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Though we hold that M. Briand has been amply justified
The Spectatorin the strong measures he has taken, and have nothing but reprobation for the violent and revolutionary methods adopted by the ringleaders of the strike, we have no desire to...
The history of the strike may be summarised as follows.
The SpectatorThe agitation among the French railway servants has been in progress for some months, and as long ago as last May some. thing approaching to a general strike was organised on...
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorI N the region of foreign affairs sensational events follow each other with bewildering rapidity. Though "the drums and tramplings " of the Portuguese Revolution are still in...
We have noted elsewhere the determination of the Govern- ment
The Spectatorto make use of military mobilisation for the purpose of ending the strike. An Order for that purpose has been served in regard to some hundred and fifty thousand railway...
The arrest, we are told, was effected under a law
The Spectatormade in 1845, in which with the usual French clearness of vision the difficulties that might arise in regard to the maintenance of railway traffic owing to Anarchical movements...
Things were at their worst on Wednesday night, but on
The SpectatorThursday morning the prospect from the point of view of law and order was much ameliorated. The Government struck a blow which gave them command of the situation. Upon hearing...
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We may add that we have elsewhere put forward once
The Spectatormore our suggestion that the change in the system of government in Portugal ought to be seized by our Foreign Office to insist that Portugal shall carry out her international...
On Tuesday night M. Briand made an important speech upon
The Spectatorhis policy of apaisement, and the consequent disaffection from the Government of the Radicals and Socialist-Radicals. He repudiated any idea of compromise with the reactionary...
We must remember that the recital of these horrors is
The Spectatornot ancient history, but depicts a state of things which is now going on. At this very moment—as we write these words— there are long strings of miserable men, women, and...
When the enslaved people reach the coast they undergo the
The Spectatorpleasant " official " transformation of being called "con- tracted labourers," and of signing a contract for labour on the islands, with all sorts of humane clauses as to...
As always on such occasions, there has been a great
The Spectatordeal of talk about subterranean passages. In one ease, indeed, a tunnel two miles in length is said to have been discovered. We shall be very curious to know whether these...
The Austrian and Hungarian Delegations met at Vienna on Wednesday.
The SpectatorThe most important of the documents laid before them was a Red-book on the crisis which followed the annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina. According to a summary supplied by the...
The disorder in Portugal, or rather in Lisbon, caused by
The Spectatorthe Portuguese Revolution has subsided almost as quickly as it began. During the earlier part of the week there were a certain number of disturbances owing to the expulsion of...
King Manoel and his mother have been during the week
The Spectatorenjoying the hospitality of Sir Archibald Hunter, the Governor of Gibraltar, but King George, with a kindly forethought for the unhappy exiles which no Englishman, however much...
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Next Mr. Osborne offered to put all his papers at
The Spectatorthe disposal of a London newspaper which had attacked him. In this case, too, his letter was ignored. He has made other similar offers, but all have been refused. Mr. Osborne...
On Thursday the Emperor received the Delegates in audience. The
The Spectatorspeeches of the Delegates, of the Emperor, and of the Foreign Minister were not of very great moment, but two facts are worth recording. The President of the Austrian...
The centenary of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows was celebrated
The Spectatorlast Saturday throughout the Empire. The Unity is the greatest and richest Friendly Society in the world. It had a small beginning in Salford in 1810, and since then has had a...
Sir W. S. Robson has succeeded Lord Collins as a
The SpectatorLord of Appeal in Ordinary. His place as Attorney-General is taken by Sir Rufus Isaacs, who is succeeded as Solicitor-General by Mr. J. A. Simon. Sir William Robson is...
Last week's Economist contains an accaunt of a remarkable demonstration
The Spectatorwhich took place in Vienna on October 2nd to protest against the high prices of food. According to the police estimate, three hundred thousand men and women marched in...
The papers of Friday week published a remarkable letter from
The SpectatorMr. W. V. Osborne, whose name is well known in con- nexion with the "Osborne judgment." It has been said per- t sisteutly by Mr. Osborne's opponents that in taking action in the...
We publish in another column a letter from a corre-
The Spectatorspondent—Mr. Dawson—urging that a Veteran Reserve should be established throughout the Empire. We most earnestly hope that Mr. Dawson's suggestion may bear fruit, and we gladly...
Mr. Haldane has spoken twice during the week, once last
The SpectatorSaturday at Haddington, and again on Tuesday at Sheffield. On the former occasion he declared that nobody knew when the next Election would come, but that "he had his own...
The German Emperor took part in the centenary celebra- tions
The Spectatorof Berlin University on Tuesday, and reminded his audience of the theory of Humboldt and of Frederick William III.—so amply justified as men all over the world gladly testify...
Bank Rate, 4 per cent., changed from 3 per cent.
The SpectatorSept. 29th. Consols (2-0 were on Friday 80: 1 —Friday week 80i.
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorPORTUGAL AND SLAVERY.—AN APPEAL TO THE REPUBLIC. T HE manner in which the Portuguese Revolution has been conducted so far is certainly deserving of praise. If we admit the need...
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THE FRENCH STRIKE.
The SpectatorrilHOSE French Labour leaders who have long been .1_ trying to guide industrialism along the path of revolution have come nearer than ever before to their ideal of a "general...
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WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE WORKERS? T HE Westminster Gazette on
The SpectatorTuesday published an exceedingly interesting article "by a special corre- spondent on Tyneside," in which an attempt is made to analyse and account for the restlessness and...
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SOCIALISTS IN COUNCIL.
The SpectatorW HEN Socialists get together there is always material for much amusement to the outside public. They are so deliciously frank with one another, so instinctively individualist...
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THE DEVELOPING FLUID.
The SpectatorC HARACTER is not generally very strongly marked in youth. Needless to say, there are great exceptions to this rule. There are families whose features, both mental and physical,...
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AN ORDER OF COUNSELLORS.
The SpectatorW E print elsewhere a proposal from a oorrespondent which we commend to the attention of the Agenda Club. Our correspondent believes, and we think that there is truth in what he...
COUNTY INVENTORIES.
The SpectatorT HE year 1910 will mark an era in the chronicling of the history of the country. It will be remembered as the year in which was published the first of what we hope will be a...
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CORRESPONDENCE.
The Spectator"DEUTSCHE MACHTHABER." [To THE Eorros OP TEEZ SPEC/1701..1 SIR,—Recent utterances of the Kaiser have recalled to our minds the famous incident of the Daily Telegraph interview...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The SpectatorSECTARIAN ANGLICANISM. [To THE EDITOR 01 TEl " SPECTATOZ:9 Biz—The Church Congress has gone by, and its numerous papers and discussions are being duly embalmed in the official...
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WHAT IS THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND ?
The Spectator[To TER EDITOR Or THP "SPZCIATOE.") SIli,—It is much to be wished that the Archbishop of York should answer your challenge or confess that it is unanswerable. Canon Beeching has...
SLIVERY IN THE PORTUGUESE COLONIES.
The Spectator[TO TIM EDITOR OP MP "SPICTAP011.1 SIR,—The opinion expressed in last week's Spectator that some steps should be taken to secure assurances from the new Portuguese Government...
Fro PRP EDITOR OP THY "SPECTAT0R."1 Sm, — Anent this question Professor
The SpectatorMaitland (who in his "Roman Canon Law in the Church of England," cap. II., p.86, numbers himself among those "whose object is not to silence the papist, but to understand a...
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MR. STEPHEN GWYNN AND THE . HOME-RULE DILEMMA.
The Spectator(To THZ EDITOR Or TIM "SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Innumerable readers and in many lands will mark the cumulative indiscretions of Mr. Stephen Gwynn with interest and, too, with great...
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PAYMENT OF MEMBERS IN THE UNITED STATES.
The Spectator[To TEE EDITOR OF THE " SFECTATOR.'"] S/R, — In an article on "The Unionist Party and Payment of Members" in your issue of September 17th you say : "In the United States...
WORK FOR THE AGENDA CLUB.—AN IMPARTIAL COUNSELLOR.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — The founders of the Agenda Club, by the mere announcement of their aims, have rendered their first great service to a too material...
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PROGRESSIVE PRIESTS IN SPAIN.
The SpectatorTo TUE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR.") Sir.,—The demonstrations organised by the Junta Catolica in some three hundred different towns and villages on October 2nd to protest against...
CHURCH OF ENGLAND ORDINATIONS.
The Spectator[To TEE EDITOR OF THE " Sescm - roa. - ] Sin,—A further stage has now been reached and another annual survey can be made. The ordinations on October 2nd at St. Paul's Cathedral...
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LITERARY ASSASSINATION.
The Spectator[TO-THE EDITOR OF TIER "SPECTAT011."] Suz,—The appropriation in the United States of literary work not specially protected by copyright is inevitable, and not perhaps...
PRAYER-BOOK REVISION.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—In last week's Spectator your reviewer performs a real public service in calling especial attention to Canon Beeching's pamphlets. They...
-A REGISTER OF TRAINED MEN FOR THE
The SpectatorEMPIRE. rTO TER EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.'] Sta,—Now that the registration of trained men, which in its beginnings owed so much to your influence and encourage- ment, has...
APPOSITE MOTTOES.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sut.,—The letter entitled "Virgil on the Airmen" in your issue of October 1st brings to my mind a sors Horatiana on the same subject :— "...
THE FINANCE ACT, 1910.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THZ "SPECTAT0R:] SIR,—The hasty legislation of revolution often in result perpetuates in another guise the exceptional abuses the exist- ence of which has...
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THE LATE REGISTRARY OF CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY.
The Spectator[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."1 SIR, — Your readers who are Cambridge men, and many others besides, will have learnt with real personal sorrow of the death of Mr. John...
I CONVALESCENT HOME FOR POOR INFANTS. [To THE EDITOR OF
The SpectatorTIIE "SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—Would you perhaps draw the attention of your readers to the need there is for a convalescent home entirely for infants,— infants of the very poor, who...
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POETRY.
The SpectatorOLD ENGLAND. OUR armies march, and scour the plain; Oar navies guard our shores ; Our cities strain with might and main To fill the world with stores; Brave workers toil, both...
BOOKS.
The SpectatorALEXANDER MACMILLAN.* Fr would not be easy to find among the men who, to use a• common phrase, have made their fortunes, a match for Alex- ander Macmillan. He was the son of a...
THE THEATRE •
The SpectatorLYSISTRATA IN JOHN STREET. Miss GERTRUDE KING8Tc N was scarcely wise in selecting the Lysistrata of Aristophanes as her opening production at the Little Theatre. It is, in...
NOTICE.—When Articles or "Correspondence" are signed with the writer's name
The Spectatoror 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...
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CotOkEX. nooSEVELT'S HUNTING ° TRIP.* COLONEL 1400ENTELT'S East African trip has
The Spectatorcreated more interest intwo heraiepheres than any sporting expedition that history baarecoadot The most typical and the most powerful citizen of . a great State cannot take his...
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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.*
The SpectatorIT is with a very deep and genuine pleasure that we welcome these volumes, and make them known to the Englisb public, by whom, we trust, they may be read widely, with all the...
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THE PROGRESS OF PSYCHICAL RESEARCH.*
The SpectatorIT may perhaps be doubted whether much is to be gained at the present stage of the investigation into psychical pheno- mena by repeated examinations and analyses and discussions...
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THE LAW AND THE CRIMINA T i .* Silt HENRY SMITH in
The Spectatorhis book of reminiscences tells us of many things besides the work of the City of London Police with which his name is chiefly connected, but we shall pass by these other things...
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THE EXPOSITOR'S GREEK TESTAMENT.e WE ,congratulate the editor and the
The Spectatorpublishers on the completion of this very important work. That it is the final Greek Testament it would be rash to assert ; but its present .pre-eminence is tertainly assured....
SEARCHING FOR A 'WILDERNESS.*
The SpectatorT HE wilderness was not difficult to discover. When we reach p. 6 we find ourselves in the midst of it, a huge expanse of mangrove extending for many miles on either side of the...
RAMPARTS OF EMPIRE.* _Ma.- FRANK Fox has written an exceedingly
The Spectatorgood book. It ie the best popular handbook to the Navy of to-day that we ;know, and also one of the most eloquent arguments on behalf of an Imperial system of defence. Like Dr....
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NOVELS.
The SpectatorREST HARROW.* IT will be remembered by those who have followed the fortunes of the incomparable Sanchia Josephs, Percival in an earlier phase of her career that she was so...
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Two volumes of a new series of biographies, "Leading Americans,"
The SpectatorEdited by W. P. Trent (G. Bell and Sons, 7s. 61. net per vol.), are before us. These are Leadinj American Essayists, by William Morton Payne, LL.D., and Lsacliny Amt.rican...
By Ways They Know Not. By Mrs. Comyns Carr. (Chapman
The Spectatorand Hall. 63.)—This is a pleasant little story of modern life, though the coincidences in it are .rather difficult to credit. The central figure, that of Sybil Kent, who cannot...
SOME BOOKS OF TIIE WEEK.
The Spectator"[Under this heading tee notice inch Books of the wee: as hay. not been reserved for review . in other forms.] The Sermons, Epistles, and Apocalypses of Israel's Prophets. By...
The Rise of the Papacy. By W. Ernest Beet, M.A.
The Spectator(Charles H. Kelly. Ss. 6d.)—Mr. Beet carries on the story of a previous volume. In that he dealt with the Roman See, first under the pagan and then under the early Christian...
, READABLE NOVELS.—Tales of the Tenements. By Eden Phillpotts. (Sohn
The SpectatorMurray. 6s.)—We must say that the aspect of Dart- moor revealed in this volume does not stir our hearts. These " Tales" are somewhat squalid, with an occasional relief of a grim...
aleanty Abercrato. By Bernard Capes. (Methuen and Co. 6n—Mr. Capes
The Spectatorhas done in this book what, for all his literary ability, he has not always succeeded in doing,—given his readers a very well constructed and interesting story. After...
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Co-operative Congress, Plymouth, 1910. (Co-operative Printing Society, Manchester.)—This, the Report
The Spectatorof the forty-second Congress, is, as might be expected, full of interesting matter. It is illustrated also with photographs of various objects and portraits of delegates. We...
In the series of "Manuals of Elementary Science" (S.P.C.K., 2s.
The Spectator6d.) we have The Spectroscope and its Work, by H. F. Newell, M.A. Professor Newell warns his readers not to expect too much. If his book moves them to study the phenomena for...
Porcelain and How to Collect It. By Edward Dillon. (Methuen
The Spectatorand Co. es.)—In this volume we have what we may call a practical application to the purposes of the collector of such portions of the information contained in the author's...
Stories and Story-Telling. By Professor E. P. St. John. (S.S.U.
The Spectator2s. net.)—The words "In Moral and Religious Education" are added on the title-page, and they in a way differentiate the book. The author occupies the Chair of "Religious...
The Historians of the English Reformation. By the Rev. John
The SpectatorStockton Littell. (A. R. Mowbray and Co. 10s. net.)—Mr. Littell seeks to provide the teacher of Church history with a valuation of the sources to which he must have recourse. He...
The Conquest of New Spain. Vol. III. (The Haldnyt Society.)
The Spectator--This third volume contains various maps and plans which illus- trate Bernal del Castillo's story. There are plans of the city of Mexico (1562), and of the city and lake...