20 APRIL 1907

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The reception of the Budget has, on the whole, been

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favour. able, and the debate which followed was not of a very critical kind. Mr. Austen Chamberlain, however, made a very interesting and, as we think, sound point when be asked...

Mr. Asquith's proposals for dissipating his estimated surplus are as

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follows. He leaves indirect taxation exactly as it is, but in the matter of direct taxation, though he is prepared to lose £1,250,000 in differentiating the Income-tax by...

The Editors cannot undertake to retzirn Manuscript, in arty case.

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The King and Queen, accompanied by Princess Victoria, arrived at

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Malta last Saturday on board the 'Victoria and Albert.' Their Majesties were received by the Governor, Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke, and then drove to the Palace. No troops...

The Chancellor of the Exchequer in reply declared that it

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would be for the taxpayer to show that the income on which he claimed a lower rate of tax was income that he was actually earning himself. That no doubt is a correct answer ;...

Mr. Asquith's account of the progress already made in paying

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off the Debt since the war was, on the whole, very satisfactory :— "The funded Debt on April let, 1906, was 4634,048,000; on March 31st, 1907, it was .2631,929,000, a...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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" j[ It. ASQUITH introduced his Budget on Thursday _al afternoon. The actual revenue received during the year 1906-7 was £144,814,000, and the actual expenditure £139,415,000....

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Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's address to the Con- ference was admirable

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both in substance and in form. We must pass over the warmth and gracefulness of his welcome, and his sympathetic reference to Mr. Chamberlain, and note the definite proposals of...

The by-election in North Belfast has resulted in a Unionist

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victory, Mr. Clark, the official Opposition candidate, being returned by a majority of 1,827 over Mr. William Walker, the Labour candidate, who, though not personally a Home-...

At the National Arbitration and Peace Congress, which opened under

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the presidency of Mr. Andrew Carnegie in New York on Monday, a letter was read from Mr. Roosevelt. The letter expressed strong sympathy with the aims of the Congress, but...

We note with great satisfaction that a movement is op-foot

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to bestow some special mark of the national gratitude on Lord Cromer, and that it is suggested that this should take the form of a money grant. We very much hope that the...

Herr Bassermann, the leader of the National Liberals in the

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Reichstag, made a remarkable speech in Berlin on Monday. He said, according to the Times correspondent, that "England was everywhere, England's King was every- where." The days...

It is reported from Morocco that the Sultan's Commissioner has

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signed a contract with a German firm for the construction of public works, including a boulevard and a new system of drainage, at Tangier. On the face of it, it looks as though...

The first meeting of the Colonial donference was held at

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the Colonial Office on Monday. Lord Elgin presided, but Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was present and officially welcomed the Premiers. By this wise step he showed; that he...

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Simultaneously with the conclusion of this agreement, which, it is

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hoped, will give a great stimulus to British trade, comes the announcement that the Dominion Govern- ment have, in their amended Postal Convention with the United States, raised...

The Thaw murder trial ended abortively on Friday week. After

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deliberating for forty-seven hours, during which it is stated that eight ballots were taken, the jury disagreed, and bail having been refused, the prisoner remains in prison to...

In the House of Lords on Wednesday, the question of

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the Government's shipbuilding programme for the Navy being raised by Lord Brassey, Lord Tweedmouth, in an optimistic speech, declared that they were all agreed that we must keep...

• On Tuesday the Colonial Premiers were the guests of

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the City Corporation at the Guildhall, and received the freedom of the City. As they drove through thedecorated streets they were loudly cheered, General Botha obviously being...

On Wednesday afternoon, under the Ten Minutes Rule, the Attorney-General

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asked leave to introduce a Bill estab- lishing a Court of Criminal Appeal. The proposed Court, to which the powers now possessed by the Court of Crown Cases Reserved will be...

Bank Rate, 41. per cent., changed from 5 per cent.

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Apr. 11th'. Consols (2i) were on Friday 861—on Friday week 861.

It is greatly to be hoped that the lull in

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the discussion of Mr. Haldane's Army Bill will be used by the Secretary of State for War and the friends of the Militia to reconsider the whole position, and to endeavour to...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE BUDGET. M R ASQ17ITH'S second Budget must be pronounced a sound one. It is true that it touches dangerous ground in one or two places, and that it foreshadows for next year...

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THE COLONIAL CONFERENCE.

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QIE WILFRID LAURIER„the senior Prime Minister KY of the daughter-nations of the Empire, struck exactly the.right note when he told his audience in the City that all dread lest...

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THE DISLIKE OF THE EAST FOR THE WEST.

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THOSE among us who read the morning papers _L steadily will have noticed for many months past a significant sameness in the telegrams and letters from different parts of Asia....

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THE PUMA AND TERRORISM.

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TN an interesting communication which we publish else- 1 where Mr. Bernard Pares argues very forcibly that if Russian reformers are to put themselves right with their...

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A POLITICAL TROCHU.

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"A REPORT is current that the Cabinet have at length discovered a method for curtailing the powers of the Peers in resisting the desires of the Commons which, if rejected, will...

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THE POET OF " LES HABITANTS."

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I T is customary to compare the late W. H. Drummond with the creator of Hans Breitmann, and there is no denying that they possessed the rare gift of psychical mimicry in, an...

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INTERNATIONAL APPRECIATION.

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Pr HE Shakespearean plays of Mr. Beerbohm Tree in Berlin and the performance of Sir Charles Stanford's opera Shamus O'Brien at Breslau tempt us to try to analyse the...

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A VANISHING TYPE.

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A S we go up the social scale locality seems to have less and less effect upon the mind. It is difficult to say of men and women of high birth whether they are English, Scotch,...

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CORRESPONDENCE.

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THE RUSSIAN DUMA AND POLITICAL ASSASSINATION. (TO THE EDITOR OF TRH . SPROTATOR.") SIE,—The question which at this moment holds the attention of different political parties...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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HOME-RULE—CANADA AND IRELAND. [To THE EDETOR Or THE SPECTATOR.") SIR,—It is surely surprising to find a Lord Chancellor saying that as self-government reconciled Canada, it...

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THE ALLEGED IGNORANCE OF THE EMPIRE AMONG ENGLISH PEOPLE.

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[To Tim EDITOR Or THE SPECTATOR:] Sin,—I hope you will allow me to point out to your readers that for some time past the Victoria League has in its country branches used every...

THE ATTACK ON SIR HORACE PLUNK.ETT.

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To vim Series oe THE " Serruxot.") SIR,—The minds of some of your readers who are keenly interested in Ireland are no doubt running on the Govern. meat's new administrative...

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THE MONTAGNINI LETTERS.

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[TO ms Emma or ram .'srscraroa..] Silt,—Your long article of April 6th has given to the Figaro disclosures a certain unmerited dignity which warrants me in devoting a little...

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[To TRH EDITOR OF THZ “EPEOTSTOR.1 Elm—You think that "British

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Roman Catholics will be unable to read these disclosures without deep pain, if not with a good deal of vicarious shame" (Spectator, April 6th). As a fact, we are overwhelmed...

OLIVE'S FIRST COMMANDER AND PATRON.

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[TO vim. EDITOR OP TUZ .SPIXTPATOR...] Sfit,—Having read with deep interestyour excellent article on Lord Clive in the Spectator of April 6th, I beg you will permit me to say...

UNIVERSAL COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING.

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(To THE EDITOR OF THE ..EPIRTATOZ.”3 am very glad to see that the Spectator has boldly advocated the necessity of universal military training (see issue of April 13th). It...

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MR. ARNOLD.FORSTER AND THE VOLUNTEER LECTURER.

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ITs THZ EDITOR OF THE . SPECT.Orin SIE, — In your "News of the Week" of the 13th inst. you do me, unintentionally I am sure, an injustice. You say that in speaking of a...

COTTON TRADE PROFITS.

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Ire rllIl ND1TOR Or Tat SPACTrATOR.'f Sut,—In your last issue there appears a letter from Mr. William Tattersall with the above heading. This letter is likely to convey a...

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THE SLEEP THAT KNOWS NO MORN. [TO THE narroa OP

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TEE . SPEOTATOB.1 SIEr• j rhe " haunting lines" you quote in the Spectator of April 6th, p. 527, from Catullus have, I think, never been satisfactorily rendered into English....

Dies the day, the next is born. But when once

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our short-lived light Dies away, one long, long night We must sleep, that knows no morn.

THE CHANGELESSNESS OF CHARACTER.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE . 5PEOPAT014.1 Sra,—Your impressive article in the issue of April 6th on "The Changelessness of Character" seems partial in its promisees, and...

THE LATE REV. WENTWORTH WEBSTER. as ma Eorros or THE

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“Sraurma."] Sut,—The death of the Rev. Wentworth Webster on April 2nd removes the oldest and most influential of Spanish aoholars. He graduated from Lincoln College, Oxford,...

MARK TWAIN ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE &EDT/MOE:9 SPEr■-•While sympathising with the writer of the review of Mark Twain's book on Christian Science in your issue of April 6th in his regret...

LONGEVITY.

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(To TER EDITOR or rum .arromma.9 Sne,-11., connexion with instances of longevity, it is worthy of notice that at King's College, Cambridge, there have been, since the year 1743,...

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POETRY.

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To the feel of the foil in the heel of your hand, To the rasp of the meeting steel, To the click and clash of a parried threat, To the joy that a man may feel When the lithe...

THE RAYNER CASE.

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rn THE EDITOR or lam "Srsorsso•."3 SIE,—I do not know if it is too Into to send you the words of a wise Judge—Russell Gurney, sometime Recorder of London —which seem to...

BOOKS.

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GARIBALDI AND THE DEFENCE OF ROME.* IN this excellent monograph Mr. Trevelyan has related the earlier career of Garibaldi, from his birth in 1807 to the close of the famous...

THE PROPOSED MEMORIAL TO LORD OLIVE. Loin: CURZON has issued

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a statement relative to the commemoration of Lord Clive, in which he says :— " The answers which I have resolved to the letter which I wrote to the Times on April 8th about a...

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CATHEDRALS AND CLOISTERS OF THE SOUTH OF FRANCE.*

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ACCORDING to its title-page, this interesting and valuable book is the joint production of two American ladies. The preface states that— "For years the makers of this book...

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RAID OR INVASIONP—A FRENCH OPINION.* THERE is in this country

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a large, and, we trust, ever. increasing, body of opinion which has refused to believe that the invasion of the British Islands is absolutely impossible, simply because Mr....

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PERSIA, PAST AND PRESENT.*

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THE facilities of motion have been apt in these days to induce numbers of very unsatisfactory travellers to take the road. With a courage that can be compared only with their...

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The Last Word. By Evelyn Underhill. (W. Heinemann. 8s.) — It

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is not often that the modern novelist has the courage to write a novel dealing as freely with the unseen world as with the seen. In the book before us Miss Underhill affords the...

Ronou hands of late have been laid on the novel

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of adventurous incident, some of the most popular recent efforts in this genre having been marked by a complete dis- regard for, not to say a complete ignorance of, the...

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The Imperfect Gift. By Phyllis Bottome. (John Murray. 6s.)—It is

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very difficult to find a novel which is good all through. The author's ideas and powers of expression too often appear to evaporate after some twenty chapters. The Imperfect...

INDIAN FORESTRY,

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Indian Trees. By Dietrich Brandis. (A. Constable and Co. 16s. net.)—To Sir Dietrich Brandis, more than to any other man, is due the development of the great forestry system of...

READABLE Noveze—Susan. By Ernest Oldmeadow. (E. Grant Richards. 6s.)—A modern

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story of a sentimental mis- understanding, which, if it strains the reader's credulous powers to breaking-point, is at any rate lightly and freshly written.— An Irish Utopia....

C URRENT LITER,AT URE.

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HUNGARY AND THE EIGHTY CLUB. Hungary : its People, Places, and Politics. (T. Fisher Unwin. 10s. 6d.)—This title is a misnomer. The book contains an elaborate account of the...

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Mr. E. Alexander sends us a very striking collection of

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Postcards of what is called the "A. L." series, produced by the Aristophot Company. They have a timely reference to the Colonial Con- ference, for they give us a number of very...

The Lloyds of Birmingham. By Samuel Lloyd. (Cornish Brothers, Birmingham.

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7s. 6d. net.)—The Lloyd with whom this family record begins was Charles Lloyd of Dolobran (1687-1698). He became a Quaker, and suffered many things for his faith, imprisonment...

History of England for Use in Schools. By A. D.

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buses: (Cambridge University Press. es. 6d.) — Mr. bums means his book to be used by the higher forms of schools. The views which he sets forth in his preface are joist what...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

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[Under this heading uns stogies such Books of the sea as haw not boon reserved for rooms in other Arms.] From Naboth's Vineyard. By Lieutenant-General Sir William Butler....

Life and Labour in Germany. Edited by J. L. Bashford.

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(Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 2s. net.) — Mr. C. Algernon Horsing, who resides in the Oainaborough division of Lincolnshire, sent a number of artisans to see for themselves, and...

Co.operaties Banking. By Henry W. Wolff. (P. S. King and

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Son. Is. 6d. net„)—Mr. Wolff has written various books and pamphlets in support of this principle, and on some of its practical applica- tions, agricultural banks, village...

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The Golden Staircase Bonus for Children. Chosen by Loney Chisholm.

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(T. ,C. and E. C. Jack.)—This admirable anthology, to which we had the pleasure of giving some well-deserved praise some little time ago, is now reprinted in a cheap form,...

The Isiand Race. By Henry Newbolt. (Elkin Mathews. 3s. 6d.

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het.)—This is the sixth thousand of Mr. New bolt's volume of poems. Three pieces have been added, two of them, "The Old Superb" and "Homeward Bound," being of the class of...

NEW Ennuozi.—Unto This Last. By John Ruskin. (Cassell and Co.

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6d. net.)—The substance of this volume was first given to the public in the form of lectures. These appeared as articles in the Cornhill Magazine, where they made no small...