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The rush to aid the sufferers came from all quarters.
The SpectatorCon- gress voted £40,000, and will vote £100,000, and President Roosevelt, acting unofficially, has organised twenty-two Relief Committees, and officially sanctioned the...
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorB Y the time these pages are in our readers' hands the Boer delegates will have assembled at Vereeniging. They will include not only all the chief generals, but represen-...
It may be that the decision will at the last
The Spectatormoment go as the Daily Mail expects, and as we incline to believe. But even if hostilities nominally begin again, we do not believe that they will last very long. Our military...
The truth as it drips in from Martinique is worse
The Spectatorthan the worst rumours. At 7.30 on May 8th the volcano, La Pelee, at the north end of the island, which had been threatening, and indeed exploding, for some days, burst out in...
. It is not likely, however, that this sensible suggestion
The Spectatorwill be adopted, the experience of ages showing that after these awful catastrophes the survivors still cling to their ruined property, and consider` poverty preferable to...
We conjecture that the course of the negotiations will be
The Spectatorsome- what as follows. The Boers will begin by very high demands, including virtual independence, and will haggle obstinately day by day, making only nominal...
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It is hard to understand why so ghastly a tragedy
The Spectatorshould be permitted, but we must not forget that it is not deepened by the number of deaths in one place. More die in England every week, and we do not know that the horror...
The catastrophe of the Humbert-Crawford case, briefly out- lined, in
The Spectatorour last issue, beggars the invention of a Gaboriau. The famous box was opened on Friday week in the presence of magistrates and notaries, and proved to contain, instead of the...
The Vienna correspondent of the Times states that the economic
The Spectatordispute now raging between Austria and Hungary is becoming most acute. The Austrians perceive, or fancy they perceive, that they have the worst of the economic bargain, and have...
Before leaving Brest for Russia, the President of the French
The SpectatorRepublic, who was accompanied by MM. Waldeck- Rousseau, Delcasse, and de Lanessan (the Minister of Marine), had a great reception and made a speech remarkable for the striking...
On Monday M. Severo, the Brazilian Deputy and aeronaut, made
The Spectatorhis first and last journey in his airship the Pax.' Ascending from his works at Vaugirard at 5.30 in the morning, M. Severe bad only been a few minutes in the air when the...
In the House of Commons on Monday Sir Michael Hicks
The SpectatorBeach announced that owing to the representations made to him by bankers and others be should not proceed with the proposal to increase the stamp on cheques to 2d. What scheme...
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We congratulate the London Volunteers on the fact that they
The Spectatorare not in future to be excluded from Richmond Park, but will be allowed to learn their work in the only place suitable for instruction in field tactics within easy reach of...
On Tuesday the debate was continued by Mr. Sydney Buxton,
The Spectatorwhose speech was able and effective from the point of view of those who will not admit the force of the Governmental declaration that the Corn-tax has no Protective force or...
Mr. Carnegie on Wednesday received the freedom of the Plumbers'
The SpectatorCompany. There was something intensely touch- ing because of its evident sincerity in the way in which Mr. Carnegie spoke of his Mother-country and his adopted country. "I never...
The election at Bury, held on Saturday last, resulted in
The Spectatora. victory for Mr. Toulmin, the Liberal candidate, by a majority of 414, the figures beingâMr. G. Toulmin (L.), 4,213; Mr. H. Lawson (U.), 3,799. In 1895 the Unionist majority...
Mr. Akers-Douglas ⢠in his reply stated that he thought that
The Spectator" the acreage now offered for manoeuvres ought to be increased," though some portion of the Park should be reserved, and that he would confer with the Ranger on the subject. We...
Before the vote was finally agreed to, Mr. Parker, wishing
The Spectatorto clear the matter up, asked whether he might construe the sympathy expressed by Mr. Akers-Douglas into a definite promise. To which the Chief Commissioner replied that he...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorTHE WEST INDIAN DISASTER. T HE great difficulty in speaking or writing of the awful catastrophe in the West Indies is to avoid hysterics. The terrible visibleness of the...
IMPERIAL DEFENCE AND COMMERCIAL RELATIONS. T HE speech made by Sir
The SpectatorWilfrid Laurier in the Canadian House of Commons on Monday dealing with Imperial defence and commercial relations was a public declaration of the first importance. With the tone...
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Pliill WORKING OF THE YEW RULES.
The SpectatorT HE House of Commons has slipped very easily into the new Procedure arrangements. They are not, indeed, the most controversial section of the Government pro- posals, but they...
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THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.
The SpectatorI F a University student from, let us say, Bonn or Heidelberg, anxious to compare the teaching method's of this country with those of his own, were to arrive ih London and ask...
T HE letter of the German Emperor authorising the Stadtholder of
The SpectatorAlsace-Lorraine to withdraw " the dictatorship paragraph" from the Constitution of the State is more important than has been at once perceived. It is, of course, a great relief...
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THE MORAL ASPECT OF AN "ACT OF GOD."
The SpectatorT HE great earthquake at Lisbon was followed, it is said. by a wave of atheism, directly attributable to the shock that religious impulses received as a result of the appa-...
CASTLES IN THE AIR.
The Spectator" TF you want to know what a man is, examine his castles in the air." This obiter dictum was uttered some three weeks ago to a friend of the present writer by an old man in a...
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WILD ANIMALS AND CIVILISED MAN
The SpectatorI N an interesting article in the Times Professor. Otto Nordenskjold dwells on the tameness of the wild creatures found furthest south in the Antarctic Ocean. The ship had...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The SpectatorRICHMOND PARK AS A MANCEUVRING GROUND. [To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOE."1 Sin,âThe low sun filters through the branches overhead and makes a mosaic of gold and ebony on the...
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RHODESIA AND PENNSYLVANIA.
The Spectator[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,âOn reading iu the communicated article in your issue of March 29th the statement that Mr. Rhodes was "the first subject of the Crown...
MR. RHODES AND TRUE IMPERIALISM.
The Spectator[To TUE EDITOR OP TIER "SPECTATOR.1 SIT., âAt the close of the article on "The Two Imperialisms " in the Spectator of May 10th you make some reflections adverse to Mr....
THE DUTCH SUCCESSION.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:] Sra,âI thank you for your sympathetic words in the Spectator of May 10th in connection with the happy recovery of our Queen, but I hope you...
THE EDUCATION BILL.
The Spectator[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SID.,âThe lead which Mr. H. Lee-Warner desires to see given (Spectator, May 10th) has already been given by a large part of the members of...
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HEBRON.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,âMay I ask bow the age of terebinths affects the question of Abraham's oak (Spectator, April 26th) ? The present tree is an oak....
SCHOOLS AND RATES.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." J SIR,âWhy should the writer of the article on "Schools and Rates" in your issue of May 10th assume that if two-thirds of the managing...
BRET HARTE'S POEM, " ST. THOMAS."
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,âThe holocaust in the Antilles and Bret Harte's death last week will, I think, bring strikingly to the memories of some of us his...
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,âYour correspondent "
The SpectatorH. S. G.," in the Spectator of May 10th, says that "it would be interesting to know whether the former managers " of British schools who transferred them to School Boards...
(To THE EDITOR OF THE "sescrAroa.1
The SpectatorSIR,âWith reference to H. S. G.'s" letter in last week's Spectator, when a British school is taken over by a School Board the former management ceases absolutely, and the...
THE LEGEND OF WATERLOO.
The Spectator[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, âThe Duke of Wellington was probably correct in think- ing that his seasoned army of the Peninsula could have easily beaten the massed...
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ITO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."]
The SpectatorSra,âI beg that I may be permitted to supplement Mr. Reginald Lucas's most interesting communication in the Spectator of May 10th on Wellington's matchless soldiers in his...
"ON THE OLD TRAIL." (BRET HARTE, MAY Sun, 1902.) LONG
The Spectatorand long we rode behind you, Comrade, on the olden trail ; By the cation, by the mesa, Hearts of ours caught up your hail. Where the golden poppies flicker On the foot-hills'...
POETRY.
The Spectator" LE PAYS DE REVENANTS." (MARTINIQUE.) NESTLING upon the bosom of the deep Where all day long tle golden sunbeams rest, Fair as an infant smiling in its sleep, She lay, the...
THE TWO IMPERIALISMS.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] ⢠Sur,âI was greatly interested in the above able and suggestive article in the Spectator of May 10th, and sympathise with what I take to...
"PLOUGHING- THE SANDS."
The Spectator(TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR, âIt is difficult to believe that any educated man should have imagined that Mr. Asquith's phrase, "ploughing the sands," was an...
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ART.
The SpectatorTHE ACADEMY.-IL To criticise an exhibition without a sense of proportion is a one-sided performance. A. mass of bad works may make a very moderate performance appear to be a...
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BOOKS.
The SpectatorCHIPS FROM A SYNTHETIC WORKSHOP.* APAIZT from the intrinsic interest attached to the stray papers collected in this volume, they are entitled to a respectful hearing on several...
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WILLIAM BLACK.* SIR WEMYSS REID is an expertâone might almost
The Spectatorsay a veteranâin the work of writing judicious biography, and as William Black was to him an intimate friend in a sense and to an extent that neither Mr. Forster, Lord...
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MR. BRYCE'S " STUDIES IN HISTORY AND JURISPRUDENCE." *
The SpectatorIn reading through these two large volumes of essays covering a wide range of subjects, historical, legal, and philosophical, treated in a manner always instructive, and...
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THE MASTERY OF THE PACIFIC.*
The SpectatorTHE Asiatic Pacific area boasts a population of almost five hundred millions, or one-third of the inhabitants of the globe ; and since the warfare of the next hundred years will...
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NOVELS.
The SpectatorON THE OLD TRAIL.* THIRTY-TWO years have elapsed since Bret Harte's Luck of Roaring Camp was noticed in these columns, and it is curious to see how much of the earlier...
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Pat ricia of the Hills. By Charles Kennett Burrow. (Lawrence and
The SpectatorBullen. 6s.)âThis is a " neo-Irish " story, of the type of which " Hurrish " is a well-known representative. It is the Ireland of Land Leagues and Coercion Acts and proclaimed...
Shillelagh and Shamrock. By M. McD. Bodkin, K.C. (Chatto and
The SpectatorWindus. 6s.)âThere is something of the " neo-Irish " note in these tales, but some of the sixteenâfor the volume con- tains ⢠a collection of short storiesâremind us of...
A New Trafalgar. By A. C. Curtis. (Smith, Elder, and
The SpectatorCo. 6s.) â We have not sufficient technical knowledge to say whether Mr. Curtis's " battle-forts " and the "devil-ship exterminators" are possible craft or merely the figments...
At Sunwich Port. By W. W. Jacobs. (G. Newnes. 6s.) â A
The Spectatorone-act farce is a familiar and not unpopular kind of enter- tainment. But a farce in three or five acts is not likely to hold the attention of an audience. At Sunwich Port is...
Woodside Farm. By Mrs. W. K. Clifford. (Duckworth and Co.
The Spectator6s.)âAlthough there is a good deal of pleasant writing in Mrs. Clifford's new book, yet as a whole it is disappOinting. The opening is very good, though perhaps the reason why...
The Lake of Palms: a Story of Indian Domestic Life.
The SpectatorTrans- hated into English by Romesh Dutt, C.I.E. (T. Fisher Unwin. 6s.)âA preface tells us that The Lake of Palms appeared in Calcutta in native language, under the title of "...
An Industrious Chevalier. By S. Squire Spriggs. (Chatto and Windus.
The Spectator6s.)âAn Industrious Chevalier professes to be the self- told story of a man who, after wasting his time and getting rid of all his own means and some of other people's, took...
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The Lotos Eaters, by Alfred Lord Tennyson ; and The
The SpectatorRaven, by E. A. Poe, with Designs by T. R. R. B. (Gay and Bird, 3s. 6d. each.)âThese are two exceedingly pretty little books. The text is framed in a border pattern of...
Saints of Italy : Legends. Retold by Ella Noyes. Illustrated
The Spectatorfrom Fre Angelico and other Old Masters by Dora Noyes. (Dent and Co. 4s. 6d.)âThough it is quite right to translate and retell old legends, and so give them to children in a...
SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
The Spectator[Tinder this heading we notice such Books of the week as hays not beat reserved for review in other forms.] In the series of " College Histories" (F. E. Robinson and Co., 5s....
CURRENT LITERAT URE.
The SpectatorART BOOKS. Yet another series is being produced by Messrs. Bell (5s. each) dealing with "Great Craftsmen." The first volume treats of The Pavement Masters of Siena. The...
A Masque of Days, from. the Last Essays of Elia.
The SpectatorNewly dressed and decorated by Walter Crane. (Cassell and Co. 6s.)âThis delightfully fantastic picture-book is a happy combination of Charles Lamb and Mr. Walter Crane. On...
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Decorated for Children by Mrs. Herbert
The SpectatorRailton. (Freemantle and Co. 5s.)âIn the introduction to this book Mrs. Railton asks if children really believe in fairies, and though she regretfully thinks that the question...
Financial Crises. By Theodore E. Burton. (Effingham Wilson. 4s. 6d.
The Spectatornet.)âThis book was written in America, and deals primarily with American affairs. But the author is conversant with English business, and he has studied English authorities,...
SOME ILLUSTRATED BOOKS.
The SpectatorThe Tempest. Decorated by Aiming Bell. (Freemantle and Co. 6s.)âThese illustrations are characterised by appropriateness and good taste, both in the fantastic representations...
Vicissitudes of Fort George. By David Leighton. (Combridge and Co.,
The SpectatorMadras and Bombay.)âA certain Mr. Francis Day built Fort George in the year 1639. For some years its annals are not particularly interesting, though not without importance to...
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The Foundations of American Foreign Policy. By Albert Bushnell Hart.
The Spectator(Macmillan and Co. 6s. net.)âThe contents ef . this book are for the most part of but secondary interest to an 'English reader. This does not pre vent it from being a welcome...
Any one who desires a sober book of moral and
The Spectatordevotional thoughts expressed with admirable gravity and force should possess himself of Meditations and Vows, Divine and Moral, by Joseph Hall, edited by Charles Sayle (Grant...
A Hero of Donegal : a Memoir of Dr. William
The SpectatorSmyth. By Frederick Douglas How. (Isbister and Co. 28. ed. not.)âIn 1882 Dr. William Smyth, then a young man of twenty-three, was appointed to the dispensary district of...
Paying Poultry. (William A. May. ls.)âIn this volume we have
The Spectatorlectures given at the National Poultry Show under the auspices of the Utility Poultry Club, together with contributions to Farm, Field, and Fireside from the pen of Mr. W. Cook,...
⢠Shakespear. By W. Carew Thmlitt. (Bernard Quaritch. 7s..6d. net.) - -This
The Spectatorvolume certainly makes a distinct and valuable addition to the materials available for the appreciation of Shakespeare's 'personality and for the effective criticism of his...
Mentioned in Despatches. (Army and Navy Gazette. ls. net.)â Here
The Spectatorwe have a complete list, corrected up to the latest date from the Gazette, of officers in the British Army in South Africa, in- cluding Colonial, local, and naval contingents,...
The Story of Westminster Abbey. By Violet Brooke - Hunt. (J. Nisbet
The Spectatorand Co. 6s.)âA book on Westminster Abbey from a pen so practised as Miss Brooke-Hunt's is sure to be welcome. It is not, indeed, quite clear what is its precise object. For...
Mediaeval Wales. By A. G. Little, M.A. (T. Fisher Unwin.
The Spectator2s. 6d.)âProfessor Little has published here six lectures delivered last year _at Cardiff. They are described as "popular," but the author goes below the surface of things,...
We have to mention Parts III.-V. (completing the work) of
The SpectatorMaori Art, by A. Hamilton (Fergusson and Mitchell, Dunedin, N.Z., 7s. 6d. each Part), copiously illustrated by pictures which include other provinces of life besides art ; also...
We have received the first number of a new University
The Spectatormaga- zine, The Oxford Point of View (Alden and Co., Oxford, ls. net). It is, we are told, "conducted by undergraduate members of the University." One of these gives the "...
Where Black Meets White. By Gertrude A. T. Frere. (Univer-
The Spectatorsities Mission to Central Africa. ls. 6d.)âThis is a "little history," âi.e., a history adapted to the needs of young readers of the work of the Universities Mission. Miss...
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DEATH.
The SpectatorHIMPSON. â On May 10th, at Millmead House. Guildford, Charles Turner Simpson, Barrister-at-Law and Beecher of Lincoln's Inn, in his eighty- third year.
NEW EntrioNs.âWe have received from time to time, and should
The Spectatorhave noticed earlier, a new edition of The Life and Works of Charles Kingsley (Macmillan and Co., 10s. 6d. net per ⢠vol.) The latest that have reached us are VII. and VIII.,...