to the German Imperial throne, was married on Tues- day to the Duchess Cecilia of Mecklenburg-Schwerin with the usual stately and somewhat tedious ceremonials, including the...

Norway has been dissolved. That is to say, the Norwegian Storthing, after a debate of hours conducted with great dignity and moderation, resolved on Wednesday that as all the...

T HERE has been a sudden revival in the rumours of peace, based, we fear, on insufficient grounds. The Russian Government, it is said, has asked President Roosevelt to inquire...

paper some very significant comments made in the 11.4ubliqua Franfaise in regard to the attitude of M. Rouvier and his colleagues towards Germany. They do not, it declares, wish...

resigned on Tuesday. The immediate occasion was the rejection of the French proposals by the Sultan of Morocco in favour of a Conference of all the Powers who signed the...

Devonshire drew attention to the question of the Colonial Conference, . and related the history of the extraordinary tangle into which the Government have got themselves over...

Liberals interested in Colonial affairs, including Mr. Haldane, Mr. Asquith, Mr. Sydney Buxton, Mr. Emmett, Mr. Runciman, Mr. Russell Rea, Sir Charles Mice, and Mr. Trevelyan,...

perfectly satisfied. "What did Mr. Balfour say ? He said last night, Tariff Reform will be the most important part of Unionist policy. He said, Colonial Preference is the most...

regret to say, extremely unsatisfactory. It was not incumbent upon him, be said, to make premature statements as to the date of the Dissolution, or as to the action which the...

appears that on Wednesday the Chinese coolies in the Croesus Mine rose and attacked the white quarters. One white man was killed and others were injured. The coolies have now,...

Saturday night in connection with the Lancashire and Cheshire Conservative and Working Men's Federation. The bulk of his speech was a reiteration of familiar argu- ments....

Union of Conservative Associations at the Albert Hall on Friday week. Mr. Balfour vehemently protested that there was nothing in the policy of Retalia- tion or Imperial...

on hisS visit to King Edward. He was received by the Prince of Wales, with all usual ceremonial, and has since reviewed troops at Aldershot, visited the Roman Catholic Cathedral...

over the Whitsuntide Recess, which was brought forward on Wednesday, was the occasion for a very remarkable debate. All the Prime Minister would do in answer to Sir Henry...

the Government at. Chichester ; but the majority was reduced from 1,875 in 1892 to 412 on the present occasion. The Liberal poll shows an increase of 1,401, while the. Tories...

attack on Mr. Chamberlain. Ile insisted—a view in which we entirely concur—that Unionist Free-traders have a right to remain in the party. We would, however, go a step further....

disaster, which took place at Plymouth on Thursday, and resulted in the destruction of Submarine A8 and the loss of fourteen men and one officer. The cause of the accident is...

his resignation of the Spea.kership in the House of Commons on Tuesday. His reasons for retiring were simply that at his time of life and in his present state of health he no...

took part in the debate, both strongly criticised the position occupied by the Government. What they wanted, said Lord James, who spoke with a sense of indignation which he made...

Elliot, M.P., presiding, and the Duke of Devonshire, Lord James of Hereford, Lord Balfour of Burleigh, and other Peers and Members of the House of . Commons being present—passed...

THE GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE ON THE FISCAL QUESTION. " You smiled, you spoke, and I believed, By every word and smile deceived. Another man would hope no more, Nor hope I, what...

I T is much too soon even for diplomatists to form a definitive judgment upon the character of the King of Spain. He is only nineteen, and experience may develop his character...

successfully the new position in which he is placed by the paralysis of Russia. He intends to use it to promote the interests of Germany and his own grandeur, and as a beginning...

The cotton industry as a whole, we are told, is practi- cally stationary, and this condition of things "is due to the rapid growth of the cotton industry of foreign countries....

could not be obtained, the risk was too great to be run. In other words, we expressed the hope that the Government would not intro- duce an omnibus Bill unless they could feel...

T HE place of what we call justice in the Christian system of ethics - is not very easy to determine. Our Lord made continual appeal to the natural sense of justice. At the same...

A PROPOSAL is before the Local Government Board to transfer ten Essex parishes into Hertfordshire. In 1894 three others were transferred to Cambridgeshire, and have now been...

.A FEW weeks ago a party of newsboys in a boys' club in Limehouse were discussing the annual Whitsun outing. They were debating the rival claims of various spots close to...

[To THE Eorros. Or THE "SFEHTATOR."] Sin,—Although I am only a guest in this country, and cannot therefore claim a voice in the discussion of the great problem opened up by Mr....

first opened out what he calls his fighting policy, he said that the tinplate trade illustrated better than any other branch of our industries the need of fiscal change. This...

be interested in the enclosed cutting from our issue of June 7th, showing the high value of shares in one of the local steel companies. For your own informa- tion I may state...

allow me to trespass on your valuable space, I would like, in reply to your last week's correspondent who signs himself "Fed Up," to give expression to my own sentiments, and, I...

agree in believing that physical activity is commoner among the English than among the German well-to-do classes, but there our agreement ends. Mr. Alexander believes that the...

certainly a very unfortunate man. He appears by his own showing to belong to a battalion in which the officers are inferior to what they used to be; the senior officers know but...

to the admission of trams to the Thames Embankment no doubt arises from a sincere desire to avoid spoiling that great public way, it is perhaps worth while to call attention to...

of Japan a battle of Tsushima was fought in 1419 between the Chinese and Koreans and the ships of the Barons of Kiushin. The Japanese gained a signal victory, which freed them...

[TO TIM EDITOR OP TRH " SPROTATOR:] SIR,—Will your correspondent who gives us the result of propounding some Greek paradoxes to "a maiden of sixteen" (Spectator, Juno 3rd)...

Palmer's sixteen-year-old daughter so easily cleared away the obstacles which discomfited Zeno and other Greek thinkers (see Spectator, June 3rd) P Perhaps she has; at any rate,...

Sm,—Let me, as an eyewitness of events at this island in the years 1859 and 1861, correct the statements with which your correspondent, Mr. B. H. Alford (Spectator, June 3rd),...

A NOTABLE WORK ON THE ODYSSEY.* MOST readers of the Odyssey probably regard it as having little more relation to actual facts than Gulliver's Travels or the story of Sindbad the...

to let it be made known through your columns that the National Trust had, for a limited time, the option of purchase of more than seven hundred acres of mountain land on the...

Herts.) Tax amount of subscriptions and fees received up to June 8th for the Cheap Cottages Exhibition is £1,320 15s. Od., in addition to -42320 promised to the Prizes Fund,...

the main, From the Isles of the East to the Isles of the West There is welded a golden chain. Over the hundred years gone by Voices are borne on the sea : "Ye have warred our...

[To mg EDITOR OF THE "SmicrArou." J SrE,—I am sickened by the want of chivalry often displayed by writers in the Spectator, — for instance, in "The Antiseptics of Conduct" in...

BAGEHOT once advanced the theory that it was the duty of writers in quarterly reviews to speak some truth deliberately about living statesmen, who otherwise would encounter...

SOLIDITY, sumptuosity, and a wealth of maps, photographs, and other illustrations are the features common to these books. Whether the last is always an advantage to the ordinary...

THERE are some men of simple homespun character whom we know very quickly, and thereafter by whom we are never surprised. Such men—of whom Hawker, the Vicar of Morwenstow, was...

Mn. WILFRID WARD'S elaborate and ingenious apologia for Mr. Balfour's attitude in the Fiscal controversy, which heads the contents of the June Nineteenth Century, and is...

The plot of this story is decidedly ingenious, so far, that is, as concerns the iniquitous will of the widowed heroine's first husband. The struggle, also, which Patricia makes...

Black.. wood and Sons. 6s.)—There have been signs for some time past that a reaction was on its way from the "forward" movement of women to the old-fashioned theory that it is...

WHEN it is explained that the scene of" John Oliver Hobbes's " new romance is chiefly laid in a country named Siguria, that , the heroine is the hereditary Princess of that...

D.D. Translated from the German by C. H. Irwin, M.A. (R.T.S. 2s.) —Professor Nosgen, who follows the line taken by Hengstenberg, gives us here a powerful argument on the...

as hove not been reserved for review in other forms.] Worcestershire Place Names. By W. H. Duignan. (H. Frowde. 6s. net.)—Mr. Duignan, already favourably known to readers...

beginnirik of the book promises well, and is really rather good in its own sensational way ; but unfortunately the unravelling of the author's mystery is a tedious process for...

length some little time ago (Spectator, February 11th), and it is not necessary to do the same with the volume now before us. Our readers have probably made up their minds about...

the giving of medical training to missionaries. It has been at work for eleven years, and during that time about one hundred and eighty students have availed themselves of the...

School Union. Is. net.)—Mr. Herne describes in sensible language the history of the Old and New Testaments, with a special mention of the most important manuscripts of the Now....

U.S.A. (Macmillan and Co. 6s. 6d. net.)—General Abbot begins his narrative with the formation of the new Panama Company in 1890. The operations of this Company went on until the...

Dilke. With Memoir of the Author by Sir C. W. Mike. (John Murray. 10s. 61 net.)—Lady Dilke was a woman of many activities, of which the artistic, itself a curious ease of...

Birmingham. 2s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Martino discourses about 'various things, - the cause of the decline of the Roman Empire, the smoke plague, the better ordering of cemeteries, the...

Newnes and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—This volume contains the year's record of horse-racing, cricket, football, golf, rowing, polo, and other minor sports. More than half the volume is...