that as he was watching the composite regiments of Nizams and Redifs pass through the streets an aged cab-driver remarked to him, " There will be a great cutting-off of ears."...

pronounced to have done exceedingly well in their first week's fighting, though we admit that the loss of 7,000 Turkish prisoners is not really a very serious matter and will...

off in Thrace, and will be a struggle for the possession of Adrianople. If the Bulgarians and Servians can drive the Turks out of Adrianople, the road is open to Constantinople,...

If the Montenegrins can capture that or drive the Turks from it, they will have achieved a most notable success. The small- ness of their numbers, however, would make it unwise...

Turkey were signed at Ouchy. During the day there had been much coming and going and many meetings between the delegates. The Turkish Government had evidently decided that it...

• O N Thursday Turkey declared war against Bulgaria and Servia. The fact that Greece was not included was, we suppose, a form of Turkish compliment. Very late on Thursday...

been well marked. The advance towards Scutari, which began at the end of last week, was continued on Sunday and Monday, and on Monday Tuzi was captured after hard fighting. The...

made by a man called Schrank at Milwaukee. Mr. Roosevelt had just entered his motor car on his way to a meeting when he was shot in the breast. The bullet pene- trated about...

was filled with shame to know that lying tongues could be found to spread such utterly baseless slanders and that there were willing ears to heed them. Members of the Government...

Mr. Sandys's amendment, which proposed to enumerate the delegated powers instead of specifying what the Irish Parliament might not do. The amendment was supported by Mr. Cave,...

Parliament would have " concurrent " authority with that in Dublin. "This Parliament won't dare to interfere with the Irish Parliament after it is set up. Moreover, you give...

O'Brien, who asked for an undertaking that the work of land purchase should be carried on by the British Legislature, Mr. Birrell declared, on behalf of the Prime Minister, that...

appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the negotiations that preceded the completion of the Marconi contract. Sir Henry Norman dissociated himself from all the...

chiefly remarkable for the admissions of Mr. Birrell. The Irish Secretary announced that the Government had decided to grant two more days for the remainder of the Committee...

has written to the branches of the Independent Labour Party demanding their support for an Anti-Govern- ment policy in the interests of woman suffrage. He points out that if the...

Bill came under consideration. In the course of the debate a Radical Scotch member, Mr. Cathcart Wason, protested against conferring on the Irish Parliament even a limited...

Bonar Law, in winding up the debate, said almost exactly what we said last week in regard to Unionist policy in Ireland should Home Rule ever be passed. We may quote his actual...

debated at great length in the London County Council on Tuesday, when Sir John Benn took occasion to declare the Progressive policy. This amounted to a claim that the London...

of Mr. MacCallum Scott, who declared that other members on his side shared his apprehensions. The pre- posterous proposal to give Ireland a separate Post Office next came on for...

votes to forty-five, the resolution of the General Purposes Committee was adopted by sixty-one to forty-five. The pro- gress of this controversy only confirms us in the view, to...

Home Office on the subject of the white slave traffic. He said that as regards the prospects of the Criminal Law Amendment Bill he would do his utmost to see that it occupied an...

October 17th. Consols (29) were on Friday 731 — Friday week 731.

Example of Panama" in last Saturday's Times. After a brief review of the work done by himself and other parasito- logists, starting with the discovery in 1899 that the parasites...

THE WAR AND THE DANGERS OF THE FUTURE. T HE dangers of the European situation are all in the future. There is now happily little doubt that the war will be localized. The...

D URING the General Election of 1900 some grossly unfair attacks were made upon Mr. Chamberlain, his brother, and his sons in regard to their connexion with companies doing...

T HE Westminster Gazette is very much distressed at the suggestion we made last week that the leaders of the Unionist Party should, without undue delay, announce that, whenever...

O N Tuesday night in the House of Commons Mr. Lloyd George found himself in a hole, and his flounderings proved that be knew that it would be very difficult to extricate...

N O one can say what will satisfy Greece after the war, if the Balkan League should be successful, any more than one can say exactly what military part Greece, separated from...

T HE ordinary man of to-day who is educated, and who reads but lays no claim to scholarship, is often thrown by his reading into religious distress. He feels within himself a...

N OBODY could have been present at the Kennel Club's Dog Show, which opened at the Crystal Palace on Tuesday, without realizing that there were disquieting symp- toms of unrest...

RED CROSS TRAINING FOR WOMEN. [TO 1111 EDITOR or TB. "seserArea.'] Sin,—The Territorial Red Cross Brigade has now come into being, many detachments have been formed, and...

[To THE EDITOR OF TER "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—The letter of Mr. Clement Shorter in your issue of October 12th causes me no surprise. I have lived fifty-six years in this world, and...

PUBLIC BUSINESS: A VOICE FROM THE DEAD. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—The name and tradition of Mr. Gladstone have but little weight nowadays with the Liberal...

Sin,—Referring to Mr. Clement Shorter's letter of last issue and your footnote on his question about Yorkshire, I venture to suggest that the right way of putting the question...

SIR, —I note that any one who may desire to attack me for laughing at the opera-bouffe manifestations in Ulster has the hospitality of your columns, but you are not so ready to...

of the phrase, " Ex uno disce omnes," still holds good, you are quite right in saying in your footnote to Mr. Clement Shorter's letter, published October 12th, on " Ulster and...

Sin,—In your last issue Mr. Clement Shorter compares the agitation against Home Rale with that against the disestablish- ment and disendowment of the Irish Church. Is he aware...

Szn,—Mr. Clement Shorter makes the common mistake of assuming that the present agitation against the Home Rule Bill is quite similar to that against the Irish Church Bill in...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THIS " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I have read your excellent article of last Saturday on the Irish policy of the Unionists with great satisfaction. The story you...

[ To ME EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —W ill you permit me to reply, as briefly as possible, to the letters from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sir Herbert Stephen which appear...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Frankfurter Zeitung (W.), writes as follows in Sunday morning's issue (under date of October...

SIR, I've read with great satisfaction the news that Turkey has declined to conclude an ignominious and cowardly peace with Italy, and hand over two unconquered provinces to the...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " STECTATOR."3 Sin,—Has not the time now arrived when those in authority shall decide the exact use they propose to make of the National Reserve ? Signs...

.. arzczaros."l you kindly allow me the privilege of assuring your readers that the recent action of the Senate in passing, and of the President in signing, the Panama Canal...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPEOTAT01."] SIR,—In the absence from England of Bishop Boyd Carpenter, who has succeeded me as President of "The National Council of Public Morals," I...

ITO THE EDITOR OF TUE "S1=74.1.01:41 think perhaps some of your readers may be interested to hear what a fascinating and extremely tame pet a jackal makes. Four months ago I...

OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —The post of yesterday brought me Sir Archibald Geikie's welcome volume, The Love of Nature Among the Romans," and I turned at once to his chapter on...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIE,—Has not the writer of the above article misrepresented the character of Slender ? Surely, as his name indicates and - as he is usually...

with much interest your article of October 12th. The theory of supernatural duality is, of course, no new thing; as old, in fact, as humanity itself. Neither is there anything...

THE WAYSIDE FLOWER. WEARY, by the wayside I sat me down, Weary to weeping nigh, by the wayside forlorn, Careless of fine weather or the sullen thunder frown, Dusk of even, hush...

[To TER EDITOR Or TRH "SPEITriTOR.1 :SIR, —Your account of " A Fijian Theologian " in last week's issue of the Spectator is very interesting. What makes it .even more so to...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] "Stu,—In view of the fact that the campaign against the iniquities of the white slave traffic is now being waged with increased vigour, we...

LORD WOLVERHAMPTON.* • The Lift - of Henry Horan Fowler, First Viscount Wolverhampton, G.0.8.1. • Be hisdanghtcri s Tbs MAL Ma. Hobert Hamilton. London; Hutchinson. and Co....

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...

Mr. Ponsonby's sincerity -and simplicity. His heart is in the right place. But the two camps of politics, so far as decent politicians are concerned, • me Decline of...

by Dr. Arnold Mathew, is a sober and trustworthy piece of work, which, while it does not show any remarkable qualities in the weighing of evidence and the balancing of...

we propose to include in this review give strangely different pictures of Australian life. We are transported from naked savages dancing their corroborees to the over-dressed...

A REVIEW of a book by Mr. Fortescue has at least one thing in common with an obituary notice; of the subject, whether of the review or of the notice, nothing but good is to be...

THE author of this volume tells us in his preface that on his fiftieth birthday he made the resolution to put his papers in order, and particularly to sift his juvenilia and...

THE volumes of this series are somewhat shorter as a rule than those of the " Home University Library," and , tend to be rather more definitely practical in aim, being rather...

excellent amateur snapshots, the. German Crown Prince has published some " pages taken from the hunting diary of a man who loves open-air sport." The occasional baldness of the...

6a.)— The Outeaste is a Christian convert who returns to find grievous trouble in his home in a native state of India. His family stick at nothing in trying to reclaim him; and...

Co. 63.)—A plotless picture of a large and affectionate Russian family of all ages, drawn with imagina- tive charm and intimate detail. So there can be cheerful Russians even in...

hard to understand why an author whose descriptions of the East are so distinguished and so readable should make his picture of local politics in an English country village so...

A ROGUE'S MARCH.* THE appearance of a new novel by the writer of The ifc.Ardle Peerage induses a mood of exacting expectancy. We count upon something so much above the average...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have. not been reserved for review in other forms.] The Rough and the Fairway : an Inquiry by the Agenda Club into the...