granted to the Boers, Lord Salisbury's words were, in our opinion, satisfac- , tory. Our position was, of course, unchanged. It was the position we had always occupied. " We •...

made the usual, set speech. Judged by its public reception, the - speech cannot be described as a success. Indeed, if we are to describe its effect on the country, we cannot but...

to the possi- bility of fixing a definite date for the conferring of self- government on the new Colonies. As our readers may remember, at the beginning of the war we several...

1117 THERE is little or no war news to record this week, which io doubt points to some movement being in hand in re- gard to which the niilitary authorities wish to observe...

Tuesday M. Delcasse read to the French Cabinet a decree signed by authorising.his Government to' pay the sums owing to French subjects in monthly instalments, to recognise all...

case.

Saturday at Boston a very ,important speech. After defending reciprocity, and especially reciprocity with France, "a country with which we would fain strengthen our good...

to Hankow, and reports that the ridiculous clause in the Treaty forbidding the import of arms is producing the effect which we ventured to predict would follow. The Chinese, who...

opened last Saturday with great military display. All native chiefs and notables were assembled, slid Colonel Deane , the first Chief Commissioner, made thehi a speech specially...

great rite, to be reverenced even by disbelievers: A young Prussian officer named Blaskowitz gave on the day before his wedding a farewell bachelor party to his comrades. On his...

officially informed the Czar that the " Great Siberian Railway " is complete. This does not mean that permanent regular traffic can be opened, two more years of work being...

binding pledges to all the Powers not to demand any material guarantee from Turkey, and that the Sultan wa s advised on all hands to yield. The Courts, however, are not entirely...

Geographical Society on Monday on " The Uganda Protectorate, Ruwenzori, and the Semliki Forest." After dis- cussing the various provinces of Uganda in detail, Sir Harry Johnston...

these islands and the seas adjacent on Tuesday and Wednesday show an appalling loss of life from shipwreck. Over two hundred lives are known to have been lost, and it is feared...

Sir Edward Grey's speech,—that dealing with Sir Redvers Bailer's speech. Sir Edward Grey says ironically that when Sir Redvers Buller was attacked " he committed the heinous...

on Wednesday at the City Carlton Club, and will only say here that its effect in the country has been excellent, and that it has been received with something like general...

night, Mr. Chaplin, the ex-President of the Local Government Board, made a very sensible speech on the subject of motor- car speed. He admitted that the regulations as to speed...

it was announced that he had bean pleased to confer on the Duke of York the title of Prince of Wales. The bestowal of this dignity, merged in the Crown since the death of Queen...

on Wednesday, dealt chiefly with the question of party unity and the conduct of the war. Unity, he had no doubt, would come, but it. was not to be . brought about by...

New Consols (2i) were on Friday 911.

MR. BRODRICK'S SPEECH. T HERE have been many speeches made during the week, but in our opinion that by Mr. Brodrick is most deserving of public attention. We are not among...

E may, we think, heartily congratulate France upon V V the result of her quarrel with the Sultan. M. Deleasse has succeeded without any extravagant waste of her resources, and...

NIE - T E sincerely trust that the Government are ke ping V V clearly before them the problem of settling in South Africa a considerable portion of the men who are now fighting...

1 F Englishmen will modify a little their conceptions of 1 time, and remember that to Russians, as to Asiatics, a year of life does not matter much, they will perceive that the...

I HE case of "The King v. Tibbits," in which . judgment was given on Saturday last in the Court of Crown Cases &served, establishes no new offence. The counsel for the...

T HE author of "The Soul of a People," Mr. H. Fielding, .has written a work about " The Hearts of Men " (Hurst and Blackett, 10s. 6d. net). The former dealt princi- pally with...

M R. CARNEGIE tells the world this week in a letter largely quoted in the Press that wealth will not secure happiness, and that for himself, if Wagner and Shake- speare, " the...

to be indefinitely pro. longed. During the period, now lasting since 1893, in which we have had practically no wet summers, and many very hot ones, a very curious phenomenon has...

THE SUSPENSION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF CAPE COLONY. (To TER EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR." I Srn,—I venture to hope that the influence of your powerful advocacy will be given in...

[To THR EDITOR OP TDB " SPECTATOILl SIE,• —" Why, if there is not a future life, if we are but a splendid variety of ephemerides, should not the intelligent and the strong push...

your very welcome article (Spectator, November 9th), can you find room for a quotation from "the most analytical mind in Europe," furnished with an unrivalled knowledge of the...

article on " Mr. Balfour on Faith and Conduct" in the Spectator of November 9th says that " rectors and ministers are considered admirable because their whole time is given up...

'SPECTATOR.") Sur,—Those who have read the very suggestive article on " The Dangers of Proverbial Philosophy " in the Spectator of November 9th may be interested in the...

Szn,—May I say a few words suggested by the article in the Spectator of November 9th headed " Mr. Balfour on Faith and Conduct" ? It is there truly affirmed that Christianity...

[To THE EDITOR OP TEE "SPECTATOR.") Sru,—I heard an officer returned from South Africa say that he thought the Cape Mounted Riflemen were the finest cavalry soldiers in the...

pro THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."( It is all very well to dissemble your love, But why did you kick we downstairs ? '" That the first line should be in the present tense and...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE SPE:TATOR:1 San,—The recently reported death of Li Hung Chang recalls to my mind an interesting conversation which the late Colonel Dyer told me that he...

[To THE. EDITOR OP THE "SPECT4TOR:] sm—The following extract seems peculiarly d propos to the present moment in regard to the South African War and the "evil prophets"...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sre, - -The author of the article on " Thames Banks in Autumn" in the Spectator of October 26th, speaking of the Utricularidx, says : " By...

"SPECTATOR. ") S132,—On October 26th Captain Trotter's book, "A Leader of Light Horse," was favourably reviewed in your columns. I have lately read that book very carefully, and...

PTO THE EDITOR OP TEE " SPECTATOE."1 SIR, —A letter from South Africa, written by a gentleman whose acquaintance I made not long ago in this country over the signature of " A...

MO TUE EDITOR OF Ta2 "SPECTATOR." Snt,--I quite agree with " An Officer ' s Mother " in her later in your issue of November 9th. I also have a son in the Mounted Infantry, and...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] have shown great interest in questions of national defence, and particularly in the efforts now being made to spread a knowledge of...

TUB "SPECTATOR. " ] Sra,—The proposal of Baron von Edelsheim to land eighty or ninety thousand Germans on the East Coast, referred to in the Spectator of November 9th, brings to...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The concentration camps are commonly justified on the ground of necessity,—as the only alternative to wholesale starvation. There is,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I read with interest the excellent letter of your corre- spondent " Horwood " in the Spectator of November 9th, and was disappointed at...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The suffocation of a whole tribe of Algerians by the French alluded to by a correspondent in the Spectator of November 9th reminds me of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECT ATM..] Sin,—The writer of your article, "Minor English Lakes," in the Spectator of November 2nd, has surely forgotten the beautiful meres of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—One is not a little surprised to see Radicals—Radicals, too, of the most pronounced kind—recommending what would be practically a coup...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Permit me to trespass to only a limited extent upon the space in your very valuable paper. " Early Bird " in his letter in your issue...

MR. M_A.NNS AN APPRECIATION. THE reorganisation of the Crystal Palace Saturday Concerts on a new footing and under a new conductor affords a suitable occasion for a brief...

THE PANTHEON. (UMBERTO I., RE D'ITALIA.) HERE is he laid whose wakings all are done, He shall not heed, within sleep's silver bars, Meridian splendours of the coursing sun,...

THE ENGLISH CHURCH AFTER THE CONQUEST.* THE Dean of Winchester's personal contribution to the History of the English Church which he is editing with Mr. W. Hunt deals with the...

THE Aborigines' Protection Society has not always com- mended itself to opinion in the Colonies, and it is very possible that a book on the natives of South Africa compiled by...

of the early eighteenth century there are few names more interesting—among stars of the second magni- tude, bier entendu—than those of the father and the two sons. d'Argenson....

THE HOUSE WITH THE GREEN SHUTTERS.* IT was inevitable that sooner or later the extravagances of what has been called the Kailyard school should provoke a reaction. Along with...

Marietta: a Maid of Venice. By F. Marion Crawford. (Mac- millan and Co. 6r.)—Marietta was the daughter of a master glassblower living at Murano at the end of the fifteenth...

" Irish pastorals " are conceived in a vein of blended poetry and realism that is extremely fascinating. Mr. Bullock evidently knows the Irish peasantry well, and loves them as...

Co. 6s.)—This is a quite admirable story, or perhaps, as one knows pretty well what is going to happen, we should say, study. Christina comes unexpectedly into a large fortune,...

is rather a commonplace story of an extravagant woman who marries a Captain of moderate means in a Line regiment. Valerie, as she is called, is really very fond of her husband,...

Gs.)—There is something more in this story than the daring deeds and thrilling escapes that one expects from Mr. Stanley Weyman. The interest centres in the character of the...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have reserved for review in other forms.] not bee" Then and Now. By Dean Hole. (Hutchinson and Co. 16s. net) —Dean Hole...

S. Boyd. (Isbister and Co. 6s.)—We recommend people to begin their acquaintance with The Shoes of Fortune by glancing at the illustration which represents Father Hamilton and...

6s.)—The Westerners is a story of adventure among Red- skins, with the usual incidents belonging to this sort of novel, and a motive of special interest in the working out of...

H. Lupton, - D.D. (G. Bell and Sons. 2s. 6d.)—Dr. Lupton gives in his preface an interesting account of the origin of this little volume. It is a reprint of an English...

Publishing Company. 5p.)—Mr. Ludlow is anxious to make his readers understand that this volume contains, not . quotations from others, but his own carefully considered counsels...

7s. 61. net.)—Mr. Shilleto is a scholar whose reputation rests more largely on the tradition of what he was as a tutor than on his published work. There is, therefore, a special...

a republication of a special number of the College magazine in which the Jubilee of the College was recorded, with con- tributions from members old and young. All the Faculties...

Pearson. 5s.)—Mr. Stanley claims, and rightly claims, to have exercised a very wide liberty in his choice. " Patriotic" is taken to include genuine convictions, even wh en these...

Pre- face by Sir E. Grey, Bart. (Longmans and Co. 634—Dr. Creigh- ton wrote this memoir shortly after Sir George Grey's death in September, 1882. It was then printed for private...

(R.T.S. 6s.)—This is a second edition—the first was published in 1897—with the addition of a paper on Cambridgeshire. Bishop Creighton points out in his characteristic manner, a...

of A Neu Varicirunt Edition of Shakespeare, edited by Horace Howard Furness (I. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, U.S., 18s.) This volume contains Ttoelfe Night (for such is...

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issuing without delay an edition of the Prayer- book with the form enjoined by the latest Order in Council, "George, Prince of Wales, and the Princess of Wales," taking the...

the Psalms, by the late John Sharpe, D D. (Eyre & Spottiswoode. 6s ) Dr. Sinker prefixes a memoir of the author, a zealous student and parish priest, by whose death at a...

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THE OLD FRENCH MONARCHY.* THIS is a clear, thoughtful, readable, and most useful history of the Monarchy in France, from the consolidation of its power under Louis XI. to the...

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delightful book that has ever been published on Scottish Celtic superstition. The late J. F. Campbell's Popular Tales of the West Highlands and Lord Archibald Campbell's Waifs...

THE volume before us is the first of a work intended to supply a complete survey of the critical opinion of all ages as regards literature, in so far as that opinion is...

" KATHARINE TYNAN " returns yet again to her happy Irish hunting-ground. Whatever else may fail in the distressful country, the crop of romantic love-stories is always abundant....

A SCHOOL-STORY.* "As the East is distant from the West, so far was Muirtown Seminary removed in its manners and customs from an English public school." The reader, therefore,...

are admirably contrasted. " Heather's Mistress," by Amy Le Feuvre, relates the initiation of two young Quakeresses into life after their release from the jealous care of an old...

and more than maintains, its reputation for an abundant supply of good reading and good illustrations. Fiction is not in excess, the five serial stories being equivalent to two...

pro- vides a long serial story, " The Awakening of Anthony Weir," for this number. Anthony Weir is a young minister, excep- tionally able, but worldly, and the story unfolds his...

is that it contains Mr. Rudyard Kipling's " Rim." That alone would go far towards making up its value, though one would not for choice read a novel in this form. And there are...

Son. 5s.) —Mr. Henty takes us back to the first Afghan War, and the story begins in the year 1837. The hero, Angus Campbell, starts from Teheran on a mission to Herat, where he...

2s. Gd.)—This is a story of the Boer War, and deserves commen- dation for the moderate tone in which Mr. Burrage speaks of the foe. There are no very exciting incidents, nor is...

(Blackie and Son. 6s.)—The date of this story is a hundred years ago, and the scene India ; Mr. Henty is nowhere unless he can range over the last century of Imperial history....

(Isbiater and Co. 7s. Gd.) — The Sunday Magazine. (Same pub- lishers. 7s. Gd.)—These two companion volumes will receive, we are sure, their customary welcome. They hold, and...

See 5s )—Mr. Henty's hero is the son of a parson ; it is always com- forting to know that, for he is made of the very best material. A bank smashes, and Yorke Harberton goes to...

—At last some one has written for us a stirring school-story on the old heroic lines, with real boys in it, boys in whom we recoe- else the making of men. Acton is one of the...

of the slums, whose mother dies after a terrible struggle against increasing poverty and the vicious tendencies of a weak husband. Curtis joins a travelling caravan after his...

61)—Mr. Oxley describes, with close attention to the original narrative, the story of Franklin's second expedition (that, it should be understood, which he made by land,...

3s. Gd.)—Here we have a picture painted with very austere colours of the life of a poor settler in Australia. The family what with want of resources, drought, and other...

(Seeley and Co. 5s) —This volume gives us sixteen vivid little pictures of country things and country people, illustrated by some photographs. which are as good in their way as...

—Mr. Macdonald Oxley has made Canada his province, though this latest story is neither of the fur-traders nor Arctic explora- tion, but of gold prospecting in the Cariboo...

space, be noticed together. These are :—Three Sailor Boys, by Verney Lovett Cameron (T. Nelson and Sons, is. 6d.), a story of the Pacific Ocean, where the three boys lose their...

Co. 3s. 61)—Hugh St. Leger has certainly given us some- thing fresh in the way of plots. A young man reading for the Army is suddenly summoned by his sister to rescue her from...

donald. (S.S.U. is )—The language of Bunyan's allegory has not been changed, but various excisions have been made, notably of matter which would not interest the young. The task...

3s. 6d.)—South America is the scene of Mr. Samson's story, which is concerned with events of a century ago, and Dr. French]. istheDictator,though we do not get into the...

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and Co. 6s.)--This is rather a story of Edward, King Alfred's eldest son, than of Alfred himself. Mr. Gilliat takes up the cause of Elfgiva, the mother of Athelstane, whose good...

is, as far as we know, a first effort in fiction. Miss Marshall, however, comes commended by her name. She is the daughter of a writer who achieved a notable success in her own...

Hypolympia. By Edmund Goose. (W. Heinemann. 3s. 6d.)— Mr. Gosse calls his little book " An Ironic Fantasy." The scene is laid "in an island hitherto inhabited by Lutherans, in a...

THE WOMEN OF THE SALONS. Ti.e Women of the Salons, and other French Portraits. By S. G. Tallentyre. (Longmans and Co. 10s. 6d.)—This is a very interesting gallery of portraits....

well-printed, well-illustrat-d, and generally handsome volume. The letterpress consists of extracts, consecutively arranged, from the Old and New Testaments, according to the...

The Eternal Conflict. By William Romaine Paterson. (W. Heinemann. 6s.)—" I see nothing in life except the everlasting duel between the Son of Man and the Son of the Morning !...

Homer's Odyssey, IIIL-IXTV. Edited by D. B. Monro, M.A. (Clarendon Press. 15s. net.)—At last, after more than a quarter of a century, the Oxford Odyssey is complete. The delay...

History of American Verse, 1610-1897. By James L. Onderdonk. (McClurg and Co., Chicago. $1 25c.)—Mr. Onderdonk, who has compiled this work, was a lawyer and a politician before...

Les Braves Gene. Par Paul et Victor Margueritte. (Plop, Nourrit, et Cie., Paris.)—Few books published in France of late years have been so widely talked of as " Le Ddsastre," by...

The Idler Out of Doors. By Walter Raymond. With Illustra- tions by R. W. Arthur Rouse, R.B.A. (Grant Richards. 68.).-- This is a pleasant book, but we dispute its pretension to...

The Captivi of Plautus. Edited, with Introduction, Apparatus Criticus, and Commentary, by W. M. Lindsay, M.A. (Methuen and Co. 10s. 6d.)—This edition, excellent in all respects,...

The Key to Knowledge. By William G. Rutherford. (Mac- millan and Co. 6s.)—The judgment and strong Scotch sense of the late Head-Master of Westminster are admirably exhibited in...

The English Reports, 1300.1865. Vol. L, " House of Lords." (William Green and Son, Edinburgh ; Stevens and Sons, London ; £1 ls. and .£1 10s. net per vol.)—This handsome volume...

Women of Canada : their Life and Work. Compiled by the National Council of Women of Canada. (For Distribution at the Glasgow International Exhibition, 1901.)—We regret that we...

Dragons of the Atr: an Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles. By H. G. Seeley, F.R.S. With 80 Illustrations. (Methuen and Co. Gs.)—Since the time when, as Professor Seeley tells us...

and Sons. is. net.)—In this volume Mr. Salt gives a very good selection of the poems dealing with animal life in the English language. All the old favourites are here, such as...

Co. 7s. 6d.)—To write the biography of one whose life has been passed amongst people still living must be always a difficult matter. We have, however, nothing but praise for the...

2s. 6d.)—Miss Hollis sees that there are two sides to the great question of Archbishop Anselm and the King. William was standing up for national independence, though in the...

HEART. The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart. By John Amos Komensky. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co. 6s.)—In these days when pessimism and mysticism threaten...

(Elliot Stock. 3s. 6d.)—We really get a very lively impression of what travel in Peru means, for Mr. Seebee poses as a "green- horn," and his experiences, frankly related as a...

Agnes Giberne. (C. Arthur Pearson. 5s.)—Miss Giberne having told us about the stars, now conducts us about the ocean. She has an effective way of putting things. We realise, for...

South Africa. By Henry E. Harria. (H. H. Porter. 21e.)—We have bad a number of books recently published, illustrated with photographs of wild birds and their nests. Mr. Harris...