to improve their position day by day, partly through strengthening the Tchatalja lines and partly by the arrival of fresh reinforcements. Against this, however, must be placed...

W E regret to say that as we write on Friday the news comes that the armistice, of which we have written at length in our leading columns, has come to an end and that fighting...

at Mona stir, by means of which the last coherent portion of the Turkish western army was destroyed. The action seems to have been one of the bloodiest and most hard-fought of...

:— " The Portuguese Legation in London, having taken notice of the Spectator's comments on its protest sent on the lath inst. and being inhibited by diplomatic usage from...

Mr. Asquith's reconsidered scheme for circumventing the recent adverse vote against the Government. Mr. Asquith explained that the Government had decided that, instead of simply...

we think, be described as, on the whole, reassuring. In the first place, the Servians have agreed to give full satisfaction to Austria-Hungary in the matter of the Consular...

case.

in a speech of five minutes. Mr. Mildmay very justly pointed out that the Liberals were abandoning Free Trade ; the strange thing was that they voted for what they all...

who met in London on Tuesday passed the follow- ing motion by an overwhelming majority :— " That in the opinion of this Representative Meeting the Regu- lations issued by the...

new Financial Resolution be agreed to. He said that grants, or bounties, on exports of goods were prohibited by the Bill, but that if bounties injurious to British trade were...

present Session with the Mental Deficiency Bill is well described by the Times as a social misfortune. The facts and figures on which the measure is based are appalling, and...

through the Press in regard to the National Reserve, we regret to say that it has not been any- thing like as large as we had hoped. Still, we do not doubt that the amount of...

a leading article strongly supporting the recommendations of the Divorce Commissioners as to the reporting of divorce cases. We are well aware that the dread of publicity is a...

act for the Association, but can only report on the negotiations. The proposed conditions will then have to be considered by the divisions of the Association throughout the...

a curious fact. The bulk of the men who join are ex-.Regulars, whereas the bulk of the officers are ex-Tohneteers. No doubt this is to be accounted for by the fact that the...

more friction in the future than in the past. For one thing there would be only 42 Irish members, instead of 102, at Westminster to make trouble. He absolutely denied that...

year, has removed the most outstanding of British architects. An artist of great originality and independence, he had few opportunities of showing his capacity as a designer of...

Alexander King, Secretary to the Post Office, was recalled and was olosely questioned by Mr. Terrell. At length he exclaimed: "I object to being questioned as if I were a...

the plaintiff in two libel actions in the Court of King's Bench which were withdrawn on Tuesday on the defendants unreservedly apologizing. The libel was contained in a letter...

Alexander King a good deal was said about an article in the Spectator. We cannot on a Friday deal with the matter in detail, but we may make one or two observations of a general...

assertion that " the whole article is meant to suggest that somewhere or other, perhaps in my person, there was cor- ruption," and with his talk of " nasty suggestions," is...

repeal of the Trade Disputes Act. Messrs. Vaoher maintained that the Society had libelled the firm by alleging that it treated its employees unfairly, and the Society did not...

answering another, and a totally different one, seems likely to spread, we will repeat once more that we have never charged, or intended to charge, any member of the Government...

October 170. Consols (2i) were on Friday 75 1 1—Friday week 75i. Bank Rate, 5 per cent., changed from 4 per cent. October 170. Consols (2i) were on Friday 75 1 1—Friday week 75i.

UNIONIST POLICY. T HE speeches made by Lord Lansdowne and Mr. Boner Law at the Albert Hall announce in fact, thou g h not in so many words, that the extremists amon g the Tariff...

O N Wednesday the " Cease fire! " sounded throughout the Bulgarian and Turkish trenches at Tchatalja, for an armistice had been agreed upon in order that the Turkish and...

Home Rule Bill have made it lamentably clear that the Liberal Party is indifferent to Free Trade. No doubt the party continues to profess a strong theoretical belief in Free...

T HE Government, in spite of their defeat in the House of Commons, and in spite of the loss of nearly a Parlia- mentary week and a half at a time when hours are declared. by...

and the co- operators in Ireland, which has lasted for over twenty months, is not yet settled. The issue arose, as some of our readers may remember, in connexion with a request...

It is almost certain that within the next three or four years motor - cars of a very light type, cheap to run and cheap to buy, will have come into general use among those who...

A N item of the Roman epicure's menu, referred to in an article on Varro's book of farming in last week's Spectator, suggests a reflection on ancient and modern tastes in diet....

T ITERE should be something of the hunting instinct in all male children. Its growth may have to be checked, because civilized life makes little call for the hunter ; but it...

BRAZIL AND COMPENSATION TO GERMANY. [To rex EDITOR OP TIM "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, - It was with considerable displeasure, but not without some degree of amusement, that I read the...

during a period of more than seven years, has lived in practically all the big cities of Brazil and also up country, 1 desire to protest against the letter of Mr. Ormsby-Gore...

Sra,—I am glad to see from the letter of Mr. Seymour Ormsby-Gore in your last week's issue that the settlement of Germany in South America is not entirely deprecated by British...

[To TIER EDITOR or TER " SPECTATOR:1 Sra,—Allow me to congratulate you on your public-spirited action in taking up the cudgels on behalf of the National Reserve. It is really...

Sin,—Your correspondent writing on this subject expresses a hope, in which we can all join, that the Powers will come to an amicable agreement on questions which may arise on...

asks what can be done for fellows in his position, that is to say, men able and well qualified to join the Territorial Force but for the fact that they say "I won't "? May I...

[To Taw EDITOR Or TIER ''SPROTATOR.,") Sin,—Nob since 1903, when Mr. Chamberlain first advocated a complete reversal of England's fiscal policy, have the prospects of the...

kind enough to insert a letter from me drawing attention to the necessity of the National Reserve being provided with a uniform if they were to be expected to fight in case of...

[To THE EDITOR OP TH1 "SPECTATOR.n Six,—In your leading article last week upon the Parlia- mentary crisis produced by the division upon Sir Frederick Banbury's amendment you...

SIR, — In your leading article in last week ' s issue of the Spectator on Mr. Asquith ' s motion to rescind Sir F. Banbury ' s amendment on the financial resolutions of the Home...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sra,—In your article in the issue of November 16th there is a slight error. The medical benefits under the Insurance Act do not emerge till...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "seserevos.."1 Sia, — If Ministers are not content to play the game in the English fashion, voting in the House of Commons might as well be abolished. If...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Disraeli in 1840, in answer to a legal member who enlarged on the tyranny of the courts in the time of Charles I., gave "a vivid account...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOa. "] SIR,—The question put by Dr. Arthur in your issue of November 16th is of great importance. For the principal European nations have annexed...

EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In a "Life" of Professor Blackie, the well-known, in his day, professor of Greek in Edinburgh, and an advocate of " Home Rule " all round, the...

may give Dr. Richard Arthur some material that will be of use in his study of the possibility of permanently settling Anglo-Saxons as tillers of the soil in tropical lands. Like...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] observe you criticise in a sneering manner some remarks of the Nation on the above Bill. Perhaps you will quote the following passage from...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —Mr. Balfour's "Deism" is not Lord Morley's, whose conception of Deity and, by consequence, his attitude towards it, is that of John...

SIR, — Dr. Richard Arthur will find some information bearing upon this subject in an admirable " History of Jamaica," written by the Rev. Mr. Gardner, a Congregationalist...

(To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —In his " Religio Medici," Sir Thomas Browne says, "I have no antipathy, or rather idiosyncrasy, in diet, humour, air, anything. I...

Thanks very much for your letter and kind reference deceased brother Ted. I very much regret thef - full record of the family, which has somehow got mislaid or lost; but the...

[To TER EDITOR or SRI " SPICTATOR."1 SIE, — Can you tell me the true origin and derivation of the word " Turk " P That given in the " Century Dictionary " seems to me to be...

[To TER EDITOR OP TRY "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I think the enclosed cutting, taken from the monthly journal of my old regiment (the 15th East Yorkshire) may be of interest to you...

[TO TR. EDITOR Or TR. "Srscraroa."] SIR,—The following remarks are taken from a private letter just received from an English gentleman long resident in Greece, and, as they show...

[To TER EDITOR or TR. "Srseraron."] STS,--The notices of the late Mr. William Blackwood have rendered justice to the charm of his personality and his sporting instincts, both...

[To TEE EDITOR or THR "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Your correspondent " X. Y. Z." (Spectator, Novem- ber 9th, 1912) finds an instance of a hunger-strike in the seventeenth century, but...

[To TER EDITOR OF TR. "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — May I point out one small way P It is often possible to pick up an old fifteenth-century black-and-white house that needs restoration...

[To Tall EDITOR OF TRH " Sracraroa."] SIB, — The following extract from a letter from Lorengo Marquez may be of interest to you. The writer is a public school and university man...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—In your article on " The Fox and the Law" (Novem- ber 9th) you describe fox-hunting as "the earliest and chief of English pastimes."...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.”] your review of Mr. Bennett's " Those United States," in your issue of November 16th, it is Written : " On page 5 Mr. Bennett seems to accept...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "'SPECrsTOR. 1 SIR,—The Postmaster-General wishes to call your attention to the answer, a copy of which is enclosed, which he has giVen to a question...

LORD HALIFAX THE TRIMMER.* WE congratulate Sir Walter Raleigh on having done a piece of literary work perfectly. Some people may think it a small matter to write twenty-eight...

THE LONG ROAD HOME. THIRRes a wind up and a sighing along the waterside, And we're homeward bound at last upon to-night's full tide : Round the world and back again is very far...

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...

WE have not often read a book dealing with native questions which has convinced us so thoroughly as this one of the painstaking impartiality and essential sobriety of judgment...

THE imperishable part of Byron, his great poems and his incom- parable letters, has received its meed of justice from the world. But his fame is based as much on a career as on...

sets the mind running once more on the much-discussed question of the art and function of the translator. To attempt a solution by analysing the translating animal into genera...

of Fondi, Mr. Hare has added a newand unusually attractive figure to his galleryof Renaissance ladies. She was a cousin by marriage of Isabella d'Este, and as a young girl in...

IT is impossible for a reviewer to do much more than notice a book like Letters to William Allingham, because of the number of correspondents and the diversity of their...

THE latest volume in Mr. Seeker's excellent series of critical studies provides a very clear and intelligent treatment of a difficult subject. Although Gissing's most productive...

SADLER'S Stanhope Prize Essay deals with a subject on which, in spite of the many volumes that have been written about Sheridan and his period, the last word has yet to be said....

Vaizey. (Mills and Boon. 6s.)—Billie Belshaw is a clerk in an insurance office, and it is impossible to deny he is rather a vulgar young man, but his irrepressible good spirits...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the wear as hays not been reserved for review in other forms.] Lyrics and Poems from Ibsen. Translated by Fydell Edmund Garrett....

GITLNEI GOLD.* THE romance of au/venture on the verge of Empire, as we have had already occasion to point out, is no longer the monopoly of the male novelist, and among the...

6s.)—Mainly concerned with a young man's development in a varied career at Oxford, where the writer is very much at home.—The Heather Moon. By C. N. and A. M. Williamson....

No more delightful character than that unrepentant old sinner Betsy Blythe has appeared within the last ten years in the pages of fiction. She is a most abominable old...

(Sidgwick and Jackson. 2s. 6d. net.)—A valuable guide for beginners. Birds are arranged approximately in order of size, and distinguishing features of colour, flight, movements,...

Rosa.") (T. N. Foulis. 5s. net.)—In the two dozen essays that make up this volume Mr. Hughes nominally discusses various -characteristics of English life. In reality he gives...

net.)—Mr. Figgie's collection of critical essays will please many who disagree with some of his opinions. He always expresses himself well, even if uncompromisingly. A series of...