Fl?Oill JANUARY 4th TO JUNE 28th, 1913, INCLUSIVE. TOPICS OF THE DAY. CTING, Children and 566 Address, the, Debate on Mr. 1I.il en Fisher's Amendment to the ... 432 Aerial...

a paper that is so deeply committed to Tariff Reform as the Daily Telegraph. We should greatly prefer the promise of a Referendum on any proposal to introduce Food Taxes,...

T HE significant question put by Mr. Asquith to Mr. Bonar Law in the Ulster debate of Wednesday, which we record below, has naturally caused a bountiful crop of rumours as to an...

Saturday, when the Turkish delegates submitted their first counter-proposals, which seemed to take no account whatever of the course of the war. They proposed to grant autonomy...

during the week proves that the enormous responsi- bility we have mentioned above is fully recognized. We desire to say no more than is necessary on the subject, but must...

before the electorate. It can be done strictly only by means of the Referendum. But if a Referendum on the Home Rule Bill is said to be impossible, the responsibility which...

case.

a recess which had lasted a Parliamentary week. The Christmas holiday is always a period of strenuous repose, and one hardly knows whether the House or the country is the more...

demonstration at Pretoria in support of General Hertzog, whom General Botha lately removed from his Cabinet owing to his anti-Imperial speeches. General de Wet, the principal...

of negotiations after this meeting, and it is generally felt that the main difficulty in the way of a settlement is the problem of Adrianople, a town which has many religious...

with complicity in the Los Angeles dynamite outrages ended in the conviction of thirty-eight of the accused, the sentences ranging from one to seven years' imprisonment. The Los...

von Kiderlen- Waechter, the German Foreign Secretary, which occurred after a brief illness at Stuttgart, where he had gone to spend Christmas. In his early days at the Foreign...

of the report stage of the Home Rule Bill. There was a preliminary discussion of a time-table motion, allotting seven days to this stage, moved by Mr Asquith, and Mr. Bonar Law...

Ireland as a whole, and to exclude Ulster would wreck the whole Bill. Besides, the population of Ulster was far from homogeneous; throughout the whole province Protestants...

Chapter of St. Paul's to report iaa the probable effect of the construction of the proposed underground tramway, has issued a report strongly condemning the scheme as...

cent. October 17t h . Consols (4) were on Friday 75k—Friday weeic 751.

North-East Ulster would prefer to accept the government of a foreign country rather than be ruled by Irish Nationalists. Taking up Mr. Asquith's challenge, he said that if the...

areas in which the panels remain incomplete. Of these. the first applies to places in which only a few more doctors are required. Here the panels are to be closed forthwith, and...

The service will not be a whole-time service ; for the doctors will be allowed to attend to uninsured persons, provided that they belong to the "insured class," that is if they...

the situation thus created was fully explained by Mr. Lloyd George in his most important speech to the Advisory Committee on Thursday afternoon. Under the apparently...

Commissioners have found themselves placed with regard to filling the doctors' panels, which were nominally closed on December 31st, but which are actually still open in many...

least avoids the imputation of being either lavish or partial. Peerages are conferred on Sir George Sydenham Clarke, whose wide experience and varied talents will make him a...

THE ULSTER AMENDMENT. A LTHOUGH the amendment moved by Sir Edward Carson on Wednesday was defeated by the antici- pated majority, we do not hesitate to describe it as the most...

which reigns at the moment of bringing the medical scheme of the Insurance Act into operation is a perfect lesson in the art of how not to do things. Month after month Mr. Lloyd...

M R. NORMAN ANGELL has the full courage of his convictions. His opponents not unnaturally thought that the Balkan war had put him into a very tight corner. Either he would have...

by writing to the Times to protest against the Land Tax campaign which, according to rumour, Mr. Lloyd George will shortly inaugurate. If Lord Eversley were a crusted Tory his...

T HERE is a feature in the literary taste of to-day that is almost unique in English letters and deserves the attention of the psychologist. "Paradox" is the usual non- analytic...

91HERE are people of whom one might almost say that a What we have been saying is, we think, a common experience, specially among the poor, and is, we suppose, the reason why...

T HE December number of the Journal of the Royal United Service Institution contains a report of a lecture on the "Employment of War Dogs," delivered at the Institution by Major...

THE FUTURE BOUNDARIES OF ALBANIA. go THE EDITOR OF THE " &Renal:M."1 Sin,—The first fortnight of the Peace Conference has afforded an admirable illustration of Turkish...

NATIONAL SERVICE BY CONSENT. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIB,—I have followed the correspondence prompted by your excellent article on "National Service by Consent"...

Sra,—Will you allow me to support your appeal for a round table conference on National Training by a reference to my own experience in Kent, where I have been working for over a...

allowed to deal with some of the points raised by "0. S. 0." in your issue of December 28th ? "0. S. 0." states that the "National Service League scheme only requires to be...

of December 28th, 1912, "L. A. F." says that" it is a strange thing that Lord Roberts and the National Service League should again and again avoid what is for Liberals the vital...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR...I SIE, — In your issue of November 16th a letter appears over the signature of Seymour Ormsby-Gore entitled "Compensa- tion for Germany." In...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE n SPECTATOR,"] SIR,—As Lord Lindley frankly admits he does not know the facts of the Carter case, it is surely a little strange for him to say that Mr....

Sfx,—With all respect to Lord Hugh Cecil, I am not ready to admit that Mr. Holland-Hibbert and I both mistake the question in discussion. I am not in the least prepared to...

Siu,—A most urgent question of the moment, fraught with far-reaching consequences, is what should be our attitude to China in response to the appeals now being made by Indo-...

[To Tar EDITOR OF Tar "SPIZCTATOR:1 Sin,—In your review of Dr. Sarolea's book, in your issue of December 21st, you say, "All offers to stereotype the present situation by a...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPRCTATOR.".1 Sra,—Lord Lansdowne said at the meeting held at the Alexandra Palace on December 4th, " Canada alone could supply the whole of the wheat...

" SPECTATOR.1 Slit,---The recent correspondence in your columns on the Architectural Museum at Tutton. Street, Westminster, has served to bring out the following facts : (1) The...

[TO THE ETITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...3 SIR,—In the very interesting article on "Capitalists and Labourers" in last week's Spectator a suggestion is made in the concluding...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SricTATort."] SIR,—The letter of Mr. W. J. Fitzsimmons contained in the Spectator of December 21st has prompted me to spend an hour or two in the Law...

[10 THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...3 SIR,—There are many people whose interest in Christian Reunion leads them periodically to look towards the great historic Church which has...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR,—Will you allow me to draw your attention to an error which has'crept into the Spectator leader of Last Saturday ?— • - The Writ"...

FOR SIXPENCE. kin memory of the old days when the back seats at the Abbey Theatre. Dublin, were sixpence.) FOR sixpence I have been to Tir-na-n-oge (No more I had to pay), And...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' 'SIE,-■4 enclose a ripe hedge strawberry and blossom gathered two days before Christmas. It indicates the mildness of the season, as a sharp...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTAT0R."] BIa,-=Many of your readers, I think, will be glad to know that this Society has taken premises at 171, Piccadilly (opposite Burlington...

or initia/s, or with a pseudonym., or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily lie held to be in agreement with the Meets therein expressed cr with the made of...

[To TRH EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR,—I have just read the following story, which I am assured is absolutely true :--- "During one of the latest birthday celebrations of...

KARAKORAM.* Trim magnificent record of a great expedition which has been compiled by Dr. de Filippi and admirably translated from the Italian, is a story of mountain travel...

a year ago Mr. Hyndman proved that he had the genuine faculty of the anecdotist. He can take the barest incident—something perhaps by no means worth mentioning in itself—and by...

AMONG all the occupations of human life, which have been personified by the devout and imaginative genius of the Romans, it is strange that no goddess watches over the most...

IN his latest volume, which he dedicates "to Philip Reginald Thornton, my Co-worker in Imperial Politics," Mr. Vaile breathes a spirit of controversy reminiscent of a simpler...

profound, but instead gives us the impressions of a cultivated mind wander- ing at ease among masterpieces, "contented if he may enjoy the things that others understand."...

the centre of the world's interest, Miss Gardner's carefully studied monograph ought to be sure of a welcome. It deals with the fifty-seven years after the Fourth Crusade, from...

IN the Nineteenth Century Mr. J. Howard Whitehouse, M.P., records his personal impressions of Bulgarians and Servians in Sofia and Belgrade during the war. The notable points in...

about the town of Lucca. Poets, statesmen, actors, novelists have crowded to the Bagni di Lucca—who can forget Heine's passage on it in his Reisebilder or the accounts in...

UNDER THE YOKE.* M. VAZOFF'S remarkable novel, recently issued in a new and revised , edition, demands special attention not only as a representative ppecimen of the work of...

Lane. 6s.)--rMr. Locke makes merry with his " child of the South," and throws in some tender, almost too tender, pathos. Aristide is a medley of inflammable versatility,...

improved edition. Edited by William Stanford. • (G. W. Bacon, 127 Strand. 25e.)-All Londonere will enjoy the - Series of reaps' contained in this portfolio. It inch/dee not only...

By Alfred Baker. (Sir Isaac Pitman and Sous: 2s. 8a. net.)-Pitman was born in 1813, and a Cheaper edition of his life has been issued to commemorate the centenary.-The Future of...

[Under this heading we notice peek Books of the week as- have not been' reserved for review in other forme.] A Journey to Ohio in 1810, as recorded in the Journalof Margaret van...

68)-1 story of Egypt whielt would 'have been more credible had the date been pit be* about - half a century. Man aria the Black Feather. By Gaston Leroux. Trans- lated by Edgar...

Blundell). (John Long. 6s.)-Mrs. Francis Blundell always writes delightfully of country life, and, though her scene is usually laid in the West Country, she imparts the same...

Coitlity Suburbs. (Kelly's Directories. 40s.)--We gee all reminded by a few =Mutes' study of the Post Offis Directory hcati abstirdly narrtiVe ii' 'the ordinarrcenception which...