the sinking ship, and distress rockets were fired. At midnight the wireless messages were picked up by the Cunard liner Carpathia.' She reached the scene of the wreck at 4 a.m....

anxiety in every European Chancellery. On Thursday an Italian squadron, including four battleships, a number of torpedo craft, and three transports, appeared off the mouth of...

as she steamed towards New York, and the most extraordinary and fantastic rumours became current. From the moment that the news of the wreck was known the air was filled with...

case.

naval force is to be found in the fact that there is so little navigation under the Turkish flag. Blockading Turkish ports, or interfering with the trade routes to them,...

A TERRIBLE disaster, involving a greater loss of life than has ever been known in the history of the mer- cantile marine, happened to the White Star liner 'Titanic' last Sunday...

Moorish troops in French pay a grave situation has arisen at Fez. Friday's telegrams show that the Tangier wireless station, which is in communication with Fez, has received...

French, order in all probability will he restored within the course of the next few days. At the same time t here is always in such cases the risk of a " regrettable incident"...

gested to our own people, to use their imagination and put themselves in our places, they are bound to arrive at the conclusion just stated. Mark, we do not ask them to assume...

want of imagination in handling foreign politics, both as regards our own people and also as regards the Germans. We are glad to note, however, in Friday's Times a...

a summary of the German " Defence Bills " and the financial provisions for these measures. The Navy Law as now amended provides for an increase of eight battleships, four large...

the memory of the British and French nations, were hold on Friday and Saturday week at Nice and Cannes respectively. The first was the occasion of the unveiling of the statue of...

able than it had been on the previous day at Nice. No flying was possible owing to the high wind, and visitors had a rough and difficult experience in going to and from the...

con- taining correspondence on Persian affairs. It is unnecessary to follow the record of recent events which the correspondence provides, as the events are familiar. But we may...

in Tibet of a rising against the Chinese. The trouble was started by the " Tibetan State Oracle," whose language was so outspoken that the Chinese ordered his execution. The...

Bill on Monday, ridiculed the notion that safeguards had been provided for the supremacy of the Imperial Parliament. The Bill was admittedly an instalment of Federalism, and...

The financial clauses, he declared, breathed distrust of the Irish people, and he and his friends would oppose the Bill to the last. Mr. T. P. O'Connor declared that the...

demand for Home Rule as the only permanent thing in Ireland during the last one hundred years. He had no difficulty in believing that the people of North-East Ulster were almost...

the Bill. If the Irish Government desired to borrow money for national development they would have power to do so. In conclusion, be declared emphatically that it was absolutely...

of the (Bulgarian) Internal Macedonian Organization now in London. They declare that it is useless any longer to hope for genuine reforms from the Young Turks. The sufferings of...

so as to suit the convenience of the Irish Nationalist members. It appears that the Irish National Convention opens on Tuesday, the 23rd, and in the absence of the Nationalist...

Feb. 8th. Consols (2i) were on Friday 781—Friday week 78.

THE LOSS OF THE ' TITANIC.' T HE appalling loss of life in the ' Titanic ' and the story of what is in some ways the most terrible wreck in the history of shipping have not only...

A FTER the Ulster problem, finance is the most im- portant of all the questions raised by the Home Rule Bill. It is essential hero that the British elector should understand...

W HAT are the qualities specially required by those who would rightly understand and influence our foreign policy P Without hesitation we say that imagina- tion is the quality...

T HE Liberal Party were extremely astute when they decided to link the question of Home Rule for Ireland with the theory of Federalism. That the two issues are in substance...

[COMMUNICATED.] T "paper on this subject read recently before the Institution of Naval' Architects by Admiral Sir Reginald Custance has an interest not merely for men engaged...

M R. YOSHIO MARKINO has already captivated the British public. When he told John Bull what " A Japanese Artist" thought about life in London, he held him spellbound from the...

A T Farnham on Monday the Bishop of Winchester pre- sided over a meeting at which a society was formed for preserving the ancient features of the town and :or promoting its...

Homo Exhibition at Olympia is, no doubt, "the ideal home" itself. Other exhibits wait for visitors; crowds of visitors wait to see the home. If you go early in the morning you...

THE NEED OP REVISING TRADE-UNION LAWS I.To THE EDITOR Or TRR "SPECTATOR." Sin,—On March 16th you kindly published a letter from me (under the name of " Onlooker ") calling...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR:] Sin, — As one who is chiefly dependent on your paper for his educative literature and much enjoys its "rare and refreshing fruit," I am...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "Sreornou.."] SIR,—The interesting and suggestive letter signed " C. H. N." in your issue of March 30th (which I have only just seen) has set me, who am...

[TO TEE EDITOR OF THE " HpRorATon."1 SIR,—In reading old Francis Quarles's " Eclogue " the other day I came across, in the 11th Eclogue, some lines which are surely applicable...

[To Tax EDITOR OP THY "SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—Por many years I have taken your paper, and in many ways profited by the ideas and opinions therein expressed, but I am pained at the...

[To THE EDITOR Or TEE "BPROTATOR."] SIR,—The curious mental attitude of a section of English Nonconformists to Home Rule is well illustrated by the remarks of Mr. Ellis Davies,...

" SPECITATOR."] SIE,—Your restricted use of " Ulster " in your "News of the Week " on April 13th is not so exceptional as it might at first sight appear. While you were...

[To TI111 EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.".1 SIR, —The following expression of the mature judgment of a very eminent Liberal statesman seems worth quoting. In the "Recollections and...

ITO TED EDITOR Or TEE "81.11CTATOR."1 SIR, —Your article on " Why not Experiment in Syndi- calism ? " reminds me of the shrewd and genial Craig, whom many of us remember as...

of emigration from this city to the British dominions and colonies may be regarded from two aspects, widely different and yet closely connected. There is in the first place the...

"SrEci1roa."3 SIB,—May I commend to the notice of your readers the appeal signed by Lord Grey, the Duke of Bedford, and Major - General Sir Ronald Lane on behalf of the funds of...

THE FECKENHAM MEN. (A TRUE RECORD.) THE jolly men at Feekenham Don't count their goods as common men, Their heads are full of silly dreams From half-past ten to half-past ten...

We have received the following sums for this Fund :— E e. d. s. d. 100 0 0 Lionel B. Wells 1 1 0 W. M. Cooper 1 1 0 100 10 0 10 0 0 Edward Hopkins Captain F. Osborne......

[To TIED EDITOR. OP TUN " SPECTATOli."_} SI R, —I do not know whether you care to print the enclosed poem by Celia Thaxter, an American poetess, who is, I am afraid, little...

By CSLIA THAATIR. From out the desolation of the North An iceberg took its way, From its detaining comrades breaking forth, And travelling night and day. At whose command?...

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...

THE UNMUSICAL WORLD. OUR neighbours across the border have an excellent phrase to express persons who have no ear for music. They call them " timmer-tuned "—i.e., timber-tuned....

A FRENCH CONVENT SCHOOL.* THE author tells us that her narrative relates facts, and only facts, drawn from her experience in a French convent school and later as a member of the...

provides the general reader with some account of his remarkable Central Asian wanderings during the years I900-1908. The number and extent of his .discoveries make it impossible...

Ma. EDMUND SELOUS seems to have had more than one object in his mind in writing his Zoo Conversation Book. The scheme of the book is the not unfamiliar plan of making a certain...

IT is not so long since Colonel Gadke, of the Prussian Service, felt himself impelled to give to the world the plain, unvarnished truth—as it presented itself to his...

FOUR CHIMNEYS.t WE always expect to meet pleasant people in Miss Macnaughtan's novels, and the expectation is not dis- appointed in Four Chimneys. Readers who cannot dispense...

THE name of James Stuart would have been more familial- fifteen years ago than it is now. He had then been for some years a Liberal member of Parliament, not exactly belonging...

was seeking to make his own faith dominant in England, he endeavoured to bring over the Non- conformists to his side by o ff ering them a heavy bribe in the Declaration of...

PROBABLY no one would have been so surpriad as Mr. William Shakespeare if he could have visited the ball which was held in his honour on June 20th last. Although costume played...

not.)—This volume, now published for the thirtieth time, is under the control of a committee—an arrangement whioh may be said, without any disparagement of the work done in the...

Windus. Gs.)—A series of picturesque scenes from Indian life in which some English officials are the matter-of-fact and the magician the mysterious element. —The House of Reber-...

Os.)—This novel deals with a subject which will frequently appear, we imagine, in the fiction of the near future —labour unrest. Victor Dorn reminds us, of course, of Felix Holt...

[Under this keeling we notice such Beaks of the week as hare not Wen. rceerved for review in other forms.1 Ties Historical Narrative of the Old Testament. By John Edgar...

B.D. (G, P. Putnam's Sons. Os. net.)—We can take but one item in this elaborate argument. Professor Bowen insists strongly on St. Luke's material view of the Resurrection,...

M.A. (G. Routledge and Sons. as. 6d. net.)—Professor Terry con- tinues in this volume a work begun some time ago. Taking the Fall of the Roman Empire as the beginning. of "...

Bartholomew' and Co. 25s. net.)—The editor gives us, by way of Introduction, a useful essay entitled "The Progress of Geography." We have on the first page a striking...

O'Conor Sloane, Ph.D. (Longinans and Co. 12s. 6d. net.)— It might bo enough to say of St. Francis that he died at the ago of forty-three and loft the Franciscan Order to the...