Tariff Reform, like other matters of grave import, should be . submitted to the country before it was carried into law, affected the polls less than we had hoped—it came too...

T HE General Election is more than half completed as we write, and it is now evident that the balance of parties in the House of Commons will be left very much as it was when...

unwise to attempt any forecast of how the political situation will develop. Such speculations can well wait for another week. Of one thin g , however, we are sure. The Constitu-...

to the people of important le g islation has already stirred, and will later stir much more deeply, the heart of the nation, the Unionist leaders have shown in their speeches...

case.

instinctive desire for the safe g uard of popular sanction for fundamental laws which has been apparent on other occasions in our history. They will remember the very remarkable...

lon g -expected statement on the policy of the Turkish Cabinet. He said—we take the facts from the Times—that the insurrection in Albania, which had been neither reactionary nor...

with much satisfaction. For instance, the statement that Turkey will not lean on any Alliance, but will take her own course, knowing that the Powers all sympathise with her...

Unionist candidates at Chester on Tuesday. Addressing himself to the Home-rule policy of the Government, he commented on the significant reticence they had maintained as to...

Fleet were entertained at luncheon in the Guildhall by the City Corporation. Admiral Murdock, who replied to the toast of the American officers, said that the United States Navy...

Africa suffered heavily in an action fought near Drigele, the capital of the Massalit. Since the reconquest of the Egyptian Soudan by British troops, large numbers of...

non-party group, Lord Rosebery surveyed the political situation. Mr. Redmond was trying to impose his will on the United Kingdom with the help of foreign gold, and his method...

the Benares meminclari, addressed a memorial to the United Provinces Government asking that he might 'be given a defined and permanent status amongst the ruling chiefs of India....

that it was the proper and only method of settling differences on great and vital questions between the two Houses. Mr. Balfour subjected Sir Edward Grey's scheme of an elective...

U.S.A., last Sunday in her ninetieth year. It is not known yet who will succeed her as the head of " the Church of Christ, Scientist." She was the daughter of Mark Baker, a...

of Members already returned to the new Parliament is 423. Of these 194 are Unionists, 177 Liberals, 47 Nationalists, and 5 Independent Nationalists.

dinner at the Hotel Cecil. The Agenda Club, it will be remembered, was proposed as a kind of co-ordinating society, or intelligence department, to bring together and direct the...

from the utterances of the Nationalist and Independent Nationalist candidates. When Mr. Roche, Mr. Maurice Healy's opponent at Cork, was suffering from a. cold, Mr. Healy...

Mr. Waldorf Astor, one of the successful candidates at Plymouth. The message dealt with the Referendum, and contained the following passage :—" Each voter would have the right...

Newbolt contributes an impressive appeal to moderate Liberals in Tuesday's Times. The true line of division, according to him, is not between measures but methods, and it was...

violent. Mr. Roche, who once " beslavered" him (Mr. O'Brien) with "fulsome adulation," is "a renegade of the very lowest breed, who has eclipsed even Mr. Dillon and Mr. Redmond...

account of the nature of the Referendum, and especially laying emphasis on the fact that it is not a fanciful but a practical scheme. Four classes of legislation are mentioned...

THE STOCK OBJECTIONS TO A POLL OF THE PEOPLE. T HE Referendum has come to stay. The country is beginning to recognise that it is no good to talk about trusting the people and...

W E have treated seriously in the previous article some of the main objections which have been raised to the use of the Poll of the People. In reviewing those objections,...

fi lHE moderates of the Liberal Party are living in a fool's paradise in regard to Home-rule. They imagine that in the future, as in the past, they will be able to " run up...

A MERICANS are once again discussing, in the light of a new Census, the wonderful growth of their nation, and as the symptoms in some of the congested parts approximate to those...

j_L MID the turmoil of the General Election few people have noticed that an important judgment was delivered last week which in effect, though not in sub- stance, reverses the...

to some deadness of sense, cannot measure or appreciate significant facts unless the facts take some cataclysmic form. In the eigli teenth century the Lisbon earthquake caused a...

A GREAT deal of indirect gratitude is given in the world, though not so much as is expected. A short time ago the present writer desired to raise the wages of a boy employed in...

T HE outward signs of the possession of an instinct for weather are plain enough. One is the first action of the day. It is, on getting out of bed, to go at once to the window...

MARTIAL IN MODERN DRESS. [To THE EDITOIL OP TEE "SPECTATOR. "] Sis,—Upon a recent re-reading of some of the worthier epigrams of Martial, their point and freshness strike me...

Mr. Balfour's utterance on the Referendum asked what wuld happen if a measure put before the people were rejected by them, and spoke of the idea of a Government continuing to...

a General Election the voice of common-sense is almost unheard. We are supposed to live under a system of two-party government ; but let any one look around to-day and see how...

your last issue objects to the Referendum because he thinks that while the people are fit to choose representative men, they are not fit to choose measures. That is a contention...

SIR,—The following paragraph from the leading article in last Sunday's Frankfurter Zeitung may interest English readers, summing up the gist of an exceedingly judicious and ably...

THE REFERENDUM. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Now that the Referendum has become practical politics, may I urge the vital importance of a clear understanding...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — False nomenclature, as you have already justly observed, is always to be deprecated, and inasmuch as your own name seems destined...

and instructive letter from Sir Frederick R. St. John, formerly our Minister in Berne, appears in the issue of the Isle of Wight County Press for the 5th inst.—I am, Sir, &c.,...

[TO TER Forum OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —I have been a constant reader of the Spectator for five- and-thirty years. During the greater part of that time your paper was a weekly...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. s l SIR, — Lord Morley remarked that it would be an evil day for the country if the House of Commons fell in the estimation of the people in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—After Thomas Jefferson had spent five years in Paris as the representative of the United States Government, he returned to theUnited...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — I suppose there is nothing to do but to correct for the hundredth time such misstatements as those made for the hundredth time by...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—I begin to see how the positions taken up politically by the Conservatives do not appeal to the Scotch mind. We believe here in a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Bra.,—A great responsibility rests on Nonconformists at the present Election. They are mostly members of the Liberal Party, but every vote...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECT1TOR."] Snr,—Your article on the Welsh riots in the Spectator of November 12th raises points on the question of the use of military and police to...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "' Loane's article, "The Cost of Idleness," in last week's Spectator recalls a long talk I once had with an old servant. Speaking of changes...

[TO THE ED/TOR 07 TEE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, —The very interesting article by Miss Loane on " The Cost of Idleness " in your issue of December 3rd brings to my mind a conversation...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, — The five verses below are what I think of the present political situation—that is, as far as Home-rule for Ireland is concerned—and...

fTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIE,—The following extract from the Rolls of Parliament, Vol. III., p. 459 (foot), 1401 A.D., may prove of interest to your readers:— "Item...

word from personal experience on the cottage question ? You say you dare not copy the old cottage-builders in the proportion of window-space allotted in proportion to...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Snt,—If any one wishes to prove or disprove the existence of a secret passage, he need not go far afield. If he takes train from Liverpool...

ITO THE EDITOR OP TH8 "SPECTATOR. "] Sin, — As some of your correspondents wish me to give particulars of the cost of the cottage plan which you illus- trated in your issue of...

DAVID AND WINSTON ; OR, THE POISONOUS FRUIT. (A CAUTIONARY TALE ) As David and his sister Winny Were walking through a shady spinney, They saw some berries, fiery red, That...

[To THE EDITOR Of THE "SPECTATOR."] Sig,—The many friends of Mrs. Ellice, the widow of " Bear " Ellie, will have read with regret the notice of her death in Wednesday's Times....

name or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views there-in expressed or with the...

[To THE EDITOR Of THE "Srscrsioa."] Sin,—May we presume upon the sympathy which you have shown towards the National Social Purity Crusade to announce that this organisation will...

AUSTRALIA.* IN this series of finely illustrated books the pictures are perhaps more important than the text; yet the best of illus- trations can be brought into an atmosphere...

THE late Professor Hall Griffin was an enthusiastic student of Browning, and had collected a large amount of biographical and illustrative material. Among other things, he...

Ma. ARTHUR GALTON may be congratulated on the accom- plishment of the by no means easy task of rendering M. Loisy's La Religion d'Israel into English. In an interest- ing...

WE are glad to see a good collection of Norse Fairy Tales. The stories in this volume have been arranged for children, • (1) Norse Fairy Tales. Selected and Adapted from the...

the pen of Sir Oliver Lodge which form the subject of this notice are sure to be read with interest and pleasure. Though both volumes display an optimism which sometimes takes...

WHOEVER is responsible for publishing this posthumous book by Mark Twain has injured the memory of the great humorist. The author lays it down as an axiom that man is a machine...

already known to most of us. Messrs. Dyer and Martin fill in the picture of the inventor with many interesting details. Prominent among these is what we may call the physical...

JOHN STUART BLAMED& was by nature something of a "free- lance," and he had the sort of education which suited him. Nothing could be more different from that which the average...

THE most valuable political article in the new Nineteenth Century is Mr. Marriott's on the Conservative Party, which, curiously enough, is placed last of all. Mr. Marriott very...

(Methuen and Co. 6s.)—Mr. and Mrs. Williamson, having led their readers all over Europe, now conduct them across the Mediterranean to Algiers. One cannot praise the construction...

Nash. 2s. net.)—A series of short stories written, as the title describes, by a "chauffeur" of rather doubtful honesty. Unfortunately, and perhaps on the principle that like...

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[Under this heading , „we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for M410 in other forms.] The Poetical Works of Mrs. Horace Dobell. (Smith, Elder, and Co....

FANCY FARM.* MR. NEIL Munn° has given us an ingenious and spirited fantasia on the old Greek proverb, lit , ,carh o•aurbv Act. The long quest of happiness that lies within...

2s. 6d.) appears for the eighty-fourth time. It is "an encyclopaedia of information respecting the British Isles, the Colonies, and Foreign Countries." First wo have notes on...

Book Club. .23 3s. net.)—Those who observe the "Note " prefixed to the quarterly parts of the " Oxford New English Dictionary" will remember that the Century Dictionary makes a...

well arranged Churchman's Remembrancer, with calendar, diary with lectionary, pages for accounts, and the usual information, postal and other; The Churchman's Pocket Book and...

while waiting for her father outside the House of Commons, recognises, as she thinks, her old friend the White Rabbit; in reality it is a Whity-brown Rabbit, a Welsh Rabbit, in...

(A. R. Mowbray. 2s. &I. net.)—Mr. Brinckman puts together a powerful argument, theological and historical, on this subject. The volume may well serve any one who may need it as...

(71-75 New Oxford Street). It is in eighteen divisions, of which the first is an "English Dictionary," and the last a " Ready Reckoner." There are nine other dictionaries for...

21s. net.)—Mr. Heath republishes, with some additional matter, a series of drawings with letterpress which appeared in the Builder. It is a "Pictorial Record with Architectural...

the needs of members of the Roman Church. There are brief directions for fasting and abstinence, a statement of "feasts of obligation," and colours of vestments. Each day has...

5s. not.)—This is a well-printed and generally attractive reproduction of the Carol. Miss Ethel F. Everett's illustrations aro effective. Some of the subjects are easy enough ;...

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noticed in our last number, are Messrs. Skeinngton and Son, and not as stated. In the same issue Honour and Arms and Tales from Old Ballads, by Mary Macleod, are wrongly...