T HE only important news from South Africa either as concerns war or peace is that Lord Kitchener organised two " drives " during the week in the Transvaal, in which some two...

condition of affairs in the Balkans, "where their policy stood in direct opposition to a number of interested elements which sought to fish in troubled waters." There was a "...

smooth and intended to remain so. That is most satisfactory, but it would be foolish to overlook the weak points in the situation. These are, first, that too much hangs upon the...

important news shall always be published on the day most inconvenient to weekly newspapers, the terms under which the Morgan Trust has purchased the various lines were given to...

important speech to the "Delegations," the Joint Committee from Austria and from Hungary which controls or criticises the foreign affairs of the Dual Monarchy. He announced...

greatest danger. On the night of Sunday, May 4th, her Majesty was prematurely confined, and as delivery was difficult and the Queen weak from her attack of typhoid, her life was...

war over the result of the Brussels Sugar Conference. An Act is needed to abolish bounties, and the Agrarians declare that they ought to be retained, and are only given up out...

mons on Monday, and has been continued throughout the week, has been chiefly noticeable for two very striking speeches,—one from Sir Edward Grey, and the other from Lord Hugh...

the reform of the finances has been postponed for another year, and the provinces are on the surface tranquil. It is evident, however, that, unless his Majesty shows unexpected...

China strikes us as becoming increasingly serious. The Mandarins are raising large fresh taxes to pay the interest on the Indemnity, and are explaining blandly that the...

as it always does with him, its mildest and most moderate form. After some very sensible remarks on the need of having a single local authority for all local affairs, with one...

at present, and it is obvious that he sees in the elec- tions signs that the Radical section of his supporters has become stronger. He has accordingly issued a strong Circular...

treatment of Mr. Dillon during the sitting of March 20th, and moved what was in effect a vote of censure on the Speaker. The debate, which was factitious and perfunctory, except...

Herbert Crawford, dying in 1897 at Nice, bequeathed a fortune of 24,000,000 in paper securities to a lady who is now Madame Humbert. Two American brothers named Crawford,...

Irish question to the Chairman of the East Wolverhampton Liberal Association. There are, he say s, three divergent policies at present advocated by prominent members of the...

Grey, not only rose to a very high pitch of eloquence in the peroration, but was throughout marked by a persuasive power which was most striking. Whether one agrees or not with...

disturbances in the West Indies, and on Friday the Times published a telegram to the effect that St. Pierre—the capital of the French island of Martinique and a. thriving town...

on Wednesday, and delivered an interesting speech. After congratulating the Primrose League on their achievements in the last seventeen years, Lord Salisbury turned to the war....

was something almost pathetic in the iron indifference with which the Irish Members met Mr. Lloyd-George's almost tearful appeal to them to support their allies and not to...

at the age of sixty-three, probably exerted a greater influence on English literature than any other American author. Going west- ward in the early 'fifties," he turned the raw...

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the heartiest sympathy with Lord Hugh Cecil in what he said as to the two Imperialisms in his eloquent speech in the Education debate on Tuesday. He touched, and with the...

W E heartily congratulate the Dutch people upon the safety of their Queen. The wave of pity for her Majesty in her succession of great dangers which has passed over the...

a great opportunity for doing a s gnal public service. The answers given to Mr. Gilbert Parker on Monday by Mr. Akers-Douglas, coupled with Lord Stanley's previous answer to Mr....

the House of Commons resembles in one important particnlar the attack upon it out of doors. There is more decorum, of course, less wildness of statement, less imputation of...

T O this question, so often asked, Mr. Zangwill, who is both a competent and an eloquent advocate of his people, gives in the New Liberal Review for May a prompt and flat reply....

O F the twelve Apostles chosen by our Lora to form the nucleus of the Christian Church, not more than three, or at most four, stand out from the New Testament canvas as definite...

S OME seven years ago the State of New York put all its fisheries, game, and forests into the hands of a Commission, giving to the said Commissioners powers, both of purse and...

W E all judge by appearances. Almost instinctively, perhaps even half-consciously, we make some sort of estimate of the character and condition of all the people we meet. But in...

game is as easily disturbed by troops and firing as some of your correspondents imagine. During 1899 I was putting through a party of recruits on the Dymchurch ranges near...

accorded to me to deplore the fact that the Government have declined to allow the Volunteers to exercise in Richmond Park has been put on record by a member of the Government. I...

nation are due to you for boldly entering the lists in this matter. The Duke of Norfolk generously permits not only manceuvres, but large camps of Regulars and Volunteers, in...

RICHMOND PARK AS A MANCEUVRING GROUND. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOH:1 Sin,—The remark appended by you to the letter of "F. L." in the Spectator of May 3rd—viz., that the...

ITO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR") SIR,—I notice that the writer of the article in the Spectator of May 3rd entitled "A Strange Story" asks whether it is not a remarkable fact...

SIR, — I was present at a field-day in Richmond Park during the summer of 1860 or 1861, probably the latter, in which the H.A.C. (the Honourable Artillery Company of London) and...

of children are not often tested to their utmost extent, but they would seem to be greater than the writer of the article in the Spectator of May 3rd is inclined to admit. I...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Your correspondent in the Spectator of April 26th relieves me personally from an embarrassment. I did not think it fair to trouble the...

ITo THE EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTATOR.") SIR, — AS a general rule I hold that time is ill spent in pro- testing against an inadequate review, but on the present occasion I feel that...

SIR, — Tbere is one point about the Richmond Park con- troversy which fills me with dismay. It is this. The head of a Government Department is asked a question as to an im-...

(To THE EDITOR OF THY "SPRCIAT011.1 Snz,—In his kindly mention of "The Shell of Leonardo" in the Spectator of May 3rd your contributor announces that I attribute the staircase...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,--Mr. Snell is not the only one of your readers who is puzzled as to your standpoint with regard to the Education Bill. If Sections 9...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—Your review of some recent motor-car literature in the Spectator of May 3rd exactly coincides with my own experi- ence. Many years ago...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THIS "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Amongst the many passages cited in the newspapers and magazines at this time about the Coronation, I hove not found any quotation...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sin, — In connection with the statement published in the Review of Reviews regarding Mr. Rhodes's so-called political will, I think the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TILE "SPEOTATOR.1 SIR,—Four of us were sitting round the tea-table when I, having just been reading some of Dr. Moberly's discussions on personality, started...

Mu THE EDTTOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:I Sre.,—As an Englishman resident in, and a naturalised citizen of, the United States, it has been a source of strength and comfort to me to...

fact that what the Education Bill proposes to do for the Church of England and other still existing denominational schools has already in many cases been done for themselves by...

[To THE EDITOR OP TRY "SPECTATOR."' offer you a contribution to the legend of Waterloo. Amongst the papers of my late father I find a letter written to him by Lord Stradbroke in...

SIR, — May I point out a slight slip in the obiter dictum with which your interesting note in the Spectator of May 3rd on Lord Curzon's Frontier speech winds up ? Of the "chief...

NEW GALLERY. Tun extremes of good and bad painting hang side by side with bewildering effect at the New Gallery. Pictures which would be a disgrace to a small provincial...

APRIL WEATHER. MY love is like an April day So smiling sad, so cold, so bright; For now she'd have me far away, Yet pity puts the thought to flight. And now she would I'd...

THREE BOOKS ON THE WAR.* THERE is little falling off in the quality and interest of the later books on the war. Two of .the three volumes before us are really valuable...

interesting and delightful book is well indicated in the lines of Ovid which he has prefixed to his opening chapter :— " Vidi ego, quod fnerat quondam solidissima tellus, Ease...

the letters of Monsieur de Saussure—in manuscript—he pronounced the work both "useful and amusing," and since he had been in England.at the same time as the young Swiss he had...

first of a series of eleven volumes which are to supplement and bring up to date the ninth edition of the Encyclopmdia Britannica, converting it, in fact, into a tenth edition....

THE WATCHER BY THE THRESIIOLD.* THESE " tales of the seen and the unseen," most, if not all, of which have appeared in the pages of Blackwood's Ilfagezine, where they attracted...

6d.)— Mr. Hocking would have done well in refreshing his recollections of the " Crito" before he made his hero commit the crime of breaking prison. Socrates held that a good...

There are cases in which vulgarity is merely a synonym for realism, and it must be said at once that The One Before is one of these. But though this particular form of realism...

(Blackwood and Sons. 6s.)—If we have had our spirits unduly raised by Mr. Barry Pain, we shall be brought down to a properly gloomy level by The Way of Escape. We suppose that...

Rawson lays the scene of her story in Paris in the last days of Louis Philippe, and a very richly painted scene it is. Literature, art, music—Mrs. Rawson is very great on music...

6d.)— This third edition is revised and brought up to date by Mr. J. S. Eland, who has added a chapter on colour illustration. In this book are to be found examples of many...

"Push" in Australian means much the same as " Camorra" : it is a secret society. Mr. Pratt seems to know something about the working of these things, and so far he has a claim...

[Undrr this heading we notice gush Dooks of the week aa hare not been- reeervett for review in other forms.] The First Things. By the Rev. John Buchan. (Blackwood and Sons....

(G. Bell and Sons, 28s.) is a continuation of her studies of French art. The volume is full of information and of illustra- tions, and will no doubt please those whose tastes...

(The De In More Press. 5s.)—This would be a pleasing reprint of FitzGerald's first edition if the illustrations were not so commonplace. Pictures of elderly gentlemen in gaudily...

ART BOOKS. Messrs. Bell are now issuing a miniature series of books on painters. Reynolds, Watts, Romney, Leighton, Holman Hunt, Holbein, and Watteau have already , appeared....

History of Lace. By Mrs. Bury Palliser. Entirely revised, re- written, and enlarged under the editorship of M. Jourdain and Alice Dryden. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. £2...

of the Art Journal (Virtue and Co., 21s.) The articles on contemporary foreign art are most useful, as are the accounts of the minor crafts. There is a good deal about modern...

With Notes by S. W. Bushell. (Cassell and Co. 30s.)—This is a book for the enthusiast and collector. It is technical and tells of glazes and sang tie bceuf, but the ordinary...

esting alike to artists and philanthropists. The subject of this paper is the model village of l3ournville, built and managed by a trust founded by Mr. George Cadbury. The...

magazines appear to so much advantage as when a year's numbers are collected into a volume. In turning the pages of this book one realises the inestimable gift artists now...

6s. net.)—The first part of this volume contains some thousands of single-line quotations from many sources, ranged under such head-. ings as " Future—Hope—Ambition" ;...

6d. net.) —Any one who writes about Lord Chancellor Jeffreys has scarcely any choice but to whitewash him. Macaulay has done the blackening so effectively that there is no...

Twistleton. (Edmonson, Skii.ton.)—When some one comes to compare the various voces popu/i that have come from the ranks, he will have a hard piece of work. "The Boers are...

• (Melville and Mullen. 9s.)—We cannot go much beyond saying that there is no reason why this volume, a reprint of letters written home during the period March 9th—Decem- ber...

Fairman Ordiah. (16 Clifford's Inn.)—Mr. Ordish, whose excellent book, "Shakespeare's London," we noticed some little time ago, here introduces to us a new venture. It is a...

D.D. (S.P.C.K. ld.)—We hope that this little book will be as widely circulated as the ability of its author and the enterprise of the publishing Society deserve that it should...

of "His Most Gracious Majesty King Edward VII." (G. Newnes. 7s. 6d.)—There is more material for a book of this kind than is sometimes to be found in memoirs of Heirs-Apparent,...

3s. 6d. net.)—This volume, the tenth annual issue, contains as usual a great mass of useful information. We may mention a very complete set of figures illustrating the cost of...

contains for the most part well-known poems, ancient and modern. "The Nut-Brown Maid," "William and Marjorie," "The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington," " Childe Waters," may be...

Bodley. (Macmillan and Co. 10s. net.)—In this new edition Mr. Bodley has made some changes in the chapter on Liberty, and in the discussion of the Group System, a feature of the...