currents in the Balkans may be reached, it is now stated that the Italians are very strongly protesting against the Claims of the Greeks in regard to Southern Albania. According...

us groundless. If Greece ever closes the Straits of Otranto it will be through a floating force and not through forts on the mainland. After all, Italy does not dream of forcing...

be present at the marriage in Berlin of Prince Ernest Augustus of Cumberland to Princess Victoria Luise, the only daughter of the German Emperor. Their Majesties slept on board...

TT is to be feared that not very much progress has been made during the past week with the work of constructing the peace treaty. All that we know is that the first formal...

of the Emperor of Japan, which is reported in a telegram to Friday's papers. The illness, we are told, has been diagnosed as inflammation of the lungs, and the Emperor is in a...

in London, local feeling between the Bulgarians and Greeks in Macedonia appears to be growing more and more exasperated. A telegram from Salonica to Friday's Times states that...

of espionage were released on the occasion of the King's visit. The prisoners were Captain Trench of the Marine Light Infantry, Lieutenant Brandon, R.N., and Mr. Bertrand...

on Tuesday, the Times correspondent tells us, amid a running fire of ironical comments. The expense incurred by Austria-Hungary in recently playing the part of "armed spectator"...

the King's name into the controversy, and we feel bound to protest against his doing so. His action, how- ever, is only another proof of the extreme unwisdom of the Government...

Cumberland ends in the happiest manner the long-standing dynastic dispute between the Hohenzollerns and the Guelphs. In 1866 the King of Hanover and Duke of Cumberland was...

was met on the platform not only by the Kaiser, but by King George, with a great assembly of German personages of distinction. The Tsar is said to have looked extremely well,...

on Friday week on the policy of Ulster. He impressed on his hearers that they had no quarrel with individuals. They welcomed and loved every individual Irishman, even though he...

ment and under its control was a written right, and in accordance with the principle laid down by Lincoln in his first inaugural, which justified even the use of force against...

there was not a single body in Ireland which had considered it without condemning it, and he had been inundated with demands from Nationalist bodies all over Ireland beseeching...

the Committee on Irish Finance, presided over by Sir Henry Primrose, was issued in a Blue-book. The Committee, it will be remembered, was appointed in April 1911 to report upon...

County Cork, on Sunday, condemned the Government for their refusal to conciliate the Unionist minority in Ireland They had not made a single substantial offer to the opponents...

of fraud. The fund, allowing for the ordinary accretions and for a rate of interest of only 24 per cent.—for some pre- posterous reason no interest at all has been paid—should...

account of the third and last section of the " Triple Canal Project" which is now irrigating a vast terri- tory in the Punjab. The Lower Ban Doab Canal, which has just been...

Consols (2D were on Friday 74k—Friday week 7516.

Debating Club on Tuesday evening, spoke with much force and good feeling on the subject of editorial obligations. From a recent experience of his own he gathered that...

a third memorandum, which has been presented to the Government, on Portuguese slavery. Last August the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs asked the Committee for evidence "in...

THE NEWMARKET DIVISION AND THE ORGANIZED HYPOCRISY. W E are not surprised at the Newmarket election, for we have never shared that ridiculous—we had almost said...

T 0011 at it and judge it how wo will, Sir Edward 41 Carson's speech to the men of Ulster in Belfast on Friday week is a great fact. It is yet one more notice that the people of...

that Japan and the United States will come to blows about the Califor- nian Land Bill, the possibility of war is causing much anxiety throughout the British Empire. Britain and...

T HE preface which Lord Milner has written to his volume of speeches constitutes not merely a general statement of his political views, but is also in reality a chapter of...

A LEARNED judge said of Mr. Gladstone that he was often " the worse" for flattery. It is an intoxicant against which few beads are proof. The true cynic and the truly modest man...

C LOCKS and the sea and all rhythmic things can charm the mind or madden it, and all things that repeat them- selves can call on the fancy and be heard; for the human mind loves...

T HERE is an opportunity still waiting for the writer of a new book about salmon. We have learnt something, and probably we have a good deal more to learn, about the...

THE FUTURE OF THE PORTUGUESE COLONIES. [TO TER EDITOR OF TIM "SFECTATOF.."] Sis,—I cordially agree with your proposal about the colonies of Portugal. They are unquestionably...

LTO TILE EDITOR OF TIM " &ROTA/OB..1 Sra.,—The Unionist victory in the Cromwellian division of Cambridgeshire occurred, by a remarkable coincidence, on the same day that Sir...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] S IR, — I think that your correspondent "Political Independent" misses the real point which is troubling many of us with regard to the...

space for the following quotation from Crozier's " History of Intellectual Development," vol. i., p. 27C, in view of its bearing upon recent correspondence in you columns....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—If you will look at the National Service League's bill and memorandum you will find that your footnote to my letter is wrong. Amongst...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SFECTATOR."] SIR, — In your issue of May 10th you challenge the opponents of the National Service League to submit the programme of that League to a...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—You are almost too ready to allow an advantage to your opponents. If we study what may be called the method of Christ and His...

[TO THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Is there any precedent in history of a nation, not conquered in war, cutting adrift a single parish (to say nothing of four counties)...

SIR,—A county court action for breach of contract was brought the other day against a member of Parliament in respect of the non-fulfilment of his election pledges. Of course,...

THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I read with keen interest all the Spectator has to say regarding our great citizen in the White House. It is some- thing of which we may be proud that...

SIR,—I am glad to notice from the letters published in your last issue that an interest is shown in the best method of translating the pieces comprised in the Greek Anthology....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIEjAll artists and persons of taste must endorse the Spectator's words as to the usefulness of the N.A.C.F., but all artists and many others...

[TO THE EDITOR CT THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—You may care to publish the following rendering:— Roses she wears, herself a rose ! ah well, I wonder whether Her roses or herself the...

[To TER EDITOR Of THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —Can any of your readers tell me the authorship of the following couplet ? " Hear it, ye senates, hear this truth sublime, He who...

[TO THE EDITOR 07 TER "SPECTATOR. "] Sta,—May I venture to offer you a few lines on this subject, which is one of some importance to the public ? There can be no doubt whatever...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I hope some of your correspondents will call attention to the suggestion which has been made that "Mothers' Day" should be instituted...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] have suffered—doubtless you too; indeed who has not, either as a child or a "grown-up" P—from the form of entertainment known as a...

[To TEE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR:1 Sru,—The following uncommon, if not unique, incident came under my observation this week. A pair of thrushes have built a nest in the ivy...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I believe the fact of woodcocks carrying their young when small to feeding grounds is so well authenticated as to hardly be worth...

OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I thank you for the frank way in which you have with- drawn the assertion that I attacked Sir John Ramsden ; but your note and other circumstances...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, — Last month, when crossing a snowfield on the top of one of the Perthshire Hills to the east of Loch Turret, I came on a large frog...

SIR, — On April 8th, at 3.20 p.m., in a cold north (or north- east) wind and bright sunshine, a pipistrelle bat flew over the flower walk in Kensington Gardens. — I am, Sir,...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — After three days of glorious sunshine we were driving home, at about half-past seven, from the mountain lake of Cwm Buchan towards...

AVERNUS. [Dedicated to Mrs. Cuthbert Morrice.] " Qualm multa in silvis, autumn ft-lore prime Lapsa cadunt .En., Bk. vi., 1. 309. As the wild wind whistles through woodland...

LORD MILNER'S SPEECHES.* "1 Ara not a man of speech, but a man of action," Lord Milner once told a Canadian audience. "No amount of practice will ever make speaking anything...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked 4' Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to he in agreement with the views therein expressed cr with the mode of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."j SIR, —Although more than a century has gone by since Moore fell at the moment of victory on the field of Corunna, no memorial has ,yet been...

THE portraits of Queen Mary II. hardly seem to justify Lord Melbourne's description of her—given to Queen - Victoria and noted more than once in her diary—as " the most...

ME. PEOTHEBO'S masterly book suggests at once a comparison with one of its predecessors. Eleven years ago Sir H. Rider Haggard published in his .Rural England two large volumes...

between the seamen who form the subjects of these two volumes. They were born within five years of one another; they both served against Tippoo in India during Sir Robert...

chairman of the Board of Agriculture for Scotland, tells us in his introduction that M. Paul de Vuyst, the author of this book, " occupies the- position of Chief Director of...

lk. xrEw edition of the Prayer Book, with• the additions and variations in use in the Episcopal Church of Scotland, should prove interesting to those who dream of Prayer Book...

PROFESSOR SIMPSON writes with wide knowledge and pro- found conviction, and he has a very pleasant style. It is plain that he loved the writing of this book. He delights -to see...

FATHER RALPH.• LAST week we noticed a novel which hinged on the conversion of the hero to the Roman Catholic faith. Mr. Gerald O'Donovan's story deals with the spiritual and...

J. C. Squire. (Howard Latimer. 3s. 6d. net.)----Mr. Squire has • already published a volume of parodies of which the cleverness- was generally recognized. Their fault, and it is...

6d.)—This novel, which tells the story of four orphan young women who are brought up without a profession, would have been better worth reading if the author had not thought it...

(ruder this heading we notice such Books of the 'week as hare sot been rf !erred for review in other forms.] A Friendly Germany : Why Not ? By Lady Phillips. (Constable and Co....

6s.)—Whether a water-mill could really inspire a boy with the master passion of his life may be doubted, but if this be conceded, Mrs. Watson works her theme out extremely well....

and Boon. 6s.)—Eight more South Sea stories ranged round one central character: they tell vividly of hurricanes or of trading, with some humour and no great excess of horrors.—...

this book is superficially an account of a tramp along the Black Sea coast to Batum, it is written, to use Mr. Graham's words, "with an eye to the ways and thoughts of the...

Sons. 7s. 6d. net.)—This is not the first criticism of Swinburne published during the last few months. Like many works of its kind, it shows much enthusiasm for poetry and a...

is the jubilee issue of the Statesman's Year-Book, and in some of the statistical tables and maps the contrasts are indicated between certain aspects of the state of the world...