T HE menace of a great labour war has passed away for the moment. The railway strike was settled on Saturday week, a normal service has now been resumed on all the railways, and...

the strikers, the majority of whom returned to work on Monday ; but on the North Eastern, where "recognition "had already been granted and the conciliation scheme does not...

case.

Friday week only lasted till the evening of the following day. The strike leaders claimed that more than 200,000 men had come out, and traffic was paralyzed in the Midlands and...

of the Commission of Inquiry. They are Sir David Harrel, formerly Permanent Under Secretary for Ireland, who has since acted for the Board of Trade in several important...

the Strike Committees at the Board of Trade in view of an alleged misunderstanding over the Government's offer of a Commission on the previous Thursday. The Prime Minister in...

an agreement was arrived at and signed by the repre. sentatives of the companies and the men. All the men who went out are to be reinstated at the earliest possible moment, and...

reinstatement, on the ground that any further concession to the Strike Committee would perpetuate unrest, while the transport workers threatened a national strike if the men...

till Tuesday, October 24th, briefly expressed the indebtedness of the nation to all who had contributed to the establishment of peace, and appealed to all parties to allow the...

trouble was all over when the military were called in at Llanelly. On the contrary, the engine-driver bad been assaulted and intimidated, the line was blocked, the rioters in...

He denied that any illegal or extra-constitutional action had been taken. All the Government had done was to make an exceptional use—fully justified by the emergency—of...

for railways, roads, navigation, or telegraphs, and not to support applications for such concessions to others, in Persian territory north of a line drawn from Kasri-Shirin on...

their partisanship. "The Home Secretary and his colleagues had violated and overridden the law and had suspended the civil government of this country without the consent or...

the Khanikin-Teheran and Khanikin-Baghdad and not to introduce such measures as transit dues and differential tariffs. If, after the expiry of the term of two years, the...

of the Potsdam meeting ten months ago, were made known last Saturday. They are for the; most part what was expected. The important point is that nothing in the Agreement can be...

important discussions have taken place in Paris, and it is believed that a definite proposal will be agreed upon by the French Cabinet, and will be presented by the French...

the first of a series of letters on the effects of the Parliament Bill. In his first letter he points out that henceforth it will be virtually impossible to swamp the House of...

correspondent, who described the existence of dissatisfaction within the Unionist Party at the policy of those Unionists who prevented the creation of peers. Some of the...

the Centre Party Union and Middle Classes Defence Organ- ization, Lord Robert Cecil has expressed his readiness, in the event of a vacancy occurring in South Kensington, to...

Portuguese Republic. He was proposed by the Opposition Block of Moderates and was returned by 121 votes against 86 cast for Dr. Machado, the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Dr....

Mar. 9th. Consols (21) were on Friday 781—Friday week 781.

the well-known Congregationalist minister, which took place in his eighty-third year last Sunday. After ministries in Northum- berland and Lancashire be became pastor of the...

la Joconde—one of the half-dozen most famous pictures in the world—was stolen from the Louvre. On Mondays the Louvre is cleaned and is closed to the public, but so many persons...

Epsom in his eighty-third year, had won distinction as an advocate and subsequently as a law officer in two Liberal administra- tions before the crisis of his career was reached...

REFLECTIONS ON THE STRIKE. I T would be idle to count up all the points which either side may be said to have gained in the great strike now provisionally settled. That would...

T HE railway strike is certain to stir into life the slum- bering demand for railway nationalization. A number of people who are by no means Socialists will be inclined to argue...

W E have recorded elsewhere the chief facts of the agreement between Russia and Germany in the Middle East. For the Pan-Germans it is a keen disap- pointment that this agreement...

W E have put the name by which Lord James of Here- ford was best known at the head of this article because it helps to emphasize the one act to which he owes his place in...

S TYLE in literature is, like beauty, compounded of ele- ments. But the result of their fusion is more than a sum or a product. It is a new substance. Yet analysis has its uses....

of the people; in fact, telepathy had not been invented, and totemism had only a very limited circula- tion in some articles contributed by Mr. J. F. McLennan to the Fortnightly...

I T is when you have climbed the grass slope to the stone wall which borders the moor, and stand looking out again to the blue rim of hills beyond the heather, that you stumble...

THE LESSON OF THE STRIKES. [To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") Sra,—The epidemic of strikes, and the very grave and serious attitude they have assumed, suggests an inquiry as...

[To THR EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—The painful and anxious experiences through which we are passing should cause grave reflection among thinking men and women as to the...

[To TEE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Will you kindly allow me to supplement my letter in your last issue on this the greatest question of the day P The workers of the...

agree with your correspondent " A Cotton. Spinner" in his opinion as to the cause of strikes. Wise interference on the part of a third party, who is a friend of both disputants,...

[TO THE EDITOR 01 THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sra,—I have read with a great deal of interest your timely editorials touching the vital points of our civilization, and I beg to say that I...

[To THE EDITOR OF ram "SPEcraTos."] SIR, — When lately reading the "Historical Characters " of Sir H. Lytton. Bulwer, afterwards Lord Drilling, I came upon a sentence relating...

[To THE EDITOR COP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin, — President Taft's successful opposition to the " Recall " of judges in Arizona is a victory for conservatism in the use of the...

or TICE "Erzorwros."] SIR,—It might be well if you opened your columns to a dis- cussion on the absolute necessity of legislation to put a stop to picketing or interference of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' 1313, — Recent events have again emphasized the necessity of ascertaining by means of an impartial referendum the opinion of the public in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] In Memoriam, xxvi., v. 3. "Oh, if indeed that eye foresee, Or see (in Him is no before) In more of life true life no more And Love the...

[To THE EDITOR or THU "SPECTATOR.n Six,—Your correspondent "D. M." (Spectator, August 5th), speaking of scales, decimal or other, takes occasion to remark that certain...

[To TER EDITOR 05 THE " SPRCTATOR." J SIR,—Will you kindly allow me space in your columns for a few words on the early use of the numbers 7 and 22 ? The use of 7 and 22 in the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Though you announce in your columns (Spectator, August 12th) that no reply to 061-Ls' violently anti-Catholic letter will be admitted...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Grateful and appreciative things have been written of the late Bishop of Oxford in your columns and elsewhere, but perhaps sufficient...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—An interesting addition to the growing attractions of Torphichen (a village midway between Aberdeen and Balmoral) is the daily presence...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,,—The country has lost in the person of Lord James one of the greatest public men of our generation. If there were marked disagreement...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR, — It may interest some of your readers to know that a fine specimen of the Vanessa Antiopa (Camberwell Beauty) was seen in our garden...

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...

THE MONK AND HIS WHITE CAT. (After an Eighth Century Irish Poem recorded by Professor KUM Meyer in his " Ancient Irish Poetry.") Pangur, my white eat, and I, Silent ply our...

THE CLOUDS OF ARISTOPHANES.* WHEN the Clouds was produced in 423 Re. it was placed last of the three competing comedies, the first prize being won by the Flask of Cratinus,...

Mn. FOUTESCUE, as we have had occasion to observe before, is probably the most brilliant of living English historians. His History of the British Army is the only historical...

"Canada," Part Geographical. Vol. V., Part IV., "Newfoundland." By J. D. Rogers. With 'daps. Orford ; at the Clarendon Press. [4s. 6d. each.] not be allowed to pass into their...

an addition of first-rate importance in the Autobiography, which tells the story of Wagner's life with minute particularity down to the historic summons from the Bing of Bavaria...

MR. ORPEN has the courage of his opinions. "Even in this short period," he says, " less than half a century from the time when the first invader set foot in Ireland, it is, I...

Mrs. Gostling's interesting book, The Bretons at Home, was reviewed in the Spectator. Her new book on Auvergne is even more attractive, because, while quite as rich in...

Sir Theodore Morison sets himself to explain how the modern spirit of change is making itself felt in one at least of the regions where we have been taught to look for the...

MR. Jnnnonn begins by discoursing on beaux and dandies in general with the object of showing bow far his three special heroes, Nash, Brummell, and D'Orsay, are representative of...

—Father Benson has achieved the feat of producing a book which literally does not contain a single woman's character. One or two women appear for brief moments, and in secondary...

ANTHEA'S GUEST.* THE date of publication of Mrs. Sidgwick's book is well chosen, for there are few if any living English novelists better equipped to cater for the legitimate...

is a very clever story, the plot of which has for its principal motive the heroine's complete loss of memory following on a severe shock sustained in early youth. The opening...

6e.)—As a revulsion from the personification of a detective in the tall, cold, scientific Sherlock Holmes, Mr. Chesterton presents us with a small, cherubic, and spiritually...

A. A. Seaton, M.A. (Cambridge University Press. 6s.)—Mr. Seaton's essay is one of two to which the Prince Consort Prize was awarded last year. It discusses the subject...

1570. By J. J. Tomlinson. (The Church Association. 3d.)—Popo Pius V., under a certain pressure from the English Roman Catholics, in- stituted the proceedings here recorded....

most diverting absurdity on wholly original lines. The joint authors—" E. V. L." and "G. M."—have taken an ingenious selection of illustrations from the General Catalogue of a...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not bees reserved for review in other forms.] Sir David Dale. By Howard Pease. (John Murray. Ss. 6d. net.)—This is a...

of very great utility. Both are published by the Sheffield Assay Office. The first is Old Silver Platers and their Marks (4s. 6d. net).—This has to do with what is known as "...

and Son. 10s. 6d. net.)—This is one of the series of " Studies in Economics and Political Science" appearing under the editorship of the Hon. W. Pember Reeves. Mr. Arias gives...

net.)—This is a. volume of the "Regent Library." Miss Kaye-Smith gives us a biographical and literary introduc- tion, not without some short criticism of her author. This is...

Elder and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—To examine Mr. Williams's book in detail would be a very long business indeed. There are fourteen chapters headed with single names, the first being...

T. S. Sonnenschein, B.A. (G. Routledge and Sons. is. net.)- -This " Guide to the Leading Controversies of the Day " was first pub- lished fifteen years ago. It has been...

Co. 8s. 6d. net.)—The period which Mr. Jeffery's book in- cludes is the hundred years beginning with 1789. He illustrates the story with maps—we may express our satisfaction...

6s.)—A. story of the '45, which ought to please a. Jacobite reader very muck—Builders of Ships. By Marie Connor Leighton. (Ward, Lock and Co. 6s.)---A very strange tale indeed...

Handbook to the Charities of London. (Charles II. Sell. ls.)—One hardly likes to make any kind of selection where so many admirable in- stitutions are in question ; but the...

H. Beach. (The Clarendon Press. 12s. 6d. net.)—Here we have another example of the useful work that is being done in.far-away regions of the Empire. Mr. Beach was District...

of "Country Churches" (George Allen and Sons. 2s. 6d. net per vol.) This is the Isle of Wight : its Churches and Religious Houses, by J. Charles Cox, LL.D. Thirty-seven in all...