more than a temporary shelter to an army reduced by half, with a victorious and scarcely diminished foe bearing down on it from every side. Meanwhile during the early part of...

at Mukden shows that the Japanese were not too much exhausted to follow up their victory, and that they at once began to press Kuropatkin with remorseless energy. On Thursday...

blow, the great financiers of Paris having refused to advance any further loans, including the one for 224,000,000, to which they had partially agreed. The statement is denied;...

slowly gathering the main features of the battle of Mukden, one of the greatest, and possibly one of the most decisive, of recorded fights. The doom of the Russian army was...

£29,813,110, or a net increase of £913,100. By eliminating special charges, the normal Estimates can be reduced to £27,980,100, or a decrease on the figures of 1904-5 of...

and Lord Onslow's acceptance of the Chairmanship of Committees in the Lords, was com- pleted on Monday. Mr. Walter Long goes to the Irish Office, and Mr. Ailwyn Fellowes is the...

of the Centre party in Germany. They had announced in the Budget Committee their intention of rejecting the increased vote for cavalry ; but on Tuesday they recalled this vote,...

on Monday on the Resolution—ultimately with- drawn—in favour of a full partnership union between Great Britain and Canada moved by Colonel Hughes. After Mr. Bruneau, while...

rather remarkable speech. The Bavarian Socialist leader, Herr von Vollmar, had protested against the German "dependence" on Russia as shown in the constant sale of liners...

to the outer world, has now reim- posed it, and news of the internal situation will therefore come in more slowly. As the curtain drops there is evidence that the catastrophe...

House of Commons on Monday. Replying to criticisms of Mr. Robertson, Mr. Pretyman defended the Admiralty against the charge of extravagance, on the ground that expenditure on...

Grey went quite as far as Lord Rosebery in regard to the impossibility of the party dissolving the Legislative Union, Mr. Redmond's speech has a very special significance. It...

majorities Motions giving precedence to the "guillotine" debate' over the discussion of Supply, and suspending the twelve o'clock rule at the evening sitting, Mr. Balfour...

yesterday on his hundredth birthday. The bare statement is sufficiently impressive, but it admits of almost indefinite illustration in the case of so wonderful a living "link...

most Nationalists; but he has, nevertheless, done a signal service to the Free-trade cause. Speaking at the Irish National banquet at the Hotel Cecil on Thursday, he de- nounced...

Court, died on March 14th at the age of twenty-nine. He was an effeminate person, who interested the public because he betrayed in an extraordinary degree that passion for...

by no means put an end to the rumours afloat in regard to Sir Antony MacDonnell, and as to how the Government mean to deal with the sitdation in Dublin Castle. It is said, for...

bad given notice on the previous day, for the closure on stated days (the last being March 30th) of the outstanding stages of the Supplementary Estimates. He admitted that the...

Great Power. There is something bewildering, almost uncanny, in the amazing force she has revealed in the battle, or series of battles, around Mukden, the im- pression made by...

evident desire of the Government to remain in office and not to appeal to the people for another year, old Parliamentarians are shaking their heads at the situation and...

exhaustion, or, to use Moltke's tremendous phrase, till Russia is " blanched " ; or whether, making peace or a long truce, he betakes himself to the reorganisa- tion of Russia,...

published this week by the Secretary of State for War. It shows us the Army as it is, not as it ought to be,—the Army that we have got, not the Army that we need ; and...

held a culpable waste of time ; and already, it may be, Mr. Balfour has discovered that in moving the Resolution of Wednesday he has been guilty of this precise fault. Why did...

the days," wrote Bacon, " was the light of the sense ; the last was the light of reason; and his sabbath work ever since, is the illumination of his Spirit." The passage occurs...

" smart " could possibly apply ? It certainly applies in all its disagreeable significance to the children in Mr. E. IL Cooper's new book, " The Twentieth- Century Child " (John...

the London public (who as a rule do not see 'their black cape until they are just about to leave town for 'their spring season on their nesting marshes or lakes) some curiosity...

rro TIM EDITOR OF TICE "SPECTATOR.' SIR,—The correspondence which has taken place between Sir Howard Vincent and Mr. Arnold-Forster, in consequence of the depreciatory remarks...

last issue between Mr. Arnold-Forster and Sir Howard Vincent, but being a member of the Volunteer Force, it would not be right for me to comment upon it. The authorities, who...

most Volunteers to have been made without due consideration as to their effect on the feelings of men who have for so long offered their services to the State without asking for...

Srn,—In the strenuous opposition which is certain to meet Mr. Arnold-Forster's proposals for the reduction of the Volunteers, both within and without the House of Commons, the...

it is generally forgotten how outrageously the Government treated the Volunteers at the time when they offered to send contingents to serve in the war. So monstrous was their...

the Spectator will readily admit a tribute to the memory of an eminent Free-trader who has recently passed away. Mr. Alfred Harvey, the secretary to the great banking house of...

SIR,—You do not often deal with trade affairs, but it may be of interest to your ever-increasing readers to be told that the considerable activity in the staple trade of...

is strange with what apparently small equipment of knowledge it is considered reasonable to write about Judaism and the Jews. If a man had no intimate acquaintance with English...

Sia,—I have read with interest your article in your issue of March 11th under the above beading. I have no doubt that one argument that will be brought against any proposals on...

displayed by th e world at large in connection with the questionable methods employed in recruiting Chinese coolies for South Africa, it is obvious that the Chinese authorities...

one of our most distinguished statesmen," or to lower the lofty pinnacle upon which posterity has placed him, I would ask your kind leave to point out (on the authority of the...

" in the Spectator of March 4th occurs the statement: " The chief controlling influence throughout the whole history of Rome was the Senate, of which no Roman might become a...

Sin,—The following lines from Matthew Arnold's " Horatian Echo,"* written in 1847, have so significant an echo in every line for the twentieth-century Englishman, that they seem...

I am " constantly unjust " to Wellington, whose personal character, in its political aspect, has always seemed to me as precious a possession for England as his military fame....

wish to thank you for the kindliness, and still more for the fairness, of an article in your last issue headed " Eton." The National Review had printed a cruel though ridiculous...

your columns to ask those who possess letters of public interest from the late Duke of Cambridge to lend them to me for use in the " Life " of his Royal Highness which I am now...

to March 16th amount to £890. The Garden City Company, which has saved the Exhibition much of the cost of organisa- tion, has now generously promised £100 to the Prize Fund. A...

possible to have powerful dramas without calling in the motive of love. Is it impossible with us ?" This is a criticism with which I have great sympathy. But will you allow me...

in your issue of March 4th that the plant called " brooklime " (Veronica Beccabunga) is not poisonous, but sometimes used as salad, it may be added that it is, or was in the...

call attention to an act of vandalism at the hands of an urban authority which all protest by local people and public bodies interested in saving beautiful and historic England...

And sweeter than all waters in all the lands I know, Is the stream by Meenaneary in the county of Mayo. 'Tis there the plun g in g torrents spread and slacken to a curl, And in...

IF we are still far from an intelligent understanding of the g reat campai g n in the East, we are beginning to realise some- thing of its horrible magnificence. The scale is so...

admirable a treatise on sport as Roger Ascham's Toxophilus. And the treatise is admirable for the twofold reason that its author was not merely a master of prose, but was also a...

unwillingness to publish these letters. They are the record of a friendship extending over more than forty years, and it is most natural that the depth of their pathos, not...

laid down that an ideal history would contain no proper names. The present volume may appear, on a rapid glance, to be a move in the direction of the mandate of the supreme...

TEE name of Mr. George A. Birmingham is unfamiliar to the general or the novel-reading public, but there are two good reasons for believing it to be a pseudonym. First of all,...

Murray, LL.D. (G. Allen. 2s.)—We expect admir- able work in the way of translation from Professor Murray, and we certainly get it. He deals, it is true, freely with his...

and on occasion show qualities which the term "good sense" is not taken to connote. The lecturer is not above going into details; and he is not afraid to speak plainly when...

Hall. By his Sister. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)—A critic of a biography generally has to suggest omissions, but he does it with diffidence. We should say that the preliminary...

" Orme Agnus" gives us in The Root another story concerning the same world of countrymen with whom he dealt in his last and most enchanting novel, " Sarah Tuldon." Tho present...

many perished before they reached more favoured provinces ; vast numbers died at home ; whole districts were depopulated, and some had not recovered at the end of forty years."...

and Son. 5s. net.)-The " Pioneer and Founder " is Dr. Robert Gray, the first Bishop of Cape Town. The writer of this book is one who knew him personally in the last years of his...

being subdivided into III. and Ha.), in which the reader progresses from "tales of the Homeland," suited for young children, to specimens of world literature. It is, as far as...

C. Mayle. (S. C. Mayle. 2s. 6d. net.)-The place of honour in this number of the Annual is rightly occupied by a notice- contributed by two writers-of Alfred Ainger. He was...

the early volumes of the new " Methuen's Standard Library," edited by Sidney Lee. The volumes are excellently printed and generally attractive in appearance, and they are very...

and Co. 16s. not.)-This volume is substantially a history of the American Civil War, though special attention is given to the Gettysburg campaign (June 27th-July 14th, 1863),...

of Crockford if we imagine what a treasure such an account of the personalities of the clergy would be if we had it for a year two or three centuries ago. The editor hints at a...