MHE Emperor Francis Joseph has, we are glad to see, sufficiently recovered from his illness to be able to return to Vienna, which be reached on Thursday. He was welcomed by the...

Times, gives a piece of secret history which carries us straight back to the eighteenth century. M. 011ivier reports a statement made to him by General Ducrot, who was in...

ease.

rumours that the Indian Army is to be reduced. Colonel Seely, in the House of Commons on Wednesday, made a statement which shows that there is no intention on the part of the...

seem that the French are gradually getting a more sure command of the military situation. The Special Correspondent of the Times in a letter from Rabat, published in Monday's...

Monday, Mr. Lloyd George made an important statement as to the intentions of the Government with regard to granting facilities for the Women's Suffrage Bill. The Chancellor of...

of the Republic. In' Lisbon the triumph of the Government was complete, the sum total of votes cast for the thirty-four unofficial candidates for election amounting to barely...

Captain Clive called attention to the appointment of Colonel Morgan. We cannot find space to go into the details of the case, and to attempt to treat the matter in a brief...

in regard to the possibilities of the extension of these facilities made in his speech on Thursday, at the dinner to Mr. Carnegie, only an extremely sanguine politician can...

to the position of doctors under the Bill. He said that the first criticism of the doctors referred to the capitation grant. Some objected to the amount of the grant, some...

of the Trade Unions Bill. , The Attorney-General explained that the aim of the Bill was to secure for trade unions the same liberty for political action that they had enjoyed...

Bill was concluded in the House of Lords on Monday. The most important feature of the debate was the eloquent speech against the Bill delivered by Lord Rosebery. Alter remark....

in honour of Mr. Morel. Lord Cromer said that he did not profess always to have agreed with Mr. Morel's pro- posals, but without his unbounded enthusiasm, indomit- able energy,...

debate upon the Insurance Bill was concluded. Mr. Ramsay Macdonald . , in' the course of a speech on the whole very favourable to the Bill, pointed out that the old assumption...

that the Bill would not set up Single-Chamber Government, but would bring the House of Lords nearer to its true function of revising, delaying, and counselling. Lord Lansdowne...

and unwise use of language about the judges, language which, we have pointed out, is bound to create an impression that they do not act fairly and impar- tially when they have...

maintain popular confidence in the judges instead of weakening it, and of sup- porting them when they give unpopular decisions, is to be found in what took place in Hull on...

Insurance Bill is as strong as ever. On Thursday Mr. Lloyd George had a prolonged talk ' with the members of the British Medical Association, and promised to meet most of the...

adjourned on Thursday Mr: Balfour and the Prime Minister discussed the possibility of carrying out Mr. Lloyd George's suggestion that each party in the House should elect a...

opening of the International Musical Congress. After contrasting the glories of the creative period of English music, which closed with the death of Purcell, with the long and...

of Public Morals, appeared in Wednesday's news- papers. The Manifesto expresses the belief that only by raising the ideals of marriage, by education for parenthood, and by...

which is intended to make clear that Nonconformists cannot be refused the Communion in the National Church merely on the ground that they have not been confirmed. We regret that...

Mar. 9th. Consols (2i) were on Friday 80i—Friday week 81i.

Monday's Times from Mr. Lampen, *Vicar of Walthamstoiv. He is convinced, he tells us—and in this view we strongly concur—that a very large number of the clergy heartily agree...

THE SECOND READING OF THE PARLIAMENT BILL. I T is evident from the course of the debate on &Ond Reading of the Parliament Bill, and from the momentous fact that the House of...

O NE of the very worst features of the Parliament Bill is the clause which deprives the House of Lords of all power to reject Money Bills. In the House of Commons and in the...

W E cannot help very deeply deploring the unjust and mischievous attack upon the Judges made by Mr. Winston Churchill in the House of Commons on Tuesday night. In case it should...

has in so prominent a way associated herself with the ideals of Home Science —ideals pressed forward with so much zeal and self- sacrifice by the able band of ladies connected...

L ORD BALFOUR OF BURLEIGH has written a short account of the rise and development of Presby- terianism in Scotland (" Presbyterianism in Scotland," Cam- bridge University Press,...

I N the past week English public life and the English stage have sustained a great loss. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert died suddenly at his home at Harrow Weald on Monday...

A CANDIDATE for the post of Superintendent of a large training school for destitute lads of good character was asked by the Committee what was the goal that he should set before...

a Canadian clergyman to express through your columns his profound gratitude to the Bishop of Hereford for his fundamentally Christian act in inviting to a Coronation celebration...

[To Tail EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—My poor letter has indeed drawn a hot clerical fire ! A Canon of Westminster, two other ecclesiastics, and a Bishop all open upon me...

Sru,—The circular printed below speaks for itself. I venture to allege the opinion that the majority of the laity in the Church of England most warmly approve the action of the...

THE BISHOP OF HEREFORD AND NON- CONFORMISTS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Can you find room for a line of protest from me against the interpretation put on my...

happen to have as my Church Council about a dozen typical business men, independent, sensible, and wide awake. Last night I called them together to pronounce an opinion on the...

[TO THE EDITOR. Or THZ "SPECTATOR...1 SIR, — I have not forgotten your ready kindness about three years ago in giving publicity to a letter of mine on the sub- ject of Social...

[TO TEX EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:] SIR,—Why will you persist in refusing to "see things as they really are," as in your plea for conciliation in the Spectator before me, where...

[To THE EDITOR ON THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—Lord Midleton, in his speech of May 23rd in the House of Lords on the Second Reading of the Parliament Bill, to which you refer at...

[To THE Horror. or Two "SrEcr.vrox.91 Sne, — Far be it from me to challenge your judgment of my " Italian Fantasies " ; indeed, considering how many shocks my "narrow and...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Srn, — As you were good enough to insert a notice of our new National Service League Poster in your paper a month ago may I beg you to...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—You show such kindness in publishing appeals for charities that I hesitate to ask you to add to the number which you thus assist. My...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SracrAroa."] Srs,—As at once the honorary organ of the National Service League and the mainstay of the Referendum policy, may I venture to ask you if you...

THE "SPECTATOR.") Srn, — As I know you like a good quotation I give you the following from Iludibras, Part IL, Canto IL It applies rather aptly to the views held by some noble...

Sr,—For many years I have read with interest letters on the above subject that have appeared in your columns, and have been more and more struck with the need there is to be...

[To THE Eorroa or TER "Sracriroz."] Bin,—Is the following of sufficient interest to cause its inser- tion in your columns F Several years ago I had a very vivid dream, in which...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE SPECTATOR:9 Sra,—An oil painting of this horse is in the possession of Mr. John Bradley, of Sunnyholm, Ightenhill, Lancashire. The painting is signed...

"SPECTATOR:] Sra,—I have read with great interest the article in your issue of May 27th with reference to this Society and Lord Cromer. Your readers will, I am sure, be...

one or two statements in your article on Lord Cromer and the R.S.P.C.A. which I must traverse, though I am sure they are made quite unwittingly. The "Vice-Presidentship of the...

more conspicuous illustration of the conflict of impressions excited by the same composition in different minds than Sir Edward Elgar's Second Symphony, which was performed for...

GRACE BEFORE SLEEP OuR Lord was born in a poor place, Where caravans of travellers lay, But over Him the Virgin's face, Was like my dream of you to-day ; Was like my dream when...

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 :node of...

THE REPUBLICAN TRADITION * Ma. FISHEa has written a brilliant book. "The subject is large," he says, "and I do not profess to supply more than a bare outline of the cause of...

which modern poets rarely stray. Perhaps we have lost the art of it, for it demands half-faith at the least. Like the Middle Ages, our scoffing must be credulous, and a shiver...

THREE new books come to tell us of the present education s ethics, and prospects of the medical profession. Some Con-. siderations of Medical Education, by the editor of the...

of Commerce a year agoiord Milner took occasion to remark that all the volumes written in England on the subject of the administration of our tropical dependencies would...

Mn. PALMER includes Mexico in his "Central America," though it does not appear, we see, in his map. Mexico is, of course, far more interesting to citizens of the United States...

THE PAWNS OP FATE.* THE maxim that hard cases make bad law admits of a special application to those works of fiction which, as in the case of Pawns of Fate, are pamphlets in...

Socialists for Mr. John Burns in these latter years has never been disguised, and they seldom lose an opportunity of "getting their knife" into him. In pursu- ance of this...

valuable to the real lover of Italy than most of the larger and more pretentious volumes now so numerous. The author goes below the surface and searches out the meaning of...

(Mills and Boon. 10s. 6d. net.)—One of Mr. Chatterton's aims is to do justice to the men who, at successive stages in our history, helped to build up our Navy, to create its...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not bun reserved for review in other forms.] The Book of Books. By Lonsdale Ragg, D.D. (Edward Arnold. 5s....

6s.) A remarkable story of the cattle trade in the South-west of the United States.—Table d'Hcite. By W. Pett Ridge. (Hodder and Stoughton. 2s. net.)—Seventeen amusing short...

6s.)—There are as many as three "others," and &critic's first duty is to congratulate them on the success with which they have accommodated themselves to the style of the chief...

bridge University Press. 4s. net.)—In this book, which belongs to the series of "Cambridge Handbooks of Liturgical Study," we have some of the latest work of the lamented Bishop...

and Co. 6s.)—It is not everyone who would have the courage to choose such a hero as Gerald Fenton. For a long time he seems bound to fail, and, indeed, he shows himself somewhat...

ly Sir Laurence Gomme. (Edward Stanford. 7s. 6d. net.)—This Atlas contains (1) an index map divided into reference squares, eighty-four in number, and marked with boundary lines...

0. Prickard, MA. (Winchester : Warren and Son. 2s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Prickard has broken now ground. There is no commentary on this treatise. So much for the language. As to the...

"Little Guides' (Methuen and Co., 2s. 6d. and 3s. 6d.), with its convenient alpha- betical arrangement. We may note that Ashby (near Allerton) is scarcely a Norman church ; the...

of The Teacher's Encyclopwclia, edited by A. P. Laurie, D.Sc. (Caxton Publishing Co.). It is to be completed in seven volumes at the price of 52s. 6d. for the whole work, orders...