indicate that order will be restored. The island, which is rich, prosperous, and inhabited almost entirely by Christians, has for the last seventy years enjoyed substantial...

wild talk of the extremists in the debate in the Commons on Thursday, for to do se might tend to provide people abroad with arguments against the soundness and utility of...

of Mr. Keir Hardie's speech a stormy incident arose, the Chairman, Mr. Emmott, insisting that he should withdraw the word "atrocities." After a long wrangle Mr. Keir Hardie...

MHE Government took a wise, a courageous, and a straight- forward course on Thursday afternoon when the question of the King's visit to Russia was raised in the Commons by the...

which took place in Paris on Thursday at the ceremony of the translation of the remains of Zola to the Pantheon in the presence of the President of the Republic and a gathering...

case.

Senate, has addressed a vigorous letter to M. Thomson, the French Minister of Marine. He protests against the campaign of extravagant expenditure on battle- ships conducted by...

Reform the nation would secure increased em- ployment. He did not believe that the old-age pensions scheme would result in any reduction of local taxation. Mr. Lloyd George's...

second reading of the Finance Bill, Mr. Laurence Hardy moved an In the Commons on Monday, on the Motion for the second reading of the Finance Bill, Mr. Laurence Hardy moved an...

us from dealing fully with the visit of the German pastors to this country, and must be content with expressing the hope that the cordial welcome they have received from the...

Law. His criticism of the profligate finance of the Govern- ment was sound and reasonable, but also, we may add, exceedingly easy. He met the description that had been given of...

did not realise what a sense of shame it must have caused to those Liberals who are also genuine Free-traders, when be declared that the real point of the amendment was its...

deeply gratified by the spontaneity and sincerity of his welcome in England. He is further credited with the conviction that his visit has sensibly promoted the consolidation of...

suggestion of the Emperor, was opened by him in Berlin on Tuesday. German shipbuilders having from time to time contributed to various International Exhibitions, it occurred to...

circular setting forth the reasons w hich hive. prompted the signatories to organise a counter campaign against the "Votes for Women" movement. They hold it to be of fundamental...

Minister, in which he tried to make his declaration that the Chancellor of the Exchequer ought to budget, not for one year, but for several years in advance, fit with the fact...

which in the case of any other speaker would have to be regarded as most important. "I have over and over again stated that whatever be the financial needs of the country which...

Buller, which took place early on Tuesday morning. He bad been seriously ill since March, but recently rallied slightly. On Wednesday week he appears to have contracted a chill,...

announcement that, on and after October 1st next, a penny post would be established between Great Britain and the United States. Negotiations have been going on with the United...

Tuesday Lord Cromer was elected to succeed the Duke of Devonshire as president. The fact that statesmen so eminent as Lord James of Hereford, Lord George Hamilton, and Lord...

May 28th. Consols (21) were on Friday 88—on Friday week 87i. Bank Rate, 21- per cent., changed from 8 per cent. May 28th. Consols (21) were on Friday 88—on Friday week 87i.

THE OLD-AGE PENSIONS BILL. T HE text of the Old-Age Pensions Bill, which was published on Tuesday, amply justifies the criticisms passed in these columns and elsewhere on the...

I N an interesting inset to Stieler's Atlas a sketch is given of the distribution of official languages through- out the world. The most pervasive of all the official languages...

'IRE grave danger to Free-trade brought about by the determination of the Government to prefer party considerations to the cause of which they were appointed trustees by the...

17 RE prospect of a new Reform Bill has not excited the country as much as the Prime Minister possibly expected when he made the announcement. The classes who at one time were...

r'HE quarrel between the publishers and the Times has familiarised most people with the way in which book- producers and booksellers conduct their business. Let us put the main...

E was an active friend." These honorific words are „ H to be found on a monument of the year 1810 erected to a Somersetsbire worthy. Amongst a list of faded conventional...

L AON is a city set on a hill. It cannot be hid, for it stands on the one bill of a wide, wind-swept plain, very flat and very monotonous. The situation alone is wonder- fully...

O N the pebbly, wind-swept banks and hollows which the receding sea has piled behind it east of the Sussex Bother you can watch the soil forming in the sun and rain better,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTAT08"1 Sin,—In your issue of May 23rd you write: "With the voluntary Socialism of Cs-operation we have no quarrel." May I put to YOU the following...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:A SIR,—Realising the importance of bringing together the Unionist Party on the question of Tariff Reform, may I venture to suggest the...

ITO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Si,—So far as we at this distance are able to judge, the agitation in England for a return to a policy of Protection had its origin largely...

THE KING'S VISIT TO RUSSIA. L'ro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." j Sin,—The agitation in the Daily News and elsewhere against the King's visit is simply the result of a...

LTo Tar Eorroa or Tin "BracriAroi.1 SIR, — As a regular reader of your paper for more than thirty years, I know what interest you take in questions of natural history, and I am...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THS "SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—Everybody knows the yellowhammer. One cannot walk along a turnpike road, or on a common among gorse- bushes, or through narrow lanes...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:"] Sra,—In the year 1873 I was a guest at the hospitable table of the Fathers at Maynooth. The venerable Dr. Rupell pre- sided, and his...

[To THU EDITOR, OF THE "SPECTATOR-1 SIR,—We hear so much in these days of German enterprise and supremacy in business that the following facts may not be without interest. I...

THREE NEW PLAYS. DRAMATIC critics are a little too apt to think that they have given a sufficient account of a play when they have described its plot. They hasten to relate to...

BAB ES ZUWEYLA. 41 SOLIDLY handed and firmly founded By the Copper-Smiths' Street is a gateway wide, Where, tossing aloft their jets of marble, The minarets guard it on either...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J Sra,—Your interesting paper on "The Balance of Wild Life in a Garden" in the Spectator of May 30th suggests to me that my experience may...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'] Srs„ — If you can find room for a few lines, more in the nature of a request for information than a criticism, I should be very glad to ask...

THE LETTERS OF MARTIN LUTHER.' GOETHE once wrote to a friend that there was nothing deserving of attention in the Reformation of the sixteenth century with the exception of the...

THE interest and importance of Mr. Berenson's last book are due to the fact that in it he sums up his theory of art. In his previous volumes dealing with Venice, Florence, and...

no doubt about the place which H.M.I. should take in the great multitude of autobiographies and recol- lections. Soldiers, sailors, statesmen, divines,. soholars, jesters, have...

Tunas is probably no one alive more familiar with Parlia- mental"' life in its every aspect than Mr. Lucy (" Toby, M.P.") He has been for thirty-five years "its close and...

THERE is no doubt that M. Anatole France is the most brilliant French writer of the present day, and that he well deserves his place at the head of such a gallery of portrait....

were noticed by us on November 30th, 1907, is now complete. Vol. III., up to p. 347, is occupied with Irish affairs, beginning with the siege and surrender of Kinsale. The great...

THE Nineteenth Century for June contains a long and most important article by Sir William White on "The Cult of the Monster Warship," in which be asks that the nation should...

THE PEDESTAL.* ENTERING the lists as the author of a very entertaining and original school-story, Mr. Coke has shown sagacity as well as ingenuity in evading the dangers which...

is of so serious a tendency that it might seem more appropriate to notice it under the heading of theological works than under that of fiction. Much of the scone passes in a...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the wee?; as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] A Masque of Empire. By Mrs. St. Loe St rachey. (Hutchinson and Co....

M.A. Illustrated by Sydney R. Jones. (B. T. Botsford. 75. 6d. net.)— Mr. Ditchfield has rendered the "charm" very successfully, Mr. Jones contributing not a little to the result...

story of country life some genera- tions ago, in which the Quakers play a prominent part.—The Wheel o' Fortune. By Louis Tracy. (Ward, Lock, and Co. 6s.) —The story of a...

Duckworth, and The Peak Country, Painted by W. Biscombe Gardner, Described by A. R. Hope Moncrieff (A. and C. Black, 6s. each), carry on worthily a. series which has established...

and Co. 15.) — This is an amusing " skit " on Socialism, taking it at its weakest point, application to practice. What a Communist Ministry with the courage of its opinions...

By W. Carew Hazlitt. (Bernard Quariteh. Cs.)— How to Become an Author. By Arnold Bennett. (The Literary Correspondence College. 58. net.)—Dictionary of the English and German...

E. C. Jack, Is. and is. 6d. net) we have The Story of Napoleon, by H. E. Marshall. The story is well and fairly told, but we must own that to a child asking whether Napoleon was...

6d. net.)—Miss Deane divides her hints to the collector into four sections,—viz., "Old China" (subdivided by places of origin colour, famous mqkers, &e.) ; "Print Collecting"...

Rome. (Macmillan and Co.)—These papers are four in number: "The Advancement of Officers in the Roman Army," "Roman Monumental Arches" (amply illustrated), the "Palimp- sest of...

Hyatt. (Chatto and Windus. 2s.)—Mr. Hyatt has arranged his book in twelve divisions, to which he gives such titles as "Edina's Charms," "Edinburgh Streets," "Royal Edinburgh,"...