remains unsettled. On Wednesday somewhat serious rioting took place, but what was, in our opinion, infinitely more serious was the nature of a meeting held at Tower Hill at...

we should have had something to say further about his action in the matter of Lord Tullibardine's message. As it is, we can say nothing. Since the men's leaders have chosen to...

I N the region of Foreign Affairs the only event of outstand- ing importance has been the formation of the new Turkish Ministry. After Tewfik Pasha had refused the Grand Vizier-...

aggravate the situation by harsh words, but we feel bound to say that this readiness to seek blood and to fly to killing has a very ugly sound. We presume that the explanation...

ease.

limes correspondent says, its formation is a blow to the extremists ; in other words, to the Committee of Union and Progress and its friends. Conciliation is the rule. The...

made his statement in regard to the Navy. We have dealt with it at length elsewhere, but may note here that its most striking feature was the description of the scope and...

his own showing, fantastically dangerous. He brought a certain number of battleships away from the Mediterranean on the ground that they could not be spared there, but were...

most welcome announcement as to the part which the great Dominions oversee mean to take in the struggle for sea- power. Though the exact terms under which Canada will bring help...

as to the land policy of the Government. At Hanley Mr. Outhwaite bad said that " Mr. Lloyd George, with the support of the Prime Minister, would embark this autumn on a great...

grave, but it was untrue that there was any differ- ence of opinion in the Cabinet. He fully appreciated the importance of maintaining such a force in the Mediter- ranean as...

view noted above, it is even worse from the other we have named. They have chosen a policy which can only be described as that of egging Germany on to further efforts. We have...

Liverpool decided on Tuesday to maintain their demands in connexion with the Insurance Act. They deter- mined also to call upon all doctors who hold posts under the Act to...

Mr. Churchill's statement in the Commons on Monday. lie said that a proportion of thirty-three capital ships to Germany's twenty-nine at the end of 1914 would be inade- quate....

to enumerate more in detail the efforts which are being made by Germany to wrest from us the command of the sea, efforts which we have no right to meet with angry words, but...

in defence must carry with them the beginnings of association in policy, then I say that both in measures of defence and in the direction of policy the co-operation of the...

sounds conventional, but which we are sure is true in fact and sincere in spirit. " We cultivate with great and growing cordiality on both sides our special international...

of Imperial Defence, described the work of that body. The system adopted is one of sub-Committees, "manageable in dimensions and informal in procedure." The reports of these...

discussed in the House of Commons on Tuesday upon a motion by Mr. O'Grady for the adjournment of the House. He maintained that there was as much reason for the Govern- ment to...

lost our naval lead because when the present Government came into office they refused to do exactly what Mr. Winston Churchill now tells us it is essential to do—to make " cool,...

enthusiasm in Dublin was marked by a certain furtiveness rendered quite necessary by expected attacks from suffragettes. When the procession of motor cars which accompanied Mr....

of some three thousand Home Rulers at the Dublin Theatre Royal on Friday week. The meeting had been organized with all the skill for which Mr. Devlin is now re- nowned. After...

the Opposition and of the head of the Unionist Party, and shows that though before he became the leader of the Unionists he had not devoted special attention to Foreign Affairs,...

in which he obtained an easy victory over the Liberal critics of our foreign policy. The Foreign Secretary ended with a piece of common sense which is well worth quoting in...

May 9th. Consols (2-0 were on Friday 74k—Friday week 748. .

THE GREAT NON SEQUITUR. M R. WINSTON CHURCHILL, doubtless with good cause, is afraid of the Germans, but he is more afraid of the Daily News, the Nation, and the Manchester...

P ROMINENT among the many features of interest which arise out of the opening of the Immingham Docks by the King is the fact that these huge docks have been constructed by a...

W E have often wondered how men who have read the history of wars, with all their surprises and successful accomplishments of apparently desperate feats, should have the mental...

AlUrE do not think that Lord. Rosebery went in the V V least too far when he declared that " he honestly believed that the Boy Scout movement was the best and most hopeful...

I N our literary columns to-day we publish a communicated review of a very remarkable book entitled " From Religion to Philosophy : a Study in the Origins of Western...

I N Andrew Lang the world has lost a great man of letters in the old full sense of the word. Nowadays our writers are specialists, cultivating diligently their little gardens....

T O those who have travelled in the South of England, and who in particular know something of the wealth and interest of the prehistoric remains in the county of Dorset, it must...

TARIFF REFORM AND THE REFERENDUM. [TO TILE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—Your correspondent " T." asks some questions, and answers some of them himself. From the figures he...

observed, to get rid of the Govern- ment, support is required from many of those who voted Liberal at the last election. The bulk of these voters are now disgusted with the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The one thing needful to re-awaken the latent animosity of Ireland for England is the project of my friend Captain Morrison Bell,...

a former resident in Blackburn, printed in the Spectator of July 20th, surely confirms a con- tention which has been consistently urged in your columns, namely, that the...

Reformer I have been much interested in the correspondence on the subject of "Food Taxes and a Referendum." I believe the future fate of the Unionist Party, and the welfare of...

".8rEcvAron. - ] SIR,—Will you allow me space for a few comments—not in any sense of a protestant nature—on the review published in your issue of the 13th inst., of my little...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Siu,—The following extracts from "the quarterly statement" issued by the Captain of the Weybridge Company of the Chertsey and Egham Section...

of mixed nationality in Peru, far from the blazing light of publicity, committed crimes of a dastardly order, you write an article full of indignation, and endeavour to commit...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Reading Mr. Churchill's speech to-day reminded me of a story I once heard told, with his inimitable stutter, by the late Professor...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, —In an article in your number of July 13th with the above title we read, " Zagreb (German : Agram), the capital of the kingdom of...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] S/R,—You have been good enough on several occasions to give prominence in your paper to my efforts on behalf of Western South America, and...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Seldom, if ever, has an important statistical document been the subject of such hasty and false deductions as has fallen to the lot of...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In dealing with the Statistical Monographs which I am now issuing from the offices of the Liberty and Property Defence League, and...

[To ras ED/TOR or ras "EPECTATOR."] SIB., —Now and again the Spectator has been good enough to give a little space to some account of Methodism. This writer, turning over his...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."' Sin,—A piece of land of the value of £1,000 at April 1909 may be held by the owner for fifty years and then sold for £1,500. In the interval...

[To TEE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR. "' SIR, — Is our Government democratic or despotic ? The answer is supplied by three of their recent financial measures. Old-Age Pensions,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR." . 1 Sts,—In Switzerland no one can take even a short journey by train without learning of the existence of agencies for the protection of...

[To TEE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR." J glff,—I have just seen the letter signed "House Surgeon" in your issue of July 20th, headed " The Treatment of Nurses," which really deals...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. ") SIR, — To the dwindling minority of Englishmen who know anything about rural life it is very evident that one of the chief reasons for the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEcrATos."] SIR, —Surely Carlyle had Mr. Asquith and the present day in his prophetic eye when, some time before the summer of 1849, be wrote the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIB, — As I was sitting on the lawn chatting with some friends on Sunday last with the thermometer over eighty degrees in the shade we...

[To THY EDITOR 07 THE "SrzCTATos..") SIR, —Let me suggest that the " House Visitors" at a hospital should be expected to take a meal weekly with the nurses in their dining-hall,...

IN MEMORIAM—ANDREW LANG. THE "brindled hair" of Louis' lay Had many a year been flecked with gray, And yet 'tis an untimely blow That lays you, gallant Andrew, low; For still...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR:1 Spit,--You were good enough on a previous occasion to allow me space in your valuable paper to appeal for contributions to provide holidays...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sts, I feel almost ashamed to address this letter to you, to ask your kindly help and sympathy again in this work of encouraging the pit...

THE WHISTLER LOAN COLLECTION. ALTHOUGH the cause was just and the plan of the assault was well chosen and brilliantly carried out, the frontal attack on the Chantrey Trust...

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...

WILLIAM LANGLAND.* Tax poems analysed and compared with Langland's by Miss Dorothy L. Owen in Piers Plowman : a Comparison with some Earlier and Contemporary French Allegories...

Sus CHARLES LUCAS in this superb edition of Lord Durham's historic Report has done a work which has long been urgently needed. He gives us not only a good edition of the text,...

great book. It expresses and marks an epoch in thinking. It is of twofold import. The book took its rise, as great works often must, in a piece of minute specialism—an inquiry...

we published a review of a book called Secret Remedies : What they Cost and What they Contain, consisting of analyses carried out for the British Medical Association of...

professes to be. Among the host of gardening books which have heaped themselves on the amateur's and beginner's shelves during the past ten or twelve years there was still room...

THE criticism in this pamphlet is both prejudiced and ill- natured, and to such a degree that it will cause no alarm to the friends of the movement it seeks to condemn. Its...

No better memorial of a long and strenuous life could have !been devised than these characteristic pages, in which the late Dean of St. Paul's has set down briefly, but with no...

LOVE AT PADDINGTON.* MR. PETT RIDGE has got rather off the lines in his latest story, and it will be the concern of every reader who knows the genuineness of his Cockney...

• John Hungerford Pollen, 18204902. By Anne Pollen. With Portraits and Illustrations. London : John Murray. [158. net.] THIS Life of John Hungerford Pollen will revive and keep...

[Under This heading we notice such Books of the week as hare not been teemed for review in other forms.1 The Lady Next Door. By Harold Begbie. illustrated. (Hod- der and...

Paul and Co. 6s.)—This is the story of a middle-aged politician married to a lady who for riches and political influence can only be compared to the late Lady Burdett-Coutts. It...

Swift. 6s.)—The study of the blind professor ie a clever tour de force. Those with whom he plays, with outrage er self-sacrifice, are incredibly spiritless people of straw.—The...

Edwards, London. 9s.)—For any one who desires to learn about the objects and methods of the Society for Psychical Research this collection of the presi- dential addresses...

Macalister. 3 vols. (John Murray. £4 40. net.)—Two large volumes of letterpress and a third of illustrations are the fruit of Professor Macalister's five years' excavations at...

Murray. ls. net.)—An abridged and cheap reprint of Sir Arthur Clay's admirable criticism of Syndicalism is most welcome. Since the work originally appeared last August there...

and Boon. 6s.)—This book is mainly an interesting description of everyday life in London, though in one episode it plunges into tremendous drama. Although the drama is well done...