T HE only event of special importance to be chronicled this week in regard to the war is the plucky defence of Richmond, a place in Cape Colony south of De Aar. A large force of...

relied on General de Pellieux, who, it would seem probable, favoured the plot. General Zurlinden, however, who was suspected of complicity, and was at the time Governor of...

trial of Count de Lur-Saluces, an officer of old family and good character, who at the time of the Deroulede attemPt plotted to overthrow the Republic. M. Deroulede's idea was...

Coronation will be held on some day (hereafter to be fixed) in June next year, appointing a Commission to receive and consider the petitions and claims of persons entitled to...

minated successfully. A Dervish, called locally the "Mad Mullah," thought he could seize the Somali country, and invaded the northern part of it, thereby affronting Menelik of...

last by 173 votes to 99, after accepting an amendment under which the Government must provide for necessitous members of dissolved religious Orders, or "those who have...

been of very little interest, but Thursday's debate as to the alleged scandals in the buying of horses caused some heat. The Govern. ment promised strict investigation, and it...

two interesting debates, one dealing with military and the other with naval affairs. On Monday the Duke of Bedford raised some very important questions in a singularly able and...

their previous declaration, made on October 20th, 1900, that Britain had lost the command of the sea. When, however, Lord Selborne and the new Board of Admiralty came into...

of a cruise with the Mediterranean Fleet carried out an interesting experiment. In order to realise in their own persons the inadequacy of sailors' diet, they arranged for one...

should fight Russia for Manchuria. It is reported that the Govern- ment of St. Petersburg intends to recommence the negotiations with China about that province, and the Times...

Tuesday, resulted as follows :—P. S. Foster (C.), 4,755; Bolton King (H.R.), 2,977; Unionist majority, 1,778. In the election of 1900 there was no contest, but in 1895 the...

by an acci- dental fall from a window in Newhaven, Connecticut, of Mr. Adalbert Hay, the son of the American Secretary of State. Mr. Adalbert Hay was a young man of high...

by the collapse this week of the Leipziger Bank with a share capital of z2,400,000, the shares of many banks falling in consequence seven or eight points. There seems, at first...

New Consols (2i) were on Friday 93i.

bankers at dinner, and Sir Michael Hicks- Beach addressed them in reply to the toast of "The Con- tinued Prosperity of the Public Purse." In spite of gloomy prophecies, the...

from delivering her address on the refugee camps in London owing to the impossibility of obtaining a room. We do not wonder that the speeches and writings of many of the...

United Club, made some very sensible remarks about the effects of a disunited Opposition on weakening party disci- pline. If Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman had been a leader of...

forces in South Africa, says of our soldiers in his official report that "for indomitable courage, uncomplaining fortitude, and implicit obedience they are beyond criticism." He...

by Lord Dundonald at the opening of the Winsford Town Hall on Wednesday. Though men in civilian employment cannot afford to give up many consecutive days to training with their...

views held by the Duke of Bedford in regard to Mr. Brothick's scheme as a whole, we are heartily glad that he made his speech. With a very great deal of his remarks we are in...

THE LIBERAL FUTURE. T HERE is no Liberal party. There are plenty of Liberals, many of them able men, many of them convinced to bitterness, and all of them aware that some inner...

T HE French Presidency has had a very curious and unexpected development which is well worth the attention of Constitution-mongers. It was fully intended when the office was...

out very strongly the ineptitude of our method of treating Royal Commissions. It is a mine of learning in regard to local taxation, but for practical purposes it is almost...

I T might reasonably have been thought that the one thing which the Government was certain not to do was to abandon the Education Bill. Yet that is what they have lone. But...

I T is unfortunate that those reports of St. Paul's sermons which have come down to us in the Book of Acts are so few and so short. Such as they are, however, they possess a...

W E should much like to know whether, when people draw up their wills, or for any other reason try to calculate the value of their possessions, they ever make their estimate...

T HE want quoted above forms the introduction to an advertisement issued on behalf of a client by a firm in Munich. The notice proceeds thus;—" Would Buy an Island, situated...

THE HUMBLE TROUT. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I had not fished for a long time, and consequently felt an incredible desire to catch a trout again. It would be...

THE REFORMED PUBLIC-HOUSE. Fro VIE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Snr,—Lord Carlisle is afraid that one result of the Public- House Trust movement will be an increase in the...

subject in the Spectator of June loth says that "the Company will encounter opposition at the hands of the most active, and probably the largest, section of the Temperance...

go ME EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—A propos of "A Dream House," may I give you a similar, though singularly prosaic, experience of my own? When quite a young girl I dreamt...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—I have only to-day [June 22nd] had my attention drawn to a review of my Life of B. Sebastian in your issue of June 8th. While thanking...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The causes that are leading to the depopulation of the countryside are numerous, but there are two to which less attention has been...

a perusal of the curious incidents recorded in your columns under this heading to put on record a some- what similar occurrence which happened in my experience a few years ago....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sr.R,—Since scholarship is not a road to fame, and great attainments are apt to be overlooked in the hurried race after advertised success,...

Sin,—Perhaps the following dream, though only received at second hand, and somewhat prosaic in its features, may be deemed by you of sufficient interest to lay before your...

SIR,—In the Spectator of June 22nd you give some figures about the recent Census and point out that Ireland is over- represented in the House of Commons. But is not the United...

reading your interesting article on the luxe Peerl- kampia in the Spectator of June 22nd I was forcibly reminded of the beautiful sonnet in Lord Tennyson's later poems,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Influenced and encouraged by the success of Dr. Conan Doy-le's miniature rifle club at Hindhead in Surrey, I started on similar lines to...

connected with your article on redis- tribution in the Spectator of June 22nd that I should like to see dealt with. I have an impression that in the Act of Union a compact was...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Snt,—Writing of Stephenson in your review of the history of the Midland Railway (Spectator, June 22nd) you say :—" All that we hear of this...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATORM SIR,—Assuming the expediency (which may be questioned), as well as the justice (which I do not doubt), of correcting the over-representation...

ITO THE EDITOR OF ME "SPECTATORM Si,—The circumstances of a long life having placed me at divers times, and in sundry places, in contact with the Bismarckian milieu, intimate...

ETo TH/1 EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Snr,—You say, in your brief notice of "Makers of the Nineteenth Century" (Spectator, June 22nd), that Mr. Bradlaugh did actually deny the...

[To TTIZ EDITOR OR TRI SPROTATOR."3 SIR, - . — The writer of the article on this subject in the Spectator of June 22nd thus appeals to Montaigne :—"If we forget, we lose the...

[To TEE EDITOR OF TIE " SPECTATOR."3 Si, — Inland though the county of Warwickshire is, it seems as though the word " urchin " as a synonym for " hedgehog " had got as far as...

(TO VII EDITOR OF THE spEcteron.1 Si,—Can any of your readers who are wise about birds give an explanation of the strange and captivating behaviour of certain swifts, of which...

[TO TIM EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Stn,—The smaller hawks have taken to the iron road as a regular means of getting their daily food. They may be seen in the Southern States...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—In your issue of June 15th "E. S. M." speaks of watch- ing starlings plunder sparrows' nests, and seeing them "fly away with the blue...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE "8PECTATOR:] have some recollection of having seen a picture or read some story representing an Englishman riding at a gallop over the corpse of Marshal...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Having lived over thirty years in the South of India, a large period of which was spent in the Madras Police, I think some results of...

LEO XIII KIND eyes, that with a flame so pure From those thin temples glow, We gaze with growing awe, unsure If this be man or no. For Time, that breaks the body frail,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] would not attempt "any further comment," but per- haps you will let me tell a little story as to what might happen if England "were to leave...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SrE,—Perhaps it may interest some of your readers to know that lines from the " Siren " of Robert Buchanan adorn the drawing-room of the...

HIDING-PLACES.* IN these days of peace and tolerance none but he who has committed a crime against life or the pocket need hide himself from justice. But there was a time when...

SIR COURTENAY ILBERT, following a practice borrowed from the Bar, has written a book upon the work of his special department. It is at once a manual for the Parliamentary...

Tam collection of songs will appeal not only to the amateur singer and the lover of charming lyrical verse, but also to the musician. Many of the melodies have great beauty and...

embryo stage it obtained the Green Moral Philosophy Prize in the Uni- versity of Oxford for the year 1899, when the topic proposed to the competitors was "The Reciprocal Re-...

THE fint volume of Messrs. Harper's new "Portrait Collection of Short Stories" is devoted to a group of tales admirably representative of the exquisite talent of Mr. Howells....

The Horace Club, founded in Oxford in March, 1893, is a coterie of graduates and undergraduates linked by a common interest in beiles.lettres, and addicted to the habit of...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as haus not been resersed for review in other forms.] They Loved Not their Lives unto the Death. (Marshall Brothers. ld.) —...

and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—Canon Newbolt has published in this volume "six lectures on pastoral theology delivered in the Divinity School, Cambridge," this year, to students who had...

THE WAY OF. PEACE. Peace or War in South Africa. By A. M. S. Methuen. (Methuen and Co. First and Second Editions. le.)—We find it very difficult to know how to write of this...

(Digby, Long, and Co. 6s.)—Mr. Platt describes his book as one "of country life, humour, and sport." On the whole, we are inclined to wish the humour away. It seems to us to be...

1s. 6d. net), Sot/ten, by Alexander William Kinglake. Would it be possible, we wonder, nowadays for the most brilliant book of travel to become a classic as Eothen and Eliot...

may be asked, is the " Cheese " ? It is a certain tavern in a court running out of the north side of Fleet Street, styled, at full length, The Old Cheshire Cheese (the archaic...

Hunt. (Williams and Norgate. ' is. 6d.)—This is a manual of the " Taal " speech, with rules for its pronunciations. It has not much of a literature, and is more or less in a...

Herbert Here. Vol. IL (Elliot Stock. 20s. net.)—In this second volume Mr. Hore tells the story, or, rather, lets docu- ments tell the story, of the Irish Tintern. of the ancient...

A.eland (Hon. Lady), The Lost Key : an International Episode (Macqueen) 6/0 Albert (Mary), Lord Culmore's Error, cr 8vo (Draue) 6/0 Anton (P.), The Flywheel, and What Keeps Us...

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COWPER AND MARY UNWIN.* THIS latest memoir of one of our most thoroughly English poets does not pretend to be a literary biography, but a study of character. It would be a...

LONDON: JUNE 29th, 1901.

Cicero's essays on Old Age and Friendship is a welcome addition to the list of classics, ancient and modern, included in the "Golden Treasury Series." These two little...

ART-BOOKS. Two more volumes have been added to the "Great Masters Series" (G. Bell and Sons, 5s. each).—Piero dells Francesca, by W. G. Waters, is a well-written and...

appear that the old Eastern question—the question of the Near East, which has been so carefully hushed and stifled by anxious diplomatists—may again be coming to the front. Two...

Murray. 6s. net.)—This book consists of a series of essays beginning with Cimabue and ending with Michelangelo. The authoress writes with sympathy and taste, and if not very...

2 vols. (Vinton and Co. £2 2s.)—These volumes, which are illustrated "chiefly from wood engravings by F. Babbage," are a series of short Lives of animal painters from the year...

6d. net.)—The author considers that Fra Angelico has been a good deal misunderstood, the public being much more interested in the monk than in the artist. It is certainly true...

this special number of the Portfolio Mr. Davenport has written an interesting account of cameos from the technical and the historical point of view. The book is illustrated by a...

The Naval Annual. (J. Griffin and Co., Portsmouth. 15s.)— For the second time Mr. Leyland edits the Naval deflect/ with the as;istance of a very able staff, which, alas ! no...

Sons. 10s. 6d.)—This is a very interesting and read- able account of the picture and the two men in it. The book begins with the history of the picture from the time it was...

it is clear that French judicial ways have, as Mr. Irving puts it, "the supreme merit from the point of view of the student of character" that they bring out "not only the bare...

The History of the Jesuits in England, 1580 - 1771 By Ethelred L. Taunton. (Methuen and Co. 21s. net.)—The history of Jesuit- ism in England is the history of the back-stairs of...

The Nineteenth Century : a Review of Progress. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 10s. 6d.)—It is rather a presumptuous undertaking to offer to review the progress of any century in a volume...

China's Only Hope : an Appeal by her Greatest Viceroy, Chang Chih - Tung. Translated from the Chinese Edition by Samuel I. Woodbridge. (Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier,...

The Bi - literal Cypher of Sir Francis Bacon. Discovered in his works and deciphered by Mrs. Elizabeth Wells Gallup. Second Edition. (Gay and Bird. 18s.)—Mrs. Elizabeth Wells...

Through Siberia. By J. Stadling. With Illustrations. (Con- stable and Co. 18s.)—Mr. Stadling went to hunt for traces of Andree along the Siberian coast-line, descending the Lena...

The Man in the Iron Mask. By Tighe Hopkins. (Hurst and Blackett. 7s. 6d. net.)—There have been some curious imaginations about the "Man in the Iron Mask." One that has found...

Calendar of Inner Temple Records. Edited by F. A. Inder wick, K.C. Vol. III., 1660-1714. (H. Sothers.n and Co., and others, for the Masters of the Bench of the Inner Temple....

Bible Studies. By Dr. G. Adolf Deissmann. Authorised Trans- lation by Alexander Grieve, MA. (T. and T. Clark. 9s.)—This volume is in seven divisions :—(1) This draws out at...

The Clergy in American Life and Letters. By D. D. Addison. (Macmillan and Co. Ss.)—The Rev. D. D. Addison contri- butes an account of the influence on national life of the...

Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick: an Historical Study, 1735 - 1806. By Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice. (Longmans and Co. 6s.)—Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice has written an inter-...

Efficiency and Empire. By Arnold White. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—We confess to being a little tired of the collected prophecies of journalistic Cassandras, and we cannot think that...

The Trust Problem. By J. W. Jenks. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 3s. 6d.)—In this book Mr. j. W. Jenks, Professor of Political Science at Cornell University, discusses the question of...

Imaugh insists on the unity of the North American Indians, and his interesting review of their architecture, dress, weapons, civilisation, is based on this belief. He objects to...

Fifty Years of Work in Canada: Autobiographical Notes of Sir J. W. Dawson. Edited by Rankine Dawson. (Ballantyne, Hanson, and Co. 6s.)—Sir William Dawson's notes are mostly...

The Neo - Platcmists : a Study in the History of Hellenism. By Thomas Whittaker. (Cambridge University Press. 7s. 61.) —The influence of Nee-Platonism in the history of...

Doniesday and Feudal Statistics. By A. IT. Inman. (Elliot Stock. 10s. 61.)—Mr. lumen's work is too technical and far too advanced for the general historical reader; it deals...

Kcnth American Forests and Forestry. By Ernest Branclren. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 7s. 6d.)—Mr. Bruncken is an Aineric sn and writes of the forestry of the States, but every word...

The History of Colonisation. By H. C. Morris. 2 vols. (Macmillan and Co. 15s.)—After the complete destruction of Spanish naval and colonial power in the war of 1893, and the...

Riding and Hunting. By Captain M. Horace Hayes, F.R.C.V.S. (flurst and Blackett. 16s.)—No book which Captain Hayes writes con horses needs much recommendation from us, for he...

The Highland Tay from Tyndrunt to Dunkeld. By Hugh Mac- millan, D.D., LL.D. Illustrated by the Drawings of A. Scott Rankin. (Virtue and Co. 15s.)—In this beautiful volume Dr....

Passages from the Letters of Auguste Comte. Selected and translated by John K. Ingram, LLD. (A. and C. Black. 3s. Cd. net.) — It would hardly do for a devout Positivist to...

The Wil,Ifouler in Scotland. By John Ghillie Millais. (Long- mans and (2o. 30s.)—Mr. Millais has written and illustrated a very charming book on duck-shooting, for, as every one...

1830. (Edward Arnold. Ss. 6d.)—Mrs. Fenton's journal is an interesting record of India in the "twenties." Such tedious travelling, such wretched resting-places, would hardly be...