W E dealt last week with what, in our opinion, the Government ought to do, and do at once, in order to provide against the effects of farther reverses in South Africa, and in...

and British are still watching each other, and there is no change. The Boers do not interfere with Lord Methuen, nor does he attack them. General French as usual has been active...

attempt to relieve Ladysmith still bangs in suspense. We do not believe that General Buller will fail, but he has a. difficult task before him, and war is always uncertain. We...

long and graphic telegram describing the Boer assault on the 6th inst. By 2.30 a.m. the Heidelberg com- mando had under cover of the darkness evaded our pickets, rushed the...

of the Tugela, are as follows. On Wednesday, January 10th, he moved out of Frere and Chieveley, while Lord Dundonald's Mounted Brigade, and the Fifth Brigade, under General...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, January 27th , will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of whit% will be deroted to Advertisements. To secure...

is issued, gratis, an Eight-Page Supplement, containing the Half-Yearly Index and Title-Page,—i.e., from July 1st to December 30th, 1899, inclusive.

sented with a gold medal by his admirers at the office of the Siècle, made a long and striking speech. If it was only a question of saving an innocent man, they might be content...

regards the Army, the composition of the new Ministry indicates a strong desire on his part to effect a rap- prochement between the conflicting nationalities. The incoming...

the subject of the seizure and detention of foreign ships. Senator Hale originally proposed a strong Resolution, concluding with the statement that if the detention of property...

best reasons for stating that whatever may happen to the Ministry as a whole, "the one colleague whom Mr. Balfour will not sacrifice in the present crisis is the Secretary of...

Russia issued a Rescript to Count Muravieff, a document chiefly noticeable for its pacific tone. The Foreign Minister is praised highly, but if Monarchs ever indulged in irony...

the Czech leaders is given in Monday's Times. Penalties were recently inflicted by the Minister of War on those Bohemian Army Reservists who at the last annual muster answered...

Thursday week, was announced too late for our last issue. The great Unitarian minister, who came of Huguenot descent on his father's side, was horn in 180.5 in Norwich—then a...

economic condition of the French colonies appears in the Times of Wednesday. The recent growth of "Greater France" is strikingly illustrated in this paper, as well as the...

an American." That is, we believe, true, and to this fact is due the studied rudeness with which America has been treated by the Boers. People here and in the United States...

Agency giving an account of an American journalist's inter- views with the two Boer Presidents. Mr. Kruger was quite amiable in his own peculiar way, though he expressed the...

now being tried at Milan, are little less serious for Italy than those of the Dreyfus affair have been for France. Signor Notarbarbolo, who was appointed by the Minister of the...

the tactics of the opposing forces are quite as much to the point as those of our Continental critics, and a great deal more entertaining. " Th' British marches up with their...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 101i.

LORD LANSDOWNE AND THE GOVERNMENT. /1 11E violent outcry against Mr. Balfour for not having shown more tact in his speeches—that was what the accusations against him really...

T HE high character and invariably noble aims of Mr. Courtney necessarily draw attention to the letter which he and his colleagues on "The South African Conciliation Committee"...

W E have often insisted on the two forces—one per- manent, the other dependent on a particular life —which make for the continued unity of the Austro- Hungarian Empire. Never...

Review publishes a report on elementary education from. the Churchman's point of view, drawn up by a committee of the clergy of Leeds. This able document gives a survey of the...

T HE psychology of nations is still the vaguest of sciences, and ingenious theorists like M. Le Bon have scarcely raised it to a systematic study. A foreign observer can...

T HE first thought which occurs to the mind when thinking of the late Dr. Martineau is his quite unique personality. England will be likely to see another Gladstone, Tennyson,...

T HERE are essentials of respectability which we all assume about our neighbours (and ourselves), as, that they (and we) do not lie, "unless they be so disposed or it stands...

W HEN her Majesty entertained the soldiers' children at Windsor, there were doubters who hinted that even a party given by a Queen could hardly console them when their brave...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—With the exception of journals professedly "religious" in character there is no newspaper in England which has been so cordially...

SIR ALFRED MILNER AND THE CAPE DUTCH. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Si,—One charge of Mr. Mackarness's incurred, as well it might, your editorial protest. But if nothing...

SIR, — In the Spectator of January 6th Mr. Horafall pleads for more attention to physical training in elementary schools. In your editorial note you remark that this is only...

[TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTAT0R:] SIR,—I have just read, with great thankfulness, Mn Horsfall's letter on the above subject Ten years' work as vicar of a very poor London...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] have just read with great pleasure your recent article bearing this title. There is an expression in one of our Collects which surely men...

[To THE EDITOR OF VIE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Apart from its primary significance, the scheme for a Territorial Army outlined in the Spectator of January 13th contains one...

TILE "Srscrama."] SIR.,—Having for more than a quarter of a century studied the difficult question of maintaining complete the establish- ment of her Majesty's forces (without...

you have allowed a correspondent to call attention to " Raskin's Words on War," perhaps you would admit these words of the Rev. Fred. W. Robertson, of Brighton, on the same...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] your paragraph on this subject in the "News of the Week" in the Spectator of January 13th there appears to be a serious mistake. The...

[To VIE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In an article in the Spectator of January 13th on "Some Aspects of Illness," reference is made to "our now painfully familiar visitor...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The following extract from a letter written by an Austrian may serve to show that all Austrians and Hun- garians are not anti-English:—...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Permit me to send you a characteristic story a propos of French opinion on the Transvaal War. Our cook is a Basque, clever in her own...

[TO TUE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SID,—Allow me to call your attention to some of the letters written by private soldiers now appearing in many of our newspapers. These...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —The discussions of which we have lately heard so much as to the efficiency of mounted marksmen, have brought to my mind the following...

THE DECLINE OF THE PRIMA. DONNA.. AT the recent Conference of the Incorporated Society of Musicians the learned Professor Prout bewailed the scarcity of great soloists, and in...

THE ONLY SON. 0 BITTER wind toward the sunset blowing, What of the dales to-night? In yonder gray old hall what fires are glowing, What ring of festal light ? "In the great...

[To THE EDITOR 01 , THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In all proposals to pass men more rapidly through our Army, and so make a really effective Reserve, you must remember a deadly...

(LINES WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM.) DEAR Madam, in my critic-den I dip a mercenary pen, And scribble ceaselessly for pelf : But once I wrote — to please myself. Ah me ! the novels...

ITALY AND HER INVADERS.* Finis corona opus. We sincerely congratulate Dr. Hodgkin on the successful crowning of a great edifice of historical learning on the building of which...

THOSE who wish to discover the real reason why England can establish colonies, while France and Germany fail whenever they travel abroad, cannot do better than read this voyage...

THERE are few episodes in history so difficult to follow closely or to understand clearly, even with the light of Dumas upon them, as the wars of the Fronde. All the more...

NINETEEN has been the number of four cavalry regiments in the British Army,—the first raised in 1759, and known as Drogheda's Horse; a second raised in 1779, and soon after...

THE distribution of the professions amongst heroes in fiction would make an interesting study. In Mr. Locke's clever and interesting novel, The White Dove, the role of hero is...

DANTE. The Life and Works of Dante Allighieri : being an Introduction to the Study of the " Dirina Commedia." By the Rev. J. F. Hogan, D.D., Professor, St. Patrick's College,...

Books on Egypt and Cha/daea : (I) Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life ; (2) Egyptian Magic. By E. A. Wallis Budge, of the British Museum. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co. 3s. 6d. each...

7s. 6d.)—Whatever the value of the Germans may be for colonisation, they are often excellent travellers. Nothing could be more thorough and painstaking than the account of the...

[Under this /leading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reser red for rerieto tn other forms.] The Problem of South African Unity. By W. Basil Worsfold. (George...

(J. M. Dent and Co. 28. 6d. net.)—This book was written before the war, its preface bearing date "November, 1899." (The author, we may state, is Superintendent of Education in...

War. By H. W. Wilson. With Illustrations. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. 14s.)—These chapters on the battles of Manila and Santiago probably represent the final statement of the...

(Ward, Lock, and Co. 2s.)—The first volume of a reissue of the "Minerva Library." The preface bears the date of October, 1857, the book having been the work of nine months spent...

The Dictionary of National Biography. Edited by Sidney Lee. Vol. LXI. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 15s. net.)—Nearly two hundred pages of the new volume of The Dictionary of National...

W. Pickard-Cambridge. (Clareneon Press. 5s.)—By " Comic Poets" the editor means the writers of G reek comedy, a very numerous class, reaching over a period of nearly three...

and Co. 8s. 6d. net.) - Mrs. Earle continues, with excellent result, her search into the records, printed and painted, of the Colonial—i.e., the pre-Independence—days of the...

Translated by Elizabeth Gilbert Martin. (Hutchinson and Co. 6s.)—M. de Saint-Amand was not one of those who held aloof from the Court of the Second Empire. On the contrary, he...

(Longmans and Co. 51. net.)—Colonel Rime, we are inclined to say, takes Lucian too seriously. The grave indigna- tion which he expresses at the frivolous and heartless...

the British Museum. By Herbert A. Grueber, F.S.A. With 64 Plates. (British Museum Trustees.)—We have in this comprehensive guide a description of 1,342 coins, ranging from circa...

Anthology, 154S - 1591 A.D. (H. Frowde, 2s. 6d.), appearing after volumes later in date. Spenser himself occupies about a fifth of the volume, two considerable extracts being...

Dudley. 21s. net.)—By " churches " is meant the "congregations on the rolls of the Midland Christian Union." These are, we suppose, of the English Presbyterian body, and hold...

and W. A. Haswell. With 300 Illustrations. (Macmillan and Co. 10s. 6d.) —There seems to be no diminution in the demand for text-books on zoology; indeed, the scope is so...

(Mac- millan and Co. 8s. 6d.)—These essays of Mr. Fiske cover a wide range, from the first, which gives its title to the collection, to the amusing study of the...

6s.)—We cannot pretend to analyse this book, but we may say that it points out the confusion and general diffi- culties which beset the subject. Whether Mr. Arbuthnot is...

by J. Romilly Allen, F.S.A. (Bemrose and Sons. 12s.) —There are a number of very readable articles in this volume. Mr. Feasey's essay on "The Instrument of the Rosary" is...