No doubt what the French Government would like to do would be to organize an efficient native military force for the Sultan, which could . be relied on to keep order, and then...

G ENERAL MOINIER entered Fez on Sunday last at the head of the French relieving force. There was very little opposition to his advance, but, as usual in Morocco, the badness of...

of the week is the report of the Emperor Francis Joseph's health given in the clerical Reichspost of Vienna on Wednesday. According to this organ, which is in close touch with...

however, contains a telegram from Mexico City stating that President Diaz actually resigned at a quarter to five on Thursday afternoon, and Senor Delabarra automatically became...

to intro- duce a Bill to prevent flying in London at the time of the Coronation, and that the Aero Club of the United Kingdom is also trying to prevent accidents like that which...

watched anxiously from his roof for . the signs of the relieving force and the French 'advance guard were met by numbers of g galloping messengers who were despatched in true...

start of the Paris-Madrid flying race at Issy-les-1/Coulineaux early on Sunday morning, by which M. Berteaux, the French Minister for War, lost his life, and M. Monis, the...

case.

speech. He pointed out that if the Parliament Bill became law in its present state the House of Commons would not resemble any other First Chamber in the world; nor would there...

British Weekly under the beading of "The Danger of the Government." In it a violent attack is made on Lord Loreburn, who is charged with continuing to appoint " Tory magistrates...

made a weighty protest against withdrawing the Lords' control over finance at a time when there was such an enormous increase in expenditure taking place—a protest which has our...

the Second Reading of the Parliament Bill was begun. Lord Morley began by maintaining that the House had admitted the night before in the most formal and definite manner that...

reading of Mr. Hayes Fisher's Bill for amending the Old-age Pensions Act, and Mr. Hobhouse took the opportunity of sum- marizing the chief points in the Bill that the Government...

the House of Commons on Wednesday. Mr. Buxton, in his opening speech, dealt principally with the part of the Bill concerned with unemployment. He maintained that the experiment,...

Bill was concluded in the House of Lords on Monday. During the earlier part of the sitting the Bill was criticized by several Opposition Peers, amongst whom was the Duke of...

humour, pointed out that the Unionist Party had been beaten, not upon their merits, but because they had been out- manoeuvred. The Lords had been goaded and jockeyed into...

tion caused by the Osborne judgment was published on Thursday. The Bill enables trade unions to devote a portion of their funds to political purposes, provided that on a ballot...

Mr. Asquith, who presided, said that two things in the British Empire were unique in the history of great political aggregations—the reign of law, so that the King's writ ran...

was issued in Friday's newspapers. The population of England and Wales is now placed at 36,075,269, as against 32,527,843 ten years ago. This means an increase of 3,547,426, or...

Joseph Ward gave a detailed explanation of his scheme for an Imperial Parliament. There would be an Imperial House of Representatives, one representative for each 200,000 of the...

of a new treatment of tuberculosis, discovered by Dr. de Szendeffy, of Budapest. The treatment consists of injec- tion of a preparation of radio-active menthol-iodine, and after...

proposed that the Conference should be open to the Press, except when the subjects were confidential. He said that during the last Conference there was some annoyance in New...

Liberalism, there might be some excuse for such assertions. But there has never been any ground for such suspicion. On all the issues to which the Liberal Party stand committed,...

decreases in the population, and the same fact is noticed in five of the Welsh rural counties, but the only boroughs which show a decrease—and this is slight—are Hastings,...

Mar. 9th. . Consols (21) were on Friday 81I-Friday week 81k.

sion of self-convicted liars who swore in the box that the detailed evidence they had given those who got up the case for the petitioners was false, we need not dwell. In the...

Member for East Nottingham, was dismissed yester- day week after a trial lasting eleven days. It was not denied that Captain Morrison had disbursed considerable sums in gifts...

of the income-tax payers. In 1909-10. it appears that 10,300 persons were liable to super- tax, and as their whole income amounted to £130,000,700, the average works out at...

THE POSSIBILITIES OF COMPROMISE. W E have ourselves never felt able to cherish any very strong hopes of the possibilities of compromise. In our opinion the determination of the...

A T the Pilgrims' dinner on Tuesday Sir Edward Grey made a memorable statement when he definitely accepted the Monroe doctrine, or, as he rightly preferred to call it, the...

Lloyd George's insurance scheme, we regard with the utmost alarm his proposal to force the scheme through the House of Commons during the present Session. A scheme of this...

W ILL Britain profit by the lesson which was given by the Surrey Veteran Reserve on Saturday last ? Lord Roberts, as he passed down the lines drawn up for his inspection, saw...

A N extraordinary mental audacity, the result, as it would seem to the reader, of an intense mental energy, has led the new headmaster of Repton to attack in a short book, " The...

T HERE is no country in the world that we know of where so much is taken for granted as in Ireland. Much that is taken for granted is good—that it is better to be honest than...

T HE Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals have done themselves and their cause a grave disservice. At the annual meeting, held on Friday, May 19th, in the hall...

THE GOVERNMENT INSURANCE BILL. [To TES EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR."] Sin,,—The attractive points of Mr. Lloyd George's proposals are obvious, and have been made sufficiently...

[To SHE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—In the current number of the British Medical Journal Mr. Lloyd George is reported to have given "personal assur- ances" that he has...

(To TER EDITOR 01 TUX " SPECTATOR...1 Stir,—If I wished to persuade a thoughtful and educated Englishman that the House of Laymen is not competent to represent the English...

on this subject, perhaps you will allow me to say a few words in answer to Mr. Athelstan Riley's letter in your issue of May 20th. Being attacked, he- defends himself, and that...

Sin,—Mr. Athelstan Riley, no doubt unintentionally, seems to etheibute to me the opinion that " the official clergy owe their appointment to the English people at large of...

Sra,—Mr. Riley's letter suggests two reflections. (1.) The Houses of Laymen are an attempt, at present unsuccessful, to bring lay opinion into the counsels of the Church. They...

to read Mr. Riley's letter with any semblance of patience and self-control. His aim is to reduce, as far as in him lies, the National Church to the strict limits of a sect, and...

as a rule, so conspicuously fair that it seems to me beneath its high standard to say, as in your issue of May 20th, that whatever the President of the English Church Union may...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR:] trust you will allow me to place before your readers the following particulars in regard to the National Scheme for Endowment of Home...

[TO THE EDrrOS Or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,,—One of your correspondents says that, in his opinion, the claim to the title of Churchman—i.e., his Church— depends upon whether the...

"SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Your readers will have seen various descriptions of last Saturday's parade of the Surrey Veteran Reserve as witnessed by onlookers from outside; perhaps a...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —Will you allow me to reply to "A Man in the Street " ? I only saw his letter of May 6th a day or two ago. I don't think that Quakerism...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " STECTATOR."] SIR,—The Government scheme for the payment of members of the House of Commons is characteristic. It is proposed that members of the Lower...

THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In tendering advice to the House of Lords with regard to the passage or rejection of the Parliament Bill you say that the Bill will have to pass that...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In these days everyone attacks the Puritan ; no one dares to say a good word for him. But the attacks are usually founded on...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—When I started the National Volunteer Reserve I took care to throw the force open to all officers and men who had passed permanently...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The Goodbodys are only one of several Quaker families who prospered and made the King's County prosper in the late eighteenth and the...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — In case you have not closed this correspondence, I should like to correct Lord Archibald Campbell's statement that only the...

(To THE EDITOR. Or THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — The very interesting letter in last week's Spectator re- specting " precursors " reminds me of a phenomenon which I —in common with...

accepted as conclusive Lord Crewe's dictum that " the Union Jack undoubtedly may be flown on land by all His Majesty's subjects." But there is another question, cognate but...

desire to publish any further records of experiences connected with the above subject (which appear to be not uncommon) I send you the following two which }hive occurred to...

ITO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Does not Catullus allude to this in his poem, Ad seipsum de adventu veris, when he writes :— " Jam mens prntrepidans avet vagari ;...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'] Sin,—Having been abroad on duty in the Near East for the last three months I have not been able during that time to do much to further the...

HAWTHORN. " I will sine as doth behove Hymns in praise of what I love." WORDSWORTH. I 'mow a dingle in a hawthorn wood Filled with the fragrance of the perfect May; Here the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. ") SIR,—The Potteries Fund, which provides convalescent treatment for women and girls suffering from lead-poisoning, is very low indeed—so low...

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 NEW ENGLISH ART CLUB. THE collection of pictures which the New English Art Club is now showing at the galleries of the Society of British Artists in Suffolk Street is a...

THE LIFE, TRIAL, AND DEATH OF FRANCISCO FERRER.* Ma. ARCHER has done no better piece of work, in any of his excursions abroad to study questions of the day, than this...

T FIB pictures by Mr. Walter Greaves should be seen by those who are interested in the problems of authorship which occupy students of the old masters. Not that this is their...

Young studies the environ- ment of the early life of the Emperor, and seeks to estimate the influence which it had on the formation of character, and to what extent it...

ventures nowadays to discuss Bacon, since he has become one of those subjects, like the philosopher's stone and squaring the circle and per- petual motion, which are "to madness...

QUITE half of this not unattractive volume is concerned with the genius of Rome, especially as interpreted by American sculptors and other artists. Among these, the author's...

MR. MARRIOTT has had unusual opportunities of testing his ability as an interpreter of English political institutions. His book is based upon lectures " addressed to audiences...

book on Estate Forestry has Made his name familiar to landowners .*,Imperial Telegraphic Communication. HY Charles Bright. London ; P.,& 'King and CO. tae. 6d. net.]. ;a 1...

THE Imperial Conference will have to consider seriously the installation of an all-British cable. Few people have any idea of the extent to which Imperial communications are...

Miss OLIVE SCHREINER has written a book—only a frag- ment, she explains, of a greater book that has perished—on what may be called the most serious of all world-questions, and...

NONSENSE NOVELS.* IN a humorous preface Professor Leacock, as we must now call him, tells us how reviewers of his previous work, Literary Lapses, "presumed, on inductive...

A souvenir of the Coronation of their Majesties King George and Queen Mary." It contains the Coronation Service as it is arranged for the great occasion, Sir Frederick Bridge's...

Fisher Unwin. 6s.)—It is only necessary to read the table of contents of this volume to be sure that the title is well bestowed. The first two stories are called "The Dead...

Stoughton. 6s.)—There are force and originality in Mr. Crockett's tale, but we must own that we do not much like it. A "mesmeric Evangelist,"—i.e., a man who works a revival to...

['Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have sot ben reserved for retries, in other form.] The New Garden of Canada. By F. A. Talbot. (Cassell and Co. 7s. 6d....

under- lying sanity of these nonsense novels, but we can assure readers who delight in mere joyous desipience that they will find a rich harvest of laughter in the purely...

Kerr Hannay. Vol. M. (W. Blackwood and Sons. 7s. 6d. net.) —This third volume is wholly occupied with the biography of James Beaton. It is no disparagement to the labours of...