Minister a message to the British nation from the princes and people of India conveying "an expression of their cordial .goodwill .and fellowship and also an assurance of their...

T HE King and Queen disembarked at Portsmouth on Mon- day and returned the same day to Buckingham Palace after an absence of nearly three months. The 'Medina' reached Spithead...

satis- faction at the successful issue of the Indian tour was given by the impressive thanksgiving service which the King and Queen attended at St. Paul's Cathedral. Once more...

ease.

Leipzig gave judgment in the case of Mr. Stewart, who was accused of espionage. In spite of the evidence for the prosecution being meagre in quantity and tainted in...

Sir Ernest Cassel in Berlin has given rise to a good deal of sensational and conjectural comment in the German and British Press, Lord Haldane's visit is under- stood to be...

Wednesday with the usual formalities. The Speech from the Throne was described by the North German Gan* as "a confident appeal to the patriotic sentiments of the Reichstag and...

course, the most authoritative, forecast of the Home Rule Bill that has yet been made. After some general arguments in favour of Home Rule, Mr. Churchill explained that the...

light. Ireland, he declared, was to be given a fair start, and the Imperial Parliament was to continue to deal with Land Purchase and Old Age Pensions. At the same time the...

Mr Arthur Elliot, writing in the Times of Tuesday, as an old Liberal Unionist, expresses the hope that men will not allow their attention to be diverted by controversy over...

Belfast meeting is safely over. Thanks to the appeals for order made ultimately by both the parties, to the presence in the city of over 4,000 troops, and not least to...

case, though well meant, has, in our opinion, been not only injudicious but unfair to the German authorities, and therefore we shall say little more on the subject. We must,...

Law's criticisms of Liberal finance at a meeting of the City Liberal Club last Saturday. As to the charge that the Government had increased national expenditure by £40,000,000...

to produce £500,000 and only yielded £20,000, while the coati of collection was half a million. As a matter of fact, they yielded 2327,000 and cost 216,000 to collect.—Here...

with finance in their Home Rule Bill has been clearly illustrated by Mr. 3. M. Robertson, M.P., the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade. Speaking at a meeting of the...

the sub- marine A 3,' which foundered, with four officers and ten men at noon on Friday week. During the course of instructional evolutions off the Isle of Wight the submarine...

Tuesday that the sum of 2100,000 required for the Queen Mary's Hostel has been raised. It may be remem- bered that the scheme is based on the excellent work in con- nexion with...

Feb. 8th. Consols (21-) were on Friday 78 ; 1—Friday week 77i.

the vacancy caused by the death of Sir James Gibson was declared on the night of Friday, the 2nd inst., the figures being as follows : Mr. J. M. Flogge (L.), 5,064; Mr. J. G....

the Dickens Centenary, but we must at least record our sense of what the nation owes to Dickens. When everything has been pleaded against Dickens on the score of his vulgarity,...

less hopeful by the failure of the National Con- ference between owners and workmen on Wednesday. The South Wales coal owners withdrew from the Conference on ascertaining that...

was not located until 7 p.m., and, owing to the rough weather and strong tides, the efforts to raise her have not yet succeeded.. It is also noted that the absence of adequate...

Boner Law, no doubt in certain matters of detail, did not put his case very happily. When, however, every allowance is made for this the fact remains that Mr. Lloyd George's...

T HE Russian visit has proved, as we were sure it would 1. prove, a very great success. Not only have the visitors been received with magnificent hospitality, of the heart as...

• THE KING IN INDIA. N OW that the King is back in England it is possible to take a comprehensive view of the - work he accomplished in India and of the retro-active effect...

W E do not wonder at the sense of disappointment displayed by our correspondents in regard to Mr. Bonar Law 'fl speech. They feel very deeply the need for defending the Union...

Air R. ARTHUR PONSONBY has contributed to a series called "Heretical Booklets" a little pamphlet entitled "Democracy and Control of Foreign Affairs" (A. C. Pifield, 3d,), in...

,14 Y dear, be a good man—be virtuous—be religions. 1-/-1 Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here," said Sir Walter Scott to Lockhart when he, was...

attractive about the appearance of an unspoilt English village. Indeed, it is hardly too much to say that the world has few things to offer which are more beautiful, more...

in an article entitled "Hunt Stables Mounted Infantry Corps," makes a suggestion which we hope will receive in official and unofficial quarters the attention it deserves. He...

ITALY'S CASE. [To TILE EDITOR OF TER "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—By the courtesy of the Editor of the Spectator I am enabled to offer to the English public certain facts regarding...

has spoken, Mr. Lloyd George has spoken, and every one according to his fancy can decide for himself who has the better of the argument. Mr. Lloyd George certainly spoke truly...

doubt that the mischievous cry of Tariff Reform will bar the way to a Unionist triumph until it is defi- nitely abandoned. The reform needed is a moral one, a sense of...

worker for the last forty years I should like to endorse every word of Sir Wiu. Forwood ' s admirable letter on the subject of our present policy. I cannot imagine anything more...

MR. BONAR LAW ' S SPEECH. pro TILE EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTATOR.") desire to express my entire agreement and fully endorse Sir W. Forwood ' s very important letter in the Spectator...

"middle class" who has to work pretty hard for his living I have little or no time for politics, but I must say that I thoroughly agree with the article in your issue of...

[TO TIM EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'J SIE, — We venture to beg the hospitality of your columns for an appeal for funds on behalf of the Anglo-German Friendship Society. This...

[To THE EDITOR Of TUB "SPECTAT011.1 SIR,—A short account of the following experiment and its result may perhaps be of interest to some of your readers. A good deal has been...

the sincere desire of yourself and your correspondents—notably Sir W. B. Forwood—that the present Government should be turned out of office at the first oppor- tunity the...

prospective passing of the Portuguese Colonies by purchase has been freely discussed, not only in the Press of Europe, but in Portugal itself, where the idea is not without...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR,"] Sin,—The suggestion in your article of last week on the "Great Goddess Taxation" that relief of the rates on the houses of the poor would...

[To Till EDITOR OP TIIX "SPECTATOR.1 Stn,—In opening the new drill hall recently for the Gates- head Company of the Durham Fortress Royal Engineers the Secretary of State for...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECITLIOR.1 SIR, — Yeste! day (Sunday), February 4th, voting took place throughout Switzerland on a Reference to the people whether a law passed by...

[To TRH EDITOR OF THE " SFECTATOR."] SIR,—Ratber by way of elucidation than of controversy I write a few lines on a point raised in Miss Markhanfe letter, published in your...

rTo THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOE."1 SIR,—The Spectator must have sympathy with all spectators, and may have room for a letter on the incomparable visions of "The Miracle."...

[To THE EDITOR OW THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—In his speech at the City Liberal Club on Saturday last Mr. Lloyd George said: "Of course in our own country we surely are allowed to...

LTO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—There is not a lino in " Z.'s " admirable letter of last week on this important subject which does not command my assent. The...

an article on ancient monuments in your issue of January 20th you speak of Avebury as being now "in the elfest of bands—those of the peer who takes his title from the stone...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Are you not mistaken in crediting in the "News of the Week" in your issue of December 23rd, 1911, the quotation "He comes too near...

[To THE EDITOR OP TRH " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—A Committee, representing the interests of art and of education, has been formed to promote the practice , of mural painting in...

"SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I should be very grateful if you would find it possible to give publicity to the following facts concerning the Annual Dinner of the Guild of Press...

Sin,—Your correspondent deplores the fact that in the first edition of the "Poet's Song" Tennyson, who was peculiarly careful in his use of words, should have committed the...

[To THZ EDITOR OF THE "5PECTATOR:1 Sin,—In the Spectator of February 3rd, in "Notes of the Week," you give considerable prominence to the utterances of Die Post of Berlin...

'TWIXT NIGHT AND DAY.' Down through the shuttered house we crept Where men in slumber lay, Unbarred the heavy door and stepped Into an alien day. It was not dark nor was it...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—Lord Cromer and the Committee of this League would be greatly indebted if you would make known through the columns of the Spectator...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with The Mews therein crepressed or with the mode of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sitt,—I was much interested in your article on "Bi r d Boxes." One sees in different parts of the Continent so much more attention g iven...

• ' [To THE EDITOR OF TIIR "SPECTATOR." San,—In connexion with the Gilbert- White Exhibition, whieb, as already announced, will be held on February 16tb and 17th (in the...

THE FRAMEWORK OF HOME RULE.* WE like Mr. Erskine Childers less well as the political apolo g ist than as the author of that fascinating romance The Biddle of tho Sande. His...

I To run EDITOR OF TUB "SPECTATOR." I Sna,—I shall be glad if you will kindly allow me to make known in your columns to all Old Cliftonians and others interested in the school...

little known country should be described. The authors are officials of some standing. Mr. Gouldsbnry is already known as a writer the Plateau the native woman appears to be very...

-FEw men who have played so important a part in the world as Talleyrand have left it so divided in opinion as to their essential characteristics. The mass of material concerning...

Mits. Mil.a.fasaf Fox, the energetic honorary secretary of the Irish Folk Song Society, while purchasing a harp at a leading London warehouse, inquired whether any of the old...

WE have been somewhat tardy in noticing the excellent series which Messrs. Williams and Norgate have now for some months been publishing under the title given above. We have...

THE genial authors of this altogether delightful book have adopted an unconventional but, in the result, surprisingly successful method of describing life in a Punjab frontier...

THIS is a book with an excellent title. The atmosphere of Mr. Hutchinson's writing is full of the sense of freshness and inexperience which belongs to the world of a boy. Here,...

FOREIGN policy looms large in the new Nineteenth Century. Mr. C. S. Goldman, M.P., in "Eleven Years of Foreign Policy' endeavours to establish a close causal nexus between the...

FATHERS OF MEN.* OF late years the number of good school stories has been substantially increased. We are glad to welcome in Mr. Hornung's new volume yet another addition to...

(Under Otis heading we 11o/ice such Books of the week as hare not boon resertint for review in other forntel M, Pougin's admirable monograph on Malibran, which, if we remember...

by T. H. Barlow, M.A., and H. F. Moule, M.A. (the Bible House. 63s.)—We must explain that it is the whole work which is thus priced and that the volumes aro not sold...

25. net.)—This is an autobiographical story of an American youth who becomes a treasure hunter, a reae for which nature has com- pletely unfitted him, both mentally and...

Novel Library. " (T. Fisher ljnwin. 6s.)—There is a certain force and 'rigourabout this book which will commend it to the reader, though it suffers severely from the common...

Society's Depository, id. not) we have four numbers, History of the Church. of England, by the Rev. Arthur Carr. The periods are 33-507, 597-1170, 1170-1547, and 1547-1504....

6s.)—These are stories of different phases of modern life, and though the scone of at least one is Laid abroad they are all concerned with English people. Most of them, as the...

D. Cope, (Oxford : B. H. Blackwell, 3s. not.) — Mr. Cope has done well to give this version to tho world. If it does not reach the highest level of Aristophanio translation...

T. Clark. 'Is. 6d. net.)—Dr. Wilde, himself distinguished for his successful application to life of the great forces of Nature, founded at Oxford a lectureship in Comparative...

4s. 6d. net.)—M. Cazandan is good enough to express the belief that "English vitality is still admirably strong, and that no one can yet foresee the day when it will be...

3s. 6d, net.)—Here we have a republication of articles which for some years past have appeared in The Daily Erpress with the purpose of affording help and guidance to the...