is of the nature of gossip, and much of it not untainted with a suspicion of bias. Russia has deadly foes among journalists, while, on the other hand, there are financiers on...

besieged at the different Government stations. At the time- of the outbreak the Governor was absent on the expedition against the Bondelswarts in the south, more than twenty...

mystery. She professes cold neutrality, but she begins to grant, especially to America, the very concessions that Russia most resists. Moreover, she is silently gathering up...

Russia. The feeling in St. Petersburg appears to be that America, as a new and distant Power, has no business to interfere in questions which concern Europe ; while the American...

the Prussian Landtag is worth the consideration of those who waver between Free-trade and Protection. Baron von Rheinbaben had a prosperity Budget to introduce, the revenue...

question in the Reichstag. Through Herr Haase and Herr Bebel, they on Tuesday accused the Government of "blacking Russia's boots." It appears that Russian spy departments are...

great speech at the Guildhall on Tuesday afternoon to an audience which, though interested and in part favourable, was not enthusiastic. We have perhaps said enough of the...

form of a letter to a correspondent, not named, a passionate protest against Mr. Chamberlain's proposals. He refused, he says, to interfere in the recent election at Ludlow, but...

outrageous attempt on the part of the Rand Daily Mail to pervert the testimony of Mr. Creswell and misrepresent the attitude of the Spectator in regard to the Chinese labour...

the advance into Tibet. Colonel Younghusband, much hampered by deaths among his transport animals, is moving slowly towards the end of the Chumbi Valley; and as yet the Tibetan...

to apply that term to a body the great majority of whom were personally interested in the decisions of the questions which they had to consider. Replying to the charge that he...

meeting organised by the local branch of the Unionist Free-Food League at Liverpool on Tuesday night. luau interesting survey, the Duke observed that in all the historic...

Club on Thursday, delivered an excellent speech on Army reform. We must not, he said, confine our attention to the Report of the War Commission, and waste time trying to...

bridge on Wednesday which, so far as we see, conveys nothing, except that Mr. Austen Chamberlain is faithful to his father. He uses almost precisely the same arguments, and even...

unconnected with the "Catholic Association" of England—has recently rendered itself conspicuous by advo- cating the boycotting of Protestants. As the result of a meeting of the...

Edinburgh to Mr. S. H. Butcher, who recently re- signed the Professorship of Greek in the University of Edinburgh, and made a most interesting speech in proposing the toast of...

••• 8,576 Mr. E. E. Wild (Conservative) 6,756 Mr. G. H. Roberts (Labour)... ... ••• 2,444 Majority of Liberal over Conservative 1,820 At the General Election of 1900 two...

factory than that of Norwich. Newcastle was one of the industrial centres specially chosen by Mr. Chamberlain for attack, and his efforts to demonstrate the ruin of local...

stricken with megalomania, never entirely quits the night-watches of the prosperous. The reluctance to boast lest some hostile Deity should take offence is in us all, and Mr....

her large barren colony of South- West Africa. The insurrection of the Bondelswarts- the so-called Hottentots—in the South of Namaqualand has been succeeded by a far more...

the proba- bilities of war and peace. the decision rests with the Czar, who either will or will not submit to a great diplomatic defeat at the hands of the Japanese. There is no...

article, we may say in passing, which certainly does not lose in interest from not yielding to the new fashion in the Quarterly of being signed—gives a very clear account of the...

quarters during the last few days, will there be allowed to continue that extraordinary anomaly, the right of the possessor of the estate of Audley End to present to the...

world we are too apt to read his character only in his public acts and speeches, forgetting that every man must also live "to him- Self," and that the public appearance may be...

time, what would the inhabitant of London of, say, a hundred and fifty years ago be able to make out of the geography of London to-day ? Would be be able to find his way from...

so frequently seen as to make the danger one of general appre- hension, as it is in South Africa, they are nevertheless far more serious and more frequently felt than is matter...

(TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") Stu,—In reference to the letter appearing in your columns on December 19th, 1903, from Mr. F. H. P. Creswell on the subject of Asiatic...

GERMAN SOUTH-WEST AFRICA: DR. HARTMANN'S COLONIAL SCHEME. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." I SIR,—" The Eagle's talons glide over the heavy mass of the Black Continent...

second to none in foresight and courage. To him we owe the maritime supremacy of Britain in the Far East. In 1819 he hoisted the British flag at Singapore, then "an almost...

extraordinary how many of the men one meets are misled when Mr. Chamberlain comes to figures. The principal point in his latest speech is, I think, the fact that our exports...

then are invalid now. And the chief new phenomenon to which they point is "dumping," which, though mentioned by List in the "forties" as a common English practice, is certainly...

SIR,—It will perhaps surprise the Spectator to learn that very many Liberal Unionists decline to be disbanded in the summary way proposed by the Duke of Devonshire, or to accept...

Sra,—In your article in the Spectator of January 9th headed "Free-Trade and Home-Rule" you allude in a very fair and kindly manner to my paper in the current number of the...

" SPECTATOR:] Srn,—Your dictum that the wit is altogether on the side of the Free-traders would seem to hold as good for America as for England. I doubt, at any rate, whether...

Stn,—It has been suggested that farming is an example of a ruined industry. In the course of some inquiries which I have made recently I have come across a fact that you may...

"SPECTATOR.1 Snt,—There is an argument for Protection for wheat, which, in spite of your prepossessions, you will perhaps allow me to state very briefly. It is the argument I...

December 26th sayings of Fenelon and of Addison were quoted in which the principles of political economy cast their shadows before. A far more extraordinary forecast of...

SIR,—Men who, like the present writer, were young in the " sixties " of the last century will remember how Chinese Gordon" suppressed the Taeping Rebellion in China with his...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' Sia,—I have read with much interest the article in the Spectator of January 2nd on the above subject. You suggest at the close of the article...

[To THE EDITOR or TEl "SPECTATOR.."] SIR, — A few plain facts about the present state of affairs in European Turkey may interest your readers. Wherever the responsibility may...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR"] SIR, — I have read with the deepest interest your article under the above heading in the Spectator of January 9th. I have lived as much in as...

SIR, — As one who has spent some time in the manufacturing districts of Yorkshire, I have read your article on the above subject with great interest. My personal impression,...

ITO THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR."] SIR,—With the greater part of your article on the above subject in the Spectator of January 2nd I can heartily agree. Human nature being...

"SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the kind and generous notice of a work bearing the above title which appeared in the Spectator for January 9th the reviewer aptly draws attention to an...

SIR,—In the article on the above subject in the Spectator of January 2nd, have not three very real worries inseparable from the present system of " tipping " been left out of...

Sin,—You say (Spectator, January 2nd) that porters' wages are fixed at a certain sum because it is known that they will receive a certain sum of money per annum from passengers....

subject in the Spectator of January 2nd to see " policemen " amongst the sundry recipients of the doles you there allude to. It would be interesting to know if your writer in...

the Spectator of January 9th is in error when he attributes to Southey that statement which called forth the Quaker lady's searching question. Surely it was S. T. Coleridge who...

POETRY.

long road o'er again ? We who were dead, Need we return where roses bloom and fail, And all life's petals are in darkness shed ? Here would I stay, a tireless worshipper, Here...

THE Englishman who is acutely distressed by the report of shortcomings in the German Army can hardly be human. The frank pleasure which the Germans took in our troubles is too...

difficult subject ; and we must say, to begin with, that Mr. Tallentyre's treatment is in many ways successful. He has painted a vivid picture of the extraordinary man who was,...

the late war in the hope that they may be of use to his comrades. We are quite certain that his hope will be realised. In these short notes there is more matter for reflection...

present con- troversy that, so far as the consumer is concerned, Free-trade is a benefit. It is, however, contended by the Protectionist that Free-trade is bad both for the...

advanced civilisation or not, the fact remains that it grows increasingly harder to discover in contemporary fiction works in which literary or constructive ability is combined...

of life in the great prairie. Not only does the book give an admirable picture of the conditions of agricultural life in the Dominion, but from the opening, in which a most...

—What Hazlitt would have called "the perfection of" Mr. Howells's "inestimable art" has seldom been more deftly dis- played than in this novel. The medium which Mr. Howells has...

Heinemann. is. net.)—The "fiscal battle" is, as one might suppose, as much in evidence here as anywhere. Mr. E. S. Grew has found a "ruined industry,"—the aniline dye...

[Under this ;wading tos notic# nth Books of the lossk as have not teen reserved for soviets in other forms.] - Thomas Welbank Powle. (B. H. Blackwell.) — Many readers will be...

Frafribus. By John Trent Bramston, M.A. (E. Arnold. 5s. net.)—Twenty-three out of the twenty-six sermons contained in this volume were preached in the school chapel at...

—The title has been suggested, we take it, by some locality in the Archbishop's Palace at Armagh. Miss Alexander has made a very happy use of it, weaving into it various matters...

has our best wishes. It takes for its subject the whole of education, primary and secondary. Linked together as the two now are by a community of control, it is well that they...

TILL QUARTERLIES. The Rclinbwrgh Review contains two very valuable articles on Mr. Chamberlain's revolutionary proposals. The first, entitled "The Tariff Controversy," after...

and Coloured Books" (Methuen and Co., 38. 6d. net) we have Walton's Campleat Angler. The edition is, we are told, "founded on the second edition published by John Major in the...

By his Granddaughter, Laura Chase Smith. (Dutton and Co., New York.)—Philander Chase was born at Cornish, on the border of New Hampshire and Vermont, in 1775, the fifteenth...

50s.)—This "Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy" appears for the forty-fourth time. It is a work which is probably very difficult to keep up to date, and it has always...