The notables of the town hesitated for some time after receiving the news of Abd-ul-Aziz's rout (it is a delicate matter to declare allegiance to this or that Monarch when an...

stables. Sixty-four aides-de-camp have been dismissed. The Imperial racehorses have been handed over to the Minister of War. Every day money which was improperly acquired by...

to break out again. A member of the Salonika. Committee has explained to the Constantinople correspondent of the Times the character of the Bulgarian demands. The Vressovists...

A T last a truly decisive event has happened in Morocco. The struggle between the two brothers for the throne is at an end ; Abd-ul-Aziz has been utterly defeated, and Mulai...

correspondent, who has reached Damascus on his way to the ceremonies at Medina in connexion with the Hedjaz Railway. This railway, which has been subscribed for by pious Moham-...

case.

Germany were satisfied with the system of con- tributory insurance, all a g reeing that it had very much. raised the letel of health and life. Already thirty-four. millions Were...

Journal des Bconomiates an ietereeting summary of the proceedings of the International Free-Trade Congress. M. Yves (uyot, at becomes a sound Free-trader, has not failed to...

Reformers for his Cobdenite bigotry; but it is tolerably clear that he is no fanatic, for he frankly adreibe that syndication may minimise the evile incident to the continuance...

the organisation of Labour, with particular refeteirce to the General Confederation of Labour, the tyrannical body which has from time to time tried to paralyse the life of...

was followed by a perfect deluge of interviews on his tour and its objects. We do not wish to condemn this expansive attitude unreservedly, but may say that it ill consorts with...

on Sunday last at Heidelberg. Bore at Leeds of a German father and an English mother, Baron Speck von Sternburg married an American wife, and his later diplomatic career was...

Fleet landed at Sydney. In the evening a banquet was -given by the State in the Town Hall. On Monday there was a review of over thirteen thousand troops in the Centennial Park....

a very interesting Report on the trade of his district, and the present commercial position of Germany in general. His remarks are summed up in the saying that "Protection...

the woods near Sevenoaks of Mrs. Luard, the wife of Major-General C. E. Luard, late RE., of Ightbain Knoll. General Luard had gone out with his wife for a walk after lunch on...

225,000 by the Trustees of the National Gallery. It is a large family group, and comes from the collection of Lord Talbot of Malahide. It has been for many years at lifalahide,...

on the health and sanitary conditions of the Army for 1907 was issued on Monday. Taken all round, the results are satisfactory. Not only wore the admission, death, invaliding,...

contributed by Dr. Arthur Evans to Thursday's Times is of remarkable interest. The further exploration of the "Little Palace ".=-a dependency connected by a paved road, "the...

published as a Blue-book, and though it shows no marked deviation from the decennial averages, presents several features of interest. The birth-rate remains practically...

Weiller, the head of the French Syndicate which will buy the Wright aeroplane as soon as the conditions of the contract are fulfilled,—viz., that the inventor shall make a...

May 28th. Consols (21) were on Friday 861—on Friday week 86i. Bank Hate, 21 per cent., changed from 3 per cent. May 28th. Consols (21) were on Friday 861—on Friday week 86i.

the Congo Free State to Belgium will present itself more clearly to the mind if it is regarded as consisting of two distinct parts : the first the sanction of the Belgian...

THE POWERS AND MOROCCO. rr HE dramatic rout of Abd-ul-Aziz's army is one of those definite events for which Europe has long been waiting, and one which must be used to shape...

M EN who have displayed the patience, self-control, and far-seeing patriotism of the Young Turks can hardly have expected that the almost miraculous trans- formation of July...

T AE Proportional Representation Society has put out a very weighty pamphlet on "The Second Ballot." It is only eight pages long, and it costs but a penny. Con- sequently no one...

chief need of the Board of A g riculture was the addition to its staff of a trained j ournalist may possibly be wonderin g whether his reflections reached official ears. He was...

S OME people take a pleasure in waste. It gives them a momentary but distinct sense of happiness to waste something, and the delight of wasting figures largely in youthful...

S AUNTERING one summer afternoon along a low slope of the South Downs, my attention was attracted by a fluttering under an upturned clod of turf. I stepped to the spot, and saw...

W HETHER Milton was a lover of any creature of God's universe may be doubted. That he was not a lover of animals seems clear. Abstractions he could love with a passion almost...

AN EFFECTIVE UPPER HOUSE. [To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:] Sin,—The conduct of the Lords on the Pension Bill is of a piece with their general conduct. What do you expect if...

[TO THE EDITOR OP TRH " SPROTATOR.1 SIR,—The eagerness and intelligence with which this subject has been taken i p by your correspondents are of the happiest augury for the...

in your editorial note to Mr. Astley Cooper's letter in the Spectator of August 15th are un- doubtedly true: "The financial situation in many small rural parishes is, we fear,...

SIR,—May a poor curate who only sees your valuable paper through the courtesy of a friend venture to express his view on Church finance ? Our great need is co-operation. I do...

Sin,—I should be obliged if you will allow me to draw the attention of your correspondents to the "Institutions" in the diocese of Chester which have been meeting successfully...

Slit,—In the Report of one of the Committees of the Lambeth Conference we read as follows :—" The time has come to have an efficient pension scheme for the clergy, and no such...

[To THE EDITOR. Mi. TIM ”SPRCUTOIX•1 Sru,—The writer of the article, "Shakespeare on Johnson," which appeared in your iseue of Angnet 1st, remarks that Johnson is indignant that...

[To THR EDITOR or THE " EITCTAILTO/I.1 Snir.,—In his interesting letter in your issue of August 22nd Mr. Edwin Freshfield suggests that it may be possible "to secure the assent...

LTo THE EDITOR Or Tug '5PEOTATOR.".1 Sta,—In your notice last week of the new popular edition of "Foxe's Book of Martyrs," issued by the Religious Tract Society (2s.), and...

Ito THE EDITOR Or THE 4.8reCTATOR.1 SIR,—In your issue of July 18th, speaking of Kew Gardens at Midsummer, you say, "A glasshouse cannot be ornamental," but you commend certain...

[To TRH EDITOR Or TII• "SPROIVOR.."] Sin, — The present year seems to be a year of International Congresses. We have had the Peace Congress, the Historical Congress of Berlin,...

GRATtos of the quiet hem, Of June nightingales, and flowers Steeped is cool delicions aj- Of hop gardens and the rare Mist from meadows lifting slow— Guard a cottage that I...

[To TWO EDITOR Or TUB "seserwroa. - ] do not propose to preach or to denounce the crusade against the rat and the sparrow, further than to suggest Caution R.gaiIII4 disturbing...

[TO TIM EDITOR Or THi: "SrECTATOR."] SIR, — Surely the writer of the above in your last issue writes from Rochdale, near Manchester, for one of the most delightful holidays I...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are 'narked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of...

HERODOTUS.* IN the days of Herodotus the Muse of History was happily in her teens. Now she is an austere dame, wears a learned air, and walks sedately in the company of...

THE preparation of the Official History of the War in South Africa has been dogged by misfortune throughout. At the outset there was the untimely death of the lamented Colonel...

inexpensive form, a quantity of material deeply interesting to the ordinary reader no less than to the professed Elizabethan ;scholar, and it Will be all the more welcome since...

THE chief illustration of the rule that biographies written during the life of the subject are undesimble is perhaps the fuck that they are seldom well done. Competent...

MR. WYATT TILBY has set himself an ambitious task, in the prosecution of which he should receive sympathy and encouragement. The famous advice to think Imperially needs to be...

WHEN a book opens at random at an essay on "The Ways of Wasps," and the author states that you may put your face within a foot of the entrance to a neat, and the wasps flying...

SPANISH GOLD.* IN more ways than one Spanish Gold marks a new development in the literary career of Mr. Birmingham. Hitherto his best work, though enlivened by humorous...

University Press. 21s. net.)--This volume is, in respect of subject, the sixth in the series. The matters with which it deals are sociology, magic, and religion, and the region...

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this volume Mr. Neuman gives us another study of the money- malrer. David Dominy, to call him by the surname which he assumes, is a Jew orphan living in the Jewish quarter of...

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(Under this Twilling we notice such Books of Pe week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] In the "Handbooks of Church Extension," Edited by W. 'U. Dodson, MA.,...

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Oxford Thackeray " (H. Frowde, 2s. net per vol.) The arrangement is, as far as possible, chronological. The first volume contains Thackeray's earliest writings—the first of all...

Buchanan, Collected and Edited by James Bassett Moore (J. B. Lippincott Company ; sold only in sets of 12 vols., 212 12s. net). James Buchanan was President of the United States...

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