of exceptional disorder. The Chamber was debating the proposed creation of an Under-Secretaryship of State in the Ministry of Justice and the transference to that Ministry of...

.A STOLYPIN, the Russian Prime Minister, has tendered _[ e his resignation though it is still thought possible that he may remain in office. He has no doubt come to the con-...

papsr that a curious new phase is appearing in the Negro problem in various Northern cities. The more pro- sperous Negroes have gradually acquired dwellings in the better...

Empire and various Christian sects, was received by the King at Buckingham Palace and presented an Address in commemoration of the Tercentenary of the Authorised Version of the...

Hamp- stead Garden Suburb last Saturday afternoon. His Majesty, who was shown over the estate by Mr. Henry Vivian (Chairman of the Co-Partnership Tenants Association), Lord...

himself unable to come to the Coronation as his -morganatic marriage prevents his wife also being asked. All Englishmen will greatly regret that we are not to welcome the...

case.

published in Friday's papers, proposes a scheme which, we are bound to say, appears to us open to several very serious objections. The advisability of erecting a group of...

Commons on Tuesday upon a circular issued from the Education Office last year. The subject was brought up during the Report stage of the Vote on Account by Mr. Hoare. The...

in Wednesday's Times calling attention to the character of certain novels issued by publishers of repute and until recently circulated by leading libraries and sold at public...

the Regular Army was considered in the House of Commons on Wed- nesday. The principal criticisms were made by Mr. Wyndham and Mr. Lee, who complained, first, that the strength...

Bill gave occasion for several debates, the most im- portant being that raised in regard to the Baghdad Railway. Sir Edward Grey explained to the House that he was not in a...

for information on the policy of the Government in the Middle East. Lord Morley said that the Government had no designs on Persia whatever, and that the pressure exerted in...

hopes to be able to provide for the fair treatment of our trade with- out opposing the legitimate aspirations of Germany, and, above all, without infringing in any way the...

£12,000 damages returned by a special jury at a trial before Mr. Justice Ridley was concluded in the Court of Appeal on Monday. Messrs. Griffiths and Bedell, plaintiffs in the...

King, by appointing trustees, has taken the first step for turning Kensington Palace into a London Museum. The State Apartments, splendid in design, are already full of...

for its surroundings, by all means let Mr. Lutyens de- sign a graceful one-arch bridge in marble which might be dedicated to the King's memory as the "Edward Bridge." For...

Members in favour of " Scottish control over purely Scottish affairs." The deputation, according to the report of the Times parliamentary correspondent, urged that under present...

articles from its Peking coorespondent upon the epidemic of plague in Manchuria. For the last sixty years plague has been endemic among the marmots or tarbagans, which exist in...

During the first month of the epidemic the Chinese authori- ties did everything they could to prevent any effective sanitary precautions from being taken. Early in December,...

president, to advance the scheme for celebrating the Coronation by means of bonfires, and to urge the county and borough officers to undertake the organisation of the...

created a peer, and that his title will be Viscount Haldane of Cloan. The new peer will remain at the War Office, where he has done so much good work. We are glad to think that...

THE POLITICAL SITUATION. T HE series of speeches which Lord Selborne has been delivering in Scotland during the week are of real importance, for it is clear that they represent...

of the Declaration of London has re- vealed deep and widespread uncertainty as to the treatment of contraband in war. We do not desire now to go again into the general problem...

Lord Courtney's action in raising a debate in the House of Lords on Indian police method s, we confess to a feeling of regret that the author of the debate did not take special...

"He did not mean to imitate those philanthropic models who i(nke a profit out of poisonous pickles to support themselves uhile they ar• exposing adulteration, or hold shares in...

A S a Man of the World was passing by a Gaming House he saw a Pietist letting himself out by the side-door. " Well — I'm damned !" said the Man of the World. " Gently, my...

T HE writer of a letter in the Nation of March 18th says that the beauty of a part of Kent is threatened by the development of collieries. " There are already," he says, " three...

T HE winter now passing will be remembered by farmers for the enormous number of woodpigeons which have visited the southern counties of England, and also because it is the...

AN AUSTRALIAN VIEW OF BRITISH POLITICS. [TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR." j Sra,-- . -We, in Australia, watch the political drift in Great Britain with the keenest interest,...

THE DECLARATION OF LONDON. (To TUX EDITOR or THZ " SPECTATOR...1 SIR, —In your interesting article upon the Declaration of London you observe that the ordinary politician knows...

THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The Unionist stalwarts have, like Strafford, imposed a policy of " thorough" on their party and, like Strafford, seem likely to bring themselves and...

[To TRY EDITOR OP TEE "SPECTATOR.'] STR,—In view of the importance of the Constitutional problems now under discussion, the Proportional Representation Society has issued an...

[To THE EDITOR OP TEE "SPECTATOR.'] Six.,—In your note in the Spectator of March 11th, on Mr. Will Crooks's remarks on the betting evil at Harringay, on Sunday week, you ask, "...

ITO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR, —I would ask you to permit one who has spent a long life in Ireland, chiefly in the south and west, to state that the charges of...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—As the English Nonconformists have selected Mr. Devlin, M.P., as the orator to address them at Whitefield's Tabernacle, it is...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, Is it not somewhat singular that among the strongest advocates of the Referendum in the present House of Commons are many gentlemen...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I see that Miss A. W. Richardson reopens this closed correspondence under a new name. In two columns of your paper she brings a string...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the Times of February 7th I observe that Lord Crewe, in defending the principle of payment of members, in his speech in the debate...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIE,—The letter of a correspondent describing the methods of the Australian Parliamentary Labour Party in caucus recalls Arthur Young's...

sezeraiea."] Sra,—I was pleased to see your article on the "Break-up of Big Estates," and particularly " Rector's" letter upon the same subject in this week's issue. I own an...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Why does " Civilian Parent," in your last issue, make such a fuss about the expense of sending a boy to Sandhurst P Our regulations...

THE " SPACTATOR."] Sin,—May I venture to suggest that the problem which under- lies this recurring controversy is not merely one of confirma- tion, nor is it to be solved either...

SIR, —In reference to this perennial and ever-interesting question, I should like to be permitted to point out to such of your readers as are still exclusive in their...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Stn, — The approach to London park and suburban common is• too often unrefreshing to pedestrians, and it has long seemed to me as if what...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin, — You ask for a song for children to ring at the Coronation FestivaL We sing the enclosed from "Puck of Pooks Hill" to Tune 129...

week referring to the suggestion that the100,000 children at the Crystal Palace should sing together, you say, "There ought to be in existence some song or hymn suitable for the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sir,, — What does Mr. J. B. McClellan mean by an "incorrect English order " ? (the Spectator, March 18th.) Surely it is correct to put the...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Sire—The child-story embodied in the following lines is literally true, and happened exactly as narrated. The trans- position of play and...

JAMES I. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIE, — Many students of the Bible must have read with satis- faction your support of Canon Beeching's admirable proposal that...

Sra,-13y an interesting coincidence I read the letter of • " M. A. Oxon," immediately after laying aside a book in which an Anglican divine, who holds offices of great impor-...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOIL...] SIR,—Penelope, the suitor-beset but faithful wife of Odysseus, bore a name which the Greeks also applied to an aquatic bird, now identified...

article " Some Problems of Salmon," in the issue of March 11th, you ask why should eome fish run up and spawn so late as September, and others precede them by eight months in...

•name 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...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—With reference to the article in your paper of March 11th on " Some Problems of Salmon," would you allow me to furnish - one other...

[ITO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—" Cold Storage " was known, experimentally, if not com- mercially, as early as 1663, for Samuel Pepys, on December 11th of that year,...

The bitter Northwind racks the street, The night is fallen with the hush Of falling snow and muffled feet. Well fed, well clothed, in furs and wraps, 'We pick our way, and hug...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—May I call attention to the example set by the County Council of Gloucestershire in giving protection to the eggs of the lapwing and...

BRAHMS AND MS ADMIRERS. Ma. PIILLBB MAITLAND, in his new and suggestive study of Brahma,* tells an anecdote which is curiously illustrative of the altered attitude of the...

.ENGLIS11 PAINTINGS AT MESSRS. SHEPHERD'S GALLERY. Owe of the •few consolations that can be seized after the departure of Rembrandt's "Mill" from the National Gallery is .tbat...

MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE.. Mu. CECIL CHAPMAN, the Metropolitan Magistrate, in this plea for an eitension of the divorce laws, draws upon the experiences of his court. Such evidence...

TIBET has a large literature, and the 1904 Expedition had such competent chroniclers as Mr. Landon and Mr. Candler, but Sir Francis Younghusband's book is like no other. In its...

Wu have borrowed the title from one of. Mr. Sidney Lee's chapters for the heading of our article upon his most interesting, persuasive, and invaluable book. Like all his work,...

IT is certainly unfortunate that the conception of Oliver Goldsmith which has the widest currency is that derived from Boswell, for there are many reasons why his portrait is...

Be delighted to see his own form so often reflected.—" I feel as if I were at a • Mediterranean Moods. By J. E. Crawford Flitch, M.A. London : Grant No traveller has a right to...

Tins is a work in -which "sweet girl-graduates" will delight for it opens almost of itself at a full-page picture of a dress of tartan plaid, "fitted," as they say, "to the...

THERE is an unfortunate tradition in the literary world that if a man sets out to write a book upon a big subject he must produce a big book in order to gain attention. Yet many...

IT is easy to see what a charm of contrast Holland would have for a visitor from America. At first, indeed, Mr. Edwards saw a certain similarity to regions which he knew in his...

MR. RIDER HAGGARD has made a close inspection of the Salvation Army's work, has visited its workshops, homes, refuges and shelters, has talked with its officers, observed the...

GRIFFITH COLGROVE'S WIFE.* THE plot of Mr. Gerald FitzStephen's novel is one which is, so to speak, an open secret, and therefore no injustice can be done to the author by...

es.)—A story of the rising in the North in the reign of Henry VIII.—With Poison and Sword. By W. M. O'Kano. (Mills and Boon. 6s.)—A story of the days of Queen Elizabeth, with...

[17nder this heading we notice suck Books of tho wool; as have not teas reserved for revive in other forms.] Storm van 'sGravesande. By C. A. Harris and J. A. J. de Villiers 2...

character, in the last sentence of Mr. Arnold Bennett's novel, speaks thus of the hero of the book : " He is identified with the great cause of cheering us all up." This dictum...

Long. 6s.)—This is the story of a murder as to which, after hang- ing the supposed criminal, the authorities have qualms, imagining that they have executed the wrong man....

and Windus. 6s.)—This book somewhat resembles in ideals Mrs. Armfield's novel, " Service." It also recalls the former work in its scheme, being concerned with the destinies of...

4 Montpellier Crescent, Brighton. 10s. 6d.)—The Editor interprets his "Century" very liberally, for, not to speak of two introductory chapters which go still further back, we...

and R. Chambers. 7s. 6d. net.)—This dictionary is described as comprising the words in use from the latter part of the seventeenth century down to the present day. There has...

—Miss Penstone, having given us a book on Nature Study, has fol- lowed it up with this, " suggestions for a Course of Lessons preliminary to the Study of Civics." A few examples...

the sixty-ninth time, and supplies its accustomed variety of carefully collected and corrected information. We note the many proofs of increased activity in the Church, in the...

for the use, in one way or another, of students of French. First, as intended for the most advanced class, we would put English Selections for French Prose Composition, arranged...

mentioned together. First we have How and Why King George will be Crowned. By Joseph Hammond, LL.B. (Skeffington and Son. ls. net.) Canon Hammond, who has the art of putting...