made his promised statement on the Moroccan question. We have dealt elsewhere at length with his defence of French policy, and also with the disclosures made in the Yellow-book...

to make the burden imposed by Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Balfour as light as possible ; but we do not pretend that there will be no burden. Let us, however, put the blame where it...

Government have come to in regard to Chinese labour, and the firm and loyal attitude they have adopted towards France, and will not dwell upon those points again. As to Ireland,...

addressed an.immense meeting of Free-traders gathered from all parts of London. After the usual platform generalities, which were not unduly prolonged nor unduly platitudinous,...

in regard to the alteration of our licensing system in order to increase the revenue—there are certain things in it which we as Unionist Free-traders dislike and shall oppose,...

been recorded. A general strike begins to-day throughout the Empire, which, it is believed, will be maintained with the utmost strictness. It will affect not merely the great...

Leeds Coliseum on Monday night, and expounded his scheme of ",constructive Fiscal Reform" at great length. That scheme, he declared, did not prejudge the question oi Pro-...

a visit on Tuesday to Fatehpur Sikri, the deserted city which for a few years was the centre and capital of the dominions of the great Akbar. What lends peculiar interest to...

were to be constructed upon Protective lines, that seemed to him to go outside the scope of his scheme. Mr. Balfour concluded his Defence of Economic Doubt with some general...

has taken the form of serious anti-foreigner riots at Shanghai. Last Sunday a general strike was organised, and the mob invaded the municipal prisons and released several...

Edmond Fitzmaurice goes to the Lords as Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, a post which he held from 1882-85 ; Mr. T. R. Buchanan becomes Financial Secretary to the War...

is not certain yet whether his resignation is a mere formality, to be withdrawn in a few days at the request of the King, or whether it indicates the beginning of a new attempt...

victory for Free-trade as won before the battle is joined. To this we may be allowed to add a further caution, prompted by a speech of Sir Wilfrid Lawson's reported in Monday's...

at Clifton on Monday, at which Lord Hugh Cecil delivered an extremely able and witty speech. Starting with the admission that he heartily regretted the Fiscal question had ever...

brought to a conclusion on Thursday afternoon, when Mr. Hugh Watt, formerly M.P. for the Camlachie Division of Glasgow, was convicted of inciting to murder his wife on three...

stration held at the Queen's Hall on Tuesday night, and dealt vigorously with the hollowness and insincerity of the Home-rule scare. The latest phase of this protracted game of...

special treatment. Speaking of the Corn-duty imposed in 1902, Mr. Balfour took credit to himself on Monday for baying defended it as a " tax well calculated in itself, and apart...

to the Salvation Army of £100,000 for the purpose of carrying out an experiment in home colonisation. To be accurate, the use of the money is given to General Booth, for the sum...

on the Prime Minister's speech at the Albert Hall by expressing our warmest gratitude as Imperialists to Mr. Morley, the Prime Minister, and the Cabinet for the decision which...

most frank and convincing of State papers. It gives us the inner history of the whole of France's dealings with the Shereefian Empire since in March, 1901, M. Delcasse formally...

whether it can be called satisfactory by those Unionist Free-traders who do not reject the idea of compromise, will be to set forth in clear terms a statement of what would...

so serious in the Baltic provinces. This last, indeed, has much in common with the agrarian disturb- ances in Russia proper ; but in so far as it is successful it is likely to...

that there will be more jobs to go round, as there doubtless will, when times improve. But the case might be totally altered with many of them if they were helped to become...

was not always the historical Jesus as Saviour, it was the Saviour in whom men believed become historical, since he affected the world's history through the hearts of men." The...

delight of the sunshine and speed, Blithe as a bird on his bleak bright foreland, Glad as the wind or his own glad steed." The contrast, of course, is the poor boy, who " sees...

pie and boar's-head first begin to loom upon a still distant Christmas horizon, the English truffle-hunter takes to the field. The locality in which the truffle may be found in...

SIR, — The concentration of public interest on foreign affairs, that most striking feature of our political psychology in recent years, has no doubt been mainly responsible-for...

because I thought Mr. Parker Smith had not stated Adam Smith's views quite fully enough. Adam Smith's doctrine, as I understand it, is that the employment of capital in the home...

article under this heading in the Spectator of December 16th. I hope that you are right in stating that the British public has grasped the essential matter at issue,—namely, the...

SIR,—The Lancashire cotton trade that was " going " has made in profit this year £680,000. This sum is the net gain of eighty-eight mills, representing 7,300,000 spindles with a...

year ago you were kind enough to print some lettere of mine on this subject. Will you allow me to express shortly my views on the difficulty in the present crisis ? As a...

SIR,—It is impossible for me to share the complacent optimism with which the Spectator regards the present posture of affairs. Though a Free-trader, I am still, above all...

a correction wherein the last error is worse than the first. In my last week's letter, hurriedly written at a time of great stress and manifold business anxieties consequent on...

over an invented one, even for purely utilitarian purposes, is surely obvious, if once it is recognised that up to the Reformation it was to a large extent the universal and...

SIR, Would you allow me to point out that there are disadvantages connected with the preservation of large game in tropical Africa (see Spectator of December 16th) ? Un-...

of Mr. Chamberlain's "Cassandra-like warnings" (Spectator, December 16th, p. 1022) you surely forget that Cassandra was always right. It was the foolish Trojans who would not...

INNOCENTS' DAY. " 0, the evening skies were riven, And we tumbled out of heaven, And we run the winter meadows till the coming of tho light." " What names are ye called by,...

the United States of 1812.15 Captain Mahan concludes his remarkable series on the influence of sea power upon history. Properly speaking, however, his present work is a...

askin g subscriptions may be briefly described as follows. Colonel Pollock declares that if funds sufficient to meet the cost are raised, be will undertake in six months to g...

the article in the Spectator for November 25th headed " Lord Roberts's Opportunity," and if one hundred of your readers will send you £3 each for your experiment in Militia...

(TO THE EDITOR. OP THE * SPECTATOR.") am glad to be able to report that, including sums received and promised, the entire £12,000 required for the purchase of Gowbarrow Fell and...

Cbristological literature. The first sensation of the man whose duty leads him to read any considerable portion of this year's production must inevitably be one of confusion....

of Imperial problems, for where the writers do not solve them they raise those pertinent questions which, according to Bacon's saw, are half-way to knowledge. The editor has...

is to provide what might be learned from the conversation of an intelligent native by one making a leisurely progress through the scenes described." Certainly we could not wish...

a newcomer in the field of fiction, has at once revealed himself as a writer to be reckoned with in his exceedingly clever but decidedly painful story. When, however, we say "...

Lock, and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—This book is full from cover to cover of quite surprising facts and figures. To begin with : How many railways are there in England ? A person with...

By Karl Mantzius. Authorised Translation by Louise Von Cossel. Vol. IV. (Duckworth and Co. 10s. Gd. net.)—This fourth volume (out of a contemplated total of six) is given to...

Arthur C. Benson. (George Allen. 4s. net.)— Not quite fifty years ago William Johnson published a volume with the title of Ionic; containing forty-eight poems. In 1877 he...

Fisher Unwin. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Mottram, who describes him- self as "grandnephew of Adam and Seth Bede and cousin to the author," adds a sub-title which explains the purpose of...

a very pleasing series entitled "The Broadway Booklets." They can be obtained separately for Gd. or Is. Gd. in lambskin, &c., or in sets of three in boxes at 1s. 6d. These sets...

Nister. 7s. Gd.)—This is a charming book. The tales are skilfully managed, and the illustrations, six in colour and seventy in half - tone, by Mr. A. A. Dixon, are quite...

added to the services which he has rendered to the historical and philological study of our language by publishing The English Dialect Grammar (Henry Frowde, 16s. net), which...

handsome volume which many doubtless will be glad to possess, — Of God and His Creatures, an Annotated Translation (with some Abridgment) of the "Summa Contra Gentiles" of St....

the like. So the preface suggests, and rightly. It is eminently readable, a success, we should say, in what looks much easier than it is, telling a story in simple words. Mr. A....

and Co. 16s. net.)—Miss Friswell, daughter of a writer who is, perhaps, not as well known to the present genera- tion as he deserves to be, records here something of what she...

friends which return year after year to entertain the young folk. Generally, we may say that these maintain a remarkably high level of merit as regards both literary matter and...

and Co. '7s. 61)-This is a carefully compiled summary of • facts and dates relating to British administrators and soldiers who have served in India, statesmen who have had to do...

Letters of Brooke Foss IVestcott, Sometime Bishop of Durham, by his Son, Arthur Westcott (Macmillan and Co., Ss. 6d. net). We feel for Mr. Westcott's difficulty in omitting...

introduces some novelties which we will give in its own words :-" New and interesting additions are made this year to many of the biographies by a record of the number of a...

Suburbs, 405.; or in 2 vols., 43s. 6d.)-The Directory continues to grow, the London proper portion now reaching a total of 3,469 pages, and the whole, taking in the suburbs,...

Bumpus (T. F.), Cathedrals of England and Wales. Second Series, cr 8vo (T. W. Laurie) net 6/0 Burrill (K.), The Amateur Cook, cr 8vo (Chambers) net 3/6 De Gnerville (A. B.), New...