peace would be seriously endangered, if she reduced her armaments below the level which her position in Europe required. Lastly, the measure and extent of her naval armaments...

F RIDAY'S news from the Near East is distinctly better. In the first place, the reply of the Austro-Hungarian Government to Russia's Note concerning the terms of a Conference,...

the Italian Chamber on foreign policy. He was apologetic and explanatory throughout, and showed how great had been the effect on the Government of the recent damaging...

situation in a carefully prepared speech, of which a considerable part was written. First he denied the assertion that Germany was opposed to the reform movement in Turkey. ....

hours with the Emperor on the Wednesday—the first since the issue of the Imperial Rescript of November 7th—made a statement of Germany's attitude towards the question of the...

paper some revelations made before the Tariff Committee at Washington, showing that the schedules of the Dingley Tariff Act and of the Tariff Law of 1883 were largely framed by...

any case.

papers, we might imagine that the country was in a state of ferment against the House of Lords. Truth, however, compels us to say that we see no signs whatever of that...

Committee, Lord Cromer, who presided, won very hearty approval from his very distinguished audience by declaring that a noble attempt had recently been made to settle the...

occupied with the Miners' Eight Hours Bill. We have expressed elsewhere the very grave objections which we have to this Protectionist measure, a measure which, in truth, is...

to both Houses on Tuesday. Dealing with Labour questions, he advocates the prohibition of child labour, the diminution of woman labour, and the shortening of hours of all...

a statement as to the remaining business of the Session. The Children Bill, the Scottish Education Bill, the Preven- tion of Crime Bill, the Housing of the Working Classes...

the doubling of their existing and wholly inadequate salaries. After condemning the greed and recklessness shown in the exhaustion of the natural resources of the country, and...

Budget in the Reichstag on Saturday last Herr Sydow, Secretary for the Imperial Treasury, stated that the sum which the Imperial Government had set itself to raise by new...

so, and by staving off payments rightly due next year to the year after, it is just possible that it may be made to appear that only £6,000,000 is required to be raised by new...

have described, was undoubtedly a great personal triumph for Mr. Lloyd George, who stood his ground throughout, never lost his temper, and, though it took him two hours to...

Edinburgh yesterday week at the prize-giving of the 7th (Leith) Battalion of the Royal Scots. He could not believe in an unprovoked attempt by Germany to invade our shores ;...

Thursday. On Tuesday, the eve of the birth- day, Dr. A. W. Ward delivered an address before the British Academy, which organised the celebrations, and Professor Gollancz recited...

the Women's Liberal Federation was held in the Albert Hall last Saturday afternoon. As it was known beforehand that the National Women's Social and Political Union were resolved...

be brought in except on the eve of a dissolution, and the time for that was not yet ripe. In his view, the only chance of these proposals being defeated was the possibility of a...

May 28th. Console (2i) were on Friday 88F—on Friday week 83f.

A CANKER IN IMPERIAL ADMINISTRATION. I T is with reluctance that we return to the questions raised by Mr. Scoresby Routledge in his letter to the Times of December 3rd, a...

Austria-Hungary seem deeper and more numerous the more one contemplates the line of country she has picked out for herself. The full madness of a mad act in foreign policy can...

this week been discussing the final stages of the Miners' Eight Hours Bill, and though its progress through the Commons is endangered by considerations of time, the ultimate...

Bill will not be proceeded with this Session, it will be reintroduced early next year. We may therefore fitly discuss it as still a Bill in being, and in the hope that during...

Hall on Friday week, and the resolutions passed thereat, will, we trust, draw public attention to the state of slavery, real if not avowed, which exists in Portuguese West...

O UR Lord's denunciations are more often enlarged upon by commentators than are His words of praise, partly, no doubt, because they are set down in the Gospels at greater...

MIRE true book of war is experience, and it is, or may be, the property of all nations. However often the principles of war may be written down, they must always be written in...

N OBODY knows quite how many castles are built in Spain until he has decided to buy a house in the country and has consulted a house-agent. Then be makes his discoveries. He...

THE FRENCH NAVY IN 1909. (TO TR! EDITOR Or THE " SPICCTATOR..] SIR,—The French Navy Estimates for 1909 were published last May as part of the Projet de Loi for the Budget....

UNEMPLOYMENT AND ITS " CURE." [To THE EDITOR Of THE "SPECTATOR." _ 1 SIB,—The question of unemployment has received so much attention that there is a risk of our falling into...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. ") SIR,—In your issue of December 5th appears an interesting letter from Professor Goldwin Smith on the temporal power of the Papacy. He says...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SpiciLios."1 SIR,—Mr. W. W. Carlile writes in your issue of last week that proportional representation bad been tried in South Australia before 1874...

[To Tag EDITOR OF THE "SP ICCIPATOR."1 SIR,—As a Liberal woman, I should like to enter an emphatic protest against the claim put forward by the Women's Liberal Federation last...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—I cannot allow some of your remarks in the Spectator of November 28th on Irish land affairs to pass without comment. With regard to the...

SIR,—In your last issue " Wull o' Glesca " shifts his position. In his first letter (Spectator, November 21st) he defended the " ca' canny " policy ; now he denies that the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—" Lancastrian" admits not having seen the Ironfounders' rules, but produces a Press version of an assault charge wherein the prisoner...

THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—We have had very brave words about the Fleet from members of the present Government, but when asked to translate words into ironclads, they reply that no...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR " ] SIR,—My attention has been called to a letter from Mr. Gustav Hein in your issue of last week. It seems to me rather singular that an editor...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] you allow me to enlist the sympathy of your readers in behalf of the Byzantine Research and Publication Fund, the subscribers to which held...

Silk—The discussion called forth by Canon Lyttelton's remarks on schoolboy life in Germany reminds me of a con- versation which I recently had with a man whose opinion carries...

[To TEM EDITOR OP THE "BrzerreoR."] Sin,—May I be allowed to say just a word in reference to your review in the Spectator of November 28th of my book on Lollardy and the...

experience of my own which may throw some light on the German and English schoolboy (see Spectator, December 5th). I have been nearly entirely educated in Germany, going over...

[To TES EDITOR 01 TES " Eirgarnos."1 Sxa,—At the conclusion of the review of Mr. Douglas Black- burn's latest novel, " Leaven," which appeared in your issue of September 26th,...

[To THR EDITOR OP TnS . EPRCTATOR.1 consider it very wrong and not at all wise of "Senex" to suppose and impute motives where he does not know the facts (see Spectator, December...

[To THE EDITOR 01 TEl "SPECTATOR. " ] Sts,—A friend has drawn my attention to your review of my book, "The Irish Dames of Ypres," in your issue of Novem- ber 28th, in which your...

[To THE EDITOR OF TUB "SPECTATOR. " ] is proposed to issue a volume of the letters of the late Bishop of Truro, together with a short biographical sketch from the pen of...

IcarAToR.1 SIR,—At this time of year, when people are buying garments as Christmas presents for their servants and for poor people, perhaps they might be glad to know of the...

[TO Tila EDITOR Or TII "SPEoraTon.' ] SIR,—Thoughtful writers on the unemployment question have recently pointed out that the only really hopeful way to give immediate relief to...

[To TEl EDITOR Or TEl "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Since you sometimes like to print letters on natural history, I may perhaps be allowed to mention the appearance of the Bulletin of the...

[TO TRH EDITOR OP TILE "SP ECTPATOR:] SIR,—On Sunday, November 29th, while looking over flower- bed and border for the last lingering blooms of the past season, I was astonished...

I'll tell it you, dear toys :- The path was kept for motor-cars, The road was left for boys. Of course, you had to cross the path To get back home for tea; But motors seemed...

MAN AND THE UNIVERS4.* THIS is a collection of essays dealing with religious subjects which Sir Oliver Lodge has published more or less recently in various periodicals. Taken...

[TO THE EDITOE OF THE " SPEOTATOE.".1 &a, — DI your review in the issue of the Spectator of the 5th inst. you quote the oft-repeated and oft-corrected statement that Wellington...

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...

official account of the wonderful expedition to Ruwenzori which the Duke of the Abruzzi led in the summer of 1906. The bare results have long been published, and the world heard...

ONE of the most curious indications of the changed spirit which, with modern civilisation, has come over our conceptions of literature, and in fact of the whole of art, is to be...

us in the last three years as to the spirit and training of the French Army has been almost uniformly favourable. Observers at the Grand Manoeuvres, and those who have watched...

THE world certainly has reason to be thankful for the com- bination of antecedents and surroundings which made John Watson what he was. Sometimes the contradictions which...

THERE is such a wealth of material in this book that it is almost as difficult to choose a toy or a period for special notice as it is to bay a present in a shop at...

Office resembles most productions of that great State Department in recent times; it is, in fact," provisional," which, being interpreted, means that its authors have little or...

THE WAR IN THE AIR.* THE prophetic romances of Mr. Wells differ widely from those of his competitors in this field of fiction. Not only is his method more circumstantial, but...

net.)—Miss Abrahams begins with a consideration of the dress of men and women as seen in the Mycenaean remains, con- cluding that it argues strongly for the non-Hellenic...

very seldom that the writers of modern fiction an succeed in giving a real thrill of horror to their readers. They usually adopt the subterfuge of alluding vaguely to horrible...

Sunday Reading for the Young" is the full title of this magazine, and it is a title which is well justified by its contents. The limits which the word " Sunday " implies are, as...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] De Libris: Prose and Verse. By Austin Dobson. (Macmillan and Co. 5s....

is a spirited story of the days of Charles II. and the "Popish Plot." The Gores, father and son, and the heroine are effective studies.—The Bed City. By S. Weir Mitchell....

6s.) —This story of Zululand and its borders is full of Mr. Rider Haggard's usual mysteries and adventures. The magic sayings of Rachel Dove, the "Inkosazana" of the story, are,...

Co. 5s.)—Dr. Dolmage's "Popular Introduction in Non- Technical Language" is a most useful and interesting volume. He begins with a brief account of the ancient view. In that the...

his tent is the mid-winter sun; Memnon and Achilles contending " may refer to the rival claims of the stars Sirius and Formalhaut to calendrical honour." In another aspect...

Sons. 21s. net.)—Miss French writes from America, where they are accumulating many treasures of the Old World and successfully imitating what they cannot transport. She tells...

without any change, except, indeed, increased bulk. The publishers speak of the growing number of biographies, and as the pages are reckoned up to two thousand one hundred and...

Press, 7s. net) we have The Republic of Plato, Translated by B. Jewett, 2 vols. The reprint is substantially with- out change, except that the marginal analyses have been...

H. P. Jarvis. (John Murray. 35. 6d. net.)—It is no uncommon thing, we under- stand, in Canada to see under an advertisement for labour, "No Englishman need apply." If any one...

will find Rules of Golf (Royal Insurance Company, Liverpool) a useful little manuaL It gives the rules as they have been finally settled by the "Royal and Ancient." They come in...

Marshall, and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—In this volume are republished a number of papers read before societies, articles contributed to various periodicals, letters addressed to the...

6d. net.)—Mr. Cross furnishes guidance for all the professions and occupations, and adds information about some handicrafts. As far as we have been able to examine and check his...

We cannot do better than quote the description of contents which is given on the title-page : "An Annual Register, including the Results for the year 1908 (to November), of all...

an assort- ment of Pocket-Books, Diaries, Memo-Books, ctc., of all sorts and sizes. Some are meant for the pocket, even if the pocket is of the smallest capacity, and some for...

ls. net each) we have The Practical Religion, by Vernon Staley, Fourth Edition ; Letters to a Godson : Second Series, by M. Cyril Bickersteth, M.A. ; The Christian Use of the...