RECENT VERSE.* OF the fifteen volumes on our list, we are inclined to give the highest place to Mr. A. G. Butler's Hodge and the Land. Not all of it, perhaps, can rank as...

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THE Voyage en Angleterre, en .Lcosse, et aux Iles des Hebrides was originally published at Paris in 1797; an English translation appeared in 179.9 ; Mayor's British Tourists,...

IT was prophesied a few years ago that the public demand for the romances of Dumas lol , ,re would continue to increase in England. With improved translations and cheaper cost,...

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than respectable antiquity of seventy-four years. It moves on, too ; in its youth we should hardly have had such a lesson as that about Jacob and Esau. A. tale, "Two Little...

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behalf of the Government, replied by recriminations and counter- charges against Slovak agitators, and accused thena of having stirred up the people. Meantime organs of...

elections for the Russian Duma have so far resulted as follows : "Monarchists and other members of the Right, 166; Octobrists and Moderates, 103; Party of Peaceful Regenera-...

French Chamber on the national defences. Public confidence in France has been a good deal shaken lately by the ominous warnings of General Langlois, and particularly by an...

O N Sunday last a serious riot took place at Csernova, in Hungary, in which thirteen Slovaks were killed, eight severely wounded, and some eighty slightly wounded. Among the...

Herr Harden, Dr. Kern, the presiding Judge, in pronouncing judgment on Tuesday morning stated that the Court found the incriminated statements had been proved, though there was...

confined to the Slav population in Hungary, but is exciting a strong feeling throughout the Austro-Hungarian Empire. For example, on Wednesday, though the Austrian Parliament...

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E. D. Morel, on behalf of the Congo Reform Association, has sent to Sir Edward Grey. It adds one more to the many proofs of cruel misgovernment in the Congo. The document...

Friday week, when Mr. George H. Druce brought a charge of perjury at the Marylebone Police Court against his half-uncle, Mr. Herbert Druce, the present proprietor of the Baker...

Board of Trade on the subject of the Channel Ferry. , Lord Weardale, the chairman of the Channel Ferry Company, - explained that, before laying their project before M....

of London at the Guildhall on Monday, and delivered a striking speech. After cordially recognising the services of King Edward and Lord Lansdowne in connexion with the...

railway strike, except that during the week Mr. Lloyd-George has had several very long conferences with the railway directors. The counting of the votes of the members of the...

visit to the United States announced, as be could not well have refrained from doing if be mentioned the subject at all„ that cattle-driving was illegal, and must be stopped....

Sir Edward Hamilton, who has just retired from the Treasury after a long and distinguished career. We can only note here Sir Edward Hamilton's unhesitating condemnation of...

city of Edinburgh. It was significant, as he said in his graceful speech, that a Scottish Prime Minister should be made free of the capital of Scotland on the two hundredth...

with the House of Lords. Some people seemed to think, he said, that a Second Chamber was part of the order of Nature, and as essential as the Ten Commandments or the...

deprived of the Sacraments—that is, in effect, though not in name, excommunicated—on account of the articles published by him in the Times criticising the recent Encyclical....

Scotland, and Wales at Buckingham Palace, and addressed them on their responsibilities in working the new Army Act. That Act revived much of the great importance which used to...

the Welsh National Liberal Convention at Rhyl on Wednesday, has two voices,—one for Wales and the other for his official work. In order to convince Welshmen that be is still the...

speeches, the first in connexion with the Victoria Hospital for Consumption, the second at the opening meeting of the Jubilee session of the Philomathic Society. After an...

Oct. 31st. Consols (2-1) were on Thursday 821—on Friday week 83i.

THE CABAL AGAINST MR. BALFOITR. A LETTER signed "Loyal Tory" which we publish in another column draws attention to a new danger to the unfortunate Unionist Party. As if a vital...

I T is impossible not to feel a great deal of sympathy with the German Emperor in connexion with the disclosures of the Harden-Moltke trial. The Emperor is a Sovereign whose...

P RESIDENT ROOSEVELT must, . we cannot help thinking, regret the pledges he gave when last elected not to seek nomination for a third term. It is almost inevitable, so far as we...

T OED CROMER took occasion on Monday to offer his A countrymen some very necessary advice. It was founded on what is still recognised as a sound maxim in business, and has until...

I N the last few months Britons have listened to some frank criticisms by Colonists of the diplomacy of the Mother-country. The irritation of Australians when the New Hebrides...

are old, and have often been stated, but an unusually strong attack is being developed just now as the result of some recent judgments of the Censor. The Prime Minister has...

T WENTY years ago we used to hear a great deal about the "woman's woman." The phrase suggested that the women whom women like are not liked by men. The notion was one of those...

T HE pleasant bouquet of oak-smoke is on the still evening air. In the hillside hop-garden the bines are com- mencing their festoons after their three months' climb to the tops...

THE SLOVAKS. LTO TOR EDITOR Of THE "SPECTATOR:1 Si,—The Times of Tuesday contains an account of the fatal rioting near Rozsahegy, in North Hungary, in which eleven Slovaks...

MR. BALFOUR AND BIRMINGHAM. [To ma EDITOR OP TRY " SPECTATOR." J SIR,—The annual meeting of the "National Union" is soon to be held at Birmingham, and there are not a few...

OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—I agree with your correspondents of last week in thinking that the prospect of a Royal Commission on Tariff Reform might enable both sides of the...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "8PECTATOR:1 Sin,—M. Guyot is a Socialist and Mr. Harold Cox a Free- trader ; why should the latter bring the former to judgment as an authority on...

urgent alterations which are needed in regard to Prayer-book revision concerns the present use of the Psalter. In it are a number of Psalms which are absolutely opposed to the...

[To yes EDITOR Or TRH monk-roam SIR,—I have read the note you append to Mr. Cremer's letter on the revision of the Prayer-book (Spectator, October 26th), and I venture to hope...

Si, — With the general spirit of Mr. Cremer's letter in last week's Spectator every one who is really in earnest about the preservation of the national character of the Church...

Sra,—Mr. Harold Cox in his letter in your last issue with reference to M. Yves Guyot's discussion of the quantitative theory of money cites the latter as remarking with regard...

has gained the right to argue on monetary questions. He quotes John Stuart Mill : "If the whole money in circulation was doubled, prices would be doubled." Mr. Cox disagrees....

[TO THN EDITOR OP THB " SPNOTATOR.] SIR,—In the article in the Spectator for October 19th headed "Socialism and Sex Relations" there is a quotation from Mrs. Philip Snowden's...

[To THE • EDITOR OP THI " SPROTATOR.1 am reminded of a curious and instructive illustration of the evils arising from that confusion of the Executive and Judicial Services to...

LTo MI EDITOR OP TUB "SPICOPATOR..] Sin,—The following remark, made by a working woman some two years ago to a lady visiting her, probably expresses the feelings of a good many...

[To vax EDFf OR OF THZ "SPECTATOR'] Sia,—It may perhaps be of some interest to your readers to be reminded of the following passage which occurs in an address delivered at New...

[To TER EDITOR OF THZ " SPRCTATOR.1 In,—In your note at the end of the letter by "W. M. R." Ml "A Plea for Reasonable Socialism" in your issue of Dctober 26th you write : "It...

[To TRH EDITOR OF TUE " SPECT ATOR."] SIR,—Readers of the late J. H. Shorthouse's biography will perhaps remember that after he published "John Inglesant " several instances of...

[To THE EDITOR T II R S P ROTATOR:] SIR,—Literary and other opinion in Scotland will have to be transformed a great deal more ere many Scotsmen will subscribe to the amazing...

SIR,—Many of your readers must have read with deep interest the article on "The Literary Transformation of Scotland" which appeared in the Spectator of October 19th. More than...

SIB,—Your correspondent Mr. C. F. Andrews (Spectator, October 26th) is the victim of a curious confusion of thought and phrase, probably from want of technical knowledge of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE •• 13PECTATOL"1 SIR,—Your readers may care to hear that the scheme of church extension at Aldershot, which you allowed to be brought to their notice by a...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTATOLL' . ] Sia,—Having read the correspondence in the Spectator con- cerning goats, I would like to point out an insurmountable difficulty placed in...

Pro THZ EDITOR OF THZ "SPECTATOR." J Sin,—Dr. Thomas Hodgkin complains of "the nuisance caused to many inoffensive citizens by the intrusion of undesired corre- spondents,"...

L'ro THE EDITOR OF THE "5PECTATOR:1 Srit,—All who care for this great church will be grateful to you for the prominence which you gave last week to its terrible plight and...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " Sin, — The principle on which we seem to live now, especially in London, is that the efficient shall be taxed for the benefit of the inefficient. It is a...

[To TIIE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—It is not long since we had a great flourish of trumpets about Bertillon's finger-print system, which, it was stated, ensured the...

SAINT MARTHA'S ON THE HILL. Tas.oven earth and air and sky and sea Unconquerably runs The current of divinity ; It lifts the daisy that aspires Towards the heavenly blue, and...

THE LETTERS OF QUEEN VICTORIA.—II.* WE dwelt last week on the general soundness of the Queen's judgment, especially as regards individuals. But though good judgment is the rule,...

How much might be written on the philosophy of places I What do we mean by the character of a place Why is it that the ugliest of places are sometimes delightful, and that the...

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Mn. L A.THBURY sets himself in his preface to answer the objection, made, as he acknowledges, "with some reason," that Gladstone was not, properly speaking, a "Leader of the...

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