NEWS OF THE WEEK T HE news from Morocco, which we have dealt with in another column, is still very serious. It is now established that Mulai Hafid, the Sultan's half-brother,...

Mr. Maxwell, the special correspondent of the Daily Mail at Tangier, telegraphing to Friday's paper, states that almost all the Europeans are now safe, and that indeed only two...

the Lords' amendments to the Evicted Tenants Bill should be considered, declared that his interest in the measure bad largely disappeared. Still, though the Bill was thus...

to inquire into the 6 Una' disaster last March is a pain- fully outspoken document. M. Monis, the reporter, states that the Commission are completely convinced that the...

has been centred in the Comite d'Examen on obligatory arbitra- tion. The Portuguese proposals, specifically enumerating eighteen subjects which the contracting Powers would...

enumerated the very large number of Bills passed, and the Government organs have laid great stress upon their achievement in this respect. That they have every right to be proud...

any case.

carried in the Lords on Monday by 98 votes to 54. During the discussion Lord Courtney moved to omit Clause IV.— which had been inserted in Committee at the instance of the...

landlords a desire to provoke a lawless agitation directed against themselves, and interpreted Mr. Redmond's speech as a hint to the people of Ireland to start a wild and...

of Lords on Monday, on the Motion of Lord Robert- son, by a majority of 87 (118-31). Lord Robertson, who, it will be remembered, is as strong a Free-trader as he is a...

to make out a case for the Bill; but even his great forensic powers failed him. The beat he could do was to say that there was a strong sense in Scotland and England that our...

Government—can only be called pathetic in its absence of all argument. Many years ago be had read Mr. Henry George's book with great interest; but he was not convinced of the...

House of Lords was in the end much less stormy than was expected. Concessions were made on both sides, and it may be said to have passed amidst general congratula- tions. What...

Hartham Park, Wiltshire, last Saturday after- noon, claimed for the present Government an exceptional record of legislative and administrative achievement. By general consent...

in India. The members of the new Council, which will be "formed for purely consultative purposes," will owe their appointment to the Viceroy. Its numbers will be about sixty,...

Saturday was declared the same evening, Mr. Walter . Guinness, the Unionist candidate, being returned by a majority of 890. At the General Election Captain Hervey carried the...

regard to the government of India. The first stated that a Royal Commission had been appointed to "inquire into the relations now existing, for financial and administrative...

provincial Advisory Councils, and the enlargement of the Imperial Legislative Council on the following lines. This Council, it is proposed, should number fifty-four, including...

last Saturday, was marked by a series of lively scenes. In spite of the recent vote at the French Socialist Congress at Nancy, where by 251 votes to 23 a resolution was passed...

five possible vacancies in the Council of India created by the passing of the Council of India Act, the Secretary of State has filled. three by the appointment of Sir James...

M.P. for North Longford, were arrested and committed for trial in connexion with a raid on the Douglas estate, near Longford, on August 18th; and early on Wednesday another...

of Miss Mary Coleridge, best known as the author of "The King with Two Faces," one of the most fascinating historical romances ever written. To a style of rare simplicity and...

Aug. 15th. Consols (2i) were on Friday 82I—on Friday week 82.1.

THE HOUSE OF LORDS. S PEECHES by Government orators and leading articles in Government newspapers are full of threats and denunciations levelled against the House of Lords. But...

T HE situation in Morocco, complicated and difficult as it is, will not inevitably disturb the peace which the European Powers are, for the moment at any rate, so anxious to...

T HOUGH the general public were inclined to think that Mr. Morley's appointment to the India Office was an experiment, close observers of our political life never doubted his...

I T must be admitted that the Tariff Reform Party had a difficult part to play in regard to the Imperial Conference. Nobody doubts that if they had been in office during the...

and unfortunate from the first, has undergone a fresh development. There has been another outbreak of the hideous outrages on horses and cattle which led to the imprisonment for...

I T is rare to hear an Englishman say, " I have no politics." In England we all have political opinions, and are sorry for our American friends who say they have none. It is...

I T all began with Obed Pearce taking it into his head to build himself a house up on the common. Nobody could imagine what possessed Obed to be " messin' about we they girt...

T T has been the thought of more than one mourner, 1_ standing over the grave of n. wellaloved dog, that it was by some cruel disharmony in the scheme of Nature that man's beet...

JOACHIM. [To THY EMSOR OF THZ "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—MlUv hay was essentially the guiding principle of Joseph Joachim ; but with the important qualification that 'everything which...

[To ma EDITOLL OP THE " SPECTAT0R:1 SIE,—The question of our gold reserve, which was upper- most a year since, is again portentous, nor is the phenomenal increase in our...

THE SECOND CHAMBER. [To 'in s EDITOR OP THE " SP ICOTATOIt."1 Sin, — The question now before the British people, and all who look up to the British people for example and...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPROTATORr] Sya,—The object of my last letter (August 17th) was to show that the exceptional position gained for himself by Sir John Fisher had...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE . SPECTILTOR•1 you grant me space to say that Mr. Bernard Pares is now travelling in the interior of Russia, out of reaeh of the Spectator, or even of...

THE " SrEcrAToR.1 Sin, — I should like to see the figures by which you arrive at the conclusion that a College "makes a certain number of pounds a year out of him,"—i.e., the...

rTO TUE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—I notice in your panegyric on Mr. Burns in last week's Spectator you do not doubt that "he will obtain the support of the working...

August 24th) kindly tell us what will be the weekly old-age pension secured to the child for whom, in premiums, the small sum of 21 19s. has been paid in nine years ; the age at...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPZOTATOR.1 Sin,—The experience of the elementary-school master men- tioned by your correspondent Mr. Latham (Spectator, August 24th) must be that of...

[To TUB EDITOR OF THE " SPZCTA.T08.1 SIR, — Your instructive and most true article on humility (Spectator, August 17th, p. 220) seemed to me to need a note on the simple and...

Sin,—A correspondent has asked me for particulars as to how the change of time was effected in New South Wales and Cape Colony. The methods adopted at the Cape were as follows....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...1 SIR,—May I be allowed through the columns of your paper to protest against the habit lately come into vogue of photo- graphing wounded...

(TO TUE EDITOR OF THE -sescra.rea.i SIE,—You can see the west face of the church clock at 6 o'clock early in February even on the Moray Firth. Why not begin by adding ten...

FOX AND LANDOR.* THE existence in a private library of the solitary remaining copy of an early work by Walter Savage Lander has long been known, and we owe it to the public...

SIR,—Greenwich Observatory, which gives us our time, being situated near the Eastern side of Great Britain, the plan for the better utilisation of our daylight which has lately...

A SOU'-WEST STORM. FROM the brooding gloom of the wild Sou'-West The scuttering black duck come, While the wheeling mallards drop in to rest In the whispering sedge where they...

it ceased to be thought of as dead mass and was discovered to be a living, moving world. It is moving, as Mr. Fletcher shows in this remark- ably readable book, not only in the...

MR. WALLER has had the satisfaction of giving to the world one of those discoveries which are among the most desirable prizes of the literary life. This generation has been...

a triumph of industry and, what is not less important in such a matter, impartiality. . Though for convenience' sake he entitles it The Censorship of the Church of Rome, he...

LOVE THE JUDGE.* Mn. WYMOND CAREY'S earlier adventures into the domain of historical romance showed such vigour and fertility of inven- tive resource that the sight of a new...

Co. 6s.)—A realistic and not very pleasing picture of woman's life in the American West.—Delilah of the Snows. By Harold Bindloss. (John Long. 6s.)—Another Canadian tale ; the...

Co. 28. 6d. net.)—This little book may very profitably be made - a Pocket companion by any one who meditates a visit to Venice. We cannot all expect to see what Mr. Stopford...

6s.)—This novel deals with the West Coast of Africa, and with a trading adventure in gearcli of rubber in Lagos. The book is written with an apparently intimate knowledge of...

(A. and C. Black. 6s. net.)—Norway stud its Fjords. By M. A. Wyllie. With 16 Illustrations in Colour by W. L. Wyllie, R.A., and 17 other Illustrations. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—We...

an instance of an introductory novel being written later than its sequel ; but those who have not read "The Danger- vine Inheritance" will find the present work absolutely...

Toronto.) — The Old Faith and the New Philosophy. (Same author and publisher.)—There is much good sense and sound teaching, not without some touches of humour, in these essays...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Some Literary Associations of East Anglia. By W. A. Dutt. (Methuen and...

(John Murray. 5s. net.)—We are glad to have this official record, as we presume it may be called, of the visit of these learned bodies from France to our country. The visitors...

(A. Constable and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—Dr. Flinders Petrie, while dis- avowing the position of a partisan, allows that "to many of his statements and deductions one party or...

is. 4d. per vol.) we have three volumes of illustrations of English Literature. The plan is to give either complete pieces, in prose and verso, or such portions as may be easily...

Baltimore.)—The first article in this number (the second of the first volume) is an address by Mr. Elihu Root, president, to the American Society of International Law on "The...

Sons. 10s. 6d.)—This highly technical volume contains an exposition of the law as defined in the Railway Rates and Charges Orders Confirmation Acts, 1891-92, and the Railway and...

(Elliot Stock.)—Mr. Dawson begins by quoting an amusing passage from Miss Agnes Strickland's "Lives of the Queens of England" in which she deprecates criticism of the tapestry...

T. Nicklin. (A. and C. Black. 3s.)—Mr. Nicklin, having already given to the world the first and third parts of his Old Testament History, now completes the work. We have...