that if they are adopted we shall have, as we have pointed out elsewhere, single-Chamber government except for the fact that the House of Lords, as long as the first of the...

quote them verbatim :— "(2) That it is expedient that the powers of the House of Lords, as respects Bills other than Money Bills, be restricted by law, so that any such Bill...

be continued, and that after the House of Commons has been given the power to pass any measure it likes within two years, it should not make use of ill powers to change the...

the Speaker to decide, not merely House of Commons matters, but Constitutional disputes, must in the end degrade the Speakership. The party politicians will feel that they must...

the worst thing about them is a matter of omission rather than of commission. We deal with Mr. Asquith's cynical explanation of the use of the word "it" in another paragraph,...

is the House of Commons henceforth to be able, without any check or limitation whatever, to impose any taxes and appropriate any moneys it desires, but there is to be no...

MHE chief event of the week has been the publication on Monday of the text of the Government Resolutions in regard to the relations between the two Houses. They will be...

case.

a fortnight ago might be found in his speech of February 28th. In answer to a question from Mr. Austen Chamberlain, the Prime Minister pointed out that he had said that "the...

Council of Paris on Monday, described the growing insolence of the apaches or "hooligans." The result of turning them out of one quarter is that they have taken refuge in...

Lord Lansdowne and Lord Crewe, who agreed in thinking that, as the Lord Chancellor later declared, "it was compatible with these Resolutions that this Chamber should consist of...

discovery of relics has now been made at Mirpur Khas, forty miles east of Haidarabad, in Sind, by Mr. Cousens, the Superintendent of Archaeology in Bombay. A series of mounds...

House of Representatives, a Resolution enlarging the Rules Committee and depriving the Speaker of membership of that Committee was carried last Saturday by 191 votes to 155....

symptoms that the Republican Party is in a position of great difficulty. It is not certain that when the Rules Committee is appointed by the House instead of by the Speaker Mr....

preliminary to the Dissolution on Tuesday, an extra- ordinary and discreditable incident occurred. According to the Vienna correspondent of the Times, several members of the...

the House of Lords on Tuesday night. Its terms, we may remind our readers, were :—" That a necessary preliminary of such reform and reconstitution is the acceptance of the...

issued by some of the chief authorities on international law to whom the question had been submitted. The decision arrived at is that Finnish autonomy is enjoyed as a national...

as another instance of feudal tyranny, scores of thousands of industrious, thrifty, happy crofting families having been swept away to provide a few weeks' pleasure every year...

intimidation and oppression from Wales, where until 1868 the vote went with the letting of the land according to the politics of the landlord. A tenant farmer then led the...

London Free-Trade Committee on Monday, and made an excellent speech. The doubling of our exports between 1880-1907 did not necessarily prove that Free-trade was right, but it...

Oxford on Wednesday. A good stroke must be born, not made, and Oxford has such a stroke in Mr. Bourne, who knows instinctively when he can safely rally his crew, when he must...

held at the Westminster Palace Hotel on Monday, Lord Cromer presiding, it was resolved, in view of the divergence of opinion amongst members as to the relative importance of...

League on Wednesday in his now familiar extra.. Parliamentary manner. Real progress in this country, he declared, was barred in every direction by the feudal power. "Feudalism...

March 17th. Consols (2i) were on Thursday 81—Friday week 811. Bank Rate, 4 per cent., changed from 3 per cent. March 17th. Consols (2i) were on Thursday 81—Friday week 811.

THE SINGLE-CHAMBER RESOLUTIONS. T HERE is at least one good thing about the Veto Resolutions in their present form. They present a clear issue,—the issue of single-Chamber...

I F Austria-Hungary and Russia have not actually settled their dispute, they have announced that they have done so, and such an announcement is all to the good. It is diffi-...

W E have never adopted the plea that women are con- stitutionally incapable of wise political action, or by nature unable to do justice and maintain right. Our opposition to the...

O NE of the favourite poses of the Socialist is to pretend that he alone among all members of the community is inspired by high ideals, and that everybody who does not embrace...

W ELL-TIMED nonsense is the divinest sense. In the current number of the Cornhill Magazine Canon Selwyn publishes some of the later letters of Edward Lear, and suggests that as...

S OME men lack the human instinct to talk. They volun- teer nothing. Their silence is tempered only by replies. They never speak until some one else has thought. Very often...

T HE calendars mark out the seasons, and country people make proverbs about swallows and spring flowers, as if spring and summer came to everybody on the same day of the year....

THE RESIGNATION OF THE DUMA PRESIDENT. [TO THY EDITOR 01 TEl SPECTITOR."1 SIR,—Respect for the Russian Duma and for its President requires that the circumstances attending Mr....

Si,—Your correspondent of last week, "R. H.," makes an amazing statement. Germany, he says, is building a fleet to annex Brazil ; Great Britain, he continues, is incurring an...

FRIENDLY ASSURANCES [To THR EDITOR OF ms" SPROILTCOE.1 Sra,—The following extracts from a letter from a young English lady, the wife of a German officer, may interest your...

me to say that your comments on " B. H. ' s " letter in last week ' s Spectator seem to ignore the questions which to some of us are the most important ones We shall probably...

Sra,—I would venture to beg " Liberal Reader of the Spectator," who writes to your last issue, to try to get out of the party rut for one hour, and then to look at the present...

characterises the (pinions of the Spectator was once again clearly shown in the reply you gave to the disquisitions of " R. H. " concerning the so-called German menace in your...

[To Tax Burros or TEL "SrEcraroa.1 fail to see that any one of the extracts from "Unionist Free-Trader ' s " letter with which "Liberal Reader of the Spectator" has filled his...

LTO THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPRCTATOR.1 SIR,—The letter with which Mr. Sidney Webb in last Sunday's issue concludes the recent correspondence in the Observer on the subject of the...

room in the Spectator for a reference to the letter of your correspondent Mr. A. B. Browne in last week's issue ? He brings forward the case of an artisan earning El a week...

[To THE EDITOR OF TER "SFECTIT01.1 Sin,—A friend has just sent me extracts from the Spectator for March 5th, including a letter from the Rev. T. Nightingale, in which he makes a...

[To THE EDITOR 01 THR " SPICTLTOR."] SIR,—Mr. A. B. Browne in your last issue calculates that an " artisan " earning 21 a week, supporting a wife and two children, pays nearly 4...

" SPICTATOR."] Sra,—Your article in last week's issue under the above title contained incidentally so clear an example of one of the most insidious and dangerous fallacies...

[To ma EDITOR ON ma SPECTATOR:9 Sra,—May I add to " X.'s" reference in your last issue to "Mr. Kipling on the Manufacture of Indian Anarchists" the following extract from "H....

LTO THE EDITOR OP THE "SracrAmos.'1 SIR,—The Public School Emigration League for Boys has suggested to me the advisability of a corresponding move- ment for girls. As a mistress...

[To TEN EDITOZ Or THE "SPECTATOR...1 SIB,—The two following letters addressed to Colonel Pollock, and relating the histories of two members of the Spectator Experimental...

fT0 THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") SIE,—The explanation of the sign given to King Hezekiah pointed out by " Traveller " in your issue of February 19th has been anticipated....

the necessity of asking you to insert another letter, but it is impossible for us to allow the statements of Mr. Nightingale (which have appeared in your issue of the 19th...

THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I am obliged to Sir E. Satow for pointing out my mistake; but the authorities quoted in my last letter state more or less explicitly that Tibet has failed...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIB,—The lamented death of the late senior Member for the University of Oxford is widely deplored by those who value his life and example,...

[TO THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR."1 SID,—The road-mender was the first man in our village to buy a phonograph. It happened in this way ; or rather (as he himself would have...

in the welfare and movements of your ' boys ' of the S.E.C., I thought I might venture to acquaint you with the history of our dear lad E-- to whom you showed much kindness...

question put by your correspondent Mr. C. C. Macrae in last week's issue of the Spectator, I should like to say that I, for one, was not in the least impressed with any sense of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It needs some courage to controvert the popular view that Strauss's new opera is a work of first-rate creative genius. But as you are...

BOCCACCIO.* GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO was born in 1313, possibly, even probably, almost certainly, in Paris. If so, it is in the fitness of things that the possessor of so much Gallic...

THE LEGEND OF THE GOLDFINCH. I WANDERED, listening, in a wind-blown wood, While all around me, in harmonious flood, Rose the clear singing of the brotherhood Of wing and...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the Mews therein expressed or with the mode of...

THE greatest accident of Mr. Hogarth's life seems to have been that he became an antiquary. The true antiquary, he lays it down, is born an antiquary ; self-made antiquaries...

COLONEL RIVETT-CARNAC was one of the last batctiSf Indian civilians who came out of Haileybury, and he begins his work with a comparison between the men so trained and their...

TRH new volume of The Cambridge Modern History contains, like all its predecessors, much admirable work, and gives on the whole a good synoptic view of the period of time with...

product that "nerd can happen again," since so many of the conditions which fostered it have irrevocably passed away. He belonged to the governing classes in an age when...

Tranala- f Liao-yang. Prepared by the Historical Section of the Cemmittee of Son and Notes, by Benjamin Biekley Rogers. D.Litt. London: George Bell Imperial Defence. London:...

WE are grateful to Mr. Berenson for republishing his articles on Sassetta in book form. Like all the author's works, this study is full of suggestive thought. The painter who is...

• Tke deka:items of Aristopbanes. The Greek Teas Revised, with Tranala- f Liao-yang. Prepared by the Historical Section of the Cemmittee of Son and Notes, by Benjamin Biekley...

QUAKER ROBINS.* WE take a great deal for granted in the mechanism of modern civilisation,—nowhere more than in the organisation of traffic and transit. Now and again it is...

and Co. 6s.)—This is a detective story pure and simple, though in order to give it zest the author contrives to introduce a flavour of international politics. The central figure...

Co. 9s. net.)—Mr. Falkiner was a member of the Irish Bar who was called away from his advocate's work and prospects first by literary and then by official employment. The world...

J. Fletcher, B.D. (Stevens and Haynes. 21s. net.)—Mr. Fletcher has now completed his work, which is not to be carried beyoed the end of the eighteenth century, and he has earned...

University Press. 6s. net.)—This supplement to the Revised Version has been long in appearing. As long ago as 1873 the work of preparing the fuller references was committed to...

63.)—Much the most attractive personage in this novel is the father of Eve Cornell, the heroine. For quite half the book poor Mr. Cornell suffers from his work being ineffective...

Co. 6s.)—A most romantic story. To give a pretty girl a good time in Switzerland at the cost of £100 and remain unknown is a fine beginning.—True Man and Traitor. By M....

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as haPO sit been reserved for mina in other forms.] The Manor Houses of England. By P. H. Ditchfield, M.A. Illustrated by...

3s.)—It would be easy to fill a column with interesting facts from this volume, containing as it does copious information about the work, the revenue, the personnel, &c., of the...

L. Collingridge. 5s. net.)—This periodical supplies us as usual with full information about the temporalities and spiritualities of London, the Corporation, the Livery...

Tale of a Lonely Parish, by F. Marion Crawford (first pub- lished in 1886, and now reprinted for the twelfth time); Mr. Isaacs, by the same (a twenty-seventh reprint) ; The...

(Andrew Elliot.)—Mr. Duncan, after enumerating some auto- graphs of early poems, goes On: "It is pleasant to turn from these drab-toned productions of Burns's early days, and...

(Edward Arnold. 6s.)—This is certainly a disappointing book. The voyage across is described with a liveliness which is some- times not far removed from humour; but when we reach...