I We have dealt with the Budget as a whole elsewhere, but may notice here an exemption promised by Mr. Lloyd George to the small Income Tax payers. Men with only £200 a year...

We record with pleasure the appointment of Prince I Alexander of Teck to succeed the Duke of Uonnaught as Governor-General of Canada. The Queen's brother is widely known as a...

I The further multiplication of officials involved in the carrying out of Mr. Lloyd George's Budget is one of its worst features. We are reminded of the story of a deposed...

I Mr. Lloyd George's next resource is the taxation of reinvest- ments abroad. At present rich men keep certain stocks abroad and reinvest the income, also abroad. This practice...

On Monday Mr. Lloyd George opened his Budget. He i estimates his expenditure for next year at £210,455,000. The taxes, if no changes were made, would yield £200,655,000....

I We must now ask where the money is to oome from. It is to come out of the pockets of the Income Tax and Super Tax payers, except for one million, which is to be raided from...

I In reply to a demand for a revision of the law relating tQ the capture of private property at sea in war, moved by Mr. Moriell, Sir Edward Grey made an important statement in...

In the House of Commons yesterday week Sir T. Roe I moved the second reading of the Bill which proposes to empower Borough Councils and Urban District Councils in England and...

The items just quoted do not, of course, in the least repre- sent the total expenditure which will be required in the future, but only the amounts that will come into this...

THE NONCONFORMIST ATTITUDE. [rO TH- EDITO or THE "'SPECTATO-."] SIR,-Mr. Howard Lewis seems still to be amazed at the friendly attitude of Liberal Nonconformists to Irish Home...

THE ARNOLD CASE. [To T-. EDITOR Or tH3 "-SPEITATOL ] Sia,-As one of Mr. Arnold's nearest relatives in this country, knowing and understanding as I do, from lifelong experience,...

THE FEDERAL IDEA IN INDIA. rTO T. E EDITOR o- TE " SPECTATO-.] SIR,-SO long ago as 1880 it was recognized that Bengal, which then included Behar, Chota Nagpore, and Orissa, was...

THE HOME RULE BILL AND THE PARLIAMENT AOT. [TO .ox EDITOR OP TU " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I venture to draw your attention to the following facts, and to submit that, the provisions...

MR. BALFOUR'S SPEECH. [To T.. EDITO- 0 THU "SPEcTATOR." Srg,-Does not this verse of Mr. Rudyard Kipling suggest Mr. Balfour, his speech on Home Rule in the debate on the Ulster...

[To TM. EDrrOR O. no "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,-Time after time and in issue after issue you lay down the proposition that, under existing political conditions, the proper way to deal...

HOME RULE AND PASSIVE RESISTANCE. [To -u EDITOR Or mu "-PKCTATOL"] Siu,-I am an independent elector with Radical leanings, unconnected with any political club or association...

A Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Lisrary qf the| Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. By C. E. A I , BedwelL 3 vols. (31iddle Tewple. Members 5s., non- I ' members...

READABLE NovzLs.- -The Princes of the Stock Exchange. I By Nemirovicb Danchenko. (Holden and Hardingban. 6s.) -A vigorous novel, condemning the Stock Exchange of St....

I The Prevention and Treatment of Tuberculosis in London. (Charity Organization Society.)-This report of the inquiry instituted a year ago by the Charity Organization Society...

The People of Arinenia. By Arcbag Tebobanian. Trans. lated by Lieut.-Colonel G. M. Gregory. (J. Al. Dent and Sons. Is. 6d. net.)-In his preface to this illuminative little...

Nowadays the inquirer into almost any subject can obtain I i a popular monograph on it at a moderate price. A number of I such books lie before us. In Messrs. Williams and...

Anarchy or Order. (Duty and Disoipline Movement, 117 1 - I _ L- -- _ _1 - . -- - _ _ Victoria Street, London.)-We could wish that this sane ana suggestive little book were in...

The So ory of Dm-ot1hy Jordan. By Clare Jerrold. (Eveleigh Nash. 15s. net.)-Mrs. Jerrold, an industrious and entertaining maker of books, has found a good subject in " that...

Odd Yarns of Rnglish Lakeland. By W. T. Palmer. -_ . . I a A - u -- - - T_ --_ __p __- - . I -. (Skeffington and bon. %&a. W. net.)-in her preface to this delightful book Mrs....

Travellers' Tales of Scotland. By R. H. Coats. (Alex. I I. Gardner. 2s. 6d. net.)-Many eminent persons, from Froissart to Queen Victoria, have left a record of their...

I NEW EDrrIoxs.-A Historical Geography of the British I Colomies. By Sir Charles Lueas. Vol. III.; Vol. IV., Parts I. and III. (Clarendon Press. Sa. 6d., 6a. 6d., and 6s....

- SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK. l [ttder {his heading te doffe h sh Books of the t.sk s h..s o.t b&en -osZrcrd for r tris tst othsr pnans.] - Thze Progress of Eugetnics. By C. W....

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE BUDGET. THE Budget, which was opened by M r. Lloyd George on Monday evening, is so complicated, or, perhaps, to be truthful, we should say so muddled in...

THE VENERATION OF THE OAK. EVERYONE with a shade of proper sentiment will he glad to know that oak, and not teak, is to be used for renovating the famous roof of Westminster...

FLITES. [TO THE EDITOR Or THE SPECTATOR.'] SIR,-Your correspondent " H. M." in your issue of April 25th, by his statement that "not more than ten per cent. of the ordinary...

ADVERTISING HEALTH RESORTS. [To -u E - TO 0M "6 , SIB,-Although the Bill to enable the local authorities to advertise seaside and health resorts out of the rates received...

THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE NIGHTINGALE. [TO Tax Exito - THY " ,. . j SIR,-An article in last week's Spectator states that nightingales are not beard west of the Severn. May I say...

THE CHURCHMEN'S UNION AND CONVOCATION. [To THE EDTO- 0o THE 8PCTATO.1 I SIR,-As one of the Council of the " Churchmen's Union," I should like to be allowed to express my thanks...

THE NEED OF ARTIFICIAL TEETH AMONG THE POOR. [TO nlE EDI-OR 0 .. SB SFRSATOL1 SiR,-May I venture to invite the attention of your readers to the very great need for artificial...

LITERATURE FOR THE COUNTRY DISTRICTS OF CANADA. ITO tY E- I Oa O- TSEN "SxcATOu.'1 Sia,-In consequence of correspondence received, and with reference to the letter of " E. x...

THE IRISH DONKEY. [TO THE EDITOR Or Tu, S.ECTATOR.] SIR,-We have seen a great deal in the columns of the Press lately concerning the inhabitants of this island. We bare bad...

BOO KS. A PIONEER OF EMPIRE.* It is not merely a difficult, but almost an impossible, task to draw a distinct frontier-line between the qualities required of a statesman and...

ISLAM AND PROGRESS. [To -HU EDITO. Or T. R -SrCTATOL") SIR,-As one who has lived amongst Moslems and learnt to love and respect them, may I be permitted to endorse every word...

THE ROOF OF WESTMINSTER HALL [TO TH. EDITOR 0r TX- " SPECTATO.."] SIR,-In a recent article on the condition of the roofing. beams of the Great Hall, the Times has stated that,...

MR. ARTHUR PONSONBY AND THE NAVAL AND MILITARY SERVICES. [TO T.. EDITOR 0P T-R SPECTATOR.'] SIR,-i2 propos of your comments in last week's issue on Mr. Arthur Ponsonby's "...

THE OCTAVIA HiLL MEMORIAL. LTO Sl.. Enzn or T.u .SFCTATOL] SIR,-Tbere recently passed away from us three saintlike and heroic people who may be said in their various ways to...

A QUAKER POLITICIAN.* IN his preface to Mr. Bassett's admirable biography of the late John Edward Ellis, Lord Bryce describes his former colleague in the House of Commons as an...

THE FALL OF PROTECTION., Tnoiron we are unconvinced by most of Mr. Holland's argullments and disagree with the conclusions that he draws, it must be admitted that he has...

THE TOBACCO COLONY.* SEVENTEENTH}-CENTURY Virginia is one of the domains of history which have been worked most intensively by American scholars. Many excellent monographs and...

I Love the Harper. By Eleanor G. Hayden. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 6s.)-Ambition may be a dangerous quality to possess, but we cannot help wishing that Miss Hayden would take the...

I A Free Band. By Helen C. Roberts. (Duckworth and Co. 6s.)-A reviewer sometimes grows very weary of what may be called the biographical school of novelists, whose work is,...

Time and Thomas Waring. By Morley Roberts. (Eveleigh Nash. 6s.)-No one who does not like surgical and medical details should attempt to read Mr. Morley Roberts's new novel....

The Mexican tangle is as complicated as ever. President I Wilson still counts on events enabling him to fulfil his promise to himself to get rid of General Huerta. What will...

We are glad to note that the amazing proposal that Exclusion should only last for six years is falling more and more into disfavour with Liberals. For example, a paper so...

I On Friday week it was reported that the large American liner 'Siberia,' of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, was ashore off Formosa, and had sent S.O.S. wireless messages...

The Nationalists, it is rumoured, are much annoyed at the I possibility of Exclusion being realized, and of the timelimit being withdrawn. We cannot, however, believe-perhaps...

NEWS OF _THE WEEK. A LL that can be said this week in regard to the Exclusion problem is that the " conversations " are going on. It has been stated in the Press, and not...

I The Berlin correspondent of the Times drew attention on Thursday and Friday to the curious action of the German authorities in withdrawing permission to Frenchmen to live in...

I On Tuesday afternoon Mr. Asquith received a deputation. representing a majority of the members of the House of Commons, requesting that the Government would reconsider their...

I On Monday M. Caillaux engaged in a pistol duel with AL d'Allires, whom he had beaten in the election at Mamers. After the election M. d'Allieres issued a poster thanking his...

SOCIAL LIFE IN THE PSALMS. THE joyful Bide of religious emotion has found no greater expression than in certain of the Psalms. The cheerful songs of Zion sound through the...

The debate was continued on Wednesday, when Lord I Courtney supported the Bill. Other speeches in favour of it were made by Lord Willoughby de Broke and Lord Lytton. Lord Wear...

In the House of Lords on Tuesday Lord Selborne moved I the second reading of his Bill for conferring the franchise on women who have the municipal vote. Lord Selborne...

I We regret to have to record the death, in his sixty-ninth year, of the Duke of Argyll, which took place last Saturday. The Duke, who married Princess Louise in 1871, though...

I Mr. Healy, speaking at Castletownroclie, Co. Cork, on Saturday last, said that Mr. Redmond ought to address the Government as follows: "'I voted for your Budget: Deliver the...

I Lord Milner said that some people regarded the improve- ment in the political atmosphere as a reason for relaxing their protests against the Home Rule policy of the...

His own belief was that there was no reason why they should I not devote their efforts, not to supplying their delegates with arguments for opposing the proposals, but to...

I At Coventry last Saturday Mr. Balfour and Lord Milner spoke on the Irish question to an enthusiastic meeting. Mr. Balfour moved the same resolution that was put to the great...

Coming to the Unionist position, Lord Lansdowne declared I that they all earnestly and sincerely desired to find some way out of the present difficulties, but they had to await...

Lord Curzon, who presided at the annual Primrose League I demonstration in the Albert Hall yesterday week, observed that, if they bad been saved from civil war, it had been due...

CORRESPONDENCE. THE SPIRIT OF A NATIONAL ARMY. I [TO - EDITOB. T T. . "EorzoaA o ]E" SiiR,-The incident is worth recording for the benefit of English people at home....

FICTION. WAITING.* TEE influence of Modernism on fiction, of which perhaps the most conspicuous illustration hitherto has been found in the novels of Fogazzaro, is beginning...

PASTOR FUTURUS.* WHA.TEVER Mr'. Skrine writes is written with a grateful freshness: the thought springs from his own fountain, though this is fed from many sources. His new...

THE HIGHLAND HOST.t MR. ELDER'S little monograph on the famous Highland Host is an example of the careful and competent work in Scottish history which is being done to-day by...

THE MURRAY REPORT.I r pHERE was much in the Marconi case that gave cause T for deep anxiety. The House of Commons acquiesced in being deceived by Ministers of the Crown through...

SYNJICAT D'INITIATIVE. [TO -uu EDITOR 0P THU "S.HCT&TOR."] Sln,-Now that municipalities are petitioning Parliament for powers to raise money for advertising their towns, may I...

ART. THE &CADEMY.-II. WHAT, it may be asked, is the standard of excellence by which the ordinary man nowadays judges a picture? If we are to get an indication from the...

POETRY. ATMOSPUERICS. (Atmoep1;crc., or" X'," are the sounds caused by stmespberie electricity. They arc particularly strong at night; and they frequently interrupt wireless m...

"SCALP" OR " SOAUP"? tTo I.. E-rO. 01 T.U .8PECATOR.' 'Smn,-According to the English Dialect Dictionary, these words are identical. " Scaup " more especially belongs to...

THE SURREY GUIDES. EIGHTEEN months ago the Army Council gave formal permission to County Associations to raise Corps of Guides as part of the Technical Reserve of the...

SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL-BOOKS.* THE prophets are a plaintive people, but discontent alone will not make Daniels. Denunciation is less than half the prophet's task, and in excess it...

I HEALING BY FAITH AND SUGGESTION. THE remarkable Report (Macmillan and Co., Is. net) issued by the Clerical and Medical Committee which has been inquiring into " Spiritual...

THE BUDGET AND THE INSURANCE ACT. I THERE are so many features in Mr. Lloyd George's new Budget that the public are in danger of overlooking the implied admission contained in...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. A COMMON-SENSE SETTLEMENT. [TO -ER EDITOR 0 T- -S-E-TATO-`] SIR,-I have corresponded with you before, and will you allow me once more to put a few...

INEXPENSIVE YACHTING.* Now that the yachts of England are once more spreading their wings we are glad to welcome this book by Mr. F. B. Cooke, who has established himself as...