politica comings and goings of the week which have led to the results which we have just sketched. Some of them have ceased to be important, and some are still too confidential...

O N Wednesday the House of Lords will receive the Parlia- ment Bill and decide its fate. The Government have decided to assume, and as we think wisely, that the Lords'...

prevail and that in the last resort there will be a sufficient number of wise, moderate, and independent-minded peers to say that party spite and party fury shall not wreck the...

this point, but it is the essential factor of the new situation, and therefore we have felt bound to make it absolutely clear. The notion to which the Halsburyites have been...

case.

the determination of the Government to run the risk of their Bill being defeated in the Lords with all the inconveniences and delays which would then arise owing to the...

the Gulf. For more than fifty years Great Britain has lighted and buoyed the bar across the mouth of the Shatt-nl-Arab- the British India Company did it till last whiter, when...

that the Chamberlain-Smithite section of the Unionists will be in the least placated by Mr. Balfour's action. If it had been arranged with them that they should in the course of...

announcement by Mr. Balfour that he would move a Vote of Censure on the Government, a - Vote which it has been arranged shall take place on Monday. Mr. Balfour also gave notice...

on "British Interests in the Persian Gulf," describes in Tuesday's paper serious and ominous aggressions by Turkey. Certain territory of the Sheikh of Koweyt has been occupied...

identical Note to the Persian Government announcing that their Governments recognize that the ex-Shah is no longer entitled to his pension. Further it is stated that the two...

is advisable to say here is that on Friday the situation, though still very grave, showed some signs of amelioration. The secret of the conversations is well kept, and the...

was again discussed in Committee, the twelfth clause being considered. One of the provisions of this clause is to the effect that if an insured person is in a hospital no...

twelve demands put forward by the Malissori in Albania. According to the papers of Friday the promise has been accepted. The Malissori were reluctant to trust the Turks, but...

of the Insurance Bill. The Government have decided that they will not proceed further with the Bill this summer, but that there shall be an autumn session at which its...

came up for consideration in the House of Commons yesterday week. Mr. Booth moved that the Bill should be recommitted to a Select Committee on the ground that it had been...

vacancy in South-west Bethnal Green, caused by the appointment of Mr. Pickeragill to a Metropolitan Police magistrateship, has been filled by the return of Mr. Masterman....

long sitting on Wednesday. The former of these raised the question of the terms to be accorded to doctors. 'Sir Philip Magnus moved an amendment to the effect that in the case...

Mar. 9th. Consols (2i) were on Friday 74--Friday week 78k. Bank Rate, 3 per cent., changed from 3t per cent. Mar. 9th. Consols (2i) were on Friday 74--Friday week 78k.

a brief illness of Dr. Paget, the Bishop of Oxford, the second of the four sons—all distinguished in different ways—of the late Sir James Paget. Dr. Paget, who was a brilliant...

Election was fixed for September 21st. The election, of course, will be fought almost entirely on the question of reciprocity with the United States. It is to be noted that the...

puts an end to the " latchkey " vote. A latchkey occupier is one who rents rooms from a landlord who himself lives in the house. The Court of Appeal held that to retain his vote...

on Tuesday, the House reached the controversial portion of the Bill which decides the position of the doctors. The clause provides that the medical benefit shall be adminis-...

£50,000 returned by a jury before the Lord Chief Justice was dismissed by a majority of the Judges in the Court of Appeal on Monday. The case of the plaintiff, Mrs. Curtis, was...

THE CRISIS AND THE POSITION OF THE ICING "There was no sacrifice which he was not ready to make, no obloquy that he was not willing io incur, no misrepresentation that he was...

have not yet passed the point where, in diplomatic language, conversations become negotiations— are not yet completed, silence must still be imposed in regard to the details of...

T EIE Naval defence scheme adopted by the Imperial Conference was presented to the Canadian House of Commons on Friday week. It was made known m Canada before it was...

M R. LLOYD GEORGE'S Insurance Bill owed its momentary popularity to an error which it is sometimes very hard to avoid. The object of it was excellent. Sickness and unemployment...

T HE country has learned with much satisfaction, but without surprise, that the King has decided that the Prince of Wales shall continue his training in the Navy. The Prince has...

S TORIES throwing a chance gleam of light upon the work.. ings of the childish mind are always popular, but few people attempt to analyse and classify them, or to draw any...

A MONG the remarkable features of the thunderstorms which broke over London on Friday and over various parts of the country on Saturday last week the most extra- ordinary were...

AN AUSTRIAN VIEW OF THE MOROCCAN CRISIS. [TO THE EDITOR OP TEl "SPECTATOR ") Sin,—The following expresses an expert * opinion as coming from an Austrian diplomatic source :—"...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—Are you not in your recommendation of the policy of surrender attaching too great an importance to the "'destruction of the House of...

[TO THE EDITOR OT THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—I venture to send you enclosed letters which were writes to my grandfather, Sir James Stronge, Bart., by his step- father, Mr. William...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Last summer you printed some correspondence on the position of the Vlachs (Macedo-Roumanians) in Macedonia. The following may...

[To THE EDITOR Or TRH "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —There are two points in connexion with the Veto Bill which do not seem to have received adequate consideration. First, the Lords have...

[To Tlia EDITOR OF TB8 spserAms.~.1 Sin,—Henry Graham Dakyns was a dear friend of mine, and I read Mr. Plunket Greene ' s appreciation of him in the Spectator of July 22nd with...

have received your few lines this morning, and tho' I have nothing pleasant to communicate to you, still, in these extraordinary times, a line from headquarters is always...

Sra,—At the present moment you may perhaps think the views of a general practitioner about the Insurance Bill will be of interest to your readers. I will try not to repeat...

[To THE EDITOR OP THY "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In thanking you for the appreciative notice of my " Speakers of the House of Commons " in the Spectator of July 29th, may I be allowed...

[To THE EDFTOR OF THR "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—As a political pariah, that is to say, a Unionist Free Trader, may I make an impartial comment on last week's scene in the House of...

OF THE "SPECTATOR "] cordially agree with Mr. Buchanan's letter in your last issue. I am a country doctor, and I know, from personal experience, what a hard lot is the life of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SFECTATOB."1 SIR, —The Irish tourist season has rarely opened under more favourable auspices. The visit of their Majesties the King and Queen to Dublin...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECS/TOR...1 SIR,—In the interesting review of Messrs. Eversley and Craie's "Marriage Laws of the British Empire" (Spectator, July 29th) your reviewer...

begs the question entirely when he asserts that "the Free Churches are compassing the destruction of the Church of England." Nothing could be further from the minds of Free...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—I have followed with great interest the discussion on Christian Unity, not because I agree in the least with the views of yourself or...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR—I venture to bring under your attention the subjoined verses which appeared in the " Argus " on the day following the Coronation. They...

monarchs dead or pageants played, Shall turn our eyes when the new King appears In stateliest pomp arrayed, His royal throne by world-wide pillars stayed, But strain towards...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In Cowper's poem "Retirement" there occur the well- known lines on solitude :— "I praise the Frenchman, his remark was shrewd— How...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Szn,—I am entertaining the hypothesis that modern "accepted English " and the " conventional long and short vowels" (the John Bull alphabet,...

[To THE EDITOR 01 THE "SPECTATOR.") find in the Spectator, page 65, on July 8th of this year a brief article which seems to be a statement in regard to some verse dreamed and...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—I notice in your issue of the 22nd instant a reference to the Scottish Veteran Reservists who were inspected by His Majesty the King. I...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR—I am delighted to learn that your correspondent "R. K. H " finds Test trout "of pink flesh and very good to eat." I have never seen one...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —Looking back to your issue of July 8th I notice that Mr. Mayhew just misses " the mark." He is right in saying that "eight" (oktou) is...

" BIRTH-DAT or Earth-day, Which the true mirth-day P Earth-day or birth-day, Which the well-worth day?"

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...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Yonr correspondent, Mr. Howard Candler, says "doth" is "probably plural," instancing "The Holy Church dot h acknow- ledge Thee." If...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Would you kindly spare the space to acknowledge the receipt of £1 from " A reader of the Spectator and a great lover of animals " to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —Surely the co-existence of the vigesimal and decimal scales can be explained by reference to the circumstances in which they...

APRIL FIRST. " Conn, let us be the willing fools Of April's earliest day, And dream we own all pleasant things The years have reft away. 'Tis but to take the poet's wand, A...

THE FEAST. Fly low swallows, Hills grow clear, All the little leaves know Someone's near. All along the hedgerow, Hark, and you shall her Little cups and saucers Clinking,...

A HISTORY OF ENGLAND.* WE are told in the Preface that this attractive and stimulating book is written for all boys and girls who are interested in the story of Great Britain...

born at the end of the Wars of the Roses and came to perfection under the Tudors, and lovers of it will welcome these two monumental folios. In them we have photographs,...

in the Ecole des Sciences Politiques, is well known as one of the most capable—probably the most capable—of those French writers who colour their narratives of contemporary...

Fr would surely be mere affectation to refrain from acknow- ledging some transitory glow of Pharisaic satisfaction at the turn of opinion which latterly has brought across the...

attempted far too much. Under the title of the " Charm of Copenhagen" she deals with Danish character and scenery, with past and present Danish art, literature, and science ;...

be congratulated on having made an interesting contribution to the history of foxhunting. His book is well written, he has worked laboriously in collecting material from...

Ma. STESEING might very well have added a third word to the title of his essays—Paradoxes. Now a paradox is often a very attractive thing to a reader, but it is apt to be trying...

Da. CH1ECOT, who had commanded the Francais' in an earlier expedition, started in the Pourquoi Pas from Guernsey on September 5th, 1908, and reached Havre on June 4th, 1910....

In the Nineteenth Century Professor J. H. Morgan discusses "The King and his Prerogative." The main purpose of his argument is to show that there is nothing arbitrary in the...

WHEN THE RED GODS CALL.* SUCH a novel as Miss Grimshaw's illustrates in a most forcible way the enormous change that has come over the woman novel-writer since the days—we will...

[Under this hooding we setts. such Books of the wish so ham net been reserved for review in other forma.] William H. Seward. By Edward Everett Hale, Jun. (Phila- delphia: G. W....

net.) —This is a pseudo-scientific novel with, as its theme, the experiment of an eminent doctor of exchanging souls with the young lady to whom he is engaged. His attempts are...

and Co. 6s.)—The Japanese part of this novel is far more attractive and original than the doings of the English persons round whom the story revolves. The aeroplane flight in...

Laurie. 6s.)—This is a collection of short stories, and through about half of them one thread of interest runs. The arrangement of the volume is most bewildering, as the stories...

Co. 6s.)—A story which, as its title in- dicates, deals both with Socialism and with the tender passion. The heroine marries a working man, who fortunately is killed before she...

volumes entitled Harrap's Dramatic Readers. The " foreword" tells us that the series aims at serving three purposes : to arouse a greater interest in oral reading; to develop an...

Fisher Malvin) has been added The Mediterranean, by Karl Baedeker, 12s. It should be explained that the volume contains more than the title, strictly taken, would indicate. The...

G. B. Tatham, M.A. (Cambridge University Press. 6s.)—This essay, which obtained the Prince Consort Prize in 1910, is an eernA/Ant piece of work. Of John Walker we know little...