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The Itratabele are reported beaten. Colonel Napier and his column
The Spectatorhave pushed through them, after a sharp skir- mish, and have joined the little column from Gwelo, which includes Mr. Rhodes. The whole force has now, therefore, only to return...
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorT HE news of the week from Pretoria is distressing. The Executive Council has " commuted " the sentences of the four ringleaders—Colonel Rhodes, Mr. Phillips, Mr. Farrer, and...
On Friday, May 15th, the House of Commons were occupied
The Spectatorwith the Navy Estimates, and some interesting points were discussed. Mr. Goschen admitted that he was not satisfied with the existing arrangements in regard to arming the...
On May 20th the Transvaal Government renewed its rather impertinent
The Spectatorremonstrances against an imaginary collection of troops at Mafeking. A "sworn declaration" had been re- ceived in Pretoria affirming that forty "cannon" had been unloaded at...
The Czar and Czarina arrived in Moscow on Thursday, making
The Spectatora State entry which appears to have been a scene of almost bewildering magnificence, Asia vying with Europe in the splendour of its representatives. The Coronation itself,...
The discussion of the Rating Bill was resumed on Monday,
The Spectatorwhen Mr. Chaplin announced that he could not accept Mr. Channing's proposal to divide the rates between owner and occupier. In the course of the debate that followed this...
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During the whole of Thursday night and Friday morning the
The SpectatorCommittee on the Agricultural Rates Bill went on amidst scenes of extreme violence and confusion. The Opposition were determined to block the Bill, and Mr. Balfour was deter-...
The Archduke Charles Louis, heir-presumptive to the Austrian Monarchy, died
The Spectatoron Tuesday, at the age of sixty- three. He was an excellent though not very able man, with strong clerical opinions, and tastes which made him the representative of his house...
The Dec d'Orleans, according to Legitimist theories Philip VII. of
The SpectatorFrance, has published a manifesto which greatly interests French Royalists. It is in the form of a letter to the Due d'Audiffret Pasquier, President of the Royalist Com- mittee,...
The new Radical Committee who are to determine the separate
The Spectatorpolicy of the" distinctive, advanced, Radical section" in Parliament, and which consists at present (including Sir Charles Dilke, who was at first supposed to have held aloof)...
This Radical declaration, with its complete ignoring of Irish Home-rule,—rendered
The Spectatoralmost more emphatic by its cool reference to the desirability of giving "Home-rule all round,"—has of course greatly alarmed the Irish party, who see their one political dream...
How wide that chasm is, is best shown by the
The Spectatorarticle in the Methodist Times, published on Thursday and copied in the Times of the same day, entitled "The Death of Glad- stonian Home-rule." In that article it is said that...
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The Birthday Honours published on May 20th hardly call for
The Spectatorcomment. Lord Salisbury does not distribute them eccentrically, but according to the regular custom, taking wealthy squires like Mr. E. Heneage and Colonel Malcolm of Poltalloch...
The growing feeling in the United States against unlimited immigration
The Spectatorwhich recently found vent in a statute directed against paupers has now found expression in a measure which forbids the entry of illiterates. No person above eighteen who cannot...
The Duke of Devonshire spoke twice at Swansea on Wednesday
The Spectatorto a Unionist audience, first to about five hundred persons in the Drill Hall, and next to a great evening meeting in the Albert Hall. In the former speech he dwelt especially...
Further, the Duke spoke on the Education Bill, pointing out
The Spectatorhow completely the Opposition are at sixes and sevens on the meaning and drift of this Bill, how they confound School Boards with Board-schools, and how it is the Opposition,...
The Spanish statesmen are evidently growing desperate about Cuba. It
The Spectatoris gravely stated that they have decided to .raise a loan of £40,000,000 sterling for the expenses of the war, and that in the early winter they will forward forty thousand more...
On Friday, May 15th, Lord Rosebery addressed a meeting of
The Spectatorhis party at the Butter Market, Newton Abbott, Devonshire. His speech was bright and pleasant in manner but shifty in matter. He did not see where the agricultural labourer came...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorEXIT HOME-RULE. N OTHING can be more ominous for Irish Home- rule than the present signs of the times. We will not say it is dead, for crotchets hardly ever die. Anti-...
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THE RUSSIAN CORONATION.
The SpectatorI T is difficult for a cultivated Englishman to study the accounts of the preparations for the Russian Coronation, which read as if they ought to be printed in gold upon purple...
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THE DOPPER POLICY IN SOUTH AFRICA.
The SpectatorP RESIDENT KRUGER would have been wiser had he treated the insurrection of the Outlanders and the invasion of the Transvaal as a purely political movement, which it was...
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THE RADICAL REVOLT.
The SpectatorT HE Radicals are doing their beat to assist the Unionist Government when they separate themselves from the rest of the Gladstonian party, and try to base their action on...
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THE DUKE OF BEDFORD ON THE AGRICULTURAL PROBLEM . .
The SpectatorT AST week we alluded to the able speech addressed J by the Duke of Bedford to the tenants and labourers on his Thorney estate. The speech is worth returning to as one of the...
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THE DUO D'ORISANS' LETTER. T HERE is nothing unreasonable in the
The Spectatorinterest which Europe takes in the Bourbon and Bonaparte Pre- tenders. If either of those families produced an excep- tional man he would have a chance, a genuine chance, though...
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LORD HALIFAX'S BILL. T HE history of the Bill to amend
The Spectatorthe Divorce Act of 1857, which passed through Committee in the Lords on Tuesday, is the history of a conspicuous change alike in ecclesiastical and in secular opinion. In 1857,...
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WHAT IS A LYRIC Av - HEN Coleridge and Wordsworth published their
The Spectatorfirst joint-volume of poems they called them "Lyrical Ballads," though we should hardly think one of the many fine poems it contained to be in any definite sense lyrical....
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THE MONEYLENDERS' DILEMMA.
The SpectatorW E do not understand all these congratulations on the sentence upon Pockett, the moneylender. What is there to congratulate ourselves about ? The sentence is a very proper...
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THE DUTCH "POLDERS" IN MAY.
The SpectatorT HE long drought of the present spring, which has destroyed or dwarfed the pastures of Southern Eng- land, has raised in the wet meadows of Holland a crop of grass and flowers...
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THE LIBERAL-IRISH ALLIANCE.
The Spectator[To ma EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:] Sin,—As a careful listener to the speeches of Dr. Berry an& Mr. Hirst Hollowell at the Congregational Union, will you allow me to add a word...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The SpectatorMR. AUGUSTINE BIRRELL AND COUNTY COUNCILS. [To TRH EDITOR OP THY "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Mr. Augustine Birrell told in the House of Commons- a story of some farmer who declared...
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POETRY.
The SpectatorLINES (FREELY ENLARGED FROM VICTOR HUGO). LIKE a tiny glint of light piercing through the dusty gloom Comes her little laughing face through the shadows of my MOM. And my...
BOOKS.
The SpectatorTHE INNER LIFE OF JAPAN.* IT is with no little pleasure that we welcome Mr. Hearn's new volume of Japanese studies. In his former work he showed an extraordinary power of...
JOHANNESBURG.
The Spectator[TO THE EDITOR Or TEl " SPEOTETOP:] Sin,—If Mr. Whitaker can find a parallel in the classics to the ineptitude of the capitalists, may I find one to the in- tolerance of the...
POTTER FELL TARN, WESTMORELAND.
The SpectatorMERE of the Moorland Boulder-environed, Lost in this secret Dip of the Fell, Desolate art thou, Severed from all things, All thy horizon Heather and ling. From the height...
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STUDIES IN MONASTICISM.*
The SpectatorSOME of the most interesting and important historical aspects' of monasticism are treated in works lately written by Miss Lina Eckenstein and Mr. Thomas W. Allies. The period...
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NEPHELE.*
The SpectatorNepheli, by the author of one of the most lovely and also —which is singular —one of the most popular of the little songs of the present generation, which first appeared, we are...
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MADAME DU BARRY.* THE process of digging amongst the remains
The Spectatorof past histories for all that preceded and characterised the French Revolution appears to grow in favour. But the possibility of white- washing poor Madame Du Barry is beyond...
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HUNTING IN MANY LANDS.* OUR kinsmen across the Atlantic have
The Spectatorgiven plenty of proof of a love of sport fully equal to our own, and, though the North American Nimrod has not yet, perhaps, achieved the reputation of his British cousin as a...
LADY E ASTLAKE.*
The SpectatorLADY EASTLAKE wrote much about literature and art, and expressed in her journals and letters many opinions on politics. Time has reversed many of her judgments ; yet they are...
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A Confession of Faith. By " An Unorthodox Believer." (Mac- millan
The Spectatorand Co.) — This is a thoughtful book and certainly worth reading, though we cannot grant all or anything like all the author's postulates. We cannot allow, for instance, that...
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The SpectatorOutlines of Eng'ish Industrial History. By W. Cunningham, D.D., and Ellen McArthur. (Cambridge University Press.)—It is quite impossible within the limits of space which we can...
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The Heart of Man. By S. R. Hocking. (F. Warne
The Spectatorand Co.)— The hero, who tells his own story, suddenly appears in a remote village in the Fen Country, and gives himself out as a naturalist. He takes lodgings, and falls in love...
The Art of Newspaper - Making. By Charles A. Dana. (T. Fisher
The Spectatorlinwin.)—Mr. Dana magnifies his office, especially as it is dis- charged in the United States, Possibly in addressing the " consin Editorial Association" he could hardly speak...
A Gender in Satin. By "Rita." (T. Fisher Unwin.)—The study
The Spectatorof the struggle which a woman of fine character has between her love and her honour is handled with some power by "Rita." Paula marries a man who loves her, and falls in love...
Sailing Tours. By Frank Cowper. Part IV. (Upcott GilL) —This
The Spectatoradmirable series is to the yachtsman what Bradshaw is to the railway traveller. The present volume tells the yachting tourist all that he wants to know,—lights, rocks, tides,...
A History of British Butterflies. By the Rev. P. O. Morris.
The Spectator(John C. Nimmo.)—This is the eighth edition, completed in six monthly parts. We are glad to see that a work of such genuine merit, the outcome of careful personal observation,...
A Daughter of the Marionis. By E. Phillips Oppenheim. (Ward
The Spectatorand Downey.)—A vendetta makes a capital plot for the novelist who takes characters from Southern life for his story, and in Margharita, "a daughter of the Marionis," we have a...
Fern - Growing. By E. J. Lowe. (J. C. Nimmo.)—The greater part
The Spectatorof the space in this somewhat sumptuous volume is devoted to the question of crossing and multiple parentage, and to ninny lovers of ferns these technical details will not...
In the Lesuto. By Canon Widdicombe. (S.P.C.R.)—We have found Canon
The SpectatorWiddicombe's history of the trials and struggles of mission-life among the Basutos most interesting. He went through a time of great anxiety. His own life hung in the balance...
Grania Waite. By Fulmar Petrel. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—The life and
The Spectatorthe predatory warfare of the west of Ireland in the sixteenth century is very happily and picturesquely described for us in the story of Grania Waile, an historical personage,...
The History of Northumberland. By Cadwallader J. Bates. (Elliot Stock.)—This
The Spectatorvolume in the series of "Popular County Histories" was not an easy one to write. The author had at the outset a difficult question to answer- ought the "History of...
Handicapped. By Sir R. H. Roberts. (F. V. White and
The SpectatorCo.)— Sir Randal wanders from the Shires, for a wonder, and the title of this novel will mislead those of his readers who expect a story confined to hunting circles. It is...
Florentine characters are much more real to us than Laurence
The SpectatorTrent and the other foreigners. Sylvia Bardossi is the heroine, and a very charming, noble, and simple creature she is. She is very natural, but not more so than Cesare Baldi,...
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Angling Travels in Norway. By Fraser Sandeman. (Chapman and Hall.)—This
The Spectatoris a very businesslike book ; which would certainly have been more convenient, if circumstances had permitted its publication in a smaller shape. Mr. Sandeman tells us about...
The English Lakes By George Robert Mill (George Philip and
The SpectatorSon.)—This is the reprint of a paper, originally published in the Geographical Journal, on the " Bathymetrical Survey of the English Lakes." The lakes selected are ten in...
In the "Library of Early English Writers" (Swan Sonnen- achein
The Spectatorand Co.) we have Yorkshire Writers : Richard Rolle of Harnpole and his Followers, edited by C. Horstman. Professor Horstman, in his introduction, after a comparison, of which...
By Thrasna River. By Shan F. Bullock. (Ward, Lock, and
The SpectatorCo.) - As soon as we desire to possess a s udy of some particular phase of life some one is sure to gratify us, and these vigor- ous yet delicate delineations of the Irish...
Charles Lyell and Modern Geology. By Professor T. G. Bonney.
The Spectator(Cassell and Co.)—Profossor Bonney brings rare qualifications to the performance of his task. He has a thorough acquaintance with his subject, and he has literary skill of no...
Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women. By
The SpectatorDr. Elizabeth Blackwell. (Longnians and Co.)—There is some- thing quite heroic about Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell. She set about an enormously difficult work with the additional...
Rhoda Roberts. By Harry Lindsay. (Chatto and Windus.)— If Rhoda
The SpectatorRoberts had been curtailed by half, it would have been readable; as it is, the ordinary individual cannot be expected to wade through four hundred and thirty closely written...
We have great pleasure in recording the appearance of the
The Spectatorsixth volume of a very valuable publication, The Expository Times, edited by the Rev. James Hastings, M.A. (T. and T. Clark, Edin- burgh). It contains the issues of October,...