Hsu Cheng-yu, were publicly beheaded in Pekin on Tuesday, it does not seem that any real progress is being made in regard to a settlement. The majority of Ministers have, it is...

a precis of the draft Convention which the Russians have called upon the Chinese to sign in regard to Manchuria. The Convention, which has twelve articles, begins by declaring...

R ITMOURS of a circumstantial nature were persistently circulated on Thursday that General Botha, had surren- dered that morning to Lord Kitchener, but up to the hour of our...

for the murder of Mr. Jenner, the British Sub-Commissioner, has met with serious resistance at Sannasa, about sixty miles from Aff Madu. The British troops, under Colonel...

large vote to a sweeping extension of the system of progres- sive Death-duties which has already become law as part of the Budget. The scale for bequests under 200,000 francs...

case.

visit to his sister the Empress Frederick, who is dangerously ill at Friedrichshof Castle. At Frankfurt he was met by the German Emperor on Monday morning, and proceeded in his...

out in all the churches in the dioceses of Westminster and Southwark, dealing with the Declaration and Oath of Accession. He points out that the Declaration is not only...

amendment affirming the desirability of publishing as soon as possible the proceedings at the inquiries into the sur- renders in South Africa. Mr. Brodrick, after stating that...

and ask them to recommend what alterations should be made in the oaths and declarations made by the Sovereign in order to free them from words that are insulting and painful to...

effect of Mr. Brodrick's statement, when coupled with the Government's previous promises, during which Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and Sir William Harcourt severely criti-...

worse, and the events of the past week lend a certain measure of support to the optimistic view taken by Die Information. That journal contends that the irrecon- cilable...

induced the Government to agree to a further inquiry into the harbour works at Gibraltar. Mr. Bowles, who has lately been at Gibraltar, is much moved by the fact that the new...

Mr. Dillon, his subject being the" wanton burning" of farms and other alleged atrocities. His speech was as ineffective as it was disingenuous, and he was deservedly reproved by...

protest in verse against the use of the name "Tommy Atkins," or rather "Atkins." "Exquisite humour," indignantly exclaims Mr. Meredith, "that gives him a naming base to the ear...

issue of the Daily Telegraph. The incident, which happened in his sight and hearing, was as follows. Two officers, total strangers, new arrivals from up-country, rather lonely...

Federation held at Rugby on Wednesday will prob- ably be known in future as the Rugby " Union " meeting, though it passed off without a "scrimmage." After a resolu- tion of...

command general approval. Without having come to any positive conclusion as to the exact form and design of the memorial—which must depend on expert advice and the amount of...

in St. George's Hall, Colonel Steele, in responding to the toast of his health, said they had simply done their duty as a part and parcel of the great British Empire, and as...

for a Select Committee to inquire into the hours of labour in shops, and whether any, and if so what, stops could be taken to reduce them. Lord Salisbury agreed, but trusted...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 97/.

THE RECKLESSNESS OF THE PEACE PARTY. W E have said again and again during the war, and will say again in the strongest possible way, that per se there is nothing unpatriotic in...

O N Monday evening in the House of Lords the in.. tricate subject of the present position of education, secondary and elementary, was argued by the Chairman of the London School...

W E say deliberately and without fear of contra- diction that there never was a war conducted with so much humanity as that now being waged in South Africa. The conduct of both...

THE Paris correspondent of the Times is not always able—perhaps we should rather say not a l wa y s willing—to do justice to those whom he dit-likes. His treatment of M....

A PROFOUND sensation has been caused by the announcement of Mr. Pierpont Morgan's success in orgauising what amounts practically to a consolidation of the whole steel- producing...

It. CHORUS of complaint is making itself heard on the subject of the building by-laws now being enforced in rural districts. Most people have noticed that in a pretty old...

T HE lover of flowers has but to walk through the dreary miles of streets lined with brick houses—each one its neighbour's twin, flush with the street, and guiltless of any...

I T is a problem with many as to what shall really bind men together. What is it that makes us feel at once that we are akin, that we have a common origin, a common destiny, the...

THE CELTIC INSPIRATION. [To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—So much sheer nonsense has been talked about the Celtic influence in literature—as, for instance, when...

AN OBJECT-LESSON IN HOME-RULE. [To Tax EDIT= OF THY " SPzerAToR.1 Sr,—Those who have studied the problem of Ireland's poorm districts appreciate the difficulty the people have...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIE.,—Mr. Bertram Wilson's use of the terms " Church " and " Catholic " lays so very different a fundamentum divisionie from that upon which...

spirit of antagonism, but merely in one of cool attention to national interests, that I would desire readers of the Spectator to take careful note of your summary of M....

[TO THE EDITOR OF TILE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—With reference to the letter in the Spectator of February 23rd under the above heading, you may perhaps think the following extracts...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTATO1'.:] you kindly allow me to offer a few words of com- ment in your columns upon the plea you have recently presented for the French Jesuits and...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.') SIR,—It is quite true that "not to shun and hate this great world, but to raise it to a higher level, and so to make it correspond to the...

[To THR EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—It is suggested to me by Mr. Vernon Harcourt's letter in your columns last week that the following account by Bishop Cranmer of the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I trust you will permit one who is nearer the scene of hostilities and may claim an intimate knowledge of the facts to assure you that...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPROTATOR.1 Si,—While attempting, with his customary pretension to familiarity with Eastern matters, to correct a sentence in your review on "Turkey in...

r TIMM& ET TENACEM PROPOSITI VIRD11.1 [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR., Sin, — The late Vicar of Greenwich had the old-fashioned Englishman's love for Horace. And the man may...

A CASUALTY. STERN lips to some their doom convey, To some with tears 'Hs said : As idle gossip of the day I learnt my love was dead. ELLA. FULLER MAITLAND.

AN AUSTRALIAN ON THE STORY OF LADYSMITH.* WE have read many books on the war, and the tale of those which we shall never read grows daily bigger. Every affair has been...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR,") Sra,—From one of the "Letters of T. E. Brown" I venture to quote the following passage :—" The epitaph by Marvell is one of the noblest...

"THE Church of England has lost its hold on the people because the Bishops have too much money." Such is Mr. Handley's contention "writ short." He raises other issues, some of...

This is in many respects the beat tourist's book on Spain that has been written since the Rev. J. H. Rose produced in 1875 and 1877 his volumes. Untrocklen Spain and Among the...

IF Sir Henry Craik had given to his most solid, interesting, and valuable book some such title as "The Foundations of Modern Scotland" he would have indicated its object more...

A NOVEL from either of the Misses Findlater is always web. come, and A Narrow Way will certainly enhance the obliga- tion of the reading public, as it has heightened the...

French Life in T.Arn and Ceuta,* By Hannah Lynch. (G. Newnee. 3s. Gd )—Miss Lynch tells us that she is neither French nor English (p. 24). (She is Irish ; but would a Breton or...

CHRISTIAN EGYPT. Christian Egypt: Past, Prebent, and Future. By the Rev. Montague Fowler, M.A. (Church Newspaper Company. 6s. net.) — It will be seen from the title of this...

6s. net) appears in its sixty-fourth issue. The list of publica- tions (British and American, the chief only of the latter) occupies, we see, two hundred and thirty-six...

The School Grammar of Modern French, by G. H. Clarke, M.A , and C. J. Murray, B.A., with "Special Sections Dealing with the Language of the Seventeenth Century."—A Concise...

Stock, Gd. net) is a useful little manual. (Why preface it with a" testimonial," not to the manual but to the Bible itself, from "a well-known man of letters and divine" ?) The...

Under thie heading we notice such Books of ths ueek a have no been reserved for review in other forms.] : a Judge of the Underworld. By W. M. L. Hutchinson. (Macmillan and...