The second prize of two rifles was won by the...

say how greatly pleased we should be could we persuade ourselves that his view of Mr. Balfour's position is the true one. We can fully understand the Chamberlainites being...

in London on Tuesday night. Lord Hugh Cecil, in pro- posing the toast of the club, dwelt upon the significant fact that in its opposition to Home-rule and Protection the club "...

was celebrated in London. Among those who took part in the ceremonies were many who remembered the wonderful scenes of enthusiasm in 1864 when Garibaldi was hailed here as the...

week, when Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman delivered a speech. He recalled the origin of the school, which was founded as a protest against an injurious monopoly of which only a...

sudden death on Sunday last of Sir Spencer Walpole, a regret which is personal as well as public, for Sir Spencer Walpole was one of the ablest and most valued con- tributors to...

Apr. 25th. Consols (2i) were on Friday 848—on Friday week 84f.

JAPAN, AMERICA, AND THE ANGLO-SAXON WORLD. T HERE has been a good deal of uneasiness during the past week in regard to the relations between Japan and America, caused by the...

M R. MORLEY on Tuesday described the Indian situation quite accurately when he said that the Government of the Punjab, by prohibiting seditious meetings, had allayed excitement...

13 Y no means the least important event of the week was the intervention of Lord Rosebery in the House of Lords' debate on the Army Bill. It has for several years been a subject...

T HE Macedonian question is not °illy always with us, but always with us in substantially the same form. There are variations, indeed, in detail. Massacre and outrage go on much...

A LIST of the pensions granted during the year ended on March 31st, 1907, in recognition of public services in literature, science, and art was issued a few days ago, and seems...

A T the end of last month the Westminster Gazette published a letter from Canon Barnett recommending the institu- tion of " vacation schools " for public-school boys, and on...

N O THING in crime is commoner than imitation, and it would not be astonishing if it turned out that the extraordinary robbery of State jewels at Dublin Castle, of which the...

A POSITION OF PERIL. [TO THZ EDITOR 07 THU " SPECTATOR.1 Sra,—It would amount to a truism to say that the Empire owes you a debt of gratitude for your patriotic and successful...

M ORE or less fanciful analogies have frequently been traced between the keen commercial competition among nations and the struggle for existence in the world of Nature. It is a...

[To TOE EDITOR OP TRS SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—As a constant reader of your valuable journal for over forty years, I beg to express the hope that you and your readers will refrain from...

think all reasonable men who take a practical interest in our Navy and Army as our national insurance must be very much impressed by the facts and arguments put forward with...

[TO TUN EDITOR OP THE " sraorArort."] SIB, Would you allow one who has had opportunities of seeing both sides of the question to state, rather than prove, six propositions ?...

Sin,--The Executive Committee of the Navy League is much indebted to you for the strong support you have given in your issue of the 6th inst. to the article in the July Navy...

70 THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTLT0141 Sirt,—I have been so much struck with the confusion of ideas in England respecting the nature of " the Colonial offer• "—I inform myself by a...

[To vas EDITOR or TEN "srscraros.".1 Sin, — I believe it was Samuel Johnson who wrote in the eighteenth century " The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality."...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:] SIR, —On reading your remarks in the issue of July 6th on the proposed new name for New Zealand, two names suggested themselves to me which I...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Not even the very closest friends of the late Sir Spencer Walpole could complain of the warmth and adequacy of the appreciations of his...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTLTOR."1 SIR,—Lord Ripon, whose words have weight, is reported as declaring himself a confirmed Home-ruler on the ground that Ireland must be...

note on the " status of New Zealand" appearing on the 6th inst., I would suggest the title "Region of New Zealand."—I am, Sir, &c., M. E. P.

" Presidency of New Zealand "

SIR, In discarding her appellation of " Colony " New Zealand should, as you suggest, take a title distinct from those of her sister-States in the British Empire. Why not "...

I To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sia, — Will you kindly allow me to thank, through the medium of your columns, the friend who sends me the Spectator week by week ? It is...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your readers have in a very practical way shown their interest in the Children's Country Holiday Fund, of which I am the chairman. The...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " EP nareToic."] Sin,—It may interest your readers to be reminded that the Referendum which you ably advocate as a possible solution of the difficulty with...

[TO TUE EDITOR OP THE " SPEOTATOR."1 Sin,—No author could reasonably desire a more friendly review than you have bestowed upon my "Theory of Good and Evil" in the Spectator of...

[TO TUE EDITOR OF TUB "SPECTATOILl shall be greatly obliged if you will kindly allow it to be made public through the medium of your columns that at a meeting of friends of the...

MERTON WALL. (MAY 3B,D, 1645.) I - The meadow-wall of Merton College is connected by tradition (but by tradition and Heath's Chronicle only) with the tragic fate of Colonel...

LORD FALKLAND.* FEW characters in English history would seem at the first blush to stand less in want of vindication than Lucius Cary, Viscount Falkland. His place is with the...

been thought scarcely credible that Roman sculpture should furnish the material for a work of four hundred pages, illustrated by a hundred and thirty plates. Art critics did...

THE Memoirs of the Comtesse de Boigne have already been translated into English,-a readable translation, though it appears to miss the point of one of Madame de Boigne's best...

a century is no easy task ; to review the development in every phase of intellectual activity over a like period, as is done in the volume before us, is a remarkable...

THE BURNING TORCH.• Miss MONTRESOR can always be relied upon for a straight• forward story without ellipse or obscurity ; she tells it fluently and at some length, as though...

Frank. (Bickers. Gs.)—This is a novelty, or nearly a novelty, in English literature,—a translation from the Yiddish. The stories are eminently characteristic ; but an English...

THE COLONIAL CONFERENCE. The Colonial Conference: the Cobden Club's Reply to the Pre- ferential Proposals. (Cassell and Co. 3d.)—In view of nest week's debate on the question...

Carlton Dawe gives a horrible picture of the Spanish Inquisition, and the reader, as the book proceeds, will become more and more astonished that the date of the story is 1750,...

Gs.)—A story of two young women who soek fortune in the ways of literature and art, but find it else- where.—The Glen o' Weeping. By Marjorie Bowen. (Alston Rivers. Gs.)—This is...

Are and Labour of the People of India. By Abdullah Yusuf- Ali. (John Murray. 12s. net.)—The author of this book is a native of India who has studied in Cambridge, and has spent...

Series. (S. Bagster and Sons. 12s. net.)—Some eighteen months ago we noticed the first volume of this work. The completing part is now before us, and thoroughly justifies the...

Eft. Mary, Rotherhithe. By Edward Joscelyn Beck, M.A. (Cambridge University Press. 10s. net.)—Mr. Beck, who has been rector of St. Mary's for nearly forty years, modestly...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] The Book of Job. With an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. (S....

Richards. 6s. net.)—Mr. Richards gives us in this volume a number of textual and other notes on Xenophon, Herodotns, Plutarch, and other Greek writers. He adds a few remarks,...

Glasgow. 24s. net.)—Sir Thomas Gray, of Heton, warder of Norham Castle, was taken prisoner by a Scottish force, and carried to Edinburgh Castle, where he was detained for two...

ly Captain R. Grant, D.S.O. (John Murray. 3s. 6d. net.)—The - translator tells us that he has "verified names and dates" as far ab he could, but that he does not hold himself...

Co. 12s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Spicer's story of the paper trade is interesting throughout. The various materials, the methods of handling them, the machinery, the prices obtained, the...

vole. (Royal Asiatic Society. 15s.)—It is not every one that could give offhand a summary of Baluchistan history during the last half-century, though there is a general...

by H. Bellyse Baildon. (Cambridge University Press. 6s. net.)—William Dunbar was born about 1460,—he graduated at St. Andrews in 1477. Of his death we have no record, but there...

2s.)—This is the first volume of a projected series of "Heroes of the Cross," which is to proceed from the Salvation Army Book Department. We give a hearty welcome to the...

rule on which the sizes of books (with cut edges) are marked, the length being given on one side, the width on the other. These sizes are in number twenty-two, ranging from the...