II. is trying to intervene in the Papal election. They say that the Emperor considers the support of the Papacy essential to his Weltpolitik, and that all German and Austrian...

very indignant at the despatch of Colonel Younghusband to Thibet. The mission shows, says the journalist, that the British Government is preparing to make its influence felt in...

inter- regnum by the Camerlengo, Cardinal Oreglia. The Conclave meets for the election on August 2nd, and it' is believed that all the ancient ceremonies, most of which are...

one unchanging demand, Mr. Hay, the American Secretary of State, has secured a diplomatic victory over St. Peters- burg. He was not prepared to insist that Russia should...

lasted for seventeen days, ended at four o'clock on Monday afternoon. Just before noon the breathing of his Holiness became difficult, the last ceremonies of the Church were...

T HE King's visit to Ireland, which began on Tuesday, promises to be most successful. He was received on the way from Kingstown to Dublin with the warmest applause, and in...

case.

of the House of Commons to eighty-six Senators and Deputies of the French Parliament was, as was pointed out, a unique occasion and opportunity. The English speech Of Baron...

the third reading of the Irish Land Bill forms encouraging read- ing. Mr. J. Redmond considered the Bill as amended " a really great measure, and one which was eminently...

ing of the British Empire League—which has many Colonial as well as British members—on Monday declared that we were bound to let the Colonies know that the fiscal question had...

Devonshire we have the greatest admiration, and are specially glad that he should have spoken out so strongly as to the feeble pessimism of those who think that because Mr....

de Plehve threatened a deputation of Jewish citizens from Odessa with the total expulsion of their community from Russia. The younger Jews, said the Minister of the Interior,...

Devonshire made a most important speech in a debate raised by Lord Lytton. He (the Duke) declared most emphatically that the policy described as " Mr. Chamberlain's " policy in...

has lost none of that instinct for Imperial statesmanship which distinguished him at another great pOlitical crisis eighteen years ago. The Duke of Devonshire realises, as we...

the death of Mr. Whistler, who died in London on July 17th. The work of this artist was as various as it was accomplished, and exacting self-criticism made him maintain a rare...

from the civil rifle clubs, resulted on July 16th in the first prize being won by the North London Rifle Club, the second by the Scarbcrough Club, and the third by the...

out that we were not naturally in an advantageous position as regards the manufacture of cotton, and that we are only able to hold our splendid position because of our wise...

the Cotton Employers' Parliamentary Association and of the United Textile Factory Operatives' Association was held to con- sider Mr. Chamberlain's fiscal policy. Mr. Macara, the...

policy " came up for discussion on the Foreign Office Vote. We cannot, unfortunately, deal at length with the speeches, which were occupied with the question of Germany's...

have done in the case of a Power like Germany which had penalised a Colony for giving preferential treatment to the Mother- country. To begin with, we would not have become the...

Friday week thirteen Apostle spoons, known to be probably of Henry VIII.'s time, were sold for the astounding sum of £4,900 ! It is not known whether the purchaser is an...

Consols (24 per cent.) were on Friday 911.

A FRENCH UNDERSTANDING AND THE MOROCCAN QUESTION. T HE visit of the French Senators and Deputies, following as it does on that of the chief of the French Republic, and the...

W E are not inclined to say, as so many of our con- temporaries are saying, that the King's visit marks a new era in the relations between Great Britain and Ireland, which are...

Expenditure is a document of greater importance than may at first sight appear. The recognition of a par- ticular truth often has the effect of blinding people to other truths...

T "pivot round which the contest within the Conclave will rage is - undoubtedly the temporal power, It is probable, that, with one or two exceptions, all the Cardinals wish the...

AN intelligent visitor from Mars would gather, from a perusal of the current newspapers and reviews, that the. British nation is imbued with the belief that the proper way for...

B ACK to the land ! But how can slum-dwellers be per- suaded to go back ? Can they ever be made to hear the country calling as Mr. Kipling's hero heard the East? Whenever this...

A PART entirely from any question of the value of his work —which it does not fall to the present writer to discuss —the career of James McNeill Whistler, whose death a large...

A WRITER in the Edinburgh Review for July contributes a most interesting article on the past and present of English deer parks. Among the books which form the matter of comment...

Sin,—In the Spectator of July 18th Mr. W. F. Ecroyd writes: " Coal is as much capital as gold," and he assumes that it can- not be compared as a manufactured article with our...

THE NEW PROTECTION. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEOTATOR.1 Szn,—Sir Conan Doyle's letter in the Spectator of July 18th raises many difficulties and suggestive questions. In your...

give work to Englishmen rather than to Frenchmen, because he is more interested in the welfare of England than in that of France. It may be presumed that a man is more...

Mr. Crombie ' s letter in the Spectator of July 11th with interest. I entirely agree with you that all trade is exchange, but what neither you nor Mr. Crombie seem to realise is...

to Sir Conan Doyle ' s motor-car problem that I should like to bring forward. He says that it is this transaction (the purchase of a motor-car), or similar transactions,...

SIB,—There is a cause for our greater proportionate increase of imports than exports which I have not seen noticed by any writer. That cause is the repayment of capital. Twenty...

SIR,—Let Sir Conan Doyle keep steadily before his mind the question, " With what do we pay for our imports P " (of which his Parisian motor is one), and his difficulties will...

simplest answer to Sir Conan Doyle to ask him for a moment to suppose that there were no such thing as money P Then how could he get his motor-car except by " swopping "...

in reading the letters which have appeared in the Times and other Protectionist organs on the subject of Mr. Chamberlain ' s scheme. They make me regret that it was my fate to...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.1 SIB,—A letter which I wrote you last week reached you, owing to my own fault, too late for publication. It dealt with the fallacy that the...

[T9 THE EDITOR 05' THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIB,—I have been staying for the last week in Protectionist France. I purchase daily four rolls of bread at a baker's shop adjoining my...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] you allow me to cap your note on Mr. Freynnoth's letter in the Spectator of July 18th on the ruin of the British glass trade, by an anecdote...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — It is asserted that Free-trade would never have been advocated and adopted if it had not been believed that other countries would have...

f TO THE EDITOR OF THE "STIOTATOR.1 Sis,—Certain grave misconceptions appear to have crept into your pleasant notice of my essay, " The Question of English Divorce" (Spectator,...

LTO TRIM EDITOR OF THE "SPRCTATOR.1 Sul,—The letter from Mr. Thomas Rees in the Spectator of July 18th is very opportune. Will you allow me to supple- ment what he has so well...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I fear that the reference in the article on " The Colonies and Research " in the Spectator of July 11th to the provision made for...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Comprehension without compromise I have always supposed to be the special characteristic and glory of our Church. You have yourself, I...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The great fact in the recent commercial development of the United States is the tendency to combine all great industries in so-called...

: AN. APPEAL. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOE."1 SIR, —At the request of the chairman, Captain R. G. Hayes, the hon. treasurer, Mr. Alfred F. Buxton, and the London Committee...

SIR,—Some little time ago, during the correspondence con- cerning "Dream Houses," you were good enough to admit a letter of mine anent a dream of an old house in my family, the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—A guest of note died suddenly a few years ago while on a visit to a host of note. The night before, when he was apparently in his usual...

LEO THE PEACEMAKER. SCARCE hath he passed unto his rest That was so hard to win : Already round his tranquil breast The busy scribes begin. And I, who in an alien tongue Must...

EPICTETUS.* THAT personal existence continues after death is to many thinkers, as to all Christians, a great certainty; for others, of whom Socrates is a type, this certainty...

Norfolk Broads were discovered and advertised by lovers of the picturesque The railway had already come, and had taken much of the carrying trade out of the wherryman's hands,...

ALTHOUGH this is not the first time that an attempt has been made to set forth in the form of a regular biography the career, and especially the ecclesiastico-political...

we can give to Mrs. Bosanquet's new volume is to say that it is a book which must be read with close and painful attention by all who are seriously interested in that applied...

BARBARA LADD.• IN Barbara Ladd, Mr. Charles Roberts gives us a feminine portrait contrasting very notably with the Sarah Tuldon that occupied us last week. The art is not less...

Richards. 6s.)—In the first part of this book Mr. Merrick expounds an original and amusing idea. The hero having come into money, and returning from the Colony in which his...

'111e.. QUARTERLIES. The Edinburgh Review opens with an interesting and laborious article dealing with "London and its People in the Eighteenth Century." We agree that Sir...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have sot been reserved for review is other forms.] Household Brigade Magazine. (J. J. Keliher and Co. 2s. 6d. net.) —A...

per voL) The Works of Virgil, translated by John Dryden, and The Odyssey of Homer, translated by Alexander Pope. A note might have been appended to the Odyssey assigning to...

6d.)—This is a particularly good volume, rich in articles of interest. Perhaps the most important is Dr. J. H. Moulton's "Notes from the Papyri." These discoveries have given us...