great, and many of the newspapers declare that France must fight for her undoubted rights in Fashoda. Nevertheless, as we have explained elsewhere, our Government, if they act...

O N Monday news was received from Omdurman that a day or two before the battle the Bhalifa received news that a force of white men had occupied Fashoda. He at once sent two...

the Dreyfus case has been aggravated by the reaction among the opponents of revision, who have now hardened their hearts, and in effect declare that Henry was splendide mendax...

is now doing. The houses near the camp have been demolished, and forty-three ringleaders base been handed over to Admiral Noel,—though the Sultan demands that they shall be...

the afternoon, the Empress of Austria was assassinated by an Italian Anarchist of about twenty-five named Luigi Luccheni, the weapon used being a stiletto with a blade so thin...

the case would be for the Court to ask General Mercier, the War Minister at the time of the trial, how he came to act so illegally. Here, then, is the great official obstacle to...

diminishing, during the past week. On Tuesday Admiral Noel, the Commander-in- Chief of the British Squadron, who is said by all who know him to be an officer of exceptional...

case.

Dreyfus affair is now carried is shown in an article in the Libre Parole of September 9th. M. Edouard Drumont, the famous Jew-baiter, on whom the mantle of the PZ;re Duchesne...

great, —for this is the third great calamity that has fallen on him. His brother, Maximilian of Mexico, was tried by a Court- Martial and shot ; his only son committed suicide...

to express oar loathing of this senseless and brutal crime. The murder of a reigning King or of a Prime Minister is explicable enough, but at first sight it seems incredible...

V. D." pointing out that it is an imperative necessity that the present Government, if it is to do its duty as guardian of the Union, should give England its fair share of...

bulletin in regard to the health of the Prince of Wales, signed by Sir William MacCormac and Mr. Fripp. It is now eight weeks since the accident occurred, and in that...

had decided to restore to Colonel Frank Rhodes his commis- sion and rank in the Army. As our readers know, we have little sympathy with Mr. Cecil Rhodes and his methods in South...

Anthropological Section, had reference to the secret societies on the West Coast. "The science of life and death was taught in the highest of these societies, and even hinted at...

in the meeting of the British Association at Bristol this week has been the strange tale told by M. de Rougemont, who declares that he lived for thirty years among cannibal...

of the Geographical Section on Monday, and described how he was shipwrecked in the year 1865, and how he wandered about the northern part of the Australian Continent for many...

a terrible hurricane, which occurred last Sunday. In St. Vincent the whole island has been swept bare of crops as well as buildings, and twenty thousand people are destitute and...

Times in regard to the "controversies on teaching and practice in the Church of England." We are glad to see that though to a certain extent he appears personally to support...

before the Anthropological Section on Tuesday, the sub- ject being the law and nature of property among the peoples of the true negro stock. The three kinds of property existing...

New Consols (2f) were on Friday, 1091..

FASHODA AND THE FRENCH. T HOUGH it is just possible that the mysterious white men who fired on the Khalifa's steamers when they reached Fashoda were not Frenchmen, but...

W E are all, English, Germans, Austrians, and Italians, very fond of abusing the French people for their conduct over l'affaire Dreyfus, and doubt- less it is bad enough, but...

A S we write it is still undecided whether General Zurlinden will resign, and, if he does, whether it will be possible for M. Brisson to remain in office. In -other words, the...

I T is one of the misfortunes of journalists that they have sometimes to write on subjects which, while they excite profound emotion, supply no material for comment. The murder...

be remembered, said that after a long spell of that "hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity" by which the autumn months were so frequently distinguished, the "voice of...

of a year that saw De Ruyter defeated by sea. and half London burning. Yet, as a matter of fact, in chronological tables of European history the year 1666 hardly figures as...

T HE dominant note in Attic tragedy is beyond a doubt the strange conception of Nemesis. What impressed the Athenians most in the sad pageant of the universe unrolled before...

T RAGEDY and comedy alike are forcing on our attention the subject of secret societies. Speculation is busy as to whether the assassin of the Empress Elisabeth was a member of...

T HOUGH few persons in this country have ever seen a wild crossbill, no ruedival legend is better known than that which dates its metamorphosis from the scene on Calvary, and...

THE VALUE OF THIBET TO ENGLAND. TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPICTATOR:1 $111, — Notwithstanding the numerous books that have been published on Thibet from the time of Bogle and...

AN APPEAL TO UNIONISTS. (To THE EDITOH OF THE " SPECTATOE."1 SIB,—Are the Unionist Government prepared to give England her fair share of Parliamentary representation ? This...

[To THR EDITOR OF TIIK " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—The Christliche Welt has called attention to a remarkable article on the Emperor William's visit to Con- stantinople and Palestine...

BISMARCK. THY Mother follows Thee to rest With haughty, tearless eye : Who wert the buckler on her breast, The sword upon her thigh. Through stormy youth, through stressful...

rxe THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Yon have already called the attention of the British nation to the above most deeply interesting problem. May I venture through your...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In your article in the Spectator of September 10th on "Our Policy on the Upper Nile" you refer to the diffi- culty of keeping an open...

it Death that he met In the narrow, white-walled street, With the staring sun overhead, And the rotting bones at his feet; When alone in that city of fear, With heart and step...

A PROTESTANT MARE'S-NEST.* THERE is a story of a lady bidding farewell to her daughter, a fervent Radical and teetotal propagandist, with the words : "By the grace of God, I...

of the eternal Eastern question in an acute shape after "the Bulgarian atrocities," M. Sorel, now - so well known as a historian and critic, won his preliminary spurs by a study...

IT would be a pity if this little volume, so modest in respect of dimension and price, should be overlooked. It is not a mere reprint. Dr. Bigg has used, he tells us, the...

in an unusual degree, the qualifications to be desired in one who undertakes to write on the subject indicated by the heading of this article. He is an Irish Unionist, of the...

NOVELS about novelists are not, as a rule, good reading, and the story which Mr. Keary has to tell in The Journalist is that of a young man who, in obedience to the artistic...

pleasure of recognising, in notices of its annual volume, the great merits of the Journal of Education. We now have to welcome this volume, which contains a selection of the...

Indies. By A. Caldecott, B.D. "Colonial Church Histories." (S.P.C.B.)—One hundred and ten years ago (January 20th, MS) Governor Philip with a colony of ten hundred and thirty...

that William Dunbar is admitted by all critics who have any right to be heard on such a subject as the comparative greatness of Scotch poets to stand next among them to Burns,...

last. The detective work is of an inferior order, not such as we associate with Fergus Hume's pen. On the other hand, the lite rary qualities of the story are superior to some...

Company, New York.)—Mr. Butler, the author of this book, is Professor of Philosophy and Education, and even a hasty glance at the essays and addresses which it contains shows...

Davidson. (W. and R. Chambers. 12s. 6d.)—There is something of the encyclopaidie character about this dictionary. This, indeed, is necessary if such a work is to meet the...

"Comedy of Errors." It will not injure the interest of the story if we give the chief motive. Mr. Paul Dursley is a country practitioner, and Mr. Peter Dursley, created Sir...

and Co.)—There is plenty of lively dialogue, mostly concerning hounds and horses, in Mr. Williams's tale. The plot is sufficient to start the story, which depends a great deal...

Co.)—This is a volume of good stories, varying, of course, in quality and interest, but with an unmistakable ring of sincerity about them, the genuine work of one who knows what...

These "Chronicles of School Life" are, as we should expect of what Mr. Ascott Hope writes, the "real thing." Schoolboys and their doings are a frequent subject of fiction, often...