not the qualities that make men love their possessor. We have drawn the picture of a good, noble-hearted woman, but of one who kindles not so much affection, as veneration and...

T HE Queen died at Osborne on Tuesday at half-past six in the evening, surrounded by her children and grandchildren, among whom was the German Emperor. To describe the nature of...

in state in London, but that she shall be buried at Windsor on Satur- day, February 2nd. On Friday, February 1st, the body will be removed from Osborne to Windsor. The funeral...

proceeded to London, and at St. James's Palace held his first Council. Previous to the Cpuncil a proclamation was approved by "the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of this Realm,...

the hold she had upon her people, and made her the object of such reverence to a race not given to veneration, but by nature inclined to be critical and undemonstrative. We...

case.

the nation's loss expressed at home and throughout the Empire. We were as sure of it as that the sun would rise on Wednesday morning. But though we were almost as certain that...

on the death of the Sovereign, Parliament, if adjourned or prorogued, shall at once meet and sit, both Houses met on Wednesday afternoon to take the oath of allegiance to the...

Bi- , tentenary celebrations were still unfinished. But the Emperor, with the rapidity of decision peculiar to him, started off imme- diately for Osborne, and remained there...

in which the Constitution places him, and his qualifi- cations for fulfilling his great trust. We will only say here that nothing could be of better omen than his speech. It...

by the Colonies, by India, and the United States, has been at once universal and profound. Never has there been such a unanimity of admiration in the Press, or such warmth in...

Men • attacked the Associations Bill in a long and eloquent speech. He began by impugning the accuracy of the Prime Minister's statistics as to the French congregations, but,...

in the Gazette. We give it verbatim Your Royal Highnesses, my Lords, and Gentlemen,—This is the most painful occasion on which I shall ever be called upon to address you. My...

in the extreme. The cause is partly that the attention of the correspondents and news agents has been relaxed, but still more that Lord Kitchener's large and comprehensive...

bad retired from the political arena since 1885, was not the least eminent representative of the Piedmontese family which came to France in the train of Mazarin, and gave the...

solicitors, was sentenced at the Old Bailey on Tuesday to twelve years' penal servitude. The trial was the inevitable sequel of the collapse of last July, when Mr. Lake became...

the clergy, which was published on Monday. The con- dition of the Church causes, they say, very great anxiety in those to whom by God's will its government is appointed. "All...

on Tuesday. The Commissioners record their judgment that, reviewing the campaign as a whole, it can- not be said that the medical or hospital arrangements have broken down, that...

treated after the manner of the Prussian drill-sergeant to the recruit (i.c, with a "Hound, you mutiny ") will call this utterance weak. To us it seems wise, moderate,...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 961.

THE QUEEN'S BEST MONUMENT. W HAT will be the best monument for the Queen We have no hesitation as to our answer,—a firm resolve made by all the men and women in the nation,...

Queen has given a shock to the English-speaking peoples, a shock as of some im- mense and painful surprise, which is not due entirely to their affection for the dead, deep and...

his first public utterance,—the speech to his Privy Council. And he struck the right note, not merely through the exercise of that tact for which he is renowned, but from his...

T HE current number of the Edinburgh Ream in an article on "Our South African Troubles" judiciously reviews the whole question, and discusses with much fairness the schemes of...

week of Bishop Creighton's death, and of the share that overwork probably had in causing it, we made two suggestions as to the best way of lighten- ing a Bishop's work. But...

M UCH has been said and will be said respecting the character and life-work of the Queen from the political point of view. But, apart from the question of her embodiment of the...

O F all the animals that play important parts in the litera- ture of childhood, none, perhaps, excites such interest (of the fearful type) as does the wolf. The bear (with his...

W HEN Henry Plantagenet had good reason to think that the Count of Flanders would land in Suffolk with an armada, while he himself was on commando in France, he hurried on the...

LINKS WITH THE PAST. (To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] Srn,—I am one of those who remember old Lady Aldborough and her jokes. She was a very pretty old person, and went,...

paying one among many visits to Monsieur Guizot at Val Richer, his country house in Normandy, the conversation turned upon "links with the past," and he related to us the...

Sfit,—Before bidding farewell to Lady Aldborough I am tempted to give an extract from the late Lord StanhOpe's Conversations with the Duke of Wellington." The Dtzke said...

SIR,—Your correspondent, the Hon. D. F. Fortescue, calls attention to the case of Lady Carew, as furnishing a living "link with the past" of singular interest. He might,...

SIR,—Your correspondent, "C. J. L.," has omitted the most remarkable "link with the past" in his letter referring to the Macnaghten family. Sir Stewart Macnaghten, youngest...

I was a boy of ten or t welve years of age, I used to go sea-fishing with an old boat- man, whom I remember looking upon with great awe on account of his reputed age,—eighty....

Smr–Under the docket, "Links with the Past," your corre- spondent, R. St. J. Corbet, alludes to certain fortunate recipients of the kisses of the great Duke and Disraeli....

SIR,—In the spring of 1898 I visited in Jersey a clergyman, then ninety-five years old, who had officiated at my grand- father's funeral in 1830. In the course of conversation...

Coke of Norfolk, as he then was, was born in 1755, the year before the beginning of the Seven Years' War.—I am, Sir, &e., C. M.

Francis Macnaghten's statement, "My father led his troop at the battle of the Boyne," my father, who often heard him say this, told us that the tenant yeomen of the...

can remember Lady Louisa Stuart, the last surviving daughter of the Prime Minister John, Earl of Bute. She died in 1851, and could remember John, Earl Ligonier, Minister of War...

SrR,—When I was a little girl in the early " fifties " I was often told by a Miss Penelope Green, then aged about sixty, that she recollected being patted on the head by...

SIR,—The late Rev. Gilbert Wall Heathcote, Sub-Warden and Fellow of Winchester College, who was living in 192, for I remember be kept his golden wedding that year, bad, when a...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Your two paragraphs in the Spectator of last week alluding to Mr. Baliour's speech at Haddington on the union of the Free and United...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—First of all I beg to join issue with your correspondent, Mr. J. G. Hutchinson, that your remarkable article in the Spectator of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SER,—The account in Lord Rosebery's book about Napoleon's conversation recalls to my mind an anecdote which was told me some sixty years...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sru,—May I, as an appreciative reader who derives much instruction from the Spectator, and as a rule concurs in its political sentiments,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") S1R,—In 1887, while working in London as a curate to Rev. Canon Fleming, I was called in ray vicar's absence to ad- minister a religious...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sntr —" Inquirer " in your issue of January 5th "cannot help wondering how they [i.e., War Office officials] fill up thei r tune." Listen!...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sra,—The article on "Old-Age Pensions and a Home Defence Reserve which appeared in the Spectator of January 12th con- tains the most...

"SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Does not the 15th Psalm, which is usually known as the Gentleman's Psalm, accurately describe what a gentle- man one who lea.deth an =corrupt life,...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the Spectator of January 19th in the article on "Drill and Discipline" I find the following :—" If a plain and unornamented dress...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Szn,—In your notice of "Conferences on Books and Men" (Spectator, January 19th) the reviewer renders a good service to the English language...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Dean Stanley deserves quotation at this moment :— "Henry's first-born was the first of that long series of Edwards,' which, though...

[To THE EDITOR OP.THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your interesting article on "France and Revolution reminds me of a criticism by Lord Tennyson which I always thought an admirable...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The following extract from "On Popular Names of British Plants, being an Explanation of the Origin and Meaning of the Names of our...

[To THE EDITOR OP TEE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—If the painful revival recently given to the memory of Sir Hudson Lowe be not too far receded out of mind, perhaps this extract from...

TO OUR MOTHER. 0 PURE and true, 0 faithful heart, Dear mother of our myriad race, The Father claims thee,—His thou art— Far hence, in some serener place, To taste, in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —In your interesting review of "Turkey in Europe," by "Odysseus" (Spectator, January 19th), there is an am- biguous sentence which...

That comes to all, has come to thee ; And welcome was the late release That set the weary prisoner free. For thou from sun to sun hest reigned, Thy name is borne on every breath...

JOSEPH JOACHIM. • Joseph Joachim. By Andreas Moser. Translated by Lilla Durluun. London Philip Wellby. BIOGRAPHIES of living persons are not to be commended as a rule, for...

MR. BlTLLEN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY.* AITTOBIOGRAPHIES of living people are always delicate matter for criticism to handle, especially when they are written from a religious point of...

Mn. LLOYD and Mr. Childers tell the story of the same cam- paign and of the same force, but there is a notable difference between them. This difference is naturally due to the...

THESE two volumes of Janssen's History involve an examirno tion of the Reformation in Germany from a strong Catholic point of view. It goes without saying that the movement...

be referred to the category of fiction, is destitute of the element which attracts most readers of romance. There is not only no love interest in the narrative, but not a single...

THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. "The Settlement of South Africa" is, perhaps, the most inter- esting paper in a remarkably interesting Qasrterly. The first section of the article deals...

Army Reorganisation. Reprinted from Blackwood's Magasine. (W. Blackwood and Sons. 4d.)—This is a striking pamphlet on Army reform written by one who is evidently an officer of...

The January number of the Bibliothegue Universelle (London Hachette), the ablest and sanest of the Swiss monthla reviews, contains some striking comments on the real sig-...

We think the best article in the new Edinburgh—except that on South Africa, dealt with elsewhere—is "Madame du Deffand and her Friends." That wonderful woman of the world...

The Economic Review for January contains an article by Mr. George Mathieson on " Some Economic Aspects of the Sugar Problem," to which we would direct the attention of those who...

I - Under this heading notice such Books of the luck as 1.41Ne not 6een reserved for reviete in other forms.] often said, the practice of writing biographies of living...

Mannering (T. Nelson and Sons, 2s.)—Sermons on the Books of the Bible, by the late F. J. A. Hort, D.D. (Macmillan and Co., 3s. 6d.), reprinted from the volume of "Village...

fifty - eighth) • of Thom's Official Directory (Alexander Thom and Co., 21s.) This volume, consisting of two thousand pages, furnishes the usual information found in...

Great Queen. Street, W.C. ; and Published by JOHN Barra for the." t3ezerAron " (Limited) at their Office, No.1 Wellington Street, in the Precinct of the SAT0y, Strand, in the...

TO Tht *putator No. 3,787.] FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1901. r T R A R N 5 S G S: S I S T S E I R O E N D ATE R O D 15 GR ATIS.

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A, TRAMP. IF only the author of this book, whose previous works entitle him to be regarded as the Scottish Jefferies, had had a little of the English...

LONDON : JANUARY 26th, 1001.

No memory of Cairo is more abiding than that of the great mosque of Sultan Hazen. It forms a chief feature in so many views that one cannot escape it. Going up to the Citadel,...

in English letters, and no generation passes without many an instance of its successful working. And yet no manner is more difficult for high success. It is so easy to be...

DANIEL O'CONNELL. Daniel O'Connell, and the -Revival of National Life,in . Ire14)01, By Robert Dunlop. (Putnam's Sons. 53.)—Mr. Dunlop. is beat known to students of Irish...

Seventy Years at Westminster : with other Letters and Notes of the Late Right Hon. Sir J. Mowbray,M.P. Edited by his Daughter. (W. Blackwood and Sons. 7s. 6d.)—Sir John...

Handbook for Egypt. Edited by Mary Brodrick, Ph.D. Tenth Edition. (John Murray.)—Mr. Murray has once more brought his Egyptian handbook up to date, for though the ninth...

A Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans. By Joseph Agar Beet, D.D. (Hodderand Stoughton. 73. 6d.)—Dr. Beet has, he tells us, rewritten this, the ninth edition, of his...

The Despatches and Correspondence of John, Second Earl of Buckinghamshire, Ambassador to the Court of Catherine II. of Russia, 1762 - 1765. Edited for the Royal Historical...

Heredity and Human Progress. By W. Duncan McKim, M.D., Ph.D. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 6s.)—Dr. McKim will have none of the complacent doctrine that the world is progressing...

Theodore Bc'ea, the Counsellor of the French Reformation, 1519 - 1605. By Henry Martyn Baird. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 6s) —Mr. Baird contributes a Life of Bezs, to the "Heroes...

A Critical Examination of Irish History. By T. Dunbar Ingram, LL.D. 2 vols. (Longmans and Co. 24s.)—Dr. Ingram thinks that Englishmen are far too prone to condemn themselves....

Thomas Sydenham. By Joseph Frank Payne, M.D. (T. Fisher Unwin. 3s. 6d.)—Bacon once defined knowledge as "a rich Storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's...

the huge modern cosmopolitan caravanserai has been introduced with its stereotyped cookery and accommodation, nothing is more characteristic of a country than its inns. Miss...

Essays in Illustration of the Action of Astral Gravitation in Natural Phenomena. By William Leighton Jordan. (Longmans and Co. 9s.)—Mr. Jordan's book is too curious an example...

The Representative Significance of Form : an Essay on Comparative rEsthetics. By George Lansing Raymond. (Putnam's Sons. 9s.) —In a large experience of reviewing we have never...

The Old Dramatists : Conjectural Readings. By K. Deighton. (Thacker, Spink, and Co., Calcutta. 5s.)—This is a continuation of the series of emendations by Mr. Deighton,...

Problems in Ethics ; or, Grounds for a Code of Rules for Mora Conduct. By John Steinfort Kedney. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. Gs.)—This is a very thoughtful and admirable work. It is...

L•etteres on Some of the Physical Properties of Sol. By Robert Warington, M.A. (The Clareudon Press, Oxford. 68.)—The con- tents of this volume, with the exception of the...

The Coming of Peace : a Family Catastrophe. By Gerhart Hauptmann. Translated by Janet Achurch and C. E. Wheeler. (Duckworth and Co. 3s. Gd. net.)—Miss Achurch in her preface...

Cinguante Ans d'Amitie r: Michelet - Quinet, 1825 - 1375. Par Mme Edgar Quinet. (Armand Colin et Cie., Paris.)—This volume is, in fact, a sequel to those which Mme. Quinet has...

A Cyclist's Note - Book. By A. W. Rumney. (W. and A. K Johnston.) — The cycling expert is apt to be an inhuman creature, with a soul set upon record-breaking, and a general...

Education and the Philosophical Ideal. By Horatio W. Dresser. (G. P. Putaam's Sons. 5s.)—An interesting, though at times Education and the Philosophical Ideal. By Horatio W....

(Smith, Elder, and Co. This little book provides light entertainment for idle half-hours. The essays it contains . are gracefully written, and while they hardly aspire to be...

A Walk Through the Zoological . Gardens. By F. G. Atialo, F.Z.S. Illustrated. (Sands and Co. 3s. 6d.)—Mr. Aflalo has an extensive acquaintance with the ways ot animals, both...

Suicide. By Rev. J. Gainhill, :(Longemas and Co. 6s.)—This is an earnest and useful book. It is- written avowedly . . from the standpoint of the Christian Socialist,." to whom...

street songs of Scotland ; our only complaint is that he does not keep near enough to his original purpose. He has included mans ballads, such as the "Bonny House o' Airlie "...

Desiderius Erasmus : In Praise of Folly. With Illustrations after Hans Holbein and a Portrait. Together with "A Life of Erasmus" and his "Epistle, Addressed to Sir Thomas More."...

The Works of Bishop Butler. Edited by the Rev. J. H. Bernard. 2 vols. (Macmillan and Co. 7s. 6d. net per vol.)—The first of the two volumes contains the Sermons, Charges,...

Rectorial Addresses Delivered at Edinburgh. With an Introduc- tion by Archibald Stodart-Walker, M.B. (Grant Richards. 7s. 6d.)—The Lord Rectorship, as it exists at present,...

The Middle Ages Revisited. By Alex. Del Mar. (The Cam- bridge Encyclopedia Company, New York. 3 dols.)—This is one of those treatises the elaborate character of which is some-...

net.)—Mr. McCurdy's essays are graceful, refined, and rather un- interesting. He has joined that body of writers who endeavour to express in words the diversified beauty of...