T HE crisis in foreign affairs still remains very grave, and though it may be said that the indications of Friday were more favourable than those of Thursday, we are bound to...

phasizes what we have said elsewhere as to the absurdity of supposing that any internal crisis or party division or em- bittered controversy here can for one moment affect our...

Crisis we may state that as we write on Friday all the indications point to a non-revolutionary solution—i.e., to there being no creation of peers—and so to a complete victory...

described we must note how staunchly the majority of the chief Tariff Reformers (for example, to name only two of many, Mr. Bonar Law and Mr. Arthur Lee) have held to their...

Secretary—a sign in itself of the gravity of the position— made a statement in the House of Commons as to the situa- tion. The facts, as he stated them, are : (1) Conversations...

and Germany cannot come to a settlement of the kind indicated, we should become an active party to the discussions. That is 'our right under the Treaty of Algeciras, and it...

case.

attended it, it woe.: till more of a fiasco in the matter of argument. Every speech made contained one colossal non sequitur and generally two. The speakers praised the Honse of...

opinion those who promoted the dinner desire to oust Lord Lansdowne and Mr. Balfour from the leadership. It is idle to pretend other- wise. There is, of course, nothing morally...

display of loyalty was Mr. Austen Chamberlain. He had the good taste not to pretend that be was loyally following his leader by hitting him over the head, and the audience seems...

the Unionist peers, and on Saturday afternoon notice was issued that a dinner was to be given to Lord Halsbury to thank him for the part he bad taken in the Constitutional...

issue must now be recorded. On Saturday last the papers gave a report of the meeting of Unionist peers held on the previous day at which Lord Lansdowne read a letter addressed...

mention, though with great reluctance, the message from Mr. Chamberlain to Lord Selborne, which was read out at the beginning of the proceedings. It was as follows :— " I hear...

scene of unparalleled passion and disorder when Mr. Asquith attempted to justify the rejection of the Lords' amend- ments to the Parliament Bill. The pandemonium reached such a...

a very deep disappointment to its promoters. It is, indeed, hardly too much to say that it was a fiasco. There were a good number of revolting Members of Parliament and a gcod...

arguments exactly Mr. Asquith would have used, ridiculed the notion that the action of the Lords justified a revolution. The Government were misusing the prerogative of the...

might be refused a hearing, but the Liberals listened to him quietly enough, and such attempts at interruption as there were were suppressed from the Liberal side. We will...

Mar. 9th. Consols (29) were on Friday 781—Friday week 781.

at Constantinople, a disastrous fire broke out which destroyed, in Stambul, 2,500 houses and sixteen mosques. The fact that the fire broke out in more than one place, and that...

Mr. Asquith's undelivered speech which was issued to the Press in the evening. After reviewing the history of the Parliament Bill it discusses the tribunal which it is proposed...

the annual statement upon Indian Affairs. He drew attention to the result of the recent census, which showed that the population was 315 millions as against 294 millions in...

Newton, in which Mr. Balfour defined his policy in face of the Constitutional crisis. "I agree with the advice Lord Lansdowne has given to his friends; with Lord Lansdowne I...

was seen this week in the race for £10,000 offered by the Daily Mail. The race was won by M. Conneau (whose nom d'air is "Beaumont "), a lieutenant in the French Navy. His...

" HE WHO WILLS 'I±E END WILLS THE MEANS." -Fr E who wills the end wills the means." Lord Lansdowne and Mr. Balfour recognize that a creation of peers means disaster. Therefore...

T AST Saturday we pointed out that Germany would be very foolish indeed if she imagined that because the Liberal Government and the Liberal Party try hard to be sympathetic...

T AST Saturday the proposed Reciprocity Agreement between the United States and Canada passed the American Senate by 53 votes to 27. For some time a. strangely assorted...

the Insurance Bill in the House of Commons shows that the Government have a difficult, almost a hopeless, task before them. Their critics are largely of their own household, and...

I T was announced not long ago that a small yawl of thirteen tons, yacht measurement (nine tons net register), had arrived at St. Helena on a voyage round the world, having...

I T was a day for children to play with buttercups, for lovers to walk lingeringly, for the old to deny that they had ever felt old. It took me some time, when the chauffeur was...

T HAT "grows like a weed" is said often enough of a handsome flower—not so often, perhaps, of a flower which is merely graceful or of a delicate colour. You cannot imagine the...

A NEW EDUCATION BILL. SOME ARGUMENTS IN FAVOUR OF THE EDUCATIONAL SETTLEMENT COMMITTEE'S SCHEME. [To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] Stu,—There is a flippant tale told of a...

TOO MUCH GOVERNWFINT. [TO THY EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "' Sra,—The Insurance Bill is serving a very useful purpose in many ways. It is opening the eyes of the people to the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 • SIB,—As your correspondent " X " (Spectator, July 22nd) has referred to me by name in connection with the books to be supplied to the new...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—As Mr. Sutton Nelthorpe remarks in the Spectator of July 15th, there used to obtain two or three generations ago much more practical...

error into which a Northern Noncon. formist (Spectator, July 22nd) has fallen in stating that I ascribe to the Free Churches all the blame for the disunion now prevailing...

[To THE EDITOR OE THE "SPECTATOR.'] Sra,—Knowing, as a constant reader of the Spectator, the keen interest you take in this subject, I feel sure that you will excuse my asking...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECT.110R.'] SIR,—In your issue of the 22nd instant " Liberal " gives a presentation of our electoral conditions which is quite frag- mentary, by no...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIB.,—The powerful article of the Times on July 22nd ends with these words: " Mr. Asquith has undeniably made history, but not history which...

Sra,—There are veterans in the North of England just as loyal and enthusiastic as those in the South. I can particularly speak for many in Lancashire who only await an...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Later, in a cooler state of the atmosphere in and out of Parliament, I hope the Unionist Party will unite in expres- sion of gratitude...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — The Industrial Law Committee has just issued its re- port, and I desire to commend it to your readers. The Committee has steadily...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TH8 "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin, — A good instance of the way in which passion can obliterate reason occurs in the letter of Sir Edward Carson in the Times of 26th...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."3 Sin,—Referring to my letter published in your issue of July 15th, I enclose a list of the numbers and weights of trout killed on my fishing...

[To THE EDITOR. OF THE "SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—According to my experience there is no class of the community that the Insurance Bill will help so materially as it will the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—Your interesting article on Home Science in your issua of June 3rd has been under my notice. With your high appreciation of the value...

[To THE-EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIB, — May we ask for your powerful aid in a crusade that some of ns who are citizens of Westminster are carrying on in defence of the old...

[To THE EDITOR OP TEE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin, — Without any malice whatever, I will say that the present Government, more from her own method in handling the Socialists than from...

[TO THE EDITOR OE THE " SPECTATOR.1 SIR, —Mr. Godley's suggestion (Spectator, July 22nd) as to the Greek origin of the Slavonic use of 22 to express numbers is interesting but...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEER . ..ITO/1.1 Sitt,—In the sentence of the Te Deum, " The Holy Church doth acknowledge Thee," doth is probably plural. Doth and bath are frequently...

of the late Mr. H. G. Dakyns in Mr. H. Plunket Greene's letter was printed by mistake "H. E. Dakyns."—En. Spectator.

NEWS FROM THE NORTH. As I went down by London Bridge (And I not long on land), I met a lad from the North country, And gripped him by the hand, And said : " If you be late from...

SIR,—The letter of your correspondent, Mr. A. D. Godley, on the use of No. twenty-two to indicate a large number sug- gests to me the parallel use of No. four (quattro) in the...

THE CHAIR OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.* " WITH the accession of George I. and the government of the Tory Party the Speakership acquired a permanent character hitherto unknown in its...

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 two ladies — one of them a granddaughter of Dr. Chalmers —who are responsible for the publication of this little volume are to be congratulated on the opportune Mordent of...

careful editorship of Mr. EL A. L. Fisher, represent the whole of Maitland's scattered • The CoUected Papers of Frederic William Maitland. Edited by IL Fisher. 3 vols. Cambridge...

A BOOK like Messrs. Eversley and Craies' Marriage Laws of the British Empire brings out with striking clearness what must always be one of the greatest difficulties of Imperial...

DEAN FREMANTLE has written a little book of much interest and charm. In it he makes an attempt " to harmonize and in a certain sense identify Christianity with the natural...

the phrase " Two-Power Standard" will derive comfort from the earlier portion of Mr. Fiennes' most interesting book. There is shown to be little need for apprehension at present...

DR. PETER HARDING is supposed to live in a, well.known street, where physicians most do congregate, and to write the letters which we have in this volume. They cover a period of...

Q17EED.s THE author of this novel belongs to the hereditary tribe of story-tellers whose roots are buried deep in the past; all life for him would most conveniently fall under...

PROFESSOR DICEY published this book in 1893, while the Home Rule Bill of that year was still under the consideration of Parliament, before, indeed, it had been sent up to the...

Blackwood and Sons. 78. 6d. net.)—These letters cover a period of twenty years. They are written by the wife of an Indian official, who is Financial Commissioner of the Punjaub....

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] In the Hand of the Potter. By Harold Begbie. (Hodder and Stoughton....

story of the marriage of a young artist with a high-caste Hindu lady. The scene, however, is not, as might be thought from this description, laid in India, but on the Riviera...

6s.)—A fine study of life and character, though not always pleasant to read.—The Hon. Peggy. By G. B. Lancaster. (Constable and Co. 6s.)—A novel of the Baedeker kind and...

Heinemann. 2s. net..)—The scene of this novel is laid in the Highlands, ground not unfamiliar to Mrs. Steel, but not so attractive as the usual Oriental setting of her stories....

by Mme. Moret. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 7s. 6d. net.)—This volume contains six essays originally published in the Bemis de Paris. They are not continuous, but they have the common...

Railway Pictorial Postcards. (2s. per dozen.) They are very effective representations of locomotive engines of our many railways, home and foreign. We can imagine two classes of...

Marian C. Harrison. (T. Fisher Unwin. 16s. net.) —Signer Mossi followed up his " Palaces of Crete and their Builders" by the work now before us in which he deals with the...

Paul and Co. 12s. 6d. net.)—Here we have a, very graphically written story of the catastrophe of Messina. It begins with a pleasant little dinner of four on December 28th, 1908....

G. Campbell Morgan. (Morgan and Scott)—" This Hymn-book," we read in the preface, "has been prepared to meet the demand created by the growth of the Bible-School Movement." It...