" When these guarantees have been obtained Mulai Hafid might be officially recognised. The Powers would naturally preserve the right of demanding directly from the new Sultan...

congratulatory telegram on the anniversary of his accession :— " I beg your Majesty to accept my most warm congratulations on the occasion of the first anniversary of your...

though we are surprised at his assertion as to the attitude of Germany at the Hague Conference. In this general context we may note the comments of the Vorwiirts. The German...

attended by seventy British M.P.'s, las opened in Berlin on Thursday. After the foreign delegates had been greeted by the President, Prince Schonaich-Carolath, who bracketed the...

the relations of Turkey and Bulgaria, which had been immensely improved by the Turkish Revolution. M. Gueshoff, the Bulgarian diplomatic agent at Constantinople, received no...

M ULAI HAFID'S Note to the Powers was received at Tangier on Saturday last. He reaffirms his intention to abide by all the Treaty obligations of his predecessor, particularly...

case.

the wrist at the Pantheon when the remains of Zola were being transferred thither, was concluded in Paris on Friday week. The jury found him not guilty, and this astonishing...

Times special correspondent says in Monday's paper that the result was a reverse for the Shah's troops. At first they carried all before them, and arrived under the loopholes of...

character of the procession as originally designed, and it is an, open secret that leading Roman Catholics regarded it as an injudicious move. But it is none the less most...

of Cardinals and Bishops through the streets of Westminster, took place on Sunday last in the presence of immense and orderly crowds. But the ceremonial designed to lend the...

we fear, that the compromise of last January as to the rights of British Indian subjects has broken down. The circumstances are not very clear, as is proved by the fact that...

the success of Mr. Taft. A heavy blow has been struck in his favour by Mr. Roosevelt, who in a long letter to a friend, evidently written for publication, has renounced the...

for the year 1907 has been published as a Blue- book. In all 1,117 persons were killed and 8,811 injured by accidents due to the running of trains or the movement of railway...

stances of Professor Churton Collins, who since 1904 had occupied the Chair of English Literature in the University of Birmingham. Professor Collins, who was educated at King...

of the leading Universities of both hemi- spheres, was opened at Oxford on Tuesday. The Principal of Brasenose, welcoming the Congress on behalf of Oxford, dwelt on its...

when Mr. Orville Wright was experimenting with his aeroplane. He had taken with him as passenger Mr. Selfridge, a Lieutenant of the United States Army, and had already flown...

April, when Dr. Sven Hedin threw off his disguise, revealed his identity, and, refusing to obey the Governor's order to retrace his steps, secured permission to continue his...

to be towards the abandonment of such super- intendence, Sir Alfred Lyall observed that if the movement towards Constitutional government in Mohathmedan Asia succeeded, it would...

on Tuesday forecasting the establishment of a new Arbitration Court for the settlement of industrial disputes. The Court will consist of either three or five members chosen from...

a summary, furnished by its correspondent at Simla, of Dr. Sven Hedin's second journey in Tibet,—a record of endurance, peril, and discovery equalling, if not eclipsing, his...

GERMAN IMPERIAL FINANCE. I N the coming Session of the Reichstag a resolute attempt will evidently be made to set the German Imperial finances in order. Attempts were made in...

I F we still had an alert public opinion, demanding and obtaining from the Press detailed information on all points which nearly concern the interests of Great Britain, there...

W E do not know that the Trade-Union Congress had any wish to appear to advantage by the side of the Social Democratic Party, but, if they had not, fortune has granted them more...

T HE reverse suffered by the Shah's troops at Tabriz, though not on the grand scale, is telling enough for Persia, where fighting is not seriously organised ; and we hope it...

wish that the personnel of the Joint Select Committee on Lotteries and Indecent Advertisements had been stronger, their Report is a workmanlike document, and is destined, we...

in its simplest form, is a highly penal offence. We dare not do it.. Open exultation in continued good fortune is hardly heard among the educated. When we talk about " my luck "...

E NGLISH cricket needed some such tonic as the match which was arranged for the concluding three days of last week on the Broad Halfpenny ground at Hambledon. Such reminders of...

W HITE women are black swans out where I lived last year, Far away, about eleven degrees north of the Line, blazing sun runs its high-spanned journey over a dusty town. And in...

STATE BENEVOLENCE. LTO TUN ICDITOR Or TON SPn(TATUa."1 SIR,—The good Archbishop of Canterbury, if he is rightly reported, upholds the Pension Bill as a measure of national...

[To TUN EDITOR or Toe "sends rote.'] SI11,—For some time the question of proper provision for the mentally defective who are capable of being trained to con- tribute to their...

[TO Tna EDITOR OM TIIR " ROTATOR. ") SIR,—In view of the fact that the Belgian nation is now preparing to take over the government of the Congo Free State, it may interest some...

[To TAX EDITOR OF TUN " SPECTATOR...1 SIR,—May I, before the echoes of the Trade-Union Congress have died away, direct the attention of your readers to the important...

Sin,—When Professor Ridgeway applies the doctrine of the survival of the fittest in the struggle for existence to modern social conditions, and bewails the fate of the middle...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIE,—The recent correspondence in your columns would seem to show that certain of your correspondents and your own contributor have a...

week upon the dangers that lie before the country if the modern tendency of the democracy towards the usurpation by the State of the duties of citizens is incontinently followed...

[TO THE Rorrolt OV THE "EPROTATOlt."] Sin,—At a breakfast with Mr. Gladstone in the "sixties" I was so fortunate as to sit near a great writer—one of the very few great writers...

" Public Librarian" is a fair sample of the public, his own letter (Spectator, September 12th) confutes his state- ment that the public know and use the one-inch Ordnance maps....

[To THE EDITOR OF TILE "SPECIFATOIL . ] Sin,—Permit me to sympathise respectfully with " W. N.'s " British Ambassador (see Spectator, September 12th). I am convinced that he was...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "Srsoraros."] SIR,—May I say a word about the interesting review headed " Mediaevalism " which appears in the Spectator of Sep- tember 5th P I know nothing...

[To TIER EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—" Held up " in a Highland village by days of rain, one is specially thankful for the ever-welcome interest and stimulation of the...

your correspondent Mr. Wilkins in your issue of September 5th seemed so obvious and so conclusively in your favour that I hardly knew whether he was to be taken seriously ; but...

[To THE ED/TOR OP TEE " SPECTATOR"'] SIR, —Your correspondent "G." in the Spectator of Septem- ber 5th surely overlooks the most practical points when he claims the above as a "...

HAMBLED ON. And whenever a Hambledon man made a good bit you would hear the deep months of the whole multitude baying away in pure Hampshire, ' Go hard I go hard 1 Tich and...

(Spectator, Septem- ber 5th), points out what be is pleased to call a "serious grammatical error" which constantly disfigures your pages. It may be well to refer him to "The...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR:] SIR,—No practical Christian expects, or even perhaps deems altogether desirable, uniformity in religious organisations, but every...

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 of...

A SINGER ON HIS ART. THE career, the achievements, and the marked individuality of the writer claim an attentive and sympathetic hearing for Sir Charles Santley's little book...

AN ALPINE MISCELLANY.* Mn. COOLIDGE has written a very interesting book, but it is a little hard to classify it in Alpine literature. Perhaps it is • The Alps in Nature and...

Mu. BASIL Tozun writes as one who fears to be too late to record the influence of the horse on history at the striking moment when that influence ceases. He is enough of a...

France covers a variety of subjects, on each and all of which he speaks with authority. Few Englishmen of the present day know France more thoroughly ; and not only is the...

impartiality as an historian which a study of these volumes inspires, there can be no question that they afford ample evidence of unusually minute and conscientious research,...

Tins narrative, most appropriately dedicated by Sir Evelyn Wood "to the memory of the Europeans and Asiatics who laid down their lives in maintaining the supremacy of the United...

A STAVE' ride is a campaign without troops. It is the logical development from the old Sriegapiel or war-game. But whereas the war-game was a campaign conducted indoors and on...

SOME twenty closely printed pages enumerating the statutes and the cases which govern our law of settlement and removal serve to remind us how inextricably interwoven with our...

6s.)—An amusing story about Irish people and things.—The Magnate. By Robert Elson. (W. Heinemann. 6s.)—The situation on which this tale is founded is ambiguous and improbable,...

THE OPEN WINDOW.* THE go-as-you-please country diary, with its blend of Nature-study and romance, though tending at times to become a mere literary patchwork, is none the less...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Victoria the Woman. By Frank Hird. (Appleton and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—"...

has produced a very able study of character and motives. Esther Moor is a woman of ordinary abilities, but with a deter- mined will, and she is possessed with the ambition to...

Marsh's physiology may be open to question, but at any rate he works out the necessary consequences of his premisses with great ability. The story is concerned with the problem...

6s.)—The author of this book seems to possess the most singular ideas of morality. That Viola Glyde and her lover could comfort- ably marry and live happily ever after in...

June, 1906, Mr. Auberon Herbert delivered the Herbert Spencer Lecture at Oxford. This is given in the volume before us. And with it is associated "A Plea for Voluntaryism,"...

(Duckworth and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—We cannot always accept the conclusions at which the authors of this volume have arrived, but we gladly recognise the industry with which they...

Willingham Rawnsley. (A. and C. Black. 7s. Od. net.)— Mrs. Rawnsley gives us an agreeable variety of scene and time. She takes us through the year, describing seasons of which...

a report (illustrated) of the operations of the China Inland Mission during the year 1907, a period, it would seem, of peaceful and successful labour. The number of workers...

under the charge of " Auntie Lib." Here is the story of her doings—she must have been more than three, the age that seems to suit the "two feet ten inches" which she measures on...

by W. Shaw Sparrow. Pictures by James Orrock. (Evoleigh Nash. 24s. net.)—" Most landscape painters," writes Mr. Sparrow in his preface, "can select good subjects from a popular...

Stock. ls. net.)—Mr. glater's main thesis may be found in the statement that " non-Christian religions, as such, have no social promise in them." This he particularises in the...

careful attention of our readers The Teaching of History in Girls' Schools in North and Central Germany, by Eva Dodge (Manchester Univer- sity Press, is. Od. net). It is the...

Sharpe. (Elliot Stock. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Sharpe will be found to have anticipated many of the conclusions to which present-day critics have come more or less unanimously.—Notts...

Aberdeen.)—These tales, described by the sub-title as "Men and Manners on Highland Deeside since 1745," were first published in 1872. The present edition is distinguished by the...

(T. Fisher Unwin. 5s.)—Though there are already many excellent books on the subject, lovers and collectors of lace and embroidery will be delighted with this volume, which is...