T HE telegrams from the seat of war merely exhibit the process of attrition, their only special features being the capture of an unusually large number of commanders, and a...

bow intense is the determination of the modern Greeks not to lose the slightest advantage in their task of • asserting their independent nationality and their right to represent...

tion in $otith Africa, it will never be enforced by such methods as those alleged to be carried out in Prussian Poland. According to a letter from the Cracow corre- spondent of...

always expressed as to the soundness of the new Yeomanry, and the protests we have made against the unfairness of the abuse that has been showered on them, are being amply...

at Athens, but must note here that M. Theotokis, the Greek Prime Minister, with his colleagues, has resigned, and is succeeded by M. Zaimis, a Moderate Conservative. He is said...

from President Loubet. The Paris corre- spondent of that journal, having presented the President with a copy of " The Life of Queen Victoria " published by the Times, M. Loubet,...

made an impressive speech on the satisfactory state of our foreign relations. "So far as his observation extended, the war had not at any moment seriously imperilled our...

Conference in Vienna — condemning Protestant proselytism on religious and patriotic grounds—has pro- voked an indignant rejoinder from the Vienna Evan- gelical Alliance. The...

and on Monday he addressed a large meet- ing at Lancaster. We do not wish to say anything about his fleunderings in regard to the war, or to answer his astonishing statement: "...

ride off on this plea, for we are glad to see that at the great and representative gathering of Conservative Associations which has been sitting at Wolverhampton during the week...

be congratulated on the figures of the Egyptian Budget, which were published in a Cairo telegram in last Saturday's Times. The receipts for next year are estimated at...

account of the sudden collapse of the Campbell-Bannerman legend amongst the French friends and admirers of the Liberal leader. Oddly enough, Sir Henry has, it seems, always been...

Saturday last, devoted his attention mainly to the war and the settlement. While deprecating exaggerated pessimism, and insisting on the irrevocable necessity of annexation,...

been made perfectly clear to every one, but every- thing turned upon the interpretation of the words "at the earliest possible moment." The Government would be false to the...

entertained at the inaugural banquet of the Aero Club of the IJnited Kingdom on Monday night. The difficulties which M. Santos-Dumont had successfully sur- mounted were well...

a remarkable paper in Monday's Pall Mall Gazette. In the view of the writer, the imminent danger in France is not any coup d'itat of Bonapartists, Orleanists, or Nationalists,...

a serious robbery from the Bank of Liverpool. On Friday week the Chairman of the Liverpool Stock Exchange received a statement from the in onager of the bank to the effect that...

at Durham on Saturday last, made a short but trenchant speech on the war. While condemning the Government for slackness in prosecuting the war, he had no intention of abusing...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 91k.

TEE INTERNATIONAL SITUATION AND THE WAR. I N the monthly diary which he contributes to the December Nineteenth Century Sir Wemyss Reid makes some observations in regard to...

T HE world has been :watching what it has naturally regarded as a singular outburst of religious fanati- cism at Athens. But the fact is that the Orthodox Church is not...

I T is with great pleasure that we publish Mr. Fitchett's letter on " The Problem of Australian Defence," for it gives us the opportunity which we have desired for many months...

M OST of those who wish well to the system of Public-House Trusts are impressed with the diffi- culty of raising the capital that is needed if the experi- ment is to be tried on...

T HE visits of Members of Parliament to their constit- uencies at this season of the-year serve to emphasise the fact that most of the leaders of the different sections of the...

I N Mr. Lionel Tollemache's book, " Talks with Mr. Gladstone," the following opinion is reported as being . Mr. Gladstone's He did not take the same high view that many take of...

H ORACE WALPOLE reminds us that a hundred and twenty years ago M. Santos-Dumont had his pre- decessors both in daring and in popular favour. "I smile, - he wrote in 1784, "at...

M R. CARL HAG-ENBECK, of Hamburg, must be credited with a successful enterprise on the border- land of animal discovery. He has caused to be captured a number of - specimens '...

THE PROBLEM OF AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE. [To THE EDITOR OF TUE " SPECTATOR.!'] SIE, - AllOW me, as an Australian, to ask the hospitality of your columns for the purpose of appealing...

THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—I have read with the deepest interest the correspond- ence in the Spectator of November 23rd on the suspension of the Cape Colony Constitution, this...

rr0 THE EDITOR OP TEE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —Mr. A. Boner Law, M.P., in his letter on " Naval and Military Contracts " in the Spectator of November 23rd has written wisely and...

SIR, —Your article on this subject in the Spectator of Novem. ber 16th has much interest for one who has lived a great part of his life in the dew-pond country on the borders of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR .1 venture to think that it may be of interest and value to call special attention to the following admirable judgment pronounced by Lord...

Sra,—I think the career of Cleon, the tanner, might be taken as an early example of civilian control over the army. It will be remembered that in 425 B.C. he was sent to Pyles...

"SPECTATOR."] Sra,—The letters and remarks in the Press on the want of mobility of our columns in South Africa are very unjust, and from the tone of many of the letters you...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sia,—As no one seems to have noticed the extraordinary mis- take made by Professor Huxley, and quoted by " F. S. T." in your issue of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Your article headed "The Improvement of the ` Zoo ' " in the Spectator of November 23rd is a piece of valuable criticism on the points...

(To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. " ] San,—In connection with the very interesting article in your issue of November 16th advocating the settlement of Reservist soldiers with...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE .sescrwron."] Sis, — Amongst prominent London journals your leading columns have alone pointed out what the recent German outbreak of ill-will really...

Sur,—The article in your issue of November 23rd deals with a subject which is at the root of the difficulties with regard to the housing question, and perhaps you may care to...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin, — As an example of the attitude of mind assumed by the Trade-Unionists on the question of work, it may be worth while to record the...

OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] . SIR, —While thanking you heartily for your sympathetic notice of " What's What," kindly permit me to point out that your reviewer is in error in...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPICTATOR."] Sin,—The opening sentence of the very interesting article in the Spectator of November 16th under the heading " The Russian Trans-Asiatic...

WINTER TREES. Acuoss the sky, across the snow, The sober rooks are winging slow, Gray roses in the rush-fringed pool, And Winter trees are beautiful. The West is now a...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTA.TOR.") STE,—Perhaps my experience on this subject may interest some of your readers. When I was a little girl of about five, I was, together with...

ROADS TO ROME.* THIS book bears a clever and catching, but perhaps slightly misleading, title. It describes, in truth, not so much the roads to Rome as certain pilgrims or...

Nor for a long time has so interesting a record as this volume of letters and memoirs been published; interesting not only in itself, but as completing a wonderful shelf of...

W. RUSSELL'S book may be taken as designed to a large extent for the purpose of accounting for, and, if possible, justifying, the remarkable modification, not to say...

WE are sorry, on the whole, that Mr. Holland has given to his remarkable study in the history and politics of the British Empire the somewhat hackneyed title which it bears, and...

SONS OF THE SWORD.* IT is matter for satisfaction as well as surprise to encounter a romance of war in which the scene is not laid in South Africa. Of such romances and stories...

6a.)—These stories by Madame Serao are at once beautiful and terrible. The method of her art is to move and instruct, not by any obvious didacticism of manner or oon.- elusion,...

is an exciting story of adventures among the Redskins of New France in 1687. It begins with the return to Quebec of the hero, Captain Menard, after several years of hardships...

title Fancy Free, Mr. Philip t a gives us a collection of clever and amusing jeux d'esprit with a great variety (of motives. The idea of "Quite Out of the Common " is...

Stoughton. 6s.)—This is a rather squalid story. told in a powerful manner by one who knows how to treat her subject, no doubt from personal observation. The interest centres...

8t. Nazarius is a romance of the German forest, in which imagina- tive flights are rendered in a diction verging a little too much upon the commonplace and conventional. But...

TWO NEW BOSWELLS. The abiding popularity of Boswell's immortal biography is amply testified by the simultaneous appearance of the two new and handsome editions published by...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as hays not bees reserved for review in other forms.] Busk-in and the English Lakes. By the Rev. H. D. Rawnsley. (J....

bray and Co. 3s. 6d.)—The subject of these letters is "How to Read the Old Testament in the Light of the New," and the book is meant for elder children,—properly speaking,...

Sons. 6s.)—This book is one of the many whose descent can be traced from Stevenson's " Prince Otto." It is chiefly concerned with the intrigues of the small kingdom of...

is the record of a tour made by the author among the refuges provided for Indian lepers. He started from Bombay, and visiting various places on his way, reached Calcutta, where...

Max Muller " (Longmans and Co., 5s.), we have Last Essays: Second Series. These are eighteen in number. All are concerned with the Science of a Religion, a subject that almost...

2e. 6d.)—Hilarius, a novice in a Benedictine monastery with a great passion for art, goes forth to see the world, meets with many adventures —the scenes in the plague-stricken...

Novels of George Meredith" (A. Constable and Co., 2s. 6d. net per vol.) It is to be concluded in fifteen volumes. They are neat volumes, clearly printed, and containing much...

Lane, ls. and ls. 6d.), Christmas at the Mermaid, by Theodore Watts- Dunton, with illustrations by Herbert Cole.—The Tennyson Reciter, edited by Alfred H. Miles (Hutchinson and...

and Co. 3s. 6d.)—This is a volume of extracts from Queen Victoria's published letters, diaries, speeches opening Parliament, and utterances of various kinds and on various...

and Co., 3s. net), now published for the fifth time, gives a variety of information, nautical, astronomical, scientific, and general, with blank space for diary.

almanac kind likely to be useful to clergy and laity. These are The Churchman's Pocket-Book ; The Churchman's Almanac, in various forms for the pocket, the desk (whether in the...

:—The Century, the Pall Mall Magazine, St. Nicholas, the Smart Set, the Review of Reviews, Scribner's Magazine, the Idler, the Parent's Review, the World of Dress, the English...