M WITTE, the Russian Peace Plenipotentiary, has . started for Washington, and before his departure circulated, through the Associated Press, a sketch of his opinions on the...

Petersburg which, if true, is of the utmost importance. It is to the effect that the Czar will leave Peterhof on that day on board the Imperial yacht Polar Star,' ostensibly for...

sentatives sent up by all the Zemstvos—are holding an informal Parliament in Moscow. It was supposed that the meeting would be prevented ; but the delegates, who met on...

tented with the result of its diplomacy in regard to the Moroccan affair. It achieved a victory, no doubt, and the other day Prince Billow was received on board the Emperor's...

battle of Tsushima, which has hitherto been suppressed, has at last leaked out, and is a very sad document for all friends of Russia. The Admiral attributes his defeat to the...

Lords threw out the Bill providing for tramways across Blackfriars and Westminster Bridges and along the Embankment by a majority of 31 (64 to 33). Considering the Report of the...

authority, sends a general statement of the losses incurred by Germany in her effort to subdue the Hereros and other revolted tribes in her South-West African colony. Since...

Redistribution Resolution could not be put to the House en bloc, but must be divided into at least eight, and probably nine, Resolutions, which would have to be separately...

a question, Mr. Brodrick declared that the difference of opinion between Lord Curzon and Lord Kitchener with regard to the relation- ship of the Commander-in-Chief to the...

result, as is admitted on all sides, has been a great increase in the feeling of camaraderie not only between the two Fleets, but between the two peoples. An interesting article...

a specially summoned meeting of Unionist Members. The Prime Minister's primary object was to justify to his party his conduct on the Redistribution proposals. He declared that...

in a division on a Motion by Mr. Redmond to reduce the vote for the Irish Land Commission. There voted for the Government 196, and against 199, Ministers thus being placed in a...

on London Traffic. The Commissioners hold that the essential problem is how to take people out of town rapidly and cheaply. They suggest the construction of two main avenues...

Cottages Exhibition, which will be opened by the Duke of Devonshire on Tuesday next. We trust that the Exhibition will prove of very great use in showing that good cottages may...

some twenty batteries and engineer companies, and also that fifteen battalions of infantry are not included. If infor- mation had been obtained from them, we do not doubt that...

last Saturday, resulted in the return of Mr. Chance, the Free-trade candidate, by a majority of 1,030. At the last General Election at which the Liberal party were...

that Mr. Balfour is opposed to Mr. Chamberlain's Fiscal policy, and that Mr. Chamberlain has no right to claim Mr. Balfour as his faithful ally, it will surely be the presence...

sitting on Monday under the presidency of Mr. Justice Farwell. The Chairman—most properly, in our opinion— refused to permit counsel to cross-examine witnesses or to make...

by commanding officers which shows more fully than did the figures given by " Volunteer Field Officer " in the Spectator last April the number of Volunteers who offered to serve...

T HE Times of Tuesday contains a remarkable letter signed " An Old Berliner " dealing with the anti- British campaign inspired by the German Press Bureau. According to " An Old...

Unionist cause, and when the next appeal to the people is • made Ireland will still retain thirty . more Members than she is untitled to, and England will have thirty less than...

W E see no convincing reason for the impression, so general in Western Europe and America, that M. Witte will be able to make peace simply because he is M. Witte. No doubt he is...

satisfactory to those who take a serious interest in the question of the un- employed than the manner in which it has been dealt with by the Government. They might, in the first...

to relieve him of the charge of having destroyed the Unionist party,—the greatest, and while it was controlled by Lord Salisbury the soberest, instrument of power that the...

O N Tuesday next, July 25th, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the Duke of Devonshire will open the Cheap Cottages Exhibition at Letchworth, near Hitchin, on ground belonging to...

poetry. And the lover of both stately prose and majestic poetry is sometimes absolutely deaf to the mighty harmonies of Beethoven. Yet, in a way, both the greatest prose, the...

at least, but is often not more than an inch long. Besides the crayfish, they catch small wriggling eels, or stone loaches, or millers' thumbs, or gudgeon, or minnows. Whatever...

Sin.,—The leader-writers of the German Press have been spending the scorching days of the last few weeks in an excited discussion of the question, " What is Germany's Mission in...

SIR, —Your services to the Volunteer Force can never be forgotten. But I venture to point out that the objection of your leading article on the Volunteer debate of July 13th,...

in " Thomas v. Bradbury, Agnew, and Co." is so important to newspaper proprietors and pressmen that perhaps you will spare me space to suggest that you may have misread the...

in journalism, and I read Punch's statement as to my uncle's —bad I not better say?—" Recollections" by Mr. Moy Thomas, for not many who knew the late Sir John Robinson can...

on the proprietors of the paper in which such expression appears the risk of "heavy damages." The writer ignores entirely the fact that the Punch review stood markedly in...

Spectator of July 15th you raise the question as to whether the phrase " adding a new terror to death," as applied to the irresponsible or spiteful biographer, was not Lord...

reply from a "Carlisle Conservative" to the article on the above subject in the Standard of July 17th. "Carlisle Conservative " repudiates with some force the accusation that...

of biography as " a new terror to death." I believe I am correct in saying that the phrase was used at a dinner in the Inner Temple by Sir Charles Wetherell, who told Lord...

; and Mr. Bradley in the "Oxford English Dictionary" gives this and many other instances from old writers of the intran- sitive use of "lay," coinciding with or resembling that...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."'

ago the Apocrypha was never asked for at my shop. Perhaps ten years ago it began to be so, and has now a very steady sale separately, and a much smaller, but still a constant,...

that confusion between the two verbs " to lie " and " to lay " must be due to either " carelessness or ignorance " ; but your correspondent, Mr. W. E. Scott- Moncrieff, is...

acquisition by Russia is necessarily bound up with the story of Russian expansion in the regions of the Amur, and this does not begin till after the arrival of Muravieff as...

" to lie " and " to lay," can you do anything towards abating the use of such a phrase as "those sort of roads" or "these kind of fences " P This kind of blunder is by no means...

to us that all the marks here are on syllables which it is impossible to mispronounce." The principle of marking is : all vowels long by nature are marked, and the rest left...

20th for the Cheap Cottages Exhibition is .21,694 19s. 6d., in addition to £20 promised to the Prizes Fund, making a total of £1,714 19s. 6d. paid and promised. One hundred...

Mr. Santayana on a remarkable achievement. It is not given to every one to be a distinguished man of letters and a Harvard Professor, and at the same time to have the...

and we Have spent the Sunday walking in silent misery All round the dear old places, until he turned away. I know, like me, he wishes to be alone to-day. One more look at the...

the life and work of my husband, Dr. Ridding, the forty- third Head-Master of Winchester and first Bishop of South- well. I shall be most grateful if his friends will lend me...

and not one to be undertaken lightly. It is rarely that the copyright of reputation, so to speak, compels a new worker in an old field to patch old work instead of producing...

biography, but also a difficult one. Standing high among the heroines of the Middle Ages, there are plenty of sources from which to study her public life, her campaigns, her...

been purposely omitted" from these essays, they are good intellectual value. The author's statements and interpreta- tions of facts are clear, vigorous, original, and...

and Brothers. [Us.) the American comedy of manners. In this sphere no one else has shown precisely the same talent. Mr. Henry James is subtler, and deals with more complicated...

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