D URING the week there has been continuous fighting in and around Teheran between the Nationalists and the Bakhtiari under Sardar-Asad on the one side, and the Persian Cossacks...

firing in Teheran. The news is very vague, as the onlookers were unable to move about the city. It seems, however, that the Nationalists have gradually made good their...

an Bight-Page Supplement, containing the Half-Yearly Index and Title-Page,—i.e., from January 2nd to June 26th, 1909, inclusive.

and brilliant speech in the French Chamber of Deputies on Monday. The Government had survived two hundred and ninety-three interpellations, and had accomplished solid reforms....

Taft made a singularly wise and graceful reference to Canada which marks him as a man of the highest wisdom. Speaking of the Canadians in their relation to the United States, he...

was committed for trial for the murder of Sir Curzon Wyllie and Dr. Lalcaca. He made a statement in which he declared that no English Court had any authority over him. "I hold...

ease.

UNIVERSAL MILITARY TRAINING. NV- E congratulate the House of Lords not only upon the admirable debate which took place on the question of universal military training, but on...

put forth last week that the true principle is not that the Lords cannot amend or alter a Tax Bill, but that they cannot alter or amend a tax— being required either to reject...

O N Wednesday the German Emperor accepted the resignation of hie fourth Chancellor. The Emperor really Meant it when he announced after the defeat of the Governmeht by the...

T N pursuance of a pledge given to- the House of Commons, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has issued, as a separate Blue-book a volume containing a number of papers bearing on...

A T the inquest held last week on the victims of the disaster at Newport, where many men ,were killed by a fall of earth in a deep trench, one of the witnesses, a Um" berman...

S OME fifty years ago Mrs. Cowden-Clarke, who made the "Shakespeare Concordance," published a little anthology of "Shakespeare Proverbs." For a very long time the book has been...

T HE site ie for a house in the country, and the first necessity is that it must stand high and command a fine view.. It should be a view clear to the horizon miles away, and...

[TO 11111 EDITOR. Or TUC "SnomirOm.".1 read with much interest your article of last week :nn "A Register of Trained Men." It may interest your readers to know that such a...

"A NEW WAY OF LIFE." [To !U NOrr021 Or nil "SrsOrATOO:1 Sra,—You printed on March 27th a letter, which was mine, over the signature "Pastor Ovium." The writer mentioned that,...

appears in last week's Spectator of the experiment initiated by the Surrey Terri- torial Association of creating a register of trained men gives rise to the hope that further...

1.1.0 THE EDITOR OF THE " seaarrrog."1 SIE,—Can you spare a small space for an endeavour to call attention to the specially interesting and instructive article under the above...

[To THE ELIT011 OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—I have no wish to enter the general controversy or canvass the special Constitutional soundness of your suggestion last week that...

columns of your last issue contain a criticism of some letters recently written by me to the Times on the subject of windfalls. In the course of this criticism considerable...

[10 TER EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sut,—May I express my appreciation of the wisdom and good sense of the article in your issue of July 10th, " How Shall We Govern India"? I...

expressed in your article of lad Satur- day on "The House of Lords and Taxation" I respectfully agree,—that the House of Lords ought to insist on amending the Finance Bill by...

[To Tall EDITOR OP THE " SPECTLT08."] SIE,—There can be no doubt that the favourable reception given to the Superannuation Bill as a whole has been in part due to the fact...

To TUE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."1 have just read your interesting article on "Windfalls" in the issue of July 10th, in which you remark that reversions "are bought and sold...

rro THE EDITOR OF as “gekerAToe..-J gin,—P..irmit Me to supplement my letter on this suhlect, published hi your issue of June 26th, with two cases the Pres of which I have...

the basis of our rule in India is extremely attractive as an attempt at a logical explanation of the fact that we are in India, and ea a summary of the reasons that justify us...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIE,—A League under the above title was formed last November to concentrate and combine all patriotic efforts on the part of the women of...

SIR,—In an article in the Spectator of June 26t1i the writer remarks that in 1886 Mr. Chamberlain "placed upon the municipal authorities an entirely new responsibility for...

To THY EDITOR OV THY " SPROTATOIC."] SIR,—It will hardly be denied that the welfare and the happi- ness of a people depend to a large extent on a full and abiding sense of...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPICTATOR.1 Sin,—Your interesting article on Glastonbury in the Spectator of June 26th, whilst recalling the past, suggests also a question for the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The very interesting accounts which have just been published of the enterprise of Mr. Charlton Humphreys in acquiring the freehold...

rTo THE EDITOE OF THZ " SPECTATOR."1 SIR, — Cerro de Pasco is the highest town in the world. The remarkable broad-gauge railway by which it is reached passes over a higher...

appearing in your columns under the heading "Do Animals Reason P " has prompted me to ask if any of-your readers can give a satisfactory answer to the question, " Do horses sham...

[TO Till EDITOR OF TIlE SY ROTATOR."] Si, — As I see you have of late published letters from several correspondents giving instances of cleverness on the part of animals, may...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."1 Sig,—Theae of your readers who have followed the correspondence you have kindly printed in your paper will doubtless be interested to hear...

SIR, - I have an old dog who, in his prime, has fought many a gallant fight with wounded stags. The sight of my stalking- glass in my hand was a sufficient hint that I was bent...

A DEAD DOG. HE was no hound of fine heroic mould, A martyred Gelert grim and bold, A waiting Argus wistful at the knee Of pale Penelope, Such as for ever stays the marble feet...

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...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your article of July 10th on "The Third Degree" reference is made to "reconstructing the crime" in France. Will you allow me,...

of a most intelligent Yorkshire terrier who has frequently shown that he is possessed of reasoning powers. As a rule, the sheep-dogs in our mountain village treat him with...

A NEW POET.f A CENTURY ago, when older conventions ruled in poetry, the poet of a new land prided himself on counting kin with the past. He wrote of the desert or the prairie...

Ms. C. H. SHERRILL, who is an American, has written a book which not only Droves him to be a true lover of mediaeval glass, but proves also his enlightened comprehension of its...

of Ruskin has been fittingly brought to a conclusion with two volumes of letters. Nothing remains to come except the promised volume of index, which is to be of an unusually...

not, as might have been suspected from the date of publication, one feverishly constructed with paste and scissors and thrust upon the market with ghoulish haste. Mr. Hammerton...

A SPANIARD recently, writing from CorcubiOn, one of Galicia's seaports, complained that his letter would take sixty-three hours to reach Madrid, and, in fact, Galicia, the most...

DR. MASSON'S "complementary volume" is welcome for many reasons . . This way of publication has indeed great conveniences. Most authors find omissions, and even mistakes,...

BIRMINGHAM, as one of the lecturers remarks—the volume contains nine lectures delivered before the University of Birmingham—has always favoured free imports under the...

PEoPEssos ALLEN has written a remarkable " essay " (in the ample eighteenth-century sense) on a subject of considerable practical importance and great theoretical interest. He...

This story begins on Long Island, in which exceedingly un- expected place a " babu" startles the heroine's horse by bursting out of a thicket, simply for the purpose of...

PETER HOMUNCIILLTS.* BREEDING is supposed to prove itself in its liberties. A man is to be judged by the ease and confidence with which he moves along an uncertainly marked...

(J. W. Arrowsmith, Bristol. 6s.)—This is a very American story in which the peculiar conditions of American divorce supply the material for the plot. The motive of the story...

3s. 6d.)—These "Cornish Tales and Fancies" are full of humour. "A Strong Man" is perhaps the best: a very prince among non-workers was Theophilus Pennywarn.— The Affair on...

Mader this Leading we notice such Book, of the week as have not bee. reserved for review in other forms.] In a Good Cause. By F. Anstey, Sir Gilbert Parker, Owen Seamiui, and...

Co. Ts. 6d. net.)—This book is a story of amateur farming. "Amateur," we say, not by way of depreciation, for affairs seem to have been managed efficiently and with good...

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Lemoyne. (T. Fisher Unwin. 25s. net.)—The author has spent the past two years, or, we may be sure, a considerable part of them, in visiting and representing by measuring-line,...

Sons. 2s. 6d. net.)—The "Sketches from the History of English Church and State" are full of life and spirit, but we find some of the scenes and figures not a little strange....

(T. Fisher Uuwin. is. net.)—Various matters of the greatest importance are discussed in this pamphlet. Every one, it is true, cannot live at Hampstead, and there are those who...

Fisher Unwin. 6s. net.)—The stretch of coast from Felixstowe to King's Lynn' may be roughly estimated at a hundred and fifty miles, though a pedestrian who should actually...