T HERE is little definite to record this week as to the prospects of peace or the general European situation. The statement made by Sir Edward Grey in the House of Commons on...

the North-Eastern Railway, the cause being the reduction in grade of a Gateshead engine-driver named Knox. Knox about a month ago was fined 5s. and costs on a charge of being...

the debates in Parliament on the Home Rule Bill. The closure and the guillotine eliminated from them almost every spark of life and reality. All we can do is to record the fact...

arrived in London for the Peace Conference at St. James's Palace, and the proceedings will begin on Monday. Among the representatives we may note the names of M. Gueshoff (the...

placing trade unionists above the law of the land and in a privileged position not unlike that enjoyed by members of the noble class before the French Revolution. The law which...

may point out here what appears to be almost the most serious part of the incident. The Home Office has despatched a London magistrate, Mr. Chester Jones, to Newcastle, to...

vote shows clearly that the Union is destroyed by the Bill and that what Parliament has been doing is this, and not merely setting up a harmless subordinate legislature within...

almost as much as journalists as Unionists. It warms one's heart to see a party newspaper playing not fOr safety, or following its leaders over a precipice in dumb acquies-...

whether under present arrangements we shall have in home waters in 1914 twenty-five fully commissioned battle- ships and six battle cruisers to Germany's twenty-nine battleships...

Radical Plutocracy Inquiry which was held at the House of Commons on Thursday afternoon was largely attended. The meeting decided, in view of Mr. Lloyd George's threatened...

and a very strong Tariff Reform paper, published on Thursday a long and vehement article on Lord Lansdowne's withdrawal of the Referendum pledge in connexion with Tariff Reform....

weighty letter of Mr. W. V. Osborne in the Times of Monday on the subject of trade-union ballots. Mr. Osborne observes that members of the Opposition are being denounced as...

whether he would appoint a Select Committee to inquire into the financial management of the India Office, in view of recent disclosures as to balances and the purchase of...

impossible further to withstand their present policy of passing Home Rule and despoiling the Welsh Church. The Liverpool Courier therefore makes the following demand :— " We...

of the French and German airships which have been ordered for the British Navy. The French dirigible, which is an Astra-Torres, is non-rigid when deflated but the equivalent of...

announces that the £4,000 has been subscribed to save the Roman fort at the head of Windermere, and the site is being transferred to the National Trust. This is excellent news,...

Dis- establishment Bill one of great importance under the name of Mr. Charles Bathurst. Briefly stated, it amounts to this, that the revenues derived from disendowment should...

a woman suffrage meeting at Glasgow on Monday night. He said that there was no truth in the report that if a woman suffrage amendment to the Franchise Bill was carried it would...

October 17t h. Consols (29) were on Friday 74i—Friday week 75i.

Francis Bridgeman as First Sea Lord commands approval both inside and outside the Navy. In this case there can be no shadow of suspicion that Prince Louis of Battenberg has won...

Mr. J. E. Taylor, a staff engineer of the Post Office. He stated that he bad bought some shares in the Marconi Company when it seemed uncertain whether the Post Office would...

he had held the Plumian Professorship of Astronomy for nearly thirty years, was the second son of Charles Darwin. In no family has hereditary genius manifested itself more...

a characteristic and delightful explosion from Sir George Birdwood in Monday's Times. He is profoundly sceptical as to all royal roads to extreme longevity, regarding its...

terms to the divisional meetings all over the country, the question to be voted on being " Are you in favour of the Association calling upon the profession to refuse to enter...

DELICACY AND DISCRETION. T N dealing with the allegations against members of the Government as regards the Marconi Contract and the employment of Samuel, Montagu and Co. by the...

T HE assembling of the Peace Conference in London and the meeting of the Ambassadors of the Great Powers, which is also, it appears, to take place in this city, is a, triumph...

T HE second British protest against the Panama Canal Act was presented by Mr. Bryce in Washington on Monday, and was simultaneously published in Loudon as a Parliamentary paper....

T HE strike on the North-Eastern Railway is the strangest instance that has yet been seen of con- fusion of industrial thought. That, at least, is the proper description of it...

MEAN? (BY LORD GEORGE HAmmTON.) "That Disraeli was a political adventurer is abundantly clear. So was Napoleon, between whose mentality and that of Disraeli a somewhat close...

A MODERN country parish is very hard to please in the matter of a parson. Rich and poor are almost equally difficult to conciliate. The atmosphere of the country—of the home...

M R. C. W. McFARLANE, who during his examination in the Court of Bankruptcy on Friday week, told one of the most delightfully romantic narratives of adventure which we have read...

W E called him "Napoleon Bonaparte " because he came from Sardinia, and though Sardinia is not Corsica it is next door to it. His name was soon shortened to "Boney," and he was...

THE UNIONIST POLICY. [TO TER EDITOR 01 TER "SPECTATOR."] Sra, — I want to say how cordially I agree with the tenor of the first article in your paper of last Saturday. I...

company of phantom "brothers" drying in the sun. The habits are hung out on arrangements something like an easel, with their hoods pulled up to the top, and the result is a most...

Sin,—Your correspondent, C. H. P. M., referring to my letter in your issue of November 23rd, asks, " What good does such a letter do now that the decision as to Tariff Reform...

Srn,—You will not be surprised when as an old Liberal and Free Trader I tell you that your articles and vigorous com- monsense upholding of the laws of political economy afford...

Srn,—The country owes the Spectator a deep debt of gratitude for the manful way in which, in spite of great difficulties, it has stood up for the causes of the Union and of Free...

SIR,—My impression is that sixty per cent. at least of the convinced Tariff Reformers in the House of Commons deprecate the Albert Hall pronouncement. They regret that the party...

SIR,—Allow me to say how heartily I endorse what you say in last week's Spectator as to the Unionist programme. At the next appeal to Caesar, Tom, Dick, and Harry must have one...

wish it could be possible in some way or other to take a census of Conservative Free Traders. I am firmly convinced their number is large, and the result would surely bring home...

one thing an earnest Liberal, aware of the unpopularity of Home Rule and the pillage of the Welsh Church, must have prayed for was some such pronounce- ment as that by which the...

your correspondents upon the above subject in your current issue are Unionist Free Traders, and one of them a Free Trader first and a Unionist after. Will you allow one who is a...

entitled " Unionist Policy," referring to the Referendum and Tariff Reform, you write towards the end of it : " It is for those Tariff Reformers within the official Unionist...

SIR, —The decision of the leaders of the Unionist Party to press forward Tariff Reform at the present juncture, whex trade in all its branches is in a more flourishing...

[TO THE EDITOR 01 THE "SPECTATOR.".1 SIR,It is gratifying to find that Liberal Church members of Parliament are moving with the view of securing a modification of the...

[To THE EDITOR 01 THE " SPECTLTOR."] SIR, I am anxious through your columns to direct public attention to a matter which seems to me of grave importance and which has not, as...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The intense interest aroused by Lord Cromer's articles on " Disraeli," and on his, alas ! sadly interrupted biography, must necessarily...

interested in the article in Saturday's Spectator on National Service. It will be satisfactory to you to know that the debate at the Unionist Club here was successful when I...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR. "] S1R,—I have just read with the utmost interest your article on " National Service by Consent," and the scheme as outlined by you meets with...

the Earl of Cromer in your number of November 30th that there was "a total absence of any moral principle" in Disraeli reminds me of an anecdote about King Frederick the Great....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECUTOR.1 SIR,—May I suggest one obvious way of giving practical effect to your suggestion of calling a round table conference of leaders from both...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sri,—Mr. Philip Snowden has given us (errors excepted) the workman's views on patriotism. Now hear Edie Ochiltree, the Blue Gown (licensed...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "Briton:m."1 Snt,—The verse quoted by you under the above heading, telling of the shooting, in standing corn, on a September Sunday, of hen pheasants,...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—The Secretary for War has recently stated in the House of Commons that the question of the future of the National Reserve is under...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—Your readers may have noticed in Truth of Novem- ber 20th or elsewhere that Mr. Arnold, a Rangoon editor, was convicted of libelling a...

ARMAMENTS AND ARBITRATION.* ADMIRAL MAHAN has collected here papers which have already appeared in print treating of the place of force in the relations of States. He argues...

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...

"TWELFTH NIGHT" AT THE SAVOY. IP Mr. Granville Barker's production of The Winter's Tale was no more than an interesting experiment, his Twelfth Night, which has followed it at...

THE SCHOOLMASTER. SUPPOSING it was mine to claim, If I had sought it, modest fame— Friends think of me as Might-have-been And pity me my life's routine, Because, a scholar,...

LTO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. " ] Sra,—The Selborne Society is making a representative exhibit at the Children's Welfare Exhibition (which is to be opened at Olympia on...

[To TRH EDITOR Of THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your issue of November 16th your reviewer of "Shepherd Songs of Elizabethan England" (Constable and Co.) names some of the poets from...

THE phrase, " Advance Australia," was coined many years ago as an aspiration or a prophecy. For some little time Australia may have seemed, at any rate to pessimistic observers,...

THERE is room somewhere for a new magnum opus on fishing. For a quiet mind in these days there is too much talk of female olives. The science of the dry-fly fisherman, with all...

Mr. Hassall's History of British Foreign. Policy is not a success we mean only that the object he proposes to himself is unattainable. He has been struck by " the absence of a...

Miss CONSTANCE HILL has lately published a new book on her favourite heroine, Frances Barney, which, as she describes it, is a link between her two former books, The House in...

Miss WEIGALL has compiled a volume which well deserved publication. Her grandfather, John Fans, Lord Burghersh, afterwards eleventh Earl of Westmorland, had an interesting...

Tab REEF.* Idas. WHA.RTON has been for the last dozen years in the front rank of American novelists, and her new work shows no falling-off in the qualities which have earned...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Poems. By William Allingham. Selected and arranged by Helen Allingham....

and Hall. 7s. 6d. net.)—As an indefatigable traveller on English roads Mr. Harper has earned considerable gratitude for sharing his pleasures with many readers. In this volume...

Neuman's new book deals with the Russian Jew, and inci- dentally touches on the horrors of the pogrom and the Jewish Pale. There are plots and counter-plots, spies, bombs, and...

The Chapels Royal. By the Venerable Archdeacon Sinclair. (E. Nash. 20s. net.)—Twenty royal chapels of the United Kingdom are here described, and pictures of most of them,...

Weaver. (Country Life Offices. 15s. net.)—Miss Jekyll has wide practical experience of gardening and special knowledge of adapting her experience to the various landscapes of...

6s.)—A story of politics in South- eastern Europe, which events of the last three weeks have put entirely out of date.—St. Lo. By Dorothy Margaret Stuart. (Holden and...

Frank T. Marzials. With an Introduction by Lewis Melville. (Stephen Swift. 21s. net.)—Beckford had always intended to incor- porate these three stories in " Vathek," and they...