T HE pause continues. The Powers have decreed the blockade of Crete, and on Thursday an Austrian man- of-war sunk a Greek merchantman which was carrying supplies to the island;...

EUROPE WAITING FOR GREECE. T4 ORD SALISBURY is probably right, we repeat, from his own point of view, in adhering for the present to the Concert of Europe. There are great...

William Harcourt and Mr. Bryce devoted speeches on Wednesday to the definition of true Liberalism, with a view to showing that they belong to the true Liberal party and that...

T T is with deep regret that we notice the efforts of a certain section of the English Press to embitter our relations with the Transvaal, and to make war a matter of certainty...

W E wish some considerable economist who is also a statesman—Sir Michael Hicks-Beach would do— would explain to the world in a convincing way the cause of the extraordinary...

W E do not think that the decision of the Queen's Bench Division in the case of "Hawke v. Dunn" will induce Parliament to remodel the laws of betting. If we understand public...

of vast fortunes, American and other, a net income of a million and a quarter is a very pretty property. This is the sum which came last year into the hands of the...

Wolseley issued on Monday concerning the behaviour of the troops on the troopship Warren Hastings,' which was wrecked in the early morning of January 14th last on the island of...

W E trust Miss Mary Kingsley will publish the lecture she has been delivering this week on the West African fetishism, for we read with the greatest interest the rather...

I T was not very kind of Professor Max Muller to tell his little story of Tennyson's rather rough criticism on the dinner Mrs. Max Midler had provided for him. Tennyson, like...

S IR MOUNTSTUART GRANT DUFF notes in his recently published diary that by protecting the owls near his House of Eden he much increased their numbers. Those who, like him, enjoy...

FOUR CENTURIES OF MASSACRE. [To THE EDITOIL 07 THE "SPECTATOR:] Sin,—Daring the many discussions of the Armenian atrocities of the last two years, and more recently of those...

EDITOR OF THE • SPECTATOR."' SIE,—The European Concert as represented by the Ambas- sadors of the Great Powers at Constantinople seems to be well foreshadowed in Scene 1, act...

THE POLICY OF GERMANY. [To THE &smolt or THE "SPNCTLT011."] Sin, In the very penetrating and luminous article in the Spectator of March 13th, two of the reasons assigned for...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Surely both Mr. Birrell and yourself have curiously missed the most obvious explanation of the wording of the Archbishops' letter....

[TO TER EDITOR OF TER " SPECTATOR.") SIn,—You say in the Spectator of February 20th that the Bill of the Council is a huge job, intended to make the Council popular by...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Sts,—In your otherwise excellent notice of a book with the above title, which appeared in the Spectator of March 13th, there is a doubt...

[To THR EDITOR OP THE " BricrwroLl SAS,—I do not think the laity realise how sore pressed the clergy are. They look at Crockford and see the gross incomes entered, and think...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Since your pages are likely beyond others to be read by those in England and America who revere the memory of Frederick Denison...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.] SIR, In my capacity of chairman of the Providence and Thrift Sub-Committee of the Teachers' Guild I have to acknowledge the kindly reference...

[TO THE EDIAOR. OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—The following anecdote of a robin's courage may interest your readers. A few weeks ago I saw our cat running from under some trees...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." SIR,—The following occurred this afternoon :—I had occasion to leave my study in search of a book in another room. On my way it suddenly...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Still another dog-story. When I was a child, in our old Cornish home, we had an ancient pointer who used to roam about the place much...

A LIFE OF MR. RHODES.* AFTER the many dull and serious books that have been written about Mr. Rhodes and South Africa, it is delightful to find one at least that can make one...

[TO THE EDITOR Or. THE "SPECTATOR;'] St , Will you please allow me through your columns to thank the kind unknown friend who sends me the Spectator, and to nay that my address...

Somewhat leas than man, Lower set upon the scale of Nature When the world began. To be a woman is to be a spirit Equal-born with man, -Made, as man is, to inherit Heaven by...

[To THE EDITOR 01 THE " 81•110TATOH."] ,Srs.,—Tn your appreciative notice of my "tale of Tyrol," in the Spectator of February 27th, you say it may be objected that my hero, "...

THE second volume of Dr. Sloane's Life of Napoleon fully maintains the interest and the characteristics of the first. As regards the political, social, and personal aspects of...

very lively subject. The first essay, " How to Believe in Nothing," is a very amusing attempt to show how the metaphysical philosophers confound themselves and each other by...

THE question, at what date the books of the Bible and the oldest Christian literature outside the Bible were written, is one which will always attract a wide amount of interest...

THE events recorded in this book cannot be considered alone. They are part of the great struggle between European and Arab influence for the possession of Africa from Khartoum...

WE hardly know for what class of readers these somewhat rambling papers are intended, but we conclude it is for the dwellers in cities, whose cramped feet cannot wander over...

THE great majority of the battles fought on our soil have been those of Englishmen against Englishmen, a fact due partly, but only partly, to our insular position, and more to...

The Life and Works of Robert Burns. Edited by Robert Chambers. Revised by William Wallace. Vol. IV. (W. and R. Chambers.)—There is not much to be said with regard to the fourth...

when he has said that this novel is fall of good things, has little more to add. Susan is very nearly as good as Mrs. Poyser, not so sententious, perhaps, but almost as...

has reached its thirty-seventh year. The editor tells us in his preface that "about one hundred and twenty names have been removed from the book in consequence of the sale of...

(G. P. Putnam's Sons.)—Mr. Cowles propounds here a huge scheme for the nationalisation of railways. He writes for readers in the States, and much of his argument is founded on...

(Elliot Stock.)—Forty-seven thousand two hundred and sixty- eight lots of books fetched in this year £80,111, giving a some- what high average of £1 13s. 10d. per lot, due,...

Allen.)—" This," says the editor, " is a first attempt at a Year-Book of Literature." Something of the kind, however, has always formed part of the "Annual Register." Of the...

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