24 AUGUST 1901

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The text of the protocol now being " considered "

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at Sian has been telegraphed from China. It consists of twelve articles, of which one enumerates the punishments said, but not proved, to have been inflicted on the agents of...

NEWS OF THE WEEK:

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T HE news from the front continues to improve. Each day has its record of captures and surrenders, and it is evident that the aggressive power of the Boers is well-nigh spent....

The reception. of the. Duke of Cornwall at Cape Town

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has been more thin cordial, and has been shared in by the Dutch. Qne remarkable feature in it was the appearance of more tlian - one - huridiecinativichiefs - frona all parts of...

According to the latest 'accounts' froth 'Constintineple, the

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quarrel between M. Constans and the Sultan has become still more accentuated. Abd-ul-Hamid, pressed by his fear that .Anarchists or assassins might enter his capital by the...

General Andre, the French Minister of War, made a remarkable

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speech at Auxonne on Saturday last. He was praising the discipline of the Army, and its superiority to politics, and told a story in illustration. One of the Pre- tenders had...

France is in an ecstasy of delight, the Czar having

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agreed to pay a visit to President Loubet early in September and to be present at the manoeuvres, where Frenchmen think he will see a hundred and sixty thousand of the finest...

*.• The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript, in any

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case.

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• The Indian Budget was- introduced on Friday week and

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was unexpectedly pleasant. In spite of a famine which hat cost the people R50,000,000 and the Treasury £15,170,000 in three years, the surplus for the past year amounted to...

Parliament was prorogued on Saturday last. The:Icke s Speech contained nothing

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of any great importance, exc e p t the graceful terms in which the King specially thanks the Commons for those arrangements in .regard to the me l t e ,. ance of the honour and...

One of the great difficulties of German military administra- tion

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is to restrain ill-conditioned officers from tyrannising over their men. Such officers take dislikes, and as their power is practically absolute, the theory of the Service being...

Outside politics the event that has excited most popular interest

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in France during the past week has been the great international bicycle race from Paris to Brest and back. The winner, who covered the. distance—some seven hundred and y mil...

The Times published on Thursday a most interesting account of

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the situation in Cuba. Economically, the island is beginning to prosper aga in. There is plenty of work for the people, now numbering 1,572,000, the sugar plantations have...

On. Saturday last just before prorogation there was a short

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discussion in regard to the Volunteers, in which Lord Stanley tried to defend, what we have always regarded "as the weak spot in Mr. Brodrick's Army scheme,—i.e., the attempt...

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A leading article in Friday's Times draws attention to the

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fact that a more hopeful feeling is growing up in regard to the prospects of trade, and that the feeling of depression which has undoubtedly prevailed during the past three or...

Tuesday's Gazette contains a despatch - from Lord Kitchener, dated July

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9th, giving an account of the progress of his Operations. As to the new Yeomanry—i.e., the force despatched in the spring—he declares that a large' number of them could not...

- We are informed that a leaflet is being circulated

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in the Andover division of Hampshire where the present by-elec , tion contest is proceeding; entitled "Our Tory Government Described by its Friends," which contains some...

In dealing - with the continued resistance of the Boers, whom Lord .

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Kitchener estimated to nitniber in the first week in • July thirteen thousand five hundred, his actual verds are worth quoting in full. The prolongation of the war he...

We are delighted to chronicle the fact that Mr. Rose-Lines

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and Mr. Solomon, two of the ablest and soundest of South African statesmen, have received the K.0.3f.G., for no men deserve better of the Empire. Mr. Rose-Lmes, to speak of him...

A full account of the five new Holland submarines which

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are being built at Barrow by Messrs. Vickers Maxim, and will in the course of a couple of months be put through their trials at Devonport, is given in Tuesday's Westminster d i...

. Bank $ per (M11.t.

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New Consols (24) were on ,Friday 944.

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TOPICS OF ..THE DAY.

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THE BOERS AND THE NATIVES. I N Mr. Lincoln's Second Inaugural—perhaps the most soul-slaking piece of oratory in the English language —occurs a memorable passage ' in regard...

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PARTY FUNDS.

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TO case: please abuse plaintiff's attorney." That 1.1 well-worn story of the barrister's instructions has been strikingly illustrated by the way in which the Opposi- tion Press...

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THE .CZAR AND THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

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HE State visit of the Czar to President 1, 011 4 .1 during the grand reviews of September, w hi ch appears 'to have been finally arrange d , i s an event of some importance. It...

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INTERNATIONAL H17XTERING.

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S OME of our readers May be aware of an incident in the Chinese muddle which, odd. and picturesque as it was, attracted little attention in Europe. There was a fancy at one time...

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MR. PLUNKETT'S EXPERIMENT.

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M R. HORACE PLUNKETT'S address to the Com- mittee of the National Co-operative Festival; of which he is . the President for 1901-2, is tinged throughout by a very natural...

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MILLIONAIRE LANDLORDS.

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THE dislike with which the extreme Radicals regard the great landlords has always been to us something of a perplexity. No doubt those who originally acquired the great estates...

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THE RETURN OF ENCICE'S CO MET.

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A RECENT telegram from America announces the .4 - 1- detection of Encke's comet, on its twenty-fifth return since the year 1818, when the little comet discovered by Pons at...

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THE RIVER ORE.

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171EW rivers in England have so many names, or such strange -12 adventures, as the Suffolk Ore, which, after flowing for sixteen miles imprisoned by the pebble bank of Orford...

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THE HERMIT OF CAPE MALEA.

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[To THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—I am a little sorry to spoil Mr. Bullen's very pathetic story of "The Hermit of Cape Malea" in the Spectator of August 17th, but he...

IRISH OVER-REPRESENTATION.

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(TO :PM EDITOR OF TLIE "SPECTATOR.") quite fail to follow the argument for redistriLutica which you support in the Spectator of August 17th. . If, how. ever, it holds water,...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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MR. RHODES AND THE LIBERAL PARTY. pro THE EDITOS OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sm,—Your exhaustive article on " Mr. Rhodes and the Liberal Party " in the Spectator of August 17th may...

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PHILADELPHIA AND THE CIVIL WAR. [To THE EDITOR OP THE

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"SPECTATOR.'1 SIR,—In your very interesting review of " The Life and Letters of Phillips Brooks " (Spectator, March 16th, 1901) occur these words :—" For this object he...

THE JUSTICE OF GOD.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The Spectator of June 29th, which reached me by this mail, contains an exceedingly interesting article on " The Justice of God."...

DERWENTWATER PRESERVATION. [To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "]

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SIR,—I have just revisited Grasmere after an interval of many years, and as you published in the Spectator of August 17th a letter on Derwen.twater Preservation," I am tempted...

THE LATE BISHOP OF DURHAM.

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[TO yes Etwroa OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Snt,—All admirers of the late Bishop will have read your correspondent's reminiscences of his earlier days in the Spectator of August...

A COLONIAL MEMORIAL

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[T., THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. ") Sie,—Your correspondent Mr. Assheten (Spectator, Aeg. 17th) is . in error if . he thinks that anything . in any letter implied either...

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THE CHARACTER OF CHARLES II.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sra,—The writer of your admirable and suggestive review of • Mr. Airy's monograph of Charles II. in the Spectator - of August 10th...

THE DECLINE AND FALL OF PARTY GOVERNMENT.

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[To THE EDITOR OF run "SrzerAron. - 1 Sis,—It seems to be desirable that the, people of this island should come to recognise that our system of government by two parties is...

RELIGION IN THE PHILIPPINES.

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[TO wan EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—In reference to your article on this subject in the Spectator of August 10th, it may interest you to know that as far back as...

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AN EPIDEMIC OF BALDNESS IN JAPAN.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATORn SIR, —I think the following account of an epidemic of bald- ness in Japan may interest your readers. European women who are resident in ....

LAUNDRY INSPECTION.—A CORRECTION. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—Allow

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me to correct an inaccuracy in your "News of the Week " in the Spectator of August 17th. Speaking of the Laundry discussion on the Report stage of the Factories and Workshops...

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BOOKS.

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ASIA AND EUROPE.* IT would be difficult to exaggerate the interest of this remark- able book. In it Mr. Meredith Townsend deals with some of the moot poignant problems that...

POETRY.

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SUMMER IN LONDON. THE smoke-pall hangs above us And the dust is in our eyes; The sun is sinking red with wrath Across the cowering skies ! From the hiss of the feet on the...

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PROFESSOR TYRRELL'S LATIN ANTHOLOGY. PROFESSOR TYRRELL has been guilty of

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a misnomer in call- ing his collection an "anthology," but he has forestalled the obvious objections of his critics so frankly and effectively in his preface that it is idle to...

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LADY LOUISA STUART.* is; this volume' of letters written by

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the daughter of Lord Bute - and the granddaughter of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu to Miss Louisa Clinton, the niece of the first Lady • Letters of Lally Louisa Stuart to Miss...

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AN AMBASSADOR IN RUSSIA.* THERE is no art nor science

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so transitory in its aims, so sudden in its effects, as diplomacy. To read of the intrigues and discussions of the last century is to transport ourselves into another world....

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NOVELS OF THE WEEK.*

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WE have no hesitation in welcoming Forest. Folk as one of the very best and most original novels of the year, and our only regret is that we have failed to proclaim the fact...

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CURRENT LITERATURE.

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SMALL GARDENS. Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them. By Violet Biddel. (C. Arthur Pearson. 9d.) — This little book, which appeared two or three months ago, has a...

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HISTORY OP HAILSHAM.

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History of Hailsham. By L. F. Salzmann. (Farncombe and Co., Lewes.)—Mr. Salzmann is quite right in making no apology for the publication of this book. Every local history, so...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

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[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for reriew in other forms.] With the Scottish Yeomanry. By Thomas F. Dewar. (T. Brunie and Co.,...

An Eton Boy's Letters. By Nugent Bankes. (Cassell and Co.

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53.)—Unless we are greatly mistaken, these letters are (with, no doubt, some necessary alterations and omissions) the genuine letters of a boy written from Eton. We are able...

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Ireland : Industrial and Agricultural. (A. Thom and Co., Dublin.)—This

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is the " Handbook for the Irish Pavilion" at the Glasgow Exhibition now proceeding, a very handsome, well- got-up, and, we need hardly say, interesting volume. It appears under...

Early Trading Companies of New France. By H. P. Biggar,

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B.Litt. (University of Toronto.)—In his first chapter Mr. Biggar gives an account of the voyages of Cartier. The story is a curious illustration of the fact that...

Primitive Man. By Dr. Moriz Hoernes. Translated by James H.

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Loewe. (J. M. Dent and Co. Is. net.)—This is one of the series of " Temple Primers." It would, we are inclined to think, have been the better if the earlier part had been...

Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Museum. With descrip- tive text

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by George F. Warner, M.A. Third Series. (British Museum.)—There are fifteen plates in this series, ranging in date from 700 A.D. down to the time when the art of calligraphy...

We may very briefly mention No. IX. of " Yale

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Studies in English" (H. Holt and Co., New York). This is A Guide to the Middle English Metrical Romances, by Anna Hunt Billings, Ph.D. Most of the English romances have a French...

In the series of "The Century Bible," under the general

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editorship of Professor W. F. Adeney, we have Romans, edited by Alfred E. Garvie (T. C. and E. C. Jack, Edinburgh, 2s. net). There is first an introduction giving the...

Robert Browning as a Religious Teacher. By Arthur Cecil Pigou,

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B.A. (C. T. Clay and Sons. 2s. 63.)—Mr. Pigou has published here the Burney Prize Essay for 1900. It is a very careful study of a difficult subject. Browning has been claimed...

Keito Unlock the Bible. By Joseph Agar Beet, D D.

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(LT.& se. 6d.)—Professor Beet, whose place among the best exegetical writers of the day is assured, gives us here an excellent summary of Biblical knowledge. He states...