an Eight-Page Supplement, containing the Half-Yearly Indez and Title-Page—i.e., from January 6th to June 29th, 1912, inclusive.

accorded under it to the United States to dig the Canal was given for valuable consideration. Britain gave up her rights of construction in the isthmus in consideration of the...

W E have dealt with the Turkish crisis elsewhere, but may record as we write on Friday that the new Ministry has not yet been formed, though it appears that Tewfik Pasha will...

telegrams a saner appreciation of the merits of the Panama Canal ques- tion appears to be coming over public opinion in the United States. A Reuter telegram from New York quotes...

his way to St. Petersburg, where he is due on Sunday. The Times correspondent makes the highly important statement that well-informed persons believe that the scheme of an alli-...

the Government's " ambitions " was imaginary. The Government had not encouraged the Societe d' fitudes or its operations. They were perfectly free to oppose the scheme when the...

on the proposed trans-Persian railway. Lord Curzon vehemently attacked the scheme as a grave military danger to India. It meant a fundamental departure from the lines on which...

ease.

on Monday Mr. Churchill will make a further statement on the Mediterranean and Home Fleets. This, we trust, means the laying down of additional Dreadnoughts for the...

watchman at Mr. Harcourt's house at Nunehara discovered two women in the park, who apparently contemplated arson. They had methylated spirit, petroleum, turpentine, and fire....

Dominion Parliaments. The Imperial Parlia- ment, elected mainly upon domestic issues, had now granted to the Dominions practically complete control over their own affairs in all...

part in the thanksgiving service held in the Cathedral to celebrate the preservation of the building. It was seven years ago that Mr. T. G. Jackson, the Cathedral architect,...

parade of the Honourable Artillery Company in the grounds of Buckingham Palace. The occasion was especially interest- ing owing to the fact that the section of the Ancient and...

a dinner given in his honour at the House of Commons by the Empire Parliamentary Association. He spoke first of the constitutional development of the Dominions, which was pro-...

on the Insurance Act at the Kennington Theatre. The occasion was the eve of the Act coming into force, and it had been proposed by some Liberals to celebrate it as a "Joy Day."...

of London to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the bankers, very different points of view were taken in the speeches of Mr. Lloyd George and of the Governor of the Bank of...

offered by the Spectator for competition at Bisley among the mem- bers of the National Reserve have led to a fairly spirited contest, even in the first year. The winners of the...

when a commemorative service was held at West- minster Abbey and a banquet at the Guildhall. Some 300 delegates from all over the world took part in the celebration. The Prime...

with the question of "taking on" places. Last August it appears that the shipowners, in order to terminate the strike, consented that those places in future should be in...

—only too well justified in the past—has been revived in an extremely grave form. On Tuesday the proprietor of a gambling saloon, named Rosenthal, was shot dead by five men in a...

dock strike, which at the beginning of the week seemed to promise peace, have ended in failure. In our opinion it can never be wise to refuse messages from the other side during...

Bill was withdrawn in the House of Lords, the Home Office opposing it as unsuitable. As our readers know, we are no enemies of sport. We do not consider the wagering of money a...

May 9th. Consols (21) were on Friday 74a—Friday week 75-1.

(1) The employers cannot agree to any terms which will invelve the dismissal of men who have stood by them throughout the strike and of whom some 19,000 are now at work. (2) The...

is of course that the Government and Parliament are afraid of the Press. The Bishop's Bill, besides penalizing the publication of betting advertisements, also penalized tips,...

THE LUST OF CR17ELTY. TI NLESS the English people have totally lost some of their finest characteristics there will be from one end of the country to the other an outburst of...

M AJOR MORRISON-BELL has laid the Unionist Party, and indeed in the highest sense the nation, as a whole, under no small obligation. By dint of per- sistent preaching, and at...

fall of the Turkish Government is the ominous 1 -1 answer to the mutiny and disaffection in the Army, and one cannot think of any conditions of collapse which would condemn the...

understood by the general public, and even by expert newspaper writers, that in all probability the significance of Colonel Seely's references to that Force during the...

T HE Olympic games, which were founded to encourage friendly competition—which was assumed to be the same thing as competitive friendliness—among the nations, have brought their...

I T is not very wonderful that, amid the drums and tramplings of the last decade, the introduction of a new method into so pedestrian an art as biography should have failed to...

A T the annual meeting of the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, held on July 11th, mention was made of a scheme, which has already been outlined...

THE AGRICULTuRAL LANDOWNERS AND SITE VALUE. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—I am an agricultural landowner. I live on the estate and manage it to the best of my...

NATIONAL RESERVE: THE WEST RIDING RE VIEW. L - To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Knowing the interest that you take in the National Reserve you must have been very...

r To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—One of your contemporaries which has never shown itself reconciled to our entente with Russia has given its readers a lengthy extract...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SFECT•TOE."] SIR, — Now that the naval position in home waters has had to be strengthened by withdrawing ships from the Mediter- ranean, I think we may...

" SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—" The present condition of Macedonia is a disgrace to humanity and to the European Powers, England included, who allow it to continue." "What is being done by...

[To Tax EDITOR 01 THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—Irish loyalists, convinced that Executive tyranny would be harder to bear and more difficult to guard against than legis- lative...

Sin,—Whether loyal subjects are bound in all cases to obey the laws, although these laws may be in flagrant violation of the Constitution, is open to question. But surely if the...

rTo THIS EDITOR Or TER "SPECTATOR:' Srn,—History repeats itself. In 1848 Lamartine—then leader of the National Assembly—warned the Socialist Government of France that its...

[TO TIM EDITOR Or THIS "SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—Week by week you champion the cause of Free Trade with a persistency which those - who do not agree with you must commend and confess...

[To rem Enrros or THE "ssacraeos."] Snt,—The writer of the letter signed "L. C. F. C." appeals to Canon xcix., which he regards as still binding. What about the other canons ?...

have read in "The Church's Stress "—the Bishop of Winchester's Charge to the Clergy of Southwark Diocese— "that (the Church) should refrain from claiming to pass particular...

[To THE EDT/OR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sta,—The writing looms larger and larger. Totes are being lost to the Government by thousands, and where, in cases of immense previous...

ASSOCIATION. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J Sin,—A body called "The British Ski Association" has lately made its public appearance. Among its objects are stated to be:—...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the "Speech of the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, spoken at his death upon the scaffold on the Tower Hill, January 10th, 1C44,"...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SrEcwrolt.•1 Sra,—Here, in a somewhat inaccessible part of the tropics, I have only just received the Spectator of April 27th, in which is a letter...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—At this time we can scarcely glance at a newspaper without seeing appeals for help towards sending the worn-out toilers and drooping...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THZ " SPECTATOR."] $i&,—Field-Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood, in his book entitled From Midshipman to Field-Marshal" (chap. ix.), narrates the following incident...

[To THE EDITOR OF TILE "SPECTATOR."' Sia,—Preparations are now being made fer_ the annual camps of the Boys' Brigade, and it is anticipated that no fewer than 20,000 boys of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIE,—While thanking you for your notice of "The Oracles in the New Testament" last week, will you let me say that I had there pointed out...

[TO THR EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR, —As a very old reader of the Spectator I am taking the liberty of sending you a description of a very interesting little incident which...

(To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."' may interest some of your readers to know that I heard the thrash for the first time this season, about 8 a.m., on June 3rd—Sing George's...

[To TILE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR...1 Sin,—" H. H. S.," in his humorous description of the difficulties that beset the preacher, has not mentioned one fact that seems to me to...

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...

Sin,—Replying to your correspondent" V. N.," allow me space to say that my mother, a few hours before her death, said to me, "I want my mother—I have never wanted her so badly as

THE RIDING CAMEL. I wee Junda's riding camel. I went in front of the train. I was hung with shells of the Orient, from saddle and cinch and rein. I was sour as a snake to...

MR. STEPHEN REYNOLDS'S TALES AND TRAVELS.* Mn. STEPHEN REYNOLDS is at an interesting stage in his literary career. His first (and best) book showed that he had penetrated in a...

of the Memoirs of Francesco Crispi has an interest of its own. But with the first volume we do not propose to deal The history of the Italian Revolution has been told with...

rendered a real service to the public by elaborately working out a number of monographs dealing with the assertions currently made by Socialists and land- taxers, and providing...

THESE two volumes, both dealing with the same subject from different aspects, dwell upon the comparative slightness of the knowledge which we have of the bottom of the sea and...

ALL of the seven essays which have been collected by the Dean of Norwich in this volume are of interest, and they deal with widely different subjects. One, by Mr. Henry...

Its purpose is to discuss the relation of Christianity to the life of the world in our day. He has an extraordinary power of laicizing theology, if we may be forgiven the...

THIS very pleasant and sympathetic biography is in some ways a curious contrast to M. Joseph Turquan's clever book on Josephine, reviewed in the Spectator a little time ago ;...

A CANDIDATE FOR TRUTH.* "GOD offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose." So says Emerson in his essay on Intellect. The lover of repose will accept the first...

and Co. 6s.)—This is a mock royal romance dealing with the imaginary kingdom of Kosnovia, conveniently situated in that corner of South-East Europe in which modern imaginary...

THE July number of the Edinburgh Review is the first issued under the editorship of Mr. Harold Cox, and it may be said at once, and as the highest praise, that it fully...

by Andre Castaigne. (Gay and Hancock. 6s.)—This is the account of an amusing and unsuccessful plot made by a set of American adventurers for the confusion of a most respectable...

Co. 6s.)—The matter of this book is indi- cated by the title, but "indiscretion "is really rather a mild word to apply to the heroine's conduct. An aeroplane and an aviator are...

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their enterprising cheap reprints so as to include the Spanish language. The first two volumes of their new series have just appeared, and are La Vicla intima de Napolefra, by...

['Under this leading we notice such Books of the week as hare not been reamed for review in other forms.1 Londres, Hampton Court, et Windsor. Par Joseph Aynard. (Librairie...

and Co. 2s. 6d.)—The correspondence reprinted here was opened last November in the Journal of the Royal Colonial Institute by Mr. Sargent. Subsequent letters and notes upon the...

and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—" The Story of the Veto Battle" from 1832 to 1911 is told in this volume from the Liberal standpoint. The first half of the book is concerned with events...

and Co. 5s. net.)—Fleeming Jenkin was Professor of Engineering at Edinburgh from 1868 to 1885, and this memoir of his life was originally published three years later at the...

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