that an agreement had been reached 'between China and Japan on five of the questions which have been so long in dispute. There is only one matter outstand- ing, and on this the...

NEWS OF THE WEEK T HE special correspondent of the Times who was lately in the Fat-East continues in Tuesday's paper his most valuable series of articles. In China for a long...

paper the prospects of an Income-tax in the United States. If the States approve of the proposal referred to them by Congress, a new Article will be added to the Con- stitution,...

somewhat topsy-turvy' conversation took place on an answer made by Mr. Whitley to a question about Irish finance. It is estimated that in the current year the revenue...

the Government. China has gained in the negotiations the point which she considered the most important. The Chien-tao territory is restored to her with all its Korean...

that, according to the Frankfurter Zeitung, the Turkish Council of Ministers has approved the plans "for the exten- sion of the Baghdad Railway rid Alexandretta," and says the...

any case.

Mr. Whitley pointed out that old-age pensions had contributed to alter the circumstances. Thereupon Mr. Will Thorne asked: "Would it not be much better to give them Home-rule...

do what we have so often advocated in these columns,—i.e., make it clear that the State, while anxious to favour access to parks and other open spaces for purposes of...

by Mr. Haldane. He stated that a case had recently occurred where an infantry Reservist was discharged by his employers in consequence of his having attended for his one day's...

Berlin correspondent giving a remarkable account of a Referendum as to the value of co-education in which all the teachers in the high schools of Baden took part. The general...

development can really increase the wealth of the nation. It must, rather, empty its pm-se, and, still worse, sterilise its energies. Here we will only say that if the Unionist...

The Bill allows the Treasury to make free grants and loans for developing forestry, agriculture, and rural industries; reclaiming and draining land ; constructing and improving...

always vigilant where higher and non-partisan interests are concerned, is going to move a very useful and important amendment to the clause in the Budget which exempts from the...

out of which payments under the Bill are to be made. This fund is to be supplied by : (1) Sums annually voted by Parlia- ment ; (2) a sum of E2,500,040 charged on the...

life written in the Daily Mail by Mr. Frank Fox, an Australian journalist who is seeing the United Kingdom for the first time. In England he was surprised to find no class...

it seems to have established itself—at Rheims has greatly impressed all the spectators. Doubt soon gives way to enthusiasm when one can see, as at Rheims, seven machines in the...

be made publics from the experience of those who are tenants of the State and those who are tenants of Dukes. Last week Mr. Le Gros in a letter to the Times described with what...

the Territorial Army contributed to the Frankfurter Zeitung by " An Old Prussian Officer" who lately visited a Territorial camp. His general verdict is Everything considered,...

are admirably handled. "The rations are excellent, and the relations between cfficers and men could not be better. At the singsong in the canteen during the evening the writer,...

throws an interesting light on a paragraph published in the papers on August 9th stating that the Duke of Northumberland bad summoned two men at Alnwick for having fished within...

to those of his Liberal constituents who are dissatisfied with his votes and speeches on the land clauses of the Finance BilL Mr. Cox points out that before he was chosen in...

April 1st. Consols (2f) were on Friday 84—Friday week 84. Bank Rate, 2i per cent., changed from 3 per cent. April 1st. Consols (2f) were on Friday 84—Friday week 84.

THE DE VELOPNENT BILL W E are obliged to write before the details of Mr. Lloyd George's Development Bill are fully known. The forecasts as to that measure, however, coupled with...

the less promising do the advance of the Spanish army in prospects appear. The town of Melilla itself is in an extraordinarily bad position for a base. We do not suppose that it...

of draft regula. 1. tions governing the formation, organisation, and administration of Cadet corps. These regulations are being submitted to the Territorial Associations for...

M British public may be excused for neglecting in eir holiday season to pay attention to the progress of the Irish Land Bill through the House of Commons. Especially is this...

more forcibly stated than by the Prophet Samuel in answer to the request of the Israelites that he would give them a King. All that would follow upon such a change was set out...

_U GLINESS is a word we seldom use nowadays, and ordinary men and women, if they think of the quality at all, think of it coldly, as of something shining far off in a celestial...

/THERE is no more illuminating or moving passage in I_ De Quincey than his vision of the dance of the ladies of the unhappy times of Charles I. which he saw in one of his opium...

T HERE is a dead set at the Dukes. "Oh, these Dukes; how they harass us 1" exclaims Mr. Lloyd George, as though the Dukes were a formidable phalanx of first-rate fighting-men...

THE BUDGET LAND CLAUSES. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Si,—What does Mr. Harold Spender mean by his quotation in your last issue from Adam Smith If a man gets a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I venture to submit that the leasehold system (see Spectator, August 21st, p. 273) both for occupation and for building will last as...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Srs,—I have been a reader of and subscriber to the Spectator for many years. I heartily agree with what you have been saying lately about...

[To ma EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR:] Sin,—May I, not controversially, but simply as desiring information, ask what is your authority for stating in your issue of the 21st inst....

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I am interested in a small estate in Essex. Early in December last application was made to the Board of Agricul- ture and Fisheries to...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.1 Sin,—The problem of how to vote or whether to vote at all at the next General Election is one which is no doubt per- plexing all Unionist...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SFECTATOR.'l Sru,—Mr. Lloyd George has drawn a delightful picture of the doctor going his rounds as an angel of mercy. My husband is a country doctor,...

pro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—It has often been said that if you deducted from our literature all that has been written for money, there would hardly be anything...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—May I add a personal illustration of Sir Theodore Martin's extraordinary memory ? He was an old friend and contemporary of my father,...

[To T HE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 have often heard the statement made, as your reviewer puts it in his notice of Mr. Lucas's "A Wanderer in Paris" (Spectator, August 14th),...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 Sr,—With your article in last week's issue on Mr. Wood's "Plea for a Press League of Silence" all thinking persons and journalists will...

who has dealt with the living growth from which the framework of history is hewn must appreciate the spirit of the article that appears in the last number of the Spectator under...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 SIR, — There was recently an outcry in the House of Commons about the strangling of the liberty of the Press in Egypt. The enclosed extract...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sut,—Perhaps you will permit a lone.-time American reader to call attention to an apparent slip by Mr. Balfour during the debate on the South...

[TO THE EDITOR Or TUN " SPACTATOR.'1 SLE,^-Is it not partly the commercial exploitation of country flowers which is obliterating their pretty local names,—that and the lessons...

[TO TIM EDITOR OF TIER " SPECTATOR:9 SIE,—Some months ago I read in the Spectator that anineels rarely, if ever, make presents to one another. They do some- times, however, and...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 SIR,—The following facts I can vouch for from personal knowledge, as I was at the time resident in my father's house where they occurred....

M's" query in your last issue, is it not possible that " Turn-again " is a corruption of "Mar/agora." P I know instances of similar oorruption in our own garden. Our gardener,...

the correspondence in your columns of a village child, who brought me the tiny - wild heartsease common on Wiltshire downs with: "Be the right name for they pansy or lovalidus?"...

[To van Norma OF TIM " SFBCTATOR."] SIR,—In your issue of July 24th, answering (otherwise admirably) Mr. Andrew Carnegie, you have omitted from your quotation from General Grant...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPBCTATOR.1 SIR,—I do not see the Spectator regularly, and your issue of the 7th inst. has only reached me to-day (August 19th). If I am not too late, I...

find on referring to that most excellent work, "Flowers of the Field," by Rev. C. A. Johns, that " shoes- and-stockings " is the bird's-foot trefoil, Lotus corniculatus. I trust...

A TOAST. SEA-CAPTAINS, and men of the ships, You who carry the country's fame, You who sail where the red sun dips Or prison the utmost powers of flame And steam down Channel...

writer's mune 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...

"SPECTATOR."] SIR,—We feel that it is a duty which we owe to those who most kindly took a leading part in carrying out the midsummer fair and fête on behalf of the Hospital for...

A raw years ago Professor David Maciver published a work on Mediaeval Rhodesia in which he expounded a new theory of the Mashonaland ruins, which had hitherto been considered to...

A NEW LIFE OF STERNE. * OUE first word must be one of congratulation to Professor Cross upon the difficult feat he has accomplished in writing, on the other side of the...

Catholic Church" never fail to kindle the imagination ; for each term of this magical phrase has its own powerful and moving associations. Many devout members of the Church...

of three hundred pages and put forth -with circumstances of sumptuousness, should be devoted to the cricket history of one school is indeed a sign of the times upon which it...

as a man of letters both in Italy and in England. But it was in England, where, indeed, he spent the greater part of his active years, that he achieved success,—the practical...

this volume is the illustrations. They are excellent reproductions of Japanese art, and we greatly regret that we have not the • History of ths City of New York. By Mrs....

WATCHERS BY Ilia SHORE.* MB. PANTERSON has the great merit of perceiving the modulations in the hearts of men, which he knows are not entirely good or entirely bad. His story is...

MRS. VAN RENSSELAER'S first volume tells the story of New Amsterdam from its founding down to the capitulation to Colonel Nicolls, as commander of the English colonial forces, a...

Stephens. (Mills and Boon. es.)—This book is advertised as con- taining thrilling adventures. It is certainly horrible enough in parts to satisfy any one with a morbid appetite...

[Under this heading we notice Ruth Books of ths walk as hare not been reserved for review in other forms.] The Shadow of the Dial, and other Essays. By Ambrose Biome. (A. M....

and Blackest. 6e.)—A charming Welsh story of a young woman suddenly widowed, who turns her sorrow to the benefit of those around her.—The Human Mole. By Colin Collins. (Greening...

es.) —This story is very much more successful when it is frankly melo- dramatic than in the latter portion when political romance becomes its theme. The reader will feel quite a...

Arrowsmith, Bristol. 6s.)—The more Mr. Ape:lough publishes of his earlier work, the greater does the reader think his progress in the art of fiction. His present collection of...

There could not be a better proof of Mr. Pett Ridge's literary power than is given by this novel. It cannot be said that it has a plot, though things no doubt move on toaeertain...

Co. 4s. net.)—This book is of course of a highly technical character. Perhaps its general scope may be best under- stood from chaps. 18 arid 19, "The Finding of Dates by...

3s. 6d. net.)—The swing of the Russian pendulum in the region of religious toleration is strongly marked. We need not go back beyond Alex- ander I. It was not so much as thought...

Fisher Unwin. es.)—Mount Elgon is an extinct volcano to the north.east of Lake Victoria Nyanza, ard it was in the region of which' it is he dcninating feature that Mr. Purvis...

University Press, is. 6d.) we have Wiltshire, by A. G. Bradley, and Hertfordshire, by R. Lydekker. The physical features—hills, plains, rivers, Ac.--climate, rainfall, minerals,...

J. Sinclair, M.D. (University of Manchester Press. 7s. 6d. net.)—Semmelweis's contribution to medical science was in the matter of puerperal fever. He was struck with the...

of the Aristotelian Society, New Series, Vol. 1%. (Williams and Norgate, 2s. 6d. net). We may remark, however, that these " pro- ceedinga " sometimes touch upon matters in which...