of Wednesday a remarkable instance of the recklessness of the Chinese Government in borrowing money. The recent conclusion of the loan by the Five Powers group was delayed by...

plan was to seize ammunition and march to Alhi, sixty miles away, and join another revolting regiment. Major Angleby, with extraordinary pluck, knocked down the bugler who blew...

British Embassy in Berlin, and the King replied to a deputation from the British colony :- " By fostering and maintaining kindly relations and good under- standing between...

Pretoria. General Botha sent a message in which, according to a Reuter telegram, he said that when " his Dutch fellow- countrymen contemplated that simple patriot of...

T HOUGH we write before the actual assembly of the Peace Conference, there can be little doubt that all the Powers concerned will sign the preliminary Treaty. We have pointed...

in Liverpool on Saturday morning, and was welcomed at Euston by the staff of the Embassy on his arrival in London in the afternoon. Owing to the continuance of a niggardly...

interest during the last month, has resulted, as we felt sure it would, in the return of the Unionist, Mr. G. C. Hamilton, whose majority was 1,262. Mr. Hamilton polled 9,409...

a very large part at Altrincham. Though cynical politicians in London on both sides may profess to think that the " Marconi business is overdone," we are convinced that it has...

it was not yet clear what the action of the Senate would be on the Canadian Navy Bill. It is certain that the Govern- ment will not accept the dictation of the Senate and will...

this year in a variety of ways. As Lord Meath, the founder of Empire Day, observed at the Guildhall meeting, at least nine millions of boys and girls were assembled that day to...

children on the rise and growth of the Empire and the significance of the Union Jack. Suggestions for these addresses had been furnished in an excellent circular letter issued...

had before it the second reading of the Appellate Jurisdiction Bill, which we are glad to see was read a second time by 296 votes to 20 and referred to a Com- mittee of the...

criminal libel began on Tuesday before Mr. Justice Phillimore, and continued throughout the week. The mass of evidence is so great that we cannot attempt to summarize it here....

of the victory. As was to be expected, the defeated candidate and the Liberal Party generally prefer to attribute the result to what they call " the temporary unpopularity of...

which occurred on Wednesday. Lord Avebury will be best remembered as the creator of Bank holidays, which were established—Lord Avebury was then Sir John Lubbock—by Act of...

Tuesday Lord Curzon took the chair, and in his speech dis- agreed with Lord Rosebery's dictum that poverty is a stimulus to literature. The contributions to the fund announced...

the chairman of the Commons Preservation Society, asking for the help of the readers of the Spectator for that invaluable institution. We have given at length elsewhere our...

Insurance Act, particularly in relation to the cure of consump- tion, described how the disease blighted the fairest places in the land. It was a sacred work to stop the...

Monday presentations were made to Lady Scott and Mrs. Wilson in recognition of the services of their late husbands. Amongst the awards made on the occasion we must not fail to...

April 17th. Consols (2t) were on Friday 744—Friday week 741.

MR. BONAR LAW. M R. BONAR LAW'S admirable speech at a gathering of Unionist women at the Queen's Hall on Tuesday suggests the consideration of his qualifications as leader of...

T N spite of many unfavourable omens we believe that peace will be secured, the preliminary treaty signed, and a resort to arms on the part of the Allies avoided before these...

T HE Report of Lord Mersey's Departmental Committee on the jury system concerns us all. Even those who have not the acute and often painful interest in the system which is the...

to have pro- duced a certain amount of alarm even in those quarters where the movement of British people to British Colonies ought most to have been welcomed. Some people...

I N another column will be found a letter from Lord Eversley which we recommend with every confidence to the atten- tion of our readers. Lord Eversley, as President, makes an...

principle that the substantial questions of fact and law which the Courts have to decide in individual cases should be argued and decided in public. "In public" means, in our...

T HE letter from "A Peeress," published last week in the Times, protesting against the modern dances known as the "Boston," "Turkey Trot," and "Tango," has led to a lively...

CHURCH UNION IN SCOTLAND. [To Tan EDITOR Or TEEM "SPECTATOR:] Sin,—Church Union is at present the chief topic in the ecclesiastical world of Scotland, and in practice the...

THE COMMONS PRESERVATION SOCIETY : AN APPEAL. rTo TICE EDIrOlt OH THE " SPECTATOR."] Snit,—May I venture to make an appeal in your columns on behalf of the Society for the...

[To SHY EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. ") Sin,—The Royal Naval College at Osborne has undertaken one of the most interesting experiments in education which has been attempted in...

[To TRY EDITOR 07 TIER "SPRCTATOR.n Sin,—There must he few Unionists who will not thank you for your article dealing with " The proper way to coerce Ulster" and your conclusion...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—There remains no hope of the Amnesty Bill now before the Portuguese Parliament being discussed this Session, and so long as the Radical...

[To TBZ EDITOR OF THR "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Whatever dispute there may be as to which of Caesar's three wives it is whose conduct serves as a warning beacon to Mr. Lloyd George...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SrEentort.'] SIR,—There are two points in regard to Ulster and Home Rule I am surprised that no one has mentioned. The Nationalists have never ceased...

[To TER EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—How is it that the Spectator's sense of perspective and its honesty cannot be applied to Ireland P As a party opponent I learned to...

ITO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin, — In your last issue Captain Butler emphasizes the desire felt by many of the public for accurate and readily obtainable information...

THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Will you allow a member of the blue-water school, who is also a sincere individualist, to enter a protest against the argument set forth in the footnote...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."' SER, — You were good enough to insert a letter I wrote in your issue of the 10th inst., inviting suggestions either from your- self or your...

THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I read with much interest the article under above heading in your issue of May 10th. It is undoubtedly the duty of a headmaster to form the characters of...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your paper of the 17th inst., referring to the protocol between Bulgaria and Rumania, you allude to the fortress town of Silistria,...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Every lover of rural or even of urban beauty must feel extremely grateful to Mr. J. St. Loe Strachey for the petition to the Surrey...

"SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The growing importance of the attractions of our roads must be our excuse for this letter. By the combined action of he Road Board, the Surrey County...

[TO THY EDITOR. OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—A point of journalistic ethics will, I think, interest the Spectato,.. The Daily Chronicle has recently published a series of...

[To THE EDITOR 01 THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Although, alas ! my mother passed home many years ago, I always keep Mothering Sunday with reverence and thankfulness, also exchanging...

[To THE EDITOR 01 THE " arscreroR...] you allow me to make a somewhat fuller reply to "Selina" than your own note appended to his letter ? The Apostle Paul stands as the...

Sunday was still observed in Monmouthshire, although the custom was fast dying out and, as far as I can recollect, it was then only the smaller and poorer class of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The quotation of which Mr. C. E. Ferris asks the origin in to-day's Spectator is from " The Botanic Garden" by Erasmus Darwin. The...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Your correspondent who saw a bat for the first time this year on April 8th may be interested to know that on December 26th, 1909, I saw...

OF TRH "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — In the second paragraph of the article on the above in your issue of May 10th is a passage implying that women have never had the franchise in...

[To THE EDITOR OF VIZ "SPECTATOR. "] notice that exception has been taken by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue to a letter appearing in your issue of the 3rd May on the ground...

to " Selim's " question in your issue of the 10th inst. is that, though St. Paul did not definitely con- demn slavery, he, by his teaching, created an atmosphere in which...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — As a counterpart to the remarkable achievements of Mrs. Bourne, of Barrow-in-Furness, noticed in your article on the Morecambe Musical...

[TO TUN EDITOU OF rut " SPECTATOR."] venture to ask you again to find room in your columns for an appeal on behalf of the Naples Society for the Protection of Animals. Its work...

[Cheques should be addressed to the Spectator,1 Wellington Street, Strand, London, W.C., and made payable to the Spectator and crossed " Barclay and Co., Gosling's Branch,...

MISS HORNIMAN'S SEASON AT THE COURT. THE last five years have witnessed the appearance and multiplication in England of a kind of play which is not only new in our own dramatic...

"NO SURRENDER OATES." "It was blowing a blizzard. Oates said 'I am just going outside, and I may be some time.' He went out into the blizzard, and we have not seen him...

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...

THE FRENCH IN ALGERIA.* [COMMUNICATED.] IN the very interesting account which Mrs. Devereux Roy has given of the present condition of Algeria, she says that France "is now...

life—contemporary biographies are rightly suspect —and there have been numerous appreciations before and since his death, but Mr. George Trevelyan has had the honour of writing...

THE reading public has to thank Mr. Francis Augustus MacNutt for making accessible to them a book of won- derful interest and fascination. He has translated into modern English...

Ma. GEORGE PEEL holds that the year in which the Tariff Reform movement completes its first decade is an opportune occasion for reviewing its chequered history up to the present...

of books on various details of church architecture, edited by Mr. Francis Bond. It will be read • Memories. By Stephen Coleridge. London : John Lane. [7s. 6d.] t Church Bells...

" II/ this book will be found letters and memorials of no one now living: Herein it is old-fashioned, for in these indecorous times . ." Such are the opening - words of Mr....

which Mr. Masefield has published in the last year or two, and to our mind it is far the finest. He began his career by writing ballads and songs. Then he turned to fiction, and...

THE most interesting article in The Round Table for this quarter is entitled "Ministers and the Stock Exchange." It deals with remarkable justice, sobriety, and reticence with...

and Co. 6s.)—This is written with Mr. Norris's much-appreciated ease and experience: it has a thoroughly up-to-date political setting.—The Record of a Silent Life. By Anna...

[reler this heading ire ectics such Books of the week as IMMO sot been reserved for review in other forms.] Burma under British Rule. By Joseph Dautremer. Translated and with...

6s.)—This is a series of short stories of American life, of which the first, which gives its name to the collection, is by no means the best. But all the stories are pleasant...

Danby " in this book gives an incisive picture of the Wagners, Sir Hubert and My Lady, recently "arrived" million- aires. Lady Wagner is Sir Hubert's second wife, and Sir...

NAPOLEON BOSWELL.• JADED novel-readers, oppressed by a surfeit of sex problems, wearied by the vagaries of smart week-enders, sick of "actuality" on the one hand and of...

the "Fellowship Books" have recently appeared. (B. T. Batsford. 2s. net each.) —They are described as "a new contribution by various writers toward the expression of the Human...

to members.)—We take the opportunity offered by the publication of this report of drawing our readers' attention once more to the excellent work done by the National...

and Co. 12s. net.)—Mr. Lukach, writing with knowledge as well as with an agreeable style, tells the story of a journey made by him in 1908 through some of the Turkish provinces....

Regiment Gasette (Sherratt and Hughes, ad.). Such a gazette, recording all the regimental news, and not forgetting the latest regimental joke or leaving the caricaturist...

C. Stopes and Professor Joji Sakurai. With a preface by His Excellency Baron Kato. (William Heinemann. as. net.)—Many of those who visited the exhibition of ancient Japanese art...

Pater. 2 vols. (Philip Me Warner. 103. net.) —This beautifully printed edition of Pater's book is issued by the Medici Society. It is a fine example of workmanship alike in...