the Empire owing to the resignation of the Natal Ministry, not on local grounds, but because of the action of the Imperial Govern- ment. According to the statement made by Lord...

various con- siderations involved, but, unless the facts turn out to be different from what they appear to be, we cannot think the Government were justified in interfering with...

good reason to believe that a compromise has been arrived at, and that an agreement satisfactory to both France and Germany will be reached both as regards the police and the...

in the air the difficulties of the Imperial Government are greatly increased, for in practice they cannot say : "Remember that the responsi- bility is entirely yours, and if, by...

case.

Imperial Government must use the greatest possible discretion, and should only interfere with executive action in a self-governing Colony with the most extreme re- luctance....

cruisers for foreign service and for increasing the tonnage of future battleships, was passed in the Reichstag on Wednesday. The Social Democrats opposed the measure, Herr Bebel...

Sir Francis Hopwood (Permanent Secretary of the Board of Trade), and Colonel Johnston, R.E. (Director- General of the Ordnance Survey), has been appointed by the Government to...

introduced a Bill to make further provision with respect to workmen's compensation for injury. The Bill, which is a consolidating Bill superseding the Acts of 1880 and 1897,...

A. H. Scott moved that it was expedient to withdraw from the Sugar Convention, on the ground of its disastrous effects on trade. He appealed to the Government to maintain in...

the Opposition when in power had got the country into difficulties in all parts of the world, they met the Government with nothing but taunts and jeers when they were trying to...

proposals discussed at the recent Conference of leaders of various parties, and the letter continues : "The introduction of manhood suffrage, taken in conjunction with the...

dinner given at the Mansion House to the Masters of the City Companies, and in reply to a toast made an excellent speech on the House of Commons. He confessed himself an...

Lord Roberts delivered an earnest and statesmanlike address on Imperial defence. Our criticism in the past had been largely misdirected, since we had been busy on the problem of...

insurance companies have had a remarkable develop- ment during the past week. In consequence of Judge O'Sullivan's ruling that the payments out of insurance com- panies' funds...

for a fault which he has so honourably acknowledged and regretted, it is impossible in reading such debates as that of Thursday not to be struck by the grave responsibility...

moved the second reading of the Criminal Appeal Bill. The most perfect Courts were liable to error, and it was desirable to give some right of appeal in criminal cases to...

in a lucid and able speech introduced the Government Bill to amend the law relating to Trade-Unions. The three chief grievances were the present effect of the law of con-...

been the visit to London of six hundred of "Togo's men "—officers and bluejackets—who have come from Japan to take back two new warships built in British yards. The gallant...

a Motion placing on record the high appreciation of the House of Lords "of the services rendered by Lord Milner in South Africa to the Crown and the Empire." With a great deal...

on Friday 90f.

THE ALGECIRAS CONFERENCE. T HOUGH the final results of the Algeciras Conference have not yet been announced, there seems little reason to doubt that a satisfactory agreement has...

W E regret that the Government have not seen fit in their handling of the Trade-Union question to follow far more closely than they have done the recent Report of the Royal...

T HE arrival of the Chinese Commissioners on their . Mission of inquiry into the ways of the Western Governments marks, we think, two somewhat remarkable changes in the...

O N Friday week the House of Commons was treated to a unique display of confused logic and bad economics. The occasion was the introduction by a Scottish Member of a Bill...

F OR Chose who, like ourselves, deem the maintenance of the connection between the Church of England and the State a matter of prime importance, the controversy which is bound...

S T. FRANCIS of Sales published in 1603 a book for the instruction of devoutly disposed persons without vocation, for those, that is, "who live in town, at home, in court," and...

I T is a melancholy reflection that during the past fortnight thousands of visits to English country houses may have been practically ruined by the East wind. Since the middle...

R - IND Nature, apparently so careless of superabundant life, has nevertheless a gentle way of dealing with her winter unemployed,—for unemployed there are in the animal as in...

CHILDREN'S MEALS AND PARENTS' POCKETS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,"] SIR,—It was calculated in last December that there were then from six to seven thousand men out of...

Snt,—As the president of the London County Council's School. mistresses' Union, I can reassure your correspondent (in last week's Spectator) who enters a protest against...

Sra,—The copy of the Spectator is already several days old before it comes to me (it goes a good round, and ultimately reaches an invalided artisan), and this delay makes my...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Many strenuous upholders of denominational religions instruction declare that pure secular education in our schools would be better than...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "8PE0TATOR:1 SIR,—It seems now to be taken for granted by many that the parents of children in elementary schools wish to have a voice in the religious...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Si, —In the Spectator of March 17th your correspondent "Naval Officer (Retired)," still maintains his point that when the new scheme of...

SIR,—I have read with much interest the letter of March 17th on "The Ideal of Motherhood." I should like to tell you of the successful effort that was made in a village school...

[To THE EDITOR Or THII "SPECTATOR,"] Sra, — While cordially sympathising with the sentiments expressed by your correspondent, Mr. Clark, in the Spectator of March 17th, I cannot...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR,—When addressing the Chamber of Mines in Johannes- burg Mr. Chamberlain told the audience that Chinese labour was "both retrograde and...

Sin,—Mr. Arthur J. Clark's letter in your issue of the 17th inst, is as timely as it is admirable. May I be allowed, as a Wesleyan layman, to corroborate his testimony ? Among...

(To VIE EDITOR Or TR& " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—You were good enough last year to insert a letter of mine in your columns in connection with emigration and the unemployed, in which I...

ITO TRIG EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.1 you allow me to say, in reply to your correspondent Mr. G. H. F. Nye under the beading "Nonconformist Endow- ments" in your issue of March...

BI, —In your sympathetic and kindly leader of last week dealing with the articles contributed by me to the Daily Mail upon Metropolitan pauperism you suggest that I should be...

[To THE EDITOR OT THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Will you allow me to express the grateful thanks of the members of his family for the kind appreciations of my dear brother, C. J....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SezerAzos..1 "The usefu' cadie plies in street To bide the profits o' his feet." SIR,—I am only an old foozler, and hardly know the differ- ence between...

THE SECRET OF HEROISM.' As a general rule we dislike the type of book which is written in memory of some young man who has died before promise could ripen into performance. It...

CHINON. [" Chinon, ville insigne, vile noble, vile antique, voire premiere du monde." —"Pantagruel," Book IV., Prologue de l'enteur. "Chines (deux ou trois lois) Chinon,...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—Various reports having been circulated as to the amount of work we are doing—none of which have been Correct—I enclose a copy of the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 5s,—There is a misapprehension in your kind notice of my "Literary Rambles in the West of England" in last week's Spectator. George Borrow...

COMPANY. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 should like to offer a small prize for rifle-shooting to be competed for by the men of the Spectator Experimental Company now...

Bruce informed the House, much that was irrational in a system which gave to the Magistrates the power of bestowing gratuitously a privilege of great pecuniary value." This...

of a movement and a record of a striking personality. Coming of Puritan ancestry, Mr. Holman Hunt in boyhood showed a determina- tion and a toughness of endurance which stood...

ONB chief characteristic of Canon Beeching's sermons is that they touch both closely and felicitously on practical life. The .discourse which gives its title to the volume,...

THE WAY OF THE SPIRIT.* hi his "Author's Note" Mr. Haggard complains, though more in sorrow than in anger, of the attitude of those critics who, when an author attempts to step...

6s.)—The Benefactor does not present an attractive picture of the circle in which its characters move. This circle may be described as the home of third-rate "lions" of literary...

6d.)—In Dick, or, as Mr. Bradby calls it in his sub-title, "A Story without a Plot," we have a study of boy life worthy to rank with Mr. Eden Phillpotts's "Human Boy." The book...

THREE BOOKS OF TRAVEL. l'hs Great Plateau : being an Account of Exploration in Central Tibot, 1903, and of the Gartok Expedition, 1904 - 1905. By Captain 0.44,. Bawling. (E....

—Mr. Marsh is always best at unravelling a good melodramatic plot of murder and sudden death, and in The Garden of Mystery he depicts some very startling crimes. There are no...

6s.)—The Long- Arm which is depicted on the cover of this book in a truly startling fashion belongs to the law, and is nob the arm of coincidence. It will, therefore, be...

The New Rambler. By Sir Lewis Morris. (Longmans and Co. Cs. 6d. net.)—One naturally turns in looking through a volume of miscellanies to anything that the writer may see fit to...

18s.)—Mr. Harper has written about many roads, some of them far more famous, historically famous, we might say, than that which he now celebrates. The Bath Road and the Great...

H. Dent and Co. 7s. fid. net.)—" Further Ardenne" is practically the "Grand Duchy of Luxembourg." This is a region which has had very remarkable experiences. For centuries it...

[Tinder this heading we notice such Books of the week as hare not teen reserved for review in other forma.] Aspects of Anglicanism. By Mgr. Keyes, D.D. (Longmans and Co. 65. 6d....

School Union. is. net.)—We Would not say a word that could tell against the predominance of the literary element in education ; but we do not altogether welcome the help of Mr....

and Co. 12s. 6d. net.)—" The object of this book,' writes Mr. Hutchinson in his preface, "is to carry conviction to my readers that the fundamental cause of the malady known as...

this is the thirty - eighth issue, appears to be well kept up to its high standard of accuracy and promptitude. The preface, to which one always turns with more interest than...

usual many curiosities in this volume, and not a few which are much more. Such is the article on "Edward III. in Allitera- tive Prophecy." It is a very careful study, and the...

net.)—Mr. Higgs has taken a world of pains in tracing the descent of the family of the Spurgeons of Halstead. Its antiquity is more than respectable, even if it does not go back...

S. King and Son. 1s. net.)—Sir William Mather furnishes an introduc- tion to Mr. Moore's pamphlet, and also reprints the scheme which he laid before the Parliamentary Committee...

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Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—Our author emphasises the pitiable difference between the conditions of manual and in- tellectual labour. A sawyer who can earn 45s. a week at forty falls to...