speech at the annual meeting of the Republican Com- mittee of Commerce and Industry. We have said a good deal elsewhere about this important deliverance, but may mention here...

powerless. Very little can be done without the consent of Pennsylvania, and the Legislature of Pennsyl- vania is afraid of the workers' vote. Even the tax on sea- borne coal...

an occasion for rioting, passed off on Sunday last without disturb- ance, a fact the more remarkable because Captain Dreyfus was present, and because the great speech of the day...

their commercial relations and much of their attitude to each other, has again fallen through. It was supposed that the protracted negotiations had succeeded, but at the last...

rr HE coal strike in Pennsylvania is becoming a movement of • the first importance. The miners, chiefly Hungarian Slays, complain that, taking the average of the year, they...

The French Government has signed a Treaty with that of Siam which appears at first sight to be much to her advan- t age, but which is not, we think, altogether unreasonable. t...

case.

outside interference at the War Office raised by Sir Michael Hicks Beach, and denied so emphatically by Mr. Brodrick, but must note here the letter sent by Sir Michael to a...

the Military Court of Inquiry which has been investigating the action of the Remount Department. No one ever imagined that there was any corruption in the Department, and it...

wounded the other day—a chisel was thrown at him by an unknown pa-son during a riotous scene at the close of one of his meetings—died in Liverpool Infirmary on Wednesday...

Press should not be admitted to the examination of witnesses, but that after each meeting at which witnesses were examined a short communication should be made to the Press. If...

of Liberal Unionists, and in a most powerful and convincing speech defended the Education Bill and the policy of the Government. The most important point in his speech was the...

put and answered :—First, "Are you, or are you not, in favour of popular control of secular instruction whilst safeguarding the religious instruction in accordance with the...

the overland route between Europe and China. It is officially declared that the line through Siberia will be ready next spring; that travelling, though slow, will be...

were the guests of the Fishmongers' Company on Tuesday evening, made an earnest appeal to employers of labour on behalf of the Reservists and discharged men. Within the last few...

the Bishop of Leicester at Northampton on Tuesday opened the Church Congress as Acting President. His address was moderate in tone and spirited in manner. Naturally he touched...

constituents at Ebbw Vale on Wednesday night, the keynote being that the Government had given the Liberals a rallying. cry in the Education Bill. He deprecated "unauthorised...

Bill, made at Edinburgh on Tuesday, contains a Passage which deserves quotation. There was, he declared, one weak spot in the Bill as it was now framed. In a certain number of...

the papers read at the Congress, but we must draw attention to the admirable contributions to the subject of " Home Reunion" made by the Bishop of Ripon and Canon Henson. The...

New Consols (2f) were on Friday 93i.

MR. BRODRICK AND SIR MICHAEL HICKS BEACH'S ALLEGATIONS. W E cannot profess to be in any way satisfied with Mr. Brodrick's apologia for the War Office made at Farnham on Friday...

Tuesday contains a very able and interesting letter from Johannesburg dealing with various questions as regards the mines. With that portion of the letter which treats of the...

W E retain our conviction that in assailing the schools maintained by the monastic Orders the statesmen now ruling France have committed a serious blunder. They have irritated...

MT HEN Parliament meets next Thursday the Educa- tion controversy will return once more to the only effective platform of debate, and we sincerely hope and believe that the...

P RESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S action with regard to the great coal strike in Pennsylvania interests, or ought to interest, all civilised men. He is the head, or representative man, of...

I T is strange how few of our Lord's sayings are quoted in the New Testament outside the Gospels. TLe Epistles are permeated by the spirit of Christ, but their writers seldom...

T HE motor-car is destined to play so great a part in our social evolution that every sensible man must regret that obstacles should be put in its way. it is only six years...

T HOUGH popular in advertisements of milk and straw- berry jam, and still complimented in plays and verse, the country girl receives a good deal less consideration from public...

THE EDUCATION BILL AND "SUITABLE PRO- VISION " FOR ELEMENTARY EDUCATION. [TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."' Si,—The policy of the Education Act of 1870 and of the present...

[TO THE EDITOR Or Tits "SPECTATOR."] Sin,--Your correspondent " Economicus " in the Spectator of October 4th would seem to have fallen into the error which is found in the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "8PECTALT011.1 Sin,—Sir Michael Hicks Beach, as you truly say in the Spectator of October 4th, has either told us too much or too little. He must let the...

[To TRY EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—Those who looked ahead during the late war towards what would happen when peace was made had no doubt in their minds that the future...

[TO THE EDITOR. OF THE "SPECTATOR:I SIR,—IS it allowable to ask what has become of the "Non- conformist conscience " ? A conscience, surely, is of little practical value...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Srn,—It is a great comfort to see, as in your article in the Spectator of October 4th, that the aid of your powerful sympathy is given to...

[TO Tag EDITOR OF TEM "SPECTATOR"] SIR,—Major Collie's letter in the Spectator of October 4th ia well worth attention. As rector of a rural parish I can con- firm much of...

rTo THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR." . 1 hope you will allow me to say a few words on the subject of compulsory Greek for Little-go, which, I uncle'. stand, is about to be...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THR "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the Spectator of September 27th a letter appeared containing many amusing and delightful anecdotes of children's sayings, all of...

OF THE " SHICTATOR:1 Silk—In the kindly worded review of my book, "Human Nature a Revelation of the Divine," contained in the Spectator of October 4th, the reviewer says :—...

[To TUE EDITOR OF THIS "SPECTATOEL1 Sin —The solution of the Macedonian question is not quite so simple as it is represented by the writer of your interesting article in the...

[To THE EDITOR OF TUN " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—Referring to the letter of Mr. Ellis de Vesian's in your issue of September 27th concerning the utility of "miniature" practice as a...

[To THZ EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In his chapter, "Of Some Relations whose Truth We Fear" (" Vulgar Errors," VII., 19), Sir Thomas Browne has some words which might...

[To ma EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Stia,—I have read with delight your very favourable notice of "Italian Life in Town and Country" in the Spectator of September 27th, but no...

WORDSWORTH'S WEDDING (OcronER 4ra, 1802). ALONG these lanes the sweet wild rose Hath bloomed and faded, year by year: Between its banks the Derwent flows With tranquil...

iTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." J Sin,—For a long time I have been hunting for a word, and, along with others, have come to the conclusion that the word does not exist....

SIB,—In his letter (Spectator, September 27th) Mr. Lionel Tollemache states that "Arthur Stanley agreed with his old schoolfellow, Matthew Arnold." In the usual acceptation of...

TFIE POPE AS A POET.* ildarrr verses, the sweetest things in the world," so said on o ne occasion Archbishop Benson, and so would have said five- sn a.twenty years ago half the...

IT is difficult for a middle-aged reader to approach this collec- tion in the attitude of detachment needed for their thorough enjoyment. He inevitably applies the comparative...

Tars extremely valuable book answers a double purpose at the present time. To all those who wish really to appreciate the exact educational position in England as shown by...

is hardly any subject of which the ordinary idea is more vague than the Cabala. When a popular novelist writes ' about "cabalistic signs" he has dim notions perhaps of...

THE RIVER.* Mn. EDEN PinixPorrs, who made his mark at the outset as a high-spirited humourist, not untainted by a certain facetiousness, has apparently found himself as a...

of this book will agree that it is as supremely clever as the central idea is supremely disagreeable. Every one who knows Mr. Hichons's method of work can imagine what he makes...

6s.)—If we say that this novel is a little "thinner" in quality than some of Miss Fowler's former work, it must not be imagined that the book is " thin " judged by an ordinary...

Co. 6s )—Miss Carey is a popular novelist, and has deserved her popularity; but this story will hardly better her standing. She writes too easily, and she therefore writes too...

6s.)—Miss Tynan gives us, as is commonly her custom, an entertainment in which there is nothing to annoy. The sisters are Colombo, one of those all-conquering beauties whom...

THE INTERNATIONAL QUARTERLY. The International Quarterly. Edited by Frederick A. Richard- son. (T. Fisher Unwin. 55. net.)—We wish that Mr. Richardson had given us some...

The Diary of a Goose Girl. By Kate Douglas Wiggin. (Gay and Bird. 3s. 6d.)—Mrs. Wiggin is one of the pleasantest of living writers. Her mind is essentially sunny and amusable,...

parts at one shilling net each the illustrated edition of their valuable work entitled Social England, edited by Mr. J. S. Mann and the late Mr. H. D. Train. The first part...

The distinguishing feature of the October number of Macmillan's Magazine is variety. We have very ancient history in "The Nine Days of Orleans," and comparatively ancient...

[tinder this heading we notice such Vooks of the week as haps not bus reserved for review in other forms.; Undenotninationalisni as a Principle of Primary Education. By R. C....

A. Craigie, M.A. (Clarendon Press. 2s. 6d.)—This part is the beginning of VoL VIII. With it we seem to get a somewhat clearer and more definite view of the end. There are...

S. Shuckburgh, M.A. (Cambridge University Press. 4s.)—This is an epitomised edition of the Antigone in Sir R. Jebb's " Sophocles." Mr. Shuckburgh explains that his principle...

Century. By Sir Leslie Stephen. 2 vols. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 28s.)—It is twenty-six years since this book was first published, and its author confesses to some change of...

and Dr. ,Toseph Parker, by Dr. Adamson (Cassell and Co., 6s. net), are specimens of a class of books which must be very well written to be endurable. There are doubtless many...