desires it, and the symptoms indicate that none of the neutral Powers see their way to offer it. Little tentatives are put forward, such as the absurd suggestion that Japan,...

story. Three hundred years ago a member of the Tokugawa clan received from his father the province of Owari, and a number of little statues of horses cast in gold. He was...

the defeat of Kuropatkin, which is admitted on all hands, but as to its extent. The balance of evidence is that it has been nearly, but not quite, complete. As the Russian...

'Forte' came up with them, and presented the British demand and the instructions of their own Government that they should forthwith cease to interfere with neutral shipping. The...

indeed, more slaughter, some of the details of which are very horrible, the mines literally blowing the assailants into fragments ; but great events have occurred around...

lengthy, and on the whole temperate, argument in favour of making Burmah a Crown Colony. His first reason for this grave change in our policy is that Burmah is in no sense...

new Technical Institute which has been opened in the Transvaal. It attempts to give a thorough technical education, so as to fit young men for the mining and engineering profes-...

and that he intends to respect the wishes of the people. After admitting that parties were so equally divided as to make a Ministry's existence dependent solely on the...

wider. The Cabinet has apparently been convinced by the departmental elections that the people approve the Anti-Clerical policy ; and at Auxerre on Sunday last the Premier, M....

the 15th inst., the Government being afraid that residence through the terrible winter of those high lands might involve insuperable difficulties in the way of supply. As we...

been a matter of great anxiety to the Imperial Court and the people of Germany, has been somewhat unexpectedly settled. The Emperor took the occasion of a festival which he...

is still intent on increasing his war-fleet, and extending the influence of his Empire as a "world-Power." In a speech which he made at Hamburg on Tuesday at a dinner given him...

of Tuesday which is in many respects the ablest and most clear-sighted utterance on the Scottish Church dispute. He defines his position clearly as a strong Churchman, and one...

Monday subjects Mr. Arnold-Forster's Army reorganisation scheme to a lengthy examination. With regard to the changes in the Regular Army, be thinks them too drastic, and...

has greatly disquieted Irish Unionists. The blessed word "devolution," ordinarily interpreted, can only imply the transference of the power to legislate to some elected body in...

been safely completed. On May 21st, 1900, Captain Voss, a native of British Columbia, set out from that colony in a two-and-a-half-ton canoe, built by a Red Indian and fitted...

appointed a Committee to "report upon the circum stances of the con- victions of Mr. Adolf Beck in 1896 and 1904." The members are the Master of the Rolls, as chairman, Sir...

concerned with the proposal to create a Minister of Industry with Cabinet rank. Mr. Ben Tillett, who moved the resolution, declared that such a Minister should have "an advisory...

the presidency of Mr. R. Bell, M.P., four hundred and fifty-one delegates being present, representing a member- ship of over a million and a half. Mr. Bell in his presidential...

Consols (2i per cent.) were on Friday 88f.

THE NEW POWER. T HE political results of this war must be great, what- ever its immediate fortunes. It is improbable that Russia will escape grave political changes ; but even...

"The Survival of the Government," is full of shrewd observations on the political situation. No Liberal journalist has watched the recent course of political events with such...

I T is now nearly six weeks since the decision of the House of Lords caused such widespread confusion in the Scotch Churches. In the great surprise which followed the judgment...

same day, by the great majority, on a " card " vote—that is, counting the constituents of the delegates voting—of 869,000 to 383,000, the Congress rejected a motion in...

social change which has been proposed since the fall of Napoleon—has drawn perceptibly nearer. The great speech delivered by M. Combes at Auxerre on Sunday last was by far the...

Lord Radstock discusses the prospects of Christianity in India. Among the good omens for the ultimate success of the faith he counts the testimony of Swami Dharmananda, a Hindoo...

p LAIN Englishmen whose paths in life bring them into contact with the prosperous classes are occasionally puzzled at the extraordinarily bitter comment evoked by pro- ceedings...

A VERY pleasant book by Mr. Arthur H. Patterson, called "Notes of an East Coast Naturalist," just published by Messrs. Methuen, and dealing with the birds and fish in -the...

THE POSITION OF AUSTRIA. [To TUE EDITOR OF TRY "SrEcrAios."] SIR,—Signs are not wanting that the conclusion of the present war will leave the political situation in Europe...

THE CONFLICT IN THE SCOTCH CHURCHES. LTO TILE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." SIE, - Dr. Hunter affirmed that the Established Church of Scotland "has this great freedom., that the...

feel deeply grateful for the kind and sympathetic words which you have spoken regarding the Church of which I am a minister. I am sure that many in my position feel as I do. In...

for a person to apprehend the modes of thought current in a nation other than his own. This is the case even in regard to nations so closely related as the English and the...

[To THE EDITOR OP TIM "SPECTATOR." J SIR,—You are in error in stating in your last issue (p. 310) that Abd-ul-Hamid "will now be succeeded by a son" since Murad is dead. The...

[To TILE EDITOR OP TES "SPECTATOR."] Sin,'—The Law Officers of the Crown appear, perhaps inten- tionally, to have evaded the very serious point of international law that...

the notes which have from time to time appeared in the Spectator us to the absurdity of most building bye-laws. They as a rule render it impossible to build labourers' cottages...

glad if you would allow me space for a few words on the subject of cheap cottages, which is one of the most difficult questions that exist for landowners, and of the first...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."] SIR, — In the Spectator of August 27th Mr. A. H. Clough says that he feels " sure that it is possible to build four-roomed houses in blocks...

SIR,—During brilliant sunshine on Saturday, the 3rd inst., we noticed a large dragon-fly flashing about our little St. John's Wood garden. Darting in amongst the vines, he...

when I observed that it was showery weather :—" It has had a tear on its cheek the whole day."—

the Spectator for August 13th, which must be my excuse for this belated communication. But there is in that issue an article on grouse which contains a most extraordinary and...

LIFE'S TRAGEDIES. Thou art not to be pitied, who haat known The threat of midnight when the forelands moan And all the winds are out; Dread and despair and anguish,—the great...

expression which I have heard the peasantry of this county make use of during a heavy rainfall : —" That's a wet shower, glory be to God ! "—I am, Sir, &c.,

THOMAS HOBBES.* Tars little book makes one realise how much the world of letters has lost by Sir Leslie Stephen's death. There is no critic alive who possesses quite the same...

[TO TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Without being a philologist, may not the use of the word "soak," as equivalent to "dry," mentioned by "C. H. B." in your issue of the...

"EVERY man's faith, if he really has one, is in a special sense his own. Before he can really possess it, it must have passed through a medium, his own mind and thought, which...

* THE Cambridge University Press has produced a very handsome edition of Earle's Micro-cosmographie ; and as the taste of the modern book-fancier is for good paper, ample page,...

always kindly. It is no surprise to be told of the benevolence and goodness of Queen Adelaide; yet it is pleasant to see the emphatic testimony which Lady Munster bears to her...

adventure will no doubt be regretted by many of his admirers, but so long as the quality of his workmanship and the interest of his characterisation are as good as in his latest...

—Sir Gilbert Parker has given us a romance of Jersey in the days of Elizabeth. A. Huguenot girl and her lover escape thither from France, and are befriended by the Seigneur de...

and Co. 6s.)—Mr. Capes's new book is a very remarkable tour de force. He has created a kind of female Barry Lyndon, the adventuress without principle or pity ; or, perhaps...

Mr. Norris is the best of companions for an idle hour,—not because his books lack the graver qualities of good fiction, but because of his charming Thackerayan style, his good...

THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD. The History of the Yeomen of the Guard. By Colonel Sir Reginald Hennell, D.S.O. (A. Constable and CO. .£3 3s. net.)— It is not for common folk to...

History of the United States of America. By Henry William Elson. (Macmillan and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—The author of this stout volume of some nine hundred and fifty pages has...

Murray Smith. (A. and C. Black. 7s. 6d. net.)—It is needless to praise Mr. Fulleylove's work. Doubtless it is open to criticism in one respect or another. To deal with such a...

and Co., Dublin. Ss. Gd. net.)—Mr. Cunninghame has an excellent subject, and he seems to have studied it with much industry ; he contrives also, considering that he is...

commended is With Heart and Mind : a Book of Daily Thoughts from the Writings of Bishop Handley C. G. Houle, D.D., by Louise Buckland, with a Short Life by the Rev. A. R....

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not 1 ■ 00Th riserved for review in other forms.] The Religious Doubts of Democracy. Edited by George Haw....

Ward. 6d. net.)—A plan is given for every month, the method used being to fill in with names the divisions of a plot of ground. These divisions are ten in number, and each is...

K. Moorehead. (Norwood Press, Mass.)—Jacob's Cavern is in Missouri. In this pamphlet, published for Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., we have an account of the human and other...

By Edwyn Anthony, M.A. (Routledge and Sons. 2s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Anthony, if we may summarise his conclusion, is not an advocate for the introduction of the metric system of...

M.A., and Wilfrid Mark Webb. Part II. (Duckworth and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—It is not easy even to describe this book, so great is the variety of subjects treated and so rapid the...

by R. A. Gregory. (Macmillan and Co. 4s. 6d.)—Professor Gregory explains, with becoming modesty, why and in what respects he has revised what was one of Huxley's most...

lected and Arranged by Edward Sayers. (W. S. C. Long, Worthing. 6s.)—Mr. Sayers has given us here a brief account of the three parishes of West Tarring, Broadwater, and Christ...

6d. net.)—We are not in a position to criticise a Japanese grammar on the points of accuracy and completeness. We can but say that this book looks plain and easy to...

we think, in one shape or another, have already appeared in print. A Little Child's Wreath, by Elizabeth Rachel Chapman, is No. XXI. in the series of "Flowers of Parnassus" (1s....

Meyer and John Strachan (Hodges, Figgis, and Co., Dublin, 6s. net). grin is the first number of the "Journal of the School of Irish Learning, Dublin." We wish it all prosperity....