FROi:7 JANUARY 4th TO JUNE 27th, 1908, TOPICS OF THE DAY. A CCESS to Mountains Bill, the ... ... 820 I& Admiralty, the, and the Press ... ... 209 Africa, South, Our...

Monday the evidence of Professor Schweninger (Bismarck's physician) and his wife (the niece of Count Moltke), which had been taken on commission at Munich on Saturday, made it...

first Duma for issuing the Viborg Manifesto has ended in the acquittal of two and the sentence of the remainder to three months' imprisonment. The Manifesto, in which the...

Friday week. Dr. Rash Behari Ghose, a Bengalee Moderate, having been nominated as President, the Extremists stormed the platform and wrecked the Congress. The Moderates have...

F RIDAY'S papers contain accounts of the capture of the Kasbah of Mediuna, near Casa Blanca, by the French forces at half-past eleven on New Year's Day with the loss of one...

anarchy seems to be spreading in all directions. The British public have of late been amused by telegrams from Fez announcing that the Sultan's officials there have proclaimed...

Coalition in Hungary. On Saturday last the Premier, Dr. Wekerle, addressing the House of Magnates in support of the Quota Agreement, while attributing the disastrous financial...

any case.

its mystery on Monday. Leave having been granted by the Consistory Court, the Drum family vault in Highgate Cemetery was opened in the presence of representatives of the Home...

working of the Anti-Suicide Bureau started by General Booth on December 30th, 1906. The principles on which. the scheme was founded were .(1) inviolable secrecy, (2) free con-...

,• Times entitled" The Pope on Good Government." The Papal' attitude towards the French State is not, he declares, the result of the Anti-Clericalism of the present majority in...

appeared in Monday's papers in which he states that, owing to the attitude of the Prime Minister, he is a candidate for the vacancy created among the Irish representative Peers...

elect Lord Curzon. If they do, they will show them- selves to have a higher sense of public duty than the Prime Minister.—We admit that if they choose to take a narrow view of...

unfair . attack on President Roosevelt published in the Morning Post of December 26th from the pen of Mr. Maurice Low. Mr. Low begins by declaring that "many people were fully...

at the Church of Germain-des-Pres, where he lived and worked for the last forty years of his life. Though the ceremony was religious, presided over by the Coadjutor of the...

show that the President has failed in everything which he has undertaken. We have not space here to traverse in detail a statement so grotesque, though the task would not be...

with that of the thirteen bullocks who were lately burnt alive, on a farm in Westmeath, and with the malicious injuries and mutilations which are still constantly reported from...

of discussion at the Head-Masters' Conference and in the correspondence columns of the Times. But while there is a general consensus of opinion that the increased grants are...

the Nationalist M.P. for Galway, in which he attempts to defend cattle-driving as in no sense involving cruelty. Does Mr. Gwynn really believe, and expect us to believe, that...

on Monday. Special referenoe is made to the Education (Administrative Provisions) Act of 1907 as calculated to secure substantial benefits through medical inspection, vacation...

very humane man, and no doubt feels as much pain as we do over the hideous atrocities of which we have given one or two examples,—examples which, unhappily, could be multiplied...

Jan. 2nd. Consols (24) were on Friday 83I—on Friday week 824.

the newspapers have been filled with arguments as to whether Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman ought or ought not to have refused to make Lord Curzon a Peer of Parliament. Curiously...

THE INDIANS IN THE TRANSVAAL. T HE Colonial Office refrained from withholding its sanction to the law just passed in the Transvaal further restricting the immigration of...

T HAT London is a unit, and should, except where good cause can be shown in favour of a different method, be treated as a unit, would be a commonplace if it were not flagrantly...

the old phrase, OXi,yoy cf.aoe Si—" a small thing, but mine own "—and to no material possession does this apply with such force as to the home. The sense of ownership of " home...

W ERE we to attempt to deal adequately with the political wisdom of the Old Testament, we should have to devote not one but many articles to the subject, for we are fully of...

T HE instinct of contradiction, like the instinct of acquiescence, is inborn. There are many young people of whom their older friends can say with certainty that they will, at...

T HE liner, forging ahead carefully at quarter-speed, acknowledged with a gruff, taciturn "Woof 1" of her horn—merely a smother of steam without any decided note— the distant...

season, and who wrote- " In winter I no more desire a rose Than ask for snow in May's new-fangled joys," would have been considerably put about to apportion the various flowers...

THE FUTURE OF THE IRISH FARMER. [To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.] Sra,—We have got through with a revolution in Ireland. There have been bad incidents, but on the whole, as...

THE ENGLISH PRESS ON CATTLE-DRIVING. [TO THE EDITOR OP THE 'SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I see, with extreme regret, that the Spectator joins in the outcry—organised for political...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,— " Recent events have, unhappily, led to the belief that the confidence in the rulers of Belgium, very properly assumed by H.M....

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." _I Sin, — To pursue somewhat further your criticism of Mr. Birrell ' s so-called ordinary law and the Crimes Act, or what he is pleased to...

LTO THE EDITOR OF TRU "SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—I belong to neither of the two parties which you endeavour to identify in your last week's article on "Socialism and Tariff Reform."...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Si,—This subject of Indian Cotton-duties is referred to, I see, in the most interesting letter on the late Sir John Strachey from Sir...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] Sra,—My letter to the Press will already have been seen by your readers, and in any event would be too long to ask you to insert in the...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "HpEOTLTOR."] have only to-day seen the Spectator for December 14th and 21st, 1907. If not too late, may I endeavour to answer very briefly the rather...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' Sra,—Probably all your correspondents on this subject are perfectly correct in their recollections. Rhymes of the kind quoted were more or...

[To TER EDITOR OF TB. "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I thank you very heartily for your kindly appreciation of my late brother's story of his adventures in the Far West in your issue of...

[TO THE EDITOR or TIER .SP liCTATOR."1 SIR,—There are three distinct species of poison ivy in the United States. The only one of the three that is native in California is the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—Does it not seem somewhat strange that the politicians and journalists who oppose the immigration of British Indian subjects into the...

DEAR MR. I like your letter because of its manly tone, and because it shows that you do not make the fatal error of dividing the world into rich and poor, and considering them...

LTO TIII1 EDITOZ OF THU " SPROPATOILl SIB, — May we ask you to state that we are the English agents for the sale of Mrs. More's " Wage-Earners' Budgets," noticed in your issue...

A CORRESBONDENT writes to challenge the accuracy of the account of the Denshawi outrages given by us last week. After setting forth his own version of the facts, he asks for an...

" Cestrian's " inquiry in your last issue for a remedy for the above poison, the following, which I have taken from the " Scientific American Cyclopedia of Receipts," may be of...

DORRY AT THE CIRCUS.* WE took her to a circus. Sitting there Voted the entertainment pretty fair With half-yawns ; but our Dony, being four, Breathed fast, had bright eyes fixed...

THE LATE MISS COLERIDGE'S. POEMS.* THE greatest poetry is always impersonal,—in the sense that we value it primarily for its own sake, and not for the sake of its creator. The...

"LORD WANTAGE i8 a great loss," wrote Miss Florence Nightingale, "but he had been a great gain. And what he has gained for us can never be lost. It is my experience that such...

of an ordinary review to examine this book as it needs to be examined. The object • The Elizabethan Reli&us Settlement: a Study of Contemporary Documents. By H. N. Bizt, O.S.B....

Social Democracy is visible in the House of Commons, and is courted by a Liberal Government as a useful ally, the champions of popular liberty should look to their armour. No...

THIS little book gives an account of a most interesting and valuable experiment which has been started in St. Pancras. The founders of the "School for Mothers," finding that the...

tells us that he is a country parson who lives in a country parish quite out of the world. He is what is called a good Churchman; but it is evident that many of his best...

things, but nothing perhaps more keenly suggestive and charmingly • 4 School for Mothers. By Evelyn X. Bunting, Dora E. L. Bunting, 3LB., B.S., Annie E. Barnes, and Blanche...

THE new Nineteenth Century has two articles on the German Emperor. The first, which deals with his foreign policy, is from the pen of Mr. J. Ellis Barker, and we find the same...

THE GLADE IN THE FOREST.* lama politics are too absorbing a pursuit to be combined, as a rule, with the cult of belles-lettres. Still, there hAve been exceptions in the...

this story the author makes enormous demands on the reader's credulity, for he creates a French ex-soldier of European fame who is engaged in carving out an empire for himself...

is interesting to review occasionally in these columns the fiction of another country, and Miss (or Mrs.) K. S. West has provided a perfectly adequate translation of the last...

and Sons. 6s.)—Berengaria is the usual Anglo-Indian lady who leads a whole station by the nose and enjoys a variety of adventures. Some of these are exceedingly enter- taining,...

[Under this hauling we notice such Books of the wed: as have not been reserved for review is other formal The Literature of Roguery. By Frank Wadleigh Chandler. 2 vols. (A....

Co., Boston, U.S. 6s.)—In 1841 a Mrs. Abell pub- lished a book entitled "Recollections of Napoleon at St. Helena." Mrs. Abell was one of the daughters of a Mr. Balcombe, who was...

Stebbing. 2 vols. (H. Frowde. 8s. net.)—In his first volume Mr. Stebbing deals with forty-two poets (Chaucer to Burns), whose literary activity covered nearly five centuries, if...

Bell and Sons. 68. net.)—The intending collector will be delighted or dismayed, according to the temperament he may have, when he sees how wide is the field of his operations....

L. Swinburne. (A. and C. Black. 203. net.)—Mr. Swin- burne has written a very careful and temperate account of the rise of the British Navy. It is perhaps a little cold in tone;...

3e. 6d. net.)—The story of a six months' holiday is told in thirty-two letters. The first is dated "The Firth of Clyde," and so is the last. II.-XV. are written from Paris,...

Co., Eton College. 10s. (3d. net.)—Here we may see some- thing of what is, of what has been, and of what might have been. Perhaps the last of these three items is the most...

(A. Constable and Co. 255. net.)—Here we have the result of much labour. The " transactions " of between ninety and a hundred societies, archaeological, philosophical, and...