Wednesday a band of alleged Armenians seized the Ottoman Bank, first killing the gendarmes who guarded it, and having barricaded it, defended themselves for some time against...

O N Wednesday England learned that a fire had broken out in the back premises of the Empire. The Sultan of Zanzibar had died suddenly, probably from poison, and his nephew...

on Dongola. The seven gun-boats have now all been got through the Cataracts, and have been armed with Maxims and quick - firing guns, and the steamer, which has been brought in...

of Crete. He has obtained the agreement of the Powers to a Constitution for the island establishing a nominal if not a real autonomy. The new arrangement will virtually be the...

Rhodes rode out to meet the rebel indunas, and, after a palaver with them, is stated to have obtained their sub- mission. Up till now, however, the terms of peace have been kept...

any case.

aids for the wounded, were growing as mild and humane as cricket-match. That is a delusion, as General Weyler is showing us in Cuba. When once the shooting has begun you can...

to the language used by Sir Jacobus de Wet in the exhortations which he addressed to the Johannesburgere when persuading them to surrender unconditionally to the authorities of...

account of the condition of Formosa since the Japanese occupation, contributed by a correspondent, who quotes from private letters. Over forty thousand of the native population...

of the canvass for the Presidential election in the United States, we should expect Mr. McKinley to be elected by a con- siderable majority in the Electoral College, though of...

Thursday morning, and were of course well received by the crowd. During the drive from the station to the Hof Burg, the two Emperors occupied one carriage and the two Empresses...

to advise the dockers of that port how to carry on their struggle for better conditions of labour, was on Friday week arrested by the police, and after some hours of detention...

that day departed for the United States, vici Southampton. On board the steamer he conveyed, through his interpreter, a message of thanks to the British people. A deep...

issued, shows that over 3,030,000,000 postal packages were dealt with within the year. This is an average of seventy-seven to each person. There is an increase under every head...

the Queen, and chaplain to the Prince of Wales and to the household troops, preached on Sunday last his five-thousandth sermon in Windsor ; and his parishioners, in celebration...

preparing dynamite for use in the conspiracy against the British Government, have been set at liberty on the ground of ill-health, and one of them, Whitehead, and perhaps also...

the new capital created in the first six months of the present year in the shape of Home, Colonial, or Foreign Issues offered by tender or by auction. It appears that the new...

lately sent fifty able-bodied paupers to General Booth's Farm Colony at Hadleigh, in order to see if they could be turned by the Salvation Army's methods into useful citizens....

week, tells a remarkable story of "dreams that came true" in connection with the Hendreforgan colliery explo- sion at Gwys. William Walters, one of the colliers, dreamed that he...

New Consols (2f) were on Friday, 112 I,—

THE CAPE BLUE-BOOK ON THE JAMESON RAID. O WING to the enterprise of Messrs. Simpkin and Marshall, who have imported a number of copies a the Report, the English public has now...

the exchange of Heligoland against Zinzibar is once more before the country. In 1890 we simply accepted facts as we found them. We took over not the Pro- tectorate only, but the...

I T is hardly possible to conceive a subject of political controversy which places a great democracy in so undignified a position as a recondite economical issue such as is...

success. He has forced the Turk to loosen his grasp on the throat of Crete, he has secured peace and a reasonable prospect of good government for both sections of the island...

W E sincerely trust that Lord Salisbury will not be too forbearing with Belgium, if it proves, as we fear it will prove, that Mr. Ben Tillett's account of his treatment by the...

I N the Times of Saturday last there was a lengthy summary of the statement put in by Mr. J. A. Picton and Dr. W. J. Collins of their reasons for dissenting from the conclusions...

O NE of the ablest journalists of our day writes to us on the subject of the article on "Episcopal Bicyclists," expressing his profound disagreement with the central idea of...

Q UESTIONS are just now in every one's mind, for did not Li Hung Chang pass through the land from South to North, like the cross-examining counsel in the Court of the Recording...

D URING the past summer the price of prawns has risen higher than that of any shell-fish except the oyster, and if the present prejudice against the "native" continues, the...

" I T'S a horrid scrape to be a woman," said Mr. Walter Bagehot, with an insight rare indeed in the masculine observer. To most men the matter is far simpler. Women, as Mrs....

THE NEXT LAMBETH CONFERENCE. [To THZ EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,•••-in your excellent article on the next Lambeth Con- ference, in the Spectator of August 22nd, while...

THR EDITOR OF THR "SPECTATOR"] SIR, — In reference to your plea as to the suitability of the clerical garb for riding it has often struck me that church dignitaries and...

your article on the pro- gramme of the" Pan-Anglican" Conference, I think you have omitted to notice that the Bishops might take one practical step of the highest importance in...

the delightful article in the Spectator of August 22nd must have earned the gratitude of many of our church dignitaries, who will now be able entirely to lay aside any lingering...

Stanley somewhere calls the 119th Psalm "the Hebrew 'Ode to Duty." The title is appropriate enough ; but I have always felt that, as you suggest in your beautiful -little essay...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:] Sin,—Allow me through the medium of your esteemed paper to contradict the statement made by the Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail about...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.' owe Canon Ainger an apology. After detecting several errors in Mr. Horder's "Quaker Worthies" I should have been more cautions in accepting...

A FAUNA OF THE MORAY BASIN.* THE name of Mr. Hay vie-Brown is well known in the zoological world as an energetic field-naturalist, and this is a very valuable and interesting...

• (1.) Lucille: en Experiment. By Alice Spinner. London: Began Paul and Co.—(2.) Emberrammints. By Henry James. London: Heinemann.—(3.) A Question of Degree. By Caroline...

"practical people, who realise how closely social problems are now con- nected with political ; " and "especially to people who are engaged in political work and speaking." In...

Science and Religion has now entered another phase. The difficulties with which the theologian is confronted do not come from the vast periods which the geologists demand, from...

IT is but to comment on the place that women-writers have gained for themselves in modern literature, to point out that the " Spectator " of to-day, that "stander-by " who...

consulted rather than read. We have put to this Murray imaginary ques- tions concerning routes and hostels, and everywhere it answered them clearly and fully. We have tested it...

of headings which introduce the volume before us, Mr. &hiitz Wilson has provided his readers with matter as undeniably interesting as it is various. The French Revolution has...

Major- General J. Blaksley. (W. H. Allen and Co.)—By the "Footprints. of the Lion" we are to understand the shores of the Eastern Adriatic, regions where the lion of St. Mark...

Pen and Pencil. By M. M. Blake. (Jerrold and Sons.)—This is an interesting story of national events and of private fortunes, not unskilfully mixed up. There is a brave hero and...

thinking that one at least of the five "legends" which Mrs. Leighton relates for the benefit of the "children of England" is. somewhat "strong meat for babes." Melusina's...

—By his own account the nameless author of Here and There Memories is a kind of Admirable Crichton. He has been every- where ; he has done everything ; he has known everybody....

Wordsworth (Mrs. Quillinan). Edited, with Memoir, by Edward Lee. (Longmans and Co.)—Dora (Dorothy) Wordsworth was born in 1804, married, as his second wife, Edward Quillinan in...

It is as pleasant now as it was to Chaucer to see the new corn coming up year by year from the seed first sown by wise and good men; and an instance comes tons from America in a...

Glasgow.)—Professor Nichol cannot be said to have left a distinguished mark in literature. He did well what he under- took to do, but he did little to justify to the world the...

Henrietta E. Eliot and Susan E. Blow. (E. Arnold.)—The " Mottoes " have been translated with a salutary freedom by Mrs. Eliot. Miss Blow has done the same in dealing with the...

Son.)— Mr. Henry Halliwell, a gentleman who lives by drawing for the periodical Press, marries Miss Cicely Westerbam, a " new woman" who writes novels of a kind which it is...

and Heard, By Alice Meynell. (John Lane.)—No competent reader of Mrs. Meynell's poetry can doubt that she is a woman of genius who has written some very lovely verse....

—These thirty-five papers, reprinted from the Law Times, give the biographies of as many Judges, beginning with Lord Cottenham, who was Lord Chancellor when the Queen came to...

earliest specimen of a " label " is one that bears the name of Elizabeth Pinder and the date of 1608; the first "armorial ladies' plate" that of the Dowager Countess of Bath, in...

Sons.)—" A story of love and faith" is Miss Blyth's description of her book, and it is justified. Possibly it is a little too lengthy. not in actual dimensions, for these are...

and Co.)—Mrs. Crawford, having had offered to her a lucrative post of chaperon to three young ladies, finds this difficulty : her one child, who, of course, will share the home...

(J. Lane.) —Mr. Traill went in the winters of 1893-91 and 1895-96 on journeys which furnished him with these experiences, firat re- lated in the Daily Telegraph, and now...

Edited, with Introduction, Notes, and Life of the Author, by H. C. G. Moule, D.D. (Seeley and Co.)—Dr. Motile discharges a pious duty to the great divine who has given a name to...

and its Resources." (G. Philip and Son.)—This is a seasonable book, for it tells us something of the value of a country about which there is not a little trouble just now. It...

and Sons.)—We read this story to the end. There is something in it that draws one on ; but we must own that we have very little understanding what it is all about. King James...

Norris. (F. A. Stokes Company.)—This story of American life is full of skilful and delicate characterisation. The figures of the men are, as one might expect, less firmly drawn...