Asquith's speech. He dealt first with the reproaches of the Little-Navyites, and while admitting that he shared their disquietude, and promising to neglect no opportunity of...

we feel bound to call a very injudicious speech in regard to the problem of the Indians in Natal. Replying to an address from the Indian Mercantile Association, he regretted...

Ireland and Great Britain, of high importance that the new system in Ireland should not start upon the basis of civil strife. It was equally important that the decision come to...

playing for a better position. We cannot help saying, however, that the lateness of the hour makes such play extraordinarily dangerous. It would be excusable in a leader of the...

the Government of the Union :- "But the most recent developments have taken a serious turn. We have seen the widest publicity given to allegations that passive resistance has...

T HE most important political event of the week in home politics has been Mr. Asquith's speech on Thursday at Leeds. A strict verbal analysis of the speech shows that there is...

case.

on woman suffrage. First came the Men's Political Union, who sympathize with militancy, led by Mr. Nevinson. They hotly abused the Government for breaking their pledges. Mr....

Mr. Churchill had said that Ulster should be treated with con- sideration Mr. Runciman had poured contempt on the whole idea of exclusion, but Mr. Bonar Law refused to believe...

on Friday week, when lie spoke of his land policy before a crowded house and in the customary atmosphere of chaff or solemn badinage. The account in the Manchester Guardian says...

the people were at last beginning to recognize how terrible would be the consequences if the Government carried the Home Rule Bill in its present form. It was in vain at the...

men of the three southern provinces of Ireland. It is a reasoned protest against the Home Rule Bill, on the ground of the disastrous results which would inevitably follow from...

action. It is only too likely to lead to recriminations on the part of the Ministers of the Union—Colonial opinion is almost sure to force them to such recrimination in order to...

long controversy between General Botha, who represents a moderate Imperialism, and General Hertzog, who stands for the narrow Dutch tradition of Kruger and Steyn, ended in a...

of the Foreign Office to the evils of the peonage system in the Amazon valley. Their charges are largely based on the evidence of Mr. J. F. Woodroffe, who has been engaged in...

was issued on Tuesday night. Major Pringle makes several recommendations. He begins by observing that some form of automatic train-stop is necessary, and, pending the acceptance...

and Counties Liberal Association on Monday night on the Ex- clusion question. He dismissed the exclusion of the whole of Ulster as incompatible with the continuance of peace,...

total abolition of the laws against blasphemy, the immediate cause being the sentence of four months' imprisonment recently passed upon Thomas William Stewart at the...

has led to damaging retorts from English trade union leaders. In particular Mr. Havelock Wilson, the President of the National Seamen and Firemen's Union, has issued a vigorous...

dinner of the Melksham Agricultural Society on Tuesday. In regard to land reform he deprecated an attitude of mere negation. Those who lived by the land courted the fullest...

of religious people should, in fact, be made a general law applicable to all forms and all sects of religion or no religion. We would not allow a clergyman to abuse agnostics or...

the duty of every owner of land to find enough cottages for the cultivation of the land, and to see that they were in a thoroughly sanitary and satisfactory condition. The State...

THE FEDERALIST NINE-DOSE CURE. NI R. OLIVER is a very able and very sincere man, but we cannot say that we like his Federalist nine-dose cure set forth in the pamphlet, The...

I T is always difficult to judge from newspaper reports as to the real effect of a Minister's speech to a deputation. There are so many compliments, and the superincumbent...

Westminster Palace Hotel, where last week the demand for retrenchment was indignantly formu- lated by Lord Welby, Sir Sydney Olivier, and others (though what Sir Sydney Olivier,...

B Y far the most significant of recent political utterances is Mr. Lloyd George's frank admission that if the Insurance Bill had been submitted to a Poll of the People it would...

N EVER were humour and sentimentality combined in such a curious manner as in Laurence Sterne, the bicentenary of whose birth was celebrated on Monday. It is inaccurate,...

F OR some reason which is not very apparent people are surprised to come upon an old statement of political or military difficulties which perplexed their ancestors and to...

G REAT interest seems to be felt just now in the art of housekeeping, in all its infinite mass of detail. By housekeeping we do not, of course, mean the daily ordering of...

Sin,—While being an admirer of your sane publication I have received rather a shock to such a sentiment by reading the article on "What Civil War Means for the Army," in the...

taking much interest in current events, may I suggest that you seem to make too much of the necessity of civil war if the Home Rule Bill is finally passed. In common with many...

WHAT CIVIL WAR MEANS FOR THE ARMY. [To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —I have read your article under the above heading with an interest which was considerable but at...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—There is one contingency with which you have not dealt in considering possible issues of the present situation of the Irish question....

ETD THE EDITOR or VIZ "SPECTATOR."J Birrell's ignominious in-and-out policy with regard to Mr. Larkin, on which you comment with just severity, is by no means an isolated...

[To TEE EDITOR Or THE "SrzeTsToe. •• ] Sin,—In the controversy at present raging over the Home Rule Bill, some allowance should be made for the domestic difficulties Mr. Redmond...

[To TRH EDITOR OP TER " SPECTATOR.":1_ SIR, — Mr. Redmond's speech, as reported in to-day's papers, may possibly afford comfort to those who are persuaded that " Home Rule means...

[TO TER EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. ") SIR, — Why not give Ireland provincial government P Not only Ireland, but every shire or province in the United King. dom. The present...

SIR, — I enclose cutting from the Guardian of November 14th, which is very enlightening as to the fate of Protestants in Ulster should Home Rule ever become law.—I am, Sir,...

[To TER EDITOR OF TER "SPECTATOR.") SIR, — The enclosed is, except for the alteration of names, a literal transcript of a conversation I held a few weeks ago with a farmer near...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—It will doubtless be a matter of interest to many readers of the Spectator to know that, as an outcome of Mr. St. Loe Strachey's...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—On a previous occasion you allowed me to appeal through your columns for capital to build cottages on an economic basis. Partly as a...

[TO TEM EDITOR Or TER " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I should like to draw the attention of your readers to the following extract from Cottage Building :— "PISt-DE-TERRE METHOD OF...

of your correspondent " Z " in your issue of the 22nd instant with great interest, and especially the information there imparted of building of Pied houses in the Colonies. The...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR "] SIR,—In your leading article on this subject in the issue of November 22nd you emphasize the fact "that although the right of self-government...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR, —The Spectator so often opens its leaves for the solu- tion of difficulties that I now appeal to it. Whence is the term "mess of...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR " ] SIR,—The writing of this letter has been long delayed, for the circumstances which prompted the idea of addressing you occurred in July...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR1 Sin,—The following extract from a letter from Portuguese East Africa may interest you :- "Thanks for the Spectator r slavery' articles—they...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR " ] STE, — If you can give this letter a place in the columns of the Spectator I should esteem it a favour. Possibly it may interest a few of...

[To THY EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—A very interesting book of random Western biographies has reached me from Salt Lake City. The writer, Judge C. C. Goodwin, must be...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR. "] Srs,—Sir Robert Ball, the eminent astronomer, who died at Cambridge on the 25th inst., was, like the late Professor Tyndall, a most...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—In the most solemn service of our Church we are asked to pray for "the whole state of Christ's Church militant here on earth," and...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sra,—My grandfather, who was born in 1734, as a boy of twelve stood at the roadside and watched the King's troops marching northwards...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SrEcraroa."] SIR,—A reviewer who sets out to correct what he calls "careless" mistakes may just as well verify his own state- ments. The writer who...

MUSIC AS A REMUNERATIVE PROFESSION. ONE of Martial's most interesting poems takes the form of an ironical letter to a friend (v. 56) who was always consulting him about his...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In reply to Mr. De S. Fowke I beg to say that the whole of the beautiful ballad entitled, " It was a' for our rightfu' King" [sent by...

CONSTABLE'S COUNTRY. DEAR John, most friendly poet of the field, I have been walking at your heels to-day; There was no tree that had not seen you pass, No field but knew your...

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 of...

APOLLONIUS RHODIUS.* APOLLONIUS RHODIUS is a poet who, it would seem, has of late aroused new interest in this country. For almost a century and a half Shaw's edition, although...

POLITICIANS, when they have to deal with the affairs of a foreign country, frequently shed some portion of the opinions which they have formed at home, and adapt their political...

with something of the same charm as his history ; they are the expression of no barren patchwork soul, but of one stalwartly equipped with an individuality, a teuWer, a few...

an established fact, we are sure to have many works on the science of training, and special treatises on the various branches of athletics. We have before us two books which are...

of Baron Hyde de Neuville undertook and carried through the important task of arrang- ing and editing the various manuscripts left in their care. These included, besides the...

EXCELLENT as is the work of the Comte de Paris, the history of the great civil war has yet to be written. Our regret at this delay is tempered by the fact that the longer the...

IT is only to be expected that the work of a man who has devoted the best years of his life to party journalism should • Pillars of Society. By A. G. Gardiner. London: Nisbet...

Everyman series comes a moat valiant collection of the works of English essayists, ranging from Caxton to the writers of to-day. Although the maker of this anthology shows his...

THE GENTLE LOVER* THE reviewer of modern novels has no lack of epithets and phrases which he can conscientiously apply to the work of their writers. They are " strong " and "...

de Vere Stacpoole. (Hutchinson and Co. 6s.)—Mr. de Vere Stacpoole's new book is of the school of Kipling ; indeed, much of it, especially the first part, with its absorbing...

is one supremely good story among the twenty-seven which compose this book, and that is the account, which is called " Changed," of the result of an old farmer persuading a...

is a great pity that Mr. Hardy should have chosen to turn his energies and powers to the writing of a story so extravagant and fantastical as Edward Racedale's Will, where the...

and Co. Sc. net.)—Although lip-reading is not a subject that can be studied satisfactorily from a book, it is to be hoped that Mr. Nitchie's careful study will prove a most...

(Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)—An anti- war romance of the last century, translated from the German of Baroness von Suttner ; it is written in the form of an autobiography.—Dirk :...

has just been added to " The World's Classics." Its range extends from Sir Thomas More at the end of the fifteenth century to the Brownings in the middle of the nineteenth. Our...

French Sources and Re-told by J. Bedier. Rendered into English by H. Belloc. (George Allen. 2s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Belloc's rather affected style will hardly satisfy those who have...

is as good as ever, and that is saying a great deal. It is, of course, quite small as books of reference go nowadays, but the information is all useful, up-to-date, and very...

U , ,.er this heading we notice such Books of the teak as have not been reserved for racism in other forms.] The Reporters' Gallery. By Michael Macdonagh. (Hodder and Stoughton....

net.)—We are delighted to see this cheaper edition of Mr. Bone's charmingly written account of Edinburgh, together with Mr. nonslip Fletcher's attractive drawings.—Flint and...