force of 100 Sowars under Captain Birdwood, whioh was conducting Mr. Smart, the British Consul, to Shiraz. Mr. Smart was wounded in the thigh, three Sowars were killed and...

ference would probably decide in favour of a Republic, but it would be rash to assume that it will do so. And we must not leave out of account the influence of the Great Powers....

the difficulties before the Italians in Tripoli There are now nearly 30,000 Italian troops available, but the failure to turn the enemy out of fir Tobras, which we recorded last...

.. i t t MOMENTOUS decision has been taken in China. Yuan Shih-kai announced, with the approval of the Manchu dynasty, on Thursday, that the dynasty places its future in the...

should be allowed to remain as the cere- monial head of China, representing the nation in the sacred temples and propitiating on its behalf the spirits of his ancestors. Strange...

describing the measures which Russia proposes to take. These include- " (1) The arrest of all Russian and Persian subjects who hays participated in the attacks upon the Russian...

pro- vinces should be federated and should resemble the United States of America. We cannot believe for a moment that China is politically educated for what is a noble but also...

case.

Queen has visited some of the picturesque cities of Rajputana, and her visit has been immensely appreciated. From Ajmir the Queen went to Bandi and Kotah, at both of which...

Salonika sent to Wednesday's paper an important summary which he has just received of the private proceedings of the Committee of Union and Progress in September and October. It...

long ago have been divided between England and Germany but for British repugnance to the idea of German expansion. But he denies that Germany wants territory—she only wants...

the interview recently granted by M. Messimy, the French Minister of War, to a representative of the Neues Wiener Tagblait. The principles relating to policy and command in war...

October 9th, a translation of which appeared in the Press last week, are brought out in an interesting letter from the Dublin correspendent in Tuesday's issue. The writer points...

a resolution welcoming the King-Emperor and Queen-Empress was adopted unanimously, and a Bengali song especially composed in honour of the royal visit was sung. Resolutions were...

What Germany Wants," a long conversation with Professor Del- briick reported by its Berlin correspondent. Professor Delbriick, who succeeded Treated - Ike as Professor of...

disputes over the new Franco-German Treaty. One doubtful point refers to the ownership of the islands opposite the junction of the new Cameroons frontier and the river Congo....

Lanark was declared on Friday week. The Liberal candidate holds the seat for his party, but with a greatly reduced majority. In December 1910 Mr. Hunter was returned by a...

Oxford in the coming year can be amply justified on historic grounds. For though the existence of pre-academic Oxford can be traced back to a much earlier date, it was in 912...

Carlisle contains some admirable sayings on Welsh Disestablishment and the need of a National Church. The Bishop sees the danger of National Churches degenerating into mere...

cotton mills at Accrington and Great Harwood directed against the employment of non-union labour. The result has been, as was anticipated, the declaration of a general lock-out...

has been made in the arrangement of the London Museum, which is being installed temporarily in Kensington Palace. It is hoped that the collection will be ready to be opened by...

and local committees throughout the diocese for the purposes of Church defence. Boldly he proclaims himself a fighting man. " The Apostles were all good fighters. . . . We can...

steadily grown during the week. It is true that an As- sociation of Medical Men willing to work the Insurance Act has been formed at Edinburgh, but the promoters have...

The Legal Poor of London," which gives a most interesting account of the administration of the poor law during the year. Various administrative improvements have been put in...

Sept. 21st. Consols (2) were on Friday 77, 1 6 —Friday week 770.

THE OPPORTUNITY OF THE OPPOSITION. W E pointed out last week the very grave situation in which the Government finds itself, and how dark and precarious is its future. We wish...

1-11 confused writing and, still more, the confused 3inking which is taking place just now on the sub- ject of German expansion is doing a great deal of mischief. Though the...

have brought about a crisis which every observer hoped would be avoided, simply because the object of their dispute with the masters seemed too small to make a stoppage of work...

is a curious illustra- tion of the ease with which a usually apathetic electorate may be inspired by clever organizers with a lively interest in problems of diplomacy and...

A NEW edition of the "Journal of George Fox" has been brought out by the Cambridge University Press, edited by Norman Penney (21s. net). "It differs from all its predecessors in...

T HE songs of the people, it has been said, leap up like larks from the furrow. Music in some sort, one likes to think—the most quavering and unpolished folk-singing though it...

"I SING of Africa and golden joys," quoth Pistol, and indeed he spoke better than he knew, for he had no experience of the Equatorial sun that sheds a " golden joy " daily...

TM; TRIBULATIONS OF MONSEIGNEUR DUCHESNE. [To TEll EDITOR OM TIE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—His Holiness Pius X. is decidedly the most unlucky as he is the most saintly of the modern...

GERMAN EXPANSION. pro TRY EDITOR OT THR " Srscr.vroz."1 Sra,—May I offer a few words upon the article on " German Expansion " in your last number? Its tone, if I may say so, is...

your review of the " Memoirs and Letters of Sir Robert Atorier " (Spectator, December 9th) it is said: "In the war scare of 1875 Alorier's conversation with the Crown Prince in...

[To TER EDITOR Or THE " SPBCTATOR.") have to congratulate you on your new ally. The decree Ne ternere might be treated perhaps as non-committal, but the Vatican has given itself...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:1 Snt,—.A. new year approaches with the customary regrets and resolves, disappointments and anticipations ; so now the recent elections might...

"spacraroz."] Srn,—Your issue of December 23rd contains a letter signed Henry Laurence which would surprise me if I had not already come across the same extraordinary notion in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —As an old resident of Calcutta I must enter a protest against the condemnation which you bestow upon the climate of that city in your...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. : ] Sin,—As my son ' s name has been mentioned in connexion with this subject, I should like to say a word on his theories. He insisted too...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Now that you have closed the interesting corre- spondence which grew out of my question, perhaps you will allow me a last word in which...

[To THE EDITOR. OF THE "SPECTATOR...1 Sin,—In the charming poem entitled "Romance," published in the Spectator of December 9th, these words occur. It is a common thing to find...

H. T. F.'s " letter in the Spectator of December 23rd, is it quite certain that "Under Weigh" is wrong F A ship is certainly " under w--," as far as the "Rule of the Road" is...

to notice that no mention has been made of a charming set of elegiac verses by the late Mr Arthur Munby which appeared in your own columns. The poem was entitled " Then and...

(To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—My sympathies are with those who find this a very puzzling phrase. Of course we cannot say "under weigh," because " weigh " is a verb,...

[To THE EDITOR Or TER " SPECTATOR." J Szn,—In the notice of a " Contour Relief Model - of Salisbury Plain" (December 23rd, p. 1128), your reviewer suggests a large-scale relief...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. "] Stu,—If your readers also are not "weak and weary" with "a volume of long-forgotten lore " — I mean with instances like those given by...

" SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The poet Cowper aptly expresses the feeling of many persons to whom insult may have been offered, and the words are worth recalling in connexion with the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THY "SIECT1TOL".1 SIR,—St. George's Hill is not yet sold, but is under an option to buy. For some time past my father and myself have been developing on a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SIERT110t?l Srn,—I have read the letter of "An Englishwoman in Italy" in your issue of December 16th, a letter which offers a cha- racteristic example of...

[TO TER EDITOR OP TEE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —Patriotism forbids me to allow any superior intelligence tothe American cat. Some few years ago I possessed a very delightful black...

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...

SILVESTERABEND. Tun mists are gathering in the nave, They creep from bay to bay, Column and arch and architrave Fade in the dusk away. The mists are gathering in the nave, The...

[To THE EDITOR Of THE "SPECTATOR. "] BM—The writer on starlings in the Spectator of December 9th thinks that these birds were not common in the western counties of Wales fifty...

EFECTATOR."] SIR, —The writer of the above article gives the impression to your readers that Mr. Seton-Watson'a book is forbidden in the Dual Monarchy. I cannot speak of Vienna,...

SHELLEY.* Tun phrase with which Arnold closed his essay on Shelley, describing him as a beautiful and ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain has long...

FOB twenty-five years M. Paoli, the French detective, who is only less well known than M. Lepine, the Prefect of the Paris Police, attended royal visitors who happened to be...

author tells us that his personal acquaintance with the late Dean was restricted to the Lincoln days, the last period in a varied and active life. But he has been fortunate in...

bow piquant a con- junction ! The most confirmed of optimists in the nursery of the future, a leader of the mother of republics among the latest progeny of freedom, the prince...

Tars is a work of singular interest to those who can skip judiciously. Mr. Gupta would have been better advised if he had trusted more freely to his own excellent powers of...

ago, to take an example from the realm of letters, a scholar would teach the Classics ; now he teaches Homer, or iEschylus, or Cicero. Very probably this may be good for the...

THE CENTAUR.• Tins is not the first time that the Centaur has made his appearance in English fiction. Some dozen years ago Mr. J. F. Sullivan, the satirist of the British...

a sub- stantial record as this careful and most interesting history. • Pod Liminium: Essays and Critical Papers. By Lionel Johnson. Edited by Thomas Whittemore. London : Elkin...

[Under this heading we notice such nooks of the week as hare not been resereed for review in other forms.] Harriet Beecher Stowe. By her son, Charles Edward Stowe, and her...

Co. 21s. net.)—Mr. Huntington modestly dis- claims any wish to draw attention to himself. He has seen in the course of his life—some of it spent, we gather, in the American...

Heinemann. 6s.)—Mrs. Grosvenor's new novel of every-day life makes very pleasant reading, and her study of her heroine is admirably managed. Laura Cordell , is not altogether an...

is a collection of stories about the many classes of people who make up the native population of India, and one may hazard the guess that " Andrul" is a pseudonym for an...

and Co. 6s.)—A series of sketches of German life, written with a humour and insight, which remind the reader of "Elizabeth and her German Garden." Unfortunately, however, they...

and The Farmer's Red-Book (Marls Lane Express, is. net) are two books which sufficiently declare their purpose and contents by their titles.

the Holy Bible. (Cambridge University Press.)—This gives the text without references or marginal notes. The verse-form is pre- served, but the reviser's paragraphs are...

is "a Record of Notable Achievements and Events." The volume is, so to speak, inaugurated with a notice of the death of Leo Tolstoy, with a portrait. A great variety of items...

Edited by Professor Hoffman. (G. Routledge and Sons. 7s. 6d.) —This is an amusing account of a number of curious experiences. Mr. Bertram travelled widely. He tells us of...

net.)—It is sufficient to say that this book of "Carols for Church and Home" contains 101 carols, with all the old favourites, as far as we can see, among them.

needs any notice beyond the announcement that it has made its annual appearance. Subjects of the day are, as is the custom, specially mentioned. Among them we notice aviation...

(S. Combridge : Hove. 7s. 6d. net)—There is an interesting little group of books which has to do with Sussex scenery, architecture and history, and this is one of them. No...

are many of us who would hardly be justified in starting a " Fifty-Year Diary." On the other hand, the book might well be an acceptable present to a boy beginning to think...