on the Asiatic question in the Transvaal. Perhaps the most interesting despatch is that in which Lord Selborne replied on July 8th, 1907, to Lord Elgin's dissatisfaction with...

many fine specimens of Reynolds, Gainsborough, Romney, Hoppner, Raeburn, and Lawrence—was opened on Saturday last at the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin in the presence of the...

O N Friday week in the French Chamber of Deputies M. Delcasse made a defence of his foreign policy for the first time since he was compelled to resign office more than two years...

The Speech from the Throne, after refer- ences to the Convention with Russia and the Treaty for preserving the integrity of Norway, deals with the Hague Conference, and...

required by the Home Government,—that there was no intention of refusing access as visitors to ruling Chiefs, distinguished Asiatics, &c., and that legislation would be...

any case.

and begins by stating that proposals will be brought forward for making a better provision for old age, and that legislation with that object will be submitted. The following is...

seconded by Lords Airedale and Nunburnholme. We wish we had space to deal at length with Lord Lansdowne's admirable speech, and will only say here that it showed all those high...

Davies moved and seconded the Address. Mr. Balfour's speech, though an excellent example of Opposition leadership, and doubtless most effective in the House of Commons, was, we...

though admitting that in certain parts of Ireland there were disquieting features, and though declaring that he did not minimise or palliate them, insisted that the language...

must repeat here that the essential feature of the situation is the fact that the Government are, in effect, proposing not only to place this year upon the taxpayer an...

any reference to unemployment in the King's Speech was moved on Thursday evening by Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, who took the line that unemployment was a proof of the failure of the...

in favour of Tariff Reform as the only cure of unemployment, and Mr. Harold Cox exposed the Socialist fallacies in a speech full of dry light. Mr. Philip Snowden, like the other...

consecration of the Bishop of Chichester in Westminster Abbey, which is reported in full in Wednesday's Guardian,— a sermon which should be studied by all liberal Churchmen....

the Bishop of Carlisle. The religious instruction given under the Cowper-Temple Clause, whether tested by syllabus or examination or the effect on character, is, declares the...

Maddison, is clearly to dissolve the alliance with outside political parties. "The majority of the members of the Trade- Unions are Liberals and Tories, the Socialists being a...

of England for the year ending Easter, 1907, has just been issued by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. In order to guard against duplication, a twofold division is...

Commission on Poor Law, the present Act dealing with unemployment should be continued, and that in the meantime they should continue, not to waste money, but to give it to the...

of Trade-Unionism and Co-operation on the situation created by the Socialist resolution passed at Hull. Both Mr. Richard .Bell, M.P., secretary to the Amalgamated Society of...

Jan. 23rd. Consols (2i) were on Friday 86i—on Friday week 85i.

THE HOUSE OF LORDS AND PUBLIC EXPENDITURE. T HE King's Speech and the explanatory addresses of the Liberal leaders show that the chief features of the coming Session are to be...

in Morocco, which was remarkable for the intervention of M. Delcasse after a silence of two and a half years, enables one to take the bearings of the French ship of State. She...

are now fully constituted, and will in the course of the next few days in almost all cases begin their active work. Nothing but time can prove the merits of the scheme; but at...

I T is a misfortune common to all popular movements that their promoters are apt to disregard such commonplace virtues as justice and consideration. They come in time to look...

I N another column a correspondent makes a suggestion which is the natural outcome of the series of un- dignified scuffles with the police which for some months past have been a...

D O any of us desire "to see oursels as others see us" ? Should we like to know what is said of us behind our backs even by our friends ? Should we like even our friends to bear...

I N the Henry Sidgwick Memorial Lecture which he delivered at Newnham College last Saturday Mr. Balfour speculated very thoughtfully, if purposely without much con- fidence or...

O N the rim of France, where the Channel widens south- ward, there is a long strip of salt-marsh, reclaimed from the water less by the hand of man than by the action of time and...

has been a great pleasure to me to see the letters and leading articles on old-age pensions published in the Spectator. With your permission, I would like to be allowed a few...

(To THE EDITOR OF THIC "SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—If I may say so, you and your correspondents have so far hardly reached the economic roots of the grazing question. The peculiarities of...

[To Tin EDITOR Or TRH "spEarAmon. - ] SI - 14 — n seems to me that a great step towards the unity of the party would be taken if it were distinctly understood that in the next...

THE DANGER TO THE UNION. (To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR:1 the postscript to his letter (Spectator, January 25th) "A United Free-Trader" says "As the Union is not in danger...

[To THE EDITOR Of THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR,—Mrs. Drummond, one of the woman's suffrage leaders, on being brought before the Police Magistrate made the following statement: "I speak...

ITO THE EDITOR 01 THE " SPECTATOR." J Sm,—I have just read Mr. Birmingham's letter in the Spectator of January 4th. I do not attempt to answer it, but should like to deal with...

[To TER EDITOR OP TIM " SPROTATOYel Sin,—Reading your article i "The Campaign against Rats" (January 18th), reminds me of a beautifully tanned skin of the common brown rat which...

LTo TH2 EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—It has been stated that an amendment to the Address will be moved in favour of raising the status of the Board of Trade, and that the...

ILTO TUE EDITOR OF THU "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The article on the " Waverley Novels" in your issue of January 11th has reminded me of a fact which, so far as I know, has hitherto...

[To TER EDITOR OP THE "Spzurvroo."1 SIR,—Those who are interested in Indian polities without knowing more about them than they can gather from their daily papers may perhaps...

[To TER EDITOR OF TEE .apierrros."1 SIR,—Surely the writer of "The Prose Style of Men of Action" in the Spectator of January 25th is guilty of injustice when he says that Walter...

"The Campaign against Rats," in the Spectator of January 18th, you remark :—" A single stoat let loose in a cornrick will clear the rick more safely, more cleanly, and more...

I have no doubt that you, like most other people who inquire into the question of Socialism, and who set forth the arguments against it, are met with the objection ; "We are...

"SPROTLTOR.1 Sin,—The "Letters to a Working Man" are of ever-increasing interest, and the whole attitude of the Spectator towards political economy is of the utmost value at the...

WOULD you spur your pulses quicker, Draining the divinest ichor Out of life's ambrosial liquor, Plumbing life's profoundest pleasure, Looting life's intrinsic treasure ? —Mount...

MR. BEERBOHM TREE. THE performance at His Majesty's of The Mystery of Edwin Drood has been chiefly interesting as affording, in a compact and vivid manner, an example of Mr....

THE SALON.* • The Salon : a Study of _Preset Society and Personalities in the Eighteenth Century. By Llelen gierras., Illu.strated. Loudon.: G. P. Putnam's Sons. [12e. 6d.]...

WHEN Sertorius, whom Mommsen thought the greatest Roman before Caesar, was fleeing from Pompey, he fell in with certain sailors at Cadiz, according to Plutarch, who told him...

THE story of Ludwig IL holds so many temptations for the historian who is merely prying and irresponsible that the sensitive reader may well think that, on the whole, he has...

br any one expects to find in William Dyott a rival to Pepys, or even to Creevey, be will surely be disappointed. In vain *Dyott's Diary, 1781.1845: a Selection from the Journal...

THERE are few things which are capable of adding more to one's happiness than a taste for botany, which is a study that can be pin-sued almost anywhere and at any time. Nor is...

since the last practical attempt was made at opening up the great natural resources of Bolivia. Cut off by Chile from the waters of the Pacific, the inhabitants of that inland...

THE HISTORY OF AYTHAN WARING.t MRS. JACOB began her career as a novelist with a work of such striking ability that she is in danger of realising the truth of the maxim, le...

6s.)—This book deals with the adventures of an Irish gentleman in the seventeenth century at the Court of the Great Mogul. Though it cannot be called in any way an imitation of...

of light verse,—" ruthless," "fiscal," personal, and irresponsible. In Familiar Faces this engaging light horseman is once more on the warpath, tilting at a number of modern...

(Chapman and Hall. 62.)—Mr. Campbell begins with giving his readers his reading of the Gospel story. The Jesus whom he pictures for us is not the Christ of the Creeds, or, as...

by Miss Violet B. Markham. With General View of the English Law by Mrs. J. H. Tennant. (Eyre and Spottiswoode. 2s. 6d. net.)—The "English Law" is a very complicated business...

Barclay Swete, D.D. (Macmillan and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—This " Study in the Earliest Christian Tradition" has all the characteristics of thoroughness, moderation, and candour which...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been roomed for review in other forms.1 Sixty Years of Protection in Canada. By Edward Porritt. (Macmillan and...

Werner Laurie. 6s.)—We find it hard to take much interest in a book in which the heroine, in order to make money for her absent husband, actually assumes male attire and goes...

(Skeffington and Son. 39. 6d. net.)—Mr. Cole's" Brief and Comprehensive Handbook of the Holy Eastern Orthodox Church" is a book which may be read with great advantage. He is, it...

Long. 6s.)—A collection of short stories, most of them with a psychical tinge.—Sandy Car. michael. By Cutcliffe J. Hyne. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. 6s.)—A book of adventures...

is certainly, as we have taken occasion to say more than once, the most interesting of directories. Of course the limits of the subject make it possible to do for Ireland what...

(D. Douglas, Edinburgh. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mrs. Maxwell gives descrip- tions ef seventeen trees, felices three of them, the pear, the apple, and the mulberry, with a fourth, if the...

Stoughton. 7s. 6d. per vol.)—Of the two volumes now before us, V. completes the historical books of the Old Testament, dealing with 2 Kings viii.-end, Chronicles, Ezra, and...

Rontledge and Sons. is. net.)—This volume of the "Miniature Reference Library" has been put together with praiseworthy care, and is as good as could possibly be expected. The...

T. Clark. 4s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Adams follows up in this volume a previous work which appeared under the title of "Sermons in Accents." His plan is to give some preliminary guidance...

By E. Alfred Jones. (J. M. bent and Co. 21s. net.)— First in the list of these churches comes the Walloon and Huguenot church in the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral. This dates...