the camp of the Allies, but the jealousies between the nationalities are painfully apparent. The Russians look askance at every proposal to ask more aid from the Japanese, while...

Blagoveschensk, the great Russian station on the Amur, but that it was recovered by a most daring assault by troops under General Gribski, who holds the town, which, however, is...

exciting a fear that if the Allies advance on Pekin the Europeans will be put to death. Time is wanted, as we have explained else- where, in order to make an attempt to divide...

T HE week has been marked by a shower of falsehoods from Pekin so heavy and persistent that outside Great Britain even important persons doubt whether the Ambassadors are dead....

there shall be a march to Pekin, and being urged by Americans, who half believe that their Minister may be rescued, they are said to have decided that it shall commence on July...

case.

better during the week. Shanghai has not been attacked, but receives daily streams of fugitives from little ports on the Yangtse. Its garrison is no stronger, and the town is...

much sound statesmanship, but we regret that he took so much trouble to score off his political opponents. No doubt the House of Commons loves to see man after man "laid out" by...

of Lords on Monday was very much of an academic discussion, since it is not proposed to carry the Bill this Session beyond the second reading stage. Lord Spencer, who was...

There will be a period of military rule, then a Crown Colony organisation, and then, as soon as possible, self- government. We do not agree with those who think that there...

on the war and the settlement took place over the Colonial Estimates. The chief attack on the Government was made by Mr. Sydney Buxton, Sir Wilfrid Lawson, and Sir Robert Reid....

Committee. Mr. Wyndham succeeded, in spite of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's sudden conversion to the other side, in carrying Clause 1, which contains the diplomatic amendment...

of war, but Lord Roberts is evidently now advancing from Pretoria upon Middelburg just as he advanced from Bloem- fontein on Pretoria. He is advancing, that is, with rapid...

Mr. Chamberlain for trying to make party and electioneering capital out of the patriotism of the country, he announced that he would not vote either for or against the...

way the condition of the Liberal party. Though the official leader of the Opposition gave the order to his party to abstain from voting, only thirty-five Members obeyed, and...

was really a debate on the propriety of making a Famine grant to India out of the British Exchequer. Sir H. Fowler and those who advocated this course did so avowedly in order...

was held on Tuesday at Burlington House. Lord Justice Romer, who presided, made a statement as to the powers and intentions of the Commission. A certain amount of evidence is to...

the Colonial Office describing his relief of Coomassie. The relief occurred on July 15th after a two days' running fight, and Colonel Willcocks is now back again at the coast....

Alexander of Servia has publicly announced his inten- tion of immediately marrying Madame Maschin, a lady formerly of his mother's household, fifteen years older than himself,...

New Consols (2t) were on Friday 97i.

THE NEWS .FROM CHINA. T HE news from China is terrible. As we read it, those who bear rule in Pekin—who are probab]y, but not quite certainly, the Empress-Reg ent and Prince...

W E have nothing but praise for the courage of the men who, like Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Sir Robert Reid, Mr. Lloyd-George, Mr. Courtney, and Mr. Bryce, took the unpopular side in...

I T is not difficult to discern the motives which have induced those who rule at Pekin to pour out a fresh torrent of exculpatory lies. Seeing the persistence with which the...

T HE way in which, owing to a variety of circumstances, the controversy over the proper method of treating the Cape rebels has been presented to the public is not a little...

W E can hardly do wrong in taking Lord Claud Hamilton's letter to the Times as evidence on those points on which it makes, or seems to make, against the Company of which he is...

O P literature, as of government, it may be said that it is born, not made. This saying, so often quoted, must not, indeed, be taken literally. There are definite formative acts...

I T is well, perhaps, when addressing students to decry genius 1 as opposed to patience and application, but it is surely going rather far to deny its existence altogether. If,...

T HE Daily Mail this week described a new and amusing scene now taking place daily in Hyde Park during the hot weather. Before the last carriage has left, taking its fair owners...

THE PARIS EXHIBITION.—II. LE PETIT PALAIS—THE HANDICRAFTS OF FRANCE. [TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sut,—The taste which makes the Exhibition a garden of delight is...

LORD DURHAM AND CANADIAN RECON- STRUCTION. (TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—In an editorial note to Mr. Lambton's letter upon the above subject in the Spectator of...

Sin,—Your correspondents, while doing full justice to Charles Buller and Lord Durham, have neglected the part played in the reconstruction of Canada by Edward Gibbon...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Snt,—Will "Emeritus" forgive me for saying that his letter in the Spectator of July 21st is, in my humble judgment, an excellent...

(Spectator, July 218t) is wrong in attributing the stranding of the Great Britain' (not . the Great Eastern ' ) to the temporary aberration of the Captain. My father was at the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—Your pages have always accorded a hearty welcome to all that might further the interests of the Volunteer forces. And the service as...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:] am quite sure that if my meaning has been mistaken, or if my theory has been thought "of little worth," my own ambiguity has been to blame,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Siu,—The Queen at the time of the surrender of Mason and Slidell had no more to do with peace than you had. We had Mason and Slidell on...

[To TIEN EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR."] SIEc — YOR mistake the point at issue (Spectator, July 21st) when you speak of the "outrageous attacks and virulent abuse of men who...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—Mr. florsfall strikes the right note in the Spectator of July 21st. It is the increasing nobleness of the English people which makes...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:] Srs,—The interesting article in the Spectator of July 14th entitled "To Improve the Gardens of Squares" contains a reference to the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] have read with the greatest interest in the Spectator of July 21st your plea for a generous and enlightened treat- ment of our Volunteers....

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Regarding the otherwise fair and courteous enough review of my "African Nights' Entertainment" which appeared in your issue of July...

THE CELTIC SPIRIT IN LITERATURE.* WE have hitherto read Miss Macleod's books with a doubtful pleasure, and have regarded her as the possessor of a very pretty gift of phrasing...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—For many years by the generosity of your readers our East London Unsectarian Voluntary Committee have given a day in the country to...

WEST 'WIND. THE years go by, though the days are long to a hungry heart. I was feeling content last night before the wind arose, A wind from the rainy West, tossing the wet,...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sut,—The enclosed paragraph from an American newspaper may be of interest to your readers, and certainly goes far to disprove the...

They are the fashion just now, and contain much pretty writing about pretty places, enough information to make them acceptable to practical gardeners, and just enough of the...

THNRIE is a. peculiar difference between the positions occupied in history by the general and the statesman. An estimate of the statesman is based upon a consideration of the...

IT would be idle to dispute the unanimous verdict of Virgilian critics that asserts the superiority of the first over the second half of the YEneid. The third and the fifth...

Avrnotrear readers will not dash through The Uttermost Farthing at the break-neck and breathless speed with which they devoured his former book, A Villain of Parts, there is...

"The Conditions of Great Poetry" strikes us as the most remarkable article in an interesting number of the Quarterly R4 VieW. The writer endeavours to trace the causes of the...

THE EDINBURGH REVIEW. All the articles in the new Edinburgh Review axe well worth reading. The first paper relates to Mr. Goldwin Smith's "Political History of the United...

Moral Foundations. By Franklin Henry Giddings, Professor in Columbia University. (Macmillan and Co. 10s. 6d.) —Mr. Giddings states in his preface that the collection of essays...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Famines in India. By Romesh C. Dutt. (Began Paul, Trench, and Co. 7s....

is. net.)—The " sports" are eight in number, and may be enumerated : "Skating," "Hockey," " Swinimiag," " Golf," "Physical Training" (hardly a sport, though of importance that...

Quarterly points - with legitimate satisfaction to the fact of its having completed its twenty- fifth year, the first number --having appeared in October, 1875. We desire to add...

B.A. With Notes by W. M. F. P. (Bernard Quaritch. 20s.)— The discoveries given in this volume include some of the most ancient in Egypt. King Nar-mer, for instance, probably...

M. Dent and Co. 2s. 6d.)—Mr. Rowell tells us much about the subject of his book. He is enthusiastic about Natal ; he does justice, to the best of his ability, to the Boers. It...

6d. net), contains an account of the various styles of architecture, from " Anglo-Saxon" to "Early Renaissance," a description of "Church Furniture and Accessories," from altars...

ls. 6d. net per volume), William Carton's Golden Legend, Vols. III. and IV.—In the "Chiswick Shakespeare" (G. Bell and Sons, is. ad. each net), with Introduction and Notes by...