a bitter Press campaign in Germany against Great Britain. The attacks have, however, been confined, the Times correspondent says, to newspapers of the second order. The...

Katsura, the Prime Minister of Japan. His resigna- tion probably marks the abandonment of the non-party system by which, as in Germany, the Government was able to rule...

German people are being fed in order to prove Great Britain the real enemy is to be found in the Lokalanzeiger of Thursday. An article, supposed to be semi-official, is there...

case.

his honour by the Hamburg Senate, and made a remarkable Last Sunday the German Emperor attended a dinner given in his honour by the Hamburg Senate, and made a remarkable...

of her own rights in Morocco and earnestly encouraged the attempts of France and Germany to effect a colonial bargain. Germany did actually demand the coast of the French Congo,...

I Nforeign affairs all attention is fixed on the new and critical stage in the Franco-German negotiations about Morocco. M. Jules Cambon, the French Ambassador in Berlin, has...

it is universally recognized that Reciprocity is the most important issue that has been before the country for years. Sir Wilfrid Laurier has been addressing enthusi- astic...

at Llanelly during the rioting on August 19th was held on Monday and Tuesday last. The principal witness was Major Brownlow Stuart, who was in command of a detachment of men of...

and the Emperor of Japan were published by the Times of Tuesday. These messages mark the end of the series of legal disputes which followed the Russo-Japanese War. The last...

Times correspondent calls it, in his campaign for re-election. He poured ridicule on the authors of the Woollen Bill, which he said embodied all the defective and ignorant...

evidence on Monday. The case of the men was heard first, and Mr. Williams, General Secretary of the Amalga- mated Society of Railway Servants, who was the only witness called...

on Tuesday by Mr. Fox, General Secretary of the Asso- ciated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, and by Mr. Lowth, Secretary of the General Railway Workers' Union. On...

evidence on Thursday, attributed much of the failure of the scheme of 1907 to the haste and pressure with which it was drawn up. He charged the companies with undue delay, with...

Lady Carlisle the famous Castle Howard Mabuse—" The Adoration of the Kings." The pr*ce paid was £40,000, which is far below the market value, the Govern- ment and the National...

British Asso ciation on " The Sources of Energy," began by a vigorous impeachment of our system of scientific training. The training given was fitted for workmen and foremen...

connexion that existed between the life of a nation and its supplies of stored-up energy. Our supplies were confined to our coalfields, and we were using them up at such an...

strikers at Fish guard were "dispersed by Territorials with fixed bayonets." As a matter of fact we are informed that the strikers were dispersed by thirty-five regulars...

been seized in England during the last few days. It is not known by the Customs officials for what use the cargoes were destined. The ships could not have been seized merely for...

Sir William Ramsay discussed the future and possible utilization of radium. A ton of radium, be te.d us, if we could control the rate of its disintegration, would drive a...

as ober-lieutenant in the 13th Hussar Regiment of the German Army, was charged with inciting Mr. S. H. Duff, a solicitor, and a Mr. Tarran to commit an offence against the...

provides for the raising of the pay of all ranks of the Metropolitan Police. The weekly increase on the old scale is as follows : Constables and acting sergeants. ls. 6d. ;...

translation of Dr. Gore from that of Birmingham. Dr. Gore, who is fifty-eight, was for more than twenty years closely connected with Oxford as Scholar of Balliol, Fellow of...

THE HOPES OF LABOUR. W E wish that we could share the easy belief that a permanent settlement of the conflict between capital and labour is in sight, but unfortunately the...

M R. BUTTERWORTH'S letter to the Times giving particulars of the manner in which the North Eastern Railway was treated by the railway unions throws an important new light‘ upon...

us to look without sympathy and concern on the new era which began in Portugal last week, when a President was elected. It is barely a year since a provisional republican...

interesting and well-reasoned article on the use of titles in a demo- cracy. The organ in which it appears has a just claim to be listened to upon such a question. It may be...

more humane is that, whereas a hundred years ago only the best men and women in the land cared greatly for even the ; ri vous bodily wrongs of unknown masses of children, at the...

I T is within an hour of midday and the brazen sun is high in the heavens. The long trek on horseback is over. The Union Jack is planted opposite the round mud-house near the...

" F EEDING the animals in the King's Collection is not allowed. Visitors infringing this regulation will be liable to immediate expulsion from the Gardens." Thus, on a...

interest in the welfare of the poorer classes ensures a ready welcome to any expression of her views on this subject. But in her letter in your last issue, championing the cause...

THE LESSONS OF THE STRIKE. [To THY EDITOR OP TEl "SPECTATOR...] am afraid such letters as that signed Violet R. Markham (Spectator, August 26th) are not likely to do much...

Sea,—I think I cannot be the only reader of the Spectator who has been disappointed to find in your columns a brief and misleading reference to the claims which at this moment...

Sza,—A recent circular from the Home Office points out that although peaceful picketing is legal intimidation is not, Both magistrates and the police were well aware of this....

Stn,—In your article on strikes last week you say, " The working man is almost exclusively concerned with thoughts of his wages," and you conclude, "Discontent is almost divine...

Sta,—The two letters which head your correspondence columns last week gain immensely from their close juxtaposi- tion, so widely divergent are their points of view. Both writers...

life, I seem to have lost anchorage the last few days. Recent events try one's faith in men. The Strike Committee which met Mr. Asquith declared that his sternness surprised...

Sin,—It is to be hoped that the strikes will at least have killed the National Insurance BilL The country cannot stand the drain on its resources to which it has been subjected...

the daily Press from a large employer of labour tells—no new thing—how " Socialists and others " try all they can to thwart profit-sharing, persecuting those of his workpeople...

Sin,—The real object of the late railway strike seems to me to have been missed by most persons. Its object was to increase the power of the trades unions connected with our...

SIR,—During all the strike mania which is disturbing our social conditions it must be consoling to the community to feel there is one section of wage-earners who may be depended...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin, — Our community is to-day somewhat equally divided between those who fear we are about to have Home Rule and those who fear we are...

SIR,—The most serious element in strikes such as we are now experiencing is the loss inflicted on the community generally and on individuals who are in no way parties to the...

ago there was an exchange of official courtesies between England and Russia. On this occasion the Labour Party in Parliament protested violently on the ground that the hands of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TES "SPECTATOR. "] occurs to me as a reader of your able articles on the political crisis that the following words of a great thinker and mathematician may be...

August 26th, "Reflections on the Strike," and referring to the employment of the military you say, " The Liberals of Manchester talk as though an outrage had been committed on...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sia,—It might be a sufficient reply to Mr. Belloc if I said that he has described my letter as "packed with falsehoods," without, however,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin„—Owing to absence from home I have only just seen " W. C. M.'s " letter on the use of the word doth. I strongly demur to his statement...

[To THE EDITOR Of THE " SPECTATOR." Sin,—Our aim should be to get the whole Unionist Party to adopt the threefold programme : (1) reconstruction of the House of Lords; (2) the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF IRE " SPECTATOR:1 Slit,—As the Spectator wisely advocates India's taking her share in providing ships for self-defence, it may be well to consider the...

your issue of August 26th on that glorious, sad, but triumphant song "In Memoriam" is of much interest. May I presume to suggest a simple meaning P The late Rev. Frederick W....

SIR,—It is, I think, impossible that Tennyson can have meant to write " In Love the indifference to be, " as Mr. Mayor seems to suggest. That, surely, would require a comma. at...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In your review (August 19th) of Mr. Roberts ' s " Samuel Rogers and his Circle " I am glad to see that you think him to be " not, of...

" Oh, if indeed that oyo foresee Or see (in Him is no before) In more of life true life no more And Love the indifference to be." SIR, — Your correspondent in the impression...

offering a suggestion to such a critic as Mr. J. B. Mayor, yet it seems possible to explain and justify his passage without falling back on the hypothesis of a printer's error....

SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, — Mr. J. B. Mayor's letter in the Spectator of August 26th under the above title is interesting, but surely the puzzle is exaggerated. The obscurity is...

[TO TH2 EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—There is a tone of barbarity in Miss Dulcie Franklin's letter shocking to contemplate. She sees a rare butterfly and can think of...

asks us to request the anonymous donor of the Spectator to be so kind as to send it to him at Berlin, King W. Town, Cape Colony, South Africa. Similarly the Rev. E. L. Gower...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —" Dockyard constituencies, such as Chatham and Portsmouth, where the first appeal made to every candidate is that he should promise to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—In his very interesting article Mr. Lang says that "we can only appeal to science for large collections of historical and experimental...

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...

(To TES EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] Slit,—Why are gypsies in some parts of Hampshire known in the vernacular as " diddikies," such gypsies, for instance, as do " outcomer " work...

SYNDICALISM AND LABOUR.* THE recent great strike has made the appearance of this book extraordinarily opportune. The reader will be able to understand from Sir Arthur Clay's...

"BEHOLD, THIS DREAMER COMETH." ALL ye, who would have wheat in years of blight, Cry out for visions in the night, For power to dream, and dream aright. When, fair as dawn upon...

The Japanese Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, which have been collected.and edited by Mrs. Bisland, consist of a long series addressed to Professor Chamberlain, a shorter series to...

THERE is room for a little alarm as to the effect which Mr. Liddell's book may have upon that large class in which he professes to be included. Why should not other ordinary...

we may congratulate ourselves that the first serious English commentary on Bergson should be the work of a trained philosopher. In the first place M. Bergson is so attractive a...

a rather striking and, in one sense, a fairly original book to the long list of his published works. The Biology of the Seasons centres round an idea, familiar to naturalists,...

NOT a few readers will ask, Who was William Harrison Ainsworth P Yet more will doubt whether these two massive volumes, containing between them nearly nine hundred pages, are...

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