is somewhat meagre. It appears that General Buller is disposing his forces so as to envelop the Boer army opposed to him at Laing's Nek, but it is not known what are his...

The secret society which calls itself the "Boxers," and which was first organised in Shantung for the protection of China against the foreigner, has gradually worked its way to...

T HE war is over,—or, at any rate, the serious campaigning. On Thursday Lord Roberts made his formal entry into Johannesburg, and the British flag was hoisted on the public...

On Tuesday he reached Germiston, only six miles from the town, and took possession of the railway junction connecting Johannesburg with Natal, Pretoria, and Klerks- dorp, thus...

and the Boer Executive Was first received in a tele- gram sent to the Daily Mail by Lord Roselyn, a corre- spondent of that paper who was a prisoner in Pretoria. It appears...

any case.

of the City of London Conservative Association. After touching on the housing question, and deploring th fact that it had become so much a matter of class and party attack, and...

the evening of May 26th, Mr. Peel, a Liberal Unionist, and the eldest son of Lord Peel, being returned by a majority of 2,039 over his opponent. As in 1895 the Unionist majority...

the preservation of the wild animals within their dominions. Lions, leopards, hymnas, baboons, all birds of prey (except vultures), owls, crocodiles, and poisonous snakes, are...

of Haussas with a British officer having been cutoff and slain. Coomassie, however, has not fallen, though it is reported, we regret to say, that the Hausaa quarters have been...

Duke of Bedford raised a debate on the condition of the armed forest of the nation. His speech was excellent both in tone and substance. He urged on the Government the...

He is seventy, his heart is in bad condition, and he can no longer stand up under his heavy duties and, to use his own phrase, "his emotions." He was only kept from fainting in...

charged in the Chamber on Monday with a plot to dis- credit the Army by proving that M. Cernuschi had been paid by the Staff to bear false witness at Rennes against Dreyfus. The...

of the soldiers. The mob, which is anti-foreign, cannot rise without their consent, and their attitude is uncertain. They must for a time have adhered to the Empress-Regent, or...

our opinion, that the Secretary of State for War has less grasp of the essentials of the problem than his unofficial critic. After mentioning that thirty thousand applications...

Sydenham, began life as a civil engineer, and worked under Stephenson on the Britannia Tubular Bridge over the Menai Straits. An account of this bridge which he sent to the...

mentioned that there had been some eight thousand more recruits during the first four months of this year than during the first four months of last year. He hoped in future to...

the Duke of Bedford. At any rate, his answer does not in the least meet our own suggestion. We want to see, in addition to the present Army Reserve and the new real Militia...

Saturday. The very first shell from one of the Majestic's' 12 in. guns entered the stern, traversed the ship, and emerged at the bows. In three minutes, superstructure,...

will probably kill out the Continental opinion that the war was unjust. That opinion was not based on any analysis of the reasons for the war, but on a hope that the Boers would...

has, we fancy, ended at last. They are not directly legalised in this country, but on Monday Lord Strathcona carried the second reading of a Bill making such marriages, if...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 103/.

THE END OF THE WAR. T HE end of the war has come. No doubt there will still be a month or so of what Mr. Gladstone used to call "military operations," but the notion of some...

WHERE has been a great deal too much exaggeration , in all the recent talk about the period at which the Government should or should not dissolve Parliament. A Cabinet naturally...

F RANCE may yet have to pay terribly for the Dreyfus case. The Nationalists, who represent all the evil elements in that affair, and who are striving with the help of the Roman...

in the Far East, trouble from two quarters. It is possible, of course, that the " Boxer " movement may die away as so many Chinese in- surrections die away, but it is quite as...

T HE "Silent Highway" has of late set up a second title to its name. It is silent, not only because the traffic on it makes no noise, but because there is no longer any traffic....

0 NE of the special correspondents in Pekin told the world a few days ago what to us at least was new, that the Emperors of China are relieved of some of their burden of re-...

T HE two last volumes of the excellent English translation of Gregorovius's great work on "Rome in the Middle Ages" (George Bell and Sons), just published, are not the least...

T HE English country house at the Paris Exhibition is a reproduction of an old manor house at Bradford-on- Avon. It belongs to what is fortunately a very large class of houses...

THE LESSON OF AMERICAN RECONSTRUCTION. [TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.'] Sru,—When a nation has to face a new problem it is natural to look about for a parallel, and in the...

THE SOUTH AFRICAN NATIVES.—A'DOUBT AS TO THE JAMESON RAID. (To Tin gorroa OP TUB "SPECTATOR:1 ' hail with joy Lord Salisbury's words at the dinner of the City Conservative Club...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The following extract from the letter of a trooper in the Canadian Mounted Rifles may be of interest in connection with your...

"SPECTATOR.") Si a,—If your able article in the Spectator of April 7th, entitled "The Newspaper and its Editor," could be read, "marked, and inwardly digested" by every...

SIR,—It has occurred to me that ladies might materially assist the starting of rifle clubs in the towns and villages by offering prizes to be competed for annually. I have men-...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin, — ]" a file of the Times of the year 1814 appear at intervals advertised lists of subscriptions raised in London for the relief of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SpitarArori."] SIR,—It is a pleasure to see so prominent a place in your columns occupied with opinions and suggestions as to the rifle club movement. It...

ma THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:"] Sra,—Mr. Austin Dobaon's doubt as to whether " nightgown" meant in eighteenth-century parlance "evening dress" can be easily removed. In the...

THE STAGE. [To nu EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") have read with interest your friendly criticism on the debate on theatrical plays. I quite agree with you that our reliance for...

' [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") shall be very grateful if you will again find room in the Spectator for an appeal on behalf of the Naples Society for the Protection of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] your review of the Life of Sir John Charles Molteno you have made a slight error in attributing to me the honour of a seat in the Cape...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sza,—In your article on "A Failure of Pity" in the Spectator of May 19th you suggest that the failure of cottage accommodation in our...

"SPECTATOR.") hope that when the war in South Africa is over England will invite a fiiindred of our men to go and see her, with the horses they rode, to meet an equal number of...

WAGGON HILL. (LA.DYSMITE, JANUARY 6ra, 1900.) DRAKE in the North Sea grimly prowling, Treading his dear 'Revenge's' deck, Watched, with the sea-dogs round him growling,...

CYO THE EDITOR OW THE " SP IICITA.TOR•1 SIB,—I read the article on this subject in your issue of May 26th with regret. It does not seem in accordance with the traditional high...

THE BLUE-GRASS REGION OF KENTUCKY.* WE hope a somewhat unattractive title may not keep readers from this charming book. "The Blue-Grass Region" simply means the central and...

IT would be difficult to find a better proof of the fine quality of our best provincial journalism than is discovered in this little volume, which contains some five-and-twenty...

OTHERS abide our question, thou art free." So Matthew Arnold wrote in his sonnet to Shakespeare, and the words come back to mind as we close Mr. Goldwin Smith's essay. For the...

"A. HISTORY of the surrender of the maritime rights of Great Britain by the Declaration of Paris and an argument for their resumption by a repudiation of that Declaration" is...

Tire books of Miss Beatrice Whitby are not specially distin- guished for originality, and many writers are her superiors in the construction of their plots or the marshalling...

THE Nineteenth Century contains a war article of remark.. able interest. It is the late Captain Cecil Boyle's account of the cavalry operations which resulted in the relief of...

and C. Black. 10s.)—Mr. Mello& tells us that he was struck by the resemblance between the thought of Lucretius and that of Omar Khayyim as Mr. FitzGerald has presented him to...

Edition. (Macmillan and Co. 10s.)—We welcome with unaffected pleasure this new edition of an admirable monograph. Mr. R. C. Christie's Etienne Dolet does credit to English...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have no been reserved for review in other forms.] The Struivivelpeter Alphabet. By Harold Begbie. Illustrated by F....

Hon. Sir Richard Temple, Bart., G.C.S.I. (Chatto and Windus. Os.) —Many of the chapters of this volume have appeared in various newspapers, and Sir Richard Temple did well to...

Elisabeth, Empress of Austria : a Memoir. By A. de Burgh. With 80 Illustrations. (Hutchinson and Co. 6s.)—It goes without saying that a popular Life of the Empress of Austria...

abroad may be mentioned together, Fifty Years sn Western Africa, by the Rev. A. H. Barrow (S.P.C.K., 2s.), and Towards the Land of the Rising Sun, by Sister Katherine (same...

another to his admirable editions of Aristopbanes. This time it is the Peace, which he has edited with an introduction and notes. The play takes us into the very centre of...

6d.)—By "Greater Canada" Mr. Osborn means the North- west, which includes the prairie and the Yukon country, and, as it is bard to separate from the Yukon what is really part of...

D.D. (Macniven and Wallace.)—Dr. M'Ewan, of whom Mr. Oliphant Smeaton gives, by way of introduction to this volume, a biographical sketch, may be described, we hope without...

by L. Raven-Hill. (J. W. Arrowsmith, Bristol. 3s. 6d.)—We must own that we have not been as much amused as, perhaps, we ought to have been by Mr. Jerome's humour. Its quality is...

the Undivided Church, edited by Henry R. Percival, D.D. This is a valuable contribution to ecclesiastical history, containing, as it does, much material that is not commonly...

week is The Story of Baden-Powell, by Harold Begbie (Grant Richards, 3s. 6d.), a pleasant, readable book, which tells us about the childhood, school life, and services in India,...

process reproductions and a large photo-etching are certainly cheap at one shilling, even if few of the originals can claim to be masterpieces. The portfolio is worth having for...

H. R. Haweis. (Burnet and Isbister. 6d.)—Biirger's Lenore. Translated from the German by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. (Ellis and Elvey. 5s. net.)—Black's Guide to Paris. The...