'TH E latest news from the Indian frontier is, on the whole, satisfactory. The chief fact of importance is that the two British commands—those of General Blood and General Elles...

With the " SpEcrieroa." of Saturday, October 9th, will be issued, .yratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

SPAIN AND THE UNITED STATES. D URING the past week there have been persistent reports to the effect that the - United States have sent an ultimatum to Spain declaring that if...

between France and England are undergoing a process of improvement. We do not mean to say that any very great or any very definite progress has been made towards settling the...

-T HERE is practically no doubt that some sort of scheme for a general combination to strip England of what foreigners consider her ill-gotten acquisitions was at least laid...

designate of the Indian forces, assumes command as soon as he can get to Peshawur of about sixty thousand men, spread over a front which begins about fifty miles north of...

disputes between two Houses of a, common Legislature is a question which certainly deserves the most earnest attention of all constitution-makers. Within the last decade it is a...

I F diversity of opinion be a sign of vitality, the Church of England has every cause to be satisfied with her condition. We are not now thinking of what may be called the...

M R. H. G. WELLS, the novelist who has made such notable use of the scientific imagination as applied to fiction, is at the present moment enchanting the readers of Pearson's...

T HE King of Siam was taken the other day to hear Don- Giovanni at the Opera. After the performance some one asked for his opinion of it. "Thank you," replied his Majesty, "it...

T HE present September has seen no such vast assemblies of birds awaiting the right moment to launch them- selves on the southern migration as were last year seen in our river...

[To Tire EDITOR. OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—With all due respect to your reviewer who favoured me with anoticeof my compiled translation of "Spanish Protestants in the Sixteenth...

THE EVOLUTION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN THE UNITED STATES. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—During the last sixteen years there never was a time when, if we were to...

EPIGRAMS AND EPITAPHS.* THE epigram has fallen from its old high estate. By the word " epigram " the Greek meant simply a true thing said ' beautifully and clearly. It was not...

YOUTH AND SORROW. As yet I have known no sorrow ; very sweet This murmuring summer life has been to me; My days like lilies under water stir, And God has sheltered me from his...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIEe•—IS it hypercritical to suggest that the arguments in the discussion which you have raised in so though tfnl and interesting a manner on...

the millions press, The prize for few all would possess ; They toil, they seek, they strive, they crave,-- , The end no guerdon, but the grave. God grant each soul some aim...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 Stn,—In the Spectator of July 31st in the note regarding Maulvie Hidayat Hasid you seem to doubt that any "great risk" to India would have...

WE have a certain feeling, when we take up this book, that there should be a statute of limitation introduced dealing with historical questions of the more traditional order....

IT is difficult to look at a familiar object with the eyes of stranger, but Mrs. E. T. Cook has succeeded with wonderful sympathy in entering into the feelings of a traveller...

M. LE VICOMTE DE SPOELBERCH DE LOVENJOUL is the most ingenious detective that ever set himself to discover the secrets of the past. No sources of evidence are too remote for...

PROFESSOR RAMSAY gives us in this volume some incidental results of the labours which have done so much to illustrate the early history of the Christian Church and of the...

The Martian is a book which by turns disarms and dis- concerts a critic. The late Mr. du Manner was by all accounts a very engaging and fascinating man, and his amiability...

Edinburgh.)—This may be a harmless, but is not at all a necessary, book. A certain interest, no doubt, attaches to the lively grass-widow, who was such a curious compound of...

whi.11 is edited by Messrs. M. J. B. Baddeley and E. D. Jordan, is a very good and singularly well condensed guide—it extends only to eighty- three pages—to what is still...

—Although the sketches which compose this book are "original," they will be found rather disappointing, especially by such readers as hoped a good deal from the author's...

John J. Ogle. (George Allen.)—This is a very interesting, carefully written, and eminently opportune contribution to what promises to be the valuable "Library Series," edited by...

In Camp and Cantonment. By Edith E. Cuthell. (Hurst and Blackett.)—This is a pleasant holiday volume composed of slight and superficial, but on the whole readable, "stories of...

Sons.)—Mr. William Stone Booth, who edits this story of the "life and exploits of a Yankee sailor," assures us that it is "the plain story of a plain man told in his own words."...

In the "Warwick Shakespeare" (Blackie and Son) we have The Tempest, edited by Frederic S. Boas, M.A.; and Cymbeline, edited by Alfred J. Wyatt, MA. In the intro- duct ion Mr....

Joseph Jacobs. (Greenberg and Co.)—This volume gives a variety of information under various headings, such as the "Jewish Calendar" with "Explanations," "Jewish Holidays and...

Montague Guest. (Zaensdorf.)—It will be sufficient to quote the first paragraph of the preface. "In this book is comprised a short history and the name of every member who has,...

Imitatione Christi of the simplest kind. There is no ornament, no annotation, no surroundings of any kind, but large type, showing clearly against dead-white paper. Every one's...

This is the third and last volume of a very useful and well carried out dictionary of artists. Deceased English and foreign painters are included in the work.

Notions). (Bliss, Sands, and Co.)—This volume contains a col- lection of papers published in the sporting newspapers. About a quarter of a century ago Mr. Cobbett was...

of business, should NOT be addressed to the EutiOlt, but to the Ptinmsuan, 1 Wellington Street, Strand, W.C.

Actor's Art (The), edited by J. A. Hamerton, re 8vo (Redway) 6/0 Alexander (Mrs.), Barbara: Lady's Maid and Peeress, cr 8vo...(F (V. White) 6 0 Anderson (R.), The Silence of...