hundred rifles to reconnoitre, found the Karo Pass defended by a thick stone wall and two " sangars," or stone stockades. A frontal attack was next to impossible, and, in fact,...

forward against their will appears to be in operation once more. It is certain that neither the British Government nor the British people wished to go to Lhasa, but Mr....

as to the landings of Japanese forces on the Liaotung Peninsula, and the consequent close investment of Port Arthur. Military experts believe the position of Port Arthur to be...

great battle is imminent somewhere in the neighbourhood of Liaoyang, Friday's telegrams indicating that a Japanese force is attempting to, turn the Russian right by moving to...

more like an English Radical—fiercely attacked the Government for the failure of its foreign policy, which, he said, " had isolated Germany," and roused a general antipathy ;...

to the effect of the action of the Inland Revenue authorities were unsound, and urged that the grant of the annual license did create a property of a kind which must in equity...

contains in its correspondence columns an extraordinary letter to the editor, Mr. E. D. Morel, from the Belgian Consul-General in England, in which Mr. Casement's recent Report...

of M. Loubet to Rome, apparently on the ground that such a visit by the head of a Roman Catholic State sanctions the Italian " usurpation " of what the Vatican believes to be...

studiously moderate speech. He showed that the custom of the Inland Revenue authorities to charge Death-duties on the value of a license did not in any way create a property in...

St. Asaph asked leave to introduce his much-talked-of Education Bill. The Bill is an extension of the principle of the Act of 1902, and as the former Act made the provision of...

the second reading of the Licensing Bill. On Monday night the leading speech of the debate was that by Mr. Alfred Lyttelton, who defended the withdrawal from Petty Sessions of...

Stanley, the well-known African explorer, which took place in London on Tuesday. Sir Henry Stanley's first great exploit was the discovery of Livingstone, a work which he...

addressed a mass meeting consisting of the Grand Com- mittee of the Birmingham, Aston, and Handsworth Liberal Unionist Associations. As all Free-traders who were not blind to...

and then provide means for giving the recipient handsome compensation if we shoed ever stop the present. Our proper course would obviously be to pay the so•called compensation...

a crime to drink or to sell intoxicants, and hold it per se to be as moral to drink a glass of beer as a glass of milk. We greatly dislike, therefore, the extreme temperance...

at the Albert Hall yesterday week in which he referred to the Macedonian and Chinese labour questions. We may notice here, however, the strange inconsistency of his attitude...

Free-trade Unionists elsewhere, and can only find space here to note one other point. In spite of Mr. Chamberlain's bold words and generally aggressive tone, there was...

Consols (29 per cent.) were on Friday 901,

Flags " in 1883 is forgotten, and Indo-China seems to the world to have been acquired without any serious fighting. Lastly, the " Boxer " uprising in China was put down without...

MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S SPEECH. M R. CHAMBERLAIN'S speech at Birmingham dis- poses finally of all the foolish talk about his being willing, nay, anxious, to give up his fiscal...

Younghushand is in the position of a climber in the Andes or the Himalayas who, as he masters one great acclivity, finds another still higher, of which he had scarcely suspected...

I T is greatly to be hoped that the Government will not much longer allow the fate of the Volunteers to remain in suspense. When, about a fortnight ago, the Press was full of...

the Albert Hall yesterday week will not be numbered among his successes. He began by doing his best to estrange the sympathies of many who would naturally support his Government...

by Mr. Charles Masterman. It appears, among others, in a book called " The Religious Life of London," edited by R. Mudie-Smith (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 6s.) The book as a...

volume of the Westminster Gazette cartoons should have been almost immediately followed by a dinner to Mr. F. C. Gould, given by the New Reform Club, at which Sir Robert Reid...

of so-called children's books might be thought to command an easy success. As a matter of fact, they do not, though pretti- ness is an almost invariable accompaniment of such...

article in the Spectator of May 7th you severely criticise the Unionist Premier for dealing with a Compensation Bill before a Redistribution Bill. Might I point out that the...

the representation of Ireland. The average constituency would be 10,547, and the total representation 66. To the scheme itself I do not think any reasonable Home-ruler could...

7th on " The German Emperor's Speeches" with interest and profit, and I should not trouble you with any comment were it not that you appear to have omitted an important factor...

attention from your readers. The first is an attempt on the part of the Conservative Beichsbote to show that an increase in the German Fleet is not, or rather would not be, a...

" The Battle of the Yalu " in the Spectator of May 7th largely discounted by the thoughtful review of Captain Brinkley's great work on Japan which you publish in the same issue...

where plain fabrics of cotton and coarse, strong wool were produced. These goods required no technical skill to manu- facture. They were cheaply dyed, and exported to all parts...

Sin,—Following up the letter printed in the Spectator of April 23rd, I hear from one of the largest Scottish manu- facturers that " we could make out a good case of the same...

SIR,—In your article on the above subject in the Spectator of April 30th you rightly lay emphasis on the necessity of boys being taught the rudiments of military drill and...

in your issue of May 7th relative to the Jews in Limerick, I wish to say that if Judge Adams merely alluded to assaults on the Jews in the streets of the city when he stated...

my letter on the above subject in last week's issue. I may say that I have read several Lives of Oliver Cromwell, and am fairly well acquainted with Milton's career; also I know...

have to do with schoolboys, will acknowledge that they owe the Spectator a deep debt of gratitude for the very able and large-minded article under the above heading in your...

you have riddled the old Tory description, the Cavalier lampoon of Puritanism : yet, though it has been exploded and disposed of, one would think effectually enough, by...

Stephen would wish to give some outward expression of their affection and regard for him. It has been suggested that in the first instance an engraving should be made of the...

surviving descendant of Sir Hudson Lowe has lately passed away. Miss Clara Lowe, who was born at St. Helena in 1819, has lived a very quiet life for many years at Upper Tooting,...

Youth and Age " which I enclose was written by Miss Frances Power Cobbe, and given to me by her a few months prior to her death. I cannot help thinking it may interest some of...

Spectator of January 16th under the above heading, and living as I am close to the foot of the eastern slopes of Ruwenzori, the paragraph suggesting that range as a likely spot...

of "from log cabin to White House" : indeed, there is no calling in which a career is more open to talent; and after Verdi, there is no more striking example of a rise from...

" TOLLUNT AULAEA BRITANNI." * Lo! the funereal casket reappears ; Hid not a yard from light two thousand years, Where boyish feet tread daily, unexplored. Mark them (strange...

Professor Dowden has brought to his task to hazard the conjecture that the conditions under which he performed it cannot have been altogether congenial. The methods demanded for...

claims on the attention of all who possess the historical temper of mind,— namely, an absorbing political interest on account of its pro- longed duel with the two Charleses,...

exposed to the study of that portion of the civilised world which is curious about barbarism. Hasty travellers have visited him, politicians have generalised on his vices or his...

Cowper, especially when it is pronounced like a derivative of • The Correspondence of William Cowper. Arranged in Chronological Order, with Annotations, by Thomas Wright,...

abiding fascination of the East that in novels by English writers where the dramatis personae comprise Orientals as well as Europeans, setting aside a very few exceptions, the...

We thought for a while—we might say as long as we were reading the first half of the volume—that we had come upon a genuine Irish story of the old delightful kind. Now and...

This story does not pretend to be anything but a novel of modern society, but in its own line it is extremely clever and successful. It really merits the application of that...

is a good specimen of the novel of the day, the books that were once written for our pleasure, but now are obviously intended for a penance. We say "good" because it shows much...

extreme popularity of the "Royal" novel—that is, the novel in which the heroine or hero belongs to one of the Royal houses of Europe—has induced Mrs. Atherton to try a...

and Winans. 6s.)—This book is not so much a novel as a, description of the life in retirement of the poet Cowper. It is always a difficult task to weave in the history of a...

and Hall. 6s.)—The mistake by which the imbroglio of this book is caused is not quite sufficiently credible to lend the story en- grossing interest. And it must also be...

the verbal medium through which a great Master uttered his heart and mind ; but rather at a survey of the effect which he produced on the thought and action of his age." We must...

stories about either the faith or the city of Rome, gives us in Love's Proxy an ordinary novel of society. There being nothing very new or intricate about the plot, the interest...

by the volume entitled "Clue." Unwearied industry and remarkable ingenuity, a word which we use honoris cause, distinguish this as they distinguish all Dr. Abbott's work. We...

Black- wood and Sons. 3s. 6d. net.)—Dr. Kerr here gives us a second instal- ment of reminiscences. He need not fear, we think, the common fate of continuations. Books of this...

(R.T.S. 6s.)—The story of Christianity in Madagascar is one of the most eventful in the annals of missionary enterprise. It began with a disaster. Two missionaries, each with...

and Co. 5s.)—Mr. Harman has made a bold venture, and has come very well out of it. To construct "a play, after Euripides," as he has done with the Alcestis, is not very...

and Co. 6s. net.)—Mrs. Bancroft was the wife of the historian George Bancroft, who, after American custom, came as Minister to England in 1846. She wrote these letters during...

3s. 6d. net per vol.), we have Milton's Poetical Works, 2 vols., with a Bibliographical Note by A. W. Pollard. Milton's first printed verse was a copy of Latin verses written at...

6d. net.)—Mr. Atkinson gives in his introduction a useful bibliography of his subject, beginning with Thomas Rickman's work published in 1817. A complete collection would be...

have the Sacrum Coinniercium ; or, Converse of Francis and his Friends with Holy Poverty (ls. and ls. 6d.), translated by Canon Rawnaley, with a Preface by M. Sabatier. The...

was not an "editor" of "The Dictionary of the Bible" (Hastings). The title-page acknowledges his assistance "chiefly in the reading of proof-sheets." And he seems to be but...