Roberts nor Sir R. Buller can move without remounts and supplies, and both are slow in arriving, or rather are required on a scale which involves delay. The Boers, therefore,...

• T HE Queen was right not to go on the Continent this year. An attempt to assassinate her, or to inflict any personal insult, would have driven the whole Empire mad with fury,...

interest has shifted from South Africa. Since Monday all eyes have been turned to Ireland, where, after an absence of nearly forty years, the Queen is now paying a holiday...

on Tuesday on the Indian famine. Nominally the question was whether the British people should offer the Indian Treasury a grant-in-aid, but really it was a dispute whether the...

on the question of settlement. Addressing his constituents at Claremont yesterday week, he declared that the agitation to secure the retention of independence by the Republics...

case.

admirably to a great pageant such as that of Wednes- day, and the police had not the slightest difficulty in preserv- ing order during the procession, which passed off without...

quarrel with Great Britain, their theory being that if the Republic is beaten at sea, as they think it would be, a Monarchy of some sort would be acclaimed by opinion. They...

Tuesday by Mr. Hedderwicic, affirming that it was desirable in the interests of the Empire that the Colonies should be admitted to some direct representation in the Imperial...

who took Santiago, has consented to stand for the Presidency as "the candidate of the people "—that is, without a party nomination—and Mr. Hanna and Mr. Platt are wild with rage...

to get rid of their most obnoxious opponents by incessant challenges. So publicly was the design spoken of that the group concerned were known by the nickname of the "...

the Edinburgh Unity of the Empire Association, and began by paying a tribute to the memory of Mr. W. E. Forster, who started and founded the Imperial Federation League. Taking...

arrival of Captain Borchgrevink, leader of the Sir George Newnes Antarctic Expedition, at Stewart Island, New Zealand. The chief scientific achievement of the expedition is the...

as a biologist and writer on theological topics, died on Sunday after a short illness at the age of seventy-two. He was recently brought before the world through a collision...

Tuesday a still more decided speech. He declared that in the Fashoda affair the end to be attained by defying Great Britain was altogether disproportionate to the effort which...

Department have been empowered to nominate twelve candidates from Scotch schools for direct com- missions in the Army, Lord Balfour of Burleigh has issued an admirable circular...

to put down obstruction with a sharp band. After scenes of inde- scribable violence, amidst which the President, Signor Colombo, resigned, the Government proposed on Friday week...

Cathedral on April 3rd, which was crowded when the Arch- bishop of Canterbury preached at the " F. M. Buss Com- memoration." A special service was held in thanksgiving for the...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 101+.

THE GARRISON OF SOUTH AFRICA. I T is perhaps good for our people to have so little imagination, for the defect enables them to push straight on without considering consequences...

W E do not see much in the objections raised to the appointment of Lord Londonderry as Postmaster- General because he is a Peer. It is, of course, highly expedient that Members...

I T is wonderful, as Carlyle said, how long a rotten fabric will last. We suppose that Providence permits this mystery for large ends unperceived by our finite minds, and we...

with the Parliaments of other countries, has been singularly fortunate. Like the rest it has had its attack of obstruction, but unlike the rest it has taken the com- plaint...

W E may and do regret, but we cannot be altogether surprised at, the action which the Women's Trade- Union League is taking in the promotion of a Bill, introduced by Sir Charles...

- DE BLOW ITZ tells us this week that the smart "VI_ • set in Paris, or, rather, the fast set among the old aristocracy, intend, if they can, to expel the Rothschild family, the...

T T is almost inevitable that the increasing complexity of modern journalism should give rise to difficult problems as to the ethical relations between the editor of a journal...

A NEW lion house is to be built at the Dublin "Zoo," and subscriptions are asked for to help its completion. Two very good and sufficient reasons are given by Mr. D. J....

THE QUEEN IN DUBLIN. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:'] SIR, —Dablin to-day [April 4th] wore an aspect of dismal festivity, dressed out with wet flapping flags. Beyond a...

LORD WELLESLEY ON THE CAPE. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Lord Wellesley, writing on February .28th, 1798, from the Cape on his way to India, points out the...

that he in. timates that he will send no further communications on the subject. I regret that he cannot have an opportunity of reiterating them every day until they have...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "QPECTkTOR."] DEAR FRIEND,—The " answer " given by Professor Mommsen to Professor Sonnenschein as the justification of his article on the Transvaal War in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —I should have left to others to dispose of an " Old Liberal's" attempt to conjure with dead men's names had he rot added to his list...

OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I have been greatly impressed by the justice of much that has been said in the Spectator on the fact that the pre- sent war is a retribution for our...

"SPECTATOR."] SIE.—I observe that in dealing with the Irish University deba e in the Spectator of March 31st you say : " What Mr. Balfour wanted to say was that, as we see in...

Sin,—Although I am one of those who " would net owe* spend a night alone in an old char,* or among the graves," I do not fear death because I have once already been through the...

Commons vote on the Irish Roman Catholic University question was for the moment adverse, it must not be considered that the matter is in any way settled. Many Members, like Mr....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—It appears to me that in your article in the Spectator of March 31st on the above subject you have left out of account one of the most...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, --Your article on "Austria and Disintegration" in the Spectator encourages me to address you with a few lines on that subject. Having...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Iday I remind the writer of a most interesting article in the Spectator of March 31st that the Apostle Paul, and not "the seer in the...

Stn,—It surely is not the physical fact of death that most regard with apprehension, but it is the "dread of something after death " that "gives us pause." The calm words of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The intense loyalty and practical patriotism displayed recently throughout the Australian Continent has elicited admiration from all...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sr ,—With reference to a letter in the Spectator of March 24th as to an Egyptian Babylon, the latter word is invariably used by the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] was surprised to read in your recent notice of Mr. and Mrs. Maudslay's new book on Guatemala (Spectator, March 24th) that the "Biologic...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—Mr. de Jersey Grat meets my contention, or rather statement of fact, that Holland is an independent State absolutely free from foreign...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —Your article on this subject in the Spectator of March 17th shows that the result of the struggle for Pro- tection which the German...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPErrTATOR."] SIR,—In characterising the British soldier as an " absent- minded beggar," Mr. Rudyard Kipling has no doubt wittingly hit upon a...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —I am a constant reader of your paper, and as a general rule find myself fairly in accord with your views, especially on such matters...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The paragraph on this subject reproduced in your review of Sir M. Grant Duff's " Notes from a Diary " gives additional circulation to a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Your valuable paper in the Spectator of March 31st is in common with most that have been written on the same subject, defective and, in...

OH, my eyes were dry, and my heart was sad, When off to the wars went my soldier lad ; I spake no word, but my heart was sore, For I thought I may never look on him more. And...

HoFFDING'S HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY.* IT is remarkable that so many important works should have come in recent years from the Northern capitals of Europe, revealing an eager...

ABOU HAMED. Two white stone crosses side by side Mark where the true blood flowed, Where Sydney and Fitzclarence died To win the desert road. And ringed about them close at...

IF we are to listen to all the passionate appeals that are being made to us, under the penalty of lifelong regret, to buy dictionaries, cyclopkedias, literatures, and other...

MOROCCO certainly wanted an historian. Since the founda- tion of the Idrisid kingdom at Volubilis, within a century of the Saracen conquest, the Maghrib has formed, with brief...

aught for the literary quality of his daily diet the novels of Dr. Barry are in welcome and refreshing contrast to the perfunctory and clumsy workmanship of most of his...

TEE April number of the Nineteenth Century is greatly occupied with the war, no less than seven of the sixteen papers being either South African or military. The best, perhaps,...

THE ANGLO-SAXON REVIEW, The 9.1glo-Savon Review. Edited by Lady Randolph Spencer Churchill. (J. Lane. 21s.)—The fourth number of the Anglo. Sa.eon Review is exquisitely got up....

2s. ad.)—This volume is made out of a collection of stories made by Bishop Walsh= How. The Bishop himself in giving the original manuscript to the editor, expressed a hope that...

(Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] The Ruskin Union Journal. (4 The Albany. Not for sale.)— This is the...

3s.)—A careful study of this volume will well repay the time spent upon it. At first sight it appears a somewhat repelling mass of names and figures. More closely examined it...

and Co. Is. 6d.)--This is an " analysis and appreciation " of Dr. James Martineau's great book. It is excellently well done, clear and intelligible, and makes a complex and,...

Percy Jones, B.A. - (C. W. Deacon and Co. 7s. 6d.)—This is as good a book of its kind as we have seen, carefully compiled and made as complete as one could expect. Of course...

M.A. (Macmillan and Co. 2s. 6d.)—" No apology is needed," Mr. Hyslop thinks, "for the attempt to bring the Andronuiche into the list of Greek plays which are usually read in the...

Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte and her Sisters" (Smith, Elder, and Co., Os.) contains The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Bronti.i. Mrs. Ward prefixes a critical...

Stevens, Son, and Stiles. 12s. 6d. net.) —Mr Christy gives a description of a certain medallion, of which two copies are in the British Museum and another in private bands. It...