virtually accomplished all that it set out to do. The chief fight of the week was on Sunday last with the Inman Khel, who stirred up much opposition to us in the campaign of...

T HE most important event of the week has been the discussion whether the Entente between France and Britain should be enlarged and developed into a formal Alliance. That...

of half the Members of the Senate and Chamber were held last Sunday, and passed off quietly except at St. Nicholas, where there was a struggle between the police and the...

London on a brief State visit. He crossed the Channel on board the French cruiser 'Leon Gambetta,' and was welcomed at Dover Harbour by a British fleet commanded by Lord Charles...

and in the afternoon he fulfilled the chief purpose of his journey to England by visiting the Franco-British Exhibition. The King and Queen, with the Prince and Princess of...

case.

the House of Commons by Captain Kincaid-Smith, and is supported by a number of Members, Liberal and Unionist, including Mr. Hills, Lord Morpeth, Mr. Rees, Sir Edward Tennant,...

in Wednesday's issue draws attention to a statement made to a represehtative of the Mafia by Herr von Holstein, "the ex-Sphinx of the Wilhelmstrasse." Herr von Holstein, it may...

Member for East Leeds, asked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the present relations between the Government of Russia and the Members of the first Duma, his Majesty's...

Thrift and Credit Banks Bill in the Lords. The Bill, he explained, had been introduced to regularise and develop a form of banking which had met with great success in other...

the societies affected by the shipbuilding dispute was communi- cated to the Board of Trade on Monday evening. According to the terms arranged by Mr. Churchill with the...

for a grant of money towards the entertainment of the International Peace Congress in July. Mr. Lloyd George took the opportunity to discuss the whole question of the...

of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman has been filled by the return of the Liberal candidate, the figures, which were announced late on the night of Friday week, being as follows...

view of the unsatisfactory nature of the Prime Minister's answer," to discuss the action of the Government in ad- v ising the King to pay an official visit to the Emperor of...

at Berlin has moved "Mr. Dooley" to discuss diplomacy in his raciest style. After recounting the amazing experiences of Epaminondas Splash at St. Petersburg and Berlin, the sage...

the Organisation of Charity, and many of the chief supporters of London charities, took place at Lord Avebury's house, when it was decided to hold a public meeting at the...

moving account of the murder of his only son, a civil adminis- trator in the Soudan. It appears that a certain landowner, Sheikh Abd-el-Kader Mohammed Imam, had proclaimed...

to make one or two criticisms, however. We think it would be much better not to spread the recruit's training over two years, but to have one training of seventy-eight days, or...

Service League should thus have been put within the four corners of a Bill, and that there should be so complete and absolute an exposure of the delusion that any one connected...

the distinguished French economist and man of letters, delivered a very striking lecture to the Alliance Franco-Britannique on the intellectual relations between France and...

May 28th. Consols (24) were on Friday 8n—on Friday week 86i. Bank Rate, 24 per cent., changed from 3 per cent. May 28th. Consols (24) were on Friday 8n—on Friday week 86i.

THE VISIT OF THE FRENCH PRESIDENT. T HE visit of the French President to this country is a ceremonial, but it is a ceremonial which the circum- stances render important, not...

I T is curious to see what difficulty even very able men find in understanding the meaning of sea power. Especially is this true of Continental publicists and states- men. Their...

D URING the last sixty or seventy years our Exchequer has been the wonder and envy of the world. We have raised huge sums by loans, but we have also reduced. the Debt on an...

T "progress of "Empire Day" is very noticeable. Since Lord Meath started the movement in 1904 it has grown yearly in favour, and must already be regarded as an institution. This...

of a revolution in our system of transit should not have introduced their case by a misstatement of fact. This, however, is what the Preliminary Committee of a movement which...

QT. AUGUSTINE has been called "the founder of Ll Roman Catholicism." As a figure in the history of Christian theology it is, of course, impossible to exaggerate his importance....

T HE Franco-British Exhibition has already drawn many French people to London, and the question whether the Exhibition shall be open on Sundays raises the whole problem of our...

N OTHING is easier than to destroy the balance of wild life on a large estate. The gamekeeper who shoots every hawk and traps every weasel he can alters the balance occasionally...

OLD-AGE PENSIONS. [TO TIM EDITOR OF THZ " SPZCTATOF.1 SIR, — In the work of district nursing a large proportion of my patients have been old men and women, and the...

(TO THE EDITOR or THZ "SPRCTILTOR.") Si,—We cannot but protest against the root idea upon which your opposition to the franchise for women is based. You believe, in spite of...

[TO TIM EDITOR Or TUN "SPEOTATOR.1 Sin,—In opening the door to woman suffrage the Prime Minister has given the Conservative Party a grand chance for strengthening its moral...

LTO THE EDITOR Or Tar "SPIOTATOR."3 Stn,–.-The old-age pensions policy has been propounded here in Canada, only in the contributory form, and even in that form does not...

LTO THE EDITOR OE THE " spscrAros.. - i SIR,—Next month will be the crucial one in the long fight against Congo misrule. The result of the partial elections in Belgium shows...

SIR,—Our League believes that the struggle of any nation either to maintain or to establish Free-trade is a matter of international concern, and is therefore hoping to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." . 1 SIR,—There has been curiously little comment in the Press on Lord Elgin ' s retirement from his Majesty ' s Government, yet to those of...

pro THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEOTATOR.1 SrE,—In the notice of the May Contemporary in your issue of May 9th I am accused of "launching a monstrous charge" against the Church and...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR) — Among the letters of kind response to my appeal which appeared in your columns last week is one promising a donation of 250 if the...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'l SIR, — Since you suggest in your interesting article of May 23rd that there are difficulties and dangers connected with the endowment of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." SgE, — In your issue of the 16th inst. appeared an admirable article under the heading "The Traffic in Orders." Permit me to endorse your...

appears to be certain that Count Tolstoy, while desiring to hold completely aloof from all responsibility for the celebration of his eightieth birthday on August 28th, is yet...

Sin,—I have this morning (May 25th) received a most welcome letter in reference to the fund I am endeavouring to raise for the purchase of Glastonbury Abbey. Sir Henry Harben...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—December 9th next will be the three-hundredth anniver- sary of the birth of Milton. The Council of the British Academy, feeling that...

THE NEW ENGLISH ART CLUB. IT is the point of view of the artists, rather than their painting, which makes the Exhibition of the New English Art Club interesting. This point of...

FATHER AND SON. [" Che in la mente m'e fitta ed or m'accora La cars e bnona imagine paterna Di voi, cpiando net mondo ad ora ad ora M'insegnavate come l'uom s'eterna."...

SIR- SPENCER WALPOLE'S LAST - VOLUMES.* IT is with keen pleasure, tempered by keen regret, that we welcome these last volumes of the most judicial and learned of recent English...

THE visits of Voltaire, blontesquieu, and Rousseau to England are interesting episodes well deserving of the detailed study which Professor Churton Collins has given them in a...

THESE reminiscences were printed privately in 1902, and, though one can imagine reasons for withholding letters and confidences so intimate from the public for a short time, it...

HENRY. WELIE NORMAN started in life with few advantages beyond that of respectable parentage. He was oneof the men who ntake the very best of what• they have, and supply the...

hundred and forty-one pages Mr. Macpherson gives us a brilliant and readable account of political thought during the last century. The treat- ment is necessarily slight, but the...

THEY are happy who possess the little original volume of Limbo, and other Essays, with frontispiece, published by Mr. Grant Richards some years ago. To many readers that small...

IT is easy to array a number of excellent arguments to prove that women can never succeed in becoming professional gardeners,—on one supposition. That is, that they must...

MR. CREWE'S CAREER.* Ms. WINSTON CHURCHILI:E1 popularity on both sides of the Atlantic is all the more to be welcomed in that it has been attained without any concession to the...

6s.)—Mr. Eden Phillpotts has a great knowledge of the nature of boys, and is perhaps even more familiar with their vocabularies. His present work is as entirely concerned with...

(T. Fisher ITnwin. 2s.)—The "Lessons" are numerous and clear. Many things are much better managed in the cities which Dr. Lunn and his associates visited than they are with...

(J. P. Mathew and Co., Dundee. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Mathew started from Edinburgh on October 5th and reached London on the same day in November. The route which he took led him...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not bun reserved for review in other forms.] Down with the Tariff! a Tale of Free-Trade. By Lady Bell. (A. L....

R. Cohn. (James Parker and Co. 4s. net.)—This volume may be read With much profit, though it will cause, we do not doubt, some !earchings of heart. Mr. Cohn sees in the Old...

three of whom are laymen, have contributed essays on "Liberalism" with various differentiae, —"Religious," "Theological," "Social," "Clerical," dc. Dr. Hastings Rashdall...

(George Allen and Sons. 6s.)—An account of the upbringing of an only son by a young widow. It is prettily written, but it is provoking for the reader to be left with the same...

The Pie is bigger and better than ever. Rich ingredients, ad- mirable compounding, and tasty serving-up produce as attractive a dish as could be desired. If we are to make a...

Dent and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)-14fr. Calvert continues to add, greatly to the public gain, to his "Spanish Series." This is the seven- teenth volume, and in none of its predecessors...

so well established a place that it is almost sufficient to notice its appearance. This ":Review of Public Events Abroad and at Home" is in two parts. Somewhat more than a half...

and Sidney Lee. Vol. III., " Brown- Challoner." (Smith, Elder, and Co. 15s. net.)—This volume includes Vols. VII.-IX. of the original edition, giving at once, to mention...

text-book is intended for "a boy who starts the study of Latin when about twelve or thirteen years old, and will continue at it for not more than three or four years." Mr....