needful to be done, but may compress it here into eight lines: Use at once all available resources for construction, and make such preparations for further construction that...

our unrivalled resources had the evil result, in the first place, of inclining the Government to take an optimistic view, and to think that they might safely relax our...

word of party recrimination shall fall from us in regard to what has happened, nor do we desire for one moment to blame the Government, The essential thing now is to lot bygones...

awakened from its dream that we possessed a Fleet so great, and resources for shipbuilding so tremendous, that it was absolutely impossible that any Power, or even combination...

" I TURN to all of you and I turn to my countrymen and I say, Sleep quiet in your beds, and do not be disturbed by those bogies, of invasion and. otherwise, which are being...

addressed to Thursday's Times. Lord Rosebeg, though he fully realises that the Navy must always be our first line of defence, and that nothing can ever com- pensate us for...

classes, the Admiralty must be able to give orders for armour, grans, and gun-mountings in advance so that we might make certain of having twenty Dreadnoughts ' and '...

It will be seen that the Government were entirely misinformed as to the intentions of Germany. They talked of security when they did not know what was really happening. We have...

of the question before Parliament, they would deserve the condemnation which was always pronounced on those faithless to "a great public trust." After emphasising the fact that...

last November, did not at once communicate the fact to Parliament, which was then sitting. The Government clearly realise that it is most important to get the country to face...

of grave responsibility, reminding the House that the decision taken during the next few days would affect the national destiny for three or four years. So far as the years...

important of the speeches was made by Mr. Arthur Lee. The Opposition believed that four additional ' Dread- noughts ' (including under that title ' Invincibles ') were " down"...

the Navy Estimates, and the debate was one of the most memorable that have taken place for years. After com- paring in detail the progress being made in ships of the '...

defence without observing that, though it is absolutely necessary that we should, if possible, possess two capital ships for every capital battleship possessed by Germany, we...

the Tariff Reform luncheon yesterday week, was the grandson of Dr. Arnold of Rugby, and the adopted son of Mr. W. E. Forster. But it is not too much to say that he owed his...

speedy termination of the libel case in which he appeared as plaintiff yesterday week. Grose charges reflecting on his private character hail appeared in the People in January...

it may be, an occasionally is, necessary to forbid or hamper exchanges. All we contend is that when the professed object of for- bidding or hampering exchanges is the creation...

or Perhaps we should say a little less bad, for there seems some reason to hope that the Emperor Francis Joseph is exerting himself in the interests of peace. Against this must...

Act was discussed, and it was complained on the Liberal side that the provision of holdings was too slow. Sir Edward Strachey agreed that in a few counties the Councils had not...

at the luncheon given by the Executive Committee of the Tariff Reform League. A speech from Mr. Balfour on Tariff Reform always partakes a good deal of the nature of a Delphic...

twit the Government with their abandonment of Free-trade viewa. Though he does not say so in so many words, we presume his speech to mean that Tariff Reform is a better...

A NAVAL FOOL'S PARADISE. W E have been living in a fool's paradise. That is the net content, of the statements made by the First Lord of the Admiralty and the Prime Minister in...

-W- E have described in the previous article the naval situation as it exists to-day. We must now consider what practical steps we ought to take to bring our Fompetition with...

war between Austria-Hungary and Servio, depends entirely upon the action of the first-named Power. Servia, though she may have said and done injudicious things, and though her...

of Commons on the Fair Wage Clause in Government contracts raises very important questions of economic principle and political practise. There is ii natural desire on the part...

Post Office, which began last Saturday, and out of small beginnings has grown till it has engaged the anxious attention of the French Government, is worth watching. It is only...

W E are necessarily writing in advance of the discussion on Mr. Howard's Women's Enfranchisement Bill. It is hardly rash, however, to forecast the course it will take. It...

AI R. GEORGE HARWOOD, M.P., has just pub- lished a "primer" called "The Bible as a Book" (Francis Griffiths, is. net). It is a very well conceived little pamphlet, interesting...

T WO weeks ago, in reviewing the magazines, we mentioned what seemed to us a curiously wrong-headed article in the English Review by Mr. Belloo entitled "The Source of...

T HE year 1909 will take its place in the annals of English weather as having carried its winter further into the spring than any year within recent memory. It was fourteen...

SLAVE-GROWN COCOA. [To THIS EDITOR Ole TII SI' ICOTAT011.".1 Sin,—We have pleasure on behalf of the firms interested in enclosing a statement on the above subject, which we...

[To 71111 EDIT= 011' rims " 9rxerAroa.") SIR,—In your article on " Compulsory Training" in the Spectator of March 13th you refer at some length to the views which I expressed...

[To TIIA EDITOR or TR R "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The political balance-sheet of Austria-Hungary which you drew up in your issue of March 13th seems to me, as one not unacquainted with...

week under this heading you state that the Sanjak of Novi Bazar "was never placed under Austro-Huugarian administration, as were Bosnia and Herze- govina," and that the obvious...

[To THE EDITOR OW THE " SPEOTATOZ.1 SIR,—The Spectator has pointed out how essential it is in this matter for the true facts, and all the facts, to be taken into account. It is...

LTO 11111 KllITOR TRH "Spranwroit."] SIR,—Your article on this subject in last week's Spectator must commend itself to many minds; but there appear to me to be two moat serious...

SIR,--We are here owing to the disunion caused by racial, religious, and caste antipathies. These causes of disunion are being steadily increased by our defective educational...

(TO THts MDITOR Op Tall "SPRIOTLTOR.'1 SIR,—In your issue of March 6th a letter appears from Mr. Arthur Ponsonby, M.P., who cannot imagine any circum- stances in which Liberals...

[To TUB EDITOR OF TUN "SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Mr. Asquith in his speech to the Free-Trade Union at the Queen's Hall on March 9th paid full tribute to the Presence of the prominent...

[To TUN EDITOR OF THE "SPNCT■TOR.1 the notice of Dr. Way's translation of the Eumenides of Aeschylus in the Spectator of January 30th the reviewer takes exception to his...

ere VIE EDITOR 01 SPNCTAT014" J S I R, — In the Spectator of January 30th I read what your reviewer well called "noble lines on death" by Malherbe. I venture to send a...

[To TH2 EDITOR OF T1112 "SPECTATOR." J SIR, —You lately made a strong protest against the action of the Confederates in endeavouring to exclude Free-trade Unionists from the...

[To TUN EDITOR OM TIll "SPNCTATOR."J SIR,—In your issue of the 13th inst. there is a review (specially interesting because it agrees with the general view you have been lately...

[To MI EDITOR Or TUN "SPROTATOR.1 BIR,—Your correspondent Mr. Thomas-Stanford (Spectator, February 27th) suggests that the remedy for the discreditable state of affairs now...

LTO TIER EDITOR OF TOR SPECTATOR.") Bin,—I venture to say that you would not, have traversed Mr. Rotton's letter in your lest issue quite so ; adversely.were you . practically...

ILTO TRH Remit OF Till "SPKGPATOlt."] SIR,—In his letter bearing this title (Spectator, February 2 7th) your correspondent Mr. Warrick observes: "Ands' iu Scotland is locally...

[To TRH EDITOR OF TUE "Sracrkroa.“1 Si, — ay I point out that the words of Lord Lovat to the Major of the Tower, which you quote in your review of Mr. Mgekenzie's Life in last...

SIR,—The extractel am venturing to send you on the subject of hero-worship and patriotism are, from a. commonplace-book of , the late Dr.; S. Cheetham, Archdeacon of Rochester....

Your comment .on my letter of ; last, week does not meet the difficulty. Whether the grant. is ' made to the incumbent or to the living, its ;purpose is the ,same,—to give the...

MURDERED IRISH CONSTABLE. THE following correspondence has passed between the editor pf the Spectator and Mr. Goldrick, father of the murdered ponstable :— The "Spectator"...

Letter of the 8th inst., with reference to Os death of My only son, the vietial of the Craughwell tragedy. This communication ; reached me through the Inspector-General of Royal...

THE FINAL MYSTERY AT ELEUSIS. [This myth in believed to have come from Egypt to Greece, and there to have formeut part of the doctrine commnnicated to the initiated at the...

VETERANS' OF THE ORCHESTRA. • IT is not altogether easy to find analogies in other spherei of activity for the'"poSition of the'leading members of our great orchestras. - They'...

name or initials, or with- a pseudonym, or are' snarled "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the vietos therein expressed or with the...

MADAME NOVIKOFF.* MADAME NOVIKOFF, we learn, has always had an amiable aversion from writing about herself, and could not be pre- . veiled upon to write her reminiscences. This...

IT was a good idea to make a collection of poems relating to Oxford; and Mr. Firth's anthology, as he lays it before us, runs to nearly four hundred pages, by far the greater...

AN age which has ceased to be irritated by Brougham's, eccentricities is peepared to be interested even in small about that strange mixture of craziness and genius. Two (if...

Mr. Allcroft, "claim a most unfair share of the nation's antiquities." There is no chapter in this excellent book which' does not protest against ignorant attributions of...

PROFESSOR ELIZABETH HANSCOM has made a quite admirable book by putting together extracts from biographies and corre- spondences without end. The labour which this little volume,...

IN his preface to this book Mr. Sidney Webb has done the obvious thing in expressing regret that it should have been left to a Professor of Political Economy in the University...

ANOTHER addition of fifty volumes has been made to this series, and the selection shows excellent judgment, tempered, we might say, with a certain enterprise. "Fiction," with...

easily stated. The Carnegie Foundation has an income of about 2110,000, which is devoted entirely to providing retiring pensions for Emeriti Professors whose term of activity...

GEOFFREY CHERITON.* BARNETT has given us in Geoffrey Cheriton a very inter- esting study in hero-worship based on an experience familiar to many of our readers,—the reversal of...

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of clergy shows a small increase, amounting to something between one and two hundred. This is small when compared with the increase in population, and bears a minute proportion...

is. net.)—Here we read about many things in which we are, or ought to be, interested,—about rates (surely there is no parish in ;which these are 15s.) ; about tithes (it is...