The authorities had laid their plan. most effectively, the I troops and gendarmes abstained from unneessary force, and public opinion, while sympathizing with the cause of the...

The prospects of a settlement of the London transporb dispute have varied during the week almost from hour to hour. The attempts of the Government earlier in the week to bring...

In last Saturday's Times the Toronto correspondent sid I that the announcement that Mr. Borden and Mr. Hazen Will visit London has immensely increased public interest in...

The deoision of the Cretan deputies to demand admission I to the Greek Chamber on Saturday last has led to a crisis which has only been weathered by the firmness of M....

Even after this, however, the negotiations did not proceed by any means smoothly, and on Thursday there was once more almost a complete deadlock. The day was spent in conl....

Reuter's agency announced on Wednesday that the pro- I posals for the international control of the Trans-Persian railway have now been accepted by the British Government. In...

On Tuesday Mr. Roosevelt won another decisive victory in the South Dakota primaries. These practically brought to an end the pre-Convention campaign for the nomination of the...

I In the meantime it is difficult to make out to what extent the strike itself is still operative. The number of men at work has certaiuly been increasiDg steadily for the last...

On Thursday in the House of Commons Mr. Pease made his first annual statement as President of the Board of Education. His speech was largely occupied by statistics. The sum...

I The 'Titanic' inquiry was resumed on Tuesday, and the most interesting feature of the week's sittings has been the evidence of Mr. Ismay. In the course of his examination,...

I Polling took place in North-West Norfolk on Friday week, the result, announced on Saturday, being as follows:-Mr. E. G. Hemmerde, K.C. (L) 5,613, Mr. N. P. Jodrell (U) 4,965;...

I Oa the same dUy on which these lines appear the King wil review in Hyde Park the London division of the National Reserve. As our readers know, it was found impossible for the...

IAs regards the diaplaoemenb of &grioultural labourers by motor drives employed by people who went to live in the country, that was not confined to one aside. "It did not lie...

Question time in the Rouse of Commons on Tuesday was enlivened by Sir Edward Grey's explanation of Lord Haldane's movements. Asked whether any statement could be made regarding...

In the House of Commons on Wednesday there was a di- I cursive debate on the Local Government Board vote, at the close of which Mr. John Burns replied to his critics on both...

TENNIS AND FIVES. [To TRX EDrrOR OF TEg "SPROTATO3."] SIn,-The writer of an article in the Spectator on May 11th on " The King of Games" rejects the derivation of the name...

PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND " OASTE." [To -nu EDITOR 0 THE SPRCTATOL.J Srz,-You have remarked on the correspondence which has lately been talking place in the Daily Mail relative to the...

MISS NIGHTINGALE AND THE DRUMMER BOY. [T0 Toz EmDTOR 0o THU " BpzCTATOL"] SIR,-It is saddening to think how constantly history requires to be rewritten I An old soldier of my...

" MOTHER I MOTHER I " [To Tun EDITOR o0 THU "SPRCTATOR.'J SIR,-Like others I was impressed by the pathetic incident of a drowning sailor in the wreck of the 'Titanio' crying...

THE ROYAL ARTILLERY.* IT is regrettable that the excellent work which goes to the making of such compilations as Colonel Jocelyn's continuation of the chronicles of the Royal...

Three Gmenrafions: the Story f G Jfif ie-Claass Sottish Pamiv. I| By Henrietta Keddie (Sarah Tytler). (John Murray. 9.. net.)- I " Sarah Tytler " trace her descent to a...

The Boy Fancier. By F. T. Barton, 3.R.C.V.S. (Routledge and I Sons. 5s.)-" Exhibition Mice," "The General Management of Cavies." This is the kind of game at which Mr. Barton...

Gem Stones. By G. F. Herbert Smith. (Methuen and Co. 6u. 1 iet.)-Mr. Herbert Smith gives us in this volume a great variety of interesting and useful information. The subject...

fi;* TJGANDA.t MB. KXTCHrNG has been at work in Uganda for the Church Missionary Society for mpre than ten years. He has thus had no small opportunities for making these...

THE MAGAZINES. ,M. PHILIPPE MILLET, the able colonial editor of Le Temnps,. has an informing article in the Nineteenth Century on "The Truth about the Franco-German Crisis of...

THE THREAD OF LIFE.* 'TnE 'Tread of Life is a tissue of conhuenplas, 'noniethe les! that a few of the opinions expressed are heterodox and a few' more chimerical. We are at a...

THE NIGHTINGALE. rTo Tr3n EmDIon or THE "SPzCTATOR."J SIP,-Miss M. A. Tedhunter's letter in your issue of May 25th reminds me that I used constantly to bear the nightingale...

EXPERIMENTS ON ANIMALS. rTo TUB EDITOR Or T3ZE " 8PBOTATOR."] 19in,-In the review of Mr. Stephen Paget's book, " For and Against Experiments on Animals," in the Spectator of...

" A DEARTH OF SWALLOWS IN SOUTHERN EUROPE." [TO TIZ EDITOr 0o THx "SrIOT&TOR.") Snt,-I have just seen the letter on the above subject in your issue of May 25th, and should like...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. ORIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT. LTo TH EDITOR O TIM "8?orYCTAxO"J Si.,-May I thank you moat heartily for your review of Mis Addams's book on " An Ancient Evil "...

I The political situation in Hungary reached a crisis early I d.hs.week, w some violent senleS took place in the Ohamir I QA. Tuesdauy and Wediesday. Let Saturday the a11awed...

I The Peking correspondent of the Time. reported on Thuys. day that the negotiations between the Chinese Government and the banks of the six Powers for a loan of £60,000,000...

Last Saturday, on the conclusion of the visit of Mr. Churehill to Malta, a statement was issued with the obvious intention of allaying anxiety as to the future of Malta as a...

I In other words, the Admiralty mean to hold to the proposed redistribution of the Navy, by which the Atlantic Fleet will be brought from Gibraltar to home waters and the...

Wi O .NEWS OF THE WEEK. fECM suituation in Morooco, whiol was the oentre of anxiety Tlhast week, ha greatly improved. Newspaper readers will | soon begin to regard Morocco as...

I The Belgian elections took place last Sunday, and resulted I inexpeotedly in a decisive Clerical victory which gives the Government a new lease of life. The Clericals have...

CHURCH LANDS. [TO THI EDITOR OW TIM " B3PTATOIL"1 SIn,-As so much discussion is going on at present regarding the manner in which monastic property was disposed of by King...

GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION IN TRADE DISPUTES. [To TEE EDITOR 0 THE " SP7COTATO3k."J Siu,-Surely by this time the Government and the British public must have had the fact impressed...

[TO TN EDITOR 01 TIM "1SrOTAYoS.1 SIR,-Lingard (" Hist. of England," VI., iM., P. 266) has a note which perhaps has escaped the memory of your correspondent, Mr. E. Pearson....

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK. Irutdor this 7heading w motioi such Books f the Owk of haw niot been rsurved for rtuidi in other formn1 Paltine Exploration Fund: Quarterl Statement....

The Top Farm. By Algernon Gissing. | (F. V. White and Co. Os.)-Mr. Gissing gives us, as he announces by the title, a country story in his now novel. The hero is a man who is...

I YcUfsands. By Adam Iowans Whyte. (W. Blackwood and Sons. Gs.)-This is a btory of a maker of vinegar who, tiring of his business, tries to find his ideals in a lonely soaside...

The Ministry of Poll Poorman. By Lieut.-Colonel D. C. Pedder. I (Edward Arnold, 6s.)-When a book is manifestly " on the side of the angels "-a thing not to be said of the...

I The Works of Charles Lamb. Edited by E. V. Lugu. vol. r. (Methuen and Co. Ga. net.)-Tbere will be a large welcome, we are sure, to this re-issue in a oheaper form of Mr....

THE " PINSON." ]lJUICHABL OfURIGAN, a picturesquely dilapidated 1 i figure, was lounging amongst his well-dried turfstacks in Augha illa Bog, in the glow of the August after....

.POETRY. -.SENEX LOQUITUR, The young heart hot and restless, The old subdued and slow." SUBDIUDD and slow P-ah noThat is the tragio woe I Life has been lengthened, and the...

A CORRECTION. rTo Tun EDITOR OF TIM "U SPCOTATOP"] gSn,-In the article "The Wars of the Lord" in your issue of May 25th the quotation, "I have set thee this day over the...

DOOKS FOR THE N.W. MOUNTED POLICE. [To TER EDITOR 0 ToS " ?3CTATOR."] Sxn,-I am sure that some of your readers-I hope very manywould like to join in sending a gift of books to...

A LOST PIGEON. [TO TIM EDITOR 0? THE " SPOZCTlTOR." Sm,-I have found a " Romer " pigeon which has on one of its legs a ring bearing the number " 786 B B 1911," and shall be...

ART. THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY. Ix Edinburgh, on a swelling mound of earth that spans the valley where the old Nor' Loch was, are set two low classical buildings designed...

THE TARIFF IN OUR TIMES.* THIS is a book which ought to be read and studied by every one desirous of gauging the consequences of a return to Protection in this country. It is a...

AN OSTRAKON. THE type of intelligence must be exceedingly rare that is not moved when suddenly confronted with some object, be it ever so insignificant in itself, which recalls...

LITERATURE AND JOURNAISM. W E had occasion some weeks ago to comment upon the NV_ pessimistic view which is commonly taken of the political and social conditions of to-day, and...

BOO KS,* MONTROSE.* OF late years Montrose has come to his own. Mark Napier'& volumes began the process of illumination, and the works of Gardiner, Murdoch and Simpson....

HORACE ON DISESTABLISHMENT. [To Azd EDITOR oF TXR "S3POTATOL."] Sin,-Dan Hoace with his usual perspicuity azticipates Mr. I MaKenna' Disestablishment proposals: Carmina IIL...

tTo Szz EDITOR OF THE "SvoETAToP."] Si.,-There are; no doubt, occasions when slight naval redis. tributions should be effected by the Admiralty without a flourish of oratory,...

" COMMAND OF THE SEA." [TO To ADArM 'oF TN " SOPTATOR.'" SBI,-May I add a few explanatory remarks to my letter of last week P You say that I would apparently have " the various...

THE CHARACTER OF KING EDWARD ViI THE publication of each new volume of the "d Dictionary T of National Biography " is an event, for in no country in the world has private...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE NEW LABOUR SITUATION. THE statement made by Mr. Lloyd George in the House of Commons on Wednesday night puts the whole labour problem, so far as the...

THE BELGIAN ELECTIONS. THE unexpected issue of the Belgian elections is an T example of a reaction of which; traces have lately shown themselves in other countries. In France...

TH1E REAL SOLUTION OF THE IRISH QUESTION. WBHEN fia Bill is before Parliament for the remedy of a particular disease people are apt to forget that Tiere may be excellent...

LIE'EBOATS.0 Mr. METLLET'S history of the development of the lifeboat is compact, well arranged, and very well written, and is illustrated by photographs, which are themselves...

F I C TI O N. THE ADVENTURES OF MISS GREGORY.* MR. PERCEVAL GIDEON'S new book is a successful and interesting example of a species of fiction which hlts been assiduously....

THEI DREAMS OF MR. MOREL.* WE are indebted to Mr. Morel for a valuable collection of State papers dealing with the affairs of Morocco from the Madrid Convention of 1880 to the...