nature :—The importation of arms or materiel and their manufacture are to be prohibited. An equitable indemnity is to be paid to the States, societies, and individuals (and also...

China will loyally accept and carry out these conditions. It is far more likely that, in spite of the conditions being declared to be irrevocable, she will try to negotiate, and...

T HE war news during the week has been meagre, but what there is is distinctly good. The Boer raiders into the Colony are not only meeting with no local support, but are finding...

the Joint Note of the Powers was presented to Prince Ching, who accepted it, to be forwarded to the Emperor. Li Hung Chang, who is still ill, sent an apology for his absence....

not succeed in covering up the remains of the Dreyfus case. On Thursday a letter from Captain Dreyfus to the French Prime Minister was published in Paris which threatens to...

any case.

Ministry by Lord Hopetoun, the new Governor-General of the Australian Commonwealth, failed in the undertaking, and he thereupon, with a most proper regard for constitutional...

was demonstrated before the German Emperor in Berlin last Saturday. By the improvements introduced by Professor Slaby and his assistant, Count Arco, it is now possible for an...

able speech at Beaune on Christmas Day. After denouncing the unpatriotic action of a newspaper in revealing his nego- tiations with M. Turpin, the inventor of a new explosive...

Field-Marshal Count von Blumenthal, died on Friday week. The son of a Prussian Captain who died of wounds received in the battle of Dennewitz in 1813, Von Blumenthal did not...

to Khartoum, addressed a speech to the Sheikhs and notables of the Soudan which lays down with the speaker's usual clearness and statesmanship the course which this country...

for mere European riupervision, laid it down that there must not be too large a number of European administrators in a country like the Soudan. Those, however, who were...

November 19th, which opens with a graphic description of the Empress-Dowager's position. "The Empress-Dowager,' says a Chinese official, is like a woman riding a tiger. She does...

Commander-in-Chief, had requested Major-General Sir Henry E. Colvile, commanding the infantry brigade at Gibraltar, to resign his command. General Colvile has refused to resign,...

to render our national addiction to pastime somewhat suspect, cricket certainly does not seem to have impaired the fibre of the Australians, several distinguished English...

Mr., G. Lacy in his letter to Monday's Times does useful service in exposing the exaggerations of alarmist orators. Up to the end of November the official return of casualties...

at Belfast, at the age of eighty-one, removes a figure who devoted a long life to works of unobtrusive but genuine philanthropy. The son of an Ambassador, he passed from Eton...

letter from "a distinguished American officer" on the conduct of the Allied troops in China. Accord- ing to her informant, every house on the road from Pekin to the coast had...

Works, and one of the great mechanical geniuses of the century, died on Wednesday at the age of ninety. Son of a Cumberland yeoman who afterwards became Stayor of...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 97i.

THE PLACE OF ENGLAND IN THE COMING CENTURY. u - NDER the heading "Will England Last the Cen- tury ?" a writer in the January Fortnightly who signs himself " Calchas " considers...

M R. BRODRICK'S task is a great one. He has, in fact, to give us a new military system, and yet to give it us in such a way that we can use up in the new building all, or almost...

I F the war has laid new and heavy burdens upon the taxpayer, it was reasonable to expect a corresponding lightening of the ordinary charges on the ratepayer. One main element...

T T has become so much of a truism in politics that a democracy is at its worst in dealing with foreign affairs, that we are apt to forget it till some event startles us into...

M OST, if not all, careful diagnoses of the causes of that relative decline in British trade which is almost universally acknowledged, lay stress on the com- parative...

A T the close of a century, though it be a purely artificial division of time, it is natural to pause a moment and take stock of its peculiar additions to the sum of human...

MHE centenary of the city of Washington has just been celebrated. On September 18th, 1793, the corner-stone of the Capitol was laid, but it was not until June, 1800, that the...

E VERGREENS are the furry mantles of the woods, the winter wraps of earth. In our gardens the hedges of yew are the sable trimmings, and our lawns the velvet robes. Yet the...

ISLAM AND THE EMPIRE. (TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPUTA:MR.1 Silk—It would be an interesting development, and one of great importance to the Empire, if the intellectual centre of...

THE DISUSE OF THE ATHANASIAN CREED. (To THB EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Canon Ma.cColl and I are old friends, but I have often felt constrained to regard him as an...

(To THE EDITOR OP TIER "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In your article under the above heading which appeared in the last Spectator that has reached us—that for Septem- ber 22nd—the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Permit me to impart to you the substance of a family legend. My grandfather was a City man, a Member of Parliament, and an adherent of...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—I am pleased to discover that I have drawn a railway official (Spectator, December 22nd). I fail to see, however, what bearing the...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Canon Gore's appeal to the public (Spectator, Decem- ber 22nd) in the matter of leadless glazes is one deserving of every support. At...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SrEcrArort..1 SIR,—I have read your article in the Spectator of December 22nd on Lord Hardwicke and the Stock Exchange with great pleasure, and I hope you...

[To THE EDITOR OP TEE "SPECTATOR:I Sm,—The story told by Mr. F. R. Bryzms in his letter which appeared in the Spectator of December 15th of an old man's thoughts wandering from...

"spzoremoan Si,—My attention had been called to the criticism on Coning- ton's Virgil, ascribed to me in Mr. Tuekwell's " Reminiscences of Oxford," before I read the review...

WINTER SLEEP. THE ancient Earth is still Heavy with winter sleep; And as a man grown rich Delights in memories Of his old poverty. He sees himself, in dream, In tattered...

SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN. THE life, and in particular the early training, of Sir Arthur Sullivan is in instructive contrast . with the conventional portraits of musical geniuses in...

A TREASURY OF IRISH POETRY.* No attempt is made in this anthology to reach a uniform standard of excellence. It is, says the editor, "a systematic record of the best poems we...

Mornings at Bow Street is a book which fetches a considerable price from collectors, not, of course, to read, for the true collector abhors the practice, but for other purposes....

• The Life of .Parts. By Richard WI:aging. London: J. Murray. [61.1 THE life of Paris is at once so simple and so complex that it eludes the vigilance of the foreigner, who...

THERE are numerous translations of 2Eschylus, and several of them respectable,—as, indeed, how should they not be, seeing that the authors were either Deans of the Church of...

the heroine of his new and "strange story of a love adventure at sea" one of the most miraculous escapes ever imagined by a tender-hearted novelist for an attractive young...

FRAGMENTS OF A FAITH FORGOTTEN. Fragments of a Faith Forgotten : Some Short Sketches among the Gnostics Mainly of the First Two Centuries. By G. R. S. Mead, B.A. (Theosophical...

Ss.)—Mr. Hare qualified for the medical profession in 1837, went out to India in 1839—it took him six months to reach Calcutta— and joined the Army of the Indus early in the...

is the second volume which Mr. Hecke- thorn has devoted to the subject of Old London. Doubtless he has matter enough far others. The subject is, indeed, almost inexhaustible,...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not bc.n reserved for review in other forms.] Gardens, Old and New. (G. Newnes and Co. 42s. net.)—This is a sew...

and Sons, 2s. 6d.), is described by its title. We have said enough about stories of the war, and it is useless to say it again. Nonum prematur in annum. Facts we cannot have too...

Co., 3s. 6d.) we have a most admirable little book, Daniel Defoe, by Wilfred Whitten. Mr. Whitten recognises the fact that Defoe was an enigmatic person, and does not attempt...

Sport and Travel. By F. C. Selous. (Longmans and Co. 123.) —The best of the sport recorded in this entertaining volume was obtained in Asia Minor, whose furtive wild goat might...

New. (Methuen and Co. 3s.)—Mr. Brabant's Sussex consists of two parts, a general description of the county, physical, social, and historical, and an account of the localities...