T HE Japanese Government has suddenly increased the severity of its censorship, and the information received this week, though interesting as a hint of its plans, is not in...

spite of its powerful escort, is in no sense a military expe- dition. Colonel Younghusband is nevertheless being drawn farther and farther , towards Lhasa, the Lamas absolutely...

the most contradictory reports— on March ' 26th received the King of Italy on board the Hohenzollern' at Naples, and at the subsequent lunch speeches were made which are...

. Japanese columns, in a strength as yet not known, are evidently marching through Korea upon the Yalu. German observers, indeed, think it clear that a great battle will take...

promised in Macedonia must fail. Their evocation depends entirely upon the ascendency of the new gendarmerie under the Italian General de Giorgio, and that ascendency in its...

case.

Esher Committee, together with a covering and explanatory letter addressed to the Prime Minister. We have dealt at length elsewhere with a matter where, in our opinion, the...

Calcutta to the Legislative Council. He stated positively that he intended to return to India, and recapitulated the great improvements which had been made in India in finance,...

Committee's summary of the machinery created by them. "The. Defence Committee, assisted by a small Secretariat, will deal with questions of National Defence, and will foresee...

to last till April 12th. Before doing so the Aliens Bill was introduced by Mr. Akers-Douglas. The Govern- ment, he explained, did not want to throw unnecessary obstacles in the...

Additional Representation Bill, under which they will have a clear majority in the Legislature. The Bill is acknowledged to be a just one, the Dutch having hitherto, like our...

introduced in the Commons on Monday night met with a chorus of approval from -both sides of the House. There is nothing startlingly novel in the Bill, which applies to Scotland,...

Friday show a deficit on the Eitimates of £2,700,000. There is no marked falling off in any particular item, but a general decrease of • receipts from such sources as Customs,...

words, his acts speak loudly as to the real nature of this strange thing he calls progressive Free-trade. Progressive Free-trade is, we know, something which is absolutely...

which the Ministerialists—the Prime Minister had an engage- ment with the Chancellor of the 'Exchequer, and did not in- tentionally join in the demonstration—left the House when...

scathing attack on the Government by Sir Henry Campbell- Bannerman, who directed special attention to Lord Milner's recent speeches. He also chaffed the Ministry very...

reckless adoption of Protection, and to Mr. Balfour's willingness to acquiesce in, and even further, his views, has been exemplified in a striking way at Bristol this 'week. Sir...

has decided that in future the whole of Richmond Park shall be open to the public,—the woods, which up to now have been carefully preserved, being included. The King has played...

the Balkan Committee, and attended by delegates from France, Italy, and Macedonia, was held on Tuesday afternoon at Caxton Hall, Westminster. The Bishop of Rochester, who...

• THE ESHER COMMITTEE AND THE 'AUXILIARY 1. H E Beal portion of the Report of the Esher Com- mittee, published last Saturday, completes a great work, and . one which, taken as a...

of Western Europe as to the probable progress of this war. The effect of the great blow struck by the Japanese in their first attack on Port Arthur has a little died away, and...

on Monday leave such an unsatisfactory impression on' those' who read it ? It contains nothing with which the friends of Mace- donia can quarrel, because even" his defence of...

are watching the new Pope with unusually keen interest. They see that be is a thoroughly good man, devoted to his work, and with an intolerance for vice and corruption which...

"ATE do not often, except on Free-trade, see eye to eye V V with Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, but we are convinced that he did a truly Imperial service in protesting as he,...

( HERE is now on the way from New York to Oxford a great volume of sealed papers, being the first examina- tion ofthe first batch of candidates for the Rhodes Scholar- ships. It...

began shortly before his death, and never finished, Stevenson has drawn a picture of a murderer arraigned in the dock before the " Hanging Judge," Weir of Hermiston. The story...

island having the kind of symmetry which the old map- makers gave to their conception' of the earth, and of the placing of its rivers and its seas. It is of the shape of an ace...

• [To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —As an interesting correspondence has been going on in your pages upon elementary-school teaching as a profession, and especially...

and disadvantages of elementary-school teaching as a profession, I should like to call attention to an anomaly that exists in the case of teachers trained for secondary schools...

the above subject in your last two issues, and as an elementary teacher in a London school I feel I must reply to your correspondent of March 19th in the same profession. In...

well - educated ladies. I will giye the eareef of one of these as a specimen of what may be accomplished by any intelligent and hard-working girl. My young friend left an...

entire approval of the letter on this subject in • the Spectator - of March 12th, and' to give my reasons for feeling*-that your correspondent,." An Elementary Teacher," who ....

Midland News, with a letter of mine on Chinese labour and an article of its own upon the same subject. I hope you will do your best to keep this blight from our sorely stricken...

those of us who are not " indentured" supporters of the Government. Free Chinese labour, if we stop to " think Imperially," even if it were possible, would appear to be almost...

" A Chairman of a School Management Section of a County Education Committee ") has produced an interesting and useful discussion, which will, I hope, bear fruit. Some of the...

your guidance on the Chinese, as I have on the fiscal, question, but such a defence as is used in the leading article of Monday's Times helps me to do so :—" They [the terms of...

March 26th you quote, on the autho- rity of Mr. Asquith, from a statement made by Mr. William Grant before the Transvaal Labour Commission to the effect that in his opinion "the...

to the increase which has taken place in the numbers of the Labour party in both Houses of the Australian Parliament ; but your comment that Victoria " is one of the chief con-...

in the Spectator of December 5th, 1903, "A Great Social Reform," on the Public-House Trust movement, you say : " The same idea is catching on' in various parts of South Africa,...

that " we must meet intolerance with tolerance," and I am sure that these words express the view of the Spectator with regard to M. Combes's treatment of the Congregations....

the idea that an increase in the imports of manufactured articles causes loss of employment to our working class has taken hold of our workmen, and is causing many of them to...

March 26th there appeared a paragraph referring to certain" senseless and vulgar attacks" on the Rev. R. J. Campbell on the ground of his presentation to Court by the Bishop of...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I am not sure that I ought to cavil in the smallest degree at the review of my book on " Henry J. Wood " in the Spectator of March...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. ' ] SIR,—May I be allowed to take exception to the concluding sentence of your interesting article on' " The World's Riding Animals"...

[TO TIE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR "] Sin,—Will you permit me to show how unfairly to Irish Unionists the Irish representation is apportioned P And let me say that if there is to...

-4-- HE GOETH BY ME, AND I SEE HIM NOT." (cEptixrrec ycio ;Aga.) LIFE is a game of hide-and-seek. We played it first, unskilled and weak, And when we hid, for all our care,...

WHEN a creator tells of his work his book must have an interest beyond literature. It becomes an authentic document, the voice of one having authority; and when we find a worker...

THE Thesmophoriazusae is not one of Aristophanes's most renowned comedies. It has not the lyrical beauty of the Clouds ; it is not as profound in criticism as the Frogs. Yet it...

venerable antiquity, or cultivated from a greater diversity of motives, than that of imaginary travels. Perhips the most resounding suc- cess6s have been achieved by writers...

THE usual crowd of books is being evoked by the crisis in the Far East. Many writers have already dealt with the expan- sion of the Russian Empire; now it is her plucky'little...

THOUGH we may not always be quite certain of what she is driving at, Mrs. Craigie is one of those writers who can always be relied on to provide an interesting mixed...

dolcezza"— and no one need therefore be disappointed if his novel is rather dreary reading. The theme of the story is to a certain extent the same as that of a very recent book...

that the incident out of which this story is developed seems somewhat improbable. An English officer living in Russia becomes the victim of a plot which turns him into a Russian...

is a story of the Neronian persecution, not remarkable in any way except for the extraordinary names which the author has seen fit to give to his characters. What do our readers...

Farming. By W. M. Tod. "The Haddon Hall Library." (J. M. Dent and Co. 7s. 6d.)—Mr. Tod calls farming " the best pursuit of all," and he makes out a very good case for it; not,...

Clarendon Press. 3s. 6d. net.)—No one is more to be trusted in the interpretation of Horace than Dr. Wickham. So much any student of his edition of the poet will allow. To...

—Professor Mosso treats the study of fatigue in a popular manner, insomuch that the opening chapters seem somewhat loose and rambling in character; but those on "Fatigue...

(Macmillan and Co. 6s.)—Professor Armstrong is a well-known and enthusiastic advocate of what he has happily christened the "Heuristic" method of teaching. Whether or not it can...

" romance of the Virginian tobacco-fields " is an effective piece of work, though there are, it seems to us, some flaws in it. We do not quite see, for instance, how the wise...

Richards. 3s. 6d. net.)—This belongs to the class of books which lie outside the range of literary criticism. It ranks, in fact, with books of devotion. "It is painful," says...

Vol. I. (Marshall Brothers. 3s. 6d. net.)--ire can feel for Mr. Urquhart. There are many things that disturb the peace of a Bible-lover, and- we do not wonder that such a person...

as ham not been d for mins in Mho. forms.] Early Associations of Archbishop Temple. By J. C. Snell, M.A. (Hutchinson and Co. Cis. net.)—The second title of this book is "A...

M.A. Half-Vol. VI. ,(Gresham Publishing Company. 7s.)— Professor Davis's work is not, we may say for the benefit of readers not acquainted with it, constructed on the usual...

Tax-Law. (Grant Richards. . 3s. 6c1.)—The "taxes" treated of are Income- tax, Land-tax, and Inhabited House Duty. The author gives, not without an occasional stroke of humour,...

and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—This is a volume of the "Dryden House Memoirs." Sir John Reresby (1634-89) left England on his travels in April, 1654. He visited France, Switzerland,...

Launfal, by J. R. Lowell, booklets of forty-two and eighteen pages respectively, very 'good to see with their dead-white paper and black type.—The " Hampstead Edition" of The...

M.A. (Oxford University Press.)—This is one of the publications of the Bibliographical - Society. Mr. Madan, whose position at the Bodleian gives him special qualifications for...