■ •••■■•••••■1111■••■ T HE Unionist crisis has passed. On Tuesday Mr. Bonar Law sent a letter to Lord Balcarres in answer to the memorial of the Unionist members of Parliament....

THE STATE OF THE UNIONIST PARTY. M R. BONAR LAW and Lord Lansdowne have not failed the Unionist Party in its need. We never doubted that they would consent to remain in the...

the Home Rule Bill brought the attention of the House of Commons and the country back to essentials. Most of the scrappy discussions of the past few weeks have paradoxically...

T HE judgment delivered by the Railway and Canal Commissioners in the case between the National Telephone Company and the Government may be regarded as completing the...

T HE uncertainty that has of late characterized. Presidential Elections in France has suddenly been made greater by the reappearance of Colonel du Paty de Clam. It might have...

A NEW edition of "The Authorized Daily Prayer-Book of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Empire" brings a very interesting anthology of prayer to the notice of the...

and individual ugliness that distinguished him among his species. Nature had not cast his lot amongst those in whom, like bulldogs, hideousness is a racial charm. He might have...

T T is related of the late Thomas Tod Stoddart—and no I fisherman has written better verse—that he was asked one day by a stranger what might be his profession. "Mon," he said,...

LIBERAL UNIONISTS AND THE MEMORIAL. [To THS EDITOR OF THE "S1'ECTATOR:] Sin,—On December 12th last you kindly inserted in the Spectator a letter from me in which I ventured to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] Sru,—Your last week's article lays an unerring finger on the cause of the heated atmosphere of anger and distrust in which the medical...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOE."1 SIR,—Your correspondent of last week, Mr. Eustace Barton, put in a word of common sense. Has not the time arrived to review the position as...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.”] SIR,—Your correspondent "A Legal Practitioner" refers to the valuers in your last issue as "men of ripe experience called in from outside."...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."J Sin,—I regret I have only just seen Colonel Keene's interesting letter in your issue of January 4th. If Colonel Keene reads my letter again,...

[To THY EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Mr. Harold Cox may have solved the problem at Leigh. I hope he has, but I doubt it. As chairman of a Rural District Council Housing...

to one fact that is generally ignored in the discussion of the rural housing question P It is this. Even in the "purely rural neighbourhoods" which, as the Rector of Tendring...

OF TEM "SPECTATOR:] Sts,—Your correspondent, Mrs. Reeves, writes as follows: "A man of twenty years of age earning 21 a week is quite likely to be earning his top wage. If he...

a few weeks ago to see the paragraph in the Times alluded to by Mrs. Pember Reeves in her letter to you of last week's issue. I had been expecting from her a repudiation of it,...

THE "SPECTATOR. " ' SIR,—The scheme for the erection of a Paris Brabazon House marks the extent to which the employment of Englishwomen in the French capital has increased...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Sta,—I trust that I shall not seem ungracious in taking exception to a single statement in your friendly and generous article on...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Your comprehensive review of Mr. Crawford's book in last week's issue gives one furiously to think. It seems a strange inconsistency...

rro THE EDITOR OF THE "SrEcnrroa."1 SIR,—It may not be necessary for a critic to read the books which be discusses. It is hardly possible for him to read them all when his field...

SIR,—I venture to write a few lines about my old headmaster, Canon Bell, not as an adequate tribute to his memory, but as an attempt to record some part of his work for...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE SPEETATOR:] SIR, — Dr. Macfadyen in the Spectator of January 4th does cruel injustice to Pius X. by the false light he throws on the Pope's words (quoted...

[To TUE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:] SIR, — In the case of words divided between two lines in writing or printing, it is no doubt correct to place the hyphen after the first part...

[To THE EDITOR OP THR SPECTATOR...] SIR,—In the Spectator of November 16th there is a review of Mr. Charles Roberts's "Babes of the Wild," in the course of which you challenge...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...I SIR,—You remember how, in chapter v. of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch's "Shining Ferry," Nicky Vro, the ferryman, explains his simple...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Can you or any of your readers inform me of the correct pronunciation and orthography of the name of the great race which threatens to...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SrEcTATOR."3 SITL, — I stated that at the end of 1910 there were 10,050,075 Magyars in Hungary, on the authority of the Royal Hungarian Statistical...

SIR,—In your last issue Mr. Shrubsole maintains that "the number of Magyars in Hungary alone—including, of course, Croatia"—is ten millions. This statement is misleading in...

[To TITS EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—The Chairman of the Chiswick Urban District Council, Mr. William James Harvey, J.P., has opened a fund to provide a suitable monument...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SFECTATOR."] Sre,—Under the auspices of the Prussian Minister of Education a Commission of distinguished German scholars has been at work for some years...

A LIBERAL RETROSPECT. (According to the British Weekly, the Liberals "were never more sanguine or Serene than at the opening of the New Year.") WHEN we survey the sessions,...

LONDON PICTURES. Mn. LEONARD M. POWELL, at the Dudley Gallery, 169 Piccadilly, is showing an interesting and skilful series of London views in water-colours, mainly riverside....

THE POETRY OF JOHN DONNE.* THE history of the poetical reputation of John Donne is one of the most curious in literature. During his lifetime, his poems; With very few...

His manner of writing was as much imitated by the poetasters of the time as that of Pope in the eighteenth century or that of. Tennyson in the nineteenth. The reaction began...

THE information about the atrocities in the Peruvian Amazon region which this book contains is not new, but it is well to have it put on record in this accessible form. The...

year Dr. Rose delivered the Lowell lectures in Boston. He took as his subject the personal factor in the Napoleonic era. These lectures have now been embodied in book form, and...

MRS. LANG'S hesitation in giving her husband's last book to the world is natural but unnecessary. " II was in type," she writes, "when he died, but he had no time to correct...

Miss ELIZABETH WORDSWORTH'S recollections of her varied life are full of literary and social interest. They range from the mid-nineteenth century, when her father, afterwards...

FEW men can have had more experience of warfare than the late Mr. Melton Prior contrived to squeeze into his sixty odd years of life. His initiation was made when in 1873 the...

Tars anthology, compiled entirely from the publications of the past two years, has been undertaken by the editor in the belief that English poetry is on the eve of a...

This further instalment of translations fully maintains the standard of the "Loeb Classical Library." Sophocles is of course already well known in translation, even though a...

FOLK TALES OF BEEFFNY•i' Tam wholly delightful volume does not belong to fiction as the term is interpreted by the average novel-reader. The tales of which it is composed deal...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as hare not bee* coursed for review in other forms.] In Introduction to the French Classical Drama. By Eleanor F. Tourdain....