closed, had, with the help of a chowkidar, carried in Captain Brown, and, though himself unarmed, had again gone out and assisted Major Dodd into safety. Both Major Dodd and...

ballots in the French elections. The Socialists will have • hundred and two members in the Chamber, as against sixty- seven in the last Parliament. This increase of Socialist...

T HERE is little to record in foreign affairs, except that Friday morning's news indicates that Tampico has at last fallen into the hands of the Constitutionalists. The fight...

North- West Frontier, when three British officers and three natives were killed by a native orderly, are given in the _Englishman of April 22nd, and reproduced in the Morning...

fully accomplished, and the Times, when reporting this affair on Tuesday, also published from its correspondent at Tangier a review of French progress in Morocco. The French...

said that Australia and New Zealand were taking extraordinary precautions for defence, because distances were being shortened every day, and the Pacific was "the meeting....

day's paper that refugees from Mexico are anxious about the Panuco and Touila oilfields at Tampico. They fear that the wells for want of attention may soon begin to pour oil...

case.

that we shall do no more here than chronicle the movement amongst a section of Liberals which boa been pompously described as a Liberal" revolt" On Thursday a deputation of the...

the measure as "unwarrantably interfering with the just liberties of a great class of deserving citizens," maintain- ing that the real impulse behind the Bill was prohibition....

statement of his intentions. He moved to dispense with the Committee stages of the Home Rule, Welsh Church, and Plural Voting Bills. He abandoned all notion of amend- ing the...

second reading of the Sunday Closing Bill, which sought to reduce the hours of sale of intoxicants to four in London and three outside, to increase the minimum distance for the...

an unpleasant reminder of the precarious nature of their position. There was under discussion the. Prime Minister's motion to suspend the eleven o'clock rule in regard to the...

in our opinion, most unfairly. The operative part of his speech shows that he has no sort of intention of wrecking an Exclusion settlement, provided, of course, that it Will do...

firmly to its previous declaration on the subject of the time-limit. That declaration has been ignored by most of the Liberal Press, but the Star sought to discount it as...

history of the Bill in a letter to the Westminster Gazette, which had described the proposals as " drastic," and owned to feeling no regret at the rejection of the second...

announced two changes in the Budget. The tax on unearned incomes between £300 and £500, instead of being raised from Is. 2d. to ls. 4d., is to remain at Is. 2d.; and on unearned...

vidual are much at a discount just now, but the following remarks—to be found on the last page of a cheap reissue of the Rural Rides just published by Nelson and Sons (6d. net)—...

four Unionists and four Liberals, which left Manchester for Cork on the 2nd inst. and returned on the 10th. The deputation, who visited Cork, Youghal, Queens- town, Bandon,...

working model of a "flying train" which the inventor, M. Bachelet, is showing in London. Primarily it is intended for conveying postal packets, and it is suggested that a speed...

four Manchester Liberals, the facts on which the Report they have signed is based are unassailable. An even more notable sign of the awakening of the Liberal conscience comes...

George Doughty has been filled by the return of the Unionist candidate. Polling took place on Tuesday, the figures being: Mr. T. G. Tickler (U.), 8,471; Mr. A. Bannister (L.),...

Jan. 29th. Consols (20 were on Friday 74—Friday week 74g.

was discussed at the Dublin Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends. From the report which appears in the Friend of the 8th inst. we learn that the subject was introduced by...

A TRIANGULAR WAR. Fro the dull, commonplace mind of the Saxon the notion 1 of a triangular battle has always presented con- siderable difficulties. He is inclined to think that...

filHERE is an infallible mark by which you may know 1 tyrants and men of tyrannical temper. It is the blind rage into which they fall when their will is crossed— when they find...

W E have already written at too great length on the theme of Mr. Ward's gasconading pamphlet. We must, however, before we leave the train of thought which it has set in motion,...

O N Wednesday in the House of Commons the familiar but important subject of the dangers run by merchant shipping in war, and the consequent risks to the whole food supply of the...

Times is to be congratulated on the series of JL articles it is now publishing upon the manner in which the " dead hand' of the State has arrested the development of the...

I N his singularly interesting address to the English Asso- ciation on Friday week Mr. Balfour discussed the value of poetry as a vehicle of argument or controversy. It is not...

T "" prime of life" is one of those elastic terms which literature does not help us to make definite. Swift spoke of a man of twenty-eight as already past his prime. George...

T HE Surrey County Council deserve the thanks of all England. They have shown the way to other Councils in a matter affecting the comfort and enjoyment of thousands of English...

A COMMON-SENSE SETTLEMENT. [To oRm Eames or Fill .. SPIICTAT011."] am loth to trouble you with another letter, and nIthough I venture to think that your description of my...

LTO rle EDITOE or Till " Serentoe."J Sra,—As a Nonconformist, I shall be glad if you will allow me to protest against the sentiments of the Rev. J. Pugh Perkins, as expressed in...

(Spectator, May 2nd) Home Rule will be a positive advantage to Protestantism, a positive disadvantage to Homan Catholicism. This may be so, but it is not a sufficient reason for...

Sin,—Will you allow a citizen and elector to utter his indignant protest against the astounding audacity of Mr. Lloyd George in threatening the country with "a revolution" if...

[To TEN Minos or TH1 ..Srscrarox."] SIR,—I see in your last issue that you have " Common- Sense " on your side in condemning as •' monumentally inept" a passage from an article...

Sin,—An organization called the Australian Freedom League has lately been busily engaged in the North of England sowing a plentiful crop of misrepresentations on the working of...

[To ass EDITOR or vs. "Snakrsr."7 SIB,—Captain Crosfield in his letter to your paper of May 2nd accuses use of making "wild, misleading, and gravely exag- gerated statements"...

[To THE EDITOH or THE " SFECTATOH.".1 SiE,—Thirty millions are spent by our nation every year on training the rising generation in reading, writing, and arithmetic, plus a...

[To nis EDITOR or ass .. Brecr,tro..1 SIR, — The Spectator is always ready to support any sane scheme for doing good, whether in town or country; nor are its readers backward in...

nSPECT.LT011."] SIP"—I deplore, as you, the growth of Socialism in the postal service, but I am afraid I must charge you with an attitude towards the claims of postal servants...

[To TIRE Eorroin or rws .iiirscrwrox."] SIB, —In the Spectator of May 9th your reviewer, in his notice of Mr. Elder's monograph on the Highland Host of 1678, expresses the...

[To THE EDITOZ OF THE " STECTATON.."] SIB, —It often happens in speeches that the words which really touch the heart go unreported. Permit me to rescue from oblivion the...

[To THE Lone. or Tax n'Srecraros.."1 SIB, — It is meet and right that the law-makers of England, from whence arms are stretched across the seas to the ends of the earth, should...

[To TH. EDITOR or THII •• SreCTaTOR"] Sin,—I have received the instructions of my Government to offer the most unqualified contradiction to the news which appeared in your...

last week, Mr. L. E. Steele, I always thought the roof of Westminster Hall was Irish oak, and cherished the tradition that no spiders would snake webs on it! This, surely, could...

[To TEM EDITOR Or Tea ••Sermaor.".1 SIR,—I cannot exaggerate the pleasure and satisfaction I felt at reading in your issue of May 2nd the notice you gave of the petition of the...

or initials, or with a v reodonytn, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode...

[7'o roc EDITOR or THE •' Betenroa.'9 SIR,.--Will you kindly allow me to reply to Mr. Kilburn (Spectator, May 9th) ? surely be and the residents to whom he refers do not desire...

SONG OF THE HAPPY RHYMESTER, I AM the happiest of men : I live (just barely) by my pen. I rise at sev'n, and on till one Fulfil the tale of labour done. And then from...

Foundation of the Hospital and Free School of King Charles n, the oak in the roof of "the great hall of William Rufus" is given a different origin. The author, referring to the...

•• SPECTATOR " l SIR,—I have just read your interesting article in your issue of the 2nd inst. I must, however, take exception to the statement that the nightingale is not to be...

THE INSCRUTABLE PEOPLE.* A CURSORY study of the long list of English works on China published since the Revolution of 1911 suggests several interesting reflections. Imprimis,...

ART IN SCOTLAND. TEE discriminating sense of scale which is the particular - charm of Edinburgh architecture (a legacy, perhaps, from Robert Adam) is seen in the Scottish...

Anises PHILLIPS has unquestionably performed a most meritorious public service. He has afforded to the historical student a clue by the use of which he may guide his footsteps...

ago, was, according to Mr. Bertrand Russell, by general agreement the most eminent scientific man of his generation. In physics, astronomy, and, above all, in mathematics, he...

Tam exposition of the work and organization of the Holy See, written by a devout son of the Roman Catholic Church, will be as interesting to readers who are not members of that...

ALL poetry suffers in translation: at the best for the actual words of a poem we can only find substitutes, approximations; we cannot find equivalents. As tin example of the...

Ma. EIXidE BROWNS has written a very pleasant account of his father, who is chiefly known to fame as the illustrator of Dickens. The connexion between the writer and artist was...

THE WORLD SET FREE.* Mg. WELLS'S new story of the emancipation of humanity is. marked by many of the merits and all the limitations which characterize his periodic excursions...

THESE pleasant little volumes contain a blend of biography and criticism, slightly differing in proportions from the ordinary critical study. The writer in each case approaches...

fortunate youth improves with advancing years. It is just possible to believe in the existence of Paul Savelli, actor, and a charming fellow into the bargain, and in his life as...

Nader this heading as retie. such Boas el th e treelt .a lays wol kA re...rya for mica in other forms.] The Campaign Guide. (National Unionist Association. 5s. net.)—This...

extremely cheerful name of this novel is entirely belied by its contents. The whole story is occupied with the series of mistakes made by Agatha Wanstead, afterwards Lady...

6s.)—A story of adventure in which each chapter is what is called in serial magazines "complete in itself "; and although the episodes are somewhat unequal, many of them are...

called the Indianan, "a weekly link with India.". The new journal, in which the Overland Mail and the Homeward Mail will be merged, defines its aim as to enlighten the ignorance...

net.)—lt is just a hundred years since Napoleon was forced to shift his Empire from France to Elba, and Mr. Young's conscientious piece of work thus makes a timely appearance,...

and W. Geddie. (W. and It. Chambers. Ga. net.)—This new edition of a handy and accurate work gives statistics in most cases as late as 1911. British Year-Book of Agriculture,...

Library. 2s. 6d. net.)—A valuable feature is the lists of plants suitable for the different kinds of gardens described—wall, rock, bog, moraine, and so on. But should not the...

guide-book for Russia, now issued in England for the first time, is up to the standard long set by the firm of Baedeker—from the average tourist's point of view there could be...

Putnam's Sons. 10a. 6d. net.)—In these respectable but some.. what pedestrian pages Mr. Walcott has "written up" the notes of three months' wanderings in Java, Celebes, the...

net.)—. This addition to a well-known series of " Continental Hand- books " gives a clear and trustworthy—though necessarily a very condensed—account of the things worth seeing...

By Henri Sabersky. (H. Gravel and Co. 2s. net.)—This handy dictionary—of which the second or French-English part is in preparation—gives the English pronunciation according to...

130115. 4s. 6d. net.)—Dr. Lees tells us that in England there are still two fairly strong preconceived notions about the German lyric—one that it is unduly sentimental, the...

(Eveleigh Nash. 10s. 6d. net.)—The hero of this book is not " unknown " in the strict sense of the word. It has long been known that Napoleon bad three acknow- ledged sons,...