no agreement has yet been reached, and that there is a very serious fear of the Conference breaking up without result. The particular point of disagreement is the question of...

M SARRIEN has been selected as the new Premier of • France. Sixty-six years of age, he was one of the most trusted of M. Combes's lieutenants, and is a typical Radical Re-...

the Coalition in the eyes of the Hungarian people. That organisation now appears as a rudderless ship with its crew at cross-purposes, and the electors may well ask why such a...

in the Pas-de-Calais district. Nearly eighteen hundred men were at work in the mine of the Courrieres Company, when a series of violent explosions took place, with the result...

case.

reading of the Land Tenure Bill was moved by Mr. Agar-Robartes. Its principle was that the capital of a tenant farmer should be exempt from confiscation. The Bill cheapened and...

The Resolution as it stood was "pure nonsense," and would not be acted upon by any House of Commons which voted it. Like his leader, he asked for some exact interpretation of...

in the House of Commons on Wednesday. Mr. Gladstone stated that there had been no revision of rules : he had only revoked one order—that fixing twelve as the number constituting...

first was that of Mr. Stuart-Wortley asking for the omission of the words recording the verdict of the country. Alter short speeches from Mr. Balfour and the Solicitor-General,...

a Resolution declaring that the House recognised that the result of the recent General Election had been a demonstra- tion of .the fidelity of the British people to Free-trade,...

nob deal with the Resolution, but with the electioneering methods of the Government. Phrases such as "that tabernacle, furrow, or whatever is the temporary rendezvous of the...

raised the question of the Sunday opening of shops. The evil of Sunday trading, he asserted, was spreading; it affected the health and welfare of the community; and in his...

aid the Transvaal to obtain Chinese labour except under proper conditions ought not to be described as thwarting the Colony. Recruiting in China could not go on Without...

204,100 men on the Home and Colonial establishments of the Empire, exclusive of those serving in India, by 10,000 men. Profoundly as we disagree with Major Seely's Motion, we...

entirely with him in his remarks in regard to such absurdities as the proposal to substitute arbitration and the rhetoric of universal-peace orations for military preparations....

Com- mission on Canals and Waterways—promised last December— and the terms of reference were announced last week. The Commission is to inquire and report on the present...

Commons on Wednesday evening by Major Seely, who moved a reduction of the vote on the ground that under the Conven- tion of 1904, which was based on that of 1860, British...

Consols (21 per cent.) were on Friday 901.

MR. BALFOUR, AND THE FISCAL DEBATE. M R. BALFOUR is rightly recognised as one of the chief men of the British Empire. Not only his past services to the State, but his position...

serious work to do, and. its composition, therefore, is of unusual signifi- cance. The controversy with Germany, which has by no means ended, must be conducted. to a peaceful,...

T O grasp the essential conditions of a problem may not necessarily enable a statesman to produce a practical administrative scheme. A hundred. things may militate against...

W E have nothing but praise for the way in which the Chancellor of the Exchequer dealt on Wednesday' with the subject of old-age pensions. It is a policy on, which, so far as...

M R. COURTNEY already sees a cause of possible weakness in the Liberal Party. At the dinner of the Eighty Club at Oxford he spoke of the loyalty of the Liberal voters as a thing...

O UGHT we to criticise our friends behind their backs ? This is the subject which the delightful essayist who looks upon life "from a College window" discusses this month in the...

H EGEL rejected from his "Encyclopaedia of Philosophy" what he called the "quasi-sciences, which are „founded on an act of arbitrary will alone," and among these he included...

T HE fashion of the day is for getting out of doors, and those on the doorstep, as it were, are grateful for a guide. Some such reason perhaps accounts for the popularity of...

THE APPEAL TO PARENTS. [TO TIM EDITOR OF TIM EPROTATOR."] SIE, — It is impossible to overestimate the importance of the cultivation by parents of the sense of responsibility...

article in last week's Spectator on "Children's Meals and Parents' Pockets" you ask : "Why should not meals be provided in all schools for all children whose parents are...

[TO TER EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR." J SIE, —In the excellent article on the above subject in your issue of March 10th there are two sentences the accuracy of 'which the late...

the cry of the underfed or starved children, and to the question whether the State which educates them should also see that they are fed there can be but one answer. But this...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR.1 Sin, — I am delighted to observe your statement in last week's, issue that if Members of Parliament are to be paid for their • services, such...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.” . 1 Sin,—In last Saturday's issue of the Spectator a corre- spondent, "N. N. 0.," adds his contribution to the subject now under discussion...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." j SIR,—In an editorial note to a letter with the title of "Women's Imperial Work" which appeared in the Spectator of March 10th you very...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — It was on March 6th last year that you admitted a letter from the Garden Suburb Trust signed by Lord Crewe, the Bishop of London, Sir...

[To THE EDITOU OF THE " SPECTATOR."' Si,—In the daily Press, and even in the letters published in your columns, Nonconformity is treated as being of one type only. That type is...

Si,—In the article on "Payment of Members" (Spectator, March 10th) you refer to the custom of paying wages to Members, and you say that "the custom only died out It was never...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR, — I receive the Spectator a few days late, so I fear this letter is belated. Yet I should be very grateful if you would publish it and...

SIR, MY LORD THE MATA,—I have already discoursed to you my sail to Britannia and my crossing of the big land of Canada, which lies in the way. Now I am going to try and tell you...

[To THB EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:] SIE,—In your issue of January 14th, 1905, appears an article on the zoological observations of Herodotus. in an attempt to Vindicate, in part...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR." J SIR,- - I was much interested and delighted by your article on "Shakespeare in a Surrey Village" in the Spectator of February 17th, as well...

[To THE EDITOR OP TUB "SPEOTATOR.1 Stn,—After my return to Fiji I saw in your paper a transla- tion of the account of the King's Coronation, written by a soldier of the Fijian...

We gratefully acknowledge to-day the very generous sub- scription of £1,000 made . by Mr. W. Waldorf -Astor, to the Spectator Experiment in Militia Training. Mr. Astor, as our...

LTO TEE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."1 have read Mr. Herbert Paul's letter in your last issue , with'regret. In the few remarks which, at your request, I Made in the Spectator on...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE .. .SPECTATOR:1, SiR;—I shall be very grateful to any of *your readers who r will be kind enough to send illustrated newspapers or magazines for the 'use •...

IS IT LOVE? Is it love, is it hate, this clasp by the sea of the land, • Entangling, swaying, revolving, escaping on to the strand, Escaping, yet never escaped, never utterly...

12s. SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED DURING THE CURRENT WEER': — Mr. W. Waldorf Astor £1,000 0 0 C. B. H. Harter .. .4:2 2 0 Hon. Mrs. W. Lowther ... 10 0 0 R. L. Hunter...

THE ELIZABETHAN VOYAGERS.* PROFESSOR RALEIGH was well advised to issue in separate form his introduction to the latest edition of Hakluyt, for it takes rank with Froude's essay...

IT may be said at once that there is no reason to doubt the authenticity of the papers here collected by Mr. R. S. Garnett and attributed to Thackeray. Every one of theni bears...

THE first and most obvious intention of the title by which Mr. Prior indicates the subject of his book is to answer the question,—Who built the Cathedrals ? When a Cathedral is...

A DISPUTE has long raged between physicists and geologists as to the possible age of the earth. The geologists in tracing the wonderful history which is written in the strata ....

THE MAYOR OF TROY.* Vixere fortes post Agamemnona might well be the motto of " Q's " latest excursion into the romantic annals of the Delectable (or, as he tells us, as...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not btu* reserved for review in other forms.] The Euahlayi Tribe. By R. Langloh Parker. (A. Constable and Co. 7s....

NERO. Nero. By Stephen Phillips. (Macmillan and Co. 4s. 6d. net.) —We have already discussed the dramatic merits of Mr. Stephen Phillips's new work in our notice of its...

—Mr. Terence O'Rourke, or "the" O'Rourke, as he becomes before the end of the volume, is a genial ne'er-do-weel of pleasant manners and smooth address, able to take on a great...

may be thought of the execution of this novel, its ideals are so much "on the side of the angels" that the story itself cannot but be welcomed by the serious reader. Though the...

J. Drane. 2s. 6d.)—Dr. Munro, who writes from Johannesburg, states the conditions of the case from the standpoint of one who is in favour of the importation of Chinese labour....

Brief Literary Criticisms. By the late Richard Holt Hutton. Edited by his Niece, Elizabeth M. Roscoe. (Macmillan and Co. 4s. net.)—These essays are "reprinted from the...

land Association. 1s. net.)—This is the first of two volumes which are to deal with the Southern and Northern sides of London. The Jxuburbs, and many places, such as Sevenoaks,...

3s. 6d. net.)—We need hardly say that this volume is full of valuable information. It contains general statements of the conduct of municipal affairs by (1) Municipal...

MA. (Cambridge University Press. 6s. net.)—The verse occupies something less than three-fifths of the volume. Of course, it is the more attractive of the two ; but the prose...

Press. 6s. net.)—Sir Clements Markham's great- grandfather is an interesting instance of the democratic spirit of the Church. He came of an old family, but it had come down in...

and C. Black. 7s. 6d. net.)—Dr. Comrie acknowledges in his preface help rendered by various writers. He has revised and brought up to date certain articles which appeared in the...

Author, Didsbury. 41 1.5. net.)—Our readers are probably acquainted with Mr. Moss's work. He has already published records of his journeyings and of their results. For...

Dent and Co., 2s. 64. net) we have The Medea and Hippolytus of Euripides, with Introduction, Translations, and Notes by Sidney Waterlow, M.A. Mr. Waterlow translates with...

Jackson is the organising secretary of the "Mission to Lepers in India and the East" ; for this position he has the qualification of a personal experience of the work which is...

Chapbooks " series (E. Grant Richards, 3s. ad. net), is Essays Moral and Polite, 1660-1714, Selected and Edited by John and Constance Masefield. John Evelyn, Jeremy Collier,...

Sculpture, by Ernest Arthur Gardner (Macmillan and Co., 10s.) This Work originally appeared in 1895, and has been reprinted four times without alteration. Professor Gardner now...

Nash. (Spottiswoode and Co. is. 6d. net.)—This work has been subjected to considerable change of contents and arrange- ment, and, we may say, is an excellent specimen of its...

an Agitator's Life, by George Jacob Holyoake (T. Fisher Unwin, 2s. fid. not). We need hardly say that it is a book of' a most interesting kind, a view of the intellectual life...