Con- gress voted £40,000, and will vote £100,000, and President Roosevelt, acting unofficially, has organised twenty-two Relief Committees, and officially sanctioned the...

B Y the time these pages are in our readers' hands the Boer delegates will have assembled at Vereeniging. They will include not only all the chief generals, but represen-...

moment go as the Daily Mail expects, and as we incline to believe. But even if hostilities nominally begin again, we do not believe that they will last very long. Our military...

than the worst rumours. At 7.30 on May 8th the volcano, La Pelee, at the north end of the island, which had been threatening, and indeed exploding, for some days, burst out in...

will be adopted, the experience of ages showing that after these awful catastrophes the survivors still cling to their ruined property, and consider` poverty preferable to...

some- what as follows. The Boers will begin by very high demands, including virtual independence, and will haggle obstinately day by day, making only nominal...

case.

should be permitted, but we must not forget that it is not deepened by the number of deaths in one place. More die in England every week, and we do not know that the horror...

our last issue, beggars the invention of a Gaboriau. The famous box was opened on Friday week in the presence of magistrates and notaries, and proved to contain, instead of the...

dispute now raging between Austria and Hungary is becoming most acute. The Austrians perceive, or fancy they perceive, that they have the worst of the economic bargain, and have...

Republic, who was accompanied by MM. Waldeck- Rousseau, Delcasse, and de Lanessan (the Minister of Marine), had a great reception and made a speech remarkable for the striking...

his first and last journey in his airship the Pax.' Ascending from his works at Vaugirard at 5.30 in the morning, M. Severe bad only been a few minutes in the air when the...

Beach announced that owing to the representations made to him by bankers and others be should not proceed with the proposal to increase the stamp on cheques to 2d. What scheme...

are not in future to be excluded from Richmond Park, but will be allowed to learn their work in the only place suitable for instruction in field tactics within easy reach of...

whose speech was able and effective from the point of view of those who will not admit the force of the Governmental declaration that the Corn-tax has no Protective force or...

Company. There was something intensely touch- ing because of its evident sincerity in the way in which Mr. Carnegie spoke of his Mother-country and his adopted country. "I never...

a. victory for Mr. Toulmin, the Liberal candidate, by a majority of 414, the figures being—Mr. G. Toulmin (L.), 4,213; Mr. H. Lawson (U.), 3,799. In 1895 the Unionist majority...

" the acreage now offered for manoeuvres ought to be increased," though some portion of the Park should be reserved, and that he would confer with the Ranger on the subject. We...

to clear the matter up, asked whether he might construe the sympathy expressed by Mr. Akers-Douglas into a definite promise. To which the Chief Commissioner replied that he...

New Consols (2i) were on Friday 95i.

THE WEST INDIAN DISASTER. T HE great difficulty in speaking or writing of the awful catastrophe in the West Indies is to avoid hysterics. The terrible visibleness of the...

Wilfrid Laurier in the Canadian House of Commons on Monday dealing with Imperial defence and commercial relations was a public declaration of the first importance. With the tone...

T HE House of Commons has slipped very easily into the new Procedure arrangements. They are not, indeed, the most controversial section of the Government pro- posals, but they...

I F a University student from, let us say, Bonn or Heidelberg, anxious to compare the teaching method's of this country with those of his own, were to arrive ih London and ask...

Alsace-Lorraine to withdraw " the dictatorship paragraph" from the Constitution of the State is more important than has been at once perceived. It is, of course, a great relief...

T HE great earthquake at Lisbon was followed, it is said. by a wave of atheism, directly attributable to the shock that religious impulses received as a result of the appa-...

" TF you want to know what a man is, examine his castles in the air." This obiter dictum was uttered some three weeks ago to a friend of the present writer by an old man in a...

I N an interesting article in the Times Professor. Otto Nordenskjold dwells on the tameness of the wild creatures found furthest south in the Antarctic Ocean. The ship had...

RICHMOND PARK AS A MANCEUVRING GROUND. [To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOE."1 Sin,—The low sun filters through the branches overhead and makes a mosaic of gold and ebony on the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—On reading iu the communicated article in your issue of March 29th the statement that Mr. Rhodes was "the first subject of the Crown...

[To TUE EDITOR OP TIER "SPECTATOR.1 SIT., —At the close of the article on "The Two Imperialisms " in the Spectator of May 10th you make some reflections adverse to Mr....

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:] Sra,—I thank you for your sympathetic words in the Spectator of May 10th in connection with the happy recovery of our Queen, but I hope you...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SID.,—The lead which Mr. H. Lee-Warner desires to see given (Spectator, May 10th) has already been given by a large part of the members of...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—May I ask bow the age of terebinths affects the question of Abraham's oak (Spectator, April 26th) ? The present tree is an oak....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." J SIR,—Why should the writer of the article on "Schools and Rates" in your issue of May 10th assume that if two-thirds of the managing...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The holocaust in the Antilles and Bret Harte's death last week will, I think, bring strikingly to the memories of some of us his...

H. S. G.," in the Spectator of May 10th, says that "it would be interesting to know whether the former managers " of British schools who transferred them to School Boards...

SIR,—With reference to H. S. G.'s" letter in last week's Spectator, when a British school is taken over by a School Board the former management ceases absolutely, and the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —The Duke of Wellington was probably correct in think- ing that his seasoned army of the Peninsula could have easily beaten the massed...

Sra,—I beg that I may be permitted to supplement Mr. Reginald Lucas's most interesting communication in the Spectator of May 10th on Wellington's matchless soldiers in his...

and long we rode behind you, Comrade, on the olden trail ; By the cation, by the mesa, Hearts of ours caught up your hail. Where the golden poppies flicker On the foot-hills'...

" LE PAYS DE REVENANTS." (MARTINIQUE.) NESTLING upon the bosom of the deep Where all day long tle golden sunbeams rest, Fair as an infant smiling in its sleep, She lay, the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] • Sur,—I was greatly interested in the above able and suggestive article in the Spectator of May 10th, and sympathise with what I take to...

(TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR, —It is difficult to believe that any educated man should have imagined that Mr. Asquith's phrase, "ploughing the sands," was an...

THE ACADEMY.-IL To criticise an exhibition without a sense of proportion is a one-sided performance. A. mass of bad works may make a very moderate performance appear to be a...

CHIPS FROM A SYNTHETIC WORKSHOP.* APAIZT from the intrinsic interest attached to the stray papers collected in this volume, they are entitled to a respectful hearing on several...

say a veteran—in the work of writing judicious biography, and as William Black was to him an intimate friend in a sense and to an extent that neither Mr. Forster, Lord...

In reading through these two large volumes of essays covering a wide range of subjects, historical, legal, and philosophical, treated in a manner always instructive, and...

THE Asiatic Pacific area boasts a population of almost five hundred millions, or one-third of the inhabitants of the globe ; and since the warfare of the next hundred years will...

ON THE OLD TRAIL.* THIRTY-TWO years have elapsed since Bret Harte's Luck of Roaring Camp was noticed in these columns, and it is curious to see how much of the earlier...

Bullen. 6s.)—This is a " neo-Irish " story, of the type of which " Hurrish " is a well-known representative. It is the Ireland of Land Leagues and Coercion Acts and proclaimed...

Windus. 6s.)—There is something of the " neo-Irish " note in these tales, but some of the sixteen—for the volume con- tains • a collection of short stories—remind us of...

Co. 6s.) — We have not sufficient technical knowledge to say whether Mr. Curtis's " battle-forts " and the "devil-ship exterminators" are possible craft or merely the figments...

one-act farce is a familiar and not unpopular kind of enter- tainment. But a farce in three or five acts is not likely to hold the attention of an audience. At Sunwich Port is...

6s.)—Although there is a good deal of pleasant writing in Mrs. Clifford's new book, yet as a whole it is disappOinting. The opening is very good, though perhaps the reason why...

Trans- hated into English by Romesh Dutt, C.I.E. (T. Fisher Unwin. 6s.)—A preface tells us that The Lake of Palms appeared in Calcutta in native language, under the title of "...

6s.)—An Industrious Chevalier professes to be the self- told story of a man who, after wasting his time and getting rid of all his own means and some of other people's, took...

Raven, by E. A. Poe, with Designs by T. R. R. B. (Gay and Bird, 3s. 6d. each.)—These are two exceedingly pretty little books. The text is framed in a border pattern of...

from Fre Angelico and other Old Masters by Dora Noyes. (Dent and Co. 4s. 6d.)—Though it is quite right to translate and retell old legends, and so give them to children in a...

[Tinder this heading we notice such Books of the week as hays not beat reserved for review in other forms.] In the series of " College Histories" (F. E. Robinson and Co., 5s....

ART BOOKS. Yet another series is being produced by Messrs. Bell (5s. each) dealing with "Great Craftsmen." The first volume treats of The Pavement Masters of Siena. The...

Newly dressed and decorated by Walter Crane. (Cassell and Co. 6s.)—This delightfully fantastic picture-book is a happy combination of Charles Lamb and Mr. Walter Crane. On...

Railton. (Freemantle and Co. 5s.)—In the introduction to this book Mrs. Railton asks if children really believe in fairies, and though she regretfully thinks that the question...

net.)—This book was written in America, and deals primarily with American affairs. But the author is conversant with English business, and he has studied English authorities,...

The Tempest. Decorated by Aiming Bell. (Freemantle and Co. 6s.)—These illustrations are characterised by appropriateness and good taste, both in the fantastic representations...

Madras and Bombay.)—A certain Mr. Francis Day built Fort George in the year 1639. For some years its annals are not particularly interesting, though not without importance to...

(Macmillan and Co. 6s. net.)—The contents ef . this book are for the most part of but secondary interest to an 'English reader. This does not pre vent it from being a welcome...

devotional thoughts expressed with admirable gravity and force should possess himself of Meditations and Vows, Divine and Moral, by Joseph Hall, edited by Charles Sayle (Grant...

Smyth. By Frederick Douglas How. (Isbister and Co. 28. ed. not.)—In 1882 Dr. William Smyth, then a young man of twenty-three, was appointed to the dispensary district of...

lectures given at the National Poultry Show under the auspices of the Utility Poultry Club, together with contributions to Farm, Field, and Fireside from the pen of Mr. W. Cook,...

volume certainly makes a distinct and valuable addition to the materials available for the appreciation of Shakespeare's 'personality and for the effective criticism of his...

we have a complete list, corrected up to the latest date from the Gazette, of officers in the British Army in South Africa, in- cluding Colonial, local, and naval contingents,...

and Co. 6s.)—A book on Westminster Abbey from a pen so practised as Miss Brooke-Hunt's is sure to be welcome. It is not, indeed, quite clear what is its precise object. For...

2s. 6d.)—Professor Little has published here six lectures delivered last year _at Cardiff. They are described as "popular," but the author goes below the surface of things,...

Maori Art, by A. Hamilton (Fergusson and Mitchell, Dunedin, N.Z., 7s. 6d. each Part), copiously illustrated by pictures which include other provinces of life besides art ; also...

maga- zine, The Oxford Point of View (Alden and Co., Oxford, ls. net). It is, we are told, "conducted by undergraduate members of the University." One of these gives the "...

sities Mission to Central Africa. ls. 6d.)—This is a "little history," —i.e., a history adapted to the needs of young readers of the work of the Universities Mission. Miss...

HIMPSON. — On May 10th, at Millmead House. Guildford, Charles Turner Simpson, Barrister-at-Law and Beecher of Lincoln's Inn, in his eighty- third year.

have noticed earlier, a new edition of The Life and Works of Charles Kingsley (Macmillan and Co., 10s. 6d. net per • vol.) The latest that have reached us are VII. and VIII.,...