cool, to promise nothing, to expect nothing, and not to be afraid of carrying out our own perfectly legitimate and peaceful policy for fear of offending her. Unfortunately,...

excited articles in regard to the situation, and of attacks on this country of varying degrees of intemperance. We- shall not attempt to answer in kind ; but we feel compelled...

story of the resignation can be in the main true, and yet the specific story of the British offer be an entire misrepresentation. Suppose M. Delcasse to have said at the Cabinet...

; (2) that in all probability the "revelations" have a foundation of truth so far as the facts of the resignation are concerned ; and (3) that no specific offer of the kind...

Anglo- Russian rapprochement, but no statement as yet made is either official or definite. What seems to be true is that Russia desires to remain at peace for some years, and...

news is well founded, it is to be feared that France may be exposed to another epoch of unstable Ministries.

interesting piece of news in Tuesday's issue. Five years ago an anonymous benefactor gave the Council of New York University £20,000 to erect a Hall of Fame, in which one...

dealt with the decay of the Parliamentary. system under Mr. Balfour. By the joint operation of the guillotine and the block the Executive had become every year more and more...

inventor of the anti-toxin now largely used in diphtheria, has made an important announcement to the International Tuber- culosis Congress at Paris. The official statement is at...

Berlin at the end of last week, contained much matter of interest to British students of colonial administration. Especially important were Dr. Marensky's remarks last Saturday...

it will be aggressive, but admits that it is intended to form a new Army and Navy for defence. The Empress, he says, has accepted the idea that the Empire must be...

interesting account of the progress of the campaign against duelling which he initiated several years ago in Spain. For some time the Prince appears to have carried on his...

gone one step farther. On October 10th, the first day of the Session, the Premier, Baron Fejervary, did not attend, but forwarded a Royal Rescript again proroguing Parliament to...

Friday prints a most interesting telegram de- scribing the flight of the steerable balloon Lebaudy,' which took place on Thursday. The object in view was a recon- naissance of...

illness of Lord Spencer reported in Friday's Times. He was taken ill whilst out shooting on Wednesday at his shooting-box at North Creake, Fakenhani, Norfolk. During Thursday an...

of the British squadron which is visiting Japan are being received in the capital with the utmost heartiness. The seamen, we are told by Reuter's correspondent, are creating a...

the absence of a unanimous disposition on the part of Australia to welcome the people he proposed to send, he would not be justified in going forward with the scheme on the...

dinner of the Sheffield Cutlers on Thursday, held that the retrospect of the last ten years showed a solid and unqualified advance in regard to foreign policy, and repre-...

Conference. It was reserved, however, for the enter- prise of " hecklers " at the close of his speech to extract from Mr. Asquith by far the most important declaration of the...

he is in any way responsible for the revelations of the Main are not as completely satisfactory as could be wished, we do not intend to follow a section of the French Press in...

point in regard to the home-coming of Lord Curzon and the part which he is likely to play in our political life. i Our correspondent declares that Lord Curzon s not only an...

by Mr. Joseph Fels in regard to the creation of small agricultural holdings. He suggests as an alterna- tive to the proposal of the Salvation Army to settle some fifteen hundred...

the Hungarian Parliament to the end of December is understood, we think rightly, to mean that the Emperor Francis Joseph has made up his mind ; that he insists on the...

of the Hague Convention, or merely by the good feeling and good sense of belligerents, is to alleviate by all reasonable means the appalling horrors which are inevitable in war....

crimes which have been committed in our time in Great Britain, and not traced to their authors, the general public would be the more surprised or reassured. Would the number of...

born to be forgot." The " Biographia Britannica," the Who's Who of the period, it was which excited his anger. "There goes the parson, oh, illustrious spark ! And there,...

rash persons introduced the English starling in the hope that it would aid in keeping the trees free from insects. Many of the most mischievous caterpillars spend the day in the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—You ask me to give you my impressions of the German Army as I saw it in the Kaiser - Maniiver on the Rhine last month. I am the more...

Sin,—There is a remark in your review in last week's Spectator of Dr. Devine's "Principles of Relief" which seems to me to have an indirect bearing on the question raised by...

Sra,—The resignation of Lord Curzon and his return to the sphere of home politics raises more prominently a feeling which must have been experienced by many besides the writer...

Sin,—Your leading article published last Saturday displays a slight misunderstanding which I trust you will permit me to correct. I stated to you that I neither looked for nor...

the Spectator the announcement of the proposed experiment in Militia training. Every one interested in the preservation of this branch of the Service must congratulate Colonel...

SIR,—The basis of all good military (or naval) organisa- tion is the training in peace of as many as possible of the manhood of the nation, so that they may be available in war....

proposed experiment? I have served in the Line, Militia, and Volunteers, so have some small knowledge of the matter discussed. Three thousand five hundred pounds is a con-...

the signature of "A Soldier" in the last two issues of the Spectator are of the utmost value, because they demonstrate the cause for the present inefficiency of the Volunteer...

Sin,—I have made it a special study to try to find out from the private soldiers themselves the reasons which tempt a young man to join the Army in time of peace, for the Army...

Sin,—In your last number you refer to my article on "Naval Education" in Blackwood for October, and represent me as complaining that young naval officers learn too much about...

have read out here with much interest Mr. Abbott's articles, "How it Strikes an Australian," and your own comments and some correspondence upon " Vidi's " letter in the Times...

Sin,—May I be allowed to point out that while the rest of the Bishop of Salisbury's speech at the Church Congress was "thoroughly moderate and reasonable," as you say in your...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE .SPIICTAT011.1 Sin,—Many business men will read with gratitude the article in your issue of October 7th on "The Christian Conscience and the Conduct of...

SIR.,—As a parent of a Naval Cadet still undergoing his year of probation at Osborne, I feel I must take up my pen in answer to one or two statements made in your correspondent...

of sanitation embracing the conditions I have laid down as "essentials" to secure success to the soldier in his endeavour to keep in the fighting-line, and to avoid the disgrace...

Sin,—An interesting account of this old saying may be found in Georg Bfichmann's " Gefliigelte Worte " (ed. 1905), p. 677. The saying appears in many varied forms as a proverb...

Sra,—A letter in your paper (October 7th) points out that there is an excellent lending library for the blind in London. I should like to add that there is also one in...

I. FIRST-BORN and first of all the godlike line, That sang of love and death and wayfaring, Surely death seemed to thee a comely thing, Having loved and fared, whose soul was...

Six,—In turning over an old notebook I have come on the following anecdotes relating to a dog and a eat, which are, I think, worthy of being placed on record as interesting...

THE frozen wastes of the North have revealed most of their secrets, and—beyond the attainment of the actual Pole— little is left for the explorer of the Arctic seas. But it is...

...... 1oo *The Earl of Dysart ... ... ••• 200 C. Davies Gilbert ... ... ... 5 P. H. Gossage, Esq. .•. 100 Peter Jack, Esq. ... ... ... 1 Shadworth H. Hodgson ... ... 5 5

with agricultural rating owe a debt of gratitude to Professor Nicholson for the extremely able and impartial way in which be has dealt with those problems. Professor Nicholson...

book. "In the first place," says he, "we must resolutely resist the natural temptation to exaggerate the darkness of the Middle Ages with a view to enhancing the brightness of...

his life's crisis can never appeal to the world with the same universal force as The Pilgrines Progress. The language is too much that of technical theology, and it is not...

classes,—those who lay the scenes of their stories in America, and those who do not. Of course, this is not a hard-and-fast division, and not a few vary their appeal, now...

The Apsley Cookery Book. By Mrs. John J. Webster and Mrs. F. W. Jessop. (J. and A. Churchill. 38. 6d.)—This cookery book has been constructed for the benefit of the followers of...

and Fall of the British Empire : Appointed for Use in the National Schools of Japan. Tokio, 2005. (Alden and Co., Oxford. 6d. net.)—This curious little book professes to be "a...

By the Rev. W. H. P. Greswell. (Barnicott and Pearce, Taunton. 10s. 6d. net.)—Soinersetshire was a land of forests and parks, differing so far from its neighbour Devon, though...

said to have originated with Lord Hardwicke's Act in 1754; it came to an end with Lord Brougham's Act in 1856, by which a residence of twenty-one days, since reduced to fifteen,...

6c1. net.)—This is a very clear and readable account of the operations from the Declaration of War in 1803 down to the great battle. (It is interesting to note that orders for...

15s. net.)—Mr. Harper begins with Poole, and person- ally conducts the reader along the Dorsetshire coast as far as Lyme Regis. Everywhere he speaks from personal experi- ence,...

10s. 6d. net.).--Mr. Tallack was the first secretary of the Howard Society, founded some forty years ago to promote the better treatment of crime and pauperism. This post he...

18 Rue St.- Denis, Quebec, may have, while doing a charitable act, an interesting Discours, preached by the Cure of Quebec on January 10th, 1799, in the cathedral of that city,...

Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Macmillan and Co., t3d. net). The teprint, which is to be completed in fifteen parts, is identical with the original issue, excepting the...

C. Black. 7s. 6d. and .21 le.)—This is an illustrated edition, the pictures being reproductions in colour of work by Mr. George S. Elgood, RI. These are sixteen in number, and...

little book, Wayside and "Woodland Blossoms, Vol. II., by Edward Step (F. Warne and Co., 6s. net). It is really what it professes to be, a "Pocket-guide to British...

(T. C. and E. C. Jack. 12s. 6d. net.)—The personality of G. M. Grant (1835-1902) was an important factor for many years in Canadian affairs, ecclesiastical, academical, and...

Adams (T.), Garden City and Agriculture, cr 8vo (Simp kin) net 2/6 Anderson (J. M.), Matriculation Roll of University of St. Andrews, 1747- 1897. 8vo (W. Blackwood) 21/0...