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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorT HE war news is, we are glad to say, this week mostly peace news. We do not go so far as to say that peace is actually in prospect, but the news of Friday morning is certainly...
The Chancellor of the Exchequer proposes to meet this deficit
The Spectatorin three ways, — i.e., by imposing entirely new taxation, by increasing old taxation, and by borrowing. That is, he proposes to restore the old " registration" tax of 3d. a...
On Monday night Sir Michael third war Budget. The revenue
The Spectatoryear are as follows :- Total expenditure Total revenue Deficit 252,524,000 But during the year £56,553,000 was realised by the creation of £60,000,000 of Consols. Therefore...
The Chancellor of the Exchequer in the exposition of his
The SpectatorBudget, which was as lucid and straightforward as his financial statements always are, wisely did not indulge in any sanguine views as to peace. Instead, he based his calcula-...
On Tuesday the Budget debate was continued. The incident of
The Spectatormost importance was the promise made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to reconsider his proposals as to doubling the stamp on cheques. It is rumoured that Sir Michael...
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New York has lost one of her celebrated preachers in
The SpectatorDr, De Witt Talmage, who died on Sunday at Washington. He was a kind of Spurgeon, with all Spurgeon's power of attracting great congregations, but without Spurgeon's humour and...
The Vienna correspondent of the Times, an acute observer, though
The Spectatorperhaps too ready to believe in cataclysms, draws a striking picture of what he believes to be the situation in Russia. He thinks the labourers—which does not include the...
Lord Curzon evidently intends that the Coronation festivity at Delhi
The Spectatorshall be a most impressive ceremonial. All the native Princes not in London will be there, and there will be a kind of Royal procession down the splendid central street. A great...
The student riots in Moscow have produced an assassina- tion.
The SpectatorThe general responsibility for order in the cities rests, of course, with the Minister of the Interior, and M. Sipiaguine, the murdered Minister, had shown himself 'particularly...
Major Waller, the American officer said to have killed so
The Spectatormany men in the Philippines, has been acquitted ; but President Roosevelt has forwarded thither a very strongly worded Order to General Chaffee directing him to bring General...
Belgium has been distracted all the week by very serious
The Spectatorrioting. The Chambers are discussing a Reform Bill, and the Liberals and Socialists, who have been deprived of power for sixteen years by the Clericals, insist that it shall end...
The Magyars are greatly irritated and alarmed by the spread
The Spectatorof Pan-Germanism, which they say will alienate the two millions of Germans now living in Hungary, who hitherto have been steady allies of the dominant race. The Pan- Germans,...
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The imperative need that exists for using Richmond Park as
The Spectatora manoeuvring -ground for Volunteers was illustrated in a most marked way on the afternoon of Saturday' last. On that day Colonel Fludyer (Scots Guards), who com- mands the 3rd...
Can we wonder that a kindly War Minister hesitated to
The Spectatorprint this despatch. You have only to substitute the name of General Buller for that of General Warren in the first portion of the passage we have quoted to produce the verdict...
The Spion Kop despatches were issued on Thursday. They are
The Spectatornot quite so sensational as many people expected, but certain of the unpublished portions of despatches which were previously printed in part will be read with considerable...
University. College, London, has lamed an appeal for funds in
The Spectatoraid of higher education and research. The authorities ask for (a) £250,000 for completing the College buildings; (b) an annual income of £6,000 a year, or a capital sum of...
The Government have decided to place certain counties in Ireland
The Spectatorunder Sections 2, 3, and 4 of the Criminal Law Pro- cedure Act (Ireland). People sometimes talk as if this were akin to handing over large parts of the United Kingdom to martial...
In the House of Commons on Thursday Mr. Arthur Lee,
The Spectatorwho on all questions affecting the interests of any part of the armed forces of the nation shows as much keenness and vigilance as ability, asked a series of questions in regard...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorTHE BUDGET. T7 E cannot pretend that we like the Budget. We art perfectly willing to admit that the duty on corn and flour has no Protectionist intention, and will have no...
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RUSSIA AND PERSIA.
The SpectatorW E regret to see that the Edinburgh Review supports with its whole force the party among us which would base the external policy of the Empire upon a permanent antagonism to...
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THE RIOTS IN BELGIUM. B ELGIUM is not the plague spot
The Spectatorof Europe, but if we described it as the powder magazine the exaggeration would not be gross. It is a much more dangerous place than Macedonia, for if Macedonia broke into...
LORD CROMER'S REPORT.
The SpectatorL ORD CROMER'S Report on the Finances, Adminis- tration, and Condition of Egypt and the Soudan in 1901, if looked at superficially, may easily be regarded as a not specially...
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MR. MORLEY ON THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SpectatorW ITH the general sense of Mr. Morley's panegyric on the House of Commons we are in hearty agree- ment. We believe with him that when properly con- stituted Parliamentary...
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FORGIVENESS.
The Spectator0 far as I have gone in life," says Robert Louis Stevenson, " I have never been able to discover what forgiveness means." Certainly it is a word very difficult to define. We say...
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"DOES THE RACE OF MAN LOVE A LORD ?"
The SpectatorT HE author of "A Tramp Abroad" has been moved by the reception of the Kaiser's brother in the United States to the consideration, in the pages of the North American Review, of...
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CHILDREN AT THE FARM.
The Spectator" O NLY little children may play here; boys and lads are forbidden." This inscription is set up by a piece of wayside turf just outside the old Surrey town of Godalming. It...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The SpectatorTHE LATE LORD KIMBERLEY. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' Sin,—It was inevitable that in death as in life Lord Kimberley should be only half-known to his contemporaries. No...
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[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. ") SIR, — In the years 1885
The Spectatorand 1886 the members of a Society in Manchester, the Committee for Obtaining Open Spaces for Recreation, alarmed at the condition of a large proportion of the inhabitants of all...
A ROYAL COMMISSION ON PHYSICAL TRAINING.
The Spectator[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SID,—In your article on the above subject which ap- peared in the Spectator of the 12th inst. you advocate the appointment of a Royal...
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THE RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS.
The Spectator[TO THE EDITOR OH TRH "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Is not the assumption in your article in the Spectator of April 12th that the Rhodes scholars will return from Oxford strengthened in...
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."'
The SpectatorSnt,—Surely it is not necessary to charge Browning with the error of writing Hebron for Hermon. In Stanley's " Sinei and Palestine" the elevation of Hebron (2,800 ft.) is given...
[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR..1
The SpectatorSIB,—The evening lesion for 13th, judges xvi. 3, mentions "a, bill' that is before .Hebron." Samson, carried "the doors of the gateaof the city [Gaza] to the top of the...
HEBRON.
The Spectator'To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."1 'Hebron upheave, • The dawn struggling with night on bie shoulder." SIR. — My ignorance, of which I am honestly conscious—for I have never...
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.']
The SpectatorSur,—Your suggestion in the Spectator of April 12th that a Royal Commission be appointed to consider the whole question of national military and physical training will be...
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HEROINES OF FICTION.
The Spectator[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:'] Sra,—Nothing could more clearly betray the difference between a man's woman and a woman's woman than Mr. Lionel Tollemache's admiration of...
A BROWNING ANECDOTE.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—In the current number of the . Carnhill Magazine in an interesting paper entitled " On a Few Conversationalists " the writer tells an...
[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."]
The Spectatornotice in the Spectator of April 12th that the Rev. Stopford A. Brooke expresses a doubt whether David could have seen Hermon even from the height of Hebron, and does not think...
FARMERS AND PARSONS.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I make a few remarks on the very fair and moderate article, " Farmers and Parsons," in which you, in the Spectator of April 5th,...
THE REPORTED ATROCITIES IN THE CONGO.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 have been abroad, and out of the reach of the Spectator, or I should have thanked you sooner for the valuable support given in your issue of...
[TO THE EDITOR Or THY SPECTATOR-1
The Spectatoram not qualified to enter into discussion as to Hebron or Hermon ; but I submit that the " shoulder " referred to is not, as generally assumed by your correspondents, the...
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SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT AND LORD MILNER. To TUE EDITOR OF
The SpectatorTILE "SPECTATOR."J Siu,—The speech of Sir William Harcourt in the House of Commons on Monday night contains a misstatement of fact to which attention ought to be called....
POETRY.
The SpectatorIN HUGHENDEN CHURCHYARD. Or that lone, sphinx-like life here read the end: In Eastern sunshine, 'neath the grassy sod, Lies the strange chieftain, where his beeches bend,...
BOOKS.
The SpectatorTOMMY CORNSTALK.* THE slangy title of Mr. Abbott's volume hardly prepares the reader for the peculiar excellence of what is by far the most attractive and informing book yet...
A CORRECTION.
The Spectator[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—May I be allowed to point out a mistake made by your reviewer in his note on " University Magazines," by H. C. Marillier P He says that...
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BRITAIN AND THE BRITISH SEAS.*
The SpectatorTats admirable book—whose idea was first suggested to its accomplished author by "the needs of some foreign students visiting Britain "—is now presented as the first of a series...
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SIR WALTER BESANT.*
The SpectatorREADERS of this volume must not pass over Mr. Squire Sprigge's "Prefatory Note." The general purport of this is to warn us that the Autobiography did not receive, as far as...
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MEMOIRS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.* BETWEEN the eighteenth and the
The Spectatornineteenth centuries is all the difference between the Old World and the New. Something, no doubt, may be conceded to proximity. As men and women recede in time they gain the...
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A Damsel or Two. By Frank Frankfort Moore. (Hutchinson and
The SpectatorCo. 6s.)—There is an Oriental voluptuousness about Mr. Moore's title which makes the reader a little timid about the possible contents of the book. He need be under no alarm....
NOVELS.
The SpectatorTHE RESCUE.* OF the younger writers of fiction who have emerged from the rack in the last few years, Miss Sedgwick has earned the grati- tude of her reviewers by the exhibition...
A Welsh Witch. By Allen Reim. (Hutchinson and Co. Bs.>
The Spectator—There is always a certain charm in Mr. Raine's novels of Wales. The mountains and the sea—for inland Wales is obviously no favourite with Mr. Rains—provide him with an...
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When Love Flies out of the Window. By Leonard Merrick.
The Spectator(C. A. Pearson. 6s.)—Love is very likely to fly out of an honest tnan's window when through his sheer inability to make money his wife has to return to the stage and to...
James Chalmers of New Guinea. By Cuthbert Lennox. (A. Melrose.
The Spectator2s. 61. net.)—James Chalmers, after going through some striking experiences in early manhood, offered himself for missionary work in his twenty-second year. A succession of...
By Bread Alone. By I. K. Friedman. (W. Heinemann. 6s.)—
The SpectatorIf the faculty of humour went more often in double harness with the gift of serious insight, how much happier would be the task of the reader and reviewer of fiction ! But...
Mock Beggars' Hall. By M. Betham-Edwards. (Hurst and Blackett. 6s.)—Not
The Spectatorheaviness but a rather too evident strain after quaintness is the fault of Mock Beggars' Hall, a decidedly clever genre study of rustic manners, morals, and courting in the days...
SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
The Spectator[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forme.] Words and their Ways in English Speech. By J. B. Greenough and G. L....
The Keys of the House. By Algernon Gissing. (Methuen and
The SpectatorCo. 6s.)—There is bold originality, and also a subtle distinction, in Mr. Algernon Gissing's handling of the domestic problem arising out of incompatibility of tastes in husband...
C URRENT LITERAT ETRE
The SpectatorCLARA. IN BLUNDERLAND. Clara in Blunder/and. By Caroline Lewis. Pictures by S. R. (W. Heinemann. 2s. 61)—So many parodies have been written of the best-known passages in "Lewis...
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The Wessex of Romance. By Wilkinson Sherren. (Chapman and Hall.
The Spectator6s.)—This book is in the main an appreciation of Mr. Thomas Hardy. There are digressions to topics more or less directly connected with Mr. Hardy's work, provincial character-...
In My Vicarage Garden and Elsewhere. By the Rev. Henry
The SpectatorN. Ellacombe. (J. Lane. 5s. net.)—This volume is a continuation of the author's " My Vicarage Garden," though in part of it, as in- dicated by the word " Elsewhere" in the...
Mr. H. W. Bell sends us three translations from Paul
The SpectatorBourget. The most important of these is Amid: an Etude, English version by D. K. Petano (3s. net). M. Bourget is not exa4ly the ideal critic to whom we should look for a study...
