desire of the Chinese to assert themselves and to put an end to the tyranny of the Manchu dynasty and the Manchu oligarchy. The leader, inspirer, and organizer of the insur-...

I N the region of foreign affairs the week has been crowded with events of high importance. To the incidents of the war has been added a very serious insurrection in China, an...

in the occupation of Tripoli. On Tuesday the van- guard of the expeditionary force started from Naples, and on Wednesday they began their disembarkation at Tripoli. The...

Constantinople is reported to be outwardly quiet, a fierce struggle is going on between supporters of the Com- mittee of Union and Progress and the "old Turks." Should another...

on Wednesday, yet Friday's telegrams show that it has already spread to an alarming extent. Wuchang, the city on the banks of the Yang-toe, opposite Hankow, first revolted, but...

last been reached between France and Germany in regard to Morocco, and that all that now remained to bring the two nations into accord was the settlement of the compensation due...

London on Thursday for the formation of a club consistjng of members of both Houses of Parliament, to be called the Halsbury Club, the object being to concentrate the energy and...

dington on Saturday. They were, he observed, in the middle of a revolution, the work of a coalition of three widely different and even conflicting organizations which had all...

many words for, any and every effort to vitalise the Unionist Party and give it energy in the struggle not only for placing an efficient check such as the Referendum on the m w...

the move- ment to oust Mr. Balfour from the Unionist leadership which is, unfortunately, on foot among certain sections of the Unionist Party. We will only say here that we...

that Italy's action will not make her less loyal and less useful to the Triple Alliance than before. It is natural that this view slould be taken in Berlin, but we cannot help...

anxious to prevent the war becoming an anti- Mohammedan rather than simply an anti-Turkish war, and happily the Italians are also deeply concerned to show no anti- Mohammedan...

some interesting figures showing the relative rate of increase in the expenditure of the Great Powers upon their Navies during the last ten years. The most rapid increase is...

first of a series of political harangues intended to show that Home Rule is the mildest of measures—Mr. John Redmond said they had nothing to conceal about Home Rne, and he...

"as one who knew these things from the inside," to correct the account which Mr. Balfour had given of "the traitorous advice given by the Government to the Sovereign when they...

the increase of small ownerships, Poor Law reform, and the strengthening of the Second Chamber by a repre- sentative element. Such a Chamber must be strong enough, in certain...

coalition. There was Welsh Disestablishment, and all that was to be gained by the process of plunder involved was some diminution of local rates and the maiming of a great...

the existing official machinery for settling and shorten- ing labour disputes was announced by the Board of Trade on Tuesday night. It is proposed to establish an Industrial...

by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald declaring that the Labour Party "as a party" would adopt the Insurance Bill when Parliament met. He adds that "opinions contrary to that are only private...

a few weeks ago, were devising an autumn campaign to "persuade and instruct" the electorate on the amenities of Irish Home Rule. Why they should think such a campaign necessary...

THE WAR. T HE task of prophesying whether the war will be long or short is one which no wise man will care to under- take. All that we can feel sure about is that if the...

D URING the present week Mr. Lloyd George had an important conference with members of the medical profession and with members of friendly societies upon the National Insurance...

By increasing exchanges we increase -wealth. By diminishing exchanges, through forbidding or impeding them, we diminish wealth. Those whose aim it is to increase the nation's...

I T has been said by certain thick-and-thin supporters of the members of the Cadbury and Rowntree families concerned that the Spectator has been grossly unfair and grossly...

T HE desire for what one may call domestic magnificence is on the increase, especially among women. They like to dream of dwelling in marble halls, to think of themselves in a....

T HERE is no more oft-quoted saying than that 'which claims for poets that they are born, not made. Primarily the aphorism indicates that the poetic temperament is a...

SOME MODERN FRENCH BOOKS. cro THE EDITON. Or THE " SPECTATOR." j SIR, — It is not too much to say that one of the finest and most attractive books lately published in France is...

Snt,—The reply of Mr. W. J. Braithwaite, the Chancellor of the Exchequer's secretary, to your searching and effective criticism of the above scheme will have astonished many...

LAW AND LABOUR. ITO THE EDITOR Or TEE "SPECTATOR."] SIA,— One notices in many of the letters and speeches that reach the daily Press on the present strike epidemic that many...

see that you have opened your columns to correspondence on the Insurance Bill, and although your article and Mr. Braithwaite's reply do not touch on the subject women are...

upon the National Insurance Bill which appeared in your issue of September 30th with the title "Political Bribery" reads strangely in a journal which (as you state) at the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In your last issue you publish a letter from Mr. Braithwaite, who must presumably be regarded as an official apologist for the National...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—May a constant reader express his hearty concurrence in the policy advocated in your leading article of October 7th ? I am a convinced...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] Sink—In reading Mr. J. W. Bell's letter in your issue of 7th October I am struck by the apparent absence in disciplinary proceedings in the...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—No one who is familiar with Canadian sentiment and the conditions of the recent political struggle in Canada will fail to understand...

lived your distinguished corre- spondent Professor Goldwin Smith, and where our equally distinguished Ambassador at Washington has probably often discussed with his friend the...

[To THE EDITOR OP 7112 " SPECTATOR.”] SIE,—No doubt the criticisms on the light-hearted attitude of the Lord Lieutenant and the Chief Secretary of Ireland towards the recent...

[TO THE EDITCR 07 THE 5PEC7ILTOR.'] Sin, — Some four years ago your columns were thrown open to a correspondence on the depreciation of gold. The subject is again being brought...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE SPECTATOR.”] SIR,—Alroc.st the fiercest denunciation of Italy's predatory policy has come from the mouths of the Labour and Socialist leaders. Mr. Snowden,...

"SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In your issue of the 7th inst. the reviewer of "The Life and Memoirs of John Churton Collins" remarks that Collins "could make some curious mistakes," and...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Si.,—The word " raid " is used not only in Italy but also in France, Germany, and Spain, and first became common after the Jameson Raid....

M." appears to be under the impression that the misuse of the word " raid " is confined to Italy. This is not the case. It is used by sportsmen all over the Continent, and...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTAIOH."] SIR,—May I protest against the expression "North-East Ulster" which is made use of several times in your article on "The Work of the...

[TO THE EDITOR Of THE "SPECTATOR.") Sia,—In "Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers" (ed. 1867, p. 463), one of the brothers, Julius Charles Hare, has a note on a sentence in the...

SIE,—Knowing the interest you take in the" National Reserve" — in fact, as being a pioneer thereof, I trust you will not mind my corresponding with you in reference to a matter...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...1 Sra,—Among the papers of my father-in-law, the late Canon Quennell of Shenfield, I have found some "English Proverbs in Latin Hexameters,"...

SACRAMENTO. 'Fame° City's grand an' gay (Sacramento, Sacramento!) And the roaring night's as bright as day! And many ships go, small an' great, In and out by the Golden Gate...

your kind review of Mr. Ralph Nevill's "Romantic Past," on page 653 of the Spectator for October 7th, you draw attention to a misprint by which the name Juliette Drouet is twice...

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 OF THE "SPECTATOR:] SIE,—The writer of the article on " Calais " in the Spectator of October 7th is no doubt right in saying that the old town no longer possesses...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE 0 SPECTATOR."] Sin,—A correspondent asks whether the Lapps of to-day are as healthy and happy a people as they were in Linnteus's time. I cannot speak of...

[To Tax EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Szn.,—I observe that Mr. Fleetwood H. Williams in your issue of the 16th, referring to the "Bible Talks "which formed such an interesting...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,"] SIR,—One of your correspondents of October 7th asks for con- firmation of a statement that wasps will pierce and destroy calico, and that...

THE OLD MASTERS AT THE GRAFTON GALLERY. To hope that the exhibition organized this year by the National Art Collections Fund would equal the original enterprise of 1909 was...

GARIBALDI AND NAPLES.* Mn. GEORGE TREVELYAN, in his former eloquent volume, Garibaldi and the Thousand, told the story of how Sicily was freed from the tyranny of the...

every successful architect that he should produce two books : one all about Vitruvius, with copious reference to himself ; the other all about himself, with or without reference...

MR. HEWLETT in The Agonists has taken "three barbarous old tales" and presented them as parts of a philosophical trilogy. "You take, as a starting-point," he says, "the three...

WHEELER, in his translation of the Divine Commedia, following the examples of Dean Plumptre and of Mr. Cayley, has attempted to reproduce in English verse the terse rime of the...

THIS life story has a curiously appropriate beginning. In 1836 there was a strange movement led by one John Thom, "posing as a Socialistic Christ," and calling himself...

first half of the nineteenth century the Duchesse de Berry is a singularly vivid figure. For seventeen years—from her arrival in France in 1816 till the events of 1832-3...

tourist in Brittany. He takes the province and the people as they are, does not cry out against their superstitions, endures their manners and cus- toms with a fair amount of...

6s.)—Miss Conyers has achieved more than one success, and now she seeks conquest in what is to her, if we remember right, a new field. Clearly she has studied the time about...

HILDA LESSWAYS.t Mn. ARNOLD BENNE1T has invented an alternative to the sequel, and, though we may acquiesce in its adoption by so gifted a writer as he is, we cannot...

Principal of the Presidency College in Calcutta, is frankly a plea for English education in India; education, that is, in the subjects usually taught in European schools and...

62.)— A well-known dictionary defines a novel as "a fictitious tale professing to be conformed to real life," intended, it may be added, to instruct or amuse. Let instruction be...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have net been ...served for review in other form.] Prayer Book Revision. By a Sexagenarian Layman. (T. Fisher Unwin. 4s....

Co. 7s. 84. net.)—By this title Miss Sealy designates ten soldiers who fought on the side of King Charles against the Parliament, One might question the propriety of the phrase....

Edited by Israel Cohen. (T. Fisher Unwin. is. net.) —A non-Hebrew Zionist, and such a being is possible—any Anglo- Israelite could be such—might say: "Why do not Hebrew...

6s. net.)—Mr. Wright thinks, and gives us plenty of reasons for thinking, that "life is pleasanter and lived under more healthy surroundings than obtained a century ago" (we do...

Fisher Unwin. 6s.)—The beginning and the end of the story are very good ; the intermediate comes as near to being tiresome as is possible in what Mr. Capes writes.—Dormant. By...

by the Rev. G. Fortescue and the Rev. H. T. F. Duckworth. (Cambridge University Press. 2s. 6d. net.)— Mr. Cobham summarizes here the text of a record of the Patriarchs of...