proposed to M. Pichon, when they met in England, the formation of a European Confederation was followed by a semi-official dementi on the Emperor's return to Berlin. The North...

O N Sunday last the King addressed to his people a letter in which he said that he and the whole Royal family were profoundly touched by the affection and devotion displayed to...

which fortunately miscarried, but which suggests that an attempt was to be made on King Alfonso's life. A police. man was standing in the Calle Mayor, opposite the monument...

the Cretan Assembly, which seems to be doing its best to provoke Turkey beyond endurance. When the Assembly opened it took an oath of allegiance to the King of the Hellenes....

Princes and Peoples of India." In the course of it he says :- " Queen Victoria of revered memory addressed her Indian subjects and heads of Feudatory States when she assumed the...

the Albanian notables met on Monday to discuss what they should do in view of the large concentration of Turkish troops. He thinks, on the whole, that the notables are conscious...

case.

the Egyptian Criminal Court for the murder of the late Prime Minister, Boutros Pasha, was last week referred to the Grand Mufti for confirmation. The Grand Mufti, we may remind...

the frank confession that he liked being President:- " He was not going to speak any cant. It was a great thing to have a big place. He remembered when he was President sitting...

arrived in Cork last Saturday night and held a great popular demonstration on the Sunday. In his speech Mr. Redmond justified his action over the Budget. "If the Albert Hall...

bridge on Thursday. In the course of his speech at the Union he said some very excellent things about University athletics. Among the things he wished very much that American...

French- man. Last Saturday afternoon M. Jacques de Lesseps, grandson of the famous engineer, started from Calais and landed safely at a. farm near St. Margaret's Bay. The flight...

policy of Mr. William O'Brien, or his statement that Home-rule was now more impracticable than the establishment of an Irish Republic. On the contrary, he believed the chances...

in landing operations under war conditions which have been held at the island of Spit, off the coast of Schleswig. According to the Borsenzeitung, an entire infantry regiment,...

submarine not far from Calais Harbour on Thursday by a passenger steamer bound for Dover. Those on board the steamer felt a shock, and almost immediately the nose of the...

Lord Gladstone had invited General Botha to form a Ministry and that the invitation had been accepted. The decision has given general satisfaction, for although there is some...

mourning was to be shortened by nearly a month. According to the amended Order, full mourning will last until June 17th and half-mourning until June 30th. Owing to this very...

advance of its prosperity, which was only at the beginning of its growth. It was a trade ministering to the necessities of the world, not to luxuries ; and a country which owned...

will sound to most Englishmen like some sort of ghastly opera bouffe, but it would be most unwise to treat it altogether in such a spirit. Undoubtedly the Grand Mufti's decision...

Constitutional position of the self-governing Dominions and Colonies in the negotiation of Commercial and other Treaties with foreign Powers. In a despatch of Jnne, 1895, the...

stantinople, which, as we learn from Wednesday's Times, have finally been abolished. The dogs were caught by means of lassoes or " huge wooden tongs," and removed in a...

diplomatists and officials and repre- sentatives of the various financial and commercial enter- prises concerned, was held on Wednesday at the Hotel Cecil to celebrate the...

Sacred Law, we desire to dissociate therefrom our enlightened Mohammedan fellow-subjects in India. Unquestionably the vast majority of educated Indian Mohammedans would...

Edward Grey to our representative in Paris in 1907, in which the Foreign Secretary states that he does not think it necessary to adhere in the present case—i.e., the...

the orthodox interpretation of the Mohammedan law it is abso- lutely impossible to abolish slavery in a Moslem country. Yet many Mohammedans are very glad to acquiesce in its...

March 17th. Consols (2i) were on Friday 821—Thursday week 82.

A T last the Liberal papers are waking up to the fact that Mr. Lloyd George has another deficit to face. What the amount of the deficit will be few of our con- temporaries have...

THE POLITICAL SITUATION. T HERE seems to be little doubt that the Government do not intend to precipitate a political crisis by pressing forward either the Veto Resolutions in...

M R. HALDANE is adding a new story to the Territorial structure which, if it is well and truly built, as we most sincerely trust it may be, will greatly increase the efficiency...

T HE death of Mr. Boyd Alexander at Tama, not a great distance from Lake Chad, which had been mapped by him accurately for the first time, removes at an early age an explorer...

T HREE weeks ago we published two articles, one entitled " Superior Virtue," and the other " The Star's Betting Tips," in which we noted that the Daily News as a corporate body...

THE MAN OP 'nth WORLD AND rizth PIETIST. A S a Man of the World was passing by a Gaming House he saw a Pietist letting himself out by the side-door. " Well—Tm damned !" said...

H AD it not been for the sorrowful event which has been occupying the attention of us all, we should have heard a good deal more in England of the long and strange murder trial...

O NE may be sure that Midhat Pasha in framing a Con- stitution for Turkey did not frame any law directly inimical to " the friend of man," so numerous in Turkish cities, and...

A NOTORIOUS IRISH BOYCOTT. [Tb nut Elmo* OP P55 "Etrzerwros."1 SIR,—One of the most illuminating chapters of recent Irish history terminated in the Four Courts, Dublin, on...

or TER "SPsOTAToR. "1 Sts,—I write to you to express the earnest hope that great effort will be made by the English Press to recognise adequately the generous manner in which...

SUPERIOR VIRTUE, AND THE "STAR'S" TIPS. [To TEX EDITOR OF THE "SPICTATOR.1 Sts,—In your paper of the 7th inst. are two articles under the above headings which make a most...

TUX "Srscrrroz."] Sts,—Yom• correspondent " X.," referring last week to various daily papers owned by members of the Society of Friends, says he does not know what the Sheffield...

[To TER EDITOR OF TRY "SPECTATOR.'] SIR, —As regards universal education in India, may I quote you an instance of what it leads to, which came under my notice recently P I was...

"SPECTATOR. "] your issue of May 21st " An Officer" writes to correct some " misapprehensions " which the public entertain concerning Somaliland. I do not propose to criticise...

[To TIER EDITOR 07 TM! " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It is likely that many of your readers will have found much of interest in the communication of 03-ra which appears in your columns of...

in the Spectator of May 21st raises a very burning problem, but does it not take a great deal for granted ? It is so easy to assume that the Modernist cause is simply the old...

07 TER SPECTATOR."] SIR,— Perhaps you may care to insert the subjoined.—I am, IN MORTEN EDUARDI PACIFY:Mt Regis opus justo Rex regnm fine coronat In pacem aeternam Pacis...

• [To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, — What becomes of the Spectator's customary fairness and decency whenever it touches Irish affairs P I find in your last issue (1)...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, I am sure all your readers will join with you in your appreciation of the admirable work being done for the nation by Sir Robert...

[TO THE EDITOR OP TEN "SPECTATOR "] SIR, —Having copied out the registers of several rural parishes, I can bear witness to the fact that two and three hundred years ago it was a...

(To TEl EDITOR OP THE " SrEcTAToa."1 Six,—Mr. F. T. Bullen's grave and disquieting article in your issue of May 7th induces me to send you the enclosed transla- tion from the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] have to-day received the enclosed. I do not know the sender or recognise the handwriting, but hear from my friends that they have received...

[To TIM EDITOR Ol THE " SPHOTATOR..] SIR,—I have just read in your paper the article "Advice to Young Ladies " (Spectator, April 30th), and having been for some years a very...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Under this heading in your issue of May 21st there is an excellent review of Mr. H. N. Hutchinson's recent work. The casual reader,...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Six,—In your last issue, p. 851, you speak of the Mediaeval Scottish Church as "Roman." A Papal Legate never appeared in Scotland till...

THE SONG OF THE SOU-WESTER. THE sun was lost in a leaden sky, And the shore lay under our lee ; When a great Sou'-Wester hurricane high Came rollicking up the sea. He played...

PAULINE VIARDOT-GARCIA. ALFRED DE MUSSET in the elegiac stanzas on Malibran written in 1836 descants melodiously on the transitoriness of the singer's fame :— " le peintre et...

LT0 THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...I Sm,—I beg to enclose a copy of our Annual Report. As you will see from it, we sent a larger number of children away than in any previous...

[TO THIS EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sra,—I shall be glad if you will allow me to call attention to the work and objects of the National Poor Law Reform Association. The...

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...

CHINA AND CHRISTIANITY.* IT is a fascinating prospect that Lord William Cecil discusses in this book,—nothing less than the possibility that China in assuming Western...

Professor Oman's narrative is the space he gives to the Roman occupation. In these five chapters he has had the aid of "an unrivalled specialist," Professor Haverfield, from...

Madame Wiel has told the story "of the important part [the Venetian] Navy played for more than a thousand years in developing the individuality of the Republic " ; and in doing...

THE preface to one of Mr. Bernard Shaw's plays is wittily headed " First Aid to Critics." This is what all prefaces may be, and what the humble-minded reviewer hopes to find...

Mn. BRIGHT and Mr. Wilfred Mustard and the University of Chicago Press have done a real service to English literature by their reprint of Francis Sabie's Pan's Pipe. Francis...

set by his brethren at Oxford and Dublin, has collected in this volume the official work done during the last thirty-three years, a period which by a happy chance approaches...

MY LADY OF AROS.t THE author of My Lady of Bros has chosen the leas obvious path in this excellent romance of the Scottish isles in the mid- eighteenth century. That is to say,...

In the Evening is the name which Mr. Charles Stewart has chosen for this collection of essays. A glance at the list of their titles might lead one to suppose them merely mis-...

to " The Romans on the Border." It is something to have a bit of terra firma to start from. It is true that Tacitus, to whom we are indebted for our earliest knowledge, is not...

and Stoughton. Gs.)—This novel deals with the exceedingly wild and lawless habits of the men of the island of Sark, and the reader will gather as he proceeds that, though no...

—Miss Syrett's book deals with the terrible situation which is created when a woman who has deliberately chosen to become a wife thinks her own mental development and literary...

Mayne. (Hutchinson and Co. 16s. net.)—This "romance," as Miss Mayne is pleased to call it, is a somewhat squalid affair. It is a case from beginning to end, or nearly the end,...

[Under this heading we notice such llo,ks of the week as has. not been reserved for review in other forms.] Our Father. By the Rev. J. R. Cohn. (James Parker and Co., Oxford....

tale of prehistoric man, illustrating the development of the race.—Love's Miracle. By Annie S. Swan. (Hodder and Stoughton. 3s. 6d.)—A vigorous story, but not too cheerful. —21...

Mowbray and Co. ls. and is. 6d. net.)—Mr. Dearmer is more hopeful about the Eastern Churches than about Rome. But we mint remember that Eastern theologians are most emphatic in...

Wolff. (J. N. Dent and Sons. is. 4d.)—Miss Wolff has a charming knack in writing these French books for English children. She makes her English readers "prisoners of their own...

net per vol.) we have before us three volumes, The English Lakes, Oxford, and Canterbury. The drawings, which are in colour, are all by Mr. E. W. Hazlehust, and there are twelve...

Davies. (Simpkin, Morahan, and Co. ls. net.)—Mr. Davies contends, furtherance of the scheme of Welsh Disestablishment, that there is a break of continuity in the Welsh Church....

volume contains State papers and private correspondence for the last months of Buchanan's term as Presi- dent, the first date being September 5th, 1860, the last March 4th,...

and Boon. 6s.)—This book is not as good as Mr. Gribble with his qualifications as a litteraieur and a scholar might have made it. The notice of University gives us little beyond...