on Wednesday, but we are glad to think that his sufferings at the end were not great, and that he passed away calmly and with- out pain. It would be wrong for us to write as if...

T HERE are this week two items of war news of great im- portance. The first is that on Sunday last a special train under a flag of truce passed through Pretoria conveying the...

four years to six has failed. M. Waldeck-Rousseau, after discussion with a Committee of the Senate, promised to withdraw it, saying that although in his judgment it would be...

are to meet this week and make final arrangements for the renewal of 'the Triple Alliance, which expires early next year. No doubt seems to be felt that it will be renewed, as...

or "war," between the American Tobacco Trust and the Imperial Tobacco Company, a rival British combination, for the control of all retail distributors of the plant. The Imperial...

case.

duced the new Education Bill in a speech which professed to deal with the general principles rather than with the details of the measure. These principles—which, however,do...

part of them, upon the Turkish question of last autumn. The drift of their contents is already accurately known, but they prove very clearly two points upon which there was some...

recent demonstrations in the streets have been even more widespread than we last week 'imagined. The Govern- ment has at last alluded to the movements in the Official Messenger...

the County Councils and the Councils of the county boroughs,—i.e., of the absolutely autonomous and extra-shiral boroughs. They will work through a Committee or Cora- mittees,...

among the States of the world. The island will be nominally inde- pendent, the United States withdrawing its troops and officials, and Senor Palma. the elected President, being...

favourable to the rebels in South China. It is stated positively that twenty thousand regular soldiers, lately under the command of General Su, have deserted his army and joined...

the grounds that it would improve our national system of education and yet not prove unfair to the voluntary schools, though he admitted that it might make the total rating...

Englishmen one of the most deplorable, results of the alliance between the Liberal party and the Irish has been the unchecked defamation of Cromwell. How far this process of...

canteen question, with Lord Grey as chairman. The composition of the Committee seems to us a very sound one, though we notice that a correspondent of the Times objects to the...

reading on Tuesday. Mr. Wyndham, in introducing the Bill, began by justifying the need for fresh legislation. The rent-fixing Act of 1881 had not, he thought, had the effect...

most outspoken address recently delivered by Dr. Leopold Wahrmund, Professor of Canonical Law at the Innsbruck University. The Professor, though apparently a sincere Catholic...

just published in a semi-official paper by the Hun- garian author, M. Andreas von Kosma, as a pleasant compli- ment; but it is something more than that. M. von Kosma expresses...

pro- visions of the Bill that " within certain limits and under certain conditions the Government is prepared throughout Ireland to take over the whole or as much of his estate...

will only say here that we regard it on the whole as likely to settle a vexed question in a way which will not only help the cause of national education and prevent a great...

Sir Redvers Buller in regard to the Spion Kop despatches. If we dealt in detail with the correspond- ence we should be obliged to say hard things of Sir Redver s Buller, and...

Thursday 944.

THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. T HE news that the Executive Government acknow- ledged by the Transvaalers still in the field have passed through Pretoria in a British train under a...

the Education . Bill. We desire here to give our wider reasons ' for supporting it, and for trusting that, improved by the practical alterations which will doubtless be made in...

' {"HE Tobacco War, as it is styled in the grandiloquent 1 way which the newspapers are introducing into all descriptions of events, is a very interesting struggle. It is the...

are not philan- thropists, the Grimm incident is a most depressing one. It is not only that it reveals so much baseness among men who should be honourable, but that there is...

[COMILIINICATED.] T HE death of Cecil Rhodes in his forty-ninth year removes by far the most interesting figure in South African politics. At an age when an English barrister...

obtains gratitude: How much goodwill do those people attract to themselves who have " the gracious tact, the Christian art," to enter into the secondary pleasures and pains of...

VIII.—DEATH. A N army is a great machine for the production of death, and war is the machinery in a state of motion. Thus truly considered, death would seem to be not so much...

P OPULAR phrase has done a great injustice in making the words " puppy" and " cub " synonyms for social shortcomings. Properly understood puppies are among the most attractive...

CO-OPERATION FOR THE ARMY. [TO TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR-1 SIR,—Nearly a year ago you published a correspondence on the subject of extending the co-operative system to...

loss to understand the letter of your correspondent, " Paymaster," which appears in the Spectator of March 22nd. He says that it irks him to read in a. journal like the...

SOLDIERS' STOPPAGES. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE"SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I venture to suggest that you have missed the point of " Paymaster's " letter in the Spectator of .March 22nd....

I To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.) Sin,—Surely you go too far in assuming that under the Anglo-Japanese Treaty the foreign policy of Great Britain has been " placed at the...

[To Till EDITOR OT TEE " SPICTATOR." . 1 SIR, —In my perusal of the Spectator of March 22nd, I was sorry to read an article on " The Unpopularity of Youth," which seems to me...

fTo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sig,—In reviewing (Spectator, March 1st) Mr. Rose's " Napoleon,' I stated that the traditional ice incident of the battle of Austerlitz...

[To THE EDITOR OP TEl "SPECTATOR.") Torn,—It may very well happen that the Spectator, which has shown so wide and catholic an interest in Volunteer matters, is familiar with...

[To THE EDITOR OF TER " SPECTATOR:1 Sra,—Your opinion (in note to Admiral FitzGerald's letter in Spectator, March 8th) is quite borne out by the Articles of War. Article III....

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR.1 Sra,—Your notice of my book on the Penitential Psalms in the Spectator of March 15th has been forwarded to me by Messrs. Longmans, Green,...

THE MOUNTAIN. I HOLD above a careless land The menace of the skies, And in the hollow of my hand The sleeping tempest lies ; Mine are the promise of the morn, The triumph of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR:] SID, — The interest you take in the question of labourers' cottages causes me to write and mention that during last year the Local...

EXPERT AND AMATEUR CRITICISM. WHATEVER maybe. justly said to the disparagement of the musical amateur, there is no doubt that in one department of the art—that of...

A LIFE OF MR. RHODES•t Tan death of Mr. Rhodes will probably draw many readers to Mr, Hensman'a "Life," andat the same time makes it difficult for critics who are in what...

IN the Tower of London and the Abbey Church of West• minster England possesses two buildings the like of which can be found in no other Christian land. Some there may be of...

MADAME DE MOrrEVILLE, whose Memoirs are almost as valuable after their kind as the masterpiece of St. Simon, was born in 1621, the daughter of Pierre Bertaut, gentleman-...

just been sent to us in one of the charming " Riverside Editiona," is one 'of the most venerable representatives of a type which is Practically. indigenous to the United States...

With two convict companions, therefore, he retires to a sylvan retreat discovered by accident on an island surrounded by a horrible swamp, and there he becomes the Claude Duval...

—Miss Howarth is at her best when describing thrilling adventures "by flood and field," and as we do not get to the Boer War till about the two hundred and thirtieth page of...

the novel reviewer will have the rare pleasure of reading a book from cover to cover, not because he must, but because he enjoys it. Even if, as is the case with the present...

LOST PROPERTY.* Ma. PET'r RIDGE has, amongst other engaging qualities, a most agreeable way of falsifying the expectations of his critics. For a long time he confined himself...

in. 6s.)—In Mistress Barbara Cunliffe Mr. Halliwell Sutcliffe carries his readers back to the day when the " cry of the children " in the Lancashire mills was still a living...

ALFRED TENNYSON. Alfred Tennyson. By Andrew Lang. (W. Blackwood and Sons. 2s. 6d.)—This book, if its purpose be to make people who are not " literary " read and like the...

Shropshire Houses, Past and Present. Illustrated from Draw- ings by Stanley Leighton, M.P., F.S.A., with Descriptive Letter- press by the artist. (George Bell and Sons....

Ancient Royal Palaces in and near London. Drawn in Litho- graphy by Thomas R. Way. With Notes compiled by Frederic Chapman. (John Lane. 21s.)—Mr. Way has here given us some...

(J. M. Dent and Co. 6s.)—Mr. Gardner's Desiderio is a very beautiful piece of work. It tolls the story of two noble souls, a girl and a boy, whose lives and loves are...

Wymond Carey. (W. Blackwood and Sons. 6s.)—In Monsieur Martin the hero, from whose name the title is formed, is the yeoman-born tutor of Countess Ebba of Polensjerna, a...

Trade- Unionism, by Sidney and Beatrice Webb, to which the authors have prefixed an interesting preface, bearing date December, 1901. (We expected to see something re the laying...

" contains a formal treatise by Dr. T. Jackson (1585- 1640), a pamphlet by Bishop Sanderson (1587 1663), and a letter by Bishop Cosin (1594.1672). Sanderson and Cosin are...

and Co., Limerick.)—Readers will find much that is interesting in this memoir, but it can hardly be said that the biographer has done the beat that was possible for his...

Ethel Bicknell. (Grant Richards. la. 6d.)ThiS is No. 12 of " The Dumpi Book Series," and the pictures and letterpress are both amusing. Here is an example of the latter :—"...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] More Tales of the Birds. By W. Warde Fowler. ' (Macmillan and Co. 3s....

Tomi I.-II., Ilias I. -XXIV. (E Typ. Clarendoniano.)—The conductors of the " Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoni- ensis," to which these volumes belong, have done well in...

ls.)—As far as regards the past of architecture one could not, it is probable, find better information in a small compass than is to be found in this volume, one of the...

By E. Marston. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. 5s. net.)—Mr. Mar- ston naturally begins with Michael, father of Samuel. After him we hear of Thomas Davies ; Osborne (whom...

Gardner.)—There is good verse here, not so good as we have seen of the same kind elsewhere, but still worth preserving. "Our Philosopher," who is distinctly, or indistinctly,...

Richards 3s. 6d )—The " Journalist " who is the subject of this little book is the journalist of the daily paper, and Mr. Pendleton has much that is interesting to say about...

M. Strong, C.B. (Luzac and Co. 6s. net.)—The translator supplies a pithy introduction in which he gives a synopsis of Buddhist thought. Nirvana "implies the going out' in the...