The Speech from the Throne alluded to the King's forth- coming visit to France, the settlement of Albania and the Islands, the progress of negotiations with Germany and Turkey...

T HE event of the week is one difficult to describe in specific language. It is the sense of relief that has suddenly arisen in the public mind. Mr. Asquith's announcement that...

ought to find an echo in every part of the House. He and his colleagues would certainly use no "last words" as to a settlement. He criticised Exclusion, and also the plan...

the official Opposition amendment to the Address, representing that it would be disastrous to proceed with Home Rule without first consulting the people, Mr. Asquith replied for...

all the difference to the attitude and state of mind of Ulster. Ulstermen thought that they were being deprived of their rights by the fraud of the Government, who now proposed...

Why had not Mr. Asquith at least out. lined his promised proposals? He was glad that the Government bad admitted their responsibility, but he was afraid they were still playing...

any ease.

deadly blows in six months. He had got the Empire into a mess in India, and now bad sent home, when the United Kingdom might be on the verge of civil war, nine missionaries of...

Bill Mr. Creswell spoke for six home in condemnation of the Government. He was followed by Mr. Merriman, who, in a characteristic and brilliant speech, belaboured both Govern-...

the same amendment to the Address as was moved in the Commons by Mr. Long—that the Home Rule Bill should not be pressed until the people bad given their verdict. Lord Morley...

Londonderry, and Lord MacDonnell. Lord Roberts's statement that it was unthinkable that the. British Army should be called upon to fight against the Ulster Volunteers, and his...

much to record except the renewed intervention of Roumania in the politics of the Balkans. It is understood that she has intimate to the Porte that ebe could not remain a...

that the signing of the South African Indemnity Bill should be reserved, i.e., vetoed. Mr. Harcourt made a wise and notable speech, in which he laid down the principles which...

National Protest and the Howard Association to urge the granting of an amnesty to the political prisoners in Portugal was held yesterday week at the Westminster Palace Hotel. In...

Lansdowne for the Opposition. Unfortunately the overwhelming flood of oratory to which we have been exposed during the week makes it quite impossible for us to deal adequately...

situation as described by Mr. Asquith, but that concessions must be the price, not of the mere avoidance of war, but of a settlement with goodwill, Mr. Lloyd George warned the...

that Fenner, the absconding stockbroker whose affairs were so much discussed in the Marconi Committee last spring, has been arrested on a charge of fraud preferred, apparently,...

Ferguson, M.P., had been appointed Governor-General of Australia in succession to Lord Denman, who has resigned the post owing to ill-health. Mr. Munro-Ferguson combines the...

on suspicion and long detention without trial—facts attested by Portuguese Republicans as well as by impartial and disinterested writers like Mr. A. F. G. Bell, nothing is more...

for the liberation of languishing Syndicaliets tests our credulity altogether too much." On similar lines is the letter published in Tuesday's Daily Chronicle, in which an...

that everyone could read it. We cannot suppose that Lord Murray will refuse to answer the extraordinary series of allegations which it contains, all affecting his honour in...

Leo Masse summarizing the allegations against Lord Murray in connexion with the American Marconi investments. Many of the facts are too familiar to be repeated here, but we may...

a word to describe this corrupt, half-veiled promise of a bribe. In some Continental countries a promise of State grants for public works is a regular method of corrupting the...

Maitland giving the story of the disgraceful hints or partial promises conveyed to the electors of Wick at the by-election at which Mr. Munro was returned after having been...

on Thursday, the "reshuffle of offices " forecasted earlier in the week proving correct. Lord Gladstone will not retire from South Africa till the end of the present Session of...

EXCLUSION HOLDS THE FIELD. E XCLUSION holds the field, and, unless all the omens prove false, will win. No doubt Mr. Asquith has not yet said that he means to adopt Exclusion,...

T HERE will be a general agreement that the Arch- bishop of Canterbury has acted the part of a statesman in his decision in regard to the Kikuyu case. To begin with, he has...

A MONG the many interesting articles in Mr. Gibson Bowles's new Candid Quarterly, the most valuable is one, which may fairly be attributed to his own pen, dealing with the...

D URING- the past few days some American news- papers have been stating that Sir Lionel Carden, the British Minister in Mexico, is interested, together with Lord Cowdray, in a...

M R. BALFOUR'S Gifford Lectures have encouraged plain men to make incursions into philosophy which they would not have attempted without his guidance. This is a substantial...

I N another column will be found a letter from Mr. Thackeray Turner, who writes definitely proposing a scheme for a memorial to Miss Octavia Hill It has been felt by those who...

y ou please walk P This lapid bad," said Rangi. He was not a Chinese, but a full-blooded Maori, very apt to confuse with the r he had known all his life the European I only...

Tao •Srsesron"] Snt,—May a clergyman who has all his life had relatives in the Army, and taken a keen interest in the Army and in military history, endeavour, suppressing - for...

ULSTER'S VIGIL. [To ass Enrroo or ass ”Srecraror-n Silt —Will you allow me to say how deeply the poem, "Ulster's Vigil," which appeared in the Spectator of January 31st, has...

[To ass EDITOR 01 TSB ..81[STASOS."1 Snz,—Might I be allowed to point out to your correspondent, Mr. Herbert O'Hara. Molineux, that in so far as I myself may speak for the...

Sin,—It may perhaps interest some of your readers to peruse the following curious parallel between England as it was in 1640, as portrayed by quaint old Thomas Fuller, and...

[To me Errroa or sae ..Eirroriroa.-1 Szn,—In the neighbourhood of Godalming—that ie, at equal distances from Godalming, Hambledon, and Hascombe- there is what may fairly be...

[To vs. Emma or rim “Srnornroa..] Sax,—The correspondent who writes to you from Matsue, in Japan, under the above heading in last week's issue can scarcely have given the...

[To Tee EDITOR or roe nfirrermos.1 Six,—In your editorial remarks in last week's Spectator you refer to Mr. Lloyd George's meeting in Glasgow, and to the very natural request, "...

[To ran. Ernes or on .13recrkroa*.] Sin,—If I may venture to say a few words in continuation of the letter which you kindly inserted in the Spectator of January 10th, the...

[To Tax EDITOR OF ran. " SPTC71.704 . 1 SIB,—Is there not an obvious explanation of the revocation of ex-President Taft's order forbidding the export of arms and ammunition over...

''Srromtroe."3 Sra,—Du ring the last few days there have been laid before the Anglo-Chinese Friendship Bureau certain facts with regard to the offer of the Chinese Republic to...

[To Tea Bonus 07 Tali .SracraTox., Sin,—On January 17th you allowed me to point out the bard case of a thrifty old man of limited means who, after reclaim- ing waste land and...

[To vas EDITOR or Tin .SITICTATOR."] Sin, —In light of all that is being said for and against the reduction of armaments, it is interesting to note, in the report of Lord...

[To 781 EDITOR Or Tin .4 SPECTATOR:] Srs,—Perhaps a very brief sentence, taken from Mr. A. J. Hill's article, " Changing Religions," in the current number of the Hibbert...

[To ten EDITOR or THE "Berm-meal Sra,—With reference toyourartiele"Another Land Campaign" (Spectator, January 24th), perhaps you would allow me to call attention to the...

ITO Tin EDITOR Or Tin ..13rnorliOn.”1 Srs,—The tidings reached this country on Monday of the tragic death on the 8th inst., as the result of a gun accident, of John Gordon...

(he died in 1861), may prove of interest. They are quoted from My Study Windows in the "Camelot Classics" (Walter Scott, 1886) ,- " Clough, Clough, whose poetry will one of...

SrsoraroRn the Spectator of December 13th, 1913, appeared a letter from a Highland correspondent giving the interesting information that his grandfather, though a child in his...

[TO lin Erases or Tag ElriCTATOR."1 SIB,—Some three years ago we wrote calling the attention of the readers of the Spectator to a pamphlet issued by the Rural Housing...

[To tun EDITOR or ras "sracrsras."] Sin,—In the review of A Confederate Girl's Diary in the Spectator of January 17th the writer uses the expression, " We think the Southern...

A. MISTING TO DE ORGANIZED. [To Ten EDO/08. or en. •• SP.2.01.."1 SI11,—A8 the representative of Our Dumb Friends' League who has specially had the worn-out horse traffic...

[To van Emma or run SPECTATOR...1 Sin,—You were kind enough to insert an appeal from the Islington Apprenticeship Committee for an honorary secre- tary in your number for...

lie TEO EDITOR Or TH1 "Sr 6 CrATOO...1 Siu,—In your very interesting article on "Wye Salmon and Others" (Spectator, February 7th) you refer to the baffling problem " why some...

[To wan Eamon or ram "Eirrernroa"] SIR,—The old English word for " to grumble" was "grudge," earlier " grutch." " Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be...

[To ran EDIT. or ram .Brnornron."] SIR, — Hight not some progress be made in the afforestation of our country if the Head-Masters of all schools, public and private, and the...

would venture to inform your readers that my experi- ence of salmon cultivation on the Tay differs very consider. ably from that of your contributor. The Tay till fourteen years...

Sin,—Surely this is Norman-French. In the "Rules Seynt Roberd," that is, the rules framed by Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, for nee by the Countess of Lincoln in the...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not stecessanly be held to to in agreement with the Metal therein esprused or with the anode of...

IMPERIAL GERMAN Y.* IT is greatly to be hoped that Prince Billow's book on Imperial Germany will be carefully studied in this country. It is a most characteristic and also a...

BILL THE DREAMER. "Sums day when I'm rich (said Bill) I'm going to leave the sea; Sail and steam alike shall see the living last of me, And 'bout ship or heave her to, they'll...

THE British Empire in India has often been compared with the Roman Empire. 'There are obvious points of resemblance. There is, however, an important difference, and one that may...

the last allot was fired in the most desperate war in the history of the Anglo-Saxon race. Nowadays we have the great struggle in clearer per- spective; many admirable histories...

last strongholds of the undis- covered world. A place that offers so many unsolved anthro- pological problems is naturally a hunting ground for men of science. The book before...

PROFESSOR FLIMING is one of our best exponents of the art of explaining scientific principles and results in popular • Th. Palatal. Sohdion. By J. A. Murray Macdonald, M.P.....

WE cannot pretend to find this little book convincing. Of the first part we do not propose to say anything, for, to speak frankly, it appears to us to add nothing material to...

dealt in one form or another with New England and New France, but Dr. Douglas's work is by no means superfluone. For those who already know a little of the subject, who have...

LOVERS of Italy and of lace will find this book a source of real delight. It is written with ability and knowledge, and such subjects as the history and chronology of the ar•t...

Elder, and Co. 6e.)—There are many reasons for and against the choice of an immediate war with Germany as a subject, but Colonel Pollock has made his decision, and it is his...

SMALL SOULS.* M. Loom Courznus is no stranger to English readers. It is a good many years since an English version of his novel Majesty was reviewed in these columns. In that...

6d. net.)—This excellent "regional survey" bears testimony to that spirit of local patriotism which ie one of the best assets for a country. Arnold is a " large village" of...

Rivera. 6s.)—This quiet study of the life of a governess, too old-fashioned to obtain work, too modern to resign herself to her position, is well written, and, for some reason...

ree Cr d e r tt; . Arad . ing .a ir . u . o rm lic . .. 3 .<1. Hooks of Ise ,seek as hays not been The Tragedy of Portugal. By Philip Gibbs. (L. Ilpeott Gill and Son. 4d.)—We...

long since we have come across a book which repro- duces, as exactly as does Mr. Armitage's, the actual tricks of memory; and this close resemblance is at once its strength and...

Press. is. net)—India-rubber was first used in England in the eighteenth century, for the humble purpose of removing the marks of black-lead pencils—whence its name. The first...

Skeet. (Clarendon Press. 5s. net.)—This posthumous parergon is the fruit of what a less "eager, enthusiastic spirit" than the late Professor Skeet might have called idle hours....

very amusing book is a product of Mr.Salzmarufs researches among early records—mainly the proceedings of the Court of Chancery. He has a keen eye for human interest, and made a...

Hill. By Dorothy Brewster.— Learned Societies and English Literary Scholarship. By H. H. Stemma. (New York : Columbia University Press. 6s. 6d. net each.)—Each of these...