celebration of the German Emperor's forty-third birthday, has certainly emphasised the friendly relations subsisting between the Courts of the two countries. The populace ha e s...

believing the wildest legends in regard to intervention, and if they heard—as they certainly would, for they have never been cut off from telegraphic news—that a foreign...

on the construction of new canals, the improve- ment of old waterways, and the ports of Dunkirk, Havre, and Nantes, were discussed and voted almost unanimously in the French...

T HE war news is not of special moment, but the number of captures has been encouragingly large, including Viljoen, a very well known and active leader. It should also be...

Paris correspondent of the Times to summarise the political situation in a long despatch printed in Tuesday's issue. The main conclusion of his decidedly optimistic outlook is...

case.

received the foreign Ministers in the Forbidden City, and received them with ceremonies which strongly marked the change of attitude towards foreigners since the war. Not only...

Mr. Boland, who urged. that the substitution of English for Italian in the Law Courts after a certain period has elapsed —that is all that is meant by suppression of the Italian...

an amendment to the Address asking for an inquiry into the subject of our food supply in time of war. He and those who supported him named as possible ways . of meeting the...

real grievance, a good deal of irritation had been caused in Italy, where the question was misapprehended, and this he regarded as a matter of great regret. A good understanding...

the Commons on Monday afternoon, Sir Joseph Dimsdale (the Lord Mayor) moved an amendment calling for an inquiry into the telephone agreement. We have dealt at length with the...

the Times correspondent last Saturday. The first relates te the discovery by the officials of treasure to the amount of over 100,000,000 taels—say 229,000,000—which had been...

amendment to the Address urging the importance of redistribution. Mr. Kimber, to whom the greatest possible credit is due for , the persistence, and yet moderation, with which...

The area will embrace the six millions of Greater London. - An elected' Board; chesen froth the Metropolitan borough's and the suburban county areas affected, will have power to...

verbatim. "Allow me to say in conclusion," saidlir. Balfour, "that I do .very cordially agree with what I take to be his [Kr. Kimber's] main thesis,—namely, that the state of...

his new proposals in regard to procedure to a crowded and deeply interested House. The main changes are as follows. Immediately after unopposed private business and questions...

had Mr. Long finished with water than Mr. Ritchie dealt with beer and spirits. He introduced the new Licensing Bill, among the main features of which is a strengthening of the...

at the Royal Institution on the " Discovery of the Future," in which be boldly vindicated the assumption of the role of prophet by the serious man of science. Modern science bad...

do anything but agree in theory that the anomalies of our present electoral system ought to be done away with, but he may be said, in Dr. Johnson's phrase, to have dis- missed...

the borough of Hampstead, where the seat was vacated by the retirement owing to illness of Mr. Brodie Hoare, Mr. Milvain, K.O., was returned by a majority of 1,725, polling...

Friday 94g.

LORD ROSEBERT AND THE LIBERAL • UNIONISTS. A CORRESPONDENT, whose letter we publish in another column, asks space for the consideration of the question of the proper attitude...

the Government has V V taken the wise step of appointing a Committee of Volunteer commanding officers to examine into the new Regulations, and to make recommendations thereon....

I T happens nearly always that a nickname which sticks to a man or to a party is the result of pure chance. Nobody makes it his business to invent nicknames. When Mr. Bright...

TN the times of Tuesday', the Paris correspondent gives L 'an estimate of the character of the next General Elec- tion in France which is of interest for another reason than...

M ONDAY night's debate in the House of COmmons illustrated what we take to be the undoubted fact, that while the agitation in the Metropolitan area against the agreement between...

S T. LUKE, the Evangelist, physician, and historian (most commentators now accept him in these three characters, including his latest critic, Mr. R. B. Bukhara, writing the...

.A LMOST every one can talk about Cornwall, yet how many visit Pembrokeshire, not more remote ? If it were relevant to the subject, one might well ask, for that matter, why...

rf cleverness of animals is so much more striking than heir limitations that it is surprising to note the wide differences in the brain-power, not of different species, but of...

TOR SPICT.LTOR".1 Sra,—Dr. Dawson Williams says in your issue for Janu- ary 25th that the real analogy of an Army medical officer is not with physicians and surgeons, but with...

RUSSIA AND INDIA. [TO THE Ersrran OF THE 'EPECTATCIR.1 Sra,—As you have so consistently and cogently urged of late the desirability of Russia and England coming to an...

[To THE EDITOR OF SAE "SPECTATOR." Sin,-.4 venture to call attention to the prevalent mistake of describing all those who do not approve the policy of the present war as "...

[To THE EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTATOR."1 Sts,—Having had the privilege of Mr. Aubrey de Vere's friendship for many years, I hope I may be allowed to describe without too large an...

(To TUE EDITOR OP THE "SPEOTATOR.9 §13r4 have read with deep interest and appreciation your able statement in the Spectator of January 25th of the cue and plea for...

Euthanasia " in your issue of January 25th vividly recalls to me an article which appeared in your columns in February, 1873, entitled " Mr. Tollemache on the Right to Die."...

[TO TEE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.1 Sat,—In the Spectator of January 25th under this heading you say " It is reported in the telegrams from the Continent that a Deputy in the...

SIE.—In connection with the interesting article under the title " Euthanasia" in your issue of January 25th, you may care to be reminded of the fine answer of the " Red Cross...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ) SIR,—In common with others of your readers to whom I have spoken (and in many country towns there is quite a comradeship among your...

[To THE EDITOR cc THE " SFECTRTOR."1 SIE,—May I beg space in your columns to discuss what must be regarded. from whatever point of view one looks, as a serious matter? I mean...

fTo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Your article on "The Uses of Artillery" in the Spectator of the 18th inst. is most interesting, and puts into words what many of us...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") Sra,—Mr. J. Isabell, writing in the Spectator of January 18th, questions whether the white or grey colour of sea-gulls is protective;...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Smn,—I have read your article on " Combatant Non-Com batants " in the Spectator of January 4th with great pleasure, particularly the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sitt,—I would refer "R. W. D." to Mr. Ernest Law's work on the Holbeins at Windsor (G. Bell and Sons) as to the non-existence of any...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "( Stn.—In the first Blue-book on the concentration camps, p. 324, Dr. Kendal Franks in his report on Balmoral, speak- ing of the removal of...

EPITAPH ON A DOG. Tis Tpifut, Tapicyet; ca6rra);* rOBs (*Art moiciez; UoAccr, -,7Excionc, ri 74E04 Fart rei0o;. ..Dchettiath;Y. Xripr; diYaK , TO; . 0;14011 EHI GrT)j)tn ToPY...

THE sun has kissed me on the brow, The gentle morning lends me breath : I feel like Lazarus of old, Whom Jesus raised from death. And all the Spring's reviving green,...

WILLIAM HAZLITT.* THE word which best expresses the style and talent of William Hazlitt is " gusto." The word is a favourite of his own, and he himself has well defined it : "...

curious anomaly that rural subjects should figure so largely in literature at the present time, when the impulse to drift citywards—apparent more or less among all ranks of...

MR. WILSON has given to the world a book which in a desultory way may rank very near The Transvaal from Within, and yet is almost as amusing as Prinsloo of Prinsloosdorp. We...

BISHOP CREIGHTON'S episcopal life included a little less than ten years. He gave one Charge to his Peterborough diocese, and one, less than a year before his death, in London....

CHA_RLOTT.E.* IT is now some twenty-seven years since Mrs. Walford made a successful first appearance with Mr. Smith, and in the interval she has published, in round numbers,...

Honour Leads is a very clever and pleasant picture of domestic life in the days of George II. Barbara Kerslake is the eldest daughter of a stately and highly respect- able Canon...

es.)—Of a very different stamp from the above book is Dr. Helen Bourchier's account of the losing of the Ranee's rubies. The interest of the story lies in the fact that a lady...

is a great deal of force, if slightly brutal force, in Mr. Bart Kennedy's series of literary vignettes, called after their hero, A Sailor Tramp. The tramp, who is an English...

—The first few chapters of this book contain such choice tortures and horrors that it should have been reviewed in the Christma s holidays. The scene is laid at Fez, and the...

)—Slipshod in style and generally wanting in the refinements and delicacies of modern fiction, A Daughter of England has some merits of its own. The unexpected discovery of the...

By E. if Lacon Watson. (Elkin Mathews 6s.) Christopher .Deane is a charming book, not in the least like a novel, though as a novel we suppose we must accept it. It reads like a...

Gertrude Ward. (Office of Universities Mission) — Bishop Tozer took up the work of the Universities Mission to Africa after the disasters of 1862. He arrived at Chibisas, where...

THE MIND OF A. CHILD. The Mind of a Child. By Ennis Richmond. (Longmans and Co. es.)—" I have been constantly haunted by the feeling that methods for educating our children are...

Co. 5s. net.)--Professor Mitchell very rightly begins with a general introduction to the Pentateuch, in which a critical review is made of the origins of the books. (He is...

(B. and J. F Meehan, Bath. 10a. 6d. net.)—It would be very ungracious to cavil egaioat the inclusion of such well-known houses as Clevedon Court, Longleat, Foothill, or of...

[Under this heading we notice such Rooks of O. week as hays not buns rsurved far review in other forms.] The Expositor : Sixth Series, IV. Edited by the Rev. W. Robertson...

and Co. 3s.) – Thia is one of the series of " Saints," and appears, it should be remembered, with official authorisation. We are glad to see that this authorisation is not...

Illustrated Reprints of Famous Classics, The Pilgrim's Progr• ss, Parts I. and II., 2 vols. The illustrations by Mr. E. J. Sullivan are un- loubtedly powerful, though we cannot...

6d.)—What is' two-mindedness"? "The habit," says 31r. Sadler, "of taking into account what is urged on both sides and trying to combine the essential parts of the two opposing...

(Grant Richards. 8s. 6d.)—Mr. Carr instructs possible candidates as to how they may best secure appointments in the Civil Service, and gives a general survey of their prospects...

William Wallace, LL.D. With Illustrations by W. D. McKay and others. (W. and R. Chambers. 6s.)—Dr. Wallace's brief memoir — it is of barely eight pages — is satisfactorily free...

Tarr and McMurry Geographies (Macmillan and Co., 4s. 6d. per vol.) The first volume treated of geography in general and the earth as a whole; the second is given to North...

and Son, Manchester. 6s.)—The object of this book is best explained by quoting the sub-title, "A Series of Sketches in Pictorial Geography of the British Possessions and Spheres...

Sons. 6s. net.)—Of the two hundred and forty pages of this volume more than eleven- twelfths are given to the " Political Section." This is no more than the title of the book...

" Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged." (Grant Richards. 6s.) — The Language and Metre of Chaucer. Set forth by Bernhard Ten Brink. Revised by Friedrich Kluge. Translated by M....