way originally reported. The British Government, with the approval, it is understood, of the United States, retires from Samoa altogether, the islands of Upolu and Savaii fall-...

Salisbury stowed once again that wide and liberal mind which he always brings to the solution of great problems. Without committing himself to any rash or hasty scheme, even in...

by the evacuation of Coleus°, which took place last Saturday. . Though the enemy have not themselves occupied Colenso, and also have not yet blown up the great bridge over the...

T HE chief fact about the war, as we write on Friday, is that General White is still holding his own at Lady- smith, and, as far as one can see, will be quite able to do so till...

the two points—the questions of foreign intervention and the future of the Republics—on which the public were anxious to hear the voice of the Prime Minister, and dealt with...

case.

Report drawn up by Commissary Hennion on the Royalist plots, which attributes to M. Deroulede and others a planned conspiracy against the Republic, which was to have broken out...

of the Philippines have sent in their first Report. Its drift is that the Filipinos are entirely unfitted as yet for self- government ; that they would, but for Agnivaldo, have...

contained two or three noteworthy statements. In the first place, he admitted fully that the Boer people "are much more numerous and powerful than we had anticipated," a bit of...

are arming with a view to an immediate conflict with Russia. A correspondent of the Daily Mail writing from thence affirms that the Japanese Fleet can defeat the Russian, that...

Tuesday at University College, Gower Street, upon the late Mr. W. Bagehot, a man who, dying at fifty-one, died, he thought, prematurely, and could not be replaced. We are not...

capital paid a short visit to the German Kaiser at Pots- dam. As Comet Muravieff and Prince Holeenlohe were both present, it is imagined that grave matters were discussed...

Bishops at their meeting next Tuesday vvill deal with the problem of how to treat those recalcitrant clergymen who have found it consistent with their sense of duty to disobey...

on Monday, was as follows :—Sir E. Vincent (Unionist), 4,030; Mr. A. Bright (Radical), 3,371; Unionist majority, 659. The polling strength of the constituency is now about...

speech on the war marked not only by moderation and good feeling, but by the sense of statesmanship that has been apparent in all his utterances in regard to the crisis in the...

Surgeons, who has generously placed his services at the disposal of the military authorities in South Africa, sailed from Southampton last Saturday. This is not Sir William's...

M.P., by his speech at Wandsworth last Saturday has dissociated himself from those Irish National Members whose violent Anglo- phobia is so effectively rebuked by Sir Arthur...

division and a siege-train are to be mobilised. This does not mean, we take it, that another ten thousand men are to be despatched to South Africa, but merely that another...

on Saturday last, spoke with great candour and good sense on the war. After expressing his regret that Dr. Jameson and Sir John Willoughby had gone to the front at Ladysmith, he...

an article written by General Gordon, and published in the Arnw and .hlravy Ga:ette the day before Majuba Hill, the subject being irregular warfare. After describing the im-...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 1031.

THE RELIEF OF LADYSMITH. A T the present moment the most impor'ant problem of the war is how to relieve Ladysmith. It is not of course the only problem, for the defeat of the...

W E do not quite understand why there is any doubt as to the reception of the German Emperor in this country. All Englishmen feel themselves honoured by big guests, even if they...

A WRITER in the New York Nation has been in- quiring how far the American estimate of ministers of religion has altered during the last fifty or sixty years, and to what causes...

W E do not suppose that the sensational rumours about Japan which were published in the Daily Mail of Tuesday, and to a certain limited extent confirmed by some information...

S IR WOLFE BARRY in his letter to Wednesday's Times raises a question which has been in many men's minds during the last few days,—the question whether our Army is equal to the...

seems clear from the address 4 which he delivered in Edinburgh on Friday week, thinks it can. His idea appears to be that if a man will study enough specimens of art, or read...

A LTHOUGH astronomy is admitted to be the most fasci- nating of the sciences to laymen, a distinction has to be drawn among her triumphs. When shepherds watched their flocks by...

A MONG the surviving industries of dogs is one dating from an age when the observation of animal idiosyn- crasies was sharpened by the keenest sense of their value as aide to...

LORD ROSE BERT AND THE UNIONISTS. [To IDE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sta,—In your reference in the Spectator of November 4th to my suggestion that Lord Rosebery might be...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEC C ITOR.1 SIR,—In view of the possibilities and vicissitudes of warfare, is it not a part of true patriotism for us all, both as a nation and as...

LTo THE EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTATOR."1 SIR, — Your suggestion in the Spectator of November 4'h, that our Volunteers might learn something from the Boers, is excellent. There is...

TliE "SPECTATOR.) Sir.—As a member of the Eighty Club, of which Lord Rosebery happens by an unfortunate accident to be the president, permit me to thank you for your admirable...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] Stn,—The following quotations may be of interest at the present juncture :— " For, though no nation is more raw and undisciplined than the...

[To Tim EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Stn,—An old man came down from the side of the Echtge Hills the other day, and asked me what news there was of the war, and if the Boers...

[To Pus' EDITOR OF THE "spEcrAron..1 Brit, — WithOnt insinuating comparisons . between Ladysmith and Canute, perhaps the following passage from Livy referring to the preliminary...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR,—The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty who made such a keen inspection of the naval depots at Sheerness and Chatham, on the occasion...

• [To THY EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."'" sut,—The article on this subject in the Spectator of Novem- ber 4th should be in the hands of every Channel Islander, and should be...

[to THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Stn,—The first of Mr. Godley's excellent verses in the Spectator of November 4th voices, I think, the real feeling Of most of my countrymen...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SFECTATOH."] StE,—The following extract from a letter written by the Quartermaster of a Regimental Depot may be of interest :— "The Reservists turned up...

SrE., — The suggestion in your interesting article in the ,S'pectatoe of November 4th on the needs of a more economical form of cottage, leads me to suggest that we may learn...

[TO TUE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,--As one who acted in the capacity of Assistant- Commissioner to the Royal Commission on Labour, and who thoroughly investigated the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "RPECTATOR."3 StR,—I beg you to grant me space for a few words in reply to Mr. W. Ward's not very courteous reference to me in his letter on "The Peril of...

JOHN'S WAY. 3. BULL hes got his faults, maybe; There's furrin chaps es good es he, An' some thet's wuss, 'twixt you an' mei, Whatever folk may say ; He's glad tu tread a...

remarkable instance I know of this faculty was that exhibited by a fox-terrier which accom- panied me to the door of the Parliament House, Edinburgh. I left him outside in the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Having knit landed in England, I found in the Spectator of October 28th an interesting article on the Life of my cousin, Mr. John Murray...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] have been much interested in your extract in the Spectator of September 9th from Dr. Woods Hutchinson's article in the Contemporary Review,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—That hardy reprobate, the house sparrow, has so seldom a good word said fo - him that when he behaves as a gentle- man should, it is...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your correspondent, "F. R. S.," in the Spectator of October 21st, hopes that some of your readers may be able to give other instances...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—I have never seen any allusion in any review of King. lake's "Invasion of the Crimea," not even in the interesting one in the Spectator...

MUSICAL APirAZONS. IN a previous article reference was made to Rubinstein's view that the constantly increasing number of women engaged in the making of music was a sign of...

MR. GOSSE'S LIFE OF DONNE, ALL those readers who are familiar with Isaak Walton's exquisite Life of Donne, and their number must be legion; all those who delight in Donne's...

of Granby would have been all the better had it been less controversiaL Nobody nowadays is in danger of taking Walpole's judgment too seriously, and it was not worth Mr....

MR. LANG'S translation and his introductory essay. are both characteristic of him. For the translation he has used the same style with which teachers and learners have become...

THERE is no irony in the discussion of a book bearing the above title in an issue dealing on other pages with the origin, course, and ultimate issue of the armed conflict into...

THE opportuneness of Mr. Stephen Crane's new romance of love and war is more apparent than real, for although the scene is chiefly laid in Greece during the recent war, the hero...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK. [Coder this bwiiing we notice such Books of the week as have not beere reserved for review in other forms.] Selected Poems: Old and New. By Annie...

Constable. 6s.)—A very interesting book this, carefully put together from the best authorities, and excellently illustrated (by Mr. Alex. Ansted). The successive styles of...

2s.)—That a trade should combine to sell the article which it produces at a fixed price is a familiar idea; that this price should be such as to suit the interests of artisan,...

edited by Donald Macleod, D.D., and the Sunday Magazine (Isbister and Co., 7s. 6d. each), are as welcome as ever. The subtle difference between them, consisting, we might say,...

and T. Clark. 6s. net.)—Professor Godet, having already dealt in his first volume with the Epistles of St. Paul proceeds in the second to treat of the Gospels and the Acts. Here...

fit return for the industry and trouble which have been expended in producing them are Wild Flowers from Palestine (4s. 6d.) and Pressed Flowers from the Holy Land (2s. 6d.), by...

—This volume contains seven papers contributed to magazines by the author of "The Green Hand." Mr. Cupples was holm) unius /ibri, and it is an unexpected treat to get something...