The result of the shooting for the prizes offered by the Spectator for competition among civilian rifle clubs (at Bisley on Thursday) was as follows:-Stock Exchange, 330;...

Mr. Birrell defended the anomaly under which Mr. Russell, I though he has lost his seat in Parliament, holds an office which has been declared to be only tenable by a Member of...

The Report of the Civil List Select Committee issued on Thursday recommends no alteration of the amount allocated in 1901,-namely, £470,000. The amount recommended for the...

We note with pleasure that on Monday the Daily Mail announced that it would present a challenge cup and medals every year for miniature rifle shooting. The competition will be...

In the House of Commons on Thursday the Irish Estimates I came under discussion. In the course of the debate Mr. Birrell announced what was meant for, and will no doubt be...

What makes the matter easier, but also more imperative, is that we have a special Treaty with Portugal in regard to arresting vessels engaged in the slave trade which fly the...

On Friday, July 1st, Sir Edward Grey received at the Foreign Office a deputation in regard to the slavery masquerading under the name of indentured labour which exists in the...

In spite of Mr. Birrell's spirited and ingenious defence of I Mr. Russell, we are bound to say that the whole incident has a very unpleasant look. It is notorious that the...

CHURCH OF ENGLAND ORDINATIONS. ITO TUBi EDMTOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'I SIR,-Interesting efforts have been made by Church-people in recent years to increase the ranks of the...

THE TRAINING OF BRITISH OFFICIALS FOR ITO TEvlROINDIA. rTo Tim EDITOn OF THP "SPEC-TAT'R--l1 SIR,-Your correspondent "E A. K." (Spectator, May 14th) observes with reference to...

WAS JOHN STUART MILL A SOCIALIST? [TO THE EDITOR OF TUE "SPFCTATOR."] SIm,-The question has a certain historical interest, and I cannot agree with Mr. Elliot (SpIectator, June...

TIHE FREE KILLING OF INFANTS BY TTE1IR MOTHERS. [To TEx EDIToR OF THE "SP=ATArOR."] SIR,-It may interest some of your readers to bear that at a recent Assize two more girls...

INSURANCE AGAINST UNEMPLOYMENT. [TO TIM EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-In a leading article on the Budget in your issue of July 2nd you express very considerable doubts in...

I It is very difficult for the plain man to find his way in this maze of conflicting opinions uttered by experts, nor can we attempt on this occasion to provide any clue to the...

Lord Lucas in replv declared that even in 1913. when the Reserve would be at its lowest, they would require no Special Reservists to bring the Regular battalions up to full war...

On Wednesday in the House of Lords Lord Londonderry I called attention to the lawvless condition of Ireland. Up to the end of May this year there bad been one hundred and one...

In the course of the debate on the Income-tax Resolu- I tions in the House of Commons on Wednesday Mr. Asqiiith spoke upon the financial situation in general. He dealt first...

Later in the evening the Duke. of Bedford called attention to the state of the Regular Reserve, the Special Reserve, and the Special Contingent, and set forth a great many...

Later on in the debate Mr. Rowntree in a maiden speech I joined in the request that bad been made by several Members for the removal of the Protective duty on cocoa. He wished...

Let it not be supposed that by saying this wve mean to suggest that all is well with our home defences. All is not well, nor can it be well until we adopt the principle not...

In the House of Lords on Thursday Lord Newton. sDeakine I I on the religious Census, made one of those speeches of penetrating humour and sound sense for which he has won a...

On Thursday evening Mr. Asquith made a statemcnt as to the course of public business. In cniieqnence of representations which the Government had received from all quarters of...

Last Saturday M. Falliires left Paris for a short visit to Auvergne. The Times correspondent says that this is the first of a series of visits to the provinces inspired by M....

There can be little doubt that under the stress of MIr. Knox's proposal to internationalise the Manchurian railways Russia and Japan have come to an arrangement more quickly...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. DURING the week the terms have been made known of 11) the supremely important new Agreement between Russia and Japan. It undertakes to maintain the status...

I The Teheran correspondent of the Times fives a very un- satisfactory account of Persian politics in Thursday's paper. Finance is the principal problem among those questions...

I One can hardly find words to describe the combination of folly and wickedness. First of all a fight, extremely likely to excite race antagonism, is deliberately arranged, and...

I At Reno, Nevada, on Monday, Independence Day was celebrated by a prize-fight for the heavy-weight championship of the world. The pugilists were Jeff ries, the ex-champion,...

The Severed Mantle. By William Lindsey. (Methuen and Co. I 5s.)-In The Severed Mantle Mr. William Lindsey gives a convincing account of life in Provence in the days of the...

I Bournenicuth, 1810-1910. By Charles H. Mate and Charles R. Riddle. (WV. Mlate and Sons, Bournemouth. 5s. nct.)-Bouinc- mouth is now celebrating its centenary, and this...

L2UWe Aliens. By Myra Kelly. (Longmans and Co. Cs.)-Miss Myra Kelly writes again of Russo-Jewish children in New York, and her stories are once more delightful. Those readers,...

- READABLE NOVELS.- -The Hour and the Woman. By Consiance Nicklin. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)-A mudern story, ewl'il m it, tragedy, of the difficulties which strew the path of a...

I Arislophanes and Others. By Herbert Richards, M.A. (Grant Richards. 7s. net.)-This book contains a great variety of matters with which a classical scholar, antiqui moris, is...

SOME BOOKS OF THI E EEIK. [UIndelr this heading we notice such BIooks qf th. week as hare not Leon reserved or revew in other jornis.] I A Vicarious Vagabond. By Denis Crane....

I The Book of Arran. Edited by J. A. Balfour. (Hugh Hopkins, Glasgow, for the Arran Society of Glasgow. 21s. net.)-It was originally intended that one volume should contain a...

THE CARE OF THE FEEBLE-MINDED. I TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."1 STv,-Referring to Sir William Chance's letter in your issue of June 25th on the subject of the care of the...

BO O KS. LORD GLENESK.* IT is difficult to make the biography of a journalist dull, however prosaic the subject or arid the style of the biographer. For his life is the story...

POETRY. CROOKED-HEART. I LOOSED an arrow from my bow Down into the world below; Thinking-" This will surely dart, Guided by my guiding fate, Into the malignant heart Of the...

THE LATE CA-NON MACCOLL. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."1 SiR,-We should be obliged if you would kindly permit us to announce that the Dean and Chapter of Ripon have...

A MISSIONARY HERO. rTO THE EDITOR OF TUE " SPECTATOR. 1 SIR,-Not long ago your columns contained a request for incidents of recent heroism worthy of record. Perhaps the...

BIRDS AND FRUIT-NETS. [TO THE ]EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'I SIR,-In reference to the letter on the above subject in your last issue, may I suggest that birds run no dancer if...

THE BOYS' BRIGADE SEASIDE CAMPS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SiB,-We wish to bring to the notice of your readers the good work being carried on by the Boys' Brigade,...

THE ENDLESS PRAYER.-SPIRITUAL BLACKMAIL. [TO THX EDITOR OF THX " SPECTATOR."] SIB,-I believe I can offer an account of the origin of the "endless prayer chain," unless any one...

THE CONSUETUDINAL TENSE. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECT ATOR. 1 SIR,-There is a curious analogy between the phrase " do be," used in Ireland, as Dr. Joyce points out (see...

THE BUDGET DEBATE. TO some extent the Budget debate appears to have suffered from the general political apathy. M, embers have been less eager to press home points of financial...

A Newr Shakespetrean Dicli1oLary. By Richard John Cunliffe, I M.A., L L.B. (Blackie and Son. Os. net.)-Mr. Cunliffo has not I attemlpted to produce a complete concordance to...

We Liavo received from Mr. H. Frowde (Oxford University I Press) a number of service-books containing the last alterations in the State praymrs. First we would mention The...

I In the nublications of the British Altsenm we have Hkandbook to the Ethnographical Collections (Trustees, British Museum, 2s.) The collections are geograpbically arranged.

The holiday-maker is being provided with what he is likely to I need. So we have from Messrs. Blackie and Son three attractive and roaJlablle volumes. These are The T'hemes, by...

THE MAGAZINES. MONSIGNOR CANON MIOYES writes in the Xiaicteeidh Celairy upon the Royal Declaration from the point of view of ILonian Catholics. He begins by assuming that,...

MR. GALSWORTHY'S SKETCHES.* THE: earliest of these twenty-eiglht " stories, studies, and impressions" was written more than ten years ago, and all but two of them have been...

GENERAL GATACRE.t LADY GATACRE tells us that her " main object in laying this book before the public is to provide an authentic narrative of Sir William Gatacre's work in South...

-BUSINESS IN GREAT WAX )TERS.74 MAR. BULLEN has m1u11ch that is Nery interestin- to tell us, and we listen the mole readilv lt cause his lknoEwxledge hias. for the mllost part,...

THE VETERAN RESERVE. [TO THz EDITOR OF THm SPECTATOR."] SiR,-The rifle clubs have now an opportunity (other oppor. tunities having been denied them) of showing their patriotism...

SHAKESPEARE AND RELIGION. LTO Tru EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SiR.-I stippo-e that during the past three hundred years everything ti at ean be said about Shakespeare and his...

EYESIGHT AND SERVICE IN THE TERRITORIALS. LTO THZ EDITOR OP HEr "SPECTATOR."] SiB,-My son was very keen to join the Territorials. He had been in his public-school corps, but...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. THE AGENDA CLUB. [To Tau EDITOR Or THUY "SPECTATOR."1 FIR,-A s a consistent friend of idealistic endeavour, you will,we think, allow is to make through...

" CUI BONO? " [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'I SIR,-What is going to be the outcome of the colloquy between the two Front Benches? Is it to be a settlement by consent or...

A CANADIAN HUMORIST.* THIS little book is a happy example of the way ill which thld double life can be lived blamelessly and to the great advantage of the community. The author...

SOME NAVAL BOOKS OF REFERENCE.* NEW editions of three standard books of reference mentioned below have been published recently. These volumes, to a certain extent, are...

THE AWAKENING OF CHINTA. rTo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SiR,-I wish it were possible to chart within the limits your correspondence columns permit the economnic rocks the...

THE REFERENDUM. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Those who believe in " government of the people by the people and for the people"-that is to say, in democracy pure...

TOPICS OF THIE DAY. THE POLITICAL SITUATION. W E have often quoted in these columns the schoolboy's definition of the policy of laissez-faire, but it could never be more...

BAD MEMORES. I A NT ex te ionally good memory is by no means aiwviys a moral asset; perhaps it is not even invariably a mental one. A very inferior mind is not incompatible...

THE POACHER'S LURCHER.-A NIGHT SCENE IN ARDEN. THE lane where the poachers are now lurking, called " The Black Lane " by the children of the brotherhood of Brookington's...

INDIAN CASTES.* THE seven huge volumes lately published by the Madras Government are a dictionary of the castes and tribes of Southern India. The information contained in them...

M1R'. CHESTERTON ON THE OLD PATHS.* I THERE is no need to say that Mr. Chesterton's latest book is in its main features a counterpart of its predecessors. It would be in the...

NOVELS. PROMISE. IT is always a bold taling to select a genius for the hero of one's novel. To proclain him so upon the title-page seems * Prom.se. By E. Sid6-wick. London:...

THE OUTLOOK IN SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE. T HE threats of trouble in various parts of South-Riasthrn T Europe have for the time passed harmlessly away, and one may contemplate the...

TiHE ADMINISTRATION OF MISSIONARY FUNDS AND SOCIETIES. [To THi EDITOR OF THx "SPZCTATOIL."J SIR,-Mr. Charles Haldon should read my letter again, when he will see that he has...

COMPROMISE. [TO TM: EDITOR OF Thy "SPECTATOR.'1 Sirn,-Afr. Lord's letter in Tuesday's Morning Post puts in plain language the disgust which some quiet people feel at the...

THEOLOGY AND MISSIONS. [TO THE EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,-Referring to the letter on this subject in your last issue, I should like to say that, having attended the...

THE AGENDA CLUB. IN the new number of the Hibbert Jomrnal a proposal is laid before " English gentlemen " which the editor tells us in a note is already being put into practice...

WAR AS AN INSTRUMENT OF POLICY. W TE are very grateful to Admiral Mlaban for the AV moving and ably reasoned warning in regard to certain aspects of the problem of naval...