A MONSTER TRIAL IN HUNGARY. rTO THIS EDITolR Oil THIS "SPEcrATO!t."j SiR,-Relying upon your friendly feelings towards the Magyars, I venture to ask you kindly to publish the...

MR. CHURCHILL AND THE IRISH VOTE. [TO THE EDrTOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."1 SIR,-It may interest your leaders to be reminded of the following passage in Disraeli's Life of Lord...

CANADA AND PROTECTION. [To IIuIC EDITOR OF TIMl "SPxcrATOlt.'l SiR,-I commend the following extract from the Report of the Civil Service Commission lately held at Ottawa to the...

A SELF-SUPPORTING SYSTEM OF OLD-AGE PENSIONS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,-Writing on the eve of the introduction of the Budget and the possible provision for...

SCHOOL, COTTAGE, AND ALLOTMENT GARDENING.* IT would not be at all difficult to write a passable book under the title Mr. Weathers has adopted, hut the Lecturer on Horticulture...

THE MAGAZINES. IN the Nineteenth Century Sir Thomas Whittal-er answers -the question, "Will the Licensing Bill Promote Sobriety?" -with a confident affirmative. He makes a good...

THE GLORY OF GORSE. r )HERE are many flowers which belong to the morning 1 and the evening, and a few which belong to the afternoon. Gorse in full blossom belongIs to...

The way in which the money required for maintaining and expanding old-age pensions and maintaining the reduction of the Stugar-tax will be found, not by this Government,...

But Mr. Asquith has done worse than merely reckon on an I automatic increase of revenue which be has no right to reckon ' upon. He takes no account of that automatic increase...

Mr. Asquith, in a passage which no doubt alluded to the arguments of the Spectator, declared that he would not buy even such a boon for the veteran and worn-out workers of this...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. MR. ASQUITH'S Budget statement, made on Thursday, M shows that last year the revenue was £156,538,000, and the expenditure £151,812,000. This means a...

It will be seen from the figures just given that Mr. Asquith's I tinancial projects are what the Daily Mail very properly describes as "A Budget of Post Obits." On grounds of...

THE ROAD. W TIHEN Mr. Vanderbilt drove his coach from London to T T Brighton for the first time this week it was said that no one had been welcomed with such enthusiasm along...

" THE HEART OF A STRANGER." IT is evident from the Hebrew Scriptures that the instinctive attitude of the Jew towards strangers was adverse and contemptuous. It is no less...

[To TEIi EDITOR OP TflU "SP3arATOP."] SiR,-While new social laws pass through the fire of party strife their ultimate effects are often obscured. The Licensing Bill may neither...

LTO TUE EUiron Or TUE "SPECTATOR.] SIR,-In rererence to Mr. WV. Ridley's letter in your issue of May 2ud, it has been most distressing to the Church Army, as no doubt it has...

LTO THE EDITOR O THU "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-In your notes on the Licensing Bill in last week's Spectator you appear to imply that " the impression that at the expiration of the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE ' SPECTATOR"J SIR,-As one of your regular readers, would you allow me to say how delighted I am with your observations of May 2nd on the subject of the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR."J SIR,-" A merciful man is merciful to his beast" is a paraphrase on Prov. xii. 10, which reads (Authorised Version): " A righteous man...

A RT. THE ACADEMY.-I. WHY is it that a visit to the present Exhibition at the Academy produces such a profound feeling of depression upon any one who has the cause of painting...

POE T RY. A PLAINT OF DRY PLACES. (Libyan Desert, Juie, 1907.) SOLEMN and silent are our solitudes, Voiceless and lithe the lizard rustles by; Death is his penalty, whoe'er...

Every Man His Own Financier. By F. Mignon. (T. Werner Laurie. 6s. net.)-Mr. Mignon does not profess to teach his readers how to become rich, to msake profitable investments...

NEw EDITIONS.-A History of Literary Criticism in the Renais- sance. By J. E. Spingarn. (Columbia University Press. 6s.)- The Student's English, Dictionary. By John Ogilvie,...

Anglo-Indian Literature. By Edward Farley Oaten, B.A. (Kegan I Paul, Trench, and Co. 3s. (d. net.)-Mfr. Oaten publishes in this volume the Le Bas Prize Essay for last year....

Dr. Collisson in and on Ireland. By W. A. Houston Collisson, I Mus.D. (Robert Sutton. 3s. net.)-Dr. Collisson describes in the first part of his book a musical tour in...

Old Testament Historv. by Rev. J. M. Hardwick and the Rev. I I. Costley-Whito (John Murray, 2s.), gives the fifth period (Hezekiah-end of Canon). We have already spoken with...

Sewvage Disposal Works. By Hugh P. Raikes. (A. Constable and Co. 6s. net.)-This "practical guide to modern methods of sewage purification" is a book which wo cannot deal with...

The Eucharist. By E. Tyrrell Green,, M.A. (John Murray. 3s. (6d. uet.)-This book, consisting, as it does, of "Devotional Addresses," is generally not suitable for criticism....

THE FRENCH IN MOROCCO.* IF we wanted an independent judgment on the situation in Morocco, we should not go by inclination to a Frenchman, a German, or an Englishman, even if he...

Mr. Harcourt, the First Commissioner of Works, in I moving the adoption of the Report of the National Art Collections Fund at Burlington House on Wednesday, after describing...

A serious industrial crisis has come about in the North of I England and in Scotland, the federated shipyards having decided to enforce a national lock-out. Owing to continued...

The Wolverhampton election, which took place on Tuesday, I and resulted in the return of the Liberal candidate by a majority of 8 votes, whereas Sir Henry Fowler in 1906...

The recent naval disasters have led to an interesting corre- spondence in the Timies. Mr. T. Gibson Bowles vehemently assails the Admiralty for allowing and encouraging waar...

The debate on the second readingz of the Licensing Bill was resumed in the Commons on Monday. Mr. Lloyd George repudiated the notion that at the expiry of tlhe time-limit the...

We are indebted to the New York Outlook (quoted in the I Daily Chronicle) for a delightful example of " Protectionism run to seed." The ineffectual efforts of Australian...

The Prince of Wales presided at the annual dinner of the Royal Colonial Institute on Monday, and spoke with the zest and sincerity which distinguish his speeches on the affairs...

LTo Tug EDrTOR or TRE " SPr:CTATOW"J Sra,-Your correspondent Mr. W. Ridley, in last week's issue, writing on the Licensing Bill, says: "How Nonconformists can agree to variety...

A MODEL PUBLIC-HOUSE. rTo THE EDITOR OF THE ' SPECTATOR."] SiR,-In view of the great interest being taken by both friend and foe in the Libensing Bil, may l ask for space to I...

NONCONFORMISTS AND VARIETY ENTERTAINMENTS ON GOOD FRIDAY. [TS TIRZ EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Mr. Ridley says in last week's Spectator:-" How Nonconformists can agree to...

THE NATIONALISATION OF RAILWAYS AND MINERALS. ' LL sections of the Liberal Press have been exceedigfly ildignant with us for the comments vhich we miade last Saturday upon Sir...

GERMAN AND BRITISH FINANCE. LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."J SiR,-1 enclose a cutting from the Globe of May 4tb, an ultraProtectionist paper, a propos of German finance....

THE CUCKOO. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "'SPEcrATOu."J SIR,-I read in your article on the " April Blizzard" in last week's Spectator that " the strangest of all the strange features...

WHEATEARS IN KENSINGTON GARDENS. [¶TO THR EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SiR,-I am sure it will be of interest to vour readers to hear that on the afternoon of May 1st two...

THE NEW FOREST. LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-It may be interesting to recall Tennyson's description of the New Forest in " Pelleas and Ettarre." Sir Pelleas "saw...

I "A MERCIFUL MAN IS MERCIFUL TO HIS BEAST." [TO THIC EDITOIR O TUIC "SPtcrAvoIL"J SiB,-Is not your correspondent Miss Mary Barclay (Spectator, May 2nd) thinking of the words...

On Saturday last the Foreign Office issued the first annual I Report of Sir Eldon Gorst on the " Finances, Administration, and Condition of Egypt and the Souclan." Dealing...

In the course of his spoech Mr. Asquith took great credit to the Government for the way in which they had reduced the National Debt during their term of office. It is, indeed,...

The Timtes of Tuesday publishes from its Vienna corre- I spondent an account of the libel action brought in the Courts at Budapest by M. Geza Polonyi, the Hungarian ex'Minister...

The Reicbstaz on Tuesday debated the proposed increase I of subsidy to the North German Lloyd Company for services in the South Seas and the Far East. The suggested I increase...

Tlle South African Inter-State Conference made the follow. ing important announcement on Tuesday:-"The delegates of the self-governing Colonies have adopted the principle of...

The Times correspondent, cominentinz on the whole situation, says that unofficial war has been going on with Afghanistan since the attack on Landi Kotal, which was made l)y the...

The situation on the Indian frontier has become consider- ably less menacing during the week. The Mohmands have been barvesting their crops and have given no signs of renewed...

I READABLE NOVELs.-The Great Amulet. By Maud Diver. (W. Blackwood and Sons. 6s.)-It should be sufficient to say that Mrs. Diver is the author of " Captain Desmond, V.C." This,...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK. -- - ---0 [Under this heading ire notice such Books of the weel as have 7tot been reserved for revietv in other Jorrns.] Judith. By Herbert Pentin,...

NOVELS. THREE MISS GRAEMES.* MISS MACNAUGHTAN'S new novel reminds us of the serious loss the novel-reading public sustained by the death of Mr. William Black. He was not a...

I The Century Magazine: November, 1907-April, 1908. (Mac- I millau and Co. lOs. 6d.)-This volume.. may certainly claim to keep up at its top height the magazine's tradition...

The Kiss of EUelen. By Charles Marriott. (Eveleigh Nash. 6o.) -The personages of this novel are imbued with what they thiuk are very advanced ethical ideas; but they will...

The New Testament in Greek. Edited by F. H. A. Scrivener, I D.C.L. (Cambridge University Press. 5s.)-The plan of this volume, as set forth in Dr. Scrivener's preface (bearing...

The Trance. By Rachel Swete Macnarnara. (William Black- wood aud Sons. 6s.)-The beginning of this novel has a decided touch of poetry and romance about it; but in the latter...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. A PLAN TO DISCOURAGE THE WORKING CLASSES FROM MAKING ADEQUATE PROVISION FOR OLD AGE. TfHE words N'hich we have taken as the title for this T article are an...

A TIME-LIMIT AND LICENSE-DUTIES. A CORRESPONDENT whose letter appears in another A COIcolumn over the signature " A." maintains that under the Licensing, Bill, if it becomes...

MEMOIRS OF MONSIEUR CLAUDE.* THIS is a very much condensed edition of an extremely curious book originally published in ten volumes. We have here the essence of five, and this...

LETTERS TO THE EDlTOR. THE LICENSING BILL. LTO TIIC EDITOR OF TILI "SPECrATOi.") SIR,-Will you permit me to express my deep regret that the Spectator should have thrown its...

THE EVOLUTION OF TENNYSON.-THE "POEMS" AND "ENOCH ARDEN." * " THE Poems of Tennyson." It is a phrase used in a double sense, sometimes as synonymous with his whole work, more...

THE POLICY OF ASSASSINATION. QiITIE apart from its cowardice and the hideous Q cruelty of blowing women to pieces with bombs, the policy of assassination when adopted against a...

OFFICIAL SECRETS. THE Lord Chancellor has prepared a Bill to amend the T Official Secrets Act of 1889, and although every reasonable person will agree with its intentions, not...

THE CASE AGAINST SOCIALISM.* WE have no hesitation in offering our congratulations to Captain Jessel and the London Municipal Society on their " Handbook for Speakers and...

BOO KS. THE GRANDILOQUENCE OF WORDSWORTH.* IT is one of the functions of a great writer to destroy cutand-dried precedents, and to give the lie to a pi ion i tbeorisings upon...