F OR the first time in her history America is at war with a European Power other than her parent State,—for the purely nominal war with the First French Republic need not be...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, April 30th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

THE CAUSES OF THE WAR. W AR has come, as we have again and again declared it would. It is true that we write before the cannons have actually fired, but we can hardly doubt...

O UR deep sympathy with Americans, both as kinsfolk and as the first nation which has risked a great war to stop a great oppression, does not blind us to the fact that they are...

`TF there was ever any doubt as to England's attitude in regard to the war it is now, we are glad to think, entirely over. As we ventured to predict it must be, Eng- lish...

I F the end of government is the happiness of the governed, representation is the best instrument yet discovered. The " common-sense of most," when strained through the higher...

though there is no reduction for people with more than £700 a year of the heavy Income-tax. Nobody is asking for such a remission with the energy that induces Members to vote....

S IR JOHN GORST has earned a reputation which, as not infrequently happens, stays by him even when he does not deserve it. We do not mean that he has abandoned that perfectly...

N O character is quite so interesting to thoughtful Englishmen as that of the Americans ; it is so like our own yet so unlike, so complex and yet so simple, so intelligible and...

I T would be hypocrisy to deny that thousands of men—yes, and women too—feel at this moment as if they were sitting in an opera-box at a great theatre waiting for the...

A T the present moment one of the burning questions of domestic interest in the United States is the enactment of Game Laws. The origin of the movement is curiously unlike that...

THE SPANISH TEMPERAMENT. [To THE EDITOR 07 THE " BpscraTos."] n, In your very interesting article on Spanish character in the Spectator of April 16th, you allude to the "...

have always looked to the Spectator as giving us in everyday language the spiritual view in Church matters. In this matter you say in the Spectator of April 16th "The offertory...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — By a curious coincidence " A Military Officer," in referring to my letter which appeared in the Spectator of April 9th, lands a...

[TO THE EDITOR 07 TEl "SPECTATOR."] Stu,—I think it will be of interest to your readers, who must during the last few months have heard frequent accusations against the...

A CURLEW. Bird of the Marshland ! 'Voice of the Wasteness ! Who with thy poignance Woundeth the air, Why should thy song of Mating and nesting Sound as an agony Taunting the...

MR. GEORGE WYNDHAM ON SHAKESPEARE'S POEMS.* WE have no hesitation in describing Mr. George Wyndham's introduction as a masterly piece of criticism. There are things in it with...

POPE LEO XIII. found the Anglican Ordinal to be defective on account of the omission of four essential matters. Com- paring the Edwardine form with that of the Sarum Use, which...

THE author of this book has recently laid all Spanish scholars under a lasting obligation by his sumptuous edition of the unique MS. of the Poema del Cid in the • d Note-Book...

THIS volume belongs to a class of literature characteristic of our own day. It treats of religious beliefs of vital importance, and of their groundwork, in a popular way, in a...

Du. CAMERON LEES has produced a fairly readable book upon the district of Scotland in which he is specially interested, but he has missed a very considerable oppor- tunity....

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Illustrations by A. S. Boyd. (Chatto and Windus.)—These illus- trations to Mr. Stevenson's " Scots" poem are distinctly clever, especially in their characterisation of the...

By Alex. Robinson, B.D. (Williams and Norgate.)—The Early Days of Christianity. By Dean Farrar. (Cassell and Co.)— Natural Religion. By F. Max Muller. (Longmans and Co.) The...

Newdigate-Newdigate. (David Nutt.) — This book contains "passages from the Lives of Anne and Mary Fytton." It may be remembered that Mr. Tyler attempted to show that Mary...

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