and felicitously expressed speech. It contained some rhetorical allusions to the citadel of Free-trade—the citadel at whose gates Sir John Brunner had just placed his bag of...

home in Perthshire, on Tuesday. The first part of the funeral service, however, was held in West- minster Abbey on Monday amid every sign of civic and

A S we have pointed out elsewhere, we are by no means dismayed by the result of the North-West Manchester election. What., however, does fill us with dismay is the attitude of...

means that the Liberal Party are advised by their typical representative to abandon the policy of maintaining free exchange and free contract wherever possible, and to enter...

the Liberal organisation at Dundee, and has begun his campaign in that city. He is opposed by a strong local Unionist, and also by a popular member of the Labour Party. Those...

Saturday morning, resulted in the return of Mr. Joynson-Hicks, the Unionist candidate, by a majority of 429 votes. Mr. Joynson-Hicks received 5,417 votes, while Mr. Churchill...

case.

the memorial service to Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman has an importance of its own which, though the visit was welcomed, has perhaps been imperfectly perceived. It may, of...

THE MANCHESTER ELECTION. E are not surprised at, nor do we regret, the verdict passed on the policy of the Government by the electors of North-West Manchester, for that verdict...

P it possible for the present Government to escape from the dangerous position in which they are placed owing to the unhappy policy which they have fore- shadowed in regard to...

T HEpenetration of the Bazar Valley, and the swift exaction of forfeits and of promises of good behaviour from the Zakka Khel, seemed likely to ensure peace for at least some...

1VI R. ROOSEVELT plays an exceptional and a very useful part in the formation of public opinion. The singular fraukness which characterises some of his speeches could hardly be...

W ITHIN three weeks the Navy has suffered three grave accidents from collision. The third involved the loss of only one life ; but the other two—the wrecks of the destroyer...

W HOEVER enjoys literary criticism welcomes a new book by Mr. Stopford Brooke, and no one who reads "A Study of Four Poets" (London: Sir I. Pitman and Sons, 6s. net) will be...

T HE weather of April deserves, if not a tribute, a record. It was the worst and coldest April known for years. The first three weeks were a succession of bitter winds from the...

do not think that the result of this election must be treated as pointing to any extensive change of opinion in the division on the question of Tariff Reform. I agree with a...

of .the North-West Manchester election, I have come to the conclusion that the Free-trade issue on its merits had comparatively little to do with Mr. Churchill's defeat. Those...

THE MANCHESTER ELECTION. LTO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR:2] Sig,—I do not think that the result of the North-West Man- chester election is such a blow to Free-trade as many...

Sin,—.There are few Manchester Free-traders who are not deeply disappointed that Mr. Winston Churchill has oeased to be the representative in the House of Commons of North-...

[TO Tile EDITOR OP TRH " Sp gerATore."] SIR,—In the letter you published last Saturday, Mr. Macnicol, of Poona, drags in a sneer at me for reasons of his own. To myself the...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Liberals and Conservatives alike are trying to explain . the astonishing change of opinion apparently indicated by the recent...

Sin,—Your correspondent Mr. Macnicol in the Spectator of April 25th takes alarm at certain aspects of the political movement in India, and seems to prescribe "the association of...

you allow a brewery investor space to reply to your suggestion (Spectator, April 25th) that we are levying a kind of blackmail by making our gifts to religious and charitable...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SrEcrAvos."1 SIR, — I read with great interest your most excellent article on the Licensing Bill in last week's Spectator, and agree heartily with. it,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECT ATOR." J SIR, — In your issue of April 18th, p. 602, you say : "There is no doubt, we fear, that the Ruthenes have been a good deal oppressed by...

['to THE EDITOR or THE SP scrAToR. - .1 • SIR, — Recent roadside burnings in our national park have called forth numerous and well-founded protests from holiday folk who sought...

Sin, — As your correspondent writing over the signature of N. Maw:awl in last week's Spectator points out, there is no physical crisis in India, and, it may be added, there...

Sin,—It is a curious story that of the New Forest for the last sixty years. At the beginning of this period a forest in Hampshire was not of much more value to the Londoner than...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TH6 .SPECTATOR." J SIR,—Among this week's "records " in the vagaries of Nature, it is perhaps worth noting that the cuckoo has been singing here nearly every...

[To nis RPITOR OF TEE " EPZCSATOR.1 SIR,—As a French student of history and politics, allow me to lodge a strong protest against the sweeping statement con- tained in your last...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPROTATOR.”.1 SIR,—In your article, "The Budget and the Sugar-Tax," in the Spectator of April 25th you say :—" The only way to bring home to all the...

"To-Day's MOTTO.= The man who first ruined the Roman people was he who first gave them treats and gratuities:— PLUTARCH:" "Being interrupted with a cry, 'What about old-age...

[To THE EDITOR OF " SPECTATOP 'i SIR,—Mr. Cave's quotation (Spectator, April 25th) hardly serves his purpose. Huxley certainly says that the supposed occurrence of miracles...

THE ABLE SEAMAN. "A.B." the papers call him, with a number, But he has a name, the same as you and I, And if you're told he's ornamental lumber Or lives abroad for pleasure...

EDITOR OF THL "SrecieTom") SIR,—Could you kindly inform me where the words, "A merciful man is merciful to his beast," can be found ? Our Band of Mercy is erecting a...

In my opinion, the great danger before us is the destruction of the spirit of the people. The risk we are running is that our nation may fall through the weakening of the...

LTO THR EDITOR Of THR " SPRCTAT01.1 SIR,—Your printers last week, in printing my letter, omitted the words that I now print in. italics, and consequently made nonsense of the...

THE NEW GALLERY. Iv has long been a complaint against the Directors of the New Gallery that they have reduced their Exhibition to little more than the anteroom of the Academy....

SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY CRITICISM. * Tim critical work of the seventeenth century deserves more respect and attention than it usually receives, and Professor Spingarn's collection...

only have been written by a scholar, because. a less well-cultivated mind would have failed to see how much the small things-matter. Aggregations of small things in...

THE problem of black and white, or, as it may be, brown and white, is so much the most serious of the questions of the future that we are greatly in the debt of any one who can...

notice four books which treat of birds from different points of view. The first before us deals with all British birds. A new handbook of British birds finds many competitors...

to heart the waste and misery caused by ill housing may rest in thankful- ness that the first great advance towards general improvement has come to pass, for housing is at last...

A REVIEWER must always be grateful to an author who begins by explaining, "in a single sentence," the aim of his • Famous Preach 5oons. Br Fntak MaineL With 90 Lhittritions.....

Mn. HAMEL has written a pleasant and interesting book on an agreeable subject. The history of French society, one may say, is that of the salons ; at least, of the society of...

FENNEL AND RUE.* STunEwrs of the work of Mr. Howells cannot have failed to notice the points of contact and of divergence which define his relations to the intellectual...

Tweedie. (Eveleigh Nash. 15s. net.)—Hyde Park as we see it now may be said to be wholly modern. It has changed greatly even within the memory of living persons. Its...

6d. net.)—This "Veteran of the Indian Mutiny" went out with a cadetship in 1843, and was put into the Bombay establish- ment. On arriving in India he was attached to a native...

and Co. 6s.)—A tale quite true to its title. With a heroine who suffers from lesion of the brain, a olairvoyante friend, and a bigamist husband, the tangle ia .eensiderable,— An...

[Under this heading we notice such nooks of the souk is haw not bug reserved for review in other forms.] Lady Lettice, Vi-countess Falkland. By John Dimon. Edited, with...

is a story of an exceedingly lawless set of people who take possession of a small island off, we conclude, the coast of Wales. The inoidents are romantic, though they are a...

W. H. R. Rivers, M.D. (E. Arnold. 68. net.)—It might be safer to pass over this volume (reproducing the Croonian Lectures, 1906) with a recognition of the caution, the...

7s. 6d. net.)—This is a book that we can warmly recommend to intelligent, but inexperienced, housewives. No detail seems to have been forgotten. With one or two curious...

These "Portraits and Impressions" are, as might be expected, of various value. The English part is more pleasant to read, at least to an Englishman. The Irish has the character,...

6s. net.)—Mr. Sherren first brought out this book six years ago. It now comes out revised and enlarged. Substantially it is a monograph on Mr. Thomas Hardy, with various...

by J. C. Thomson. (J. E. Tatin, Hull. 5s. net.)— Mr. Thomson, helped by the labours of others, notably Alfred Ainger and Mr. E. V. Lucas—an assistance which he amply...

and Sons. 5s.)—If we have a patron saint, and are disposed to bring his patronage to the front, it is as well to know who he was. "To denounce St: George," writes Miss Bulley,...