kind. The Christian Powers desire to reduce Macedonia to order, and as one necessary step in that process have appointed Financial Agents to arrest financial oppression. The...

of a Ministerial crisis, due to the declaration by Mr. Chamberlain in his speech at Bristol—a speech which we sum- marise on the next page—that he could not agree that it was...

serious discredit by refusing to take office . is the merest political clap-trap. The country fully appreciates the position, and will, we are convinced, consider that the...

demonstration of opinion by the Peasant Congress. Repre- sentatives of the peasants have come to Moscow from all the provinces of Russia, and while they differ from each other...

of the Unionist party is now visible to the world. None feel more keenly than we• do the destruction of that party, which not three years ago was united, respected, and respect-...

the Labour Committee has found it expedient to bring it to an end. As St. Petersburg has therefore resumed its normal aspect, those who live there are inclined to say that "...

of Denmark of his election to the throne of Norway was received by King Christian at Copenhagen on Monday. King Christian in his reply laid due stress on the fact that the young...

Liberal meeting at Walthamstow on Monday evening, took up with great effect the point made in our leading article last week—Mr. Balfour's veiled but unmistakable claim for...

one portion of Mr. Chamberlain's speech that we cannot resist quoting it. Mr. Chamberlain denounced "the cargoes of ready-made doors delivered on their quays, whereby the...

at the Liberal Unionist meeting at Bristol on Tuesday showed no falling off in energy and incisiveness, and, as we have already observed, has proved an epoch-making pro-...

complimentary. The following is the passage in regard to the Premier's plea for union as laid down at New- castle, a passage which' produced the Ministeral crisis which is still...

be taken first to see the protected States of India, where semi-Royal Courts still exist, and splendid palaces, and separate, if small, armies, and where the cities when en....

imagination ; but the disaster which last Satur- day night befell the London and South-Western Railway's passenger steamer Hilda ' would have been terrible any- where. It has...

of State for War, to the Chief of the General Staff, dealing with the functions of that body. The Minute follows closely the suggestion of the Esher Commission, and contains the...

issue, the Duke of Bedford has most generously subscribed 21,000 to the Spectator Fund raised to enable Colonel Pollock to carry out his proposed experiment in Militia training....

who is 80 strongly in favour of Colonial Conferences, was not willing to call a Colonial Conference, and refer to it a question which the participation of the Colonies in the...

meetings in Cornwall, spoke at Penzance on Wednesday night, and criticised Mr. Chamberlain's policy with a happy mixture of seriousness and raillery. He suggested that the...

Balfour by a number of well-known persons, headed by the Bishop of Hereford, and including Mr. John Burns, Mr. Burt, the Master of Balliol, and Major Seely, asking that the...

of Denmark of his election to the throne of Norway was received by King Christian at Copenhagen on Monday. King Christian in his reply laid due stress on the fact that the young...

imagination; but the disaster which last Satur- day night befell the London and South-Western Railway's passenger steamer 'Hilda' would have been terrible any- where. It has...

Its delivery was followed by two inspired leading articles, one in the Times and one in the Daily Telegraph, in which the writers, both evidently in touch with the Prime...

day, and is said to have done already, there will be much trouble in the East. His people may conceivably believe, as Asiatics have believed before, that a general massacre of...

training well to the front, and not allow any one to say that he advocates compulsory service in any shape or form, we are, as we have said, convinced that he will gradually win...

a repetition of the earlier deputation to the Prime Minister. There was the same patient misery, the same groundless belief that Government had only to will to relieve it and...

that there were jealousies between Sweden- and Norway ; but did any one expect that the magazine would. suddenly explode, or still less that, exploding, it would,do no immediate...

where " every man's own faculties are so far infallible, as to put him but of danger." If, on the other hand, "any other Word of Scripture be doubtful, there is no harm if it...

whose charming collection of poetry and prose, "The Friendly Town : a Little Book for the Urbane" (Methuen and Co., 5s.), has just been published. Mr. Lucas has already taken...

When the long dark autumn evenings come." Or the pleasure of anticipating long hours of mere reading P It is true enough that when the hours come there is for most of us...

frosts and snows. They are but aliens, desirable and welcome aliens, driven here in search of food. They have no errand but to pick up a meal, and no intention but to get back...

is all right; the young man is used to claret." If Borrow was always urbane under the roof of an inn, was the greatest town-lover of all really an urbane person P Real urbanity...

T HE birds that come to us in spring, when fleecy sunlit clouds are dropping verdure on the meadows and we tread on budding flowers at every step we take, are like our own...

of the winter, when, again they may be forced to hasten south. Suddenly comes the hard frost. At the first cold breath of it the worms, have burrowed deep out of the way, and...

later, according to the coldness of the season. They are here before the frosts have given a last pinch to the yellow leaves to let them fall drifting . upon the wind. They come...

you therefore reply to an objection which I offer to your leading article on Mr. Balfour in last week's issue ? You speak of "Mr. Chamberlain's absurd theory that imports from...

not desirous of being led by the nose by an alien leader that they must soon make up their minds as to whether there is to be a Conservative party in the future, or whether they...

to be simply "the great Unnameable "? Nay, I go further, and ask why, if he really has a positive definite policy which be believes in him- self, he does not take more trouble...

God has pledged Himself to those fixed ways which we sum up under the term Law. In the mechanism of the human frame he acts, as he acts in the scene around, along pre-ordained...

"SPEOTA.TOR."] SIR,—As a British subject living in Russia, and one who has always wished for a better understanding between ourselves and the Russians, it has been a great...

[Our article was not intended to declare that God chooses out a particular case for help because he is directly or happily approached, and neglects another case because there...

even respect, an Omnipotent Being who acted as capriciously as this would imply,—saving, for instance, the life of this London lady, because the Bishop prayed so earnestly for...

Mr. E. James ... ... £200 0 The Proprietor of the Spectator ... 100 0 The Earl of Dysart ... ... 200 0 C. Davies Gilbert ... 50 *F. H. Gossage, Esq. ... • •• 100 0 Peter Jack,...

express wish. The motives which induced Tchaikovsky's benefactress to adopt this curious attitude were partly revealed in her letters, and may be partly divined from their...

of the Westminster Confession ; but, in his opinion, "they contain at bottom nearly all the difficulties which the person who signs the Confession of Faith has to face." On the...

the national income based upon the Income-tax Returns, the Census, and the Wages Returns we have no fault to find. It proceeds on lines more or less familiar to students of the...

IT is not often that a devotee of the Red Gods attains to a high place in that civilised world where their divinity is not recognised. Why this should be we do not know, for to...

declared in a solemn report that he could find no precedent against the Duke of Reichstadt's going into mourning. That is symbolical of the saddest. career recorded in history....

It was the little King of Rome who most easily softened the Emperor's heart. "The Emperor," wrote Marie Louise, "is astonishingly good to him, carrying him about in his arms; he...

of which it is enough to say that it is as true, as wholesome, and as entertaining as his first venture. The limitations that prevented Godfrey Marten from being regarded as a...

almost invariably defeated its own laudable end by lapses into mawkish sentimentality. We do not, therefore, blame Mr. Tur- ley for his abstention, since, given his standpoint,...

Illustrations by he said that he didn't care what she Meant as long as I didn't snake an ass of myself. Then I promised not to call him The Peach' any more, for it was very...

Browne. London: W. Heinemann. [Os.] necessary, and Dr. Wertheimer has chosen wisely to present the details of a sad career with the fulness, the accuracy, and the impartiality...

to his father's history. The child, who showed a cold and disdainful indifference to all the world, who parted from the members of his household with astonishing coolness...

and Windt's. Gs.)—The Motor Cracksman. By Charles Carey. (T. Fisher Unwin. 6s.)—A fashionable form of fiction, which is doubtless a development of the "detective novel," is the...

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fellow's people until you meet them, because a chap must be an idiot who doesn't try to make them out nicer than anybody else's, only he can never get anyone to listen to what...

Newcombe. (W. Blackwood and Sons. 12s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Newcombe tells us that he went out from Cooper's Hill College in 1874 to take a position under the Public Works Department...