T HE dinner given to Lord Cromer on Thursday by the Unionist Free-Trade Club proved an event of the first political importance. Lord Cromer stands easily first among our...

is too important to be merely summarised. We give his own words :— " We have been at times told that Free-traders are either anti- Imperialists, or, at best, animated by a very...

and a great occasion. We will ask our readers to believe, and we feel sure they will believe, that we have laid so much stress on Lord Cromer's speech, not because it happens to...

great fallacy by which every one thinks he can live at the expense of somebody else, Lord Cromer went on to show in detail how our policy of Free-trade enabled us to restore...

money by direct taxation. He had seen no satisfactory answer to the question how this was to be done. It had been suggested in certain quarters that this was a matter which...

with which we are in hearty sympathy, and which on many occasions we have done our best to bring to public notice. There never was a time, he declared, when united action among...

any case.

Manchester University to protest against the proposed reduction of the grant from £12,000 to £10,000 a year. The case against reduction was put with great ability by the...

speaking at Johannesburg, declared that Cecil Rhodes and Paul Kruger were the dominating personalities in South African history. They had laid the spoor which would be followed...

of despatches during the week by the Berlin correspondent of the Times. The total estimated expenditure for the year 1908 is £16,966,186, or very nearly seventeen millions...

of the United States has already begun. Accord- ing to the New York correspondent of the Times, there are only two candidates with a good chance for the Presidency : Mr. Taft,...

paper the severe censure which has been passed by the Pope on the well-known Abbe Lemire, a Republican Deputy in the French Chamber. A speech which the Abbe made on November 4th...

by Mr. Lloyd-George has been publicly advertised. It takes the form of a private Bill, apparently to give it a better chance of being passed• than it could have if it jostled...

Lord Cromer, and before the admirable speech made by the chair- man, Lord George Hamilton, Mr. Arthur Elliot read the following letter from the Duke of Devonshire :— " The main...

Cretan exploration in Monday's Times. Briefly, his statement amounts to this, that instead of reaching finality as regards the Palace site of Knossos, recent explorations have...

a Military Court of Inquiry which was opened at Chelsea Barracks on Monday to investigate complaints made by Lieutenant H. C. Woods, 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards. Mr. Woods...

at Windsor on Friday week by a deputation from Oxford beaded by the Chancellor, Lord Curzon. In presenting the diploma the Chancellor alluded to the Emperor's friendly telegrams...

tained during the week. On Monday and Tuesday Miss Robinson, a lady from New Zealand, on whose evidence special reliance is placed by the prosecution, was under examination. The...

last. Devoting his remarks chiefly to Mr. Balfour's speech at Birmingham, Mr. Asquith observed that when Mr. Balfour rose most of his Protectionist friends must have asked...

V.B. the Royal Fusiliers in London on Monday, made the interest- ing announcement that in future the office of Deputy- Lieutenant is to be reserved for those who have earned it...

Nov. 7th Consols (21) were on Friday 82—on Friday week 811.

THE STATE OF IRELAND. T HEgovernment of Ireland is so difficult a business, and so apt to be complicated and perplexed by party spirit, that we have been desirous to say...

a year ago we maintained that the chief need of the Navy was a careful and thorough inquiry into all the conditions prevailing in the Service. " What the Navy wants most of all...

the Unionist Free-Trade Club on Thursday was an event of real political importance as well as of great personal interest. A few weeks ago we wrote of the unhappy position of the...

W E wish very much that some one would state authoritatively the secret reason which disinclines so many Americans to adopt the well-tried plan which in Great Britain prevents...

I N the Daily Mail of Monday Mr. H. W. Wilson describes the change which has come over the work of the Prime Minister, and draws the moral that it imposes on him burdens " which...

rr HE name of Professor Bousset is familiar to all readers of Biblical criticism. All the critics quote him—from Professor Jiilicher to Professor Sanday—to confirm or to refute....

I T is with much regret that we record the death of one of the few religious poets of this generation. When at the end of 1893 there appeared a little quarto volume of poems by...

"L IFE demands an art," said Wordsworth ; and if life as a whole demands it, much more do the particular . occupations of life. None perhaps requires more than the occupation of...

THE STATE OF THE NAVY : A FRESH PLEA FOR INQUIRY. LT0 TEE EDITOR OF TUE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, - At a meeting arranged by the London Chamber of Commerce on the 13th inst. a...

Srn,—Mr. Balfour's speech at Birmingham confirms the impression that his position on the Fiscal question is a singular one. He is neither a Free-trader nor a Protectionist,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." SrE,—An interesting, and in parts thoughtful, article appeared in your last issue criticising severely, and, as it seems to me,...

Sin,—We have frequently the advantage of being told that things are what they are ; that their consequences will be what they will be ; and are asked pointedly why we should try...

[To THE EDITOR Of TEl "SPECTATOR "] hold no brief either for the German Emperor or for Germany. I do desire, however, to see confidence restored between two nations whose duty...

has in his last letter (Spectator, November 16th) expressed a conviction which I, as a somewhat advanced Free Church layman, have long held in regard to the future settlement of...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."3 Sin,—May I be permitted to answer some points in Mr. T. C. Horsfall's letter in your last issue P Mr. Horsfall states that it is an ominous...

revision which have been appearing in the Spectator raise a question of great importance. The non-episcopal Churches have already done something in the direction indicated by...

[To TEM EDITOR OR TII8 " SpicarsToR."1 SIR,—The letter under the above heading from Professor Goldwin Smith which appeared in your issue of the 16th inst. adds further testimony...

[TO TUB EDITOR OP TR8 "spiscrsroal Sin,—The need of Prayer-book revision is forcibly brought home to any one who attempts to explain the book to an out- sider,—to one perhaps...

Sin,—The statement in "Cymro's " letter in your last issue that "there is amongst the Free Churches a growing disposition in favour of a set order of services framed on the...

Sin,—As you receive " Cymro's " suggestion (Spectator, November 16th) with so much favour, may I add a counter one, which many Churchmen, both lay and clerical, will welcome P...

[To THE MATTO)/ OP THE " SPECTATOR:9 SIB,-It may interest some of your readers to know that among ninety-six selected candidates for the Home, Indian, and Colonial Civil...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:9 SIE, - "I seem to remember that some years ago (I forget how many, having read your paper for over thirty years) you published some figures...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTAT011:9 SIR, —Perhaps you will allow me, by way of a footnote to the interesting article on "The Coracle" in last week's Spectator, to invite the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " seecrrseee."1 SIR,—In the Spectator of October 12th there is an article on "Anonymous Voices," in which the following occurs :—" Vox popu/i, vox Dei ?...

[To THE EDITOIt OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I trust that the publioity which you have given to this matter will lead to legislation adequate to meet the evil, which has already...

[To THE EDITOR OP TILE "SP EGTAT011.1 SIR ,—With reference to your notice of my " India Impres- sions " in the Spectator of November 16th, will you allow me to say (as your...

SPECTATOR." Sin,—In the Spectator for October 26th is an appeal for copies of your paper to be sent to Church Missionary Society missionaries. We have a similar movement in the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPXOTATOR." J SIR,—With reference to the artiole appearing in your issue of November 9th, we shall be obliged if you will allow us to point out that the...

[To Tat EDITOR OP Tit "SPECTATOR. "] SIE, —Will you kindly assist us in our efforts to raise additional funds for the building of the Anglican church at Khartoum by inserting in...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "EPZOTATOR.' 1 SIR,—In your interesting review of Lady Dorothy Nevill's reminiscences in last week's Spectator the reviewer remarks that there is good...

HEIMWEH. HAVE you not heard of the land where Beauty and Love are eternal, Where from the fullness of life nothing is ever withdrawn, Save that a clear pure stream, with...

[TO THE EDITOR OP T LIB "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I always welcome adverse criticism when it is straight- forward, and therefore take in good part your reviewer's remark (Spectator,...

THE RE-EMERGENCE OF THE PRIMA. DONNA. THg autumn season at Covent Garden has been notable for an event of quite exceptional interest in the annals of opera,— the advent of a...

SIR HENRY WOTTON.* No lover of books who has spent an afternoon—and how could an afternoon be more profitably spent P—in exploring the library of an old country house can have...

Mn. WENDELL, Professor of English at Harvard, and some- time Clark Lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge, was the first lecturer on the Hyde foundation—a lectureship endowed by...

autobiography does not depend upon the weight of years which its author carries. The Duke of Argyll, though he knew a man who had conversed with a man who commanded a battalion...

SEQUELS to books already published can be tiresome, especially if in reading them the impression is of something denied, of an assumption on the part of the writer that others...

of Vol. XX. the " Pentland Edition " of Robert Louis Stevenson's works is complete. Take it as a whole, it is an edition well worthy of its subject. Though the print, the paper,...

and engineering shops of the public schools, or the way in which the possession of motor-cars familiarises some of their owners with the use of tools, or merely irritation at...

A SUBALTERN OF HORSE.* "THE Intelligence Officer" has proved himself to be such a vivid recorder of events that his latest incursion into the domain of fiction naturally...

eve of the War of Secession, is one of the most remarkable indictments of negro slavery to be found in the arsenal of Abolitionist litera- ture. It records a personal study of...

book is not a novel, but a tract with a purpose, that purpose being the advocacy of women's suffrage. Such being the case, it is impossible for the reader to complain, as ho...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.1 Mr. W. S. Lilly has collected in Many Mansions (Chapman and Hall, 12s....

Co. 5s. net.)—Sir Robert Anderson has much to tell us that is worth hearing ; the more he draws on his own experience the more instructive he is. Here is an example. Crime is...

"Miss Braddon" might have written this story forty years ago, save, it may be, for an occasional anachronism,—we did not think so much in those days, for instance, about...

3s. 6d.)—A series of entertaining motoring adventures told by their heroine.—The Given Proof. By Mrs. II. H. Penrose. (T. Werner Laurie. 6s.)—A story of England and Florida,...

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(Cam- bridge University Press. 4s.)—This is the fourteenth in the series of "Cambridge Historical Essays." It obtained the Prince Consort Prize in 1906, and is a happy example...

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Tooloy. (Cassell and Co. 12s. net.)—Miss Tooley divides her photo- graphic illustrations into chapters chronologically. Chap. 1 takes in the years 1865-68, chap. 2 1870-72, and...

12e. net) we have received Cleopatra, by Desire de Bernath.— In the "Indian Texts Series " (John Murray, 12s. 6d. net), the third volume of 8toria do Mogor, 1653 - 1708, by...