was suddenly tacked on to the Burnett Bill in the House of Representatives at Washington on Monday. By this amendment "Hindus and persons of the Mongolian or yellow races, the...

wording of the Indemnity Aot. He showed himself willing to take full responsibility for his acts, and showed also true firmness and courage. Undoubtedly General Botha and he did...

a feature of modern democratic government. They are cer- tainly likely to play a considerable part in the Irish Parlia- ment if it is ever set up. It may be remembered that...

place in Peru on Wednesday. In the fighting which occurred when the revolutionaries seized the Government the Prime Minister was shot, and there were about fifty general...

T HE debate on the Indemnity Bill in South Africa has been remarkable for a most spirited and powerful defence of the policy of the Union Government by General Smuts. We have...

Queen will visit the French President in April. It will be remembered that M. Poineare visited England last June. We are sure that the reception of the King and Queen will be...

policy on Thursday. After having pointed out the extreme dangers which threatened the country last July from the Syndicalist agitation owing to the condition of unrest among the...

third time all the old points, exploded stories, wild guesses masquerading under the guise of statistics, and allegations that beg the question in every line. The only new part...

on the land question which had been so long and so eagerly expected. Whether it will satisfy the Single Taxers remains to be seen. For ourselves, we can only say that Mr. Lloyd...

von Jagow, the Foreign Secretary, in the debate on the Navy Estimates in the Budget Committee of the Reichstag on Wednesday. Grand-Admiral von Tirpitz declared that while the...

to make the land contribute to public expenditure on the basis of its real value. In other words, there is to be the taxation of land values. This means that if a man has got a...

unjust stories of the Sutherland clearances, clearances which, if . the truth be told, were made very much on the principle on which the Congested Districts Board acts. This...

of Commerce, made en important speech on Tuesday. Expenditure on armaments was not a British but a Euro- pean question, and a remarkable thing about it was that while any large...

sentative and influential meeting held at the Mansion House in support of the appeal that is being made on behalf of the fund raised to celebrate the Hundred Veers' Peace among...

we desire to add our congratulations to the many others which the Westminster has received on its coming of age. Sir Edward Cook contributed a very interesting account of the...

the concert platform under the late Sir Joseph Bamby at the Albert Hall in 1884 excerpts have frequently been given at the provincial Festivals, and the Vorspiet, the...

last Saturday. Mr. Aneurin Williams, the Liberal candidate, was returned by a majority of 1,677 over the Unionist candidate. The figures were :— Mr. A. Williams (L.) 7,241 Mr....

we are bound to say we feel specially anxious in regard to it. Such schemes, especially when run as a by-product, are terribly apt to absorb too large a proportion of energy and...

to consider the relations of Church and State. The Committee comes into existence in response to a resolu- tion carried unanimously by the Representative Church Council in July,...

"Help the Boy Scouts." He appeals to the result of his six years' experimental work as proof, and hero the whole country will be with him, that what he has done for the Scouts...

flummery, and yet in no sense dull, in which he excels. One of his points has not been hitherto recognized in America as it should be. The Americans take pride in our great...

we do not doubt, and we most sincerely hope that the Scouts will get their quarter of a million. But though we think the objects good per se, we hope we may be able, without...

Jan. 29th. Consols (20 were on Friday 761—Friday week 761.

EXCLUSION OR CIVIL WAR? A LL Unionists—all who desire to avoid the appalling disaster of civil war towards which the country is drifting—must be grateful for Mr. Austen...

there are no physical obstacles to the adoption of Exclusion. Remember, however smoothly the orators and writers of the Administration may sometimes talk, there is nothing the...

T HE Canteen case is rub judixe, and we can therefore say nothing, and desire to say nothing, in regard to the guilt or innocence of any of the persons accused. Not only are we...

T HE late Mr. W. E. Forster was once called a " Cromwell in a broad-brimmed hat," a nickname which attempted to hit off the combination in him of Ironside practice and Quaker...

ITLHE opinion of moderate people in this country about 1 recent events in South Africa distinguishes between the two parts of General Botba's policy. Except among those who...

people in the world. It is our national peculiarity to remain ourselves in any circumstances. The two statements look like a contradiction in terms. Both are true, nevertheless,...

T HE river Wye provides a good example of the possibilities of the regeneration of fishing waters. It has been a good river, a hopeless river, and a remade river in turns. In...

E ARLY one spring morning we looked out of our hotel window, in a little town in Provence, and, in the shade of a bamboo fence, saw a waggonette drawn up. It was covered with a...

ARTHURIAN DRAMA AT GLASTONBURY. rTo rns Ennos or Tam • '8rzuszos."1 Sin,—Many people have wondered why London should be the sole place in England where it is possible to...

HOME RULE AND THE ROYAL VETO. L're 1115 EDIT., or rue smoviroa - J Sin,—Irish Unionists assert that the so-called safeguards in the Home Rule Bill are worthless. This view has...

short time before the Home Rule Bill finally comes before the House, and owing to the continued apathy of the people across the Channel, may I make an appeal through your widely...

Sim—With reference to your excellent suggestion that, in order to avoid civil war, Ulster should become to all intents and purposes a county of England, will you permit me to...

[To ran Fumes or Tar ••srscraros."J Sta,—I wonder bow many of your readers realize the fact that in Ulster we are on the brink of a civil war which will have far-reaching...

[To ram Ferret or ray "Sraeraroa."1 Sin,—It has occurred to me to wonder whether Mr. Birrell in the course of his literary studies—to which we all sincerely hope he will in the...

[To :as Fames or ran ••Srscraroa."1 Sia,—In your issue of the 17th inst. Lord Cromer takes exception to the following passage from a pamphlet on indentured labour which I...

;To vas ED1703 or ran ''Sracreroa.1 SIR,—Three years ago, when discussions as to the reform of the House of Lords were at their height, I had occasion to write to you, and point...

urn ram Zones or rite "Srsoreroa."1 S111,—It is of interest to know that it is not in this country alone that the fight against the slave labour system in Portuguese West Africa...

[To TDB EOM. OF MIX "SPECTATOR."' SIR, — LOrd Cromer's interesting article in the Spectator of January 17th may recall to some of your readers the battle they were fighting...

LTO r>ts Emma 07 sac “Sewurrroa...] SIP., — May I repeat the conviction—which is strengthened by each visit I pay to the docks and every following of the horses into the...

[To TES Banos OF as "Srecraros."1 Sin,—You published a letter on October 31st of last year announcing that a Committee had been formed to provide a Border memorial to Andrew...

Miss Greg (Spectator, January 31st) should declare that my six suggestions for preventing any sort of abuse (which suggestions you have endorsed as "common-sense and humane ")...

[To na EDITHE or ems .. Eractrzos.") SIB, —My attention has been drawn to the fact that, in tle interesting review of my book, Macdonald of the Isles, which appeared in your ....

paper convey to your readers the fact that you have most courteously given me permission to reprint extracts from Miss Cole's letters, and that the pro- prietors of Panel, hare...

[To Tea Lanes or THE Brzenrocl Sin, - "afelly friends and fellow-workers of the late Sir Robert Hunter, have felt that there should be some suitable memorial to commemorate...

[To TM EDITOR 07 0115 • 'Sracrar0t''] • Sts,—" You're a amiably disposed young Man, Sir, I don't think," was said by Sam Weller to Mr. Winkle, not at Bath,

/To we Enna or sus ••Srnrratot "3 Sia,—While cordially thanking you for the very brief but kindly welcome you have been good enough to give to my annotated version of Homer's...

FRENCH CIVILIZATION.• DE TOCQUE VILLE once remarked that France would possibly always continue to inspire feelings amongst other nations alternating from the extreme of...

[To ram Eamon or rus 013rsorsros."] SIR,—I have wondered often as to the derivation of the expression "to grouse," which is used frequently, especially in military circles, for...

DODO, 1903 - 1913. HERE lies a little dog who now Asks nothing more of man's goodwill Than the grey stone that tells you how She loved the friends who love her still. ARTHUR...

[To res Runes or Ise Srecrsros."1 Stn,, —As my friend Miee Montray Read, author of the article on the British Isles in Mr. Hutchinson's Customs of the World, is away from home...

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

'Sus debt that the Church of England owes to John Cosin, great as it is, has never been recognized by the tribute of a popular biography. And this is the more wonderful since...

the soul at the same time seems to many of us to be the perfection of missionary work, and when this service is performed among wild tribesmen, and the missionary carries his...

present season are of special interest to Balliol men. One, Devorgala, Lady of Galloway, by Mr. Wentworth Huyshe, is an account of the foundress and her work in Scotland; the...

introduction makes the new edition of Clough's poems just issued by Messrs. Macmillan doubly welcome. His sketch of Clough's life is full of the sympathy both of comprehension...

Lax us, in the first place, praise Mrs. Villiers Stuart's charming water-colour sketches of Indian palaces and gardens. Charming they are, even in process reproductions, - since...

LADY Rom:ries style of writing is delightful; we will even forgive her the repeated use of such an expression as " divaga- tion " for the sake of her gentle love of words ; yet...

UNDER the beading of "Our Unsolved Enigma" three writers deal in the Nineteenth Century with the Home Rule crisis. His Honour Judge Atherley-Jones appeals to Parliament to...

volume define its status accurately enough. In one Sir W. Robertson Nicoll analyses the causes which have at the present day made the essay practically obsolete. In another (an...

THE MEASURE OF OUR THOUGHTS.' IF we are to follow the method of Robinson Crusoe, so happily revived in The Wrong Boa, of summing up a situation by a parallel statement of...

deal of clever word.spinning which probes arts, crafts, and temperaments. The plot is exasperating, but the characters do carry interest as well as the subjects.—Gold Lace. By...

6s.)—Mr. Hamilton Drummond imparts a novelty into his story of treasure-hunting by assigning the principal character to a woman. Otherwise, although the book is well...

Boon. 6s.)—Mr. London's book is a classic, if we may be forgiven the use of so dignified a word, in American slang. Here is language, at first incomprehensible, afterwards...

Blackett 6'0—The moral of Miss Potter's and Mr. Sladen's book is the importance of technical or business train- ing for all women who will have to earn their own livelihood. It...

delightful record of "haphazard wander- ings on the fells" will make a strong appeal to all those who, like herself, "have ever loved the track and the mountain, rather than the...

a Library. By Edmund Goese. (William Heinemann. 6s. net each.)—In a copy of verses addressed to R. L. Stevenson, Mr. Gorse once expressed his ambition to be counted among those...

(Office of the Fund. 2s. net.)—The Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund make the very interesting announcement that during the winter months the survey of the country...

6d. net.)—Mr. Weekley tells us that "the etymological study of surnames has scarcely been touched at present, except by writers to whom philology is an unknown science." As a...

[Under this heading les notice such Books of the week as have nei two swerved for review in other lortna] Middle English Humorous Talcs in Verse. Edited by George H. McKnight,...