Friday no official announcement has been 13.. made as to the settlement of the Venezuelan difficulty, but apparently an agreement has been reached. The terms as reported on...

unless the Powers are able to bring pres- sure enough to • bear on the Sultan to make him not merely promise reforms, but provide trustworthy machinery for carrying them out—a...

in Berlin on Monday. Addressing an audience of some eight thousand agriculturists drawn from all quarters of the Empire, the President, Baron von Wangenheim, vigorously attacked...

Germany, by adroitly encumbering us with her assistance, and by hitching her derelict "waggon to our strong team, manages to come out of the im- broglio in every way, political...

issue an interesting article on German Socialism con- tributed by M. Jaures to the Petite .Thipublique. Relations between the German Socialists and the Kaiser, he points out,...

case.

noted. The first was his reference to the Dutch minisfas of religion. They had been charged by the English and Colonial Press with fomenting discord, but he held the accusation...

of Boer delegates beaded by General De Wet. An address drawn up by Judge Hertzog and Mr. Fichardt, and containing a series of indictments against the British Government, was...

has ratified the Alaskan Boundary Treaty, under which, it will be remembered, three British and three United States Com- missioners are empowered to fix the frontier line...

that trouble is brewing in the United States, not only between Capital and Labour, but between the capitalists and the Execu- tive. We have dealt elsewhere with the anti-Trust...

were made both by Lord Milner and Mr. Chamber- lain. Lord Milner took occasion to state emphatically that there never has been, and never will be, anything like sub- ordination...

on Thursday week owing to Mr. Macartney's acceptance of the office of Deputy Master of the Mint, with the following result; Mr. C. C. Craig (C.) 4,464 Dr.. Keightley (Farmers'...

been appointed to inquire into the means of locomotion and transport in London. The Commission will deal with the possibilities of improvement by "the development and...

at the next election in the North division of Bristol, gave on Monday night at the Brunswick School an interesting lecture on "Progress." Although, be said, the Word "progress,"...

in a Paris Police Court on Wednesday. Madame Humbert was brought up on a charge of malicious prosecu- tion by IL Cattard, a banker, whom previous to her flight she had sued in...

Wednesday's Times by his brother-in-law, Mr. W. Bromley- Davenport, M.P. Mr. Davenport, replying to Admiral Cochrane, begins his letter by stating emphatically that neither...

Cochrane in reference to the recent inci- dents in the Grenadier Guards. The letter is, of course, an ex parts statement of the case of one of the officers concerned, and until...

turned to the charge with an answer to Colonel Kinkel], in which he asks him the following questions :—" Does he assert that he, Colonel Kinloch, demanded from him [Colonel...

February 6th, dealt with the important subject of Trade- Union law. He maintained that legal recognition of free combination "had been a wise and a beneficent change in the...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 921.

THE MIND OF THE MINISTER. THE - na th national affairs to speculate as to what are are so* often obliged e ideas public liged in the evolution of that move Ministers, and to...

some- what homely, phrase—in the Guards will come before Parliament in a very few days. We shall, therefore, say as little as possible about Admiral Cochrane's allegations as to...

and has so often been on the point of becomin g acute, that it is hard to believe that this time the alarm is genuine. The policy and methods of the Macedonian Committees are...

W E need not, and do not, believe that Mr. John D. Rockefeller, as was reported early in the week, issued telegraphic orders to a number of American Senators against giving any...

T HE Church of England as by law established appears to be approaching a, period of incalculable import- ance in its history. The condition of coma in which it was plunged, both...

the present writer had never happened to ccime across a copy 'of that journal intime written by , tienne Pivert de Senancour, under the . pseudonym of " Oherniann," about which...

W ITH the recollection still vividly before us of the recent application of the Closure as a means of carrying the post important Bill of last Session, it is interesting to...

T HERE have always been engaging traditions, even among the people of the coast towns, that away in the high . valleys of the Italian Maritime Alps there are a number of...

THE NEW SCHEME OF NAVAL TRAINING. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—As an old student of naval affairs, may I ask your indulgence to draw attention to some points in...

[TO THE EDiTOR OP TES "SPECTATOR"] SIR,—In your note to my letter in the Spectator of February 7th you say I assume that the Anglo-German Alliance is " the result of the...

Strt,—May I briefly point out two features of the German Alliance which seem likely to be forgotten amid the general chorus of condemnation ?- (1) Independent action would...

[To THE EDITOR OF THR " SPECTATOR:1 SIE,—About a year ago the writer drew from a highly educated young Prussian, a personal friend, the following pithy statement of German aims...

on German-Americans in the Spectator of January 31st will give much food for thought to all who know much of the non-official German, and I have reason to think that the views...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sr,—You infer from Lord Campbell's obiter dicta in the Ilminster case that Nonconformists are "prima' facie included in the Church" (see...

SIR,—Besides the Bible quotations you give (Spectator, February 7th), there are many others of great interest. The allusive way in which our great poet often quotes Scripture...

[TO THE Burros OP THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sia,—The following is not a Bible quotation, though it is a doctrinal allusion not unlike several you have mentioned in your article in the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the Spectator of January 31st, writing on the subject of prayer, as touched on by Professor Joivett, you say :— " Prayers for fine...

(To TUE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:"] Sin,—There is a development of the English language which seems to me to be gaining strength with remarkable rapidity. I refer to the...

Pro TEE EDITOR OF TEE "SpiecTATOR."1 SIR,—It seems not undesirable to supplement the brief notice of the late Sir G. G. Stokes which appeared in the Spectator of . February 7th,...

THE APPROACH OF SPRING. (AN EXPERIMENT IN PRAXILLA'S METRE.) [ 5. ri aa euptacur KaADv 413A‘roura, Tav tc€ (PaAa.v, Tic 8' &Epee veppa. Gladsome thy aspect, dear bride, as...

(TO THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR.") SIB,—My chief authority for Coleridge's pseudonym in the Light Dragoons is the late H. D. Train, who in his," Cole- ridge" (p. 10) expressly...

to add a few facts of interest bearing on the subjects mentioned in your article under this title in the Spectator of February 7th. The quotation from an old writer as to the...

"srsczazos.-] SDL,—In your review on "Professor jowett's Theological Writings"- in the Spectator of January 31st you say "We think it comes to every religious mind as a certain...

[ To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 Sr,--As one who was born and brought up at the foot of Cross Fell, may I add to the interesting notice of the - phenomenon of the Helm wind...

Ass not for ease—ask for the strength_that can Essay and then achieve life's toilsome plan. • Ask not for safety—courage will provide A harbour where no craven thoughts can...

[TO THE EDITOR. OF Tux "SrscrATort.1 SIB,—The pied or water wagtail is certainly "dish-washer," not "ditch-watcher". (Spectator, February 7th). It haunts the neighbourhood of...

MR. DOOLEY'S OBSERVATIONS.* WHEN the present writer considers that this is Mr. Dooley's fifth collection of moral and satirical fantasias (as these mono- logues might be...

NOT long ago the Professor Of Modern History in the Univer- sity of Cambridge declared that history was a" science, no more and no less." It is true the Professor qualified his...

read Mr. Rider Haggard's Farmer's Year knows that in this relation of the author's two years' itinerary through rural England is to be found considerable personal knowledge of...

MADEMOISELLE DE MONTPENSIER, daughter of Gaston, Duke of Orleans, and granddaughter of Henri IV., was called "La Grande," Saint-Simon tells us, to distinguish her from the...

THE PIT.* THE late Mr. Frank Norris, whose recent premature death removed one of the most impressive of the younger • Th. Pit: a Story of Chicago. By Frank Norris. London :...

(unlike the gentleman in the farce who "had a way" with him) was remarkable for really performing her duty to her neighbour, and loving him as herself. This conduct met with its...

6d.)—The misdemeanours of Nancy were com- mitted on the other side of the Atlantic, and it is safe to say that if no such person as the "Dolly" associated with certain dialogues...

THE CONCLUSION OF THE " ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA" SUPPLEMENT. The Encyclopaedia Britannica. Vol %XXIII. (IX. of the Supplementary Series). (A. and C. Black.)—A volume which...

eight tales Mr. Vaux projects himself into the future, and describes naval battles that shall be. The average landsman will find them somewhat hard to understand, though their...

[Under this heading we moats such Books of the week no have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Robert Buchanan. By Harriet Jay. (T. Fisher Unwin. 10s. 6d. net.)—When...

seems to be always a certain difficulty in getting the hero of a story of this kind to start on his adventures. Here the hero is a village doctor, and we are some way past the...

is. net.)—This little volume gives us a succession of remarkably vivid pictures of Indian places and Indian people. The travellers landed at Bombay, and made their way with but...

31s. Gd. net.)—This is the seventy - second edition. The work continues to increase, and is, indeed, approaching the limits of which a single volume is capable. It contains, we...

volume gives some interesting views of modern literature, which, of course, has to be regarded by the compilers from the point of view of the reader. "Novels alphabetically...

for these little creatures are somewhat deficient in the vigour to be seen in ruder races. Then life is not a matter-of-course affair for the puppies. The story of Billycock's'...

and Son. 2s.)—Some of the processes here described are familiar to most educated people. Such is the "casting out of the nines," often used as a test of the correctness of long...

2s. 6d. net) we have to notice The Cathedro2 Church of Notre Dame de Paris, by Charles Hiatt. Mr. Hiatt reduces the fabled antiquity of the Cathedral to a modest period of some...

we have Kent, by George Clinch, Illustrated by F. D. Bedford. Mr. Clinch writes a aseful introducCon, in which he briefly describes the geography, the physical characteristics,...