failing to carry out the spirit of the undertaking given in March, and for their continued inaction. After Mr. John Ellis had moved a reduction of the vote from the Ministerial...

from Melilla is even worse. On Tuesday the Moors, who are now close to the town, attacked the railway, and a desperate battle ensued. The Spanish casualties, considering the...

of the " contingent " ' Dreadnoughts' in Committee on the Shipbuilding Vote on Monday afternoon. To quote his own words, "after very anxious and careful examination of the...

of,. Spain and with the Spanish people generally in their' most difficult task, we cannot disguise from ourselves that it is a great misfortune that the Spaniards should attempt...

one of "Republican conciliation," and will carry on the programme of M. Clemenceau. M. Pichon remains Foreign Minister, M. Barthou is Minister of Justice, M. Millerand Minister...

T HE most important event in Europe during the past week has been the sudden outbreak of revolutionary disorder in Spain. The defeat of the Spanish forces at Melilla, on the...

and on thus placing on record his view of the matter. Though we hold that the Colonial Office has acted through- out with culpable weakness, we are glad to say that Colonel...

Empire that such use of official power should be treated with the utmost rigour, and that our administrators in tropical countries should be made to know that such action,...

sensible men must admit. All sensible men, however, must also admit that in these matters logic is often a very fallible guide. To state a syllogism is not to win battles either...

to " maintain our naval supremacy at such a point that we could not lose the command of the sea ; and it is against any reasonably possible combination to be brought against us...

the much-discussed amendments to the Standing Orders. The first empowers the Deputy-Chairman of Ways and Means to accept a Motion for the Closure whenever he is in the chair....

place_ in the House of Commons on Tuesday, Mr. Balfour dealt very strongly, but not more strongly than, in our opinion, the matter deserved, with the failure of the Colonial...

Committee of Imperial Defence to make a very important statement. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, a short time before his death, appointed a Sub-Committee of the Committee to...

Mr. and Mrs. Scoresby Routledge, to whose public spirit the raising of the whole question is due, deserve the gratitude of all who care for the good government of the Empire....

at the Foreign Office on Wednesday. The Prime Minister and several members of the Cabinet welcomed the visitors. All the delegates were present except General Botha, who was...

the British Empire League and the British Science Guild to inaugurate the British Empire Club.• General Smuts, in a very interesting speech, said he was certain that if a small...

the Budget was held in Hyde Park on Saturday last. The procession, marshalled, as we learn from the Daily News, by " Captain Baker of the Nursing Yeomanry," marched from the...

April let. Consols (2k) were ou Thursday 88k—Friday week S41. Bank Rate, 2/ per cent., changed from 3 per cent. April let. Consols (2k) were ou Thursday 88k—Friday week S41.

Central Criminal Court before the Lord Chief Justice and sentenced to death for the murder of Sir Curzon Wyllie and Dr. Lalcaca at the Imperial Institute. When asked if he had...

" our coast and soothe the fears of our old women of both sexes lies a very real danger, and we are sorry indeed to see it encouraged by Mr. Haldane. We dare not let the Fleet...

of his constituents in the City. The Government were relying even now upon a very narrow margin of battle strength in the Navy. He could not believe that the country recognised...

Con- stitution Bill was read a second time. general Botha, Dr. Jameson, Sir J. H. de Villiers, Mr. Moor, and Mr. Merriman were present on the steps of the throne. Lord Crewe...

Public Bills in the House of Lords, contributes to the current number of the Quarterly Review, noticed by us elsewhere, a most important article on the privileges of the Commons...

THE NAVAL DEBATE. W are very glad that in the naval debate on Monday the Government definitely announced that the four "contingent" ships of their programme are to be built. In...

I T was the mark of the Jacobins that they cared little or nothing, and did not even make profession of caring, for the will of the people. They believed in certain abstract...

M ANY and important as have been the events of the past week, that which we believe will prove to be by far the most important of all has received very scant notice in the...

T HAT the Territorial Reserve and the Technical Reserve will be successful organisations ca.nuot be doubted, for the War Office either has, or very soon will have, the human...

tenure of power to endanger the permanence of Free-trade in this country, but perhaps the worst of all their sins against the faith which they profess is the constant assertion...

T HE flight of M. Bleriot across the Channel in his mono- plane was not by any means the longest flight which has been accomplished, but it was the most hazardous, and by that...

- r -F great souls be not annihilated with their bodies, you will 1 rest in peace; and you will rouse us by a consideration of your virtues." It was in these words, among...

I N late July the silence is deepest in full afternoon, and deeper . than anywhere else indoors, for those who muat stay indoors; the very depth and essence of silent summer for...

PROTECTION AND THE BUDGET.—THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY. [TO TOR EDITOR OV TIIR "SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—In Parliament on June 22nd Mr. Hobhouse, on behalf of the Treasury, in reply to Mr....

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] Sue,—Is it fair to assume, as is now frequently done, that there is no choice except between Mr. Lloyd George's Budget and Protection ?...

or TUE "SPECTATOR:] Sin,—The recent by-elections afford an excellent opporttinity of arriving at some conclusion as to the possible acceptance of "Tariff Reform" by the...

[TO THE EDITOR Or TIIR "SPROF4T011."1 SIR,—The injustice of the taxation of land proposed by the Finance Bill seems to be well illustrated by a case in which I am interested. I...

[To TEE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Frankly, if Unionists can extract much comfort from the recent by-elections, they must be made of sanguine stuff. Surely the voice of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — In your issue of July 10th in the article " How Shall We Govern India ? " you have sounded an admirable note of warning to the...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—The enclosed extract from last Saturday's Yorlcshire Observer is, I think, evidence of value in support of an affirmative answer to...

THE "S MOT LTOR." SIR,—The following extract from a letter by one of our old boys describing his first experience in camp as a trooper in a neighbouring Yeomanry regiment may...

" sr e crATo IL.• SIR,—At a time when the attainment of mechanical flight occupies more and more the public attention, when every week brings the news of records established...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPELT ATOR...] SIR,—Mr. Graham Brown (Spectator, July 17th) speaks of " foolish and cowardly panic." But well-grounded fear is neither, and this is...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 Srn,—Several of your readers have given you instances of horses feigning lameness. To any one who has been accus- tomed to work with...

[TO THY EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."f SIR,—I take it for granted that "An Outsider," who writes of school cricket in your issue of July 24th, like the proverbial onlooker, saw...

you allow me to express my surprise at the letter from "An Outsider," on the tendency of cricket to promote loafing, in the Spectator of July 24th P There is hardly one of his...

with the bathos of public-school cricket, sweeping as is the nature of its criticism, does not exaggerate the true state of affairs. I have a vivid recollection, during a...

To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR." I SIR, — ln his letter in your issue of July 17th does not your correspondent Colonel Cbrystie confuse Aristides with his rival, Themistocles...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] But.—I shall be greatly obliged if you will be good enough to state in the next issue of your paper that it is proposed to publish a...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE ' 4 Spacrwros."3 SIR,—I venture to beg a little space in your columns for the purpose of enlisting the sympathy and aid of your readers in a work which is...

NAIRNSHIRE IN JULY. LONG ere to moor and river the lordly sportsman flies To regulate his liver with outdoor exercise, Unfashionably early from Euston forth I speed, And quit...

writer's name 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...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] much earlier instance of this habit can be found than that quoted by your correspondent in last week's issue,— viz., Samuel Pepys's...

WARSHIPS OF THE WORLD.* PUBLIC interest in naval affairs has been greatly stimulated by the debates in Parliament and discussions outside which have taken place during the last...

THE student of Middle Eastern affairs who publishes at this moment a book on the subject is to be condoled with, for his work, finished some months ago, cannot take account of...

THE aspect of science chiefly impressing those who looked at it from the outside used to be, perhaps, its rigidity. It was not always distinctly realised that this apparently...

THE chronicles of fashion and the evolution of costume can never be matters of indifference to the social historian. Human thought is reflected in material objects because human...

volume of Mr. Karl von Donat's translation of the German official history of the Russo-Japanese War brings the story down to August 28th, 1904. On that date the First, Second,...

the path of the writer endeavouring to frame the slightest of novels with a purpose, and it is the best compliment we can make to the author of Nancy and her Small Holding to...

" THE Romance of a Great Career" is Miss Bredon's sub- title, and nothing could be more appropriate. The romance began when be was an infant of a few days • old. The aunt who...

will be glad that he is not consistent with his own principles. He writes a book, and begins by telling us that from books little is to be learnt. "I have educated myself," he...

THE FUN OF THE FAIR.* WREN the education of primary schools has spread its unify. ing conventions more firmly throughout the land, and only the survivors of a forgotten...

is a very long story told in the first person by a character whom the author acknowledges to be decidedly commonplace. It must be confessed that the story is like the hero....

a powerful but rather unpleasant novel of life in the middle and lower classes in Dublin. Oddly enough, con- sidering this is an Irish story, her usual touches of humour seem to...

Tan most urgent question of the day is discussed specifically in " The Lords and the Budget," and generally in " The Privileges of the Commons " The latter article is noticed...

[Under this heading we volice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] From Mine to Ministry. By Thomas Cox Meech. (North of England...

and Co. 6s. 6d. net.)—" Both before and after Columbus," Mrs. Mulhall adds to her title. Of the " Predecessors of Columbus." who occupy the first chapter, there is little to be...

6s.)—A book of very pleasant stories, the first of which is a little long to be called a " short story " in the ordinary sense of the word. The others, however, are- exactly of...

Morton. (A. C. Fifield. ls. net.)—We understand Mr. Morton's conclusion to 'be that he gets a satisfactory return for his work in health and mental refreshment, but not in...

(The Clarendon Press. 2s. net.)—We have no doubt of the valuable character of this volume ; it is the work of experts, and it is full of useful information from end to end. Nor...

Burleigh. 2s. 6d.)—Chastleton came by mar- riage into the possession of the Catesby family in the fifteenth century,—one of them was the " Cat " who was associated with the...

would be impossible to speak too highly of the industry with which Professor Harper has studied the details of his subject, the subtlety with which he draws out the complicated...