W E have dealt elsewhere with the great question of the Transvaal's contribution to the war, and with the even more important question of the introduction of Chinese labour....

the Venezuelan question. We presume that negotiations are proceeding between the four Powers concerned, but nothing definite has been allowed to get in the Press. Meantime, and...

Thursday week, and addressed a large meeting the same afternoon on the cricket ground. After acknowledging the addresses presented to him by the Town Council, the Australasian...

Johannesburgers would repudiate their share in the cost of the war,—that they alone in the British Empire would fail in their duty. For himself, he could not believe that those...

the retirement, or, more accurately, the recall, of Dr. von Holleben, the German Ambassador in Washington. The New York correspondent of the Times dealt, both in last Saturday's...

attempted to influence public opinion through such portion of the Press as was venal, the correspondent sets forth his view of the Kaiser's aims. "At least so long ago as 1898...

any case.

gratis, an Eight-Page Supplement, containing the Half-Yearly Index and Title-Page,—ti.e., from July 5th to December 27th, 1902, inclusive.

question, but may mention here that a telegram from its Paris correspondent in Tuesday's Times states that there seems some hope that Russia and Austria at any rate have come to...

formerly understood to discourage, is attributed to his personal friendship with its most illustrious exponent in Germany, Dr. Harnaek ; and he has already publicly committed...

it seems probably that the Sultan's cause is losing ground, and that a general state of anarchy is spreading throughout the Empire. Those who know Tangier and the country round...

lecture given by Professor Delitzsch, the eminent Orientalist, before the Kaiser, Count von Billow, the Prussian Minister of Public Worship and Education, and many leading...

Vice-President of the Chamber is fresh and striking proof of the impotence of the Nationalist opposition. M. Jaures, who is of bourgeois origin and of remarkable University...

Lord Dalmeny have enabled Lord Rosebery to display his gift for occasional oratory to the greatest advantage. Speaking at a dinner to his Scottish tenantry held at Edinburgh on...

the cause of Dr. von Holleben's recall, we cannot but feel a certain sympathy with him in his fall. It is true he told the Kaiser the things that the Kaiser wanted to hear...

the Whitstable Rifle Club on Wednesday, made some very sensible remarks as to rifle shooting. The first qualification of every soldier was to know how to carry and handle a...

minated on Friday week near Colchester. A Mexican broncho remount broke out of the depot stables, and defying all attempts at recapture, ran wild over East Essex for nearly a...

the Figaro. Assuming that Germany aims at extending her frontier to Trieste, he discusses the best course for France to pursue in the event of the fulfilment of that aim. The...

the climbing of the ladder of learning which has been given in the newspapers during the past week. It is that afforded by Mr. Beezley, who has just gained a Balliol classical...

regard to the appeal for funds made by St. Bartholomew's Hospital, we feel bound to express our sympathy with the strong protest made by the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, the...

of regiments in the Militia, Yeomanry, and Volunteers who have been appointed to serve on the Advisory Board for mid of those Services. In the case of the Militia, among the...

New Consols (2i) were on Friday 92g.

GOVERNMENTS AND THE COMPREHENSION OF PUBLIC OPINION. The Government were not aware of the state of public opinion likely to be produced either here or in America by their...

very greatest importance have been discussed during the week,— that of the contribution of the Transvaal to the cost of the war, and that of the introduction of Chinese labour...

M if not to ri the heart of Europe—her possession of an ACEDONIAN miseries seem at last to be appealing, organ of that description being disputed—at any rate to her...

T HE controversy in regard to the tenure of his seat by Sir Michael Foster has given the public more excite- ment than they can ordinarily hope to derive from a University seat....

into force on January 1st, is the latest attempt by the Legislature to deal with that unbridled indulgence in alcohol, that habitual tippling and drunkenness, which are playing...

C ARELESS talkers and writers often assert that the idea of religious toleration is an entirely new idea. It has, they say, no established place in any Church, but is merely the...

I F we remember rightly it was Marcus Aurelius who thanked heaven that he was never sent to a public school. The words are taken out of their context, but they would seem to...

W INTER sleep among animals is not a merely physical effect of cold, though it is closely connected with the fall of temperature. It is often said that the cold "sends them to...

THE MACEDONIAN QUESTION. Pro THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the editorial note appended to my letter in the Spectator of January 10th you seem to call in question the...

Sra,—From his courteous and graphic letter in the Spectator of January 10th Mr. G. F. Abbott seems to be under the im- pression that I endorse in full the opinions of Count...

(To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—Before telling two slight anecdotes in illustration of the career of the late Archbishop at Balliol, it may be well to say a word about...

[To THE EDIT011 OP THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIR, — The time is not far back whenthe question would have been little more than an absurdity. So long as both sides contended for "all or...

[TO THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR.") Sta, — In the Spectator of January 10th Mr. Hugh Clifford, in his letter on "Some Aspects of Mahommedanism," says: "The latter religion...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") some one of your travelled readers answer a very simple question ? I see in all manner of well-informed news- papers that a black peasant in...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."1 SIR—In your interesting article on" The Military Needs of Great Britain" in the Spectator of January 10th you point out that the Empire has...

CTO TM EDITOR OF TUE "spEcreTon.1 your correspondents have missed the real Constitu- tional question at stake in the "Venezuelan imbroglio." Between the views of Mr. Sidney Lee...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I ask permission to suggest that your reviewer is mis- taken in describing me as a pessimistic statistician. This description is...

few remarks on this subject after reading the article in the Spectator of January 10th. The writer of it takes rather too rosy a view of the situa- tion. Those who composed the...

rTo THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."f Sra,—There is much to be said in support of that clause in the Conference Report which declares the tenant's instal- ments should be from...

(TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—A correspondent discussed recently in your columns the prohibition of any extensive circulation of English news- papers in Canada that...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 But,—Having read your article in the Spectator of Janu- iry 10th on the result of the Newmarket election, allow me, as one moving freely...

"SPECTATOR."] Si,—I beg to thank you for the opportunity offered me of replying to Mr. Chapman's objections in the Spectator of December 206. He will find the authoritiesfor...

[To TEN EDITOR OF THE "EPECTATOR."] fit,—Anything like military conscription would trench more or less on liberty, hence to a commercial nation Volunteering is preferable. If...

[To THE EDITOR or rum Se p:c r.trou."] SIR,—In your otherwise excellent review (January 10th) of "The Life and Letters of Dr. Martineau" there is an omission of any reference to...

RACE-HATRED: A PROBLEM.' IN the North, in the North, in the white and wintry North, Where the men they hated stayed, where the men they loved went forth, I was King, I was...

[To TUB EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIE,—Dr. Rowland Williams, in the height of the hubbub against "Essays and Reviews," visited Norwich. To a friend of mine who condoled with...

ARTS AND CRAFTS AT THE NEW GALLERY. Tim Exhibition of this Society is one which always raises great hopes and generally disappoints them. To lovers of art nothing is more...

JOHN WESLEY'S JOURNAL.* WN welcome with very special pleasure these extracts from the great book of one of the greatest of English divines. Wesley's Journal has lOng been the...

that is not full of interest and romance. In whatever guise it comes, we welcome anything, be it literature or document, that throws light upon one of the greatest tragedies...

BIBMABCKOLOGY is fast assuming the form of a separate German science. There is a constant stream of the great man's letters, State-papers, speeches, memoirs, authentic and...

Mn. GOLDMANN'S account of the work of the mounted troops under Sir John French up to the return of that General from Barberton on November 3rd, 1900, is an appreciation of the...

THE WAY OF A MIN.* IT was stated the other day that an American journal was in contemplation which should be written with an exclusive view to the requirements of nervous...

Fisher Irnwin. 2s. net.)—Not very long ago the canals of England were commonly supposed to have been wholly super- seded. Some had been bought by the railways and allowed to...

Company. 6s.)—Mr. Braunston Jones alleges as his reason for writing Sin Chong his desire to give his countrymen a glimpse of the inner social life of the Chinese. Unless Mr....

who write romances about mysterious races which possess an ancient civilisation are usually puzzled by the ultimate disposal of the nation they have created. Mrs. Camp- bell...

is the very minimum of story in this novel. There is an unsuccessful attack by highwaymen, a rescue from a burning house, and an escape from the unwelcome attentions of "sons of...

Unlearned. By M. C. E. (Elliot Stock. 5s. net.)—These essays, twenty-three in number, originally appeared as "sub- leaders," to use the technical phrase, in the Spectator. They...

THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF LANDOWNERS. The Law of Land, including Natural and Acquired Rights, and the Rights . and Obligations arising out of the Use and Enjoyment of Land....

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] The Chiswick Shakespeare. — We have to record the completion of the...

Newnes. ls.)—This is an excellent little book after the manner of the series to which it belongs, the "Library of Useful Stories." We are inclined to think that Captain Wheeler...

and Co. 5s.)—This is a volume of the "Oxford Library of Practical Theology," and naturally occupies the standpoint common to the series. It is not exactly stated for what...

H. Blackwell, Oxford. 5s. net.)—This is a pleasant book to read, though it might have been pleasanter if the authoress had drawn the line at the end of the eighteenth century....

Life History Album, by F. Galion, D.C.L. (Macmillan and Co., 5s. net). Mr. Galton edited this book some years ago for Dr. Mahomed, —the present writer thinks that he noticed it...

3s. 6d. net.)—This is a volume of the "Breviary Series," and deals with topics which show Mr. Le Gallienne's ways of thinking and writing to much advantage. The discovery of the...

Alpujarra, everybody may not know, is a region of Andalusia, and probably is as unchanged, as regards manners and general aspect, as any part of Spain. It is a land of almonds...

Memoir by Alexander Clark Casselman. (Gay and Bird. 15s. net.)—John Richardson, born in Canada, was attached to the 41st Regiment as a Volunteer in 1812, being then in his...