of the now famous heliogram to General White. Sir Redvers Buller draws a picture of his condition after the teriible battle of Coleuso which again we can only describe as...

week. Abdurrahnian Khan, the great and cruelAmeer of Afghanistan, died on the 3rd inst., it is supposed of Bright's disease front which he bad been suffering for years. He was...

Sir Howard Vincent, in which the Secretary of State deals with the criticisms made on the Government in regard to the conduct of the war. He declares, and we entirely believe...

by the Queen's Westminster Volunteers, made a speech in which we b elieve that the nation will find the best possible justification for the declarations which we and others have...

T HE war news of the past week is very meagre, owing to the fact that the attempts to surround Botha are still in progress and naturally demand secrecy. It is to be feared,...

case.

over the death of Abdurrahman Khan. The journalists dimly perceive that Great Britain has lost something, and are rejoiced; but they also perceive that unless Russia moves the...

Macedonians from Bulgaria, but acting on Turkish territory, recently seized an Amezican missionary, Miss' Stone, "a lady of fifty, with a high repute in educational work, and...

general drift of which is that the Carlists intend to protest against the assumption of power by the young King, who comes of age next year, by a serious rising. Everything is...

national finances. It is believed to be impossible to reduce expenditure, and there is already a deficit of three and a half millions sterling during the first nine months of...

clans didnot expect Abdurrahman's death, and the family have had no time to corrupt the soldiery ; but Habibullah, though the son of a slave mother, is a brave man, is...

informants assuring us that the Court intends to return to Pekin, and another that it will fix its seat at Kai-fang, in Honan, where a great palace is being built for its...

and charged with high treason and inciting to murder, the senior Magistrate, Sir Franklin Lushington, hearing the case. Mr. Muir stated the charge with great fairness, as well...

Oldham,—a speech which shows that the country must recognise in him one of its ablest statesmen. We need not deal with his comments on the war, which were reason- able enough,...

very severe. The Commonwealth depends for general revenue upon its Customs duties, which will be ample even after paying to the separate States their stipulated shares. But in...

notice of the Lord Chancellor's speech on October 3rd, but must say a word, even though late, on the extraordinary remarks made by him on the subject of the over-representation...

Force Fund which is being raised by a Committee of ladies in order to supply our troops in the field with Christmas gifts. We very greatly hope that the appeal will meet with a...

mittee named in the appeal,—the Countess of Derby, Knowsley Hall, Prescot, Lancashire; the Countess of Airlie, Cortachy Castle, Kirriemuir, N.B.; the Countess of Bective,...

New Consols (2i) were on Friday 98.

LORD ROBERTS'S APPEAL FOR PATIENCE. NV ITH Lord Roberts's appeal to the country for patience we have the greatest possible sympathy, and we endorse it with all our strength. In...

T HE death of Abdurrahman Khan, the Ameer of Afghanistan, is undoubtedly a misfortune, though its extent depends upon several unknown quantities. It is the necessity of the...

W E publish in our correspondence columns a letter from Mr. Rhodes, in which he tells the story of his gift of £5,000 to the Liberal party funds on condition that the Liberals...

A N incident has occurred this week in France which throws a flood of light upon the ever-increasing troubles of diplomatists and governing men. The vine- growers of Bordeaux...

I N his recent Report on the work of military cy c li s t s Sir Redvers Buller said : " I look upon the cycle a s the worst and most cumbrous means of transport for soldiers...

THERE is a certain fascination about that story of the murder of Hoshi Torn in the capital of Japan as related at length in the Times of Tuesday. It revives the memories of...

T HE love of buying for its own sake is instinctive with some people. Many men, and perhaps more women, never enter for the first time any new town, or even village, without...

H E autumn sea-fishing round our coasts, which opens on a great scale about the end of September, usually pro- duces specimens of strange and rare fishes, often real monsters of...

THE RHODES-SCHNADHORST CORRESPONDENCE. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] have been appealed to upon the controversy that has arisen in your paper between a correspondent...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECPATOR.1 SIR,—I have been a constant reader of your paper for fifty years, and have myself taken it for forty years ; and I never read an article in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Snl,—Once the wise men of Gotham found a rabbit in their kitchen garden. So they resolved to clear him out regardless of expense, and they...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") SIB, — The passage in your article in the Spectator of October 5th on "The Military Situation in South Africa" which deals with Lord...

[TO THE EDITOR OF Till "SPECTATOR. "] $nt,—As an illustration of your remark in the Spectator of October 5th that emptiness often accompanies solemnity, take the following from...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—A curious parallel to Lady Cooper's tale of the sapphire ring seen by her in a dream and next day received by post has come to my...

SIR,—Some friends having been much impressed with the extraordinary vividness of a dream which I had in January of this year, have asked me to send you an account of it. In my...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—There is an argument, and a strong argument, in favour of the plan suggested in your article on " Administrative Punctilio" in the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin, — May I recall to those of your readers who watch with interest not unmixed with wonder the "ploughing of the lonely furrow " these...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—I ask an opportunity for the consideration of one principle involved, independent of special circumstances, which seems to me to have...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR...1 Sxa,—Your article in the Spectator of September 28th on the condition of Russia is excellent reasoning, but, unfortunately, marred by...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIEr-May I supplement your correspondent's letter with some additional facts of importance, as they were related to me at the time by Mr....

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sm,—Your article in the Spectator of September 28th on the vastness of the universe will, it may be hoped, help us to realise the true...

[TO THE EDITOR 05 TRE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—The following incident may be of interest to your correspondent (Spectator, September 28th) and others who suggest our praying for the...

THE INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION. THE International Society of Sculptors, Painters, and Gravers are holding what they call an "Art Congress" at the Institute Galleries in...

HARVEST. A CHALKY steep—a climbing lane— An aisle of elms—a Norman fame— Where far from din and crowd of towns Runs the soft line of waving downs. The garnered glebe in...

" SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The interesting account given in your issue of Sep- tember 14th of the review of Australian school children before she, Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York...

SIR JAMES PAGET.* IN reading the Lives of eminent professional men we are often quite as much impressed by their dexterous use of oppor- tunities, social and otherwise, as by...

SINCE the war began in South Africa, our historians have found its parallel again and again in the records of the past. This one has compared the campaign now in progress to the...

IT means, in an Englishman, either a special taste or wide general cultivation to have more than the barest acquaint- ance with the life and work of Frederic Mistral. Very few...

I s i s usua l to hear of the unchanging rigidity of the man 's religion, and yet no. creed has passed through a ata�n ger variety of phases and developments than Islam ; and...

• The Benefactress. By the Author of "Elizabeth and her German Garden." Loudon : Macmillan and Co. [de.] A ROMANCE from the pen of the author of Elizabeth and her German Garden...

The Giant's Gate. By Max Pemberton. (Cassell and Co. 6s.) —Mr. Max Pemberton is far more successful when he is inventing breathless adventures by sea and land than when he...

is one of the most spirited and inter- esting historical novels we have read for a long time. It sets before us with extraordinary vividness the conflict between loyalty to King...

RENAISSANCE TYPES. Renaissance Types. By Walter Samuel Lilly. (T. Fisher Unwin. 16s.)—We owe an apology to Mr. Lilly for the delay which has taken place in noticing his book....

The Last Days of the French Monarchy. By Sophia H. Mac- Lehose. With Portraits. (MacLehose and Sons, Glasgow. 6s. net.) —Miss MacLehose has bestowed a great deal of what one may...

5s.)—Mr. Shiel once more, as in his book " The Lord of the Sea," reviewed about three months ago, has recourse to his in- troduction of a clairvoyante lady notes of whose...

simple little story is a relief after the above rather pretentious romances. Sylvia is a young actress who does not make very much of her profession, and whose mother, at one...

—In Don or Devil ? an Englishman who has been crossed in love takes ship for Colombia and throws in his lot with the cause of liberty in South America. The time is the day of...

by J. Jellicoe. (Hutchinson and Co. Os )—A Nest of Linnets gives us the story of Sheridan's love affair and early marriage in a brilliant setting of the Bath society of the day....

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] The Diary of a Dug - Out. By Captain Radial King. (Sande and Co....

and edited by John V. Kitto. (Simpkinl Marshall, and Co. £2 2s.)—We , offer sincere congratulation to the pariah of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields on , the appearance of this...

The Social Problem. By J. A. Hobson. (J. Nisbet and Co. 7s. 6d.)—Earnest and even profound as Mr. Hobson is, we can- not say that he illuminates his subject. His attitude...

authoress writes this book, she tells us, " for boys." And very good reading it will be for them. She has told the story of Lord Roberta's doings from the day, now nearly...

Sinclair. (Grant Richards. 3s."6d.)—Archdeacon Sinclair follows up a book on Christian faith and practice addressed to young men with one of a similar kind addressed to young...

AU the World's Fighting Ships. By F. T. Jane. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. 15s.)—There is an immense amount of painstakin g research and comparison involved in Mr. Jane's...

Co. 6s.)—Dr. Wade describes his point of view in an excel- lent introduction, showing himself to be a sober and cautions follower of the modern school of critics. On the Psalms,...

may be mentioned together. These are The History of Europe in Outline, 1814 - 1841, by Os..ur Browning, M.A. (Macmillan and Co., 8e. 61), and How to Stu 'y English Literature,...

Vol. I. (Macmillan and Co. 21s. net.)—This is the beginning of a considerable enterprise. Professor Baldwin, who holds a chair in Princeton University, has associated with...

(Hodder and Stoughton. 2s.)—Professor Beet's line of argument will probably surprise many readers. They have been accus- tomed from childhood to accept as a Bible truth the...

the Conquest of Mexico, by William H. Prescott, edited by John Foster Kirk, 3 vols. (George Bell- and Sons, 10s. 6d.) An introduction has been furnished by Mr. G. P. Winship,...

(John Lane) we have the third volume of The Book of the Grape, by H. W. Ward (2s. 6d. net), following " The Book of the Asparagus" and "The Book of the Greenhouse." The general...

communion. It is not a question into which we care to enter at length. It seems to tis that if the Anglican Church differs from other Churches in her practice with regard to...

Newnes. is.) —This is one of the very interesting "Library of Useful Stories." Mr. Pycraft has already written about birds, and he now conducts us through another province of...

21s.)—Mr. Archer has put together in this volume appre- ciations of between thirty and forty " poets of the younger genera- tion," all of them living, with the exception of one...