satirized by "Mr. Dooley" in the New York Times. He pictures Mr. Taft entering his saloon and delivering a speech in which he begins by reviling his audience and then suddenly...

in this decision. For the moment the strike does not extend beyond London, and, according to a statement in Friday's Times, only includes those members of the Federation who are...

T HE sudden development on Thursday night of the strike among the transport workers at the London docks threatens to produce a serious interruption in the food supply of London....

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contains a number of articles by well-known Englishmen upon the relations between Great Britain and Germany. The most important of these contributions is by Mr. Balfour, who...

sensation throughout the United States. Mr. Roosevelt accomplished the extraordinary feat of beating Mr. Taft in his own State. Throughout the campaign it had been assumed that...

the number of men affected ranged from ten to twenty thousand. On Wednesday evening an announcement Was made which showed that the Board of Trade took a very serious view of the...

June 4th a debate on the administration of the Insurance Act was initiated by Mr. Worthington Evans, who condemned the rushing tactics of the Government and the deluge of...

Board of Trade had appointed a technical committee to advise him on the internal subdivision of vessels by means of water- tight bulkheads and other means. Hitherto passenger...

but we must mention the exceptionally clear and interesting statement made by Mr. Lightener, the second officer, on Tuesday. Mr. Lightener was carried down with the ship when...

gloomy account of the situation in Morocco. One of the sons of Mal Ainin, who was a famous religious chief and sorcerer of the Sahara, has been proclaimed Sultan in the Sits...

the Foreign Office on Tuesday morning, and Sir Edward Grey, in announcing its arrival, said he must have an opportunity of reading it before he could make any further statement....

But we have no hesitation in saying that the method adopted by the agitators is the very best possible to secure a confirmation of the sentence on Miss Malecka. They...

on the Board of Trade's attitude towards life- saving at sea and charged the Board with being hopelessly out of touch with modern conditions. Lord Charles Beres- ford said that...

Board of Trade received a deputation from the Parliamentary Committee of the Trade Union Congress urging the Govern- ment to take up without delay the question of the...

against Blackwood's Magazine was heard in the King's Bench Division. The libel was contained in a poem satirizing mem- bers of the Government under transparent disguises. It was...

Monday afternoon Lord Curzon, the President, said that the Government had increased the grant to the Society from £500 to £1,250. The fund for new buildings bad now reached...

only by the Judge, but by the Attorney- General, who prosecuted for the Crown. For ourselves we could wish that the female prisoners had been made &st- eins misdemeanants, for...

of the Rural Co-Partnership Housing Association was held on Tuesday last. The report of the Association showed that an excellent beginning had been made in attacking the problem...

May 9th. Consols (21) were on Friday 77k—Friday week 78. Bank Rate, 3 per cent., changed from 31 per cent. May 9th. Consols (21) were on Friday 77k—Friday week 78.

and Mrs. Pethick Lawrence, was concluded on Wednes- day. We do not think it necessary to dwell at length on the trial, the importance of which has been much exaggerated, but...

Tattershall Castle. Lord Curzon of Kedleston, who purohased the castle after the famous fifteenth-century carved stone fire-places had been removed. has now, with the aid of " a...

AN ALLIANCE WITH FRANCE. W E are delighted to see that the Morning Poet, in a leading article published in its issue of Mon- day, has had the courage and good sense to advocate...

" The kings navy exceeds all others in the world for three things, vie : beauty, strength, and safety. For beauty, they are so many royal palaces ; for strength (no part of the...

W HEN Mr. Asquith is not making the best of n, bad case which was not originated by himself but was forced on him by the left wing of his Cabinet he is quite full of common...

W ITH some suddenness Parliament appears to have wakened up to the importance of dealing with the problem of the feeble-minded. It is now four years since a Royal Commission,...

Wars of the Lord " is only once referred to in the Hebrew Scriptures. It is supposed by scholars that it was a collection of war songs. If so there is no reason to suppose that...

-U NLESS those who have been granted the right to repre- sent certain interests at the Titania ' inquiry refrain from extending the investigation by excursions into matters...

A N increasing budget is always interesting, and the Report of the Zoological Society, issued for its eighty-third annual general meeting held on April 29th, has a special...

[To TrIa EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Should I be trespassing on your kindness too far in asking you to submit proof that the Cavendishes and Russells paid for the land...

THE EFFECTS OF DISESTABLISHMENT. pro TRR EDITOR Or TEE "Srsorkron."3 SIR, —Do English Nonconformists realize that, whilst it may redress some abuses, the main result of the...

(To TEE EDITOR or Tam .SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—The logical outcome of Mr. Lloyd George's speech on May 16th should be to restore the lands and money to the Roman Catholic Church. The...

[To TRE EDITOR Or TUN "SPECTATOR. " ] Sia,—I read with interest your article in last week's issue regarding the question of the unrest in the labour world and heavy taxation,...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE ".SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Surely to intimate to Germany that England, though accepting, as a rule of her own conduct, the Monroe doctrine, is not prepared to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In your note to Mr. Falle's letter last week you describe the Monroe doctrine as " what all Americans regard as vital." I used to be of...

[To TEE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In a letter to the Times, May 13th, Sir Thomas Lipton proposes that each steward on board the various liners should in times of...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "' SIR, — Mr. Comyns Carr's inaccuracy makes his ease hopeless. He has protested publicly and privately that no penalty can fall on the workman...

[To mu EDITOR Or Tits "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—Various letters and articles in your columns have lately drawn attention to the need for further protection, in various ways, for...

"SPECTATOR. ' ] Sia,—With absolutely neutral approach to the matter, having no bias, monarchical or republican, emphasis is imperative on the fact that the protests of the...

"SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Is it not somewhat captious ou the part of you! paper this week to call attention to the discrepancy between the pro- and anti-betting attitude of the...

[To TES EDITOR OP THE " SPUTATOR.1 Sin,—After reading the article in your issue of May 11th on "Criminal Law Amendment (White Slave Traffic)," in which you advocate so strongly...

[To VII EDITOR 07 Till "SPECTATOIL."] SIR,—I was much interested in reading an article on egg. production published in your last issue. The writer stated that 120.130 eggs per...

[To TIM EDITOR Or TRH " Sewrivroa."] [To TIM EDITOR Or TRH " Sewrivroa."] Sin,—In your article on the "Goads of the Wise" in your issue of May 18th you ask the question, " Where...

"SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The writer of the article " The Beginning and End of Love" in last week's Spectator, referring to the account of a s urvivor—Dillon—of the sinking of the...

[To TOR EDITOR or TRH "SPECTATOR."' Sin., —I have read your brief notice of the late J. E. B. Mayor's sermons with interest.—By the way, you have, twice over, printed the second...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPROTATOE.".1 Sin,—In your issue of May 4th, in your correspondence columns, notice is drawn to the fact that the swallow has disappeared almost entirely...

EDITOR OF THE " SPRCTAroa."1 SIR, —May I ask the aid of your columns to remind Old Boys that the commemoration of the opening of the school will be held on Saturday, Juno 8th ?...

GRANDEUR. Poen Mary Byrne is dead, An' all the world may see Where she lies upon her bed Just as fine as quality. She lies there still and white With candles either hand...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEl " SPIACTATOR."1 81a, — In the early years of the last century there lived, died, and was buried in Oxford a Frenchman named James Dalvay (? D'Alvay). He...

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...

Ent, — Owing to the decrease in the subscriptions to the Children's Country Holidays Fund the Executive Committee are obliged to consider the question of reducing the numbers of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin, — Yesterday I beard a nightingale singing (from dawn till about four a.m.) within a stone's throw of the busy corner of the Swan,'...

THE GIRLHOOD OF CLARA WIECK. Miss FLORENCE MAY'S earlier venture into the domain of musical biography was not only an admirable piece of work in itself—its merit has already...

PITT AND THE POOR LAW.* DE. RosE's indomitable poWere of research have brought to Bight some new and very interesting letters belonging to the Pitt and Napoleon period. Thus...

and should prove an exceed- useful book. It consists of a selection of portraits of &amens historical characters of the seventeenth'century with abort biographical notes 'by...

Mn. IAN COLVIN is doing an excellent work in expounding the romance of South Africa's past. The first sign that a new land is approaching maturity is when she begins to have...

Ma. DIBBLER'S book, which he calls The Laws of Supply and Demand, professes to be, in his own words, "a direct assault on the orthodox theory of political economy as established...

have seen a volume of political satire with merits so great as those which strike the reader of Mr. Colvin's Party Whips. Satire, indeed, for one reason or another, is a...

Stevenson called the "piety of speech." No poet of our day is more studiously reverent towards our tongue or more solicitous of its simplicity. But, though he has written in his...

over the pages of the Sew Bulletin to look for the new discoveries of the year. The list of new plants in any year is generally a pretty long one, and the new introductions of...

an account of a girl's adventures in Berlin, where she moves in the highest circles. As, however, she has not been presented at home, she has to see a Court from no more...

(Andrew Melrose. Os.) —This remarkable novel deals with the Indian Mutiny and treats a hackneyed subject so cleverly that the book seems positively original. The opening...

SERVICE YARNS AND MEMORIES.* THERE have always been soldiers who could handle the pen, when occasion arose, with energy and efficiency. Foreign service and campaigning...

undertaken in Shropshire by the Shropshire Parish Register Society, of which wo have been sent the latest publication (privately printed : Mr. G. W. S. Sparrow, Albrighton Hall,...

Translated from the German by Ethel Colburn Mayne. (D. Appleton and Co. 6a.)—In strong contrast to the novel just noticed, dealing with "nobly born" personages in Germany, is...

Morse, jun. 3 vols. (Constable and Co. 42s. net.)—All students of the American Civil War will be glad of the publication of this diary of Welles,who was Secretary of the Navy...

this volume, now appearing for the fifty- second time, is that it is a "Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland." There are...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forma All the World's Air-Craft. Edited by Fred T. Jane. (Sampson Low. 21s....

Bowker. (Constable and Co. 21e. not.)—Authors will be pleased to know of this summary of the principles of copyright, which is written with special reference to the American...

C. Collins. (J. M. Dent and Sons. Os. net.)—A collection of a dozen papers upon miscellaneous literary subjects by the late Professor Churton Collins is sure to find many...

Mayhew. (The Compiler: 4 Pall Mall Place, London. 25s. not.)—Colonel Mayhew has put together a list of tho directorships held by various members of Parliament. The list contains...

and Boon. 6s.)—A lively little sketch concerned chiefly with an American millionaire who wishes to start a rival to Monte Carlo in an island in the Mediterranean.—Kingfisher...

6d. net.)—There is nothing noteworthy about Mr. Burnett's book except the profusion of photographic illustra- tions—his sub-title is "Wanderings with a Camera "—and the attacks...

(John Murray. ls. not.)—A cheap reprint of Dean Stanley's well-known work is sure to be popular. The book is well illustrated with photographs and plans.—Tho reissue of The...