strongly of the discontent which begins to be mani- fested in Germany with the Emperor's Weltpolitik. The people are dissatisfied with the progress'of affairs in South- West...

T HE Peace Conference, which met at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Wednesday, has been in session for the remainder of the week. Nothing of importance took place till Thursday,...

Portsmouth, was continued in London on Thursday, when Admiral Caillard and his officers were entertained by the Lord Mayor at the Guildhall. Not only was the function in the...

special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, who stands in very special relations to M. Witte, that Russia will pay no in- demnity, will insist on Saghalien being restored to...

Lieutenant-Governors have protested that the administrative work made necessary by so awful a multitude cannot be properly performed by a single head of the Executive, who...

is curiously illustrated by a speech delivered by the Emperor at Gnesen, in Posen, on August 9th. William II. assured the Poles among whom he spoke that they should have...

Hereford called attention to a point which vitally concerns the working of our legislative machinery. The House of Lords during the Session had initiated and passed sixteen...

for the third reading of the Appropriation Bill, Mr. Asquith, following a well-established precedent, called attention to the present position of the Government. With much...

government to his eldest son, the Crown Prince, ostensibly because of his failing health, but in reality, it is supposed, because he has been too deeply wounded by the secession...

of the Sultan bag been a matter of perplexity, even to the diplomatists at Constantinople, but the Petite Ripublique of Paris has received an account which at all events looks...

speech of amazing adroitness. Mr. Asquith's questions admitted, un- fortunately, of a formal answer, and that answer was given with extreme skill. He did not attempt to justify...

who gave a clear and interesting explanation of the repatriation system which he inaugurated, and its relation to the Army. The understanding with Lord Kitchener was that the...

Revenue was issued. Income-tax Returns for 1903-4, which are the only figures yet available, reveal some remarkable facts. In that year the gross income brought under review was...

when Mr. Arnold-Forster gave his evidence. The Secretary for War explained that the transactions under con- sideration were prior to his taking office, and he had no personal...

the National Telephone Company was discussed on a Resolution moved by Mr. Lough that the agreement should be refused the sanction of Cie House unless all the recom- mendations...

long-awaited Report of the Royal Commission on the Supply of Food and Raw Material in Time of War. The Commission, it will be remembered, was appointed in April, 1903, and...

Thursday threw very little fresh light on the situation. On the face of it, Mr. Balfour's speech sounded almost like a declaration that there would be no Dissolu- tion this...

u NLE SS some great change in the attitude of the Russian Government takes place during the next few days, we fear that the prospects of peace must be pronounced to be very...

MHE really important question about the entente cordiale between Great Britain and France is whether it will endure. We believe it will, though not precisely for the reasons...

Tuesday denouncing the Government was an able one, but it naturally expresses rather the views of the " intellectuals " than of the average British elector. The latter—who, and...

.N: L'S well that ends well, and when we remember how ill the Unemployed Bill began this reflection is more than usually consoling. Almost every one, indeed, has some cause to...

on the Supply of Food and Raw Material in Time of War, which was published on Wednesday, is on the whole a satis- factory document, though it suffers from the usual dis-...

advance From a knowledge proved in error to acknowledged ignorance." I All popular ideas of heaven and hell are just now fading away. The conventional heavens fail to satisfy...

S INCE the Englishman is occasionally at pains to represent himself to himself as something which he is not, it would be strange if he were completely understood by any one but...

made a great difference to the country children of England. The schools do not yet teach them much which practical people would like to see taught, and the ideals suggested are...

IT was raining when we came to Plymouth,—a thin, cold, • comfortless rain, which enveloped land and sea in a wet mist. Sometimes the chill breezes lifted the curtain hanging...

Sra,—Your article in last week's issue admits very truly that the real difficulty in providing a force for home defence, and for the expansion of the Regular Army in times of...

LETTERS TO THE E DITOR. [To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR, — For the first time I am not in accord with my gallant friend General Sir Alfred Turner. He has done the...

But if reception by the Churches be the test, can this same reception be confined to the Nicaean Creed ? Or, granting widespread acceptance to be a proof, is not the acceptance...

Sin,—In the very interesting letter of Mr. F. L. Boyd on this question in the Spectator of August 5th the following sentence occurs :—" The purely Protestant point of view bases...

faith is a "deposit" hid in a napkin, and only brought out and exposed to view for adoration by the faithful, Mr. Boyd's contention has weight; but if as the leaven and the...

Sis,—Your correspondent "Ex-O. 0.," in the Spectator of July 29th, confuses the issues when he suggests that the junior Civil servant of to-day is as young as the junior of...

last Saturday's issue it is contended that a Dissolution will take place at the end of October. I might particularly quote the following words :— "We shall be by no means...

SIE,—May I again draw the attention of your readers to the progress which is being made every year in rendering Ireland more accessible to the British and foreign tourist ? A...

some confusion arising from not distinguishing between the clergyman's humanity and the clergyman's pro- fession ? As a man in search of truth, who would wish to fetter his...

(The Garden City, Letchworth, near Hitchin, Herts.) Tau following subscription to the Cheap Cottages Exhibition has been received through the Spectator : — W. P. Reeve LI 1 0...

SIR,—May I be permitted to finish the quotation from the old rhyme in the article on "The Drought in the North" in the Spectator of August 5th ? The rhyme is found in "The Bole...

[Reminiscences of life in the Orange River Colony with the Second Contin- gent of Oxford University Volunteers during the late War.] THERE were eight of us held a Blockhouse,...

BOOKS. Mn. CHESTERTON is an uproarious person, and this is as it should be; for Wisdom is justified of all her children. But Mr. Chesterton is an uproarious person on...

pro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' Sra,—In reference to the review of Lady Fanshawe's Memoirs in the Spectator of August 5th, I wish to say that I was asked by the publisher...

Mn. STOW, who went to South Africa as long ago as 1843, was one of the few resident ethnologiAs who seized the chance to perpetuate the traditions of the vanishing races before...

OP recent years the University of St. Andrews has, thanks to numerous benefactions from former students, Mr. Carnegie's gift, University legislation, association with Dundee and...

it people like in them ? It is the very pivot of art, it is balance ; that is to say, the oppositions of volume produced by movement The human body is like a walking temple,...

A JAY OF ITALY.* OF late years we have had a flood of novels dealing with the Renaissance in Italy, and there is a real danger that the Renaissance mannerism may become as arid...

Oxford Historical Portraits. With Introduction by Lionel Cast, ,M.V.O. (Clarendon Press. 75. 6d. net.)—This is the catalogue of the second Loan Collection exhibited at Oxford in...

[Under this heading we notice su . ch Books of the week as ham not been ,reserved for veroiew in other forms.] The Hebrew Prophets. - By Loring W. Batten. (Methuen and Co. 3s....

E. C. Jack. is. 6d.)—This is one of Messrs. Jack's excellent series of 'School Books," occupying a place in the special division of "Round the World : Geographical Readers."...

CURRENT LITERATURE. Some Famous Women of Wit and Beauty. By John Fyvie. (A. Constable and Co. 12s. 6d. net.) — Six of these eight papers tire reprints from the Quarterly...

Crockett. (A. and C. Black. 7s. 6d. net.)—This is one of the very attractive "Series of Beautiful Books." Mr. Smith gives us twenty bright pictures of Abbotsford, and as the...

E. C. Jack. ls.)—Professor Ashley puts the case very neatly when, comparing English and Continental methods of local government, he writes : "Local government in England is lay...

Surrey Unionist Free Trade Association : a . Selection Reprinted from Speeches Delivered in Surrey. (A. C. Curtis, Guildford. 6d.)—This pamphlet shows the vigour with which the...

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Guide is alphabetically arranged, certainly a convenience from one point of view, though we are not sure that it is superior, on the whole, to an arrangement by subject, so long...

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2s. 6d. net.)—Most of us have to be content with gardens already designed. Still, even then there are hints to be found in this volume. The happier few who have the delightful...

of "Class-Books of English Literature." They are furnished with introductions, notes, and in some cases with questions. Of Sir Walter Scott's works we have The Lady of the Lake...

printed volume of Shakespeare's Sonnets (7s. 6d. net), with a Note by Mr. A. H. Bullet; who criticises Canon Beeching with leniency and Mr. Sidney Lee with severity.

(Mowbray and Co. is. net.)—" This Guide is intended for the use A Guide to High Mass Abroad. By Athelstan Riley, M.A. (Mowbray and Co. is. net.)—" This Guide is intended for the...