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PROFESSOR DARWIN gave the substance of this volume in a series of lectures delivered at the Lowell Institute of Boston, U.S. It is no reflection on his gift of popular...

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T HE revelations in the Dreyfus case caused by the publi- cation of the evidence in the Figaro become more and more sensational. In that evidence we see the General Staff when...

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slow and difficult work, for the insurgents entrench themselves, and when they are driven out, as they always are in the end, they retire and throw up another set of "works." On...

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birthday, which took place three hundred years ago,—i.e., on April 25th, 1599. The Mayor of Huntingdon, Lord Sandwich, has wisely taken the opportunity to appeal for...

the Government if they could check the "decorative destruction" now going on in St. Paul's, or, if that was beyond their power, whether they would take legislative action to...

Tuesday was largely concerned with nomenclature, Mr. Stuart, the champion of the County Council, reinforced by Sir Charles Dilke and Mr. Birrell, developing a remarkable...

cussing the question of old-age pensions on the Motion to appoint a Select CoinviLtee, to put the matter in the mildest way, was not an edifying one,—not one, in fact, which...

Pacific Cable, already agreed on by Canada and the Australasian Colonies, was announced in the Times of Thursday. According to the agreement the cable property is to be vested...

of a very high order or merit. Some of the speeches, indeed, had Cromwell been able to hear them, would have almost compelled him to repeat the famous sentence, "Leave your...

camel-ride of eight hundred miles through the Eastern Soudan. His report on the condition of the country is in the main re- assuring, the prime condition of security having been...

likely to be before the-reading of her will, there seems to be little doubt that the Baroness Hirsch has left close on two millions of money to various Jewish instientions,...

at the Eighty Club dinner on Wednesday, devoted the main part of his speech, after a generous tribute to the character and services of the late Mr. Ellis and some effective...

progress made by the Wesleyans in their attempt to raise a fund of a million guineas from a million Wesleyans. The fund was only started six months ago, and already some...

stitution of Mechanical Engineers on Wednesday evening, dwelt with much force on the invisible contributions of the mechanical engineer to the sum-total of scientific perfection...

Wednesday's Times, the victim being a bands- man in the Hampshire Regiment and the assassin a glsezi, one of the Zakka-khel Afridis, who had come down from the mountains with...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 1101.

RUSSIA AND ENGLAND. I T is quite possible that the Times, not for the first time in its career, has done a very great public service by an act of publicity. The publication (on...

good deal of exaggera- tion in regard to what is happening in the Transvaal, it - cannot be denied that a feeling of unrest is again prevalent, and that there is some risk of a...

T HE persistence with which the Duke of Devon- shire away at educational reform is worthy of the highest praise. With the exception of Home- rule for Ireland, the dangers of...

were constantly reproached for not saving time by introducing a fair proportion of their measures in the House of Lords. Not much has been heard of this expedient of late years....

li THEN M. Maine, in the face of all France, declared that there is no such thing as an affair Dreyfus, he declared what was manifestly absurd. Had he announced with such...

T HE manner in which the tercentenary of Cromwell's birth has been greeted by almost all sections of the Press cannot but have produced a sense of profound satisfaction among...

W RITING, alone of the arts, needs neither dexterity of hand nor physical strength. The mere scratching of the pen upon paper, the mere tap-tapping of the typewriter,— these...

frozen mutton, were on sale in Leadenhall Market in the early part of the week. They were part of a cargo of frozen game shipped from the Neva in a vessel which had been frozen...

THE OLD EAST INDLiMAN [TO THE EDITOR OP TUE "SPECTATOR.'] &A—An enthusiastic crowd of workmen and seafarers gathered one day long ago at Blackwell to witness the launch- ing...

THE JURISDICTION OF IRE ARCHBISHOPS. [TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] is seldom desirable to discuss legal questions in the columns of a journal, but perhaps you will allow...

a little space by way of supple- ment to my letter on the Court of the Archbishops which you were good enough to insert in the Spectator of April 22nd1 I do not think it is...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—Lecteur de seconde main de votre interessant weekly, j'ai lu avec un interet tout special, dans votre numero du 8 Avril, Particle...

[To THE EDITOR OE THE "SPECTATOR.'] congratulate my friend, Mr. Dearmer, on the staunchly Protestant feeling which leads him to prefer what he deems to be the authority of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—In the Spectator of December 17th, 1898, a biographer of Mr. Tyson writing under the heading "A Mighty Ploughman," states Mr. Tyson...

Sin, — The hatred of Protestants in France to which your correspondents allude is not to Protestants as such, but that owing to the occult power that governs France...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TxrE u serarkroR.1 Sra, — Sleep is a mental state or stage of the mind in the daily sequence of events, and generally attained without any effort or...

note that your correspondents who have written such interesting letters on "The Mystery of Sleep'" seem to be quite unaware of the most fertile source of sleep- lessness, and...

[To THZ EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sur,—Stories innumerable have been told, and many of them in your own columns, of the sagacity of animals and of the affection they are...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") 141:241 "‹ Sin,—It is a well-known truism that distance lends enchant- ment to the view, and the saying applies with full force to the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SpRorATort.1 Sin,—Unlike the custom of the "dog of the Restoration" immortalised in Pepys's Diary, my gardener's little Aberdeen- shire terrier 'Wag'...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your article on "Colours of Domestic Animals," I think you have overlooked one of the wild cattle which is neither self-coloured...

[TO TILE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Have not Broad Churchmen got something better to do than to organise themselves into a union ? The party unions of High and Low have...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Londoners rarely notice what is going on around them, and thus miss half the advantages of living in London. How many Londoners, I...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sre,—During the time that the Duke of Wellington,as Warden of the Cinque Ports, resided at Walmer Castle, a maiden aunt of mine...

THE NEW GALLERY. THE bad pictures at the New Gallery do not as a rule sink to ; such a depth of vulgarity and commonplace as do those at the Academy. To make up for this the...

IN THE OLD BURYING-GROUND AT CALCUTTA. IN this dark, weed-grown wilderness, Where lie the dead of yesterday, There sleeps a warrior Englishman— A servant of "John Company "-...

THE PHILIPPINES.* MAJOR YOUNGRUSBAND is an excellent type of the British officer who knocks about the world when he can get a few months! leave "for to admire and for to see,"...

a dissertation sent in by the author to compete for a Trinity Fellowship. May the method, which is distinctly better than the formal examination, be often as fruitful of good !...

been worn pretty threadbare when Wilkie Collins apparently gave it its coup de grace. It has been reserved, however, for Mrs. Fuller Maitland and Sir Frederick Pollock to lend...

persuade its readers "to see almost an infinite number of parallelisms in character between Sir Astley Cooper Key and Nelson," or to admit that in Sir Astley "natural chaiacter...

new and charming novel reminds us not a little of the heroine of what is, after all, the best of Cherbuliez's romances, Samuel Brat et Cie. Nora Penhurst, in the words of the...

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son, and Ferrier.)—The Ngoni are a tribe closely connected with Zulu history. Chaka conquered them, by treachery, it was said, and they left their country to find refuge...

the Assistance of J. P. A. Kenwick, M.A. (Macmillan and Co. 10s. 6(1.)—This periodical volume—now in its thirty-sixth year -.—Ites so well established itself under Dr....

(Longmans and Co. 7s. 6d.)—Mr. Rivingtou crosses swords with Professor Bright and Dr. Harnack,—impar congressus. He made for himself, years ago, a certain reputation as an...

and Co. 35. Cd. net.)—This unpretending little volume, of the same odes as the volume on Rouen, lately noticed in these columns, containi, as does its companion, a great...

Nicholas Magazine. Edited by Mary Mapes Dodge. (Same publishers. 8s. 6(L)—We have here the half-yearly volumes of these two magazines, both of them hold- ing : their own : in...