Count Julius Andrassy, at Count Tisza's recom- mendation, received the Emperor's commission to sound the party leaders and endeavour to form a Cabinet. The party of...

T HE news from Russia shows that the internal condition of affairs is still menacing. The discontent, though for the time driven below the surface, burns as fiercely as ever,...

Figaro by Count Boni de Castellane, a Member of the Chamber of Deputies. He considers that now is the time for France to use her influence to bring Russia and England together...

in the first year of the war is given in Tuesday's Daily Mail. The total casualty list on both sides is set down at 240,000, of whom 40,000 were killed or drowned at sea,...

Sha-ho, it must not be assumed that great events are not being planned or in process of being carried out. Remember, there are now no war correspondents with the Japanese...

the subject of endless discussion. The better opinion seems to be that there will be a Dissolution before the end of March, and then a debacle for the Unionist party equal to,...

a tea-cup raised over Mr. Arthur Lee's speech at Eastleigh on Thurs- day week. It is probably a good rale that no member of the Government, except the Prime Minister and the...

Mr. Arnold-Forster waxed enthusiastic over the prospects of his party. He was, he said, very sanguine of the success of the Unionist party at the next General Election: Whatever...

the question of the separate Consular ser- vice which Norway seeks to establish. Both Governments admit that the negotiations cannot be continued on the stipulated basis, and...

a Spectator "leader," but Herr Richter's blunder throws an interesting light upon the kind of methods which may be expected from those who are working for a big Navy Vote. The...

the prerogatives of the President in very striking fashion. The Committee on Foreign Relations on Tuesday unanimously adopted an amendment to the seven Arbitration Treaties,...

by the progress of the negotiations between France and Turkey in regard to the Syrian railways. The Sultan was prepared to satisfy French claims, and in addition to expend...

protest uttered by the Times on Tuesday against the destruc- tion of the Avon Bank between Bristol and the sea. The action of the Corporation, with the sanction of the Board of...

by Lord Spencer in the shape of a letter to Mr. Corrie Grant, which, according to the Daily Mail, was issued after a Conference of Liberal leaders at Spencer House. For...

of a speech delivered at Manchester last Saturday, dealt with the necessity of sifting, and, if possible, satisfying, the grievances of "our Irish Unionist fellow-countrymen in...

in regard to Ireland. That is a purely conventional expression of opinion put in to "save the face" of those who have so long professed a devotion to the ideal of Home-rule....

at the Royal United Service Institution under the auspices of the Committee formed to promote advanced historical teaching in London. The aim of the Committee is to provide...

at Heywood, Lancashire, on Saturday last. He described the situation created by the Government's postponement of an appeal to the country as indecent and perilous. " Everything...

N O one will accuse the Spectator of not attaching sufficient importance to the question of Free-trade, or of any desire not to make it the vital and essential issue in our...

NOTHIN OTHING has been more remarkable, nothing is a NG proof of the political steadfastness and 'good-sense of the English race, than the way in which the Colonies (we dislike...

A YEAR ago last Sunday the Japanese Minister at St. Petersburg, by order of his Emperor, an- nounced to the Russian Government that, diplomacy having failed, Japan would resort...

the physical training of the young. Without a sound. physical basis no citizenship is possible, and unless the body is cared for all schemes of educational progress are no more...

( HE Prime Minister meets Parliament next Tuesday after a Recess the speculative interest of which has mainly turned on the question whether the opening of the Session would...

Ely, dated February 8th, 1682, the following words occur :— " I always took the almoLas to be only articles of communion; and so Bishop Bra mhall expressly maintains against the...

The alterations now being carried on in the Mall have resulted in the bettering of conditions of life in London by the abolition of a three-hundred-year-old Milk Fair,—no doubt...

chose to add a crest to the many bearings which it emblazons among its insignia, the claims of a very remarkable little bird to that honour are worthy of consideration. It is...

[To THE EDITOR 01 THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—From his latest speech it would appear that Mr. Chamberlain's history is getting almost as threadbare as his political economy....

which you express in last week's Spectator that means will be found to avert the blunder of an attack from Liberal quarters on Mr. Arthur Elliot's seat P On the ground of...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Please to let me add my testimony of hearty agreement with your article in the Spectator of February 4th on the political unwisdom of a...

the party, and often an active worker, I should like to add my humble voice to the advocates for an appreciative, and even generous, action towards Unionist Free-trade...

SIR,—Your article upon the above in your issue of the 4th inst. has attracted considerable attention in this (Durham) district, and you will perhaps allow me, as a Liberal,...

[To THE EDITOR OP TIM "SPZOTATOR:] Sin,—In your issue of February 4th, and under the above heading, appears an interesting letter from Mr. Frank T. Bullen. The scheme there set...

Or THE " SrECIATOB..1 Srn,—I have no doubt that Mr. Biddell's account in the Spectator of February 4th of the supplementary aid to agri- cultural labourers in the hungry "...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE ..srscrsros..i SIR,—I beg to enclose a copy of a resolution unanimously passed by the Executive Committee of the Free-Trade League at its meeting on...

[TO TER EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIB,,—Permit me briefly to call attention to one curious mis- take into which Mr. Ralph Stokes—in your last issue—and almost all the...

Srn,—The use in some of the reports from Russia of the form of the celebrated Warsaw despatch, " Order reigns in Warsaw," reminds me of a snot I heard Sir William Harcourt make...

Days in Diplomacy," and of helping to prepare the book for press; its venerable authoress has called my attention to a letter signed " A. L. K." in your issue of January 7th,...

Sia,—An interesting document of the great Protector, whose fame is year by year being more cleared from the mists of calumny, has lately come to light at the Northampton Free...

in the Spectator of February 4th : " All [the Protestant sects] agree in not believing them [the Sacraments] to be the means of conveying the grace they represent." The Sacra-...

called to a question in your last issue (p. 186) as to the identity of the civilian who rendered some service to Wellington at Waterloo. His name was Moore, a button...

THE "SPECTATOR. "] Srn,—Your correspondent " A. E. T.," in last week's issue, betrays an astonishing degree of ignorance about the views of others for one who sets out to...

WE acknowledge the following sums sent to us as contributions to the above Fund, and have forwarded them to the County Gentleman : — Among those who have recently consented to...

[To TDB EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—In the Spectator of January 28th you printed an interesting letter on the above subject from Mr. F. Impey, and in a note you drew...

public through your columns a means of lessening the long hours of dressmakers' assistants during the season P If ladies would place their orders for summer clothes with...

[To TRY EDITOR or TRY " SPECTATOR"] SIB, I am glad to confirm the incident related by my friend Mr. Bond in the Spectator of February 4th as regards the late Dean Mansel, and...

man of the best type, having been laid up in a London hospital with an illness which needed incessant care, was at last nursed into convalescence. Gratitude to the kind lady who...

SIR,—In 1894-95, at the Lal Bagh aviary, Bangalore, there was a winter or albino crow, separated only by stout bars from a sick vulture in the next compartment, and otherwise...

[The King was an Irish King, and shook a bou g h, with Golden Apples on it, when he required silence. A henchman, entering his room after the Golden Apples had sounded, fell...

tells the reader in his lines " To a Slovenly Versifier." In the new edition of his works he has made several alterations, even in his greater poems, changes which tend...

very difficult book to deal with. To check this or that statement of fact or judgment of character is commonly impossible. We can do little more than make a general estimate of...

lament, was admirably fitted for the task of writing a guide-book to the economics and politics of the Empire. He had made historical geography his special subject, and, as was...

tinguished father, nor has he given us a connected history of the great war in which General Lee played so conspicuous a part. But he has printed an interesting collection of...

ironical title is identical with that given to the narrative, founded on a book published in Mexico, of an episode in the recent history of that Republic, and that the remaining...

Co. 6s.)—The second half of this book is by no means equal to the opening chapters, for the excellent reason that Mr. Benson, after making an effort at religious impartiality,...

Windus. 6s.)—Whether Mr. Arnold Bennett will ever write anything so wholly excellent as his novel, " A Great Man," may be doubted, but the standard is not very sensibly lowered...

late E. A. Freeman. (Macmillan and Co. 10s.)—There seems to be no end to the posthumous works of the late Professor Freeman. Recently we had occasion to deal with one of these ;...

Press. 8s. net.)—Mr. Chadwick begins with an essay on the "Monetary System" of the Anglo-Saxons, and proceeds to the consideration of the " Social System." The connection...

B.C.L. (W. Blackwood and Sons. 2s. 6d. net.)—A Treatise on the Laws of the Stock Exchange. By Walter S. Schwabe and G. A. H. Branson. (Stevens and Sone. 12s. 6d.)—Mr. Mickle-...

S. Kennedy, D.D. (T. C. and E. C. Jack. 2s. 6d. net.)—The reader of The Century Bible will expect to find the subject treated with con- siderable freedom. Professor Kennedy sees...

among their Gentile neighbours. He makes other observations which are worthy of consideration. He holds that the ideal will never be realised till religion is the motive-power....

Canon Thompson. (Elliot Stock. 5s. net.)—Canon Thompson has done a good work in putting together this account of the " History and Antiquities of St. Saviour, Southwark." We...

Richards. 3s. 6d.)—The stories which compose this volume are mediaeval in spirit, we might almost say in odour, and show their authoress, " Vernon Lee," at her best, if not...

be com- pleted in sixteen parts, Old Houses in Edinburgh, Drawn by Bruce J. Home (W. J. Hay, Edinburgh, ls. net per part). The three drawings in this part are " Sir Archibald...

Hall. 2s. 6d. net.)—This book, if it finds a public--and we do not doubt that it will—will be a fresh proof of Dickens's popularity. It gives a list of his books and scattered...

Os. net.)—Mr. Melville says very truly " There cannot be said to be a Thackeray Country in the sense that there is a Scott Country or a Burns Country." If there is such a...

5s. net.)—Mr. Burroughs has done well in reconsidering his purpose not to write another " outdoor book." Far and Near contains an account of a tour in Alaska in which the author...

15s. net.)—The " Tower " was a strange product of the succes- sive eruptions of the great volcano of Martinique. We say " was " because it has now disappeared. At the time of...

Flora and Sylva, Edited by W. Robinson (17 Furnival Street). It is described as " A Monthly Review for Lovers of Garden, Woodland, Tree, or Flower ; New and Rare Plants, Trees,...

(Kelly's Directories. 16s.)—The " Handbook " is now in its twenty-fifth year of publication. Its speciality is the in- clusion of the " official " classes, a most useful...

M.A. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 2s. each.) —Book I. contains the substance of Euclid I., 1-34 ; Book II. treats of the Circle, Ratio, and Proportion; and Book III. of Similes,...

of the "Cambridge English Classics" (Cambridge Univer- sity, 4s. 6d. net). The plan followed in this, as in other volumes of the series, is to correct obvious misprints in the...