the German Government for the increase of the Army will not be carried, the Free Conservatives and the Clericals both declaring that as Russia can no longer join France in an...

as to the internal situation. The disorders in the Caucasus continue, and killings by the hundred are frequently reported ; but the victims are slain in race quarrels between...

the working of Parliamentary institutions having come apparently to a deadlock. Count Tisza, though defeated at the polls, still remains ad interim Premier, because no successor...

Sha-ho throughout the week we get only the barest details. All we really know is that the two forces have been engaged on a front said to have been eighty miles long, that the...

Commission Admiral Fournier presented the Report of the Commissioners. After referring to the fact that during his stay at Skagen Admiral Rozhdestvensky was warned as to the...

on January 22nd, is not yet known ; but he has published a letter in the Paris Humanite denouncing the Romanoffs in unmeasured terms, calling the Czar an "assassin," and...

on Monday in an amendment to the Address moved by Mr. Stevenson, who urged that in view of the inadequacy of the measures hitherto adopted, and the obligations incurred by...

Its ultimate origin is, of course, the stronger tone of democracy in Norway; but the causa causans is the desire of the smaller State for a greater voice in foreign affairs, and...

be fortified in their view by the remarkable letter addressed to a Notts farmer by Mr. Jesse Collings. The farmer cannot grow corn in face of the competition of the whole...

and disappointment at the tone of Lord Percy's speech, which palliated the misdoings of the Turkish Government and encouraged them in their obstinacy, and con- trasted his...

has been High Commissioner for South Africa since 1897, and Administrator of the Transvaal and the Orange River Colonies since 1901, had resigned his office for reasons...

lain spoke in the debate on the amendment condemning the Sugar Convention. He disclaimed the authorship of the Con- vention—that honour belonged to Six Michael Hicks Beach— but...

certain basis of truth; but he seems to us to have missed the force of the chief argument against the Convention,—that if local decrease is to be counteracted, all, producing...

the reduction of the Royal Small Arms Factory at Sparkbrook. Last week Mr. Bromley-Davenport, Financial Secretary to the War Office, informed Mr. Jesse Collings that a "final...

amazing Government, perhaps the most amazing is that disclosed in the Stanley-Bowles correspondence published on Friday. The facts are simple enough. Lord Stanley and Mr. Ailwyn...

of the election in North Westmorland is announced. Mr. Rigg, the late Liberal Member, resigned on his conversion to Tariff Reform principles, and the seat has been held for the...

approval of King Edward, the Prince and Princess of Wales will pay a visit to India in November next, remaining there till March, 1906. We are glad to note the official...

we do not believe that any ordinary man will read it without profound bewilderment that a man like Lord Stanley should have allowed himself to be bullied out of his pledge. We...

Mr. Buchanan, who moved an amendment urging the im- mediate need of revising and reducing the national expendi- ture. Mr. Bowles intervened with a characteristic speech, in...

Thursday night, illustrated the tendency of the Government majorities to dwindle as the Session proceeds. In the division taken to report progress, and taken after the Govern-...

Consols (2 per cent.) were on Friday 91i.

---.111■■••••- A FORTNIGHT ago we likened Mr. Chamberlain to a man who has lighted a fire on an ice-floe, and finds that though his fire blazes fiercely enough at first, he...

of revolution in Russia. They are, in fact, bemused, like the Grand Dukes, by the rapidity with which events occurred in France during the great upheaval. Even there three years...

has only just emerged from a very critical Parlia- mentary situation created by an attack upon him on the part of the Ulster Unionists,—an attack directed against him for having...

North Sea incident reflects great credit upon its authors. There is no trace of any disposition to evade inconvenient facts, or to shrink from placing the responsi- bility on...

the present aspect of the world which is most unusual, and that is the contrast between the magnitude of the events occurring all round us, and the smallness, or rather, if we...

which contain few ideas, and those which contain many. The state of the former is certainly less chaotic than thai of the latter, and, one would imagine, more amenable to the...

" too- old-at-forty-useless-at-sixty " line of argument, used in certain connections; but Dr. Osier, we are glad to find, has done too much in the world in the last fifteen...

of the month ; and at its opening one of the most charming features of modern gardening is seen there in perfection, the flowering of tens of thousands of purple, white, and...

Sin,—A year ago you published a letter from me in which it was argued, contrary to the view which has been maintained with great force by the Spectator, that the true course for...

Sxn,—Ts there no hope of reconsideration of the unhappy de- cision of Friday, February 17th, brought about by the exigencies of the Ministerial position and the cruel war of...

by me from my brother, a member of the South African Constabulary, who served through the war from Talana Hill to its close :— " You think that the South African Colonies will...

and a humble member of the Unionist party, I take the liberty of protesting against a practice too common among Englishmen of both sides in politics, and occasionally indulged...

to believe that opposition on the Fiscal question has anything to do with the attitude of the Spectator towards the licensing policy of the Government, but I fail altogether to...

Mr. Bullen's letters in the Spectator of February 4th and 25th with great interest. I have two sons at present on the 'Conway,' and shall shortly have to look out for ships in...

February 11th there is a most interesting letter from Mr. P. E. Roberts, in which he quotes the wonderful forecast of Sir William Molesworth, so far back as 1851, as regards the...

to know that a fine Spanish sailing ship, the 'Ama Begonakoa,' is already running on somewhat similar lines to those indicated by him in the Spectator last week. Doubtless the...

for the unemployed ; and against the kindly motives which prompt the raising of such funds I have, of course, nothing to say. But why are people unemployed P Because, owing to a...

subscribes to your weekly, to express an opinion or two arising out of the article under the above heading in your issue of February 18th P The economical argument of the...

you discuss a paper by a writer in the United Service Magazine on the Indian Army. In it there are many misleading statements made by him. Mixed regiments were not a result of...

Sin,—In the Spectator of February 11th is an article on "Animal Masons," in which it is stated that the black wheatear crosses the Straits of Gibraltar in spring to nest. As far...

Spectator of February 25th under the above heading implies, I think, that M. J. Guyau's books were first published in 1903 and 1904. His famous " Esquisse d'une Morale sans...

SID,—In reading the article in the Spectator of February 25th on "The Wisdom of Children," I was reminded of an answer given to one of my daughters at Sunday-school. The lesson...

you say in your issue of January 28th, to argue, as Dr. Moberly did, "that 'spiritual excellence' is a necessary factor in a competent judgment on such a point" as that of the...

can find room for another story of Dean Mansel. To a friend who remarked that though the Ministry had been frequently defeated, they pertinaciously stuck to office, he is said...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." SIR,—In his letter to the Spectator of February 18th Mr. W. H. A. Cowell says that "persons born on it [H.M.S. Ascen- sion Island] count as...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " sescrsros.1 Sin,—A very deserving body of men require assistance. Our work was entered into for the purpose of helping officers, who had some money to...

joke which you are inclined to attribute to Dean Manse' (Spectator, February 25th) was the Rev. Thomas Chatters, an eccentric Fellow and Tutor of Brasenose, who was a Classical...

Sra,—The gulf between Dean Mansel and the undergraduate may be a wide one ; but I submit the following epigram from an undergraduate of my own College as a bridge, with...

Virgil's line to trembling parsons is much older than Dean Mansel (Spectator, Febru- ary 18th). If Mr. Tollemache will turn the pages of George Cox's brilliant satire, "Black...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTATOR.") Sin, — A propos of the "much-travelled Spectator" (see issue of February 4th), it may interest you to know of one which arrives at the house...

THE following gentlemen have recently consented to become patrons of the Cheap Cottages Exhibition :—The Earl of Harewood, Lord Hylton, R. C. Munro-Ferguson, Esq., M.P., Colonel...

[A. J. B. loguitur.] WINTER has come and gone, once more we meet On classic ground ; Once more the parks are green, with bird-notes sweet Their glades resound : The Speaker...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your issue of February 18th "W. J. H." attributes the enhanced price of sugar to what he terms "this experi- ment in Protection." But...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—May I be allowed to point out an error in the very interesting article, "The Praise of Creases," in your issue of February 25th? The...

[TO VIE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In your notice of Mr. J. F. Cunningham's "Uganda and its Peoples" in the Spectator of February 18th I find that the writer says,...

biography have, so to speak, known Dr. Johnson, rather than known about him. They have met him in all moods, and the feeling of friendship thus engendered, and of respect for...

cousins, for they have a continent for a country, and without leaving their own shores can pitch their camp in the woods of the North, or on the prairies of the South and West,...

shape of some previously published letters of Sir Walter Scott to his intimate friend Mrs. Hughes ; but its chief contents are that lady's diaries of her visits to "Conundrum...

it seems right and enough ; sometimes, and much oftener, one resents it and begs for more ; it seems as if there must be more to be said on this subject or the other, in the...

6s.)—Mr. Clark Russell's story consists of two rather disconnected parts. In the first place, he excites the interest of his readers in the convoy of ships which, under...

more resolutely to have renounced all traffic with comedy, and concentrated his energies exclusively on the delineation of life in its gloomier and more tragic aspects. It is...

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and rather, therefore, to be commended to the notice of students than to be criticised. These are The Shu - King ; or, The Chinese Historical Classic, Translated from the...