which always crop up in war-time is creating some excitement in America. The Russians are reported to have " sown " the sea outside Port Arthur to a distance far beyond their...

Morning Post on the career, aims, and influence of Yuan Shi-Kai, the Viceroy of Chihli and Generalissimo of the Northern Army. Yuan Shi-Kai, who is only forty-five, has a record...

is evidently going farther, but it has not gone very far yet. M. Delcasse, considering the discourteous rebuke recently addressed to the President for visiting Italy an...

to one set of observers, he clings to his plan, which Admiral Alexeieff overruled, of retreating to Kharbin, and there awaiting in a great fortified position the advance of the...

the circum- stantial report that on Thursday the Japanese stormed Kinchau, on the west of the Kwangtung Peninsula,—a-placo regarded as the key of Port Arthur. Although this...

of communication are threatened, the daily post has been discontinued ; and on Friday London had been for three days without any news from Gyangtse. The total casualties in...

issue a very interesting account of a recent visit to the Isthmus of Panama, during which he traversed the canal from end to end. The upshot of his survey is to make it clear...

duced by General Botha to Sir Arthur Lawley. Speaking on behalf of the Congress, General Botha stated that it was the desire of the Boers to help and co-operate with the...

South Africa. The native population was thoroughly un- settled by the war and the high wages which were earned in military employment. Hence it is natural to find a certain...

Dalziel's Berlin correspondent which sets forth the terrible sen- tence alleged to have been passed upon an unfortunate private soldier for a pointless remark about the Kaiser....

and striking illustration. Mr. Perdicaris, a wealthy American citizen of Greek extraction, well known to all visitors to Tangier, was with his stepson, Mr. Varley, a British...

Relief Fund appeared in Monday's Times. In all a sum of £30,000 has been collected throughout the country for the relief of distress in Macedonia, £25,000 of which has been dis-...

now rages in favour of cheaper daily newspapers. Its conductors announce that in future they will send the paper, by an improved system of delivery, to all who order it direct...

on Tuesday in honour of the delegates attending the triennial Assembly in London of the International Association of Academies. In proposing the toast of the evening Lord...

• Tuesday week to vote in Convocation against the proposal that the rule which restricts the choice of Examiners in the Theology School to persons in priests' Orders should be...

of the United Irish League of Great Britain at Finsbury Town Hall on Saturday last, and made a curious speech. The Gates. head election formed the text of his deliverance, and...

on Monday, and was attended by 1,500 delegates. Mr. E. 0. Greening, who delivered the inaugural address, illustrated the growth of the movement by some remarkable statistics....

Pilot that its publication is to be discontinued. During the four years of its existence the Pilot has, alike by the literary quality of its contents and by its courageous...

Consols (21 per cent.) were on Friday 901.

internal condition of Russia, and all of ' it is unfavourable. No doubt news of such a kind received during a war must always be read with caution, and especially is this so in...

for many years that the Monroe doctrine, which is often denounced on the Continent as both insolent and injurious, is distinctly beneficial to Great Britain, to Europe, and to...

exaggerate to a degree unusual even with "the man in the street." If they are opposed to the idea, they pour ridicule on it ; ask how the Mongols, even if united, are to invade...

N OTIONS to adjourn for a holiday are the occasion of some of the pleasantest hours which fall to the lot of Members of Parliament. There is the sense of coming leisure, for as...

critic severely censuring the President and Council of the Royal Academy for the manner in which they have ad- ministered the the Chantrey Bequest,—thus joining in a protest...

the days of his father, even though the charnels for the outlet of criaket enthusiasm differ slightly. At all events, none of the village or school or second-class cricket clubs...

T HERE is a form of offence—perhaps there is only one - • for which we all judge ourselves far more harshly than we ever judge any one else: an offence whereof we have all of us...

F OLLOWING the example of other trunk lines, the Great Western Railway is doing its best to convince the public that there is nothing like the districts to which it ministers,...

[TO TIM EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR"] Sra,—Your kind reception of my letter on "Party Govern- ment" (Spectator, April 23rd) emboldens me to add to it a few words. My speculations...

article in the Spectator of May 21st on the relations between the Vatican and France speaks of the Pope's protest to the Catholic Powers as a crude diplo- matic blunder, and as...

SIR,—I see that in your summary of the "News of the Week" in the Spectator of May 21st you write regarding the division on Mr. Black's Motion as follows : "All the Free-trade...

LTO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—In the course of the very kind and encouraging com- ments which you make on the Report recently published by the Manchester and Salford...

(Ardea Antigone), is, I think, entitled to a place. Some twelve or fourteen years ago, in the Shahjahanpur dis- trict of Rohilkband, I witnessed a dance by three of these birds,...

SIR,—In your article last week bearing the above title you say : "Both stoats and weasels are said to gyrate in order to fascinate small birds." In July, 1885, while walking...

present House of Commons in the Spectator of May 21st reminds me of an earlier example for which that same august Assembly was responsible. It was a Member of Parliament who...

OF THE "SPECTATOR." SIE,—If the entertaining and exhaustive collection of Parlia- mentary word comicalities in the Spectator of May 21st has not exhausted the subject, a few...

Sin,—Sorrow and anxiety is often expressed by members of the Church of England at the scarcity of well-educated candidates for ordination. The reasons most commonly alleged for...

SIR,—" Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end,' He said to men who were shortly to see Him crucified" (Spectator, May 21st). Did He not rather say them to the men who were...

trees bare, When the Dark Maid came to our town With gold pins in her hair. Her eyes were like a forest pool, Her lips they were so sweet, Every man put aside his tool, To...

good light verse owe a debt of gratitude to Miss Gaiwey for allowing them to read so vigorous and admirable a specimen of the art as " Chillianwallah," in the Spectator of May...

many years on terms of friendship with the Duke of Wellington. He first saw him in September, 1813, when a movement among the French across the Bidassoa led to a change of...

which does not seem to belong to the twentieth century. They suggest that there are parts of the earth still unknown, except to armchair geographers ; that wild life exists...

old- fashioned partiality for a gentlewoman" this record of one of the last of the elder school of Scottish ladies must have a singular interest. There is not much material, we...

is but a short time since The Creevey Papers appeared. There has long been a place open for a popular and accurate work on British fish, and the volume which be has contributed...

MODERN novels, as we have frequently had occasion to remark, exhibit so marked a reaction from the placidity of early and mid-Victorian fiction that the quality of refreshment...

and Viney. 6d.)—The origin of this Report is thus described:—" Last year Mr. Alfred Mosely invited the Parliamen- tary Industry Committee to nominate a representative on his...

E. Dionne. (The Quebec News Company, Quebec.)—The character of this' handsome and well-illustrated book is in itself a curious illustra- tion of the Canadian political...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not ban reserved for review in other forms.] The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. Variorum Edition. Vol....

(Smith, Elder, and Co. 6s.)—Here are nineteen stories gathered from various magazines, &c., some of them. very short and slight, but all, we may say, showing signs of the...

The Life of Frederic W. Farrar. By his Son, Reginald Farrar. (J. Nisbet and Co. 6s. net.)—Dean Farrar's Life satisfied most of the usual tests of success. In his pre-University...

Long, 2s. and 3s. net per vol.) we have _Adam Bede, by George Eliot, with a portrait of the author and sixteen illustrations by P. B. Hickling, certainly an excellent specimen...

G. Rosedale, D.D. (H. Frowde. 10s. 6d. net.)—That this is a sumptuous volume, with its facsimiles, portraits, Ise., is plain enough ; we do not feel so certain about the...

Oman. (E. Arnold. 2s.)—A book of this kind, the work of one who is a practised writer and an acknowledged authority on his subject, is open to one kind of criticism only,—is the...

John Boyd Thatcher. Vol. III (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 36s. net.)— Mr. Thatcher, in this sumptuous volume, magnificent in its typography, illustration, and binding, brings his great...

India (Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta). It deals with the "Lade-Aryan Languages : Eastern Group." In view of the recently completed Census of...

Thring. (A. Constable and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—This translation, the task of a great schoolmaster's scanty leisure, was finished three years before his death ; and now, seventeen...

and Sons. 3s. 6d.)—This is likely to be a useful book of reference, though, as might be expected, it is not without omissions. Here are some military nicknames which occur as we...