We wish we had space to refer to the admirable speech I -admitted on all sides to be one of the best he has ever made-in which Mr. Austen Chamberlain answered Mr. Haldane....

The Tariff Reform Resolution which was introduced into the House of Commons on Wednesday night by Mr. Hamilton Benn was only defeated in a House of 437 by 33 votes (235 to...

On Wednesday Mr. Haldane spoke on the Resolution I taking away from the Lords the right of rejecting Money Bills. Ilis spce2h reminds us of the immortal utterance of Dr....

Mr. Asquith tried to argue that the power of rejection in regard to Money Bills had disappeared, though he was quick to add that be spoke not of legal right, but of...

The moderate men in the Cabinet are apparently in the posi- I Lion of the fanatic who wanted to kill the American Secretary of State. In the story the following dialogue is...

A great deal of surprise has been expressed that Mr. I Hlaldane, and those in the Cabinet who agree with him -almost certainly Sir Edward Grey, and possibly Lord Crewe, Lord...

Mr. Balfour in reply accused the Government of pervert- ing history, an accusation which we believe will be endorsed by any one who takes the trouble to read the precedents....

A regrettable contretemps has arisen in oonnexion -with Mr. Roosevelt's visit to Rome. While at Gondokoro in t February last Mr. Roosevelt telegraphed to the American...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK. [Under this heading ie notice 3uch Books of the Iceek as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] The Blight of Socialism. By Charles Toye....

M'dilon's Comus: beini the Bridquater.Manuscript. With Notes Iand a short Family Memoir by the Lady Alix Egerton. (Dent and Sons. 12s, 6d. net.)-The Bridgewater umnuscript of...

Dod's Parliamentary Comspanion. , (Whittaker nnd Co. 3s. 6d. net.) -This very handy and convenient volume appears for the eightysixth time, with somewhat larger type. The...

Plan of the Remarkable City of Webbti0ler- Designed in Accordafice with the Recommendations of the Minori1y Report and. the Housimj I and Town Planning Act of 1909. (Howlett...

The Magada. By W. M. Ardagh. (John Lane. 6s.)-It would I not seem a very hopeful task to construct a taking story out of the Spanish conquest of the Canary Islands, but Mr....

I Thc Con7stitution of the Later Roinatz L'Empire. By J. B. Bury. (Cambridge University Press. Is. (d1 net.)-Ifere we have the Creighton Memorial Lecture for last year. It...

Paul before Nero. By James E. G. de Montmorency. (Charles I North. 1s. net.)-This poem, which won the Seatonian Prize at Cambridge last year, is notably original in the spirit...

I St. George of Cappadocia in Legead and Hislory. By Cornelia I S. Huist. (D. Nutt. lOs. 6d. net.)-Tbe historical element in this book is necessarily very small. In fact, wve...

I Sir Charles Lucas, the head of the new Dominions Depart- ment of the Colonial Office, has summarised in a valuable Parliamentary Paper the impressions derived from his recent...

The sequel may readily be guessed. Mr. Roosevelt politely but firnmly, and in our opinion quite riglhtly, declined to submit to any conditions limiting his freedom of action,...

I Last Saturday's papers contained a letter flrom Sir Robert Perks to a former constituent in the Louth Division of Lincolnshire. After contrasting the result of the General...

Twelve months ago a co-partaery scheme was started by I Sir C. Furness at Messrs. Irvine's shipbuilding works at West Hartlepool. On Saturday last it was announced that the...

Mr. G. N. Barnes, M.P., Chairman of the Labour Parts, I Gavs that he anticipated the result, since no scheme of profitsharing could affect the fluctuations of the shipbuilding...

It will be remembered that, as the result of the Friedjung I trial in Vienna, most of the victims of the Agram High Treason Tribunal were released last Christmas. The two ehief...

I The vacancy inll id-Glarnolgan, created by the appoint- ment of Sir Samuel Evans as President of the Prlobate, Divorl (e, and Admiralty Division of the High Court, has been...

THE SULTAN MAHMUD'S ART CRITICISM. I To THV EDITOR Or THE "SPRCTATOR."1 SIR,-I think you will find, if you look up the story, that the point of Sultan Mahmud's criticism had...

THE LEGEND OF THE GOLDFINCH. I LTO TEE EDITOm OF TRZ " SPECTATOB."I SIR,-There have been three birds associated with the legend of one trying to take the nail from the hand of...

POETRY. THE ENTHUSIAST. His face is glorious with a beam Unborrowed from our earthly skied; The radiance of a heavenly dream Is on his brow and in his eyes; And in his breast...

A CORRECTION. LTO TEo EaDrrom 0 THE "SerTATOLe"] SIR,-Surely you are clearly wrong in statig on p. 541 of your last issue that Mr. E. J. Griffith is Recorder of Liverpool, he...

THE HOUSE OF LORDS. LTo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECrATOR. ] SIR,-Lord Rosebery, we trust, has found the key to the situation. But it is to be hoped that he will leave no trace or...

B OO KS. CROMWELL.* IN these two most interesting and salutary volumes Professor Firth brings to a close the long History of England from the Accession of James I., which was...

THE DIAL OF KING AHAZ. Tro THE EDITOR O TRE " SPECTATOR."] SiR,-With reference to Major F. A. Mahan's letter on the above subject (Spectator, April 2nd), may I point out that...

INDIA AND THE NAVY. [To ToZ EDITOR or THU m SPzcTATOL"] SIP,-So much attention is paid just now to naval affairs and to the affairs of India that it is a little surprising that...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. THE CONSTITUTIONAL FREE-TRADE ASSOCIATION. LTO TEE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATO."] SIR,-I shall feel much obliged if you will allow me through your columns...

THE HOUSE OF LORDS PROBLEM. [TO TEE EDITOR OV Tln " SPECTATOL'1 SiB,-Would it not also be " grossly unjust," if the Resolu. tions were to pass into law, to withhold from any...

THE BUDGET.-A SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY PARALLEL. [TO THE E1DITC OF THE "SPECTrATOR."J SIR,-May not an interesting parallel to the existing situation be found in Macaulay's " History...

MR. ASQUITH'S SPEECH. [To M EDITOR oF o mSP==XTOR 1 SIR,-I cannot understand your " drag-chain-only-wanted going-downhill " article in last week's Spectator, or its assumption...

THE " FEUDAL SCREW." [TO ThE EDITOR oF TB "'SPECTATOM." SiR,-I should be grateful if you would allow ie space for a final word on the above subject in relation to the...

[TO THE ]EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.-] SIR,-The outburst which the unnatural proposals mothered by Lady McLaren have called forth must be viewed with intense relief by all...

THE WOMEN'S CHARTER. [TO THEN EDITOR O THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Your article of March 26th on " The Women's Charter " has just reached me here. The preface to my pamphlet with...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. THOUGH we must make our weekly attempt to diagnose the political situation, we are bound to say that the task becomes increasingly difficult. At the...

I The writer next proceeds to keep his courage up by telling us that of course the people-meaning thereby, as the context shows, the Liberal caucus-will win in the end, and...

I The discussion on Mr. Asauith's Motion for LoinL intc Committee to consider the Veto Resolutions was concluded on Monday night. Mr. Lyttelton at the opening of his speech...

The inconsistencies of tho Government's position were stripped very bare in the course of Tuesday night's debate on the Veto "Guillotine" Resolutions. Mr. Asquith in his...

The usually cocksure optimist of the Daily News in I describing the course of events tells us that when the Commons begin work on the Budget and on Supply, as they will on the...

In a passage which can only be described as "pitiful " the I writer in the Daily News goes on to protest that the Cabinet is not organically divided, "but is none the less...

CORRESPONDENCE. SEEING IS BELIEVING. rTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTLOR, 1 SiR,-Quite the most interesting part of the Poor Law Commissioners' work arose out of their...

ART AND LIFE.* ON the wrapper of Mr. Sturge Moore's new volume we are informed that " in this work the vital import of aesthetic is illustrated from the precepts of Flaubert...

THE HOSPITALS OF MEDIAEVAL ENGLAND.* I THE social historian of the Middle Ages is constantly and forcibly reminded of the debt which English civilisation owes to the Church. We...

THE OLD,; TESTAMENT.t MR. ALFORD Supplies in his. introduction an admirable summary of the conclusions of Old Testament criticism. " Conclusions." is a safer word to use than "...

GERIMAN AND BRITISH EXPORTS. LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'1 SIR,-I am obliged for your kind reference in the Spectator of March 26th to my speech at Cannon Street. On one...

THE BUDGET OF 1909-10.-A POINT OF ORDER. [To THE EDITOR o0 THE "SPECTATOR." I SiB,-In the Spectator of April 2nd a " News of the Week " paragraph states that " the Prime...

THE CABINET. LTO THE EDITOR 0P THE " SPzC-TATOR. I Sin,-The Parliamentary events of the last few months mast have been fraught with the deepest significance to students of...

THE FINANCIAL SITUATION. TIHE announcemenut that the Government intend to 1 closure " the Budget " must force upon the attention of the public the present financial situation...

AN ANARCHIST FACTORY. TE spoke last week of the state of elementary educaV e tion in India,-of the worthlessness of the present systemn for any useful purpose, and of the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SrECTATOB."] -1 Six,-The fact that " they give you nothing at all if you kill your kid " is not due merely to lax (or, if you prefer it, humane)...

EDWARD LEAR IN INDIA. [To Tim EDIrTOB O1 7z " Spxcr.Tomlj SiR,-I have read your article " The Wisdom of Nonsense " in the Spectator of March 26th. I send you a reminiscence of...

[To TBE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR." I SIR,-The whole terrible question of infanticide opens appallingly wide issues, whether one considers the effects of domestication upon...

[To Tm EDITOE 0r THE "USPECTATOR."] SIR,-Wbile fully agreeing with your correspondent o1 last week, " A Woman who Knows," in her condemnation of Lady McLaren's views, will you...

CHILD LABOUR. LTo TV EDITOR OF VER " SPECTATOP'] SIR,-I see that the Teachers' Conference has resolved that " all wage-earning child labour out of school hours under the age of...

* . The Oiford English Dictionary (Clarendon Press, Dotuble ,.Section, 5s.) gives us the concluding part of "H" (" Roundnosed"-"Ryze"), Edited by Dr. Craigie. The letter is now...

The Municipal Year-Book; of the United Kingdom. Edited by 1R6bert Donald. (E. Lloyd. Its. 6d. net.)-This massive volume of more than nine hundred pages gives all details of...

Messrs. T. C. and E. C. Jack are publishing a new edition of 'Shakespeare wvith the title of "The Era Shakespeare" (8d. net per vol. in cloth) under the editorship of Henry N....

Rradshaw's Railway Guide, Shareholders' Guide, and Directory. 'Edited by Herbert H. Bassett. (H. Blacklock and Co. 12s.)- This volume, now appearing for the sixty-second...

SCOUTING GAMES. I T HE critic unfamiliar with the methods and manners of Boy Scouts, and vaguely distrustful of a movement which perhaps seems to him to depend for its chief...

NOVELS. ToE THIEF OF VIRTUE.* NiR. EDEN PHILLPOTTB'8 devotion to Dartmoor amounts to an obsession, and at times we have been tempted to regret his persistent allegiance to...

,; TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE POWER OF THE PURSE. T HE public mind is at the moment thoroughly confused T by the question of the power of the purse,-a confusion which has been...

UNDERPINNING THE EMPIRE. IE publication of the Statistical Abstract of the 1 British Empire is, as usual, causing a certain amount of complacent congratulation in the public...

GATHORNE HARDY.* THE seeker after "revelations" will get no entertainment from these two volumes. The first Lord Cranbrook, though he kept a voluminous diary and preserved...

THE LIMITATIONS OF LOGIC. THE least sign of a technicality always terrifies the layman, and the scholastic traditions have hedged round logic with technicalities perhaps more...

MY COUNTRY, RIGHT OR WRONG.* ONE English Socialist has thought it worth while to translate, and another to write a word of introduction to, " the noble protest of Herv6 against...

THE ARCHITECTS OF ENGLAND.* THERE is no department of letters in which more harm can be done by hasty and ill-considered writing than historical research. Apart from the...

PUNISHMENT AND CRIME. A RAILING accusation is brought in the current number of the Hibbert Jotornal against the prison system. The writer declares himself able to speak with...

THE SLAVE TRADE IN CENTRAL AFRICA.* I MR. SWANN'S "fight with the slave-bunters " was carried on for more than a quarter of a century. He began it early in the " eighties "; he...

THE MAGAZINES. THE new Nineteenth Century is a solid rather than a sensational number. Sir Henry Seton-Karr, who has taken part in the last seven Elections, winning a seat in...