LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. THE ADVANCE OF SOCIALISM. [TO THE EDITOR O THE " SPECTATOR."] SiR,-It is difficult to treat with becoming gravity Lord Hugh Cecil's appeal to moderate...

[To Tirz EDITOR OF MEX "SPECTATOR.' SiR,-Will you allow a plain man to endorse every word of Lord Hugh Cecil's excellent letter in your issue of last Saturday, and to appeal...

THE FIRST TORIES.* IF a statement of Defoe is to be credited, the godfather of the Tory Party was no more reputable a person than Dr. Titus Oates. Thle name was originally...

PLATO'S DOCTRINE OF IDEAS.* THERE is a time-honoured, but none too scholarly, distinction which would stamp the philosopher as Platonist or Aristotelian. Dr. Stewart takes his...

MEXICO.t IN defiance of geography, Mexico has every right to be included in the excellent " South American Series." It is the most venerable and most prosperous member of the...

ABOUT ALE.* MR. HACKWOOD writes about many things besides ale-about metheglin or mead, about cider and perry, about gin, which in the arst half of the eighteenth century...

THE LEGISLATION OF THE EMPIRE.* THIS work, containing fifteen hundred and fifty pages of matter and an index of two hundred and seventeen pagesthe length of this is...

THE MAGAZINES. SIR JOHN DIcKsON POYNDER, writing in the Nineteenth Century on the Budget valuation proposals, demurs to the Prime Minister's estimate of their cost, and...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I am not in a position to say what answer moderate Liberals will give to the appeal made to them by Lord Hugh Cecil in your last...

rTo TEE EDITOR OF TE: "K PHAS2. ] SiR,-In reply to the deeply interesting appeal in your columns from Lord Hugh Cecil to moderate Liberals, may it explain why some of us,...

[To THE EDITOR o0 Tnz " SrCTATou."l SiR,-Like, I believe, the vast majority of travelling Britons, Britons whose business or pleasure takes them into the four quarters of the...

In Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria the anniversary of the I annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the declaration of Bulgarian independence has been celebrated this week. The...

I At Hlelmstadt last Sunday Prince Ludwig of Bavaria. eldest son of the Prince Regent, unveiled a monument in commemoration of his own wound received in the war of 1866, and...

On Tnesday sentence was given in the Agram High Treason I TriaL Thirty-one persons were condemned to various terms of penal servitude, and twenty-two were acquitted. The...

Owing to the death of Dr. George Cooper, Liberal M.P. for I Bermondsey, which took place on Thursday, there will be an immediate by-election in London. This test Budget...

The course of affairs in the Greek Chamber is verv uncertain. M. Theotoki, whose followers form the majority, was not present on the opening day, but on Tuesday he unexpectedly...

The claims-claims, in our opinion, essentially just and reasonable-of Indian Mohammedans to a larger proportion of the electoral power to be conferred on Indian peoples are set...

The rejoicing in Spain over the success of the arms in the I Riff and the bloodless occupation of Zeluan and Mount Gurugu was quickly turned to sorrow by the news of a reverse...

A SQUIRREL'S FERRY-BOAT. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SiR,-I enclose an extract from a letter just received from M. Henri Aren, a blind (but not always blind)...

A WONDERFUL STORM. rTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,-At noon to-day (September 29th) there was an appalling storm over a narrow valley near North Bovey, Devonshire....

A TEST BY-ELECTION. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SiB,-Could not some Member for a suitable constituency be induced to resign so as, by means of the consequent...

An interesting item of the week is the news of another Liberal revolt. Mr. Ridsdale, one of the Liberal Members for Brighton, has announced that he will not offer himself for...

-NEWS OF THE WEEK. THE week at home has been one of great political | excitement, caused by the announcement in the House E of Commons on Tuesday evening that the House would...

The talk about intervention by the King and the rumours of his Majesty's determination to prevent the Lords rejecting the Budget are, of course, ridiculous. The King is much...

Not the least important item of this week's news is the announcement made on Friday that Mr. Redmond has sent a telegraphic appeal to the president of the United Irish League...

I It is a curious feature of the situation that the moderate men in favour of the Budget, like the moderate men who are opposed to it, dread defeat at the polls for their...

I We should guess that at present his Majesty's activities are confined to discovering exactly how matters stand, and what are the ultimate points of difference which are, or...

Our readers know our view, which is, shortly, that forcing a, Dissolution means a gamble, and that a gamble is not a wise policy for Conservatives, and therefore on this point...

I The University intelligence of Wednesday contained the interesting announcement that Mr. Spenser Wilkinson had been elected to the Chichele Professorship of Military History...

We deeply regret that reasons of space will not allow us to I devote more space to Dr. Diggle's memorable sermon. We cannot leave it, however, without expressing our belief...

I The Bishop of Truro, in an address on Socialism from the standpoint of Christianity, avowed himself a Christian Socialist, and the Bishop of Southwark declared his sympathy...

Turning to the question of Establishment, the Bishop of Carlisle observed that, while it was not of the essence of a Church, you could not have a National Church unless it was...

I We have received. but too late for our correspondence columns or for comment, the following letter from Mr. Walter Long:SIR,-I desire to correct a mistakle in regard to my...

The Bishop of Carlisle preached a striking sermon on. Tuesday on the notes of New Testament Churchmanship. These, he insisted, were all marked by simplicity and...

I Lord Rosebery has declined the invitation sent him by a number of leading business men in Birmingham to address a public meeting in that city. Lord Rosebery gratefully...

The Church Congress opened at Swansea on Tuesday with the Bishop of St. David's presidential address. We deal with it in another column, but may notice briefly the weighty...

I Messrs. J. M. Dent have completed the fourth hundred of their "Everyman's Library " by the publication of nine volumes. Among these biography is represented by The Life of...

Some Fc.mous Women. By Louise Creighton. (Longamans and I Co. Is. 6d.)-Mrs. Creighton has put much into the narrow space of this modest little volume, nothing less than the...

I In the " Cambridge County Geographies" (Cambridge Univer- sity Press, 1s. 6d.) we have Westmorland, by J. E. Marr, Sc.D. Dr. Marr begins with a piece of information which...

THE MAL.ONE SOCIETrYS PUBLICATIONS.- -As the existence and objects of the Malone Society may not be known to all our readers, we give a brief notice of its second year's...

The Gos(tuI in Latin Lands. By Francis E. Clark, D.D., and Harriet A. Clark. (Macmillan and Co. 2s. net.)-To deal with I this book in detail is impossible for us. But we have...

The Poctry of Nature. Selected by Henry Van Dyke. (W. I Heinemann. 6s. net.)-The sixty "Nature poems " which Dr. Van Dyke has put together in this volume include, as might be...

Charles IF. Eliot. By Dr. Eugen Knehnemann. (A. Constable and Co. 4s. 6d. net.)-Dr. Kuehnemann holds the Chair of Philosoplhv at Breslau, and has been on two occasions "German...

I Tow Expository Times. Edited by James Hastings, D.D. (T. and T. Clark. 7s. 6d.)-It is needless to commend this admirable volume. It stands, as the name of its editor will...

The manl - who read with unflag~inz interest the address delivered 1:. Lord Rosebery at the Johnson bicentenary celebrations at Liehfield will be glad to possess it in pamphlet...

LORD COURTNEY ON WAR. LORD COURTNEY OF PEINWITH has done a real L service to the cause of peace by his article in the current Contemporary Review. To a careless or prejudiced...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SiR,-May I with all respect question the wisdom of the advice contained in your article on "The Peers and the Budget" in the Spectator of...

THE PEERS AND THE BUDGET. rTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOn.'1 SIR,-Surely, if the Budget is admittedly bad and mischievous, the Lords should take the honest course of ref...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SiR,-Lord Hugh Cecil appeals to all moderate Liberals to support the House of Lords if it decides to oppose Socialism,i.e., such Socialism...

PRINCIPAL RAINY.* THE story of the Free Church of Scotland is perhaps the finest in modern ecclesiastical history, and the career of its great leader demanded a serious and...

ART. THE NATIONAL LOAN EXHIBITION AT THE GRAFTON GALLERY. THE debt that lovers of art already owe to the National Art Collections Fund is writ large upon the walls of the...

POETRY. THE MOSS-ROSE. WALKEING to-day in your garden, 0 gracious lady, Little you thought, as you turned in that alley remote and shady And gave me a rose, and asked if I...

CORRESPONDENCE. -4 - THE HUNGARIAN CRISIS AND THE SOUTHERN SLAVS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Srs,-With the resignation of the Wekerle Cabinet the Hungarian crisis has...

THE SHAKESPEARE DISCOVERIES. DR. CHARLES WILLIAM WALLACE, the American 11) scholar who about two years ago made the Shakespearean discoveries which have just been published in...

THE UNDEVELOPED LAND TAX. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-The Prime Minister has said that the new taxes will not affect any one with an income of less than £2,000....

TARIFF REFORM AND THE NEXT ELECTION. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I amna convinced Tariff Reformer. I am persuaded that, having regard to the policy of other...

THE MERCHANT SERVICE. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.-] SIR,-With Trusts, Amalgamation, or Preference I am not greatly concerned, despite the trend which exists in my book,...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE POLITICAL SITUATION. THE political situation, and the confused babel of T guesses as to what is going on behind the scenes, incline a great many people,...

THE HARDNESS OF THE SAINTS. A HARD heart is perhaps the only radical defect of A character not incompatible with a tender conscience. A new Life has just been written of St....

BOOKS. BRITAIN UNDER SOCIALISM.* The SeCret of the League is a novel, but we review it among books which are not novels because, as it is almost entirely political and gives a...

THE SPANISH OUTLOOK. THE reverse of the Spanish troops in the Riff at the T end of last week has caused reinforcements to be ordered to the seat of war, and not only Germany,...

LORD ROSEBERY ON JOHNSON. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. '1 SIP,-Lord Rosebery's two great speeches, delivered in such rapid succession, recall (of course, with a...

CARLYLE'S FIRST LOVE.* MARGARET GORDON, who is the subject of this book, owes to her acquaintance with Carlyle the dignity of having a volume devoted to her biography. Not only...

THE BISHOP OF ST. DAVID'S ADDRESS. I THE address of the Bishop of St. David's at the T Swansea Church Congress will be read with a deep sense of gratitude by all who care for...

NEW EDITIoNS.-The Life and World-Work of Thomas Lake Harris. By Arthur A. Cuthbert. (C. W. Pearce and Co., I Glasgow. 2s. 6d.)-This is the "1 Harris " whose acquaintance we...

HARVEST BY CROMARTY FIRTH. T HROUGH all September, you might read in the English newspapers and letters from Southern counties, the rain poured day after day; there were three...