the arrest of Mr. Bowskill is prompted by a desire on the part of some of the minor Portuguese officials to revenge themselves Upon the missionary for trying to obtain the...

arrived at Gravesend on Tuesday morning. The British Labour leaders who had been deputed to welcome them had spent the night making preparations. When they went off in a launch...

WE have dealt at length elsewhere with the grave situation calmed by the " murder "—the phrase is Sir Edward Grey's—of Mr. Benton by or by the orders of, General Villa,...

which has occurred in Portuguese West Africa. The Rev. J. S. Bowek ill, a Baptist missionary, has been arrested by the Portuguese authorities in connexion with the recruiting of...

that it was necessary for Germany to have more ships to show the flag abroad. All Germans who live abroad, he said, would confirm his statement. They were grateful for what...

extraordinary progress made in aviation, apart from air- ships, in Germany in 1913. The National Flying Fund up to December 15th, 1913, had received £361,725, as compared with...

case.

East India Company once investigated the question whether their servants used mild forms of torture to make hard-fisted farmers pay their taxes. One ryot in giving evidence...

voluntary system were adopted, millions of the present contributors would drop out of the scheme. Mr. Boner Law, basing explained that advocates of a voluntary system had never...

an argument that all landowners deserve to be driven out because they are believed to vote Tory ! How a man of his ability can bring himself to the advocacy of the very thing he...

the Government to produce any instances of tenant farmers or agricultural labourers who had been evicted on account of their voting Liberal, and called attention to allegations...

appointment of an impartial and competent Committee to inquire into the working of the Insurance Act. He sug- grated that the Committee should inquire into the possibility and...

question. He had cited a . few old cases, but Mr. Lloyd George had uttered a base slander on a whole class. Lord Sheffield said they would all agree that the general action of...

on military aeronautics. The War Office had 161 aeroplanes, and it was hoped to complete the proposed eight squadrons before the end of the year. For this purpose they required...

con- tribution to party funds should not be a consideration to a Minister when be recommended anyone for an honour. He thought that recommendations for honours might be...

in the Commons on Tuesday in answer to the attempt to make him disclose his plans for amending the Home Rule Bill in such a way as to avoid civil war. In the Parliamentary...

shall soon hear of Trade Union secretaries following in Lord Murray's footsteps and trying to increase their funds by bets on the St. Leger or the Oaks, or by a systematic...

Wednesday's Times. Mr. Arthur Balfour, Chairman of the Sheffield Works Societies—formerly voluntary associa- tions, now approved under the Insurance Act—writes to call...

Margaret Street, last Sunday, taking for his subject the "three narrow platforms of faith, hope, and charity." Passing over his references to faith and hope, we may note his...

but in truth it is the writing on the wall. The leading Liberul who, according to the Times, exclaimed on hearing the result of the poll, "After Leith—anything !" was in no...

was caused by Sir Sydney Buxton's resignation on his appoint. meet as Governor-Gengpal of South Africa, was made known on Friday week, the Liberals holding the Beat, though by a...

formerly M.P. for Woolwich, against Sir Edward Ward, the late Secretary to the War Office, ended in a verdict for Major Adam, with L'2,000 damages. Probably the Army Council now...

days of completing his ninety-fourth year, was a great Victorian worthy as well as a great illustrator. For fifty years he drew for Punch, and after Leech's death in 1864 be...

Lectures delivered by Professor Morgan at the University of London, gave an introductory address on Federalism. Dealing with the evils of Federalism, as set up in America, and...

The polling in the Leith Burghs, which took place on Thursday, resulted in the return of the Unionist by a majority of 16. The Unionist candidate received 5,159 votes ; the...

Jan. 29th Consols (21) were on Friday 76i—Friday week 761.

EXCLUSION STILL HOLDS THE FIELD. w E see nothing in Mr. Asquith's speech in Tuesday's debate to make us waver in our belief that the Prime Minister intends in the end to accept...

W E desire here to say a word to those who argue that the House of Lords and the Unionist Party, by assenting to the Exclusion of the six counties from the Home Rule Bill—for,...

L ORD SELBORNE bad, we believe, public opinion in the best sense behind him when he made his protest in the House of Lords against the sale of honours in order to fill the party...

T HE murder, or " execution," of Mr. Benton, a British subject, on Tuesday week at Juarez has made the tangle in Mexico an intense reality to Englishmen. If there is one thing...

T HE defeat of Mr. Masterman in South-West Bethnal Green has induced many of the Liberal papers to make fresh references to what they describe as the scandalous inconvenience...

P EOPLE of delicacy are disinclined publicly to discuss the physical experiences of theact of dying, not because they are unwilling to console themselves with the modern belief...

THERE are scandals which provoke indignation, but which suggest few remedies, and among the most difficult in this country is that of the gypsies. From time to time protests...

"G IVE me the making of a nation's ballads, and I oars not who makes her lawe," was said, not by Fletcher of Saltoun, but by a friend whom he reports. The historic remark would...

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION THE IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCE. [To ran Emeos or TIM "Ssrosaros." BM — Thera is a growing belief, among men of every section of political and religious...

EXCLUSION. rTo ran Eons. or ran .. SPISCT■121,..] Sin,—The Exclusion of Ulster from the Home Rule Bill ought to put an end to all danger of civil war. The Covenanters are...

[To TEX EDITOR OD TIM .. SPBCDADOZ.n SIR, —If you and your readers are not tired of the subject of the Sutherland clearances and Mu Lloyd George's version of them, the...

[To ens EIMVIS OW 555 ODSOU206.1 Era,—In your article of February 21st, " A Word to Anti. Exclusionist Liberals," you say that to coerce Ulster it would be absolutely...

[To ran Eamon or nix ..8PSOUTOD:9 • The Advance of Home Rule." "Majority for Home Rule, 1,170." These are the headlines in which the Manchester Guardian purports to epitomize...

[To ran Eorros or ran nSrroraroo."3 Stn.,—In your issue of January 31st I find a letter from Mr. Herbert O'Hara Molineux, who makes certain statements which need correction....

SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—It is little better than a truism to say in these days that success in any particular calling in life can only be attained by an education specially adapted...

(To me Emma or Tax flan:on:ma-) Sin.,—The Memorial on the above subject recently presented to Convocation is of grave moment to every member of the English Church. The wish of...

" eramerea."1 Snt,—Forgive my pertinacity, but a poor parson who wishes to obey the law must do his best to understand what the law is. You tell me that I must "prevent...

Sta.,—How is it possible to conceive that the Creator of the countless myriad worlds strewn through the illimitable vast- ness of space, that the Lord God Omnipotent, would...

Sra,—Is it too late to suggest that the terms "broad-minded- ness," "charity," &e., are suffering a most lamentable and weekly abuse in your columns ? To the majority of your...

SIR,—To my amazement both you and your correspondent Mr. Macmillan appear to agree (though, I am sure, neither of you can mean it) that it is the bounden "duty" of every...

[To not Zones or rag •'Srseraros'•1 Sin,—Last Saturday, February filet, it was announced that the Portuguese political prisoners would all be released on Sunday morning,...

from your note to Dr. Field's letter in your last issue seems to be that the clergy are to be compelled to read into the rubric the words " before the age of twenty-one." After...

[To vs. EMT. or ras .6rsorarol."] SIR,—The Americans make a great ado over the capture of the ' Seraphs' by Paul Jones (referred to by Carlyle as a fight in a cock-pit). But...

I To ru• Linear se emit Srscrrroa.-1 Sta,—For some of those whose memory goes back to INT- unhappily a fast-decreasing number—your reference in lash week's issue to...

Stn,—In the altogether sympathetic article on "The Hundred' Years' Peace " in your issue of February 21st your contributor unconsciously proves his contention that the British...

[To en. Ezeeos or era ••Sears000x."] Saa,—Referring to the letter from "E. M. H." in your last issue and the action of the farmers in support of the Government, I am...

[TO ram Ramos or srecuror. - 1 Snt,—Have any of your readers remarked the appropriate- ness of the subjoined quotation from Cicero (Cat. III. 15) in connexion with the recent...

..Brserovon....1 Ern,-.1.21 glancing recently over the inimitable series of imaginary colloquies, entitled Nodes Ambrosianae, by Christopher North—the late Professor...

[To vnx Emma or van "Srocravon.".1 SIE,—In your recent note on the house at 75 Dean Street, Soho, you state that it does not so much matter whetheeThornhill really lived and...

[To TOO Eon. 07 ens "Erscrovon.”1 SIE,—Your correspondents "The Authors of 'The Book of the Dots " remark that there cannot be many persons living Who can say that their...

[To run Emma or we “13rscrovos.] Sin,—May I add to " R's" quotations from Lowell in your issue of February 14th the following from Jowett P "The only man of genius, whom I...

[To vas EDITOR or ens ”SPOO1,7011....1 Sit,—Would you ask the writer of the article on Mr. Balfour'e lectures in your issue of February 14th to tell us what is the meaning...

should like to draw the attention of your readers to the Princess Patricia Ranch in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia—a farm started last year by the Colonial Intelli-...

[To THE Roma or THE vSPErIAT0E.1 Sin,—A day or two ago our half-bred Irish terrier, 'Larry,' about a year old, trotted out with a servant, who is a friend of his, when she...

"Sesomoli.”J SIR,—May I be allowed to express a regret that I should have expressed myself as badly as to have led your very friendly reviewer (Spectator, February 21st) to...

duty of this country to pat an end to the traffic in the skins and plumes of wild birds. The evidence is abundantly clear that many rare and beautiful species now being...

[To rem EDITOR or rue •• Serer...ma:1 Sin,—With reference to my letter concerning the worn-out horse traffic which you kindly inserted in your edition of February 14th,...

Stn,—Can you permit me to add to my recent letters what I have said before in The Under Dog ? The service of the Antwerp Port Veterinary Inspection is excellent ; and the Port...

MODES AND METHODS OF MUSICAL CRITICISM. IN a volume of essays rather cumbrously and repellently entitled Essentials in Piano.Elaying, and other Musical Studies (London : W....

Has Spring been on the earth—. Flowery carpet and curtain, Jubilant hedgerow mirth And glamour that comes to-day And goes for ever away— Never before for certain Has Spring...

of applications for the plans and working drawings of Mr. Williams-Ellis's cottage. These are now being reproduced, and ae soon as they are completed will be forwarded to our...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated, " the Editor must not nereerarity to held to Le in agreement with the rims therein expressed cr uith the mode of...

NAPOLEON AND ALI OF YANINA.* Ant Penis OF YANINA, the turbulent clansman who, like his countryman, Mehemet Ali, braved the power of the Sultan and carved out a kingdom for...

Le the history alike of "scholarship" and of theology the name of Erasmus holds its place among the foremost. In both fields the labours, no doubt, of many students have been...

have a firmly established buffer-State between Siberia and China is likely to determine the future of Mongolia. The authors of this book of travel are agreed that the Mongols,...

THE question whether the native races of Africa have behind them in some remote past a higher civilization from which they have gradually fallen is one of deep interest to the...

THE high standard of the anonymous writing in the "quar- terlies" is occasionally accounted for by such a volume as this, which consists of nine Quarterly Renew articles by Mr....

given us his recollections of a life mainly spent in novel-writing and journalism, and the result is a pleasant, gossiping volume dealing with a small part of the literary...

THE BUSINESS OF A GENTLEHAILt Drcgrwsorr gives us in The Business of a Gentleman a spirited, highly coloured, uncompromising picture of the 6-The Resesetrtselien of the Nap...

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volumes Mr. Worsfold carries down to 1905- the story begun in his Lord Milner's Work in South Africa, 1897-1902, and continues what is in fact an elaborate defence of Lord...

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"country parson" was probably the best loved of all middle-Victorian essayists. The fame which ho won in the "sixties" led to an excessive revulsion in later years, when it was...

making in that promising province are better to-day than they have ever been. The country is not one for profes. sional men but for " workers "-an invidious distinction....

[Under this heading tee notiee such Book. of tho web no haw tut Dona toonwoot (Sr ether Jams.] The British Army How it is Made and Used. By W. G. Clifford. (Keith, Prowse, and...

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6s.)—Mr. Hardy's first book may justly claim to have given a "household word" to the English language. Its great popularity may have been due in part to the contrast of its...

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