expedition to China. A. vote was asked for on Monday during the discussion on the Estimates, and the new Chancellor, Count von Biilow, made a most effective speech. He at once...

assiduously , prepared, by _the Clericals and Reactionaries of France, came off, after several disappointments :Caused by weather, at 11.30 on Thursday. A vast crowd assembled...

almost unintelligible. The Government, according to the usual exponents of its views, is unwilling to quit the Concert, but considers that' the terms demanded by that Concert...

It appears that the expedition is mist unpopular in France, • as causing expenditure and involving'indefinite risks, and the French Premier in his speech to the Chamber on...

NV E hold the life of the Czar in the present conjuncture of affairs to be of the highest importance to Europe, and the latest telegrams do not, we regret to say, entirely...

un- changed. - The Boers still show great activity in the South and East of the Orange River Colony, where four commandos vary- ing from five hundred to a thousand men are said...

ease.

made a rather remarkable speech at Leith last Saturday night. The pith of his address, in which the difficulties of Parliamentary life were set forth with the utmost candour,...

that rival nations are outstripping us in commerce mainly because they are educated in more modern fashion. That more care, harder work, and more pliability of the American sort...

Glasgow University, a brilliant speech, which has subse- quently been distributed as a pamphlet. As a literary effort it was fully worthy of his reputation, and it will, we...

sad letter from the seat of war. It is signed Ellie Cronje, and describes in strangely temperate words the destruction of her farmhouse by a British Colonel whose name is...

the Southern Railway of France close to St. Geours, near Dax, between Bayonne and Bordeaux. The express from Madrid. the fastest 1one-distance train in the world, was derailed...

near Thabanchu, published in Thursday's papers, are full of interest. There is a good picture of De Wet, as a man of medium height, with a reddish beard, and little fiery eyes....

the age of fifty-eight, of Sir Arthur Sullivan, the most popular British composer of the century. Years before the Savoy triumvirate was formed we ventured to predict in these...

to his constituents. We cannot agree, as we have said else- where, with his praise of Lord Rosebery's speech at Glasgow, except as a splendid literary effort ; or wish, as he...

the construction of the " rows " in Chester, has naturally attracted a good deal of attention. In this scheme the ordinary street footway and shops would remain, but on the top...

of Appeal, overruling Mr. Justice Farwell's decision in the Taff Valley Railway case. The Judge in vacation was asked for an interim injunction against the Amalgamated Society...

in the Rotunda, Dublin, on Tuesday, Lord Dafferin, who presided, paid an eloquent tribute to the services of the guest of the evening. Mr. Plunkett, he said, had indisputably...

College, Liverpool, and the Yorkshire College, Leeds, has taken the first step towards a very important development of its work. At a meeting of its Court, held last week, it...

New Consols (2i) were on Friday 98i.

LORD ROSEBERY'S GREAT SPEECH. T HERE ara two minds in Lord Rosebery, the one which governs his action and the other which generates his thoughts, and it is as difficult to...

T HE German Emperor has evidently obtained in Count von Billow the Chancellor he desired. Adroit, obedient, and, we fear we must add, a little unscrupulous, with a full command...

P OSSIBLY half-conscious that, as regards the personal impressiveness of its leadership, Irish Nationalism in him touches bottom, Mr. William O'Brien appears desirous of cutting...

Bank case came to an end on Monday, when the jury returned a verdict of "Guilty" against the director Nelson and the manager Shimmon on the charge of misappropriating the bank...

M R. FREDERIC HARRISON has decidedly the best of the argument in the correspondence about the new street which is to connect Holborn with the Strand. It has often been said that...

W E are all accustomed to think that there are no limits to the realm of fancy, but, in truth, there is no dominion which is more strictly limited. Even the poets and the...

iur EMBERS of the C.I.V. who did not suffer by the 1,J_ change from town life to the open air and hardships of the campaign complain that the return to London has already...

I T is a century since Macaulay was born, and nearly forty years since he died. Sir Richard Jebb's estimate, so eloquent and yet discriminating, so warm in feeling and yet...

"HOOLIGANISM." [To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The Dean of St. Paul's' inquiry in the Spectator of November 10th is trenchant and good. But if it be carried out it...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "Serctsroa.") SIR,—Your interesting remarks in the Spectator of Novem. ber 10th about Huxley's preference of hell (in moderation) to utter extinction very...

Sin,—Mr. Bradley tells us of the remarkable success of educational workshops in Sweden in enabling and inducing boys to live healthy and useful lives. I think it may be useful...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE 'SPECTATOR.'] SIR, —In your interesting article in the Spectator of Novem- ber 17th under the above heading you observe, and I think very justly, that...

your well-known fairness with regard to some expressions in your article on "Ritualism and Prose- cution " ? (1) There are no doubt foolish clergymen as well as foolish laymen,...

Srs,—In your leader on "Ritualism and Prosecution" (November 17th) you say, " The question whether or not the Bishop possesses a veto under the Act of 1840 is not perfectly...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") Si,—Will you allow me a small space for comment on Mr. Gainsford's letter in the Spectator of November 17th ? I shall not trouble you...

(To TEl EDITOR OP TEl "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—I should like to emphasise one or two of your argu- ments (Spectator, November 17th) in favour of supporting the Archdeacons' memorial....

Sra,—May I add to "W. W.'s " parallel to Professor Huxley's expressed horror of annihilation the following lines from my old friend Thomas Cooper's not-yet-forgotten poem, the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I was discussing the future of the Liberal party with a distinguished Colonial visitor not long ago, and my friend said: "Probably we...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your article on "The Eyesight of Savages" (Spectator, November 17th), which takes as its text Sir Redvers Buller's statement that the...

Sin,—The article on "The Eyesight of Savages" in your issue of the 17th inst. recalled to my mind the following extract from Darwin's "Naturalist's Voyage Round the World." He...

written on this question (Spectator, November 17th) is there not some confusion between vision and interpretation ? It is probable that the average British soldier in South...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I shall be glad if you will permit me to correct one or two inaccuracies in the review of Mr. Jackson's "Study of Dr. Martineau." It is...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I through the medium of your columns call attention to a practice which, to my mind, tends to subvert the fine justice which has so...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Surely the explanation of the ill-feeling between Napoleon and Sir Hudson Lowe is to be found in the fact that neither of them was a...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I wonder if many readers were struck, as I was, by the following passage in Mr. Morley's "Oliver Cromwell." Mr. Morley, after saying...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Si,—Am I right in suggesting that it was Professor Huxley, and not Mr. Jesse Collings, as stated in your admirable review of" Professor...

(To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Whatever was the tongue in which Mr. Gladstone addressed the inhabitants of the Ionian Islands, I know that my friend, the late E. A....

THE "AGAMEMNON" AT CAMBRIDGE. THE Greek• Play Committee at Cambridge are to be con- , Yratulated alike on their choice and their achievement. The amount of energy, patience,...

A MEADOW. THERE is a meadow in the West, Green, open to the sun and air : A thrill of joy, a throbbing breast, I could not cross it but in prayer. It glittered like a fleece...

MR. LESLIE STEPHEN ON UTILITARIANISM.* UmrrAniaxiszs was essentially an English product. The English interest in philosophy is not speculative, but practical, as was the Roman....

THE Life of the Baroness de Bode, which Mr. Childe-Pemberton gives us as far as possible from the lady's own letters, was well worth writing. Doubtless many a country house in...

A. YEAR ago, when the country was awakening to the serious- ness of the war in South Africa, there was urgent demand for books about the Boers. Several books of great interest...

deal of the French touch and the French spirit. He loves Italy better than France, it is true, and one of the best things he can find to say of a French ' town—La Rochelle, for...

IT may be that amongst the hundred and twenty-five novels still awaiting notice on our shelves some work of uncommon talent may reveal itself to gladden the heart of the...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Statistical Returns of the Egyptian Government, 1880-1899 (National...

THE THIRD SALISBURY GOVERNMENT. The Third Salisbury Administration, 1895-1900. By H. Whales. (Vacher and Sons. 15s. net.)—We expect a compilation of this sort to be a...

Adrian Hofmeyr. (E. Arnold. 6s.)—Mr. Hofmeyr tells us that the greater part of this story was written in prison, and that this fact accounts for many "seemingly hard words." It...

and Selected Poems. By George Meredith. (A. Constable and Co. 3s. 6d. net each volume.)—It was well to publish in pocket editions two of Mr. Meredith's most charming short...

Swoboda by Lionel D. Barnett, M.A. (J. M. Dent and Co. is. 6d.)—This is one of the series of "Temple Primers," and seems admirably adapted for its purpose. More could not have...

Organ, B.A. (E. J. Arnold and Son, Leeds. Ss. 6d. net.)—It will be sufficient to quote the sub-title of this volume, " A Manual for the Use of Members of School Boards, School...

Murray. 7s. (id.)—Mr. Cornish has made a large selection from many quarters. He begins with the Iliad, giving the great debate in Assembly in I., the OaptcrrUs of Andromache and...

and Co. 12s. 6d. net.)—The first Jubilee was proclaimed by Pope Boniface VIII. in 1300 A.D.; perhaps we should say the first on record, for there are hints of an earlier...

2s. 6d. net.)—This is a very interesting little volume, con- taining a great amount of information, collected, it is clear, with no small pains and research. Miss Swan gives...

Casaubon. Edited, with Introduction, Appendix, and Glossary, by W. H. D. Rouse (J. M. Dent. 7s. 6d.)— This is a handsome volume, not unworthy of its subject matter. There is not...

(Nisbet and Co. 2s. 6d.)—We are accustomed to take a liberal discount off what Mr. Stead says, and the rate is not likely to be diminished when his subject is Mrs. Booth. "Some...

Norgate. 4s. 6d.)—Mr. Beeby, who is a beneficed clergyman, and, it may be remembered, the cause of a little difficulty between the Bishop of Worcester and Lord Beauchamp, pleads...

M.D. (Macmillan and Co., 7s. 61), we have the second volume, treating of "Diseases Caused by Parasites," "Diseases Determined by Poisons," "Primary Perversions of Nutrition,"...

(London School Atlas Company. 3s. 6d.)—The maps are physical and political. Obviously, then, the insertion and omission of details must be determined both by geographical and...