THE LATEST NEWS FROM PEKIN. ONE of the latest telegrams from Pekin reports an 0 incident which, to our thinking, throws much light upon the future of China. A Chinese...

P O E T R1-Y. FAIR AND FREE. I SAYS Mlr. C. to John, says he, " J. Bull, you're out o' date! It's time you left off workin' wi' the tools that made ye great; There's nations...

ANIMALS' LOVE OF THE CHASE. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SrEcTATOR."l SIB,-With reference to your article on "Animals' Love of the Chase," in the Spectator of July 11th, you may be...

CLASSICAL QUOTATIONS. [TO TEE EDITOR OF TIHE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Might I, through the columns of the Spectator, enlist the sympathy of your classical readers to assist me in...

B OO K S. ILLUSTRATED LITERATURE.* TnE publisher of this " illustrated record" has fallen below a great opportunity. He had an admirable model in a work recently published in...

I The strikes whbiclh are becomin.i incessant in Russia, especially in the industrial centres of the South and West, and which are often repressed with bloodshed, appear to...

I The Times correspondent in Madrid represents the situation in Spain as very grave. The people have entirely lost confidence in the Liberal party, and are rallying under the...

Pius X. is a man of humble origin, his father having been a respectable peasant of Riese, near Venice, and his familv still earning their own living in different trades. He was...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. TIHE visit of the King to Ireland ended on Saturday at Cork, where his Maiesty's reception was heartily cordial, I andwherethe Corporation did their utmost...

The labours of the Conclave ended on Tuesday, when I Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto, Patriarch of Venice, was declared Pope under the title of Pius X. The accounts of the proceedings...

M- Mr. Whitaker Wright was charged on Wednesday, the day I of his arrival from America, at the Guildhall with making and concurring in the making of false statements concerning...

The Arohbishop in his equally earnest reply traverses Dr. I Patons argument, and reasserts the principle "that some schools at least should be maintained in England in which...

At a meeting of the Executive Coummittee of the Unionist I Free-Food League, held at the House of Commons on July 30th, Sir Michael Hicks Beach in the chair, a resolution w1s...

This firm, and yet moderate, statement of the aims of the Unionists who are opposing Mr. Chamberlain's policy will, we trust, clear the air, and show the country that the...

I - Lord Curzon has Publicly announced that he agrees to the I requestof the Minist'rythat he would remain in office for aperiod which he does not state. It will, however,...

The correspondence on the Education Act, published in the I Times of Wednesday, between the Archbishop of Canterbury and Dr. John Brown Paton, the eminent Nonconformist...

IMr. George Peel in Monday's Times makes a suggestion for the purpose of securing, "without any disturbance of our fiscal system," a requital to Canada for favouring our...

In the House of Commons on Tuesday the second reading of the Motor-car Bill was under discussion. Mr. Long began by pointing out that the motor-car question was not one which...

The Sugar Convention Bill, which passed through Committee on Wednesday, or rather in the small hours of Thursday morning, after a severe struggle, was read a third time on...

The Duke of Devonshire, in moving on Monday the second I reading in the House of Lords of the Irish Land Bill, pointed out that while legislation dealing with the fixing of...

I On Thursday, in the Committee stage of the Irish Land Bill in the Lords, the Government on one clause only got their way by a majority of one (59 to 58), while on another...

The Turkish Government is evidently disturbed by a rising |; in Monastir-about a hundred miles north-west of Salonicawhere there has been some sharp fighting. It has...

The cruel execution of a Chinese reformer, mentioned in I i detail elsewhere, has already had political consequences. Six Chinese journalists were lately arrested in Shanghai...

I The announcement of the Prime Minister on Wednesday that he thought it would not be possible to give facilities for the passing this Session of the Birmingham and Southwark...

LTo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I see you invite your readers in the Spectator of July 25tb to supply you with an instance of a ruined trade. May I point out to you...

FREE-TRADE ZONES IN ITALY. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." i SiR,-There is a movement now in progress in Italy which has an important bearing upon the controversy raised by...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR."] I SIR,-I had hoped to put an end to your Wandering-Jew-like quest in search of a ruined industry. Some time ago a friend told me that the "...

[To TSE EDITOR OF TRE " SPECTATOR."] SiR,-As a crude illustration of ruined industries, it may not be amiss to begin with the story told somewhere by, I think, Lord Farrer. In...

TARIFF REFORM. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] S.R,-Your correspondent " Open Mind," controverting in the ISpectator of July 25th your assertion that the great Free-trade...

A Catalogjue of Letters and other Historical Documents Exhibi'ed in the Library at WVelbeck. Compiled by S. Arthur Strong, MaA. (John Murray. £2 2s. not.)-It is a pleasant...

SOME BOOKS OF THE W EEK. [Under this heading ire notice such Books of the iree; as have not been reserved .for reriew in other jomins.] Sacred Sites of the Gospels. By WV....

Prom Letter to Spirit. By Edwin A. Abbott. (A. and C. I Bla;ck. 20s. net.)-Dr. Abbott continues, with an industry which it would be difficult to parallel, his task of...

Victoria, Queen and Ruler. By Emily Crawford. (Arrowsmith and Co., Bristol. 6s.)-The process of canonisation is alvays postponed for some time after the death of the...

Criclket Across the Seas. By P. F. Warner. r. (Lonumans and I Co. 5s. net.)-Every cricketer now being his own author (a most unnecessary development), it follows that the...

PROTECTION AND PURITY. T HE Legislatures in Protectionist countries are far more under the influence of the great financial interests than is the British Parliament,-the only...

ANGLO-FRENCH RELATIONS. THE newspapers of Thursday publish telegrams from T Paris stating that Baron d'Estournelles has written to Ml. Delcass6 (who is absent from Paris),...

The Alleged Vandalism at Stratford-on-Avon. By Sidney Lee. I ' (A. Constable and Co. 1s. net.)-Mr. Sidney Lee, who must be allowed to be in the first rank as an authority on...

The H.A.C. in South Africa. Edited by Basil Williams and| Erskine Childers. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)-The I Honourable Artillery Company contributed one hundredand...

NNW EDITIONS AND REBPINTS.-In the " Stuart Series " '(F. E. |. Robinson and Co.) we have the fifth volume, Royal and Loyal Sufferers, edited, with Notes, &c., by Cecil Deedes,...

RUINED TRADES. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'] Sir,-You have accustomed your readers to such scrupulous fairness in dealing with. the arguments of your opponents that I...

AGRICULTURE NOT RUINED BY FREE - TRADE. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECrATOL"] SIR,-Your note on Mr. Elwes's letter in the Spectator of August 1st, though trenchant and convincing,...

SMUGGLING AS A RUINED INDUSTRY. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE ' SPECTATOR."] SIR,-When my great-uncle, William Brett, mariner and shipowner, was forced to retire fronil work, he...

THE TRUE BASIS OF EMPIRE. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SiR,-As a Colonist born and bred, and one who must confess himself not versed in economic subtleties underlying...

THE COTTON TRADE AND MR. CHAMIBERLAIN. LTO TaiE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'"1 SIR,-I am afraid a very wrong impression as to the position of the cotton trade with regard to Mr....

THE NATIONAL PHYSIQUE. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEcrATOR."] SiR,-As I know that you would not willingly cause any of the readers of the Spectator to under-estimate the need...

SIR CONAN DOYLE AND THE MOTOR-CAR. [TO THE EDITOR O0 THE "SPECTATOR."] SiPn,-I cannot favour Sir Conan Doyle with an "authoritative" exposition of the transfer of bullion, but...

SOME RECENT VERSE.* -I THE motive of the Poet Laureate's play is easily stated. Lady Heron, for love of Lord Surrey, beguiles the Scottish * (1) Flodden Field: a Tragedy. By...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. PIUS X. I AS we expected, the comparatively unknown and undisA1. cussed man has been elected Pope. The two great parties within the Conclave,theTories and...

WANTED: AN INDUSTRY RUINED BY FREE-TRADE. AS our readers know, we have been searching for A! the past month for an industry which can truly and honestly be said to have been...

TWO BOOKS ON THE DRA.MA.* WE congratulate Mr. Chambers on the production of a very remarkable piece of work. In the intervals of a busy official life he set himself the task of...

C URRENT LITERATURE. THE NEW NATION. The New Nation. By Percy F. Rowland. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 7s. 6d.)-Mr. Rowland has written an admirable book, at once readable,...

I The Way Back. By Albert Kinross. (A. Constable and Co. Cs.) -This is a commonplace story of an unwholesome kind, told in a way that does not disguise in the least the...

I A Drama of Sunshine. By Mrs. Aubrey Richardson. (Fisher Unwin's "First Novel Library." 6s.)-But for the study of Lilian, a young lady who thinks it her vocation to become an...

.The Mannerings. By Alice Brown. (Eveleigh Nash. 6s.)-I Miss Brown puts on the stage, not without cleverness, a number of personages whom we cannot pretend to like. There is a...

Deficient Saints. By Marshall Saunders. (G. Bell and Sons. I 6s.)-This is a picture of life in New England, drawn, in many respects, with notable power, but disfigured, we...

Roderic1k Taliafevro. By George Cram Cook. (Macmillan and I Co. 6s.)-Roderick Taliaferro is a Confederate soldier who, after the victory of the North, takes service under the...

ROCELLARIA PELAGICA. P GOUGIJ Island rises almost sheer from the sublime G deeps of the South Atlantic, a lonely summit of the stupendous mountain which stretches away down...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."] SI.,-Sixteen years ago I travelled from Marseilles to Singapore on a P. and 0. boat, upon which there were only two hundred other English...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR."1 Sip,-The drawing up of a Protective tariff with such discrinmination as to exempt from taxation all productive machinery would leave so...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-May I draw attention to the point made by Hume that every country is benefited by the increasing wealth of its neighbours, the...

THE NEW PROTECTION. rTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SiR,-May I suggest to Sir Conan Doyle (Spectator. August 1st) that the profits of his motor-car bought in France may...

THE BURNING QUESTION. FTO THE EDITOR OF THE ",SPECTATOR."J SIR,-Will you help one who is in great difficulty in malking up his mind on the burning question of the bour,-the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOIL"J SIR,-After reading the Spectator of July 18th and 2a;th, I cannot resist writing these few lines. The fact that my paternal grandfather was...

PREMONITIONS OF DEATH. [To 1TE EDITOR OF TEH "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-My father was drowned on my thirteenth birthday. The night before, my mother was wakened from her sleep by a...

ITO TUE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATCR."] SIR,-The following may possibly be of interest in connection with the mysterious " hammerings " mentioned lately by your correspondents....

NO V EL S. A STORY OF THE FENS.* ON the porch of a house which served for the parsonage of a little Cambridgeshire village might have been seen some fifty years ago-and...

THE MAGAZINES. THE Nineteenth Century opens with three articles on the fiscal Question which we canurot fully consider Lere, as this I problem is being dealt wvith at length...

THE LOCAL GUIDE-BOOK. IF there is one month in the year when the local guide. book is bought and sold in larger quantities than in any other, it is the month of August. It is...

THE POPISH PLOT.* THIS is, we believe, the first work of a young writer who bears a distinguished name. It will not disappoint expectations. It is characterised throughout by...

THE ART OF INTERROGATION. I WANT to know! " This well-worn American expres. sion appears, so far as we are able to judge from American novels, to have a general, rather than a...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. THE NEW FISCAL POLICY. [To THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR."] SiR,-The question of a change in our fiscal policy now looms so large on the political...