raised a tempest of feeling throughout Great Britain. It is felt that it assails our whole position in South Africa, and that if the idea it expresses is acted on, say, by the...

of the " tritlanders," or immigrants, as we prefer to call them, that of Dr. Jameson, and that of the Boers. The immigrants, it is now clear, organised an insur- rection in the...

left Mafeking on December 29th with a little over five hundred troopers and six Maxim-guns, and marching with Extraordinary rapidity, arrived at Krngersdorp, some fifteen miles...

Russian Press, as usual, is hostile, but the Russian Govern- ment is reserved. The German Emperor is said to have approached the Czar ; but St. Petersburg has its French...

Germans, including their Emperor, are surprised at the depth of feeling manifested in Great Britain, and at the feebleness of the response from the Continent to the war cry...

A NOTHER surprise ; and the most surprising and irri- tating of all. The repeated warnings of the Times' correspondent at Berlin as to the ill-feeling entertained in Germany...

case.

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were evidently well informed ; they swarmed to Pretoria at the first signal, and they fought in the way they have always found successful. That is, like the Americans at...

Mr. Cecil Rhodes. The suspicion that he knew of the plot, whether well or ill founded, is, of course, very strong ; and as soon as the Home Government tele- graphed its disgust...

as still serious, the representative of the Times in particular affirming that " Jingoism is encamped in the White House." They all, however, report that the American public...

a flying squadron, i.e., a force ready to act anywhere should emergency arise. The actual number of ships got ready was not large, but the powerful character of the vessels...

note that England's difficulty is lreland'a opportunity, and while an Irish audience tas been cheering the Boers not for their self-restraint and prudence, but for their...

stituents at Plymouth, in which he has declared himself favourable to some sort of mediation or arbitration as regards the boundary line between Venezuela and British Guiana,...

daring the past week, and show that owing to the revival of trade in the second half of the year, the twelvemonth must on the whole be counted a prosperous one. Our exports have...

the ablest of the occasional Chairmen of Committees in the House of Commons, died on Tuesday at the comparatively early age of fifty-seven, when he had just been elected Vice-...

to press the point that Dr. Blandford's certi- ficate of lunacy in Miss Lanchester's case was not justifiable, did not gain mach by their interview. It was, indeed, frankly...

before the Geographical Society on his journey south through Somaliland to Lakes Rudolf and Stephanie and thence to the Tana River. Many interesting facts emerged from the...

are on the whole very satisfactory. About 35,000 of the 50,000 men who presented themselves were accepted. Of the remaining, nearly 15,000 were rejected by the medical officers....

to yesterday's Times to point out that the utmost penalty to which Dr. Jameson is liable under British law, is that incurred under the Foreign Enlistment Act of 1870 (33 and 34...

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THE GERMAN EMPEROR'S POLICY. T HE gravest difficulty of the hour is to discover accurately what the German Emperor really means. That he is exceedingly unfriendly to Great...

in the Transvaal is becoming, except as to one incident, to be hereafter mentioned, fairly clear. The British immigrants in Johannesburg, locally known as the Uitlanders, moved...

mind since he heard of the danger of war with the United States, has been how to avoid it without showing so much of what might seem to the Americans to be fear of them, as...

I RELAND seems eternally destined to be on the other side,—to be in a condition contrary to the rest of the world. When things elsewhere are peaceful, Ireland is full of...

I S the danger greater or less than it was when Mr. Cleve- land first launched his thunderbolt a month ago ? We should say that it was distinctly less, and that for the very...

O NE of the worst and most dangerous features in the international relations of the present day, is the development of a new kind of greed. Greed, it must be admitted, has...

Catholic movement on the Continent was exciting a good deal of interest in England. It seemed to have great possibilities before it. They were only possibilities indeed, and...

A MONG the most interesting cases in the December volume of the Proceedings of the Society far Psychical Research, are the groups of narratives in which, according to Mr....

Yokoi, who is, we believe, pastor of a Christian church in Tokio, but is now studying at Yale College, TJ.S.A., has contributed to a quarterly review called the International...

T HE widest bay on the English coast is that which stretches from Portland Bill to the Start. This embraces an inner bay, from Beer Head to Otterton Point, seldom seen from the...

[To TER EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." l you permit me to offer a remark or two toncbing the notice of my " Economics and Socialism," in the Spectator of January 4th ? The statement...

THE EXPLOSION IN THE TRANSVAAL. [To THI EDITOR OP TIM " Sr8CTATOR.".1 fin,—History is making itself so rapidly just now that it is somewhat perilous work to forecast the...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEM SPZCIA.TOFL."1 SIR, — In your note on Mr. Austin's appointment to the Laureateship you say, " We happen to know that Matthew Arnold greatly admired one of...

TO AMERICA. A MESSAGE FROM THE MAID. [roan of Are before engaging the English, summoned them to Peace and to a joint Crusade.] O FOR the Maiden's hail beyond the fosse At...

SPANISH ART AT THE NEW GALLERY.—IL REALISM AND CARICATURE. A "VERY youthful, an untrained, or a matured bad taste, will find pleasure in the work of Vaamonde, R. de Madrazo,...

THE GERMAN EMPEROR WILLIAM IL* TnrNcuLo's reflection that "misery acquaints a man with- strange bedfellows," should be extended so as to include greatness. For here is our...

d'affaires et un homme d'affaires endette." That is how Taine begins his essay on Balzac, with a sentence which ought to apply, above all men in the world, to Scott ; bat, look...

THE author of The Book-Hunter in London has written a very instructive and sometimes entertaining account of a sport with which he seems to be thoroughly conversant ; it is...

THERE is perhaps no truer measure of human genius than the strength of the influence which it leaves behind in those who have been linked with it in the closest intimacy. It...

PROFESSOR NITTI'S Catholic Socialism, as translated by the late Miss Mary Mackintosh—amid the weakness and suffering of her last illness—is a book of great interest and value....

Sin HERBHRT MAXWELL devotes one of these dozen papers to the consideration of the subject of " bores," and yet the difficulty of not boring people is one which is escaped by...

The attempt which Mr. Fisher Unwin makes in Cosmopolis to establish an international review, is undoubtedly a daring one, but it is also one that can only be justified by...

years, compiled by Mr. W H. Combes, and illustrated by Mr. Alfred Bryan. This fact is in itself a guarantee of the letterpress being lively and varied, and the illustrations...

(Bemrose and Sons.)—This is the first volume of a new series of this quarterly We may quote, as giving a summary of the objects to which it is directed, the following des-...