be sup- posed that all hope is abandoned. In the first place there are indications that the public opinion of the working classes is steadily, if slowly, developing against the...

a laud- able willingness to accept the Government proposals, even though they may think them unfair in the abstract and likely to damage the industry, the miners have as yet not...

selves there is a good deal of unrest and annoyance. In one or two small pits the men have returned to work, and it is said that in Lanarkshire, where there are a very...

fact that, though the Government have wisely refused to do any- thing which could be represented as a throat, they recognize that they have great responsibilities in the matter....

T HE coal strike still continues, and we should be guilty of undue optimism if we were to say that we see any immediate prospect - of a settlement. The conferences between the...

,ino case.

Times should have given so much prominence to the venomous and monstrously unjust attacks on Mr. Roosevelt made by the writer who signs himself "An American Exile." We shall not...

action, we desire hero to express our belief that throughout the coal crisis he has acted with a moderation, tact, and good sense which does him the highest credit and fully...

worth point- ing out that the storage of coal which took place before the closing of the mines, and the economy in its use which has been made since, have placed the nation in a...

American and Anglo-French Arbitration Treaties were amended in such a way as to be deprived of all their peculiar purpose. Clause III., which provides (in ease of disagreement...

last resort, show the firmness and the power to give that last tug on the rope which is the essential of statesmanship ? For one man who can give the last pull there are...

views we must recognize that if the miners will not yield, all that remains is for the Government to choose the moment when they can intervene most effectively. Naturally enough...

of the King of Italy. The King and Queen were driving to the Pantheon to attend a service in memory of King Humbert's birthday when a man concealed behind the pillar of a house...

make out that Mr. Roosevelt denounced and. finally destroyed the proposed Anglo-American Arbitration Treaty. Mr. Roosevelt did nothing of the kind. In an article in the Outlook...

the men capable of hewing coal in the country are in the unions or under union influences. There are literally thousands of men who are not now miners but who have at some time...

King George on Saturday last. In his speech the King commented on the absence hitherto of any buildings which would speak of the modern County of London, and form a counterpart...

so unwise as to take any part in the deliberate attempts that are now being made to degrade Mr. Roosevelt in the eyes of his countrymen, for their inspiration is either personal...

Mrs. Seddon at the Old Bailey for poisoning their lodger, Miss Barrow, came to an end on Thursday evening. The jury found Mrs. Seddon not guilty and Seddon guilty. In view of...

Mr. Amery declared that neither the Expedition- ary Force nor the Army that would remain at home was fit to undertake its task. Colonel Seely replied that in 1899 we could not...

supplementing the Territorial system with a system of national military training. He advocated national cadet training for youths from 14 to 17, and national training for men...

the Liberation Society was held at the West- minster Palace Hotel on Tuesday. Mr. Birrell, the guest of the occasion, delivered the principal speech, in which, after declaring...

that Mr. John Fitzgibbon should be removed from the Con- gested Districts Board. The facts of the case are very simple. Mr. Fitzgibbon was appointed to the Board by Mr. Birrell,...

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the frying-pan into the it. stopped, that is not so in the coal-mining industry. That industry must feel a permanent effect from the strike. fire, and they will encounter...

111HE Government are to be congratulated on the manner in which they have dealt this year with the Navy Estimates. The Estimates begin with the following statement : "These...

on Monday on the administration of the Poor Law gave Mr. John Burns a very useful opportunity of defending his conduct of one of the most important departments of the State. Of...

number of the American Outlook contains a report of "an authorized interview" with President Taft on the methods of tariff-making. Mr. Taft is, of course, a convinced...

news reaches us from the South Pole is remarkably different from the do* arrival of most of the stories of North Polar exploration. When Sir Ernest Shackleton reaohed a point...

I F there should happen to be anywhere a writer contem- plating the possibilities of a history of his own parish, lie may be recommended to study the quotation which Mr....

long delayed. It is just four years, since the Commissioners ceased to hear evidence. Illness and death were among the causes of the delay. Science, mean- while, went on :...

pro THZ EDITOR OF TRH "SPECTATOR."] Sig,—There is reason to hope that before this letter can appear in print some settlement of the immediate difficulty in the mines will have...

THE POLICY OF THE UNIONIST PARTY. [TO TRX EDITOR OF TUX ..SPXOTATOR.”] SIR,—Having had twenty-five years' daily intercourse as works manager with workpeople of many different...

(To THE Rama or TEE "SPEOTAIDR.1 Siu,—If " Ulsterman's " criterion, as applied to "M. W. S.," is to be accepted, the inaccuracies in his own letter are so great and glaring as...

[To ma EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR."' Sin,--There is one aspect of the coal strike to which I think it is well that attention should be called, because it has con. siderable...

be surprised at the economic attitude of Mr. Hobson as shown by his letter to the Nation. You think, and, no doubt, correctly, that it is a strange attitude for a Free Trader....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—At the moment of writing it would be bard to stun up the situation better than in the accompanying couplet front " Locksley Hall"...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "Emmen."] SIR,—I enclose a copy of the leading article in the Man- chester Guardian of Tuesday, February 20th, 1912, containing two statements so obviously...

recent correspondence on the above subject you may, perhaps, consider an actual ex- perience worth publishing. One of ray daughters has lately been living with me here in...

[To Tut EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."3 there be any end to the concessions which em- ployers of labour must be asked to make under the present system of recruiting the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SEECTATOR."] Sin,—Allow me to protest against the makeshift and dangerous ways of building described in the Spectator of March 9th, and to show the way...

[TO THE EDITOR or TUE "SPECITATOIL"] SIR,—Kindly permit me to reply to Mr. John Humphreys, who, taking as his text the debate on the Plural Voting Bill, again puts forward...

housing accommodation, particularly for those engaged in agriculture, is ably set forth in Mr. Buchanan ' s letter in your last issue. His proposal to build in wood is...

SIR,—May I beg you to give space for the following P—I am, May I give two instances of recent date to show that the "White Slave Traffic " exists in England P The "procurers" in...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE "ETECTATOR."3 SIR,—Yout incidental reference in Saturday ' s Spectator to a gentleman who used to write to the Press and returned to the habit even after...

ere THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR, — As the Easter festival approaches, the desirability of a united communion, in which all denominations of the Christian Church may...

[To Tar EDITOR OP THE " Srameron."1 Ste,—After considering your anthology of Shakespeare's modernisms (Spectato,., February 25th), I am confirmed in an old opinion of mine that...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR,"] Sin,—Tennyson is not the only writer who has sung of swallows and bees—and not swallows only have been described as enemies of the hive....

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 Sin,—If you do not consider this subject sufficiently exhausted may I point out that it is more fully discussed in the "Life of R. S....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " MPEOTATOR." J SIR,—No. Longfellow did not "perpetrate a blunder." The Emperor Charles of Spain is all right. He was the Emperor, and he was of Spain. Had...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE “Srscnrott."3 SIR,—Those of us who think that England should be given a likeness of herself, of more enduring substance than paper, will be grateful to you...

[TO THE ' EDITOR OP THR " SPECTATOR." J enclose.a paragraph from Burke which may seem to you, as it has seemed to others, strangely appropriate to the present day. Many Men...

Strt,—There are still some of us who remember Pre Hyacinthe in his vigorous prime; who, in company with Mr. Gladstone, the Duke of Argyll, Bishop Tait, and others, listened...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR," J SIR,-L•W ill you allow me to make known to the public, through , your columns, that an interesting collection of the drawinga and paintings...

THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Some of your readers will be interested to learn that the'- appeal made in your 'columns in behalf of Dennis Leahy, the taxi-driver, has resulted in a...

[TO TEE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—With regard to the letter on this subject in your issue of March 9th, I may mention that in Ladbroke Square we have periodical visits...

interested to learn that a brown wood owl was seen in Kensington Gardens on March 3rd by one of your correspondents, as one morning, early this month, I was awakened about four...

same mentioned by your corre- spondent, has been spending the winter in Cleveland Gardens, Hyde Park.—I am, Sir, &c., 30353. [If we are favoured with more letters of this...

to thank the ladies and gentlemen who, through the medium of your paper, rewarded me for saving al boy from drowning in the Thames at Chelsea Reach P Especially would I ask you...

[To TIER ED/TOIL OF TEE "SPECTATOR."] ,SIR,—The clergy, like othermen, may he misunderstood, but .on what authority does W. G. S. M. credit them with the belief that infants...

Will those of our readers who are willing to subscribe to this Fund kindly make cheques payable to the Spectator and cross them "Barclay and Co., Gosling's Branch "? Envelopes...

pro THE EDITOR OF TIIE "SPECTATOR.'] StR,—may we call the attention of your readers to the Tenth Vaniation Term for Biblical Study which will be held this year at Oxford from...

[To TUE EDITOR OW TUN "SPECTATOR."J Sin, — Correspondents are still writing to ask if it is too late this season to put up nesting-boxes, and the answer is "No," as the birds...

WOMAN ADRIFT:* Tins book covers, and covers most ably, practically the whole ground of argument—political, biological, social—against granting the Parliamentary franchise to...

IN MARCH. WHAT! are daisies out again ! And along the low-browed lane Star-rayed kingcups lure with gold Tiny hands from mother's hold. When such stars are fallen shining To...

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...

THE ITALIAN FUTURISTS. Thu Italian Futurists have come to town and are now draw- ing the Athenian part of London to the Saekville Gallery in Sackville Street. It is only a year...

more flourishing than to-day, but mountaineering literature seems to have fallen on evil times. If our exploits are more remarkable in many ways than those of our fathers, we...

Or Mr. Spaight's War Rights on Land let it be said at once and without qualification that it is an admirable work, it is safe to say that the average officer, however keen he...

the governing class that. ruled England at the close of the eighteenth and the begin- ning of the nineteenth centuries. These have shown how "that class conducted war, how it...

are becoming rather a nuisance. For one thing it is not certain that the Fine Arts are all dead; and supposing that they are, surely the less said about it the better. Supposing...

Mn. G. L. STRACHEY, in his Landmarks in, French Lilerature, has acsomplished an extremely difficult task with considerable success. As an introduction to the study of a...

THIS is one of the "Medieval Towns" Series. So far England has been represented by London and the two University towns. Coventry is in another category : it stands for the...

is Mr. Innes's description of his book, and it is happily worded. The subject is indeed vast. General principles of the gravest importance are involved, and there is a multitude...

MARIE.* THorrox he has already some fifty-odd volumes to his credit, there is no sign of weariness or declining energy in Sir H. Rider Ha,ggard's latest venture. On the...

6s.)—It falls to our lot to read many novels, but it is not often that we find one which could be read chapter by chapter as a Sunday evening lecture to a congregation of young...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as hare not been reserved for review in other formel The Constitutional History of England. By Sir Thomas Erskine May....

Paul. 68.)—A romantic story in which there is more than an element of the supernatural. It will only be read with pleasure by those who are able to force themselves to believe...

le Bras. Put into English by Frances M. Pestling. (Chapman and Hall, lb. net.)—M. is Bras, himself a Breton, is an acknowledged authority on all that concerns Brittany and its...

of this novel seems something of a paradox, as the " success " of Michael Annarly, the hero, does not come till the last few chapters. The book, in fact, describes how by the...

E. Cave. (Municipal Journal. 12s. 6d. net.)—A very considerable increase, amounting to as much as 20 per cont., has boon made to this very useful volume. So vast is the subject...

information about Government Depart- ments, Public Offices, the Houses of Parliament, Revenue and Expenditure, Elections, Societies, with a record of the proceedings of...

Marston). (Sampson Low, Marston and Co. 2s. (3d. not.)—Mr. Marston tolls us that his "angling days are over." That time Comes sooner or later to all lovers of the "gentle art."...

(Hutchinson and Co. 5s.)—This is a new edition of a book which was first published in 1883 and reprinted in 1901. Mr. Langton, who was a wood engraver by occupation, was an...