Thursday in the final heat of the four hundred metres race. The competitors were three Americans and the Englishman Halswelle. Halswelle was so transparently driven out of his...

T HE Tercentenary of Quebec celebrations began this week, the Prince of Wales having reached Quebec in the 'Indomitable' on Wednesday. On Thursday his Royal Highness, in the...

week. The Liberal candidate, Mr. W. Roach, was returned by 5,465 votes against 3,293 for the Unionist candidate, Mr. Lort Williams. Mr. Roch thus had a majority of 2,172. The...

Members who urged upon him their views on Welsh Disestablishment, expressed his sympathy and that of his colleagues with the cause, remarking, however, that it would be...

sentenced to six years' transportation and a fine of one thousand rupees for publishing seditious articles in his paper, the Saari. The Times of Wednesday gave some extracts...

lished on Saturday last announces that Germany has suddenly assumed the protection of Turkish subjects in China. This office has always been discharged by France, the kindly...

case.

figures in opposition to the Bill. He was most emphatic in his declaration that the ultimate burden of the scheme would in any case mainly fall on the working classes, and that...

the Bill, Lord St. Aldwyn made a hedging speech. He thought the Bill was properly described as an extension of outdoor relief. But though he considered that the financial aspect...

of great force and weight. We cannot repeat all his arguments, but must quote verbatim the passage in which he warned the House of the danger of weakening our financial position...

Bill a second time, negativing Lord Wemyss's amendment by 123 votes to 16. We have pointed out elsewhere how the Lords are in effect abolishing themselves by agreeing to pass...

words ; but we say deliberately that we consider not only that he was justified in using them, but that it was his duty to the country to speak as be spoke, disagreeable as the...

we feel sure, have made many of his Liberal and Free- trade auditors very uncomfortable. Taxation to supply money for the Bill, if it did not inevitably lead to Protection,...

spoke, as he always does, with charm and ability, but it was beyond his power to make out a good case for this ill-starred measure. He tried to meet Lord Cromer's point as to...

at Bisley on Thursday, July 16th, was won by the Balham and Southern Rifle Club, the second and third prizes being gained by the Queen's (Edinburgh) and the Oxford University...

the first clause of the Licensing Bill was under discussion in Committee, or perhaps we should say, under the knife of the "guillotine," for very little real discussion took...

Lansdowne in a speech of great ability, but one vitiated by the fact that he was not prepared to advise the Peers to throw out the measure, which he showed so conclusively was...

Under-Secretary for India, who performed well the clifficuit task of standing in Lord Morley's place, made the annual statement on the Indian Budget. His speech was on the whole...

not do to tell the country an unpleasant fact. We disagree with him, since it is a fact, and a fact which it is essential that Free-traders should be made to understand. The...

point in his criticism of the methods of education in India. Modern thought tended to destroy the ancient beliefs of the natives, yet nothing religious, or even moral, was...

out in Ireland. We are therefore specially glad to record a proof to the contrary. An Irish tenant who had just bought under the Purchase Act boasted to the agent that his...

a judgment on the use of Trade-Union funds which is of great public importance. The secretary of the Walthametow branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants claimed a...

May 28th. Consols (2i) were on Friday 861—on Friday week 87i.

"THE LIBERTY NOT TO FIGHT FOR ONE'S COUNTRY." 'E VEN at the risk of wearying our readers, we feel that we must return to the subject of universal training. It is natural, no...

the women opposed to the extension of the Parliamentary franchise to women, are doing the right thing in the right way. They have formed an organisation already powerful through...

T HE failure of the House of Lords either to reject or to postpone the second reading of the Old-Age Petitions Bill shows how gravely the British Constitutioe stands hi need of...

.T HE rather mysterious revolutionary movement within the Turkish Army, of which the most noticeable manifestations so far have been in Macedonia, may lead to issues of...

history of a well-intended but most unhappy experiment. They grew out of a very just belief that if the classes among whom drunkenness was most prevalent could be induced to...

M R. JUSTICE PARKER by his decision that the public has no legal right of access to the sea across the foreshore has made a good many people rub their eyes. Yet he was only...

S INCE the very beginning of things the days of the week have been allowed to have separate personalities. Monday has been condemned as no gentleman ; Friday and Saturday have...

T ENNYSON, who loved blackbirds and thrushes, and kept "smooth plats of fruitful ground" for them to eat and live in, must have had lamentable collisions with his gardener :—...

GREAT BRITAIN AND GERMANY. [To THE EDITOO OY THE " SPECTATOR." j SIR,—I have just been reading in last week's Spectator your article upon "Half-Truths and the Navy," and also...

To THE EDITOR Or THZ " SPEOTAT011." SIR,—In Sir John Banks, the father of the medical profession in Ireland, death has removed from the life of the Irish capital a remarkable...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THIS " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—It has been the custom in Nationalist circles in Ireland —that is, in circles dominated by the United Irish Leaguers— to sneer at the...

[To TillII IETEITOR or TUE "8PECTATOR:1 Sio,—As your description of the working of these railways is disputed by a correspondent (Spectator, July 18th), I should like to submit...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOE.1 in,—There are one or two side-issues raised by the Old-Age Pensions Bill which are, I think, worth consideration. The aspects of the...

rTo THE EDITOR OF TES " SPECTATOR:1 trust that your powerful article on this subject in last week's Spectator will arouse the attention both of the public and the authorities....

[TO THZ ED/TOR OF TUB "BP carsTost.-j SIR,—In case you care to insert it, I send you an instance of the effect of the "sentence of death" the reverse of that aniinadverted on by...

Drunkenuess and the Law" in last week's Spectator is interesting and suggestive. Most Magis- trates, I imagine, inflict penalties more or less on an increasing scale for this...

ere THE nDITOR OF THZ " SrgCTATOR.") SIR, — St. James's definition of true religion requires re- asserting in the present day. It may not be generally realised that the word...

[TO THY EDITOR OF THU " SPZOFILT01.1 SIR, — I hope it may interest some of your readers to know that once more the Truck Act is being enforced in Shetland,— in earnest, not to...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SpECTATOR.".1 am sending you some extracts from the "Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn" which I think ought to be published abroad. He surely was au...

Si,—May I add two short bird-stories to those which have followed Mr. A. C. Benson's account of the vain peacock in the Spectator of July 11th ? We have in our household a white...

LTo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The peacock is not singular in his self-admiration. Pigeons are so notorious for the same vice that it is, I am told, illegal to put a...

LTO THIS EDITOR OF THE “sesawros:1 SIR,—In an article in the Spectator of July 11th headed "Scent and Memory" the writer suggests the question : "Do any scents bring you unhappy...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Permit me discursively to supplement your interesting remarks in the Spectator of July 11th on the new edition of "The Condition of...

SIR,—Surely it would be interesting if Mr. Benson, or another of your correspondents, would inform us whether peacocks have been known to find pleasure in the contemplation of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—It may perhaps be worth while to recall at this time the admirably terse inscription on the joint monument to Wolfe and Montealm which...

THE ALLIED ARTISTS' ASSOCIATION. AN Exhibition without the intervention of a Committee of Selection has been the desired harbour of refuge of many an artist who did not wish to...

[TO THE EDITOR OF Till "SPECTATOR:"] SIR,—I think your readers are mostly animal-lovers, and I venture to appeal through your widely read paper for some influential person to...

[To rim EDITOR OF TUB "EPBCFATOR." . 1 SIR,—The line, "He comes too near that comes to be denied," attributed in your article, "Half-Truths and the Navy," in last week's...

A SONG OF CEDER. TRIB grand haying weather do make a man dry, And the harvest flies tickle his thrapple. But the drink as best layeth the dust o' July Is the drink that is...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of...

COLONEL SAUNDERSON.* . IT is easier to write a biography of a Field-Marshal in politics than of a brigade commander, for in 'the 'former case a man's history is part of that of...

'Ins tragedies of Seneca are to-day rarely read in England, and the old edition of Gronovius, which by chance lies before the present writer, inscribed " J. D. Coleridge e...

DUBIN& the last few years English readers have suffered from no lack of books upon America. Perhaps the most interesting of these was Mr. H. G. Wells's survey of the forces and...

ROMANTIC historical biographies are the fashion, and it must be confessed that scholars and critics are apt to treat them with a certain scorn not quite always undeserved. At...

EVERY thoughtful man, be he gifted with a turn for scientific inquiry or not, must be deeply interested in the modern views of the relation between ether, matter, and energy,...

PROFESSOR MONTAGUE set himself a difficult task when he undertook to write the volume dealing with the first sixty years of the seventeenth century in this very valuable, but...

modern story, chiefly concerned with the tricks of American mediums.—The Adventurer. By Lloyd Osbourn°. (W. HOWOMILI1D. 6s.)—An amusing story of a successful treasure-hunt. Mr....

6s.)—In her story of Amy Stoovens, a woman thrown entirely on her own resources, Miss Violet Hunt, far from avoiding the seamy side of life, takes considerable pains to display...

MR. CLUTTERRUCK'S ELECTION.* ALL who enjoyed Mr. Belloc'e Emanuel Burden will naturally read Mr. Clutterbuck's Election. They will not be dis- appointed in one sense, because,...

Tax most directly political article in the Edinburgh is "Colonial Policy under the Earl of Elgin." It is a grave indictment of the Prime Minister. "Lord Elgin has virtually been...

The real heroine of this book is neither Rose MacLeod nor Electra Fulton, who are both young women, but Madata Fulten, Electra's grandmother. The interest of this lively lady's...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as hays not been reserved for review in other forms.] People's Co - operative Banks. By H. C. Devine. (Cassell and Co. is....

M.A. (G. Routledge and Sons. 2s. 6d. net.)—The Levant Company was the third in order of time of a series of trading corporations, its predecessors being the "Turkey Company"...

2s. 6d.)—" Seafarer" in these "up-to-date sketches of steamship life" gives us descriptions, illustrated by snapshas, of the various persons who work the steamship, are...

Straehan Holme. (Sherratt and Hughes. 31s. 6d. net.)—Wardley Hall is in the township of Woraley, about six miles from Manchester. It was built on the site of an older house in...

3s. 6d.)—As far as we can judge—and a school-book can, perhaps, be really tested by use only—this book should serve its purpose. The plan seems to be well conceived and well...

2s. 6d. net.)— This Pocket Book has, as is proper, its business part and its literary part. In the first we have the management and the agencies, the fleet past and present—it...

Youngest Son, Samuel H. Wilkinson. (Morgan and Scott. 6s.) —John Wilkinson, born in 1824, seems to have received religious impressions 'very early. For some years, while engaged...

Co. is. net.)—It will suffice to give the sub-title of this book, "A Short History of the Olympic Movement from 18 96 up to the Present Day, together with an Account of the...

of the Interior.)—This volume contains eighty-three maps and diagrams, in which all details of geology, minerals, forests, telegraphs, railways, population, &c., are elaborately...

Hanslip Fletcher. (John Lane. 10s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Rutter tells us that he and his colleague, "The Limner," after comparing various routes, determined to make the journey to Paris...

Arnold. is. 6d.)—This is the sixth of Miss Wolff's admirable French reading-books. It marks, we need hardly say, a step upward in the learner's progress. " England," said...

T. Wilcox. (A. Doubleday. 42s. net.)—The regiment has undergone more than one change of name. It had its beginning in 1689, when it was known as " Wynn's Euniskellin Dragoons."...

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