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NEWS OF THE WEEK I T is with deep regret that we record an abominable political assassination by a Hindu student at a reception at the Imperial Institute on Thursday evening....

crime, but one thing must be said at once. If the perpetrators and instigators of outrages of this kind think they are going to destroy British rule in India by assassination,...

the Temps. It is maintained that the substitution of naval surveillance for land garrisons does not amount to any substantial change in the situation. If it was imprudent to...

office in India being that of Resident in the West Rajputana States. At the time of his death he held the position of political aide-de-camp to Lord Morley, an office the duties...

case.

there is an article by M. Tardieu which is summarised by the Paris correspondent of the Times in Wednesday's issue. M. Tardieu finds that the outcome of the recent Balkan crisis...

that the bestowal of the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Stephen upon President Fallieres by the Emperor Francis Joseph is a mark of gratitude for the friendly attitude of...

in Thursday's paper on the patriotic movement in China to build railways with native capital and to resist foreign control. Hitherto nearly all railways have been built with...

discussion of the Budget. It cannot be said that the debates have been in any sense fruitful, except to show how little the Cabinet realise the full consequences of their own...

becomes as strong in the Mediterranean as M. Millet desires to see her, the danger of the Italian Fleet being used against France or Britain will at once pass away. Italy's...

we would suggest an extension of the principle to Mr. Lloyd If the " ungotten" minerals proposal stall holds the field, we would suggest an extension of the principle to Mr....

that not enough time has been spent on the discussion, but that, owing to the hugger-mugger way in which the subject has been pre- sented, and the constant changes of front on...

article—the recent inquiry shows that the problem will not be solved by merely building a few battleships. "The whole Naval Department has to be reorganised," and then "the...

a most interesting article to the Morning Post of last Saturday on French naval strength. Starting with the assumption that the whole problem has been altered by the Entente...

tration of the Government of India was opened by Lord Curzon in the House of Lords on Monday. We have not space even to summarise the speeches delivered by Lord Morley, Lord...

mentioning the fact that when the Spectator Experimental Company was formed only one of the lads who joined expressed any intention of entering the Army, and he guarded himself...

Unionist candidate for the Cleveland division of Yorkshire, is M. ardent supporter of the National Service League. The need for showing the Government through the by-elections...

Saturday Lord Esher declared that sound military organisation for the Empire could be summed up in three words,—a General Staff. Lord Charles Beresford said that the great...

"on the existing Army system and on the present state of the military forces in the United Kingdom." Appendices show that the total number of officers liable for service abroad...

April 1st. Consols (21) were on Friday 84i—Friday week 84/, Bank Rate, 21 per cent., changed from 3 per cent. April 1st. Consols (21) were on Friday 84i—Friday week 84/,

for the interchange of University students among the English-speaking peoples. The movement, which has Lord Strathcona for its president, is under the direct patronage—to...

which were held in London on Wednesday, gave proof of the growing strength and popularity of the movement for universal training. Not only were the gatherings in both cases...

We have dealt at length elsewhere with his remarks in regard to the Navy, but may note here his wise and moderate appeal to the Tariff Reformers. If the result of the next...

to Conservatives of all shades of opinion. Yet we note with regret that the Morning Post not only gives no heed to this appeal, but in effect urges the extinction of the...

week. Lord Fitzmaurice, owing to continued ill-health, resigned the Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster, and Mr. Herbert L. Samuel was appointed in his stead. Mr. T. R....

PANIC-MONGERS AND SECURITY-MONGERS. T HE preaching of moderation is never a very easy, and almost always a thankless, task, but it is never more difficult, though also never...

• QOPME fifteen years ago we ventured to assert that the ;/..) best way of dealing with naval competition, and showing the Powers that if the command of the sea, was to be put...

and perhaps brings them to the assistance of the heads of political autocracies sooner than to that of other people. It is impossible not to compare the visit of Prince Billow...

of the Labour Party in reference to the coming visit of the Emperor of Russia to this country is a real disappointment to those of us who have watched with satisfaction their...

-W E congratulate the Cobden Club and the Prime Minister on their courage in having republished in convenient form a translation of the " Sophismes Economiques " of Frederic...

I T is always said that an Englishman loves a Lord. It would be more exact to say that he is in love with lordliness, a word of which the obvious derivation is apt somewhat to...

J T is not often that one can get at the motives of the criminal, hence the numerous pitfalls of criminal psychology. The criminal himself gives us little help,—he is nearly...

J F a wet June really "sets all in tune," the summer of this year ought to be one of the most successful on record. The full total of the hours of bright sunshine is the most...

"A NEW WAY OF LIFE." LTo Tun EDITOR 01 Till 5PECTATOR:1 "Was du ererbt von deinen Vatern bast, Erwirb es, um es zu besitzen."* Slk,—Much obliged for the book, which, however,...

[To THE EDITOE OF THE SPECTATOR:1 SIR, — I am sure your readers will appreciate this luminous and hitherto unpublished commentary on a phrase, signifying unqualified...

LAW. Pro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOK.1 SIR, — Lord Rosebery has drawn prominent attention to the manner in which the present Government are endeavouring to Override our...

Sin,—May I add a few words in explanation of my own letter in your issue of June 19th, and in reply to the answer signed Robert A. Johnson in your last number ? Your...

rro TITS EDITOR OP THE Br sarwroa."1 SIR,—The ballad inquired for by the writer of the article oa Glastonbury in last week's Spectator is probably "Plain Truth and Blind...

[To TUE EDITOR OF THE " SPECT•TOR."1 SIR,—Mr. Haldane is reported to have said in the House of Commons on June 21st, in reply to a question put to him, that the shortage of...

article on Glastonbury (Spectator, June 26th) makes no reference to a feature of more archaic if not of greater interest still. And that is the unquestion- able remains of a...

[To VIE EDITOR or TRY "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Kindly grant me space to express my admiration of the excellent poem with the above title which appeared in your issue of June 12th, and...

[To TRH EDITOR Or TIIE " SPICTATOR."1 SIR,—While reading your sympathetic article on "Christ and Ceremonial" (Spectator, June 12th) I was reminded of a definition of dogma I...

[To THE EDVZOB, OF THE " SPECTAT011.1 Sin,—Having been limited in respect both of time and space when I wrote my letter on animal reason (Spectator, June 12th), I hope that I...

• [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—In this interesting correspondence no one has so far gone to the very simple root of the matter. "Abound in his own sense" is the true...

SIR,—..ef propos of the interesting article on "The Setting Down of Birds' Songs" in last week's Spectator, I should like to remind your readers of the old French poem (I think...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THII "SEYOrATOR," J 5151, —Can any botanist explain the remarkable excess of seed- pods and defect of leaves in the wych elms of this year Old men tell me that...

[To THE EDITOR Of THE 4. SP EC IA IOR."] SIE,—Your correspondent Mr. J. Rutter (Spectator, June 26th) surely generalises rather incautiously when he says that F natural to D...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SrEeTATOR."] SIR,—I have read with much interest the article in the Spectator of May 15th upon the recent epidemic of heath fires. In addition to the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sfa,—A clue to the solution of the problem who the "Seigneur Dakimkempert" was (see Spectator, March 20th) may be found on p. 214 of the...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR,—In your article on the songs of the birds in last week's Spectator I was surprised to find so little reference to the thrush among...

on p. 1006 of your issue of June 26th. The summit of Trisul was attained by Dr. T. G. Longstaff, the two Brocherels (his Italian guides), ad a native of6.cer of Gurkhas.—I am,...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the rictus therein expressed or with the mode of...

AUSTRIA.-HUNGARY.* WE have lost count of the number of volumes on Austria- Hungary which have been published within the last eighteen months. Several of them are large books,...

[To IRE EDITOR Or mar SPBOLA.TOS."1 Ste,—May I ask your kind permission to say that lam engaged on a biography of the late Field-Marshal Sir Frederick Haines, and that I shall...

OUTLAND BORN. So you have been to London Town, And what saw you the while ? "A maze of winding city ways And houses mile by mile, Where throbs the pulse of half the world In...

preface that these two con- cluding volumes of his Introductory History differ to some extent from their predecessors. "The book," he says, "has unconsciously 'grown up.' It...

THE verse of a distinguished prose-writer deserves to be treated with all respect. Even if it fails as poetry, it will not be without its quality, for the writer, though dealing...

SIR JOHN FRANKLIN sailed from the Thames with the ' Erebus' and ' Terror ' (of three hundred and seventy and three hundred and forty tons respectively) on May 19th. 1845. Not...

THERE is some danger that it will become the fashion to deny the old complaint that Essex is a "flat and uninteresting" county, for so many wrong reasons that the denial will...

form of literature which might be described as topography tinged with emotion. He has a most accurate geographical mind, which delights in the configuration of a landscape, and...

SIR GUY AND LADY RANNARD, " BEAUTY without charm pleases but does not hold one fast : it is like a bait floating about without a hook." Thus the Greek anthologist. What are we...

DR. BIG, at his death last July, had held the Professorship of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford for seven years. This book, sent to the press, by a pathetic coincidence, on the...

0171t heading is a somewhat ambitious description. What this volume gives us is the taxation of the clergy and the religious houees in the diocese of Lincoln—a large part of...

and Sons. 15s. net.)—Middlesex, even with London and Westminster left out, is a large subject, embarrassingly large ; and it would not be difficult to point out omissions. Such...

Exploration: a Monthly Illustrated Magazine, Edited by S. Carter Gilmour (Witherby and Co., 7s. 6d. net). It opens with a contribution from a veteran traveller and explorer, Sir...

[Under this heading to. notics such Books of &hi trosk as hays not Won num.:1 for swim in *this forms.] Ordination Problems. By John Wordsworth, D.D. (S.P.C.K. 2s.)—Bishop...

Facsimile from the Edition of 1632. (Methuen and Co. .84 4s.)—The Folio of 1632, it will be remem- bered, is the second of the four. Its successors of 1664 and 1685 have already...

novelists of to-day have a great subject, not vouchsafed to their predecessors, in suggestion and hypnotism. It is, of course, an ingredient which wants skilful mixing, and this...

(Chapman and Hall. 6s.)—An exciting series of melodramatic stories concerning an Anti-Socialist League which takes the law into its own hands.—The Stage Door. By Arthur Applin....

Illustrated by Percival J. S. Perceval. (J. M. Dent and Co.' 3s. 6d. net.)—" London's Forest" is, of course, Epping Forest, the remnant, though it is true a respectable remnant,...