Sir Alfred Milner and strongly endorsed by Mr. Chamberlain, has opened a Mansion House'fund on behalf of the refugees from the Transvaal and the Free State. Though much has been...

the crisis. He had been silent because he was loth to re-enter the field of politics. The Boer ultimatum, _ however, creates a situation beyond party polemics. There may be much...

T HE war has begun. On Tuesday Sir Alfred Milner tele- graphed to the Colonial Secretary the terms of the ultimatum handed to the British Agent at Pretoria on the previous day,...

been received, the military situation is sufficiently clear To begin with, the two Boer States are encircled by a number of British commands. There is the main body in Natal, of...

Powell, the most serious movement is, of course, that directed against Natal. It is obvious that on this side there is to be an invasion in force. Even on Friday morning news...

shortly. It begins by referring the Government to the London Con- vention, and declares, in effect, that if that Convention is nat. violated, the Boers have a right to regulate...

case.

Unionist Association at Haddington on Wednesday, spoke with equal good sense and feeling on the subject of the war. If the Government had erred, they had erred at all events on...

expedition has perished utterly in the Soudan. Its com- mandant, who was greatly trusted, made an effort to cross the Touareg region, and in so doing roused the jealous sus-...

of " Gyp," and is interesting to historians because she is of full Mirabeau blood, has recently received an interviewer on the subject of the Royalist trial. She hardly cares to...

by arbitration, the arbitrator being the Premier himself, M. Waldeck-Roneseau, who, we fancy, intervened to prevent the workmen from carrying out their project of marching to...

appears that three young men of good family who had been officers attracted attention by an expenditure out of all pro- portion to their means. It was found on inquiry that they...

year was expected to reach 2160,000,000, an amount which begins to alarm French financiers. M. Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, a sound economist, calls attention to the gradual increase of...

the unwisdom of the Boers in not making a frank and generous offer in regard to the fran- chise, and he also declared that if there was real oppression we ought not to grudge...

the week. On Tuesday the Archbishop of Canterbury preached the sermon at the opening service in St. Paul's, and delivered a forcible plea for unity. That binding power, the lack...

whose services to his country and to his constitu- ency have been many and great, was not allowed to speak at Liskeard on Thursday without continued interrup- tions. It was...

Church Congress on the Queen Victoria Clergy Fund, which was founded in 1895 to relieve the increasing poverty of th six thousand beneficed clergymen who have less than e20 o a...

death of Lord Farrer on Wednesday night at Abinger Hall, Surrey, at the age of eighty. Lord Farrer was before all things a great public servant, and though he worked behind the...

R. Conder. besides a quantity of new information about the Hittites discovered by a French mission to Cappadocia, contains a translation of a Babylonian tablet, which is most...

paper before the Church Congress on gambling, which was remarkable for both eloquence and moderation. He refused except as a counsel of perfection to condemn modest games of...

New Consols (2i) were on Friday 103i.

THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR. T HE war has been begun by the Boers, and in a manner which places the issue before the nation very clearly. We need not dwell upon the apparent...

W E said last week when discussing the future of the Slav in Europe that his real character was still unrevealed ; and that is essentially true, for of the Russian as he would...

London's address to the Church Congress struck exactly the right note. It was an appeal to Englishmen to think of the future of their Church, and not to jeopardise that future...

• T HE trial of young officers for gambling which for some days past has been amusing or shocking Berlin is of some, it may be of great, political importance. It shows that the...

M R. HERMANN VEZIN, the well-known actor, publishes a letter in this week's Era which revives two rather worn but still interesting subjects of speculation. One is whether there...

/THE public-spirited action of Mrs. Rylands in present- ing the city of Manchester with a Public Library of exceptional interest and value is an event of national interest....

D ISSATISFACTION with the results of teaching in the village is appearing in a double-headed form, in view of the new Education Bill. Neither side quite does justice to the...

W HO is there among us that has ever seen a lake, a pond, or a river-bed laid dry that has not felt an almost childish interest and curiosity in the aspect of a portion of...

THE TRANSVAAL. [To THE EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Without entering into a fall discussion of Mr. Hodgson Pratt's letter in the Spectator of October 7th, may I inquire...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. ") SIR,—The publication in the Spectator of October 7th, through means of your correspondent who signs himself "M.," of the official report of...

"SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The interesting letter of " A. R. F. H. " which you published in the Spectator of October 7th has driven me to have another look at the history from which he...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —Those who talk about the disastrous results of a success- ful war, and of the necessity of keeping large garrisons in the country,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—A striking coincidence took place in my house to-day. A white owl came in at a window during the night and com- posed herself to sleep...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Perhaps you may permit one who had closely followed Pilcher's experiments for some years and was present on the occasion of his fatal...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTA.TOR."] SIR,—As it is some thirty - eight years since I con- tributed my first article to the Spectator, and since then you have not unfrequently...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE ''SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —I have had, and have, many relations and friends in various of our Colonies, and from a general consensus of their opinions I can...

ARTS AND CRAFTS AT THE NEW GALLERY. TICE exhibition of the Society of Arts and Crafts at the New Gallery is certainly an interesting collection of work. Moreover, it suggests...

WE do not want your Fatherland, Your starry veldt, your golden Rand ; We have an Empire stretching far Beyond the evening, morning star; And all within it like the sea,...

THE CASE AGAINST THE BOERS.' This is a book written by one of the leading Outlanders, and sets forth in great detail the case against the Boers and the facts upon which the...

Theokeray, to whom we already owe two delightful volumes of selections from the classical poets, has in conjunction with the Rev. E. D. Stone made a valuable and attractive...

Tun critic who called the entertaining Memoirs of Madame d'Epinay "the rough material of a romance" did them less than justice. For the pages in which this most vivacious of...

of loss the first fifty pages or so of Mr. Glass's book. If he wants to know the true story of what is popularly called the " Barebones " Parliament, he will probably be able to...

MR. NEIL Mules°, who achieved a remarkable success in his John Splendid—that brilliant and engaging Scots_ Cyrano de Bergerac—has shown himself no less skilled an interpreter of...

LX. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 15s. net.)—The latest volume of The Dictionary of National Biography contains a good many great names, among them Strafford and Wellington (Wentworth...

and Sons, Glasgow. 10s. 6d.)—No one can see more clearly than Mr. Jacks that the time for a definite judgment on Prince Bismarck's character and policy has not yet come. In one...

by his Wife. (William Blackwood and Sons. 21s.)—Sir Joseph Prestwich was known long before his death as one of the most successful and accomplished of geologists ; this volume...

Egyptian Irrigation. By W. Willcocks, C.M. G. (E. and F. N. Spon, 125 Strand.)—Though the work before ns is called a second edition, it is almost a new book, for the first...

[Under this heading we 710UOL such Books of the week as have not been reserved for mine in other forms.] William P. Moulton. By W. Fiddian Moulton. (Isbister and Co. 7s....

By the Rev P. S. H. Statham. (Longmans and Co. 108. 6d.)—Mr. Statham's hook is excellent reading, even for those who do not know Dover The Cinque ports appear to have had from...

Dr. J. A. H. Murray. (The Clarendon Press. 6s.)—Dr. Murray here begins a new letter of the portion on which he is now at work, " H—K," his collaborator, Dr. Bradley, carrying on...

H. Gowen. (Longmans and Co. 5s.)—A. S. Silletoe was a native of Sydney, New South Wales. He graduated at Cambridge, and taking orders a little later than usual (seven years...

Co. Gs.)—Mr. Scott gives in this volume an historical account of dancing, a topic on which he possesses much of the knowledge of an expert. It is not, however, in his review of...

and Son. 5s.)—We are inclined to regret that this Look has been published. Not a little family history that would have been better forgotten has been included, for, indeed,...

6s.) —There is much that is interesting in Mr. Leighton's specula- tions, somewhat crude and hasty as they sometimes are. "In my Mind's Eye " is the title of the first paper,...

of Business Bookkeeping Transactions (la.) a collection of documents which are intended to give what we may call a concrete lesson in book- keeping. There are invoices, credit...

Republic. By Katharine Allen. (Madison, Wisconsin. 50c.)—This mono- graph is one of the results of the excellent system which makes creative power rather than the faculty of...

B. H. Baden-Powell. (Swan Sonnenschein. and Co. 2s. 6d.)—Mr. Baden-Powell gives in this volume (which belongs to the " Social Science Series "), some of the substance of his...

Palmer Cox, who has already pictured the Brownies for us by pen and pencil in various circumstances, now takes them on their travels. He first brings them to England, where they...

Co. 2s. 6d.)—Dr. Gardiner adopts, for the most part, Dr. H. A. Holden's somewhat depreciatory estimate of the merits of the Oficiis. He is, indeed, scarcely consistent. On the...

issue of the journal of the Society for Checking the Abuses of Public Advertising, reports most encouragingly on the pro- gress of the movement. The most notable event in the...

Galatians. Explained by A. W. Robinson, B.D. (Methuen and Co. ls. 6d. net.)—This is the first volume of a proposed series, entitled "The Churchman's Bible," to appear under the...

Indispensable Manual for Housekeepers. By Mrs. C. S. Peel. (Constable and Co. 3s. 6d.)—When a book announces itself as indispensable, the public is apt to reflect how extremely...

M.A. (Blackie and Son. Is. 6d.)—Mr. Warner tells " our island story " in vigorous and attractive fashion. His plan has been to choose the characteristic events of each period as...

first published in 1877, and revised some six years ago. It is an acknowledged authority of the first rank on its subject. —History of India from the Earliest Times to the...

six tours in the West Indies, handsomely illustrated with photographs ; not an inappropriate publication when winter is almost at our doors. Sixty-five days out of fog and frost...