the week, it having been more or less openly made known that the German Emperor would like to withdraw the approval he had already given to the appointment of Dr. Hill as...

moved the second reading of his Bill to amend the Acts relating to education in England and Wales. The Bill, which enacts that no public elementary school be maintained out of...

Bill, but Lord Crewe, on behalf of the Government, acknowledged the moderation shown by the Bishop and the Archbishop, recognised in the Bill an honest attempt to arrive at a...

T HE announcement of the issue of new German loans, both Imperial and Prussian, is the most surprising foreign news of the week. It had been foreseen that more money must be...

some impressions received from a conver- sation with Mr. Roosevelt. Mr. Roosevelt has the grati- fication of seeing the three candidates for his succession in the Presidency all...

case.

again point out here how strongly it supports our con- tention that the present Government by insisting on vast expenditure and by mortgaging the financial resources of the...

on Monday. The history of the Irish Council Bill had shown the futility of half-measures. As for the bogey of religious bigotry, statistics showed that if there was in-...

Commons was devoted to the discussion of the Fiscal Resolution introduced by Mr. Mond, which declared that "any attempt to broaden the basis of taxation by placing small...

of the Unionist minority even under local govern- ment. In all Ireland, out of a total of nine hundred and fifty-one County Council members, only a hundred and thirty- f our...

on Tuesday. It is proposed to create two new Universities, one in Dublin and one in Belfast. The Belfast University will consist of one College only,—the present Queen's...

official Opposition amendment declaring that "this House is unalterably opposed to the creation of an Irish Parliament with a responsible Executive." It was scandalously...

law was very cumbrous, and that the raiders could not easily be removed from the land they have stolen ; but the Government refused to put into force the Trespass Act, by which...

a total revenue.of 2156,537,690, which is £1,501,204 more than in the year 1906-7 and 23,703,000 more than the estimated amount. The figures for the December quarter had shown a...

his Port of London Bill under the Ten Minutes Rule. The Bill provides for the establishment of a new public authority, which will control the river from Teddington to a point...

given the following pledge to the Marylebone Constitu- tionalUnion,—i.e., the party organisation in his constituency : "If a Unionist Government, presided over by Mr. Balfour,...

Union passed a resolution declaring that the Union would support Lord Robert at the next General Election. We should, of course, have preferred to see Lord Robert allowed to...

night manceuvres in the English Channel. The destroyer * Tiger,' when near St. Catherine's Point, Isle of Wight, run. across the bows of the cruiser Berwick,' was cut in halves,...

a discussion on the extraordinary state of affairs in the island of Vatersay. This island belongs to Lady Gordon Cathcart, who is by common consent a most enlightened and...

19th. Consols (21) were on Friday 87 / 5 6 . —on Friday week 87i.

THE BISHOP OF ST. ASAPH'S BILL. T HERE is a widespread feeling throughout the country that a compromise, or, as we should prefer to say, an agreement, is about to be reached in...

rr1HOUGH no Unionist can help deeply regretting the _L fact that Mr. Redmond's Home-rule Motion was carried in the House of Commons by a majority of 156, the debate was...

E UROPE is not a federal State, and probably never will be, the differences between its component nations being too radical to allow of any regularised and consistent action....

W HETHER Mr. Balfour's acceptance Of the principle, of a general tariff is made more complete by his speech on Mr. Mond's Motion, or was really accomplished on an earlier...

magazine; and we fear that the Teutonic element in Austria and the Hungarian Coalition Government are perversely arranging the materials so that, if ever there should be an...

W HEN we say of a man that he is likeable we do not mean that it is just possible to like him ; we mean that it is almost impossible not to do so. It is difficult to analyse...

W E have so often been told, and with so little support from experience, that inventions would ultimately make war impossible that it is interesting to have the state- ment...

T HE celandine has had a poem written to it, and so has the daisy, but the poets have had very little to say about the smaller and even more modest blossoms of the trees. Yet of...

A CENTRE PARTY. [To TOR EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR."] Sfu,—The proposal as to the formation of a Centre Party meets with approval from nearly all men I meet in business circles...

to sympathise with the spirit of " W. ' 8 " letter in last week's Spectator. But does he not fail to see what Modernism is ? It is not a new religion, but a restate- ment of the...

the letter of "W." in last week's Spectator. The Mass may be of no reality to Englishmen as a whole, but to both Eastern and Western Churches—to three hundred and fifty million...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTIITOZ....1 SIR,—It seems to me from present appearances that the next fight in the Lancashire constituencies for Free-trade will have to be a more...

TEl "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Your correspondent Mr. G. C. Macaulay's letter re poets' epitaphs in last week's Spectator recalls another. Scarron, the first husband of Madame de...

" Kere.rott. - ] SIR,—To trace a resemblance between the late Duke and George Washington may seem a little fantastic. Yet the resemblance exists, not of course as to...

realise that the Duke of Devonshire is no longer, with us; he seemed to be so essential a part of our public life. Now that be is gone, those who were associated with him,...

[To THE EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTATOR.") Silt,—Large numbers of Englishmen must have read with approval your proposals for "County Guards" in a recent issue of the Spectator. I have...

[TO TRIG EDITOR OP Till " SPECTATOR."1 SIE,—Political events in England tell on us in Canada, and we happen at this moment to be debating the question of the Second House of...

March 28th Mr. Macaulay gives the epitaph composed by Ariosto for himself. It is a curious circumstance that when Pope prepared his own epitaph he directly imitated these poor...

DEAR Mn. 9 I hope when thinking about Socialism and discussing it with your friends that you will never let yourself be frightened or put off by the technical language of...

was much obliged by your insertion on March 21st of my letter on squirrels, as I was hopeful it would be interesting to many of your readers. In watching the movements of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—The recent endorsement at Hull by the Labour Party of a Socialist policy has done much to emphasise the new danger with which the...

TO A SOCIALIST FRIEND. BECAUSE I cannot share your creed You doubt my heart, insult my reason ; With "blindness," "levity," and " greed " In turn your eloquence you season....

SHASESPEARIA.NA.* AMONG the most interesting of recent Shakespearean publica- tions is the series of reprints which Messrs. Chatto and Windus are now issuing under the title...

Mn. HENRY DEILLREST LLOYD was an American, and an advanced reformer with a Socialistic bias, who had collected the material for a work on Switzerland when he died. He had...

to deal with the procedure of the House of Commons must be struck with the difficulty that will at once present itself in the great antiquity of its forms and rules, and the...

writing of good verse been a. gift so widely distributed among cultivated people as it is to-day. We are the last to complain of the phenomenon. Before a man can write good...

IT is always a pleasure to select from the numerous feeble works on natural history which now pour from the publishing * China in Legend and Story. By C. Campbell Brown. London:...

BY adopting the narrative method Mr. Campbell Brown has succeeded in giving within comfortable compass, and in a particularly vivid manner, a picture of China,—"not the...

Industry Gild Public Policy. By John Bates Clark. London: Macmillan and Co. Ild. net] ESSENTIALS OF ECONOMIC THEORY.* MR. Cuour is Professor of Political Economy in Columbia...

HALF-A.-DOZEN contributors to the Nineteenth Century pay due homage in the April number to the late editor and founder, Sir James Knowles. Bishop Welldon dwells on his genius...

COME AND FIND ME.* THERE is an old saying that the Devil came from the North. On the other hand, a proverb was current in Italy in the sixteenth century to the effect that "all...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the v.( sk as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Medicine in the British Isles. By Norman Moore, M.D. (The. Clarendon...

and Winans. 6s.)—A story of " fast " racing society. Though readable, it cannot be said to be edifying.—The New Galata'. By Samuel Gordon. (Greening and Co. 6s.)—A modern story...

wish for a novel and not for a satire will be sorry that Mr. Sinclair did not in his story of The Metropolis follow the vein of thought which is to be found in the first...

D.D. (J. Nisbet and Co. 2s. 6d.)—This book, containing the "Bros Lecture," an American foundation, first appeared in 1905, and has reached a fourth edition.—The Culture of...

Laurie. 2s. 6d. net.)—A handy little book, capable of being easily carried in a pocket, in which we have some information, illus- trated, of seven Abbeys (Glastonbury, St....

"The Old Spelling Shakespeare." (Chatto and Windus. 2s. 6d. net.)—This is an instalment of an undertaking to be carried on under the joint editorship of Dr. Furnivall and Mr....

I have paid more attention to what I have heard natives say to each other than to what they have said to me." These are golden rules. We get, not a dialect more or less mixed...

Commentary (J. Nisbet and Co., 7s. 6d.) That dealing with the Old Testament includes "Joshua to 2 Chronicles," that with the New the Gospels of St. Mark and St. Luke i.-vii. The...

net.) —Mr. Westell has written a very interesting little book on a subject in which he is an expert. He tells us about insects of the garden, of the waterside, of the wood, and,...

House.)—Mr. Russell Rea, who prints here, with additions, a lecture delivered at Birmingham in 1905, discusses his subject from the economic and from the ethical standpoint. It...

by M. V. Wheelhouse. (G. Bell and Sons. 2s. 6d. net.)— The author of this delightful book was a German clergyman who died. in the middle of the nineteenth century. He was worthy...

for the Old Testament, A. F. Kirkpatrick (Cambridge University Press)—we have The Two Books of the Kings, Edited by W. Emery Barnes, D.D. (3s. 6d. net). "It is improbable," says...

Co. 5s. net.)—We like Mr. Belloc best when he is literary, or, we might say, romantic. "On an Unknown Country" may be described by the first epithet ; "On a Faery Castle" by the...