C HINA, rather than Turkey, has been the centre of atten- tion in foreign affairs during the week. A sharp controversy has broken out between the President of the Republic, Yuan...

to an end, an announcement was published which had been drawn up jointly by M. Poincare and M. Sazonoff, the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs. They remarked that their...

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party, whose inspiration is Sun Yat-sen, the chief spirit of the revolution which overthrew the Manchu dynasty and founded the Republic. The party has not been satisfied with...

in another. The fighting on the Montenegrin frontier con- tinues, and is much too confused for a summary. There are stories of atrocities by the Turkish regular troops in...

for two weeks, and so long as any poignant culmination is delayed we may hope that Turkey will add another to her extraordinarily long list of difficulties which have been...

of Friday published a letter from Dr. Morrison, its famous Peking correspondent, which makes one hesitate to accept any of the more catastrophic rumours. He says that China is...

The Vienna correspondent of the Times says that the usual rejoicings throughout the Dual Kingdom were stimulated by the knowledge that the Emperor is as fresh in mind and body...

urging it to pass a resolution declaring that foreigners who think themselves unfairly treated in respect of tolls in the Panama Canal may appeal to the American Supreme Court....

more concern to the ordinary traveller, the correspondent says :— " The Port of Tangier, with a sufficient zone to assure it economic means of existence (water supply, &c.),...

a forecast of the agreement between France and Spain as to their interests in Morocco. Spain has obtained a noticeable concession in the possession of Mount Ghani, which has...

American deep-sea shipping has been rejected. But even if Mr. Taft is right in his opinion—we do not share it—that the exemption from tolls of coastwise trade does not .do any...

the unrest in Morocco. The proclamation of the new Sultan, Mulai Yusef, has been received with utter indifference, and the two pretenders to the throne are causing much anxiety....

a trial lasting forty-two days, have completely exonerated the defendants in the _Midnapur appeal case. The facts of the case are, briefly, as follows : In 1908 two native...

Tuesday night in his eighty-fourth year. He had undergone repeated operations for cataract, and was totally blind for several weeks before his death, but bore his sufferings...

due to General Booth. The semi-military dress is said to have been the idea of his wife, a woman of saintly character and extraordinarily persuasive eloquence, whose qualities...

good deal of hostility, amounting at times to positive:violence. The noise and explosiveness and hysteria associated with the movement disgusted many educated minds, and were...

on its proposal to submit the question of Tariff Reform to a Referendum. The response is most encouraging, for, as our contemporary points out, most of those who reject the pro-...

of the Allan liner Corsican,' which struck an iceberg in the neighbourhood of Belle Isle on August 12th. The vessel was going dead slow in foggy weather at the time of the...

the Lambeth Police Court on Tuesday. The defendant, Mr. Hurlock, a well-known Walworth draper, employing over 100 hands, who is also a prominent local Liberal, was summoned for...

downhill course of the Ministry and the startling decline in their majorities, and alluded in caustic terms to the scuttle of Ministerialists into the House of Lords. Lord...

Mr. J. Owen on the War Office aeroplane tests on Salisbury Plain. The conditions imposed—notably that re- quiring firms to furnish complete drawings and specifications in...

THE COVENANT OF ULSTER. T HEplans of the Ulstermen for resisting Home Rule have been kept secret with a success worthy of the Japanese military staff, but the general character...

T HE week and more which have passed since Count Berchtold made his proposal to the Powers for " helpine. p " Turkey in her present distress has done little to reveal what is in...

T HE correspondence between Miss Violet Markham and Mr. G. S. Shove is extremely interesting. Mr. Shove is, by his own statement, an agent employed by the secret committee...

W E had only time last week to say of Miss Octavia Hill that for nearly fifty years she laboured effec- tively to solve the housing problem on the basis of " personal service...

I T is natural to man to dream of discovery. Since he has finished discovering the land and the sea he has begun to make discoveries in other regions. He knows now the planet...

S OME seventeen years ago a distinguished German pro- fessor of Egyptology announced to his pupils that the age of great discoveries in Egypt was passed, and that they had...

T HE madness of the dog and the madness of the jackal are dangers which the comfortable suburban resident of England is not commonly called upon to encounter, but in the East...

THE RIGHT OF REBELLION. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—May I, as an ordinary member of the Unionist Party, state briefly the reasons why, in company with, I believe,...

[To ass EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sur,—Some fifty years ago I met Sir Roundell Palmer (after- wards Lord Selborne) at dinner, and the conversation took the then common line...

SIR,—May I express a cordial agreement with your article in the Spectator of August 17th on " The Right of Rebellion " P The gravamen of the Home Rule Bill is not merely that it...

with both the premises and the conclusions of your article on the Ulster question in the Spectator of August 17th would require a letter of at least equal length, but perhaps...

Sin,--Is your statement of the Ulster question in your article, " The Right of Rebellion," not a little disingenuous P Yon declare that the reply of the Ulstermen to the Irish...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR...1 SIB, I must needs run counter to my lifelong regard for the Spectator's opinions, and appeal to you on behalf of those who think that...

Pro THE EDITOR 01 TEE " SPECTILTOR."] SIB,—The census returns for what I may call the Belfast district., comprising the City of Belfast and the adjacent counties of Antrim and...

of Ulster to-day analogous to that of the " Country Party " in 1679? Burnet then said : "Acts of tyranny will not justify the resistance of subjects, yet a total subversion of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sia,—In the conclusion of your excellent article on "Slavery in Portuguese West Africa" (Spectator, August 17th), you issue a challenge...

"SPECTATOR.") SIR, — I hope, like you, that the leaders of the Unionist Party will be wise in time, and renew Mr. Balfour's promise—a Referendum on Tariff Reform. I am a Tariff...

[To TIER EDITOR 01 THE " SPECTATOR."] SAS, — In my letter published some time ago in the Spectator, under the heading " Croatia and the South Slav Question," I stated, in...

who, like Mr. E. L. Oliver, would very much like to know who are the men who stand in the way of a reassertion of the Referendum pledge on Tariff Reform. I am as certain as Mr....

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. ") Sin,—While the thought of the noble life and the noble aims of Miss Octavia Hill are especially in our minds, I would suggest through your...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR." J SIR,—The verses, " The Enthusiast," were some time back cut from the columns of the Spectator. They appear particularly applicable to the...

[To WE ED/TOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin, —So varied and numerous were the benevolent schemes of Miss Octavia Hill, and so unobtrusively did she prefer to do her work, that...

LTD THE EDITOR OF THZ "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—I again appeal through your columns for assistance for the Children's Country Holidays Fund. The Executive Com. mittee are still in...

[TO THE EDITOR OP TEE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —In illustration of Lord Morley's speech at the dinner given in honour of Sir Edward Cook, and of your very interesting reflections...

[To THE EDITOU Or THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In connexion with the letters of Mr. R. Walker Berry (Spectator, August 3rd) and Miss Anderson (Spectator, August 17th), may I quote a...

SIR,—As a contribution towards this discussion, I send an extract from the Rev. F. B. Zincke's delightful book about Wherstead, near Ipswich, where Edward FitzGerald spent some...

a corner to say how much interested I am in the letters on " Colours of Pain " in the Spectator of August 3rd and 17th ? As from childhood I have always seen different colours...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—As a native of Dorset I may be prejudiced in favour of my county, but the view from the top of Abbotsbury Hill seems to me one of the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE Sracraron.'] Sin,—Your correspondent "J. C. F.," in your issue of August 17th, speaks of the translation of the Odes of Horace, reviewed by you on August...

name 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...

THE STRANGLING OF PERSIA" THE reason why Mr. Shuster, for a short time Treasurer- General of Persia, failed to reform the Persian finances will be quite clear to readers of...

STAR-RISE. Wnsx the first star shines forth, the lark, The singing star of Day, Drops from the heaven. She fears the dark In that wide trackless way. So in the heart, when...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—The controversy that has followed the appeal for the esta- blishment of a Roman Catholic Mission on the Putumayo for the protection of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Your correspondent " L A. M." (Spectator, August 10th), had he remembered rightly what he heard on Easter Monday, would have worded...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR: '] Sin,—Perhaps the following bird story may interest your readers. I am staying for a few weeks at Visegrad, on the Danube, near Budapest. We...

MR. HOMER LEA. has followed up his striking book The Valor of Ignorance with a detailed study of the present strategic position of the British, or as he calls it the Saxon,...

this volume a number of papers—twenty-one to be exact—by various hands in defence of the Government of Ireland Bill. This plan has the advantage—a very real one, probably, in...

THIS attractive little book contains four lectures which were given before the University of London, and repeated at Oxford, in the summer of 1911. Among French critics there is...

&NY one wishing to make an acquaintance with Somerset and its people could not do better than read these three books. Professor Wade and his son have given us an excellent...

written on the delightful and eternally fresh subject of fox-hunting some are humorous and others serious. Mr. Cuthbert Bradley, whom many of us know as " Whipster," and Captain...

NEARLY twenty years ago Sir David Barbour took a very active part in the bimetallic controversy, and, although he recognizes that that controversy is now as dead as a door-nail,...

SUNSHINE SKETCHES OF A LITTLE TOWN.t STEPHEN LEACOCK, in a delightful autobiographical preface to his new volume, tells us that many of his friends are under the erroneous...

rendered. New edition revised. (Mills and Boon. 6s.)—Messrs. Mills and Boon are making the experiment of republishing this novel, which appeared in 1899, in the belief that it...

net.)—Mr. B. Travers Herford has set to work to whitewash the Pharisees, whose literature he has he says, been "exploring" for the past thirty years. In his first chapter he...

(maamilian and Co. is. net.)—It has been the endeavour of the anther of this boOk to provide in "pocket" form the most im- portant facts as to compass and effective use of each...

[Under This leading we notice such Ecoks of the week as bare not been yenned for review in other forms.1 Insurance versus Poverty. By L. G. Chiozza Money, M.P. (Methuen and Co....

Co. 6s.)—A novel dealing with life in London, chiefly concerned with the very unfortunate love affairs of the two heroines. The men of the story are quite remarkably...

Canada is offered in this volume, which contains plenty of maps and photographs, as well as a large quantity of statistical information.

Co.)—Who cannot sympathize with the sensation of help.. lessness with which a reader first passes through the glass doors into the great reading-room at the British Museum ? The...

new novel is a delicately conceived satire. It is told in the first person, and it will be some little time before the reader discovers what a despicable figure the William Orr,...