T HE War advances a little. The Americans on Friday week landed a force of sixteen hundred Marines at Guanta- namo, some fifty miles from Santiago de Cuba, intending, it may be...

With the " SPECTATOR " of Saturday, June 25th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S SYLLOGISM. I T is time to come to close quarters with the question of Russia and China. Are we, or are we not, to treat Russia as our natural, our inevitable,...

Tuesday is one of the most important international agreements ever made, and reflects no little credit upon Mr. Chamberlain and the officials of the Colonial Office. They have...

brings out one fact of importance very clearly. At the beginning of a campaign it is not wealth which tells, but readiness, and perhaps character more than either. If Spain had...

be enthusiastic about the Bill V for creating a Commission to add to the Univer- sity of London a teaching branch, but we are nevertheless glad that it has passed the second...

I T looks very much as if the Emperor of Austria—one of the most perplexing characters in Europe, for he never makes blunders, yet is not an intellectual man— were about to...

I IIIERE are two distinct stages in the genesis of memorials. First, of course, comes the emotional stage, which has its birth possibly in a funeral sermon, and attains its...

T O create a monopoly is, if you can effect it, the quickest and safest way of making a fortune yet invented by man. You buy at sixpence, and as nobody else has any of the...

I N the Romanes Lecture at Oxford this year Sir Archibald Geikie has dealt with a subject which has been little worked out, viz., the effect exercised by types of scenery on...

T HE low temperature which has continued through the first half of the month, following a most ungenial spring, has affected nearly every form of animal and vegetable life. A...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR." J STR,—I trust that the practical suggestions made in your article in the Spectator of June 11th will arrest the attention of all who are...

THE CONGESTION OF INDIA. [TO THE EDITOS OF THE " firxcr•Tos.") SIR,—Permit me to reply to your comments on my speech on Rai& in the Spectator of June 11th. I advocated improve....

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the interesting review of Mrs. Humphry Ward's book in the Spectator of June 11th one point has been entirely overlooked, and that is,...

THE DEAD HERO. (w. E. G., DIED MAY 19TH, 1898.) DEAD. Prom the far-seen tower Where he lay aloof from the fight, Worn with labour and years, Comes the sudden word, Long...

[To THE EDITOR 01 THE "srscTAros."] Srn,—On the afternoon of Saturday, June 4th, a desperate battle was fought between a swan and a pelican on the water in St. James's Park,...

[To THY EDITOR 01 THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—May I be permitted to point out that "the memoran- dum" to which you refer in your article on "The Bishops and the Clergy" in the...

INTERNATIONAL ART AT KNIGHTSBRIDGE. THE International Society of Sculptors, Painters, and Gravers have made their first exhibition a remarkable one. The fact that many of the...

MR. TOLLEMACHE'S "TALKS WITH MR. GLADSTONE."* Ma. TOLLEMACHE'S book consists of an introduction, in which he explains his personal relation to Mr. Gladstone, and tells us what...

Ma. GORE, whose knowledge of patristic literature is exten- sive and peculiar, quoted in his Bampton Lectures a very humorous tale from a letter of St. Jerome, in which that...

of our century, enjoyed the least public fame in proportion to his knowledge and intellectual power. Even in the House of Commons itself, where that knowledge and power had...

THERE seem to be two methods much in favour with officers in India of spending the few months of leave which this country grants them from their military duties. Should a...

A NOVEL in which, with strong temptation to wreck the lives of at least three of the chief dramatis person, the author devises an ending at once rational and happy, is a welcome...

Persephone, and other Poems. By Charles Camp Tarelli. (Macmillan and Co.) —There is true promise and a very con- siderable amount of performance in the poems of Mr. Camp...

M. Arnold (T. Fisher ITnwin. 7s. 6d.), of some letters written by the Russian novelist to celebrated French writers, notably Zola, Flaubert, George Sand, &c The collection is...

Bailey, aided by several distinguished professors of horti- culture in American colleges, has excellent ideas on planting, grouping, and the beauty of the plant which grows...

Messrs. Sampson Low have produced a huge folio volume of photo- gravures from the pictures of the late Mr. Armitage, R.A. (28 net.) . Academic in the extreme, and untouched by...

L (Jack, Edinburgh. 10a. 6d.)—The idea of a large, collection of English masterpieces with critical notes to be produced at a moderate price was a happy one. But it is to be...

By C. W. Heckethorn. (T. Fisher Unwin. 21s. net.)—This is a learned book, as nearly exhaustive of its subject as the nature of that subject admits (there is no knowing whether...

This little history is well written, and clearly states the various stages of the discovery and development of the science. It is not intended as a text-book for beginners at...

Sotheran and Co.)—This is a short but very readable and interesting account of the first stages of Australian literature.. Naturally it deals largely with Gordon, a poet whom...

Coleridge, MA. Letters, Vol. I., by Rowland E. Prettier°. (John Murray. els. per vol.)—We have nothing but praise for these well-printed and pleasantly presented volumes of what...

Hart. (Macmillan and Co. 8s. 6d. net.)—This first volume, dealing with the "Era of Colonisation, 1492-1689," is the first instal- ment of a work which promises to be of very...

readable, and has an interesting article on "The White Xing," Maximilian, with reproductions of some of Hans Burgk- males woodcuts. As the policy of this magazine is to...

deep breath of country air, has been published in a pretty little book illustrated by Mr. Leslie Brooke (J. M. Dent and Co.) The pictures are graceful and appropriate to the...

(Grant Richards. 35s.) —Many of these are very clever and all have character, though not always the character of the original. It is a pity that Mr. Rothenstein does not some-...

Aubrey (E.), The Nourished Life, or Bvo (Stockwell) 216 Ballads and Poems by Members of the Glasgow Ballad Club, (Bl u ae d k Se wo ri CZ 7/6 or 8vo Bangs O. H.(, Ghosts I...

good account of this ancient art is given in these pages. Mosaic work from Ravenna to St. Paul's is also included. The author has to lament the perversion of the art of ordinary...

by W. B. Macdougall, and an introduction by W. M. Rossetti (Duckworth and Co.) The patterns of fruits and flowers covering the page and enclosing a verse of the poem are very...

published helf•yearly, instead of yearly from January to June, and from July to December), on the third Saturday in January and July. Cloth Cases for t.oi Half-yearly Volumes...