Japanese commonalty. They are said to be wild at the idea of peace, and on Sunday a fanatic " patriot " gave vent to his feelings by shooting at Li Hang Chang. The bullet...

immediately rose to intimate that the Govern- ment declaration was most satisfactory to the Unionist party, and that they would support the Foreign Office view. This means that...

case.

It is more than probable that the speech of Sir E. Grey, on Thurs- day, will gravely affect the future of China. The Japanese will never believe that with such a dispute in...

up like a piece of paper, and tarpaulin had to be spread at once over the rafters to protect the Rubens ceiling. In Kensington Gardens a good deal of damage was done to the...

on, and we fear we must say the intriguing too. The Liberal Unionists have determined that their alliance with the Conservative party makes it their duty to support Sir Matthew...

T HE lassitude of tone which now marks proceedings in the House of Commons was broken on Thursday by a very grave incident. Mr. Ashmead-Bartlett and Mr. Lowther brought up the...

a plea for Home-rule for Wales. He maintained that the position of the Welsh Members, as almost unanimous in their policy for Wales, and yet in a hopeless minority as a. very...

Thursday's paper, states that at a, meeting of the Opposition, a resolution was carried which, while admitting the distinguished public services of Sir Hercules Robinson,...

we ought to get a Naval Reserve by passing a number of boys through the service. An incidental advan- tage would be that the Navy would become a training-ground for the...

House of Lords the question of the manning of the Navy,—the most important of all -the problems connected with national defence. His proposals are briefly these :—To raise the...

speeches during the week. Yesterday week, Mr. Henry Matthews (the Home Secretary of the Conservative Government) delivered a speech from the Roman Catholic point of view, which...

Tuesday night. Mr. Plunket was very eloquent, especially in attacking the scheme of Disendowment, which he declared appeared to him to have resulted from a very careful study of...

Government of India, and an expedition from Peshawur to Chitral has become indispensable. Umra Khan, a Pathan chief who is besieging that place, is rousing all the Pathan tribes...

Empire. Prince Bismarck's eightieth birthday falls on April 1st, and the Emperor, the German Princes, all Austrian Germans, and a majority of Germans at home wished to pay him...

moved a resolution in favour of paying Members of Parlia- ment, repudiating in the strongest terms the very sensible proposal to pay those who needed it and not those who do...

is reported this week from Clontnel, in Ireland. A. man named Cleary, a peasant, found his wife subject to some nervous affection, accompanied with inability to eat, and decided...

to exist. At a special meeting of the shareholders, held on Wednesday, it was resolved to accept a compromise offered by the Government, and surrender its Charter, with all its...

a review, after which he made to the Prince a rather astonishing speech. He presented him with a sword engraved with the arms of Alsace-Lorraine, and said that the repre-...

New Consols (21) were on Friday, 104f.

THE DEAD-SET AGAINST MR. CHAMBERLAIN. T HE converging fire on Mr. Chamberlain is a singular phenomenon of a moment of reaction. If any one man has contributed much more than...

disaster which has just occurred near Chitral, T I though of little importance in itself, is a most un- fortunate one. We prefer, amidst a medley of accounts, the original one,...

Friday week (March 22nd) brought out the thin-skinned side of democracy,—indeed, what we might even call, if it were not unfair to women, its womanish side. It was admitted on...

store ? That was a question raised the other day by the writer of a letter in one of the evening newspapers, who went on to point out how enormous is the waste of powder of all...

M R. GEORGE RUSSELL'S speech cannot well be said to have been a speech on Disestablishment --in Wales. It was a speech in favour of Disestablishment s of the Church everywhere...

W E wonder what moderate and sensible Germans, of whom there must be hundreds high in office and most experienced in affairs, think of the present internal situation of their...

the newspapers that the King of Sweden has sum- moned representatives of the Chambers to a secret Session, covers facts more serious than are generally recognised. Thew Sessions...

O NE of the most entertaining and in some sense instruc- tive books we have met with for some time back, consists of considerably less than two hundred very short pages of a...

W E are a little surprised by the letters and the comments which our expression of a rather contemptuous toler- ance for the superstition about boasting, published a fort- night...

T HE Report of the Royal National Life-boat Institu- tion for 189/ is such pleasant reading that it might well have exceeded the length which has been deemed sufficient to set...

ARBITRATION AND THE BEHRING SEA CLATMS uro VIZ Maros or ram "ersorArorun Si, — In the Spectator of March 9th, you stated in the "News of the Week" that the House of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the Fortnightly Review for October, 1894, there is an -article by Professor Boyd Dawkins on "The Settlement of Wales." Near the...

[To THE EDITOR OF TES " SPICTLTOR:] SIE,—Wby does the Spectator speak of the phrase, "Don't prophesy unless you know," as an old " saw " ? I cannot say that the false prophets...

THE FAR EAST.* WE are not greatly impressed by Mr. H. Norman as a politician, as he believes a little too much in British power to crush all rivalry, if it is only strenuously...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—Will you kindly correct a mistake which occurs in the Spectator of March 23rd, relative to my brother, the late Mr. Alfred German Reed...

[To Tin EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] 'Sxn ,—I was witness the other day of what I had only heard of before,—a dog travelling by rail on his own account. I got into the train at...

of this interesting work we contrasted the keen dialectic of Newman, never satisfied without what seemed to him a logical basis for his creed, with the more womanly quality of...

are lifting the veil that once hid Ancient Egypt, and behind which, till lately, we saw the shadowy and monstrous figures of gods and men moving as in the mysterious and...

years made many public references to a mysterious book which he wanted to write, but which it was quite useless to write, because when written it would be impossible in the...

WE lay down this latest addition to the crowd of reminiscences with the sense that we have made acquaintance with a very distinct personality indeed,—an Irishman of the Irish in...

Mn. THOMSON had the difficult task of establishing an orderly rule after a coop d'etat. A certain Mr. Baker, whose fame penetrated to Europe a few years ago, had made himself...

On Expression in Nature. By W. Main, M.D. (Sonnenschein.) —Dr. Main tells us that the reading of some rules on the relation of a particular direction of lines and expression...

Marston, and Co.)—Dr. Hicks has been Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States to Peru, and it is in the pictures that he gives of South American life that there lies...

(Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—This is a volume of wise sayings, happy phrases, lofty thoughts, gathered from a wide circle of authors both new and old, expressed both in...

this volume are described by the words, "Work and Wages." It appears under the editorial care of Mr. J. Potter, and an introduction has been furnished by Mr. George Howell, who...

—In spite of the delicate drawing of the figures, the innumerable and exquisite touches of character, and the wonderfully vivid and impressive descriptions of natural scenery,...

Tract Society.)—The heroine, Pansy, the daughter of a younger son, whose marriage has separated him from his father, is sent home from India to live with her maternal...

Burnett. (Warne and Co.)—Every one knows how admirably Mrs. Burnett can write about children and for children. Praise, therefore, is needless, other than saying that she is, on...

Union.)—We have not had many tales of the Franco-Prussian War, perhaps because, with the exception of the Siege of Paris, events moved too rapidly, and the fortune of war was...

—There is hardly the true adventurous ring about this tale of the Crimea, though it gives an interesting account of the Crimean operations and presents a true picture of...

and Co.)—This writer uses her knowledge of children to inculcate some stern morals for children in such stories as "The Little Gardeners "—a paraphrase of the Parable of the...

Shepherd. (George Newnes.)—It would be difficult to decide which is the more essential part of Zig Zags at the Zoo, — the pen or the pencil. They are complementary to each...

this somewhat extravagant story is the pursuit of a wealthy Englishman who has boasted of his skill in breaking female hearts. He separates two young Australian lovers, breaks...

and Co.)—This book reveals to the reading public an addition to the flourishing school of New Romancists, and one whom even Mr. Stanley Weyman and Mr. Conan Doyle will find a...

Co.)—This is one of the delightful stories with which our novelists seek to amuse and instruct us in these latter days. Somewhat shortened, it might have served for a Christmas...

is a story of a young lady who, eager for travel, goes as a governess to a Russian family just before the Crimean War. One of her charges being of Liberal tendencies, is...

(Mathews and Lane.)—A delightful volume this of Nature sketches. Dr. Abbott writes about New England woods and streams, scenes neither quite familiar nor quite strange to us who...

and Co.)—In this volume we have a memoir, occupying about a a third of the whole, with some sermons and addresses delivered on various occasions. Dr. Allon was a man of...

Son.)—The speciality of this atlas is to give, in the first place, ample information on the physical geography of the world, and in the second to connect with this the political...

Elder, and Co.)—This is a pleasant, easy-flowing book, which may be regarded as in a measure a sequel to the author's "Some Literary Recollections." But it is not so important,...