in preparation for some time, is g ivin g serious trouble to Servia and Mofitene g ro, and en g a g in g indirectly the anxiety of every Power which has interests in the...

at the Elysee Palace, and toasts were exchan g ed. It was hoped that Kin g Constantine would express the obli g a- tions of the Greek army to French assistance in terms at least...

O N Wednesday in Belfast the period of military and political preparation yielded what is by far its most notable result so far in the announcement of the nature of the...

with prayers. Lord Londonderry said that he was aware that he was takin g the most important step in his political life. He hoped that the Government would realize their folly...

issue of last Saturday that the Persian Re g ent, on his return to his country, has not found a promisin g situation, thou g h it is not much worse than usual. M. Mornard, the...

which was marked by an exceptionally g rave tone and by carefully wei g hed phrases, but we must mention the interest- in g point of political history that be and his fellow...

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representatives of the London General Omnibus Company, Messrs. Tilling, and the Union of Licensed Vehicle Workers, Sir George Ask with acting as chairman, the omnibus dispute...

and other Midland centres was settled last Saturday, the companies undertaking to reinstate any men who left work or were suspended, and are willing to handle the traffic which...

vivacious and well-informed account of the personalities in the new Chinese Cabinet. The Cabinet, as a whole, he says, reflects the suave persistence of Yuan Shih-kai and his...

since the publication of the Report of the Holt Com- mittee, now threatens to become acute. Last Saturday the Postmen's Federation at Birmingham rejected the Report as...

Employers, to be registered as a trade union, with a guarantee fund of .e50,000,000. The aims of the association, which is being organized with the approval of the Duke of...

of the Trade Union Congress, though resented by the Dublin employers as grossly unfair, has at least the merit of refusing to identify the English unions with the policy of the...

a settlement have revived. A procession of strikers stoned the tramcars on Sunday night, and were not dispersed with- cut sharp fighting, in which twenty policemen were injured....

George in which, in answer to a request from Lord Salisbury, he supplied "three cases in which the [Cecil] family trampled upon every principle laid down by Lord Robert Cecil in...

held on Tuesday at Marble Arch House, Lord Montagu of Beaulieu _presiding. In the evening the case for the Channel Tunnel was presented by Baron Emile d'Eilanger, Chairman of...

of the Postmen's Federation or the Conference of Clerical Workers, who have reiterated their rejection of the recommendations of the Holt Committee and their resolve to press...

the Irish, World, was announced in Wednesday's papers. Ford, who was born in Galway but emigrated in early youth to America, persistently advocated the use of dynamite, extolled...

Lady Spencer at Althorp during the week, and have seen a good deal of the Army manoeuvres in the Midlands. On Tuesday the King and Queen visited Northampton and received an...

George one refers to "another member of the family" who "when he held very high office himself had a flutter' . . . in Whittaker Wright's fraudulent concern," and the other...

the scheme, described the character of the grey chalk, eighty- seven feet thick at Dover and seventy feet thick at Sangatte, through which the tunnels would be bored. It...

at Kirkby Stephen was concluded yesterday week. Before arriving at their final verdict the jurymen were sent back four times. When the coroner pointed out that there was no...

THE PLANS OF ULSTER. T HE more thoughtful Liberal newspapers are dropping the pretence that the talk of civil war in Ulster is all bluff. That is a point to the good. For two...

_AL MOST exactly a year after Bulgaria took up arms peace once more prevails in the Balkans. Every State, except Roumania, is too exhausted for more fighting with any enemy...

not disclosed, have issued a pamphlet entitled "A Unionist Agricul- tural Policy" (John Murray, 6d. net), in which many far-reaching proposals are more or less sketchily formu-...

the present system of choosing and training naval cadets. The main feature of that system till the present month was the introduction of the interview. Every applicant for a...

"T HIS book is a piece of pure devilment," says its author. So it is, but it will give any literary person who picks it up a quarter of an hour of real amusement. (" The...

T HE Fortunate Isles do really deserve their name, and the pride of the people in their town of Palma de Mallorca is one of the most reasonable things on earth. It is a lovely,...

S TAND A.RD works on British birds enumerate four species of owls as natives of these islands, the White or Barn owl, Strix jiammea, the Long-eared owl, Asio otus, the Short-...

THE HOME RULE BILL [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." I Sta,—Whatever may be the effect of Lord Loreburn's honest and statesmanlike letter on his Majesty's Ministers, there...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Whether or not you consider it advisable to publish this letter, I write to ask you to reconsider your opinion that a Referendum on the...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—While hoping that the proposed Conference will be able to devise some scheme that will help to unite Irishmen of all races and religious...

[To TES EDITOR 07 1112 ..srEcTeron.1 SIR,—In your article under this heading last week I venture to think you have overlooked one important consideration, and in your account of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—On page 376 of the Spectator of September 13th Professor A. V. Dicey speaks of the reputed action of Sir Robert Peel in the crisis of...

[To THE EDITOR OF TIIII "SPECTITOR..1 SIR,—You argue very cogently that, having adopted the principle of Home Rule in Ireland, we are bound to recognize the claim of North-East...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SrEcrwroa."] SIR,—Your correspondents write as if some kind of com- promise must be found in order to deliver us from civil war. But is it not plain that...

[To THE EDITOR OF 2'HE "SPECTATOR.') SIR,—The day on which the summer holiday began one of the managers of our village school offered four money prizes for the most striking...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SrEcrAToit.") SIR,—The gentleman who last week reviewed for you Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick's "Below Stairs" does my great-great- uncle, Major Pen.dennis,...

[To THE ED/TOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] am reluctant to differ from such eminent authorities as yourself and Sir William Chance, but I cannot agree that the authorities which you...

[To TILE EDITOR OP THE "SFECTATOR."] SIR,—In the article under this beading which appeared in the Spectator of 20th inst., it is stated that owners of partridge- shootings are...

[To THE ELITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—I had recently the great privilege of visiting Christ- church Priory Church, which, as your correspondent says, "is a national monument...

ITO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — In the library here I have just come across a MS. commonplace book (dated 1605), in which appears the follow- ing ingenious...

[To TEE EDITOR OP TER "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I suggest to " Civis," who appeals to landowners "not to be too rigorous in excluding the humble and harmless pedestrian from their...

reperts. It runs :— " Sir,—I hate the honour to inform you that I have just shot a man who came to kill me. Your obedient servant, Tom: . NicnoLsort."

[To max EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—I cannot remember if you definitely put a stop to the discussion in the Spectator whether whales are able to emit vocal sounds or not....

[To THE EDITOR 01 THE "SPECTATOR."] Stn,—An enormous number of books is once more promised us by the publishers for the winter season, and once more the difficulty of reading on...

SIR,—The letter from Mr. Fleetwood H. Williams under the above heading in your issue of July 26th has just come to my notice. If it is not too late to revive correspondence on...

THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The resume of a speech made recently on some public occasion began somewhat as follows : "People don't seem to mind so much paying for prisons,...

[To YEE EDITOR CY THE "SPECTATOR'] SIR,—The charming article on blackberrying and blackberries in the Spectator of September 13th must, I think, have been contributed by a...

[TO THZ EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:] Sig,—Our Clubs for Working Girls are now re-opened for the autumn and winter sessions, and never before have we received so many requests...

SIMPLICITY, GREAT AND SMALL. No humorist, so far as we are aware, has ever done justice to the comedy of alphabetical juxtaposition as illustrated by biographical dictionaries....

SUSSEX HARVEST. NUT trees they be turnin' brown, Beech tree he've a yeller crown, Horse chestnut be nearly ripe, Robin's tooned his autumn pipe. Hills be purple like a plum,...

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...

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THE HAPPY WARRIOR.* " IT is a figure which must always haunt those who travel the rough roads of Scottish history. We see him in the gorgeous clothes which still dazzle us in...

"I INCLINE to think," M. Barthou says, "that it is impossible to know Mirabeau completely." It is, in truth, no easy matter to grasp the most salient features in the character...

TEEE countrymen of Cowper, Lamb, Gray, Walpole, and FitzGerald ought to have a nicer judgment on the merits of private letters than almost any other. nation. Yet, as a nation,...

WHILE political quackery calls on authority to provide rural labourers with cottages at the expense of householders often equally poor, or with a minimum wage whether employers'...

Ms. HUDSON need not have prefaced these " adventures " with an apology for writing another book- about birds. No other English naturalist sees birds, or writes about them, aquae...

THANKLESS as is the pait of Canute rebuking the waves, it is time to raise a protest, however vain, against the endless , multiplication to-day of memoirs and semi-scandalous...

half years the tutor and close friend of the Prince Imperial, and, like all who came into contact with him, formed the highest opinion of his pupil's eacellenee of character,...

always retain its fascination for the inhabitants of humdrum, sedate, indus- trial Europe, and, judging by recent events, the interest seemS likely to be well maintained. Mr....

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is high praise to say of a book that it r eminds one irresistibly of the "Old Wives' Tale": it is not only true of Mrs. Dudeney's last book, but it is well earned. It is written...

Stenton, M.A. Published by University College, Reading. (B. H. Black- well, Oxford; Henry Frowde, London. 2s. 6d. net.)—This careful little volume, which is the result of Mr....

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A. Baker. (G. Routledge and Sons. 21s. net.)—This new edition of a most useful work of reference has been so much revised and enlarged as to be almost a fresh compilation. The...

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GRAHAM-JONES.—On the 18th September, EDWARD CHRISTOPHER, second son of the liev. and Mrs. GRAHAM-JONES, of Sanderstead Rectory, Surrey (late of Cowden Rectory, Kent), Civil...