line as Lord Spencer, but was more emphatic in demanding that the " assent " of the Boers should be obtained to the terms of peace. He postponed all details, however, until the...

summary, forwarded by its Berlin correspondent, of an open letter, entitled "Against the Stream," by the dis- tinguished jurist Dr. von Stradonitz. A writer named Herr Dernburg...

Lord Kitchener's despatches, satisfactory as they are, but in the important Blue-book issued on Wednesday. In a long despatch written on November 15th Lord Milner notes two...

leads the Opposition in the Upper House, and partly endorsed by Lord Rosebery, were that there should now be negotiations with the Boers, and that martial law at the Cape was...

T HE Sing opened the Session in person on Thursday in full state and ceremonial. The Speech, which his Majesty read himself, was rather long, and, as usual, wanting in literary...

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an Eight-Page Supplement, containing the Half-Yearly Index and Title-Page,—ix., from July 6th to D2camber 28th,1001,inclusire.

important announcement at Belfast on Saturday last. Turning first to the land question, Mr. Wyndham deolared that no Unionist Government would ever introduee the principle of...

St. Etienne, which is evidently intended as a bugles call to the voters at the elections of next April. He declared that when he accepted power a factious party, composed, of...

out- burst against 'Great Britain and her Army. The leader of the Anti-Semites, one Liebermann von Sonnenberg, on Friday week declared that Mr. Chamberlain was "the most...

to his master is not a favourable one. M. de Witte complains that ordinary expenses have increased in ten years by 86 per cent., while the revenue, apart from railway receipts,...

A yacht built for him in the United States is shortly to be launched, Miss Roosevelt is to christen it, and Prince Henry is to be present at the ceremony and to make a tour of...

speech made last week by Count von Billow, in which he declared that the Triple Alliance was "no longer altogether indispensable." They consider the words a depreciation of the...

behalf of "The British Academy for the Promotion of Historical, Philosophical, and Philological Studies." The petition has grown out of the situation created by the Conference...

Club last Saturday afternoon on Parliamentary procedure. He pointed out that by the increase of Members, and the levelling up of individual speaking capacity, it has become...

only of Great but of Greater Britain is sufficiently shown by the action of the Australian Federal House of Repre- sentatives. Mr. Barton, the Premier of the Commonwealth, moved...

satis- factory assurances," and proclaiming his own impenitence, Mr. Chamberlain passed to a review of the Government's solid achievements in the way of peace in settling the...

at the annual dinner of the Birmingham Jewellers' and Silversmiths' Association last Saturday night, dealt in his most trenchant manner with the critics of the Govern- ment and...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 94.

COUNT VON BeLOW. T HE main effect of the recent passage of arms between Great Britain and Germany has been, we think, to lower the -general repute of Count von Billow. He is...

W E fear there is little hope of a strong Opposition this Session, or, indeed, until the next General Election has come and gone. The proceedings at the meeting of the London...

the Horse Artillery, and the thoroughly well-deserved compliments which Lord Roberts paid its officers and men, have turned our thoughts to the part played by all our artillery...

I T will be strange if in these days, in which the art of literary portrait-painting is so copiously pursued, there should not appear any detailed narrative of a career so...

M R. BALFOITR treated the subject of Parliamen- tary procedure at Manchester this day week with great moderation and temper. His speech had nothing in common with the...

M R. CARRTJTHERS GOULD, replying to a toast to his health at a dinner given by the Authors' Club on Monday night, descanted cu the principles of the caricaturist's art. To...

I T is scarcely surprising in the present age of restless credulity, when crystal - gazing, palmistry, and other similar practices prevail among the upper classes, that among...

W HEN Lord Curzon, during his recent visit to Burmab, spoke of the need of a close season for Indian game, he may perhaps have referred also to birds, among them the egrets and...

[1:0 TUE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] notice in your article on "Land Settlement in South Africa" in the Spectator of January 11th you suggest I said 240,000 would be required...

LORD ROSEBERY AND PEACE. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — An important feature in Lord Rosebery's speech at Chesterfield has scarcely, I think, received the...

TIIE "SPEOTATOH.1 SIR,—The following passage from the speech delivered in the House of Commons by Mr. Disraeli on June 3rd, 182,n the 'subject of national expenditure is worth...

pro THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."). Sin, — The correspondence in your columns of late referring to British political and commercial affairs in Siam, while most interesting and...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOIL"J Sus,—Having read with much interest your article on " Poverty " in the Spectator of January 4th, I am tempted to make a few remarks on the...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") • Sr,—Is it too late to comment upon your very interesting article upon " The Motives of Misers" in the Spectator of December 28th, which I...

[To THE EDITOR OF TILE "SrscrArou. - 3 SIR,—The conspicuous firmness of the Spectator, of which I have been for n_sny years an admirer, appears strangely at fault in the...

computation, the smallest sum which will maintain the mere physical efficiency of a moderate family is 21s. 8d. per week" (Spectator, January 4th) In 1S30 the wages of...

PTO VIE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The notice by "H. S." of the Colonna Raphael in the Spectator of January 11th omits all mention of the interest- ing little fact...

(TI) THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, — An old sister of mine, confined to her room by chronic ill-health, was in the habit of picking off the dead leaves of a few plants...

HISTORICAL ART. ENGLISH KINGS AND QUEENS AT THE NEW GALLERY. WHEN looking at the pictures now on the walls of the New Gallery it is impossible not to speculate upon questions...

THE LITTLE ENGLANDER. THEY stand deriding, while the sowers sow— Fain would they scatter tares the field to blight— Yet when the reapers down the furrows go, They share the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—There can be no equality between direct and indirect taxation (see Spectator of January U tb, p. 39), as every one who pays direct...

PTO THE Enrroa 'OD THE "SPECTATOR:1 Si,—In the interesting paper on "White Animals" which you published on December 21st last the-writer says : "It is almost as difficult to see...

SIR, — Is it a fact that yew-berries are poisonous? I know that animals die from browsing on yew, but I remember being initiated by a small cousin in my childhood into the...

THE MINISTRY OF GRACE.* B.0TH the title and the sub-title of this book have their full significance, nor is the list of. distinctions which follows them merely honorific. For,...

BOTH in its general conception and in its wealth of illustra- tive detail, Mr. Wells's new book is one of the most remark- able pieces of social prophecy which we have lately...

in that her soldiers have the best of all training grounds. France and Germany may be at peace with all the world for many years, but scarce a year passes in which England has...

DIFFICULT as We all branches of Army reform, the reform of the Army Medical Corps is perhaps the most delicate of them all. Really one shrinks from discussing it for very fear...

THE MATING OF A DOVE.* • • WE.confeas to entertaining a prejudice against titles where , a double meaning is artificially provided—in this case the • name of the family with...

Co. Gs.)—In Love's Crossways a romance of extravagant improbability is played within the precincts of a ladies' College The College itself is a romance and an extravagance,—the...

Bristol. Gs.)—This book is full of fantastic and amusing inci- dents and characters. The events, which take place first in a remote corner of France_ and then in England, are...

by Louis Betts. (Macmillan and Co. Gs.)—Lovers cc historical romance will find in "God Wills /t" an excellent tale of the First Crusade, full of moving incident, noble...

JANE AUSTEN. Jane Ausien: her Homes and her Friends. By Constance Hill (John Lane. 21s.)—To open one of Miss Austen's delightful stozies is as pleasant as setting out to visit...

-Mr. Upward adopts Professor Lombroso's theory that Anarchists are madmen, and this book seems to point to the conclusion that if they have the cunning of lunacy, they also have...

Co. Gs.)--Ludy Maybury was a garrulous per,on and held forth in monologue to an intimate: frii ad, who must have got as tired as the reader of the not very witty or wise views...

Co. Cs.) -Though the title-page describes Reversed on Appeal as a modern Scotch novel, the opening chapters, with the scene laid in the Transvaal in the year 18SO, beguile one...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as tare not been reserred for review in other forms.] What Great Men have Said about Great Men. By William Wale. (Swan...

1s. 6d.) is a publication of which it is needless by this time to give any formal appreciation. It is for "politicians,' to quote from the title-page. One of its statements we...

Frowde, 3s. 6d.), is the tenth of the series. It con- tains extracts from some fifty poets—or shall we say writers of verses ?—with six portraits by way of illustration. The...

and Co. 6.3. net.)—Mr. RJbertson has not, we think, adequate qualifications for the task which he has undertaken. The judicial temper and the true critical spirit are absent. He...

and the Rev. Geo. Roberson. Edited by C. L. Stainer, M.A. (Oxford Historical Society.)—Oxford Studies. By John R. Green. Edited by Mrs. J. R. Green and Miss K. Norgate....

pleads for the substitution of Protection for Free-trade. We shall not attempt to answer him, but we may put one fact before him. When wheat was protected and stood, say, at...

and Spottiswoode. 6s.)—Canon Girdlestone quotes, by way of conclusion to this treatise, some words written in 1879 by the Rev. Horatius Bonny, and emphasises with italics this...

is a work so well established in favour—this is the sevent y-first edition—that praise is needless. We observe that tbough the editor fails to give the "New Year's Honours" in...

W. F. Adeney (T. C. and E. C. Jack, Edinburgh), The Acts, edited by J. Vernon Bartlett. Professor Bartlett gives the Authorised Version and the Revised Version, append- ing to...

Printing Company. 2s. 6d.)—Mr. Cox has made a really valuable contribution to the subject of which he treats. Few people realise the difference between the advantages offered by...

and Co. 7s. 6d.)—This is an exposition of the Nebular Hypothesis, originally given ía the form of le :tures to a juvenile audience at the Royal Institution. (This same juvenile...

Eliot" (W. Blackwood and Sons, 10s. 6d.) The Impres- sions of Theophrastus Such, and other Essays, being Vol. X.— The Principles of Political Economy, by H. Sidgwick (Macmillan...

1s. 9d.) is an interesting series of photographs repre- senting places and people in the Usambara District in East Central Africa. Magna (hereafter to be called Msalab'ani) was...