with Lord Loreburn's letter the Home Rule con- troversy had entered on an entirely new stage. "This question can no longer stand as it did." Yet Lord Loreburn had not recognized...

• T HERE has been no visible approach during the week to an achievement of the Conference on Irish affairs which Lord Loreburn proposed. Rather the denunciation from both sides...

is on Ulster, so far as we can see, that the fate of a Conference must also hang. Ulster cannot possibly be sacrificed. With a political penetration that pierced the essential...

Orange lodges at Kilkeel and Newry. The Times correspondent says that the recent improvement in the discipline and organization of the men is remarkable, and has produced a deep...

Grey discussed Lord Loreburn's proposal of a Conference on the Irish question, and put forward his own opinion in favour of federalism. He agrees with Lord Loreburn that...

case.

new Thracian frontier were signed by the representatives of Turkey and Bulgaria. The frontier follows the Maritza from its mouth to Mandra, and then continues north so as to...

Liverpool, but in Birmingham an uncompromi* ing spirit is still shown by the strikers. The action of the railwaymen in disregarding their Executive and calling for a national...

performances and hopes of his Ministry. He declared that for the present the Imperial Defence Committee, which had welcomed Canadian Ministers to its meetings, was the best...

the attitude of Great Britain towards Moslems in general. This matter is continually presenting itself in some form or other in the conduct of our foreign affairs, and on none...

and London, has spread to the Midlands and threatens to become general. In London the painters' strike _has been settled by the acceptance of the masters' terms. The dispute in...

a fresh and formidable development on this side of St. George's Channel, some ten thousand goods men on the London and North-Western, the Midland, and the Lancashire and...

Lord Hardinge made an important speech. He first spoke very wisely about Turkey and Persia, as he expressed British sympathy with both countries while making it perfectly plain...

the cost of living in the Economics section. Dr. Bowley main- tained that there was no uniformity between wholesale and retail prices, and suggested that until the changes in...

the Board of Trade Offices at Whitehall on Monday. Evidence given by Captain Hill of the Royal Fusiliers, Mr. Roland Brander, and Dr. Drake pointed to a shortage of tools and...

Grand, the manager of the Midland, as to the precautions taken by the company after the accident at Hawes Junction three years ago. They had set aside a special sum of £100,000...

year, was famous as an Orientalist, traveller, friend of kings, lover of England, and hater of Russia. Lame from birth, the son of a poor Hungarian Jew, but endowed with an...

was despatched by the owner, Mr. Max Mayer, from London to Paris and stolen in the post, were picked up on Tuesday morning in the street at Highbury by a working man and handed...

change into Infantry organization. In future the battalion is to contain only four companies instead of eight smaller companies. No proposal has divided opinion more in the Army...

bewildering variety. On Friday they ranged from the transcendental aspects of radiation, treated by such experts as Professor Lorentz, Lord Rayleigh, Sir J. J. Thomson, and Sir...

(2-1) were on Friday 74—Friday week 73i.

THE PROPOSED CONFERENCE. T HE events of the week have borne out what we expected to be the outcome of Lord Loreburn's proposal ; there is undoubtedly a general conviction that...

has given a new word to the English language. What we were all inclined a few months ago to call syndicalism is now being called by the daily press " Larkinism." The use of the...

Association spent a whole day last week in considering the future of British canals. Most of the speakers were agreed that the future in question is a very promising one. The...

A FTER seven months of office President Wilson can look back on an achievement which his immediate predecessors talked and dreamed of without avail. He has induced both the...

conceivable, might very fitly tell his countrymen, in the words addressed to Prometheus some twenty-three centuries ago, that they would find no friend more staunch than Oceanus...

S OMETHING of the gaiety of nations is lost now that the heyday of the fair is over. The great fairs are gone, but little fairs still exist and are frankly reminiscent of them....

O WNERS of partridge-shootings have been faced this year with a new and curious situation. An unexpected check has interrupted what looked like developing into a very successful...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...I SIR,—In the first paragraph of the Spectator of September 13th it is stated that " Lord Loreburn appeals for a Conference to settle the...

HOME RULE AND THE REFERENDUM. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...1 Sts,—I venture to express the hope that you will continue to argue in favour of a Referendum, and that you...

[To THE EDITOR CF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In many of your articles during the debate on Home Rule by your powerful pen you ably argued in favour of an amendment for the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—Professor Dicey, in your issue of the 13th September, writes that neither the sentence quoted by me nor anything contained in his book...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. "] Snt,—Is not the ultimate cause of the present Irish difficulty to be sought in the want of any real sense of responsibility on the part of...

Sin,—May I have just space enough, in view of the immense importance of clearness in this matter, to point out that the purport of Sir William Anson's weighty letter to the...

[To THR EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — I made a few observations to Lord Wolmer with regard to his public controversy with Mr. Lloyd George, and he suggested to me that I...

Allen, in his letter to you on this subject, says: " You apparently suggest that because the community have to pay the bill in any case it does not matter whether these old...

Manchester Guardian of June 9th, 1909, you will find that in one of my speeches in behalf of the Union I spoke of the King as the " Grand Chairman of the

[To TES EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] ST E,—Mr. Allen rightly points out that the figures of indoor and outdoor pauperism given in your issue of the 23rd August last only relate...

excellent article and Professor Smart's letter in pour issue of September 6th suggest two considerations which are perhaps not adequately recognized. We hear con- tinually...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE ••SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—As an employer of labour for more than thirty years in different parts of the country, I should like to say how entirely I agree with...

THE SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your otherwise exceptionally well-informed article on this subject in your issue of September 6th contains, I think, some misconceptions on the subject of...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. ") Sin,—I am writing the life of the late Lord Avebury, and should be very grateful for the loan of any letters of interest from him. I need...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "Srscrevoe."] SIR,—It may be of interest, in view of certain remarks in your journal, to recall the fact that in the spring of 1801 the "Duke of York had...

ADVENTURE. IT was a prosperous dull square In London, heavy-built and grey. Decorum was triumphant there, Adventure very far away. Peace brooded on the sooty-grassed Enclosure...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Anonymity is perhaps a necessary shield for persons who, like the "Territorial Officer" who writes in your issue of September 13th,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—May I be allowed through the courtesy of your columns to draw attention to a source of evil, scarcely realized, to the childhood of our...

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

LISTER.* To write Lister's name is to be reminded of his presence. He came from Edinburgh to London in 1877. He took his place among the great London physicians and surgeons of...

the strange figure of Hackstoun of Rathillet, who at the murder of the Archbishop on Magus Moor stood apart, with his hand at his mouth, revolving a private scruple of...

Mn. McCanna's book probably contains the truest estimate of the work and conduct of the Italian army in Libya that has been published in English. The author has written at his...

Tuonan radioactivity is by far the youngest of the sciences— having barely got into its teens—the time has now come when we can safely take stock of its results, especially when...

that later recruits have added very much to the careful and clear-sighted expositions of Mr. George Trevelyan and Mrs. Sturge Henderson, the army of Meredith commentators...

FATHER BENSON confesses his religious experience with the literary ease and unreserve which characterize his family. As a boy, he tells us, he thought of God " quite...

WRITING with the knowledge gained by ten years' intimate experience, Canon Horsley, " late and last Chaplain of H.M. Prison, Clerkenwell," has every claim to the attention of...

THIS volume of the publications of the Royal Historical Society is.compiled from the Bute Archives, and sheds an interesting light on the way in which private economic interests...

l Under this heading we notice such Books er as week es hays not bees> , reserred for veriest in other forms.] William Morris: Poet, Craftsman, and Social Reformer. By A....

Secker. 6s.)—Scottish and Barbary piracy in the seventeenth century promises a picturesque and exciting setting; the treatment is not quite convincingly adequate.— An Inn upon...

BELOW STAIRS.* Below Stairs. By Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick. London : Methuen and Co. tea.) IT is interesting to note the variations in the attitude of novelists and dramatists...

Co. 6s.)—There is distinction in Dr. Bashford's writing and his story; it is the more regrettable that he succumbs to the lure of realism. He draws for us a young East-End...

By A. Smythe Palmer, D.D. (Isaac Pitman and Sons. 5s. net.)—Dr. Palmer's object is to show that the Scriptural story of Samson is in part composed of a much more ancient...

Underwood. (T. Fisher Unwie. 7s. 6d. net.)—Most people who read Mr. Underwood's book will do so with a sense of growing surprise, for to most of us the country he describes is...

Press. Is. net.)—In this new volume of the "Nation's Library " Professor Lewes, after dealing coats* with the supply, value, and means of utilization of a fuel? entAtasines the...

Rev J. O'Neil, S.J. (Simpkin, Marshall and Co. 7e. 6d. net.)— Father O'Neil has followed up his Sindebele phrase-book and vocabulary with a careful and well-arranged grammar of...

Empire. By Arthur P. Poley, B.A. (Sir Isaac Pitman and -Sons. 12s. 6d. net.)--This book, which traces the history and compares the development of the Constitutions of the United...

Skeat. (G. Bell and sons. Ss. net.)--This interesting volume forme the eleventh ofa series-initiated by the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, and is published in the condition in...