Messrs. Hutchinson and Co. are publishing a series of reprints I ' under the title of "Popular Classics," each volume with designed title-page and frontispiece (ld. and ls. 6d....

Some curious details of Enalish life are given in The Yorkshire I . Coiners and Old and Prehistoric Halifax, by H. Ling Roth, Hon. Curator of the Bankfield Museum, Halifax (F....

I The Bibliography of Swedenborg's Works. By the Rev. James I Hyde. (Swedenborg Society. 31s. 6d.)-This is a quarto volume of more than seven hundred pages, with between...

Recollections of a Humouirist, Grave and Gay. By Arthur : William . Beckett. (Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons. 12s. 6d. net.)- ! Mr. h Beckett, who describes himself as having been...

I The debate was continued on Thursday by MI. Wyndham, who justified the criticism in the Press, deprecated the use of language which threw the slightest doubt onl our resolve...

In regard to cost, we had spent less per ton on new 1 ( construction than any of those Powers, and were far I ahead of them in the quality as well as number of the newest type...

In his reply Mr. Robertson asserted that the new Home Ffleet would have as much sea-going tune as the seagoing fleets had six or seven years ago, and that all the demands made...

On Tuesdav Mr. Robertson made his statement in reference I to the Navy Estimates. Dealing first with the financial aspect of the question, he said the dominant factor was the...

I The Standard adds to the service it has already done the country in calling attention to the true state of the Navy by sending a special correspondent to Portsmouth. In a...

Mr. Balfour pressed the Premier to declare whether | the Government intended to interpret the two-Power I standard as it bad been understood hitlierto-i.e., that I we should...

NOVELS. RUNNING WATER.* 'IT is good to think that Mr. Mason's incursion into the arena of politics is not to be allowed to interfere with his literary activities, and that he...

Iife in Ancint Athens. By T. G. Tucker. (Macmillan and Co. 5s.)-Professor Tucker gives us here some account of the " Social and Public Life of a Classical Athenian from Day to...

'Tien7ity Years of the Republic. By Harry Thurston Peck, LL.D. (Hodder and Stoughton. 12s.)-Dr. Peck tells us some I curious stories about political, commercial, and social...

Victoria History of the Cou.ty of Essex. Vol. If. (A. Constablo and Co. 31s. 6d. net.)-The " Ecclesiastical History " of Essex is more than usually interesting, especially...

Home Pracyersfor Morning and Evening Worship. By A. MorriB I ] Ste-art, D.D. ..'1.:_ _ 1.A (Andrew Melrose 3s. 6d., 5s. 6d., 7s. 6d. net.) I -: . 1-_ _- __ _ -__ --_ - _,...

The Date of St. Paul's Epistle to the Golatians. By Douglass | Round, MA. (Cambridge University Press. 2s. net.)-Mr. Round ... . ... . .1 I... thinks that the Epistle was...

I M.ary Qucen of S&ots. Pictures in Colour by James Orrock and I Sir James Linton. Story by Walter Wood. (Hodder and Stoughton. 15s. net.)-Mr. W. Shaw Sparrow, who edits this...

I Though service would only be obligatory in the United Kingdom, the door would be left open for voluntary service oversea. Mr. Haldane laid great stress on the importance of,...

I Dealing with the details of his scheme, Mr. Haldane showed that the County Associations would have to discuss with the General Staff how they could respectively best supply...

The London County Council triennial election was held on I Saturdav last, and resulted in a sweeping victory for the Moderates or " Municipal Reformers." The outgoing Council,...

The Italian Governwent, according to Reuter, h aving regard to the growing opposition to the proposed international excavations at Jerculaneum, have decided to undertake the...

I In the House of Commons on Monday Mr. .Haldane intro. duced his Bill for the establishment of the County Associations and the creation of the new Territorial Army. He...

IVWe must for reasons of space postpone our attempt to set Iforth an alternative to certain of Mr. Haldane's proposals, and to show, as we believe it ean be shown, that the...

The moral of the elections has been naturally read in I different senses by the two parties. We do not endorse the electioneering methods of the Municipal Reformers; but it is...

MR. HALDANE'S PROPOSALS. [TO TE EDITOR OF TE "SPECTATOR.'J SIP,-If, as you suggest in your last week's issue, these proposals should result, by the abolition of the Militia,...

LORD KITCHENER AND THE INDIAN ARMY. [To THE EDITO- t OF TEE "SPEC.ATO..] SIR,-Before Mr Morley decides whether Lord Kitchener is to have an extension of command, it is only...

THE TREATMENT OF SEDITION IN INDIA. rTO Till EDITOR OF TH. SP'CTATOR."] SIR,-May I invite attention to an article (not written by me) in Blackwood's Magazine for February...

I Last week the Times published two remarkable letters by " A French Catholic." The writer demonstrated the wide differences of temperament and training between the late Pope,...

The well-informed Paris correspondent of the Tites hinted in rue issue or vvennesaay trat tne terana tn isillpCO' IS definitely trying to make all arrangement with Denmark for...

--In the Reiclistag on Wednesday the Supplementary Estimates for German Soutb-West Africa, which caused the recent Dissolution, were reintroduced in their original form. :err...

NEWS OF1'THE -WEEK. THE second Russian Durna met on Tuesday, and the opening scene was very different fromu that at the first Duma ten months ago. Then the Emperor was...

The Peking correspondent of the Times describes in Mondays issue a journey he has made through bouthern China. Both people and officials were uniformly friendly. The...

M. HENRI LE SIDANER'S PICTURES OF VENIGE AT THE GOUPIL GALLERY. TimE painting of M. Henri le Sidaner is both interesting and beautiful,-interesting because he occupies himself...

POETRY NOCLEITS WARFAlRV (Titneo [Hal]daneos.) WHEN our Nelson on sea and our Wellesley on shore Led the Navy and Army of Britain in war, Our Militia was strong and our...

A R T. - M. SIMON BUSSY'S PASTELS AT LEIGHTON HOUSE. IN his book on French painting M. Camille Mauclair includes the names of both M. Bussy and Mf. le Sidaner in a chapter...

THE MAGAZINES. LORD DuNRAVENS contributes an informing paper to the new Nineteenth Century on the " Reform of the House of Lords." Lord Dunraven has not much difficulty in...

THE "SPECTATOR" EXPERIMENTAL COMPANY. [To T-E EDITOR O0 TER "- rPCATOR."] SiB,-Our late Sergeant-Instructor of Gymnastics, who is now employed by the London County Council,...

THE BATTLE OF SLIVNITZA. [TO -E EDITOR O THES SP.CTATOR."] SiR,-If Mr. Pears had referred to Major von Hhn's account of the battle of Slivnitza in his "Struggle of the...

" THE LAST INFIRMITY." rTo TH- ED..O. .t U . " S-R-Coi'] SiB,-The occurrence of this line from Lycidas in a seventeenth-century play (see Spectator, February 9th, p. 211), as...

THE BURIAL-GROUND ON MILFORD COMMON. I [TO ,H. EDITOR o - THE " SP-rATOR."] SIR,-You will be glad to hear that the proposal of the Witley Parish Council to acquire three acres...

THE COMPREHENSIVENESS OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. [TO TIE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. ] SIB,-I have recently noticed more than once in the Spectator an assertion which yon make...

THE PRIME MINISTER ON THE LIMITATION OF ARMAMENTS. F course no responsible person doubts for a moment the sincerity of Sir Henry Camupbell-Bannermau in writing the article on...

, SOME BOOKS OF TRIE WEEK. I [rUnder thi hecading ie notice each Books af the week as have not b-_e, . t -a farreie in other h -Ie. - Samuel Johnson. By Walter Raleigh. I . ....

The Memories of Ronald Love. By Mary E. Mann. (Methuen I and Co. 6s.)-This is an extraordinarily poignant story concerning a little boy who has the misfortune to be...

Davray's Affairs. By Reginald Tulmer. (Greening and Co. I 6s.)-Mr. Richard Davray is a novelist whose relations with the other sex are decidedly peculiar to himself. He is...

, For Maisie. By Kathaine Tynan 4 (Katharine Tynan Hinksolk). (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)-This is a pretty little love story constructed of not very solid materials, but...

CURRENT LITERATURE. SIR WALTER RALEGH. Sir Walter Ralegh: a Drama in Five Acts. By H. A. A. Crosso. (T. Fisher Unwin. 5s. net.)-Mr. Cruso's introduction, in which in a few...

I THE FRANKISH BARONS OF GREECE.* THE: romantic scholarship of Sir Rennell Rodd was well suited to the exploration of the obscure history of Greece in the Middle Ages. He must...

BO OK S. SIR. SPENCER WALPOLE'S ESSAYS.* THni biographical essay is a difficult form of literature, for it is bard to harmonise the fulness of detail which biography demands...

A POET OF THE PEOPLE. THERE was a wagtail all alone on the edge of the pond in Parsonage Lane. He had invented a little game, and was very busy and perfectly happy all by...

SOME MODERN FRENCH BOOKS.* MANY people are fond of reading French books. But we believe we are justified in adding that many people are now and then in a difficulty as to what...

MEDIAEVAL PARISH LIFE.* ABBOT GASQUET has compiled a very readable book about parish life in mediaeval England. He writes with a facile pen and is well versed in the...

THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL ELECTIONS. IT is with the greatest possible satisfaction that we record the result of the London County Council elections. It is very likely, as the...

I THE HOUSE OF COMMONS AND MIR. MARKS. WE have received a statement, which we understand W is being sent to all Members of the House of Commons and to the Press, giving the...

3 CHANNEL TUNNEL OR CHANNEL FERRY? SOMETHING more than mere argument, apparently, , will be necessary to put an end to the revived schemes for making a Channel Tunnel....

LE'TTERS TO THE E1DITOR. - RATES AND MUNICIPAL TRADING. L'ro TIIK 1 0I)I'rOITr 0 TIlE SPECrA'rOLY] SIR,-" S. B." should know bow dangerous it is to draw conclusions from bare...

THE BRIGG ELECTION-AND ITS LESSON. [a1s Tolle ECCITOIC OR TTHe 'SpicrA'ro0e.'i SIR,-The Conservative Press is trying to interpret the Brigg election as a triumph forProtection....

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SroCTAOL "] SIr,-I was relieved to find in the Spectator on March 2nd that whilst appreciating some of the merits, you had lost no time in exposing the...

TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN. FTo T.E EDITOR OF THE -SPECTATOR] SiB,-Lord Ripon has informed the country that the Government hopes to find a solution of the Irish University...

ECONOMICS FOR IRISHMEN. [To SHE E...oR OF THE "SPECTATOR"] SIR,-" We can consume nothing without employing somebody in some degree somewhere." I do not think I intend this...

INARTICULATENESS. AN entertaining series of articles is appearing in the Standard, entitled "A Discovery of England," depicting English society from a Canadian point of view. A...

TOPICS OF THE D. il TOPICS OF THE DAY. d A PARLIAMENT FOR EGYPT. W E are convinced that the present House of Commons, t] W and the Liberal Party which controls it by so t,...

BIRDS AND THE WEATHER. THE climate of the present winter, so far as it has gone, is more approximate to the type which we have learned to consider normal than that which we...

CORRESPONDENCE. THE NAVY ESTIMATES. [TO .1114 Em-TOIL OF TJI s'PEOIA rO."J SIR,-Two outstauding features mark the Navy Estimates for 1907-8 ; both of these had been indicated...