Fez last Saturday was signalized by a strong general attack on the city by tribesmen. The attack began about ten o'clock. The situation was at one time very serious. A large...

sweeping victory. He carried all the twenty-eight delegates to the Republican Convention. The New York correspondent of the Times says that Mr. Taft's friends had been hoping...

of the island of Cuba, and although the situation is not as yet serious rumours of intervention by the United States are spreading rapidly. A fleet of eight American battleships...

case

Wednesday the city was again in great danger. On Tuesday night some hundreds of Berbers forced their way in and there was band-to-hand fighting in the streets. The Times...

able, but no harm can come of the discussion, and very much good may be done if the idea builds itself up in the public mind that an alliance is the only logical culmination to...

NEWS OF THE WEEK A MEETING between Lord Kitchener, Mr. Asquith, and Mr. Churchill at Malta has caused intense curiosity and a multitude of rumours during the week. As we...

demonstration in favour of Disestablishment at Swansea on Tuesday, said that the connexion of the State with religion was an injury to the spiritual life of the country. Turning...

was concluded last Saturday, and on Tuesday night his report was issued by the Board of Trade. Of the seven questions disputed Sir Edward Clarke decided two against the men and...

Titanic' disaster was issued on Monday. There was a. remarkable contrast between the sobriety of the Report and the extraordinary speech in which Mr. Smith, the Chairman of the...

with- out value and importance merely because we know that the Chairman proved himself ignorant of nautical affairs. We fancy that his colleagues must have been largely respon-...

issued on Thursday night, and is on the whole thoroughly optimistic in tone. The total revenue of Egypt for the year 1911 was £E16,793,000, which gave a surplus of £E1,921,000....

interruption, but owing to the firm action of the authorities it has not as yet produced any very serious effects upon the public food supply. On Monday a force of over a...

any ship belonging to any line. Boat-drill is not carried out thoroughly, and the ship's company generally comes together for the first time a few hours before the ship sails....

One relates to the proposed professor- ship of town-planning at London University, an idea which originated with Mr. John Burns, who suggested some time ago that some wealthy...

every inch of sunlight and breathing space. In the thinly popu- lated districts of Wales they could deprive a man of his liveli- hood for his opinions and exile him from the...

on Thursday last, at the early age of forty-five, of Mr. Wilbur Wright, to whose experiments, in partnership with his brother Orville, the present development of the aeroplane...

last. The main resolution, proposed by Mr. William O'Brien, welcomed the Government Home Rule Bill as offering a reasonable basis of permanent reconciliation between the two...

Feast of the Grocers' Company. In the course of his speech he raised the question why it was that the Restoration was received in England with almost universal satisfaction. The...

the Royal Australian Navy, was launched at Birkenhead on Thursday. This ship is the second to be launched of the four cruisers which, with six destroyers and three submarines,...

was declared late on the evening of the 24th ult., the figures being Mr. H. Morison (L.) 5,339, Mr. J. C. Gibson (U.) 4,836, or a Liberal majority of 503. Compared with December...

ing on Saturday night at Merthyr, referred to a fresh develop- ment on the part of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. Hitherto the Union had not taken any...

on Wednesday week, is generally admitted to be the most wonderful ever seen in London. Indeed, one of the foreign jurors declared that a similar exhibition had never been seen...

NAVAL POWER AND THE MEDITERRANEAN. T HE meeting of Lord Kitchener, Mr. Asquith, and Mr. Churchill in Malta has caused a bountiful crop of rumours and a good deal of uninforming...

T HE elaboration of Sir Edward Clarke's report on the cause of the present strike of transport workers is apt to obscure the real points at issue. Naturally Sir E dward Clarke,...

T HE news contained in the Times leader of Tuesday is the most important we have yet had from that " regenerated " Turkey of which so much has been expected and so little...

of the Manchus and the inauguration of the Chinese Republic there have, as yet, emerged neither individual leaders nor organized forces of authority sufficient to enable us to...

ARNABAS is nearly always portrayed for us as a man of overflowing enthusiasm and generous sympathies. We do not often hear any commendation of his sure judgment. Yet the man's...

Mail in combination have given some well-known novelists the opportunity to offer us their thoughts on the present distress. The effect is rather like that of an illuminated...

I T stands where the workmen of the Empire built it before Rome fell, and the men of the legions crossed it going north to colonize. The plain where it stands is wider now than...

SOME MODERN FRENCH BOOKS. [TO TH2 EDITOR 011 THE " SPROTATOR."] Sin,—Among French memoirs recently published few will be found more interesting than M. de Freyeinet's...

" COMMAND OF THE SEA." [To THE EDITOR 07 TIER "SPACTATOR.] Six,--May I venture to criticise the able article on the Navy in your last issue P Its spirit is right, but its...

[To the Editor of the Free Press.] Sir,—I wish to ask your permission for me to write these few words in your paper. I am a Calvinistic Methodist, but I strongly object to...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In the interests of the charity to which Mr. Pearson's friend has promised a contribution in the event of its being proved that the...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THY "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—I venture to enclose for your perusal a letter, which appeared in the Denbighshire Free Press relative to the Welsh Church Bill,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE d'srmoTiroa."J SIR, — The Welsh Church Bill will soon be dealt with in Com- mittee, and the outcome depends upon the spirit in which the parties interested...

of England," vol. v., p. 497, contains an appendix on the disposition of monastic lands by Henry VIII. which seems to represent the best results of research available on the...

[TO THE EDITOR Or TRIO " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—Will you permit me to reply to the question which "A Liberal Nonconformist" asks in his letter which I have read in the Spectator of...

pro TDB EDITOR or TEE " ISPEOTATOB."1 SIR,—Mr. Asquith's appeal in introducing this measure was for those "who have borne and are bearing their share—and a noble share it has...

[TO TEE EDITOR OF 5115 "SPRCTATOR.".1 Sin,—Among the consequences of the Parliament Act which have probably not been foreseen is the difficulty placed in the way of the House...

[TO TEE EDITOR OP TEE " SPRCTATOR.1 SIR, —May I venture to utter a most earnest protest against the idea of a definite alliance with France on the lines sug- gested by you P It...

"SrscuTon."1 SIR,—In Oxenford's translation of the third volume of Eekermann's Conversations with Goethe (published 1148), compiled from Eckermann's own notes and from another...

[TO TRII EDITOR. OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—ThOugh I earnestly desire the segregation of the feeble-minded under certain conditions and with proper safe- guards, I bog leave to...

[To THE EDITOR Or TRH "SPECTATOR.'] Srn,—Your article of May 11th on the " Criminal Law Amendment (White Slave Traffic) Bill" seems to me prac- tically to endorse the steps...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TIM "SPEOT•TOR."] Sin,—In the interview with Mr. Lloyd George the repre- sentative of the Daily News and Leader asked: "Will you give us a Minimum Wage Bill...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TRIO " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In an article on "The Inquiry into the Labour Unrest" appearing in your issue of April 6th there appears the following :- "It is a...

/I.. THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sra,—The letter under the above title which appeared in your last week's issue recalls to my mind a story told in connexion Ivith the late...

[To TEE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I have just finished reading an octavo volume of which the sufficiently striking title is, let me say, " Thomas Jacob- son's...

Sc. 3). pro , r111: EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In a chapter on Shakespeare put forth some fifty years ago a scholar glanced at those who would corrupt into bob or fob a...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIB,—There is another well-known rendering, more literal and no less melodious :— " Tomb of a shipwrecked mariner am I, But thou sail on...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR." ] Sin,—For several days past we have seen here quite close to the house a perfectly white wagtail with a yellow bill. It comes with an...

[To THE EDITOR Or TIM "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—As an American whose profession is that of agricul- tural expert the writer was interested in reading a letter, from H. B. Buchanan,...

THE WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC IN THE UNITED STATES.* WE wish that all books ou the White Slave Traffic were writteft , with the ability and understanding of this work. When we say...

COLOURS OF LIGHT. THIS is not easy to understand For you that come from a distant land Where all the colours are low in pitch— Deep purples, emeralds soft and rich, Where...

[TO THE EDITOR OW THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The suggestion which you make in the Spectator of May 11th that the seats in third-class railway carriages should be numbered, and that...

[To THE EDITOR OP TUE "SPECTATOR. "] 8111,—r should be very grateful to you if you would again find room in your columns for an appeal on behalf of the Naples Society for the...

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...

form the contents of this little Volume was one who left an enduring recollection of his personality upon those whose privilege it was to know him, and the essays themselves...

IT has often been asked, Where in literature shall we find the real Irishman ? Are we to look for him !in therages of 'Charles Lever or iu those of Miss Jane Barlow? Mr....

GAMES, and especially ball games, provide many incidental pleasures. There is the sheer physical joy of a well-delivered stroke known to every cricketer, tennis player, golfer,...

Maitland's matter is in the manner of the telling. The book is delightful or meaningless according to the powers of appreciation of the reader. She writes day by day of the...

to deal with "the English language " as a whole, he in fact limits himself almost *From Pillar to Post. By LieuteColonel Lowther. London: Edward Arnold. [15s. not.] t The...

so little of the military style P Can it be mere intellectual snobbery or a jealous trade unionism of writers pure and simple that prevents its recognition P For nothing, in...

number of his personal recollections to a sort of anthology of Eton anecdotes, and the result is not wholly satisfactory. The anecdotal part of the book, which runs over the...

(Hutchinson and Co. 6s.)—What is a " Satanist" ? The dictionaries say "an exceedingly wicked person "; but the word means more than that. A " Satanist" is on the side of Satan,...

and Boon. 65.)—Mr. Benson says that his amiable object in writing those stories has been to make his readers feel uncomfortable and unwilling to look round to see what is in...

THE SIGN.• THE work of Mrs. Fedden is unfamiliar to the present writer, but The Sign is of a quality rarely found in a novice, though instances are not wanting of writers who...

great mistake; it may suit "Delilah," but not Keston the hero.— Mother. By Kathleen Morris. (Macmillan and Co. Se. 6d.)—A powerful plea for tho "simple life," with special...

Bristol. 6s.)—It can hardly ho by accident that Miss Martin reminds us so often of Jane Austen. The social arrangements of the people whom she describes are the same that we...

in which we have represented various processes described as "Sculpture of the Earth's Crust," such as weathering of the surface through various agencies, e.g., rain, heat,...

(Kogan Paul, Trench and Co.,68. each net) is to have an addition, of which the first and second volumes are now before us, both from the indefatigable pen of Dr. E. A. Wallis...

[Under this hroding 166 et obi ea such Books of the week as babe not been o nett ed for review in other forms.1 Ideals of Living. Selected and edited by Grace E. Hadow....

remarkable series, or, to speak more exactly, throe series, of " Guides " in Abbey Guides, Cathedral Guides, and Large Parish Church Guides. Specimens of those are before us,...

of "Prayers for Home Use," entitled Abide With Us, by Constance Cook (Marshall Brothers, 2s. 6d.), and may mention along with it a devotional manual for communicants, Service...

Black. 3s. 6d. net.)—By " Bowler " is meant a player at bowls, not a cricketer handling the ball as against the man who handles the bat. Mr. Manson tolls us all about the game,...

Ph.D. (Cambridge University. 5s. net.)—Here we have an interesting discussion of the belief in the "thunder- bolt." It is to be found very widely in literature, the Slam of Zeus...