FROM JULY 2nd TO DECEMBER 31st, 1910, INCLUSIVE. TOPICS OP THE DAY. A DVOCATES For and Against ... ... 740 Aeroplanes : the New Instrument of War 4.53 Africa (South), the...

made some very damaging criticisms of the Government's finance. He dwelt strongly on the incon- sistency of the Government's announcement that they did not mean to vote the...

case.

that evening received so signal a proof of his authority, made what can only be described as a pitiful speech. In regard to the Whisky-duty, he renewed the protest which he bad...

T HE Chancellor of the Exchequer opened his Budget on Thursday afternoon. As we have explained elsewhere, the essential feature of the Budget is that it marks time. There are no...

the rest of the debate, but must refer to Mr. Healy's extra- ordinarily trenchant speech. Mr. Healy of course rubbed in the action of the Redmondites. The Chancellor of the...

position for the year from of next year:— April 1st, 1910, to March 31st Actual income .R169,745,000 Arrears of 1909 - 10 80,046,000 Total income £199,791,000 Actual...

clear account of the Budget to our readers, but the matter has not been an easy one,—partly owing to the confusion caused by the exceptional conditions of last year, and the...

Society for Women's Suffrage also held a meeting in London on Tuesday, which was supported by a large number of Associations and Societies in sympathy with the movement. Lady...

by Mr. Asquith in the House of Commons on Tuesday. It provides for the omission of the passages offensive to Roman Catholics, so that the new Declaration would read :— "I [then...

Imperial Foreign Secretary, Baron von Schoen, succeeds Prince Radolin as Ambassador in Paris, and is himself succeeded by Herr von Kiderlen-Wiiehter, the German Minister at...

Briand's Ministerial declaration was closed by him in another remarkable speech on Monday. Replying to his Radical critics, M. Briand declared that there was no question of...

least prepared to accept Mr. Asquith's concession in the spirit in which it was made,—namely, to allow further discussion of the matter. Having inserted the thin end of the...

a speech• which did not tend to increase the good feeling between the Nationalists and the Government. Incidentally, he mentioned that there were already between 800,000 and...

meeting of the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League on Tuesday afternoon, Lady Jersey presiding :—" He doubted whether the extreme gravity of the question now ender dis-...

that there is to be an autumn Session. It does not appear, however, as was first rumoured, that this decision is due to the inability of the Conference to find any common...

Prime Minister to obtain Parliamentary sanction during the present Session for a loan of £100,000,000 for national defence. Without giving detailed evidence of the necessity of...

of the new National University had given way on the subject of compulsory Irish. The Board of Studies reported that no subject should be compulsory at matriculation, and that it...

National Service League was held in the Queen's Hall, which was thronged with a large and representa- tive audience. The chair was taken by Lord Roberts, who pointed out that...

those who are conscientiously and openly opposed to it, but those who, though they believe in it, are afraid of adopting it because they imagine it to be unpopular. As one of...

has been re-elected President for the eighth time. As he is in his eightieth year, special interest attaches to the election of the Vice-President, who, by the law of the...

disastrous decision is clearly indicated in the report of Mr. Gwynn's "effective" speech. The County Councils, acting under the pressure of extreme Nationalist organisations,...

and Condition of India" was published on Tuesday, and deals with the year 1908-9. The most interesting information contained in it is perhaps statistical. It is difficult to...

Plunkett, illustrating the vindictive attitude of the Department of Agriculture towards the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society, appears in the Irish papers of last...

THE BUDGET. B EFORE we discuss Mr. Lloyd George's second Budget in detail we desire to congratulate him most heartily upon the plucky stand which he has made in regard to the...

common to all large divisions of time, of being unlike its predecessors. It has given birth to a revolution which promises to be different, alike in its course and in its issue,...

T HE interest in the Veteran Reserve continues to grow, but unfortunately, though perhaps not unnaturally, there still seems to be, as regards the whole question, a great deal...

SIRS IR HORACE PLUNKETT has just published a new " The Rural Life Problem of the United States " (Macmillan and Co., 5s. net), which, thoug!i nominally addressed to an American...

The need of unity, if the battle of the Church is to be fought effectively, has become so abundantly clear in the minds of all who have the spread of true Christianity at heart...

T HE droning of the insect chorus had diminished ; the tops of the trees began to stir uneasily ; it was time in Japan for the traveller to seek his inn. As I came to a bend in...

W E understand from a fashionable novelist that the makers of ephemeral fashions of speech and custom —the modistes of manners--no longer say of any one that she or he is a lady...

HUMANI NIL ALIENUM." [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—A short time ago I was present at a discussion about Borrow and his works, in the course of which a speaker...

THE OPPOSITION TO A RELIGIOUS CENSUS. 1901 EDITOR OP TH3 " SPECTATOR:1 Sts,—The Spectator has developed during the past few weeks an extraordinary facility in the art of...

[To T/12 EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — As a Liberal and a democrat, I would bring up children in the religion professed by their parents. As a manager of schools, Provided...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."1 SIR, —I have read with great interest the article on this subject in the issue of April 30th. I venture to suggest that experience in the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SFIGTATO6.1 SIR,—Your paper has said little about the remarkable World Missionary Congress held lately at Edinburgh. Yet it is in modern times almost as...

Sin,—Your article in last week's issue misses the most important point in the opposition of the Nonconformists—or the majority of them—to a religious Census. They are not afraid...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...] SIR,—Some of the statements made at the World Missionary Conference demand the careful consideration of thoughtful people. Almost every...

Sin,—No one can deny that we did well to take Mr. Roosevelt's advice cheerfully and good-humouredly. He pointed out a weak spot in our armour, and we recognise our weakness. But...

[To THE EDITOR OP TRY " SPROTATOR.1 13114—Your " News of the Week " notice (June 25th) of the admission of Arizona and New Mexico into the Federal Union may mislead those of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 Sza,—The officer with a grievance we have always with us. And we all agree that he is a terrible bore. I write as one of a large number, and...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Srn, — Will you kindly allow me to answer "E. G. M.'s" letter (Spectator, May 21st) wherein he asks me to amplify my recommendation that the...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—The burden of our voluntary system for home defence is no doubt a light one for the nation regarded as a whole; but nevertheless it...

[TO TER EDITOR OP THE "srs0raros.'1 Loane in her article on the hospitality of the poor in last week's Spectator says that it is more rarely shown in country districts....

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—In your last issue Mr. K. M. Iliffe, in relating the death of the unfortunate ferryman by lightning, apparently says that because the...

ITO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR"] Sin,—Kindly allow me to thank Mr. Willett for drawing attention in last week's Spectator to one of the strongest arguments, if any be needed,...

[To TEE EDITOR OF Tam "SPECTATOR " ] Sin,—In connexion with the review of F. W. Newman's Life and Letters in the Spectator of June 4th, I venture to send you two letters which...

[TO THE EDITOZ OP THE "EPECTATOR.n SIE,—Your advice to Mr. Thornely, who complained in your columns last week of roadside advertisements, to join " Scapa " is quite...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPIECTATOT41 SIE,—Now that the holiday season is about to commence, I should like to suggest for the more studious of your readers that a variation of...

the letter of Mr. Thomas Thornely on this subject in your last issue. Advertisements connected with motoring are, I fear, the worst offenders, and I never met a motorist yet who...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR " ] Sin,—Will you allow me to suggest to the bird-lovers among your readers that during the summer reason they should make a point of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — In your issue of June 25th your reviewer appears to have involved himself in a hopeless tangle, not only confusing my writings with...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "13PBOTATOB."] Sra,—In your review in the Spectator of June 18th of Mr. Malloch's interesting book you remark of salmon that run in winter and spring to...

[TV TIE EDITOR. or TIE "SPECTATOR " ] Siv a —Whilst the feather merchants are exterminating the most beautiful birds in the tropics, and each rare bird that visits our own...

TITANIA. IN THE HAYFIELD. TITANIA to the hayfield came, With a bag of buttercup money : 'Twas market day in Fairyland, And she bought her clover honey. The daisies are the...

[To TEE EDITOR OP THE “ErECTETOR."1 6m,—The death of Violet Brooke-Hunt at the height of a strenuous and active career has left a deep impression on her many friends, by whom...

THE CHINESE AND JAPANESE PAINTINGS AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM. THE Exhibition which the authorities of the Print Room of the British Museum have lately organised of Chinese and...

SPECTATOR...1 Sra,—I should be much obliged if you would allow me to bring to the notice of readers of the Spectator the work that is carried on at the House of Help, West...

in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of expression. In such instances, as in the case of " Letters to the Editor," insertion only means that the matter...

MARY COLERIDGE.* THIS book is something more than an act of pious homage to a rare, gracious, and gifted woman. Mary Coleridge's talents as a writer of exquisite, if unequal,...

Ws congratulate Mr. Wolff on this third edition of his work. " Barring our own laggard country," he tells us in the preface, " since the author wrote last [Second Edition, 1896]...

A GREAT English poet said that in his style he aimed at an extreme conciseness of expression, yet with purity, perspi- cacity, and music. These are the qualities which...

AN anthology of the best things written on the glamour of the Alps is a task well worth undertaking even in these anthology-ridden days. But it would have been better if Mr....

EUROPEAN chronicles have nothing more curious, more set apart and unique, than the history of Venice, and all the hundreds of books which have been written on that subject do...

THIS work is the translation of a most compendious volume containing a concise description of each campaign that occurred within the period named. As a book of reference...

see another volume of Mr. Rogers's admirable translation. (When we say " translation " we do not forget that we have at the same time a complete edition of the text ; but there...

Mn. J. WiLsoN, who has represented Mid-Durham in Parlia- ment since 1890, gives us here his autobiography. And, of necessity, he gives us at the same time the story of labour in...

THE AFFAIR OF THE ENVELOPE.t WE are accustomed nowadays to " first novels" which have not a single trace of the novice in their composition,—books • The Knights of...

6s.)—This is a "romance of India" ; i.e., of the India of the future when the present unrest shall have taken shape in action.—The Rajah's People. By I. A. R. Wylie. (Mills and...

—Here is a book of six hundred and twenty-eight pages, closely printed pages too, and we, who have quite as much reading to get through as can be conveniently managed, were...

Stoughton. 6s.)—It is difficult for the British reader to under- stand what Mrs. Baillie Reynolds means by allowing one of her characters to ask of the heroine : "What part of...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as hays not been reserved for review in other forms.] Printers' Pie. With Introduction by W. Hugh Spottiswoode. (Sphere...

Bartholomew. (John Walker and Co. 5s. net.)—In respect of execution, accuracy, and the merit of being up to date, this atlas is all that could be desired. Onr only criticism...

Stark, Boston, U.S. 25s. net.)—This is a presentation of the things which led to the War of Independence from the Loyalist side. The subject is one into which we are not willing...

Albert Alonzo Madsen, Ph.D. "The International Critical Com- mentary." (T. and T. Clark. 12s.)—Dr. Cooper, who makes himself responsible for tho opinions set forth in this...

and Exploration, Edited by Eustace Reynolds Ball (Witherby and Co., 7s. 6d. net), "an Illustrated Monthly of Travel, Exploration, Adventure, and Sport." It is impossible to make...

sumptuous productions of the printing press, with their bold type, large margins, &c., will appreciate, is Q. Horati Flacci Opera Omnia, Cara. E. C. Wickham (The Riccardi Press,...

published a new edition of Tennyson's Poems, 1830- 1865. The excellent introduction has been furnished by T. Herbert Warren, D.C.L., the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford. The volume...

Sons, 3s. 6d. net) we have Emerson, Edited by George Herbert Perris. It is quite needless, it may be said, to praise Emerson. Yet there is a common idea that he is an obscure...

Holland, and Co. 5s. net.)—Mr. Heaton has published under the title of "A Scientific Geography " a series of seven volumes. He has selected for the present purpose portions from...

Harry Roberts (John Lane, 2s. 6d. net), is The Book of the Flower Show, by Charles H. Curtis. We may quote from the preface :—" The aim has been to produce a handbook that will...

to contain much interesting matter :—Children of Africa, by James B. Baird, and Children of Arabia, by John C. Young (Oliphant, Anderson, and Co., is. 6d. net each vol.) Mr....