untoward results. The streets of Central Paris, depleted by an exodus of the well-to-do, remained tranquil and semi- deserted throughout the day ; the Anarchist and Royalist...

the Egyptian boundary question will, we trust, prove a useful lesson to our "humanitarians," and make them recon- sider their aspirations for reducing our naval and military...

and China as to China's adhesion to the Tibetan Convention had come to an end. On Friday week an Agreement on the subject was signed by Sir Ernest Satow and Tang Shao-yi, a...

case.

o'clock the resignation of Count Witte was officially announced. The obscurity which hangs round one who is perhaps the greatest figure in Russian political life is illustrated...

prizes on Wednesday. The Marathon Race, the great event of the meeting, was • contested on Tuesday afternoon, and was won by a young Canadian of Anglo- Irish parentage named...

at the unveiling of a statue presented by Mr. Harjes, of Philadelphia. After speeches by the American Ambassador in Paris and by the Minister for Public Works, an eloquent...

introduced his Budget in a long but extremely lucid speech. His predecessor had estimated a revenue of £142,454,000 for the recently ended financial year, and an expenditure of...

every soldier a pension owing to the great financial burden involved. We agree that it is not possible to add to the financial burden of the Army, but we do not see why the...

described the Budget as commonplace and humdrum. This, however, was not necessarily a fault, and the Budget might be considered a Unionist one, since the surplus was due to the...

financial position. After solemnly warning the House of the magnitude of the national indebtedness and the vast increase in expenditure, be announced his intention of returning...

of what is a sober and reasonable, if unexciting, Budget. No exception can be taken to the actual remissions, and we cordially approve of the sum devoted to the increase of the...

begun. The following table shows the details of estimated receipts on the basis of existing expenditure :— Customs .., 234,230,000 Excise ... 30,200,000 Death-duties ......

to recruiting. In his opinion, we shall never have the Army we need until the Army is made a profession and a career for every man joining it. After Mr. Arnold-Forster had...

to a correspondent in connection with the Education Bill. Mr. Chamberlain states that though he sympathises to some extent with the objection of the Nonconformists to the Act of...

League meeting at the Albert Hall on Wednes- day afternoon. The chief feature of the speech was a bitter and violent attack on the Colonial policy of the Government. They had...

of the Bishop's letter as a welcome contribution to the cause of peace and Christianity, and as the work of a sane and broad-minded Christian statesman. Dr. Guinness Rogers...

Church leaders is to be found in the Report of the Committee appointed to deal with the Bill presented to the Lower House of Convocation (Canterbury) on Wednesday. For the tone...

in the Times of Saturday last. The appeal is signed by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York; the Presidents of the United Methodist Free Churches, the Wesleyan Methodist...

Console (2; per cent.) were on Frilty 891.

THE BUDGET. W E congratulate Mr. Asquith very heartily on the good sense and statesmanship which he has shown in his Budget. Mr. Chamberlain described it as a humdrum and...

T HE Government have made a great mistake in intro- ducing their Bill for the establishment of the principle of "One man one vote" without giving to Parlia- ment and the country...

A S we expected, May Day passed quietly in France. Some of our contemporaries were so vexed by the absence of anything like a sensation that they made up a. grand story about...

T HE publication of Lord Cromer's annual Report on Egypt and the Soudan is one of the most important events of the year in Imperial history. For not only are his Reports...

W E referred not long since to the incompleteness which necessarily characterises the efforts of private Members to deal with large and complicated subjects. Each man either...

Athens has been run once more, and the Olympic Games are over. The gold medals and the statuettes of Athena, which are the crown of wild olive translated into terms more...

T HERE is no such thing in Paris as a ladies' club,—so the French Ambassador told us in an after-dinner speech which he recently made at the Lyceum Club. French women, he said,...

A T this season of the year, when the aquatic flies rise to the surface of the water and the eager trout rise after them as they float along the stream, tbe question that every...

THE EDUCATION BILL [To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 SER,,—May I say a word to your correspondent in last week's Spectator who reflects that it was the Church of HM time...

clergyman who greatly deplores the pre- vailing abuse of the religious teaching in provided schools, thank you for your article in last week's Spectator on "Church- men and the...

Sin,—The Education Bill of 1906 has been fiercely, and I think unreasonably, attacked. What attitude will Church- men generally take up ? ' I hope not one of uncompromising...

ratepayers, and many Voluntary school trustees, will welcome the support given at the end of your article on the Education Bill last week to the suggestion that any Voluntary...

admirer of your articles on the Education Bill, and a school manager and treasurer for the last nine years, be allowed to suggest an alternative to your proposal to allow...

your true and brave words on "Churchmen and the Bible" (Spectator, April 28th). But there is one further point that I do not think has been referred to, certainly not by the...

of the game"; and no doubt it is in character for the Spectator to appeal to Churchmen and Nonconformists alike to accept a via media on the question of religion in elementary...

SIR,—I think your suggestion (Spectator, April 28th) that any Voluntary school so desiring (providing, of course, that it was not the only school in the district) might have the...

Mr. Diggle's letter in your last issue. I have a strong impression that the question whether Christ's divinity should be one of the subjects included in the syllabus of the...

a time of plain speaking, will you allow me, as a constant reader of the Spectator, to make a brief and plain reply to the main contention of your earnest and vigorous article...

issue as to the character and worth of "Biblical instruction" are so vital that I venture to ask for a short space in which to state some considerations which accrue from a...

SIR,—There is a factor in the present educational situation which many of Mr. Birrell's critics habitually overlook. Whatever differences of opinion there may be as to the...

the controversy which is now being waged in the Press over the merits and demerits of Mr. Birrell's Education Bill ought not to be treated exclusively as an issue between...

SIR,—There are many, both lay and clerical, up and down the country who cordially approve of the method of dealing with the Education Bill which you have outlined in your last...

TUB "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —Since I last wrote to you our miniature rifle range has, after many unfortunate delays, been at last opened, and I am glad to say that, thanks to the...

should very much like to see set out in black andwhite the actual extent of the losses incurred by the Church under Mr. Binell's Education Bill,—what, in fact, is to be set...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I venture to ask if you would be so kind as to draw the attention of your readers who are interested in the training and disciplining of...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "Srsmion." SIR,—May I ask of your unfailing courtesy to correct a mis- quotation of my book, "The Eternal Witness," which occurs in your very kind...

SIE, — I should like to thank you for your excellent article of last week on the controversy over religious education. I take the liberty of enclosing a copy of a resolution...

[To THE EDITOR Of THE "SPECTATOR.") STE,—In your "News of the Week" last week, in dealing with the disturbance in the Ladies' Gallery of the House of Commons on April 25th, you...

THE ACADEMY.--I. IT must be confessed that the present Exhibition at Burlington House is one of very little interest. Such a large collection of pictures as that shown annually...

THE DAY. WONDERFUL, silent, doth it rise,— A white fact casting off red dreams,— With clear, unfathomable eyes Where time, unconquered, gleams.. Fools, lacking time to love or...

LTO THE EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTATOR."1 SIB,—I shall be much obliged if you can find space for the enclosed letter. Sir William Bull, after its receipt, com- mended Mr. Marks at...

A BENTHAMITE SYMPOSIUM.* THE anonymous author of this book has put his thesis against the continuance of war into the form of a symposium. The Arbiter, a follower of Bright and...

of years and honours, and the best monuments to his memory are raised in the two editions of his Diary now before us. Both are reprints of William Bray's edition, so that in the...

BEFORE Louis XIII. built his picturesque hunting-box on the bill at Versailles, it was crowned with the usual windmill, below which trailed the houses of a long village, with...

• The Sustirns of the Stars. By Agnes N. Clarke. London : A. and C. Blook. [20s, net.] THE advances of astronomy during the last half-century are nowhere more remarkable than...

THE shadow of the Education Bill lies heavy on the new Nineteenth Century, no fewer than six articles being devoted to the subject. Dr. Macnamara, who leads off, is a whole-...

RING IN THE NEW.* THE novels of Mr. Richard Whiteing might serve as an excellent text for an essay on the evolution of social satire in modern fiction'. Most of those who...

Co. 6s.)—The creator of Dick Ryder, otherwise "Galloping Dick," has put the world in his debt by giving it a further series of his hero's adventures. The highwayman of real life...

Mast and Sail in Europe and Asia. By H. Warington Smyth. (John Murray. 21s. net.)—This is a book in the presence of which the "armchair" critic feels peculiarly helpless. What...

Co. 6s.)—It cannot be said that Miss Glasgow's accounts of society in New York give her readers a very pleasant impression of the social conditions of that city. A society which...

JOHN WESLEY. The Life of John Wesley. By C. T. Winchester. (Macmillan and Co. 6s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Winchester, who professes English Litera- ture in the Wesleyan University in the...

Co. 12s. net.)—We prefer to have our travel and fiction unmixed,—perhaps an unreasonable taste, seeing the reputation commonly borne by "travellers' tales." When we expect to...

Children's Heroes," Edited by John Lang (T. C. and E. C. Jack, is. 6d. net per vol.) Mr. Andrew Lang makes an excellent beginning with The Story of Joan of Arc, and Mr. John...

[Under this heading tee notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] The Annual Charities Register and Digest. With Introduction by C. S....

For private circulation.)—Here we have gardening in excelsis. First comes the introduction, which gives a history of the Veitch firm. The first of the line came from. Jedbergh...

welcome the appearance of the first number of the Rifleman, a journal which is to be entirely devoted to rifle-shooting, and will hold the position of the official organ of the...