moved that the Bill " be read a second time this day six months." But though Mr. Balfour condemned, and, as we hold, rightly condemned, the principle of the Bill, it was...

W E have dealt at length elsewhere with the crisis, with the Government's Bill, and with what, in our opinion, is the attitude which should be taken up by all who desire to...

case.

purpose to dwell at length upon the speeches made in Parliament during the passage of the Bill. Since we go to press on Friday at midday we cannot comment on the discussion in...

cut once more that whatever else may be the effect of the Bill, and of the strike that has led up to it, it must in the long run be injurious to the miners. If their leaders...

in the case of workmen employed underground in Coal Mines, and for purposes incidental thereto " was issued on Tuesday night. It consists of six clauses and a schedule. The...

a strong point of the fact that Mr. Balfour put forward no alternative proposal. The Prime Minister, we are glad to see, made it clear, however, that in the last resort the...

Estimates on Monday, discussed the naval situation vis-d-vis with Germany, prefacing his remarks with the observation that nothing was to be gained by using indirect modes of...

against the expenditure on the Navy, but Mr. Leach, the Radical member for the Colne Valley, declared that, although a man of peace, he was "almost completely won over by the...

rate of a district may be altered. The fourth provides for the Act being brought into operation without delay. The fifth is interpretative. The sixth contains the short title,...

so well ex- pressed by Lord Haldane in his speech at the Fishmongers' dinner on Thursday night that we must find space to quote it verbatim :— " There is another duty, besides...

unexpected developments by other countries, this ratio of sixteen to ten would continue to be a convenient guide for the next few years. But as the pre-Dreadnoughts declined in...

Admiralty bad resolved to recast completely the organization and distribution of the Fleet with a view to strengthening the naval force in home waters immediately available for...

house in Wimbledon, and on Wednesday conveyed to Salford, where he was charged on Thursday before the magistrate under the Incitement to Mutiny Act of 1797. The charge was in...

Buxton, who explains that, though in sympathy with the cause of woman suffrage, ho will vote against the second reading of the Conciliation Bill lest the passage of the Bill...

Cohen, K.O., who was a member of the Royal Commission on Trade Disputes, recalls the history of the Trade Disputes Act of 1906. The Royal Commission in their majority report...

the scheme of national defence, received on Wednesday an official recognition which can only be described as of th e highest significance. In answer to the Duke of Bedford, Lord...

last Saturday on the ground that new naval and military expenditure is to be met by unsound finance. Herr Wermuth's principle, which was stated in a debate in February, and by...

has begun to realize what a valuable force they have in the National Reserve, and the ability which the institution gives to them of keeping in touch with, and utilizing the...

Tuesday Sir Forrest Fulton, the Recorder, referred to the cases of the brothers Buck, printers, and Guy Bowman, a journalist, who are accused of inciting soldiers to mutiny. The...

on Friday week. The Premier, M. Poincar6, said that MM. Caillaux, Briand, Cruppi, Messimy, and others had waived their right to reply to M. Jauri!s. As the present Government...

Feb. 8th. Consols (2) were on Friday 77-;—Friday week 78.

THE CRISIS. S UPPOSE a dark night and a coach with an unruly team of horses driven by a coachman who, yielding to bad advice, has turned off the main highway and got into an...

S ELDOM has the prospect of terminating a war depended upon such curiously conflicting influences as now have full play in Turkey in face of the proposed mediation between the...

W E sincerely trust that the statement given in the Daily Graphic and other papers last Monday that the Government have renewed our offensive and defen- sive alliance with...

many quarters there have been expressions of opinion that a real solution for the present labour troubles will be found in industrial co-partnership. There is much to be said...

O NE of the chief impressions which most readers must have received from the accounts of the wreck of the P. and 0. liner Oceana ' is that the lives which were lost were lost...

" C OPY-CAT " is a term of opprobrium which still belongs to the schoolroom. It has not yet been promoted to a place in Murray's Dictionary ; not yet been presented at that high...

I N these days, when it is becoming border and harder to come across old books on fish and fishing, there is not much likelihood of the amateur collector lighting upon a little...

THE STRIKE. [TO T1114 EDITOR OF TEN " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The dispute in the coal trade is, it may be hoped, not now far from settlement. The terms upon which peace will be...

"SPECTATOR...3 Srn,—The characteristics of a widespread coal strike in its re- sults are that, as coal becomes abnormally dear, manufactures and other businesses which for coal...

of labour unrest the one thing which receives utterly inadequate consideration is the welfare of the community. It is time for the community to take steps, not merely to restore...

EDITOR 0/ TEN esyserrres.ei Srn,—Allow me to request the advocacy of your columns in the present national crisis for the middle classes, who are forced to suffer in a dispute...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Slit,—As a working man I would like to reply to the letter signed " X." in the Spectator for the week ending March 9th. I am an artisan—a...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." Sin,—In view of the present condition of things in the industrial world the accompanying extract from Mr. Price Collier's able book, "The...

[To m EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—There are several features of this question, with which I hope to deal at a later date, which could scarcely fail to interest your...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In some editorial remarks on a letter you ask why six Irish counties, which you claim to be sufficiently infected with the " scum of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR...1 SIR,—Macaulay wrote in 1825, "Every girl who has read Mrs. Marcet's little dialogues on political economy could teach Montag ue or Walpole...

THE "SPECTATOR...1 SIR,—I enclose a cutting from an article in to-day's issue of the Morgenpost on the present coal strike in this country. It is an acknowledged fact that it is...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —Every one who is a practical man will endorse Mr. Buchanan's letter in your issue of March 9th. I would further suggest in...

ere THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.1 Slit,—Your article entitled "Safety of the Union" is welcome reading, but I venture to suggest another reason for the great turnover in S....

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I have been much interested in the references in the Spectator for the last two weeks to the methods employed by those who seek to...

[To THE EDITOR 01 TUE "SPECTATOR. ° J SIR, — In a review in your last issue of a work on French architecture by Mr. W. H. Ward and of a work by myself on French architecture...

Sin,—Mr. Robinson in his interesting letter on the above in your last week's issue suggests that the cottage of the future will have a flat concrete roof. The general adoption...

"SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In a letter in the Spectator of March 9th, written by a connexion of the Nelson family, it is stated among other facts that one of Lord Nelson's brothers was...

[To TER EDITOR OF TIM "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—None of your correspondents who have written interest. ing letters on the subject of Tennyson's " Poet's Song " seem to be aware that...

THE "SPECTATOR."] you let me draw attention to a Bill which was read a second time in the House of Commons on Friday P It is entitled " A Bill to Provide for the Better...

[To 11111 EDITOR OF TUN "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Having opened your columns to such a subject as " the damnation of infants," may I say that your usual 'sense of fairness slumbered...

[To THE EDITOR 01 VTR "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The suggestion of your correspondent " W. S. A." in last week's Spectator will commend itself to many Churchmen as at once wise and...

Sin,—In replying to a deputation on Thursday, March 14th, to the Home Office, Mr. Ellis Griffith deprecated appeals to sentiment on behalf of the Lake District. He held out some...

We have received the following sums for this Fund :— s. C. s. d. 100 0 0 S. H. Ashton... 2 2 Shepherd Brothers... ... 2 2 0 100 0 10 10 10 0 ° o 0 B. E. Hammond ......

rTO THE EDITOR OP THE .. SPEOTATOR."] SIR,—May I contribute this suggestion, that the paths should be the county boundaries ? They could be made as broad as convenient without...

[TO THE EDITOR OD THE " SFECTATOH."] Sta,—I enclose a contribution to your fund of one guinea from the Weybridge Company in the hope that it may inspire other sections of the...

[To TUE EDITOXi OF THE "SPECTATOR."' Slit,—A little while ago I wrote to inform those of your readers who are interested in Clifton that the celebration of the Jubilee of...

I - To THE EIMER. OF TUE "SPECTATOR."1 STH,—I shall bo most grateful if you will allow me a little space to inform Haileyburians that we hope to celebrate the Jubilee of the...

EDWARD LEAR. " How pleasant to know Mr. Lear" is the motto on the catalogue of an exhibition of paintings and drawings at 112 Piccadilly which permits the general public to...

SHIPMATES. GOOD-BYE and fare-ye-well ; for we'll sail no more together Broad seas and narrow in fair and foul weather ; We'll sail no more together in foul weather or fine, And...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or arc marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily to held to bein agreement with the views therein expressed or with the weds of...

"IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS." PROFESSOR MURRAY'S version of Iphigenia in Patois is being performed ou Tuesday and Friday afternoons at the Kings- way Theatre. Although the performance...

MARITIME STRATEGY.* THE recent publication of two books on war at sea is a remarkable sign of the times. In Some Principles of Mari- time Strategy the author quits the domain of...

THE chief merit of Mr. Darbishire's book is that he makes the apparently complicated facts of heredity, discovered by Mendel, clear to the meanest intelligence. That is high...

THE year 1911 was a notable one in the history of Japan; for then her commercial treaties—all of them reminders of inferiority and subservience to other Powers—came to an end, •...

THE Life of Abeken sets before us an interesting and, on the whole, an attractive man who, after many vacillations in his youth, settled down to diplomatic work and eventually,...

the reissue in the excellent Collection Nelson of the late M. Vandal's famous work. M. Vandal, as Lord Rosebery says, is not to be numbered among the arid chroniclers wbo are...

BETWEEN TWO STOOLS.t THOUGH forty-five years have passed since the appearance of Miss Broughton's first novel, time has left no trace on the energy and freshness of her powers...

than twenty years ago an effort was made to bring about a rapprochement between the Roman and Anglican Churches. Pope Leo XIII. appointed a commission to examine the question of...

and two hundred letters or fragments of letters written by Miss Jewitt during a period of nearly thirty years. (Need we remind our readers that Miss Jewitt wrote a number of...

[Under This heading we NOUN, such Books of the week as have awl Leen reserved for review in other fome.1 Other Sheer. By Harold Begbio. (Hodder and Stoughton. 68.) —Mr. Begbie...

adminis- tration of General Jackson. The scene is chiefly laid in West Tennessee, on an estate called Belle Plain, and the pictures of life among the white population in those...

and Son. Ss. 6d. net.)—Does any one ever read Verdant Green nowadays or Peter Prig gins ? It would be worth while to compare with one or the other this new picture of Oxford...

M. Williamson. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—This is a story of Monte Carlo and of a young lady who, recognizing she has no vocation to be a nun, repairs thither in the reaction of her...

Arnold. 2s. 6d. net.)—A collection of thoughts, expressed in prose and verse, divided into sections such as "Religion in Childhood," " Religion in Life," " On Prayer," "...

Son, Cambridge. Is. net.)—These Pus d'esprit were indeed worth reprinting. First we have the " Pelopidal Papers," a supposed discovery of documents actually written by the...

2s. net) we have Winchester, pictured by Ernest Hazlehurst, described by Sidney Heath.—It is a great subject which has been adequately treated. Winchester has a groat historic...

Liebaert. (Parker et Filius, Oxon.)—These Specimina are fifty in number. The first is from the Vergilius Augusteus, a manuscript in large uncials of the fourth century, if not...

always a particular interest in reading the account of a country given by a traveller whose nationality is other than our own. M. Pierre Denia's book on Brazil is a very happy...