debate on the Transvaal and Orange River Colonies with an im- pressive but pessimistic speech. In particular, he dwelt on the danger involved in the immediate grant of...

three British officers lost their lives, is unfortunately con- firmed by a telegram from Sir Frederick Lugard, dated February 23rd. Major Burdon, the Resident in Sokoto, reports...

anti-foreign feeling in China. At Nan-chang-fn last Sunday sit French Roman Catholic priests were murdered by the mob, and an English missionary, Mr. Kingham, his wife and child...

T HERE is little to report from Algeciras. Private negotia- tions having shown an irreconcilable difference between France and Germany, it only remained to discuss the question...

for War, a letter on the character and achievements of Admiral Togo, with a view of enforcing the lesson of efficiency in the Army and Navy. The letter has been published as a...

case.

ended on Friday week. Lord Percy taunted the Government with disregarding the mandate to abolish Chinese labour given them at the Election; and Mr. Chamberlain, to illustrate...

discussion of a Resolution that in any settlement of South African affairs this country should recognise its responsibility for the protection of coloured races excluded from...

sought to discredit Mr. Creswell's evidence by describing him as a man with a grievance and with a bee in his bonnet,—a double insinuation of a most unjust and un- worthy kind....

pointed out that there was no difference of principle between the Government and Lord Milner in regard to self- government in the new Colonies. Where they differed was in regard...

Monday with regard to the answering of questions .dealing with foreign affairs. He admitted that it required some adjustment and indulgence on the part of the House to enable...

amendment condemning the partition of Bengal was moved by Mr. Herbert Roberts and supported by several Liberal Members. Mr. Morley in his reply declined to accept the view that...

in New South Wales, a very different state of affairs prevails in Victoria. There the definition of " secular " has been left to the discretion of successive Ministers of...

is awakening a good deal of interest. The Free-trade Liberal candidate is Mr. Verney, the Tariff Reform Unionist candidate Mr. Salter. Our advice to Unionist Free-traders is the...

a majority of 11,340. But though this majority was greater than that secured by Sir Edward Clarke, the total number of votes cast for Mr. Balfour was nearly 600 less than the...

on Friday 901.

were discussed. Mr. Arthur Lee defended the naval policy of the late Government, and Mr. Carlyon Bellaire strongly criticised what he called the " Jack-of-all-trades " scheme of...

Parliamentary Committee of the Trade- Union Congress. The resolutions submitted dealt with the recognition of Trade-Union rates of pay, the enforcement of these rates in all...

dispute, contributes a letter to last Saturday's Times in which he emphasises two important obstacles to Imperial unification. One is the high rates which the British Post...

THE SOUTH AFRICAN DEBATE IN THE LORDS. 1 , iv E do not profess to be unmoved by the difficulties and dangers that may arise in South Africa owing to the policy which the...

Mr. Morley to the Viceroy of India on the question of Indian military administration cannot, we fear, be regarded as in any true sense a settlement of the problem. Mr. Morley,...

be revolutionary, though it may spend money on philanthropies with greater freedom than property-owners will appreciate. But we note one feature in the attitude of the...

A ' "judicial blindness" seems to have fallen upon of Joseph and his Hungarian advisers. As our readers are aware, we are far from thinking that the Coalition have a monopoly of...

W HA.T will the new Parliament make of its Members ? The distinction that this question assumes to exist between the House of Commons as a whole, and the six hundred and seventy...

P OPE said a great many contradictory things about women, and excused himself upon the ground that "woman's. at best a contradiction." He prefaces his metrical essay upon the...

prose is that in which he imagines the return, after fourteen centuries of progress and change, of Julian the Apostate to Paris. What would the convert to Greek philosophical...

Y ESTERDAY they looked bored to death. The weather had had a relapse : the sun had failed to get through the clouds, there was a thin, damp mist, and it seemed to be neither...

AUGUST BEBEL. uro Tits EDITOR OP TIM "SPECTATOR."' Sin,—" We desired," said my German friend, "to call our boy Louis,' after his uncle, now dead. But we couldn't." " Couldn't P...

ADMIRALTY POLICY AND NAVAL ENGINEERS. LTO THE EDITOR Or THE SPECTATOR." j SIR, — The opening of your columns for the discussion of this national question of naval engineers...

THE ..spacrArori.1 SIE,—As I was unable, owing to the number of speakers, to say anything in the Chinese labour debate, will you kindly insert this letter P The Liberal...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Having spent several years in Rhodesia as a Wesleyan Methodist missionary, and returning home after the war, I wish to thank you for...

[To THE EDITOR Dr TILE "SrzoTsron."] SIR, — I am astonished at the foolish information published with respect to gold mining. Some persons solemnly affirm that white men could...

one can fairly accuse the editor of the Spectator with unfairness to a correspondent, but I sincerely hope you will be able to qualify your note in reply to "A Liberal " in your...

" srsornms.".1 SIR, — Referring to my letter in your issue of February 24th, and to your comment thereon, I venture to observe that there are two separate and distinct...

be under the impression in the Spectator of January 13th (p. 47) that this so-called " slavery " was the creation of the late Government or the mine magnates. Far from it ; it...

pro THE EDITOR Or THE "sescreroir..- SIR,—All unprejudiced Christians must be grateful to you for the sustained support you have given to the cause of religious education. But...

express the surprise, which I feel must be shared by many of your readers, that in the lengthy com- munications which have recently appeared in the Spectator on the above...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Seeing that Mrs. Humphry Ward has noticed in your last issue my letter referring to the article of February 10th on "The Playtime of the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Might not your admirable article in your issue of February 17th, entitled "The Bishop of Carlisle on Religious Education," be of use in...

[To TEN EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR"' SIE,—The letter of "W. H. D." in last week's Spectator is a remarkable illustration of the confusion of thought which is so common on this...

[To TILE EDITOR Or THE osescrAroa.") could not well be misinformed as to what has been said to myself. The line which Mr. Nye advocates (Spectator, February 24th) is that which...

[To THE EDITOR CDT THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—A manufacturing company with which I am connected has recently decided to try the result of giving its " hands " a week's holiday...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TEl "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—" An ounce of fact is worth a pound of argument." Will you allow me a little space to describe the educational settle- ment in a...

[To TEl EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In a note which you append to the letter of Mr. C. A. Brodribb appearing in your issue of February 24th, you state that "the number of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SrEcrATon."] you allow me to say that the writer of the interesting article on "Fruit Trees and Finches" in the Spectator of February 24th does not state...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:] SIE,—With reference to the men whom Colonel Pollock is training for six months on special lines, we feel sure that the sub-target gun for...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR,—Your reviewer, in speaking of the new edition of "Mrs. Beeton's Household Management" in the Spectator of February 17th, blames the work...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR,—Under the heading " Emerson " you publish on Feb- ruary 17th a letter from Mr. W. A. Clarke, which accuses the philosopher of a...

[TO THE EDITOIt OF THE "SPECTATOR:'] Six,—In your issue of February 17th the article on "Shake- speare in a Surrey Village" has much interested me. For ten years in a Kentish...

[THE experiment undertaken by Colonel Pollock for which we are asking sub- scriptions may be briefly described as follows. Colonel Pollock declares that in six months he will...

PITT.* Mn. WHIBLET'S study of Pitt, written to commemorate the centenary of the statesman's death, is unfortunate in inviting comparison with that model of compact biography,...

LADY GWENNY. (To the Welsh air, "The Welcome of the Hostess.")* COUNTY by county for beauty and bounty Go search ! and this pound to a penny, When you've one woman to show us...

notice inviting men to join the Spectator Experimental Com- pany has met with a very remarkable response. He has already had enough applications to fill several companies. The...

WE have given the title of " Facsimiles " to this review because the word expresses the most obvious characteristic, and possibly the raison d'être, of the volumes reviewed....

the best-known book in the world. No other portion even of the Bible speaks to us, as it were, with a more familiar voice. It has an intimate, and almost homely, charm which...

Schillings's book as extremely interesting, and the illustrations which it contains as the most remarkable collection of photographs of wild animals that has ever been...

HYACINTH.* OF the political novels published in recent years, few have com- pared in interest with The Seething Pot, in which the various contending forces at work in the...

net.)—Professor Mackail delivered this lecture last March "on behalf of the Independent Labour Party." A. good many things have happened since then, but with the general result...

"St. Matthew 9-16." (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. Gd.) —These "expositions" are chiefly homiletic, aiming at edification rather than interpretation. It is true that they are not...

Car illustrated. 35. 6d.)—It was unfortunately only too obvious that the motor pirate would some day come to life again, and in this book he appears as the owner of a motor...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the weak as have not bus reserved for review in other forme.] Reproach to Civilization. By E. F. G. Hatch. (Waterlow and Sons. Is....

is seldom one meets with a book so wholly disagreeable as this novel. The subject is one of almost unrelieved gloom, and the reader is not spared the most disgusting physical...

A HISTORY OF MODERN ENGLA.ND. A History of Modern England. By Herbert Paul. In 5 vols. Vol. IV. (Macmillan and Co. 8s. 6d. net.)—We wish that we could persuade Mr. Paul to work...

Windus. 2s. net.)—Few writers lend themselves so readily to a "Choice of Passages" as does George Macdonald. The only difficulty must be to choose. He preaches, it is true, a...

the sixty-first time. It is a descriptive catalogue of the British, Colonial, and foreign Press. With regard to the last item, the principle of selection has necessarily been...

III. (David Douglas, Edinburgh. 30s. net, or 25s. net per vol. for the whole series of six or seven volumes.)—This volume contains thirty-three notices of noble Scottish...

Brothers, Birmingham. 5s. net.)—Some of these stories are of the fairy sort, with now and then a little touch of rationalism—the sensible mother thinks that Marietta was a cross...

Daly. (John Murray. 15s. net.)—Henry D. Daly, son of a soldier who served in the Peninsula, in the American War of 1814, and in India at the siege of Ghazni and elsewhere, went...