FROM JULY 4th TO DECEMBER 26th, 1914, INCLUSIVE. TOPICS OF THE DAY. A DVERTISING, the Economim of ... 8 Aneon, Sir Denis, Drowned in the Archduke PranMe Ferdinmd, the...

in the House of Lords was to be found in the five minutes' speech by Lord Halsbury. That gallant and veteran prince of "Die- hards" showed at once his patriotism and his sound...

speech, and will only add here that his treatment of the time-limit was as statesmanlike—we cannot say more —as his treatment of the main problem of Exclusion. Other interesting...

Lord Londonderry, who pressed the Government very strongly to say whether they would insist on the acceptance by the House of Commons of the "far-reaching amend- ments" which...

very sound and reasonable appeal. We should like also to have been able to quote from the speech of the Duke of Abereorn,, but can only accord it the barest summary. Speaking as...

TN the House of Lords on Wednesday Lord Morley moved the second reading of the Amending Bill. Lord Morley seldom snakes a speech without telling quotations, and very striking...

debate that it has been adjourned till Monday. There is no doubt, however, that the second reading will now be passed, and that the amendments made by the Opposition will be in...

Wimborne, and after Lord Dmiraven had urged yet one more plea for his favourite Federalism, Lord Midleton made a very important and welcome speech. Lord Midleton Las been...

what the Times calls the third edition of the Finance Bill Part IV. (which deals with local grants-in-aid) into be dropped, since without a further resolution this cannot be put...

the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, Heir-Presumptive to the Atustro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, the Duchess of Heisenberg. The Archduke had been attending military manceuvres in...

very happy augury the moderation and good sense with which the Unionist papers have treated the debate and supported LordLansdowne's attitude towards the Amending Bill Nothing,...

settle the Mexican dispute came to an end. Some of the mediators think (says the Times correspondent) that the negotiations have done much to prevent war between the United...

houses of Orthodox Serbs were sacked and looted by Mussulman Serbs and Roman Catholic Croats, The Serb-Orthodox Archbishop was wounded. As the police were unable to suppress the...

week owing to the Greek acceptance of the proposed interchange of populations. It is to be remembered, however, that Greece will soon have her two new battleships, and her...

on foreign affairs. Sir Mark Sykes foresaw that the Admiralty oil scheme in Persia might end in the occupation of Persia and the break-up of Turkey. Then Great Britain might lie...

the aged and lonely Emperor as much as to the young children of the Archduke and his wife. As the Emperor himself exclaimed, no sorrow seems to be spared him. His rewards for...

Jan. 29th. Consols (21) were on Friday 751—Friday week 752,

Lord Crewe, and knows his public and private record—one absolutely stainless in the matter of delicacy and discretion— whether he thinks that Lord Crewe really believes that...

Hope moved to reduce the salary of the First Lord of the Treasury for failing to act on the recommendation of the Lords' Report on the case of Lord Murray, by issuing instruc-...

to express our regret at the way in which the Opposition speakers have again and again allowed the Government to escape the crucial test in the Marconi question. The point which...

have done so, then of course, whether rightly or wrongly, we must alter our whole standard of Ministerial delicacy and discretion in pecuniary matters, and accept as inevitable...

Agriculture at the Imperial Institute on Monday, gave an interesting account of the reclamation of waste salt, impregnated land at Biala, in the Nile Delta. As a result of...

that Mr. Joseph Chamberlain died on Thursday night in London. We cannot attempt to write now of the fame and the significance of a career which for more than a generation luta...

commented ironically on the scrupulousness of Minis- terialists in regarding it as an imputation gravely dishonour. lugto the Civil Service merely to warn them against doing...

Sale made a personal statement in regard to the censures passed upon him at the Central Criminal Court during the hearing of the Army Canteens Case. After reading Lord Saye and...

coin- pleting his ninety-sixth year, removes a most picturesque figure, a groat patrician, and a true patriot. He entered Parliament seventy-four years ago, he took an active...

LORD LANSDOWNE. T HERE is probably no man in this country who cares less for a merely personal triumph than Lord Lansdowne. Yet while the nation has no lack of politicians on...

MURDER. I T is to be feared that the rioting which has followed the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand is Liberals like it or not, he has become the nation's...

Ti ORD CURZON has done a very useful piece of work in directing public attention to the character of the Council of India Bill brought into the House of Lords by Lord Crewe. It...

" T "question of Cabinet Ministers' salaries is one which I think ought to be dealt with compre- hensively as a whole." This was the answer given by the Primo Minister to a...

W E are always being told that the muse of contrast is a source of discontent. We compare our lot with that of our more fortunate neighbour, and are thereby made unhappy. This...

- 1 -- T is estimated that as much as a hundred millions sterling is spent every year in the United Kingdom on adver- tising, and five or six times as much in the whole world....

W HEN Members of Parliament make matches with pigeons brought from their constituencies, and get Ministers of State to open the baskets to let the pigeons fly, the pastime of...

SOME MODERN FRENCH BOOKS. [To run EOM. or Me ..13erxraroa.".] SI12,—The literary talent and the extraordinary industry of IL Emile Fagnet have seldom been better displayed than...

[To TRY EDITOR OF TER "SPEC7ATOIt."1 SIB,—Shakespeare said the final word on the problem of luck. I commend it to Mr. Lloyd George:–. "This is the excellent foppery of the...

THE GOVERNMENT'S RECORD. [To THE EDITOR OF TER "SPECT■TOR."J wonder whether any intelligent and independent Liberal, calmly and dispassionately reviewing the events of the past...

[TO THE EDITOR OF 2111I "Brim-rms.:] SIR,—My dull intellect is quite possibly unable to grasp the wisdom contained in the above ; but I folly understand Mr. Lloyd George's...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SrECTATOR..] SIR, — As one long interested in local government in London, I wish to draw the attention of your readers to two points in connexion with the...

L'ro THE EDITOR Or THE ”SpEcTATon. " 1 SIR, — I think it may be useful to give an example of the way the Government valuators are acting. No doubt my case is only a sample of...

[To THR EDITOR OF THE "SrECTATOR." . 1 SIR, — I am sure that in recommending a tax on amusements "Au Englishman Abroad" (Spectator, Jane 27th) has hit the nail on the head. Such...

[To THE EDITOR OF TRR "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — If Ulster, misguided by bigotry or by desire of Pro- testant ascendancy, excludes herself from the blessings of Home Rule, the...

[To THR EDITOR OF TEX -spxcv.Tos."] Sin,—When the Portuguese prisons were crowded with political suspects the pamphlets of the British Protest Com- mittee could hardly be too...

correspondent's letter hi last week's Spectator respecting the confirmation of John Evelyn recalls to me a passage in the fascinating Autobiography of Mrs. Alice Thornton...

your readers, I have been much interested in the article by "A. C." on this important subject, and I notice that the Church Times accepts the argument that every parishioner has...

to some extent depends on the suspension of the practice of confirmation during a period when irregularities were of necessity tolerated. In this respect there is, I venture to...

great interest your article on "The Church and the Nonconformists" in your issue of June 13th, May I call your attention to a point which has apparently been ignored by "An...

(To THZ EDITOR 0/ THIS "SPECTATOR.”] Si,—About a year ago, to the delight of your Wesleyan Methodist readers, and probably many others, you published a short anticipation of the...

[To TEl EDITOR 01 TEl "SPECTATOR...1 SIR,—There are curious echoes that occasionally come from India of the views of women there on the conduct of suffragettes. My daughter is a...

[To TER EDITOR 0/ TES " SPRCTATOR."] SIR,—It happens that this has been a period of great catastrophes in Europe, America, and Asia alike, and many pious souls must have been...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Many years ago Canon Barnett and I were staying at Bordighera so as to be near Mr. George Macdonald and breathe the atmosphere of his...

THE THEORY OF SOCIAL REVOLUTION.* Tins study of modern conditions by a well-known American lawyer and publicist is of far greater interest than its title would seem to imply....

WAVERLEY. 1814 - 1914. WHEN, on a novel's newly printed page We find a maudlin eulogy of sin, And read of ways that harlots wander in, And of sick souls that writhe in...

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...

THE naval mind loves to dwell on the concrete, and is thus only too liable to miss the underlying principles. Hence is seen its readiness to adopt over-hastily ideas and methods...

work as are capable of a discreet and reasoned enthusiasm will close Mr. Everard lleynell's Life of the poet with disappointment and regret, Both as biography and as criticism...

THIS is a pleasant book for the critic to read, but bard to review. Its only unity is the catholic sympathies of the scholar to whom it does honour. Is it possible, we ask,...

in the text of the Gospel and Acts which the new oCerpus Professor of Latin at Oxford has lately given us cannot but raise in a fresh form the question of the 4 .6 The...

MALTA has a double claim upon Englishmen. It is one of our chief fortified places, and its position, midway between Sicily and Tunis, makes it a natural stopping-place for...

the Eldorado of Rome, and it is always interesting to compare the Roman fashion of exploiting it with Spain's methods towards her own colonies at a later • The Mechanics of Law...

THIS volume aintains a collection of the Carpentier Lectures delivered at Columbia University by the learned author in October, 1913. Sir Courtenay Ebert, who was for many years...

Book tells us in her last chapter that the nearer she comes to "the end of the long passage" of life, the more she "longs to help those who are just starting out on the journey...

THE only article directly bearing on the Home Rule question in the Nineteenth Century is that in which Mr. Lathbury argues for Exclusion as the only compromise. While agreeing...

JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.* ARTISTS have a way of emerging in strange environments and asserting themselves 15-Ap idpoy. Dvorak was the son of a pork-butcher, Faccio of a baker, and...

Co. 6s.)—The tone of Miss Sinclair's stories is a little unpleasant, but they are, as her work usually is, clever and dramatic.—The Bed Wall. By Frank Savile. (Thomas Nelson and...

6e.)—In the town of Weidenbruck, in the year 1911, Karl, the young and rightful heir to the throne, Cyril, Regent and ambitious villain, Fritz von Friedrichebeim, and many...

Co. 6s.)—The true lover of Kipling cannot afford, in these days of sentimental and introspective novelists, to be narrow-minded ; he should extend his admiration to those also...

[Under this heading les notico such Books of tho weals as have nd reserved for review In other forms.] A New English. Dictionary on Historical Principles. " Shastri—Shyster," by...

Putnam's Sons. 3s. 6d. net.)—This book aims at explaining, in non-technical language, the" things everyone should know" about the sun, moon, planets, and stars. The author is...

This admirable political quarterly continues to preserve its high standard of interest. The article on domestic affairs is mainly devoted to an historical commentary on the...

net.)—It is rather late in the day to revive the legend of Brutus, grandson of .Aeneas, as the eponymous hero of Britain. Yet this task is essayed in all seriousness by Mr....

XIII. (Cambridge University Press. £2 10s. net.)—The Royal Society is doing a great service to students by undertaking to catalogue the vast mass of scientific papers published...

H Firth. (H. Milford. 6d. net.)—In this paper, read last year at the International Historical Congress, Professor Firth points out that the progress of historical study in any...

Meredith once said of Mrs. Meynell's essays that Matthew Arnold would have acknowledged that she could write and Carlyle that she could think—and he selected good judges. A...

Sons, and Danielsson. 10s. 6d. net.)—These interesting studies in the history of London were written by Dr. Galloway at the reqnest of his students at Charing Cross Hospital,...

this brief but very interesting "centenary monograph" Mr. Morris discusses some of the problems con- nected with the famous battle of which we have just been celebrating the six...

View. By Wu Tingfang. (Duckworth and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—Gold- smith, in one of his most entertaining productions, put his criticisms of English society into the mouth of a...

entertaining volume deals with gamblers and road agents, "bad men" and cowboys, poker games and mining ventures. The crack of the revolver and of the stock-whip sounds...

Lane. 6s.)—M. France's style is so personal and charming that it is bound to lose something in translation, but what he says is always so interesting that it can be read with...

provides the politician and the journalist with a very convenient and trustworthy review of the public events of the past year, both at home and abroad. The only criticism we...