putes Bill were debated in Committee in the House of Commons. Clause II., which legalises picketing when carried on peaceably and in a reasonable manner, was discussed for five...

the answer of the people to the action of the Government, has come to nothing. The thing was hurriedly proposed and insufficiently organised, many of the Trade-Unions held...

The • Sirio,' a steamer of 2,275 tons, bound from Genoa to Buenos Ayres with some eight hundred Italian and Spanish emigrants on board, ran on the rocks near Cape Palos on...

the allegations made by Sir William Butler's Com- mission on the disposal of war stores in South Africa pub- lished their Report. The Commission, it will be remembered,...

its Tokio correspondent as to the progress of Japan in Korea. The Marquis Ito, the Resident-General, is having much the same difficulties as Lord Cromer had in early days in...

A JUDGMENT which may fairly rank with that of the House of Lords in the Taff Vale case was delivered on Wednesday by the Court of Appeal. The West Riding of Yorkshire County...

case.

the chairman of the Milner Address Committee, conveying the public address, and Lord Milner's reply. The analysis of the signatures shows that the address was signed by upwards...

Edward Grey in his speech,—the condition of the Chinese Customs. The Government had not yet been officially informed of the resignation of Sir Robert Hart ; but they considered...

opposi- tion amongst the clergy of the country, but while sympathising with their soreness be held their fears to be unfounded. Dr. Percival replied to Lord Hugh Cecil's attack...

for Mr. Chamberlain's scheme as opposed to that of the Government. The Birmingham scheme, he concluded, was distinguished from secularism ; it did not deprive the State of its...

House of Lords on Friday week without a division, the Opposition leaders expressly reserving their right to insist on such amendments as they consider vital when the Bill...

moved the adjournment till October 23rd. The debate was concerned only with foreign and Colonial questions. The Under-Secretary for the Colonies, in reply to questions, declared...

have been initiated by Sir Bartle Frere, "the son of one who in his day was exposed to much undeserved but transient obloquy"; and, in conclusion, assures all his old friends...

July is the remarkable increase in British exports, which show a rise of 25,621,911 over the corresponding month in 1905. The chief increase is in articles wholly or mainly...

accident was concluded on Tuesday night. The jury found that the accident was caused by a breakage of the machinery brought about by the efforts of the driver to check the speed...

British Association we may note that of Mr. Trevor Battye on "The Zambesi beyond the Victoria Falls." Starting from the Falls, Mr. Trevor Battye travelled one hundred miles in a...

Cumberland, where the vacancy created by the death of Sir Wilfrid Lawson led to a triangular contest, was announced on Saturday, the figures being as under :— Sir John S....

for 212,800, was formally dedicated to the use of the nation by the Speaker of the House of Commons. Mr. Lowther, who sits foi Mid-Cumberland, acquitted himself of his agreeable...

Rutland, which occurred at Belvoir Castle last Saturday morning. With the Duke disappears almost the last of the links with the great days of the early Victorian era. Born in...

cent. June 21et. Console (2t) were on Friday 89f—on Friday week 87i.

THE REPORT OF THE WAR STORES COMMISSION. Royal Commission on War Stores in South Africa, who issued their Report on Thursday evening, were appointed last June to investigate...

AR E we not all getting a little too pessimistic ? Whether it arises from that habit of criticism which is natural in journalists, or from something deeply seated in the...

of the Session to be discussed in Committee, marks a departure from legal and political traditions of which it is difficult to exaggerate the gravity. No more unabashed piece of...

T HE Contemporary Review has done a real service to the intelligent study of actual politics by giving in its current number a translation of so much of M. Jaures's and M....

91HERE are one or two sentences which occur at the 1_ • beginning of the Report of Mr. Norman's Committee on London Cabs and Omnibuses which it is difficult to read without...

W HERE the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty," said St. Paul. This was the deliberate comment of "the first of the Christian theologians and the last of the Jewish...

I F a real Londoner, like Huish in "The Ebb Tide" (though not many Cockneys are as detestable as he), were to be suddenly deposited in the East End, as by a magic carpet, be...

T HE art of wet-fly fishing, unlike that of dry-fly, is one in which indifferent performers, given certain conditions, can do quite moderately well. Upon a chalk stream it takes...

THE BATH OF BLOOD IN NORTH INDIA. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—At the beginning of June the Punjab Chief Court passed judgment in an extraordinary case that had...

MR. ARNOLD-FORSTER AND THE YEOMANRY. (1.`0 TEM EDITOR OP TUE "SPECTATOR:1 SIE, — In his letter to the Spectator which you published in your issue of August 4th the late...

SIR, — Mr. Arnold-Forster in your issue of the 4th inst. seems to take great credit for himself in his treatment of the Yeomanry when he was Secretary of State for War. As I...

SIR,—In your editorial note to Mr. Percy L. Parker's letter of last week you claim that the Church of England is the national Church, first, "because she does not exclude any...

SIR,—The extraordinary letter of Mr. P. L. Parker in your last issue seems to demand a sharper rebuke than is contained in your polite editorial note. It is really quite time...

OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sr,—The two grounds for your contention that the Church of England is the national Church are (a) that she does not exclude any Christian Englishmen from...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."] Slit,—For the last twenty years I have taken the Spectator regularly, and have found myself in sympathy with most of its opinions. Surely,...

SIR, — AS a convinced voluntary who has resided the greater part of his life in Scotland outside the Church of Scotland, and who has resided a short time in England outside the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." j SIR,—The training of officers who will make their profession the serious business of their lives and devote to their country their best...

[TO THE EDITOR Of THE "SPECTATOR."] Sm,—Your leader under the above title in the Spectator of July 28th caused me no little surprise. You therein speak of the Girondins having...

[TO THE EDITOR or THE "SPECIATOR."f SIR,—The columns of the Spectator should be open to protest against mischievous legislation, even when presented in humanitarian garb. Your...

THE " SPECTATOR " EXPERIMENTAL COMPANY. [TO THE EDITOR OF TRH " SP EOPLTOR:1 SIR,—YOU kindly found space on April 14th last for a letter from me telling of the important new...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Your readers may be interested in the following account of an unusual friendship. Last Christmas Mr. Richard Buhlig took to Berlin a...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR, — On Tuesday, July 31st, the Company was inspected by the War Office Committee on Physical Training. Sir Frederick Treves was...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 Stn,—I am reading "Alexander Hamilton," to which my attention was principally drawn by the review in your issue of July 14th. I cannot help...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, — In consequence of my letter to the Spectator of July 28th, a lady has sent £10 to the Pensioners' Home, and promised to give £10...

LIBERIA.* THERE is probably no State in the world where English is spoken of which the average Englishman knows less than that Republic of American negroes on the shores of the...

WE have received the following further subscriptions towards meeting additional and unforeseen expenses connected with the Spectator Experimental Company :— Sir Edgar Vincent...

THE LITTLE GARDENS. WITHIN the secret gates of Paradise, That stand between the sunset and the dawn, In visions I have passed, not once nor twice, And seen the happy souls,...

one more proof, if such is needed, of the vitality of economic science in this country, and a welcome indication that distinguished economic teachers and writers are more and...

there were to be no end to books about Scott, as to books about Queen Mary and Robert Burns ; and Professor Saintsbury, who has written one himself, defends the growing practice...

The Gospel in the Gospels, though only recently published, has already made a sensation in the religious world. The author, while gratefully accepting the light thrown upon the...

—This novel would perhaps have been a more interesting psycho- logical study if the man who occupies the first place in the opening chapters had remained the central figure in...

A SOVEREIGN REMEDY" THE proverb about the shoemaker and his last is a very arbitrary and unfair weapon in literary criticism, but at the same time there is a truth at the back...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Religion and the Education Bill. By H. A. S. (T. H. Cuff,...

THE INDEPENDENT AND THE MONTHLY REVIEWS. Fran Lily Braun, writing in the Independent Review, gives some curious sidelights upon the visit of the German editors to England....

—The portrait of Napoleon on the outside of this book, coupled with the facsimile of his hieroglyphic—it cannot be called an autograph—will prepare the reader to find Bonaparte...

Grundlinien durcligreifender Justizreform. Von Dr. Franz Adickes. (J. Guttentag, Berlin. 3s. )—Dr. Adickes, the able Oberbiirgermeister of Frankfurt-am-Main, has written this...

; The Persians. By Arthur S. Way. (Macmillan and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Way is surely the most indefatigable of translators. To Homer and Euripides he is now adding Aeschylus. We...

Co. 21s. net.)—The Cretan explorations still occupy a consider- able space in the year's proceedings. Mr. Evans, indeed, gives only a brief account of the work at Cnossus ; but...

and Son. ls. net.)—A building society, keeping strictly to its purpose of helping its members to provide themselves with freehold houses, is an admirable thing. It is true that...

Fairbairns. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Ball gives a brief introduction on castle building, and then furnishes us with between fifty and sixty photographs of actual buildings, whether...

and Thomas Francis Moran, Ph.D. (Longmans and Co. 6s. net.)—We cannot say that the tone and temper of this "Textbook on the History and Civil Government of the United States of...

Is. 6d. net.)—This somewhat ambiguous title—it reminds us, by contraries, of a familiar story about "Notes on the Construction of Sheepfolds "—is really a book about scientific...

is. net.)—Mr. Sims treats a very disagreeable subject with great tact. On the whole, we may conclude that things have mended. It would be rash to affirm that the level of public...

net) we have a "Second Edition, Revised and Corrected," of Asia, by A. H. Keane, LL.D. Dr. Keane points out that since 1895 (the date of the first edition) much has been dis-...

5s. net.)--In 1846-48 Lieutenant (now Sir Richard) Strachey explored the mountain ranges westward of Nepal, and the Tibet lake region of Rakas-Ttil and Mansarowar. In the latter...