was not handed to Baron von Aehrenthal until after it had been published in the Press, states that the verbal answer given by the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister showed that...

a serious statement as to the way in which British money is used in Chinese railway construction. A loan for the Shanghai-Hang-Chau-Ning-Po Railway, amounting to 21,500,000, was...

tells US that the prevailing view in the Russian capital is one of depression. "That 'Austria will now issue an ultimatum to her small neighbour, and that military opera- tions...

T HE latest news on Friday in regard to Austria-Hungary and the reception of the Servian Note is not as favour- able as that received in the earlier part of the week. The Note...

case.

that for the present war will be avoided." Russia is most anxious to avoid war, and has been perfectly sincere in putting strong pressure upon Servia to refrain from any...

Times of February 20th, 1909, in which the writer, Mr. Krishnavarma, the present editor of the Indian Sociologist, defended resort to political murder, has had a, very natural...

Army Estimates. Monday's debate, which chiefly turned on compulsory service, we have discussed elsewhere. On Tuesday Mr. Arthur Lee secured from the Prime Minister a promise to...

the third reading of his Bill. As to the allegation that the Councils Bill was Mr. Gokhale's Bill, he stated that Mr. Gokhale came to see him at the India Office last October,...

to persuade the Peers to reinsert Clause III. in the Indian Councils Bill,—the clause enabling the Government of India to set up Exeeutive Councils in the provinces governed by...

in answer to a series of questions addressed to him by Mr. Leverbon Harris, admitted that there were Treaties in force between this country and Portugal by which Portugal bound...

paper that the Bond Congress has compromised on Mr. Hofmeyr's federation proposals. It nominally accetits them, thus preferring the principle of federation to union for the...

sympathise with him in his evident feeling that it is - useless for the British Government to bark unless they are prepared to bite. At the same time, we cannot help wishing...

moved the second reading of his Daylight Saving Bill, which practically embodies Mr. Willett's well-known proposal. The Bill provides that from the third. Sunday in April until...

point. Only three thousand millions sterling—not twenty per cent. of our national wealth—was invested abroad, and more than half of this was employed in British Colonies, from...

Herta Unionist Association in consequence of the action of the executive in passing a vote of want of confidence in Mr. Abel Smith, M.P. In a letter addressed to Sir George...

good sense, as well as propriety, in the Gokhale incident. We think, however, that he has good ground for complaint, and that Mr. Gokhale did not act becomingly in allowing the...

Free-Trade Union, Lord Avebury presiding, at the Queen's Hall, Mr. Asquith dealt with the fashionable Tariff Reform argument that capital is being "driven out of the country"...

murder of Constable Goldrick as a "lamentable and horrible event," noted that it had occurred on the estate of Lord Clanri- carde, the chief black spot in Ireland, and said that...

feels most deeply the horror of Goldrick's murder, but unfortunately he cannot say : " I have done all that could be dono to prevent and punish such crimes," He has yielded to...

Macdonnell, who declared that he took strong exception to the proposal to appoint a native member of the Viceroy'e Executive Council and to create provincial Executive Councils....

14th. Consols (211) were on Friday 84i—Friday week 84i.

THE POLITICAL BALANCE-SHEET OF AUSTRIA- HUNGARY. F OR the present the Balkan crisis may be said to have ended, for Austria-Hungary has successfully Maintained her attitude of...

it was Lord'Newtou) once described our present system of providing for the military defence of these islands as one under' which nineteen men joined in a conspiracy to cajole...

I F one had been asked to choose the most suitable temperament and, character . for Mr. Roosevelt's successor, one would have chosen just such qualities of mind and heart as are...

31[ R. ASQUITH very wisely devoted the greater part of his speech at the Queen's Hall to the allegation that capital is being driven out of this country by the maintenance of...

I F Lord Esher's lecture at the Royal Institution on Friday Week has not presented Queen Victoria in any new light, it has strengthened in certain particulars the impression...

TT is the fashion to talk as though the age of exploration : were ended ; and the world in which we live war", ail mapped and surveyed and its waters plumbed. Yet in a souse...

T HE Bishop of London in a speech made at one of the Francis Holland Schools for Girls at the beginning of this month urged his hearers to avoid " cattishness." He regretted, he...

T HE performance of 'Consul,' the chimpanzee now being exhibited at the London Hippodrome, is probably the most remarkable in the history of trained animals. The variety and the...

SLAVE-GROWN COCOA. [To Tin suaTen. OF Tall -srsameren.1 SIR,—You will, I think, be glad to know, that the Co-opera- tive Wholesale Society has given up the use of the cocoa...

rTO TRIO EDITOR OP Till "SPEOTATOlt."] Sin,—Notwithstanding their striking success in Central Glasgow, it seems to me that Unionists can only look with "modified rapture" on...

the questions asked on Monday night in the House of Commons concerning cocoa grown in the Portuguese colonies of West Africa, and in view of the growing public interest in this...

[To TUN EDITOTt OF THII "SPEOTATOR." . 1 SIR,—Canada is atilt a political dependency of England. Her Constitution is an Act of the British Parliament, subject to change by the...

[TO TII• EDITOR OFTill " SPEOTATOR.1 Sat,—May I be permitted to add one word more on the Border Burghs election now that the conflict and excitement are over ? In none of the...

110 THE ICULTOlt or Ten "Srsaveirort."] think it may interest some of your readers to know that there continues to exist in South Africa a very strong demand for female domestic...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE SPECTATOR."] Sum, — The last sentence of the interesting article on this subject which appeared in your iesue of January 30th runs : " The British people...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOLL.” SIR,—We are indebted to Mr. Arthur Ponsonby, M.P., for clearing the air. I assume he receives the Government whips, and is a recognised...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Home-rule is represented by eighty-three seats, whereas it is entitled at most to forty-five. For many years the Spectator drew Mr....

[To THE EDITOR Or TIDO " SPROTATOR."1 SIR, — Nobody who has read the Spectator as long as I have can doubt your sincerity when you say that you "yield to none in your desire to...

[TO THS EDITOR OV THE "SPROTATOR.1 SIE,—A much worse case against newspaper gambling can be made out even than that contained in the admirable article in the Spectator of last...

of view" mentioned by "A. G. B." in the Spectator of March 6th is to enter into the discussion of afforestation, it must be remembered that the trees, even including pines, haye...

LTO TIIII EDITOR Or THR "SCROT4T04.1 Sub,—On what grounds do the Ecclesiastical Commissioners confine their grants to those livings which have a population of five hundred and...

IN passionate dead days that were Your loyal lovers pledged you deep: Royally kind and warmly fair, By tavern fire, on castled steep Where worms of desolation creep— You were...

[To Tax EDITOR OF Till "SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—In your issue of the 6th inst., on p. 362, you state in the paragraph referring to the recent trial of Dinuzulu that Sir W. J. Smith,...

ELIZABETHANS OLD AND NEW.* "WE have disoovered an unknown poem," was Rossetti's exclamation to Mr. Watts-Dunton, " more Shakespearean than anything else out of Shakespeare." 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...

r.r. TRH EDITOR or TIl " SPROTATOR."1 SIR,—A thoughtful friend having sent me the Spectator of March 6th, I find that you therein charge me with "change of front on the question...

• [To TIER EDITOR or TUN " SPROTATOR." . ] • SIR, — The writer of the article in the Spectator of February 27th has hardly been happy in his selection from Lucretius. Many much...

[To ?RR EDITOR or TUN "SPE0TATOR.1 Sin,—The part which you have always taken in preserving the beauties of wild England encourages me to hope that you may lend your influence...

THOUGH the public may not yet have realised the fact, we have reached a crisis in our national development, and that crisis is marked by the Report of the Poor Law Commission of...

Pr is safe to say that Mr. David Fraser's story of his travois along the route of the Baghdad Railway will be read as widely as any book of the kind that has been published for...

MR. MaNeKEN's work has interested us enormously. America, is credited with being the birthplace of the " yellow " Press, but now she has produced a far more portentous...

opinion," says Mr. Mackenzie in his introduction, "whether after all Simon Fraser is worthy of a biography "; but be is evidently in no doubt on the point himself, and he brings...

Mn. R. LAIDLAW offered a prize of Rs. 2,000 (266) for an essay in which three questions should be answered :—(1) Can India become a self-governing whole ? (2) How and within...

LORD AVEBUBY, with all his unparalleled list of distinctions in science, literature, and sociology, is not above giving his readers some quite practical and homely advice as to...

ANNE OF GREEN GABLES.'t Wn can pay the author of Anew of ,Green Gables no higher compliment than to say that she has given us a perfect Canadian companion picture to Rebecca of...

By P. Lyttelton Gall. (Privately Printed, Oxford.)—Tho figures may be regarded as applying, for practical purposes, to any English diocese. We will take one portion, those that...

Blundell has left her beloved West Country and given us a charming sketch of an episode among the einigris in London at the time of the French Revolution. The only part of the...

a great mass of interesting facts about railways all over the world which are Controlled by British capital. These are supple- mented by some selected particulars about American...

2d.)—This is a statement of the very imports# 14Wd valuable experiment, conducted by the Society for Proportios,s1 Representation, which, as our readers will remember, was tried...

(G, Itent- ledge and Sons. 5s. net.)—Mr. }Toward has collected a number of interesting details about tobacco, its history—it cannot be definitely traced back to a remote past...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week aa have not been reserved for review in inker forme.] The Minority Report of the Poor Law Commission of 1909. Edited by Mr....

Thomson, who describes his book as "a study in the decay Of custom," formulates theories and makes prophecies. He has a word to say in his introduction for half-castes; he...

and Brothers. 6s.)—A well-told story of life in the Southern States of America.—The Dream and the Woman. By Tom Gallon. (Stanley Paul and (Jo. 6s.)—A modern melodrama told in...