was made in the Chamber on Thursday by Admiral Bienalme, formerly Naval Prefect of Toulon. The succession of naval disaiteri, culminating in that of the 'Una,' which be...

MELE French Government, after long forbearance, have decided to protect their citizens in Morocco, and a French force has been ordered to occupy Oujda, near the Algerian...

Moldavia early this month, has been acute during the week. Although Moldavia has become comparatively tranquil, Wallachia, whither the rising has spread, has been given over to...

Saturday, at the moment when M. Stolypin was promising to lead the country forward in those Constitutional methods which Pobiedonostzeff bad unfalteringly resisted all his life....

to Ports- mouth. It arrived on Monday, and official visits were at once exchanged between Admiral Bosanquet and' Commodore Roussine. In the evening there was a dinner party at...

has discussed the new procedure which was proposed by the Prime Minister on Wednesday week. The Prime Minister, it will be remembered, moved that when a Bill bad been read a...

in complete agreement. There is hardly a single subject touched upon in the speech on which his views do not coincide with those repeatedly expressed in these columns. We detest...

of the Government. He did not expect that their Bill would be either violent or extreme; it would very likely deal chiefly with administration on lines which the Liberal League...

meeting of the Liberal League at the Westminster Palace Hotel on Tuesday. He proposed to speak quite frankly of the new Government, to which he outed neither allegiance nor...

Ministry at Johannesburg. Sir George Farrar and other members of the Opposition were present, and it is impossible to draw anything but good auguries from the spirit of the...

last debate was raised by Mr. Keir Hardie, who declared that the Unemployed Workmen Act had not been worked with sufficient vigour. Mr. Burns in reply asserted that the Act had...

been so strong and so united, we should have felt obliged to condemn the Government's proposals on their merits. Under the existing system we have at any rate an institution...

formed to erect a statue to the late Lord Salisbury in the Foreign Office. For more than thirteen years be was Minister for Foreign Affairs, and during that time, as Englishmen...

of unrest and uneasiness on the Stock Exchange, and at one time it was feared that the settlement on Wednesday might cause something in the nature of a crisis. Fortunately, how-...

Jan. 17th. Consols (2i) were on Thursday 85f---on Friday week 85}.

Act as well as it was possible to administer so unsound a piece of legislation, we are convinced that in reality no special enactment was required, and that it would have been...

on Friday week, Sir William White read an interesting paper on the results of the experiments made with Dr. Schlick's gyroscopic apparatus for steadying the motion of ships. The...

of Dublin was held in the Middle Temple Hall. Lord Rathmore, who presided, declared that Mr. Bryce's scheme would at once inflict a grievous injury and injustice on the...

SHALL THE MILITIA BE ABOLISHED? wish. from the bottom of our hearts that the facts Y.Ir as to the services rendered to the nation by the Militia during the South African War...

rilHOUGH we are most anxious not to take up an unnecessarily alarmist attitude in regard to Egypt, we feel obliged to return to the subject treated by us some three weeks ago....

F RANCE is acting energetically in Morocco in order to obtain reparation for the numerous injuries her citizens and interests have suffered. We are glad to think that for this...

T HIS Roumanian faze/Aerie is for many reasons a most serious affair. In the first place, it is an explosion based upon grievances which are felt, not only by the six million...

TIRE indifference which the London ratepayer has 1 shown in the election of the Poor Law Guardians does little credit to his common-sense. No one on Monday would have supposed...

(IN the first Sunday in this month Dr. Inge, the new Lady ■ -.1 Margaret professor of Divinity, preached before the University of Cambridge a profound and eloquent sermon upon...

A HUNDRED years ago last Monday the Bill for the Abolition of the Slave Trade in the British Empire received the Royal assent. If the British people are not so ready as the...

J DRIES, fortunately, have not yet made it a custom to add to a verdict of murder the rider "during temporary insanity." But the public, or at all events a considerable section...

THE REMARKABLE DEPRECIATION OF GOLD. iTo TER EDITOR On THE SPECTATOR.") 8x,—I contributed to your columns on February 23rd a short letter on the evident depreciation of gold....

MR. MARKS AND THE UNIONIST PARTY. (To THE EDITOR Or TEE . SZZOTATO...) Sin,—In thanking you most warmly for the encouragement you have given us in endeavouring to put an end to...

[TO 'rue EDITOR Or TIM "RrIOrATOR...1 SIE,—May I, as a "man on the spot," be allowed to add one or two remarks after reading your very interesting article on " A. Parliament...

o 5rsercroa."1 Sin, — Your correspondent "H. W." in the Spectator of March 16th has shown very effectively that the facts in regard to the output of gold in the world and the...

been considered by men to be deficient in the sense of humour, and some of us have resented this accusation; but recent events seem to prove the mere man to be correct in his...

TIIII EDITOR OPP THE . SPECTTATOR."1 SIII,•-4t is certain that "a sect" does not mean "a piece cut off." But is not Professor Skeet (Spectator, March -23rd) rather too positive...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOE."1 SIE,—Your correspondent "G. C." (Spectator, March 23rd) applies, I think, a false analogy to the question of woman suffrage. A woman takes her...

female suffrage in the Spectator of March 16th shows admirably the danger that would follow from the extension of the suffrage to women. Your con- clusions would be strengthened...

have recently had some most interesting correspondence with a missionary in India in which a story is told of the influence for good of a much-used old copy of the Spectator,...

TOT SPECTATOR.") En,—When Home-rule comes we may be sure that the Bishops • and their creatures will give a short, shrift to Dublin University. But why must the party of Mr....

[To Tar Roma OP THE "SPECTATOR.") Sra,—The Education Committee of the Victoria League will be grateful if you will allow me space to remind your readers of the valuable prizes...

iTo TEl EDITOR OP TEE SPECTATOR...I SIR,—With reference to the inquiry of "E. E." in the Spectator of March 23rd, it may be stated that in a normal rural parish there is no...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE .SPECTATOR..) Sia,—The following passage—the italics are mine—from the first volume of Gibbon is not without its bearing on a vexed question in the Fiscal...

[To TER EDITOR Or TEE SPECTATOR:1 SIE,—I write to thank you for the extremely flattering notice, in your issue of last week, of my forthcoming book on "Extinct Birds." I trust,...

[To MS EDITOR OP TIER SPECTATOR.") STE,—It is with profound satisfaction that I have read in the Spectator of March 16th Mr. Tallack's letter on the Work- men's Compensation...

ITo TIDO EDITOR ON EPROTATOR: . _1 S111,—Referring to your highly interesting review (March 23rd) of M. Jusserand's "Literary History of the English People: from the Renaissance...

THE BORDER LOVERS. [By Border Law (administered at the time of this ballad by Lord &rope as En g lish and the Eon of Bucclench as Scottish Warden of the Marches) inter-...

AUGUST MARRS. Twonaw Sir August Manna had withdrawn from the musical arena for several seasons, his interest in the art he had served so long and faithfully remained unimpaired...

SIR IAN HAMILTON'S SECOND VOLUME.* WE are glad that Sir Ian Hamilton has been encouraged —nay, more, allowed—to fulfil the promise he made in his first volume, and to give us in...

To estimate justly in an article the "position and influence" of women in a single epoch and a single nation would be a hard task. To do so in the case of Greece and Rome during...

THERE are numerous instances of men who have exchanged one civilisation for another, but few have told the result. Still fewer have maintained in all the excitement of change a...

THE English have ever been travellers. The instinct which drove Angles and Saxons from their own bleak shores "by way of the whales" across the storm-ridden German Ocean to the...

THE COUNTRY HOUSE.* WHETHER as the result of a natural process of mental development, or owing to the mellowing influence of success, evidences of a more conciliatory attitude...

Pope's Iliad of Homer. Edited, with an Introduction, by Pro- fessor A. J. Church. (Cassell and Co. 29. net.)—We welcome this edition of what must always be considered a great...

Commerce in War. By L. A. Atherley-Jones, KC,, M.P. Assisted by Hugh H. L. Bellot, M.A., D.C.L. (Methuen and Co. 21s. net.)—Recent years have seen a considerable output of books...

THE STORY OP LORD CLIVE. The Story of Lord Clive, By John Lang. "The Children's Heroes" Series. (T. C. and E. C. Jack. Is. Bd. net.)—Though our notice is somewhat belated, we...

was the popularity of "The Saint" in England, we suppose, which caused Mr. Fisher Unwin to publish this revised translation of Malombra. Malombra was written twenty- five years...

Rider Haggard has before now, we fancy, followed the dangerous example of Sir Walter Scott, and explained the foundations of his story in a preface. Mr. Haggard's followers,...

Jones. (Dam- rose and Sons. 10s. 6d. net.)—The Isle of Man is not better off in the matter of old church plate than are the mainland dioceses. Only two pieces of pm-Reformation...

the Rev. C. E. Douglas. (S.P.C.K. 7s. 6d.)—This is one of the publica- tions of the Church Historical Society. It is eminently useful as giving original documents, but this is...

6d. net.)—Mr. Ferrer, whom Mr. Lang introduces to the public; in his best style, has written a very readable book. At the head of literary forgers stands George Paalinanazar....

Pude this headin g us notice such Books q f the luck at have not been reserved for resins in othtr forma.] 'Peaceful Personalities and Warriors Bold. By Frederic Villiers....

Maloney, C.B. (Caxton Publishing Company. 21s. net.) —M. Bain professes obstetrics in the University of Paris, and directs the Clinique Tartsier, where the treatment of the...

42s. net.)—There are many interesting things in this volume. To the connoisseur and collector it appeals by its descriptions and delineations of various articles which are...

(Kagan Paul, Trench, and Co. 5s.)—It is too soon to discuss the question of which Mr. Brodhead sets forth one side. Mr. Brodhead does not altogether commend himself by the tone...

Hughes. 2s. net.) — The title of this admirably written book describes its object. It is addressed to the hundreds of thousands of people who have more or less opportunity of...

is a revision by Dr. E. C. Black, with the co-operation of Dr. A. J. George, of an edition originally edited by Dr. Henry Norman Hudson. Two volumes are now before us, The...

LL.D. (John Murray. 25.65, net.) — The preface bears the date of 1888, and the book has been reprinted, it would seem, without any attempt at revision, for the use of " Schools,...

(H. Frowde. 25. net.) — Mr. Philip Sidney believes, but without being certain — and certainty, perhaps, is • scarcely attainable — that the famous epitaph on Lady Pembroke was...

well-known institution of which it is needless to say much. It is acknowledged that it contains information which cannot be found elsewhere. We see that this year ' s issue, the...

English Nature Books " (Bonsfield and Co., Is. per vol.) No. 1 is 100 Photographs from Life of the Shrew Mouse, Dormouse, 4-e.. by Douglas English ; • No. 2, 100 Photographs of...

(Stevens and Sons. 10s. ed. net.) — Tho words here explained are connected with fines and mulcts, services ecclesiastical, manorial, and other. Allamenta, e.g., " includes any...