9 SEPTEMBER 1899

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[If war comes it is most probable that it will be begun...]

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If war comes it is most probable that it will be begnn I by a sudden movement on the part of the Boers to raid Natal and to seize Laing's Nek and other strategic points on the...

[THE decision of the special Cabinet Council called to...]

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NEWS OF THE WEEK. THE decision of the special Cabinet Council called to consider the situation in South Africa, which met on Friday, will not have been made known before we go...

[The evidence taken during the week was not, with one...]

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The evidence taken durine the week was not, with one exception, of great importance. M. Oernuschi, formerly in Austrian service, testified that he had actually seen in foreign...

[There was hope in the beginning of the week that a verdict...]

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There was hope in the beginning of the week that a verdict would be reached in the Dreyfus case before its end,but the hope vanished, and next Monday is now fixed as the...

[The Times of Thursday contains a Cape Town telegram...]

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The Times of Thursday contains a Cape Town telegram I from its late Johannesburg correspondent, Mr. Monypenny, describing how he avoided arrest at Johannesburg. He states that...

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[The Government of Prussia has resolved not to dissolve...]

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The Government of Prussia has resolved not to dissolve I because of the rejection of the Elbe-Rhine Canal Bill, and not to break with the Conservatives, but it is visibly...

[After a very natural hesitation the French Ministry have...]

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After a very natural hesitation the French Ministry have I decided to bring M. D6roulade, M. Gugrin, and all those arrested for Royalist plotting before a Court. On Monday,...

[The German Emperor has been visiting Strasburg, and...]

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The German Emperor has been visiting Strasburg, and seems, from a speech at a banquet given him on Tuesday, to have been both surprised and touched at his reception. He...

[The news from India is not good.]

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The news from India is not good. A fall of rain has saved| the crops in the Central Provinces, but according to the latest I telegrams, nothing can now save Rajpootana,...

[On Tuesday Mr. Morley, addressing his constituents at...]

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On Tuesday Mr. Morley, addressing his constituents at Arbroath, dealt in a characteristic speech with the South African crisis. What, he asked, will you do when you have won...

[But Mr. Morley's speech was not entirely composed of...]

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Bat Mr. Morley's speech was not entirely oomposed of denunoiation. We are glad to note that he at the maie time gave some excellent-advice toPeide-iit-Kig-er.7-"We are all,"...

[Another passage in Mr. Morley's speech dealt strongly...]

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Another passage in Mr. Morley's speech dealt strongly with Sir Alfred Milner's paradox of insisting at the point of the bayonet that British subjects shall cease to be British...

[On Thursday all the evidence in the Dreyfus trial was...]

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On Thursday all the evidence in the Dreyfus trial was I completed, and Major Carriere began his address for the prosecution. It was an unqualified declaration of his belief in...

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[At the annual meeting of the Trade-Union Congress held...]

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At the anmual meeting of the Trade-Union Congres held in Plymouthion Wednesday, there was great discussion as to the best means of increasing the number of Labour Members in...

[In the Times of Monday Cardinal Vaughan replies to a...]

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In the Timnes of Monday Cardinal Vaughan replies to a I letter (signed "Verax," and evidently written by a Roman Catholic) which protested against the way in which the Roman...

[Mr. Harold Spender gives in the Daily Chronicle for Tues-...]

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I Mr. Harold Spender gives in the Daily Chronicle for Tues- day a striking account of the search for the bodies of the victims in the recent Alpine disaster, as well as the...

[Bull-fighting, hitherto rarely practised outside Spain, the...]

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I Bull-fighting, hitherto rarely practised outside Spain, the South of France, and South America, has made its way as far north as Boulogne. On Sunday night, the 27th ult., a...

[On Saturday last Mr. Asquith made a speech to his con-...]

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On Saturdav last Mr. Asquith made a speech to his con I stituents at Leven which was marked by that strength and independence of view which he has often displayed...

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Home Portraiture. By Richard Penlake.

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Home Portraiture. By Richard Penlake. (L. Upcott Gill. | 2s. 6d.)-Mr. Penlake assures us that he is an amateur; that he I does not possess a proper studio or means of working...

DEVOTIONAL BOOKS.-Little Tapers: a Day-book of Verses. By Frederick Langbridge.

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I DEVOTIONAL Booxs.-Little Tapers: a Day-book of Verses. By I Frederick Langbridge. (R.T.S. ls.)-We are always glad to meet Mr. Langbridge's name on a title-page. He has the...

A Great Historic Peerage: the Earldom of Wiltes. By John Henry Metcalfe.

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SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK. [Under this headin' ice notice such Books of the week as have not been resermed for review in other forms.) I A Great Historic Peerage: the Earldom of...

Fortune Telling by Cards. By L. B. Prangley.

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Fortune Telling by Cards. By L. B. Prangley. (L. Upcott Gill. Is.)-We are not sure that fortune-telling, whether by cards or any other means, is not an unlawful proceeding....

Outcomes of Old Oxford. By the Rev. W. R. K. Bedford.

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Outcomes of Old Oxford. By the Rev. W. Ri. K. Bedford. (F. I E. Robinson and Co. 3s. 6d.)-Mr. Bedford's heroes, if we may so call them, are the opposites of those whom Mr....

A Picturesque History of Yorkshire. By J. S. Fletcher.

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A A Picturesque History of Yorkshire. By J. S. Fletcher. Part VI. (J. M. Dent and Co. Is. net.)-This part continues the subject of "Leeds and Upper Airedale." The most...

NEW EDITIONS.-The eighth volume of the Eversley Shakespeare, edited by C. H. Herford, Litt.D.

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NEw EDITIONS.-The eighth volume of the Eversley Shakespeare, I edited by C. H. Herford, Litt.D. (Macmillan and Co, 5s.), contains three of the tragedies, viz., Julius Cesar,...

SCHOOL-BOOK.-Progressive Lessons in Science. By A. Abbott, M.A., and Arthur Key, M.A.

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I SCHOOL-BoOK.-Progressive Lessons in Science. By A. Abbott, I M. A., and Arthur Key, M.A. (Blackie and Son. 3s. Od.)-The two parts deal respectively with "non-metallic...

Pamphlets and Addresses. By George Webb Medley.

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Pamphlets and Addresses. By George Webb Medley. (Cassell I and Co. 3s. (;d.)-Mr. Medley wasaconvincedand militantFreetrader. To this creed be clung through good repute and...

Songs of Sixpenny and Pupil-Room Rippings. By Arthur C. James.

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Songs of Sixpenny and Pupil-Roomn Rippings. By Arthur C. James. (R. Ingalton Drake, Eton. 5s. net.)-It will be sufficient I to quote the opening words of Mr. James's preface,...

Carnac Sahib. By Henry Arthur Jones.

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Carmac Sahib. By Henry Arthur Jones. (Macmillan and Co. I 2s. 6d.)-Mr. Jones's new play has the usual motive, the only one that the fin-de-siecle playwright employs, or, it...

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THE NEXT GREAT TRIAL IN FRANCE.

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THE NEXT GREAT TRIAL IN FRANCE. THE French Ministry must know their own business T best, but to outsiders it certainly looks as if they were courting annoyance, and perhaps...

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MR. HAWKER OF MORWENSTOW.

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MR. HAWKER OF MORWENSTOW.* THE Reverend Robert Stephen Hawker was not a remarkable poet, but he was a very remarkable man; and although Mr. Wallis, who has edited the new and...

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TWO QUESTIONS.; [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

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TWO QUESTIONS. [To TnE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SiR,-There are two questions which many of your readers might like to see fairly answered. In your article in the Spectator...

FRANCIS PARKMAN.

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BO OK S. . FRANCIS PALRKMAN.* FRANCIS PARKMAN long since won an honourable place among the classic historians of the world, and it is with the greatest cordiality that we...

THE VOICE OF THE MOUNTAINS.

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POETRY. THE VOICE OF THE MOUNTAINS. CROWNED with the glory of the eternal snow, We hold high converse with the stars and sun. The little race of men how should we know, Or the...

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THE ROUGH RIDERS.

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THE ROUGH RIDERS.* The Rough Riders is an extremely interesting account of the raising, equipment, and doings in battle of the justly famous regiment of cavalry, or more...

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THE POLITY OF A BATTLESHIP.

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THE POLITY OF A BATTLESHIP. AMONG the many interesting features of life at sea, few afford studies more fruitful in valuable thought than the internal economy of that latest...

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NOVELS OF THE WEEK.

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NOVELS OF THE WEEK.* QUITTING for a while his meritorious, if not altogether convincing, excursions into the domain of modern Greek historical romance, Mr. Benson has returned...

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35 RUE PICPUS.; [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

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CORRESPONDENCE. -4- 35 RUE PICPUS. [TO TIHFF EDITOR OF THE iSPECTATOR."] SIR,-Honses wear upon their face only the marks of time. Behind the gauze which curtains their windows...

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MR. MORLEY ON A "PIRATE EMPIRE."

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TOPICS OF THE DAY. .--- Bra.. MORLEY ON- A " PIRATE EMPIRE." M R. MORLEY is not a politician in whose judgment we find it possible to put any great trust. He is liable to be...

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PROTESTANT RITUALISTS.; [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. PROTESTANT RITUALISTS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SiR,-You remark, notforthe first time, in lastweek's Spectator on the "curiously Protestant"...

THE QUESTION OF SUZERAINTY.; [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

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THE QUESTION OF SUZERAINTY. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "lo PECTATOR."J] SIR,-With reference to your article in the Spectator of August 26th on "Our Suzerainty over the Transvaal," I...

THE MIRROR OF JOURNALISM.; [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

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THE MIRROR OF JOURNALISM. [To i iiE EDIT.It uF THE "ILE1CT1T1R. ] SIR,-May I be allowed to say how delighted I was with your article bearing the above title in the Spectator of...

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THE MAGAZINES.

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THE MAGAZINES. THERE are two or three highly interesting papers in the Nineteenth Century for September. One on " Rowton Houses," by W. A. Sommerville, brings the value of...

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EQUALITY IN ENGLAND.

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EQUALITY IN ENGLAND. XU[R. WILLIAM CLARKE, in the course of a very Avl able article on the House of Lords published in, this month's Contemporary Review, suggests a variety of...

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THE PRESERVATION OF THE AMENITIES OF ENGLAND.

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THE PRESERVATION OF THE AMENITIES OF ENGLAND. W E shall not apologise for again dwelling on the "W subject of preserving the beauties of art and Nature with which this island...

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THE DREAD OF THE JEW.

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THE DREAD OF THE JEW. THE Dreyfus affair and the furious passions that it has awakened have their ultimate foundation in dread and hatred of the Jews. But for Anti-Semitism it...

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AGRICULTURAL POETRY.

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AGRICULTURAL POETRY. I i T is not difficult to see why agriculture is the only technical 1 subject which has ever been treated in verse with anything like success. Technical...

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THE WALAMO STORY.

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THE WALAMO STORY. THE latest story from Africa is a very odd story indeed, so odd as to be worth a moment's serious discussion. It is told by Captain Wellby, who has been...

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THE MINOR MAGAZINES.

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CURRENT LITERATURE. THE IfTN'OR MAGAZINES. The September number of Cassell's Magazine is by no means free from holiday dullness, especially in the department of "...

The Romance of Australian Exploring. By G. Firth Scott.

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I The Romance tf Australian EtplulhIlg. By G. Firth Scott. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)-This is a thoroughly sound and trustworthy account of the Australian explorers, from...

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OPPOSING SOCIAL PHILOSOPHERS.

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OPPOSING SOCIAL PHILOSOPHERS.* IN Mr. Chance's book on Our Treatin edt of the Poor, and Mr. Metcalfe's on The Case for Universal Old-Aye Pensions, we have, as compactly as...