rTO Tnr EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."1 Sia,-If you are willing to allow any more correspondence on the subject of our old friend, the split infinitive, may I mention that the...

OWLS IN LONDON. [To THE EDITOR OF THE ' "SPCTATOIL."1 SIR,-It may interest your ornithological readers to know that yesterday afternoon, when walking outside the railings which...

A SLIP OF THE PEN. rTo THIX EDITOR OF THIi " SPECTATOU'I Srn,-The poet Longfellow, in verses entitled "The Emperor's Bird's Nest," perpetrated a blunder the exact converse of...

A QUESTION OF GRAMMAR. [To TRIO EDITOR OF THE "SPUCTATOR.'J $3In,-With Mr. Common I say, "What is wrong with the .-split infinitive P " But I go further and say, " What is...

rTO Tn3 EDITOn OS THE "SPZCTATOR."| SIR,-"'AvjpLt1AOwv 'yJAauja." The notice of " Everyman's Library " in your issue of February 24th criticises unfavonrably Mr. Hutchinson's...

" IMMEASURABLE LAUGHTER." [TO TUN EDITOR Or THIN BuPCTATOR."j t3In,-In your review of the last issues of "Everynman's; Library " you justly say that "'immeasurable laughter' is...

"THE SHADE." [TO THn EDITOR OF THE "SI'rCTATOR."] SIR,-I cannot stand by quietly and see one of my pet quota. tions mauled as it is by "Linesman" in your yesterday's issue,...

[To TnIfl EDITOR Or THE " SrECTATOR."] SIR,-In your article on the coal strike yoe say, "Owners should do their best to apply profit-sharing to the mines . ., under a regular...

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE WORKING MAN. [TO THE EDITOR or THNE " SPECTATOR."J SI.,-The coal strike, like the fiscal question, has produced one valuable by-product. It has brought...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. THE COAL STRIKE. [To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I have noticed with regret to what a small extent the eoalowtners' point of view has been set...

THE "LESSONS OF THE STRIKE." [TO THU EDITOR OF Tl " SPrCTATOR."j SiPn,-I cannot but think that in expressing my disappoint. ment with your article on the " Lessons of the...

COAL MINERS FOR THEfl NAVY. [To nm EDITOR oF THE "SPECTATOR."] SI,-Might it not be well-or, rather, not well, but less evil than the present state of things-that the Government...

I On Fridav the Dailv Chroniole published a inessaae from Captain Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer, which had come from Hobart, Tasmania, via Christiania, stating that he...

On Tuesday Mr. Wyndham, in a long speech, expressed mis- I givings as to the policy of reducing our oversea garrisons, and observed that the shortage of officers for our...

On Wednesday Colonel Seely, replying for the Government, Welcomed the criticisms of Mr. Wyndham, and assured him, in regard to our foreign garrisons, that the Government were...

I On Friday week the militant suffragists carried out a fanatical demonstration in London by breaking windows. Early in the evening three women, including Mrs. Pankhurst, broke...

In conclusion Colonel Seely made an interesting statement I as to the new Flying Corps, which would embrace soldiers, sailors, and civilians. A large tract had been purchased...

In the debate in Committee on the Army Estimates on I Monday Colonel Seely devoted a great part of his statement to rebutting the criticisms of Mr. Bonar Law on the arms of the...

The Archbishop of Canterhujry received a deputation at ILamDeth on Tuesday afternoon in support of the memorial sent to him last year praying for the appointment of a small...

I On Tuesday seventeen women were sentenced to hard labour. We cannot understand, by the way, why the Post Office authorities had refused to help the prosecution by stating the...

On Monday night there was to have been a demonstration of militant suffragists in Parliament Square, but as this was prohibited by the police there was another orgy of...

DAMNATION OF INFANTS. LTO THE. EDITOR oF THE " SPICTATOR."1 SiR,-Mr. Fisher in the Spectator of February 24th says that the phrase "damnation of infants a span long" was never...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."1 SIR,-The doctrine of the Church of England upon this sub. ject is thus expressed: "It is certain by God's Word that children which are...

THE PLURAL VOTING BILL AND "ONE VOTE, ONE VALUE." LTO TED EEDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,-In last Friday's debate on the Plural Voting Bill Major Morrison-Bell moved that it...

THE MANCHU ABDICATION. [TO TIEi EDITOR OF THE "SPCCTATOR.."1 8IR,-There are attached to the Chinese Empress's letter of abdication certain consequences which may be worthy of...

THE INDIAN COTTON EXCISE. [To THE EDIR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-My letter on the above subject was written in great haste after a heavy day and was not revised. It contains...

(To TER EDITOR 0P THE 'SrUCA10R."] SIR,-A good while ago I read in a review of the diary of a CItlvinistic divine of, I think, the eighteenth century the following extract...

r.TO TUB EDITOa Oy T1B "BSPiCTATOR."] SIR,-The answer to A A Questioner " (SpectaMor of Mar'ch 2nd) is an emphatic negative. The " Confession of Faith " postulates (chap, ii....

An acute dispute over the Army Reform Bills is disturbing I the relations of Austria and Hungary. On Thursday Count Khuen Hedervary, the Hungarian Premier, tendered the...

The by-election in South Manchester bas resulted in a crushing defeat for the Government and the gain of a scat for the Opposition. Sir A. Hawortli, who was seeking re-election...

I Mr. Asquith next explained the reasons which prevented the proposed terms from being unanimously accepted. The miners maintained that the schedule fixed by them on February...

[ In the House of Commons on Thursday Mr. Asquith made a very important statement as to public business. The Home Rule Bill will not be introduced before the Easter recess,...

I In the House of Commons on Monday Mr. Asquith made a detailed statement as to the course of the negotiations last week upon the coal dispute. He began by recapitulating the...

No doubt the Government would much prefer not to take I such a step, but if they do, and if the men still insist upon their schedules, the whole of their schedules, and nothing...

The short frenzy of looting which broke out among the troops I at Peking on Thursday week has since spread to many towns. The third division, which began the oatbreak, had...

The Government have been censured, but as we think I anfairly censured, for not acting with greater energy, and there has been plenty of talk in the newspapers as to their iuty...

"THE STORY OF THE ZULUS." LTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."'1 SIR,-Yonr reviewer of this book makes a curious slip. He says :-' Only the other day died Dinizulu, the last of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SiR,-Western medieval Christianity consigned all unbaptized infants to the Limbo Infantntmr, which with the Limbo Parentuin lay about the...

A LINK WITH THE PAST. [To THYI EDITOR OF " THE SPECTATOR.' I Sin,-Does the following case interest you at all P There has recently died in Caitbness Miss Mary Sutherland, whose...

' .[TO THEX EDITOR o0i TURSPEuT4Tu"] gzR,-The correspondence on the question of .Calvinisin and e Up9ovli~oA of iaian. hitas induced me to make inquiry. into the teaching of...

SIEGFRIED WAGNER AND STRAUSS. LTO TEm EDITOR oF TUN " SPECTATOR."] Sia,-It can never be the intention of the Spectator to lend its countenance to the abominable practice of...

INDIAN FINANCES. SIR GUY FLEETWOOD WILSON'S Budget statement in the Viceroy's Legislative Council comes as an agreeable surprise to those who have been watching with some...

CORRESPONDENCE. THE NEED OF CHEAPER AND MORE CONVENIENT HOUSES AND OUTBUILDINGS. [TO THE EDITOR OF TR3 "S1PNCTATOR."] SIn,--The President of the Board of Agriculture has...

Me&n and Measures. By Edward Nicholson. (Smith, Elder and I Co. 7s. Gd. net.)-Mr. Nicholson begins this highly interesting " History of Weights and Measures, Ancient and...

The Schoolmaster's Year Book and Directory. (Year Book Presg. 12s. Gd. net.)-This directory, now published for the tenth time, consists of three parts. Part I. gives the...

Currv and Rice (on Fortty Plates); or, The Ingredients of Social | LifVe at outr Station in India. By George Francklin Atkinson, Captain, Bengal Lancers. Fourth edition, with...

The Great Star Map. By H. II. Turner, D.Sc. (John Murray. 2s. Gd. net.)-Professor Turner's book is, to quote the sub-title, "a brief general account of the international...

The Newspaper Press Direcnuvy. (C. Mitchell and Co. 2s.)-The raison dtre of this volumo is probably to be found in the sub-title "Advortisers' Guide, containing particulars of...

'" THi PEOPLE'S BooxS,"- -T. C. and E. C. Jack. (6d. net per I vol.)-We hope to find an opportunity hereafter of noticing this scries more in detail. At present we must be...

SIR WALTER BESANT'S LONDON.* THIS is the tenth and concluding volume of London, the third of the topographical section. The book is so well known. and has established for...

BRET HARTE.t THE ancestry of Bret Harte might be used as another proot of Disraeli's contention that much of the genius of the world) can be traced back to a. Hebrew origin....

THE WHITE WALLET.* T9he White Wallet is a " commonplace book " put together by Lady Glenconner. It has some charming wares in it, but it should have been smaller. Some padding...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK. [1ilder thiS hedin At-e otioice such Scoks of the week as haae not been *isesred fbir lcTicw in viher Jfol-ILS.1 The Od Testament. By Joseph Agar Beet,...

The Chink in the Armour. By Mrs. Belloc Lowndes. (Methuon I and Co. Os.)-Mrs. Belloc Lowndes breaks somewhat new ground in her novel, The Chinle in the Armour, which is rather...

I The Holy Sepulchre. By W. N. Savilo, MA. (Oxford: Black- well.)-This is the poem to which the Triennial Prize was awarded last year at Oxford, the author securing, for the...

The Dempsey Diamonds. By Allen Arnot. (John Lane. 69.) | '-The end of this story does not conform to the canons of credibility. It is hard to believe that the firm of...

I Life anl Letters of John Rickman. By Orlo Williams. (Con. stable and Co. 103. Ed. net.)-John Rickman was secretary to the Speaker of the House of Commons for twelve years...

The Coward. By Robert Hugh Benson. (Hutchinson and Co. I 43s.)-Hero we have a very elaborate psychological study. The Medds of Medhurst are a family of immemorial antiquity,...

THE ADVANTAGES OF PIECEWORK. [TO THE El MTOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." j SIR,-Tlhe article in the Spectator of February 24th on " The Advantages of Piecework " deals with a very...

WHAT LABOUR WANTS. rTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Working amongst the labouring classes I have always used every opportunity which would allow me to learn something...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. THE strike has lasted a week and a day, and there are, as we write, no signs of its ending, either by a general treaty of peace or, as strikes often end, by...

We hold the miners to be noting most unwisely in their own . . . I . . interests and ltoii to be inufliotijg a, cruel wrong upon the nation as a whole, and especiallY upon the...

I Though it is impossible not to feel a sense of very deep anxiety while the strike continues, and while every day more and more families are added to the dreadful army which...

A statement drawn up by the Miners' Executive which was issued on Thursday " strongly expresses its indignation at a certain portion of the Press which is deliberately...

While keeping to our determination not to preach at the men, we may point out that these moral and national considerations have, in fact, been pressed upon the owners and that...

A certain number of these men will, no doubt, get unemployment allowances from their unions, but it -is to be feared that a very large proportion of them are unskilled...

A MOSLEM ON MOSLEMS.* THIS collection of essays by a thoughtful and high-minded Moslem, who has perfect command of Englislb-indeed, he puts to shame most Englishmen's use of...

PtRE HYACINTH. rTo THIN EDITOR OF THZ "SPrCTATOI."] SIn,-ThouglI I have not seen any notice of my old friend Pbre Hyacinth ini the Spectator I think that many of your readers...

BOOKS. A NEW BOOK ON BACH.* THEn amazing many-sidedness of John Sebastian Bach has; found its reflection in the biographies which have been published in recent times-some of...

POETRY. A PRAYER FOR TO-DAY. (The World is too Much with Us.) LORD, to Thy glory, Thou didst make my soul To be Thy temple, whence should ever rise, Sure as Thy punctual...

MR. ROOSEVELT'S CAMPAIGN. 5/rR. ROOSEVELT'S announcement that lie will stand M for a third term as President of the United States if the Republican Convention desires that lie...

providing steady, well-paid labour for the miners on the one I side and endowing the country with cheap power on the other, the end must be exactly the opposite of what he...

THE KING-EMPEROR IN INDIA. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "11PrCTATOR."] Bin,-There is a striking similarity between the means we are using to foster the spirit of Empire and those used...

LAND VALUE TAXATION IN AUSTRALIA. [TO THE EDITOR OF TUBE "SPZCTATOR."J SIR,-Wben the land value taxation question was before the House of Commons and the country in 1909 a...

LORD NELSON AND THE INDIAN NAVY. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Anything authentic and unpublished relating to Lord Nelson is of interest, and especially just now any...

LORD CHARLES BERESFORD ON NAVAL AFFAIRS.* ABOUT three months ago it was announced that the publica. tion of a book written by Lord Obarles Beresford-of which advance copies bad...

NO VE L S. BEGGARS AND SORNERS "ALLAN MCAULAY " has already given us one of the very beat Jacobite stories, and, after a brilliant excursion into the Corsican period of...

THE MAGAZINES. THrlE NiflCiteenW Cetur y opens with an article by Mr. Iarold Cox on the attitude assnmed by the Miners' Pederation in the coal Crisis, wbicih lie terms "...

THREE HOUSEHOLD BOOKS.* FASHIONS in eating have changed so much since 1845, the date when Francatelli wrote The Modern Cook, that it may be thought that his receipts can have...

THE PLEASURE OF PERIL. THEL pleasure of peril is a balance of emotions so tricky and delicate that no two men will define it in the same way. Fear is not a pleasure, but to put...

THE AGE OF PETROLEUM. ONE of the effects of the coal strike which certainly will 0 produce the most remarkable consequences, and which equally certainly has not been taken into...

FREDERIC HARRISON. * TO many of us who were beginning to read and think about public affairs in the later 'sixties and early 'seventies our first Introduction to Mr. Frederic...

PERSEVERANCE AND THE DEVIL. IN her anthology (" The White Wallet," Unwin, 5s. net), noticed by us elsewhere, Lady Glenconner quotes the following proverb-like phrase: "If you...

SIR GEORGE TREVELYAN'S LATEST VOLUME.* i SIR GEORGE TREVELYAN tells us in his preface that this is the penultimate volume of the work to which he baa devoted his leisure since...