O N Thursday afternoon Mr. Asquith, in answering questions addressed to him in regard to the fate of the Budget, made statements which in certain quarters have been represented...

the alteration Lord Rosebery made in the Resolution which he will move on Monday week. That Resolution will now not only ask the House to resolve itself into a Committee to...

this is a piece of shameless impudence on the part of the Unionists, and that they are trying to make their opponents responsible for the financial difficulties and...

Thursday. To begin with, Lord Lansdowne made it clear that every facility would be given to passing the War Loan Redemption Bill and the Treasury (Temporary Borrowing) Bill...

Asquith's various speeches and answers, which is as follows :- " (1) On the reassembling of the House the day after Easter Monday the Veto Resolutions will be taken in the...

do not know, but we sincerely trust that they will recog- nise the principles which have been already set forth in the Spectator. We recapitulate them here : — (1) That mere...

case.

being in no haste to press forward their Budget. The House of Lords had been roundly denounced for postponing the consideration of it for a few weeks, yet now the Government...

is likely to be urged in the immediate future, the Times corre- spondent at Shanghai has done good service by emphasising the crying need of judicial reform throughout the...

approve I by the House of Lords, we have two comments to make. We are well aware that it may be said of indirect election by the County Councils that it would bring politics far...

which the Government had been returned—the abolition of the Lords' veto—he and his party were in whole-hearted agreement with the Liberals. He now adjured the Prime...

message from the Athens correspondent of the Times in Thursday's paper says that the Military League will probably dissolve as soon as the Royal decree has been issued con-...

hotly throughout Germany. Nor is it easy to see why the bitterness should disappear so long as the glaring contrast remains between the manhood suffrage of the Reichstag and the...

whether the non-popularly elected section of the House should be chosen on the Senatorial basis—that is, the basis of the tenure of high office—or by election from the...

that till March 24th the Government should have all the time of the House. He described the business which must be done before then if government were not to come to a stand-...

is recorded by Lord Cheylesmore in an appeal published in Monday's Times. At the Frimley Sanatorium the patients have memorialised the Committee, expressing their "unanimous and...

Local Government Board was once more raised in the House of Commons on Wednesday, and although Mr. Asquith declared that "the matter was one for general assent," no decision was...

Navy Estimate of nearly £700,000. Mr. McKenna explained that more than two-thirds of this sum was due to expenditure incurred upon the four "contingent" ships which were...

on "Colours of Sea and Sky," though too summarily reported in the papers, was of fascinating interest. Davy, Bunsen, Spring, and Aufsess were all satisfied that the colour of...

business, which included the authorisation of further Treasury borrowings and of a suspension of the Sinking Fund. The attack upon the Government was opened by Sir F. Banbury,...

were presented on Tuesday to the King at Buckingham Palace. In his replies his Majesty cordially acknowledged the reference to his efforts as pacificator : " The concord of...

Commission on the Selection of Justices of the Peace on Wednesday. The greatest difficulty was the political element. Recommendations had reached him direct from Members of...

stitutional outrage ; hay was to be made of the Constitution while the setting sun of Radicalism still shone. The reform of the Lords was the solution of the whole difficulty,...

Feb. 10th. Consols (2i) were on Friday 84—Friday week 84.

THE POLITICAL SITUATION. " ii rOU can build nothing," said the great Lord Halifax, the Lord Halifax of the Revolution of 1688, " upon a foundation of paradoxes." The present...

T HE flight of the Dalai Lama to India has taken people by surprise chiefly because since 1904, when the Younghusband Expedition went to Lhasa, Englishmen have thought very...

I anything be needed to prove the necessity for organising moderate opinion throughout the country, it is the spectacle now presented by the House of Commons. That House, as...

W E cannot attempt to give a summary of the exceedingly interesting and important evidence that has been laid before the Royal Commission on the law of divorce now sitting at...

T ORD ROSEBERY'S splendid gift of his villa at 4 Posilippo as a summer residence for the British Ambassador in Italy makes us wonder whether gifts of this sort are recognised...

r E Bourne has broken again at Croydon, and the same stories are being told about it, and the same questions asked, and the same prophecies made of coming evil, as have been...

STREASTREA MING with perspiration, half blinded by dust, and MING with numbed but tenacious fingers to the end of a hard twist rope, we were dragged round the corral for the...

THE NEW " LOI ORGANIQUE " FOR THE FRENCH NAVY. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " EPECTATOR."1 SIR,—On February 7th the President of the French Republic, the Minister of Marine, and the...

THE "FEUDAL SCREW." (TO tax EDITOR OP Vile SPECTATOR:1 read with interest two letters which appeared in your issue of February 19th under the title of "The 'Feudal Screw,'"...

[To THE EDITOR Or PRE " SPECTATOR:1 ••• ••• ••• • •• Income-tar Death-duties 0011 •• • • • SIR,—An attempt has been made to ascertain...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "Spscrixos.'1 SIR,— Surely the Muse of History must have veiled her face when she was made aware of the audacious pronouncement of your correspondent "...

asking to be informed concerning a Welsh- man whose name "belongs to history" probably restricts the term " history " to the record of political affairs. But this is to overlook...

[To mos EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—Twenty-four years ago I first became intimate with German friends in their own country. They were "intel- lectuals,"...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR."] Stn,—By the death of Lieutenant-Colonel Lionel Bonham, of the Grenadier Guards and of the Imperial Ottoman Gendarmerie, the British and...

to ask " E. S." (vide his letter in your issue of February 26th) how he reconciles the Kaiser's solemn declarations of his attachment to peace with Germany's attitude towards...

am English, but have, through marriage, German relations, one of whom wrote to me last Christmas, and, quoting from memory, these words were used :— " Though a good patriot,...

[To THE EDITOR OE TER "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—The problem of unemployment has been much dis- cussed and various suggestions have been made as to possible methods of dealing with...

[To THY EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Whether our Alliance with Japan results ultimately in good or ill, it has produced remarkable and unexpected results. The defeat of...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPROTLTOR.'1 Sin,—Those who in Scotland abstain, on principle, from voting are but few in number. The percentage of electors who went to the poll amply...

[TO THE EDITOR OP TEE " SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—May a workman, and a reader of the Spectator, add his testimony through your columns to the excellent work the British Constitution...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I venture to suggest that President Roosevelt's words of eulogy on the British rule in India should be placed on the walls of...

(To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Of all the canting catchwords of political controversy, there is none which I have grown to detest like "the people's mandate." As...

"SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—It is not many days since an appeal was made in the columns of the Times by the British Ambassador at Con- stantinople for funds to assist the building of...

"SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Re-reading Charles H. Pearson's thoughtful forecast, "National Life and Character," I was struck, where he speaks of the debasement of the drama to...

f To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Mrs. Brotherton, who passed away early in the morning on Tuesday, January 25th, at Elm House, Freshwater Bay, was a remarkable...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I think the writer of the interesting article on "The Gamekeeper's Black List' " in the Spectator of February 19th is mistaken in...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sra, — It is the Ablongus pie which should be thrown out of the window as soon as possible, not the Gosky patties (see Spectator, February...

Lake District, is singularly little known to the average Southerner." Thus your reviewer of " Silverwool " in last week's Spectator. He gives point to this genial statement by...

(In the depth of winter tiny red may be found on points, the beginning of leaf-buds, the leafless trees.) Touch'd with his finger the red And I saw the red bud there. Leaf-bud...

CLEOPATRA.* CLEOPATRA: a name of magic and romance, which kindles the imagination and fires the blood, for the world is moved far more than it suspects by romance and poetry....

C1TLGAI PADDOCK. I irrrow that the tawny grass of the plain Is blown like the sea to-day By the wind that follows the autumn rain And chases the clouds away And ruffles the...

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...

Mr. Blatchford, as a convinced Socialist, believes that ultimately the federation of the world will be achieved and armies will be abolished. At all events, as a sensible man,...

LADY ROSE WEIGALL has already given us extracts from her mother's correspondence with Wellington, and from the letters which she wrote from the Continent during the Napoleonic...

real service by making Liberty and Authority the subject of his address to the Associated Societies of the University of Edinburgh. The individual and the State are often...

FEW Frenchmen are better known in England than M. Guyot, and the little book which he has lately published is sure to be welcomed here. In the simplest and clearest manner he...

Miss BARLOW keeps in this book a happy mean between the farcical Ireland of Lever and the melancholy island which it is the fashion of modern fiction to picture for us. She will...

with others of the same class, is injuriously affected by considerations which are not literary. It is, and has to be, for quite cogent reasons, dispropor- tionate to its...

Mn. HAROLD Cog's article on " The Denial of Self-Govern- ment" heads the contents of the new Nineteenth Century. The pith of the article can be put into two sentences :...

Co. 62.)—A series of short sketches of the affairs, chiefly sentimental, of a community of people who live on a vi77age green.—The Carborough Scandal. By Fred Whishaw. (C....

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] The National DVence Magazine.—We are glad to welcome the National...

mann. 6s.)—It is to be hoped that although Mrs. Belloc Lowndes gives her new novel the sub-title "An Everyday Story," the incidents therein related do not often happen in...

BOUND TOGETHER.• THE collection of short stories which Mrs. Mann has put forth under the title of Bound Together is representative of the versatility rather than the charm of...

6s.)— This again is a story of a Surrey village. Here, however, we encounter no murderers, the narrative being concerned with an ordinary country community, moved by nothing...

net.)—Pere Hardouin, S.J., held that all the classics except Cicero, Pliny the Elder, the Georgics of Virgil, and the Satires and Epistles of Horace, were fabrications of the...

by L. W. Lyde. (Clarendon Press. 2s. 6d. net.)— The facts here given pictorially are under the headings of (1) heights and depths of land and sea; (2) temperature and...

Co. 6s. net.)—This catalogue, it will be remembered, is double,—i.e., each book is entered under its title and under its author's name. The analysis is interesting as usual....

and H. B. Walters, M.A. (For the Authors.)—This publication will be of much local interest. We can find room for one item of informa- tion only. Of the 1,728 bells described,...

John Latimer. (W. C. liemmons, Bristol. 7s. 6d. net.)—A number of interesting documents bearing on the development of Bristol are here summarised. The fortification of the...

M.A., and W. Evans, M.A. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co. 3s. 6d. net.) —This volume contains as usual information about public and preparatory schools, their staffs, buildings,...

Blackwell, Oxford. 10s. 6d. net.)—Monographs IX.-XIII. deal with five "special periods," Mr. I. S. Leadam, taking the time from the foundation down to the death of Henry...

to the publication of fifty more volumes in the " Everyman's Library " (J. M. Dent and Sons, Is. net per vol.) The selection of works continues to be as excellent as before, the...

Stock. 2s. net.)—There is much that is useful in this book. We would note particularly the guide to " Special Libraries," in which the student will find information not easily...