Times summarises the noticeable growth of separatist tenden- cies in Austria and Hungary. .Dr. Biirnreither, the former leader of the Constitutional German Party in the Austrian...

W E have to record with profound regret a terrible disaster on board the French first-class battleship gins,' which occurred on Tuesday afternoon at Toulon. The 'Jena' was being...

organisation, began quite unexpectedly in Paris on Friday week among the electrical workmen, and for one night and a half the city was in comparative darkness. The theatres were...

on Monday afternoon in the outskirts of Sofia, shortly after leaving the Sobranye. The assassin had recently been dismissed from the Agricultural Bank, in which he held a minor...

case.

at the age of fifty-nine. He belonged to the higher middle class into whose hands so much power fell after the Revolution of 1830. It has often been remarked that neither then...

accordance with the agreement made with President Roosevelt last month, the San Francisco Board of Education have rescinded the resolution of last October which excluded...

Committee of Supply turned chiefly on the New Hebrides Convention. Mr. Lyttelton recapitulated the reasons of the Opposition for objecting to the Convention, and remarked that...

Moved the second reading of his Women's Suffrage Bill. The effect of the Bill was to include women wherever the masculine gender is used in the qualification for voters ; and it...

explanation in the House on Tuesday. He recalled the fad that last autumn, on certain charges against him being brought to the notice of the Speaker, he had pledged himself to...

of Trinity College, Dublin, as a place of learning and research was held at University College, Oxford, on Saturday last. Dr. Macan, the Master of University, who presided,...

Pretoria on Monday at a banquet at which General Botha made a memorable speech. He declared that British interests would be absolutely safe in the hands of the new Cabinet, and...

a Resolution condemning the retention of the Crimes Act in Ireland. Both the Attorney-General for Ireland and Mr. Birrell spoke on behalf of the Government, but we need only...

the elevation of Serjeant Dodd (Liberal) to the Bench, was declared on Saturday last, the figures being Mr. Redmond Barry, K.C., Solicitor-General for Ireland (L.), 3,013; Mr....

took pima at Oxford, and Lord Curzon was returned by a majority of 661. The figures were 1,101 for Lord Curzon and 440 for Lord' Rosebery. Although the return of Lord Curzon WM...

the personnel of the Navy was discussed. The Opposition criticised the reduction of strength by a thousand men, while from some Radicals there was a demand for much larger...

of the Colonial Governments in Loudon, by High Commissioners or other specially appointed delegates, appears essential to secure the continuity at present lacking. There is also...

Jan. 17th. Consols (21) were on Friday 841—on Friday week 86.

SCHEME. CYAN the Militia be saved without abandoning the whole of Mr. Halda,ne's scheme ? We believe it can, and that there is a perfectly practicable alternative, i In...

FEMALE SlJEFRAGE. O UR readers will not need to be told that we view with the utmost satisfaction the fact that the Women's Suffrage Bill was last week in effect defeated in...

M TALLICHET, the able editor of the Ribliollaque . Uttiverselle, is one of those European publicists whose examinations of a political situation are invariably worth reading....

I T is easier to judge Lord Penrhyn now that he is dead than it was when he was alive. His relations with his quarrymen were constantly cutting across the received doctrines as...

I T is always a convenience to be able to mark an epoch in some distinctive way, to tick it off decisively before putting it away in the pigeon-holes of memory. If an epoch can...

N OT long ago a book appeared in which the interest centred in a Fifth Dimension. Its presence was realised uncomfortably by the hero at intervals during the story, and it began...

P ROITD is the youth of thirteen when a little girl sidles up to him and demands "the right time, Sir." With what a flourish he takes out his watch, and with what scrupulous...

" /THERE is something in the mere name of the South that carries enthusiasm along with it," Stevenson writes in one of his most charming essays; and if he had been a salmon...

THE REMARKABLE DEPRECIATION OF GOLD. [To Too Saner OF TIM - ssse..voa."] Snz,—The correspondence on this subject, begun in a letter signed " Latona " published in the Spectator...

A DAY'S SHOOTING- WITH THE AMIR OF AFGHANISTAN. pro TUB Emma OF TES "SPECTATOR:1 Stn,—As a shoot, it was rather a failure, but we got an excellent view of the Amin The whole...

(To vas BDITOIL OF VIII .sexcrieron."] Sru,—In your issue of March 2nd you gave the contents of the article in the Times about the "Polish tyranny in Galicia." As a Pole, I was...

[To TUB EDITOR OF SKY SPBCLATOR." SIR, — The best thing cannot always be done, nor perhaps is it very likely to be done when, as in this case of the House of Lords, the broad...

[To THE EDITOR Or TEE •' SPROTAT011:9 Sia,—Perhaps you will allow me to inform your cone- spondent in last week's Spectator who signs himself "Presbyter" that the rubric at the...

[To THE EDITOR OF Telt . 'sesarAxofo] Si,—May I, as an officer of the Indian Army, protest most strongly against your correspondent "India's" letter on "Lord Kitchener and the...

" Presbyter " states that "no one is permitted to receive the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper in the Church of England who has not been confirmed by a Bishop, or is not willing...

[To TIIR EDITOR OF THE “SeRCTATOR.") SIB, — A letter of mine which you were good enough to publish in November, 1906, met a suggestion made by you that the effect of the Old-Age...

can testify in my own person as to the openness of the Church of England ; for, having been confirmed, while at school in Germany, by a Lutheran pastor, I never experienced the...

LT. ras EDITOR OF TER "BrierATOR."] SIB,—May I, as briefly as possible, place the real facts of the Battersea municipal billiards before you (see Spectator. March 2nd) ? There...

[To TRH EDITOR OF TIM "SeserATon.1 Stu,—Whilst the recent extension of Employers' Liability to all classes of the employed, under the Workmen's Com- pensation Act, gives...

(To THE EDITOR OP THE . SPRCI,TOR.1 Sia,—My attention has been called to a most extraordinary statement in a recent book by "Pat" entitled +‘ Economics for Irishmen." Writing...

ITO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPROPAT011.1 Sra,—It cannot be doubted that many of those who are engaged in charitable and social work have realised how great an obstacle to efficient...

SIE,—May I beg for space in your columns to bring to the notice of soldiers and their friends, and of the public generally, a matter that I feel convinced I am justified in...

“SPECTAT04.”] Sia,—You will be pleased to bear that the letter from Miss Holt which you inserted in the Spectator of October 27th, 1906, is producing very good results here. I...

.SPWFAT011.1 Suz,—Mr. T. M. Hastings writes to you (Spectator, March 2nd) in support of the theory that the tsetse-fly, which is believed to carry the poison of the sleeping...

1To THE EDITOR OF ens ..SPECTATOrt.") SIB —I am anxious, if possible, to brill.' the work of our Association to the notice of your readers, and to call their attention to our...

THE GOLDEN BOOK OF MARCUS AURELIUS. Minces, since thou didst live thy day, The world has aged millennial years, But atilt thy golden book can say Its message to our listening...

Di. OSLER ON OLD AGE.* Anouz two years ago Dr. Osier, in his valedictory address to the members of the Johns Hopkins University, fluttered. the dovecotes of similar...

LTo THE EDITOR OF TER "SPECTATOR.") SItt, — While greatly appreciating your kind notice of "Hertfordshire Families" in the Spectator of February 23rd, I venture to draw your...

[To TEE EDITOR OF TOE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—Seeing the great services to English music and the many kindnesses to English musicians rendered by the late Sir August Manna during a...

pro THE EDITOR Or TER "SPECTATOR."] SIB,—Though the writer of the article on "Singing for Soldiers" in your issue of February 23rd makes mention of John Farmer and E. E. Bowen...

WHEN the Moody and Sankey mission was being conducted in England Mr. Moody was once given leave to visit the inmates of a certain prison. He went to all the cells without...

his introduction Dr. Houston candidly admits that at first blush this Journal is dis- appointing; "it is singularly wanting in references to the matters upon which one would...

IN taking up the theme which occupied the day-dreams of Lord Acton, and inspired the bringing together of his unique historical library, Dr. Mackinnon has perhaps subjected...

TEMPTATION.* Mn. BAGOT'S intimate knowledge of modern Italian life,. freely admitted by the Italians themselves, places this curlews,' romance in a wholly different category...

Co. 6s.)—If Tan, the "outcast" of the title, is an unattractive and drink-sodden figure, Lilian, the "angel," must be pronounce' to ho an uncompromising prig. These two women...

though extremely gloomy reading, is both powerful and well written. The male characters, however, are far better drawn than Rosanna, the heroine, who is, to tell the truth,...

LOCAL AND CENTRAL GOVERNMENT. Local and Central Government : a Comparative Study of England, Prance, Prussia, and the United States. By Percy Ashley. (John Murray. 10s. 6d....

[Under this Igeadiag se notice such Books of the tusk as hare not been reserved for °Mi.° in ether forme.] The Education Bill of 1906. By S. Lowry Porter. (Macmillan and...

Campbell tells us in his preface that he desires "to place on record, for what it is worth, his matured opinion on disputed points in the text and interpretation of Sophoeles."...

Hume Elliot. (Sherratt and Hughes. 4s. net.)—William and Daniel Grant, natives of Strathspey, came to Lancashire in 1783. Bury and Rams- bottom were the scenes of their...

Nash. 12s. 6d.)—This volume, with the documents printed in it, the letters of Queen Mary, and the diary of her physician Burgoyne (covering the last six months of her life), is...

Arranged by Marian Edwardes. (J. M. Dent and Co. 7s. 6d. net) —This is a bibliographical account of English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish books from the beginning of the...

English Local Government frosts the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations Act: the Parish and the County. By Sidney and Beatrice Webb. (Longmans and Co. 16s. net.)—This is...

ed, net.)—We cannot undertake to discuss the very grave questions which Mr. Pearson deals with in this volume; but we commend to the attention of our readers two of the essays,...

by this year's issue are not wholly satisfactory. The number of ordinations to the office of Deacon was - five hundred and eighty-seven, being thirty-seven below that of the...

others. 4e.) —This volume will meet with its customary welcome from many readers to whom the byways of horticulture, so . to speak, are full of interest. Utility is not...

India and Imperial Preference (Longmans and Co., 2s. 6d. net), supporting the policy indicated by the title. His object is, to quote his preface, to "advocate the only...

R. Ottley, M.A. Vol. II, Text and Notes. (Cambridge University Press. 6s. net.)—The text of the Codex Alexandrinua has been used for this edition. Mr. Ottley gives a general...

Lea, LL.D. Vol. III. (Macmillan and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—There can be no doubt as to Dr. Lea's views, but he does not write as a partisan. He does not forget that he is writing of...

and Co. 15s. net.)—It seems almost incredible that Ceylon, a country not so large as Ireland, should have supported such an enormous head of game as it did fifty years ago. Even...

Stoughton. 7s. 6d.)—This is the sixth and concluding volume of the second series. The Expositions have taken their place so definitely in the first rank of homiletic...

25. 6d.)—This is a serviceable volume. Mr. Gellichan is not one of the haughty sportsmen who treat bottom- fishing, which, after all, must be the sport of nine anglers out of...

and Co. is. 6d. net.)—In this volume, one of the series of "The Antiquary's Books," the chronological as opposed to the class division has been adopted, with the advantage of...

and Vernon Stokes. (G. Routledge and Bons. 3s. ed. net.)—The illustrations consist of six coloured plates and ten drawings in the text. These are successful efforts to reproduce...

net each) we have six neatly got-up and doubtless useful volumes. These are What's the Law? by a Barrister- at-Law ; Who Did That by J. C. R. Curtis and Muriel A. Curie, "A...