Athens. The New Testament is there read in the original Greek, and not in modern Greek ; and certain reformers propose that a translation should be issued, presumably by the...

TN the matter of war news there is practically nothing to record this week except the usual captures. These, how- ever, though low in total figures, include a very considerable...

cannot :ail to touch the heart of every Englishman who reads it. "No man," said Mr. Choate, "could find himself in a community more disposed to manifest loyal friendship than I...

of an agreement between Slays and Germans in the Austrian Reichsrath, the organs of the former declaring that business shall not proceed until linguistic justice is done to the...

Com- merce on Wednesday night Mr. Hay made an admirable speech on the foreign policy of America. It could be best summarised as "the Monroe Doctrine and the Golden Rule." With...

been the "hunt of obloquy" which has broken out in Germany over Mr. Chamberlain's perfectly fair and courteously ex- pressed statement as to German military action in the war of...

has resulted in the return of Mr. A. Lynch. the Nationalist candidate, by 774 votes. Mr. Lynch polled 1,247 votes and Mr. Horace Plunkett 473. The result is a gain of a seat to...

America which might almost have been penned by Boers. The writers declare that their people have always sought independence; and admit that the treaty of submission to the...

leaves nothing to be desired in regard to fulness of information or frankness of statement. It is admitted that at the outset the organisation was in many cases inadequate to...

von Holleben, to conciliate American feeling to the extent of his power. Unmindful of the outcry against President MOCinley made by German and Austrian industrials, his...

on Tuesday night, with a portion of which we find ourselves in complete sympathy. We allude to his very sensible remarks on the outcry for doing away with party government and...

little-noticed telegram from South Australia published on Monday announces that South Australia, which is very ca re . fully governed, is about to pass a Bill authorising any...

he attended a meeting of German naval architects to hear a lecture by the Naval Constructor, Geheimrath Brinkmann, and when it ended he advanced to the platform and himself made...

from Lord Kitchener relating the progress of operations between July 8th and September 8th. The pro- gress of a guerilla war is necessarily void of dramatic inci- dents, and...

we can only notice two points. The first was his per- fectly sound but by no means original remark that the way to make the Empire great "is not to cast lustful eyes or lay...

"No." The echo of Liberal principles had no such prevent- ive effect, and yet we are asked to believe that it would abso- lutely have prevented the Jameson Raid. For our part,...

much attention. It is stated that a sister of the Earl of Romney, who had been given up for cancer of the throat, was cured by an application of a liquid made from fresh green...

are to be found those whose special pride it is not to have done this or that thing to which their fellows are supposed to be specially addicted. For example, one can imagine a...

about to form a rifle club out of members and clerks who are over twenty-five years of age, or who have served and are still serving in Regular or Auxiliary Forces,—imitating in...

other declarations of a very different kind. Sir Henry Can actually took upon himself to declare that had the Liberal party, remained in power the Jameson. Raid would never have...

New Consols (2i) were on Friday 91f.

THE NICARAGUA CANAL TREATY AND THE. MONROE DOCTRINE. I T is dear from Mr. Hay's speech that the newspaper correspondents have not been too optimistic about the new Canal...

T HE Germans are suffering from a past fit of economic megalomania. Conquerors in a great war, proud of their unity, and stirred by comparisons with England which produced the...

MHAT is a most interesting account, A Mulai Aziz, the new Sultan of Morocco, which was pub- lished in the Times of Monday. The interviewer, Unlike most interviewers who are...

v E have been told again and again, and with absolute truth, that "the men are splendid." In no case recorded in history have the rank-and-file of an army shown higher qualities...

I T is always unfortunate that moral considerations should be dragged into a controversy in which they have no proper place. Men who might listen to an argument going to show...

W E are not sure that we altogether agree with Mr. Asquith upon the subject of autobiography. In the brilliant " lecture which" he - delivered on the 15th inst. at "the...

S URELY we are better than our grandfathers were! This is a reflection which will, we think, occur to every reader of a most amusing little book which has just been published...

C RITICISM of the useful kind is seldom otherwise than helpful, and this may be said of the suggestion made by Mr. M. Davenport Hill at the meeting of the Zoological Society on...

THE SUSPENSION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF CAPE COLONY. [TO THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—You reject, rightly in my opinion, the Rector of Graaff Reinet's conclusions. May I...

rTo THE Eprros OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Snour appreciative reference in the Spectator of Novem- ber 9th to the services rendered by Majors " Karri " Davies and Wools-Sampson has...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sllt,—In your very appreciative review in the Spectator of November 16th of "The Natives of South Africa," edited by the South African Native...

"SPECTATOR.") your readers will agree with you in the • hope that the Government are keeping clearly before them the question of land settlement in South Africa, which is so...

[To TUE EDLTOR OF THE "SPEOTATOR."] Sin,—At a political club in this neighbourhood there has recently been built an Eton fives-court, which has proved so successful that a short...

Sin,—In India there is a rise in the water level of wells in the hottest weather, which is analogous to the flow of water in dew ponds described in your article on this subject...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Srn,—I have read with interest the article on "Fog and Dew Ponds" which appeared in the Spectator of November 16th, and would venture to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sut,—People laugh at the generals who carry about with them while they pursue the nimble Boer a cooking-range and a piano. But these...

[[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR"] SIE,—In your article in the Spectator of November 16th headed "Soldier-Settlers for South Africa" you discuss the problem of settling men in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Surely Mr. Asquith was wrong in using, in his address at Edinburgh on Friday, the word " graze " as meaning to feed in a businesslike...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SP ECT ATOR."1 Sia,—When the late Canon Isaac Taylor spent some time at Biarritz twenty-one winters ago I had the following anec- dote from his own...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." 1 SIR, — Your analysis in the Spectator of November 16th of the three troubles that afflict the poor is very just. I will add another, which...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEETATOR.1 Sin,—It has struck me that, among other autobiographies, Lord Rosebery must have been, like myself, reading the autobiography of the Man in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sut,—I am one of those Members of Parliament who have no fault whatever to find with the general policy of the Unionist Government which we...

THE FUR-SEAL. WHERE earth's eternal fires have starred The bleak Aleutian Chain With smould'ring picquet-posts that guard The parting of the main, Sullen the clustered...

Sut,—I can fully endorse what you say about the folly of insisting on confession as a regular practice for children. When we were small our governess held those views, and the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR, — What Mr. Justice Stephen said was, that if the Creed is to go, the Sermon on the Mount will go with it.—I am,

" LINESMAN " ON THE WAR IN NATAL.* THE republication in book form of magazine articles cannot be commended as a universal rule, but it has seldom been more completely justified...

IT was Hazlitt's opinion that James Northcote talked better than any man he ever heard, and Hazlitt was an expert in the matter of conversation. He had known Lamb, and most...

THE Irish Monarch who never had dreamed in his life was advised to sleep a night in a pig-sty. He did so, and after- wards dreamed like other people. To meet a person who has...

ATTER all, the old fairy-tales are the best: they have " a way with them "that no modern imitators can attain to. Mr. Lang in his preface to The Violet Fairy - Book says "that...

and Stoughton. 6s.)—The story opens in America with the narrow escape from drowning of three children, two boys and a girl, who grow up into the principal characters. The girl...

• IRE FIRST MEN IN Itth MOON.* Narriuro is more characteristic of Mr. Wells's genius than the manner in which, while frankly admitting his indebted- ness to some previous...

6s.)—Mrs. Pilgrim and her daughter Shalisha lived in genteel poverty at Syden ham—the mother given up to ridiculous flirtations, the daughter to strenuous reaction against the...

Stoughton. 6s.)—There is something pleasant about this book, even though the slight thread of story is too thinly drawn out, and the characters are not strong enough to bear all...

(John Murray. 6s.)—Was this story written to show how nearly Mr. George Meredith's manner could be copied? Anyhow, the result is an interesting book, though some readers will be...

Lover's Progress is a book that evidently owes its existence to the not uncommon mistake by which simple-minded, yet complacent, people imagine that because a literary genius...

WHAT'S WHAT, 1002. What's What, 1902. By Harry Quilter, M.A. (Sonnenschein and Co. 6s. net.)—The first and most obvious criticism on this volume is that it is as the tower...

was a very charming young heiress who, wearying of facile successes and the interested attentions of detrimental aristocrats, determined to take a leaf out of the book of...

Journo2 of the African Society. (Macmillan and Co. 6s.) — It is seldom perhaps that a memorial takes the form which would have appealed most to the person commemorated. The...

[Under this heading we notice such Ihx,h4 of the week G4 have not beets reserved for review in other forms.] Natal Volunteer Record. (Robinson and Co., Durban, Natal.)— Here we...

and 8s. on India paper), The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, edited by Walter W. Skeet. Professor Skeet prefixes a "Life of Chaucer." (He inclines to believe that the Thomas...

Stoughton. 6s.)—We can imagine it possible that this book may be denounced as a fraud. Its contents do not exactly answer to the expectations that may be caused by its white...

Maxwell-Scott. (Longmans and Co. 6s. 6d. net.)—H. S. Kerr's father approached Rome by the usual road, and, as usual, he did not know whither he was going. The Gorham judgment...

vols. (T. Fisher Unwin. 21s. net.)—Barry Sullivan ran away from school before he was sixteen, and joined a strolling com- pany. This start was unlucky; but he soon found his...