past week, but Friday's Times contained a telegram from its special correspondent at Tabriz announcing the arrival in the suburbs of Ain-ed-Dowleh, the new Governor, with twelve...

whence the Times correspondent reports in Tuesday's paper that one of the Bulgarian leaders in Macedonia, San- dansky, has prejudiced the Young Turks against the other Bulgarian...

are glad to say, very encouraging on the whole. At Constantinople the actions of the Young Turk Committee have been uniformly prompt and beneficent. The strikes, Which -...

O N Thursday evening the Belgian Chamber, rather sooner than was expected, took the critical step of voting the Treaty of Annexation whereby the Congo Free State becomes a...

of the electoral programme prepared by the Young Turks at Salonika. It is believed to propose the readjustment of the Administrative areas of Macedonia, the details being left...

case.

India, writes a letter to the 7Titnes of Monday on the very nteresting subject of the boarded wealth of India. His suggestion, which arises from the Report of the Committee op...

in Paraguay. Only four years had elapsed since the last upheaval, but the Government had for some time been menaced by the estrangement of its Radical sup- porters, and latterly...

pro: posaL it is pointed out s would certainly deumul a substantial increase of its numbers. Finally, the unsatisfactory results of the adoption of the minimum wage principle...

after the trial and conviction of Mr. Tilak, are explained by a correspondent in the Times of Wednesday. The principal object of the riot-leaders was to procure a general...

on Tuesday was celebrated in Vienna and throughout the Empire with special services, military reviews, and patriotic demonstrations. The German Emperor proposed the health of...

the New Zealand Government are given in Thursday's Times by its correspondent at Wellington. Under the new measure, which is of a most drastic nature, heavy penalties are...

the scene of Lincoln's early career, and a prosperous town of Illinois, on Friday and Saturday. A crowd attempted to lynch two negroes, one of whom was charged with assaulthig a...

forces of Abd-ul-Aziz which had defeated on the way a mehalla of Mulai Hafid. It was assumed that Abd-ul-Aziz would arrive at Marakesh immediately afterward", but so far as we...

for British railways: The statistics recently published show a decline of £521,000 in receipts and an increase of £667,000 in expenditure, thus involving a decrease of...

by Mr. Churchill on the score of his " wild language," has replied very effectively in the Daily News. "My critics," he observes, "say that those who try to create a scare do...

and was welcomed by over half a million people on the cliffs and foreshores of the beautiful harbour. Admiral Sperry paid official visits to Lord Northoote, the Governor-...

occurred on Tuesday afternoon at the Maypole Colliery, near Wigan. About six hundred men are employed at the colliery, but when the explosion took place, shortly after 5 p.m.,...

appointed to succeed Sir Frank Lascelles in Berlin. The King has been assured by the German Emperor that he will be persona gralissima at the German Court. Sir Edward Goschen,...

Line, sailed on Thursday morning from Liverpool on a two and a half years' training cruise. The 'Mersey,' described as one of the finest types of British-built sailing ships, is...

miners' demonstration held at Swansea on Saturday, dealt at length with foreign affairs. With what he said about the " wonderful revolution in Turkey," beyond its excessive...

May 28th. Qoaeolo (2i) were on Friday 864—on Friday week 864. B an k Ba n , 21 per coot., changed from 3 per cent. May 28th. Qoaeolo (2i) were on Friday 864—on Friday week 864.

THE CONDUCT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS. O NE of the most remarkable changes in English politi- cal life during the last twenty years has been the removal of foreign politics from the...

the Liberal Party (and we dare say that it even represents the thoughts of the Cabinet) to meet the inevitable increase in naval expenditure by a Loan. The proposal was set...

E UROPEAN diplomatists, officers, Consuls, residents, and correspondents were admittedly all in the dark about the spread of the Turkish revolutionary movement. It was obvious...

of the Poor Law Com- mission which appeared on Monday puts the betrayal of official confidence, on which we commented last week, in a less alarming light. The process of...

T HE Interim Report of the Committee appointed by the Board of Agriculture to inquire into the causes of grouse disease is in more than one way a curiously interesting document....

A FTER the recent disaster in British Columbia, it may be worth while to record some of the devices which experience has proved to be efficacious in arresting forest and prairie...

T HAT there is another side to most questions is the great discovery of modern times. It has changed society more than railway trains. Of course, many men of genius have known...

B Y this time it is an accepted dogma that if God made the country and man made the town, it must have been the Devil that made the suburb. One of the most hideous circles in...

THE SITUATION AT CONSTANTINOPLE. [To THZ EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR-1 SIR,—Thirty years ago the Ottoman Empire made a start upon the path of progress and freedom. For a short...

[To THU EDITOR 011 . Tag ''SPROTATOR.1 Ssa,—The Church at large is under a debt of obligation to you for opening the columns of your valuable paper to the ventilation of this...

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF RAILWAY AMALGAMATION. [To ills Rums or TER "EPILVTATOR."] Sin,—Not a little scorn was poured the other day by the Spectator and the Times on Sir John...

at the end of my letter, which you obligingly published last Saturday, in which you suggest a union of small benefices as a way out of the crippling at present existing in...

Ellison (Spectator, August 8th), draw- ing attention to this most important question, only indicates a few of the reasons why this matter is so grave and so urgent. May I...

Service ended, the money given at the Offertory shall be disposed of to such pious and charitable uses as the Minister and Churchwardens shall think fit. Wherein if they...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] Si.n,-Knowing your interest in all that concerns our citizen soldiers, I think you may like to hear something of the experiences of a...

Pro THE EDITOR OF TEE 'SPECTATOR:] venture to ask you to allow me to bring to the notice of your readers who are desirous of furthering the objects of the new Territorial Army...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIE,—Mr. Dawson's quotation from Coleridge (Spectator, August 15th) would seem to imply that outward ceremonial is altogether out of place...

THE BRUMBIES.* THERE are steeds upon many a Western plain That have never bowed to a bit or rein, That have never tightened a trace or chain. They feed in the blue grass,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.' I SIR,—I have not read the article by Mr. W. Beach Thomas referred to in your issue of the 15th inst., but your summary of his statements is...

[To TUE EDITOR or TUC " SP RCTATOR."] SIR,—After reading the account of the mirage seen off the coast of Connemara (Spectator, August 15th) my first act was to procure a map of...

[TO TRH EDITOR OF TOO " SP scrA - roic.'1 Sin,—Referring to your remarks in last week's " News of the Week," I should like as an engineering employer to point out bow easy it...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sru.,—I venture to beg your assistance in a protest. My grievance is with that part of the performance in the Indian Arena which consists in...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of...

TRAGEDY OLD AND NEW.* TRAGEDY occupies the same place in literature as the symphony in music,—it is the crowning expression of a great art, summing up in itself the most varied...

IT is a pleasing habit, more common in Germany than else- where, for a number of fellow-workers to combine to make up a book in honour of some distinguished savant. They, in...

THIS is a book written with learning, authority, and enthusiasm. The records of travel in Asia have been so numerous in recent years that the " margin of utility " has already...

SIMEON SINGER was the son of an Hungarian who bad to leave his country for political reasons,—he was about con- temporary with Kossuth, but was earlier in taking a part in...

THE WILD GEESE.* A SPECIAL interest attaches to this novel owing to the announcement that Mr. Stanley Weyman has irrevocably decided to abandon a career which he has pursued...

of letters addressed to an English politician by an Egyptian, evidently of some culture, who is anxious to represent the grievances of his fellow-countrymen under . British...

reason to suppose that there has been misrepresentation. In Mr. /Colman's judgment he was "one of the world's greatest benefactors," and yet, as one who knew him well observed,...

(J. M. Dent and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—Dr. Lawrence gives his first three chapters to an account of the " Society of Nations " as it is in theory and as it has been in fact. Our...

6s.)—A story of a lonely woman's life in London.—The Song of Hyacinth. By John Oxenhain. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—A. collection of short stories of varying merit. "The One who...

author has imagined a Republic in South America - which is entirely owned and administered by its President out of his own private fortune. Such a method of government may...

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Co. 6s.)—Mrs. Blundell has arranged for her new story a scene which is altogether suited to her manner. It lies in Dorsetshire, we gather, not because there are any obvious...

Pearson. 2s. 6d.)—Mr. Kernahan has earned the praise of his fellow-citizens for setting their duty before them, first and foremost by example, and in the second place by preoept...

2s. 6d. net.)—Here we have the Linacre Lecture for the current year. The foundation has not been as successful as its author hoped. A few men of distinction have held the post,...

Bowers. (T. Fisher Unwin. 21s. net.)—The Chronological Table of " Statutes Relating to the Dominion, Principality and County of Wales," gives a total number of a hundred and...

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2s. 6d.)—This is a useful little book, and if there are no startlingly new receipts in it, the old ones are very good. The list of proper proportions, such as two ounces of...

Perry. (Macmillan and Co. 5e. net.)—Mr. Perry tells the story of Sicily from the earliest times down to the capture of Syracuse by Marceline. Legend and history occupy...

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