duties imposed upon Unionists by the breakdown of the Conference. We may say here that, in our opinion, an immediate Dissolu- tion is almost certain. That would be the best...

for the Democrats. A Democratic majority of fifty in the next House of Representatives is assured, and the Republican majority in the Senate has probably fallen to ten. The...

the Unionist leaders will make their position on the question of House of Lords reform absolutely clear. The country, we believe, strongly desires House of Lords reform, but it...

plain is for the Unionist leaders in the Lords to put forth, the more specifically the better, a clear, definite, and drastiit scheme of House of Lords reform. They will make it...

T HE Conference has broken up without agreement, it having been found impossible to reach any solution of the Constitutional problem. The failure of the negotiations was...

the German syndicate. The Constantinople corre-_ spondent of the Times says that the syndicate takes a 4 per cent. loan of £T.7,040,000 at 84. The expenses of the issue are to...

case.

political disclosure, and indeed scarcely referred to home politics, except in an allusion to the rioting in Wales and to the improvement of the Trade Returns. He explained the...

Sir John French, who replied to "the calumnious charges of inefficiency and incompetence which had been unwarrantably levelled against the office rs and men of his Majesty's...

promising Manifesto on Home-rule issued by the Reveille Movement which appeared in last Saturday's papers. "Should the Unionist Party cease to be Unionist," the Manifesto...

short visit of thirty-six hours to the German Emperor. As the Tsar had been passing some time with his grand-ducal relations in Germany, it was natural for him to visit the...

of the telegram sent by Mr. Churchill on Wednesday. To say, as he did, to the miners that "their best friends here are greatly distressed at the trouble which has broken out,...

strike elsewhere. The rioting, which had continued during the week, had almost ceased by Thursday night, when the Home Office was able to issue a statement that the whole...

having been prevented from visiting South Africa "for the present." The phrase apparently means that the King contemplates going to South Africa, and probably to other parts of...

the first Parliament of the Union of South Africa at Cape Town. The ceremony took place in the House of Assembly, a wing modelled on the House of Commons which has recently...

of the Coronation is fixed for Thursday, June 22nd next. The Proclamation states that the part of the ceremony which in times past took place in Westminster Hall will be...

compared with October, 1909, the value of imports has risen £5,405,936; of exports £3,760,454; and of re-exports £398,538. So far as such statistics can be trusted, they are...

made an amusing speech upon the Houses of Parliament. He began by saying that a few hundred years ago the South Saxons took little interest in politics, and when they did "the...

Mr. L. S. Amery in the Times of Tuesday under the heading "A Plea for Steadiness." While he disapproves of the headlong zeal of that "large section of the party, embracing many...

Mr. Frederic Harrison restates the case against the reversal of the Osborne judgment in vigorous language. What he objects to principally is that Trade-Union funds subscribed as...

Women's National Anti-Suffrage League— publishes some remarkable results of a canvass of women municipal electors. The League has asked the women electors in several...

of Glasgow on Monday, and delivered an interesting speech. He expressed his strong approval of town planning. Two sights depressed him when he visited a great town,— the sight...

shows from Australian experience how little reason there is for believing that payment of Members will in the least check the attempts of the Labour caucus at establishing a...

Oct. 20th. Consols (2i) were on Friday 791—Friday week 79i.

THE BREAK-UP OF THE CONFERENCE. T HE Conference has broken up. We do not want to exaggerate the dangers and difficulties of the crisis with which the nation is now face to face,...

South Wales are the most acute symptom which has yet appeared in Great Britain of the general unrest affecting Labour all over Europe. We shall not discuss again the reasons of...

T HOUGH we differ profoundly from the ordinary British Radical, we admire him on many sides. His optimism, his confidence that anything and everything can be set right by an Act...

W E shall be told, of course, that all we have said in the preceding article is pure conjecture, if not, indeed, a gross libel upon the statesmen who rule Germany. In defence of...

I N dealing with the difficult problem of insurance against infirmity, or invalidity as the Germans call it, Mr. Lloyd George is apparently proceeding in a spirit of caution...

T HE home life of what we may call middle-class America is very pleasant, at any rate for the young, judging by Mrs. Katherine G. Busbey's charming new book, "Home Life in...

I T is a pity that one of the most striking of the proposals made for a London memorial to King Edward VII. was not published in its full and comprehensive form earlier in the...

N OT long ago we published a paper by Mr. F. T. Bulled on "The Passing of the Sailing Ship." The melan- choly fact that the sailing ship is disappearing is hardly to be...

OP THE " SPECTATOR., Sra,—I am sorry to trouble you further with a controversy into which, by no wish of mine, my name has been brought. But since your correspondent "X."...

A THREATENING LETTER. [To TER EDITOR. Or ?RN " SPECTATOR.'`) • think the Spectator would be well advised in future to close its columns to attacks on Mr. Patrick Ford as well as...

Six,—Your correspondent of last week, "A Parish Minister," asks for information as to the form of Confirmation in the Roman Church: such may also be of interest to your other...

[To TEE EDITOR OF TER "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—The time is at hand to decide upon some line of policy for the next Imperial Conference. So far as one can learn, it has been arranged...

[TO TER EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,"] Srx,—The letter of "A Parish Minister" in your last issue needs a brief answer. The matter of Confirmation from the earliest times seems to...

[To THE EDITOA OF TEE " SPECTATOR:1 have read with interest your article in the last issue upon "The Resignation of the French Ministry" in connexion with the strike upon the...

[To TUN EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] Si,-Will you allow me, notwithstanding the difference of our points of view, to say a few words on the article concerning "The Mohammedan...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Slit,—Yon have permitted me now and again during the past eight years to draw attention to the inevitable depreciation of gold because of the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SFECTATOR.1 Stn,—Awakened from the usual decorous English repose and insular self-satisfaction, I read with great pleasure your article of June 25th last...

[To THZ EDITOR OP THII n SPRCTILTOR.'] Si,—May not these present discontents in some measure arise out of the maladministration of the Education Acts ? I attack nobody directly...

[To Urns EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Did you notice the following cutting from the second leader in the Morning Post of Wednesday ?—" All Tariff Reformers would, we...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Snt,—I have noticed one or two speeches by Labour Members of Parliament in which the House of Lords as a Court of Law and the House of Lords...

[To ma EDITOR OF TIM "EPRCTATOR."1 SIR,—At a time when universal service is often spoken of as conscription, it may be allowable to submit definitions of each —on approval....

[To au Enrros or Tax "SPECTATOR:I see that in your issue of the 5th inst. you quote the figures given by Mrs. Humphry Ward as to the results of a postcard canvass on woman...

[To TIER EDITOR Or TIER "EPECTATOR."11 SIR,—I have before me your interesting review in last week's issue of "A Quaker Post-bag," in which, however, there are one or two points...

[To Tag EDITOR Or TIER "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Your reviewer of the Life of Cardinal Pole (Spectator, November 5th) is in error in stating that Margaret Beaufort was the sole...

[To Tan EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR." SIE,—The quatrain on the daisy and its shadow protecting the lingering dewdrop from the sun—referred to by Mx. Lionel Tollemache in his...

[To TER EDITOR OF SRN " SPECTATOR." SIR,—May not the existence or non-existence of subterranean passages in ancient fortresses be largely due to the geological formation of the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 Sin,—The suggestion in your last issue of a Nightingale nurse as to providing homes for old pensioners whose friends or relations do not care...

THE GRAFTON GALLERY. IN spite of the special pleading of the preface to the catalogue of this strange collection, it seems unjust to make Monet in any way responsible for the...

NORFOLK. (A Study in County Characteristics) NORFOLK, although no morntain ranges Girdle your plains with a bastioned height, Yet is your landscape rich in changes, Filling the...

DISCLAIMER. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sin, — In the Spectator of November 5th Mr. Brigstocke was -so good as to express his regret for the mistake made in his...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to bo in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mods of...

the occasion of this poem raises some interesting questions for the Words- worth student. The poet himself gives 1834 as the date of composition, and in the "Fenwick note says...

published in the Spectator of the 29th ult. that Chambers's Journal refused to publish a reply to some criticisms that had appeared in its pages on the old Friendly Societies is...

Mn. HYDE is a most accomplished black-and-white artist, and those who have admired the beauty of his work and the poetry of his imagination will look with interest at his new...

ASSAYE TO CORURA.* THE new volumes of A History of the British Army are of the same high quality as those which have gone before. We can give no higher praise, for Mr. Fortescue...

I rlIE paper wrapper on the outside of this book bears a state- ment which might lead innocent readers to suppose that they were offered here an impartial record of the...

the opinions held of other portions of Mr. O'Brien's political career, his name will always be • An Olive Branch in Ireland and its History. By William O'Brien, M.P. London:...

has been often told before, but with not a few important variations and wit It a different ending. Every one knows the essential conditions of the problem to be solved. The...

THIS is an excellent bit of work which we heartily recommend to those interested in the Socialist controversy. No Socialist experiment in real life has ever lasted more than a...

ONE of the most valuable pieces of work done under the auspices of the Navy League in recent years has been the publication of this Annual. It has now reached its fourth issue,...

THE ANDERSONS.* Miss MACNAUGHTAN, to whom we are indebted for excellent entertainment in the past, has enhanced our obligation by her new novel. The Andersons deals with the...

Tins new and enlarged edition of what is undoubtedly the most learned and scientific of peerages will be welcomed by • The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great...

and Co. 6s.)—" A Romance of the Jungles" is the sub- title. We are taken to the "jungles," it is true, but the romance is rather of the cantonment, and very good of its kind. —...

6s.)—The first part of this novel is, it must be confessed, somewhat tedious, Mr. Bagot's talents lying rather in the narra- tion of events than in delineation of character. His...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not bun reserved for review in other forms.] Jacobite Extracts front the Parish Registers of St. Germain-en- Laye....

mann. 63.)—We may borrow, for the purpose of expressing our general opinion of this tale, the comment of Mr. John Rackham, groom, after he has related the local ghost story :...

Co. 6s.)—Mr. Belloc gives us here a political novel, projecting himself and his readers into a future-1925 is the date—not so remote as to be uninteresting, not so near as to...

"County Churches" (G. Allen and Sons). These are Norfolk, North and South, 2 vols., by J. Charles Cox, LL.D. (3s. net each), and Surrey, by J. C. Morris, M.A: (2s. 6d. net)....

is. 6d. net), is a volume in the "Present Day Gardening Series," Edited by R. Hooper - Pearson. Orchids are among the greatest triumphs of "modern gardening!' as this volume...

3s. 6d.) —This is an amply furnished teat- book on a subject which probably may be learnt from book ft as well as anything, and certainly better than most.

each ) we have A Dictionary of Poetical Quotations, by W. Gurney Benham, "Classified under Subject - Headings" and with proper index; and The Pocket Doctor, by "Medi , 2us,"...

Museum. Vol. III. By J. A. Herbert, B.A. (British Museum. 25s.)—Vol. I. appeared in 1883, Vol. II. in 1893, both under the care of the late Mr. H. L. D. Ward. The present editor...

which we have spoken more than once with praise, we have Catalonia and the Balearic Isles, by Albert F. Calvert. The book is amply illus- trated with two hundred and fifty...

(Edward Arnold. 7s. 6d. net.)—This volume, belonging to "Arnold's Geological Series," should be of the greatest use to any one who is practically concerned with water-supply, on...