T HE Times of Friday publishes a letter on its leader page the importance of which it is exceedingly difficult to estimate till further light has been obtained. The episode may...

declares that the letter quoted above will cause a shock of painful surprise and just indignation to the people of this country. The German Emperor, it points out, bolds the •...

paper of a new development in the negotiations between the Belgian Cabinet and King Leopold as to the annexation of the Congo. On Thursday M. Schollaert laid before the Chamber...

the incident without knowledge of what was said in the letters. We may point out, however, in the first place, that the Times has taken a very grave responsibility in giving...

hope that should the matter not be cleared up, as we still trust it may be, by a satisfactory statement in Parliament, the Press will show proper restraint in its handling of...

case.

in the condition of the Prime Minister. Sir Thomas Barlow has again seen the patient, but it is, we are sorry to say, only too obvious from the very guarded bulletins that he...

In our opinion, Mr. Morley has the greatest claims on the post, for there is no man whose ideas on public finance are sounder than his. Both from long and intimate study of...

Sir John Brunner seconded a Resolution recommending the reduction of our expenditure on armaments, on the ground that we were spending far more than was warranted by the needs...

for North Kensington, moved the second reading of the Bill con- ferring on women the same Parliamentary franchise possessed by men. The Bill, if it were adopted, would tend, he...

an extract from an article in the Tag by Herr von Rath on German naval policy. " It was the gospel of the naval enthusiasts," he writes, " that England under a Liberal...

Arthur du Cros, the Tariff Reform candidate, by a majority of 1,018. In 1906 the Tariff Reform majority was 413. The un- popularity of the Licensing Bill is said to have played...

most satis- factory manner, on which the Indian Army and the Govern- ment are to be heartily congratulated. On Thursday week, after a discussion between the Afridi headmen and...

Naval Estimates to a damaging criticism on the lines* developed in Mr. H. W. Wilson's letter to the Times. He welcomed Mr. Asquith's acceptance of the two-Power standard, but...

place in the House . of Commons on Wednesday, and will only note here Mr. Goulding's amendment to the effect that " the recent high price of bread was due to natural causes and...

week, Mr. Arthur Elliot presiding. The chairman having laid stress on the non-party nature of the meeting, Mr. Lloyd-George delivered an interesting speech. There was, he said,...

the Polish Expropriation Bill, the second reading of which was voted in the Upper House of the Diet on Thursday week. But to judge from the message of the Times correspondent...

he declared, adhered firmly to the Cardwell system. He defended his proposal for an expeditionary force of a hundred and sixty thousand men by pointing out that a large...

Balfour, who exposed the disagreement between the Government and their party and the confusion between economy and reduction, denounced the fundamental error involved in...

March 5th. Consols (2i) were on Friday 87i—on Friday week 87g.

A CENTRE PARTY. A STATESMAN of no little weight and experience, who prefers to remain anonymous, writes in our correspondence columns a letter dealing with the forma- tion of a...

A S the present writer read the speeches of Mr. Goulding and Lord Winterton in the House of Commons advocating the taxation of corn, and therefore of bread, not for revenue...

T HE little war on the Indian frontier has been ended quite successfully, and with a celerity which must be a subject of keen envy to M. Clemenceau and of rejoicing to all...

T HE Licensing Bill has one merit and many faults, and the latter seem likely to attract more notice than' its virtue. It does aim at carrying out in the course of the next...

W ITH the possible exception of our own experience in Egypt, no European country has had a more difficult Mohammedan problem to solve than France faces in Morocco. The...

P ERSONAL influence is an inscrutable force. We can observe its action. We cannot analyse its springs. They lie too deep. What is it which enables a Garibaldi to raise an army,...

F ROM all we hear, the Olympic Games, which are to be held in London next July, are being organised by the very kind of men on whom a sane choice would always fall. The games...

O F all the contrasts of the months, perhaps none is sharper than the fall of snow upon a countryside which has once felt the rush of spring. There is somehow a charm in the...

THE NAVAL DEBATE. [TO TEE EDITOR OW THE 08m:revolt.- j Sin,—One rises from a perusal of the debates of Monday and Tuesday with somewhat mixed feelings. It is satisfactory to...

Stn,—Although I have followed the Spectator fairly closely for a considerable time, I can recollect no article more truly characteristic of the spirit of Free-trade—i.e., real...

A CENTRE PARTY. LTO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It cannot be doubted that there is a growing feeling of impatience at the alternatives that are exclusively offered by...

ITO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—There must be many people who welcomed your timely article in last week's Spectator on the subject of the use and abuse of " The...

[TO THE EDITOR OP • THE SUN.'] Sie,—In an editorial entitled The Pay of the Army' in the Sun of February 7th you have stepped aside to strengthen the public prejudice against...

150 THE EDITOR OP TR! "SPECTATOR. "] Sra, — I enclose a letter addressed by a " Veteran" to a recent issue of the New York Sun on the Pension Budget of the United States which...

[To SRI EDITOR or " SPECTATOR. ' ] have not noticed in any of the licensing discussions any distinction drawn between a "beer" license and a " wine- and-spirit " license. The...

[To THE EDITOR Or Tor “ErZoTATOR."1 Srs,—The reviewer of Mr. Meyer's book on "British State Telegraphs" (Spectator, February 29th) is under a complete misapprehension as to...

[To TH1 EDITOR Or TRH "SPECTATOR. : ] SIne—In the closing paragraph of your article on the licensing question published in your issue of February 1st you state what is...

[TO TEM EDITOR OP TRH "srEcTATom."] Snt,—Your argument that the bargain made by the State in the matter of liquor licenses must be kept, whether "improvident" or not (Spectator,...

[To THZ EDITOR Or Till "EPECTLTOZ." . 1 SIR,—We cannot but regret the state of things which induces employers to offer, and compels workers to accept, the miserable pittance,...

rTO TEE ED/TOE OF VIZ " SPECTATOR- " ] SIR, — You allowed me some years ago to supply an illustration, by way of analogy, which might help to " the correction of conscience."...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPIRCTATOR... J SIR,—Is it a fact that a private in the Army cannot serve for more than twelve years ? If this be so, it seems to me to have three...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR. 1 Sin,—During twenty years' experience of the depredations of rabbits in a garden, I have never until this spring known them to eat...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."3 SIR,—I cannot imagine that any one who has read M. Emile Thomas's " History of the National Workshops " could pay any serious attention to...

[To THE EDITOR OF TOE SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Will you permit me to draw attention to a remarkable story which is at present going the round of the journals, and for which the...

[TO TIIE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—It may interest some of your readers to hear of an un- familiar use for cocoanuts. I thought I had discovered the real mission of the...

LORD Caonnm's two volumes are valuable in a high degree from the historical side, for they give at first hand a record of events which have profoundly modified the development...

DEAR Mn. Another scheme for cutting down old-age pensions was suggested by the Nation last summer. It is that no man or woman should be allowed to claim his or her old-age...

SONG OF THE THRUSH. [AFTER THE WELSH OF RHYS GOCH.] Wrra dawn's rosy beams On the meadow bank green, A rapture far ringing His orisons over, Aroused me from dreams I saw the...

A NEW annotated edition of Coleridge's Biographia Literaria has long been wanted. The charming Aldine Edition of sixty years ago with the notes and elucidations of his daughter...

Mn. EDWARD GARNETT has done a public service in issuing an abridgment of what is one of the greatest travel- books "in literature. The present writer once happened on Doughty's...

THIS narrative affords two curious contrasts : first, that between New Zealand as Sir John Gorst saw it forty years ago and as he found it in 1906; and secondly, that between...

Tnis pleasant volume is composed of a number of papers in the earlier volumes of the Antiquary, which "have been chosen primarily as illustrating various phases of the social...

" NOT without a tragic farewell," Carlyle, it will be remem- bered, dropped Mirabeau from the tissue of his history. The pages which describe his death and estimate his...

IN the Nineteenth Century Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, M.P., replies to the article by Mr. Hoare in the last number on " The Impotence of Socialism." Setting aside mere invective, of...

MADAME Bussy asks in the introduction to her book, Why is it that in this age of artistic monographs no one has thought it worth while to write about Delacroix ? This painter...

THE BROTHERHOOD OF WISDOM.* THE difficulty of finding fresh themes is one which besets writers of fiction more insistently than any other class of author, and it is little...

Unwin. 6s.)—The story of a mysterious settlement in Africa, in which women have come to the top and placed men in subjection. —A Poppy Show. By H. B. Marriott Watson. (Methuen...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other for rns.1 Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs. By R. H. Charles, D.D. (A. and...

This is a story of the " petty .spites of the village spire," and two farmers' vrives play the parts of the "mothers in• Israel." These ladies are singularly unscrupulous in...

Described by Canon H. Calleja Schembri, D.D. (Eyre and Spottiswoode. 22 2s. net.)—Canon Schembri briefly describes the origin and growth of the Order, speaks of the coins issued...

Co., may be mentioned together. These are The Public Schools Year-Book and Preparatory Schools Year-Book (3s. 6d. net), now in its nineteenth year, and The School Master?...

H. Story. (A. Constable and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—After four preliminary chapters, highly interesting in their way, we come to the dirigible balloon. One early idea was to utilise...

BeautifuL" 2 vols. (Philip Welby. 55. net.)—Brahmanism, we are told, " has maintained its supremacy in India by its subtle compromising spirit, its universal toleration and...

(S.P.C.K. ls. 6d.)—This volume contains the usual statistical information as to benefices, clergy, societies, &a. The clergy number about sixteen hundred; and there are to be...

L. Grant, M.A. (John Murray. 105. 6d. net.)—This narrative may be said to begin with the passing of Canada into British hands after the surrender of Montreal (1760) and to end...