the subjects of a Monarchy. The devolution of power is no doubt easy, as Mr. Roosevelt would if Mr. McKinley had died have become President at once ; but Americans are proud to...

- ENGLISHMEN were horrified on Saturday last by news 1U of an attempt to assassinate the President of the United States. Mr. McKinley was on Friday week holding a reception in...

at the crime, which has been expressed throughout the British Islands, has been remarkable for its absolute spontaneousness and sincerity. Not only has Mr. McKinley won the...

even without those resources of conservative surgery which were within half-an-hour at the disposal of the President, Mr. McKinley has now survived his 'wounds for nearly seven...

We .give below the figures as to the captures and surrenders made up to September 9th. As regards the details of the fighting, we can chronicle a series of successful actions by...

better. The Sultan is endeavoering to settle matterir the claimants behind the back of France, but h as '- informed by M. Delcasse that this will not do, and that French...

at Glasgow, took place on Wednesday, the address being delivered by the President, Professor Rucker. The address, though not exciting or sensational, is admitted by the best...

The attack on President McKinley has shaken all nerves, and the precautions taken to ensure the Russian Emperor's safety are of an almost extravagant description, a sentry. for...

on Wednesday, and was received on board the 'Hohenzollern' by the German Emperor, who proposes to entertain his guest with a review of his Fleet. The meeting is said to have...

the Clerkenwell Police Court. A working watchmaker named Jung was on the 3rd inst. found murdered in his work. room, and the hue-and-cry being raised, the presumed murderer was...

the names of officers and men who have distin- guished themselves in South Africa, but who have not been previously mentioned. Lord Roberts recalls with special praise the way...

and may not be accurate, but if true it is of some importance. It is stated that the Venezuelan troops have joined the Colour. bian insurgents, and that a division of the latter...

our view entirely failed to meet the true issue. No one wants to refuse the right of asylum to the Assumptionists, but there is a good deal of difference between according them...

of Lord Morris, the famous Irish Law Lord and wit. In the year 1889 he was withdrawn from the Irish Bench and appointed one of the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, resigning in May,...

public -meeting at Newcastle-on-Tyne held under the auspices of the Catholic Truth Society. We have dealt else- where with that portion of the address which Was concerned with...

to the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society. He was, be said, profoundly ignorant of: gardening, but per- haps ignoranaeravart• bliss; for he wag flog atuntled,like the...

inquiry into the atomic theory, which constituted th e m ain portion of his address, into a paragraph, and can only refer our readers to the full reports of his paper. We may,...

New Consols (2i) were on Friday 94.

HOW TO DEAL WITH ANARCHISTS. N O leading politician in the United States has ever been assassinated unless he were President. • In Europe at least seven men—Palmerston,...

(VTR readers will remember how we have again and V again pressed upon the country our scheme for the formation of a Home Defence Reserve formed out of all the trained men in the...

the Prussian Minister of Finance, is not to-day a matter of political importance. It might have been, for the German Emperor liked him, believed in. his great abilities, and was...

-general impressicin to be drawn from the paper and discussion at the International Engineering Congress last. week - on the subject of 'a Channel tunnel between. Scotland and...

T HE sessions of the Wesleyan (Ecumenical Conference which have been held in London during the past fortnight cannot but awaken the greatest possible interest in all who care...

D ECIDEDLY Cardinal Vaughan cannot be taxed with that over-prudence of statement of which other great ecclesiastics have occasionally been accused. We seldom notice a speech of...

I N what does "true religion" consist? This is a question by which many serious laymen of the present day are continually distressed. The Protestant privilege of private...

N EXT to Scripture, English history seems to be the most fruitful field for the amusing blunders of examinees Those now to be related have the merit of being strictly authentic,...

THE EMPEROR OF CHINA'S BROTHER. [To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—It is certain that Prince Chun will visit England, and it is worth while considering what things he...

rTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 Sut,—To bring the views expressed in the most excellent leading article in your issue of September 7th home to the community at large, and...

pro THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR:1 SID,—The Spectator plays so large a part in the formation of public opinion that when it urges so serious a departure from our hitherto...

rro TEE EDITOR OP TEE " SPECTATOR." I Sin.—Engl ish scholarship and the teaching of classical anti qu it y at Oxford have experienced a very distinct loss in the death of Dr....

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") IR.—In the Spectator for August 31st you express a qualified approval of the infliction of the death punishment for "killing surrendered...

LTO TEE EDITOR oF TEE "SPECTATOR."] Si,—While reading your notes with reference to the :war in South Africa and the cause thereof, it has occurred to me that the gist of a...

rTo TEE EDITOR OP THE " SPECIATOR."1 Sin,—Are you quite sure that the Sadducees positively as- serted "extinction at death" (Spectator, September 7th) ? As I read their...

THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The opinion of Major Mauvillon, a competent critic, upowthe,characteristics of the British soldier, exemplified in the year 1760, when fighting under Duke...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR.") Sts,—The more publicity the fox-hunting case at Cairo (Sieitator; September 7t11) receives the better I shall be pleased. I would suggest,...

pro THE Eorroe OP TEE " SPECTATOE."1 Sin —The Spectator is so well informed on most 'questions dealing with the politics of the East and of Turkey that I . • feel it to be...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SiBr-POSSibly the enclosed extract may be of interest to the w ater of the article on "The River Ore" which appeared in the Spedator of...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sue,—Having read the interesting article on the water buffalo in the Spectator of August 31st, I take the liberty to send you a few...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—For "four hundred kinds" of birds enumerated in my little book your reviewer (Spectatcrr,September7th) should have written one hundred...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR., SIB,—I do not know whether the enclosed translation—as literal as it well can be — of the principal article in the Dresdener Nachrichten of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR., SIE,—Dr. Elkind's letter in the Spectator of August 24th recalls to my mind an article I once read somewhere which illustrates the curious and...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] &a,—Though there have been many letters in the public Press advocating the formation of rifle clubs, I have not yet seen any suggestions for...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] St,—Several weeks have elapsed since the Royal celebra- tions in Melbourne, but I trust the world-wide interest which has been taken in the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra, — If you are still open to animal stories you will perhaps receive the following. Some weeks ago, while guest in a country house near...

MUNICIPAL MACHIAVELLIANISM.* TROUGH a good deal of the life history of his hero is imbedded in the pages of Mr. Lewis's extraordinary book, it is not so mach a biography as the...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—It may interest you to hear that the starling keeps up its reputation here as a "mocking-bird," and like a good Colonist adapts itself...

ANTICIPATIONS. Set down in this golden September one day By one who has been in the country since May. WE'RE still in the season Of sunshine and leisure, Yet blithe as we...

THERE is a certain pathos in the tranaitoriness of scholarship. Nothing passes so quickly nor is reversed so suddenly as the conclusions of research. To enumerate the many...

WE remarked recently that the publication of such important works as "Odysseus's" Turkey in Europe and Lord Percy's Highlands of Asiatic Turkey, within a few weeks of one...

Ma. CROZIER in the Pursuit of his great design has reached the political world and the problem of statesmanship. In no branch of human activity can his special method be more...

THE great talent of Lucas Malet, first fully revealed in Colonel Enderby's Wife, has of late years been exercised with results hardly proportioned to her rich and manifold...

(W. Heinemann. 36s. net.)—This is a very interesting book, in which the author seeks to separate the purely Roman art from that hybrid variety known as Graeco-Roman. The author...

and Co. 25s. per vol.)—The second volume brings this work down to the the letter " N"; a third, still to be issued, will complete the set. The articles are short and fully...

millan and Co. .a3 8s.)—This is a very bulky book upon a rather slender subject The eighteenth-century engravers were nothing if not light and pretty,—in fact, one often wishes...

THE MINOR MAGAZINES. The Woman at Home continues to fulfil its mission of making the world it appeals to better by pictures of virtuous and self- denying Royalty and by good...

Turner and Ruskin. By F. Wedmore. (George Allen. E7 'Zs.) —The principal feature of these two large volumes is the number and excellence of the ninety-one reproductions in...

Reginald Blomfield. (G. Bell and Sons. 73. Gd.) —This is a reduced form of a former work in two volumes by the same author. The writer points out that the Italian workmen who...

is large. The reproductions are extremely good, the lines of the screen being so small as to be practically invisible, and the paper has not that offensive white polish of so...

Sons. 21s.)—The author says that while no proper record of the life of Pinwell exists, many stories to the detriment of his character have been circulated. Thus the aim of the...

R. W. Sch n it z and Sidney Howard Barnsley. (Published for the British Sch oo l at Athens by Macmillan and Co. £3 3s.)—The Committee of the Athens School, considering that...

3s. 6d. net.)—These drawings, reprinted from magazines, are original in character, and have a dreamy spirit tinged with poetry, two landscapes, " Morning " and "Morning Star,"...

of this monthly magazine deals with a variety of subjects, from Greek gems to Mafeking siege stamps. An article describes Sir C. Tennant's collection of pictures, and old plate...

Introduction and Descriptive Notes by J. L. Warden Paga (Frost and Reed, Bristol.)—A further instalment of this work issued in parts has reached us. We can only wish that the...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as Lars not bon reserved for reriew trt other forms.] Anselm and his Work By the Rev. A. C. Welch. (T. and T. Clark....

(Elliot Stock. 'Is. 6d.)—Gilbert of Sempringham came of a knightly family. He received a clerk's education because he was of a misshapen body, and unfit for war. He took Orders,...

4s.)—As far as it goes, this monograph is pleasantly written and sensible. The fault we have to find withthe book with so many more of its class, is that we are , as told so...

C. Jack, Edinburgh, 2s.) is The Pastoral Epistles: Timothy and Titus, edited by R. F. Horton, M.A. Mr. Horton frankly acknowledges the difficulties which surround the question...

la Mazeliere. (Plon-Nourrit.)—Those who are interested in German art will find an exhaustive and well - reasoned account of it in the bulky volume before us, which, after the...

Hohler. (Cairo.)— Mr. Hohler visited the oasis of Siva (otherwise Siwah) in the summer of last year. The oasis, which lies somewhat less than two hundred miles inland, was...

1s.)—Miss Rawlings is not quite so much in command of her subject as some of the contributors to the "Library of Useful Stories" have been. We have, for instance, plenty of...

Aris- totelian Society (Williams and Norgate, 108. 6d. net). This volume contains fourteen papers, among which we would single out for mention "On the Aspect Theory of the...

Classical Texts" (W. Blackwood and Sons, is. acl. per vol.), under the general editorship of Mr. H. W. Auden, Virgil: iEneid, V., VI., edited by S. J. Basil Wynne Willson, M.A....

Pike's book is chiefly about birds and butterflies, acids very pretty book it is. It is not the less interesting because some of the localities which are described in it are by...

G. Moule, D.D. (R.T.S. 35. 6d.)—Books of devotion are, for the most part, outside criticism. We will only say that there is no living theologian who is better qualified to write...

F. Prideaux. (Frank Hollings. 6s. net.)—Colonel Prideaur probably knows as much about his subject as any man living, and the reviewer has little to do but thank him for an...

Country Life (G. Newnes, 21s.), a weekly magazine which con- cerns itself de re rustica. In this subject many things, serious and sportive, are included. There is agriculture...