T HE Austrian Chancellor, Count Goluchowski, on Satur- day made a speech to the Delegations which was intended to be unreserved. He stated that the war between Turkey and Greece...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, December 4th, will be issued, gratis. a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

THE SEIZURE OF KIAO-CHOW. W E do not see why Great Britain should mind the German seizure of Kiao-chow Bay. If Russia thinks, as is alleged, that her reversionary rights are...

"T MUST follow them, for I am their leader," said the unfortunate Jacobin, who saw that the mob to which he was attached was going to take action on its own account. The Radical...

of Sir Henry Fowler on Indian Frontier policy is a singular illustration of a great difficulty, perhaps the greatest difficulty, in the way of controlling foreign dependencies...

W E are glad to note that Mr. Ritchie in his speech at Croydon on Tuesday formally disavowed any intention on the part of the Government to get rid of the London County Council....

with which the Austrian Chancellor ended his speech of Saturday to the Delegations have naturally created much discussion,— most of it, we fear, not very nutritive. Count...

T HE fundamental characteristics of a nation are never obliterated. They may be modified in the course of ages, but they are never destroyed. That is the thought which leaps...

Home Work arranged by the Women's Industrial Council is in curious contrast with the philanthropy of a very few years ago. We have hardly yet ceased to hear benevolent...

as a moving force in the world is dead ? We get occasionally a piece or two of bright and charming political humour, like Mr. C. L. Graves's " Hawarden Horace "—smile -...

T HERE are now practically only two great preventible dangers to which European capitals are exposed,— destruction by fire or depopulation by epidemic. We suppose Lisbon, being...

The record of the sufferings of the unfortunate animals which accompanied an ill-arranged expedition in the Kashgar Desert, reported in the Times of Tuesday last, is a timely...

WOLMER FOREST. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOT."] SIR,—In reply to the wish expressed by your correspondent,. Mr. Darwin, in the Spectator of November 20th, that the...

A PRIEST'S JUDGMENT. First Angel. SAY, Priest, on whom His task was laid, What of thy sowing thou hart made! The Priest. The wholesome seed of that quick word I sowed, Sir,...

to the muzzling order in the Spectator of November 20th you deprecate the short-sighted agitation against its continuance. It is disappointing to find that the education of...

HENRY VAUGHAN'S POEMS.* HENRY VAUGHAN might perhaps be termed a prince of minor poets. But we are using the word " minor " in a far different sense from that generally...

most remain as long as our language lasts, one of the most fascinating figures in English literature. Ben Jonson was not fond of bestowing unqualified praise, yet he spoke of...

to a nation as to an individual, though it can only be put into practice with an even greater difficulty. The vainglorious nation, which is content to remain in happy ignorance...

THERE seems no particular reason why this latest and most excellent piece of work of Miss Macleod's should be published under a title which is so little indicative of its real...

"IN possessing Schopenhauer the world possesses a per- sonality the richer," declares the writer of the introduction to these essays, and the remark is just. We do not so much...

Miss M. E. COLERIDGE—in whom we welcome a new and puissant wielder of the magic wand of romance—treats history with a free hand in her brilliant novel of Court life under...

Napier. (James Maclehose and Sons, Glasgow.)—While Mr. Napier does not profess to throw fresh light on the life of his hero, his book is as valuable a contribution as has been...

Ditchfield, F.S.A. With Introduction by Augustus Jessopp, D.D. (G. Redway.) — This is a very interesting and a very useful book. As Dr. Jessopp remarks in his introduction, "the...

GIFT-BOOKS. The Knights of the White Rose. By George Griffith. (F. V. White and Co.) —This bright and well-written romance derives its title from a knot of young men who do...

Son.) —This is a "tale of the Seven Years' War," and shows the characteristic qualities of the author. The hero is even more of a paragon than usual ; he must have "attained to...

Son.)—Mr. Whistler here follows up the "Thane of Wessex" with another excellent story. King Olaf, the " Broad " or the "Saint," as he is variously called, is known to have...

Father Bron, S.J. (Art and Book Company.) — History of Dogma. By Dr. Adolph Harnack. Translated from the Third German Edition by James Millar , B.D. Vol. III (Williams and...

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