T HE result of the first ballots in the Austrian General Election (which is the first ever conducted under universal suffrage) is an overwhelming success for the Socialists. The...

INDIA. AND THE BRITISH DEMOCRACY. T "perfect acquiescence, nay, satisfaction, with which the huge Liberal majority in Parliament and the country generally have accepted Mr....

T HE long debate on the general policy of the French Government, which began last week in the Chamber , of Deputies and ended on Tuesday, was remarkable for a masterly statement...

T HEprompt and vigorous action of the Cabinet has, we trust, put an end, for the time at any rate, to the neater dangers of the Indian kituation. Unless the schemes of the...

W E had bettor say at once that, in spite of some appearances, we do not believe the dispute between the railway companies and their employes will end in a declaration of war....

cherishes a hidden 1 conviction that on one point at all events he is better than his neighbours, and when human nature is so constituted we cannot deny to a political party the...

AL MOST every family preserves some desultory traditions, traditions concerning the character and physique of the whole strain, together with a verbal record of the words and...

Brennan, and illustrated by a working model exhibited at the Royal Society last week, has naturally attracted general attention and given rise to many speculations as to future...

A CORRESPONDENT, in a letter which we print elsewhere, takes us to teak for using the word " swashbuckling." We plead guilty. "To swashbuckle " is an impossible verb from "...

THE IRISH QUESTION. [To TIER EDITOR Or TOR " SPECTATOR:1 am very glad to find myself on the Irish question in accord with the Spectator. The Government plan is not yet known...

Sc,—I have pleasure in recognising the courteous impartiality with which you published my letter on this subject in your issue of May 4th, but by a clerical error, for which I...

[To TWA EDITOR OF TUE . SP601,7011....] Sin,—The Irish Council Bill being now before the public, it is apparent that even its supporters will only be able to express...

pro Tuu Emelt os TUU “Se5craroa.1 SIR,—The British Committee of the Indian National Congress has unanimously protested against the arrest of Lela Lajpat Rai. (I observe that...

fTo ran EDITOR op Pee "13Pccrepon."1 SIB.,—India is the land of jealousies, and consequently of antipathies,—caste against caste, religion against religion, race against race....

ITO TDB EDITOR 07 TIIII SP MCCATOIll Sin,—In your last week's article on "Unrest in India" you say of "the Mussulmans " that "their law is still the common law of the entire...

SIR,—The recent strange blunders in the Parliamentary misquotation of the Bible by the ex-Premier and one of his late colleagues have naturally occasioned much amusement, but...

[To TB EDITOR Or TIM “EPROTATOR.1 SIII, — May I beg for your kind consideration of what follows ? In his letter published in your issue of the 11th inst. Colonel Pollock shows...

[To TR. EDITOR Or TER ErICTATOR..1 Sp2, - ^ 411 the interests of pure English, may I be permitted to remonstrate against this unwarrantable novelty to which you gave...

['To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.") San,—I do not know whether your readers would be interested in reading of a sermon which was preached twice at long intervals. The Rev....

ITO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTLTOR21 Snz,—I am much interested in the particulars contained in the letter which you published last week from your correspondent "F. H." I have...

San—In the most interesting communication under this heading by "F. H." appears (possibly by a misprint) the name Mr. James Crossby, which needs correction to Mr. James...

L10 THE EDITOR OF TRI3 . SPROF6TOR.:1 Sra,—The suggestion contained in your interesting article on the above subject in last week's Spectator that rooks may be in some...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TECH .. arcorATorel Sin, — Your contributor who writes so charmingly regarding "Wild Flower Gardens" in your issue of April 27th well describes such gardens,—"...

To vas Esrroa OP Tam "SPIZCSATOR."1 SrE, — In your review on April 27th of the book recently brought out by Mr. J. Bennett upon Ightham your reviewer pleads for further...

[To TRU EDITOR Or TIM .. EPLCTATOIC1 Suz,—Francia, the Dictator of Paraguay, is probably better known to your readers through Carlyle's essay than others of the great...

ITO Tele EDITOR Op ts. ..seiremse...; Sin,—On behalf of the General Committee, I write to ask the courtesy of your columns to draw attention to the Jubilee Testimonial which is...

[To TRY EDITOR OP THY .. EPICTATOR."3 Sue.—I should be very grateful if you would again publish in the Spectator a letter about the Naples Society for the Protection of Animals....

LORD CROMER (British Agent and Consul-General in Egypt, 1883-1907). PATIENCE, begotten of the farseeing mind, Subduing the strong spirit's inward flame, Is crowned at last....

• EDWIN LAWRENCE GODK1N.* MR. OGDEN has written an interesting book on an interesting man. As a biography, indeed, it is open to some criticism. It does not follow the rules on...

Mn. WILL/AM STRODE is not a recent writer—be flourished from 1600 to 1645—but to most readers his work will be novel, and Mr. Bertram Dobell is to be congratulated on having...

IN a notice of Sir Rennell Rodd's book, The Princes of Achaia, we speculated recently on the number of cultivated persons who know anything of the history of Greece in the...

Andrew Lang brings to a close his greatest historical enterprise,—his history of his native country from the Roman occupation till the last effort to preserve Scotland as an...

A TARPAULIN MUSTER.* THE number and excellence of contemporary writers who deal with the sea and seafaring life is certainly one of the most encouraging features of modern...

TWO YEARS ON TREK. Two Years on Trek. By the late Lieutenant-Colonel du Moulin. Edited by Captain Bidder. (Murray and Co., 180 Brompton Road.)—This book, written for the most...

Uganda by Pen and Canters. By C. W. Hattersley. (R.T.S. 2s.)—One can get to Uganda nowadays in twenty-eight days, and in a moderately comfortable way. And as the route to the...

The Friends of Voltaire. By S. G. Tallentyre. With Portraits. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 9s. net.)—In ten articles, of about thirty pages each, Miss Tallentyre here sketches the...

Empire Commerce. By Edward Pulsford. (Published for the Cobden Club by Cassell and Co. 8d.)—Senator Pulsford, of Sydney, the very able and thoughtful Australian Free-trader, has...

[Under this heading ire notice sack Books of the teak as hare not been reserved for 'reties in other forms.] National Life and Character in the Mirror of English Literature. By...

layman or simple lover of good veading, because competent scholars in every cue have supervised thie series."-Athenaum. General Editor : Professor I. GOLLANCZ, D.Litt.