pleasant personal relations between the King and his nephew cannot in any way affect our duty as a nation to be vigilant in all matters of national defence. There never was a...

in the honeymoon stage, and the Committee of Young Turks shows a power of calming popular feeling which is most remarkable. For example, the strike of porters and stevedores...

the fraternisation of Mohammedans and Christians, full to overflowing with revolutionary zeal, still goes on. There was a remarkable scene of enthusiasm in Jerusalem, and...

in the afternoon a long conference took place between Baron von Aehrenthal, the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister, and Sir Charles Hardinge. Subsequently a joint communication...

in the Salzkammergut where the Austrian Emperor has been accustomed to spend the summer for the last thirty or forty years. The Emperor, who bears the weight of his...

T HE King has paid two Royal visits in the past week. On Tuesday morning, at nine o'clock, attended by Sir Charles Hardinge, the permanent head of the Foreign Office, he arrived...

to have declared that though he could not assert that an entente with Germany would be arranged to-morrow or the day after, he had a firm conviction that it was the only means...

of Canterbury on the disposal of the thank- offering presented in St. Paul's Cathedral at the close of the Pan-Anglican Congress. The Committee appointed to allocate the fund...

protest against the growing tendency of Ministers to deal in public with matters outside their own departments, and thus to run great risks of causing danger and confusion in...

Tuesday's paper an interesting account of his experiences. The post-road to Tabriz from Julfa is a Russian concession, and all the toll-gates are in charge of. Russian...

for a week's visit. The New Zealand Parliament had , adjourned on Friday in preparation for the event, and the correspondent of the Times says that no New Zealand town was ever...

Clarion in answer to Mr. Blatchford's "German menace." In our opinion a portion of Sir Cyprian Bridge's remarks is too optimistic, and likely to lull people into a false sense...

Army has been under canvas, some in large camps, such as that on Salisbury Plain, and others in smaller brigade camps. On the whole the quality shown by the troops has been...

is trustworthy, writes a very interesting article in the Daily Mail of Thursday on the possibility of enormously increasing the yield of our corn crops. The prospects of such an...

inventor, has given some extraordinary demonstrations of flying in his machine at Le Mans. The reports of the successes of the brothers Wright in America were generally...

training. In the first place, the whole youth of the country would get the benefits and advantages, moral and physical, now enjoyed only by a few. At the same time, the...

foreign trade of the United Kingdom, which were published on Monday, the decline for July as compared with July of 1907 was 212,181,345. That is a very serious fall taken alone,...

lished on Wednesday, states that in an engagement fought on the 7th of this month at Dar-el-Ayad in Morocco, the troops of Abd-ul- A ziz inflicted serious losses on a meballa of...

service in giving us a force of home guards which, if not raised on the proper principle, is at any rate excellently organised. In other words, he has provided a frame of...

the Territorial Force is most creditable to them, and though in many cases employers have shown great public spirit in giving their men leave to go to camp, even when that was...

May 28th. Consols (24) were on Friday 861—on Friday week 864.

A UNIVERSAL INCOME-TAX. we pointed out some three weeks ago, the Govern- ment, owing to the financial necessities of their policy of old-age pensions and social reform, added...

the Bishops, Archbishops, and Metropolitans composing the Lambeth Conference will no doubt be described by a certain section of the Anglican Communion as "weak," "irresolute,"...

States Fleet at Auckland, in accordauce with its programme, must have convinced all onlookers, if the fact had not already dawned on them, that the rumours of grave defects in...

I N the last week of Parliament before the adjournment two short discussions were initiated by Mr. Munro- Ferguson and Mr. A. Mason on the subject of Oriental immigration, and...

T HE statistics of pauperism in London for the week ending Saturday, August 1st, have some interesting features in reference to the distribution of poor relief in the East End...

is a preoccupation of our modern age. We read books and consult our doctors and one another on diets and on our hours of sleep and work. Vegetarianism and the Daylight Saving...

S UNS and comets are no longer mysterious wandering fires; but there is as yet no spectroscope to reveal the nature of the human soul. The methods of the new psychology have,...

T HE great increase in the numbers of certain species of birds which has followed the better working of the Wild Birds Protection Acts suggests a question. Would it not be...

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND SOCIALISM. [To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.'1 Sin, — I think your readers may like to see a verbatim report of the address given by President...

"THE OLD ALLEGIANCE."—MR. JOHN LONG'S EXPLANATION. [TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—" The Old Allegiance," by Hubert Wales. With respect to your paragraph on this...

"8PECTATOR:1 Sts.,—I should be obliged if you would allow me to correct the summary which you gave of my speech to the "Inter- national Congress for the Development of Drawing...

Vicar of Windsor to state what is a very important and pressing matter for Churchmen in your last issue, and if you allow space for the discussion to go on, much that is of...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR." I Sin, — If Mr. Ellison's letter in your columns succeeds in enlisting the interest and aid of some of the laymen of the Church in this...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SracrAros."] SIR,—The exhibition of political trepidation by Members of Parliament who have shrunk from voting against measures which they believed to be...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR'] SIR,—Of the grief which the death of Caesar Litton Fallriner from an accident in Switzerland last week has brought to the wide circle of his...

OF THE "Spromros.1 S,—May I draw the attention of your readers to a fresh ease of political persecution in Hungary ? On August let Mr. Milan Ivanka, Slovak Member of Parliament...

Si,—What we seem primarily to need is the simplification of diocesan funds with a view to their co-ordination with a central organisation. I have always thought that the plan...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR."] cannot complain of your comment on my appeal for State assistance to ward off the threatening timber dearth that the State has not hitherto...

Sra,—I am delighted to see that, by your permission, the Vicar of Windsor has been afforded an opportunity of drawing attention to the want of some systematic finance in the...

TO THE EDITOR OF rus" SPECTATOR.".1 SIE,—I thought an experience of mine in Uganda at the beginning of the year might interest you. It was on a shooting trip up country from...

[To THN EDITOR or THB "SPIICTAITOR.1 SIR,—I hope you will pardon a brief reply to your criticism of my letter which you kindly inserted in your issue of the 8th inst., as I...

wages in the interests of unorganised workers is directly and logically connected with the provision of old-age pensions, and should be strenuously resisted by all thoughtful...

[TO THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR.1 BM - Will you permit me, through the medium of your widely read paper, to bring before the British public the concern and anxiety which fill...

[To THE EDrrOR Or TUB 013:mo-rare:LI enclose a cutting from the Spectator dated January 18th, which reached me in the wilds of Africa some six weeks ago. As you will perceive,...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE 'Sr icarAToo.." I SI13, — A few weeks ago I read with interest an article in your paper on the subject of gifts, in which you said that . animals rarely...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPROTATOR.”] SIR,—I cut the enclosed from a local paper last October. In connexion with the present celebrations in Quebec it may interest those of your...

"SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Reading your articles and correspondence on "Small Loans" suggested that I should call your attention to the Provi- dent Loan Society of New York, a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SescrAtoe.1 SIR,—Perhaps some of your readers who are interested in Mr. E. D. Stone's letter in your last issue on "True Religion" may like to be...

[To THE EDITOlt OF THE "SPROTATOR.'] SIR,—Unless I wrong the writer of a letter signed "X." in your last number, be seems to intend a reproach to the National Service League by...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SCROTATOIL"f SIR,—The letter of your correspondent, the Rev., G. V. Collison (Spectator, August 1st), suggests to one that the Dean of St. David's had...

THE "seserAzos."] SIR,—It may be well to point out, while the public indignation against the Mile End Guardians is at fever-heat, that in ordinary business circles there is...

PENELOPE TO ULYSSES. Tilton marvellest, husband, that I sit so mute And motionless, but gazing on that face Which now the pine-fire throws up in a flame, Now leaves in darkest...

[TO TUN EDITOR Or Till *Sraorkroa."] SIE,—May I, through the columns of the Spectator, draw atten- tion to the Annual Report, just issued, of _ the Industrial Law Committee?...

[TO VIZ [EDITOR Or TOO "sescrwron.*1 Sin,—Would you kindly give prominence in your widely read columns to the enclosed account, taken from the Galway Observer, of a mirage...

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...

THE GUIDES.* IT was a happy thought of Colonel Younghusband's to put upon durable record the most important and exciting of the many adventures which have befallen the famous...

HERBERT SPENCER'S Autobiography, published a few years - ago, covered sixty-two years of his life. There remained untouched the last twenty-one years, and apart from the time...

May 25th and 30th, 1662 :— "I went this evening to London, in order to our journey to Hampton Court to see the new Queene, who having landed at Portsmouth had been married to...

* A Scots Earl is Covesasiing Times : being the 14. and Times of Archibald, Ninth Earl of Argyll, 1629-1685. ByJohat Wilcock. Edinburgh : Andrew Elliot. [105.] IT was perhaps...

THIS book is a curious blend of Court scandal, serious biography, and of the history of Russia during the nine- teenth century. While containing a good deal of sound and...

be saved," wrote Lord Grenville in 1792, being himself Foreign Secretary at the time, "the work must not be left in the hands of the Government, but every man must put his...

—In this book the author chooses the ancient theme of the woman of the demi-monde who, falling in love with a good man, iuduces him to propose marriage to her in ignorance of...

MR. CONRAD'S NEW STORIES.* THIS collection of six stories must be regarded as an interim dividend on Mr. Conrad's genius. It is right good Conrad, but it is not very fresh...

Military Press. 2s. 6d. net.)—This is the first number of a quarterly publication which is to give us "Biographies of the Nation's Heroes," illustrated with photographs. In the...

modern story of adventure.—The amen Mummy. By Fergus Hume. (John Long. 6s.)—A story of the purchase by a Professor of the mummy of an Inca of Peru. Theft and murder figure...

Putnam? Sons. 15s. net.)—Mr. Dillon, who dates his preface from New Jersey, went for a motor trip in England. We have not come across an express date, but we gather that the...

and Co., Boston and New York. 5s. net.)— These "Essays in Defence of the Humanities" are primarily con- cerned with academical aims and methods as they exist in America ; but...

Cox. 5s. net.)—This book is intended for profes- sional readers, but it may be studied with advantage by other, especially employers of labour and heads of families. The two...

is an amusing sketch of an incident in the life of a would-be social leader at Newport, U.S.A. It is difficult to criticise the book without betraying the plot, which would be...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as ham not been reserved for resins) in other forms.] On the Threshold of a New World of Thought : an Examination of the...

very handy volume will be welcome to many readers. It tells the romantic story of Bishop Hannington, not without detail, but still within a moderate space, and so makes it more...

(Hampstead Garden Suburb Development Com- pany, Limited, 32 Theobald's Road. 6d. net.)—The idea of the company is to plan a town so that it may not be spoilt by indi- vidual...

Charles Kingsley's "At Last," here is something to help him : A Guide to the West Indies and Bermudas, by Frederick A. Ober (T. Fisher Ifnwin, Ss. 6d. net). It is a handy volume...

Sloan. (A. and C. Black. 6s. net.)—Mr. Sloan, mindful of the great average depth of human ignorance, is careful to explain that Galloway is not a Scots county, but a region—as...

we have new editions of The Churchman's Handy Dictionary and What every Christian must Know and Do, and a new volume, The Outline History of the Church of England, which it is...

to carry out teaching on the " oculis subiecta fidelibas " theory. Here we have them in packets of six (6d.). Three specimens are now before us. Here is the list of one set : "A...

Sons. 10e. 6d. net.)—There is plenty of information in this volume, information historical, geographical, and personal, but not so much entertainment as might have been...