taken as an appeal - to the Lords to throw out the Budget as a whole, thoUgh we know it is assumed in some quarters that this is the impression which Lord Rosebery meant to...

I have come to the deliberate conclusion that the Government wish the House of Lords to throw out the Finance Bill. I think they believe it will cause an outcry in the country....

space at our command would be impossible. We may note, however, 'as especially admirable, the passage in which Lord Rose- bery advised all owners of realised property, however...

Under the new dispensation the King's inquisitors, the King's tax-gatherers, and the King's inspectors would be with the ordinary householder from the cradle to the grave :—...

Germany the Emperor delivered last Saturday a speech which is variously reported. The official agency states that the Emperor " spoke somewhat as follows " :—" We Germans are...

T HE speech which Lord Rosebery addressed to a meeting of business men at Glasgow on Friday, September 10th, 'created a profound impression throughout the country. It 'was a...

case.

right in the world to insist on the necessity of self-defence. But what we cannot understand is that, when the Emperor is so continually preaching the need of maintaining great...

considerable discontent on the Ministerial benches, and elicited a most damaging speech from Mr. Balfour. The Government, he contended, were throwing an absolutely impracticable...

for the last few years of his life perhaps the greatest financial power in the United States. His differences of opinion with Mr. Roosevelt took the form of a bitter enmity...

Peary's full narrative of his journey to the North Pole. The Times very naturally forbids reproduction, but we trust we shall not be guilty of any breach of journalistic comity...

week, attended by about a hundred and twenty Egyptian Nationalists, Mr. Keir Hardie and Mr. Barnes representing the British Labour, and Mr. Kettle and Mr. Hazleton the Irish...

on the present fashion in Germany of extolling the virtues of economy. The North German Gazette points out that in all the recent Estimates a large allowance was made for...

study of Count Aehrenthal to Monday's issue, a propos of the reticence of the Press over his recent advance in rank. This absence of comment the writer attributes to Count...

comet, for which all astronomers have been watching. It last appeared in 1835, and its brilliance is slightly less at each appearance. This is the comet which caused...

eloquence that we cannot resist the pleasure of quotation :- "There is a human majesty about him which commands our reverence, for we recognise in him a great intellect, a large...

Development Bill proposed to set np have so greatly impressed the Government that Mr. Lloyd George announced an important concession in Grand Committee on Thursday. To assuage...

hasty adoption of the conventional views in regard to Johnson; this is but a very small blot on a really great speech. The larger part of the address is a most charming analysis...

the reform of the Poor Law in a long and interesting speech in the Lords on Wednesday. After an historical review of the subject, in which he described the changes in the...

and of what we may term the anecdotal side of Johnson, and though we admit that Johnson the man was greater than Johnson the author, we do not hesitate to say that if Boswell...

various schemes is beginning to exercise even so thoroughgoing a supporter as the Daily Chronicle. Indepen- dently of the proposed separate Board of Agriculture for Scotland,...

his great Budget speech gave an address at the Johnson bicentenary celebration (at Lichfield on Wednesday) which from a literary point of view is as good as the Budget speech...

April let. Consols (2i) were on Friday 831—Friday week 83i.

THE LORDS AND THE BUDGET. E Grand Frederic n'a jamais fait plus que ca." I It was thus that the Austrian Prime Minister received the telegram announcing the result of the...

TTIHE Government's Development Bill is from many 1 points of view a strange and puzzling proposal. None of its provisions, however, have proved so perplexing as the curious...

T HE enthusiasm with which the Crown Prince of Greece was received at Patras and at Corfu on his way out of the country means that the Military League, which imposed its will on...

debates in the House of Commons on the Death- 1 have been more than usually interesting, and it is a misfortune that they did not come earlier in the Session when the public...

has opened a new era very well under the directorship of Mr. Herbert Trench. He is " serious," as the French say, or we may guess that he would not have dropped his " serious "...

O F the centenaries so numerously sprinkled over 1909, there are none more interesting to those who love English literature than those of Samuel Johnson and Alfred Tennyson....

T HE lover of bees is no longer limited to residence in the country for the proper pursuit of his observations. Even if he be no more than a dweller in a London flat where the...

THE REAL CRISIS IN SPAIN. [To THE EDITOR OF THY "SFECTATOR."] SIR, — The true reason for the extraordinarily rigid censorship of the Press by Senores Mann. and La Cierva was...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIE,—I have always felt sure that the Spectator would wish to be right on questions of fact, so I was extremely disappointed that you did...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —The opinion seems to be widely held that Lord Rosebery's attitude towards the Budget has greatly diminished, if not destroyed, the...

SPECIAL MOTOR ROADS AND THE NATIONALI- SATION OF THE RAILWAYS. [To 'THY EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sru,—I have been reading a book recently published (" The Essential...

[To THE EDITOS OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Stu,—Clause XLIV. has received very little attention, but it is much more serious in its probable effect on the owner of agricultural...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:9 SIB,—Amongst the multitude of diverse criticisms on the Budget, can you admit some remarks upon one provision which has not yet attracted...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOIL.1 SIR,—Will you allow me a few lines to comment upon your note on co-education in the issue of August 28th P The Referendum to wh:ch the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIB, With regard to Lord Robert Cecil's words given by you in the Spectator of September 4th, p. 331, on the sum of money to be spent by the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I am not at all anxious that the Lords should throw out this Budget. Just now the people are quite pleased with it, and believe what...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] was much interested in the article in your Last issue under this heading. I was brought up among old Radicals of the Cobden school, and...

[TO THE EDITOR OF Tux "SPECTATOR.'] Sin,—Lord Rosebery said on Friday week :—" The Death- duties might very easily in a weak family fall four or five times on the same...

of " J. H. M." in your last issue affords no solution of my puzzle, for the moon would not be visible to the naked eye on either January 21st or 22nd, forit would in each case...

[To THE EDITOR or nrs "SrEcrirolc."] SIR,—At the request of Lady Fitzgerald we undertook the administration of the fund, which was so liberally supported by a generous public,...

[To THE EDITOR OP TER " SPECTATOR:] SIR, —Will you allow me to reply briefly to "A Returned South African " ? I glanced at her letter in your issue of Sep- tember 4th under...

"SPECTATOR. "] Sia,—Congregationalists would no doubt greatly rejoice if their ministerial candidates had tho benefit of Professor Moulton's teaching (see Spectator, September...

AT MALPLAQUET. t" The bottle of Malplaquet " (September 11th, 1709) "one of the bloodiest ever fought by mortal men. Little is known of the details of the fighting, these being...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. ") Sin, — May I draw the attention of your readers to the above Scheme, which is an outcome of the London Children's Country Volidays Fund,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."3 Sra, — I have to thank you for the kind and lengthy notice which you were good enough to give to my " Sailing Ships and their Story." I...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sri,—The missing s.s. Waratah,' which has not been heard of now for three weeks, brings to the fore a question of most urgent...

name 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...

We have received the following contributions in answer to the appeal of the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines' Protection Society, on behalf of the deputation to the United States :-...

SANE IMPERIALISM.* Maar's ever-increasing control over time and distance is an inestimable blessing so long as it is used for free expansion; it may prove a curse and an...

delivered as popular lectures to an Australian audience, and we cannot imagine a method better calculated to interest his hearers in the practical value of philosophy than that...

WREN the first volume of The Book of Nature-Study, which Dr. Bretland Farmer is editing, appeared we pointed out that it was not a te.xt-hook for pupils, but a guide which would...

of scepticism (not that kind of scepticism, however, which is commonly exalted into a prejudice) for examining a subject of this sort. In stating the theories held at first in...

Tun idea. of this work, the author tells us, originated in a series of articles written by him for the House Property and Land Advertiser. These are now revised and reissued,...

facts to which students of the science of road-making need to have' access, and so much besides that is fresh and unbiassed in the way of theory, that it should find a place on...

to solve still, in one shape or another, face' those who have to deal with Colonial politics. The relation to the Mother-country, the treatment of native races, and the land...

wants to know what Higher Criticism of the , sober kind has to say;aliout the Gospele cannot do better than study Mr. Cohn's new volutae. We are not prepared to accept all his...

ORPHEUS IN MAYFAIR.* WHEN the writer of this notice took up this volume, the first thing he did was to see whether it contained " A Luncheon- Party." That fantasia, when it...

6s.)—This is a collection of short stories, some of them of modern fishermen, and others of historical times. They are all pleasant reading, though not quite up to the...

a series of remarkable sketches and short stories by the late Mr. Frank Norris. As suggested in the introduction, they are especially interesting as showing the growth of his...

CO. 68.)—This is a pleasant little story, most of which passes in an English country house, though the fortunes of a young diplomat form the motive of the book. What the...

6s.)—A story of life in New York from the EnADABLE NOVELS. —The Butler's Story. By Arthur Train. (T. Werner Laurie. 6s.)—A story of life in New York from the point of view...

net.)—This is in every way a worthy tribute to the character and genius of the great naturalist. What higher praise could be given ? If it is a great thing taudari a laudato,...

G. F. Maclear, D.D., and Watkin W. Williams, M.A. (hracJnillan and Co. 103. 6d.)—Dr. Maclear published the introduction in 1895; a new edition was called for in the following...

[Under this headin g ice swfies such Books of the lima as ham not bun reserved for review in other forms.] Prolegomena to the Study of Theology. By E. O. Davies, B.Se (Hodder...

ls. 6d. net), is one of a series of six "Garden Booklets," the others dealing with the Fern, Bulb, Rock, Water, Rose Gardens. A "formal " garden must be big, we take it, and...

Blackwood and Sons. 2s. 6d.)—Mr. Nicklin has selected forty letters from the vast correspondence of Cicero,—it numbers in all close upon a thousand items. These he has...

it is likely to be useful, The Officer's Training Corps Examiner for Certificate "A," by Captain R. F. Legge (Gale and Polder, 6s. not).

Stoughton, 4s. each) we have Wedgwood and his Imitators and Delftware, Dutch and English, both from the pen of Mr. N. Hudson Moore. Mr. Moore has consulted the best authorities...