the Citizen in a Republic " at the Sorbonne in Paris before an audience of about three thousand persons. He spoke in his usual direct and forcible manner, treating his audience,...

T N our fi rst leading article we draw attention to the fact that the best way to solve the present Constitutional crisis is to make use of the Referendum. We desire that the...

Budget through the House of Lords. We cannot help believing that this fact may assist to remove from men's minds the most unjust accusations levelled against the Lords in regard...

parties very much as it was. The figures for those Deputies who have been returned on the first ballots are as follows :- Conservatives, 58; Nationalists, 13; Progressists, 40;...

one point. What we suggest that the Lords should do does not necessarily commit the Lords or anybody else to the Referendum as a permanent institution. All that we ask is that...

any case.

appears in all Friday's papers, defining his position. He was asked to speak at a luncheon and conference to be held shortly at Glasgow with the object of founding a branch of...

of the Finance Bill. The most important speech of the day was that of Mr. William O'Brien, who proposed that " Inasmuch as the announcement of this Bill has already done a cruel...

is prepared to unite with any one who will take a broad and statesmanlike view of the situation. Fiscal policies may come and go, but once make inroads into the British...

of the Finance Bill was moved by Lord Crewe. Lord Lans- downe, in a speech of great ability, made certain trenchant comments on the measure and the history of its second intro-...

Attempts were made by Members in all parts of the House to convince the Government that some kinds of agricultural land would not be exempted from the Increment- duty even by...

complete. By the merging of the Progressists—the party founded by Count Okuma thirty-two years ago—and the party of business men into the new Constitutional Popular Party, or...

drew special attention to the trimmer in which the Govern- ment had treated the Sinking Fund. He expressed the strong hope that at least six and a half millions would in the...

Mr. Roosevelt said it was a good thing that the guiding intelli- gences should have ample recognition and ample reward. Their places could not possibly be filled by any number...

had started, left Park Royal after sunset the same evening. He was much troubled by a dangerous wind, and descended at Roade, sixty miles from London, in the dark. Early on...

if less dramatic than M. Bleriot's flight across the Channel, were much more significant. Last Saturday Mr. Grahame-White started in his Farman biplane from Park Royal to try to...

Surrey Veterans—that is, the members of the Register of Trained Men which has been brought into existence by the Surrey Territorial Association—are to assemble on the after-...

Paris on Tuesday in his seventy-eighth year. Starting life as a journalist and teacher, he poured out an astonishing flood of novels, tales, poems, and dramas for fifty years,...

ing experiment which is about to be made by the Duke of Bedford with a view to enabling agricultural labourers to become freeholders. Four hundred and fifty acres of land,...

of the Development Commissioners. The chairman is Lord Richard Cavendish, brother of the Duke of Devon- shire, and formerly M.P. for the North Lonsdale division; and the...

Mr. Lloyd George lay stress on the fact that foreign securities have also fallen in the last fifteen years, but, as Sir F. Banbury points out in a letter to Wednesday's Times,...

Register of Trained Men or Veteran Reserve of this kind is almost nil. Yet it would add a national asset of the very greatest importance in case an enemy had landed,—the only...

THE REFERENDUM.—A SOLUTION OP THE CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS. TjIHE proposal to employ the Referendum as a solution of the present Constitutional crisis is attracting more and more...

1../ITRING the past few months—that is, before as well as after the murder of the Egyptian Prime Minister— the news from Egypt has been of a disquieting character, and has shown...

A FTER the Counter-Revolution in Constantinople of a year ago comes the Albanian rising. It is the second great test of the statesmanship of the Young Turks. Englishmen will...

ELSEWHERE we publish a review of a very important J study of the disease of consumption by Dr. Arthur Latham and Mr. Charles Garland, and we are glad to see that the latter is...

and no man could say whether posterity will hold the late S. L. Clemens, who made himself famous as Mark Twain, to be greater as a humorist or as a painter of phases of " the...

J UST now in England we feel a vivid interest in every- thing that is French. Mr. .Melrose has chosen a good moment for publishing a translation of Madame Yvonne Sarcey's new...

T HERE is an excellent opportunity for providing a study of protective colouring in the surroundings of one of the newest arrivals at the Zoological Gardens in Regent's Park....

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECT1201/.1 SIR,—The reductio ad absurdum to which you bring the argu- ment in your article last week on " The King and the Constitu- tion"—that a great...

much pleasure that you are strongly advocating the Referendum in case of any future dispute between the House of Commons and the House of Lords. I have long been of opinion that...

VTR REFERENDUM. [TO TEE EDITOR OF THE "SproraTou."1 SIR,—You did me the honour on last Christmas Day of publishing a letter of mine in your columns in which I advocated the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — It was ray intention to refer to the forty-six States of the Union, not " forty-nine," as my letter in your issue of April 23rd...

07 THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sra,—Though you think it worth while to give your readers a letter of Mr. F. Hugh O'Donnell and a quotation from Sinn Fein, I hope your readers will not be...

[TO THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—We invite your attention to the work of this Union, now established for just over a year. Its principles are non-party and...

[To THE EDITOE 07 THE " SPECTLT013."1 SIR,—There are few men connected with our Eastern Dominions who will not most cordially agree with every word written in your article...

rTo THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR?'] Sin,—The Prime Minister has apparently forgotten his law. When he stated in the House that there was no bargain between the Government and...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—No one who has had practical experience, here or in India, of the training of officials can fail to appreciate the large and generous...

SIR,—I hope that Sir Bampfylde Fuller's letter in your issue of the 23rd inst. will attract the attention of old Indian officers, especially of those who have passed through the...

[TO TUE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—The Association Cup Tie annually arouses melancholy reflections, expressed in correspondence columns, of the devotion of decadent Rome...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "spitc.r..ros."i Sin, In your article on " Cambridge Rowing " last week you say that if the Harvard men had persisted for another year in the style which...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—From the days of Icarus to those of M. Bleriot the problem of flight has continued to fascinate the human mind. At the present moment,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIE,—The advocates of rifle-shooting in preparatory schools are often met by these two questions :—(1) Is miniature rifle- shooting of any...

LTO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —I have read with very great interest the article upon this subject in your issue of April 9th, which has just come to my hands. Will...

[To THIC EDITOR Or TSR " SPECTATOR:1 Six,—With regard to the question of "Memory and the Individual," we shall surely agree with Leibniz when be says: " A quoy Tons serviroit-il...

THE ACADEMY.—I. A DISTINGUISHED painter was once criticising the work of some of the younger impressionists, men who began where the masters left off, and who thought it...

Or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — It is felt that there must be many persons, not in England only, but in many parte of the world (especially, perhaps, in Italy and America), who...

(To THE EDITOR Or Tar "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —The new Islamic theology to which you refer in your article last week on the Modernist Mnssulman sermons recently preached in the...

NANCY. Nov softer clouds shade evening skies Than deepen in her shining eyes ; Nor gayer than her laugh at me Is morning sunlight on the sea! Like mountain air 'mid dewy grass...

[To THE EDITOR Or TEE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —In thanking you for your very favourable review in last week's issue of " New Australia," by Mr. Stewart Grahame, will you allow me to...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In " The Life and Times of Mrs. Sherwood," just published (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co.), there is an allusion to Walter Savage...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be he'd to be in agreement with the rims therein expressed or with the mode of...

THE PRICE OF BLOOD.* CAPTAIN SEHRNOIT'S former books are familiar to English readers. Both The Battle of Tsushima and Basplata ("The Reckoning ") were expanded forms of the...

a book which aimed at demonstrating the wickedness of patriotism. The French writer has his counterpart among ourselves in the author of Europe's Optical Illusion. In crossing...

IF you are a reviewer of medical books, you come now and again across one which takes away your breath. It looked as dull as its fellows—all good medical books look dull— and...

not specially devoted' to the subject to keep pace with the issues of the Socialist Press, and, as one Socialist volume is very much like another, our readers will not complain...

the Motley letters, but there are some good handfuls which it was quite worth while to gather. There is, for instance, a correspondence with Bismarck. Perhaps the most...

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Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence appropriately gives the first place in the series of monographs he proposes to issue once a year to an essay on the English monasteries on the...

Ma. CIIRTLER'S review of the history of agriculture takes in a period of nearly fifteen centuries. It begins with the arrival of the English, who took over, he thinks, the com-...

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