July 15, 1911. FROM JANUARY 7th TO JUNE 24th, 1910, INCLUSIVE. TOPICS OF THE DAY. A CT of Union, the, Admiralty Organization Advertisement by.Violence Advertising and...

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greatest attention both at home and abroad. The German comments have been especially interesting, and the Lokalanzeiger gives a statement, apparently from an official source, as...

" Justitia" calling attention to the report of a New Year's reception of Indians held at Mr. Bepin Chandra Pars residence which appears in Monday's Daily Chronicle. Sir Henry...

W E give in another column a detailed account of the remarkable affray in Stepney on Tuesday. It had come to the knowledge of the police that some of the Houndsditch murderers...

interesting article on the naval strategy likely to be adopted by England in the event of an Anglo-German wan On the assumption that England would aira at a blockade to be...

the authorities were unwilling to risk any lives in a rush, and there seemed to be no other means of dislodging the criminals. At about noon Mr. Churchill arrived upon the...

case.

National Congress expressing gratitude for the recent reforms, and suggesting some new ones. Lord Hardinge replied in a most friendly speech, and pointed out that the prosperity...

Chambers of Commerce, none more impressive than the Report of the Special Committee of the London Chamber of Commerce. Having considered the question mainly from the commercial...

reason to think that he is in any way mistaken, we can hardly avoid his conclusion "that if the design of the Government were to reflect the opinion of the country in the Upper...

on the situation created by the elections., After claiming the result as an unprecedented triumph for the progressive and democratic forces of Great Britain and Ireland, Mr....

Midleton on the "Reformed House of Lords." Lord Midleton points out what would be the practical effects of the Rosebery Resolutions which have already been adopted by the House...

a Lords we desire to mention one point which seems, curiously enough, to have attracted very little attention, though we have discussed it several times in these columns. The...

Declaration of London to the Times of last Saturday. While holding that both the Prize Court Convention of 1907 and the Declaration of London stand in need of full Parliamentary...

Lords, 88 Unionists, 48 Liberals, and 14 non-party Peers fulfil the conditions of distinguished public service. There are thus left 50 Peers for the other two categories. Of...

well-known King's Counsel, in which he draws attention to a very curious result of the preamble to the Veto Bill. In his view, the preamble implies that the Parliament Bill may...

of Tolstoy, written by his friend Mr. P. A. Boulanger, who was present when be died. The article makes it olear that Tolstoy had for some years contemplated a withdrawal from...

the Labour Party decided that the time had arrived for abolish- ing the pledge by which their Parliamentary representatives had hitherto been obliged to bind themselves. The...

to the contrary, contained no new peerages. It contained the names of five Privy Councillors, nine Baronets, and twenty-five Knights, in addition to a number of Colonial and...

Collins, who resigned his Lordship of Appeal in October. Lord Coffins, who graduated with high classical honours at both Dublin and Cambridge, was called to the Bar in 1867, and...

discovered by a constable on Clapham Common. He was identified as Leon Beron, a Russian who had lived for three years in Jubilee Street, which is the turning out of Commercial...

preached in his Cathedral last Sunday impressed on his hearers the danger of tampering with the sacredness of history. He described how in his school-days at Harrow he and some...

Wood, A..R.A., and erected by public subscrip- tion in Wolfe's native village of Westerham, was unveiled on Monday, the anniversary of his birth, by Lord Roberts. At the close...

the Government's scheme for insurance against sickness and invalidity. The insurance is to be compulsory upon the whole working population whose incomes are below &60 a year,...

Dec. 1st. Consols (2i) were on Friday 79I—Friday week 791.

THE CONSTITUTIONAL cirrsis. w E publish elsewhere a letter from Lord Hugh Cecil dealing with the Constitutional crisis. Anything on a political issue which comes from Lord Hugh...

D IPLOMACY till late years had a well-understood meaning. It came in, indeed, for a good deal of harsh language on this very account. Diplomacy and insincerity have sometimes...

W E note with no small satisfaction that the Territorial Associations of the City and of the County of London have begun to take in hand in earnest the forma- tion of a Veteran...

mwm Revenue Returns for the first three-quarters of the financial year 1910-11 have provoked an outburst of jubilation on the part of the Radical Press, and we can readily...

T "" Descent into Hell" is the second part of the Apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemns. This second part, which almost certainly had no original connexion with the first, has not the...

"I N the days of the Edwards and the Henrys "The low red glare to southward when the raided coast towns burn" was a frequent phenomenon on either side of the Channel. War,...

the police on Monday that the assassins "wanted" for the Houndsditch crimes of December 16th, in which three policemen were killed, were hiding in a room in No. 100 Martin's...

THE CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS. [TO THR EDITOR OP TER " SPIICTATOR.."1 SIR,—While there is much in your articles on the present position of the Constitutional controversy which...

[To THE EDITOR , OF THE " SPECTATOR: . 1 SIR,—In criticising the letter on the above subject which you did me the honour to publish in the Spectator of Decem- ber 24th, 1910,...

[To TIES EDITOR OF THZ " SPECTITOR."] SIR,—In view of the feeling, I think justified, and not infrequently expressed, that the British Channel Fleet should remain as England's...

in agreement with a good deal of the criticism directed by your correspondent Mr. R. B. Marston (Spectator, December 24th, 1910) against the Declaration of London, I cannot...

[To THY EDITOR OF THZ 'SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The figures given in your article last week are no doubt staggering to the good-natured Englishmen who you say have been gulled by...

[To TRY EDITOR OP THEP " SPICCTATOS."1 SIR,—You are perfectly right in the line you have taken regarding the injustice of refusing to allow Ulster to fonts a separate...

lTo MN EDITOR. Or TEM " SPECTATOIL"] Sass—Something similar to your solution of the Irish problem has more than once occurred to me. The majority of the population and of the...

Sin,—The tactics suggested to Ulster in the Spectator of December 24th, 1910, though urged by one of the most earnest friends of Irish Unionists, could not possibly be adopted...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] Sue,—Permit me to support your views about the much- threatened creation of Peers wholesale by a citation from one of the keenest...

[To THE EDITOR ON THE "SPECTATOlt."1 Sue,—The late S. H. Reynolds (editor of Bacon's " Essays " for the Clarendon Press) reported to me a witty parable which, as I am now at...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—We desire to appeal through your columns to the many thousands of men possessed of a military training who are resident in the City...

[To MR EDITOR OF vHs " SPECTATOR:1 SlE, — May I remind your readers that many of them who believe that the right to property is one of the most powerful stimuli to human...

[TO THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Mr. Harrison writes in your issue of December 3/st, 1910, to correct Mr. Lewis as to Cromwell's Welsh ancestry; • may I be allowed...

OF THE "SPECTAT011:1 Sin,—Can any reader of the Spectator give the authorship of the following lines, or state where they may be found?- "A touch of the Sun for pardon. The...

[TO THE EDITOR 07 THIS " SPECTATOR:1 $w.,—Your issue of December 31st, 1910, contained the most gratifying statement that the number of foggy days in London has been reduced...

[To SZE Emma os Tao "SracrATos."3 San,—The Milton Colliery disaster has furnished another sad opportunity for Lancashire colliers to show their courage and bravery in the face...

"SpEorrroa."] Sra,—Probably some of your readers have typewriting machines for which they have no further use, and in such cases I venture to hope that they may be sent to...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are snarled "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of...

SAMUEL HENRY BUTCHER. VITAL and valiant spirit, friend beloved, Knight of all noble orders of the soul, Son of the morning, must thou then be gone And leave us darkling in the...

pro TES EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.] you allow us through your columns to make known a scheme for which we are anxious to enlist public sympathy and support ? The establishment...

THE ACADEMY. Tins winter the Exhibition at Burlington House consists of a collection of the works of five members of the Academy who have died within the last three years....

DR. THOMAS CHALMERS.* THE reputation of Dr. Chalmers, it appears to us, requires some vindication from the panegyric contained in this book. We do not know how far Dr. Harper...

Mn. KEA.BY appeals, in his own phrase, to "lovers of sound literature and sound learning and clear thought." This book is his confession of faith, the conclusions which a man...

THE Archbishop of Canterbury's Mission to the Assyrian Christians holds a high place in the esteem of all who have Th. Asturian Church, 110 - 010 A.D. By the Rev, W. A. Wigram,...

NAPOLEON IN HIS OWN DEFENCE.* "011n situation at St. Helena," Napoleon once said, "may even have its attractions. The universe is looking at us. We remain the martyrs of an...

since a translation of M. Lenetre's book, La Fills de Louis Seize, was published in England. But the volume that lies before us now, though dealing with the same unhappy...

OFFICIAL ACCOUNT.* THE fourth instalment of the German official history of the Russo-Japanese War, which is being translated into English by Mr. Karl von Donat, deals with the...

WHIT a pity it is that we have not some such record as this from the pen of a non-combatant in other famous sieges! Miss Hooker was on a visit to a friend in the American...

Da. BEDpos's occupation has been medicine, which he practised at Bristol with success for between thirty and forty years; his chief interest in life has been anthropology, a...

Ihipzu the heading "A Great Democratic Reform" Mr. Harold Cox contributes a really illuminating paper on the Referendum to the January Nineteenth. Century. The con- version of...

A SCOUT'S SON.* Ourc only grievance against A Scout's Son is concerned with its get-up. The print and paper are excellent, and the name of the artist might well have been given...

net.)—Mrs. Milne has had an excellent opportunity and has made an excellent use of it. The "Shams at Home" make a very pleasant picture. They are happily dispositioned people,...

conduct of Angela Tempest after her wedding. It is all very fine to be married to an impoverished Scottish laird in Scottish fashion on the hillside and to propose to lead the...

Elder, and Co. is. net.)—As the first two poems in this ingenious and amusing little volume appeared in the Spectator, we cannot of course criticise them. We may, however,...

[Under this heading we notice such Books qf th. week as has. not he* reserved for review in other Anna.] Educational Aims and Efforts. By Sir Philip Magmas, M.P. (Longmans and...

(Is. 6d. net.)—All the "studies" in this volume should have interested readers ; the most generally attractive will be Miss Hetty Goldman's thesis for the Eliot Norton Greek...

6s.)—A story of life in the Australian bush. It contains a very painful incident of a disaster to a child which is only too poignantly described.—Hearts and Coronets. By...

the Rev. Horace K. Mann. Vols. VI.-VII. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co. 12s. net per vol.)—Dr. Mann has now reached, not a little to his satisfac- tion, it may be supposed, the...

10s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Moore gives as his sub-title "A Handbook of Hints on the Collecting and Housing of Antique Furniture." He writes, keeping in view the "too common...