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of history by no means well known. It is a little unequal in execution, parts of it being quite delightful reading from the historical imagination and descriptive power shown in...

domestic episode of eighteenth-century life in England. It is like a bit of Richardson condensed, not by an officious modern editor, but by the stress and strain of actual life....

as Mr. Henty's "great series of historical stories for boys." Year after year for many years we have had the pleasant task of noticing them,—sometimes there have been three or...

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sojourn in the East End is none the less appropriate. Other men know the East End of London, the Millwall that Mr. Free laboured in, but none have shown us the heart of that...

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hitches " in the negotiations with Russia, but on Friday the Daily Mail published a statement of a reassuring nature, declaring that they "understand the only outstanding point"...

reorganisation of the Army. Though by training a stock- broker, in which capacity he has accumulated a great fortune, he was early recognised in the Chamber as a man of the...

character, but another element of romance has been added to the siege of Port Arthur by the successful flight from the land and water beleaguered city of a torpedo-boat bearing...

has evidently been told by his colleagues that after the vote of the Chamber, which acquitted him of the charge of espionage by a majority of only 2, he has become a source of...

ended on Saturday last, when the House voted a distinct declaration of approval by 436 votes to 94. The entire Convention was then ratified by 443 votes to 105. This majority,...

............ 795 " Hymns Ancient and Modern" as having been taken is eminently characteristic of German diplomacy. The Duke of Devonshire and

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by the Free-Trade League, at Rawtenstall last Saturday. By the Premier's own admission, they had got into a dangerous impasse, and he could not doubt that the Government would...

Tuesday, and were received with even more than the honour usually paid to Sovereigns, a mighty fleet having been assembled at Spithead to give them a characteristic welcome, the...

was opened at Hull on Tuesday before Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge and Mr. Butler Aspinall, K.C. The inquiry has been divided into two parts, the first dealing with the actual...

14th which a few years ago would have marked him as a dangerous character. He is determined to prevent, or at least to limit, the use of obstruction in the Hungarian Parliament...

said to be for £50,000,000 sterling, is about to be admitted to the German market, "thanks to the benevolent tendencies of the German Imperial Government." Germany in fact, it...

is not to be taken as merely a recommendation in favour of abstention but of no further action. On the con- trary, the Duke asserts his definite approval of the course pursued...

a continuity of sound naval policy, Lord Selborne in somewhat exaggerated fashion deplored their ignoble and unconstitutional intention to upset everything else the Government...

night, Lord Selborne congratulated his hearers on the prospect of a pacific settlement of the North Sea affair. Dealing with the governing factors regulating the size of the...

not allow us to deal in detail with the most important deputation, headed by Mr. Justice Grantham, which on Thursday waited on Mr. Long in regard to those reforms of the...

North- brook, once Viceroy of India, and one of the most efficient of the many statesmen whom the house of Baring has produced. He was through his long life—he was born in...

Saturday, Lord Tumour being elected by a majority of 784 votes. Lord Tumour polled 4,388, and Mr. Erskine 3,604 votes. This has been proclaimed by the Protectionists as a great...

the Oxford Union Society a speech of a kind which, so far as we know, could be uttered only in this country. It was an eloquent, and, as we believe, an accurate, appreciation of...

for the manly and straightforward speech in which he addressed his Lancashire audience on Saturday last. After the sophistries and ambiguities on which so many of our statesmen...

the Anglo-French Agreement is really a considerable event. It was, of course, certain that the Deputies would ratify the Agreement, for if they had not done so the Government...

vast changes in Russian internal policy, of social disturbances, and of commercial ruin which pour in week by week, and almost day by day, from St. Petersburg, Warsaw, Moscow,...

only just completed his twenty-first year. This is a conspicuous return to a state of things which seemed almost to have passed away. Youth has long ceased to be a...

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the study of Greek were likely to disappear from the curriculum either of the great public schools or the Universities, as a consequence of the measures proposed by the...

invisible, yet almost every writer with any serious claim to consideration displays a consistent personality. The strange thing is that that personality appears very often not...

in 1898, have had very little space to make their trials in, for it naturally took some time to settle the "how" and the "where." But they are as fortunate in their place as...

Strachey and the Duke of Devonshire have been sent to us for publication.] DEA.R DUKE OF DEvoNsarRE,—May I venture to trouble you with a question in regard to the last passage...

of the 14th inst. The words in my speech which you quote were certainly not intended to limit the action which Unionist Free-traders may think it right to take in any election,...

'SPECTATOR:1 feel that I can rely upon your courtesy and sense of fairness to allow me to reply to some aspects of the state- ments made and opinions expressed in your last...

the Merchant Marine Com- mission now sitting in the United States under an Act of Congress approved in April of this year will afford instruc- tion to those of your readers who...

in your pages a Parliamentary attitude of friendliness towards the Government so long as Mr. Balfour did not repudiate the Sheffield utterances of October, 1903, I now ask to...

and declaration which speak for themselves. I shall be glad to receive the names of those who are willing to sign the declaration, and still more glad to hear of any who will...

And for His sheep He doth us take," because the prose version runs : "We are His people, and the sheep of His pasture." And it may well be, as Canon Hutton suggests, that "...

in 1859-60, when, with others, I used to drill four hours a day for months together. May I, then, be allowed to express the opinion that no truer words could have been written,...

of my letter in the Spectator of November 12th? Illegibility leaves the fault entirely with me. You say, Sir, that "the fact that Russia is at war with an enemy fourteen...

SIR,—The writer of the interesting appreciation of the Duke of Devonshire's Life in the Spectator for Novem- ber 12th speaks of Mr. Forster as having been "forced to stand aside...

Snt,—As Professor Dowden seems so anxious to get up a scare in England on the strength of certain words used by me at a meeting of the clergy here last June, and as you are...

And what we offered her she took In silence, with her quiet look, And when we rose to go, content Without a word of thanks she went. Another day in sleet and rain I chose the...

still more to those who knew him personally. To readers who did not so know him they will probably, fragmentary as they are, be some- what enigmatic, and will give them but an...

or his fools PURITANISM in its day produced many noble figures of men, but Cromwell and Bunyan were its most typical representa- tives, and therefore, in a sense, the most...

say, to indulge in that somewhat perilous pastime. Mr. Hussey, on the other hand, has a host of indisputable qualifi- cations,—antecedents, age, temperament, and experience. He...

characteristic merits and defects of his work. He has a. greater range of knowledge—subtle idiomatic knowledge— of the strange ways of the world than any contemporary writer. He...

D.D. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.)—Dr. J. H. Wilson was minister of the Barclay (Free) Church, Edinburgh, for thirty-nine years (1864-1903); for fifty, if we reckon in the...

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