T HE war news of the past week shows that the enemy have suffered the usual losses in men and cattle. This, as far as it goes, is good, but unfortunately there is nothing...

Birmingham and Midland Institute. After remarking in a little outburst of noteworthy sincerity and eloquence that for science he had "the enthusiasm of ignorance," but always...

of his quality. He discusses applications for office in a loud voice, which exceedingly disconcerts applicants, who would rather whisper ; and he has publicly assured the "...

full consent of all around him. It appears that Abdurrahman Khan before his death had care- fully " removed " all chieftains who were likely to be trouble- some, and on the last...

been handed by Li Hung Chang to the senior European Minister in Pekin, and it is announced that with this ceremony the "Chinese incident is closed." That is probably correct...

case.

Rhodes-Schnadhorst letters. Mr. Asquith d we lls with complacency on the fact that neither he nor any of his colleagues in the Cabinet of 1892 knew of Mr. Rhodes's gift....

Tuesday's Times. In the days of Tiberius, Tacfarinas, a Numidian chieftain, maintained a contest against Rome which positively bristles with prospective plagiarisms of the...

the Mediterranean with his balloon, nor has M. Santos-Dumont yet rounded the Eiffel Tower. The Count, however, remained safely for forty-five hours in the upper air, and in...

13th inst. the eightieth birthday of Professor Virchow, the great pathologist, whose demonstration that the human anatomy was based on cells laid the foundation of modern...

the Congregational Union, which now includes about half the two thousand three hundred and forty-two Con- gregational Churches of England and Wales. He wants the Union drawn...

plan of the Russian Government with respect to Manchuria. It appea rs to desire possession of the province, but to be frightened at the pecuniary liabilities which it may entaiL...

most amusing article on what may be called the ethic°. wsthetic principles of the German Emperor. The article, which is summarised in Wednesday's Daily Chronicle, was suggested...

illustration of the chain of connection between Mr. Rhodes and the Liberal party which we have noticed on previous occasions. That connection is worth restating. In 1891, as we...

to rest,—though we need hardly say that we shall be delighted to meet Mr. Asquith, or any other prominent Liberal apologist of Mr. Rhodes's methods in regard to party funds, if...

lengthy comments in regard to the reception of the Rhodes-Schnad- horst correspondence, but there are two points upon which we desire to comment. The first is that the...

issues of a hundred years ago are always interesting, but perhaps the most noteworthy are those dealing with the movements of soldiers throughout the South of England and the...

is the fact that Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman has not as yet offered any sort of apology to Mr. Boyd for having called his original story" from beginning to end a lie." That it...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 93i.

THE DISCONTENT WITH THE RULING CASTE. T HERE is a rock ahead of our present rulers, and, indeed, of the entire governing caste—and by this expression we do not mean only the...

r view nuniber of the Edinburgh Review contains one of those clear and thoughtful political articles which have so greatly distinguished it , of recent years, entitled "Party...

W HAT is the real position and feeling of the Conti- nental peoples towards taxation? There is no doubt of the feeling of statesmen and those who influence Cabinets. They are...

of the AIR CHAMBERLAIN'S N . ew TemperTemperance Hall speech at the o at irming testifies alike opening to his good sense and to his confidence in the affection of his...

tramway extension into Surrey are coming before the Light Railway Com- missioners and the local authorities. The proposed lines will radiate from London, and also have...

T WOentirely opposite charges are brought against the Christian religion by those who have ceased to believe in it. One is that it is too negative a creed, exalting forgive-...

W E know of few social puzzles so perplexing as the English reverence for rank. It is so entirely at variance with everything one knows or imagines of the national character....

G-REAT marble-paved hall, 75 ft. long by 55 ft. JOL wide, with columns supporting a dome 45 ft. in height. On your right, as you enter it from the street, are smoking and...

PRO-BOER JOURNALS AND THE WAR. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] StR,—We have lately witnessed in the attitude of some of the leading journals in their criticism of the...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR.' SIR,—Y011 have a question in your paper, what songs, and whether any of any value, were written upon Prince WILLIAX, our present Sovereign....

" SPECTATOR."1 SIR,--Charles Lamb's only known contribution to the Spectator has been (hitherto) the very interesting letter, in his best manner, On "Shakespeare's Improvers,"...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The presentation of Ewelme Rectory to the Rev. W. Wigan Harvey was an instance among many when Mr. Gladstone did what he liked without...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:] SIR,—In the article on "Pinchbeck Silence" in the Spectator of October 5th the writer . speaks of "the Apostolic -warning that of every idle...

word on behalf of Coleridge's fellow- guest, whom I have always regarded as a wise man, both in his silence and in his speech. We know what Coleridge was as a monologian ; his...

SIR, — A friend has just reminded me of a ballad made on occasion of some shipboard scrape into which our Royal Midshipman had fallen; in which, with a romantic licence, the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Please may I be permitted to spell my name with one " n "? You have heard of Manx cats; they wear no tails; then why should I,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In your "News of the Week" of October 12th yo u quote certain passages from letters believed to have been written by Dr. Krause, with...

THE "SPECTATOR."] Sre,—It is impossible to read Mr. Asquith's speech without feeling that we have indeed lost something in our publio life. Mr. Asquith sees nothing at all in...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—Commenting on Miss Chadwick's letter, "Military Training in Elementary Schools," which appeared in your issue of October 12th, you say...

[To TEE EDITOR Or THE 'SPECTATOR'] Sre,—It may be of some interest to your poetical correspoie dent "Presbyter Barbadensis," in the Spectator of October 5th, to know that the...

place:to the (courtesy) comitatis causi degree for Cambridge and Dublin graduates when Mr. Harvey took that latter degree. And as the incorporation B.D. which Mr. Harvey, also I...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Srn,—It has been brought to my notice that some of my remarks in the review of Huxley's "Scientific Memoirs," Vol. III., which you published...

THE LEEDS FESTIVAL. THE Leeds Festival, which in the space of a quarter of a century has grown to be—taking it all round—the greatest and most representative of native...

EMILE PICQ17ART. Mm perils of the camp, that bare Mails heart to brother man, Till David's puissant shoulders wear The shield of Jonathan; When friends and lovers side by side...

MADAME ROLAND.* MADAME ROLAND, the heroine of the Revolution, may also be regarded as its symbol. Though the movement which was to regenerate France afterwards converted the...

THE reader will, for a time, find Mr. Cuninghame Graham somewhat trying to his patience. On p. 3, for instance, he will come on a piece of the strangest perversity, by which...

IT would be well worth the while of popular representatives of urban constituencies to try to widen the basis of popular opinion on which the amenities of town life now depend....

KALHANA'S Chronicle has long attracted the attention of. Indian scholars, not only as our one extant authority for a considerable period of Kashmir history, but as the only...

THERE are other novels noticed below which for intrinsic interest and constructive skill are probably equally deserting of the place of honour with The Sinner and the Problem...

Lock, and (Jo. 6s.)—The first-named of the authors of this book, Mr. Macdonald, knows something of the motto quoted above, for he will be remembered as the author of" How We...

—Mr. Hornung resuscitates his old friend Raffles and his faithful disciple in his new set of sketches. Raffles is the most engaging of gentlemen burglars, and "Bunny," his...

Montresor. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—Like Mr. Anthony Hope in "Tristram of Blent," Miss Montresor in The Alien deals with the instinctive attitude of the man born out of wedlock...

The Just and the Unjust. By Richard Begot. (John Lane" 6s.)—Mr. Bagot's new story deals with no theological con- troversies, but none the less it is excellent reading. It is...

Murray. 2s. 6d. net.)—On the whole, Mr. Gamble takes the view adopted by Dr. Hessey in his Bampton Lectures of 1860. He holds that for Christians the obligation of the Sabbath...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as haw not been reserved for review in other forme.] Arts under Arms. By Maurice Fitzgibbon. (Longmans and Co. 5s.)—The...

Clementine is a romance of most delicate ingenuity and humour, which reminds us sometimes of Mr. Stanley Weyman, and—dare we say it ?—a little of Mr. Weyman's great master....

Croker. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—To all readers who are not so weary of the Anglo- Indian novel of gossip, frivolity, and flirtation that they will have no more of it on any terms,...

Contendings of the Apostles (Henry Frowde, 25s. net). This contains the English translation, by Dr. E. A. Wallis Budge, of the Ethiopio texts, which were printed in the first...

5s.)—Sir Edwin Arnold has certainly full possession of a secret which most of his younger contemporaries have failed to acquire. He is interesting ; we can read him, not...

Festing has brought together in this volume some fetters, narratives, ho., of women who played remarkable parts in the sixteenth and following centuries. " Famous " they...

(Methuen and Co. 2s. 6d.)—Mrs. Arthur Lyttelton has some g ood, counsel to give to women, and gives it in this volume. She takes for her subject both the domestic work of women,...

Arnold- Forster. (W. Heinemann. 6s.)—We have not attempted to ; ompare these translations with the originals which they repre- sent. All that we can testify of them is the...