on Wednesday reported that on or about December 12th two thousand Abyssinians made an incursion into the regions of Baidoa, Revai, and Buracaba, in Italian Somaliland, plundered...

pro- pounding a scheme of national defence, which is explained in the .Tourna/ des Dgbats. It seems that at the end of last Session, when he was absent from the Chamber, M....

of saving the Fatherland is not done by persons like Harden. But the most weighty comment on the case proceeds from the Liberal Frankfurter Zeitung, which, without professing...

I T was announced on Tuesday that the Times is to be turned into a limited liability company under the chairmanship of Mr. Arthur Walter, and that the managing director of the...

case.

be considered, and with the greatest care, is the question of finance. We wish it were obligatory upon every Government, when enumerating in the King's Speech the measures which...

the news- paper South African Mines, which have aroused the greatest Interest, have resulted in a victory for the Gordon drill, and Messrs. Eckstein are installing two hundred...

will have begun. We have drawn attention elsewhere to the huge and miscellaneous character of the legislative proposals which, if the Government fulfil their pledges, as no...

letter on the outlook in the United States in Monday's issue. On the whole, his conclusions are re- assuring. The crops have been good, the panic has subsided, cash payments...

Tuesday, and present some extraordinary figures. The imports, exports, and re-exports amount to the enormous total of 21,164,080,913, as against 21,068,566,318 in 1906. This is...

paper that "the recent elections of the College of electors, each member of which is choaen by universal suffrage to represent the inhabitants of each village, township, or city...

next year or two—that is, until their time is practically up—is a proof of weakness and vacillation which it is impos- sible to mistake, and which greatly increases the weakness...

Mail of Monday gives an interesting obituary notice of Alder- man A. J. Hucklesby, of Luton, whose death took place on Saturday last. Born in poor circumstances, Mr. Hucklesby...

of Great Britain on Wednesday with reference to the Government's Mines Eight Hours Bill. The Departmental Committee had estimated the reduction in the supply of coal consequent...

on Monday, Professor Pepper, the Senior Surgeon and Con- sultative Adviser to the Home Office, gave evidence as to the construction of the coffin and the nature of the contents...

reads these Returns to go on talking as though the growth of our export trade were an artificial one, due mainly to the export of coal. Coal is only one of innumerable items,...

by the Board of Trade on Wednesday. In view of the preference granted to certain specified goods, "the growth, produce, or manufacture of any part of the British Dominions,"...

which we wish warmly to support, on behalf of the surviving veterans of the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny. It is proposed, with the full approval of the King, who has...

Jan. 2nd. Consols (2i) *are ea Friday 881—na Friday Week 813f.

THE COMING SESSION. T HE Government are committed to an enormous legislative programme in the coming Session. In the first place, they are pledged to a Bill dealing with primary...

G ERMANY will need all her statesmanship to guide her rightly in two very different, but equally difficult, matters which confront her. One concerns the fundamental principles...

I T is evident that this Session an attempt will be made by members of the Liberal Party to induce the Government to pass a Bill establishing the second ballot. Mr. Humphreys,...

N O form of compulsory payment seems so universally unpopular as local rates. Of the particular purposes for which Ituperial taxation is levied some, indeed, come in for- hard...

p OLITICAL debauchery is almost a mild description of the state of public affairs which has been dis- closed by the " graft ' trials in California, of which two extremely...

just published a new com- mentary upon Jeremiah interspersed with passages of rhythmical translation (" Jeremiah : the Man and his Message," Hodder and Stoughton, 6s.) Upon the...

W HAT we call unconventionality is often only a new convention in the making. In fiction a successful declension from accepted models of construction or manner is followed by a...

T HE moon, of all heavenly luminaries, is the most closely associated with humanity : she is the mother of romance. Her alternate subjection to and triumph over the earth-born...

OUR ELECTORAL METHODS AND THE NEXT GENERAL ELECTION. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.1 Si,—The approaching Session will open with more than the usual element of doubt as to...

THE INDIAN COTTON-DUTIES. pro THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' Slit,—In the letter relating to the Indian Cotton-duties from a " Free-Trader " which appeared in your issue of...

Fro THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your severe comments last week on the disingenuous character of Mr. Maurice Low's attack on Mr. Roosevelt will be welcomed by all who...

" Se carATott."] SIR,—Will you grant me the favour of a little, space to attempt a reply to your article of January 4th on Indians in the Transvaal ? I wish first to deal with...

MO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEOTA.T011.".1 Sin,—Your comments on my letter of last week go far to prove my contention,—that cattle-driving is alleged to be cruel by people ignorant...

SIR,—In your last issue you published a letter relative to cattle-driving by Mr. Gwynn, in which he condemns certain statements in your paper on the ground that they are...

Srit,—In your last issue Mr. Stephen Gwynn took you and others to task for supposing that cattle-driving is in the smallest degree a cruel form of political agitation. You have...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In his letter which appeared in the last Spectator " M.P." expresses regret at the tone of your recent article on Socialism and Tariff...

letter on this 'subject in the Spectator more than three years ago and how I enjoyed reading it. His further letter (Spectator, Decem- ber 28th, 1907) is a great addition to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE -srEciarog.”] SIR,—I am one of that large body of voters, the men of moderate opinions, who hold in equal abhorrence the selfish- ness of the old Toryism...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." j SIn,—In Mr. Lovat-Fraser's letter on "Disraeli's Borrowings" (Spectator, December 28th, 1907) he mentions Disraeli's famous comparisbn of...

[To THE EDITOR TIIM "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—There are two points which I think have been missed by your correspondents on the above interesting subject. (1) . There is a large...

• much interest the letters which have recently appeared in the 'Spectator on the above subject. The apportionment of the expenditure given in the letter which appeared a...

[To THE EDITOIL OF THE "SPEOTATOIL."] SIE,—It is generally known that Hindhead was recently purchased by the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty,...

SLR,—I enclose a summary of expenses which I have obtained from several of my friends, and Which I thought might be of intelest to your readers. The figures speak for...

LTD TDB EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:] common with all your readers who are interested in the art of living within their income, the experiences of " Contentus sorts meii" have...

[To THE EDITOR OF TER "SPECTATOR:1 Si,—Will you very kindly allow one who has had over thirty years' experience of preparatory-school work to make a few comments on your...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TWA " SpECTATOR."J SIa,—At the risk of becoming the object of your irony, may I point out, with reference to your critique of Lady Grove's book in your issue...

I TO THE EDITOR OF TRIO "SPECTATOR.") Sru,—Looking on to the lawn from my drawing-room on this bitterly cold and foggy first Sunday morning of the New Year; I saw a very curious...

LTO TDB EDITOR OF TIIII " SPECZATOIL1 Sin,—We beg to inform you that the authoritative Life of Henry Irving is in preparation, and will he published by us next autumn. The...

MAN. IL-THE FORCE THAT MAKES THE WHEELS GO ROUND. DEAR Mn. I want to by and put to you yet another series of arguments in regard to Socialism,--arguments which show, in my...

THE CHANCE. WORDS wander like motes Across your hideous sea Of yelling mouths and straining, hairy throats; O'er fists shaken so threateningly, That make a storm to dumb the...

OLD MASTERS AT BURLINGTON HOUSE. THE most interesting feature of this year's Loan Exhibition at the Royal Academy is its collection of works belonging to the English reboot A...

THE WAVERLEY NOVELS.* WE have grown accustomed to see the " Waverley Novels" in fine dresses, but these three volumes far excel any earlier editions we remember. At the price...

give the general reader perhaps the first opportunity he has had of learning the fall truth about • The - Campaign of Santiago de Cabs. By Henry H. Sargent. With Maps, 3 vols....

THAT Horace can be called a great poet may be justly doubted. Short, fat men who suggest, as he did, the image of "a pint- pot " (sextariolus) and love laziness rarely attain to...

Ma. RAMSAY MACDONALD is one of the leaders of the Labour Party in the House of Commons. He is also an experienced • Socialism. By J. Ramsay Macdonald, M.P. London : T. C. and E....

ADMIRERS and lovers of Madame de Sevi g ne will find much to please them in Mrs. Aldis's new book. Undoubtedly the Marquise, whom Sainte-Beuve described as bein g lovable as a...

this volume, which is essentially the rather belated translation of a book that was given to the public fourteen: years a g o, lies in the biographical material which it...

ALTHOUGH these little sketches have not the serious and dramatic interest of Lady Bell's At the Works, they are an excellent vehicle for displaying another form of their...

THE CRESTED SEAS.* THOUGH there is plenty of incident and excitement in Mr. Connolly's new volume of sea stories, greater prominence is assigned to the psychology of the...

do better than indicate some of the chief activities of Toynbee Hall. There are University Extension courses, evening classes and other educational opportunities, smoking...

Murray. " Polygenous—Premious." Vol. VII. (Clarendon Press. 'is. 6d. Treble Section.)—The total number of words in this treble section amounts to 5,'726; they occupy 190 pages...

—That this tale of exploration in the Antarctic Circle is not very credible will be understood when it is stated that the first thing which the reader is asked to believe is the...

is a collection of delightful stories, and even those readers who are repelled by the Irish dialect should conquer their prejudices for the sake of enjoying these charming...

[tinder this heading we notice such Books of the week as hare not been reserved for review in other forms.1 It is almost a commonplace that Boswell's Life of Johnson is as good...

Constable and Co. 6s.)—Mrs. Grosvenor's earlier novel led us to expect something out of the common from her new venture, and in a sense the expectation has not been...

hereditary madness, the tendency to which is much increased by a fortune which is left to the hero.—Comrade John. By Merwin Webster. (Macmillan and Co. 6s.)—A curious picture of...

6d.)—This "forgotten Essex Puritan" was a notable man in his day. He was a graduate of Cambridge, from that great Puritan stronghold, Emmanuel. Taking Orders, he became vicar of...

of Carnarvon, Edited by J. Gwenogoryn Evans (Pwllheli, 16s.) The Welsh text has been reproduced in the most elaborate way, all defects or doubtful passages being marked in the...

3s. 6d. net.)—This is a delightful book to read anywhere; to read it in "Waiter Scott's Land," which may be taken, in its proper sense, as meaning the valley of the Tweed and...

Gregory. (T. and T. Clark. 12s.)—Mr. Gregory puts together in this volume of more than five hundred pages a great mass of valuable informa- tion. His special theme is the New...

(J. Bellows, Gloucester. 10s. 6d. net.)—The history of the region in which Painswick occupies an important place goes back as far as the ' beginning of the continuous history of...

and Co. 5s.)—The "magic door" is the door of a library. Sir Arthur Doyle begins by gossiping pleasantly about hie own library, how, for instance, in early days he would spend...

W. Partridge and Co. is. net.)—Miss Butler tells the life-story of her father, Thomas Butler. He was left at twenty-one with a heavy charge by his father's premature death. One...

Co. 6s.)—Dr. Macfie does not prepossess a reader by his early remarks. "The world has been made and inter- preted for us by great minds, but we ourselves are as helpless as the...

6s.)—We do not quite know whether this is a book of travel or a novel. There has recently appeared a hybrid of this kind, and hybrids, as we all know, may have many excellent...

manual," as it might be called, grows and grows in quantity, while in quality it is as excellent as ever. The pages number more than four thousand six hundred—the volume...

Moss. (The Author, Didsbury. £1 is. net.)—This volume continues a series which we have had the pleasure of noticing on more than one occasion. Among the contents we see...

6d. net) Dr. P. V. Smith gives us a very useful manual explaining various matters with which members of the Anglican Communion are specially concerned. Not the least valuable...

the seventy-first publication of the "Directory, Ecclesiastical Register, and Almanac." The Catholic Peers number forty-two, the Baronets fifty-two; there are forty-nine...

net.)—A new book on gardening ha a no sort of need of an apology. It is sure to be welcome. Gardens vary almost infinitely, from Chatsworth down to the smallest patch in a city...

W. Dean Howells (A. Constable and Co., 16s. net), with twenty illustrations in colour by Edmund H. Garrett, a delightful book in every way.

three volumes the nature and use of which are sufficiently indicated by their titles. These are A Treasury of Ballads, Selected and Arranged by M. G. Edgar, M.A. (1s. 6d. net);...