intended to fight to his last soldier and rouble, and he is urging forward entire corps d'art - nee to reinforce General Kuropatkin, who will shortly have three hundred thousand...

the cargo consigned to Japanese ports is confiscated, not because these goods were intended .for military purposes, but because they come under the new and arbitrary definition...

between the more liberal and the reactionary members of the Administration, the Russian Emperor has appointed Prince Svietopolk-Mirski Minister of the Interior and of the...

its military correspondent of the financial position of the two combatants in the Far East. Such estimates are, of course, mainly guesswork in their details, but the broad...

Far East this week,' but the details of the struggle round Liao-yang clear up many doubts. They show that General Kuropatkin was defeated, and driven, after terrible losses, to...

a permanent organic policy. The merchant marine should share the benefits of Protection, and in this context Mr. Roosevelt declares that no era in any country had been so...

ought to be published ; but Colonel Younghusband, when the signatures had been affixed, rose and made a speech from which it is possible to deduce the main articles. After...

Presidency was published in Monday's papers. After dwelling on the incoherence and inconsistency of Democratic utterances on the issues at stake, Mr. Roosevelt replies at length...

Tibetan Expedition. There was grave doubt in the minds of all who understood the position whether the Lamas would ever sign a Treaty, or, indeed, do anything except wait...

singularly interesting account of the British treatment of the Phoongyes or Buddhist friars of Burmah. They are seventy- five thousand in number, and being rather recluses than...

the prosperity of the port, draws, it is said, to a close. The quarrel was of the old kind, the men com- plaining that their hours are excessively long and their pay...

was safely delivered of a son in the Royal Palace of Racconigi. The baby has received the name of Humbert, Prince of Piedmont, and the Queen and her son are both doing well. The...

Committee of the Congo Reform Associa- tion appeared in Wednesday's Times. The motive for the letter is the Commission appointed by King Leopold last July to inquire into the...

French's troops were re-embarked. The criticisms that have been passed on the conduct of the operations have been unusually severe, some of the correspondents going to the...

very adversely on the amount of baggage taken with them by the invaders. For example, the correspondent of the Yorkshire Post says that he saw two waggons being re-embarked...

and Bromley, argues in a letter to Thursday's Times for the devolution of Parliamentary powers. His arguments are substantially those which were used about the Home-rule...

Castle, Redcar, on Monday, a conspicuous figure disappears from the House of Commons. He was not a far-seeing politician, nor, as he proved while Secretary for Ireland, a great...

worth, in Hertfordshire, on the condition of the agricultural labourers, a subject upon which he is a considerable authority. After commenting on the modern want of cottages...

RUSSIA AND GERMANY. T HE Times of Wednesday publishes an article from " a Correspondent," whom it describes as " ex- ceptionally well informed," which if based on facts, as we...

whole population, instead of emptying the treasuries of the great lamaseries, or monastic establishments. Another was to accept the assurance of the great Lamas that the...

first leading article to a somewhat laboured attempt to show that the danger of the Liberals passing a Home- rule Bill still exists, and to a general warning against the...

General Kuropatkin is producing its natural effect in Russia. The people did not expect it ; they are irritated ; and though they appear to out- siders to be silent, they have...

sense of humour is not included. In speech after speech he says things of singular and self- revealing simplicity,—things which in a humbler politician might furnish excellent...

Kipling's letter to M. d'Humieres, published in Monday's Figaro, which are worth careful studying,—partly, of course, because of the robust directness of their expression, but...

the old-fashioned Evangelical sense, when it bad reference, according to the definition in Murray's Dictionary, " to the duty of telling unwelcome truths and giving unwelcome...

Inspectors' Association at Bournemouth Sir James Crichton-Browne drew an interesting distinction between the conditions of life at Middlesbrough, where the last Conference was...

THE CONFLICT IN THE SCOTCH CHURCHES. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—While mainly right as to his premises, " A Presbyterian Layman" is far wrong, or at least very...

utterly unfounded" Dr. Hunter's statement that there is a "wide- spread belief " that the Union of 1900 was "engineered with a political aim." Mr. Troup further says that this...

on Christianity should bring home to the English reader with fresh force the extreme difficulty of the task which the Churches have set before themselves in attempting the...

" in last week's Spectator raises questions of far- reaching import, not merely as to the principles on which Christian Missions should be carried on in India, but also reminds...

SIR, — As a constant reader of the Spectator, I beg to know from you where the two lectures of Swami Dharmananda, mentioned in your article on p. 352 of the Spectator of...

actually exist, and is called the Building By-laws Reform Association. The Association was formed at the end of 1902, its president is the Duke of Westminster, and its offices...

one to inform you that the society of which Mr. Thomas Prichard is in quest is the Building By-laws Reform Association, of 45 Parliament Street, Westminster, which should be...

You suggest that " houses of cement slabs or wood " might be built. Many years ago, in conjunction with Mr. Norman Shaw, RA., I produced a volume of simple designs showing how...

rural exodus a cottage must be invented costing £100, let at £6 a year. I wrote to you to point out that a four-roomed house can be built for a little over £100, and to press...

there was a scarcity of accommodation in my district for rural labourers, and I was strongly urged to utilise a spare piece of ground at my disposal for the erection of...

being driven on a jaunting-car through the Donegal Highlands, and after a time the results of his observation came to the surface in the following query : " Driver ! I notice...

on your article, " Indian Traders in the Colonies," in the Spectator of September 3rd, is afforded by the following extract from a speech by Major- General Hutton, the commander...

Sin,—Mr. Redmond, addressing an Irish audience in New York, says : " We throw in our lot with whichever party we can get most from, and we are now on the eve of making a big...

THERE'S peace on earth, in heaven a thrill, For over yonder mountain soon, 0 ! night divine, diviner still Shall rise full-orbed the moon. In such a night Lorenzo—nay, Here...

8th the special correspondent with the Red Force writes of the landing of the Blue Force have been practicably impossible that the landing of the troops in the face of a...

incontestable advantage in regard to the conditions and contrast between the abiding loveliness of Italy and the surroundings under and in which the performances take...

Swinburne's glean- ings among his occasional work for many years. The first poem belongs in subject to his early youth, and though there is no clue to the date of most of the...

Mu. STEVENSON is to be congratulated upon the completion of his important task. He has at last given 1113 a trustworthy text of Bishop Asser's Life of King Alfred,—a Life which,...

of French history, though in the Revolutionary time, should wind through the lanes and woods of Surrey. Dorking and its environs were already associated with the memory of...

BOOKS of travel are of three kinds. There are the learned books, and the ignorant books, and the books written by Captain Mark Sykes. These last it is impossible to describe...

Rawson has taken for the subject of this fine novel the last efforts of Rye to maintain its place as a port against the encroachments of neighbouring landowners and the...

not wholly original. The literary impostor who climbs to fame by appropriating the work of another is familiar to readers of The Giant's Robe, to take the first instance that...

in Louvain. Edited, with Notes and Additions, by Dom Adam Hamilton, O.S.B. (Sands and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—" The greater part of [the communities founded abroad after the Pope...

Director. (Esson and Perkins, Johannesburg.)—It need hardly be said that this Report, which covers a period of something more than three years, is full of interest. The Director...

novel is exceedingly " comfortable" reading. Most of the people have that delightful measure of prosperity which can be called " opulence," and they all occupy very pleasant...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forma.] Our Silent Navy : Is it Forgotten ? (The Westminster Press. 6d.)—This...

William Cecil, Lord Burghley. (T. C. and E. C. Jack. £2 2s. net.) —This is the first of a projected series of " Historical Mono- graphs" to appear under the general editorship...

Sir Arthur Helps's Spanish Conquest in America, Edited, with Introduction, Maps, and Notes, by M. Oppenheim (John Lane, 3s. 6d. net). The story begins with the time immediately...

(Blackie and Son. ls. 6d.)—The Tristia might well be more used as a school-book than it is. Its advantages are obvious, more than compensating, for practical purposes, for any...

ls.)—This is a volume in the " Fitness Series," edited, and, it seems, largely written, by Mr. Miles. It is illustrated with a number of diagrams, which represent the right, and...

(Skeffington and Son. is. net.)—Mr. Burton has much good advice to give, advice which is certainly needed, and may possibly be of use. Good reading is a gift. One child, for...

berg and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—This " annual record of matters Jewish," now appearing for the ninth time, needs no criticism. It gives, as far as we can judge, all the information...

volume of " The Young England Library," Edited by George A. B. Dewar (G. Allen, 6s. per vol.) It deals with many of the activities of life, with various forms of...

ls. net.)—Mr. Webb is informing on the past and present of the telephone, and sanguine as to its future. "I look forward confidently," he writes, " to the day when the telephone...