is that Mr. Winston Churchill and Mr. Runciman will enter the Cabinet, and that Colonel Seely will be one of the new members of the Administration. The last of the statements...

new Government elsewhere, and will here only express our satisfaction that Mr. Asquith should be given the chance to show his powers of government. We are sure that he is a man...

Cabinet will appear till'Sunday or Monday, the following facts seem to be generally admitted. Lord Ripon and Sir Henry Fowler, both on account of their advanced years, will...

both Houses of Parliament on Monday. Lord Ripon alluded to the singular influence which Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman had obtained over the House of Commons. It was not based on...

I T was announced on Monday that Sir Henry Campbell. Bannerman, owing to the condition of his health— which, we regret to say, shows no improvement—had resigned the office of...

those who are to be promoted, or who will now enter the Cabinet for the first time. We will take first the rumours which are almost certainly authentic. Mr. Lloyd-George will...

case.

procure the purchase by the State of the Western Railway, the reform of Courts-Martial, and the passage of the Income-tax and Workmen's Pensions Bills. Long negotia- tions with...

was interpellated for the first. time during his two years of office on his domestic policy. M. Jaures complained that the Government did not make any serious progress with...

reply to Sir Edward Grey's despatch of March 3rd and Sir Edward's rejoinder, was published on Tuesday. The Russian Government admit the need for the immediate application of...

of the matter,—the financial difficulty. At present the Macedonian Budget is burdened by an enormous charge for the Turkish garrison, which starves civil reforms and causes a...

serious disorders in Lisbon, where the troops fired on the crowd and six persons were killed and about fifty wounded some of them mortally. The strength of the parties in the...

by Mr. Asquith. It was not the time, he said, to attempt to enlarge on the qualities or services of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. He contented himself with saying that in the...

by 194 votes to 168. One would hardly have predicted some time ago that Prince Billow would succeed in inducing the diverse components of the Bloc to pass this measure. The...

British Government are prepared to adopt the suggestion that he should be called Inspector-General. Sir Edward Grey adds that "his Majesty's Government would have no objection...

by arrangement the Government Coalition was to have a hundred and thirty-five seats out of the total of a hundred and fifty-five, and that the three parties composing the...

Deputy Minister of Labour for Canada, to London con- cerning the immigration of Indians into Canada has been successfully concluded. Legislation is said to be unlikely, but...

miners offers some striking comments on the recent vote of their Association in favour of joining the Labour Representa- tion Committee. The constitution of the Labour Repre-...

the Conservative Club, and in replying to the toast of his health spoke at length on the political situation. The Radical Party, he observed, were on the eve of a wholly new...

by the Colonial Section of the Society of Arts after Mr. Richard Jebb had read a paper. Mr. Jebb argued that the Natal Act, imposing an education test, ought to be applied to...

Mr. Hayes Fisher on Tuesday. The income for the year is put at 210,261,942, and the expenditure at 210,557,935, leaving a deficit of 2295,993, which can be met out of the...

London on Tuesday, when the remains of Emanuel Swedenborg were removed from the Swedish Lutheran Church in Princes Square for reburial in Sweden. The coffin of Swedenborg was...

19th. Cozuzola (21) were on Friday 87i—on Friday week 87154-. Bank Rate, 3 per cent., changed from 31 percent. March 19th. Cozuzola (21) were on Friday 87i—on Friday week 87154-.

TEE NEW PRIME MINISTER AND THE NEW GOVERNMENT. M R. ASQUITH and the new Government will unquestionably start work with hopeful omens. Not only has the country very favourable...

W HA.T are the Government going to do about the Sugar-duties ? They admitted last year, in effect, that the tax was per se a bad tax, and only justified by the imperative needs...

S IR HENRY CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN, who we sincerely hope may yet regain enough strength, now that he is released from the burden of office, to prolong his life in comfort and...

result of the elections of last Sunday is, on the whole, most acceptable. It was feared that the Republicans might win, or, what would have been even worse, might have obtained...

(AIM customary procedure in matters of social improve- kJ meat runs on well-defined lines. When the need of doing something in this direction is first recognised, we are...

S ETTING aside Hans Christian Andersen, is there any writer who wrote ostensibly for children. who ranks above Juliana Horatia Ewing ? The point is arguable. She could not have...

T4 AST autumn we published some letters on the alleged dislike for Englishmen in Canada. By the term "Englishman" was meant strictly an Englishman as dis- tinguished from a...

T4 IKE other Scottish rivers, the Dee begins, for the railway traveller, by the side of the train. The valley of the river suits the railway as well as the older high road, and...

A CENTRE PARTY AND MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL'S SEAT. [To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."f SIR,—If the notion and idea of forming a Centre Party is to be other than a mere...

[TO THE ED/TOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Surely the time has now arrived for efforts to be made by those best able to make them towards the formation of a Centre Party. In my...

[To TIIR EDITOR OF TRH "SPICTATOR.n] SrE,—In a pamphlet entitled " Modernism : What it is and Why it was Condemned," which has received the imprimatur of the Roman Catholic...

[To TTIR EDITOR OP TIM "SPECTATOR.1 STE,—I am reminded by what I read on current politics of two jests which seem to me so good that I run the risk of repeating them. The...

at present would seem to point to some such grouping as follows. Mr. Asquith will purge the Liberal Party of the Socialists, gather the Whigs and Imperialists round him, and be...

LT0 THE EDITOR OP TER "SPROTATOR:1 SIR,—The character of the late Duke of Devonshire is curiously forecast in that of his ancestor, who died, being the third Duke, in 1758, and...

[TO TIIR EDITOR OF TUB "SPECTATOR:] Sin,—I trespass most reluctantly upon your valuable space. The following statement appeared in the Spectator last week :— " Only...

1.1 . 0 TIM EDITOR OP TIM "SPIOTATOR.:1 Sta,—Here is a specimen of the correspondence which 0000.13- times reaches the office of a missionary society. It is encouraging to know...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " 1 SIR,—In your issue of March 28th is a review of Mr. C. E. Pascoe's "No. 10 Downing Street." The first two chapters of this work treat of...

To THE EDITOR OP TUE "SPECTATOR."! SIR,—With reference to the letter headed "A National Guard," by Lieutenant-Colonel C. Ford, in last week's • Any boy who wishes to enter for...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEDFATOR. • 1 SIR,—On several occasions during the last twelve months you have been good enough to help the national training scheme initiated by Lord...

[To THE EDITOR OP THZ " SPECTATOR." j SIR,—In saying that "Shakespeare's words about the touch of Nature throw more light than any treatise upon the difficult question of...

[To TEE EDITOR Of THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sul,—May I suggest a slight correction in No. XIV. of the admirable "Letters to a Working Man" (Spectator, April 4th) ? Demand is illustrated...

DEAR Mn. You are, I know, concerned, as must indeed be every thinking man in the kingdom, with the problem of the unemployed. I do not want to trouble you with the obvious...

MO THE EDITOR Or Tilt "sreccurote."1 send to you herewith a true account of a jackdaw in case you may think it worth reproducing in your paper. Poor Jack ' ! He was a good...

A CHITRAL INCIDENT. [While engineers were throwing a bridge made of telegraph-wire over the river Panjkora, Major Aylmer, V.C., slid down a slack wire and snatched from death a...

THE AGE OF LOUIS XIV.* THE period covered by the fifth volume of The Cambridge Modern History possesses a unity and a dramatic interest which, if we except the Napoleonic era,...

worn out with the fatigues of his campaign in India,—a campaign which the great Wellesley - placed among the glories of English military achievement. This book is therefore...

boast of a Chronicle of so great an interest as this compiled by the Hon. Lady they and edited by Miss Lyster. Three generations of amiable and accomplished ladies are here...

THIS 18 an elaborate work applying Darwinism and the New Darwinism to social problems. It is divided into three parts. The first,,Avo t ti "The Theory of Descent," deals...

GREEK is often spoken of scornfully as a "dead" language, but those who take up this delightful book will hardly assent to the description. It is, indeed, a somewhat curious...

A LARGE and a small book on trees have appeared about the same time, and may be noticed together. The former is a finely-got-up, massive volume with magnificent photographs in...

Tins volume, which is mainly a collection of articles con- tributed during the years 1902-7 to the Guardian and the Commonwealth, will do the English student of theology the...

THE BAD TIME94 Mn. BIRMINGHAM, as we have already had occasion to point out, occupies a unique position amongst Irish novelists. His books deal largely with contemporary...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not bens. reserved for review in other forms.] The Sarcophagus of Beti I. (B.C. 1370). By E. A. Wallis Budge,....

and Co. 6s.)—A powerfully written study of Napoleon, not for all readers.—Clanbrae : a Golfing Idyll. By Pentland Peile. (W. Blackwood and Sons. Gs.)—This also- is not for all...

Grant Richards. 6s.)—This is a frankly impossible story or adventure 'in the South Sea Islands. In the first chapter the. heroine, Mirra Trevellyan, is carried off to the island...

Co.. 6s.)—" Frank Denby" has made an advance, as striking an advance as we remember to have seen in this province of litera- ture, on her earlier work. "Sally Snape," who rises...

Dr. J. A. H. Murrray (Clarendon Press) is a double section "Monopoly—Movement" (a part of VoL VI.), by Henry Bradley (5s.) The proportion of native words is unusually large, and...

by his Wife, Anna Booth Stratton. (A. Constable and Co. 108. 6d. net.)—Mr. Stratton was born at Toronto, and graduated at the University of that city. "His early political...

W. Earle and Mrs. Hugh Bryan. (Truslove and Hanson. 6d. net.)—You must live on fruit and vegetables (but not sugar, acid fruit or jam) ; tea and coffee are forbidden; eggs are...

IL A. Cartwright (Singapore) (Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing Company)— is a massive volume of very handsome appearance. It is a quarto of between nine hundred and a thousand...

in which details, histbriesl, descriptive, and relating to the wants of the traveller in Spain, are given, we have Leon, Burgos, and Sa/amanca, by Albert F. Calvert. The...

78. 6d. net.)—Few men get such opportunities as came to Mr. Nicoll,—to make three voyages in what is probably the best sea-going auxiliary screw yacht in existence. The...

net.)—Dr. Reich says that in this work his "chief purpose is to project historical events graphically upon the territory in which they happened and by the configuration of which...

a series of excellently printed volumes giving well-known examples of mediaeval literature, with introductions, notes, Sm., generally adapted, in fact, for the wants of the...

woode and Co. 3s. 61.)—This list of "English Clubs" appears for the sixteenth time, with various additions and improvements. The clubs catalogued and described are scattered...