TO the intense satisfaction of the whole nation, the King's astonishingly rapid recovery goes on without hitch or drawback—he can now walk without assistance—and, save some...

to fear an agrarian rising in Galicia, where in the last rising nearly two thousand landlords were murdered. The landlords of Galicia are Poles, and, being doubtless pressed by...

declared on Tuesday night, was as follows :—Mr. Rowland Barran (L.), 7,539; Sir Arthur Lawson (C.), 6,781; Liberal majority, 758. This means the loss of a seat to the Unionists....

new commercial treaty or agreement which Sir James Mackay has arranged with the Southern . Viceroys of China, and which has been accepted at Pekin. -Under the provisions of this...

demands upon the "unauthorised" schools, and the resistance shows signs of breaking down. Some further collisions have occurred in Paris between the Clericals and the police,...

disposed to be a little suspicious about this abolition of " likin," but the explanation is not an unreasonable one. The adhesion of Pekin as well as the Viceroys to Sir James...

case.

it was conducted on lines of criticism that proved how entirely the House was in accord with the policy of the Government. Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman's fear that it was an...

Emden and made a speech which shows how constantly his thoughts turn to the sea and to sea-power. The Great Elector and Frederick the Great, he said, had paid great attention to...

the peace settlement in South Africa. The constructive policy of racial reconciliation and prosperity that be laid down was worthy of the keen mind which throughout the dark...

Clause—the famous Clause 7—of the Education Bill, following the fruitless debate on the 12 o'clock rule. was comparatively tame in character, though it decided some important...

Wednesday afternoon, when an attack in force was made on Mr Balfour's proposal that all "non-provided" schools should have a body of not more than six managers, of whom not more...

informed, states that the failure of the American mission about the Philippines was due to a struggle within the Vatican. One party among the Cardinals urges that America with...

the most powerful person in the Empire, has just stated, through his organ, the Financial Messenger, the plan by which he would meet any attempt by Trusts to sell goods in...

on Friday week, and made a speech of much interest to the merchants and bankers who were the other guests of the evening. He began by complaining humorously that while a...

Acton to Mr. John Morley, in absolute property, to dispose of in the way he thinks most advantageous to literature or learning. It appears that the philanthropist millionaire,...

of India whom Lord Curzon succeeded) would be the President of the Royal Commission to inquire into the conduct of the war. In all probability the Commission would not number...

special correspondent of the Times at Johannesburg, in his telegram published on Thursday, again insists upon the immense advantages which will accrue both to the mines and to...

the whole, extremely satisfactory speech at the first dinner of the Liberal League. It was most natural that he should throw up his hat over the North Leeds election, even...

New Consols (2i) were on Friday 95.

THE MORAL OF THE NORTH LEEDS ELECTION. I T would be most foolish to attempt to minimise the significance of the North Leeds election. Looked at from whatever point of view, it...

T HE Foreign Office displayed great judgment and insight into character in its selection of Sir James Mackay as its Special Commissioner for the settlement of commercial...

W E heartily congratulate Mr. Chamberlain on his return to the House of Commons after his painful and trying accident. His speech on Tuesday is the best possible assurance that...

speaking in the City on Friday week, congratulated himself and his audience, nearly all bankers, financiers, or merchants, upon the fact that while in the Crimean War we had to...

F RENCH politics present at this moment a problem which they have often presented before, but never with so much doubt resting on the manner of its solution. More than once...

T HE housing problem is one that is ever with us. It was with us both in town and country in tla eighteenth century, and Mr. Whitbread's Poor Law Bill of 1807 especially aimed...

T HERE are traditions attached to the yearly meeting of the National Rifle Association as well as to other events of long standing, and one of them, it would seem, is to put to...

NikTHEN the great tower of Venice crumbled into dust the other day, after standing for a thousand years, the people of the city wept over it, even as the Hebrews did over the...

SOME PERILS OF PROGRESS. [To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIE, — Sir Robert Ball has declared that in time to come the age in which we live will be known to science as the...

TEUTONIC ANGLOPHOBLL [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—I am glad to see again a reference to Germany in the Spectator of July 19th. Talking of the Information, you say :...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTAT02.1 SiB,—The strange speculation as to the succession in the event of the King's illness having realised our worst fears, as mentioned by "C. W....

ILLNESS. [To THE EDITOR OD THE "SPECTATOR."] have been much interested in reading the letter of Dr. G. R. Wynne in the Spectator of July 19th, and would like to add my...

1115 " SPEOTALT011."] Sin,—You perhaps rightly attribute a part of the Nonconfor - mist opposition to the Government Education Bill to a sense of past injustice at the bands of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIB,,—AS the holiday season is commencing, I venture to ask, on public-spirited grounds, the favour of your space to mention Ireland. Many...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." j SIE,—Dr. Wynne's letter in the Spectator of July 19th is so admirable and truthful that I would emphatically endorse it. The inhabitants of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TILE "SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—Perhaps you may think it worth while to publish the following facts as a pendant to some remarks in the Spectator of July 26th and by...

[TO Tall EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sui,—The Spectator of July 26th has an interesting paper on this subject, and it would be well to remember that Napoleon long checked the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SrmarAT0s.1 Sin, — Probably few of the thousands who daily pause to admire Onslow Ford ' s statue of "Gordon mounted on a Camel, " just erected in a most...

at the time of the" colossal flogging, " may I ask you to permit me to give my account of the incident, of which I have a very vivid recollection ? There was at that time a rule...

[To THE EDITOIS OP THE "SPECTATOR:"] Sut, — The evidence of a contemporary record is generally accepted as valuable, if not conclusive, in settling questions of disputed fact....

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra, — Mr. Benson (Spectator, July 12th) can hardly cite his married friends to give evidence in defence of his position, May I give your...

Sin,—My letter in the Spectator of July 19th has drawn two very interesting contributions from two Eton veterans whose bodies were among the extraordinary number experimented...

Pro TEE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR." J SIB,—One of the most extraordinary cases of fire-lighting by the sun's rays through glass is the following. A few years ago my wife and I...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sut,—At the request of the late Father Dolling's family, I have undertaken to write his Life, and I shall be greatly obliged if you will...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR?'] SIE,—In the Spectator of July 26th I read a very interesting article on "Dragon-flies." Possibly many of your readers may not know that the...

SIR,—It is a ridiculous fallacy to hold that, because Australia seeks to develop her naval capacity and to provide ships and train men, she thereby declares herself to be...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] venture to submit for general acceptance that preachers in their pulpits and teachers in their schools can do more than any one else to...

(TO Tits EDITOR OM THE "SPECTATOR.") feel sure that a large proportion of your readers will agree with me in regretting that the bravery of Captain Freeman, of s.s. ' Roddam,'...

[To TEE EDITOR OP TEE "13PECTATOR."1 SIB,—The severe gale of Saturday, July 26th, which did such damage at Cologne and elsewhere, was here in Cambridge laden with an...

[To TEE EDITOR OP THE "SPEOTATOR.1 SIR,—Whatever may be said of the accuracy of the two English renderings of Madame de Staers words, quoted by "H. C. B." in the Spectator of...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE u.SPEOTATOR.") Sin,—The recent refusal of the Home Government to reduce the rate of postage on newspapers and periodicals carried within the Empire has...

LORD STRATHCONA AND MOUNT ROYAL.* To write the life of a living man is not a sound practice. Out- side a narrow circle the knowledge of contemporaries is at once partial and...

ON THE WELSH COAST. BLIND led by many a friendly star, I hurry through a land of sleep; For like a trumpet from afar I beard the challenge of the deep, And down the cliff's...

a thoroughgoing modern-day Liberal is a question that we are not called upon to answer, but this entirely valuable book proves beyond all question that he represents a political...

THESE Memoirs of the late President of our Paris Chamber of Commerce do not run in the old hackneyed furrows. Sir Edward Blount's opportunities, sustained for a period of almost...

THE third volume of the Encyclopaedia Biblica shows us Pro- fessor W. C. van Manen, a Dutch critic of a very advanced school, going on with the work with which Professor...

MISS QUILLET.* Mn. BAnneo-GouLn will not disappoint the readers who, on the strength of their acquaintance with his work, expect to find Miss Quaid worth reading. In the first...

wood and Sons. 6s.)—Mr. Meldrum is a writer of considerable ability, but he is not strong enough to usurp successfully the privilege of being obscure and diffuse. Take a page,...

is a very delightful book, with much of the charm of open- air life. The Virginian himself (there is some ground for belief that his Christian name was "Jeff," though this and...

is a well-developed story in Love with Honour, painful, of course—in our judgment, unnecessarily painful, for the situation might have been otherwise brought about—but still...

V. White and Co. 5s.)—]Iere we have a set of commonplace stories, each of them fairly well fitted to amuse for a few minutes, but producing, when thus collected, a somewhat...

Ovenden, D.D. (S.P.C.K. 2s. 6d.)—This is a well-considered contribution to Christian apologetics. "I am convinced," writes the preacher in his preface, "that a great deal of...

WILLIAM HAZLITT. William Hazlitt. By Augustine Birrell. (Macmillan and Co. 2s. net.)—It is a great pleasure to see that Messrs. Macmillan have at last admitted Hazlitt to...

Antrum Winslow, Bear-Admiral, United States Navy. By John M. Ellicott, Lieutenant United States Navy. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 10s. 6d. net.)—One wonders why this book was not...

A Book of Essays. By G. S. Street. (A. Constable and Co. 6s.)—We shall not attempt any general review of the opinions which Mr. Street expresses on topics literary and social....

tion Fund. 25s.)—Professor Flinders Petrie describes in this volume further results of the work of excavation. The general outcome of recent discoveries, in Egypt as in...

Vol. I. (Hutchinson and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—This "popular and picturesque account of a thousand years in the Palace of West- minster" cannot be adequately appreciated by any means...

[Under this heading us notice such Books of the wmik as haw sot ban reserred for review in other forms.] Elements of Agricultural Geology. By Primrose McConnell, B.Sc. (Crosby...

3s. 6d.)—This is a good book of its kind. Mr. Robinson has already shown more than once that he has a skilful hand for the writing of such books. Our own feeling is that short...

:—The Century, the Pall Mall Magazine, St. .Nicholas, the Smart Set, the Review of Reviews, Scribner': Magazine, the Idler, Home Arts and Crafts, the World of Dress, the English...

contains, among other interesting papers, a noteworthy article on "The Prefectorial System," by Mr. H. Frampton Stallard. The practice at the schools seems to vary considerably...

net.) --Wicken, a village of some importance in the Cambridgeshire Fens, is perhaps best known by the fact that the Manor belonged for a time to the Cromwell family. Henry...

6d. net.)—" I have counted it no business of mine," writes Mr. McKenzie in his preface, "to depreciate British manufacturers in the States or to gloss over their successes." The...

6d. net.)—The blackening process goes on vigorously along- side of the whitewashing. Our villains are metamorphosed into heroes, our heroes into villains. This time it is...

Son. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Walker is a believer in the airship of the future. There was a time, he argues, when the "ocean greyhound," which is now a commonplace fact, was regarded...

Horton. Part I. " (Williams and Norgate. 2s. 6d.)—We must own that we do not quit. realise what it was that Mr. Horton found or thinks that he found. We see that he started with...

Darlington. is.)—" The story of flags," says Mr. Kyle quite truly, "is the story of the world." He takes our national flags, beginning with the Royal Standard, and following the...