between Austria and Russia over the Novi Bazar Railway project. It is, however, becoming more and more evident that the real difficulty is not the railway, but the wide differ-...

Petersburgior surrendering the fortress of Port Arthur before all means of defending it had been exhausted, for failing to enforce his authority, and for disciplinary mis-...

Commons on Monday by Lord Percy in a long and able speech. He welcomed the spirit which had prompted the Agreement, and made it clear that his criticisms did not imply that the...

last Saturday that an Arbitration Treaty, between the United States and Great. Britain will shortly be concluded. It will resemble substantially the Treaty which was rejected by...

which is often mistakenly added as though it were part of the name of the tribe, only means, by the way, clan or tribe—has been continually subjected to sniping. On February...

W E regret to record that during the past week the Prime Minister's health has given cause for very consider- able anxiety. At the end of last week he fell a victim to...

any case.

the new Army Act was opened by Lord Mount-Edgcumbe, who asked whether the Government would postpone the enforce- ment of the provisions of the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act...

Scotland moved the second reading of the Small Landholders (Scotland) Bill. We cannot follow Mr. Sinclair's speech in defence of the Bill, but nothing he said makes us depart...

the Persian Gulf and defended the pledges which we had given with regard to Afghanistan, Sir Edward Grey maintained that the Government had seized on the opportunity for...

the Land Values (Scotland) Bill,—a Bill which if it were acted on would, he deelared, "benefit the improving landlord, the agricultural landlord, and the improving tenant"...

raised on Wednesday evening in the Commons by Mr. Belloc, who moved a Resolution deploring the secrecy under which such funds were accumulated and administered, and declaring...

Disorders Bill in the House of Commons on Friday week. The measure provides for the appointment of Commissioners empowered to visit any church complained of before the Royal...

Sir James Knowles, the founder and proprietor of the Nineteenth Century, which he edited with great ability for thirty years. Sir James Knowles, who began life as an architect...

of England in regard to the threatened strike in the ship- building and allied industries is, we fear, only too well justified. It was announced, however, late on Thursday night...

Company, sends to Monday's Daily Mail a short statement of the arguments which be believes to be conclusive against the nationalisation of our railways. These are—(1) the...

on Tuesday Sir Edward Fry delivered his presidential address. The disclosures of peculation in some Boards of Guardians had revealed, not merely the dishonesty of certain...

Hours Bill, under which no man is to be allowed to be underground for more than eight hours. In our opinion, this, the first attempt to limit adult labour, is most upnecessary...

debate, which included, however, a well-reasoned speech by Mr. Sonar Law ; but we would ask any of our readers who may feel inclined to support the Bill, and are in danger of...

correspondent of a Memorial presented to his Govern went by Chien Hahn on the recent Hague Conference. After describing the "heated arguments" and the proposals which were...

Jan. 23rd. Consols (2k) were on Friday 87k—on Friday week 87.

DEPARTMENTAL GOVERNMENT. L AST week we pointed out the very serious character of the new financial charges which must be imposed upon the nation either in taxes or rates, or in...

S IR EDWARD GREY made on Monday a great speech on a great subject. For more than half-a-century, iu fact ever since the last war with Russia, there has been a silent struggle...

T HE future of the Times is still undecided. It appears that, owing to the opposition of a large body of share- holders, the arrangement provisionally made by Mr. Arthur Walter...

no figure in Europe at tbie moment to whom Englishmen turn with deeper sympathies and kindlier wishes than to the young King Manuel. The immature, untried life which has had a....

those alive from the amount of wealth of Commissioners of Inland Revenue, read before the those who died during a given period was to ascertain the Statistical Society on...

D OES the religion of Christ uphold the absolute authority of conscience? This is a question which the present tendency to doubt authority in all its outward forms must bring...

I N the current number of the North American Review Lord Rosebery has a short paper on " Bookishness and States- manship," the substance of which was delivered as an address in...

O NE of the most remarkable bequests of recent years has been the leaving by the late Mr. Whiteley of a million of money to found homes for the aged poor. It will probably be...

SIR RICHARD STRACHEY. [TO THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR. "] Six,—The two famous brothers whose names are so closely associated in the memory of all Anglo-Indians, who between...

[TO TIM EDITOR Or TUB .SPICCrA.TOR:'.1 Six,—Mr. S. Gwynn, M.P. for Galway Borough, the versatile colleague of Mr. Ginnell, M.P., writes as enthusiastically about the rule of...

Or Tug "SPICOTLTOR.") Six,—The life of the late General Sir Richard Strachey was so full of varied and distinguished achievement that the comprehensive survey of his career...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] connexion with the notice of " Alice ' with New Illustrations " in last week's Spectator, perhaps you will allow me to supply a personal...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " Srsora.roe.."] SIR, —My attention has been directed to a passage in " Ha.kluyt's Voyages " which may interest those of your readers who are concerned...

[To THY EDITOR Or THE " SPHOTATOB..1 Sin,—The rumour reaches us here that the extreme policy of your Ministry in England has been modified by the influence of the King....

[To THE EDITOR Or THY "SilscrATort."1 SIR,--It seems to me that there is but one way for the Unionist Free-traders to exercise any influence. It is by forming a party of their...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR, — Can you or any of your readers tell me where I can find the rest of the old doggerel song which was common amongst labourers in the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR,—The following extract from a letter written by a Subaltern in South Africa may serve to show that a Subaltern does not mind bard...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." J SIR,—To those who have had pleasure in reading your admirable article on " China and Christianity " in last week's Spectator, and would...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Many women must have watched your columns in the hope of seeing some practical response to Miss Frances Low's suggestion...

150 THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] an interesting letter on Disraeli's borrowings that appeared in the Spectator of December 280,1907, it is stated : "Disraeli's assertion...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TER "SPECTATOR."' SIR, — In reading last week's various comments on the extra- ordinary career of the blackmailer von Veltheim, I have been rather surprised...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I have no wish to deprecate either your suggestions or Colonel Arthur Godman's on this subject. But may I point out a very serious...

[ 1.0 THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In your issue of the 15th inst. you advise the division of the Congo State between France and Germany. Apart from the Lado enclave,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR " J SIR,—In your leader on " The True Unionist Policy " in your issue of January 18th you lay down two propositions in respect to local rates...

ITo THE EDITOR OF THE "EPECTATOR: . 1 Sia,—The note which the reviewer has appended to my letter, printed in the Spectator of January 25th, compels 'me to write once more. I...

[To TUE EDITOR or TUE *SPECTATOR." J Sra,—As you are perhaps aware, a Hall of Residence has lately been opened in Chelsea for University students, post-graduates, &c.,...

MAN. VIII.—THE FAMILY.* DEAR Mn. Hitherto I have dealt chiefly with the economic side of Socialism. I want now to turn to another aspect. People • sometimes talk as if the...

LT0 THZ EDITOR or THE "Sracraroa." Stn,—I trouble you with this note to tell you that the writer of the review of my "Royal Manor of Richmond," which appeared in your issue...

INDIA TO BRITAIN. OUT of the East from the land of the sunrise Haste I where duty and homage belong. Others may boast of their lands and their riches ; Little reek I or of war...

THE " RING " IN ENGLISH. THE scheme of presenting the Ring in English at Covent Garden, which has recently been carried through w:th such marked success, was no sudden or...

Ll7CRET1TTS.* BOTH in the world of literature and in the world of science the name of Lucretius ranks among the greatest, while theology may justly count him the most...

ONCE the whole of Eastern Europe was Slavonic, and if that mighty power has become sundered and considerably obscured under other administrations, it is to be remem- bered that...

WE have received the first volume of this work. We can only notice it shortly because it is a first volume and because we hope to notice its successors. When these have...

A FEW years ago we had occasion to welcome cordially an exceedingly acute and careful study of the administration of the tropical dependencies of the Far East. The author, Mr....

A LITTLE REVOLITTION.t Or late there has been a decided falling off in the production of those mock-Royal romances of which the original exemplar was R. L. Stevenson's Prince...

and in the future every one who desires to study van Eyck in detail must consult it. At the beginning the author gives us every existing con- temporary document. The first of...

large number of persons "at the top" who require to be reminded that the world is full of inequality and misery ? If so, this volume may be of some use to them. It is written...

memory her great-nephew, Sir Alfred Pease, has dedicated this attractive book died ninety years ago at the age of twenty-three. Rachel Gurney was the sixth of the nine children...

Belloc-Lowndes has set herself a high standard in her earlier novels, and it can hardly be said that her present novel quite attains to her usual mark. A very slender thread...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as has. not been reserved for review in other formal Frederic William Maitland. By A. L. Smith. (The Clarendon Press. 2s....

Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—This volume is divided into two sections. In the first of these we have the " Negritos " (Pygmies, Bushmen, and Hottentots), in the second the " Nigritians...

(John Murray. 6s.)—A curious story concerned with Indian native life. It impresses the reader with the author's insight into the minds of the natives.—Father Alphonsus. By...

Carnegie founded a library for Pittsburg. He afterwards enlarged the foundation by a department of fine arts and a museum. To these objects he devoted the sum of £3,620,000. In...

Warren (A. Constable and Co.), published in 1906, is being reissued in the convenient shape of six volumes. Two of these (ls. not each) are now before us : (1) " Old English :...

Street, W. 2s. 6d.)—Mr. R. A. Stewart Macalister continues his report on the Gezir excavations. His last find, a tunnel of very great proportions, is one of some importance....

W. Woods Smyth (Simpkin and Marshall, ls. 6d. net), is a short book, which any fairly rapid reader may finish in half-an-hour. It is by a doctor, a Fellow of the Medical...

(Gibbings and Co. Is. 6d.)—T. N. Walker went out as a Cadet in the Honourable East India Company's Army in 1854, was sent to Benares to do duty with the 67th Bengal Native...

42s. net.)—This is part of Mr. Macquoid's great "History of English Furniture." Mahogany began, ho tells us, to supersede walnut and oak, less fashionable in those days than...

(Whittet and Shepperson, Richmond, Va.)- Williamsburg, so called from the "Deliverer," was first known as the Middle Plantation. It received its present name in 1698; in 1790 it...

6s. net.)—" This year (1907)," we are informed in the note which precedes the catalogue, "has been by far the busiest in the annals of English publishing." The total number of...