recent utterance of the Pope. His Holiness has hitherto steadily refused to express an opinion about the Law of Associations or its working, and now that he has broken silence...

Germans of Austria and the Magyars, both of whom are ruling castes, would create a party in the Empire too strong to be resisted by the . Slays. The Germans, however, seem to...

on the inner circles of Russian politicians. The Czar himself has visited Kursk, collected the representatives of the nobility, of the District Councils or Zcrnstvos, and of the...

State of Kelantan, now under Siamese protection, has caused great disturbance in Paris.—In a subsequent note the Haves Agency sticks to the story of the three hundred Sikhs, but...

more indiscreet speech. He said that France had revived Carthage without her vices and ferocity. The object was not to make the Mediterranean a French lake, but a portion of...

T HE French Government has a new internal trouble. M. Pelletan, a man of much intellectual vigour and a critic of maritime affairs, has recently been appointed Minister of...

case.

States Ambassadors accredited to the Governments who signed the Berlin Treaty, according to which there was to be no dis- crimination against any resident of Roumania on account...

on Tuesday that martial law would be imme- diately repealed. In reply to Dr. Smartt, the leader of the " Suspenaionists," he contended that the suggested Bills to control the...

politics. The " bosses " or managers of the Republican party were annoyed by his demand that Trusts should be controlled by the national Government, a policy which they saw...

through an interviewer a most interesting account of a journey through British East Africa, Uganda, the Upper Nile country, and the Soudan. Perhaps the most important fact in...

account of the work done at the school attached to the Barberton refugee camp in the past twelve- month. The instruction was at first given by local ladies, whose enthusiasm and...

show that we have entered on an era of vast exoendi• tare as well as vast prosperity:— National Debt 284 25 Army and Navy 271 ... 33 Civil Services 154 ... 174 Customs and...

Salisbury's health given in Friday's Times. We trust that the reported illness will prove to be only temporary. Lord Salisbury may never again be Prime Minister; but he will...

on Tuesday under the personal conduct of Sir Frederick Bramwell. Setting aside the manufacture of an artificial universal language as impracticable, Sir Frederick suggests that...

proceeding on Thursday to Portsmouth to pay off. The record of the historic commission now closed is one unequalled in modern naval history. Detained at the Cape on his way out...

convened by Captain Shawe-Taylor to promote an amicable understanding between landlords and tenants in Ireland would be held in Dublin before the end of the present month. It...

than that read by Dr. William Graham on Tuesday on " The Mental and Moral Characteristics of the People of Ulster." Limiting the term " Ulsterman " to that element in the...

a fairly successful one. Many valuable papers were read, though there was no one, if we except Professor H. E. Armstrong's on technical education, of universal interest. There...

a most interesting lecture on the gradual "shrinkage of the unknown world," which is now so nearly complete. There is no further chance for the explorer of finding any- thing...

New Consols (2i) were on Friday 94

THE POLITICAL STRUGGLE. T HERE is a certain unity of expression visible among the organs of Radical opinion which suggests that their chiefs see grounds of hope in the coming...

T HEpast week has given a partial answer to an absorb- ing question. It was just over a year ago that Mr. McKinley's death placed Vice-President Roosevelt in a position of power...

I N ourissue of August 16th last we drew attention to the ominous condition of things in Russia and to the deep and widespread discontent that exists with respect to the system...

SENSE of contrast, melancholy enough and almost di& bewildering, is experienced by any one who, after looting back at the pleasant and well-informed pages of Mr W. M. Acworth's...

Europe towards America, Australia, and South Africa which dis- tinguished the second half of the last century has pro- duced, amidst much undeniable good, one unfortunate...

T HE part which science often plays in the detection of crime is a comparatively unimportant, but to many people a peculiarly interesting, chapter of its beneficial story. There...

I T was inevitable that Egypt should be the cradle of the art of medicine, as of most other arts. Long before Joseph's time medicine was studied in Egypt. A chief physician of...

W HOEVER in the next generation is minded to hunt up the odds and ends of our English rural life will not thank education for certain changes and aboli- tions which, however...

THE LONDON SCHOOL BOARD'S DEFIANCE OF THE LAW. [To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:I Srit,—Will you allow me to enter a protest against an expres- sion contained in your article...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEOTATOR." . I SIR,—In the many able letters which have lately appeared in your columns on this subject, one great and obvious cause of the clerical...

[TO THE EDITOR 01 , THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Will you permit me, as a Nonconformist layman, and one who regards the Spectator as almost a necessity of life, to express my regret...

of the laity to come forward and endow the Church efficiently due to the assumption by the clergy of a superior position in the divine economy? The High Church clergy and...

much interest the letters which have a ppeared under the above heading in the Spectator. May I point out one fact which seems to have been overlooked by your correspondents?...

[TO TUE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—The two letters which appeared in the Spectator of September 6th call for some reply from this Society. I shall be greatly indebted to...

SPECT■TOR."1 Anstey in his latest book, "A Bayard from Bengal," has followed what is now a somewhat old and, I should think, worn tradition in poking fun at my fellow-...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The kind hospitality you gave to my former letter in the Spectator of August 2nd upon the Achill Islanders resulted in our being able...

[To THE EDITOR. OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SzE, — Your correspondent " H. C." in the Spectator of August 2nd shows many of the disadvantageous ways in which the rapidity of...

THE MOTHER. " Ho ! " said the child, " how fine the horses go, With nodding plumes, with measured step and slow. Who rides within this coach, is he not great ? Some King, I...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPE(TTATOR.") Sra,—The secretary of the Catholic Truth Society in the Spectator of September 13th makes very liberal assumptions for his controversial...

GEORGE ELIOT.* SIR LESLIE STEPHEN has produced an almost perfect study of the great writer whom Professor Saintsbury is content to place in " a high position among the second...

which may be named Sport, Nature, Country Life, in the second being included Fell-walking, Mountaineering, Crag-climbing. That these three overlap one another it is scarcely...

and painstaking work of Miss Stone is a con• tribution of permanent value to historical literature. She writes, it is true, as an avowed advocate of the cause of Queen Mary, her...

Mn. YEATS'S book is well described by its title. It is a book of twilight thoughts and fancies, dreams, imaginations, and chimeras, gathered in the fields and woods and villages...

MR. ARTHUR MORRISON returns in The Hole in the Wall to that field of fiction in which he can claim the distinction of having been something like a pioneer. He returns, however,...

Windus. 6s.)—Here, too, we have tragedy, but it does not seem to us quite genuine. Anna (the "Five Towns" are the Pottery towns) finds herself on her twenty-first birthday a...

Gs.)—Our distrust of the Irish novel as a source of enter- tainment—we admit there are notable exceptions—has again proved well founded. The "founder of a fortune" is a certain....

THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. The Credibility of the Bock of the Acts of the Apostles By H. F. Chase. (Macmillan and Co. 6s.)—In these lectures Dr. Chase puts before his readers...

—This is a genuine tragedy—whether in place or not is another matter—but certainly genuine. Everything arises in a quite natural way. That Robert's distant adoration of the...

Matthew Arnold in our last issue the words " fourth essay on criticism" were inadvertently used for "first essay on criticism."]

(Isbister and Co. 2s. 8d. net.)—We noticed some weeks ago a portion of the verse published in this volume,—i.e., the poems to which the prizes were adjudged, and some others...

and moderate statement of the case of Boer v. Briton. The writer describes himself as "a British Colonist who has passed all his working life under a South African sky, and who...

of the Congress held at Exeter in May last. The proceedings, speeches, &c., are given, and various statistics in which the extent of Co-operative work is set forth.—From the...

(Tinder this heading ire unties such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Kentucky Poems. By Madison Cawein. With an Introduction by Edmund...

(Williams and Norgate. ls. 6d.)—This essay defends Professor Harnack's books from the adverse criticism of some English theologians in a somewhat controversial spirit. Mr....

5s.)—Mr. Baker comes from the United States, and his observations of German affairs, taken as they are from a standpoint different from ours, are more tins usually interesting....

work, originally given to the world as the "Baird Lecture for 1876," has now reached a tenth edition. The addition to this issue, which appears after an interval of nine years,...

4d. per vol.) we have Select Poems of Victor Hugo, edited by Philip C. Yorke, M.A.; Selections from L'Insecte of Michelet, edited by Maurice A. Gerothwohl, B.Phil.; Contes...

Co. ls.)—This is one of the series of " Illustrated Guide Books," and seems to contain all that the tourist can desire to have. It would have been convenient, however, for...