an exact appreciation of the character and purpose of the Triple Entente,—a League which exists only to serve the ends of peace, and which cannot rationally be alarmed at the...

Tuesday, when Herr von Beth mann Hollweg, as Minister- President, read the Speech from the Throne. It did not mention the Franchise Bill. Afterwards Dr. Lentze, the new Minister...

Portugal have been unconfirmed, the Pro- visional Government are still in troubled waters. On Wed- nesday a railway strike affecting seven thousand employees, paralysing the...

case.

I N the French Chamber on Thursday M. Pichon made a full statement on foreign affairs. He declared with peculiar emphasis that nothing had happened in the negotiations between...

Braganza, has some hopes of gaining the throne. In a statement published in the Hese Freie Presse, and summarised in the Times of last Saturday, he said that he had promised...

the Minister for War, arrived at Melilla for a short visit to see the progress made since the Spanish campaign in Morocco. The Tangier correspondent of the Times says that...

Loan was offered for subscription on Wednesday. The Times correspondent at Vienna says that the subscription price of 911 includes interest at 4 per cent. from Sept. 1st, 1910,...

publicly to censure Commander Sims for a speech made at the Guildhall when the American Atlantic Fleet was visiting Landon last month. Commander Sims's words were :— " If the...

the West Indies have after all been successful. It was recently announced that the proposed contract between the Imperial and West Indian Governments and the Royal Mail Steam...

interesting review of the proceedings of alien Anarchists in London. It is probable that the authors of the Hounds- ditch murders could be called Anarchists only in a very loose...

assumed that the Home Secretary had "taken the charge of the operations out of the hands of the executive officers," Mr. Winston Churchill in Thursday's Times gives a complete...

serious riot in Bombay. The occasion was the Mohurrum celebra- tions, which, as they are used by the Shiahs to commemorate the fate of Hassan and Hussein, invariably revive the...

to a correspondent who had asked whether the impression in Canada that the attitude of the Unionist Party towards Preference had changed was justified. Mr. Balfour replied that...

been settled, and the way is now clear for the rearrangement of the finances of the Republic with the help of an American loan. The loan, as was announced some time ago, is to...

who met their death in Sidney Street opened on Friday week. Mr. Bodkin, for the Treasury, having defended the calling in of the Scots Guards on the ground that the police were...

to the whereabouts of a man with a limp and a man called Fritz, both of whom were suspected in connexion with the Houndsditch murders. Chief Superintendent Stark described the...

the Post-Impressionist painters, we make no excuse for quoting the following passage from the remarkable letter addressed to the Nation of January 7th by Mr. Sargent, R.A. He...

George's statement at Mile End, was serving a sentence of thirteen years' penal servitude for stealing two shillings from a poor boy, has shown a strange lack of consideration...

of many Tariff Reformers, we recognise that it would be folly to ask them to abandon their faith. But the quality of their faith is surely to be measured by their willingness to...

munication from Professor Roget of Geneva to prove that the Swiss Referendum was inapplicable to England. A letter from Mr. Evelyn Cecil, the Member for the Aston Manor...

Stedman, put up for sale by auction this week in New York, contains a number of extremely interesting unpublished letters on spiritualism written to his mother, Mrs. Kinney, by...

of Wednesday, are of more than ordinary interest. Thus her col- lection of eighteen hundred Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities, including stelae, limestone figures, mummies and...

the strongest safeguard against a despotic majority.—In Switzerland there is a Radical majority in both Chambers.— So far from always endorsing the views of the Chambers, the...

RUSSIA AND GERMANY. W HEN Russia has turned eastwards in pursuit of a policy she has generally become entangled and weakened, and when she has confined her attention to Europe...

rpnE Board of Trade Returns for the year 1910 have _L produced something like consternation in the camp of the extreme Tariff Reformers. Instead of accepting these figures, as...

I T is very interesting news that Mr. Taft is conferring with the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Senate, and that if the Committee approves of a wide—practically...

T one point of the inquest on the bodies of the two men recovered from the Sidney Street fire a jury- man interposed with a question. " Is it a matter of importance," he asked,...

R ICHARD BAXTER is probably the most voluminous of all English theologians. He would be more widely read to-day had he written less. Dr. Johnson said of him : "Read any of his...

M RS. PRAED has lived in the neighbourhood ever since Mr. Praed died, and she declares that she was then the age to which a turbot may attain,—fifty-one. She is respected by the...

'F OR those who have kept for years past, or who perhaps intend to keep for the first time, an out-of-doors diary or calendar, the opening days of January hold a pleasure which...

THE SIDNEY STREET AFFRAY. [To THY EDITOli OF TICE ggsrizcyrcoa. - 1 SIR, — The interest and mixed emotions which the Sidney Street melodrama has stirred have an outward and...

SIR,—May I express a hope that in one of your able articles on the Constitutional crisis you will specifically consider the following arguments against the Lords carrying their...

THE CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THZ " SPECTATOR.") SIE,-It is indeed surprising that the Spectator should have forgotten the Referendum in this connexion, but you...

SIEj--/ for one cannot bring myself to agree with the course advocated by you in case a deluge of new Peers be threatened. Outside many objections of expediency which would...

soon to lay down exactly what should be done if the creation of five hundred Peers should be demanded this year by the Ministry ? If a definite and detailed plan of...

[TO TIM EDITOR Or TIM "SPECTATOR. " ] am glad to find that Mr. Edward Paul, although in your last issue contradicting one of my statements, is in agreement with "a good deal" of...

{TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECT/TOR."1 SIE,—Can it be said that the Crown should accede "auto- matically" to a proposal of its Constitutional advisers which is itself...

in general agreement with your corre- spondent Mr. R. B. Marston in his hostility to the Declara- tion of London, I should like, as one of those corn merchants to whom he has...

and Christmas holidays are over and Parliament will shortly be meeting. What of the future of the British Constitution P Although a Conservative, I cannot help feeling some...

SIR,—If I did not answer the questions which Mr. Marston puts to me in your last issue, a false conclusion might be drawn, otherwise I would have abandoned the apparently...

[To Tim EDITOR 01 TUB " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Your article of December 31st, 1910, on Irish finance is indeed the parent of furious thought I You write :- " No country pays any taxes...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR:1 have read with much interest your appeal to Ulster Unionists, and have waited to see all that may be said against it. I beg strongly to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—On bearing of the tragic " mistake " made by Sutton at Hawes Junction, I wrote to a signalman in whom I am interested to ask his views...

[To THE EDITOR OD THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,— " Hibernicus " in your issue of January 7th writes a letter, interesting in a good deal, but sadly and rather strangely agee in...

JULY, 1863. [To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—In your issue of December 17th, 1910, which is only this week at hand in New York, you publish a letter from Colonel A....

[TO THE EDITOR OP TEE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—You record in your last issue (p. 3) Bishop Westcott's interrogative criticism upon this ill-conceived work : " Should you like any...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR...1 SIR,—In your review in last week's Spectator of "A Scout's Son " you quote :—" The sort of fellow who asks any one about his father does...

[To THE EDITOR OP SHE "BriccrAmov.."1 Sra,—In my letter to you on the above subject last week I assumed that the generous action of Messrs. Chapman and Hall, Dickens's...

[To THY EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I was surprised to read in a leading article in last week's Spectator the expression, "If the worst comes to the worst." I am aware that...

[To TER EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —I am writing to ask whether any of your readers could possibly name the following small bird from my description. He is about the size...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—I stand corrected, and I am delighted to do so. I rejoice to find that Cromwell was far more of an Englishman on the mother's side than...

the nationality of Cromwell's nearest ancestors, is it not certain that his earliest must have been Englishmen ? So far as I know, there is but one parish of Cromwell, and that...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "l Snt,—The author of the lines asked for by " W. W. R." in your last issue is D. F. Gurney, and they occur in some verses beginning "The...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—In the Spectator of December 24th, 1910, one of your corre- spondents from across the seas inquired for information as to the existence...

THE LITTLE GHOST. THE stars began to peep; Gone was the bitter day; She heard the milky ewes Bleat to their lambs astray. Her heart cried for her lamb Cold in the churchyard...

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...

ASSOCIATION. [To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—On Tuesday, November 29th, H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught opened the home and institute erected by the Young Women's...

[TO THE EDITOR OP TER "SPECTATOR. " ] Sra,—May I crave the hospitality of your columns to bring to the notice of your readers the formation of a League called the League of St....

A HERO OF THE HOUR.* IF to see ourselves as others see us is a thing to be thankful for, it is sometimes useful to see others as they see themselves. Whether they be inevitable...

WE have provided America with the standard work on her Constitution, and she has repaid the debt with interest in Professor Lowell's great book on the government of England. Now...

IN the four essays collected in this book Admiral Mahan does not tell us anything which is not known to all students of foreign affairs; but his summaries of facts, while often...

places of history. The work has been very difficult, and the workman obviously has been strenuous. We cannot say fairly that he has lost himself in the obscurity; but he does...

TEN moat remarkable part of this book is to be found in certain of the illustrations. These are reproductions of bronze statues of Congo natives modelled by the author. In many...

A HUNDRED years ago Mr. Clayton's book would have startled the friends of order ; it may quite possibly disturb some readers now. "Studies in Democratic History" is the sub....

reasonable book, deals with the ill results of worrying, rushing, grumbling, squabbling, and so forth. It is one of those mildly didactic little books which have a remedy for...

pictures—she uses both pen and pencil with much effectiveness—of what she saw in the regions which form the "Debateable Land" of the Fax East. They are all the more interesting...

THE STMPK1NS PLOT* READERS of Spanish Gold will hail another novel in " George Birmingham's" second manner, and their welcome will be all the more cordial when they find that...

Phillipps-Wolley, whose name will be not unknown to readers of the Spectator, prints here some addresses delivered by him as vice-president of the Canadian Navy League. It is...

Dudeney's heroine, Amass Meeks, is perfectly delightful as a child. The description of the long dull afternoons passed by her and her boy companion, Sebastien, in a smutty...

and Blackett. as. 6d.)—The story of an irregular alliance contracted by a Cabinet Minister and a lady who escapes from an unhappy marriage. The scene of the story is laid in...

it is impossible to approve of the conduct of Christopher Serocold, the hero of this story, he is on the whole a very engaging figure. The present writer confesses to being...

Angus Knight. (R.T.S. Ss. 6d. net.)—There has been of late a plentiful crop of anthologies, but not one of them, we are sure, will be more welcome than the collection which we...

(Cambridge University Press. 2s. net.)—This is the first of a series of "Girton College Studies" which is to appear under the editorship of Dr. Lilian Knowles. It is the quid...

[Under this heading los notice stuck Books if the week as have net been reserved for review in other forms.] Israel and Egypt. By W. K Flinders Petrie. (S.P.C.K. 2s. 6d.) —We...

net.)—This is a very modest volume when we compare it with the massive tomes which supply similar informa- tion in England. Here the "Clergy List " contains more than a thousand...

peerages, &c., a task always difficult because it seems to invite what it is quite impossible to make, a comparison of their merits. Lodges Peerage, Barcmetage, Knightage, and...

2s. cloth) contains a variety of useful information about crops and manures, farm animals in general, their breeding, treatment, and diseases, poultry-keeping, the operations of...

Imitation of Christ. One is illustrated with twenty-four reproduc- tions of Italian art (including a " Holy Family " by Mmillo) ; the other has a frontispiece portrait of Thomas...

Here we have conveniently tabulated, as well as given in eztenso, the results of the recent Election. There is a science, or, we should rather say, an art, of political...