T HE Cabinet again met on Friday, and again we can only say that the question of peace and war is officially undecided. It seems, however, almost certain that there will be war,...

the country will remain uneasily quiet until next autumn, when the great Exhibition will be over. It is, however, doubtful whether the present Government will remain, as the...

at Dundee on his receiving the freedom of the city, dwelt with a deep sense of responsibility on the prospect of war. The Government, he declared, had shown "the utmost measure...

Kipling performs a great and truly patriotic function in acting as interpreter to the nation. He knows how to show his countrymen in the lightning flash of inspiration the...

to predict. There are rumours that the Boers will attack through Zululand, -crossing be Buffalo River at Rorke's Drift, their object being to seize the railway and cut our...

aZy case.

days before he was expected, and ever since the city has been in a delirium of excitement and delight, though the great functions have not yet taken place. Fortunately, Admiral...

bequests for charitable objects during the eight years ending 189S. The average amount so bequeathed and reported in the papers is £1,250,000 a year, and even if the addition...

Court held that as King Milan was heir to the - ,throne, to com- pass his death was high treason, and that even to intend to commit high treason required exemplary punishment....

a public meeting held in the Birmingham Town !Hall in connection with the Worcester Diocesan Conference. With great earnestness and conviction he challenged the popular notion...

with his relatives at Carpentras, and occupies himself with his children and a world-wide corre- spondence. His letters are full of gratitude to all who have defended him, but...

protest against war with the Tiansvaal. The meeting was timed to begin at 3 o'clock, but long before the conveners arrived the Square was thronged by a large, and for the most...

Principles " which must be accepted before a union of all Catholics could be hoped for, have forwarded an address to the Queen of Spain in which they further explain their...

Tuesday's issue a budget of Bismarckiana from the forthcoming volume of Herr John Booth. The selected anecdotes all refer to Bismarck's prodigious consumption of food, drink,...

mortgage question. The peasantry in every province run themselves into debt, chiefly for their daughters' marriage expenses, and pledge their fields as security. The local...

and the possibility of their intervention in our quarrel with the Transvaal. But though we have no fears of any inter- national complications arising out of the crisis, we shall...

and the sanatorium of Bengal. A heavy storm of rain began there on Saturday, the 23rd inst., and lasted thirty-eight hours, during which time some twenty- eight inches of rain...

extend- ing the hospitality of its columns to "Mr. Dooley," just as Punch welcomed the contributions of Artemus Ward in 1866. The paper in Monday's issue, entitled "At Close...

German Census taken on June 14th, 1895, from which it appears that the population amounted on that day to 51,770,000, of whom 25,400,000 were males and 26,360,000 females, the...

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ARE THE OUTLANDERS REALLY OPPRESSED? A RE the Outlanders really oppressed ? That is the question which the Dean of Winchester asks in the able and moderate letter which we...

I T is most disheartening to see King Demos taking to all the bad ways of his predecessors. Not a, year passes but Englishmen censure or ridicule some foreign Government for...

W E can hardly speak of a new crisis in Austria. The resignation of Count Thun is merely the pro- longation of a crisis which has lasted for years, and which may easily last for...

I T is, of course, very pleasant to hear that Alfred Dreyfus is happy at Carpentras, that he has some poor chance of regaining his health, and that he is writing charming...

W HAT will the European Powers do if we go to war with the Transvaal ? That is a question which at the moment is being asked in many quarters. The true answer, we believe,...

fr HERE are several points of interest in the curious list of recent bequests published by the Times on Monday, but perhaps the most interesting is the evidence it affords of...

M R. BAILLIE-GROHMA.N, who has personal acquain- tance with the straight-shooting peasants of the Austrian Alps, and also with the practical skill of English big- game hunters,...

T IME, which brings in its train such changes as Parish Councils, steam-rollers, and other similar boons, has not spared the village church. Square pews, where "a body med sleep...

WHAT ARE WE GOING TO FIGHT ABOUT ? [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.') Sin,—Your leading article upon this subject in the Spectator of September 23rd renders a most necessary...

"SPECTATOR:] SIR,—I have* read your able article in the Spectator of September 23rd on the above question with great interest, and, as I trust, a due appreciation of the...

[To TILE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I should wish to corroborate your view on the Glad- stone policy of the retrocession of the Transvaal as expressed in a note to a...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR, — May I remind you that the description of our Dorset squire, Hastings of Woodlands, is from no less a pen than that of Antony Ashley...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Will you kindly allow me to point out that your reviewer in the Spectator of September 23rd is surely in error when he objects to my...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR, — In the Spectator of September 23rd you write in refer- ence to the suggestions of Mr. Thornycroft that steam-roller traffic should be...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—It would take far too long to follow your corre- spondent, " E. J. W.," through all his extraordinary mis- statements of fact with...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTITOP.."] Six,—There are two versions of the " rats " story. Boswell tells one; Miss Reynolds the other (appendix to Croker's "Boswell "). The...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I fear the copy of my "Logic of Vegetarianism" sent you for review must have been a defective one. Your critic complains that I have...

[To TUE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —In your notice of "A History of Oxfordshire," by J Meade Falkner, in the Spectator of September 23rd, the following sentence occurs In...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "Spwrens.") SIR,—In your kind review (August 26th) of my last book, "The Custom of the Country," a point is raised which I purposely left untouched,...

ITO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—Praise of a prominent man after his death is some- times overdone, but in your editorial of September 16th on the death of Mr....

A LETTER ON THE CRISIS. (Written from Manchester in answer to a friend in London.) I DON'T know why you ask me I But is the world now grown so for wise My thoughts about this...

CROSSLEY OF ANCOATS.* JUST two years and a half have passed since the death of Francis William Crossley, so that no charge of undue haste emu be brought against the editor of...

• A Life of Richard Badiley, Vice-Admiral of the Fleet. By T. A. Spalding. London : Constable and Co. (iSa) RICHARD BADILEY was a brave man, yet it is more by accident than...

Is the true aim of civilisation to strengthen the strog or to strengthen the weak ? to establish an open career for speed and endurance or to make the race of life a handicap...

IT is a wonderful tale these two writers have to unfold, each in his different way, and we do not know which has the more absorbing part of the history. Mr. ROBS begins with the...

with Mr. Bernard Capes in connection with his new and very clever novel : he keeps his readers too long waiting for the story proper (1.) Our Lady of Darkness. By Bernard...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK. [Under this Lading ice notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] A History of Banking in Bristol. By Charles...

3s. 6d.), is an adaptation of a book published some years ago under the title "French History for Children." We have no doubt that it will be useful, but are inclined to doubt...