address delivered by a M. Spiridovich before the Slav Benevolent Association at Moscow last week, and summarised by the Vienna correspondent of the Times in Wednesday's issue....

T HE telegrams from the theatre of war show very satis- factory totals in regard to captures and surrenders, and the Times correspondent in Pretoria, telegraphing to Friday's...

parties are proportionately represented—has shown itself distinctly hostile to the forward Colonial policy of the German Government in the Far East. The main vote for the...

reported from Constantinople. Fuad Pasha, "the hero of Elena," one of the most brilliant figures in the Russo- Turkish War, and until recently in high' favour with his master,...

the richest and most flourishing in Spain, has been given over to strike rioting of a very serious kind. The strikers have stopped all trading and all locomotion in the town,...

here on Thursday setting forth the terms of a Note addressed by Mr. Hay on the 1st inst. to the Russian and Chinese Governments with regard to the posi- tion in Manchuria. He...

in the House of Commons, questions were asked relative to General Truman's position in regard to the Remount Department. Lord Lansdowne on Monday, replying for Lord Raglan,...

were individual opinions, which did not pledge a single human being in or outside of the Philharmonic Hall, but as they have been largely endorsed by representative organs of...

to prove that the full measure of their national demand was for separation, Lord Rosebery continued :—" There is, after all, a modification in this question which is as grave as...

of cant. in all the talk about the wickedness of the week-end. If the habit of getting into the county from Salurday to Monday were, as Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman attempted to...

Liverpool on Friday and Saturday last, a feat more suggestive of an American Presidential candidate than a detached "Imperial votary," — if we may so paraphrase Shakespeare. In...

chiefly occupied with the discussion of procedure. Except, however, for one or two simple and essential points, the debates have been dull and tedious to outsiders, though full...

National Liberal Federation held at Leicester on Wednesday, the official resolution, while condemning the policy of unconditional surrender, welcomed the powerful impetus given...

by Lord Rosebery during what has been wittily called not a Rake's but a Spade's progress through Liverpool on Saturday last, we can do no more than notice the most salient....

character of an "impenitent Liberal," once more flaunted the "flyblown phylacteries" and "musty mea- sures" of 1893, and declared himself wholly opposed to the doctrine of the...

more interesting, because fresher, than the figures of the Estimates themselves. The Admiralty Board haa decided that "masts and sails" are not essential to the proper training...

Rose- bell , in answer to this speech in which he finally breaks with Sir. Henry Campbell-Bannerman. Sir Henry had asked whether he (Lord Rosebery) spoke from the interior of...

They amount to a sum of 231,255,000, as opposed to 230,875,000 estimated for the current year,—an increase of £380,000. During the current year there will have been passed into...

House of Commons on Monday. They are chiefly remark- able for the fact that although the amount asked for is the large sum of 269,310,000, the war expenditure is expected to be...

Friday 944.

11:11. CONSEQUENCES OF THE ALLIANCE. W E felt it our duty last week to make the strongest protest in our power against the policy of Alliance with Japan. But though we are as...

W E do not wish to weary our readers with a twice-told tale. We do not, therefore, intend to examine in detail every argument and every statement which has been brought forward...

no truth in the V V statement which has been widely circulated of late, that it is the intention of the War Office to abolish the special Department established to deal with and...

1111IE future of Austria affords one of the most interest- ". lag and complicated problems of political specula- tion. If that "discovery of the future" about which Mr. Wells...

I F the tremendous catastrophe of a break-up of the British Empire should ever occur, there would dis- appear from the world the most magnificent theatre for the exercise of...

S OME sort of class feeling is, we believe, inherent in human natm.e. People often speak as though these demarcations in England existed only among the middle and upper classes,...

N OW that every large town and many small ones are adding new reservoirs, often of great size, to hold their water supply, these artificial lakes play an important and...

W HEN Britain first at heaven's command arose from out the azure main, it may have been, as fat Jemmy Thomson surmised, for the sole purpose of providing the world with a marine...

GREAT BRITAIN AND GERMANY. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:] • Exodus v. 17. Sra,—In a remarkable article in the Spectator of February 8th you say that the Germans "mean to...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SzB,—Now that the unexpected has happened—I refer, of course, to Lord Rosebery's renunciation of Gladstonian Home-rule—may I ask you to...

rTo TIM EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOE."_1 Sra,—From almost every part of the country come reports that the response to the call for a third Volunteer service com- pany from each...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR:] STE,—The following point, to which my attention has been drawn by a German friend of strona English sympathies, curiously illustrates the...

view of a recent telegram, the following extract from Crorawell's letter to Lenthall of September 4th, 1651, describing the battle of Worcester, has a curious interest :— " A....

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—It is not easy to give a thorough reply to the letter of " Simplex " without encroaching too much upon your space, but I will avoid any...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—I have lately been reading in our own and also in the French and Algerian newspapers various accounts of the growth of English influence...

fTo THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sru,—The article headed "Anticipations" in the Spectator of February 15th must be a very interesting one to many of your readers. In case you...

Sin,—You may perhaps consider the following passage from Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great (Part II., Act T., Scene 3) worth quoting as an instance in which a dramatist has...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—To your list of material objections to the above Treaty in the Spectator of February 15th permit me to add a formal one,—that of bad...

[To TRZ EDITOR OP TUB "SPECTATOR.") Slit,—May I send you a small contribution to this subject in an entirely different line ? It struck me rather as a "call" to do so when I...

article under this heading in the Spectator of February 15th makes no reference to one of the most remarkably explicit prophecies that ever attained fulfil- ment. In 1789...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—To judge from certain volumes of South African " hietory " which have lately come under my notice, the Chair of History in the South...

ITO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Will you allow us to make an appeal through your columns on behalf of St. Margaret's House, Bethnal Green, the Women's Settlement in...

rrO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Si,—Is it possible to explain satisfactorily why modern art is practically entirely divorced from religion ? There is a fragment of...

THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin, — If Mr. Day (Spectator, February 15th) will refer back a few verses to verse 26, he will find a better illustration of his point as regards the use of...

rTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIB,—But was it a Jewish rabble that beat Sosthenes ? Were not his assailants Greeks ? The Authorised Version says so, and certainly it...

(To TRH EDITOR OF TIER " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—It has occurred to some of the friends of the new Bishop of Worcester that the multitudes who have derived profit from his books, and...

[To THE EDITOR OF vax " SPECTATOR." J Sra,—As the writer of the pamphlet which is treated by Canon MacColl as anonymous (Spectator, February 8th), though bearing my signature in...

THE LAST LOOK. [These lines were written during mortal illness by Mr. A. P. Martin whose death, we re g ret to state, took place at Teneriffe on Saturday last. It was his...

SOUNDLESS MUSIC. THERE is surely no art or accomplishment which gives less encouragement to the upholders of the equality of mankind than music; no art, again, in which gifts...

[" The sole chance for any alternative leader who calls himself an Imperialist is by some means to bring himself before the public in vivid antithesis to Mr....

- PRINCIPLES OF WESTERN CIVILISATION.* [FIRST NOTICE.] Mn. BENJAMIN KIDD has once more written a book which every thoughtful person will have to read, and, what is more, will...

Tux modern rifle represents nothing less than an inversion of all the ideas which were in the minds of the early inventors If you could show the accurate, deadly, long-range...

suggestive study of the present position and the future of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy which was published just a year ago by M. Andre Cheradame, and of which a third edition...

THIS book is a plain and simple record of a sailor's life as the author saw it at a period midway between Smollett, whom he quotes, and Marryat, whom no doubt he .read in his...

OUT OF 1HE CYPRESS SWAMP * AMID the welter of American historical romances, the scene of which is generally laid in the seventeenth or eighteenth century, a note of...

—The author of this book thinks it necessary in a footnote to disclaim responsibility for the opinions expressed by his characters. It is, however, manifestly impossible that he...

is really astonishing that any one should take the old, old story of treasure lost at sea as gravely as if it were a new invention, and solemnly write a novel on it. At the...

and Blackett. Gs.)—The Little Saint of God is a story— almost entirely true to facts—of characters and incidents of the days of the Red Terror. The heroine—bearing the title...

6s.) —Mrs. Croker is always lively and entertaining. But in her latest novel, The Cat's Paw, she is even more than usually interesting. By a very ingenious device she has...

and Co. Gs.)—Miss Kenealy has boldly taken an utterance of one of her own characters as the motto of her book,—a species of topsy-turvy dealing which giddily recalls the old...

By Jack London. (Isbister and Co. Gs )—There is no doubt about the power shown in these "Tales of the Klondyke." Mr. London writes of the rough men who wont north for gold as...

THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION. The Philosophy of Religion in England and America. By Alfred Caldeoott, D.D. (Methuen and Co. 10s. 6d.)—This is a book for which every real student,...

By D. W. Barrett, MA. (Skeffington and Son. 10s. 6d. net.)—The diocese of St. Albans is, of course, a recent creation, being under the rule of its second Bishop, and dating back...

Soulsby. (The Geographical Journai, February.)--Mr. Soulsby gives in this interesting pamphlet a rdsume of a paper from the pen of Dr. F. V. Wieser in which the discovery of a...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as hare not bee* reserved for verity, in other forms.] The Strenuous Life. By Theodore Roosevelt. (Grant Richards....

6d. net.)—Dean Strong gives us, in somewhat enlarged form, a series of lectures delivered to the University Extension students; last year. He makes a strong point of the general...

and" The Island." Mr. Coleridge thinks that these find few readers nowadays. Probably he is right. Whether this should be is another matter. Might we not say that in literature...

of Modern Europe, Revised and Continued to the End of the Nineteenth Century by Arthur Hassell, MA. (George Bell and Sons, Cs. net per vol.) Vol. V. contains the period 1789 -...

and Co. 4s. 6d. net.)—This volume can scarcely be said to come into competition with the work of Charles and Mary Lamb. Perhaps we may say that it is written with a more...

Fisher Unwin. 2s.)—We feel disposed to be content with saying that this "Discourse Delivered to the Royal Institution" some three weeks ago is worth reading, as indeed is all...

gardeners, is The Culture of Greenhouse Orchids, by Frederic Boyle, supervised by Joseph Godseff (Chapman and Hall, 83. net). No man has a better right to speak of orchids than...