RELIGIOUS LIBERTY.* THE Professor of Ecclesiastical Law in the University of Turin has written a book which should do much to clear people's ideas about the true meaning of the...

ELECTRIC TRAMWAYS AT OXFORD. [TO TEo EDITOR OF TEX " SPECTATORL"] SIR,-I venture to ask your valuable aid towards giving publicity to an urgent matter of somewhat more than...

EPISCOPACY AND UNITY, [TO So EDITOR 0 THE "SPrCTATOL'] SIR,-In connexion with the authorities you have cited in your review of Mr. Wilson's "Episcopacy and Unity " (which I...

POETRY. NOON IN THE PLEASURE GARDENS. ROUGH clods of red earth newly turned For wilting, new-set plants, And where the jack-o'-lanterns burned, Strange little paths and...

WOODEN HOUSES. [To Tm EDITOR 0P TE " SPECTATOR."I SIR,-In a footnote to a letter last week you say, " There is no mystery or new invention about wooden houses." After reading...

RATING APPEALS. [TO TIx EDITOR Or THA U SPrCTATOI."] SiR,-So many readers of the Spectator are magistrates and Guardians taking a keen interest in county business that I am...

The meaning of this message is that President Wilson's Government must either alter their policy as to recognition or take up the challenge thrown down to them and insist upon...

We most sincerely trust that some solution will be found which will not involve the American Government in a war which, even if successful in the end, must prove embarrassing...

-NEWS OF THE WEEK. O N Wednesday terms of peace were arranged at Bucharest between all five of the combatant States in the Balkans, and an agreement was come to in regard to...

| The Krupp trial in Germany, which had lasted several days, came to an end on Tuesday. Herr Pfeiffer, Secretary 6uperintendent of the Ministry of War, four lieutenants who...

President Wilson and his administration have, we greatly I fear, got themselves into a position of no small difficulty as regards Mexico-largely owing to the fact that the...

Mexico, in short, is a country quite as difficult, for physical reasons, to occupy as South Africa, and it contains a population not of half a million, but of fifteen millions,...

The immediate point at issue is the appointment of Governor I Lind by President Wilson to proceed to Mexico, not as an ambassador with ordinary credentials, but as a kind of...

George Borrow: a Sennon Preached in Norwich Cathedral on July 6th, 1913. By H. 0. Beeching, D.D., D.Litt, Dean of Norwich. (Jarrold and Sons. 3d. neL)-Iu this excellent and I...

NEW EDITIONS.- *Lyrics from the Song-Books of the I Elizabethan Age, and Lyrics from the Dramatists of the Elizabethan Age. Edited by A. H. Bullen. (Sidgwick and Jackson. ls....

i A Parliamentary paper dealing with the Sitapur murder case was published on Tuesday. In our opinion the correspondence furnishes a complete justification of Sir John Hewett,...

Mr. Sydney Buxton, President of the Board of Trade, was I entertained at a banquet last Saturday at Ghent, where he visited the Exhibition as the official representative of...

We cannot pass over without a few words of admiration thel death of Mr. Grant, of the Chinese Telegraph Service, who was killed in Mongolia because he refused to leave his...

I When Sir John Hewett at length received the formal peti- tion for forwarding to Government it was too late to send it -that is to say the prescribed period of forty-eight...

I In the House of Commons on Tuesday Sir Edward Greg disposed of the ridiculous notion that the decision of the Government not officially to take part in the San Frant o0...

I On Monday iMr. Asquith opened the fifth annual tuber- culosis conference organized by the National Association for the Prevention of Consumption. The Association was formed...

Serious rioting occurred last Saturday at Cawnpore among I the Moslems owing to the demolition of part of a mosque for a street improvement. The rioters refused to disperse,...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK. I [Unider this heading tre ,otc. such Books of the week as heve -not boa leerved for revtew in other forms.) I The Early Life of Mark Rutherford (W....

I Mrs. Piozzi's Thraliana. By Charles Hugbes. (Simpkin Marshall. 2s. 6d. net.)-A large selection from Mrs. Thrale's diary, or "Tbraliana," as she called it, was published by...

Swirling Waters. By Max Rittenberg. (Metbuen and Co. 68.)-The reader who imagines from the first chapter of Swirling Waters that he is going to be entertained by a novel...

I READABLE NOVELB.-The Drummer of the Dawn. By I Raymond Paton. (Chapman and Hall. 6s.)-The reclamation of a middle-aged man by a child genius: the fantastic affecta. tions,...

Pelle the Conqueror. By Martin Andersen Nex5. (Sidgwick and Jackson. 6s.)-Novel-readers in search of something out of the common will be grateful to the publishers and the...

I It was announced in the Lotdon Gazette of last Saturday that Mr. Bertrand Stewart, who was sentenced to three and a half years' detention in a German fortress on a charge of...

On Monday the High Court of the Foresters discussed the I Insurance Act at Manchester. Mr. Farrow, the High ChiefRancger, said that experience had proved that the taking away...

I We note with no small satisfaction that the Committee of the British Constitution Association, at a meeting on August 2nd, 1913, passed the following resolution: " This...

I There is one paragraph in Lord Morley's speech which was of especial importance. He observed that in the agenda of the congress was a discussion of venereal disease and the...

I A leaflet bas been issued by the National Unionist Association concerning the increment land duty imposed by Mr. Lloyd George. First it cites the well-known case of the...

The seventeenth International Congress of Medicine opened I this week in London, and on Tuesday evening the principal foreign delegates were entertained at a Government banquet...

. On Tuesday Mr. Asquith received a deputation which laid I before him a new scheme for a Channel tunnel. The estimated cost would be £16,000,000, which would be raised in...

I The Congress was formally opened on Wednesday by Prinoe Arthur of Connaught on behalf of the King, and addressee were delivered by Sir Edward Grey and Sir Thomas Barlow. the...

THEi BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURN. [TO TErY EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-In your review of Mr. Mackenzie's excellent volume you say be upsets the tradition of a personal conflict...

THE CASE FOR BULGARIA. [To THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I am sure the readers of the Spectator are suspending their judgment till they can bear the Bulgarian version....

VOX POPULI (!). [To TBM EDITOR 0 TES "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Perhaps the following simple case will serve to show the anomalous character of our present system of representation. A...

THE COTTAGE PROBLEM. LTO THz EDITOR o0 THE "SPECTATOR."] SiR,-In his letter appearing in your issue of July 26th Mr. Harrison Fielding says: " Another inconsistency we find in...

FICTION. TiE IARROVIANS.* I MR. ARNOLD LUNN's story is apparently meant as a counterblast in particular to Mr. Vachell's well-known story about Harrow, The Hill, and a...

A DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH CHURCH HISTORY.*I THIS is a day of dictionaries, and it is surprising what good vork is put into them, considering the low rates of payment 'which...

THE TWO IRISH NATIONS.* DURING the spring of last year the late Mr. W. F. Monypenny contributed to the Times a series of articles in which he discussed the fundamentals of the...

A HISTORY OF SPOhiT AND HUNTING.t THE general reader will probably value this fine volume chiefly for its great number of delightful illustrations, though e The Two Irish...

THE WREATH OF LAUREL. IN order that nothing appropriate might be wanting in the ceremonial of triumph with which Mr. Lloyd George was received by his friends at Carnarvon last...

PEACE. I NEWS was received on Thursday that all the five N Balkan States had agreed to terms of peace on Wednesday. This is news which has brought a sense of relief to the...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. AMERICA AND JAPAN: THE JAPANESE CASE. [To THo EiTou or m "SPICTATOR.'] SiR,-Ever since the United States of America forsook the time-honoured Monroe...

ITALY IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY.* I ITALY in general, and the thirteenth century in particular, have been written about so much that it might be suspected Italy in the...

PEACOCK PIE.* MANY writers, both in prose and verse, have tried to recapture the moods of a child's mind, but it is a thing not to be achieved by taking thought. Stevenson's...

I A NEW ASPECT OF FRENCH IDEALISM. IN a recent essay Mr. J. E. C. Bodley, the well-known writer on France, deplored the decline of idealism in that country. M. Philippe Millet,...

BOO KS. -4-v ANCIENT ART AND RITUAL.* [COMMUNICATED.] ANY new work written by Miss Jane Harrison is sure to be eagerly welcomed by all who take an interest in classical study...

TRADE DISPUTES AND TRADE TYRANNY. THE members of the Industrial Council were asked a T year ago to report (1) What is the best method of securing the due fulfilment of...

LIFE IN A SANATORlUM. [COMXXIJICITTD.1 I THE wide interest now taken in tuberculosis and the methods of treating it has drawn much attention to sanatoria and their usefulness....

I WILD BIRDS AND THE PLUMAGE TRADE. [COMM'UICATED.] f OWN to about forty years ago, when the trade in what 11) are called " fancy " feathers was established, the killing of...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE KING ANT THE CONSTITUTION. THE promoters of the mischievous movement for putting L pressure upon the King to commit a revolutionary act and withhold his...