T HE event of the week which overshadows all others at home is the admission made on Wednesday by Sir Rufus Isaacs in the course of the action against Le _Malin, that in April...

in France on Tuesday, when M. Briand's Electoral Reform Bill was defeated in the Senate by a majority of thirty-three. The Bill, which embodied the policy of M. Poincare when he...

according to telegrams from Constantinople there has been a good deal of fighting at the Tcbatalja lines which was favour- able to the Turks. We are not inclined, however, to...

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the King of Greece. King George was walking in a street of Salonica on Tuesday afternoon when he was shot through the lungs by a Greek degenerate. He fell at once and died a few...

some of the greatest and beet of public men in the United States for the repeal of the coastwise clause in the Panama Canal Act or, failing that, for the submission of the...

the " isolated action " spoken of means that the Austro- Hungarian fleet is going to make a demonstration. According to a Daily Mail telegram published on Friday, six Austrian...

while demurring to Lord Robert's view of the attitude of the public to the House and the decline in importance of the private member, expressed substantial agreement with his...

for his treatment of the Suffragist prisoners, some of his critics charging him with inhumanity and others with excessive leniency. A variety of suggestions were made, Mr....

statement on the Army. We have reviewed fully elsewhere what he said on our aerial defences, but must summarize here the rest of his speech. Of the Territorial Force the...

new reservoir built by the Metropolitan Water Board at Chingford. Starting from Buckingham Palace at 2 p.m., the Royal party drove fourteen miles through Whitechapel and West...

Cecil moved an amendment expressing regret that there was no mention in the King's Speech of any intention on the part of the Government to reform the procedure of the House. In...

the return of Mr. Wing, the Liberal, by a majority of 2,123 over the Unionist and of 2,765 over the Labour candidate. The Unionist polled 642 votes more than the Labour...

J. F. Begot, has resulted in the return of Colonel Weston, the Independent Unionist candidate, by a majority of 581. In 1900 Sir J. F. Bagot was returned unopposed. In 1906 he...

against the Daily News was heard before Mr. Justice Darling. In an article from a special correspondent published last October it was said that glassworks at Brotherton had...

siderable part of his speech to a candid criticism of the candidature of Colonel Weston in the Kendal division. He admired and respected independence, and he had no complaint...

on the Adana massacres of 1909, in which some twenty thousand Armenians and other Eastern Christians lost their lives. The responsibility for these massacres has hitherto been...

Peruvian Amazon Company presented by four shareholders was granted by Mr. Justice Swinfen Eady in the Chancery Division on Wednesday. Mr. Russell, K.C., on behalf of the company...

a vote expressing "indignation and deep concern " at the murder of the King of Greece, moved by Mr. Asquith. Then followed a debate on the Army Estimates, in which the principal...

Wolverhampton on National Service. Among the audience were a great many Liberals and working-men Radicals, yet hardly a dissentient voice was raised against the resolution. Lord...

A UNIONIST VICTORY. T F people imagine that the Spectator is going to claim the Kendal by-election as a victory for the Unionist ' Free Traders they are greatly mistaken. Not...

W E are not going to waste time or provoke our readers' patience by conventional declarations that the Ministers concerned in the action against Le Matin have by their...

of peace we must express our deep regret at the murder of the King of Greece, which took place at Salonica on Tuesday. We do not wish to use the exaggerated language in regard...

I N the House of Commons on Thursday Colonel Seely treated of many Army matters, but we wish to write here only of what he said about aeroplanes and airships. As the matter is...

of prominent landowners to supply cheap land for the building of cottages marks an important stage on the road towards the solving of the rural cottage problem. In saying this...

O F our great purely national games cricket and football are universally and rightly regarded as the most popular, but there can be little doubt that great as is the popularity...

A T the meeting of the Royal Geographical Society in honour of the centenary of the birth of Living. stone, Lord Curzon said that Livingstone's was the type of character and...

M OST men who hunt have probably realized during the past season that a new situation has arisen in regard to the payment of compensation for poultry destroyed by foxes. The...

[To THE EDITOR. Or THE " SPECTATOR.."] SIR, —In your paper for March 15th I observe a letter from Mr. Thomas Glee; Sandeman, alluding to the imprisonment of his cousin Doiia...

MR. BONAR LAW'S SPEECH AT ALANCHESahit. [To THIS EDIT= Or . THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—In Lancashire the completest satisfaction has ensued on Mr. Bonar Law's speech, delivered in...

Srn,—You have rendered a signal service to the cause of humanity by letting in the light on the prison horrors in Portugal. The treatment of political prisoners is indeed out-...

[To THE EDITOR 07 TER "SFECTATOR.1 Sin,—As you say, it was only to be expected that some American would come forward in palliation, if not in defence, of burning negroes alive....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sra,—At the present moment, when the question of National Defence should be claiming attention, it may be desirable to republish the...

[To THE EDITOR OE THE " SPECTATOR."] Sru,—The new National Reserve Regulations were issued on March 7th, and we are now able to see exactly how we stand. The opening paragraph,...

EDITOR OP THE "SPEC:CATO/4'] Sri,—It is well for the public to consider fully this letter wherein Mr. Lloyd George starts by setting out the allega- tion he proposes to -...

[To TRR EDITOR OP TR* "SPECTATOR."] SI9, — I have read your article on " Rates " with great interest, and I should like to suggest that we take another leaf out of Germany's...

[To TVA EDITOR 07 Tea "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Your article in the Spectator of March 15th does not appear to me at all convincing. The rates are, on the whole, much more equitable...

Sra,—I have read with interest the article on " The Rates" in last week's Spectator. The writer says, " We would begin by abolishing in tote the rates both in town and country...

[To VIZ EDITOR OF TEL "SIMCT/TOlej Brn,—The question of pOpulating the vast empty spates of the Empire is perhaps the gravest problem which the Hesse and Dominions statesmen...

rro THE - EDITOR kr Tax "SPECTATOIL"1 • dO not 'knew hoiv far you will feel disposed to make known the following . example of the mingled incompetence and oppression Which...

- [To rug korroa or rim "Ersor.troo.7] Sea,--.The landowners' joint letter which you published laat week is perhaps the moat valuable contribution to a solution of this problem...

"srserirba.41 - SiB,-=To allay - the natural perturbation of those Of: your readers who• do not share your affection for cats; may I say that the decision of the Sheriff of...

notice in the issue of your-paper;. Aftireh 'Teti= that Major Richardson claims to-have-obtained with his hounds the first:criminal conviction on bloodhound evidence in England....

ON THE "SPECTLTOR.1. Sin,—One - of the events of the week is the death of Mr. Max A. ittaeatiliffe; R.A.,' at his residence, 10 Sinclair 'Gardens, West Kensingtbn, on Saturday...

- Ciro EDI±OE' Or THE -"SrEcrivoi."3 Sisi,—Abouti twenty years ago, when I was resident Mirth China, the' British sqUadroti, 'then hi 'Far Ea - Stekit' waten, was steaming - out...

Sm—In the review of " Common Objects of the Riviera," in your issue of March 15th, the following couplet is quoted as being inscribed on Lord Brougham's statue at Cannes "Inveni...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — It is hardly likely that the meaning Carlyle gives to " wuotan," the Old High German form of Odin, is correct. In the passage quoted...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Your correspondent " F. G. C." writing from Constanti- nople quotes Wordsworth's " Ode to Duty " as an illustration of your• very...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THY "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Is not your correspondent " Oxoniensis " in error in his derivation of the names Cam-bridge and Ox-ford ? Cam is, of course, "crooked,"...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." ) SIR, Was it really that Miss Austen, as your article of February 15th has it, was kindly "content with things as she and her characters...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, — I think your opinion is quite correct that it was the subject of the Newdigate in 1852, " Belshazzar's Feast," which gave rise to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Those of your readers who have felt the attraction of the coast of Provence, so well described in your review of the above book, may...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your• review of " The Folk-lore of Herefordshire," by Ella Mary Leather, a quotation from the book is given, containing the story...

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...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — A passage has been brought to my notice in Professor Mackail's "Latin Literature" (p. 87), in which he speaks of the " perpetually...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —Can any of your readers give me the reference for this quotation ? " What horrid sound of silence doth assail my ear? " It was...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Even to the uttermost parts of the earth you dissemi- nated knowledge and entertainment when some months ago you published a. series...

PASSION WEEK. "The lot is fallen unto me in a fair ground, yea I have a goodly heritage." LORD, Lord, when we are dead remember• not All our lost sorrows, and our soul's...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIB,—Referring to the first few lines of the article in your issue of March 8th, headed " The Bump of Destructiveness," it would probably,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sia,—May I explain, in reference to your review of Mr. Gretton'a "A Modern History of the English People," that the second volume, which is...

FRANCIS KORBAY. FRANCIS KORBAY, who died suddenly just a fortnight ago, was a good deal more than a versatile and accomplished musician who had achieved a fourfold distinction...

THE FRENCH AND THE ENGLISH.* FRIINCITMEN and Englishmen are under the obligation of coming into a closer relation and into more fruitful co-opera- tion with each other. To...

all in different ways note- worthy, Sir E. Maunde Thompson's superb volume merits beyond question the first place. To a large extent, indeed, it is only a reprint of his...

THE sermons which Dr. Henson has collected before leaving London for . Durham were preached in St. Margaret's, Westminster, on the great festivals of the Church, so that they...

IT is to be hoped that the modest' title of Mr. Carstairs'hoOk . will not cause its untravelled readers to miss its real' import-' aaice and- 'interest. It assumes - the shape...

THE main purpose of. Mr. Ware's book is, to impress upon his readers the need of making good use of a golden oppor, tunity. That opportunity is furnished by the apparent pause...

No quality of the French people is more admirable than their patriotism. One sees it as strongly in the critic who claims French paternity for every development of European...

WE are glad that Mr. Amery has republished his articles, for they have the continuity and coherence due to a clear under- lying philosophy of politics. He deals with Imperialism...

PROFESSOR DEISSMANN, the well-known author of Light from the Ancient East, is a breezy writer, and his new book upon St. Paul, carefully translated by Mr. Lionel Strachey, is...

BRIDE ELECT.* WHEN Theo Wynyard asked Guy Curtis, the clever but disreputable editor of the Moment, why his sister, a selfish minx, who had jilted Theo, had gone out of her way...

Paul. 6s.)—.A. capital romance of Italy and the invading army of Charles VIII.—Mr. Sheringham and Others.. By Mrs. A. Sidgwick. (Mills and Boon. Gs.)—The melodrama of the...

[Under this heading we notice seep Books of the week as hare not Sass reserved for review in other forms.] The Deaths of the Kings of England. By James Rae, M.A., M.D. (Sherratt...

6s.)—Whether it is possible for anyone to be quite so good as Ruth Frere, the heroine of this book, may be doubted, especially as the author has been careful to imply that Ruth...

Dudeney's portrayal of a tiresome, worthy, and exas- perating family of the name of Baigent can only be described as masterly. The reader will feel that he knows each member...

(H. K. Lewis, 136 Gower Street, W.C. 6d.)—The deaths of Count Nogi and his wife raised at the time of their occurrence much discussion upon the ethics of suicide. Mr. Tamara's...

C. W. Previte Orton, M.A. (Cambridge University Press. 12s. 6d. net.)—Historical students will be glad to know of this monu- mental example of the modern " scientific" history....

6s.) — This book is chiefly concerned with the extraordinarily passionate nature of a family called Ponsfort, of whom the head is the Earl of Alverston. Julia, the daughter of...

H. Engelbach. With an Introduction by the Right Honourable F. E. Smith, K.C., M.P. (Grant Richards. 3s. 6d. net.)—As Mr. F. E. Smith observes in his introduction to this book,...

Nogi: a Great Man Against a Background of War, by Stanley Washburn (Andrew Melrose, 3s. 6d. net). This is the work of an American, who was in fairly close touch with the general...

Devi, with Introduction and Translations by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, and a Foreword by Rabindranath Tagore. (Luzac & Co., 46 Great Russell Street, W.C.).—We can only briefly draw...

E. Dorling. (Constable and Co. 7s. 641. net.)—Mr. Dorling gives a detailed historical account of the variations through which the Royal Arms of England have passed since the...