the " incident " , occurred between Senor Moret and Senor La Cierva, the Minister of the Interior. Senor La Cierva, stung by the unceasing interruptions of the Republi- cans,...

by Mr. Henderson, and Sir Edward Grey briefly stated that the Government cannot depart from the rule not to interfere or to express opinions concerning matters of internal...

any case. •

to protest against the execution of Senor Ferrer. Mr. Victor Grayson, M.P., made an outrageous speech attacking the- Foreign Secretary and the King, and a demonstration outside...

T HE most important foreign event of the week is the fall of the Spanish Government. As so often happens in such 'cases, the collapse came unexpectedly. It was not, indeed,...

which exempts agricultural land from Increment Value Duty while it has no higher value than is derived from its agricultural use. Mr. Pretyman contended that the clause failed...

when the Chamber showed signs of resisting the dictation of the Military League. An attempt was made to prevent the complete removal of the Royal Princes from the Army by...

Sir Edward Grey reviewed foreign polities. The fear that events inMorocco might cause Mir opean- complications had been greatly allayed, and had indeed almost disappeared. On...

Lord Crewe stated that, as the House of Lords LONDON : (Limited) as — would finish the business in hand next Tuesday, he would then move the adjournment of the House till...

of Mr. Hofmeyr in London on Saturday last. Acquiring influence originally as a journalist and newspaper editor, he created the Afrikander Bond, directed that party for many...

devoted to the Irish Land Bill, and have resolved themselves in great measure into a duel between Lord MaeDonnell and Lord Atkinson over their rival amendments. On Thursday the...

began on Tuesday. The question of the recommittal of the tobacco clauses having been deferred by consent, Mr. Ruther- ford moved the recommittal of Part I., dealing with the new...

Well shown in the discussion of Clause XVL Here' Lord Castlereagh moved to insert words directing that the Undeveloped Land Duty should not be charged till after the completion...

the editor of the Westminster Gazette which bears on the question of the independence of criticism. Mr. Edwardes, being annoyed by the manner in which the critic of the...

Finance Bill. Of Mr. Lloyd George's speech at Newcastle he observed that "no Chancellor of the Exchequer in this country had ever made such a speech before with one exception,...

of seventy-three. When appointed Professor of Psychiatry atPavia he unfolded in his inaugural address the chief ideas of his famous work, "Genius and Insanity." As Professor of...

at a Unionist meeting held at Ealing on Tuesday, expressed his unreserved adhesion to the principles laid down in Lord Curzon's speech. With the best will in the world, he could...

With in a remarkably able letter from Mr. Gibson Bowles in Tuesday's Times. Rejection of the Budget may be impolitic, Mr. Bowles admits, but he dismisses the talk of "a...

geographer. There Higher Criticism than Dr. qualities and fine literary equip appointment extremely popular. George Adam Smith to the " is a fitting recognition of -eian, an...

) were on Friday 82i--Frida

Nip are not surprised at the anxiety of some defenders of the Budget to show that Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Bright were the objects in their day of quite as violent language as Mr....

THE NEW WAR PARTY. r ESE are days of political topsy-turvydom, in which former classifications have little meaning ; the old labels have been wrenched off, or else (which we...

I T is the pleasure of a generous combatant to give credit wherever it is duo to an opponent. We shall not say that we have always given credit when it was due, lest we should...

T T' Mr. Chamberlain were still in the fighting rank, his letter to Mr. Jesse Collings on agricultural reform might be the beginning of a very important new political movement....

I T is often with a sense of deep sadness that many minds reflect that upon many questions we have no decree of Christ. Even if we set aside all modern developments of ancient...

T HOSE who were lucky enough to see it say that of the first three days' flying at Blackpool during the week there was nothing finer than M. Paulhan's performance on Tuesday,...

A N addition to the literature which has collected round the subject of dew-ponds suggests an excursion into interesting byways of archaeology, and doubtless the paper, entitled...

SOCIALISM IN JAPAN. [To VIZ EDITOR OF MR srEcTsro5.”1 Sin, — In the history of Japan the intellectual and moral struggles of the West are repeated, and at the present time...

THE HOUSE OF LORDS AND THE BUDGET. [To rat Enrros or rim "13rEcriroz."] SIR,—Not only from filial feeling, but practically, we in Canada are interested in English politics,...

[To TER EDITOR OF TRY " BrzarAros.") Sue—The writer who signs himself as "A Moderate Liberal" in last week's Spectator is mistaken. He is probably anything but what his name...

Sra,—I am sure your article on the above subject in last week's issue was read with interest, and I cannot help thinking that you have accurately stated the reason for the...

[To Tax EDITOR OF ras "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In a very interesting article in your last week's issue you discuss "The Budget and the Referendum." To most of your views on the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In your last number "Pro Patrial " asks for instances of heroism. Will these suit him ? Those young soldiers on board the 'Birkenhead,'...

SIR,—In answer to "Pro Patriii.'s " appeal in the Spectator of October 16th, may I point out that Lieutenant Willoughby was not killed in the explosion of the magazine at Delhi...

claims of Ramsey to share in the credit of the early development of steam navigation, referred to by Dr. Patterson in the Spectator of the 16th inst., are well known, and have...

in your issue of the 16th inst., follows Mr. Walker, of the Yorkshire " 99 " Club. He does not like the Budget, and he does not like some of the speeches made in its support,...

would suggest that "Pro Patria" might include in his list Mr. Scott-Moncrieff, who was murdered in the Soudan in 1908 (see Spectator, May 30th, 1908, p. 851).—I am, Sir, &e., B.

SIR,—With reference to the letter from "Pro Patrita " in your issue of Saturday last, may I suggest to the writer to consult at his club or any library "The Last Post"...

Stu,—I think your correspondent "Pro Patria" need not be ashamed of not being able to remember names for the Bulgarian officer's Honour Roll. One reason for the difficulty is...

Universe" quotes Regnard ("Voyage en Lapponie," Paris, 1820, p. 202), who says :— "When it is necessary to pass some lake or river as happens at every step in Lapland, these...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SrR,—Writing on the above subject in the Spectator of the 16th inst., Mr. Harvey Dayton suggests that the story "may have filtered down from...

conditions which your corre- spondent "Pro Patria " lays down, and the fact that our island has for so many generations been free from invasion and internal war, very narrowly...

Patria's " letter in your last issue, I should like to suggest that Lieutenant Roberts's action at Colenso seems to fulfil all the requirements for his inclusion in the...

letter in your last issue reminds me that it is nearly ten years since the day of Caesar's Camp and Wagon Hill at Ladysmith. I have often thought that the brave action of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.') Sin,—In answer to "One Interested" in your last issue, I would reply, as one who has recently returned from Con- stantinople, and who has...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] Sin, — In your issue of the 9th inst. your correspondent Mr. Edward Noble levels an outrageous indictment against the owners of that type of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In the Spectator of last week "E. M. W." quotes five stanzas of a poem of William Howitt's from Mary Howitt's i‘ Sketches of Natural...

week's Spectator a query about the Con- stantinople libraries. Last Easter I went to Constantinople to see the manuscripts in the library of the Old Seraglio, and although I was...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR:1 you allow me to remark that, in your issue of October 9th, your reviewer does not reproduoe with any degree of exactness my discussion of the...

[To TES EDITOR OP TEE "spserivoa."3 Srn, — I am collecting materials with a view to helping the ComitS d'Initiative de Proving and the Societ6 d'Archeologie de Seine et Marne,...

[To THE EDITOR OF TER "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In connexion with the visit of Mr. Joseph Burtt to the United States as a deputation from the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines ' Protection...

Slays, " which appeared in the Spectator of the 9th inst. :— "CoxviscArriow OF A PAMPHLET ON CROATIA.—The pamphlet 'Absolutism in Croatia, ' by Scotus Viator, has been seized by...

BYRON: THE LAST PHASE.* Mn. EDGCUMBE'S book, whether or not we accept all his conclusions, is one of great interest for all students of Byron. It is the work of a genuine...

DIRGE. You that were So free-hearted and so fair, Made for life and air, Now to lie where no man's lore Can restore You that were, and are no more ! Ne'er again Death may...

Wa have received the following contributions in answer to the appeal of the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines' Protection Society, on behalf of the deputation to the Ignited States...

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...

IfEs. DE BUNSEN has a thesis to prove—that a countless number of religious beliefs and practices 811 over the world are to be traced back to a common origin—and, hardly ever...

or Tsushima that the Russians lost the campaign ; they had lost it already at Liao-yang." With these words the historians of the German General Staff bring to a close their...

Miss Fell Smith is a striking example of the versatility of the Elizabethan man of science. It is as an alchemist and astrologer that Dee is remembered to-day. But Miss Smith...

beautiful reproductions of historical portraits and sketches, in addition to many admirable maps and plans, are worthy in every way of the Household Cavalry, whose splendid...

TRUE TILDA.* True Tilda is a very delightful and genial book, and the best tribute that we can pay to its many merits is to say that it suffers from its brevity. The promise of...

of Dean Burgon's Twelve Good Men. It differs somewhat in plan. It contains sketches, not biographies. But the idea is the same,—to give the reader in the course of a few pages...

is itself a sign of change in the most unchanging Of all countries. Miss Kemp's book would certainly not 'have been written a quarter of a century ago. Tart of it dates, it is...

is a very charming story of Rome in the early days of Pius IX., and it is, some consolation for those readers of fiction who felt that, through the death of Mr. Marion Crawford,...

Co.)—The chivalry of Mr. Vachell'a Paladin is merely superficial, and the author throughout writes of. his hero in order to sneer at him. This will strike the reader as...

IIx "The New Radicalism" in the Quarterly Review the principles , of the Government policy and the practical application of them are denounced. with an energy which leaves...

and Brothers. 6s.)—A modern story of a woman who, disliking the restrictions of her own sex, assumes the garb of the other.—A White Lie. By G. Russell Beardmore- (John Long....

"Masters of Literature" (G. Bell and Sons, 3s. 6d. net per voL) These are Fielding, Edited by George Saintsbury, D.Litt., and Scott, Edited by Arthur James Grant, MA. Each...

8s. net.)—Mr. Lynd has written an entertaining and informing book about Ireland. On the whole, he holds the balance between North and South, minister and priest, and the various...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the meek as has, not beim reserved for scrims in other forms.] Church and People. By the Rev. W. J. Sexton. (Skeffington and Son. 2s....

(A. and C. Black. 3s. 6d.)—We learn in this volume that Mr. Bealby is an Englishman who emigrated some years ago to take up fruit culture in British Columbia, having first, by...

W. T. Whitley, LL.D. Vol. I., 1654-1728. (Kingsgate Press. 21s.)—We cannot examine this volume in detail, but we may con- gratulate the Baptist Historical Society on its...