the Sha-ho, and, according to the most trustworthy accounts, the position of the hostile armies has not changed; while, though reinforcements have reached both, the losses have...

three, of which one part will go through the Suez Canal, one part vi5, the Cape, and one part round Cape Horn. The last statement is most improbable, as the arrangements for...

American Government had approached him with a view of establishing a Treaty of Arbitration. This is indeed good tidings. We have always felt it something of a disgrace that the...

signed five Arbitration Treaties ; and two more were in course of negotiation. But while it was good to settle disputes amicably, it was better to prevent them arising at all ;...

Guildhall banquet, which took place on Wednesday night, When, in the absence of the Prime Minister, Lord Lansdowne replied to the toast of "His Majesty's Ministers." He con-...

the French Chamber on the Anglo-French entente on Tuesday were those of M. Delafosse and M. Etienne. Both these gentlemen were supposed to be Anglophobes, the former because of...

cause of order. It is useless to give the precise figures until the second ballots, which destroy all the dramatic effect of a Continental election, have been taken ; but it...

the poorer classes in Russia. Factory after factory has been shut clown,, and so great is the disturbance of the railway system that vans and trucks containing in all 1,050,000...

recorded in American annals. As his opponent, Judge Parker, in his courteous telegram of congratulation acknow- ledges, the American people as a whole have " emphatically...

Mr. Roosevelt in his short letter thanking the people for the honour they have done him should have pledged. himself not again to offer himself for re-election. He has only been...

M. Jaures, the Socialist leaders, making speeches of great significance, and showing that their anxiety is as great as our own that the Agreement with France should be con-...

Professors. The German students saw, however, in this con- cession a threat to German ascendency in the Tyrol, attacked the Italian students, and produced a kind of free fight...

Nationalists and Republicans. On Friday week, during the resumed debate on General Andre's conduct in allowing espionage in the Army, and consulting the Masonic lodges as to the...

of the Standard to the Protectionist side has pro- duced a sense of annoyance, and of annoyance deepening into resentment and indignation, even though such resentment and...

in any sense memorable or important. No Peer is made, but there are one new Privy Councillor, five new Baronets, and grant' new Knights. Within the Unionist party the list has...

Theatre, Edinburgh, last Saturday afternoon. Turning at once to the Scottish Church crisis, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman said that the judgment of the House of Lords, however...

the way in which he has allowed Mr. Chamberlain to capture the Conservative party machine, we gladly admit that personally he is well fitted to be sworn of the Council, and that...

long and so honourably known as the organ of the Conserva- tive middle class, and lately as the only Unionist defender of Free-trade in the daily Press, had been purchased by...

on Monday. Dealing with the Premier's complaint against his commentators, Mr. Asquith observed that Mr. Balfour had this unique advantage over the ancient classics, that " he...

at the Guildhall. That speech is an assurance that the peace of the world will not be broken through the North Sea incident. That the peaceful solution of the difficulty was due...

they see one. Accordingly they have elected Mr. Roosevelt by one of the most overwhelming majorities ever secured at a, Presidential Election in America. The event is a ,subject...

tha French Chamber on Friday week will not produce consequences as serious as those which followed the bloW received by Mr. Sumner in the American Senate just before the Civil...

that paper better than the family who in the past two generations have given it its character. We are not confident that he will ; for although he is a skilful man in catering...

place is too remote to be reached by the fertilising flood of civilisation, and everywhere this fertilising flood needs to be carried through costly channels. The consequence is...

Sunday in October, and reported in the Daily Telegraph of November 1st, the Rev. A. W. Hutton made use of the following words :—" To the soul of the Church, if not to its body,...

the squalid details of the Pollard divorce suit, since the solicitor employed by the detective agency conducted by a person known as Slater has to stand another trial at the...

wks being visited by little flocks of birds, coming to it from inland, for the purpose of finding their evening meal. The day had been very close and warm, which accounted for...

ever since the Home-rule split. My vote will, with regret, be transferred to the Free-trade candidate for this division, whoever he may be ! As a danger to the Empire,...

reply to your criticisms in the Spectator of October 1st on the papers published under the title of "Problems of Empire" P You approve as sound the principles of Imperial...

Humphreys in your issue of November 5th as to the " strenuous personal efforts " made by certain Protectionist Members of Parliament to eject members from the Council, with the...

Hogan's letter to you in the Spectator of October 29th, I can give you another case of Protestant ascendency, which is perhaps not quite so much to his taste. Up to the year...

the views expressed by the Very Rev. Dr. Hogan in recent letters to the Spectator ? In his last letter in the issue of Novem- ber 5th he says " that in Ireland Catholics, no...

SIR, —Mr. Ward Humphreys's letter is an interesting supple- ment to the somewhat meagre reports which appeared of the National Union Conference. That at a gathering composed...

SIR, — I have noticed with considerable surprise since my return from the United States published statements to the effect that the International Peace Congress which met at...

and Modern " in the new or older edition, but I venture to defend the alteration (which you criticise) from "At even ere the sun was set " to " At even when the sun did set." It...

in the defence of this Revised Version, but there are two points mentioned in your notice of the book in last week's issue on which I ask to be allowed to say a few words of...

tragedy off the Dogger Bank is easily explained ? I suggest that it was due to one or more Russian warships mistaking fishing-boats for torpedo-boats. I know that this...

Spectator you say that " the genuine advocates of peace should all support, as the customary rule for civilised States, any proposal or any system which inserts between the...

I venture to express my surprise at your paragraph in the issue of Saturday, November 5th, referring to the statements in a letter published in the Manchester Guardian of Novem-...

into that curious human document,—the modern schoolboy. Even the practised eye of a schoolmaster of many years' experience—an eye trained (possibly) in that school of negative...

Mr. Morley says that a cotton manufacturer would rather die than acknowledge good times. But these we have now with us all along the line, excepting in one section which is...

of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians the publishers and editor give solid proof of their resolve to pay a worthy tribute to the genius of the first editor. Genius is a...

Blood of my blood, flesh of my flesh is he, Rocked on my breast and nurtured at my knee, Fed with sweet thoughts ere ever he drew breath, Wrested in battle through the gates of...

THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE.* THOUGH this biographical study is unfortunately marred by very grave defects of taste, though the style is often turgid and obscure, and though the...

experiences of her two years' visit to China, in 1902-3, will be in the least surprised that her friends at home have instigated her to publish the contents of her note-book....

in " The Last Knight of Chivalry," as well as in the history of mediaeval sport on the grand scale, by his discovery of the private hunting- book of the Emperor Maximilian in...

the Congo Free State has been slowly shaping itself during the past few years. It began with an uneasy suspicion that things were not exactly as they should be in the territory...

takes the form of a romance of the tenth century with Nicephorus Phocas as its hero, and Theophana as anti-heroine. The principal figures are almost without ex- ception...

Son. 3s. 6d. net.)—We must not look for literary merits in Mr. Grange's book, which simply professes to be an honest opinion of the possibilities of Canada as a farming country...

states the case for Japan plainly and temperately. The prima mali labes was, of course, when Russia, backed by Germany and France—France, at least, must have repented before...

these laboratories at his own expense. Dr. Balfour arrived to take charge of them in January, 1903. His staff consists at present of an assistant and two Soudanese, " one of...

and Spottiswoode. 2s. 6d.)—Professor Sadler, in- structed by the Education Committee of the city of Liverpool, inspected the secondary schools of that city. These numbered...

Co. 5s.)—There is book-making and book-making, and Mr. Williams has done a justifiable, and indeed commendable, piece of the best sort. With the permission of authors and...

Hawke Pott. (T. Fisher Unwin. 6s. net.)—This " Sketch " will be useful. The minds of most people are an absolute blank in the matter of Chinese history before, let us say, the...

as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Proceedings of the Classical Association of England and Wales. (John Murray. 2s. net.)—The Association was constituted at...