the visit of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand to St. Petersburg. They seem to expect that he will renew some old bonds between Austria and Russia, who have at present strong common...

and is making himself popular by his simplicity of demeanour. After a reception by the President in Washington marked at once by cordiality and an absence of gush in the...

notice the agitation in regard to the fate of Kritzinger which is now moving many minds. We feel certain that Kritzinger will receive absolute justice, and that unless it is...

T HE war news of the week is both good and bad. On Thursday news was received that the Boers had cap- tured an empty convoy near Klerksdorp, and that the escort, consisting of...

there have been disturbances in some of the smaller cities, the troops have been successful in all, though not until General Weyler had obtained permission from the Queen....

have a recoil. He suspects all around him of hostility to his person, and last week ordered Marshal Fuad Pasha, the moist trusted soldier in Turkey, to be carried on board a...

i case.

a Resolution declaring that in the opinion of the House a Joint Committee should be appointed to inquire into all purchases made by or on behalf of the War Office, "for the...

to Great Britain, which in many quite imaginable :ontingencies may have to subsidise her ally. We welcome, ;herefore, an account of the position of the Japanese...

followers had formed an organisation to be called "The Liberal League." The president is to be Lord Rosebery, and the vice-presidents Mr. Asquith, Sir Henry - Fowler, and Sir...

Hugo. His bust was placed in the Pantheon in presence of the President and of the leading men of every department of the State. The ceremonial was magnificent, and passed...

vote upon the choice of a Speaker, but the King has directed the Premier, Signor Zanardelli, to return ta power with a reconstructed Ministry. The fall seems to have been the...

has been little of importance doing except the Navy Estimates. Mr. Balfour has, we regret to say, been laid up with influenza, and this has prevented Procedure being dis-...

the existing camps, and the breaking of them up into smaller units rather than their wholesale removaL The Committee further endorse the pass-system, on the grounds of health...

was published on Friday week, and affords welcome evidence of the intelligence, the humanity, and the practical common-sense shown by those who served on it. The Com- mittee...

bringing up the case of the Cobra,' charged the Admiralty with deliberately buying a jerry-built" coffin" ship with its eyes open, and severely criticised the proposed scheme of...

the second reading of a Bill to amend the Factory Acts with a view to bringing in the laundries of charitable institutions, which, it may be remembered, were omitted last year...

the Palace Hotel, Westminster, on Thursday afternoon. In a speech of considerable vigour, and marked by all the sincerity and common-sense' which used to charac- terise the...

engineers," their inadequate pay, and the withholding of executive rank, having been brought up by Messrs. Platt Higgins and Allan and Sir Fortescue Flannery, Mr. Arnold-...

Tuesday. It has been spoken of as showing very unfavour- able results, but we cannot endorse such a verdict. On the contrary, it appears to us extraordinarily satisfactory that...

New Consols (2i) were on Friday 941.

THE CRISIS IN THE LIBERAL PARTY. T HE process of following the crisis in the Liberal party in detail is by no means an easy one. No sooner does a plain issue appear to have been...

D URING the worst period of the war, and while the question of conscription was much in the air, a body of young colliers were disiussing the whole problem from various points...

T HERE is only one bad point about this reception of Prince Henry in America,—it may deceive the Emperor :William. He has evidently been informed by his agents in Washington...

THAT there can be no fire without fuel is at least as 1 sensible an adage as the old one that if there is smoke there must be fire. There must be some reason . for the epidemic...

grin discussion which took place in the House of Lords on Monday on the need of an inquiry into the work done by the various Army Departments, and by the Army itself, during the...

that is, the heavy forgeries on the Bank of Liverpool, consists, we fancy, to the majority of men wholly in the figure of the principal criminal. There was nothing interesting...

I T is beyond comprehension why the people of this country are not more practical and more sensitive than they are in the matter of our ancient and natural woodlands. There are...

IIT.-THE OFFICER'S OFFICER. N OTHDTG in that paradox, a democratic Monarchy, is more paradoxical than its Army, with its internal absolutism, its iron rules, and iron-bound...

SIR,—Most of the obituary notices of the late Lord Dufferin have referred in justly appreciative terms to his great powers of public speaking. Rarely has death carried away so...

LORD D17FFERIN. [TO TRE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—Few people in England are, I think, aware of the intense pride and almost personal affection for the late Lord...

THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The publication in the Spectator of February 22nd of the late Arthur Patchett Martin's last poem emboldens me, as one who was much associated with him...

ITO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Royal personages are such infrequent visitors in our democratic land that it is not unnatural that the approaching visit of Prince...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—A propos of your article on "Class Distinctions amongst the Poor" (Spectator, February 22nd), I am tempted to send you the following...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—Those of your readers who also, on occasions, enjoy reading daily a number of your forerunner, the Spectator a the eighteenth century,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIE,—I apologise for calling Mr. Crawley-Boevey's pamphlet anonymous (Spectator, February 22nd). It was -an inad- vertence due to the fact...

STE,—Referring to the article in the Spectator of Feb- ruary 22nd on "Class Distinctions amongst the Poor," the vicar of a large East End parish told me that when he took bis...

[TO THE EDITOR OIF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Writing under this heading in the Spectator of February 22nd, Sir Herbert Maxwell states that Hedley's ‘Puffmg Billy' of 1813 was the...

THE "SPEOFATOR."] Sin,—The Spectator of February 22nd contains some judicious remarks on the opposition offered by Sir . H. Campbell- Bannerman and others to proposed...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the review of the above book which appears in the Spectator of February 22nd a wish is expressed that "Mr. Conan Doyle or some...

Sin,—May I add to your deeply interesting article on "Anticipations" the following words from the Prophet Nahum,—ii. 3, 4?—" The valiant men are in scarlet." And : "The chariots...

[TO TEE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR."] SIB,—Victor Hugo had great imagination. But he was an avowed student of Shakespeare. Hence my comment. The following two lines of his play...

LORD DUFFERIN. [IN MEMORIAM, FEBRUARY 12orn, 1502.] THE frozen February day Creeps on from hour to hour, Winter lies cold on Helen's Bay, And white on Helen's Tower. But icier...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIn,—Surely it is a mistake to regard the Anglo-Japanese Treaty as a " blow " directed either against Russia or against France. It is an...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—In his long letter in the Spectator of February 22nd Mr. Horsfall compares statistics of mime in England and Germany. and puts down : in...

Sut,—In the article in your last issue headed "The Birds of Reservoirs" the writer alludes to the tufted duck, and describes it as "a sea species, feeding on fish." The tufted...

IT was not possible in our first notice to give much more than an introduction to Mr. Kidd's work. That being so, we said little of any defects it may possess. It is not without...

IN a notice of one of "Mr. Dooley's" earlier volumes we rashly committed ourselves to the view that his creator would not be able to "keep it up" indefinitely : that he would be...

classical works of Thiers and Lanfrey. The narrative is brilliant, accurate, and up-to-date ; its reflections furnish instructive links between the past and present ; while the...

Two nations in the world—the Roman and the English—have shown themselves supreme in the art of colonising, and each of them won a conspicuous triumph in Africa. The Phoenicians,...

gratitude is due to Mr. Finnemore for having pro. duced a capital novel with a historical background, in which, though there is much serious sword-play, plenty of blackguardly...

Old Bank is a spirited story of provincial life, in which an extraordinary number of unusual things happen. The girl in whom the plot centres is the adopted daughter of a widow,...

THE WESTOOTES.* WORK from the pen of Mr. Quiller-Couch is welcome alike for its literary quality and its point of view. To the sedulous novel reviewer whose sense of style is...

Letters from John Chinaman. (R. Brimley Johnson. is.)— These letters purport to be written by a native of China who has lived long in the West. They contain a favourable sketch...

is a very grim and uncomfortable book. The "Yellow Fiend" is the gold that warps more than one character in the story. The miser is well done, and there is originality in the...

Cs.)—Mies Dfacdonell would have been more successful had her story been less lengthy. It requires enormous talent to write a book as long as The Story of Teresa without its...

THE MYSTIC ROSE: A. STUDY OF PRIMITIVE MARRIAGE. The Mystic Bose v a Study of Primitive Marriage. By Errest Crawley, MA. (Macmillan and Co. 12s. net.)—This is not a book which...

6s.)— A political romance is always opened with a pleasant little stir of excitement by London readers. For by some extraordinary twist of the human mind, people like to read...

little book of studies may be stigmatised as neither fish, flesh, fowl, nor good red herring. The sketches are dialogues with lengthy stage directions, but they are hardly...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Sermons and Lectures. By the late Rev. Brooke Lambert. Edited by Rev....

The Origin and Significance of Hcgel's Logic. By J. B. Baillie. (Macmillan and Co. 8s.)—Whatever be the cause of the fascina- tion which Hegel exercises over the academic...

(Methuen and Co. 15s.)—We cannot attempt to give anything iike an adequate account of this book. It is a typical specimen of present-day travelling. A generation ago a volume...

50s.) has now reached its forty-second year, a most interesting and valuable publication, the correcting and keeping up of which must entail upon its conductors a quite...

2s. 6d. net) is Patristic Study, by H. B. Swete, D.D. Professor Swete, after an introduction, gives brief accounts of the Christian writers from the sub-apostolic times down to...

M.A. (Theo- sophical Publishing Society. 4s. Od. net ) —Mr. Mead begins with a sketch of the recent progress of Biblical criticism. The tone is not altogether what one would...

and Co., Boston and New York. 4s. net.)—Mr. Briggs dates his preface from "Cambridge, Mass." These five essays have, therefore, an immediate bearing on the American aspect of...

and Co. 12s. 6d.)—In January, 1860, Lieutenant Allgood (as he then was) had offered to him by Lord Clyde the post of D.A.Q.G. in one of the divisions of the force then being...

and Co.) we have received Isaiah, edited by A. B. Davidson, D.D. (Is. net). Dr. Davidson occupies in this edition the moderate position which we have been long accustomed to...

Edward Lummis, M.A. (T. and T. Clark. 7s. Gd.)—Professor Wendt's theory is that the Gospel presents the phenomenon of two strata, one consisting of. notes and memoirs of very...

A. Bertrand Wilberforce. (Sands and Co. 39. 6d.)—We have no criticism to offer on this book, but we may say generally that it justifies the descriptive title adopted by the...