dis- cussion on the grievances of unemployed insured persons under Part II. of the Insurance Act. Labour members protested that it was a hardship for unemployed insured persons...

case.

English Marconi Company held 35,000 shares of twenty-five dollars each in the American Company." Twenty-five dollars is £5. We therefore assumed that the American shares were £5...

Barthon was given in the papers of Monday. M. Pichon is Minister for Foreign Affairs; M. Ratier, Minister of Justice; M. Baudin, Minister of Marine; M. Klotz, Minister of the...

inquiry has continued to hold the first place in public attention, and the news- papers of Wednesday and Friday were filled with verbatim reports of the proceedings running into...

investing Bulgarian and Servian armies. This important triumph came close upon the news of the surrender of Djavid Pasha to the Servians on the banks of the Skumbi. The general...

right to convert merchantmen into cruisers, arrangements had been made with the leading shipowners to equip a number of first-class British liners, the Admiralty paying all...

on Wednesday. expressed his fears that there was no prospect of avoiding large and continuing increases in the Naval Estimates unless the present period of acute rivalries and...

July he hoped to have seventy-five machines and seventy-five pilots. They had not discontinued the use of monoplanes, and their hydro-aeroplanes, which could carry guns and were...

any alteration of the numeriml programmes submitted to the House in March and July 1912. The British programme, as revised to meet the increase in Germany's new construction for...

that the differences between the super-Dreadnoughts and Dreadnoughts were not less great than those between the Dreadnoughts and the pre-Dreadnoughts. At the moment, including...

the House on Wednesday, Mr. Asquith said that at the end of last July or early in August the Master of Elibank informed him that he and the Attorney-General and the Chancellor...

Seely was pressed for more information about the number of efficient aeroplanes, and said that if the test of efficiency laid down by the Opposition (viz., the ability to fly at...

an important statement on foreign affairs. Albania had been the most difficult problem, but the northern and north- eastern frontier of the new independent State had been at...

respect the wishes of the Powers collective pressure would be brought to bear upon both countries. As to the war in its more general aspect, he did not assert that the Powers...

practice of the hunger strike by suffragist prisoners was published in the papers of Thursday. It provides for the temporary release for a fixed period of a prisoner who is...

only allow us to notice the great American floods very shortly. We regret to say that there seems only too much reason to fear, in the words of the message sent by the Times...

October 17th. Consols (2i) were on Thursday 741—Friday week 73i.

Manchester was temporarily brought to a standstill by the interruptions of suffragettes. The more earnestly Mr. Keir Hardie avowed that he would have nothing to do with a...

Lord Wolseley in his eightieth year. We need not reproduce here a list of his numerous campaigns. His -Ashanti campaign in 1873, his Egyptian campaign in 1882, which included...

on the Divinity Degrees to Tuesday's Times. He explodes the unsound arguments of those who object to the change as leading to scandal. "To my thinking a morally debased D.D. is...

AN APPEAL TO THE CABINET. "These are bad things to happen."—(Lord Haldane's Speech, December 10th, 1900.) 1N - 0 more serious or more difficult situation has ever confronted...

S IR RUFUS ISAACS has been under examination by the Marconi Committee during the week, and as we write on Friday morning his evidence has not been con- cluded. Mr. Lloyd George...

is rapidly improving, and for the best of reasons. The party as a whole, outside the House of Commons, is coming, if it has not already come, to the determination that its...

Europe thirsts have been brought much nearer by the substantial agree- ment of the Ambassadors gathered in London as to the hibanian frontier line, and by the fall of...

is just as well that the British public should realize in advance that the sum for which Mr. Lloyd George will have to ask the nation will fall very little short of...

in their rough craft examined the site of what was afterwards to be London, and saw that it was good. The river was the making of London ; London is where it is because of the...

T HE born and bred countryman may become as confirmed a town-lover and town-dweller as Dr. Johnson, but the born and bred townsman who lives in the country is and remains a...

gardeners, and they are not all of them concerned merely with the growing of flowers and fruit. They involve wider questions; they deal with more difficult issues ; and,...

THE MARCONI CASE. rTo THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR:I Sin, — In your long article of March 22nd on "The Marconi Case," you have apparently missed the point in morals. Certain...

Sra,—While you are discussing the ethics of investments by Ministers of the Crown you may be interested in the following episode in the life of the late Sir William Russell—"...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOE."] SIR,—I feel that I cannot be the only reader of the Spectator who is shocked by the unconciliatory and aggressive attitude you so often...

San,—Your readers will perhaps be interested to see the enclosed quotation from the Minneapolis Sentinel of March 9th, commenting upon the article on Dr. Woodrow Wilson, which...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.] SIE, - I notice, not with pleasure but with a sad satisfaction, the article in the Spectator of March 1st, entitled "The Devil's Country." It...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...1 is not only the landowner who is affected by these taxes, but the working man also. I happen to live near the outskirts of a large and...

[To THE EDITOR 01 THE "SFECTATOR.1 SIR,—We were formerly taught to "do good by stealth amt blush to find it fame," but to-day it is the fashion to do good by Act of Parliament...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—We agriculturalists are indebted to the Spectator for its persistent advocacy of the just treatment of agricultural land for taxing...

SIR,—You say "The practical point which we wish to urge is that now that landowners have shown their willingness to help, it is the duty of capitalists to come forward and play...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—President Wilson's feelings in relation to the burnings of negroes are, of course, quite as strong as your own or of your...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "8PECTATOE.”1 SIR,—Tbat unimportant creature, the cottage house-mother,, so seldom makes her voice heard that I thought one of her rare utterances might...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — I have waited for the quiet of Eastertide to express the dismay with which I read that the Government designs to abolish every vestige...

pleasure the very sympathetic article in your issue of last week on the Fox Question. There are, however, two points on which some misapprehension still exists. The...

[To THE EDITOP. OT TIIE "SPECTATOR...I SIR,—I was interested toreadyouradmirable article on theabove siubject in the Spectator of March 22nd. Little can be added to so lucid an...

[To THE EDITOR 01 THE “BrEcrAma.”] Sis s —In a most interesting article on daughters in the .Speetafer of February let, the writer winds up with what is almost a veiled threat...

[To THE EDITOE OF THE " BrxcrAToft. " ] SIR, — I have only to-day happened to notice the pleasank letter of "A. F." in your issue of March 8th controverting my letter of...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECT.ITOE."] Sfa,—Many of your readers sympathize, I know, with the efforts the Swiss are making to preserve their country from the invasion by the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOE."] SIR, — In your issue of March 15th, in a review of the lately published "Windham Papers," there is the following passage :— "He (Windham)...

[TO HY EDITOR OP THE " STECTATOR."] Sta,—In reading to-day's Scotsman I perused with great interest a long paragraph from the Spectator eulogizing Livingstone and his work, and...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE “srEcvAvott."l Si,—With reference to Mr. Francis Darwin's statement that Can in Cambridge signifies "crooked," may I point out that all the available...

ETO THE EDITOR OF THE " :SPICTATOR."] ‘Srit,—In your very interesting account of Windham (Spectator, March 15th) there is a reference to the praise bestowed on him by Macaulay....

I TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' SIB,—By desire of the governing body of Cherwell Hall, Oxford, a Training College for Women Secondary Teachers, I beg to bring to your...

SIR,—" sutor ultra crepidam" is a hardy annual whieh I suppose will always be with us. It has no classical or other authority that I know of, and its meaning is rather vague....

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' 'ZIR,—It is quite a pleasure to a veteran reader to be able to catch out the Spectator. In the current number a leader- writer quotes "Mair...

LETTERS FROM THE NEAR EAST.* MR. Ma.unicE BARING'S letters from the Near East were written partly just after what was called the counter- revolution in Turkey in April, 1909,...

MARCH WINDS. WINDS go streaming, shouting loul At their play about the sky, And my soul is like a cloud Blown about with them on high. Like a hawk unbooded she From my body...

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 mode...

Mn. MEsvrssa's chief object in compiling these two volumes , has been to string together a selection of Cobbett's corre- spondence which has not previously been published. This...

• [COHMUNICATED.] THERE are a certain number of people in England who, like Mrs. Jellyby, are always occupied with the atrocities com- mitted in distant lands, and among them...

AMONG the numerous books about animals which are now being issued by the publishers and, we believe, eagerly bought by an ever-increasing body of readers, many depend almost...

IN prose Mr. Godley is a parodist and a very deft one ; in verse he is an original humorist on his own account. His parody of the Cicero translation on the proposal to place •...

A FINE literary style is sometimes a dangerous possession. It is invaluable when its owner has the right subject with which to mate it. But when the subject is wanting the style...

Mn. CULLEN GOVLDSBURY has written a singularly attractive book. He gives us the record of the daily life of an official somewhere on the Tanganyika Plateau for a complete year,...

line which differs from most pleas for Socialism. There is the usual fluency, not to say diffuseness, in these four hundred and thirty pages, but it is the fluency of a writer...

FORTITUDE.* WHAT Mr. Walpole says of the novel written by his hero may with some reserves and modifications be said of his own. It would be unfair to say that any of it is...

of life in Widecombe are spread out before us here, much as the parish can be viewed in detail and in panorama from a neighbouring tor on a clear day. There is no particular...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not buts reserved for review in other forma] Social Environment and Moral Progress. By Alfred Russell Wallace, O.M....

gives so intimate a picture of life in the women's apartments in an Egyptian Pasha's house that one wonders how he managed to obtain his facts. His heroine is an English...

Co. 6s.)—An historical novel in which the hero is the illegitimate son of the Emperor Charles V. The local colour is cleverly laid on, but it is as well to warn the reader that...

Turquet-Milnes. (Constable and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—We cannot help feeling that the " Baudelairian spirit" is almost ridden to death in these pages. Mr. Turquet-Mihaes is...

Rosa Alchemica. By W. B. Yeats. (A. H. Buller/. 6s. net.)— Some of the best of Mr. Yeats's prose writing occurs in this volume, which was originally published in 1897 under the...

in leaflet form of the letter from the Bishop of Carlisle upon Evening Communion, which appeared in our columns on December 21st, 1912. Copies of this leaflet can be obtained...

M.P. (Herbert Jenkins. 21s. net.)—The sane reader may feel more than a moment's doubt as to whether it can have been worth while to write gx hundred pages in refutation of the...

her Distinguished Friends. By Lobe Fuller. With an Introduction by Anatole France. (Herbert Jenkins. 10s. 6d. net.)—M. Anatole France in his preface speaks with the greatest...