the British Monarchy that the warmest appreciation of the , deceased statesnian comes from the Japanese. They were, in . fact, profoundly flattered, as well as pleased, by his...

train bound for Constantinople from Vienna was blown up on Wednesday night at Kuleli B urgas. about half-way between Adrianople and Constantinople, and six people killed. The...

A S was expected from the first, Lord Salisbury's illness proved fatal. He expired at Hatfield at ten minutes past nine last Saturday, the end coming a little unexpectedly, but...

of " Guilty " against all the defendants, though with the rider of "extenuating circumstances," which means in France that the crimes alleged do not call for a crushing...

have got out of hand, and maddened by incessant attack, by privations, and by the Mussulman feeling that for Christians to rebel is insolence, are pursuing a policy of...

case.

that the real enemy of the Republic is Clericalism. At a banquet given him at Saintes on Sunday last he declared, amid loud applause, that "he would continue the fight [with the...

of the Regular Army goes to show that although in moral they left little to he desired, the physique of the later drafts was poor, while as a whole they were lacking in...

issued on Tuesday, and is a most formidable indictment of our whole system of national defence on the military side. The first part of the Report deals with the military...

the true lessons of the war, and the attention that is being paid to them, we deal in another column. The results of the inquiry into the supply of materiel make deplorable...

account of the recent Labour movement in Odessa, from which it would appear that the Government acted with more moderation than has hitherto been reported. The strike there...

opening of some new Church schools at Dover on Tuesday. The schools in question were founded by local Churchmen at a cost of 25,000 seven years ago. Later on, when the authori-...

article published in Tuesday's Times from a Scottish correspondent. The pith of the argument is to be found in the following significant statement:—" The Scottish industry that...

deserve attentive consideration in connection with the recent Report of the Alien Commission. Against the fact that there is a slight increase in the number of native emigrants,...

on Friday week in honour of the delegates to the Congress of Chambers of Commerce a most important speech was delivered by Sir Wil- frid Laurier. Dealing with the preferential...

nominated to the vacant archbishopric of Westminster. The Cardinals, in discussing the selection, are said to have eliminated Mgr. Merry del Val because of his present position...

Consols (21 per cent.) were on Friday 901.

LORD SALISBURY. .y 0OFNESS, sincerity, and self-control were the three marked qualities in the labe Lord Salisbury which, displayed as they were by a man of high intellectual...

T HE three hundred and sixteen pages of closely printed matter which constitute the Report of the Royal Commission on the War in South Africa, published on Tuesday, form too...

I S it quite impossible to employ the one irresistible weapon of civilisation, the Concert of Europe, to pre- vent the catastrophe impending in the Near East ? We fear it is,...

M R. CHAMBERLAIN'S supporters in the Press are agreed in paying Free-traders the best and most sincere of compliments. They are very anxious to ensure that they shall not be...

one, for the acute interest which foreigners have taken in the Humbert case. The story of itself—the story of a legacy intercepted only by legal difficulties, upon the strength...

I T is long since England possessed a poet forced into being by a period of national stress. For such a voice to be heard it is necessary that earnestness be in the air, and...

" T HEY say ; what say they? Let them say," said Bishop Berkeley. Who are the " they " thus so boldly apostrophised ? We may say with one of the Fathers : "I know when you do...

T nERE is a wide difference between flowers scattered at random and the same when Nature groups them and forms wild gardens. It is as great as that between the growth of seeds...

LORD SALISBURY. [TO THE EDITOR Or TIM "SPECTATOR:1 S13,-I met Lord Salisbury for the first time at the house of the late Lord Greville, a relative of his by marriage. I was...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Might I trespass so far upon your space as to endeavour to vindicate your opinion that the figures of Mr. Cross which I gave in a letter...

Sin,—In accounting for the large excess of imports into the United Kingdom over its exports, should we not consider the profits made by large business houses with foreign...

THE GROWTH OF THE NATION'S WEALTH. [To THE EDITOR 01P TEE " SPUTATOR.1 Sni,—In your article in the Spectator of August 22nd entitled "The Growth of the Nation's Wealth" you say...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE “ SPECTATOR:1 STR,—You do not fairly answer the important point in Mr. Elwes's letter in the Spectator of August 1st, the question of the displacement of...

the pottery trade as one which has been ruined by Free-trade, it seems to offer an example of a trade which is very rapidly being ruined, and which would be undoubtedly greatly...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR, — When you assume (Spectator, August 22nd) that if about 212,000,000 of taxation be taken off tea and sugar and put on corn, even if it...

August 22nd your correspondent "W. H. H." instances the thread trade as a ruined trade because one firm of manufacturers (Marshalls, of Leeds) some years ago transferred their...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SrE, — Efforts have been made in your columns (June 20th, July 11th, August 15th) to show that the price of wheat in France differs from that...

SID,—With reference to your inquiry for an industry ruined by Free-trade, I mention, as one instance, the women's branch of the leather glove industry. In my opinion, the men's...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I have obtained from your valued correspondent, Mr. Broomhall, particulars of this brilliant trade which is given as a proof of the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — It is quite true that, as Mr. John Higgins says in his letter published in the Spectator of August 22nd, "the old stored riches"...

"SPECTATOR."] Foljambe (Spectator, August 22nd) says that I have adopted a fallacy. He is welcome to the word, as, fallacy or no fallacy, in the circumstances I described in my...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] should like to add one or two facts to what Mr. Booth has well said in his letter (Spectator, August 15th) replying in a nticipation to Mr....

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.'] Sra,—It would appear from recent Australian cablegrams that Tumut is the prospective capital of the Commonwealth. It fell to my lot, when I...

• [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—You say in the Spectator of August 22nd: "We have always said, and say still, that Mr. Chamberlain has com- mitted himself to a...

THE SIEGE OF QUEBEC.* THERE is nothing which touches the siege of Quebec that is not interesting, and we therefore owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Doughty and his colleagues for...

THE GREATEST OP THE CECILS. LIGHT as a dream, upon the velvet grass The rain of summer softly, softly falls ; Swift as a dream, the changing shadows pass O'er Hatfield's...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] STR, — In the article entitled "The Position in Macedonia" appearing in the Spectator of August 22nd you refer to "the widely diffused...

Mr. Bodley, described the King's Coronation as "a splendid anachronism." Mr. Bodley, after making a retort, amply justified by the hearty welcome the Parisians gave to the King,...

IT has been said that when nations take to literature their period of decadence begins. What, then, happens when cricketers • (I) Cricket. Edited by Horace G. Hutchinson. "...

WE remember a course of lectures delivered by a certain gallant Colonel which began with the earliest of recorded battles, that of the four Kings against five in the Slime-pits,...

BARLASCH OP THE GUARD.* THE abiding fascination of the Napoleonic era has not un- naturally exerted its spell on Mr. Merriman, who has given us in Barlasch of the Guard an...

is the case with most books which contain the whole biography of their hero from his earliest years, the beginning of this novel is by far the most successful part. Old General...

The Gold - Mining Industry of the Witwatersrand. (Argus Com- pany.)—This is a Statement drawn up for the information of Mr. Chamberlain and Lord Milner by fifteen mining...

6s.)—There is an element of melodrama about Mrs. Campbell Praed's new novel, which contrasts rather sharply with the every- day character of its raise - en - scene. The most...

and Co. 6s.)—Mr. Chambers makes a brilliant phan- tasmagoria of figures pass before us. It is sometimes a little difficult to follow their movements, but the effectiveness of...

a most dreary presentation of the effects of the most dreary of passions,—jealousy. And this jealousy is not the fierce struggle of a man in the defence of his honour, but the...

Le Queux, afraid, it would seem, that the old attraction of a treasure-hunt would fail to draw, has added some curious embellishments. A very queer craft dating from about the...

ACROSS ICELAND. Across Iceland. By William Bisiker. (Edward Arnold. 12s. 6d.) —This is a pleasant, unpretentious, and valuable volume of notes describing a journey made during...

and Co. 15s. net.)—We do not think that Mr. Coleman has rendered good service to his friend by this book of recollections. He gives us here what he took down from Reade's mouth,...

The Quest of Happiness. By Newell Dwight Hillis. (Macmillan and Co. 6s.)—The pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, is an inveterate optimist. He indeed regards pessimism as so...

H. Crosland. (Treherne and Co. 2s. net.)—It is interesting to see what Mr. Crosland, who certainly must be credited with some critical power, takes to be the "best poetry." The...

old the World of Nature, July, 1902—June, 1903 (Hutchinson and Co., 10s. 6d. net). This "Magazine of Natural History" promises very well indeed. The subject is practically...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Evolution of the Japanese. By Sidney L. Gulick, M.A. (Fleming H....

author begins by lamenting the defects of his education; that he learnt "the useless abstractions of Euclid and the syntax instead of commercial mathematics," and the "squalid...

(E. Arnold. 16s.)—Our notice of this interesting and valuable volume is somewhat belated, but we are unwilling that it should pass without some recognition of its merits. Mr....

The Naturalist in La Plata, by W. H. Hudson, Illustrated by J. Snit (J. M. Dent and Co., 5s. net). "Cheap" it certainly is with its three hundred and ninety-four pages and its...