especially to Mr. Chamberlain, because we realised that it would be impossible for Mr. Balfour to act alone in this matter, and that he must carry the great protagonist of...

support. On November 12th, however, the day after the break-up of the Conference was announced, and when it was clear that a General Election was to take place immediately, we...

remark. able speech to the Scottish Conservative Club which may be said to have opened the autumn political campaign, we ven- tured to urge very strongly that the only way for...

enough to congratulate the Spectator upon the fact that the advice which it gave three weeks ago, and which then seemed to fall upon deaf ears, has been followed. We cannot be...

T O-DAY the elections begin, and, thanks to the states- manship and patriotism of Mr. Balfour and the other Tariff Reform leaders, the battle opens with the best possible...

ease.

and will not attempt to say more here. In a very few hours the results of the first elections will be known. We may say, however, that Friday's news shows conclusively that...

oratory which has poured forth during the week. Special notice, however, is demanded by two speeches reported in Friday's papers. The first is Mr. Balfour's second speech at...

Rio de Janeiro sent a message to the President expressing their sorrow for the revolt, and stating that they laid clown their arms in confidence that they would be amnestied and...

on Monday. The Times correspondent says that recurring ordinary expenditure amounts to 28,360,642, or 2493,916 more than a year ago. Non-recurring ordinary expenditure amounts...

gathering at the railway sheds, the Prime Minister declared that Mr. Redmond had no more to do with the Dissolution than the man in the moon. He condemned plural voting as an...

last, and made a highly significant speech. The coming Election, he observed, was above and beyond all else an Irish Election, and whatever happened in that Election, Ireland...

be serious, has been virtually overcome by the Government. Everything depended on the Army, and the Army apparently remained loyal. General Reyes, the picturesque and popular...

intense is the dread of the Referendum felt by the Liberals. They do not want to hear the authentic voice of the people. Mr. Asquith met Mr. Balfour's very reasonable challenge...

showed the qualities of brilliance and moderation that we are accustomed to find in all that he says. He dwelt especially upon the Constitutional issue with its effects upon the...

declaration upon the Referendum. Kr. Asquith ,had challenged them as to whether they would allow a Referendum upon Tariff Reform, and the challenge had been taken up by Mr....

: Were they to understand that, if the Tories came in with a majority, they would have no mandate for Tariff Reform? "Is Tariff Reform a matter of great gravity ? Tariff...

of the candidature of Sir Seymour King, effectively compared the two different platform styles affected by the Liberal leaders. Whatever they thought of Mr. Asquith's arguments,...

composition of the House of Lords as he imagined it would be if Lord Rosebery's Resolutions were put into effect. If the new Peers qualified by distinguished public service were...

Mr. Asquith's subsequent handsome testimonial when he referred to the speaker as "the ablest, the most cautions, and the most dexterous advocate of the new proposals" in the...

on Tuesday, but we may mention here the enthusiasm which greeted his announcement that he was prepared to submit Tariff Reform to the direct vote of the people. The scene is...

Dec. 1st. Consols (2i) were on Friday 79F-Friday week 79.

THE ELECTIONS. B EFORE Mr. Balfour's announcement of the applica- tion of the Referendum to Tariff Reform had been made we bad decided to write a special appeal to the moderate...

A SUDDEN, dramatic, and most beneficent change has come over the situation,—a change which will, we believe, exercise an overwhelming influence at the polls. The issue now...

General Election which is now in full swing is the conflict between personalities and principles,—between two dema- gogues andtheprinciple of democracy. The two demagogues, we...

International Con- ference on Aerial Rights appears to have been caused by fundamental differences among the delegates. It is easy to see why such differences should exist; a...

TN the Knutsford division of Cheshire the two Parlia- mentary candidates, Major Sykes and Mr. J. Whitworth, have agreed not to issue any pictorial posters and not to "indulge in...

C ALCTJLATIONS are often made with reference to the waste caused by excessive drinking, or by insanitary housing, preventable disease, and premature death. Probably the loss...

I F there is any countryman's occupation for which times have changed, slowly perhaps, but very surely, during the last fifty years, it is that of the gamekeeper. The...

THE " SPECTATOR " EXPERIMENTAL COMPANY. ITS LESSONS IN REGARD TO NATIONAL SERVICE. [To THZ EDITOI OF THZ " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—I have before me at this moment a roll containing...

THE REFERENDUM IN SWITZERLAND. [To TIE EDITOE Of TIM "SPECTLTOP...1 Sra,—I have for long been a strong advocate of the Referendum, as it is worked in Switzerland, believing...

with that magnificent brevity to which you refer in your defence of the Referendum in the Spectator of November 19th, have retorted to opponents of that measure that "it is much...

Snt,—The Liberals object to the suggestion of the House of Lords having the power to refer the Bills of the House of Commons to the decision of the electorate. They object on...

it too late to follow the lead given by Lord Curzon in his speech at Glasgow on November 25th, in which he stigmatised the word " Referendum " as a " pseudo-classical...

[To THII EDITOR OF Tire "SPECTATOR:9 Srn,—In your article of last week on the Referendum you appear to consider the working of the Referendum in Switzerland satisfactory....

of the Council and Committee of the British Constitution Association, held at the office to-day (Tuesday), Mr. Hutchinson Harris in the chair, on the motion of Lord Cromer,...

Snt,—Never was demagogue flown with "hot air" and (political) wantonness more suddenly checked in his oratorical career than was Mr. Lloyd George by that blessed word...

SIR, —It would be interesting to know from Ministers what they understand by a "Referendum." They are supposed to object to a "Referendum," but they are at the same time...

[To Tar Borros or ram "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Can there be a doubt as to how we Unionist Free- traders should vote at the coming General Election ? Of the four great issues to be...

[TO TICE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:9 Sin,—During the last few days the Home Secretary has made some startling Constitutional innovations which, in the turmoil of the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Srn,—The above phrase has been unusually conspicuous of late, even in the Spectator's columns, where it occurs again in the last number....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] ventured to write a letter last week to the Spectator suggesting the great need at the present crisis of definite pledges on the part of the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—More than fifty years ago one of the early Benthamites said to me that the arguments for universal suffrage had seemed apparently to...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Mr. R. B. Suthers, a prominent Socialist writer, in a recently published booklet of his, says as follows :—" Retain Free Trade and...

[To THZ EDITOR OF TEN "SpEcrkr0a."1 SIR,—Having been a conscientious reader of the Spectator for many years, I am naturally often much influenced by its counsel, and you now...

[To TEM EDITOR ON T112 " &ROTATOR:] SIR,—A few words in Mr. Coxon's valuable letter in your last issue can hardly be accepted as regards the tithe-owning clergy. He states...

[TO THE EDITOR OP TIER "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I was reading to-day in an old book, "The Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge," by Andrew Borde, 1513, who gives " doggrel rimes"...

[To IRS Barron ov Tam "sin:or/mm.1 Sri,—In several articles that appeared in the Spectator after the General Election of this year, notably in those entitled "The...

[TO TER EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—Among quotations on the crisis, a quotation from Burke deserves place :— "As long as the well-compacted structure of our Church...

[TO TKO EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—There is no doubt that a great deal of the support given to the new land clauses is due to sheer misconception of the just and proper...

- [To TRH EDITOR Or TRH " &MC - P/3 . 08.1 SIR,-4 venture to send you a leaflet entitled "The Acres and the Hands," which was given to a number of the children belonging to...

[To THE EDITOR Or THY "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Editors, like ladies, have the privilege of the last word; but, none the less, permit me respectfully to protest against your recent...

your journal ornament was lately mentioned as inconsistent with the economy needful in providing cottages for farm labourers, but the beauty of the old cottages does not depend,...

[To THE EDITOR 01P THE "SPECTATOR.") SIE,—I hope that you will permit me to express through the medium of your columns my gratitude to the many citizens of all ranks who have...

Sia,—As the principle of State interference appears to have been accepted as the policy of both political parties, the following extract from Alexis de Tocqueville's account...

rTo nix EDITOR Os THE " SPECTATOR."1 the evidence given in the Divorce Commission inquiry I notice that up to the present no information has been forthcoming respecting the...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR.") Sin, — With reference to the correspondence on this subject in your columns, I venture to send a few notes upon the' underground galleries...

[To ms EDITOU OD ma stscrhvos.1 Srn,—Your critic ' s remark in the Spectator of November 19th that " Lamb ' s Adventures of Ulysses " seems a somewhat oddly worded title,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Si,—Allusion was made in your issue of October 1st to the - absence of the common rat Oho Norvegieus) from Manitoba. by the reviewer of Mr....

[TO THE Ennou OF THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR,—A word of caution seems necessary at this time with regard to the Archbishops ' Committee on Church Finance, and what can reasonably be...

HE DE-NATIONAL ANTHE1L* GOD save our gracious Green, Long live our College Green, Gallant and free ! Scatter the Saxon crew, Strike the Red, White, and Blue, Roderick Vich...

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...

AN HISTORIC HOUSE DT EDINBURGH. • ata,—The Spectator has always shown sympathy with efforts made • to save for the benefit of posterity objects of natural and artistic...

A CENTURY OF BALLADS. IN the lucid and judicial survey of music in the reign of King Edward VII. taken by Sir Walter Parrott in his address to the Authors' Club on November...

" SPECTATOR.1 Sia,—The forms to be signed by tradesmen and servants, proposed Iby the Council of the Secret Commissions and Bribery Prevention Iseague as an assistance towards...

CECIL RHODES.* IN his preface Sir Lewis Michell says : "Personal affection on , iny Part may unconsciously sway my judgment of the only -great man with whom I have lived on...

IN this book Sir Ian Hamilton, lately Adjutant-General, and Mr. Haldane state the Case against compulsory service. By "compulsory service" they mean the National Service...

con- temporary biography has been one of the notable events in the German literary year. Readers of Die Zukunft will be prepared to find in this volume the penetration, the...

Miss HAMEL is one of the most successful among the band of writers who have in late years devoted themselves to the byways of French history and biography. One need only recall...

THis is avowedly a "cram" book and a short cut to know- ledge for officers about to undergo examination. As the author states in his preface, existing text-books on strategy...

IN a recant book on the Border ballads Colonel Fitzwilliam Elliot made certain suggestions which in Mr. Lang's opinion reflected upon the fair fame of Scott. In this little work...

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social economics which reach us from the study of the American Professor. There is perhaps nothing very new in it, but it is an expression of personal opinion set out in a very...

THE art of carving wood has always been an important one in England, whether it was employed to decorate structural parts of buildings, or objects of domestic use such as furni-...

GrvErt a writer so learned in his own subject as M. Lenotre, and a translator so accomplished as Mrs. Rodolph Stamen, an interesting and readable book could hardly fail to be...

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THE THREE NAPIERS.f THE hero brothers are Charles, George, and William Napier, sons of the Honourable George Napier and Lady Sarah Lennox, the first love of George III. One...

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