it is only waste-paper, intended to put pressure upon the British Government in order to make them allow an increased duty on imported opium. If it proves a genuine movement, we...

Monroe doctrine and the position of the South American States. Fresh froin . his tour round the Southern continent, he is anxious to awaken American interest in, and to...

O N Tuesday N. Clemenceau delivered a speech in the French Senate on the general policy of the Government, in reply to a Conservative interpellation. He defended the appointment...

invested with a serious political significance by the Berlin correspondent of the Daily Mail. According to this authority, the object of the visit has been to ratify a secret...

the French capital after a residence of twelve years, has obtained interviews with N. Clemenceau and N. Pichon, the new Foreign Minister. N. Clemenceau, who spoke with the...

paper a summaly of the new Opium Regulations promulgated by the Chinese Government. They are of the most stringent kind; and are stated to be inspired by Yuan- Shih-Kai, the...

of the education controversy on reasonable, and moderate lines would have been present hut for the fact that the deputation was organised at very short notice. Letters...

New York Herald in Thursday's Times, gives a vivid account of his Arctic experiences during the past' twelvemonth. The northward voyage was dangerous and difficult, and his...

chief representative of the Church of England is willing to further every honest effort to arrive at a settle- ment on national lines of the education controversy. The most...

a deputation of Churchmenon the Education Bill. Among those constituting the deputation were the Right Hon. Henry Hobhouse (chairman of the Somerset Education Committee), Mr....

at Montreal an important speech on Canadian fiscal policy. There were differences of opinion, lie said, in every province on the tariff question, but there was always the danger...

from its correspondent, Mr. F. A. Mackenzie, on the future of Manchuria. The question which Chinese statesmen are asking themselves is whether or not Japan wishes to annex it....

encouraging signs that compromise was desired on both sides. There were no doubt extremists in both camps who desired to fight to a finish, but he believed that these extremists...

suggested by Mr. Hobhoase can be .brought into existence, the Archbishop would enter upon it with every desire for a peaceful solution. We believe that a similar spirit is to be...

Commons is severely criticised by Mr. 0. S. Loch, the secretary of the Charity Organisation Society, in Monday's Times. Mr. Loch attacks the root principle of the Bill as...

Reading in October, announced that be was preparing a scheme for the effective training of selected officers in business methods. At present a soldier has no chance of learning...

the present issue notice of the death of Miss Dorothea Beale, the Principal of Cheltenham College. That a national loss has been sustained by her death is shown not merely by...

letters on the Trade Disputes Bill. They take the wise course of pointing out a few simple con- sequences which will result should what Professor Dicey calls "this astounding...

during the week. In the House of Lords the most important alteration made in the Education Bill has been the excision of the clause creating a special Educational Council for...

for the last three years occupied the attention of the leaders of the medical profession, and a deputation headed by Sir Thomas Barlow, Sir Victor Horsley, and other distin-...

Oct. 19th Consols (2 1 I ) were on Friday 86i—on Friday week 86k.

U NIVERSAL, and therefore indiscriminate, outdoor relief for all men and women in their old age. This is what is meant by the scheme for old-age pensions to which the Prime...

WHY NOT A ROUND-TABLE CONFERENCE? W E sincerely trust that the action taken by those who formed the deputation to the Archbishop of Canterbury on Thursday will bear fruit, and...

was a disappointed man. This week his Majesty acknowledges the fact, and takes some pains to explain, and explain away, the reasons. In an Edict countersigned by his Chancellor...

Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs received on Tuesday was neither emotional nor partisan. Liberals and Conservatives, Church- men and Nonconformists, London and the...

W HEN the present French Constitution was framed, just thirty-one years ago, it contained a provision which was expected to serve as a useful check upon Radical extravagance....

W IDE as is the gulf which divides natives from Europeans in South Africa, every white man, so Mr. Dudley Kidd tells us in his new book entitled "Savage Childhood" (London; A....

T HE month of November, 1906, will probably be looked back upon as a landmark in the history of mankind. It will be recognised as the date on which there first began a serious,...

T HE German Emperor has been explaining his methods of work and his philosophy of life to a Bavarian novelist, Dr. Ludwig Ganghofer, and the conversation, as was to be expected,...

THE STATE OF THE NAVY. II.—ADMIRALTY ORGANISATION. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIB, — The efficiency of the Royal Navy and its effective use in war depend upon the...

[To THE ' EDITOR OP TIIE " SP . ECTATORn SIR,—May I suggest to your correspondent, "A Student of Naval History" (Spectator, November 17th), that lie should ignore "sinister...

"SPECTATOR.") Sr, — In the letter of " Civia " on "The State of the Navy" (Spectator, November 17th) exception is taken to the fact that when Sir John Fisher came to the...

THE TARIFF REFORMERS AND MR. MARKS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' SIE, - Mr. Arthur Elliot pertinently points out in the Spectator of November 10th that one of the...

"SPECTATOR."] Sin.,—Having been a reader of your paper for over thirty-five years, I am so convinced of your perfect fairness that I feel sure your denunciations of the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIE,..4n your issue of November 17th you criticise and dis- approve of Mr. Balfour's conduct in throwing up the sponge at the third reading...

LT O THII EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I think you are quite right in insisting that in the interests of education, and especially of religious teaching, a moderate line of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " iipecrATon."1 SIR,—In your very kind notice of our work in the Spectator of November 10th you did not mention our address. This omission may have...

[To TAD EDITOR Or VIZ "Bpzerwr6R."] Sin,—As the question of women's suffrage is now receiving renewed attention, perhaps a reminiscence of John Bright in connexion with this...

argue in your issue of November 17th that the failure to go to a division in the House of Commons against this Bill makes it impossible for the House of Lords to amend it. I...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.".1 SLE,•I am sorry to see by your note to my letter in the Spectator of November 17th that I failed to make my point clean It was far from my...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] yon allow me to express my regret at the view you take on this , subject in your issue of November 17th P You hold that Sir B. Fuller was...

[To T II R EDITOR 05 T "SP ECTAT011.1 Sin,—Your correspondent, Sir William Chance, charges me with inaccuracy in stating that the sum paid to old-age pensioners in New Zealand...

SIR, - I think that the subscribers to the funds of the late Spectator Experimental Company will be glad to hear how some of the men are getting on. Twenty-four in all have...

[To Tom EDITOR OF T LIZ " BP ROTATOR."' SIR,—At the end of the fifth leader in last week's issue of the Spectator is a sentence for which many scores of thousands of London's...

SLEEPLESS. THE unseen barriers that hold me tight— (No door, no window is there to the cells Within the awful prison-house of Night !)- Are penetrated only by the bells, Which...

THE FAMILY.* IT was pertinently suggested by a correspondent who followed the sefies of articles recently published in these columns, and entitled "The Manufacture of Paupers,"...

recent exhibition of his pictures at the Carfaz Gallery afforded the discerning part of the public, has stimulated the enterprise of publishers, and three important books...

THERE is no science which appeals more strongly to the lay reader than astronomy. Thus a wide audience should be found for the excellent and interesting brief history of its...

essentially modern variation of the imaginative treatment of historical fact. In the old historical romances writers allowed themselves a very free hand. The principal...

of our age to overdo both the praise and censure of the past. An author who manages to touch the imagination of intelligent people cannot escape from a curiosity which, if it...

his new novel Mr. Kehl° Howard describes the secular conflict between mother-in-law and son-in-law. He hardly possesses, however, the delicacy of touch with which Thackemy...

Blackett. 6s.)—Mrs. Croker apparently has the idea at the back of her mind of giving the public in this book a modern edition of Cinderella. The result is a very pretty story,...

THE " PENTLAND" STEVENSON. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. "Pentland Edition." With Biographical Notes by Edmund Gosse. Vols. I.-IV. (Cassell and Co. £10 10s. net the set...

—Mr. St. John Lucas is winning recognition as the discoverer of a very pleasing form of fiction,—the sentimental comedy, in which the characters are so witty and accomplished...

6s.)—There is no theme that calls for greater discretion in the handling than the first year of married life. Mrs. Mann has humour as well as sympathy, and prospective readers...

[Under this headisii we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in eater forms.] The Gentle Reader. By Samuel McChord Crothers. (A. Con- stable and...

Co. 5s.)—Peterhouse is, by common consent, the oldest of the Cambridge Colleges. Hugo de Balsham, Bishop of Ely—successfully supported by the Pope against the King, let it be...

The Self - Interpretation of Jesus Christ. By G. S. Streatfeild. (Hodder and Stoughton. 5s.)—A good many amateur theologians who have no time for more than a superficial study...

of the Great" (A. L. Humphreys, 2s. net) we have a number of volumes, all from the pen of Mr. John Lord. We cannot claim to have read them all, but if they are up to the...

the Almanac and Diary order. There are the Churchman's Almanac in various forms for the desk, &c., and the pocket, interleaved for accounts (10d.), with calf back (2s.) ; The...

Library" (G. Routledge and Sons, Is. not per vol.) These are A Dictionary of English Literature, by M. MeCroben, and The Chairman and Debater's Handbook, by D. M. Ransom. The...

Co. 12s. 6d. net.)—" My aim has been," writes Mrs. Parsons in her preface, "to make each one of a series of vignettes illus- trate Garrick's character or career in contact with...

A. Clarke. With Introduction by J. Churton Collins, D.Litt. (George G. Harrap and Co. 13 vols. 42s. net.)—The principle -on which this edition is founded is adherence to the...

First Age of Christianity and the Church, by J. J. I. Dollinger, D.D., Translated by Henry Nutcombe Oxenham (Gibbings and Co., 6s. net). The first edition of the book appeared...

is. and 2s. per vol.), we have a number of new volumes, all of them valuable additions, and some such as we could hardly have expected. We may mention Earth and Man, by...

10s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Elkington modestly mentions various uses to which his book cannot be put. Among them is that of being a "practical guide to New Zealand." Possibly not. He...