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We have dealt elsewhere at length with this pathetic pro-
The Spectatorposal,—one which does the greatest possible honour to the youthful and generous Sovereign from whom it comes. Like his father, the Emperor shrinks with horror from the...
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorO N Monday the Emperor of Russia astonished the civilised world by making public a proposal for an international 'Conference for the preservation of peace and the reduction of...
The way in which the news has been received abroad
The Spectatoris very significant. The French, with their swift insight into political facts, have at once realised that France has received a great blow, and that the Emperor's Rescript...
A new, and we hope the last, chapter of the
The SpectatorDreyfus agony was opened on Wednesday, when it was announced in Paris that Colonel Henry, the officer who gave the lie to Colonel Picquart at the Zola trial, and who supported...
The accounts of the way in which M. Cavaignac discovered
The Spectatorthe forgery are most dramatic. The War Minister ordered a minute examination of all the papers which were alleged to prove the guilt of Dreyfus. They were placed in front of a...
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There has virtually been no news from the Nile during
The Spectatorthe past week, owing partly to the fact that the Sirdar out- marches the field telegraph, and partly to a storm, which prevented the wires already in operation from acting...
The news from Spain is meagre, the only item of
The Spectatormoment relates to the arrival at Corunna on Wednesday of the first batch of troops from Cuba. Some of these reached Madrid on Thursday, and their condition is described as...
On Wednesday last—her eighteenth birthday—the minority of the young Queen
The Spectatorof Holland was ended, and in a simply worded Proclamation she announced her accession to the throne. After a warm acknowledgment of the affection with which she has been...
The Cape elections have resulted in the defeat of the
The SpectatorPro- gressives and a victory for the Bond party, which will pro- bably give them a majority of four or five votes. We have dealt with the subject at length elsewhere, and will...
A most distressing accident occurred this day week in the
The SpectatorVal d'Herens, by which Dr. John Hopkinson, the dis- tinguished electrician, one of his sons, and two daughters all lost their lives while making the ascent of the Dent de...
The first political result of the Henry suicide is the
The Spectatorconcentra- tion of public opinion in France on the condition of the Head- quarters Staff and the Department of National Defence. This the world of Paris is beginning to regard,...
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The unveiling of the national monument to the Czar
The SpectatorAlexander II.—the " Czar Liberator "—in the Kremlin at Moscow, where he was born, took place on Sunday last with the barbaric pageantry which makes all Russian state ceremonials...
A. facsimile of the recently discovered poem by Sappho, unearthed
The Spectatorby Messrs. Grenfell and Hunt in a mass of papyri found near Alexandria, was published in last Saturday's Daily Mail. The fragment, which is in the Sapphic metre and in the...
The opening sitting of the Zionist Congress, which has been
The Spectatorheld at Basle and was attended by some three hundred and fifty delegates, male and female, was enlivened by a trenchant speech from Dr. Max Nordau on "The General Situation of...
Reports from Berlin show how serious are the Germa Emperor's
The Spectatorpreparations for his tour in Palestine. He has, it. is said, permitted not less than two hundred pastors of the Lutheran Church to join him in his pilgrimage, and we shall...
We record with great satisfaction that the strike of Welsh
The Spectator,-,olliers has come to an end, after lasting some six months and costing, it is said, some six millions. The masters' terms have been in effect accepted, and these include an...
The Bishop of Winchester, writing in Monday's Times, makes a
The Spectatorvery important contribution to another side of the problem. He points out that even if the Act is strictly interpreted, it only applies to alterations in the regular services,...
The very interesting and fall correspondence in the Times on
The Spectatorthe subject of the Acts of Uniformity is making it abundantly clear that the Archbishop of Canterbury was perfectly right when he declared that extra and new services are not...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorTHE CZAR'S ENCYCLICAL. Nv 'HEN Louis XVIII. was discussing with Talleyrand the constitution of the French Upper House, tbe King proposed that the Members should give their...
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THE LAST STAGE OF THE DRE YFUS CASE.
The SpectatorTS the long agony of Dreyfus about to come to an end 1 It certainly looks as if this must be the case. How A it possible for the Government to refuse a revision of the case...
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THE CAPE ELECTIONS. T HE keen interest that has been aroused
The Spectatorin this country by the elections for the Cape Legislative Assembly will undoubtedly seem to many observers a healthy sign of the times. A few years ago, Colonial elections were...
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HOLLAND'S PLACE IN EUROPE.
The Spectator"M AY the country," exclaims the Queen-Regent of` the Netherlands in her interesting Proclamation, "become great in everything in which a small nation can be great !" No person...
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THE TRADE-UNION CONGRESS. T HE Trade-Union Congress at Bristol is noted
The Spectatorf■ certain important features. In the first place, tl number of workmen represented is said to have bee unusually large ; next, an international character wi given to the...
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WHAT IS A CHURCH ? T HIS is the question which
The Spectatoremerges from the newspaper discussion in which Sir William Harcourt has sought to continue—or to cover—his Parliamentary performances in the role of Defender of the (Protestant)...
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A WARLESS WORLD. T HE Emperor of Russia's pathetic plea for
The Spectatorpeace has set all men wondering whether or not a warless world would in reality be a better world. At first sight one is in- clined to say that the question is one that is not...
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THE TYRANNY OF HYPOTHESIS.
The SpectatorT HE singular case of Mrs. Druce and her fixed belief that Mr. T. C. Druce and the late Duke of Portland were one and the same is perhaps the most romantic and most popular...
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THE DUKE OF BEDFORD'S ANIMALS.
The SpectatorO N Tuesday the foreign and English members of the Zoological Congress were able to form some idea of the magnitude of the experiments in animal acclimatisation which the Duke...
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CORRESPONDENCE.
The SpectatorA VISIT TO LOURDES. [To VIZ ED/TOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,-It is a very beautiful and a very gracious place. I have no cause to plead, either of creed or of medicine. Only to...
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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The letters which
The Spectatorhave appeared lately in the Spectator on this subject from the pen of Canon MacColl are ingenious and clever. He speaks of sacerdotalism, and rightly, as having "its root idea...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The SpectatorSACERDOTALTSM. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Stu,—One word more to Canon MacColl. He refers me to St. Paul's saying, " Now we see through a glass darkly," apparently as...
THE CHARM OF THE STUARTS.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OP THE " Brscr■Tos."] SIR,—I may be permitted to return to this question because our modern historical and literary ideas are so much affected by theories of race...
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I should wish to
The Spectatorapologise to Canon MacColl if I mis- • anderstood his first letter. I took him to be defending sacerdotalism " on the ground of its being simply a form of spiritual influence...
[To THE EDITOR OE THE " SrscrAToLl SIR,—In the Spectator
The Spectatorof August 27th your correspondent Mr. A. Lang says that Oliver Cromwell "was a Stuart in the female line." If he will refer to Mr. Frederic Harrison's book on the Protector he...
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BOOKS•
The SpectatorSIRDAR AND KHALIFA.* This volume, from the pen of one of the most experienced, audacious, and " graphic " of war-correspondents, appears most appropriately as a literary...
NAPOLEON AT LYONS, MARCH, 1S15. [To TBZ EDITOR OP TIM
The Spectator"SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—The enclosed lines, forming a portion of a poem, may interest those among your readers who observe with curiosity the periodic recurrence of a belief in the...
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THE CABOTS. , THE literature associated with the names of the
The SpectatorCabots is far from inconsiderable, and of late years the claims of the father and son have been examined with exhaustive minuteness by M. Harrisse, the author of a ponderous...
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HISTORY OF THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.* Ma. Gimannaa takes us
The Spectatorback, it will be seen, more than fifty years. But the title of "Great Northern Railway" is at least ten years older, for in 1835 an engineer, Joseph Gibbs by name, projected a...
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EMERSON, AND OTHER ESSAYS.* EMERSON'S is a very great name
The Spectatorin what we may perhaps call the obscure school of letters. It would be quite as idle • Emorson, and other Essays. By John Jay Chapman. London: David Nutt. to ignore the...
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RECENT NOVELS.*
The SpectatorWE had long ago given up Mr. George Gissing as an in- corrigible pessimist, but the unexpected has happened, and in The Town Traveller he has not only given us a story with a...
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THE MAGAZINES.
The SpectatorMB Nineteenth Century has no very striking article, but "Endymion," the poem by Mr. Phillips with which the number opens, is one of which, in its sad melodiousness, Keats would...
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Later Reliques of Old London. Lithographed by T. R. Way.
The SpectatorDescribed by H. B. Wheatley. (G. Bell and Sons. 21s. net.)— This is a continuation of a good piece of work, Reliques of Old+ London, which appeared in 1896. Mr. Way has...
CURRENT LITERATURE. •
The SpectatorBallads and Poems. By the Members of the Glasgow Ballad Club- (William Blackwood and Sons. 7s. 6d.)—In 1876 a number of men in Glasgow, united by sympathy for poetry, and...
Gloria Victis. By J. A. Mitchell. (D. Nutt.)—What is likely,
The Spectator1 there be any truth in heredity, to happen to a child if both father and mother are absolutely destitute of all sense of morals ? Curiously enough, Stephen Wordsworth is better...
Forbidden by Law. By Major Arthur Griffiths. (Jerrold and Sons.)—This
The Spectatoris a story, told by a competent narrator, of what we may call the "new smuggling." It differs from what we have been accustomed to in the pages of Mr. G. P. R. James and...
The Story of Hawaii. By Jean A. Owen (Mrs. Visger).
The Spectator(Harper and Brothers.)—Mrs. Visger, who deserves well of the reading public for having introduced to it the writings of " A. Son of the Marshes," gives a summary of the history...
A Flower - hunter in Queensland and New Zealand. By Mrs. Rowan.
The Spectator(John Murray. 14s.)—This volume consists of letters written from North Queensland during a winter spent in that splendid climate, and from New Zealand. The title is rather...
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An Attie in Bohemia. By E. H. Lacon Watson. (Elkin
The SpectatorMathews.)—There are some clever and entertaining essays in this volume. Mr. Lacon Watson satirises in a good-humoured way various classes of more or less ridiculous people,...
