Bengal Chamber of Commerce, the Calcutta Trades Association, and the European and Anglo-Indian Defence Association urges the Government to adopt immediate drastic measures "to...

Times correspondent at Berlin in Friday's issue. The Vossische Zcitung publishes a virulent attack upon England for standing behind the Young Turks and prompting the boycott of...

the Constitution in a Rescript, which was sum- marised by the Persian correspondent of the Times as follows : "Considering that you denounced the Constitution as against the...

T HE news at the end of the week in regard to the situation in South-Eastern Europe is by no means reassuring- The Austrians are making very strong protests at Constanti- nople...

was issued by the Foreign Office on Monday. The most important part is that in which Sir Edward Grey discusses the right of Great Britain to make conditions before con- senting...

attention to the dangers of invasion to which this country is exposed, and must be exposed as long as we have not in these islands a military force stronger than that which we...

case.

was continued on Thursday, Mr. Balfour opening it in a speech strongly hostile to the measure. No doubt Mr. Balfour was careful to declare that he spoke only for himielf, but,...

that denominational eduoation could only be given to those children whose parents desired it, that it must, be at the cost of the denomination, and that all facilities mud be...

Commons on Monday. In his view, Mr. Wyndham had greatly underestimated the financial extent of the land purchase problem, and instead of fixing the amount at £100,000,000, he...

as a bold and far-reaching measure of reform, framed in accordance with Irish popular sentiment. Mr. Wyndham strongly deprecated the hasty driving through Parliament of such a...

Mr. Runciman moved the second reading of the Education Bill iii the iomwons on Wednesday. Contrasting the "stormier times" or his predecessors with the changed atmosphere which...

regret that a certain-number of Churchmen who originally joined the Settlement Committee, including, we are sorry to say, the Bishop of London, are showing syluptoms of uneasi:...

County Council's accounts—that dealing with the working- house dwellings and steamboats—has been issued. The auditors, Mr. Peat (president of the Institute of Chartered...

debate on the Licensing Bill in the House of Lords, which began on Wedneaday and was continued on Thursday and Friday. We desire, however, to express our satisfaction that the...

Unionist Peers held at Lansdowne House on Tuesday it was decided that the Unionist Party should vote against the second reading of the Licensing Bill, which of course meant the...

Committee. The Committee, of which the Bishop of London has consented to act as chairman, desires to elicit and register public support for the Government, the Arch- triehtip of...

' Sardinia,' which had just left Malta for Alexandria. Flames were discovered in one of the holds, and they spread so rapidly that all hope of extinguishing them was very soon...

some details of the Republican campaign fund. The total sum subscribed was a little over £330,000, in addition to some £124,000 distributed to the various State Committees....

part in a test election which is being organised by the Society for Proportional Representation. If they vote, we can assure them that there is no possibility of manipulation or...

A SPECIAL TAX ON LAND. A PIECE of land, a house, a share in a company, or a block of Government stock,—none of these can find money to meet the demands of the tax-collector....

I T is unnecessary for us to waste many words in express- ing our agreement with the spirit of Lord Roberts's warning to the nation that it is not prepared to resist invasion,...

been conflicting reports in the American newspapers . as to the nature of the interview with the German Emperor which was to have appeared in the Century Magazine, but which was...

T HOSE people who can cast their minds back to the year 1903 will remember with what hopeful eyes Mr. Wyndham's Land Purchase Bill of that year was regarded by members of all...

A S the Lords have practically determined what the result of the debate on the Licensing Bill shall be, there is no use in dwelling upon the arguments we have advanced in favour...

" T HE Church has four Gospels, heresies very many," wrote Origen. By the end of the second century the position of the Synoptists and of St. John was established as...

T T is a singular world which is peopled by the bright creations of those who write books 'on manners. These works have long earned the indulgent affection of those who would...

I N an address delivered on November 9th before the Surveyors' Institution, Mr. Howard Martin, the newly elected president, gave his hearers the results of some extensive...

PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION.--A MODEL ELECTION. I.TO VIZ EDITOR 01 TIM "Ssscrsroa.'J [" The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that...

rt.() THE EDITOR OF THE "SPFCTATOR.1 6IR,—The able and interesting letter of Mr. Talbot Baines in last week's issue of the Spectator exhibits at once the strength and the...

PROTECTION AND THE NEXT GENERAL ELECTION. To THE EDITOR Or TUN arm-rerm.] Sin,—I notice, and you will no doubt have noticed, that whenever we Conservatives win a by-election...

•• [To Tux auricle OF TRIO SP NeVIITOR."1 EIR,—Your article on "Our Young Barbarians" in last week's Spectator has given me great pleasure, as treating Lord William CeciVs...

ITO EDITOR OP TITS "BP ISOTAT011.1 SIR, —Your answer in the case of the Duke of Northumberland (Spectator, November 21st) shows that the particulars you asked for as to my...

OP THE SPECTATOR. ] SIR, —Mr. Pohlman-Hohenaspe, who has lived both in Berlin and London, points out that there is no direct relation between the population and wealth of a town...

fifty-five years has brought me into close . touch with the development of a large city which, with surrounding districts, separately incorporated, has now a population of a...

(To T IC EDITOR ov THE " SPECTATOR.... I Sin,—Mr. Hugh Wharton (Spectator, November 21st) asks for proof of my assertion. I have not seen the rules of the Friendly Society of...

last week Mr•. Hemmerde adduced the instance of the Duke of Northumberland selling land for £931 14s. an acre which was rated at £2 an acre, and you com- mented upon the case in...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. - ] Sin, — Permit me briefly to express my great disappointment with your article on this subject on November 7th. The nation is faced with a...

[To TUE EDITOR OF TUE " SPECTATOE:] SIR, — The writer of the admirable article on "Hymns" in the Spectator of November 21st twice very justly cites one of Isaac Watts's finest...

[To THE EDITOR OF THX " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,--Referring to the letter in your issue of November 14th on this subject, perhaps you are not aware that an experiment on these lines...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." J Srn,—The following extract from the Newcastle Evening Chronicle of November 19th may interest your readers.—I "UNEMPLOYED CHARGED WITH...

[TO . T1111 EDITOR OP TUE " SP HOPATOIL:1 was much pleased to find in your able article on the financial position in the issue of November 21st that you advocate a oniversal...

[TO THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR"] SIE,—The most unpleasant feature in regard to the woman suffrage movement is the support that is being given to it by Conservatives. I am not...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sra,—Will you permit me one meek word of protest against your remark (Spectator, November 21st, p. 844) that "it is not the game [bridge]...

[To THZ EDITOR or THZ SPECTATOR."] Sra,—In. would be a matter of great interest to many agricultural readers if your correspondent "A J.P." (Spectator, November 21st) had...

[Ti) THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOZ.1 SIE, - It may seem an impertinence to attempt to make additions to the precise and careful definition of the German crisis contained in the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J SIB., —With reference to the letter headed "New Crosby Hall" which appeared in your columns of November 21st, will you kindly allow me to...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—When I read your article on "Towered Cities in the Spectator of November 14th, I hoped that some one blessed with a more powerful pen...

[To TIER EDITOR 01 , TIIR 'EPIICTI.T011.1 Silk—Mr. Bolton Hall calls attention in last week's Spectator to the fact that in noticing his book I said : "We have yet to learn the...

recent meeting of the Committee of the Noncon- formist Unionist Association, held under the presidency of Sir George Hayter Chubb, Bart., it was decided that, in view of the...

MR. MAW TREY. THE English playgoer who has an evening on his hands, and who wishes to run no risks in his search for entertainment, can always make sure of satisfaction by the...

[To TH. EDITOR OR TIER ''ERECRATOR..] SIE,—Like Mr. Asquith, I, too, owe you an apology for s careless phrase thoughtlessly used. I also owe you a debt of gratitude. .My story,...

AMORIS INTEGRATIO. IN the garden, every moment, wither'd leaves are trembling down, And the sward looks dim and dreary, and the trees are bare or brown, And the autumn flowers...

in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of expression. In such instances, as in the case of " Letters to the Editor," insertion only means that the matter...

THE CONQUEST OF THE CAUCASUS.* . THE resistance which. Shamil and his wild tribesmen offered to the Russian advance in Alm Caucasus between 1829 and 1859 aroused the sympathy...

MRS. WILKINS is a welcome addition to the small band of travellers who can produce good literature. She has the true wandering spirit, and is tolerant and humorous in dull...

towards these learned volumes that we consider the most remarkable thing about them to be the revelation they give of their author's mind. Dr. Gairdner has lived so much among...

of course be specially attractive to those—and they are many—to_ whom the higher education of women has been and is a matter of supreme interest. Probably no one ever lived who...

SIR WALTER GILBET, who has published a number of practical books on rural subjects, is a great believer in milk, and he is afraid that " milk scares " and the promised Local...

there is nothing new worth writing about fishing. But, in truth, the subject is not nearly exhausted ; and if it were, anglers would always read with pleasure the trite thoughts...

THIS is a sympathetic study of a supremely touching figure in French - history, a martyr to loyalty and friendship in whose innocent life nothing had ever happened to merit one...

THE HERMIT AND 1 111k, WILD WOMAN.* Mits. WHARTON'S indisputable talent perhaps reached its high.- water mark in her previous collection of short stories, The Descent of Man....

Miss Johnston has fully grasped the soundness of the principle that an historical novel, if it is to be worth reading, ought to be long. It is impossible to convey a picture of...

can speak with almost unmixed praise of Mr. Crockett's new story as far as concerns what is by much the greater portion of it. Hubert Salveson has a hard time. He has had a...

Sons. 6s.-)—The faults of this story are more those of manner than of matter, the writer having acquired a habit of sententiously addressing her readers, using for the purpose...

[Under this heading les notice such Books of the week as here not been reserved for review in other forms.] • Abraham Lincoln, the Boy and the Man. By James Morgan. (Macmillan...

Claud Field. (R.T.S. 5s. not.)—This is a volume which we feel constrained to notice very briefly. It is not that we aro sceptical about the genuineness of the story told, or...

Nolan. (Browne and Nolan, Dublin. 10s. 6d. net.)—The House of Ypres traces its lineage, in a way told in detail in this volume, to a com- munity founded at Brussels in 1593 by...

10s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Bullock does not pretend to tell the history of the Gordon clan. Nor is he relating the services of the Gordon Highlanders, for he explains that it is a...

and Hancock. 5s.)—The "happy half-century," according to Miss Repplier, lay in the list twenty-five years of the eighteenth century and the first five-and-twenty of the nine-...

delphia.)—A lover of Dickens may learn not a little from this volume. The first of the six essays may be taken with some probability as the occasion of the book. "Dickens's...

(Hodder and Stoughton. 10s. 6d. net.)-1 very handsome volume. Mr. Robinson's illustrations, numbering forty in all, are effective in colouring and design ; the paper and print...

Henry C. Burdett, K.C.B. (Financial Review of Reviews.)—There is certainly an amazing amount of information given in this volume of four hundred and fifteen very closely printed...

2s.)—Dr. Clarke , takes in these essays, at least in some of them, what may be described as the unpopular side. He points out that a cold bath is not always a good thing,—as Dr....