MHE Treaty of General Arbitration between Great Britain and the United States was signed at Washington on Mon- day by Sir Julian Pauncefote and Mr. Olney, and remitted at once...

an Eight-Page Supplement, containing the Half-Yearly Index and Title-Page,—i.e., from July 4th to December 26th, 1896, inclusive.

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, January 30th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

THE BENIN DISASTER. W E are quite willing, as we have always avowed, that Great Britain should regard the civilisation of black Africa as her twentieth century task, to be...

I N the interesting letter published this day week from Liberal Churchmen to Mr. T. Ellis, the Whip of the Liberal party, and signed by Canon Scott Holland, Canon Gore, Dean...

M R. ASQ1TITH and Mr. Balfour have both spoken on the financial relations of Great Britain and Ireland, and, as those who know them might expect, have both spoken skilfully and....

W E do not believe that the Treaty of Arbitration signed at Washington on Monday, though still awaiting ratification, will, when it is ratified, put a stop to war between Great...

'U NDER the title of "The Megalomania of England," the Hamburger Nachrichten has been pouring out an attack on England of more than usual violence. The concluding sentences of...

meeting the heavy, terribly heavy, Indian disasters in the way of famine and pestilence with their accustomed judgment. They are giving way to a current of emotion, yet not...

T HE completion of the sixtieth year of the Queen promises to be welcomed with, if possible, greater enthusiasm than that which gave such distinction to 1887. The hardest thing...

I T is quite possible that before the twenty - first century is reached the only pomp remaining will be ecclesiastical. Royal pomp, though it is still maintained in a way, is...

W E said something last week of the people who do not believe in poetry, who think it a kind of falsity, a roundabout way of making commonplace thoughts look grand, and vague...

A MONG the many efforts at acclimatising the larger wild animals of foreign countries in the British Islands, none has met with success so complete as that by which Lord...

[To THE EDITOR OT Tax " SprcrAros.'] SIR,—Kindly grant me a portion of your space that / may make an, to me, important avowal. In my letter to you, pub- lished on January 2nd,...

MR. FREDERIC HARRISON ON THE RELIGIOUS REACTION. 2112 EDITOR Of TEl " firscrAroz.") SIR,—May I point out that your article, "Mr. Frederic Harrison on the Religious Reaction,"...

[To ass EDITOR OP 221 "SPECTATOR:] — In your interesting article in the Spectator of :January 9th on the "Letters of Victor Hugo," you mention his visiting the Castle of...

70 THE EDITOR OP ERB " SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—As a constant reader of the Spectator, I take the liberty of sending you an extract taken from the East of Fife Record showing the...

[To THE BDITOE OP THE " SPECTATOR:9 you allow me to render thanks to my old friend Sir Edmund Monson for his kindly word for the squirrels, in -the place where it was spoken?...

LORD LEIGHTON'S PICTURES AT THE ACADEMY. Sonic men develop slowly, others when they begin their life's work seem fully prepared and equipped. Lord Leighton was of this last...

THE NEW PRIMATE. AGE as of granite, with a heart of fire : Nerve as of iron, strength that cannot tire : Hard on himself, to others bluff and bold, The great dear master that we...

LETTERS OF A FRENCH COUNTRY VICAR.* ONE of the great charms of the best French literature is its simplicity,—a simplicity so lucid and naive that no translation can reproduce...

that we welcome this admirable little book, and its short, clear sketches of some of the great deeds which made the Empire. There have been plenty of attempts to write the story...

considerable interest that we looked forward to ratding the personal reminiscences of Sir Charles Halle, a musician so closely connected with the development of music in England...

Tars little volume must be regarded as a recast of, or a selection from, Mr. Watson's Purple East, with a few later additions, including especially three short poems which are...

the Turkish Army during a period of active service—his pay being too often considerably in arrears—is, as might naturally be ex- pected, and even to some extent excused, a...

BIIRMAH is the land of pagodas and charming women. Hence the fantastic title of Mrs. Trench Gascoigne's book relating the experiences of some weeks occupied by a journey up the...

characteristic instances of the way in which the world and its work may be regarded, than the contrast afforded by Mr. Zangwill's studies, reviewed last week in these columns,...

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. (Arthur L. Humphreys.)—This is a handsome reprint, on good but not heavy paper and in large type. of the well-known and scholarly translation by...

Grainger is a schoolmistress and gives us her experi- ences of various pupils. Eleven chapters, each dealing with the history of a pupil, make up her autobiography, and are...

—We cannot say that we recognise any known type of "Labour Member" in Mr. Jack Charnel, a profligate, liar, and swindler, who represents the working men of Black Church. Mr....

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