T HERE is no farther hope for the European Embassies in Pekin. Sheng, the Director of Telegraphs at Shanghai, and the coast Viceroys continue the artistic lying which they hope...

ven- geance on the Chinese. They are, perhaps, natural, but they can serve no end except to make them fight as men fight when quarter is refused. It is indispensable that there...

Chinese affair. The first is the evidence that the persons ruling in Pekin hate Russia more than any other Power. They have evidently been preparing for months to block the...

out Europe, but it has not quickened the action of the Courts. Rather it has rel)ased them from the necessity of postponing their interests to their humanity. The general idea...

Tientsin has been taken. The details are still obscure, but it is certain, from Admiral Seymour's report, that on July 13th the allied forces, who with the Zapanese numbered...

an Eight-Page Supplement, containing the Half. Yearly Index and Title-Page,,--i.e., from January 6t1t to June 30th, 1900, inclusive.

past week has been extraordinarily meagre, and on Friday there was practically no war news at all. This shows that Lord Roberts has some serious work onhand. All we know, or...

is the official intelligence of the relief of Coomaisie. This occurred on July 15th, the tidings being heliographed to Fumsn and then sent by runner to Cape Coast Castle. No...

attention to the continued lawlessness in the Church of Eng- land, and asked the Prime Minister if he was prepared to give effect to the resolution passed by the House of...

reporting imminent danger to that great centre of trade with China. Shanghai was supposed to be the one safe place for Europeans in the Empire, but this is not the opinion of...

an excel- lent paper on the situation, declares that the "intelligent appreciation of the military situation is not in accordance with the Chinese character, and "points to...

Milner, and the Bill for appointing special tribunals to try the rebels will be at once presented. It is believed that it will be passed without any great difficulty. In spite...

general sense of satisfaction that the Admiralty has not shown itself afraid of investigation, but is willing to take the nation into its confidence. That is the wise course,...

Government has fallen on Lord Hopetoun, and that he is to be the first Governor-General of the Australian Commonwealth. The difficulty of selection must have been very great....

the Lads' Drill Association which has been formed "for the purpose of arousing public interest in the question of military drill for lads. The scheme is an admirable one. and we...

statement as to the public business of the Session. He hoped to pass the Isle of Man Bill, the Oil and Tobacco Bill, the Naval Reserve Bill, the Larceny Bill, two Local...

a fierce speech, but one of considerable forensic skill and power, attacked the third reading of the Tithe Rent Charge Bill. The proposal [it is one to reduce the annuities paid...

a statement on naval affairs, and also explained the views and intentions of the Admiralty on the subject of water-tube boilers. After deploring the delay in the supply of...

week at the Charity Organisation Conference there are some facts which call for serious attention. Last year in Manchester about 11,000 young men wished to enlist. Of the...

Friday 971.

CHINA AND EUROPE. I T is possible at last to follow with somethine , b like full comprehension the history of the upheaval in China which is now distracting the world, and one...

.So far events have justified the anticipations ofthe • Speetoier in respect to Chintc, and we venture, there- fore, to put forward in some detail a forecast.of the future...

I F any proof were wanted that the essential interests of the Church of England, spiritual and political, are safe in the hands of the present Archbishop of Canterbury they are...

W E are heartily glad that the latest War Office pro- posal in regard to the Volunteers—a proposal which involved in fact, if not in name, a complete change in the character of...

I N a leading article in the Morning Post of last Monday attention was called to the large export of English steam coal to France, and Professor Hull's address at the Victoria...

easy to account for . the massacres which from the earliest period to the present year have occasionally marked the history of Asia., understands massacre among savages, who...

T H"week has witnessed the gathering in London of several thousands of persons, mostly British and American, connected with an organisation called the Society of Christian...

in England. One comes from the country and- seeks change in the• haunts and homes of men, and preferably in towns by the sea. The other pours out from the cities, and in part...

COUNT MOURAVIEFF AND ENGLAND. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEOTATOR.1 only know Canon MacColl by reputation; and the pseudonym " Diplomaticus " gives me no clue to the identity of...

THE "SPECTATOR.] ' you allow me to write a few lines with respect to my old friend and pupil who has met with an appalling fate in Pekin? I think that he probably came more into...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTAXOR.1 - - • Sta,—You affirm your belief in free representative -institutions as the final solution of the South African problem ; and deck* that...

[TO THE EDITOR 'or THE " SPEOTATOR:] Sur,—In your review of Sir Toseph Paper's autobiography you repeat a statement which at one time was , current, but which I had believed to...

SPECTATOR."] SIA,—In your notes of the week.in the Spectator-of July WA youlay down the principle, "the -fuller the self-government of the parts, ,the safer the Empire as, a...

(To TUB EDITos OP THZ "SrEcTATos.1 SIE,—It is to be hoped that your . protest against the ten- dency to turn the Volunteers into .imitation Regulars will not fall on deaf ears....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sra,—In your review of "The Life of Seward" (Spectator, July 7th) there is, apparently due to the author of it being in- correctly informed,...

ran " spat-weal Si,—The interesting letter from Dr. Dabbs in the Spectator of July 7th would rather lead one to suppose that men working safely through the period described are...

(To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sre,—Intending tourists in Switzerland may like - to hear of a delightful route which seems to have been much:neglected by our countrymen of...

OF TRY ‘spairr.cion...] Sut,—One of the reasons for the unwillingness of many of the ablest men to become clergymen has not yet been men- tioned. I can most easily indicate its...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—I am afraid the Chinese horrors have taken away from most European (and American) onlookers the power of judg- ing a situation which has...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Ste,—In the notice of the "New English Dictionary" which you were good enough to give in the Spectator of July 14th there is an error as to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] Sr,—In the Spectator of July 14th there are references to Lord Durham and his Canadian policy. You mention Mr. Merriman's article in the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIB,—The problem presented to the German Empire by the immediate need for a considerable military expedition to China is interesting and...

PRIVA,TE'S COMPLAINT AT THE LOSS OF AN ENGLISH SPRI.NG. I Am thinking what good reason We could possibly have had For this monstrous change of season, This stride from good to...

SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE.* THE rise to popular fame of Sir Thomas Lawrence was vie% and he maintained his position while he lived. He was the son of a Bristol innkeeper and the...

many years by the Hakluyt Society is well known; and the two volumes last issued eloquently prove the intention and thoroughness of their work. Various as they are in...

all know, to give a dog a bad name; but it is an sot of great merit to fix upon a place a pretty and appropriate combination of syllables. With ill-luck, of course, the...

seic : anes those by Whom she would choose to stand or fall in the eyes of the World, we suppose the skoice Would fall upon the Indian frontier administrators No service can...

" MIS'ESS Jot" is a name of joyful promise sadly bel:ai by the history which Mr. Le Breton has allotted to his heroine. The stain of illegitimacy, love hopeless though requited,...

Cuba and International Relations: a Historical Study in American Diplomacy. By James Morton Callahan, Ph.D. (The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore. 4 dole.)—As this book does not...

ROMANTIC ED INBUR GH. Romantic Edinburgh. By John Geddie. (Sands and Co. 6s)— Mr. Geddie has a really admirable gift as a cicerone. In his little books on the Water of Leith...

Grant Alien: a Memoir. By Edward Clodd. (Grant Richards. 6s.)—In some respects this is an ideal biography, and com- pares favourably with the huge tomes which it pleases many...

With Illustrations and Diagrams. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—So far as this reviewer may be taken as a fair example of the general reader whom Mr. Marr professedly desires to interest...

Heraldry in Relation to Scottish History and Art : being the Rhind Lectures on Archzology for 1898. By Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms. (D. Douglas, Edinburgh....

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Ram Dai : a Tale of Hindu Home Life. By Khwaja All Mohamed. (J....

Sweet Hampstead and its Associations. By Mrs. Caroline A. White. (Elliot Stock. 28s.)—Sweet Hampstead has a pathetic little preface which even were the book less agreeable to...

and 0. Black. 2s. 6d.)—We have no quarrel with Mr. Lyde's dictum that "Geography is the most educational of all subjects except Literature." And we have only one fault to find...

forth a. manifesto, opportune or inopportune, as we may choose to consider it, in which the principles of Quakerism are set forth. We yield to none in appreciating the services...

Butler. (Gay and Bird. 2s. net.)—Mrs. Josephine Butler has made in this volume a contribution of much value to . the literature a the war. She deals with the fallacy, often...

(3o. Is. 6d. net.)—In one way it is easy to be a satirist, for a satirist is irresponsible ; in another it is difficult, for the satirist's licence is only conceded to tha...

takes up the subject of plant life from a side differ- ent from that occupied by books about gardening. It is of wild flowers that- the author treats, and, by consequence, of...

Settlement in South Africa. By Allan B. Webb, D.D. (Skeffington and Sons.) —Dr. Webb has held two South African Sees (Bloemfontein and Grahamstown), and speaks with authority....

(B. Quaritcha—The public spirit of the Nottingham Cor- poration in aiming on this publication of its records is worthy of all praise. The editor apologises, so to speak, for the...

Alfred Edersheim, D.D. 2 vols. (Longmans. 12s. net.)—This is a reprint of the first- edition of Dr. Edersheim's book. We generally_ meet with the work in an abridged shape ; but...

Dr. leebmann and Dr. Seiler. Translated by F. W. Keeble, M.A. (J. M. Dent and Co. is. net.)—This is one of the "Temple' Encyclosnedic Primers." The first part is a description...