N °THING is certain in Turkey except uncertainty, but the latest telegrams seem to show that the peace negotiations will really be concluded to-day. The Times' correspondent at...

THE STATE OF THE OPPOSITION. A T present home affairs have little interest for the public. Proof of this is to be found in the fact that the present state of the Opposition...

I T seems possible, we dare not say probable, considering the conditions involved, that a peaceful solution of the Eastern question will be found, for the time at any rate,...

I N giving notice to the Governments of Germany and Belgium that the Commercial Treaties at present in force between them and Great Britain will not be renewed when they...

continues, and the range of its baleful and paralysing activity grows wider. Within the last few days it has become known that a score or so of cycle manufacturers at Notting-...

M R. GREENWOOD'S criticism of Mr. John Morley's Romanes lecture on Machiavelli in the August Cosinopolis is just a little irritating because it is so very ultra-critical and so...

W HEN one hundred and ninety - four Anglican Bishops, brought together "from divers parts of the earth," have to prepare an Encyclical letter to all the members of their...

I N spite of the adverse meteorological conditions which have prevailed at various times during the present season, the harvest in this country, taking all crops into...

W E wish the Psychical Society would one day attempt an analysis of what, for want of a better word, we must call the dread of the supernatural. Both those who believe and those...

I N an inner room of the "North Gallery" at Kew, there has been on view, for some two years past, a collection of studies in oil and water-colour by Monsieur and Madame de...

T HE renewed arbitration on the fur-seal case has for its: object, not the settlement of international rights to " fish " in Behring Sea, but the problem of seal.. preservation,...

GLASTONBURY. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. . SIE,—It was a happy thought of Bishop Kennion, of Bath and Wells, who may have been impressed with the value of sentiment by...

THE AGGRESSIONS OF AMERICAN WEALTH. [To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—Will you allow me space for a few words of comment on your article on" The Aggressions of American...

[To TEN EDITOR OP THE " SPECPATOR:1 Sin,—No one who has carefully studied the state of things in - the Balkan Peninsula during the last few months can feel surprised at the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 SIR,,—The letter on this subject, signed by Frederic Mac- karness, in the Spectator of June 5th, has been read with interest by many here,...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIB,—I have been reading with deep interest accounts of the fresh arrival at the Zoological Gardens in London,—the arrival of another...

A GEORGIAN SNUFF-BOX. Thema( fallen from your high degree, Once tapped by princely fingers, You breathe of more than "burnt rappee." Round you a memory lingers Of those wild...

[To THR EDITOR OF THE "SPECTLT010] SIR,—In sequel to the letters you have published on "Irish Visions" will you accept another illustrating the modern ingenuity of the Celtic...

[TO VIZ EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sr,—Many years ago, when the facts were fresh, I was told that the well-known harmony in which the fivefold Edgeworth family lived together...

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE NAVY.* AMONG the many volumes which have lately been written on the subject of the Navy, none is more modest and none more sincere than the posthumous record...

DEAN FARRAR rightly warns the clergy that the policy of obscurantism is now impossible. They must not imagine that they can escape from the difficulties of doubt and unbelief •...

volumes are likely to be read with interest. Of the two narratives Mr. Bigham's is by far the most important. On March 19th he left London for Salonica as special correspondent...

P. Ker has given us a book which in its kind is truly " unpraisable beyond its merits." Other reviewers may be luckier, but this one has found no loophole in its strength where...

attractive volumes, the late Rev. E. Boucher James, was for many years the vicar of Carisbrooke. In a short biographical sketch written by his brother-in-law, Sir Arthur...

IN the Nineteenth Century M. Francis de Pressens6, the Foreign editor of the Temps, writes a friendly article on "France, Russia, and the England of the Jubilee." The point of...

Anderson, and Ferrier.)—There are few living authors blessed with a keener or more generous apprecia- tion of good literature than Mr. Saintsbury. He judges wisely, but he loves...

of the game—one that is rising, by the way, out of the neglect into which it fell some years ago—and directions as to how it is to be played.—With this may be mentioned South...

L. Pondered. Pictures and Cover-Design by Little Dorothy Hope (Marshall Russell and Co.)—This is a most delightful fairy- tale. The grown-up author writes as if she were a...

The Edinburgh Review. July. (Longmans and Co )—This is a highly interesting number, one which should go a good way towards showing that the old quarterlies are not so much out...

volume, which is of at least average merit, begins with a severe review of Dr. Watson's "Mind of the Master" from the pen of the Bishop of Derry and Raphoe. Among other...

Co.)—This little book gives a sketch of the Royal Navy, as it was and as it is. It is illustrated throughout, and the reader can gain from it a clear idea of what the Navy...

Co.)—A. notice of this book, of - which the third annual issue is now before us, will be appropriate to this time. A place that unites fishing and golf, two amusements which may...

prose translation of Queen Margaret of Navarre's poems, made by the Princess Elizabeth in the year 1544 (when she was eleven years of age). A preface tells us something about...

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Life and Work in Jamaica and Old Calabar. By William Marwick. (A. Elliot, Edinburgh.) — The Mohammedan Con- :!roversy, and other Indian Articles. By Sir William Muir. (T. and T....

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