main operations, it must not be supposed for a moment that Lord Roberts is forgetting Mafeking. The gallant band who have made that railway siding in the desert the bulwark of...

rrHE main fact about the war news of the week is that there is no news. This means without doubt that Lord Roberts is moving, and that before very long we shall hear the...

with the usual ceremonial, the only special feature being a certain predominance which was assigned to everything Russian. The President and his Minister of Commerce, M....

and the Sultan. That Government demanded compensation for injuries suffered by American missionaries during the anti-Armenian riots, and the Sultan promieei to pay some modest...

M. Millerand began by asserting that "the universe bad joined France in this gigantic enterprise," and continued by affirming that "death itself was recoiling before the march...

of out- posts in the neighbourhood of Elandslaagte, but the armies are watching each other narrowly, and the patrols are very active. It is said that the Boer force numbers...

any case.

With the " SPECTATOR of Saturday, April "Sth, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMEST, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

York. Italian labourers now do most of the rough labour of the city, and a thousand of them have recently been employed to construct a reservoir dam a few miles distant. They...

ublishes a tele- gram announcing that the American House of Representatives has resolved that a proposal be submitted to the States of the Union for revising the system of...

Loubet, really to the French nation. It is a map of France, 3 ft. square, formed of delicate varieties of polished Siberian jasper, each department being shown in a different...

it is said, to pray at the oldest Russian shrines that the next child born to them may be a boy, and the succession thus continued to their own descendants. The people, how-...

the operations at Spion Kop, with which we have dealt at length elsewhere. Even making allowance for the terrible difficulty of the art of war, Spion Kop was a muddled business...

her decision she expresses her great regret that she is compelled to abandon the idea of making any journeys during her stay in Ireland, and in view of her age and the efforts...

is shown by Sir Redvers Buller's despateh. By his own account he seems, while the fate of Spiou Rep was hanging in the balance, to have acted the part of a jour- nalistic war...

the beginning of a movement which will, we believe, be fraught with the greatest possible good to South Africa and the Empire. Reservists, in view of the possibilities of the...

the rumours of Dissolution. In answer to the question when it would be, he declared that he could only give them this answer,—that he did not know, and he felt absolutely...

up the question of submarine boats and protesting against Mr. Gosehen's argument that we do not need them because they are "a weapon for those on the defensive." Submarine boats...

in 169:1, just published in the Inspector-General's Report, are the best since the short-service system was adopted. Both in quantity and quality the recruits for the first...

Sir Henry Fowler on Imperial affairs, for he never fails to show not only a sane and sound appreciation of the Empire and its needs, but also that true liberal spirit which is...

New Consols (2) were on Friday 101i.

THE SPION KOP DgSPATCHES. Tj ORD ROBERTS has laid the nation under yet another debt of gratitude. He has had the courage and good sense to speak out plainly as to the conduct of...

T HE speeches with which the French President and his Minister of Commerce, M. Millerand, opened the Exhibition of 1900 were far too optimistic. That is, perhaps, excusable in...

has arisen over the Bill for found- ing the Australian Commonwealth may have hitherto been conducted with rather more heat than was necessary ; but for all that the controversy...

I T would be a striking instance of the occasional irony of fate if the first outbreak of the long predicted war between Labour and Capital should occur in the United States,...

really formidable body. It has grown with great and continuous speed. It now numbers over forty-two thousand members, and - the three thousand delegates who have been in see-...

T HE Boers are not nice people in many respects, but one charge is pressed against them with an undue vehemence, born, we strongly suspect, of surprise. It is considered quite...

O N every hand there are signs that an age of memoirs is upon us. There have been such periods before, when the memoirs of some "person of quality" and the "remains" and...

OME of the greatest among men have spoken and L' written regarding the material progress of mankind as if every new invention for shortening distance, for economising time or...

HOW TO TREAT THE SOUTH AFRICAN REBELS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I gladly acknowledge the moderation of the Spectator on this subject as compared with the most...

[To THE EDITOlt OP TIIE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I be permitted to criticise the following sentence in the speech of Mr. Cronwright-Schreiner as reported at the Café Atonic()...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,–.-We have read with much interest the article which appears in the Spectator of February tl-Ith advocating the appointment of Lord...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:] SIR,—Is the average British officer really stupid? Unwilling as Britain needs must be to admit the impeachment, she is in a strait oetween two...

(To T ILE r.Di rnn of THE "SPECCAFOR.1 Sin,—The letter of your correspondent "L. S." is one breathing fully the spirit of the former slave-owners of the Southern States of the...

[TO THE EDETOI: OF TLIE 'SPECTATOR.'] Sin,—The following is from a letter I have received by the last mail from the Rev. John Smith Moffat, of Cape Town, a high authority on...

have lately read a novel entitled "Parson Kelly." I did so under the impression that it was a sort of historical romance referring to the Jacobite conspiracy, and because one of...

[To THE EDITOR OP TOE "SPECTATOR.-] Sir.,—Perhaps some of your readers may like to be reminded of a wise man's wisdom on points that are of special interest to-day :— " There...

School " Regestum Scholarium " (1502-1635) the first list (of two hundred and eighty-nine names) gives the name " George " twelve times. The sur- names are Howell, Roles,...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sut,—In the Spectator of April 7th your correspondent, Mr. Alfred F. Buxton, states, with reference to so-called "municipal trading," that...

[To TILE ED/TOR or TIM "Sermerort. - ] SIR,—Mr. Stone asks in the Spectator of April 7th, " Was there ever an Englishman who named his son George before the Hanoverian...

[To rus EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:] SIR,—Has our old friend the rook (corrus frugivorus) returned to the Park It has been said that he took fright on the introduction into London...

transcribed a Tallage Roll of Bristol of the year 1$12. It is not perfect, but still contains the names of one thousand and seventy-three men. They bore between them fifty-nine...

MUSIC AS A RURAL DIVERSION. THE need of reconciling the agricultural population to their surroundings as a means of stemming the exodus from the country to the towns has...

IN MEMORIAM,—CECIL WILLIAM BOYLE. car-rAiN LN THE IMPERIAL YEOMANRY. KILLED IN THE SUCCESSFUL FIGHT AT BOSHOF, APRIL 5TH, 1990. '1111i1-0 14,i9 cot micro; .1.49C7GII "orat....

BALZAC'S LETTERS TO MADAME HANSKA.* THESE letters reveal Balzao's personality, but not his genius. We have here about seven hundred and fifty pages of love- letters written by...

HAD not popular, " up-to-date " journalism filled us with a positive aversion for superlatives, the heading of this review would have been "The Greatest of Australian...

THE Bishop of Edinburgh's small volume on The Workman- ship of the Prayer-Book deserves to be very widely read. Based upon sound and extensive learning, it is written in a...

fascination for travellers. It is not till they get there that they realise that " Felix " is a singularly infelicitous, as well as inaccurate, translation of "Yemen,"—which, of...

MR. TABKINGTON'S excellent novel, The Gentleman front Indiana, disarms newspaper criticism in advance by the choice of a virtuous editor for its hero. It also marks a welcome...

THE "EDINBURGH REVIEW." The new Edinburgh is full of able articles, and may indeed be described as a specially good number of a publication in which the standard is always very...

Hill has investigated with much labour and to good purpose the somewhat intricate question of English diocesan divisions. Pope Gregory started his mission with a curiously...

don Press. 3s. Gd.)—Professor Skeet states some tests, grammatical and metrical, which are drawn from undoubted works of Chaucer, and by which poems which lack external evidence...

C.D. (J. M. Dent and Co. ls.)—This is a volume of the "'Temple Primers." Dean Spence has performed the difficult task of com- pressing into the available space a fairly complete...

[Under Mit heading vc notice such BOokse of the mei; as hare not been wore& for reetex in other bring.] Spring and Autumn in Ireland. By Alfred Austin. (W. Blackwood and Sons....

Edition by G. E. Marindin, MA. (John Murray.)—Sir W. Smith's hook was published more than forty years ago. He had the advantage of being able to use Grote, whose " History " was...

10s. Cd.)—It has been the aim of Mr. Elworthy to define the significance of horns as emblems of power. The points of a crown, the buffalo horns of Indians, and the headdresses...

M. .Tames. (J. M. Dent and Co. Ss. 6d.)—Some portion of the story: °Masco* is of the most revolting character. Neither in the Etter nor the West did man's cruelty rise to the...

5s.)—The evolutibn of man has certainly not been treated apart from other issues, and Mr. Morris's claim to be first in the field with a treatise devoted to man must hold. His...