draw attention to the persons who signed IL Their names and qualifications are as follows :— " Duke of Bedford, served in the Egyptian campaigns ; Lord Glenconner, a Liberal...

at Peking. She had been unwell for a few days, but her death was quite unexpected. Lung Yii was consort of the late Emperor Knang Hsii, and was a niece of the famous...

at Islington, and in the evening attended the Royal Amateur Orchestral Society's smoking concert at Queen's Hall. On Thursday the King and Queen and Princess Mary went to Oxford...

T HE course of the war, whether in Thrace or in Macedonia, remains inscrutable. So successful is the censorship of all news that the world remains as ignorant of military opera-...

the question of national defence, signed by the leading members of the National Defence Association, a body forme(' to promote the study of our military problems. The appeal...

case.

Oxford. Dr. Gilbert Slater, the Principal, said that the college authorities hoped henceforth to join hands with the organized workers of Oxford, and to get into closer touch...

interesting suggestion for a via media between universal military service and " reluctant acquiescence in the present inadequate number of efficients in the Territorial Force."...

by Lord Durham to the Turf Guardian Society, Limited. After praising the Society for excluding from its ranks advertising tipsters, Lord Durham goes on to make the following...

principle of indirect pressure should be extended far beyond the Universities. All candidates for the Civil Service, and possibly for the Police Force, might be similarly made...

io not agree with this latter part of their proposal. In effect, it would do what in our opinion would be detestable. It would put the screw upon vast numbers of poor men, but...

has, we venture to say, never been better put than it is here, and we congratulate Lord Durham on his moderation, good sense, justice, and absolute avoidance of humbug and...

are very glad to learn, accepted the invitation of the American Bar Association to deliver the annual address at the meeting at Montreal which will open on September 1st. The...

will without delay adopt training in arms, and especially the kind of training that fits a man to be an officer, as part of its curriculum. If it does, it will have set a...

persons unknown to blow up the house which is being built for Mr. Lloyd George at Walton Heath. Mr. Bodkin, who prosecuted, quoted various speeches in which Mrs. Pankhurst...

its treatment was made at a recent meeting of the Metropolitan Asylums Board. The Greenwich Borough Council, it appears, have made leprosy a notifiable disease and asked the...

Witness, appeared at Bow Street on a summons charging him with publishing a number of libels concerning Mr. Godfrey Isaacs. Mr. Muir, the counsel for the prosecution, in his...

motor bandits was concluded in the early morning, the final hearing having lasted over twenty hours. Four of them were condemned to death, two to penal servitude for life, while...

Two members of Dr. Mawson's expedition, Lieutenant B. E. S. Ninnis, of the Royal Fusiliers, and Dr. Mertz, a Swiss oceanographer, have lost their lives. Mr. Ninnis fell into a...

up from various parte of the country as to airships being seen at night. These reports are too numerous, too vague, and mostly too foolish to be given in detail. That a foreign...

October 17th. Consols (2D were on Friday 7411—Friday week 74;1. Bank Rate, 5 per cent., changed from 4 per cent. October 17th. Consols (2D were on Friday 7411—Friday week 74;1.

sudden death of Sir William White, the distinguished naval architect and ex-Director of Naval Construction, which took place in London on Thursday as the result of a stroke....

P OLITICAL leaders get plenty of destructive criticism from their followers but not much that is con-. structive. Their ,mistakes are proclaimed with stunning iteration by...

UNSTABLE EQUILIBRIUM. D R. DILLON, the Vienna correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, writing in Thursday's issue, uses the following language : " Every section of the...

T HE United States Ambassador in Mexico City is reported to have sent a reassuring message to Washington about the situation in Mexico. He is said to have stated his disbelief...

to the sitting and rising of Parliament have been so completely upset by the action of the present Ministry that the general public is perhaps hardly aware that the session of...

N OT very many days ago we read of a lynching at Houston, Mississippi, which the Times correspondent described as "the most spectacular lynching that the State has ever seen."...

UARRELS tend to become less serious. The type of the common quarrel has changed. It is not so long- lived and not so intense. In this country, at any rate, a quarrel is never...

Y EAR after year as the spring weather comes round letters and paragraphs appear in the papers chronicling the arrival of the cuckoo in March or even in February. Year after...

of National Service deserves the deepest gratitude of everyone who cares for the country. In your last article you write: "It is no good to say that there is no means of taking...

NATIONAL SERVICE AND THE REFERENDUM. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEC[ATOR. "] Sin.,—In common, no doubt, with most of your readers I found your article on " National Service and the...

rro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' Sra,—As a constant reader of the Spectator I am surprised that no reference has been made in the correspondence in your columns on this...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Your article about the European situation in the current issue of the Spectator contains several statements about Germany's position...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — May I venture to ask whether the statement in the Spectator of February 22nd to the effect that the Territorial Force cannot be used...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] is interesting to recall the fact that the first meeting to start the Volunteer movement at the latter end of the 'fifties was held at the...

Sin,—As a Christian minister I was much interested in the article in the issue of February 22nd under the title " The Problem of the Godless Good." Is it not a fact that Jesus...

Sin,—Your admirable article, entitled " The Godless Good," condemns the words of Article 13 (" works done before the grace of Christ . . . have the nature of sin") as a "direct...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOII.1 am one of your readers who, always instructed and interested by the Spectator's putting of any question, derives peculiar advantage and...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—A straw will tell which way the stream goes, and an event quite trifling in itself may show as clearly the run of public opinion. Ten...

[TO THE EDITOR CF THE ".SPECTATOR. "] have been much interested in the recent correspondence in your columns with regard to Angola and the conduct of affairs there under the...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. "] Stn, — A tenth part of the population of Prussia is Polish. Nevertheless the Poles are to most Germans " mere names and abstractions "; to...

rTo TEE EDITOR Or TEE "SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—The Government system of valuation for increment duty grows very interesting, and you may perhaps think my experience of their methods...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "STECTATOR."] SIR,—I beg to enclose the following statement for publication in the hope that you may be able to find room for its insertion —I am, Sir,...

[TO TUE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR.•'] Snl,—I would not wish to argue with you about Mr. Arthur Benson's letter, but as it is admitted that the public schools have hitherto done...

[To THE EDITOR. OP THE "SPECTATOR. " ] venture to ask for the interest of your readers on behalf of the above Union, which has now been carrying on its work vigorously, though...

Sin,—The following quotation from Carlyle's "Lectures on Heroes" is singularly appropriate as a corroboration of the quotation from Dr. Saleeby (see essay on " Change " in the...

SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The interesting article on Miss Austen (Spectator, February 15th) truly says that she and her characters "were content with things as they found them." To...

[To THE EDITOR OF THY " SPECTITOB."] SIR,—I think that the following may perhaps interest your readers: At the Northamptonshire Assizes the evidence of bloodhounds was accepted...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-14 to the present time the weather has been so mild; that it has not been found necessary to feed the birds in the, Brent Valley Bird...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Clay as a soil being widely distributed, some interest may attach to some experiments I made during the coal strike in this remotely...

[To THE EDITOR OE THE "Sracralos."1 Sin,—I will subscribe a guinea per annum for five years to the Wimbledon Common Extension Fund. Mr. Richardson Evans knows me, so there is...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Will you permit us through the medium of your columns to make an appeal on behalf of the British and Foreign Blind Association? We...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—May I add yet one more note on the above P I was once told that when Handel was travelling in Switzerland he chanced to pass a country...

[TO THE EDITOR OE THE " SPECTATOR." I SIR,—In the Spectator of February 22nd you cite from the "Cumberland Letters" a story of an unpopular preacher being "scraped down " by...

THE TEAM BULLOCK. Tax sunrays scorched like furnace fires; The sagging wool-bales dipped and swung; The sand poured off the four-inch tyres; The dust upon the float-rails...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the news therein expressed or with the mode of...

[To THE. EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR, —There is one aspect of the cominc , County Council elections 'which I venture to commend to the attention of all those who ,regard...

A FOOL'S PARADISE.* VEOFESSOE DICEY has set himself a task which, to a man of his age and antecedents, cannot well be other than irksome. He has been a life-long opponent of the...

recognized as the sanest and most acute of modern constitutional analysts, and his new book, if it receives the serious attention it deserves, should go far to mark an epoch in...

_fairly be given to Dr. Ledingham and Dr. Arkwright. Here is a ,book well written, well thought out, complete, concise, and authoritative. That • (1) The Carrier Problem in...

PnortssOR GorriTER has written a careful, leg ;thy, and dis- passionate survey of the processes by which the land of this country, either unenclosed, waste, or arable, came into...

• frif cein /atterii of- tisi Ikeerona Angle "Maeditraeor; 1S.D. By the Lady -*.Scrnosand, Komori/a. By Walparst, Lady Paget . - Leaden: Smith, 14144 7.4,V1 IT is becoming...

Frances Balfour. Illustrated. London : Hodder and Storiplden. Dap. net.] - arld'Co. ['is. 641. net.] ' LADY FRANCES BALFOUB has written the life of a great Presbyterian...

T HIS book will appeal to those to whom the study of old customs and superstitions are interesting because they throw light on the working of the minds of inarticulate people....

TILE VILLAGE IN THE JIINGLE.I . THE author - of this remarkable study of native life in a jungle village in Ceylon was, we gather, in the Ceylon Civil Service. If all Civil...

Co. 6s.)--A pleasantly written novel about a girl who, dowered with the fatal gift of beauty, has the usual struggle to make aIiving, she having received no particular training...

6s.) —This book will be read, not for its rather unpleasant theme, but for the descriptions of life in South Africa. The author has given a -wonderful picture of the charm of...

al■•■ • [Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not Coen reserved for review in other forms.) Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion. By G....

By A. B. (3d.)—Those who care to hear something of Dr. Steiner, whose teaching has already attracted a considerable following, especially in Germany and Austria-Hungary, will...

two apparently mysterious volumes are in reality the Bible translated into two African dialects, namely, Lunyoro and Chinyanja respectively. We mention them here, not because we...

(T. C. and E. C. Jack, 6d. net each) have now been published, and they deal with a wide variety of topics. Taking first, for instance, the four biographical volumeS, we find...

States of America. By L. Oppenheim, MA., LL.D. (Cambridge University Press. 2s. 6d. net.)—Professor Oppenheim, the distin- guished international jurist, sets out the arguments...

Heinemann. 6s.)—Mr. Patterson takes himself seriously, and leis solid work deserves consideration. His hero wins his way from the lowest poverty to a partnership in a gurnley...

Wilson. (P. S. King and Son. ls.)—These diagrams, issued under the auspices of the Proportional Representation Society of Ireland, show very clearly the defects of the existing...