must always be a difficult and invidious task in such a way as to command general approval. No adequate reasons have been given for the supersession of so judicious an...

T HE process of reconstructing the Ministry was completed on Monday, and, subject to certain reserves, Mr. Asquith is cordially to be congratulated on the manner in which he has...

by the British Consuls in the Free State which were contained in the White Paper issued to the British Houses of Parliament. Many of the Consuls' assertions are declared to be...

express our satisfaction that the Government intend to raise the salaries of the President of the Board of Trade and of the President of the Local Government Board to £5,000 a...

annexation of the Congo Free State,—a question, as the Times correspondent truly says, more momentous than any considered by the nation since the separation from Holland in...

spirit—which have induced Mr. Morley to accept a peerage while retaining his post at the India Office are set forth in the dignified letter to his constituents which appeared in...

case.

assassinated by a Ruthene student while giving public audiences. The assassin, Siczynski, appears to have been concerned in the remarkable affair of Ruthene students at Lemberg...

Prince August Wilhelm and Princess Victoria Luise arrived at Corfu on board the 'Hohenzollern.' The Emperor has been staying in his house known as the Achilleion, which was...

financial agents for the German Imperial and the Prussian Govern- ments met on Tuesday to ascertain the amount of the sub- scriptions to the new loans of 232,500,000. Contrary...

according to which the dispute between Russia and the United States in Manchuria is likely to be ended without further difficulty. The dispute referred to the exercise of...

sitting to transact business before adjourning for the Easter Recess. Mr. Whiteley, the chief Liberal Whip, in moving the adjourn- ment announced that the Licensing Bill would...

Paris was given on Saturday last. Mr. Lloyd-George was to have been present, but was prevented from going by the political crisis. The speech of the evening was made by M....

never had been an alliance with the Liberal Party. It was clearly to the interest of Ireland to hasten the Dissolution of Parliament, and it would be the utmost folly for them...

at Shrewsbury in which eighteen persons were killed on October 15th last is a very remarkable and somewhat dis- quieting document. The accident, which Colonel Yorke describes as...

election of Members for Dewsbury and North-West Manchester, the divisions in which Mr. Runciman and Mr. Winston Churchill are seeking re-election. In North-West Manchester the...

first appearance as Chancellor, maintained that there was nothing new in this sudden inrush of foreign hops. On the contrary, we were importing less now than we did twenty years...

declaration of war from Mr. John Redmond. Speaking at a meeting of the Central Branch of the United Irish League in Dublin on Wednesday, he said that the speeches made by Mr....

Society in London on Friday week Lord Balfour of Burleigh said that in the last thirty years the relative position of the private Member towards the Government bad changed, and...

by the correspondence which has passed between him and the Free-Trade League, a non-political organi- sation. Mr. Leaf, chairman of the North-West Manchester Branch of the...

19th. Consols (2i) were on Thursday 87i--on Friday week 87i.

THE NEW MINISTERS. W E dwelt last week upon the general position and. policy of the new Cabinet. At the present juncture we desire to say something as to the results which the...

A FRIEND who has recently been studying on the spot JOIL the progress of opinion in Germany tells us that the thing which surprised him most was the apparent growth in the sense...

United States assumed in becoming a colonising nation and a potentially great naval Power after the Spanish-American War were epitomised in the most recent demand of Mr....

or cheaper than to charge Liberal statesmen with inconsistency on the score of their acceptance of a peerage. But we are not yet governed by a single Assembly, and even those...

I T is very clear that we are not a nation of shopkeepers. We are far too much ashamed of the shop and too ignorant of its ways. In the first number of the new monthly, the St....

T HE Hibbert Journd is always interesting. The mere fact of its existence is a remarkable sign of the times, and nowhere can the religious temper of intellectual England be...

T HE recent dispute whether Great Britain ought to accept the International Convention on wireless telegraphy has left the public, we fancy, rather mystified; and if it has...

T HE spring last year was cold and late, but this year looks like being, if not one of the coldest, one of the latest springs on record. March was not a warm month, though there...

VIEWS ON CONSCRIPTION FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPPCTATOR." . 1 SIR,—Few topics have received more widespread attention of late years than the subject...

ON THE STATE OF POLITICAL PARTIES. ITO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.".1 believe there is no doubt that a large proportion of the people of England are very tired of the...

[To THE EDITOR Or TER "SPECTATOR."] Si,—The suggestions which you have made for the formation of a Centre Party, and the correspondence to which they have given rise, have...

(TO THE EDITOR Or THB " SPICUDATOR.1 Sin,—Two things specially strike me in the speeches of your politicians about Ireland. One is that they never appear to have studied Irish...

130 THY EDITOR Or TSB " SPECTATOR."] Sin, — The article in last Saturday's Spectator gives only one reason in favour of the Sugar-tax,—i.e., that it is a good "drawing tax." The...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I, as one of the many ipso facto excommunicated Catholics of these troublous days, attempt an answer to the brilliant letter of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:] Sta,—There are several questions suggested in Colonel F. N. Maude's article in the April Contemporary Review which are of special interest,...

Fro THE EDTrOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 Srst,—Your depreciatory reference in last week's Spectator to the beliefs of the New Church (Swedenborgian) as "Gnostic- like...

if you will kindly allow me to make two remarks upon the letter of Mr. F. R. Cave in your issue of last Saturday. (1) Mr. Cave rightly points out that Huxley did not regard...

too much importance to the imprimatur when he assumes that it means that a book is sanctioned by the Catholic Church (see Spectator of Apri111th). Such is not the case at all....

LTO TER EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR,—The New Forest is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful and valued of our national possessions. Every one who has visited it knows that...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "EPECTLTOR."1 Snt,—The Hon. Arthur Elliot, having been requested to write the Life of the late Lord Goschen, would be greatly obliged to any of Lord...

The spectacle of the well-to-do in this country Preaching thrift to the working man is often rather a • These letters, under the title of "The Problems and Perna of Socialism,"...

THE GARCIA. FAMILY. MANUEL GARCIA the younger, who was born in 1805 and died in 1906, had so much to recommend him beyond his longevity that we cannot congratulate Mr....

NAZARETH. BUILD ye no churches to my praise, Lift not the lofty fane, No clouds of smothering incense raise My honour to maintain. Within man's heart the house of prayer...

DELANE OF THE "TIMES." PERHAPS no one was ever less famous in proportion to his power than Delane. Of course anonymous journalism secures that a man shall be little known ; his...

THE first part of Sir William Ramsay's volume is not, we think, the most valuable. He sets forth what he calls the "Pauline Philosophy of History." This, briefly put, is that...

DR. WORKMAN and his wife deserve to be reckoned among the most indefatigable of modern mountain explorers. They have done more than anybody else to increase our knowledge of the...

Mn. WALTER JERROLD in his preface to this new anthology of "livin g poets" combats the not uncommon statement "that there are no poets now," and declares that, on the contrary,...

fair and conscientious writer, and this new book will justly add to her reputation. It was inevitable, perhaps, that the tragedy of the tan days' Queen should hang over these...

The "wolf" of the title stands as a symbol of the feeling of quo vadis P which overcomes all human beings every now and then, and which takes this form for one of the principal...

CROSSRIGGS.* WHETHER they write separately or in partnership; the work of Miss Mary and Miss Jane Findlater is always welcome. (The collaboration of sisters, we may note in...

devote more space than we have at our command to this remarkable book, which combines a depth of philosophic thought and religious feeling with a lucidity and felicity of...

History of the Counties of England" (A. Constable and Co., 31s. 6d. net per vol.) These are Kent,Vol. I ; Stafford,V 01.1. ; Warwick, Vol. II.; and Dorset, Vol. II. The plan of...

MA. (Cambridge University Press. 21s. net.) —Two earlier " Grace-books " have been published, by way of memorial to Dr. H. R. Luard, sometime Registrar of the University, one by...

Warner, M.A., and Edmond Warner, B.A. Vol. III. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co. 10s. 6d.)—This portion of the Shilmaina is occupied with the reign, which is reckoned at sixty...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other formal In "Pan-Anglican Papers" (S.P.C.K., 2d. each) we have received...

6s.)—A modern story of a girl brought up in a sphere higher than that in which she was born, and of the admirable way in which she rises to the situation.—Follow Up! By Archi-...

and Stoughton. 3s. net.)—Professor Deissms,nn gives us here some lectures delivered last rear at Cambridge, and subsequently published in the Expositor. (They have been...

—These "Nature Teachings of Faith and Hope" will be found. we can well believe, of use to those who read them, as they were written "in a time of enforced stillness," and,...

7e. 6d.)—This "Concise Guide to the Powers and Duties" of the District Council forms a substantial volume of more than four hundred pages, and that though the topics of the...

Aberdeen. is. net.)—This is "specially prepared for the use of boys and girls entering the trades, industries, and profes- sions." Conditions of employment, wages, hours of...

recommend Crockford. It is quite sufficient to reflect how we should prize such a list of the clergy and benefices of the Church, say, of the year 1750, or a similar volume...

and Co. 3s. 6d.)—Mr. Wilmot-Buxton, already favourably known as the author of various historical books, gives us a useful com- pendium, illustrated with maps, of English history...

By Arthur Meredith Burke. (Sackville Press. 102. 6d.)—Mr. Burke explains in his introduction the beginning of the parish registers and various details concerning them. Then...

George Newnes. 12s. 6d. net.)—This is a volume of the "Country Life Library." We may quote the first two paragraphs of the introduction, as explaining what the author aims at,...

(Macmillan and Co. Sc. 6d. net.)—Dr. Bowman gave a series of lectures on the "Structure of the Cotton-Fibre in its Relation to Technical Applications" as long ago as 1880. In...