this week been very great. The capture of the north fort of East Kee-kwan-sban was an event of great tactical importance, and it has been followed by the expulsion of the...

as the lifatin withholds the source of its information; but if it is not due to leakage, it must be the work of a political clairvoyant. Later reports assert that the Czar has...

What role would our Black Sea Fleet play ? Why, the same as that played by the remains of the fleet which we have at present in the Baltic. We might without hesitation send all...

the Czar issued no Manifesto on his fete day is generally regarded as of evil omen by the advocates of reform. Meanwhile the Maim of the 21st gives a long, circumstantial, and...

the North Sea incident, which should have taken place in Paris on Tuesday, was postponed till Thursday owing to the delay in arrival of the American delegate, Admiral Davis. On...

Reichstag have elicited a striking retort from M. Jaures. Writing in the Humanite of Monday, he condemns the German Chancellor for his senseless concessions to the growing...

Cor- porations, on the legal conditions under which Trusts are carried on in the various States, was laid before Congress on Wednesday, and proves to be a document of first-rate...

it did are rent and fuel and lighting. Here, however, it must be remembered that the housing accommodation is, as a whole, better in quality than twenty years ago. Very...

published last Saturday, is, as usual, interesting and hopeful reading. Order has been almost completely restored in the Kano and Sokoto provinces, the development of the land...

with the Opposition. On Friday evening last week he went to Vienna to seek the Royal approval for his policy. He has secured the King's consent to a Dissolution, which will be...

A small party under four officers were left behind to ascend the Tsangpo Valley and reach Gartok, one of the three marts provided by the Treaty, five hundred and ten miles...

own initiative are preparing a scheme under which some five thousand of the hardy seamen of the Canadian coasts, among the best sailors in the world, will be trained as a Naval...

equipped chiefly at the cost of Mr. Carnegie, at Plumstead on Saturday last, and delivered an interesting address. Demo- cracy, he observed, was government by public opinion,...

Monday, dealt trenchantly and effectively with Mr. Chamberlain's Limehouse speech. He pointed out that the only reply that his analysis of Mr. Chamberlain's Fiscal proposals in...

in the same hall at Limehouse in which Mr. Chamberlain delivered his speech on the previous Thurs. day. In canvassing Mr. Chamberlain's claims to speak for the Empire Sir Henry...

have ended in most confused and unsatisfac- tory action by the Magistrates. The Bench found that the defendant had sufficiently complied with some of the by-laws but not with...

with the power—possessed by nearly every othe r Government—to tell foreign nations that the conditions applied to our trade would regulate our treatment of their trade. The...

THE STATE OF THE ARMY. W E can assure our readers that it is with no sense of pleasure that we direct their attention to the state of the Army. As a Unionist newspaper which...

without a sense of uneasiness. They show two things very clearly,—first, that the anti-European feeling is growing stronger every day ; and next, that political anarchy is...

equipped with every destructive' invention of modern science. These high hopes were early shown to be un- founded. The from on the shore were unable to prevent the Japanese from...

success that commended to Mr. Arnold-Forster the decisive course he has taken. Had the sale been less brisk he might have allowed the book to remain unchanged. Instead of this,...

Mr. Schalk Burger, pointed the same moral. Israel might yet lead captivity captive if they remembered the example of their lost leader and looked to the consoli- dation and...

or in ethics, in worship or in charity ? It is im- possible to say, just as it is impossible to tell the precise position of the soul in the human body, or the place of God in...

claiming public attention, not the least im- portant is the depopulation of the rural districts. In certain circles the exodus is laid to the charge of compulsory edues.- tion,...

There is no such universal peace along the English shore as on the day that the ringers celebrate by the music of the bells. Every tiny fishing-boat comes home, and lies in the...

fTo THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOB."1 Sin,—The shortest answer I can give to Mr. David Maclver's bald assertion "that Protection had nothing whatever to do with the killing of...

THE WAR: BRITISH RISKS AND BRITISH PREPARATIONS. LTO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR." j Srn,—A few words of comment on your admirable article in the Spectator of December 10th,...

SLR,—The arithmetic of your correspondent "High Veld" in the Spectator of December 17th seems a little weak, and as you, Sir, appear rather to endorse than to correct it, I am...

at Shere on December 13th I observe that he states that the Indian import-duties are a " valuable weapon " in forcing foreign countries to treat Indian exports with greater...

decaying and disappearing indus- tries ! It recently became necessary to get the very finest' half-tone reproduction of a photograph taken by a leading photographic artist in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' Sin,—The grave has lately closed over the remains of the Rev. R. Bartlett, who was formerly said by his friends to be the most popular man...

Sin,—May I ask your help on behalf of an effort I am making to provide a Soldiers' Institute, with two trained ladies in charge, at Sialkote, one of the many cantonments in this...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR,—I had not meant to trouble you with a letter again so soon ; but the question of the possibility of South Africa as a white man's...

No precious things— Nor myrrh nor gold Of Eastern kings ; Though I've no part In gold or gem, Make Thou my heart Thy Bethlehem. WILFRID WILSON GIBSON.

to the above Fund, and have forwarded them to the County Gentleman :- The Rev. Dr. Abbott ... ... ill 1 0 R. H. Stevenson ... ... 55 0 0 Margaret Evans ... ... 1 1 0 Tom...

of the 10th inst. your writer has not given what always seems to me one of the most compressed definitions in literature of the attributes of a gentleman, that is, from the...

Sin,—It is unfortunate that these two interesting articles should have appeared in the Spectator on the same day. I enclose copies of the Newcastle Daily journal for the 19th...

Slit,—In the interesting review of the de Cr4quy Memoirs (published last May) which appeared in last week's Spectator considerable stress is laid on the uncertain authorship of...

collaborators in the great " Oxford History of Music" to say that the fifth volume, for which he is res- ponsible, is likely to appeal to a wider circle of readers than any of...

the Spectator of December 17th an allusion is made to the great dog of Ennerdale, in which it is stated that that animal was for several seasons destroying sheep. In Mr....

SIR,—While walking across St. James's Park on December 19th about 1 o'clock I was surprised to hear a song-thrush in full song. Is not this extraordinarily early for the thrush...

GUICCIARDINI and Gibbon, and other Olympians of the historical species, bad the habit of consigning their raw materials, when utilised, to the waste-paper basket. Dr. Rose,...

of the whole modern process of discovery. You have a land known long ago to the old world; visited at intervals during the Middle Ages by credulous travellers ; conquered, but...

the present article have little in common beyond the fact that they all deal with Nature and open-air studies or sports. At the one end of the row, as they lie before us on the...

of Mr. Chamberlain's followers is that they advocate a pro- gressive policy, and that their opponents have been successful hitherto owing to the reluctance of Englishmen in...

the well-known considerations on the subject as to attract the attention of practical men. This feat Professor Smart's work is admirably adapted to accomplish. He writes not...

A. NEW volume from Mr. W. W. Jacobs is always welcome, doubly so at Christmastide, when a reaction against the convention of cheerfulness has deprived us in great part of the...

By Hugh Clifford. (W. Blackwood and Sons. Os.)—In the first of these striking sketches Mr. Clifford touches on a problem which must constantly confront the men who rule over...

Co. 6s.)—Miss Sedgwick in her new novel gives admirable pictures of two types of men,—types which we are apt to think the invention of the end of the nineteenth century, but...

as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Studies in Religion and Literature. By W. S. Lilly. (Chapman and Hall. 12s. 6d. net.)—It is impossible not to ask, as one...

Possession of Ralph Brocklebank. (George Allen. £4 4e. net.)—This beautiful book is, in fact, an illustrated catalogue of a notable private collection. Only twenty-six of the...

by W. Sanderson. (A. and C. Black. '7s. 6d.)—The illustrations of this book, which are in colours and twenty in number, will probably be accounted even by patriotically Scotch...

Schelling. (T. Werner Laurie. 10s. net.)—Mr. Schelling has put together some interesting studies and sketches from the later Tudor period. Some of the matter will be familiar to...

net.)—This is a handsome volume written by one who, it is evi- dent, has studied the Emersonian philosophy to good purpose. On that portion of the book we cannot dwell. We may...

and Co., 7s. 6d.), contains the record, with place, names of com- manders, numbers, and date, of some fifteen or sixteen hundred battles, from the earliest times down to the...

Laurie. 6s. net.)—This is a carefully prepared book which must have cost much labour, probably very agreeable labour, in the collecting of necessary materials. We willingly...

Burke. (Harrison and Sons. 42s.)—The preface to this, the sixty- seventh edition, is of more than usual interest. The editor points out that for the year just past no creation...

and Sutherland Highlanders. By A. H. Middleton, Colonel. (Eneas Mackay. 10s. 6d.)—This record will be interesting to many people. The Third Battalion represents the...

6d. net.)—The definition of life at which Mr. Hibbert arrives is this : "Life is not energy, but an unceasing non-factorial directive control of it and its transformations." The...

Lion Court, E.C. ld.)—Mr. Keir Hardie's figures baffie us. He takes the Board of Trade Returns, and deduces from them, on "a very moderate estimate," a total of '750,000...

(Marshall Brothers. 6s.)—Mr. Geil is, as many of our readers are aware, a man who thinks what he likes and says what he thinks. He has a good deal to tell us about modern...

(Elliot Stock. 5s.)—This volume contains twenty-two essays which have appeared in the columns of the Spectator, and therefore cannot be commented on in these columns ; but...

lullings and the relishes of it ; The propositions of hot blood and brain ; What mirth and music mean, what love and wit Have done these many hundred years and more." And...