K ING EDWARD arrived in Vienna on Monday, and was received by the Emperor with a warmth which apparently extended to the whole population. All the bitter- ness displayed during...

a formal alliance between the Government of Athens and the Sultan may be untrue, but it seems to be certain that the Greeks outside Macedonia sympathise heartily with the Turks....

report of the reply of the Sultan to the heads of various religious com- munities, Bulgarian, Greek, and Armenian, whom he recently received in audience. In it he called God to...

appointed President of the Council of Ministers, while retaining a general control of the Finance Department. It was at first maintained that the position was one intended to...

of importance. The general insurrection has broken out, but the insurgents have gained no important success and suffered no paralysing defeat. An Austro-Hungarian steamer has...

case.

Attitude" is published in Monday's Times. Start- ing from the proposition that "in order to understand a nation we must study the majority and the leaders it chooses, not those...

papers. There is a deadlock between the military authorities and the Town Council of Metz over the question of the water supply. Typhoid fever had broken out at Gorze, where the...

Bond majority in the Cape Parliament, relying on a pro- nouncement made by one of the Cabinet, carried a Resolution in favour of an inquiry into the operation of martial law....

to make the bushman believe in John Bull-Cohen, the griping moneylender, the slave-driver, the nation whose only interest in anything human or divine is centred in its money...

physical welfare of his Army comes the report explain- ing the forthcoming resignations of the Crown Prince of Saxony and General von Treitschke of their commands of the 12th...

Cecil Rhodes twelve years ago, shortly after he became Cape Premier for the first time, to the Premiers of Canada and New South Wales. In the letter to Sir John Macdonald; whom...

from a writer who signs himself " Amourski," and evidently knows his text well, which contains a statement that, if true, is important. It has, he says, been formally decided at...

the scheme of the Federal Army devised by General Sir Edward Hutton, and now approved by the Federal Govern- ment. The scheme provides for the complete organisation of (I) a...

with his express desire. The ceremonial was considered private; but the attendance of relatives, connec- tions, and the estate staff made the concourse seem large. The King's...

resignations. The former remain unconfirmed and uncontraclicted. With regard to the latter we may note that the Westminster Gazette gave currency on Monday to a rumour that at...

account of what has been accomplished by the Brooke family in their sovereignty of Sarawak. It is perhaps a little too purely appreciative ; but the facts are sufficiently...

published on Saturday last the first of a series of reports on the fiscal policy as it is understood by the working classes. The writer traversed a great part of England—the...

now probably the strongest swimmer in the world, to swim across the Channel, failed on Wednesday. About Eleven miles from the French coast the flood tide caught him, and he...

To the great surprise of local managers, the Liberal candidate, Mr. J. S. Ainsworth, was returned by a majority of 1,586, involving a turnover of 2,186 votes on a poll slightly...

consols (21 per cent.) were on Friday 891.

THE MEANING OF THE ARGYLLSHIRE ELECTION. T HE stars in their courses are fighting against Mr. Chamberlain. Just at the moment when he has asked the British people to give up an...

T HE members of the Royal Commission on the War did not write a summary of their Report because no doubt they felt that it was incapable of being summarised. After reading the...

E VERY one who sees in politics anything higher than a cynical pursuit of narrow and short-sighted self- interest will sympathise with the letter from Mr. Nowell Smith which we...

W E do not suppose that King Edward visited Vienna V V with any specific mission ; but it is quite possible that while there his Majesty may have done some good. The descendant...

A REMARKABLY thoughtful and suggestive article appeared in the Times of Monday under the heading of "The Australian Attitude." It fills nearly four columns, and is all worth...

"Yet sure of qualities deserving praise, More go to ruin fortunes than to raise." T HIS sentiment of Pope's is truly English. Certainly the majority of Englishmen see the...

T WO long driving tours made in 1815 and 1816 by James Cobb, then secretary to the Honourable East India Company, form. the subject of a stout volume of manuscript letters which...

I N the Northern and Border counties of England the habits of many of the domestic animals, both in relation to each other and to man, differ in a great measure from the...

ONE WAY OF SAVING MACEDONIA. (To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") SIB,—I am emboldened by your article, "One Way of Saving Macedonia," in the Spectator of August 29th, to...

[TO THE EDITOR OP TRH "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Your correspondent, "A Yorkshire Squire," in his letter in the Spectator of August 29th makes the following astound- ing statement:—"...

THE "SPECTATOR."] Snz,—I have read with great interest the editorial articles and the correspondence in your paper on the question of the day, —the national inquest. You are...

SIR,—In the postscript to his letter in the Spectator of August 29th "A Yorkshire Squire" says that he took the number of acres laid down to grass in the last thirty years "from...

• [To THE EDITOR OP TEE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It is perhaps natural that nearly all the present dia. cussion on fiscal policy should be carried on on economic and material lines,...

SIR,—I believe the ribbon-weaving industry is one that Pro- tectionists claim to have been ruined in Great Britain by Free-trade. I enclose a cutting from the Midland Daily...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Srit, — I have been away for a short holiday, and have in conse- quence only just seen the Spectator for August 15th and 22nd. Your footnote...

SIR,—In reading the letters published in your columns I have seen no mention of the reason given by Professor Fawcett why in England imports must be permanently in excess of...

"SPECTATOR"] SIR,—Referring to the letter of " Merchant " in the Spectator of August 29th, may I point out that the profits of foreign branches of English firms would not appear...

THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—As your esteemed correspondent, Dr. J. F. White of Dundee, has referred to me in your columns as his authority for certain figures which he quotes in the...

[To TED EDITOR OP TER "SPECTATOR."] Sus,—I trust you will allow me to comment briefly on your editorial note to Mr. R. Maguire's letter on the above subject which appeared in...

Sin,—My attention has been drawn to the various letters that have appeared in your issues of July and August with regard to the Sugar Convention Bill, and though I am very loth...

an American, I thoroughly enjoyed the cordial appre- ciation of President Roosevelt's Secretary of State which appeared in the Spectator of August 22nd; as a friend of Mr. Hay,...

[To THE EDITOR OF TaR "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Never were truer words written than those in your article on the War Commission Report in the Spectator of August 29th, in which you...

SIR,—In your note to Mr. Maguire's letter in the Spectator of August 15th you state that ores of a lower grade than those of the Transvaal mines are worked successfully by white...

on the Report of the War Commission in the Spectator of August 29th you truly remark; "the first thing to do is to make the Army a possible career for poor men. " That may be,...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." _I SIB,—The pleasant paper entitled "The Art of Interroga- tion " published in the Spectator of August 8th is evidently written by some one...

some of your readers may be curious to know the source of the two-lined quotation inscribed by her Majesty the Queen on the card attached to the floral tribute she sent to...

Or THE "SPECTATOR:] SIE, — In the Spectator of August 29th you say : " The officer ' s pay has stood now at the same figure since a hundred years ago. " Practically it has not...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SpEcrwron."] Sin, — There is a story in Kinglake, if I remember rightly, that since the battle there was a secret tradition in one of the regiments of "...

" Army Reform " in the Spectator of August 29th there are two statements on which I offer a passing comment. (1) That in the early part of last century a sovereign bought more....

[To THE Roma OF TEE "SPECTATOR."] Sia, — The writer of a letter in the Spectator of August 15th on "English as Spoken in Ireland " has fallen into a very natural mistake with...

the cause of the British regiments ad- vancing with drums sounding ? The Duke had given orders that the signal for their advance was to be a drum sounding. Their commander's...

NAPOLEONIC STATESWANSHIP IN GERMANY.* IT is perhaps an arguable point how far the world has been the gainer by the process of national consolidation which has been the most...

THE FIRST OF SEPTEMBER. SUMMER is on the sea ; grey-blue it spreads, Smooth, featureless, save where in grey-white line The murmuring ripples mark the grey-brown sands, Or...

MATERIALS are gradually accumulating for the history of English society during the Victorian era. It would be pre- mature at present to anticipate the final verdict of the...

IT is the fashion, perhaps something better and more per- manent than the fashion, in these days to take much interest in the circumstances and characters of the working...

"I HAVE lived long enough," wrote Leigh Hunt in the preface to his Autobiography, "to discover that autobiography may not only be a very distressing but a puzzling task, and...

BOTH sides of the fiscal controversy are represented in the Nineteenth Century, but the Protectionist cause is not very happy in its advocate, Mr. Lionel Phillips. Mr....

hero of this novel, Geoffrey Thurston, emigrates to Western Canada in the third chapter, and the story thereafter concerns itself with his career and adventures in British...

PLACE AND POWER.* THE inequalities of Miss Fowler's equipment have never been more signally illustrated than in her new book. There is the same profusion of smart sayings,...

difficult to conceive any possible adventure which the hero of this story does not go through in the course of its three hundred and ninety pages. The said hero, George Otway,...

Alfred D. Taylor. (J. W. Arrowsmith, Bristol.)—The first cricket match played at "Lord's" (the first ground of that name) took place on May 31st, 1787. Cricket had before had...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] The Officer's Field Note Book and Sketch. Book and Reconnaissance Aide...

2s. net.)—The paper on "The Short Lyric" is, we think, the best in the volume. The minor poet is the most uninteresting person in the world—at least in print—and we are greatly...

Cook and A. Wedderburn. (G. Allen. 21s. net each vol.)—The second volume of this library edition contains Ruskin's poems, and is enriched with many reproductions of those...

Mowbray and Co. 35. 6d. net.)—This volume consists, for the most part, of reprints from a local magazine. It comes commended by the vicar of St. Alban's, Holborn. It begins with...