of im- portance to record. We have dealt with the Mexican situation elsewhere, but may note here two items of some interest. As the result of the dissatisfaction felt by the...

plea for the exclusion of Ulster, not because we think it is good in itself, not because we think the Home Rule Bill will be thereby made into a good Bill, not because we think...

T HE prevention of civil war by the exclusion of the homogeneous portion of Ulster, and the avoidance of the crime of compelling Ulster by physical force to submit to a Dublin...

Bedford last Saturday. There seems to be a pretty general agreement that the reforms suggested, which were no doubt carefully settled by the Cabinet, did not give satisfaction...

Mr. Winston Churchill's statesmanlike efforts to avoid civil war, we still cannot believe that Mr. Asquith and his colleagues will deliberately adopt the attitude of the...

ease.

ridiculous assertion that land is kept uncultivated in the interests of game. We are no defenders of bloated game preserves, but there is no question that instead of game...

of consideration and good feeling which we should now deplore, but that emigration, whether enforced or not, was the only thing to save the Highlanders from a famine such as...

the Land Inquiry Committee published on Wednesday. Mr. Lloyd George's invective about turnip-eating pheasants and peasant-eating landlords, and his tawdry rhetoric about making...

of the splendid soil of England are wil- fully left uncultivated. To prove his point he artfully com- pared us to Denmark, Belgium, and Holland, flat countries whose...

knock off the existing chains on agriculture and not to impose more; to leave it freer, not to add more restraints. The first thing to do is to free it from the special taxation...

follies. The effect of his speech was to lead his hearers to suppose that the rural cottages of England are the most rotten and miserable hovels in the world, and that the Con-...

last resort there is one, and only one, sound way of increasing the price of any commodity, whether it be fresh eggs or labour, and that is to increase the demand for it. What...

made by Mr. Lloyd George's Land Inquiry Committee, and especially as to the scheme for a minimum wage, and to those proposals we shall return again. We may, however, note the...

a monopoly created by a patent. But the piesent Govern- ment in its wisdom, when Mr. Lloyd George was at the Board of Trade, carried through Parliament a clause declaring that...

of the Duke of Connaught, to the Duchess of Fife, the elder daughter of the late Duke of Fife and the Princess Royal, was celebrated at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, on...

on sea and one on land. On Thursday in last week the British steamship 'Volturno,' of the Uranium Line, bound front Rotterdam to Halifax and New York with 564 passengers, mostly...

part, though less world-wide in its appeal, has been unhappily attended with far greater loss of life. At 8.30 on Tuesday morning, when 935 men were down the pit of the...

John Simon declared that "we Home Rulers" did not aim at the humiliation of the minority but at the reconciliation of a nation. He defined their position by saying that, while...

has caught one out in an indefensible defence of a blunder, and that is to apologize. On Monday the Westminster Gazette showed that we were mistaken in thinking that under the...

Mr. Churchill's proposals. Within certain clear and well- defined lace and limits he endorsed Mr. Churchill's declaration that there was no demand Ulstermen could make which...

been the remarkable action of the leading anti-Semitic organ, the Kievlianin, in tearing the indictment to pieces. The Sievlianin does not recant its anti-Semitism ; it merely...

to say, little doubt that the Prime Minister will in a very few days appoint Sir Rufus Isaacs as Lord Chief Justice. We have no desire to speak vindictively in regard to the...

Oct. 2nd. Consols (2D were on Friday 721--Friday week 72i.

THE IRISH CRISIS. T HERE can be little doubt that the three Cabinet Councils held this week were concerned with the Irish question and the possibility of avoiding civil war by...

E VERYONE would like to see the position of the agri- cultural labourer improved. Everyone would like to see him receiving higher wages, and paying less rent for a better...

of the Irish crisis we must say a few words, which are somewhat over- due in these columns, about Sir Edward. Carson. Close observers of the situation during the past few months...

"J OUTH AMERICA," says Mr. Bryce, "begins at the kJ Rio Grande del Norte." It is this unfortunate difference between physical and political geography that has made Mexico the...

M R. BA.LFOUR has contributed to the University Magazine of Montreal an article which contains perhaps the clearest analysis of the Irish problem which has ever been published....

O UT of the mass of detail in the messages from corre- spondents and stories of eyewitnesses it has now become possible to construct something like a connected account of the...

contains an article by an American professor which, though dealing with a serious subject, might almost be described as "chaff." The writer discusses "The Moral Obligation to be...

TN view of Mr. Lloyd George's marvellous picture of village life, as set forth last Saturday at Bedford, it may not be unprofitable to consider village people as they actually...

A MODEL 2110 COTTAGE. [To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTA.TOR."] SIR,—I think your readers may be interested to hear the first result of the offer made by me at the inauguration...

THE EXCLUSION OF ULSTER. [TO TUE EDITOR. OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—As a constant reader of the Spectator I wish most sincerely to thank you for the clear and independent...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEOTATOR."1 srn,—I trust you will see your way to publishing the following letter of advice issued to their members by the Society of Friends at the...

[To THE EDITOR OP TES " SPECTLTOR."] SIE,—IS it not possible to exaggerate the disturbances which would follow on the withdrawal of the Home Rule Bill ? The Irish are...

your last issue on Mr. Churchill's speech on Ulster has distressed and amazed me, in common with every Unionist with whom I have discussed it. You say that we must "help on a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra„—Throngbout this controversy it appears to me that the one charge brought against Mr. Lloyd George has been that he has utilized for...

pro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—In his speech at Bedford Mr. Lloyd George apparently desires the young men of Scotland, instead of emigrating, to become a "sturdy...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—An influential tenant farmer, remarking on the question of Government advances to tenant farmers, said : "If Government lent me the...

[To ran EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—If the above phrase, used by Mr. Lloyd George at Bedford, referred to the advocates of compulsory service, is it not nearly time he...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR'] SIR,—I enclose a cutting from the Irish nines of October 9th ; you may think it worthy of insertion. I am firmly convinced that the...

effect of "oil on the troubled waters" is illustrated in Bede's " Historia," iii., 17. Utta, setting out on a voyage, asks Aidan for his prayers :— " Qui benedieens lllos ac...

SIR,—There are two quotations which seem specially applicable to Mr. Lloyd George's case. The first is from Tennyson's The Grandmother :— " But soiling another, Annie, will...

article entitled, "Government and Money," which appears in the Spectator bearing date October 4th, that the handling of the revived Marconi controversy by our present...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SrEcrATort."3 Stu,—In your issue of October 4th you remark that at this debate "the anti-Suffrage side seems to have been somewhat inadequately...

I wonder much if " C. L. G." Can find within his A. B. C. Some names which quite appeal to me : London Apprentice, Drunkards All, Close to Luxulyan's mighty fall, Ready Money,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I observe that the Westminster Gazette has been reproving you for "inexcusable carelessness." Perhaps you can suggest the correct...

aside His Pegasus a trifle wide The night he ambled into Ide; Pray bid him rein his weary steed, And ask some Devon lad at need To set him on the way to Ide. —I am, Sir, &c.,

ITO THZ EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTAT0R...1 SIR,—By the death of Robinson Ellis England has lost the , greatest of her Latin scholars since the "going hence" of Munro and of Mayor....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' have read Mr. Gill's letter on the above subject with great interest. But he has surely fallen into the error of confounding the principles...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR...1 THE Portuguese Legation begs to observe that on the very same day (the 11th inst.) whilst your journal, repeating the malevolent...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SracrAroa."1 may interest the editor of the Spectator to know that when Lord Lyons was Ambassador in Paris the French said of him that he had " le...

[To THE EDITOR Or THI . SPECTATOP."1 SIB.,—On November 5th an appeal will be made to the public- school and University men throughout the country by means of meetings at many...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Will you kindly insert for me in your columns the' following request ? We are intending to prepare for publica- tion a selection from...

ON THE BACK VELD. THE red flame-flowers bloom and die, The embers puff a golden spark, Now and again a horse's eye Shines like a topaz in the dark. A distant jackal jars the...

LORD LYONS.* [CoNcLunnto NcericE.] THE letters published in Lord Newton's work throw some very interesting sidelights upon the history of recent events, but it cannot be said...

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...

say that we do not think Sir Almroth Wright's book is a good book, or that the particular line of argument against the suffrage he uses therein is either sound or expedient, we...

Mn. BEVAN, in the four lectures which he delivered last summer at .1)xford, covered ground part of which has been traversed by Professor Gilbert Murray in his Four Stages of...

the second, on "The Decay of Idealism in France," is the most striking from its subject. Mr. Bodley tells us in his preface, with some quite irrelevant sarcasms at the rapid...

of a better book of its kind than Sir Frederick Maurice : a Record of His Work and Opinions. The author (he will not thank us for calling him that) is Sir Frederick Maurice's...

the Old Testament has an inex- haustible fascination for the Biblical student. In the "Oxford Church Bible Commentary" Series Mr. A. T. S. Goodrick has just brought out a...

nothing of earlier times, there was no state more perilous than to have been born within reach of the throne. Lucky for such persons, men or women, if they died a natural death...

IT would be difficult to exaggerate the importance of these parish registers for the history and literature of Portugal. • Tho Nemed Times of Arabella Stuart. By M. Lefuse....

Son. 6s.)—It would need more than a ten years' change of date and a series of pseudonyms to conceal the fact that Sydney Grier has taken the events which happened in the...

THE CORYSTON FAMILY.* IN her new novel Mrs. Humphry Ward gives us a remarkable picture of the maitresse femme, in whom the high feminine, maternal, and domestic qualities are...

Bohn's Popular Library" (George Bell and Sons. is. net each.) These include Carlyle's French Revolution, Montaigne's Essays, and Ranke's History of the Popes, each in three...

good example of Mr. Pett Ridge's clever characterization of young people and of his love of London.—The Watered Garden. By Maud Stepney Rawson. (S. Paul and Co. 6s.)—The...

6d. net.)—Several papers of great interest were read before the Society during the session of 1912-1913, and will be found printed in this volume. Not the least interesting...

6s.)—Mrs. Wilfrid Ward has divided her book into two -almost independent parts : first comes the story of the long illness of Horace Blake, the successful, immoral,...

Heal. (Heal and Son, Tottenham Court Road.)--Few people can have been aware that until quite recently a Georgian farmhouse has existed within a mile of Charing Cross. It stood...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as hare not been ' , reserved for review in other forms.] Monologues. By Richard Middleton. (T. Fisher nwin. .58....