else- where, that Roumania will remember how greatly it will be to her own national interests as well as to the interests of the general peace to show magnanimity, and not...

Home Rule Bill in the House of Lords. His first effort was an attempt to minimize the resistance which Ulster would offer to the Bill if she were not excluded, and also if the...

I T is extremely difficult to know what to say about the situation in the Balkans, for as we write on Friday morning events are still hanging in the balance. On the whole,...

House declines to proceed with the consideration of the Bill until it has been submitted to the judgment of the country." We say without hesitation that Lord Lansdowne's speech...

the Ancient Order of Hibernian, Lord Lansdowne pointed ont how the Government, under the Insurance Act, were giving this body, mainly political in its objects, a princely...

Connaught was betrothed to the Duchess of Fife, and that the King had "gladly given his consent." Prince Arthur, son of the Duke of Connaught, is just over thirty years old, and...

reviewed an impressive display of merchant shipping in the Mersey. Their Majesties went on board the `Mauretania' Last Saturday they continued their triumphal progress through...

ease.

an Eight-Page Supplement, containing the Half-Yearly Index and Title-Page—i.e., from January 4th to June 28th, 1913, inclusive.

say this. They admit, as Lord Lansdowne said, that if the majority of the voters of the United Kingdom endorse the Bill the Unionist Party cannot and will not give any...

speeches made by Lord Curzon and Lord Morley. We can only say that Lord Curzon made a deep impression on the House, and that he suggested, as we have done, that a. general...

Home Rule Bills which have been introduced into the Commons. Consider for a moment what has been required to make this Bill palatable to the Irish—to bribe them to accept it....

the plainest possible declaration as regards the attitude of the Opposition " But with regard to this Bill, do not let it be supposed that our attitude is merely an attitude of...

we do not agree with his speech, it is impossible not to be impressed by its sincerity and its public spirit, qualities eminently characteristic of the speaker. Lord Londonderry...

Rule was not given to Ireland there would be a repetition of the Ulster difficulty in the south and west of Ireland:- " I believe this argument to be an absolutely fallacious...

and important article adducing a new argument against the coercion of Ulster. Large towns in England and Scotland often desire to incorporate adjoining smaller districts or...

of the Opposition. This he stated in perfectly clear and perfectly reasonable terms. They demand that before the Bill becomes law automatically it shall be referred to the...

Churchill on behalf of himself and the whole Board of Admiralty as to oil transactions, but the fact that it was made, and indeed had to be made, can only be regarded as a...

Churchill's public speeches are apt to show defects both of tact and taste. The speech of Thursday was no exception, when be was dealing with the question of oil and the atmo-...

Estimates and definitely announced the opening, so far as fuel is concerned, of a new chapter in our naval history. Though coal may remain for some time the basis of our motive...

wireless stations with the Marconi Company. On Wednesday in the Commons the matter of the contract was debated on the motion for the adjournment. Mr. Samuel insisted that it...

appointed Poet Laureate. Though Mr. Bridges is not a poet whose words will stir a nation's heart, and thus, in Tennyson's phrase, be in truth a man of deeds, the appointment is...

disavowals and his quotation of the disavowal of the Chief Whip, not to remember the disavowals of last October and what came of them, and how it was accident and nothing else,...

to get the best supply of oil for the Navy, no matter what may be the consequences. That is elementary. But, after all, what could bring out more clearly than the words he used...

it appealed to save the Crystal Palace had been sub- scribed. The Times is to be most warmly congratulated on having raised this large sum in a fortnight. The achievement has...

the " Political Notes " said: " The view that the abolition of the payment of members should be made a plank in the Unionist policy is gaining ground in the party, and there is...

HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM. T AST week we had the hardihood to venture on political J prophecy. We predicted that Mr. Asquith would next February introduce a measure of House of...

That is the simple and unquestionable explanation from the Roumanian point of view of what has been called her callous and out- rageous blow at Bulgaria. For many years Roumania...

O NE of the curiosities of the Home Rule controversy is the way in which it is haunted by the ghost of federalism—a ghost often treated with no small amount of civility, nay,...

contented themselves with ordering a tonic and advising the woman to take care of herself as far as possible. Now that the woman worker is entitled to 75.6d. a week when ill,...

that his object in writing the book which he has recently published (" The Indian Offer of Imperial Preference," London : P. S. King and Son, 2s. 6d.), is to provoke discussion,...

A LL good Londoners have been interested by the news that an hotel is to be built on the site of St. George's Hospital, and many of them may have busied themselves with drawing...

T HE following plans and specifications are those of the model cottage close to Merrow Common, near Guildford, which will be inaugurated by Lord Midleton next Saturday (time...

TWO PICTURES OF THE COTTAGE PROBLEM. FIRST PICTURE. The Landlord and the Cottager—as he appears in the Daily News, Daily Chronicle, Manchester Guardian, Star, Nation, and...

SIB, — I have read with great interest your admirable article on this subject in the Spectator of July 5th. I agree almost entirely with your statement of the problem, and also...

article on " The Cottage Problem," you say " By all means let the County Council build such cottages as are required to house the police, the roadmen," &c. But what about the...

to which neither you nor your correspondents allude, and that is the working man's garden. Why does no one seem to think a working man wants his garden round his cottage P Is...

[TO THE EDITOR CF THE "SpEcrATort.-] SIR,—I will not venture so far to trespass upon your valuable space as to recapitulate the provisions of the Housing and Town-Planning Act...

Sra,—Your powerful article in the Spectator of July 12th, entitled " The Problem of Dissolution," should, I think, be read in conjunction with a letter in your correspondence...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,— " Sacrosanettun esse nihil potest nisi quod populus, plebesve sanxisset."—Cic_ Balb. 14. Home Rnle for Ireland has been before the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Is it not flogging a dead horse to say that a dissolution should precede the passing of the Home Rule Bill ? Every- one—and no one...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the event of armed resistance being offered by Ulster to Home Rule for Ireland would military officers and privates in the service...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—You urge the leaders of the Unionist Party to declare promptly that they are resolutely opposed to the system of payment of members out...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." SIR,—I notice in the Spectator of July 12th that you refer to the so-called Leicester manifesto, and pronounce an opinion• that the matter...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "Sraczeroa.”3 SIR,—Mr. W. P. Elias appears, in his letter of July 12th, to have missed the point of my contention with regard to the pusillanimity of most...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR. ") SIR, — The refusal of the Canadian Senate to pass the Borden Navy Bill should compel a reconsideration of the naval policy which the...

[To TER EDITOR OP TED "SPECTATOR."] Rita, Will you allow me to appeal to any of your readers who care for an English lakeland, unexploited and unspoiled, to help in securing for...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR...1 Sin,—I beg your permission to call public attention to the " Bill to Prohibit the Docking of Horses," in the preparation of which we have...

tV0 TEN EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.' Six,—May I be allowed to refer " A Student " (and other such students "of Holy Scripture ") to pp. lxxxviii.-xciii. and also to pp. 653-4 of...

[To ma EDISTO& OF THE "SniezrAT6o."] Sin,—" A Student of Scripture " is satisfied with the explana- tion of this Psalm offered by Archbishop Benson, but a study of the Old...

[To THE EDITOR OP TIIE " Brxcrrron.."] Sin,—The very amusing letter by "V. F:" in your issue of July 12th makes one wonder in what sense the quaintly laconic " little girl "...

"SPECTAT011...I STR,—Your correspondent's remark on the tale of bricks on other than Egyptian principles being the true cause why -cottages cannot be built cheaply to snit the...

[To THE EDITOR er THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—A review having appeared in a prominent weekly paper attributing to us the authorship of a recently published volume of Irish stories,...

ROME AND MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT.* IN spite of the obvious danger of establishing doubtful analogies and of making insufficient allowance for differences, the history of Imperial...

AFTER READING E. M.'s BOOK OF GEORGIAN POETRY. FRIEND, born with me in full Victorian days, When Palmerston proud-voiced our glorious State, And Tennyson was England's...

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in agreement with the views therein eepressed or with the mode of :expression. In such instance, or in the case of "Letters to the Editor," insertion only means that the matter...

students of the eighteenth .century are indebted for her majestic edition of Horace Walpole's Letters in sixteen volumes, minutely annotated, with an exhaustive index, a revised...

WHEN Mr. Houston Stewart Chamberlain produced hie Foundations of the Nineteenth Century, in which the Teuton is regarded as the motive power in the world's progress, sundry...

TILE attitude of the extreme High Church party towards the question of revising the Book of Common Prayer has under- gone some remarkable changes. For several years the scheme...

Ma. STONE 18 to be congratulated upon the success with which he has attacked a task that has been often attempted but seldom satisfactorily accomplished. His success is no doubt...

THE readers of this little book must remember that it was• published in New York as well as in London, or they may be- misled, if, when turning the pages at random they see the-...

ONE regrets that Miss James should have found it necessary to prefix her photograph to this most agreeable volume. Not that there is any fault to he found with the picture...

BLOOD AND SAND.t IJESTOR VINCENT BLASCO IBAREE, the well-known Spanish novelist, is, we believe, translated here into English for the first time. Judging from the precision of...

Josiah H. Penniman. (D. C. Heath and Co. 3s. net.)--Not very much is known of the circumstances of the bitter dispute—the so-called " stage-war "—wh ich raged between Ben Jonson...

finder this heading tee notice such Books of the week as hays not been restyled NT review in other forma.] Social Studies of To-Day. By Hugo Miinsterberg. (T. Fisher Unwin. 7s....

Francis Blundell.) (John Murray. Gs.)—A deeper note is sounded by Mrs. Blundell in her new novel than any that her readers are accustomed to hear from her. The story of Mary...

(Macmillan and Co. 12s. 6d. net.)—We can hardly imagine a pleasanter way of spending a holiday than to sail up the Seine from its mouth to Paris; and anyone who contemplates...

motive of this book is exactly the same as that of Mr. Shiel's former novel, "The Yellow Danger," that is, the invasion of Europe by the combined forces of the Chinese and...

and Boon 10s. Gd. net.)—Miss Dyson has republished a number of letters written from India which describe in a pleasant way some of the less hackneyed parts of the Depen-...

and Co. Gs.)—An almost adequate love story runs through an engrossing and exciting account of official and native life on the Gold Coast, well composed from first-hand...