of the position of foreign affairs at a dinner given last week by the Republican Alliance. He asserted that no thought of war had entered into the rapprochements which had taken...

• O N Thursday Mr. Taft was nominated on the first ballot of the Chicago Convention as Republican candidate for the Presidency at the November election. The result is a most...

• sensation last week by denouncing the Grand Dukes, and in particular demanding that four should resign their adminis- trative posts. The sequel to this daring outburst,...

opening of the Transvaal Parliament on Monday was that in which he referred to the condition of the mining industry. He noted that while 31,157 Chinese coolies had already been...

held on Saturday last. Estimates as to the exact number of women who took part in the procession, which marched from the Embankment to the Albert Hall, range from six thousand...

the Anti-Injunction plank, the Trust plank, the plank dealing with the Tariff, and the Currency plank. The first of these, the Anti-Injunction plank, is somewhat hedging and...

case.

they were making a beginning, and a real beginning. It was impossible to include paupets in the scheme till they had first of all dealt with the problem of the Poor Law, and...

millions was to crime frdnl, Mr. Lloyd George could only express his wonder that anybody could imagine any sane body of Britisher. mideitaking a leek of this "kind without...

deal to be said in favour of a sliding-scale. It was working very well in New Zealand, and the House would find that the Government would not resist that proposal very...

Exchequer added :—" The pauper disqualification id on the face of it provisional ; nay, it is really provisional until Parliament otherwise orders. Parliament will have to...

speech, but must find space to notice the passage in which he answered our article of a fortnight ago "A very able article appeared in the Spectator last Saturday week...

the Exchequer moved the second reading of the Old-Age Pensions Bill, which he described as in effect Mr. Chamber- lain's scheme. According to the Census of 1886, the average...

week, and the proceedings have been marked by a zeal and enthusiasm in every way appropriate to the tremendoti. issues with which the speakers have dealt. We have written of the...

our position fairly, but at the same time we must point out that in fact, his description of our article is not quite. accurate. What we said was that old-age pensions could not...

and Mr. Long without comment, and we can only find space to note how Mr. Balfour on Tuesday, in a, speech of no little subtlety, drove home the fact that ths Government would...

Surd flint the "great procession of the poor and rieceasitciiii dha unbefriended" will not be increased by the terrible bUrdon df taxation which he is preparing to lay upon the...

viding for the closure by compartments of the Old-Age Pensions Bill—allotting five days for the Committee stage, one day for the Report, and one day for the third reading—...

I'd use the Bridget to tai the Wealthy in ordei fci help totherb: Th1S thd Member for Clitheroe said they prapOted dtf ill rtgaffl to old-age pensions. The Preiident of the...

of the working classes is to raise wages is one which we most heartily endorse, and have, indeed, again and again insisted on in these columns. The reason, said Mr. Cox ; why he...

which followed the Chancellor of the Exchequer's aoniuied and unhappy exposition, deserves the highest commendation. Mr. Harold Cox practically tore the measure to pieces. There...

THE PAN-ANGLICAN CONGRESS. N O member of the Church of England, no thinking Englishman, we may go further and say no thinking English-speaking man whatever his Church, can have...

I F we were in favour of giving votes to women, we should be profoundly depressed by the attitude of the public in general towards the great suffrage demonstration of Saturday...

rr HE Government may congratulate themselves upon a numerical triumph. The second reading of their Old-Age Pensions Bill was carried by 417 votes to 29. To make this triumph...

much impressed the imagination of the present generation as the Diamond Jubilee of the late Queen Victoria, with its assemblage of men from every continent representative of the...

T HOUGH the Senior Wranglership is doomed, it is resolved to die sensationally. The Mathematical Tripos which was published at Cambridge on Tuesday was distinguished from its...

D URING the last few generations the cultivated world has lost something of its frank appetite for praise. Dr. Johnson's acquaintance who made a living by writing flattering...

I F one were to try to invent or imagine a new fruit, what should it be like ? The question is suggested by an article in the June Cornhill, in which Mr. Frederick Boyle...

T HE heron, though no longer a "royal bird," but too often regarded as an outlaw to be shot at sight, is, by reason of its size and stately dignity, one of the noblest of the...

THE SITUATION IN INDIA. LTO TIER EDITOR Or TIIR "Sr iccrAToit."1 you allow one who has served for upwards of thirty years in India, and can fairly lay claim to considerable...

Six,--Mr. R. H. Hart-Davis, whose interest in Friendly Societies is well known, tells us in your issue of June 13th that a lodge of Oddfellows with which he was connected found...

[To TRH EDITOR OF TILE se muricroa.1 011t,—Mr. Asquith has stated that the principle of the Government scheme of old-age pensions is now only opposed by stray and belated...

[To THE EDITOR. Or THE "SPEOTATOE:1 th3A; , --I have some difficulty in understanding your cone- opondent `f S. W. M.'s " criticism in your last issue of • my letter, or what...

9131, — It is strange to me to think that you should believe that what the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows cannot do should have been done with financial security by the Dunmow...

to read in the Spectator of June 13th the references to Excisemen and old-age pensions. You remarked that the "gigantic power of patronage" to be exercised in future by...

of the points urged against the pill in the second paragraph of your article of June 6th, I ventpre, since no one else has touched on the point, to suggest that two people...

yrs THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTAT01.1 SiR,—Your comments in your last issue upon the reply of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to Mr. Snowden's question and request for the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE . SPEOPATOR. * J Srn,—Your extremely interesting article on this subject (Spectator, May 16th) will, I hope, draw attention to the great possibilities...

[To mils EDITOR OP TIIR "SPECTATOR.") SEE, — Lord Rosebery at Glasgow the other day used the significant phrase, "picked men and picked women," where- upon a voice cried "...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " sescrATon."1 SIR,—ThePrime Minister ' s announcement that the Government intend to introduce a comprehensive Reform Bill before the close of the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — With reference to your observations about women as jobbing gardeners in the Spectator of May 30th, may I give my experience in...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—We bear from Colonel Loveday, commanding officer of the New Zealand Public School Cadets, that a lad from Onehunga, near Auckland, has...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, I have read with much interest the article on " The Balance of Wild Life in a Garden " in the Spectator of May 30th, and should like...

ITo THE EDITOR OP THE • 'SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The story about " Topers " (who, of course, must be Chaffers of Brasenose, a well-known character of the time) and Mr. Littler,...

[TO TIM EDITOR OP TRH • SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The presence among us just now of many " overseas " visitors in connexion with the Pan-Anglican Congress brings to the front a...

JACQUES BLUMENTHAL. THE notices of M. Blumenthal, who died on May 17th, with the exception of an appreciative estimate which appeared in the Daily Telegraph of May 20th, have...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOE."1 SIR,—As I have reason to believe that many letters written by Mr. John Delane when editor of the Times are now in private hands, will any...

[To THE EDITOZ OF THE "SPEOTATOR."] Sru,—Will you allow me to point out that in the review of my commentary on Exodus in your last issue I am represented as quoting from...

A MEMORY. HAIM is the road that Duty takes t I in London—you at the Lakes ; I in London's riot and roar— You by the peaceful Rydal shore; I in London's pestilent...

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...

ELIZABETHAN DRAMA.# in we were visited by an inhabitant of another planet, and wished to prove to him convincingly the marvellous and splendid powers of the human race, should...

THIS is the twenty-second year of publication Of a valuable book of reference, which, in a series of volunies, contains an epitome of the modern history of the war-fleets of the...

treatises on the origins of English institutions is performing a work of vast importance. He and his school are revolutionising our knowledge of mediaeval England. Their massive...

PROFESSOR DRUMMOND'S Studies in Christian Doctrine will: be read with almost equal interest by those who agree and those who do not agree with his conclusions. Dr. Drummond,...

Tan late Mr. James C. Dick, whose Songs of Robert Bunts was universally recognised as one of the moat important contributions ever made to the critical history of Scottish...

EXCEPTING the memoirs of the time, more rich in varied interest and character than those of any other period of French history, a modern writer finds the works of M. Victer...

NEVER SAY DIE.* AN interest attaches to this romance wholly irrespective of its intrinsic merits. It is certainly the only novel ever written in English by a member of the house...

striking contrast to " The Golden Ladder" comes a book of delightful short stories by Mrs. Margaret Deland. Here we see glimpses of an America entirely different from the...

Margaret Potter calls her novel "an American comedy of gold." It will be strange to English readers that a book of this nature should be called a "comedy." The novel describes...

Allerton reprints here twenty-four papers con- tributed to the Glasgow Evening Citizen. They are of the "London qcerespenderit a l kind, and better appreciated, it may be, in...

(John Milne. 6s.)—A story of present-day life, con- trived with considerable skill; perhaps the rules of art demand a more tragical ending.—The Passion of Paul Marillier. By...

(Und e r this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] A History of the Evangelical Party. By G. R. Balleine, M.A. (Longman...

M.A. (Cambridge University Press. 4s. 6d. net.)—This is a very interesting example of the series of "Cambridge Patristic Texts" which is appearing under the care of Dr. A. J....

the Tomb of Mausolus. By W. R. Lethaby. (B. T. Batsford. 2s. net.)—This is the second number of Mr. Lethaby's series, the first having dealt with the Temple of the Ephesian...

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Regiment. By a Retired Officer. (Pollard and Co., Exeter. 8s. 6d.)—The history extends from 1859-1908. The first Colonel was Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, the second C. A. W....

for souvenir of the Anglo-French Exhibition. Shepherd's Bush is at the north-west corner and the Albert Bridge on the south- west ; the eastern boundary is a line drawn a...

by Reiwrence P. Powell. (Clarendon Press. 21s. net.)—Early in the fifteenth century Nicholas Love, Prior of a Carthusian House at ingleby, in Yorkshire, made a translation of...

Biographical Dictionary and Year-Book " gives personal and business details for insurance, life and other, over the world. A large proportion of its space is naturally devoted...

the counties of England, Edited by William Page (A. Constable and eo., .21 lls. 6d. per voL) We will mention first The County of ,Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, Vol. III. The...

,Parts I: II. (Chetham Society.)—Mr. Roper's collection of materials—he was unable to put them into shape for his projected history of Lancaster—practically begins with...

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