" from M. Jonnart, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, conveyed to the British public through Mr. Harold Spender. M. Jonnart said that the French Government "desires nothing...

by the impressive centenary celebrations of the War of Liberation, published a sensational attack upon France. The article was headed " The Disturber of the Peace." A more...

week in regard to Mr. Asquith's statement, in answer to a question by Lord Hugh Cecil, that we are under no obligation to France to send a military expedition to her support in...

aceompanied by the Queen, with the usual ceremonial, except that the King revived the ancient custom—abandoaed by Queen Victoria—of wearing the Crown. The previous Session had...

terms, and we venture to say that we shall not be contradicted by any- body possessing an inner knowledge of the facts. If France is attacked by Germany, not only this...

her if she is attacked, and stand by her to our last man and to our last shilling and with every resource at our command, even though there is no treaty. The absence of a formal...

T HE military situation continues to be without precedent. War conditions are existing throughout a vast theatre, and at any moment may come the news of some great military...

case.

ment to the Address that it would be improper to proceed with Home Rule and Welsh Disestablishment while the Constitution of Parliament was still incomplete and without...

to the Balkans. When the war broke out the Great Powers prepared to deal with the situation as it affected the system based on the Treaty of Berlin. In the conference of...

were published in Friday's papers. The Estimates are for £46,309,000, an increase of £1,234,000. The new ships to be laid down are five battleships, as against four last year ;...

Lords by Lord Aberconway and seconded by Lord Ashton of Hyde. We cannot summarize Lord Lansdowne's speech, as most of his points were also made by Mr. Sonar Law in the Commons....

Mr. Royds, who demanded that the methods of land valuation should be in accordance with the intentions of the House and the declarations of Ministers. Increment duty, as, for...

an amendment calling attention to the condition of the people, and asking for a minimum wage and the securing of an equal division of the fruits of industry by " the...

Address was moved by Mr. Hayes Fisher, who regretted that in spite of the pressure of local rates the Government had done nothing to increase the subventions from the Exchequer...

Vice-Chairman, Deputy-Chairman, and Aldermen of the London County Council were announced in Wednesday's papers. Mr. Cyril Cobb, Chairman of the Education Com- mittee in the last...

after the most extraordinary finish that has ever been seen. Oxford not merely rowed their rivals down after passing Barnes Bridge--the point at which as a rule "all is over bar...

with a view to ascertaining the identity of the prize poem which gave rise to the mock-heroic lines on Nebuchadnezzar. As it seems that the equally well-known lines about Daniel...

candidate for Kendal, has had the courage to come forward in favour of compulsory military training. This is a matter in which if any progress is to be made men must have the...

founded on Wednesday by Lord Denman, the Governor-General, and named Canberra by Lady Denman. The site, which is intersected by a fine river, stands on a plateau amid...

year ended September 30th, 1912, issued on Tuesday, shows a slight increase in the number of recruits both for the Regular Army and the Special Reserve. The continued prosperity...

Consols (21) were on Friday 73 1 7 6 —Friday week 731.

THE RATES. W E cannot express any great satisfaction with the debate in regard to the rates which was raised by Mr. Hayes Fisher's amendment to the Address on Tuesday evening....

S IR REGINALD TALBOT, in Monday's Times, strongly urges a reconsideration of the national decision in regard to the Channel Tunnel. Like Sir Conan Doyle, who lately contributed...

Great Britain and the United States over the Panama Canal involves a matter which is much more important, in our judgment, than the mere question of an unexpected tax on British...

the railway unions in the case of Guard Richardson points to what we believe to be the true function of trade unionism. Before elaborat- ing this point, however, we wish first...

Society is to-day issuing a remarkable little leaflet entitled " Slavery in West Africa." The leaflet, which can be obtained from the offices of the Society at Denison House,...

T HE religions bad are the worst enemies of religion. We are not speaking of hypocrites, whose conduct hardly reflects upon religion at all. They are simply play-actors who take...

long ago as 1886. It is still well worth reading. In the first place, the literary style is altogether admirable. It is the perfection of French prose, and to read the best...

I N a case tried a few days ago at Hamilton the Sheriff showed a very proper sense, as we think, of the licence which ought to be allowed to cats. Those who dislike cats will...

THE LATE SIR WILLIAM WHITE. [TO TUE EDITOR OF TER "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Many notices have appeared within the past few days on the loss we have sustained by the death of Sir...

EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin.,—Yon were good enough on a former occasion to publish a letter from myself relative to a matter the importance of which, at the present time,...

[To THE EDITOR Of THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—I think the best comment upon the uncanny portents of our time would not be your Latin tag, but the following quotation from...

choose to kill the negro or to have a legal trial at which his wife or daughter would be forced to go over the details of the crime in open court to the cross-examination of a...

SIR,—In like case with " Germanicus " I find "it is too tempting for me not to draw your attention to the latest ominous occurrence, which will, no doubt, be taken as a shadow...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Allow me to thank you very warmly for your most excel- lent article on the Foreign Office and Portuguese Slavery. It is, as you say,...

"SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Reading in your paper of March 8th a letter headed "The Royalist Prisoners in Portugal," in which Mr. Bell refers to the imprisonment of Dona Constanca...

Silt,—In the article entitled "The Foreign Office and Portu- guese Slavery," in your issue of Saturday, March 8th, there occurs the following passage, viz.: " The true answer to...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.' SIR,—The letter of " Pleiades," in the issue of the Spectator of March 1st, is apt to create quite a wrong impression of the policy of...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In your "News of the Week" you attribute the lack of success of the women candidates for the L.C.C. to the dis- advantage at which they...

SIR,—In this week's Spectator in an editorial note you quote the well-worn tag, 'Quos Deus vult perdere prius dementat.'" Ought it not to be Quem Jupiter vult perdere dementat...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Apropos of the letters of " Germauicus," I can only assure you that that is the spirit, and it is the spirit that will count; it has...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR...] SIR,—I have been impressed with the present indifference of most thinking people to the trend of party politics. It may be recognized that...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. •. ] SIR, —I am not rich, not even well to do ; I am a schoolmaster, but when I come home to my cheap lodgings the very china dog on the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Through the kindness of a friend I am sometimes given the great treat of a glance at the Spectator, and it was with the keenest...

[To THE EDITOR CY THE -srscrsToe.••] Sia,—Since the opposition to the Statute concerning Divinity Degrees has received the hospitality of your columns, perhap'S you will permit...

THE "srEcrAvoa.") not .a closely analogous idea to that expressed in your article under the above heading to be found in the second stanza of Wordsworth's " Ode to Duty ".?— "...

[To THE EDITOR OP TEE "SPECTATOR."] STR, — We are all grateful for your reproduction of that allegory, and look forward to the full text. "Dogma is of thg cabin" and faith on...

[TO THE EDITQE OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—Sir James Fitzjames Stephen's "Allegory of the Ship," which originally appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette of Novem- ber 28th, 1868, and...

SPECTAT06...1 SIR, — A great number of cottages are required in rural England. We believe that most landowners have considered it a moral duty to house well and comfortably...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] Six, — I submit a new version of Goldsmith ' s lines on woman:— " WHEN LOVELY WOMAN." (With apologies to'the shade of Oliver Goldsmith.)...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] • have read with interest the article on " Quarrelling " in your.paper of the 1st inst. Might I suggest that your con- tributor ' s remarks...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'] Sna,—One of my servants, a country-bred girl, told me that she heard the cuckoo quite distinctly on February 11th in the neighbourhood of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIB,—One infers from Mr. Harrison ' s letter that the savage young hedgehogs he speaks of were out ready for prey in the daytime. This is...

WILLIAM WINDHAM.* No full biography of William Windham has ever been written, and the present volumes are an attempt to supply the want by a collection of his letters. The...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPE[TATOR."] SIR; Will you kindly grant me space in your valuable columns to plead the cause of St. Luke's House, a Home for the Dying Poor, 14 Pembridge...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "EFECTAIUR."1 SIR, —I write to call attention to the comparatively little- known Clergy Rest House at Gomshall, Surrey, where for a very small weekly...

or initials, or with a rseudentm, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor 'must ea necessatily to held to lc in agreement 'with the rims therein eagreseed cr with the mode of...

DAFFODILS. LONDON in spring-time is blowing like a garden, Through the windy streets and squares an airy fragrance thrills; But the flowers of all others that gladden the city...

opportune moment for the publication of his book upon Greece. He wrote it before the outbreak of war between the Balkan Allies and Turkey; it was already in the press when war...

NEWSPAPER readers are accustomed at this time of the year to see "Riviera Notes," which consist of singularly unprofit- able matter; mere lists of English, American, and Russian...

MR. GRETTON has written a very interesting and useful volume, and not the less so that he has been content to use easily accessible materials. For the thirty years between 1880...

THIS volume consists of two parts, the first of which sum. marizes the evidence in regard to the civilization and development of Palaeolithic man and his relation to his...

The Crock of Gold, by Mr. James Stephens, is a romantic fantasy, a caprice. Even a caprice, however, for all its charm and humour, must have some continuity of development ; and...

admirable little hook, shows that a civil servant can be alive to the larger questions of policy which lie outside his administration. It • Eton in th.'Secenties. By the Hon....

THE MATING OF LYDIA.* MRS. HIIMPHRY WARD'S new and very interesting novel forcibly illustrates a curious experience to which all novelists are liable. They show a marked and...

OLD Etonians are already familiar with A. D. Coleridge's Eton in the 'Forties. Here is another decade of Eton life and another Coleridge—a writer who, living his school life at...

(I. Lane. 6s.)—This is a story written by a pessimist to illustrate the evils of a model village or small industrial town. " Slavingtonville " is the creation of the Slavington...

Co. 6s.)—An instalment of Zulu history, introducing the young Cetewayo, Allan Quatermain, and a wonderful woman, of course, with grand fighting and wizardry.—W0 s . By Maurice...

heroine of this story is the gentlest of girls, brimming over with unselfishness. It is a merit of the author that the character is not colourless or merely negative. Her...

Nehemiah Curnock. Vol. IV. (Charles H. Kelly, 10s. 6d.)—We must chronicle the appearance of the fourth volume of the Standard Edition of Wesley's Journal, which covers the...

Co. 5s. net.)—The chief sights of Paris and its neighbourhood are here described in alphabetical order. The treatment and style are more human than those of Baedeker, but there...

[Under this heading we tactics such Books of the week as hare not bees reserved for eerier, In other form.) The Journal of an Army Surgeon during the Peninsular War. (Messrs....

6d. net.)—This is the Lothian Historical Essay for 1912, and is an excellently written study of the famous contemporary and rival of Frederick Barbarossa.