curiously enough, the settlement of the dispute has caused some disappointment amongst educated Turks. They had hoped that Great Britain would be forced to take energetic...

before the period named in the ultimatum expired, and it was therefore unnecessary to apply the naval pressure which had been decided on by the Government. On Sunday, the last...

Members, and on Wednesday the debate on it began. As there is no real Opposition, the discussion bad little interest, and was chiefly remarkable for the more or less doctrinaire...

upon the firmness and clearness of their action. They realised the true meaning of the Sultan's policy from the beginning, and also realised the only effective way of meeting...

T HE rumour that the Duma intended to begin its career by an ultimatum to the Czar has happily proved to be unfounded, and it has chosen more regular methods to declare its...

to inquire into the duties of the Metropolitan Police in dealing with cases of drunkenness and solicitation, and into the manner in which these duties are discharged. This...

Mr. Lloyd-George introduced a Bill to provide for taking a census of production. The Board of Trade Returns, though giving the volume of our foreign trade and other classified...

reading of the Finance Bill Mr. Chamberlain declared that Mr. Asquith was evidently regarded by some of his supporters as a wolf in sheep's clothing, but only for the moment....

by the City of London at luncheon at the Guild- hall. No one who reads the Prince of Wales's speech will think us guilty of the crime of flattery—almost the greatest of crimes...

found in the letter from Mr. Hirst Hollowell published in Wednesday's Times. Mr. Hirst Hollowell, who is a Noncon- formist clergyman and a Liberal politician well known in the...

on Thursday threw out a Bill seeking to amend the Aliens Act so as to prevent any alien being brought into the United Kingdom under contract to take the place of a workman...

and Mackenzie are operating against the scattered remnants of Bambaata's force in the Nkandhla district, where their work is much hampered by transport difficulties, by the...

the border was most happy, and will, we trust, act as a warning to those restless spirits in India who cannot leave well alone, but who, infatuated with the desire to alter the...

the annual meeting of the National Association for Employment of Reserve and Discharged Soldiers. Mr. Haldane in a striking speech described the Association as a manifestation...

the German Burgomasters who are paying a visit to England were entertained to dinner by the British Committee for the Study of Foreign Municipal Institutions. Mr. Haldane, who...

now adopted for the training of the engine-room personnel, and concluded by declaring that the faith of those who were concerned in the working out of the details of the new...

detail by Dr. Ewing, Director of Naval Education, at the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth, yesterday week. He explained that the scheme, as now developed in accordance with the...

Consols (2i per cent.) were on Friday 89k.

Camber- well for the election of a Member in place of Dr. Rutherfoord Harris was announced on Tuesday night. Mr. Bonar Law, the Tariff Reform candidate, defeated Mr. Williamson,...

MR. CHAMBERLAIN AND THE UNIONIST FREE-TRADERS. T HE last stage in the capture of the Unionist Party by Mr. Chamberlain has come. In his speech to the Liberal Union Club on...

T "passage of the second reading of the Plural Voting Bill without any pledge by the Government that they will accompany it with a Bill for the redistribution of seats, and so...

W E must accept a new condition in forming our judgment of Russian affairs. The Russian people, taken as a mass, have much more political sense than the West has ever given them...

I T is difficult not to treat a reference to a Royal Com- mission as something of a joke. They have been appointed so often, for so many purposes, and with such varying degrees...

given a startling manifestation of its power. On Wednesday week an Imperial Edict was published appointing Ti Eh-liang Administrator-General, and Tang-Shao-yi Assistant Ad-...

I MAGINATION, according to Darwin, is one of the highest prerogatives of man; and certainly, if we mean by imagination the creative faculty of the mind in its highest aspects,...

W E intend next Saturday to publish the first of a series of eight articles dealing with the manu- facture of paupers by the State and public institutions. Statistics show that...

I F there is a man who has more frequent opportunities than others to measure the ironies of chance, he must be the excavator of ruins. So much that is worthless has been...

S PRING, although long delayed, has come again, and with it the days when we shall sit in cricket pavilions and around cricket grounds to the number of many thousands and watch...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPROTATOR.1 SIR,—There are three critical periods in the national life of England. In the first the Church is the sole educator. It is not too much to...

AN APPEAL TO LAYMEN. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 Six,—I think that Churchmen who are anxious to see a per. manent and peaceable settlement of the religious question...

daily with two to three thousand business men on 'Change, the miserable education controversy comes up for talk in our quieter hours. If one can gauge their views, it is, I...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—May I say a word with reference to your note on Mr. Lathbury's letter in your last issue ? You say you wish to see "simple Bible...

April 28th, p. 657, you challenge any once who objects to the " moral monster," undenominational instruction, to write to the clerk of the Education Committee of the County...

to call attention to a section in the Education Bill which is apt to be overlooked amidst the dis- cussions on the religious question, which, vital though it is, has in the past...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEN " SPECTATOR." J Sut,—Is not the outcry against "undenominational teaching" due to a confusion of " undenominational " with " un- dogmatic " Christian...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATORM Sin,—In my letter a week ago I offered some reasons for maintaining the present character of the denominational Training Colleges as...

SYLLABUS OF THE LONDON SCHOOL BOARD. [TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR." J Sra,—How my letter of last week could have conveyed the impression which called forth your editorial...

SPECTATOR:1 SID, —We have been invited by the Archbishops of the English Church, conjointly with the heads of other Christian bodies, to an " effort of prayer " at Whitsuntide....

[To Tan EDITOR Or THE " STRCTATOR.1 SIR, —The dismissal of the Yarmouth petition is the severest blow that has been directed for many years against purity of election. It is...

[To TER EDITOR Os TRY " SPECTATOR:1 SID,—With regard to the two letters appearing in your issue of May 12th, I do not propose to waste your space by replying to personal...

THE PILLARS. HE who would curb the spirit's flight, Or maim the aspiring mind, Is traitor to the Lord of light, And murderer of his kind. O God, Who makest all things new,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—Is there not obvious injustice in the present remission of Income-tax, to unmarried men, to married men, and fathers of families...

"SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I regret that the Spectator should have thrown the weight of its authority against the Imperial policy, as I con- sider it, of setting aside in various parts...

FONTENOY.* FONTENOY, Mr. Skrine confesses, is an enigma which has always fascinated him. It has perplexed others before him, among them Carlyle, who called it "a mystery and a...

THE critical reader of this volume will feel tempted when he has finished perusal to describe it as an eloge rather than a memoir. Mrs. Tweedie writes frankly from the...

THE interest of these essays lies in the presentation which they make of the views of eleven officers, now serving either in the Regular Army or in the Volunteers, on certain...

attractive literary shape to his History of Egypt. This has not been easily done. A book dealing with this subject commonly bristles, so to speak, with technical details. The...

THE JUNGLE.* THE rapid growth of practical Socialism in the United States has of late engaged the attention of serious publicists, and there is a very general feeling abroad...

sense of forth- telling, not of foretelling. She makes her readers understand the West Country and its inhabitants as viewed from the inside and not from the outside,—a feat of...

Co. 6s.)—The pseudonym—for pseudonym it surely is— adopted by the author will excite the curiosity of all lovers of Stevenson's unforgettable " Wrong Box." and the test of...

which we trust will attract widespread attention. It is, on the whole, the most damaging criticism of the Congo adminis- tration which has been published, for it is not the work...

THE MIRROR OF THE CENTURY. The Mirror of the Century. By Walter Frewen Lord. (John Lane. 5s. net.)—It may be as well to explain that this volume contains critical studies of...

[Under this heading we notice such _Books of the week as have not teen reserved for review in other forms.] Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century. By George Paston....

net.)—Mr. Gibson conducts a company of travellers over certain regions of Normandy. The travellers, we are given to understand, are types, not persons; the inns are real, though...

by Harry Roberts (John Lane), we have The Book of Rarer Vigetables, by GeorgeWythes and Harry Roberts (2s. net). Mr. Roberts explains that the word "rare" is not used in the "...

of The Garden City, the official organ of the Garden City Aesociation, contains a very interesting article entitled "Is the Cheap Cottage a Myth ? " in which a series of...

and Co. 12s. net.)—Mr. Rider Haggard writes for this new edition a highly interesting preface. He is discouraged, it is evident, by the failure of his efforts to attract the...

Constable and Co. 12s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Hobson begins with a chapter which he entitles "Technical and Historical," and proceeds to deal in turn with Chinese, Japanese, and European...

Directories. 5s.)—This is the May edition of a book so well known and appreciated that there is little need to do more than chronicle its appearance. Private residents in the...