30 MAY 1914

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In the course of his statement the Speaker suggested that

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Mr. Asquith might now give some further information about the Amending Bill. Mr. Asquith met the Speaker's request in form without throwing much fresh light on the subject....

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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O N Monday the Home Rule Bill passed its final stage in the House of Commons, and was read for the first time in the Lords. A group of cheering Nationalists accompanied the Bill...

The tension in Ulster has naturally not abated since the

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third reading of the Home Rule Bill, though so far no out. break has occurred. A large number of extra police have been sent to Ulster to guard against disorder, and the...

Sir Edwaid Carson, addressing a Unionist demonstration at Mountain dab,

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Glamorganshire, on Thursday night, said he was an Ulster Covenanter who was going to keep his covenant to the bitter end. They were told that, to suit political exigencies, they...

In a statement published in the Freeman's Journal Mr. Redmond

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gave his views on the progress of the Home Rule Bill :— " The Union as we have known it is dead. . . There are only two eventualities, and both of them are impossible, which...

would not add to his personal prestige among his subjects,

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and we fear that this has turned out to be only too true. A fighting people yield their respect only to a very strong and self-confident man. Meanwhile the country is in a state...

The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript in any case.

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The representatives of the Argentine, Brazil, and Chile, acting as

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mediators, have drawn up a proposed settlement of the Mexican question with the consent of the delegates of the United States and of General Huerta. The plan, says the Times...

Lord Kitchener's Reports on Egypt and the Sudan in 1913

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were issued on Tuesday. In dealing with the condition of the peasantry Lord Kitchener insists on the need of eau- . eating them in the elements of hygiene and the relation...

In the House of Commons on Monday Mr. Asquith announced

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that the Government held to their decision not to take park in the Panama Exhibition at San Francisco. They were not convinced that there was any widespread desire that they...

The terms of the Government agreement with the Anglo- Persian

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Oil Company, concluded on May 20th, are given in a Blue Book issued on Tuesday. The Government are to subscribe for £2,000,000 in ordinary and £1,000 in preference shares, and...

But we soon saw that there are exceptional cases in

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which sentiment is so strong or the need for courtesy so great that it must override mere commercial considerations. The present case is, to our mind, obviously one of these....

The Admiralty Memorandum recalls the fact that the present First

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Lord stated in Parliament last July that a necessary part of the ultimate policy of the Admiralty must be that the Government "should become the owners, or at any rate the...

Though finance has been affected both in Egypt and the

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Sudan by the low Nile of 1913, disaster was avoided by the completion of the Assuan dam, and the consequent storage of sufficient water to mature the cotton crop. The Adminis-...

On Tuesday night Mr. Roosevelt lectured to an audience of

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four thousand persons at the National Geographical Society in New York on his discoveries in Brazil. He described the "Davide," or river of doubt, which be had "placed on the...

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On Monday the Lord Mayor opened the club rooms of

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the Overseas Club in Aldwych. A large number of well-known public men were present, including Lord Northcliffe (the founder and President of the club), Lord Selborne, Lord...

On Monday, at the Cambridge Assizes, Mr. Justice Bailhache sentenced

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two postmen, both aged eighteen, to six weeks' imprisonment for conspiring to obtain money by fraud. It appears that they sent bets on known winners to a bookmaker through the...

The by-election at Ipswich has gone emphatically against the Government,

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Mr. Ganzoni, the Unionist candidate, capturing the seat from the Liberals, defeating Mr. Masterman, increasing the Unionist poll by 959 votes, and securing a clear majority over...

Happily, however, Class I. of the National Reserve has stepped

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in to supply the deficiency. Over 13,000 men of the National Reserve have undertaken, out of pure patriotism and without pay or reward, to serve, in case of a general...

We deeply regret to have to record the loss of

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Mr. Gustav Hamel, the most brilliant and popular of British airmen. Returning from France on a new monoplane last Saturday, be disappeared in a fog in the Channel, and has not...

On Monday Mr. Tennant stated that the present deficiencies in

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the Army were as follows: Regular Army (May lat), 10,932; Special Reserve (May let), 14,629; Territorial Force (April let), 51,097. As compared with the position on January let,...

On Thursday the result of the men's ballot on the

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dispute in the London building trade was announced. The proposals for a settlement were rejected by 21,017 votes to 5,705. The dispute began last January owing to the series of...

On Friday week a Select Committee of the Lords found

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that the preamble of the Bill to confirm the Order made by the Commissioners of Works to preserve No. 75 Dean Street, Soho, as an ancient monument was not proved. The Order was...

Bank Rate, 3 per cent., changed from 4 per cent.

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Jan. 29th. Consols (24) were on Friday 74H—Friday week 74i.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE DUTY OF THE LORDS. S OME years ago an Irish Roman Catholic Bishop with Unionist views is said to have asked a Home Rule colleague whether, if he could get Home Rule by...

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TAKING "TIPS" FROM CONTRACTORS.

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A FTER lasting nine days, the very unpleasant Canteens Trial came to an end on Wednesday, when Colonel Whitaker was found guilty of receiving money as an inducement to show...

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LAWLESSNESS AND LOG-ROLLING.

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A FEW days ago Lady Bryce drew attention to the attitude of lawlessness and of resistance to legisla- tive authority which marks the present time. No impartial observer can fail...

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THE SLUMP IN " LLOYD-GEORGISM."

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THE most impressive lesson to be drawn from the A. Unionist victory at Ipswich is the failure of " Lloyd- Georgian)." That Mr. Masterman was altogether a popular candidate no...

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THE VALUE OF PUBLICITY.

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W E cannot imagine a more striking instance of how publicity acts as an antiseptic, and enables the most awkward wounds to heal themselves, than the naval case which has just...

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THE VERDICT OF THE VILLAGE.

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MICE fierce light which beats upon a village makes it 1 inevitable that its inhabitants should sit in judgment upon one another. Fierce lights are not becoming. Men sitting on...

POLICE DOGS.

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I S there an increase in the percentage of crimes of which the authors remain undiscovered There are probably no available statistics dealing with the subject, but there are...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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THE PENALTY ON THRIFT. [To asp EDITOR 01 T217 . 93111C1A100.1 Sur,—I desire to bring to notice some points in connexion with the Income Tax, which involves much injustice in...

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THE ETHICS OF GAMBLING. [To 7112 ED1TOB On ran SPECTATOR:1

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SIR,—One statement of the moral wrong of gambling seems to me worth considering. It was suggested to me twenty years ago by a friend. " Gambling is a gratuitous stimulating of...

[To an Brnoa or an •'arscuros."J

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Sin.,—Perhaps the best answer to " What is the ethical arga. ment against betting?" is another question, " Why has betting such a deteriorating influence on the mind and...

[To ran Salvos or Tar "Brramor.") Sta,—What is the ethical

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argument against gambling ? This is the question your correspondent " A.B." asks in your last issue, and he answers it by saying that no one should seek to acquire wealth except...

[To nu Einroo or me " ferrar.ros."J

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SIR,—Are you sure that there is not any abstract argument against betting except the argument of excess? Will you consider the following suggestion? If A makes a bet with B that...

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THE QUAKERS AND THEIR CREED. [To TH. EDITOZ or TWA

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"sreczetoe. - ] Susc,—I have read in your current number a letter from a correspondent who evidently thinks himself entitled to speak for the Quaker community. My knowledge of...

BRITISH OFFICERS IN WAZIRISTAN.

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[To THZ Emma 07 1177 - srzerzroa. - ] Sxa,—The reference in your issue of May 16th to the murder of British officers at Tank recalls the similar murders in February, 1905. of...

THE TRAFFIC/ IN WORN-OUT HORSES.

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[To TH. EDITOZ or ram ..Sreerrroa...1 Sxu,—In the beginning of the year you published some letters on the traffic in worn-out English horses, describing the fate of those...

PUBLIC HEALTH AND PUBLIC MORALS. [To rs■ EDITO1 or rim

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"nracrwroa."1 SIR,—The Portsmouth Conference of the Federation Aboli- tionniste Internationale will not receive the public attention which it deserves unless its name and aim...

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KEW GARDENS.

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(To Tax EDITOR 07 THE "Srserrroa."3 SIR,—I notice that in a speech in the House of Lords on Wednesday week Lord Sudeley, referring to the good work done by the official guides...

"SPLENDIDE MENDAX."

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[To rum EDITOR or ram "Srrerrror."1 SIR,—In the article entitled "More Howlers" published in the Spectator of April 18th occur the words "And we are suspicious of that...

THE OAK.

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[TO THE EDITOR or rra "SrwrAron."1 Sin,—Let us further sing, to the glory of England's oak, first, that that part of him that could not be cut for the timbers of our ships yet...

GARRICK AND BAGEHOT.

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[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "Erreraros..,"] SIR,—It is perhaps an ungenerous task to correct the corrector. But Mr. Searle will probably be glad to be reminded that what Garrick...

of particular interest—the famous Lyveden " New Build" of Sir

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Thomas Tresham, who died in 1605, and whose eon was implicated in the Gunpowder Plot. The Trust has secured an option of purchase of the house and twenty-ei g ht acres of land...

TWO QUOTATIONS. [To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR."] ,.SIR, —Mrs. Russell

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Barrington, in her recently published Life of Walter Bagehot, prints (twice over, pp. 25 and 103) an extract from a letter written by Bagehot in early life, in which he quotes...

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ART.

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SOME MINOR LONDON SHOWS. BOND STREET and the other purlieus of art are now brimmin g with exhibitions to fit every taste or lack of taste. Amon g the new ones the most notable...

THE CORUNNA CAMPAIGN.

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ITO 1111 Earroa or 21111 "BrEorrror."1 Sts.,—In your issue of May 23rd your reviewer of the Journal of a Cavalry Officer in the Corunna Campaign writes of "mis- jud g ment,...

ADDISON'S LETTERS.

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[To Tax Emma or Tar "Sesencos."] SIR,—I am preparin g a new edition of the Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Addison (to be published by Messrs. Bell), and I am anxious to make the...

POETRY.

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ENTRANCING STREAMS. BY His Great Name who fashioned it I know your face more ex q uisite Than Dante's love held in one phrase Of fierce Italian, sun-drenched praise That his...

MUSIC.

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THE BOURNEMOUTH MUNICIPAL ORCHESTRA. Ix London one may easily fail to see thin g s musical in their true perspective. We are apt to attach undue importance to Metropolitan...

NOTICE.—When "Correspondence" or Articles are signed with the writer's name

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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...

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BOOKS.

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Viral Notice.] IT is more than twenty-two years since the Parnell scandal - and its subsequent tragedy occurred. To most of us it would seem a pity now to raise the curtain for...

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DR. SANDAY'S REPLY TO THE BISHOP OF OXFORD.*

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TM: publication of Dr. Sunday's reply to the Bishop of Oxford's recent Open Letter is an event. Its effects will be far-reaching. The Bishop of Oxford wrote on the " Basis of...

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A FRENCH INDIVIDUALIST.*

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THE distinguished French thinker who writes under the name of Leon Hendryk has published a new volume in which he develops on philosophic lines the teaching of his romance, Le...

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FROM NAVAL CADET TO ADMIRAL.*

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Sta ROBERT Halms prefaces his narrative with the modest hope that it may show "what a very pleasant, healthy, and engrossing life it is possible to enjoy in a man-of-war," and...

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A RIVAL OF BERNIER.*

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WIIEN the Roi Soleil was gathering into his own hands the threads of government, and was becoming the social, adminis- trative, and military head of an Imperial France, thereby...

A NEW VOLUME IN THE " LOEB LIBRARY."' THE editors

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of the "Loeb Library" have done well to add to their publications this very interesting book. J3arlaam and Ioasaph is a Christian tract written in the eighth century by some one...

VICES IN VIRTUES:I' "FROM their character, these essays," says the

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author of Vices in Virtues, and other Vagaries, "might be expected to be preceded by a note acknowledging the kindness of some editor in allowing them to be reprinted; but they...

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FICTION.

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POTASH AND PERLMUTTER.* Ma. MoNTAcruet GLASS had already made his mark as a writer of novels and short stories in the leading American magazines before he achieved resounding...

Dodo the Second. By E. F. Benson. (Hodder and Stoughton.

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6s.)—" Forty years do change a girl so," as was pointed out some time ago in the pages of Punch, and twenty years seer* to have had the same disastrous effect in the case of...

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The Trend. By William Arkwright. (John Lane. 6s.)— This is

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a mystical romance dealing with a young composer who accidentally finds a boy with a wonderful tenor voice in the streets and trains him to sing the principal part in his own...

Industrial and Commercial Geography. By J. Russell Smith. (Constable and

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Co. 15s. net.)—The author of this solid and comprehensive work is Professor of Industry in the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, University of Pennsylvania. His aim is "to...

Golf for Women. By George Duncan. (T. Werner Laurie. 3s.

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6d. net.)—We remember an article that appeared in an early number of the Cornhill Magazine, some time in the "sixties," which aimed at showing that woman's place on the links—to...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

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[Under this heading ves notice such Books 0 the web as hams not rem reserved for review en other forms.] The Wilds of .31aoriland. By James Mackintosh Bell. Macmillan and Co....

By the Waters of Germany. By Norma Lorimer. (Stanley Paul

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and Co. 12s. 6d. net.) — Miss Lorimer's agreeable blend of travel with sentiment is shown to advantage in this light- hearted account of a summer holiday in the Black Forest and...

READABLE NovELB. — The Amazing Partnership. By E. Phillips Oppenheim, (Cassell and

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Co, 3s. 6d.)—This story deals with a young man and a young woman who make an informal partnership in criminal investigation. Their adven- tared are sometimes exciting, but the...

The Quaternary Ice Age. By W. B. Wright. (Macmillan and

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Co. 17s. net.)—This learned volume represents the study of a lifetime. Mr. Wright, who is attached to the Geological Survey of Ireland, began with the intention of supplying a...

Edmund Spenser and the Impersonations of Francis Bacon. By E.

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G. Harman. (Constable and Co. 16s. net.)—The craze for attributing nearly the whole of Elizabethan literature to Bacon is one of the most curious literary aberrations that have...

Lotteries of Circumstance. By R. C. Lynegrove. Methuen and Co.

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6s.) — It seems rather a pity that Mr. Lynegrove should have chosen the form of a novel to convey his evidently intimate knowledge of German domestic life. What he is really...

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NEW EDITIONS.—The Anglo-American Year-Rook, 1914. (International Development Co. 5s. net.)—This

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second issue contains much information that will be of use to Americans visiting London.—The Directory of Women Teachers, 1914. (Year Book Press. 7s. 6d. net.)—The directory is...

Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson. Edited by P. L. Ford. (G.

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P. Putnam's Sons. 6s. net.)—Jefferson's autobiography, which was first published in 1829, is a valuable historical document which throws much light on the ideals and motives of...

'Comedy, by John Palmer; Satire, by G. Canaan; The Epic,

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by L. Abercrombie; History, by R. H. Gretton. (Martin Seeker. Is. net each.)—These slim volumes initiate a new series dealing with "The Art and Craft of Letters." The four...

The Woollen Manufacture at Wellington, Somerset. By J. H. Fox.

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(A. L. Humphreys. 7s. 6d. net.)—Oliver Wendell Holmes said that every man could write one good book out of his own experience. In the same way we may say that every business...