S we write on Friday there is nothing of *great moment to chronicle in regard to the war. Lord Methuen has, however, had an engagement near Klerksdorp with a force of Boers...

Negotiations had been going on for some days between the Government, the President, and the party leaders, with a view to effect a compromise on the language question. When...

its inevitable fruit. The St. Petersburg Trade and Industrial Gazette has published an article, generally supposed to have been inspired by M. Witte, threatening severe...

for a wonder, non-political,--the marriage of M. Paul Deschartel, the recently reappointed President of the Chamber of Deputies. The wedding, celebrated in the church of St....

as can be ascertained, the course of recent events has been as follows. General Waidersee, finding that the Chinese were not going to carry out the demands of the Allies in...

case.

speech, but we could wish that he had paid less atten- tion to his opponents and more to the main question. How- ever, the, net result of the speech was satisfactory enough. He...

which deserves high praise for its manliness and courage, Mr. Asquith did not want, and quite rightly, for no patriotic man can wish any further ruptures in the Opposition, to...

debate on the Address has dragged its dull, slow length along. On Monday, after the supplementary questions episode, dealt with by us elsewhere, had be 'dispolied of, by -a...

form and substance. He declared that the Government had not been tardy in meeting Lord Kitchener's demands. As soon as he asked for more mounted men the Government took steps to...

great length, and the Government were urged to deal with the matter. Mr; Ritchie, who spoke for the Government, repudiated the notion that the Bill to stop drunkenness promiped...

we should offer very favourable terms to the Boers in the field, and not make martyrs of them. We may add that Sir Robert Reid during Mr. Chamberlain's speech interjected a...

alive to the defects of the Army Medical Department, and that he means to remedy them. He believed that they might found, on the recommendations of the Commission and on other...

splendid liberality, equipped and sent out to South Africa, received a signal honour on Friday week. The regiment, numbering three hundred and ninety-three men and twenty-two...

Address in favour of compulsory purchase in Ireland. Special importance was given -to the amendment by the fact that it was seconded by Mr. T. W. Russell, who in an im-...

but leas divided, and we therefore note with great satisfaction the excellent tone of the speech made by Sir Edward Grey at the dinner of the Eighty Club. It was manly and...

letter of the arrogantly bitter and half-crazy Boer, signed "P. which appears in Wednesday's Times. The writer is the man who poured forth a stream of not very savoury...

to the amendment was entirely justified. Not only do we hold that it is utterly impossible to plunge into a scheme for spendbig 2120,000,000 at the present moment, but we also...

who have invaded Cape Colony have treated the natives and British subjects alike with great brutality. During the occupation of Calvinia by the commandos under Brand, Hertzog,...

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THE OPPOSITION AND SOUTH AFRICA. T F we were inclined to be pessimists (which we are not), the debate on the political problem in South Africa might well be made the excuse for...

W E are glad to see that the cry for Army reform is being attended by an increased popular solicitude for the well-being of the Navy. It has been an unfor- tunate characteristic...

T 0VGH as we write it seems probable that the Chinese Government have yielded on the punish- ment question, and that General Waldersee's game of bluff has succeeded, we cannot...

A .CONSTITCTIONAL-PERSONAL debate is natu- rally dear to the House of Commons. Constitu- tional discussions are important, but they are apt to be TeriOnal discussions are...

W E feel it at once a duty and a pleasure to call the attention of our readers to the excellent character of the work which is being done by the People's Refresh- ment House...

T HE practical materialism of modern life is producing the inevitable reaction to which students of social conditions have looked forward for some time. This reaction manifests...

it TR. CHARLES BOOTH'S paper on the need for quick ../. - XL locomotion into and out of London touches more than the problem of housing the poor. If means could be devised for...

T HE study of the language of birds is a somewhat neglected branch of country lore, and the majority of ornithologists have trained the eye to far more acute obser- vation than...

(TO THE EDITOR OP THZ "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Your correspondent "W." does me injustice in supposing I would like to see "the spectre of exclusiveness" imported to the Transvaal. On...

PRO-BOER PROSCRIPTION. (TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") "M. F. G." is correct in saying that his statements have been already made in the House by the Member for Mansfield...

[TO THE EDITOR OP TELE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—To those who are trying to arouse intelligent interest in the matter of municipal administration, and who wish to see men "with...

[TO THE EDITOR, OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIEr4Ilay I point out that you seriously misrepresent Cardinal Vaughan in your "News of the Week" in the Spectator of February 16th ? The...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:1 you permit me to put in a plea for the retention of certain ancient ceremonies closely interwoven with the his- tory of English regality ?...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR.") ' SIE, — Fortunately no Act of Parliament is required for amending or superseding the Accession Service. It is no part of the Book of Common...

IT° THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Mr. Morley, Mr. Courtney, Sir E. Clarke, and others. advocate compromise with the Boers. They speak of main- taining the autonomy of...

[TO THE EDITOR OP TEE' SPECTATOR."] " • Sin, — At the time of the Crimean War there was an old sergeant at the recruiting office, Bristol, who had been - as a I prisoner of war...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TILE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—" We can assure Lord Kitchener * sane' people in England believe the calumnies."—Spectator, February 9th, p. 190. Of course they do...

GITJSEPPE VERDI. IF a man is to be deemed fortunate in proportion to the amount of journalistic attention he receives immediately on his decease, then Verdi, though Fortunino...

THE ICEBERG, THE Aurora decks my brow with flame; Rose-red my crystals burn ; Out of the eternal deep I came And to the deep return. Borne of the herald winds I go; The...

THE RULERS OF THE SOUTH.* IT is not every man that can treat centuries as days, and review thousands of years within the limits of a single history. But this is what Mr. Marion...

THE pike, though classed among coarse fish, and, in salmon and trout rivers, detested as vermin, presents many attractions to the humbler sort of angler. He is a voracious...

CARLYLE was fond of repeating that in every book the intelli- gent reader seeks behind the book the man ; and that the better the book the more unmistakable is the man behind...

ALTHOUGH this book has already been briefly noticed in the Spectator, certain fresh developments in the war in South Africa, which Mr. Bradley regards as "the second struggle...

Mn. FRANKFORT MOORE has given us such excellent and wholesome diversion in According to Plato that we have no desire to lay undue stress on the extreme artificiality of the idie...

THE DIVINE LOVE. The Divine Love. By Charles J. Abbey. (Macmillan and Co- 6s.)—The theological position of Mr. Abbey may be briefly described by saying that he holds with a...

Moder this heading we notice such rooks of the week a hare no been reserved for review in other forms.] TaeoLooe.—Two Lectures on the Gospels. By F. Crawford Bnrkitt, M.A....

The Satires of Persius. Translated, with Introduction and some Notes, by the Rev. S. Hemphill, D.D. (G. Bell and. Sons.) —It is a somewhat discouraging, not to say hopeless....

Clair . Tysclall.- Translated, and abridged. by Sir . William Muir, ('r. and T. Clark.)-his is a book full of curious learning. Mr. St. Clair Tysdall has investigated the...

annual issue, presents, we are told in the preface, no change. The claim, made in the same place, to completeness and accuracy seems, as far as we have been able to apply any...

have the Act- of 1000, with the schedules and forms, and then what one might call an appalling list of moneylenders. In London and the suburbs there must be more than a...

-hie- :preface, "has- thus far been essentially the physiology of vertebrates." He desiderates a broader . basis. Physiology mnst include " al olasses of the animal kingdom.'...

Edition - , Abridged. (Macmillan and Co.. 8a. 6d. net.) -When we-say that we are glad to see this abridged edition we do not imply that the original book was too long. There...