as the worst since the war of 1870. Spanish Four per Cents dropped to 74 . 50, Turkish Four per Cents to 75, and French Three per Cent. Rentes to 93.5$, or a fall since the 1st...

Tuesday by 66 votes to 14. The Committee on Foreign Relations had suggested certain amendments relating to the sanitation of the harbours of Colon and Panama and the de-...

Port Arthur is, if authentic, the news, reported on Friday by the Daily Mail's correspondent at Newchwang, that the Japanese have landed at Possiet Bay, to the south of...

of Manchuria. The document, which contains six regulations "which all must tremblingly obey," after emphasising the treachery of Japan in commencing hostilities, lays stress on...

great or stirring events. On Tuesday night, or early on Wednesday, the Japanese Fleet made their usual weekly attack on Port Arthur. On this occasion their object was to seal up...

of sound sense on the general fiscal problem ; but, unfortunately, we can only find space to call attention to two passages, —to that in which he insisted that the real issue...

and by Lord Lansdowne, but neither added very much to our knowledge of the Government's real attitude. Lord Lansdowne, however, endorsed Mr. Akers-Douglas's declaration that the...

question of preference among the creditors of Venezuela, deciding in favour of a preferential payment to Britain, Germany, and Italy, the three blockading Powers, in respect of...

in his fiscal speech in the House of Lords on Thursday week has been missed owing to the compression of the Times report. In the fuller report in the Scotsman the following...

in the Duke's own words. A more candid or more fearless confession of a false step was never made by a statesman. It is, in truth, an incident which is in the highest degree...

on Friday, February 19th, was probably the ablest and most convincing that he has ever delivered. It was as character- istic of his sound and comprehensive intellect as of his...

almost exactly bears out the interpretation which we gave of the events that so bewildered the country last September. The Duke, out of an excess of loyalty and moderation,...

satisfaction with the Chinese Labour Ordinance as affording a "glorious opportunity" for Church evangelistic work. A correspondent of the Westminster Gazette has very aptly...

so good a recovery from the influenza that he was able to visit the House of Commons on Thursday. He received a very warm welcome from all sides, as was natural, for there is no...

22,700,000 for Army services. The Government were subjected to a searching cross-examination by the Opposition, and did not come well out of it. Supple, mentary Estimates are...

Supply on Tuesday. Of this sum, the largest item, 2770,000, represents part of the purchase-money of the two Chilian battleships recently added to the Navy ; and Mr. Robertson,...

a quotation from a speech made by Mr. Cobden at Aberdeen in 1844, which finally disposes of Mr. Chamberlain's statement—again and again repeated—that Mr. Cobden promised that...

on Monday, Dr. Macnamara moving the adjournment of the House. He claimed that before the Ordinance came into force the House should be put in possession of the rules relating to...

Consols (24 per cent.) were on Friday 86f.

TUNITY. T HOUGH the panic on the Paris Bourse and the pessimistic rumours of a portion of the Continental Press need not be regarded as trustworthy indications of danger, it...

Devonshire's explanation of his action in remaining in the Cabinet longer than the rest of his Free-trade colleagues was as ample and as frank as we were certain it would be. It...

V ERY slowly, if perhaps more surely than in some other countries, do we English feel our way towards the solution of the social problems which afflict us. For a score of years...

Reports presented by Mr. Root, the American Secretary of State for War, to the President gives us the history of the last five years of American history in a succinct and...

Monday, had evidently a very high opinion of the canvassers employed on behalf of the candidates in the London County Council Election. The Chairman ex- plained that the object...

best types of the genuine man of letters, never a common thing in a country where there are writers enough and to spare. In each generation we find one or two people who act as...

I F the authority for the legend which connects the names of St. Patrick and St. Bridget with the special privileges attached to the twenty-ninth of February is not exactly...

T HE accomplished chimpanzee 'Consul' was so valuable to its owners that it was insured for £20,000, and its death at Berlin from bronchitis will cost the insuring companies...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR,—It is perhaps excusable that Germans in St. Petersburg should endeavour to emphasise the gratitude of the Russian Press and people for...

THE CASE OF FREE-TRADERS WHO ARE SUPPORTERS OF THE GOVERNMENT. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "sew - rev:nil venture to appeal to your well-known sense of fairness to give me an...

150 THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR] Slit,—The contest now in progress in the by-election at Birmingham affords an excellent object-lesson on the con- fusion introduced into the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] seems a pity that Mr. Lyttelton should treat the question of Chinese labour in such a superficial manner. In his speech in the House on...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Though always fiercely opposed to Home-rule and the fantastic absurdities yoked in its train, and hauled by the hireling hackmen of...

[To THE EDITOR OF TILE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—I ask your leave to enter a protest against the com- parison made by Mr. Clapperton in the Spectator of Feb- ruary 20th between the...

labour into South Africa would seem to indicate much haziness, not to say lack of knowledge, on the great practical questions—moral and others—which such a course will be found...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."' Sra,—I enclose an essay on Ruskin written by a young Japanese, who is our one domestic servant. He is the son of a coal-merchant in Japan,...

[TO TIM EDITOR OF Till "SPECTATOR.") SIR,— As an example of misquotation, mixed metaphor, and muddle, I think the following extract from a Calcutta newspaper would be bard to...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.1 think your correspondent "E. D." in the Spectator of February 6th must submit to a further criticism. If the Forbes he alludes to was...

my letter on this subject in the Spectator of February 20th, will you now allow me to quote from Dr. Martin's "A Cycle of Cathay" (1896), p. 221 ?— " After the capture of the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 SIR, — In your article, "The Question of Tibet" (Spectator, February 13th), you write, as to the prospect of Russia giving trouble on the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—In the review of Mr. Beckles Wilson's "Ledger and Sword" in the Spectator of February 20th it is stated that "it was in India that many...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sur,,—I cannot help thinking that the number of educated people who have practically given up the serious reading of poetry is considerably...

[TO TEIE EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTATOR.") send you a pamphlet by which, on pp. 11-15, you will see that Ruskin, one of the truest Christians I have known, shared the convictions...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR-1 your correspondent "R. W. J." in the Spectator of February 20th ask himself what chance there is of our easy- going Premier undertaking such a...

TER welcome reappearance of Herr Raimund von zur Miihlen, who once more gave welcome proof on Tuesday of his signal powers as an interpreter of the songs of Schumann and...

(IN THE CHURCHYARD, DARLEY ABBEY. FEBRUARY 11TH, 1904.) HERE in this country dale to seek for rest The Master of the Temple came and found; With tears of sorrow we who loved him...

IT is now almost a commonplace to say that in the perennial battle between faith and unbelief the argument from personal experience has largely superseded the apologetic, based...

is one of those American writers who meet with an equal welcome on both sides of the Atlantic. With a quick wit and an easy, delightful style, she gives us confidence that every...

THERE is some reason to think that the police reports are more widely read than any other columns of the daily papers, and if this be so, a London Police Magistrate has a fair...

years ago the social and artistic life of pre-Norman Ireland was as unknown to the generality of educated Englishmen—and Irishmen too—as the manners and customs of the Guanchos...

in La Plata into the domain of fiction with which we are • Green Mansions to Romance of the Tropical Forest. .B1 W. H. Hudaou. London: Duckworth and Co. [64.] acquainted, so far...

title of this book and the picture on the cover of the City (in a singularly empty condition of traffic) prepare the intelligent reader for a financial atmosphere. Dr. Johnson...

6s.) — Jane Stuart, the natural daughter of James II., is the " Royal Quaker" of the title ; and the author, who frankly states that her story is fictitious except in outline,...

of this book certainly provides ample material for a " tangle" in the future. It gives an account of a gentleman who, having turned Mormon for the convenience of having a second...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] The Back Blocks of China. By H. Logan Jack, LL.D. (E. Arnold. 10s. 6d....

D.D., Dean. (G. Bell and Sons. Is. 6d. net.)—This is a welcome addition to the "Cathedral" Series, the work of the person who is best qualified to write it. The history of the...

identify. The chief find of papers never before republished has been one of four contributed to the Times in November, 1838. Thackeray sent in his "little bill"—the sum total of...

Kempster takes us into cryptic regions known to us only by bare report. There is a wonderful seer, a scarcely less wonderful woman, magic crystals, drugs of mysterious potency,...

LONDON EDUCATION. London Education. By Sidney Webb. (Long,mans and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—This small but important volume will prove, we imagine, of great weight in deciding the...

6d. net.)—Hsi was "a man of position and influence, a cultured Confucianist." We can easily believe, then, that it caused no little astonishment in his native village when he...

and Co. 7s. 6d.)—Twelve years ago Mr. Bogg wrote a book with the title of "A Thousand Miles in Wharfedale." He has been working at the same subject, and the edition of his first...

W. Rae Macdonald (W. Green and Sons, Edinburgh, 15s. net). It is one of the outcomes of the Edinburgh Heraldic Exhibition held in 1901.

net), contains an almanac ; a vigorously written account of "English Literature in 1903," by Mr. H. W. Nevinson ; "A Survey of Bookland," by James Milne ; an "Obituary "—the...

Trustees has been made in a Catalogue of the Terracottas in the Department of the Greek and Roman Antiquities, by H. B. Walters, M.A. (Longmans and Co., and Others).

Co. 2s. net.)—This, the first of an intended series of similar reprints, is an exact reproduction of the edition of 1821, published at Pisa. It contains the poet's wrathful...