pelled to interest itself in the Macedonian insurrection is probably Salonica. The district round that important port is in full insurrection, and the insurgents naturally...

T HE most momentous event of the week is the spread of the insurrection in Macedonia, its chiefs having "in despair" called the whole population to arms. The Bulgarian section...

Peter last Sunday in the presence of forty thousand spectators, chiefly belonging to the lower classes of Rome. The ceremonial was of the old magnificent character, and the...

Durbin, the Governor of Indiana, congratulating him on his efforts to put down lynching. The President has been shocked, and even alarmed, by the increase of the practice,...

by Austria and Russia. Mr. Balfour on Monday explained this to the House of Commons, and volunteered the opinion that as yet the "balance of criminality" in Macedonia lay on the...

worst, of our time, occurred in Paris on Monday. A train on the Metro- politan Underground Electric Railway caught fire near the station of Couronnes, but the conductor drove on...

stretches over the whole South, being perhaps the most decided in Odessa and Kieff, and evidently perplexes as well as alarms the local Governments and the Ministry of the...

began last Saturday, and will, it is believed, end next Wednesday. She defends herself with great vigour, but not as yet with much skill, the audience in Court being chiefly...

it impossible to resist the impression created by the bribery scandal, though he is acknowledged to have proved his personal innocence. The two factions of the Opposition...

to exaggerate the political effect of these outbreaks. Their number increases their apparent importance; but Russia is very large, and even if, as is now stated, five hundred...

Atlantic Shipping Agreements between his Majesty's Government and the Cunard Company and the Inter- national Mercantile Marine Company shows that the arrangement, which has...

to secure future safety, especially by building the trains of some incombustible substance, and lighting the tunnels by indepen- dent agency ; but the real lesson of the...

a tax on paper we publish in another column, is indignant at the idea of such a tax, and very naturally and properly, as he is a Free-trader. It seems to us, however, that those...

to the chairman of a Lancashire Liberal Unionist Association, on the subject of preferential tariffs, strikes no uncertain note. "'Whatever action Unionists take in support of...

and with that discussion the work of the Session practically ended,—a Session which has been momentous in a high degree, and may prove the last of the Parliament elected in...

in March, 1902, was laid upon the table of the House of Commons on Tuesday. This movement has not been proved to have caused any serious displacement of skilled English labour,...

2,580,000,000 letters were received in the United Kingdom, an increase of over 5 per cent. on the previous year. In all nearly 4,144,000,000 postal packets were delivered. The...

M. Curie on the subject of the heat production of radium is dealt with in an able special article in the Times of Thursday. There can no longer be any doubt that radium, in...

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

THE CLOSE OF THE SESSION AND THE UNIONIST PARTY. T HE close of the Session affords a convenient oppor- tunity for taking stock of the political position as it affects the...

NV HEN, some eighteen months ago, the country was . in the throes of a Trust panic, anybody who dared to doubt the desire and ability of American capitalists to buy up anything...

PERHAPS PS the greatest perplexity in the politics of the Balkans is a certain weakness in the Christian population. Why do not the insurgents beat the Turks ? They are more...

T HE contrast between the two letters, one from "An Old Farmer," the other from Mr. W. M. Cooper, which we print in another column, is really the contrast between the man who...

DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has another terrible 1 problem before him. There can be no doubt that the practice of " lynching," that is, of trying and executing grave offenders through "...

T HE line which divides the Canonical from the Apocryphal Scriptures of the New Testament requires no super- natural authority to make it plain. The difference between the one...

T HERE is a certaiu New England village, not two hours' journey from Boston, chiefly composed of wooden houses and cottages, and crossed in its straggling width by the iron...

frHE announcement made in Tuesday's Times by Sir 1 Trevor Lawrence that Sir Thomas Hanbury has with Characteristic generosity presented to the Royal Horticultural Society the...

ENGLISH AS SPOKEN IN IRELAND. [To TRY EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR."1 Sin, — Speaking generally, some of the leading features of English as spoken in Ireland are the marked...

A TAX ON PAPER. [TO THE EDITOR CF THE " SPECTATOR] Sin, — I see that "A Revenue Official," writing as with authority to the Times, tells us that Mr. Chamberlain will atone for...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sic,,—You name a factor far more vital to fiscal controversy than the purchase of a motor-car in France when you refer to the milling...

August 8th you announce that you will publish this week a letter suggesting milling as an example of an industry ruined by Free-trade, and if I am not mistaken the same...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] . SIR,—As an out-and-out, thick-and-thin advocate of our one- sided system of Free-trade, you surely stand pre-eminent. A man who denies...

(TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "l Srs,—Personally I was (and am) in favour of retaining the shilling duty on corn as against foreign countries, and remitting it to our...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR- ° ] SIR,—In commenting last week on Sir H. Maxwell's letter, you opine that " it is not Free-trade, but want of skill and energy, that has...

SIR,—A paragraph in the Spectator of August 8th about the Sugar Convention Bill contains a statement with which I agree, viz. :—" We have always challenged the wisdom of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—You did me the favour to insert in the Spectator of June 20th a letter in which I sought to prove from a com- parison of wheat prices...

[To ma EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR, —In spite of numerous letters in the Spectator and else- where, there are still many who are scared by what may be termed one of the...

IVO THE EDITOR OP TFIE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Granting for the moment that Mr. Chamberlain is cor- rect in saying that the unity of the Empire can be maintained only by closer...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.": Sra, — I venture to suggest that you should print the whole of Hume's essay, " Of the Jealousy of Trade," of which your correspondent gives...

[To THE EDITOR OP TIM "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—England is not the only country that ought to fear ruin. Other countries are in the same plight, and get too much • in return for their...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Six,—The reply of the President of the Board of Trade to Sir C. Renshaw in Parliament on Monday should comfort those of your readers who...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The proposed preferential tariff for Colonial produce reminds me of a boyish speculation and agreement entered into with my mother, and...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Allow me, while thanking you for the appreciative notice of our work which appeared in the Spectator of August 1st, to explain that the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your issue of August 1st you say that you are " unable to understand why in other parts of the world the gold-mining industry can...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—The words gotorov Fir OLT are taken from the first Olympic ode of Pindar, and were proverbial even at the time he wrote, although, of...

"SPECTATOR. " ! SIR,—Having read with pleasure a poem entitled as above in the Spectator of August 1st, I send a quotation from " The Hermit of Lansdown," taken from a copy of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It is universally acknowledged that the visit of the King and Queen to Ireland has been a great success. Much has been written about...

the death-trap at the Colenso River with the Irish Brigade under Fitzroy Hart. He was a Captain in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers,—he is so no longer. One bright moonlit night in...

your correspondent inquires in the Spectator of August 8th appear in Steinmetz's "History of the Jesuits," Vol. I., p. 177, as " an old distich," in the following form :- "...

SIR,—'.A016 , TOP is amp. Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq., corroborates your view that these words occur in Pineal.. Does he not write— "That an ancient Welsh poet, one Pyndar ap Tudor,...

are the opening words of Pindar's first Olympian ode, and are referred to by Plato in the "Euthyde- mus,"—r8 of addp eipmrom is, riffs gOrl IliAepoc. It was an ancient Greek...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—With reference to the correspondence in your paper under the above heading, may I say a few words ? It seems to me that when so many...

IN THE TATE GALLERY : TO G. F. WATTS, R.A. HE came, and all the world stood still to gaze. The heights of fame impregnable he won: His word awoke the pyramids, his sun...

MARCO POLO.* IT is superfluous at this date to praise Sir Henry Yule's edition of Marco Polo. English scholarship can scarcely boast a greater masterpiece, and the part played...

MR. WALTER. RALEIGH is one of our few living stylists, in the best sense, and anything he has to say on literature is certain to be said in a manner that will charm even where...

THERE are but very few men, we imagine, who could adequately estimate the profundity and extent of the learning which has been used in the putting together of these two volumes....

"ST. CHARLES!" said Thackeray once, as he pressed a letter of Charles Lamb's to his forehead. In common with other saints, Lamb has had to endure the assaults of the advocates...

A TALE OF THE HEBRIDES.* IT sometimes happens that a master of style seems to be mastered by style. Mr. Neil Munro is not quite exempt from the danger. We observe traces of a...

has chosen a disagreeable subject, and treated it with adequate taste and skill. An untaught, ill-brought-up lad is taken by the coarse beauty of a girl older than himself, and...

THE ENGLISH SAINTS. The English Saints. By W. H. Hutton. (Wells Gardner, Dalton, and Co. 12s. 6d.)—" It should be possible through the lives of the Saints most revered in any...

Co. 6s.)—This is an amusing, if rather impossible, little book. The heroine, the girl with ideas, failing to get her first novel pub- lished, opens a bureau for the sale of...

large inference that its first attempt at language would show which was the primitive tongue of mankind. Benedetto, son of a deaf-and-dumb mother, is brought up by her tili lie...

of black, which makes them rather difficult to believe in. The heroine is nicer as a child than as a woman, but far be it from the present writer to say that this is not...

Burland's story, to which he gives the encouraging second title, " The White Priests of Ahriman," is a great contrast to the last-mentioned novel. A dark mystery surrounds the...

We have received a Bulletin Officiel issued by the Congo Free State defending the Administration from the charges brought against it, and a rejoinder from the pen of Mr. Fox...

Prince, or rather his restoration to his country, is the motive of the story. The wicked Count who gives his name to the book is quickly discovered by the reader to be the...

6s.) —The recollections of Mrs. Reynolds date from the days of the Mutiny,—though she herself was at Mymensingh, in Eastern Bengal, and so out of harm's way ; and the antiquity...

6d.) —This volume, a reprint of papers published in the Academy (New Style), is, we are assured, a "faithful and candid record of facts." We do not doubt it ; the writer of this...

late), and General Webber, R.E. (R.E. Institute Com- mittee.)—This volume contains a record, kept austerely free of all kinds of ornament or rhetoric, of General Harness's many...

(Macmillan and Co. 6s.)—Mr. Bradley has certainly exalted the writing of a combined archaeological and descriptive guide- book into a species of literary art. Occasionally he...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as haus not been reserved for review in other forms.] Robert Wallace: Life and Last Leaves. By J. Campbell Smith and...

and massive volume, with its copious illustrations, " society portraits," celebrities of all kinds—there is a very curious picture of M. de Blowitz—country houses, sporting...

of Practical Gardening," Vol. XI V. (John Lane. 2s. 6d. net.)—In The Book of the Honey Bee Mr. Harrison has given us a most interesting addition to this series ; bee culture is...

an eighth edition, a fact which is so conclusive a proof of continued popular favour that criticism is unnecessary. One remark we may make. We quite agree with the observation...

Scott Publishing Company. 2s. 6d.)—The greater part of this volume is naturally given to the cultivation of the peach (with which the nectarine is coupled) under glass ; but...

Ss. 6d.)—This is a volume of humorous sketches reprinted from Punch and the Westminster Gazette. Humorous they are in their way, though some of them, we must own, picture scenes...