decided on, and which may fairly be regarded as the only course open to them, was first to get the Budget through, and then either by Resolution, or by a statement of policy...

for dealing with the Lords had been stated in outline, the Cabinet, recognising the essential duties of govern- ment, would proceed with the necessary work of Parlia- ment,—the...

• A S we write at the close of the week there seems to be a general impression that the situation has suddenly developed in a manner by no means favourable to the Govern- ment....

the situa tion from the point of vie* of Ministers, and who recognises that they are not merely the instruments of party but trustees for the safe and good government of the...

the situation will have again changed, and reason will have triumphed even in the minds of the extremists. We should not be surprised if, when Mr. Asquith has set forth the...

be absolutely -impossible for the King, no matter what his private opinions, to grant such a request, but also that no body of responsible Ministers could, in view of the very...

happen, we had better set forth the somewhat alarming facts which tell against our optimistic forecast. To begin with, on Thursday Mr. Barnes, the newly elected Chairman of the...

case.

to state our belief that the extremists will find themselves woefully mistaken if they think the country will be pleased by having another General Election forced upon it, as...

is to move, and Mr. Wedgwood to second, on behalf of the Radical stalwarts, an amendment to the Address expressing. regret that the Government have not seen their way to seek...

the Spanish Cabinet ended in the fall of Sams Moret. The King was advised by those whom he consulted that it was desirable to keep the Liberal Party in power, and he therefore...

the position of the Nationalists contributed by Mr. T. P. O'Connor to this week's Berwlds's Newspaper, Mr. T. P. O'Connor, it may be remembered, is one of the leaders associated...

ez machina a few days ago in the critical affairs of Greece, returned from Crete to Athens on Monday, and once more began to inspire the Military League with new and strange...

Mr. Herbert Gladstone to the Governorship of South Africa were announced on Tuesday, and proved entirely unsensational. Mr. Winston Churchill, who had been marked out for...

tion in South Africa very uncertain. The suggestion that the first Government of united South Africa should be a Coalition Ministry in which British and Dutch should be...

Administrators of the Provincial Governments, the Attorneys- General, the Court of Appeal, the Civil Service Commission, and other officials and official bodies. Surely it is...

less than the." Haussmannising " of the Appian Way. This desecration is all the more to be deplored since it seemed to have been successfully evaded by the scheme, growing out...

of Baronets shall be prepared and kept in the Home Office. No one whose name does not appear on the roll will be recog- nised as a Baronet. Those who think they are unjustly...

hi-party system freedom of debate was impossible in the Commons, and as long as it continued so long would the country be compelled to obey laws which it had never approved. The...

Harold Cox by the British Constitution Association on Tuesday and delivered a remarkable speech. The party system was based on this, that while every man had a conscience, or...

by General Sir H. L. Smith-Donieu at Aldershot. It has been brought to his notice that betting en the result of football matches is very prevalent amongst soldiers, and that in...

a lecture on his expedition in the Himalayas. According to Reuter's report, the Duke and his party first tried to climb the huge pyramid known as K2. Failing in this, they moved...

tion Association expressed the hope that the leader of the Unionist Party would take up the question of the reform of the House of Lords in no timorous spirit:— " So far as...

Feb. 10th. Consols (24) were on Friday 82—Friday week 82k.

A BED-ROCK FOUNDATION FOR THE CONSTITUTION. NV IIE NE VE R , as at the present moment, the question of great Constitutional changes is being debated, a. certain note of...

Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg 1 introduced his Bill in the Prussian Diet on Thursday week for reforming the Prussian franchise was an extra- ordinary essay in the philosophy of a...

A RE the electors of Preston so wholly enslaved to the caucus and the party system as to be beyond the reach, not only of argument, but of the opinion of the most thoughtful...

I N private life there is always a natural resentment against the man who, when events turn out as he predicted, persistently reminds his friends that he told them so. In public...

W E do not propose to trouble our readers with a detailed comparison between the Progressive and the Municipal Reform programmes in the coming election for the London County...

C ANON HENSLEY HENSON in a Lenten sermon last week made some excellent applications of the essential Christian truth that the letter of the law must not be mistaken for the...

VVLAH. T HE historical night which surrounds the beginnings of our rule in India is not penetrated by many flashes of lightning. We do not mean by this that there are not...

F EBRUARY and March, under the modern system of game preservation, have come to be the months in which the gamekeeper devotes his chief energies to trapping. They are the months...

PULPIT AND POLITICS. [TO THE EDITOR OP Pas " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—There can be no doubt that politics are discussed in certain pulpits more loudly and frequently than they used to...

PARTICULARISM IN THE BRITISH COMMON- WEALTH. rro IMF EDITOR or THR "SFECTLTOR.1 Sin,—Doubtless your Sussex correspondent who writes in your last number on " The Disparagement...

[To THR EDITOR OF TEE "SPEOTATOR.'1 SIR,—Thirty years ago you were good enough to print a long letter from my friend Sir Robert Hunter detailing the treat- ment I received at...

Sin,—Allowing, as I am perfectly willing to do, that the accusations made by Liberals of intimidation on the part of Tories are of an exceedingly vague and paltry nature, is it...

[To ERR EDFPOR OP TRIO " SPECTAT01."] Srn,—I must confess to some surprise at your unqualified reply of "No" to Mr. Athelstan Renders question in your last issue as to whether...

SIR,—It is a well-known saying of Burke's that the generality of men are fifty years behindhand in their politics, and that while they declaim virtuously against dying or tlistd...

Sin,—It must be very distressing to many people to read the complaints of defeated candidates at the General Election. The charges of bribery and intimidation could not be more...

SIR,—The Liberal canvasser "A. C." who writes on the above subject in your last week's issue ought to be very grateful for the mildness with which your editorial note dismisses...

in last week's 'Spectator, I have tried to get from my friends the names of the persons threatening to remove their custom if Liberal bills were dis- played. I am sorry to find...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TES "BPECTATOR."1 Srn, — I am a constant reader of the Spectator, and as a rule I agree with the political opinions of the paper. I regret to be constrained...

Srn,—May I offer a suggestion towards a reformed Second Chamber P The University Members are pretty surely doomed to extinction in any Reform Bill, whether as anachronisms or...

LTO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—During the last few years the Spectator's articles on the Fisher regime leave the impression on my mind that writers who supported the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—I have been astonished at the wild views published in the Press, and the extraordinary ignorance of the land question shown by all the...

LTO TEE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I make two suggestions—inspired by reading articles in your last issue—which are not so entirely dis- connected as they appear to...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.'] Sin,—In the article on " Canada and the Navy" in your issue of January 15th you say:—" Sir Wilfrid Laurier, on being asked to define an '...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECT&TOR...] SIR,—My answer to " Presbyter " shall be brief, as it seems to me there are only two matters to which I need refer. Your readers can judge...

writing with regard to changes in respect to the Athanasian Creed, says that "certainly . to leave it in the Prayer-book is not to sacrifice it, unless it is also sacrificed in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. .7 1 SIR, — Is it not the case that the jest of one generation becomes the serious politics of another ? The following jeu d esprit, written...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." . 1 Sin,—The letter in your last issue regarding employment of caddies deals with a somewhat important subject. Your correspondent rightly...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 SIR, With the consent of the writer, a foreign gentleman of high standing and experience resident not here but in his home on the Continent,...

" Golfer's " letter under the above title in last week's issue, might I suggest that there is an easy way out of the difficulty for all golf clubs within reasonable reach of a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Now that no political or party significance attaches to the subject, you may be interested to know the origin, as told me by a German...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—The writer of the article in last week's Spectator on " The Human Bird," after speaking of the sense of the human in the bird and of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sni,—May we draw the attention of your readers to the eighth Vacation Term for Biblical Study, which will be held this year from July 23rd...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—May I make a suggestion with reference to the follow- ing words contained in a review paragraph in last week's Spectator on the "...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR, —In a recent number of your paper I saw a reference to the legions of Varna. Perchance the following quotations from Langhorne's "...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sea, — In your recent review of my translation of Signor Croce's " Aesthetic " I see that fault is found with certain (unspecified) portions...

ORDERS AND UNITY.* THE Bishop of Birmingham in a sermon on " The Peril of Drifting" preached before the University of Cambridge, and printed at the end of this volume, entreats...

A PRAYER. LORD, not for light in darkness do we pray, Not that the veil be lifted from our eyes, Nor that the slow ascension of our day Be otherwise. Not for a clearer vision...

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...

of " M. A.," a contribution of 5s. to the above fund.

exceptional scholars who can make archaeology and historical research attractive to the ordinary reader. With him Biblical scholarship is the fruit of personal adventure, and it...

THE appearance of Maitland's Equity affords the opportunity for considering two aspects of his rare genius which are for ever Equity; also the Forms of Action at Common Law. Two...

MR. CARL HAGENBECR'S Beasts and Men has been extremely well translated into English by Mr. Hugh Elliot and Mr. A. G. Thacker. The great firm whose business in animals is known...

may well cause regret in the minds of those too numerous travellers who, as Miss James remarks, "have rested, at Bologna," have strolled through the streets and markets, glanced...

MB. ALLINSON'S book on the Directoire is in great measure a frank compilation, chiefly from contemporary authorities, such as Thibaudeau's Memoirs, the Souvenirs of Meister, and...

FAIRYLANDS FORLORN:t TEE belles-lettres of South Africa, which Mr. Cripps has already enriched by the volume of poems noticed in the Spectator of July 17th, 1909, have received...

IT is now thirty years since Dr. Way published his first efforts in translation from the classics, his version of the Odyssey. The bare enumeration of what he has done since...

Miss LAMP'S volume has been written, it would seem, to supply a generally felt want of a single-volume history of Canada; it gives accordingly in some four hundred pages a...

Putnam's Sons. 10s. 6d.)—Mr. Julius Wodiska writes well. His chapters on the classification of precious atones, on the discovery of the diamond, and on the intricate maze of...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not bin reserved for review in other forms.] The Life of Martin Blake, B.D. By John Frederick Chanter. (John Lane....

story concerned with the blackest of black magic, and creatures of the Abyss are freely invoked in its pages by a learned gentleman who lives in a suburb. Mr. Jepson contrives...

68.)—A powerfully written story of the French Revolution. Meralda is a specially fine study.—Gilbert Livingston. By John Urquhart. (Marshall Brothers. 6s.)—The scene is laid in...

and Stoughton, 7s. 6d.), we have Philippians, Colossians, .1 and 2 Thessalonians, and 1 Timothy. There are yet four volumes to come ; these will complete the number of...

32 Drawings by William A Wildman. (Grant Richards. 21s. net.) —Mr. Durand has given us here an eminently readable book. It is largely historical, though of course it is the...

Brothers. 2s. net.)—" The most charming of all annual flowers" is Mr. Wright's just description of the sweet pea. And, as it is the most charming, it also gives the best return...

per vol.) we have Dante's Three Visions : Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso, Trans- lated by John Wesley Thomas, 3 vols. ; The Early Journal of Charles Wesley; and William Cobbett's...

vols. (Macmillan and Co. 21s. net.)—We must be content with explaining what Mr. Walker has attempted to do. The metrical law of Greek lyric verse, as it is found in Pindar and...

7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Waddington gives us hero an account of his mental development, and is careful to make us understand that it is wholly his own doing. "Throughout life," he...

Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—Many men and women have told the story of travel in Spain, and not a few of their number with as good qualification for the task as Mr. Harden can be supposed...

(Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 2d.)—This pamphlet contains three articles reprinted from the Yorkshire Post, and forms an =compromising defence of the House of Lords. " It would be...

Blakeney, M.A. (George Bell and Sons. 5s.)—This is a volume of "Bohn's Classical Library," and is certainly a great improvement on Mr. T. A. Buckley's version, which has...

By Francis Miltoun. (Sir I. Pitman and Sons. 78. 6d. net.)— Most of us know some Burgundian names familiarly,—Nuiti, for instance, Macon, Beaune, and Dijon, where the vintages...