Prime Minister, made a statement of policy. The chief financial proposal was an income-tax scheme which is only in accordance with expectations, as M. Caillaux is Minister of...

during the week, owing first to rumours of an agreement, and secondly to Sir Edward Grey's guarded but very firm statement in regard to British rights and interests made in the...

the United States is in no sense unfriendly to the existing Mexican Government, and that it has not behind it any sinister move- ment either in the direction of annexation or of...

T HE most striking event in foreign affairs has been the sudden mobilisation of the American Army. Some 32,000 troops are under orders to proceed to the Mexican frontier, while...

used in no dog-in-the-manger spirit. On the contrary, it is our desire, and we believe the desire of the British Foreign Office, that they should be employed to secure the true...

case.

details the better. We may point out, however, that it is absurd to talk as if the British position were a weak one. Not only do our treaties with the Sultan of Koweit make our...

Serfs was celebrated at St. Petersburg. The Tsar attended the thanksgiving service at the Kazan Cathedral, and there was a very interesting ceremony in the Tauride Palace, where...

Herr von Bethmann Hollweg spoke of Prussian relations with the Vatican. He reminded his hearers how the Pope's letter to Cardinal Fischer had shaken the understanding that...

of the Revenue Bill was taken, and the discussion turned principally upon the new land taxes. In tbst ()aurae of it Mr. O'Brien attacked vehemently the Goveenzaesat's financial...

discussion upon the proposed Reciprocity Agreement between Canada and the United States. We cannot help deeply regretting the attack made by Lord Ampthill upon Mr. Bryce, and...

from overwork. On Friday week he was present at a dinner at CLaridge's Hotel given by Lord Morley of Blackburn, and after dinner fainted and fell, striking his head so severely...

Coronation was made on Monday. The King has decided to entertain 100,000 London children at a fete at the Crystal Palace on Friday, June 30th. Sir William Carington, Keeper of...

the issue of Tuesday on the Anarchist element in Portugal. Making every allowance for the difficulties of the Provisional Government, he strongly condemns their com- plaisance...

been appointed Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. In accordance with the usual practice, a Peerage has been conferred upon him at the same...

impossible ifor us to discuss at short notice so long and important a document. We may note, however, its salient features. Five new Dreadnoughts are to be laid down this year,...

Mansion House on Tuesday elsewhere. Here we wish to express the hope that the able and energetic men who have the organisation of the London Reserve in hand, whether under the...

evil at the Harringay Congregational Church on Sunday. He said that the man who had the moral courage to keep his money in his pocket when he was given a " certainty " for the...

Mar. 9th. Consols (24) were on Friday 811—Friday week 814.

every trained man who does not now belong to any unit should at once send his name and address on a postcard to The Secretary, Veterans, Friar's House, New Broad Street, E.C.,...

voice could reach the Americans, he would say (we quote from the Times) : — "Remember that if you have founded a nation upon separation from the Mother Land, we Canadians have...

Reciprocity debate on Tuesday. It was received with enthusiasm by his supporters. He twitted the Conserva- tives with going back on the policy of Sir John Macdonald, who had...

feeling among supporters of the Government in favour of the aboli- tion of the Cocoa Duty. It will be remembered that the difference in the amount of the duty upon raw and...

MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES. T T-TE news of the mobilisation of the American Army on the Mexican frontier and the fitting-out and putting to sea of a large portion of the...

I T is seldom that so complicated a subject is laid before Parliament as that which was discussed in the House of Lords on. Wednesday and Thursday. It touches at all points the...

T HE present position with regard to agricultural pro- perty would be humorous if it were not so serious for many of the persons most intimately concerned. During the past few...

the Mansion House on Tuesday in regard to the Veteran Reserve gave one more proof of the gain to the nation of having at the War Office a man of wide mind and liberal spirit,...

S OME recent letters to the Times by Canon Beeching have called attention with force and reason to the desirability of emending the Authorised Version of the New Testament in...

T HERE is a suggestion of emptiness about a too great receptivity ; a man should not have a spare room in his mind for the accommodation of every stray notion! That is the...

W E have reached a curiously interesting stage in the gradual accumulation of knowledge of the habits of salmon. The last three or four years have been occupied with the...

Pre ring Eorros or ram "Brzorkros.'1 SIR,—Among the various suggestions for dealing with a family in distress through unemployment, it has been generally agreed that...

) 1:1:111 CORONATION EXHIBITION. [To ring EDITOR OF THIN "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—M' ay I through your columns draw the attention of your influential circle of readers to the...

tTo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTAT014."3 Sin,—Anyone who lives in California and attempts to write of the future in America (see Spectator, Dec. 10th) can hardly fail to quote...

[To THE EDFFOR OF TEE "SPECTAT011."1 Sri',—In your interesting review (Spectator, February 25th) of Mr. Smalley's "Reminiscences," you quote his reluctant com- ment on Lloyd...

[To THE EDITOR. or THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIB., —Will you kindly allow me a corner of your valuable space to inform your readers that the annual meeting of the British Women's...

his speech introducing this Bill, Lord Balfour of Burleigh is reported as saying "in certain of the States of America the Referendum was resorted to;" and the Earl of Crewe, in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—We observe in the Spectator of last Saturday a letter from Mrs. Lecky deploring the republication by us of the lets, Mr. Lecky's...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR, — Is it not somewhat singular that among the strongest opponents to the Referendum in the present House of Com- mons, both on the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] San,—It seems to an Australian an extraordinary thing that, in the endless disquisitions in Great Britain on the subject of the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, — The purpose of my letter of November, 1910, was to show that the Labour Party in Australia, with an Osborne judgment expressly...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."1 SIR, — In your article of February 11th on "Payment of Members" you say : "Every thinking man admits that it is a most serious evil to...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The danger of the renewal of bitter sectarian animosity and consequent civil strife in Ireland in the event of Home Rule has been...

(To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR, —In your article on " The Burden of Local Expenditure" (Spectator, February 18th) you draw attention to the real reason why economy in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOE."1 Sin,—The public are entitled to some information as to the proposed Home Rule Bill. The demand of the Irish Nationalist and the desire of...

(To THE EDITOR OP THE "SFECTATOR.1 SIR, —Your issue of January 28th reached me late. If the subject of Sir Bampfylde Fuller's letter is not shelved I should like to add a...

[To THE EDITOU OP TIIE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,,— Apropos of your article about the proposed new reservoirs in the Thames Valley, may I be allowed to remind you that Londoners have...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR, —While making a survey of a small island in Quatsine Sound, on the West Coast of Vancouver Island, last fall. I found an old Indian...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE ''SPECTATOR."] SIR, —In your issue of October 29th, 1910, I read with great interest and satisfaction the article by the Bishop of Carlisle on " The...

your paper of March 4th the reviewer of " The Common Growth," by M. E. Loane, is pleased to insert by way of quotation :— " Gently comes the World To those who are cast in a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. ") Sin,—The kind hospitality of your columns has been asked for our marauding kinsmen, the gulls, who should have long flown back to their...

• THE JESTER WITH A PURPOSE.* Hitherto the prefaces, if not the best part, have been as good as any part of the fare Mr. Shaw sets before us when he publishes a volume of...

SHEPHERD'S SONG. O BLACK and white the shepherd's plaid That haps me warm and weel, And black and white the shepherd's dog That follows at my heel. O black and high the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I am much obliged to you for your notice of my book, "The Profitable Imbroglio.' Your reviewer, however, has missed an essential...

[To TER EDITOR or rHa " erscreroa."] Sra,—Will you kindly allow me, through your columns, to bring before Old Etonians a matter of interest to them and to the School ? 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...

[To THE EDITOR. OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sul,—The writer of the article on " Gulls in Winter," in your issue of February 18th, appears to consider that the rook has only recently...

IN what is perhaps the most beautiful of his epigrams, the poet Ausonius addresses his old tutor, Nepotianus, as "lotentis agitator mete," and the happy phrase may be...

SIR WILLIAM BUTLER was all example of what might be Called the rebel mind. In this most interesting autobiography he proves that more surely (because undesignedly) than any...

who are convinced, severally and jointly, by certain personal experiences that they saw and heard, in the Petit Trianon, in 1901, the sights and sounds of Marie Antoinette's...

WE must congratulate the publishers a This reprint upon the conclusion of their design of issuing fee:similes of each of the first four collected editions of 'Shakespeare's...

IN the new Nineteenth Century Sir Roper Lethbridge leads off . with a paper on "Imperial Disintegration," prompted by the , Reciprocity Agreement between Canada and .the United...

WE have noticed from time to time the annual volume of the Journal of Education, not unfrequently differing from its con- clusions, but always admiring the thoroughness with...

HULL ROUSE is a woman's settlement which 'Miss Addams and her friend, Miss Starr, founded in Chicago early in 1889. It is not easy to define the purpose of these undertakings....

ELIZA GETTING ON.• THIS is a very short book, but it is just seven pages too long, and, unluckily, those seven pages come at the very beginning. There are certain subjects...

Roberts, like many other writers of the present day, is in full revolt against existing social conditions, especially those regulating marriage. Like those of his...

Co. ls. net.)—This witty and suggestive little book should be in the hands of every serious politician. The author has evidently suffered in a recent crusade, and he takes his...

(Simpkin, Marshall and Co. ls. net.)—Mr. Pells is very anxious to establish the Septuagint as the Bible of the Christian Church. It certainly has the great advantage of being...

and Prepara- tion for Holy Communion. By Sir Henry Lunn. (Hodder and Stoughton. ls. 6d. net.)—Sir Henry Lunn has put together in this little volume a number of devotional...

Co. 6s.)—A collection of theatrical stories, of which the first, which gives the book its title, is by far the best.—The Shadow on the Purple. By a Peeress. (Lynwood and Co....

and H. G. Evelyn-White. (Elliot Stock. 5s. net.)-- Messrs. Evelyn-White have done well in bringing out this portion of Domesday Book. The details of the great survey have to be...

[under this ;wading we notice such Books of the week as have not hum reserved for review tin other forms.] The Revolt in Canada Against the New Feudalism. By Edward Porritt....

and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—It is not so much the cradles that interest us as the lands from which they come and the peoples which amuse themselves by making them; and then there...

(A. and C. Black) we have The British Isles, by H. T. Snape, M.A. (1s. 6d.)—The object of the book may be explained by giving examples of the illustrations. We have on p. 37...