the British Foreign Office is doing all that is possible to bring _about an arrangement which will be just and acceptable to the ,Persians. At the same time, we would ask those...

Briand and M. Pichon in Paris. The Times corre- spondent states that public opinion, which was no doubt expreissed by the Ministers, is unanimous in protesting against the new...

last Saturday. We deal elsewhere with some of the issues raised in the debates, but we may call attention to the resolution which laid down the conditions on which Socialists...

Persian Government for the withdrawal of the Russian troops seem to be, as the Times correspondent says in Wednesday's paper, dangerously near a deadlock. The Atissians insist...

case.

• O N Wednesday the tribunal at the Hague which has sat since June 2nd issued its award on the North Atlantic Coast fisheries dispute. On two points the award is in favour of...

united Rallists and Theotokists the clear advantage for which they hoped. They have won one hundred and ninety-eight seats out of three hundred and fifty-eight. This gives them...

the Middle West during his speech-making tour. He has made three pronouncements which have caused extra- ordinary interest,—first, on the tariff ; secondly, on the fortification...

where the Republican " Conservative" candidate for the Governorship was returned, but by a much smaller margin than two years ago. This shrinkage of the Republican vote clearly...

detailed account of the causes of the crisis, acquitting the other Unions of disloyalty to the Agreement, but pointing out that unless the National Agreement, which had been...

another column, but may note here that the condemnation of the men is not confined to Unionist papers. No attempt has been made in any responsible Liberal or Radical journal to...

all the federated shipyards on the Clyde and the North-East Coast locking out the members of the Boilermakers' Society from Saturday, September 3rd. The notice, which took most...

Mr. Roosevelt paid a tribute to the manner in which Mr. Taft had spoken on conservation when opening the Congress on the previous day. He went, however, rather further than Mr....

progress of the Panama Canal, and made an important declaration of opinion as to the responsibility of the United States for fortifying the canal. He said that in 1908 and 1909...

the occasion of an attempt to assassinate a police officer. Inspector Ghose, of the Criminal Investigation Department., who has appeared prominently in the trial and has been...

value both for exports and imports. We give the table from Thursday's Times showing the figures for August and the eight months ended with August, together with the increases as...

fortifications has by order of the War Office been handed over to the civil authorities, and on Wednesday was brought before a Magistrate and remanded. The opera- tions of...

to neglect the proceedings of the British Association, but we may note that an interesting discussion took place on Monday in the Engineering and Mathematical and Physical...

and New Ideas on Public Relief, 1834 and 1910," at the North Wales Poor Law Conference at Welshpool on Tuesday. Commenting on the Report of the Poor Law Commission, Sir William...

investiture of the Prince of Wales will be revived, and will take place at Carnarvon Castle in July next year, soon after the Coronation. The choice of Carnarvon was made by the...

at Exeter, was delivered on Tuesday by Dr. Kenyon, Principal Librarian at the British Museum. Dealing with the principles of librarianship, Dr. Kenyon maintained that the...

eighty-three, was one of the three founders of the Pre- Raphaelite movement, but, unlike his associates, remained faithful to its principles to the very end. The calling of the...

9th. Consols (2i) were on Friday 80I — Friday week 801.

THE NEWFOUNDLAND ARBITRATION. THE award in the Atlantic fisheries dispute which 1 was delivered on Wednesday at the Hague ends, or ought to end, a distressing and sometimes...

incidents which have led up to the lock-out in the s hipbuilding trade illustrate both the importance of the Trade-Union movement, and at the same time the difficulties with...

S OCIALIST solidarity is still something of a dream. Agreement upon great elementary principles leaves room for large differences upon the means by which effect is to be given...

T IE Times of Tuesday published an Educational Supplement remarkable for a variety of essays on different aspects of British school and University life; in particular, for one...

O N Sunday, September 4th, Sir Oliver Lodge gave an address, in connexion with the British Association at Sheffield, before a crowded audience. The subject was " The Old...

T HE last published writing of the late Professor William James was the paper on " The Moral Equivalent of War" which appeared in McClure's Magasine for August. It is...

"All under the leaves and the leaves of life I met with virgins seven, And one of them was Mary mild, Our Lord's mother of Heaven." E VERY story in the world—every good story,...

A CHARGE O ELEPHANTS. ITO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTLTOR."1 SIR, - It chanced last December that my ship was detained for duty in the Laccadive Islands, with headquarters at...

CROMWELL AND IRELAND, PAST AND PRESENT. [To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIE,—Your correspondent " An Irishman," writing os "Cromwell and Ireland" in your last issue, makes...

just returned from three months' sojourn in different parts of Germany, and should like to endorse the remarks made by " A Traveller " in his letter in your last issue. He...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—" A Traveller" makes an observation which has been repeatedly published of late by British visitors to Germany,— viz., that " in the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIE,—Since my letter was published in your issue of August 13th I have had the great honour of receiving replies from Dr. Arthur H. Smith,...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Srn,—I gather from the Press that the Tariff Reform League is supposed to have challenged the Free - Trade Union to send a joint deputation...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIB., - ' With reference to your remarks on the dangers of a Brahminised Government in India contained in your issue of July 23rd, the...

Moores (August - 20th) seems to think it his duty as an anti-metricalist to defend the half- crown against the florin. Why P The florin is nothing metric ; it is two dozen...

[TO TICE EDITOR OF TER SPRCTATOR.1 SIR,—May I venture to summarise the position as follows P- (1) Our British system of measures of length, area, volume, and mass have no...

SIR, —There can be little doubt but that the decimal system bad its origin in the ten fingers of man. Had he six fingers on each band, no doubt a duodecimal system would be...

SIR,—The letter signed "D. H. S." in your last issue is not the first indication I have noticed of the ill-feeling—I can think of no better word—that some seem to suppose exists...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] Sin,—Your correspondent of last week, " D. H. S.," has come in contact with some members of the National Service League who, from his...

[To THE Norroit Or TAN •• Sig/ow:ma:1 was glad to see Mr. Lowe's letter in your last issue. The danger he refers to is very serious. You will recall the fact that the Star...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SrzczATolt."3 Sin,—I need not attempt to recount the sorrows of the English roadside. Mr. Thornely is the votes saver, and those who have not learned...

[To THE EDITOR OF 'THE " SPECTATOR:1 Szn,—It was a shock to my feelings to see myself accused in last week's Spectator of a fondness for the assassin's dagger. But as I read on...

(TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sur,—May I trespass once more on your space in reply to Mr. Cox in your issue of last week? The letter emanating from "M.A. (Durham) "—who,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — May I point out in reply to your correspondent "E. S. S." in last week's issue that the article to which I referred seemed to convey...

[To THY EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—The following, from the last able Report of the Com- missioner of the Eastern Province of the Gold Coast, is too good to be lost :—...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — In the Spectator of August 27th there is a letter in which, after mentioning the wonderful achievements of the illustrious Florence...

[To THY EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—Your readers will be glad to hear that the purchase of the Borrowdale property has been completed. Four hundred and fifty people...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Whilst expressing on behalf of my Committee and myself our gratitude to those of your readers who responded to the appeal you kindly...

Sra,—In your last issue Mr. Cox suggests very plausibly that because human workers in pits are adeqoately protected by Home Office regulations therefore the lot of the pit pony...

August 27th Mr. 0. F. Grazebrook says that pit ponies are not badly used, for the very practical reason that it does not pay to employ weaklings or underfed, whether men or...

Suk—I have read with great interest the letters on the above subject which have appeared in your recent issues, and as an honorary official of a branch of the R.S.P.C.A. in a...

Srar-On. September 16th a party of twenty lads ranging in age from sixteen to twenty-one are sailing under our care for Western Australia. They are all of tested good character,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] you allow me to ask if any of your readers will sub- scribe one of the necessary .2150 which now remain to be collected to complete the...

SIR,—Having read the letters re pit ponies in your issue of August 27th, I am writing to say I entirely corroborate all that is said on the subject. Living as I do in a mining...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] have read the letter of Mr. Silo. G. Penney in your issue of September 3rd with much amusement and surprise. It is true that none of the...

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

A RHYME OF THE ROAD. I BLESS that man whose kindness set These avenues of shade, And may his place in Heaven be yet By many a green arcade! The trees of Heaven are dark and...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sok—For the third and last time may we ask for the interest of the Spectator in welfaring the Exhibition employees ? Before Christmas we...

A FRENCH CRITIC ON LYLY.* THE publication of M. Fenillerat's study of Lyly, the Euphuist, by the Cambridge University Press reminds is that the French language and literature...

ADMIRAL SIR OYFRIAN BRIDGE is a leader of the so-called " Historical" school of writers on naval policy, who maintain the doctrine that, although enormous changes have taken...

its own. It is made up for the most part of reports of conversations with members of the Spanish working classes, and though this method leaves the reader to discriminate...

a pleasant fact for the lover of mountains, for it marks not only an advance of his sport in popular esteem, but an increase in the number of those who can share its pleasures....

do more than report the publication of technical works such as those enumerated in the subjoined list. The • (1) The Taxation of Land Values under the Finance Act, 1810, lc. By...

THE LEADING NOTE.* AT a time when people are discussing what is the right length of a novel, we have no doubt that the admirers of quantity may be disposed to find fault with...

any adequate idea of the labour which Mr. Powell has spent upon this volume. He found in the • My Friend lie Indian. By James McLaughlin. London: Constable and Co. ilea. 6d....

the past and the present of the Indian, and he has the right to say it. He was for many years agent to the Sioux in North Dakota, and he is now Indian Inspector to the United...

and Co. lOs. 6d. net.)—Without doubt the " lands " in which Miss Leys experienced these "golden days" were many. First we hear of a voyage from Sydney, in which the nights,...

" a labour of love," is the Concordance to the "De Imitations Christi' of Thomas is Kempis, Compiled, with Full Contextual Quotations, by Raynor Stow (Henry Frowde, lOs. (3d....

(H.A.W. Of f ices, Manchester. ls. net.)—This is a popular account of the most recent discoveries in tropical medicine and sanitation. Here is a brief description of how the...

a very difficult reader who is not pleased with L auristons. Does he or she desire a problem ? Well, here is one with nothing unwholesome about it, all the more interesting,...

and Brothers. 6s.)—A tale of Indian "unrest, " in which the element of fanaticism is prominent. —A Fool's Errand. By Anthony Hamilton. (Greening and Co. 68.)—A powerful picture...

[Under this heading we notice such Books the week as have not Dem reserved for review in other forms.] Charles Lamb : his Homes and Haunts. By S. L. Bensusan. (T. C. and E. C....

W. Ruddock and Sons, Lincoln. Is. 6d. net.)—Mr. Chambers is one of the many teachers who feel the pressure of the educational burden. There are so many more things to teach, and...

Stoughton, 3s. 6d. per vol.) we have the Prophecies of Isaiah, by G. Campbell Morgan, D.D., 2 vols. This is devotional, not critical; perhaps it would have been better to leave...

Murdoch. (J. and J. Gray. 35. 6d.)—In this volume we have a republication of various critical essays which have appeared in the English Illustrated Magazine and elsewhere. There...

:—The Century, the Pall Malt Magazine St. Nicholas, the Review of Reviews. Harper's Magazine, the Windsor Magazine, the United Service Magazine, the Outlook, National Defence,...

Archaeology, by the Rev. T. W. M. Lund (liegan Paul, Trench and Co., 5s. net), is a reprint from the author's larger work of that part which refers to the Lake of Como, the most...

appears for the twenty-fifth time. The preface to this edition is devoted to the subject of orphanages. Germany seems to have taken the lead in this beneficent work. In England...

and Polden. 5s. net.)—This gives a clear and vigorous narrative of the campaigns of nearly twenty years, from that of Northern Italy in 1796 down to Waterloo. It is amply...

series under the title of " Cassell's Famous Reward Books." To go back to the oldest, we find in the list The Pilgrim's Progress, Gulliver's Travels, and Robinson Crusoe. Then...