Union League Club in New York (the chief Republican club in that city) he described President Roosevelt in the following words :—" Men say he is not safe ! He is not safe for...

seat of war, there are indications that feeling is running very high in Russia against Britain. To a great extent this is fostered by the military party, who hope by inflaming...

in the Brussels Law Courts by Princess Louise of Coburg and Princess Stephanie (Countess Lonyay) against their father, the King of the Belgians. The case has been forced on by...

telegrams from the Far East, our knowledge of what is going on has been in reality very little increased. Behind the veil of mist we see dim shadows battling and armed men...

the dissemination of "terrorist" literature ; the real terrorism was that of the Russian Government, whose Far Eastern policy he vehemently attacked. Count von Biilow, who had...

by Mr. Buchanan representing that in view of our expanding naval expenditure—estimated at above £40,000,000 for this year—and in the interests of international peace, our...

Council at Johannesburg on Tuesday, an extra- ordinary Session having been opened to consider the financial situation in view of falling railway receipts. The revenue for the...

second part of their Report, which, it was intimated, had been seen and approved by the King. We have dealt at length with the Report elsewhere, but here we may sum- marise the...

had been appointed to the post of Inspector-General. The Inspector-General cannot, it should be noted, initiate policy ; he can only report on facts; and though he is to act as...

high level on Tuesday, an unusually large number of Front Bench men and ex-Cabinet Ministers taking part in the dis- cussion, which was mainly concerned with the two-Power...

Secretary to the Admiralty, made the annual explanatory statement with regard to the Navy Estimates. Their magni- tude was considerable, but that was the inevitable result of...

their fiscal policy was played on Thursday night both in the Lords and Commons. In the Lords, Lord Lansdowne, in regard to preference, complained that the Government were called...

Victoria, visited Cambridge to open the new buildings which have been erected to meet the needs of scientific instruction. The last Royal visit to the University was made by...

against the view that the two-Power standard was wholly in- elastic. The present time might not be the best to suggest reduction, but he did think something might be done in...

in a constituency which may be called the central stronghold of Chamberlainism and Protection, the other in a stronghold of Liberalism. In the Unionist stronghold—i.e., South...

Liberal League on Monday, and reviewed the achievements of that association in a short but somewhat injudicious speech. It had been started, he said, in "a prepared atmosphere...

Lough moved a Resolution calling attention to the Sugar Commission and the failure of the Brussels Convention to achieve its anticipated objects. The exports of sugar from the...

tied up in a war with Britain could give Russia no help against Japan." Those who are inclined to argue thus forget that what Russia feels most acutely just now is the...

I N our view, as our readers know, the action of Free-trade Unionists in opposing a Government who, whatever they may call themselves, owe their main support to Protectionists,...

L ORD ESHER'S Committee have issued the second part of their Report, and the boldness and thorough- ness which they displayed in the first part show no decrease in the present...

pages lately issued on the selection of candi- dates for nomination as naval cadets. Seldom indeed - Can a Minister of State write Q.E.F. as to one of the more difficult...

m R. GLADSTONE has upset, at all events for his own contemporaries, all the customary estimates of old age. Three score and ten has ceased to have any • special meaning as an...

Principal of Manchester College, Oxford, whose striking study—" An Inquiry into the Character and Authorship of the Fourth Gospel" (London : Williams and Norgate, 10s. 6d.)—has...

T HE "cost of public schools" is one of those "hardy perennial" questions which come up year after year for discussion among correspondents of newspapers,—the reason being,...

O NE of the oddest cases which have come before the Courts since the passing of the Employers' Liability Act was recently decided against a colliery company. The parents of a...

r TO THE EDITOR OF THS " SPECTATOR."1 "A Free-Trade Supporter of the Government" have in mind Mr. Lyttelton's speech on the fiscal debate in the House of Commons when he wrote...

SIR,—The following is, I think, instructive in view of tho Government's policy of retaliation as an aid to "freer trade." Of the period between 1841 and 1844 Mr. Gladstone wrote...

[To TEM EDITOR OF TEl 'SPECTATOR") SIS,—It has recently been suggested by Protectionists, and especially by Mr. Alfred Lyttelton, that the introduction of Free-trade belonged...

know some- thing more than is now known of the strength of the Free-trade party in Australia. The present controversy in England is watched with the greatest interest and-...

interest your article in the Spectator a February 27th entitled "Our Foreign Policy." I agree with every word you say. Is, however, the matter to end with your article ? Is...

rro TUB EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—.Your article in the Spectator of February 27th on "Our Foreign Policy" is exceedingly wise and timely. No thinking person can doubt...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—As a resident during many years on the Pacific Slope and an employer of Chinese labour (both skilled and unskilled), may I make a few...

(To xas EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,--You may perhaps consider it worth while to eorrect . a • slip made in your particularly interesting and informing article in the...

have read with interest the letters of the three corre- spondents in the Spectator of February 27th on the above subject, and I trust you will allow me to make a few remarks...

(To TEE EDITOR OP -TEN "SPECTATOR.") attentien has been drawn to an article in the Spectator of January 23rd, p. 118, in which it is stated thatJohn • Bright had "a thinstinin...

[To TEE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR:1 read with great interest the article ,you published in the Spectator of February 27th on Sir Leslie Stephen. I quite understand, and in part...

TO LORD ROBERTS. FAREWELL! The sad sweet word Rings sweetly, sadly now on every ear: The far tones of a trumpet faintly heard Telling the camp is near. Yet though the long...

MR. ERNEST MYERS'S POEMS.* ALL lovers of poetry will welcome the appearance of Mr. Ernest Myers's collected poems. Those of them who can carry their minds back twenty years will...

A GREAT fear of the future is responsible for this very read- able and very wrong-beaded book. Captain Ross believes that Germany since the accession of the present Emperor has...

IN June, 1580, M. de Montaigne started from his home in Perigord to make a tour abroad, with the hope of curing the painful ailments from which he suffered by visits to certain...

NEW books about birds appear in rapid succession. Mr. Lodge's contribution to ornithology is primarily a picture- book, and his text is chiefly an account of the circumstances...

OF the two articles connected directly or indirectly with the war in the Far East which appear in the new Nineteenth Century, that of Mr. Pownall on "Russia, Japan, and Our-...

assured, though personally we are inclined to think that the community would profit far more from the institution of a "First and Last Novel Library,"—provided, of course, that...

Jewel is a novel of "Christian Science," and the cynic will probably smile over the very modern little girl who refuses to obey her doctor's orders, and cures her own sore...

was confiscated and young men were forced into foreign service, and a race of vulgar time-servers battened on the dis- abilities of the old houses. A young girl is forced by her...

Rider Haggard may pile up as many horrors as he pleases round such a creation as "She," but we object to the process when we have been introduced to so attractive a creature as...

6s.) —A lucky attack of facial paralysis saves Mr. Cobb's heroine from marriage with a very selfish, though handsome, young gentleman, who is obviously of opinion that his...

and Blackett. 6s.)—People who get this book thinking that it has a hidden bearing on the political problems of the day will find themselves very much disappointed. The book is a...

2s. 6d.)—We feel that we shall best discharge our duty in respect of this book by generally commending it to our readers, and by a special mention of the chapter in which the...

of Ely. With Illustrations by Dlr. Herbert Railton. (J. M. Dent and Co. 21s. net.)—The two older English Universities have a charm which is all their own. In their rich...

S. Wakefield. (R.T.S. 3s. 6d.)—Mr. Wakefield laboured for between twenty and thirty years in Eastern Africa, going out there in 1862, and returning finally to England, much, it...

net.)—We hope that this "word for peace" may not have been spoken in vain. "I cannot help wondering," writes Canon Sanday, after a fair, and even kindly, reference to the...

and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.)—This "Exposition of Dante's Inferno" is a most informing work. Mr. Carroll follows the text of Dante with a continuous commentary, explains the...

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her especial wish, no flowers or wreaths.

(J. Ma,cLehose and Sons, Glasgow. 5s. net.)—" There is no month "—so does Mr. Rawnsley begin his book—" like the month of May in Switzerland, for May is the month of flowering...