ambuscading of a troop of Bethune's Horse, which, though from a military point of view quite unimportant, is a humiliat- ing episode. General Buller has now driven the Boers...

a very determined attempt was made to carry Mafeking by assault. The Boers, led by Commandant Eloff, entered and set fire to the native stadt, and captured the B.S.A. Police...

THOUGH the news of the relief of Mafeking was only re- ceived late on the Friday night, it was known to the greater part of the country at once, and it was only a minority of...

Mafeking can be briefly told. The relief column under Brigadier-General Mahon left Vryburg on May 11th. They had on the 13th to fight a severe engagement in dense bush with a...

scanty in detail,—a sure sign that the Commander-in- Chief in South Africa has some large operation in procesa of development. On Friday the latest telegrams from the front...

ease.

last Sunday, and the spectators, who numbered some four thousand, seem to be unanimous in saying that it has not deteriorated. The acting of the new Christ, Anton Lang, is...

the Reichstag. Under pressure from the Clerical party, and, it is reported, from the Emperor, who abhors license, the Ministry supported a Bill called, from its framer, the Lox...

majority. H. de Cassagnae had made a speech implying that as Paris had gone Nationalist the Government stood condemned. M. Waldeck - Rousseau replied by quoting the really...

Delegations which illustrates the peculiar position of the Austrian Empire. The real anxiety of the delegates was to know what was happening within the Balkan Peninsula, Was...

is giving trouble in China. Its central purpose is anti-foreign, and its method is to raise riots, during which foreigners are threatened and Christian converts murdered...

has promised to introduce two measures of great import- ance, one a severe law against the libelling of Officials, and the other an Income-tax, and many of its own supporters...

girl of thirteen named Araten, who had disappeared from her father's house in Cracow, was found in a convent, and its inmates refused to deliver her up. Although the law is...

to Washington. Mr. Hay, the Secretary of State, has asked them to luncheon as "distinguished strangers "; but when they were received by the President they made no mention of...

Two Irish lawyers are made Peers,—Lord Morris, the ex-Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, and Sir Peter O'Brien. Sir Richard Webster also becomes a Peer, and Lord Strathcona is given a...

on the sound and reasonable compromise arrived at by them, and announced in the House of Commons on Monday night. It is that in all cases other than those where purely...

Daily Mail of Tuesday, from the pen of the American war- correspondent, Mr. Julian Ralph. The change in the men was "instant and bone-deep " when it became known he was coming...

vacancy caused by Sir Richard Webster's elevation to the Bench has resulted in the return of the Unionist candidate, Captain Seely, by a majority of 1,062 over his opponent, Mr....

Bill in the House of Lords on Tuesday. The measure proposed that two-thirds of the shopkeepers in any locality should be authorised if they thought fit to memorialise the local...

of gunnery experiments which will delight the schoolboy side of every man in the nation. The old and useless coast. defence ship, the ' Belleisle,' with her guns on board, sur-...

Friday 101/.

THE RELIEF OF MAFEKING. A N instinct common not only to all who speak English, but to all civilised mankind, has made of the relief of Mafeking an important event. The place...

I N spite of the claims of war news, a good deal of space has been found by the newspapers during the last few weeks for telegraus about Morocco, always insisting on two...

very striking contribution sent to the Times of Thursday by their Bloemfontein correspondent should once and for all settle the question whether the Boers did or did not aspire...

of Australia a free nation within the Empire passed its second reading on Monday without a division, and we wonder how many of the cheering Members, who felt vaguely that they...

S IR HENRY CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN said no more than the bare truth when he described Mr. Gladstone as having "an undefinable something which seemed to raise him out of the ordinary...

are asking in all sincerity, and even with some anxiety, whether it is possible that the character of the English people is materially changing. They are, such inquirers say,...

TT may perhaps be taken as a sign of the twinges of conscience still latent in our civilisation that both the House of Commons and the German Reichstag should be employed at the...

.L1_ gave old keeper at one of the new trout-rearing fisheries gave it as his opinion that the great success of the enterprise was due to precedent. "Fish," he said, were a deal...

MONDAY'S ECLIPSE. (TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sui,—Among the astronomical phenomena of the present year it will assuredly be a case of "eclipse first." The attention...

A SERIOUS DEFECT IN THE NAVY. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] Sin,—Your correspondent, "Sober Fact," in the Spectator of May 12th has touched the real sore that is eating...

Sin,—The issues involved in the above question are too grave, too manifold, and too varied in all their aspects to allow of an equitable and just settlement being arrived at...

SIa,—Your appreciative notice of the reprints from the East Anglian Daily News of the letters on the Victoria League and rifle-shooting in the Spectator of May 19this very...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR:) would, with your permission, supplement my letter in the Spectator of May 19th with one or two words which are suggested by your comment. I...

in the Spectator of May 19th, writes :—" It is a mistake to set up a new shooting body. Why not make him aVohmteer outright? If he is eventually to fight, drill him now." But...

Sin,—I am fully in accord with Earl Cowper's sensible letter in your issue of May 19th, and with your remark thereon that Volunteer corps are more useful to the nation than...

Ste,—I cannot help thinking that the advocates of rifle clubs are making a great mistake in suggesting that there should be a close connection with the Army or Volunteer Force....

letter in the Spectator of May 19th with much interest, and with equal interest your reply thereto, in which I notice, with satisfaction, that you. stick to your guns re the...

SIR,—Some months ago I wrote thanking you for the support you were giving to the rifle-club movement. I pointed out then that I (in common with nearly all men engaged in retail...

[To THE EDITOR OF TIIF. "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Permit me, as a regimental officer, to wish you every success in your endeavour to bring about the Rowton system of housing for our...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] doubt if " nightgown " in eighteenth-century parlance meant "evening-dress." At all events, it can scarcely do so in the following passages,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TRH “sracrsroa. - 1 Si,—Is it too late to appeal for a more liberal subscription to the Indian Famine Fund ? Money is urgently wanted to enable the ryots to...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] StR, — Your article upon England and America in the Spectator of April 14th is both true and timely. With refer- ence to the criticism which...

THE "SPECTATOR."] have just been reading in the Spectator of May 19th an able and interesting review of the Life of Sir John Molten°, the first Premier of Cape Colony, whose...

[TO IRS EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin, — Shall I be presuming too much upon the tolerance of the Spectator if I venture to suggest that the few lines de- voted in your issue...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—May I be allowed to remark on a statement in the article with the above heading in your issue of May 5th ? Your writer, touching the...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—My attention has been called to an article in the Spectator of April 21st headed "The Italian Trouble in New York." The Spectator is...

THE MESSAGE OF THE BELLS. RING out from all your rocking spires, Let chime on chime repeat The news that lights the festal fires Along the crowded street! A bright new word...

THE ACADEMY.-111. THE sculpture at the Academy this year is, with one exception, less interesting than usual. The exception is the equestrian statue with its pedestal and...

MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL'S LETTERS ON THE WAR.* Mn. W INSToN Onunenum's letters from the front were well worth reprinting, for they are a good deal more than mere battle pictures....

MR. MACPHERSON is a vigorous writer of no little original power, and if we cannot take the same exalted . view of Mr. Spencer's philosophy as a whole which he takes, at least We...

so many ways that we deplore the obstacles which he has set in the way of its success. First of all, there is the title. Nobody reading on the cover " The Golden Horseshoe"...

THE "Tudor Translations" have aimed at reprinting those wonderful Elizabethan versions of foreign classics which have in themselves the merits of original literature. In Sir...

THE contents of Mr. Edgar Turner's volume, The Girl with the .Feet of Clay, are somewhat ill-assorted—ranging from tragic idylls to the wildest burlesque—and of vary- * (1.)...

History of the People of the Netherlands. By Petrus Johannes Blok. Part II., 'From the Beginning of the Fifteenth Century to 1559." (Putnam's Sons, New York. 2 dolls. 50...

Duckworth. (S.P.C.K. is.) —Mr. Duckworth's little book (the reprint of a lecture delivered at Oxford and Cambridge) dees with an inter- esting subject. We do not remember the...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have - not teen reserved for review in other forms.) Burma. By Max and Bertha Ferrara. (Sampson Low, Mar- ston, and Co....

M.A. (Longmans and Co. 10s.) — General Venables was sent by Cromwell in 1655 on an expedition to the West Indies. Hispaniola and jiaièa were his objective. The attack on the...

to an important theological professorship in the University' of Aberdeen, has summed up in a systematic fashion and with almost perfect lucidity of style the results of recent...

and Co. 25s.)—Certain heroic, and still more, pathetic, incidents of the war in South Africa have directed attention once more to our Highland regiments. In that case such a...

by J. Rendel Harris, B.D. (Cambridge University Press. 5s.)—The editor provisionally pronounces this to be "an Edema document of the middle of the eighth century." The title is...

(G. Bell et F. 9s. net.)—This third volume contains six poets and the /Etna Incerti Auctoris. Cora. paring its contents with the corresponding portion of Walker's "Corpus," we...

and Sons) we have Cicero in Caiiiinant. I. - IV., by H. W. Auden, M.A. (Is. 6d.) Mr. Auden seems to us to take sound views of Roman politics. He is not infected with Mommsen's...

spite of the paragraphs—whether well or ill in- formed we know not—which declare that the public of readers is indifferent. Possibly all the available money is being used up in...

Stock. 2s. Cd.)—We do not know whether this can he rightly called a "new" theory. Some of the con- siderations which have been put forward in reference to Hamlet's character are...