Friday's paper, states that the results to hand clearly show that the Opposition is rimmed of about two-thirds of the seats in the new Duma. The Constitutional Democrats, the...

by the Queen, on Tuesday. The King's Speech, after the customary references to foreign Powers, alludes to the earthquake in Jamaica. "The courage and devotion" of "the Governor...

of the Times, in Tuesday's issue, convincingly refutes the charge brought by Mr. Wilfrid Ward, on the strength o a Parisian Protestant correspondent, against M. Briand of having...

of the Papal 'policy is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain. The Temps and the Bade have published circumstantial narratives asserting that the Bishops' declara- tion...

F OREIGN news of importance during the past week has been unusually meagre. Perhaps the most important event recorded is the introduction of the Income-tax Bill in the French...

any case.

New Hebrides Convention. He described the Convention as a first agreement, capable of modification. Both France and England had contemplated the possi- bility of improving it,...

a far more sympathetic than definite answer to an amendment to the Address in favour of old-age pensions. He could conceive no object which ought to be more dear to the heart of...

Mr. Long, can hardly be called satisfactory in tone. We. do not, of course, object to Mr. Birrell calling himself a Home' ruler, for we are quite aware that when the Liberal...

drew attention to the very disturbing phrases used by the Prime Minister in regard to the Government's Irish proposals. He had suggested that the model to be followed was the...

mood of light and amiable raillery. It "surpassed his comprehension" that the King's Speech contained no reference to the Colonial Conference. As to the difficulty between the...

He reminded the Opposition that in 1897 and 1902, when Mr. Balfour was himself in office, there were Colonial Conferences, but they were not mentioned in the King's Speech. He...

delay ; but the proposal to introduce the virus of pauperisation by degrees does not impose upon us, or make us in the least less hostile to this ill-starred scheme. Once...

of Friday week. Mr. Theodore Davis, a wealthy American gentleman, who has for some years devoted himself with great perseverance and success to excavating the Valley of the...

2 (192 votes to 190), rejected the Motion for the issue of a writ in the case of the borough of Worcester, where the Member chosen at the General Election was unseated on...

Church of England, compiled by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge in accordance with the scheme sanctioned by Convocation in 1889, was issued on Monday. Under Part I....

King's Speech, justified the action of the Opposition in rejecting the Education and Plural Voting Bills, and appealed to the Government to clear their minds as to what were the...

Anglian Daily Times on Mr. John Burns's common-sense policy at the liollesley Labour Colony. It will be remembered that this colony, established by a philanthropic American, was...

Jan. 17th. Consols (2i) were on Friday 87—on Friday week 87. .

THE GOVERNMENT, THE LORDS, AND THE COUNTRY. U NLESS the Government are careful, their treat- ment of the House of Lords question will end in a paradox, and a paradox is a...

O N Thursday the Press Association announced that Lord Charles Beresford had "definitely declined to accept the command of the Channel Fleet" if that fleet was to be reduced...

good signs continue that the French republic and .1 the Bishops will be able to come to a compromise, If this compromise be effected, the Church' will suffer no more loss than...

T ORP GOSOHEN'S preparation for public , life was of –11.4 a kind which is unfortunately becoming rare. He entered Parliament in the full vigour of his facultieS, and after a...

S IE WILLIAM HOWARD RUSSELL, who died on Sunday last in his eighty-seventh year, was not the first war correspondent, but he had the right to be regarded as the father of modern...

W E are living in the midst of a great movement which seems destined to exercise a revolutionary influence on human life. This movement is here fantastic and extrava- gant,...

R E joined us on the way to the station, greeting us politely but without effusion, and our harried acknow- ledgment of his civility was certainly not cordial enough to justify...

fliIHERE is an old country saying that snow in February is "the crown of the year," of which the meaning presumably is that the snow comes as a consummation of the natural work...

THE HOUSE OF LORDS. [TO 105 nOITOR Os TIM . SPILOPATOIL1 SIR,—Reform of the House of Lords is evidently the question of the day with you. Well it may be, if the alternative to...

[To TEN EDITOR Or TIM "ErZOTATOR21 have to thank you, in the first place, for so kindly publishing my letter in your issue of the 9th inst., though I am afraid that you were of...

[To ma Emma Or THE "Sviscrivoal Sra, — Will you allow me to point out that there is a side of the Irish University question which, in the opinion of many of those interested, is...

[To MR EDITOR OV Smenvott." J SIR,—I remember being told by Mark Pattison, who was one of the Examiners in the School of Literae Humaniores in the October term 1854-55, when G....

LTO Tag EDITOR 07 THE SPECTATOR-1 S111,—The death on February 12th of Professor Henry Pelham, the President of Trinity College, Oxford, removes, at an age when much might still...

THE "seserrroroi Sur,—There is a suggestion, I think, in Mr. Clark's letter in your issue of February 2nd which is often made, and which certainly ought to be refuted whenever...

[To THZ EDITOR OF THE "8770TATOZ...1 SIR,—I should feel obliged if, with your usual courtesy, you would permit me to correct some misrepresentations of my book, " The Wheel of...

[To THE Eorroa Or 5511 "Eirscrwro.P3 Si,—Would any of your readers kindly send me names and addresses of any men who are organising local corps of Guides, Scouts, Messengers...

[To me EDITOR OF TES "EleacTuroa...1 Sfa,—I have been reading your review of Mr. de Mont- morency's interesting work on the " Imitatio " in your issue of February 2nd, and as I...

Tas Sracmon."1 Sin,—It was my privilege to announce a few days ago that her Majesty the Queen has been graciously pleased to present to the Society of Miniature Rifle Clubs, of...

[To TES EDITOR. OF THE SPECTRTOR.".1 Sin,—Should any of your readers be in want of a chauffeur, I can strongly recommend H. E. Peck, late private Spectator Experimental...

170 THE EDITOR Or THE . SFECTATOR..] Sixt,—My maternal grandmother, born in 1779, took in or about 1830 a house in Croydon, which remained in the occupation of her family until...

LORD GOSOHEN. Arm through a life of toil, in age redoubled, He served his land, his aim a Nation's good; Fighter undaunted ; thinker, clear, untroubled; Where others stumbled,...

[To ram Eorron or los "SrrovAroo."J STR, — In the Spectator of February 9th Mr. Charles A. Witchell expresses a fear that the encouragement of young persons to make school...

[To THE EDITOR OF TES SPECTATOR:] Sra,—I regret to have misinformed your readers upon the authorship of "The Last Voyage," quoted in my letter to the Spectator of February...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sia,—In confirmation of "W. A. W.'s" assertion in last week's Spectator that pigeons seek us out in our homes, he may be interested in the...

THE DESERT AND THE SOWN't THE Syrian desert and the Lebanon, the Druses, the Bedouin, and those strange remnants of broken and mysterious creeds which are part of the religious...

0 LADIES of London town, do you know Where our thoughts are proudly winging— This land, whose speech is soft and slow, Whose seas are swift and stinging P Have you heard at...

HAD Mr. Arnold-Forster confined himself to a critical estimate of the duties and resources of the armed forces of the Crown in 1906, his book might have been of real value at...

MR. B. L. PUTNAM WEALE has published two books of value, Manchu and Muscovite and The Re-shaping of the Far East. These "indiscreet letters," which he only professes to have...

Wito makes the better critic of pictures,—a painter, or a man devoted to art but unacquainted with its technique? Readers of Mr. Clausen's book will, we think, incline to give...

as they are scarce in real life, and very little of the fiction of to-day concerns itself with any one except the first rank in the Peerage or the inhabitants of the shuns, or...

lat. EXPENSIVE MISS DU CANE.* IT bas been reserved for Miss Macnaughtan, who has already rendered many other kindly services to the novel-reading public, to rehabilitate the...

Henry Leach. (Methuen and Co. Is. ed. net..)—Mr. Leach has put together in this volume the recollections and experiences of thirty-four masters of the art and science of...

THE STATE OF THE NAVY IN 1907. . The State of the Navy in 1907. By Civis. (Smith, Elder, and Co. Is. 6d.)—Though we cannot review or criticise at length and in detail matter...

the Duke the Ring. The intelligent reviewer is only too certain that when, as noticed above, ordinary writers of fiction take to Dukes, there is nothing left for authors like...

[Under this heading we notice /sok Books of the week Of have not bees reserved for review in other forma] Moltke in his Home. By Friedrich August Dressler. Authorised...

The Bast and West Indian Mirror. By Saris van Spielbergen and Jacob le Maire. Translated by J. A. J. Villiers, of the British Museum, Vol. XVIII., Series II. (Ilakluyt Society....

Unwin. 5s. net.)—Mr. Ilallik has travelled mush, and has much useful information to give us. He hopes that the English language may take the place which French once occupied....

of Greece, by George Grote, Condensed and Edited by J. M. Mitchell, RA., and H. 0. B. Caspari, M.A. (G. Routledy,e and Pons, 55. net). The period has been contracted by leaving...

65.)-The "galley" is the semblance of a ship, and was largely used in mediaeval times LIS an heraldic symbol. Lord Archibald Campbell gives in this volume twenty-four examples...

fr.)-The demands of British literature upon our space are so great that we can but seldom find an opportunity of noticing anything foreign. We must, however, say a few words...

Lloyd. 3s. 6d. net.)-The facts set out in this volume may be profitably studied by all who are minded to discharge, as indeed every one should be minded, the functions of civic...

Johnson. (T. Werner Laurie. 6s. net.)-This book may be best described by giving a few specimens. " Al " is explained by a reference to Lloyds "Registry of Shipping." "Abbey...

(W. Blackwood and Sons. ld.)-This is a reprint of a sermon first preached in 1870, a vigorous discourse in which a great truth is clearly stated and emphatically defended....

(Spottiswoode and Co., Is. 65. net), describes its purpose sufficiently by its title. Here may be found all details as to the clergy, the benefices, and the organisation...

vols. (Longmans and Co. 3s. 65. per vol.)- The book was published in 1849 and reprinted in the following year, and again in 1853. In 1860 an edition to which Sir James Fitzjames...

Sons, Sc. 8d. net), is a volume in a new "Popular Edition of George Eliot's Works."