Governor-General of India. Mr. Curzon, who was born in 1859, and is therefore nearly forty, has held the offices of Under-Secretary for India and for Foreign Affairs, and...

the question of Irish distress and its constant recurrence in the West. During the century Irish distress had cost the country from eight to ten millions. He urged the Leader of...

this. The American Government placed their terms in a Protocol, this Protocol was considered by the Madrid Government, and on Thursday the Prime Minister telegraphed to M....

the good sense and statesmanship with which their ultimate conduct has in the present generation always been governed. By a majority of 10 (55 to 45) they agreed to allow the...

p ARLIAMENT was prorogued on Friday, and thus came to an end a Session which has been distracted through- out its whole course by the menace of foreign complications. Though it...

case.

as we believe, a wise step. They have com- missioned Lord Charles Beresford, who has obtained the consent of the Admiralty, to visit China this autumn, and report on the future...

that the Government are not going to be bullied into adopting in regard to Russia a necessarily feeble and ineffective attempt to play the dog in the manger all over China. Our...

occasion for a full-dress debate on the Far Eastern policy of the Government. Sir Charles Dilke opened the discussion in a somewhat inconclusive speech. His chief point was to...

Wednesday's r..t. A .Tw w : fi r,itain accounts of a battle fought outside Manilla. feast has come amid a raging typhoon. While the rain was Spaniards,aeco TRIL.in torrents...

tained much that was sound and true, was, on the whole, somewhat disappointing,—probably because the present stage of the Government's action, which we described last week as a...

it is difficult to deal with patiently. He is evidently at heart on the right side in regard to our policy in China, but at the same time he cannot resist the opportunity of...

a letter was read from the Gladstone Memorial Committee ask- ing the support of the Corporation for the erection of a statue of Mr. Gladstone in Dublin, similar to those...

the Trans-Siberian Railway, which is worthy of attention at the present moment. People here talk glibly of the Trans-Siberian Railway being ready in four or five years, of...

fort on the Atbara. All the T v ash troops have arrived, including the Guards battalion him 'firs) and the 37th Field Battery with its 5 in. howitzt. a Qese guns fire Lyndite...

Service have agreed by a majority to recommend that the Post Office shall grant licenses to municipalities on the same terms as it does to the National Telephone Company,—that...

off Santiago, published in Tuesday's Times, is a most interesting document, and, though it does not draw any definite morals from the events described, it gives plenty of ground...

issue a very curious account of some experi- ments made during the last German manoeuvres, on the value of sugar as food. Ten men were subjected to the sugar diet, while another...

New Consols (2D were on Friday, 1101.

THE NEW INDIAN VICEROY. I N appointing Mr. Curzon Viceroy the Government have taken upon themselves a great responsibility. It may be that the appointment will turn out a most...

of Lords acted in complete conformity with its true function in the Constitution when it decided not to insist on its amendment to the Vaccination Bill, and so allowed the Bill...

has published an interesting interview with Professor Mommsen, in which, after some remarks about the character and policy of Prince Bismarck, the veteran historian turns to the...

occurred on a. question of administrative fact, between her Majesty's Government and a Select Committee of the House of Commons. On Monday last the Times pub- lished a leading...

Dublin City Council on the Gladstone statue seems, at first sight, to the average English Liberal who has vaguely sympathised with Irish Parnellite aspirations, to be an act of...

M R. LEO MAXSE'S article in the National Review for this month will dispose—for English readers— of the additional evidence against Captain Dreyfus on which M. Cavaignac laid so...

W HAT are the conditions under which an honourable and self-respecting man can accept a gift of money ? That is a question which has been raised in many men's minds by the...

W HETHER those economists and psychologists are right or not who contend that all the higher elements which characterise the noblest of mankind are derived from a purely...

I T is surely a matter for congratulation that the sentiment of mankind toward what we are pleased to call the lower animals is certainly, if slowly, tending in the direction of...

THE INDUSTRIAL INTERESTS OF RUSSIA IN CHINA. ET° THZ EDITOR OF TIM SFHOTATOR: . ] Sze, It is impossible to regard the present relations of Great Britain and Russia without...

admiring ally, and yet they are well worth observing. For although already unable to digest what she has acquired, France is bound to go forward as long as she is split into so...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIE,—I should be much indebted to you if you would permit me to correct a statement made regarding my opinion on the taxation of native...

SIE,—The name of Professor Villari is known to all who interest themselves in Italian history or literature as amongst the first living Italians, whether as patriot or scholar,...

[To THE EDITOR OP TRH "SrsorAToi.") SIR,—In your interesting article in the Spectator of July 16th, after declaring that the condition of the working classes wib certainly go...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "Srrcreros.1 Sin, — Canon MacColl's letter in the Spectator of August 6th is very valuable as showing the curious one-sidedness of the school to which he...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR, — Possibly you may think the following worthy of its , forerunners. The hero is a busby-tailed tabby of Persian extraction. Its home...

SIR,—If, as Canon Malcolm MacColl's letter in the Spectator of August 6th appears to imply, " sacerdotalism " simply means personal spiritual influence, by which God conveys His...

delightfully bovine than this defence in a poaching case P "Indade, your Worships, the only bird I shot was a rabbit ; and I knocked that down with

[To MK EDITOR OF THR " SPIOTATS1.."] SIR,—I have recently received several instances of the ways in which British mammals contrive to maintain their exis- tence in spite of...

Wind on the hill-top ! Wind in the tree ! Is there aught in earth or heaven. That bindeth thee and me ? I, through the long hours, Feebly creep and crawl O'er the green...

North of Ireland, the following two came under my observation. In a hotel the porter, for my information and dutifully in furtherance of the interests of his employers,...

bull " was perpetrated recently. At a meeting where a committee was being condemned for their management, the speaker said : "Perhaps you think that in our committee half do the...

[To TES EDITOR or TEl "Srsorklos.9 SIR,—Your correspondent, "A. B. C.," is of opinion that the gift of making " bulls " is really something to be proud of. The following remark...

Sin,--May I contribute this story to your collection P Am Irish friend of mine was describing a dinner-party he had been at. It was a great success, as two noted talkers were...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Some time ago whilst dwelling in an East Coast town, I was wandering along the beach, and whilst rooting amongst the shingle I picked...

SIR,—I have myself heard the following curious blunders :— " A barn-door owl," "As cross as a bear with two sticks."—

are not uncommon, but still less so are instances of the readiness of my conntrypeople in making appropriate remarks. Two kinds of conveyances are com, monly used in the South...

Sin,—The routine of Government work in our Depart. ment has been recently enlivened by the introduction of an indoor boy messenger of purely Irish extraction. There is a strong...

American writers of late years to form and encourage a more just appre- ciation of the old Spanish life, which has been somewhat rudely jostled, and, in some places, supplanted,...

MIRABEAU.• THE difficulties which interrupt the writing of Mirabean's Life are rather artistic than historical. There is no lack of apposite material, nor are there any haunting...

HERE is yet another " Napoleon book." The very name seems to act as a litecary charm, not only in the land of his adoption and his triumphs, but also in that of his foemen and...

Mn. ILLINGWOBTH'S latest work contains a great deal of thoughtful and suggestive writing. In securing that certain points in the idealist argument against materialism should...

turn with agree- able anticipations to his new volume of short stories, and will not be disappointed. For in him we have no strenuous delineator of unlovely lives, no...

Regent Square : Eighty Years of a London Congregation. By John Hair. (James Nisbet and Co.)—Of this history of " Eighty Years of a London Congregation " we should say that it...

Gardner.)—To Scots, and more pascicularly natives of Ayrshire, this book is likely to afford pleasant reading ; oven Englishmen will be interested by many of the subjects...

and T. F. Tout. (Longmans and Co.)—This volume, dealing with the history of England from the accession of Henry VIII. to the Revolution of 1689, and covering, therefore, both...

we have fresh testimony to the influence of Dante in, a volume which is intended to make him known to children. "The aim of the following pages," says their author," has been to...

(Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier, Edinburgh.)—This is not a formal biography of John Knox, and its author is careful to say that " those who are familiar with the story of that...

and edited by Edward Bell, M.A. (G. Bell and Sons.)— Miss Alice Horton has translated the Lay with fluent and easy verse, not very striking, nor, indeed, intending or pretending...

cannot honestly affirm this "sporting romance" to be a success. The story at times is unnecessarily drawn out, and fails to attract the interest of the reader. Mr. Gilbert, in...

net.)— Something more than half of this volume is occupied by essays on Scott's novels. The writer criticises certain recent editions, and now and then hits a blot. He goes on...

Blaikie, D D. (Hodder and Stoughton.) —Dr. Blaikie occupies too much space, perhaps, in telling the story of the late Principal Brown, of the Free Church College, Aberdeen,...

— This is no ordinary handbook, as the reader soon sees. Let any one study paragraphs 5-7 in chap. 1, "The Village," dealing respectively with the good and bad of the old...

Coutts, M.A. (Longmans and Co.)—Mr. Coutts is certainly com- petent to translate Horace. This does not imply that his book was wanted. If he could have solved the insoluble,...

Newnes.) —Mr. Binns tells the "story of the Potter" in something less than two hundred and fifty pages, with which he contrives to cover nearly fifty centuries. He begins with...

by Leon Golschmann. (Jarrold and Sons.)—This is a very lively story of bear-life in Siberia. Mishook ' and his sister are twin bear cubs. Their father has been killed while...

wood and Sons.)—Miss Harraden chooses some time in the past, and, taking some name, generally one about which little or nothing is known, weaves a romance round it. There is a...

and Co.)—We are not concerned to discuss the questions which the " Colonist " treats in this volume. What he says about them has the special interest of being said from his own...

ner, Darton, and Co.)—We are not prepared to affirm or to deny that marriages between persons of different nationalities tend to happiness ; but it is certainly a fact that they...

book, by the author of " Ozmar the Mystic," is a thoroughly attractive romance. George Travers, who tells the story, picks up a diamond ring which is well known, and said to...

10s. 6d.)—Mr. Macgowan devotes chapters to Shanghai, Foochow, Kushan, Amoy, Swatow, Hong-kong, and Canton. And he certainly succeeds by the help of some admirable photographs in...

Davis. (Sampson Low and Co. 12s. 6d.)—Some twenty years ago, one Ahmed Midhat Effendi published at Constantinople a collection of Turkish proverbs. This Mr. Davis has here...

Co.)—We cannot say that this book is a success. There is throughout a series of forced situations which grate on the reader. John Sinclair, one of the chief characters, has a...

Of the three volumes, The Merchant of Venice, edited by A. W. Verity (Cambridge University Press), and the same play, edited by H. L. Withers (Blackie and Son), and Henry IV.,...

7s. 6d.)—Mr. Russell-Jeaffreson has travelled much in Northern regions,—Iceland, Greenland, Spitzbergen, &c., and now has added the Faroe Islands to his list of acquaintances....

stories, most of them of a somewhat weird kind. When the writer would relieve the strain with a little humour, as in " A Boudoir Boy," we do not know that we are much better...

Co.) — This " Romance of the Commonwealth " is a fair specimen of the historical tale. The scene is laid at Amberley, on the Arun, a country with which the author is evidently...