contained in Lord Kitchener's weekly summary, which shows that by death, wounds, capture, or surrender the Boer force has been reduced by four hundred and thirty-five men....

the Empress-Regent towards Pekin. She is making a kind of royal progress thither, and evidently intends, so far as she can, to re-establish the old situation. It is believed on...

T BE Stock Exchanges of Europe were affected on Monday by news that war was probable, indeed imminent, between Chili and the Argentine Republic. The ostensible cause of quarrel...

concession and of the works began on the Isthmus, have apparently not lost hope of selling their rights and plant to the United States. They at first destroyed their own chances...

Holland, published in the New York Herald contains one significant admission. Commenting on Mr. Chamberlain's statement that only an unconditional surrender would be accepted,...

English society and politicians as the Times has done, for the attraction of Japan and her people for Englishmen is even exaggerated, and the Marquis is unquestionably the first...

ment has spread abroad two ideas,—that Italy is abandoning the Triple Alliance for the sake of better relations with France, and that France in return has agreed that Italy...

to believe accurate, of the negotiations between France and Siam under which France is endeavouring to acquire another province. Those negotiations derive their importance for...

Monday's Times, announcing that the first locomotive had reached Port Florence, the terminus of the Uganda Railway on Victoria Nyanza. The line, which was begun just six years...

as usual the most extraordinary stories are in circulation. It is asserted, for instance, that Count Potocki lost in one evening £90,000, and had, though one of the richest...

prohibits entrance to European travellers and merchants. This is said not to be due to the jealousy of the ruling Lamas, but to the policy of Pekin, which dreads both intrusion...

on Monday. Born in 1817, he studied chemistry in Glasgow, London, and Giessen (under Liebig), and in 1843 took charge of the chemical laboratory established at Rotham- sted by...

Tully, were sentenced to two months' and one month's imprisonment respectively by the Resident Magis- trates on Tuesday at Ballymote, Co. Sligo. The action grew out of the...

a statement which appears to mean that Sir H. Campbell- Bannerman is not displeased with Lord Rosebery's speech at Chesterfield, and indeed in principle accepts his policy. -...

King, has issued a letter to all commanding officers abolishing a number of articles of uniform. Amongst the articles condemned are brass spurs, gold-laced trousers, and all...

of Swansea on Saturday last, and delivered a eulogy of municipal politics. He began by claiming that he knew something of municipal work,—" I was on the County Council of...

valuable concessions in regard to the conditions of efficiency. It is now formally stated that where a corps ex- periences exceptional difficulties in the way of fulfilling the...

took place at the Dingle Station of the Liverpool Electrical Over- head Railway on Monday afternoon. As the train was in the tunnel between the Herculaneum Dock Station and the...

New Consols (2i) were on Friday 94.1.

TWO OF LORD ROSEBERY'S DIFFICULTIES. D ILETT.ANTE though he is and will remain, for no man, whatever his powers, can change his inherent nature, any more than he can change the...

B UT for one factor of unknown force, we should say with confidence that a serious war between Chili and the Argentine Republic was in the near future almost inevit- able,—a war...

A T the time of the A.byssinian War Lord Derby re. marked that England. was a" reservoir of capacities." It seemed impossible to run short of the right men for every kind. of...

another has become a jest, and though M. Waldeck- Rousseau has broken through the tradition, it is by a happy combination of causes the recurrence of which cannot be counted on....

A N exceptionally weighty and. influential deputation attended at the Treasury yesterday week to urge upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer a plea for the augmentation of the...

I T is a pity that there is no autobiography of a miser, for there is no kind of exceptional man whom average men find it so difficult fully to comprehend. Indeed, they...

T HE horses are stamping and fidgeting outside the station in the keen November air. The country lies outspread like a Brobdingnagian chessboard, with sections one mile square,...

part of the body built, not only on . mechanical principles, but with the geometric outline of lenses and curves which we see in purely mechanical in- ventions like the...

A NEGLECTED FRONTIER QUESTION. (To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Snt,--The British public, in common with the majority of the units which compose it, sometimes shows a...

• SPASMODIC CHARITY. [To THE EDITOR 01 THE u spEoravoa.") Su,—The difficulty of getting sustained help for deservinh cases of distress is well known to all workers in the field...

—Tennyson. [TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Si,—Is there a dawn wind? Is the morning the "Mother of Winds." as Hesiod calls her ? The poets, the real poets who see and tell...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sls,—The able article under the above heading in the Spectator of December 21st appears to me to require a defi- nition of that elastic term,...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " EWHOTATOR."] SIR,—Will you allow me to make two comments on your article on this subject? First, it is surely not true to say that it does not matter to...

(To TUE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—By the encouragement of your paper, of which I have for years been a reader, our miniature rifle range has been opened and working for...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—In a letter from South Africa by last mail an officer at the front writes :—" If any of you can ever pick up old field glasses cheap at...

(To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.' SIR, — May I draw the attention of your readers to some of the suffering caused by the practice of catching small birds for the table and for...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—In the Spectator of December 14th is an article about slum children, and a cheering picture is drawn of what Mr. Matthew Arnold calls...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." j SIR, — I was much struck the other day by seeing a book with this title exposed for sale at a well-known bookseller ' s in Paris. As my...

SIR, — Either Mr. Dahymple ' s information or his arithmetic is defective (Spectator, December 21st). He says that "two-thirds of the Unionist Members for Scotland are...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") 3i11,—With reference to the article headed "The Court of the Ameer " in the Spectator of December 14th, may I venture to point out that...

OF THE "SPECTATOR." J SIR, — The able reviewer of my book of travel in the Spectator of December 14th, amid many kindly comments, accuses me of "sundry inaccuracies, " giving as...

[To not EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — In your article on St. Paul in the Spectator of December 21st you seem to take it for granted, as most other people do, that...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Referring to a letter from one of your correspondents in the Spectator of December 21st on " Politics in Scotland, " he is quite...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIE, — May one be rash enough to take exception altogether to the phrase of Darwin quoted by the Spectator of December 21st :—" What an...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] venture to suggest the following up-to-date version of the well-known lines in Mr. Gilbert's Iolanthe, as the terms "Liberal" and "...

SOUTH AFRICA, 1901. THOHGH cravens clamour in the street, And shrill, premeditated cries Of sloth, despair, and malice rise To stay the weary runner's o feet-- Though...

SIR WILLIAM HUNTER.* No Indian official has ever gained the ear of the English public so intimately as Sir William Hunter, whose death early in last year was a very real loss...

pro THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin, — The very sympathetic account of Sir Harry Smith in the Spectator of December 21st recalls to me an anecdote about Lady Smith which may...

hr The Mart Christ .Tesus we have "an attempt to depict the human life of Jesus as it appeared to His contemporaries." This is, of course, a bold attempt, and it has always been...

Tins agreeable book is not an autobiography—it is neither subjective nor introspective—but a series of sketches of the remarkable people with whom the author has lived, and of...

THE interest which has recently been discovered in the lives of our forefathers has its vice as well as its quality. On the one hand, we have been able to look upon history in a...

FOMA GORDYEEFF.* IF the novels of the young Russian writer who has, with a true sense of the fitness of things, adopted the pseudonym of Gorky or GOrki—i.e., "bitter "—fail to...

Wilderness Road is an exceptionally interesting novel of American history. Described on the title-page as "a Romance : St. (lair's Defeat and Wayne's Victory," it is further...

The Mission of Margaret" is one story in a volume of stories all turning upon Christmas. And seldom, if ever, have we 'read a book that left us with such altogether comfortable...

an interesting and well-written book, dealing chiefly with the inevitable sadness of life, the misery that comes alike to rich and poor. Mr. Elliott passed through all the...

we have a story of that country, "apart from place, withholding time," with which Mr. Anthony Hope has made us familiar. Indeed, the Princess Cynthia and the Princess Osra might...

Ewan. (Isbister and (lo. 6s.)—A novel of which the plot is laid among the lakes and mountains of the English North, and of which the first chapter introduces us to a lad who is...

[Under this heading toe notice such Books of the week as have not been reserred for review in other forms.] : her Life and Empire. By the Marquis of Lorne (now Duke of Argyll)....

volume, with its flexible leather covers, we have, besides the order of Daily Prayer (with the latest changes in the "State Prayers ''), the Daily Lessons throughout the year....

LIFE OF NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE. Life of Napoleon Buonaparte. By William Milligan Sloane, Ph.D. 4 vols. (Macmillan and Co. 63s. net.)—These very handsome volumes would be an...

The Twentieth Century New Testament. (Horace Marshall and Son. 3s. 6d.)—This is an attempt to render the New Testament Scriptures into modern idiomatic English. The translators...

The New Testament in Braid Scots. Rendered by the Rev. William Wye Smith. (Alexander Gardner, Paisley. 6s.)—Mr. Smith, who is a Canadian clergyman, has shown mach industry in...

Brothers. 6s.) — In this story of life in the America of to-day the rough peasants and lumbermen of the back- woods are contrasted with the polished, artistic, and literary...

work) of The Stall Plates of the Knights of the Garter, 1348 - 1485, by W. H. St. John Hope (A. Constable and Co., 12s. 6d. net),—a most careful and excellent piece of work,...

Bishop of Gloucester. (S.P.C.K. 2s.)—Bishop Ellicott pub- lishes here five addresses which formed together his charge given to the clergy of the archdeaconry of Gloucester at...

By George H. R. Dabbs, M.D. (C. W. Deacon and Co. ls.)—The hospital dog tells, at Dr. Dabbs's prompting, twelve stories of his experiences. He is a bulldog, we should explain,...

and Stoughton. 2s. 6d. net.)—We would specially call attention to this very convenient edition. Without disparaging More elaborate works, we may say that the great poem is given...

its way to the top rank of educational journals. Nowhere can we find a more carefully recorded chronicle of events, better con- sidered judgments on questions of the day, or...

by the Rev. C. Osborne and others about the meaning of the chief Church holy days. — Our Rulers front William I. to Edward VII., by John Alexander (S. W. Partridge and Co., 28....

Haldane. (Blackwood and Sons. 68.)—A revised and enlarged edition, with additions of details omitted in the hurry of preparing the first issue.—Isopel Berners. By George Borrow....

What" than a French " Whitaker." It describes itself as a "Little Popular Encyclopedia of Practical Life," and carries out the description very well. Matters which here are held...

Pictorial Natural History, Part I., pictured by Carlton Moore Park (S.P.C.K.), containing ten engravings with letterpress ; Faithful Friends (Blackie and Son, 2s.), concerned...

By M. H. Shoemaker ; revised by T. A.. Croat. (H. Virtue. 42s. net.)— Any one may enjoy the sight of this handsome volume, with its attractive binding and highly interesting...

showing this year an increase of some twenty pages as compared with 1901. It continues to be kept up to the latest date, and to hold its place for accuracy and completeness at...