the Ulster Indemnity Fund already exceeded the million pounds for which the Ulster Unionist Council had asked. He added that the Force now numbered almost 100,000 men. We notice...

Referendum would be the best solution of the difficulty. Whether Ulstermen would accept an adverse verdict we tannot say, but at all events if they were bereft of the support...

of tl,e matter because it is a demand founded on the Governments own principles—the principles on which the Bill is based. The Government cannot withstand the argument for...

T HERE was nothing in Mr. Bonar Law ' s speech at Bristol on Thursday night which could surprise the country, for it had already been freely rumoured that the negotiationa...

to Mr. Thomas Lough and is supported by Professor Mahaffy, has attracted some attention during the week. The proposal, in brief, is that for twenty years in the Irish Parliament...

collapse, thanks to the unexampled promptitude and thorough. nesa of General Botha ' s Government. Directly it was clear that the railway strike would develop, unless it were...

to nothing, Mr. Boner Law went on to declare that it was necessary now to assume that the Government meant to carry out their policy to the bitter end. "On that assumption it...

ease.

an Eight-Page Supplement, containing the Hatf.Yearly Baer and Title-Page—i.e., from Italy 5th to December27th, 1913, inclusive.

Mr. Bain, the secretary of the Federation of Trades. The strike leaders with the help of their bodyguard resisted and barricaded themselves in the Trades Hall. There was street...

repeats her assurance that they will be banded back to Turkey when the obligations of the Treaty of Lausanne have been carried out. It remains to be noticed that the replies,...

M. Caillanx by publishing one with M. Briand. IL Briand, when asked how his policy differed from that of AL Caillaux, said that it was a difference of manner as much as...

M. Caillaux, the Minister of Finance and the chief figure in the French Government. M. Caillaux said that he was so much misrepresented by his enemies that he was not surprised...

of the reticence of officials and of the people affected, it is now clear that widespread distress—due to a failure of the rice crop and the fisheries—is prevailing in Hokkaido,...

Note on the Aegean Islands question were received by the Foreign Office on Wednesday. The proposal that all the islands occupied by Greece, except Imbros and Tenedoe, shall be...

Paris on Wednesday. Sherif Pasha, formerly Turkish Minister at Stockholm, having fallen out with the Committee of Union and Progress, has since lived in Paris and has un-...

at the Middlesex Hospital, supplied by Dr. Lazarus-Barlow, published by the Times of the 8th inst., and summarized in our last issue, has elicited a letter of remonstrance from...

Estimates are still being considered by the Cabinet. Apparently the process of consideration will not be an easy one, for Mr. Lloyd George's pronouncement has thrown Ministers...

has ended in unconditional surrender on the part of the workmen, On December 10th the Corporation workmen struck for an all-round increase of two shillings a week. Over three...

Caillaux and M. Briand must bear in mind the wise reticence and the courtesy of French statesmen in discussing English affairs, and not try to discover in their sentiments a...

known, by means of full-page advertisements in news- papers, the advantages of the Army as a career. We heartily welcome this new scheme. The Army has, of course, for a very...

Gazelle has changed its captious tone in writing about the meeting which Adeline Duchess of Bedford is organizing on behalf of the political prisoners in Portugal, and now...

Glasgow on Monday. The subject had not been revealed, and was only declared in the course of the lecture. Mr. Balfour began by admitting the failure of philosophy to solve the...

to commit worse crimes than that "If the modern man's idea of God was descended from ancient and corrupt myths, the very permanence of that idea was proof that it could not be...

THE RIGHT OF THE COMMUNITY TO EXIST. N IVE have placed at the head of this article the words with which M. Clemenceau once summarized the justification of the State in...

W HILE admiration for the overwhelming vote by which the Reichstag at the beginning of Decem- ber expressed its indignation at the events at Zabern was still fresh on the lips...

Q IR ROBERT PEEL stated some seventy years ago that no sound opinions on currency questions could be formed unless a clear and comprehensive answer were given to the question, "...

ITIIIE announcement of the sensational profit-sharing 1 scheme which the Ford Motor Company of Ohio pro- poses to establish opens up a number of interesting economic questions....

"Men hope, And see their hope frustrate, and grieve awhile, And hope anew." B ROWNING'$ words can hardly fail to occur to the thoughtful reader as he turns over the pages of...

O UR dependence on one another not only for society but even for keeping body and soul together is recog- nized by all thinkers. Robinson Crusoe, after the most critical...

D ISCUSSION of Bills before Parliament strays often into unlikely channels, and few, perhaps, who have watched the progress of the Plumage Bill, which is designed to prevent the...

SIR, —It is little wonder that we despair of the Republic in these days when the defence against State Socialism takes the line of such letters as you published last week. When...

NATIONAL AFFORESTATION. I . To vas Earroa or Tea .'13racr■roa.1 SIR, —In a country where an industry is ill-managed nothing is easier than to prove that it will not pay. The...

Deer Forests" is your own heading to an article in your issue of January 10th. Party recrimina- tion is one thing, actual history is another. Will you per- mit a few words in...

be a qualified and unprejudiced observer, be permitted to add my testimony towards the attainment of sound views on this much-debated topic P For fifty years past I have been...

[To ono EDITOR or en .firocuaron."11 SIR, —It is astonishing to us Scottish people who know the story of our own land to see it practically made out that there were no such...

[To TRH Eerros or rex "SPecrwrs.."] Sin,—When the 1909 Budget was being discussed in the House Mr. Harold Cox and others pointed out the danger of Undeveloped Land Duty being...

am not a party politician, but surely it must be obvious to anyone who takes note of polities at the present time that the "catching of votes" is (to a very great extent)...

[To ass Emma or TOE "8racravea."1 SIN,—Reading the last London weeklies as I jolted over a South Indian road in a bullock waggon, it was only yesterday that from your columns I...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TH. " SPECT/TOR."1 Sin,—I have only now seen your leading article under the above beading in the Spectator of December 20th, in which you say, " What is now...

[To run Ernes or raw "Brectrrox."1 Sra,—May I suggest a reservation or two to your definition of the Monroe Doctrine in your editorial in the issue of January 3rd on Mexico P...

[To BBB Bares or Tao arrrrar3s...j SIB,—Your interesting article on the Mexican situation left off just at the most thrilling point. The United States bad willy-nilly extended...

in your columns (January 3rd) about the traffic in old live horses will give many readers a fresh impulse to oppose that traffic. I have been a chaplain in France for ten years....

[To Ter Eamon or THE SPECTATOR."' Sus,—On Monday, January 5th, we again met the old English horses at the Antwerp Docks. Only the Hull and Newcastle boats had arrived, bringing...

[To vas Eamon or sax ..87111CTATOIL.1 SIR,—With reference to the letter on "Pied Buildings" in your issue of November 22nd, the method employed by the Galicians in this country...

ITC vas Roma or ran "Brecraroa.m1 Era,—Mr. Palmer's letter in your issue of January 3rd on the subject of "The Edghill House" must have sounded in many ears like a veritable...

Sre,—May I bring to your readers' notice a book called The Under Dog. which is published by the Animate Guardian? This book gives a great deal of information on the subject of...

[To ran Eons. or raz "Bract/moo:1 Sin,-1 think you are wrong in your oonception of the meaning and construction of "Pied Buildings" (November 22nd, 1913). Although the term is...

[To V. E0170l or Tex •. Srscrsrosi"1 Srs,—The phrase " Will-o'-the-wisp " corresponds with the term Jack-o'-Lantern." In Johnson's Dictionary, how- ever, it is found as " Will...

an error in the interesting notice of my cousin, Miss Julia Wedgwood, which appeared in your last issue. Frances Julia Wedgwood was the daughter of Hensleigh Wedgwood and...

ITO TIM EMT. or 150 ••SPECTA7011.”) Stu,-.-A French edition of my History of Siena has been asked for, and will shortly be published. I am anxious to make the chapters dealing...

[To THE Emma OF MI . Sractsma.") SIR, —It may interest some of your readers if I supplement the sympathetic end critical sketch of the late Miss Julia Wedgwood which Dr....

[To Ton EDITOR OF TIM " SFECF/VFOL.' SIR,—In connexion with some of the current New Year topics your readers may be interested by a quotation from the recently published diary...

Its ens Emma or ens .. Srscraron."] Sin,—To the list of Spectators on p. 66 of your last issue permit me to add the late Bebramji Malabari's Indian Spectator, which • after a...

Its run Eniron or ens " SeErrAro a.") Sur,—Instead of relegating the family Christmas tree to the attic or bonfire after its one night of splendour, as in Hans Andersen's...

'MARIE ANTOINETTE AND BARNAVE.* DURING the years 1791 and 1792 events in Paris were hasten- ing to their tragic end. The spirit which eventually found expression in the...

Snr,—Thanks to the publicity given by the publication of my letter in your issue of the 3rd inst., we have received several offers from !mike and gentlemen who are willing to...

THE ROMAN ROAD IN- MID-ALBANIA. t • • [To MEMAET BEY.] • A mien sinites through the mountains like the thrusting of a It glitters through green forests and shines above the...

sonic or initials, or with a nsendontm, cr ore marked "Cciamunicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to le in agreement with the tires therein repressed cr with the...

for the Spectator, and begs to announce change of address to Kang Wba, Korea.

IT is not without a reason that both of the books before ui appear under the auspices of Mr. Roosevelt, who contri-; butes to the first a letter of good wishes and to the...

TEE phenomena known as " trade fluctuations" seem to have beset the development of industry since the time when exchange by means of " tokens " began to take the place of the...

THE American Civil War yielded less written evidence by noncombatants as to the experiences and conditions of those terrible years than might have been expected. At all events...

WHEN Alexander Agaesiz died three years ago at the age of seventy-four, his friend Henry Adams wrote: " We did one first-rate work when we produced him, and I do • Letter. ond...

THERE is a perennial interest about the indemnity that France had to pay for her share in the war of 1870. De enormous amount, over two hundred millions sterling—a suni which...

THE first volume of The New World of the South was Australia is the Making. It dealt with sea adventure and discovery, the beginnings of settlement and inland exploration, and...

In this little book Mr. J. R. Thnrsfield sets forth with much clearness and precision the principles which should govern the conduct of war at sea. The theory presented is...

CHANCE.* Iv is a red-letter day in the life of a reviewer when a new novel by Mr. Conrad falls to his lot. It is another matter altogether when be endeavours to fulfil his...

Ir would surely be an interesting task to trace the gradual evolution of the poets' cosmogony, from Homer to Tennyson. To the Greeks the earth itself provided ample space for...

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