would agree to arbitrate, it must not be supposed that her agreeing to do so will necessarily settle the question. It would if we stood alone; but Germany must be consulted, and...

but that fact hardly diminishes the embarrassment of the Allies. Apart altogether from the dangers inherent in the diplomatic situation, on which we have dwelt elsewhere,...

forth the actual doings of the week in Venezuela. As yet events have not, from our point of view, gone very fortunately. The means of striking a dramatic) blow do not exist...

sitting of eighteen hours, during which one Member, Herr Antrick, spoke for nearly eight hours, the combined majority of Agrarians, National Liberals, and membprs of the Centre...

W E have dealt at length elsewhere with the Venezuelan crisis, and with the possibilities of escape from the diffi- culties in which we find ourselves landed owing to the...

case.

Britain and the Emperor Menelek, " King of Kings of Ethiopia." After arranging for a definite delimitation of frontiers, which we could not make intelligible without a map, but...

issued a remarkable manifesto. He says that "the overthrow of the Imperial Constitution is rapidly progressing." The Reichstag and the Emperor alike are being subjected to the...

of Parliament. The principal speaker in the Lords, of course, was Lord Lansdowne, who in answer to Lord Spencer explained that we had serious grievances against the Venezuelans...

detailed nor consistent, but it would certainly appear that there is at least a chance of a revolution there. A pretender belonging to the reigning Shereefian house has advanced...

the House' of Commons on Wednesday about Venezuela: Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman had asked for more information, and in reply to him and other questioners Mr. Balfour virtually...

House of Lords on Monday, after Lord Spencer had uttered a. final protest against the principle of the measure, while giving his assurance that he would endeavour to do his best...

point of his statement that we were performing a public duty in helping to police the world, and gave various instances of distinct outrages committed on British subjects. Mr....

Archbishop of Canterbury. We trust that there is still some chance of improvement, but the latest bulletins seem to render hopes of any such change very faint. The age of Dr....

during the week, partly owing to Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlain having travelled by it some three hundred miles from the coast, and partly because of the debate in the Lords on a Bill...

Chancellor and passed by the Lords, provoked a vehement protest from Lord Hugh Cecil. He declared that it violated trust-deeds, censured the clergy, impugned the integrity of...

and some minor measures received the Royal Assent, and Parliament was at once prorogued. The King's Speech was long but formal, except for the passage in which the King alluded...

benches, was left open by Mr. Balfour, and Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman recommended his followers to support it, though he admitted that by its acceptance they weakened their...

Mr. Henniker Heaton dealing with the difficulty met with by Volunteer officers in complying with the new Regulations. Mr. Brodrick defends the new Regulations on the ground that...

New Consols (2f) were on Friday 92f.

THE GERMAN ENTANGLEMENT. O N November 8th, the day on which the German Emperor landed in England, we asked what was the object of his visit. We assumed that he had not merely...

W E are still knee-deep in the Venezuelan mud,—of that there can unhappily be no doubt. But it is as useless to cry over sticky mud. as over spilt milk, and just now the only...

T " paper read on December 9th by Mr. Hugh Clifford before the Colonial Institute, though it has attracted little public attention, is really in one way an important political...

and more. There is no limit to their curiosity, nor to their indecent desire to take the conduct of their busi- ness out of the hands of its proper custodians. The spectacle of...

fear, "enter tabled the town" for the past three weeks ended on Tuesday in an amazingly shrewd summing-up by Mr. Justice Barnes, and a consequent verdict equivalent to " Not...

W OULD it be possible to establish some kind of a standard Child's Library? Would it, that is, be a possible and a useful undertaking to collect together some dozen or twenty...

we know that he was flourishing nineteen hundred years ago, and it is probable that he dates back to the time of the Flood. The infinite variety, the stimulating uncertainty, of...

T AST year the Board of Trade appointed a Committee to 4 report on the best means of assisting practical scientific research into problems affecting our fisheries. Their Report...

GERMANY AND BRITAIN. [TO TEE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR." J " Kit Oesterreich, mit Frank - mid', mit Russland haben wir bereft' abgerech. net ; die letzte Abrechnung mit...

[To THY EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sint — From the statements in Parliament and the published papers it is clear that England and Germany are in complete accord in the...

THE GOVERNMENT AND GERMANY. [To TER EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIE,—The Government laughed at your sagacious warning against entanglements with Germany. The imbroglio with...

OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIE,—It appears an opportune moment at which to invite reference to your article of November 8th, regarding the visit of the German Emperor to England....

little light on a question which must have been asked by many,—" For what reasons are we co-operating with Germany ? " A month ago there was a widespread foreboding that after...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SP ECTATOR.1 SIR, —A good deal of correspondence has arisen out of the assertion by Commandant Christian De Wet in his book that Lord Kitchener would...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—The Bill of the Government of New South Wales to disfranchise the Civil Service you describe (Spectator, December 13th) as " amazing,"...

RING FORTH WITH THEE EVERY LIVING THING." AT Christmas time I did arise, And took my pilgrim staff in band; Among the simple as the wise To seek my Christ through all the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR :] SIR,—In the Literary Supplement to the Spectator for November 15th (p. 736), the reviewer of a book called "Papal Aims and Papal Claims"...

THE ENEMIES OF ENGLAND.* Tins book will be read with much profit and interest at the present time, and not the less so that it is the work of an author who, to use Mr. George...

EVERY artist when he shows his pictures is familiar with the person who says : " Of course I don't know anything, and can't criticise, but I know what I like." As a rule those...

WE have been reading a round dozen of religious books, some with great interest, others with some effort. To our mind, the best of the twelve are Mr. John Kingsland's The Man...

a larger growth as much as the children for whom it is written. Indeed, in gardening we are all of us children. There is always something new to be learnt, some fresh experiment...

4s. 6d. net.)—This book is not very happily named. It is in reality a gossiping history of California, and is primarily intended for children. The chapter headed " Before the...

GODFREY MARTEN, SCHOOLBOY.* THE detached student of humanity whose judgment is un- deflected by patriotic bias cannot but be amused by the conflict of opinion which rages...

GIFT-BOOKS. We have not encountered a better collection of fairy-stories for many a year than the Zuni Folk-Tales, recorded and translated by F. H. Cushing (G. P. Putnam's...

is an old story excellently retold by M. E. P. Roberts. Born of a fighting family, John Smith went early to the wars; and few men, even in his age of enterprise, saw more of the...

Inigo Triggs. (B. T. Batsford. 21s.)—This is the last part of Mr. Inigo Triggs's interesting collection of formal gardens. Not only are we given Mr. Latham's beautiful...

Co. 6s. net), is a guide to rules of Collegiate residence and University requirements for degrees, intended primarily for the use 01 students from the United States and British...

Office, ls. net). This is a complete list (following ar earlier edition which was duly noticed in the Spectator), and con. tains all the mentions, promotions, and honours of...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not Leen reserved for review in other forms.] The Marquis of Salisbury. By F. D. How. (Isbister and Co. 6s.) — This...

a very handsome edition de lure of Mr. J. H. Short- house's John Inglesaut (Macmillan and Co., 25s. net). It is in three volumes, the first having for frontispiece a fine...

(Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co. 3s. net.)—This is a collection of between seventy and eighty poems about children. Some of them will be well known to most readers; some will be...

any further mention than a record of its appear- ance. (It is now well over its century, being in its one hundred and fourth year.) That it grows better as well as bigger with...