S IR PETER LUMSDEN'S criticism on General Komaroff's account of the battle of Pul-i-Khisti was received in London on Tuesday, and published on the following day. Sir Peter...

WAR OR PEACE? T HE men who believe in peace have become few, and her Majesty's Ministers are, we cannot but believe, not to be counted among them. The financiers who dread a...

N OTHWG strikes a quiet observer more than the absence of sensation with which the Teutonic races approach great conflicts, even when, as in the case of the Civil War in America...

has possibly acquired an exaggerated importance ; but it is serious, and is not a creditable one to any of the parties concerned, unless it be the British Government at home....

L ORD SALISBURY'S speeches in Wales have been very clever speeches, such as we expect from Lord Salisbury, and by no means so full of venom as earlier performances of his in the...

J OURNALISTS, at all events, are to have a week's holiday this coming autumn. There is to be no meeting of the Social Science Association. For once the columns of the daily...

is setting-in with its accustomed severity, intending entertainers will scarcely be comforted by reading the summing-up of Lord Coleridge in a case decided before him last...

D R. LIDDON'S• eloquent protest last Sunday against the imitation of masculine ideals by women is one in which we should heartily join, were it not that its form and language...

I T must, we fear, be admitted that, except with a very few men upon whom the feminine side of Christianity—the side which preaches resignation—has taken a strong hold, or who...

IS IRELAND TO BE SAVED? LTo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The reception given in Ireland to the Prince and Princess of Wales has been in more than one respect...

rTo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR, — Your correspondent of last week regards the effects of Disestablishment in the country parishes with a light heart. Authorities,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'1 Sta,—I observe that you speak of what would happen in "a country suddenly deprived of all religious foundations," by which, I presume, is...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR?'] SIR, — I agree with the Bishop of Oxford and yourself in the position that the legalisation of all marriages of affinity would Logically...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—May I point out to you what is evidently a slip of the pen in the article on "The Economic Effect of War" in your last issue ? The error...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TUB " SPECTATOR." J SIR,—Tennant, in one of his tours in Wales, paid his devotions to the shrine of St. Monacella, "or, as the Welsh style her, Melangoll."...

ROME. WHERE are the footprints of the ancient dead Who dwelt and wrought in Rome and made mankind ? What memory have the mighty left behind In this imperial place where they...

MR. HAMERTON ON LANDSCAPE.* WHAT would "that uncouth and ungracious genius, Thomas Carlyle" (the phrase is Mr. Hamerton's), with his horror of descriptions and view-hunters as...

MR. EDWIN ARNOLD has collected in this volume much of his scattered poetical work. The dates of the fifty odd pieces belong to a period of not less than thirty years; and the...

THE new American novel with the rather imposing title of Trajan, which the author, in a gorgeous dedication to "Major Henry A. Huntingdon, of Chicago, Illinois," says is "the...

first appearance, we should not now revert to it further than to welcome heartily a popular edition of a book which will make everybody who reads it feel how close akin are all...

THE contents of this large volume are divided into three parts, with considerable disproportion of interest between them, and no similarity of style. Holding the middle place,...

A BOOK about Russia, by a Russian who has been in the thick of the revolutionary movement, who has edited a clandestine journal, and while objecting to the name, frankly avows...

Tins is one of those books which puzzle a reviewer exceedingly, not only from its individual character, but from its relations to the previous works of its author. Had Mrs....

The most notable article in the new number of The Scottish Review is one by Mr. Bourinot, clerk to the Canadian House of Commons, on "The Political Development of the Dominion."...