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torrent of rhetoric and self-righteousness, stands the admitted fact that though Chancellor of the Exchequer he not only engaged in speculative transactions on the Stock...

• O N Tuesday the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Attorney-General were entertained at a luncheon given by the National Liberal Club. Lord Lincolnshire was in the chair, and...

of the pure partisan, the man who refuses to see anything but his own side of the question. Him he can honour. "The man I despise is the man who is a bigot, who is the...

an oration of this type. One feels that Mr. Lloyd George will only have to make a few more Marconi speeches to convince himself and his hard and fast supporters that instead of...

it. I am not going to drop it. I have nothing to fear. I have disclosed everything. They have examined everything. They have scrutinized everything. Why should I drop it now...

up with an impassioned analysis of his own virtues, which we dare not attempt to condense, but must give verbatim "Allow me to say one thing when I am talking of the motives...

case.

declara- tion of war in the Balkans. At the same time we must record exceedingly heavy fighting in Macedonia, the Bulgarian troops being engaged both with the Servians and the...

we must note that though the opportunity was so good a one, and though he found it so easy to heap personal abuse upon Lord Robert Cecil and Lord Lansdowne, he made no attempt...

and adjourned till November 20th. This important measure, which involves radical changes in German finance, increases the peace strength of the army by 4,000 officers, 15,000...

been the capture after heavy street fighting of some thousand Bulgarian soldiers who were in the occupation of barracks in Salonica. When summoned to surrender by the Greeks...

of the second Minister in a British Government. It is even more unpleasant to reflect that a British Chancellor of the Exchequer has placed himself in such a position that he...

we can only say that it was the kind of utterance which the candid critics of the eighteenth century would have called "a spaniel speech," so fulsome was its adulation of Mr....

the National Liberal Club should have been incomplete, Mr. Churchill rose at the end as a sort of irascible " heavy father " with the conventional " Bless you, my children"—"...

activities of lobbyists in Congress. He says that the investigation which is being held by Congress has produced "sensational revelations" of what Mr. Roosevelt has called the...

in a letter to a constituent why he voted for Mr. Cave's amendment in the Marconi debate :- "Public servants should have nothing to do, directly or indirectly, with persons or...

Suppression of the White Slave Traffic on Wednesday, said that the people who lived on the earnings of others were the keystone of the matter. If they struck at these people...

investigations have extended over eight months. The Postmaster-General was present—it is understood at his own request—and explained the position of the Government in view of...

of this message, but it was not seriously repudiated by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald himself till it had done its work. His repudiation was then too vehement to be, in our judgment,...

the resignation of Mr. E. Crawshay-Williams took place on Friday week and resulted as follows Mr. Gordon Hewart, K.C. (L.) 10,863 Mr. A. M. Wilshere (U.) 9,279 Mr. E. R....

that the Russian Government is turning its attention to the Armenian question. The Russian people want the Government to move much faster, and the general feeling is that the...

what the Government proposed to do in view of the collapse of the Marconi contract, but several members of the Committee objected that this would be outside the Committee's...

17th. Consols (4) were on Friday 74—Friday week 73.

THE SITUATION IN THE BALKANS. T HE Bulgarian States are not at war with each other. In spite of that there has been quite as heavy fighting between Bulgaria and Servia and...

on Unionist policy as regards the land dealt, and dealt with singular knowledge and ability and in the best possible tone and temper, with what we believe is the most important...

I N the important article which he has written for the Nineteenth. Century and After, Lord Cromer gives his reasons for thinking that the time has come to deal adequately with...

MHE Daily Mail publishes an interview with the chair- I_ man of the Barking District Council which throws a further light on the policy of municipalizing tramways. According to...

the humanists enjoyed a practical monopoly in the domain of English education, and, by doing so, exercised a consider- able, perhaps even a predominant, influence not only over...

A S we all know, these are not good days for raising money. The fact that trade is prosperous almost beyond example is accompanied by the chilling certainty that every- thing...

T O the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London has just been added an important document dealing with the relationship of the big game of Africa to the spread of...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE `SPECTATOR "] SIR,—I trust that you will allow a Liberal, who worked and voted against Mr. Gladstone's later Irish policy, but who has been alienated from...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE ," SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The significant absence of the Prime Minister and Sir E. Grey from the festive board and wholly irrelevant proceedings at the...

hensive criminal law like the Indian Penal Code P Section 165 of that admirable enactment runs as follows :- " Whoever, being a public servant, accepts or obtains, or agrees to...

[To min EDITOR OP TRY " SPECTATOR:] Sin,—May I call your attention to enclosed cutting from the Irish correspondent's news to the Guardian of June 13th, also a cutting from the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 notice on page 1109 of your issue of June 28th, 1913, a letter by which it is rather ingeniously sought to convince your readers that the...

[To THE EDITOR 017 THE " SPECTATOR:I Sin,—You kindly published a letter from me drawing atten- tion to the outrage on an Irish Presbyterian Sunday School excursion because they...

"SrEcTAToit.".1 SIR,—I have been reading " L'Ancien Regime et la Revolution" recently, and am somewhat struck with the resemblance between many of the points which the writer...

[To THE EDITOR CY THE "SPECTATOR...] SIR,-1 think there must be some slip in the article "Unionists and the Land" in the Spectator of June 2Sth. The article says :- "' A' agrees...

[To THE EDITOR 07 TUE "SPECTATOR. "] have noticed several letters in the Spectator—the last in your issue of March 29th—from Mr. H. B. M. Buchanan. asserting that "the net...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. ") SIR,—I am much flattered by the remarks of Mr. Andrew in your issue dated June 21st with reference to my pamphlet "Town Lads on Imperial...

Sin,—The revolution advocated with some conviction and more zeal by the Unionist leaders is of such vast importance to all interested in the laud that perhaps you will allow one...

LTO TILE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Forty years ago the Chief Commissioner of British Burma wrote :— " It is impossible to resist the observation that if the rice trade...

[To THE EDITOR OT THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — On Monday last the Times gave an account of the life and work of Mr. E. D. J. Wilson which left little unsaid that the oldest and...

[To THE EDITOR OT THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Liberal writers and speakers tell us that the Referendum always works unfavourably to Liberal measures. What does this imply ? Surely...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR :] SIR,—Your review of my "History of English Patriotism" is so - friendly, and inspired . with such an obvious desire to .be fair, that I am...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, —Can any of your readers tell me whether there is authority for Shakespeare's ascription of Joan of Arc's execution to York ? ' Hume...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—It is the genius of all languages, and especially of the- English language, to attempt, in transferring a word from a foreign tongue,...

[To THE EDITOR. or vex " SPECTATOR...1 Sta,--,Owners of motor-cars are mostly rich people, and it is to be hoped that they will respond liberally to-your appeal on behalf of the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—The Edinburgh Court of' Sessions judge asked the other day what " scarify " meant. The counsel explained, ." scare," but added that he...

[To THE EDITOR or THE ..sracrivon."3 Sia,—The other morning I wandered into the church of St. Martin, Ludgate, and I was interested to see the Greek baptismal palindrome carved...

Sia, — Seeing that the . Council have passed the proposal of the Docks Committee to spend another £12,500 of the ratepayers' money in the direction of two more warehouses for...

OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sts,—The piteous little wail given below cannot possibly attract attention, coming from an obscure corner and from a nobody. But if the Spectator were to...

[To TRZ EDITOR Or THE ..evreureE."] STR,—Your correspondent, "E. H. S. S.," who records the appearance of a heron at Mitcham, will have plenty of oppor- tunities of seeing the...

[To THE EDIT011 07 SHE "SPECTATOR...] you kindly permit use to remind your readers of a duty and a pleasure which I feel sure they would be sorry to forego F Many hundreds of...

1ND rA. GREEN, green birds 'gainst a blue, blue sky, The scream of the parrots as past they fly, The golden shimmer of hot, hot air, And an arid plain 'neath the sun's fierce...

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

[Cheques should be addressed to the Speciater,1 Wellington Street, &rand, London, W.-C., and made payable to the Spectator and crossed " Barclay and Co., Gosling's Branch;...

' A PSEUDO-HERO OF THE REVOLUTION.• IF it -be a fact, as Carlyle said, that "History is the essence of innumerable biographies," it is very necessary that the :biographies from...

GRAY probably wrote, and certainly published, fewer verses than any English poet whose work survives and circulates. He wrote much less than any poet who has attained so high a...

IN his new work, Tales of the Mermaid Tavern, Mr. Noyes seems at last to have come into his poetic heritage. He proves himself a true Elizabethan, not only in the sympathy witli...

"Sim was not only frank, generous, high-spirited, confiding, and forgiving, but unaffectedly pious also, as piety was understood by those who formed her ideas." So the late Mr....

M. PHILIPPE MILLET gives us under a frivolous title as series of highly entertaining pictures of English life aa. viewed through Gallic glasses. It must be premised than as no...

This book, which is being published in Dutch as well as in English, is founded on a diary written during the Boer War by Miss Hansie Van Warmelo, now Mrs. Brandt. Encouraged by...

WE deal fully in our leading columns with Lord Cromer's important article in the Nineteenth Century upon " The Capitulations in Egypt."—Of the other articles, perhaps • The...

Tb' experience could be bought in the shape of a book, Mrs. Stallard world have smoothed away most of the rough places of housekeeping for her readers. Unfortunately, however,...

V.V.'s EYES.* MR. HENRY SYDNOR HARRISON has the unmistakable gift of a storyteller. It is nothing less than a gift. Those who have it from some fairy enchantment of their birth...

6s.)—The author of H. M. I. might reasonably be expected to be discursive when ho writes novels; and he is. But Tom, Vron is not too long, and the vagaries of the author only...

Hugh Fraser. (Hutchinson and Co. 6s.)—A story of provincial France in the days of the great Cardinal. The fate of the villain is sufficiently horrible to act as an awful warning...

of this book manages cleverly both the scenes in rather Bohemian theatrical circles, and those which aro concerned with the middle-class English family of the name of Prout....

University Press. 2s. 61.)—The new section of the Oxford Dictionary contains 1,414 words, as compared with 110 in the same portion of Dr. Johnson's. The words contained in it...

throwing light upon the earlier part of the career of Marie-Therese-Charlotte, the unfortunate daughter of Louis XVL She was born in 1778, and in 1792 was imprisoned in the...

DunbilL (Macmillan and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—Though this book must necessarily appeal principally to the student, it possesses enough general interest to deserve notice from the...

preface by the Right Hon. Sir Edward Carson. (Pitman and Sons. 3s. 6c1. net.) — Mr. Wicks ably sets out the case , against Home Rule in a work which is primarily intended for...

[Under this heading ve ,,dire such Locks of the week as 1.5es not been sescrted for renew in other forms.] Co. 5s. net.)—A few selections from some of the less-known Russian...