which exists among large sections both of the miners and the owners that it is better to have the fight at once and get it over. Some of the leaders and come of the men want to...

confused discussion as to the duty of the Government to stop the strike somehow or other, and of suggestion as to how this could be accomplished. For ourselves we agree very...

:—On Tuesday it became plain that there was a deadlock between the representatives of the owners and of the miners. On Wednesday was published an invitation from the Prime...

a kind of reckless sporting feeling that they have subscribed for years to create strike funds and that they may just as well have a run for their money. They will never get the...

cannot see their way to consent to scales of minimum wage which in effect abolish piecework. On the other hand, the miners seem determined to insist upon a high scale of minimum...

A S we write on Friday the menace of the coal strike remains unrelieved. All that can be said with certainty is that negotiations are still going on and that a certain number of...

case.

as to the total reduction of the Regular Army. since 1905. Lord Haldane, in a general reply, referred to the remarks which had been made by Lord Dunmore and others as to the...

Herr Kiderlen-Wachter drew from him an explicit denial of certain statements that have been made concerning his Morocco policy. The speech of Herr Ledebour, he observed, gave...

M. Isvolsky, whose Anglophil tendencies he distrusted, and though baffled in his tortuous negotiations over the Novi Bazar ' Railway schemes, Count .Aehrentbal had resolved by...

House of Lords on the condition of the Army. Lord Roberts urged very strongly the danger of letting the country believe that the Territorial Force was all that was needed for...

a bad, effect upon the strike if it were made clear to the men, what is no doubt the case, that the preparations in view of a strike have been ample on the part of the railway...

in 1906, died last Satur- day in his fifty-eighth year. Little more than three years ago the annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina made him the idol of his countrymen, but his...

Smith moved the official Unionist amendment to the Address, con- demning the Government for not fulfilling their pledge to econstruet the Second Chamber, and declaring that it...

Medical Association, which has been sitting at the Guildhall this week, was published on Friday. We may sum- marize it briefly by saying that, though not adopting an...

the debate upon the changes in Indian administration which were announced by the King at the Durbar. The first part of his speech Lord Curzon devoted to a criticism of the...

the complaint as to the manner in which the changes had been made. Lord Morley strongly condemned Lord Curzon's manner of dealing with the question, and "an animated...

Lord Robert Cecil spoke with much force in favour of the Referendum. Mr. Asquith defended his position with all his customary power. He declared that there had never been the...

Wednes- day by Mr. Ponsonby, who moved an amendment to the Address to the effect that our failure to preserve the integrity and independence of Persia in accordance with the...

Hall, Bristol, on Friday week. Lord Cromer pre- sided and Mr. Charles Hobhouse, who made a speech both frank and courageous, proposed a resolution requesting the members for...

Fob. 8th. Consols (21) were on Friday 7n—Friday week 782.

THE EDUCATION OF A KING. T HE King has given another example of his good sense and forethought by deciding to send the Prince of Wales to Oxford. He has also shown his judgment...

the official amendment, which occupied the House of Commons on Monday and Tuesday, was as one-sided a performance as we can remember. The Solicitor-General, in his reply to Mr....

T HERE is one feature of the coal crisis which deserves special examination. Although the coal miners have made no proposal for the general abolition of piecework, it is clear...

W E have read with great pleasure and satisfaction the letter in which Lord Esher replies to a letter from Mr. Strachey suggesting that it would further the interests of the...

A S there is still so much want of knowledge in the country as to the nature of the National Reserve, we may be excused for dealing with the genesis of the idea. There is no...

past; and we have our philo- sophical persons, to make modern and familiar, things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves...

"Let us cross over the river, and rest under the had of the trees." Jackson had been long delirious from his terrible wounds— those rapid orders were, of course, nothing but "...

I N our correspondence columns will be found a suggestion which we commend to the consideration of those who, if Lord Plymouth's scheme of purchase and reconstruction is...

THE NATIONAL RESERVE. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The Folkestone Company has a strength of about 600 men, and this figure could in all probability be considerably...

(To TRIO EDITOR OF TRIO "SPECTATOR." j SIR,—Your article on "Dr. Horton and his Protestant Brethren" in the Spectator of February 17th should be considered in connexion with the...

[TO THE EDITOR 0/f TH1 "Bractaroa."] Sin,—There is no need, I think, to question the sincerity of Dr. Horton's recent pronouncement on Home Rule, though it is certainly strange...

[TO TEE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—The precedent of Geneva—which stood so long out- side the Swiss Confederation—might be followed by the three counties which object to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In a letter received a few days ago from a friend who is a large employer of labour in the iron trade in the Birming- ham district the...

[TO THE ED/TOR OF SPECTATOR." J SIR,—In an evening paper for February 15th I found the following paragraph m— "During an inquest on a three-months-old baby at Lambeth the...

THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—You ask, " What does the Liberal Party propose to do about Ulster ? " and suggest that no Homo Rule Bill can be proposed which will be acceptable to the...

SIR,—What your article points out in the Spectator of February 17th when reviewing Mr. Kauffman's "Daughter of Ishmael" is not confined to the "ponce." When residing some thirty...

[To THE EDITOR OP THR ".SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Several points urged by Mr. W. Bremner Davis in your issue of January 20th, under the heading " A. Raised Map of England and the...

SPECTLTOR.1 SIR,—The reviewer of "The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe," in your issue of December 30th, mentions "Jonathan Edwards, the man who found blessed comfort in contem-...

[To TRH EDITOR OP THE "SPRCTLTOR.1 SIR, — In the interesting letter by Mr. Harold Cox on "Indus- trial Development in India," which appears in your issue of February 17th, there...

"BrEcTATon."1 Sfu,—Two years ago you kindly inserted a letter of mine suggesting a record should be kept of brave deeds in humble life which often pass unrecognized and...

pro THE EDITOR OF TIIE " SPECTATOR." j SIR, — In your notice of my translation of the " Frogs " in your issue of February 10th, you say that "adults" is an awkward word. Not...

[To THE Emma Or THE " SPECTATOR,"] SIR,—The above article in this week's Spectator, which I have read with much interest, recalls to my memory the following utterance of Charles...

SIR,—The crusade now steadily waged for some time by at least a portion of the Press against the "split infinitive" has proved so successful that I venture, in the interests of...

rTo THE EDITOR OF THE "SProTaTon."] SIR,—The interesting article with the above title in your paper of February 3rd illustrates the broader and more curious fact that Aryan...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " EFECTATOR.1 SIR, — Having read in your issue of February 10th a letter from T. E. Eccles in reference "to a strange custom seen by him last autumn in the...

most instructive communication in the Spectator of February 17th on industrial developments in India, he will agree, I think, that the Japanese pay only market rates in Bombay...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,.—T hope to write the life of my friend, Dr. Sophia Sex-Blake, and shall be grateful if old friends will send me letters or par-...

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...

ITo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—On behalf of the Committee we desire to ask for the help of your readers in the establishment of a National Health Week. The Health Week...

JEAN DE LA FONTAINE.* IT has been pointed out that La Fontaine, one of the darlings of the seventeenth century, was in his nature and genius the opposite of the spirit of that...

ITO MR EDITOR OP TER "SPRCTATOR.1 SIR, — It may interest your readers to know that a company has been formed for the purpose of building in Westminster a large hostel for...

THE RICH WOMAN. HAY in the haggard and cows in the byre, A turf stack is filled with its store for the fire. What way am I wanting my heart's deep desire P Linen new woven and...

Ma. CROCKETT has written a very delightful book for lovers of Sir Walter. As he says truly, the Waverloy Novels were " The Scott Originate: An Account of Notables and Worthies,...

NATIONALITY, if we exclude its definition in international' law, is a term singularly elusive. To most people it probably connotes a distinction of language and race—at least as...

IT is quite possible, so we are told, that the railway system of this country may ere long be the scene of a great conflict, an Armageddon in which the opposing forces of our...

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Tun "lake village," partly described in this handsome volume, is a highly interesting place, though it never was such a settlement as those which Herodotus describes as existing...

IT is natural that any one writing on an Oxford subject should make much of ancient associations, and it must be allowed that the connexion of St. Frideswide with Christ Church...

Mattes. (Mills and Boon. (i3.)—It must first be said that Mr. de Mattes's translation of M. 'Maurice Leblanc's new novel is extremely good. The book almost everywhere reads as...

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charming little book of which the hero is a travelling pedlar who lives in a caravan with the heroine, his wife. The cause of the misunderstanding between them seems rather...

Angell's story, interesting in itself, appeals to readers on this side of the Atlantic by the picturesque variety of the career which it describes. At twenty-four Mr. Angell was...

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[Under this heading we notice such Soks of the week as hate not been reamed for review in other forms.1 The Abbey of St. Alban's. By Vivian Galbraith. (B. H. Black- well,...

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University Press, ls. net per volume) we have a very valuable series of books which combine in a very happy way a. popular presentation of scientific truth along with the...

Messrs. Nelson and Son's Standard Books, " an annotated and classified guide to the best books in all departments of literature." We may briefly indicate the contents : (1) Fine...