T HE Anglo-Russian Convention was ratified on Monday, and was published in the papers . of Wednesday. It begins by expressing the sincere desire of King Edward and the Emperor...

Russian Convention is published also contains an important, despatch from Sit- Edward Grey to Sir A. Nicolson, in which it is explained that no mention of the Persian Gulf is...

position of that country, nor encourage it in designs against Russia. Russia in return recognises that Afghanistan is, outside her sphere of influence, agrees not to maintain...

first instance of the negotiations which were opened with the tribes near Casa Blanca. On Saturday last General Drude considered it necessary to make another attack on the Arab...

Duma has been reached. On Sunday last the small land- owners in the province of St. Petersburg had to choose their delegates to the provincial Electoral College. They were...

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by the Cpnference of some of the serious draw- backg by which its deliberations have been hampered. It fails, however, to grapple with the radical defect of its con-...

Parliament at the annual banquet of the lionnetmakera i Licorperation of Glasgow yesterday week, spoke at length and with a happy mixture ef wit and sagacity on the positiOn and...

the proposed Convention for the institution of an International Prize Court by thirty,seren votes to one (Brazil), with six abstentiona (Japan, Russia, Turkey, Siam, Venezuela,...

Admirals, and high officials of State took place, Reuter tells us, on Saturday last at Tokio. The Emperor personally bestowed the new titles. The Marquises Ito, Tan - iagata,...

during the week. Mr. Bell's letter to the Railway Companies' Association has not yet been answered, and the preparations for taking the ballot are being rapidly pushed on. But...

House of Commove, delivered an important speech at Vancouver on Tuesday - night. The recent violence against peaceful subjects . qf Japan, he declared, was a matter regretted by...

Sir Robert Bond, so far from disowning his violent criticism of the snodup viveadi, is potnally prepared to encourage the Colony to defy the British Government. Op the...

Commerce held a meeting to discuss the new Australian tariff. Mr. Faithfull-Begg, who presided, said that if he might judge from the letters received by the Chamber and by the...

but he would rather have a weak barrier . than none at all against the dangerous and detestable tyranny of a single Chamber. In conclusion, he stated his firm belief that the...

committed by some person or persons unknown, and that there was no foundation whatever for the imputa- tions, charges, insinuations, and suggestions which from first to last had...

Waterford on Monday. Lord Ashtown claimed e200 compensation for the damage done by the explosion of a bomb at Glenahiry Lodge on August 14th last, and the claim was resisted by...

service by analysing the election address of the Labour candidate in the Kirkdale Division of Liverpool. Mr. Hill, the candidate in question, though avoiding the use of the term...

address at the opening of the John Bright Secondary School at Llandudno on WedueliciaY- After dwelling on the inspiration to be found in Mr. Bright's character and the stimulus...

Aug. 15th. Consols (2-1) were on Friday 821—on Friday week 82i.

THE ANGLO-RITSSIAN CONVENTION. T HE Anglo-Russian Convention, on the conclusion of which we tender our hearty congratulations to Sir Edward Grey, might be described in the...

in punishing severely those who preach anti- militarism, especially in the form approved by MM. Jaures and nerve and their followers. They practically advise the recruits on the...

I T is impossible not to admire the devotion of Mr. Jesse Collings to his chief. The doubtful waters of modern political seas carry no stauncher sailor. The ship on which Mr....

1904 has had, as they say in America, a" difficult patch to hoe." He has had to contend against those two greatest of obstacles to successful leadership,—an empty Exchequer, and...

T HIS week a new scheme of historical teaching was introduced in London with the sanction of the London County Council. In the days of the old School Board, lectures on the...

9'HE slow development of that ordered knowledge which we call science affords one of the most interesting chapters in the history of human evolution. One section of this...

T HE sense of beauty is far more widely spread than esoteric worshippers of the beautiful would have us believe, but it takes varied forms and is not always easily recognised....

C OMPARED with Surrey and Kent, Essex is for well-. to-do Londoners an undiscovered county. For ten persons who regularly go south of London—bicyclists, walkers, motorists, or...

THE SITUATION IN BRITISH COLUMBIA. [TO TIIB EDITOR OP TUB . SPECTATOR.'] SIR,-Mr. William Templeman, recently returned from Ottawa, where he holds the official position of the...

in the subjoined extract from a letter lately received from Eastern Bengal, the original seat, as you know, of the present trouble in India, where feeling still runs strong :—...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The village people make up ninety per cent. of India's population; but Dr. Macphail is seriously in error in thinking that the village...

To THE EDITOR OF Tine "Scxcr.vrotc.") SIR,—I trust to your usual fairness to allow me to say that in stating the case in your last issue between the railwaymen and the...

[TO TER EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—A few months ago you were good enough to publish a letter in which I showed that Mr. Marks was enabled to re-enter public life owing to...

by Sir Godfrey Lagden in your issue of September 21st as an example of "Cape Boy" English is an old friend in a new guise. The last time I saw it it purported to have been...

On leave, I take leave to warn you that many of the so-called specimens of ,"Baboo English" one comes across are "faked " ; are, in fact, imitations of tlit natural product by...

rro TO* Eonetz 07 THE " SPECTATOR."] Si,—What Sir William Markby says in your last issue of the Etiglish attainments of the young Indians who passed nto the Indian Civil Service...

LTO TIM EDITOR OF TIM "SPROTATOR.1 think too much may be made of the difficulty of adjusting railway time-tables to the alterations of the clock proposed in Mr. Willett's...

SIR,—The courtesy and humour of Mr. Willett's letter in last week's Spectator are more evident than its logic. The financial considerations attending the engagement of a butler...

Sin,—The correspondence in this and other journals has given Mr. Willett's scheme Wide publicity, yet it is remarkable that no serious objection to it has been found....

repeat the question of one of your correspondents in your larvae of September 14th, "Would it not be easier to do as all other nations do ? " but I would add, "and as our own...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—A very beautiful and characteristic bit of the Thames is threatened with destruction,—to wit, the small park at Orleans House,...

[To THE EDITOR OF TOE "SPECTATOR."] Srn,—I notice your "deep regret that Dr. Jameson should have proposed to relax the laws restricting the sale of liquor to the natives"...

[To TEE EDITOR OE THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sia,—Some months ago a letter of mine appeared in the Spectator describing ao aerolite which had fallen while I was in Kaiama, in 'the Borgu...

rro TRH EDITOR OF TEE EPECTATOR..1 SIR,- - A propos of the article on salmon-fishing in your issue of September 21st is the following. A man fishing on Tweed bad landed three...

THE KNIGHT ERRANT. LA.DY, I know your gaze is bent Across a listening continent To where your sky-line far and pale Expects the lifting of my sail Out of the world it shuts from...

THE NETHERWORLD OF MENDIP.* THE Mendips have one advantage over other and, more imposing ranges of hills. Not only are their slopes and summits of beauty and interest, but...

IN this volume Professor Villari has collected seven essays, of which much the longest is that on the old question whether history is a science or an art. The others are all on...

HORTENSE DE BEALTHARNAIS, stepdaughter and sister-in-law of the great Napoleon, was probably the most attractive among the mock Royalties with whom it pleased him to surround...

COMMANDER PEARY started on his latest expedition to the North Pole on July 26th, 1905. One might suppose that this was somewhat late in the year for a beginning, as the summer...

THE SHEEP AND THE GOATS.* Mag. MANN'S literary baggage is already of considerable dimensions, but happily there is no sign of any deterioration in its quality. Indeed, we doubt...

Amongst recent reprints, a special welcome is due to Pope's Odyssey of Homer (Cassell and Co., 2s. net), Edited, with an Introduction, by Professor A. J. Church, who has already...

Co. 6s.)—A story of adventure in East Africa, in which native prisoners and City promoters figure. Father Roche and Marcus Hay's Basuto follower are both excellent studies.—The...

a story of which the greater part takes place in Sydney. The interest of the book is mostly in the pictures of three women, —first, the heroine, Elinor Fairfax ; secondly, an...

FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Frederick Douglass. By Booker T. Washington. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.)—Frederick Bailey—the name of Douglass was assumed after his escape from...

6s.)—We are inclined to prefer "Anthony Hope's" short stories to his long, not so much on the score of literary merit as on that of power of entertainment. And among these short...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have Not been reserved for review in other forms.] The Expository Times. Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Vol. XVIII.,...

Bumpus. (T. Werner Laurie. 16s. net.)—The range of Mr. Bumpus's journeyings may be gathered from the mention of the furthest points which he reached. To the north, then, we have...

75. 6d.)—Mr. Wallace started on the trail on June 26th, when his canoe voyaged up the North-West River, and he got back to Eskimo Point on April 20th, haVing traversed in the...

no doubt in any mind not obscured by patty prejudice that these "Two Years of Liberal Administration and Legislation "show a very creditable result. We think, and have not...

the Rev. G. B. Pag,ani. (George Rontledge and Sons. 7s. Od. net.)—There is too much of the panegyrist about the writer of this biography. We are scarcely able to recognise the...

Sladen. (Eveleigh Nash. 21s. net.)—Truly Persia is the most Oriental of Asiatic countries, and the Persian has altered little, as Mr. Sladen says in his preface, since the...

(John Lane. 109. ed. Oct.)." Don't bo too reticent" is the advice sometimes given to the man who proposes to give his recollections to the world. It is certainly the principle...

3s. 6d.)—" This book," writes Professor Wyld in his preface, "is obviously a book for beginners." It is orderly in its arrangement, and develops the subject in an instructive...

and Song, 2s. net each) Palgrdroe's Golden Treasury and he Poetical *orbs of He/try Wadsworth Longfellow. The fitogrepliy iS excellent ; but We Cannot say that the India paper...

29. 43d. net.)—Mr. MacCarthy reprints in this volume the diitibisms made on the plays produced at the CoUrt Theatre during three years. Ho has added, we presunie, some general...

Werner Lattrie. 12s. ad. het.)--We cannot say that there is no "scandal about Queen Elizabeth " in this volume ; but the subject is handled with adeqtiato gravity and...