statement on the relations of Russia and Finland. He reviewed the history of Finland from its cession to Russia by Sweden, and declared that the Finnish authorities had...

B Y far the most important event of the week is the surrender by Mr. Asquith and the Government to the advocates of female suffrage. We have dealt with the incident elsewhere,...

to adopt the mad policy of trying to snatch a temporary party advantage by a compromise on the suffrage question, this means that the next General Election will be fought on the...

engaged. The fighting began north of Nabakki. One picket lost eight men killed and several wounded, and had to be reinforced during Saturday night. On Monday, according to the...

a summary of a book by Senator Giacomo de Martino on the Tripolitaine. Signor de Martino describes a caravan journey he made in the little-visited country between the...

in Tuesday's issue on British and German financial policy. German comment on Mr. Asquith's Budget proposals is apparently of a mixed character. The critics admire the courage...

the Commons on Monday by Mr. McKenna, who, while admitting that the Bishop of St. Asaph's Bill called for grave con- sideration, declared that there was no change in the policy...

was stated with much force by Mr. Dillon, who declared that the Government had thrown away oppor- tunity after opportunity of effecting a settlement. Mr. Runciman, who followed,...

are justified in saying that the prospects of peace are some. what brighter. All depends on whether the Nonconformists will insist upon having their full pound of flesh. If they...

a controversial spirit to the points raised by Mr. Balfour. He protested against the assumption of the Opposition that the Bill was to be put forward as the last word which the...

any genuine desire for conciliation or any disposition to recede from their position. In these circum- stances he thought it almost an outrage that the House had been asked to...

of Plumage Prohibition Bill" was read a second time, and referred to a Select Committee. The Bill prohibits the introduction into the United Kingdom, for sale or exchange, of...

who, following Sir Robert Peel, declared that if all the rest of the world would become Protectionist this country would still be wise to remain Free-trade. He was followed by...

on Wednesday. Lady Jersey, who took the chair, explained how the League is in the fullest sense a non- party organisation to draw together by educational and social means the...

had dealt with the position of India, Lord Milner ex- pounded the Tariff Reform side of the argument with his usual fearlessness and ability. It is not too much to say, however,...

before 1845 we had a complete system of Colonial Preference on a very generous scale, which resulted, however, not in good feeling between us and the Colonies, but the very...

on Friday week in support of the Wolfe and Montcalm memorial at Quebec. Lord Crewe delivered an interesting address, paying a well-deserved tribute to Lord Grey, and Lord...

again that in matters of high debate it can hold its own with any Assembly in the world. The debate on preferential trade, to which we allude, was opened by the Duke of Marl-...

16th. Console (2k) were on Friday 861—on Friday week 861.

MR. ASQUITH'S SURRENDER. I T was once remarked of a great financial magnate and captain of industry : " What you've got to consider is not what he says, but what's going on in...

O UT.of the fog of false rumour in Morocco a fact at last emerges. There is no longer any doubt that the conflict between the rival Sultans is inclining distinctly to the side...

W E are by no means hostile to the Territorial Army, and are most anxious that this great experiment should have full justice done it. Our desire for a fair field and no favour...

rilHE two latest speeches by President Roosevelt are 1 worthy of careful attention. The first was addressed to the Governors of the separate States of the Union assembled in...

T HERE is one land question which lies at the back of all the rest. Put simply, it is this : How is the good of the land to be reconciled with the good of the people ? The...

T HE crowded meeting at the Lyceum Theatre on Tuesday afternoon to urge the establishment of a National Theatre as a memorial to Shakespeare afforded convincing proof, if proof...

A BOUT three years ago Bishop Awdry wrote a letter to the Times which seemed to some people less than generous to the Japanese. It was just after the Russo- Japanese War, when...

D EEP in the heart of South Country woodland you do not realise how near the railways run to the quietest glades of all until you have waited through the night to hear the birds...

CO-EDUCATION. F'ro TILE Eurroit or TEM - SpacrAroft. - JI have read with much interest the article on co- education in your issue of May 16th. I am sure that all friends of the...

Sin; In your correspondent's letter, " Co-education in America," in the Spectator of May 16th, he writes : " Surely, Sir, the records both of business and sport in the two...

of May 16th I read with interest an article on co-education in America. Last year I spent five months in the Eastern States with the special intention of studying co-education...

SIR, — Mr. Tylee's letter on " Co-education in America " and your article on " Co-education and Teaching by Women" (Spectator, May 16th) tempt me to point out a fact which is...

SIR, —As you have discussed this subject in your last number, perhaps you will find space for a little evidence from experi- ence. Your correspondent Mr. Tylee wishes to rule...

of your readers to know that the adoption of co-education may act as a panacea for the revival of a decayed grammar school. The old grammar school of this town, in which Oliver...

[TO Tin • EDITOR OP THE "SP Norvron....] Stn,—May I explain why I and others whom I know welcome the old-age pension scheme of the Government, although we are in no sense to be...

Sin,—I was much interested by a sentence in your article of May 16th on "Co-education and Teaching by Women " : "The fact that a boy may be flogged in the public) schools of...

a gentle protest against the conjunc- tion, by the writer of an article bearing the title " Co-education and Teaching by Women " in the Spectator of May 16th, of these phenomena...

" Free-Trade Unionist" in last week's Spectator seems to me full of warning. tour correspondent, a retired M.P., does not defend old-age pensions on the merits, but pleads that...

(To THE EDITOR 017 THE '' SPECTATOR.") SIR,—It is impossible not to sympathise with the Kentish farmer who incurs an outlay of 55s. for every hundredweight of hops which he...

TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Does any one doubt that in England at this moment the most potent cause of penury, beyond all comparison, is —not want of money—but want...

" SPECTATOE.".1 SIR, —All laymen, and I should fancy most doctors also, will applaud Dr. Maylard ' s condemnation (Spectator, May 16th) of the gruesome picture now exhibiting...

" SPECTATOR.' • A W. H. LEGGE. Windham Club, St. James's Square, S. W. " Our labour troubles are also very serious. We have in this country a legal system of compulsory...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ) SIR, — Your well-known sympathy with the movement for securing open spaces for the people encourages me to ask whether • you will make...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "seserHToR - 1 SIR, — Your • criticism in the Spectator of May 16th is dis- tinctly to the point. People who dwell in cities and large towns have no...

LTO Tax EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In your notice of my "Inquiry into Socialism" you say my " volume is an admirable example of the sentiment which makes for Socialism,...

LT0 THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.".1 SIE,—The following passage from Plutarch's Life of Aristides will probably not be devoid of suggestive interest to your readers at this...

(To nit EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR-1 SIR, — I have been asked by the representative of Messrs. Collier and Co. to address to you a letter relieving them of " the stigma " of the "...

LTo Tag EDITOR or THU " SPECTATOR.' J SIR,—In the Spectator of the 9th inst. in an article under the heading of " The Glory of Gorse" the writer states as follows :—" The gorse...

AT THE DOCK. THE SHIP. TREY loiter round the Dock—that holds yon Ship Shuddering at the dark pool's defiled lip From springing bows to foam-deriding stern; They have left...

OPERA " IN EXTREMIS." THE question of opera as a factor in national life has been recently raised in a very interesting way in a letter addressed to the Press by Miss Ethel...

KING LEAR.* "THE True Chronicle History of King Leir, and his three daughters, Gonorill, Ragan, and Cordella, as it bath bone divers and sundry times lately acted,"—so runs the...

THIS is the kind of book which is much better written by a woman than by a man. When written well by a woman it is often written superlatively well, and this is true, or nearly...

certain to appear sooner or later, and lovers of the island awaited its coming a little uneasily. Few mountaineering books, especially where British mountains are concerned, are...

To say that in a book of eighteen hundred and twenty-sevew pages, packed. with the results of profound research, there is hardly a dull page, hardly an ill-constructed sentence,...

MRS. FULLER MAITLAND has hardly done herself justice in putting together this second instalment of her Day-book. Most people are content to judge of a book's interest by its...

WE regret that the limited space which we can spare for technical works obliges us to make our notice of this handsome and public-spirited volume very brief. As the title...

THE BURNING CRESSETA' Os' all the heroes and victims of the Jacobite risings, none has appealed more effectually to the popular imagination than the Earl of Derwentwater, to...

Elder, and Co. 6s.)—Mrs. de la Pasture does well to call her new book an autumn love story, for it is concerned with characters who, even in this age of the romance of the...

Blackett. 6s.)—An amusing modern story. Most people, however, will think that Drusilla's action, the result of her " point of view," was a little hard upon the man she was...

Percy L. Parker. (Associated Newspapers. 6d. net.)—In this volume the leaders or official representatives of various religious communities are permitted to speak for themselves,...

net.)—Dr. Sheehan gives us here, arranged under the headings of the four seasons, some four hundred meditations or refleetions. Some of these stand single ; in some a theme is...

There are reproductions of sculptures and paintings and engravings, photographs of localities, maps, numbering some twenty-seven in all. The translations have been chosen from...

Scott. ls.)—Mr. Broomhall has some very itrikitig facts to lay before his readers. He seeks to show that there id a great movement in China, and therewith a great opportunity...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as hays not bun reserved for review in other forms.] The Flag. Edited by Major F. Trippel. (The Daily Mail, for the Union...

Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—Dr. Wilson's researches into the physiological conditions of the criminal and the feeble-minded and non-normal individuals generally are interesting and...

from the Russian of Merejkowski by G. A. Mounsey (is. 6d. net per vol.) All have the title of The Life-Work, and the names are Pliny the Younger, Montaigne, Calderon, and Ibsen....

and J. E. Thorold Rogers. With an Appreciation by Goldwin Smith. 2 vols. (T. Fisher Unwin. 7s.)—The first edition was published in 1870; the second in 1878; the third in 1880;...