T HE public will be well ad eised to regard with great caution the sensational and inflammatory telegrams that are pour- lag, in from Johannesburg. All that seems certain is...

Priday week. The motley crowd of Frenchmen, Spaniards, %a Italians who make up the Christian population of Algeria bare been imitating towards the Jews the conduct of Irish...

the governing facts. Those accounts must come originally from leading natives, and the leading natives want to persuade the Americans that "the people" insist upon independence....

very curious telegram, which hereafter may prove of importance. The most orthodox party in the Vatican has watched for some years with growing dismay the increasing liberalism...

crop of duels. M. Horansky, leader of the Nationalists, began it by accusing Baron BaniTy, the Premier of bad faith. Baron Banffy. in a severe letter, gave him the lie, and M....

ease.

Owing to the weekly increasing difficulty of folding the " SPECTATOR" by hand, the paper will in future be printed by a rotary machine. Advantage has been taken of this change...

pneumonia, but is reported recovering. He had, he told an interviewer, resolved to recommend a great many reforms to the Queen-Regent, and especially to correct the grand abuse...

Times by one on "The Awakening of the Bishops," whi' appears in Thursday's issue. If the tone and general tecIP° of his previous writings on the Church question had been...

Chancellor of the Exchequer—publishes in the official Journal of December 21st some very interesting criticisms of the Egyptian Budget. The Budget shows, he says, that th...

an account of an interview with the reformer, Yang-su- wei, which is well worth reading. The reformer was admitted to intimate conversation with the Emperor, and found him,...

Mail cannot of course be seriously regarded as a indication of what the Liberal party thinks, but the result nevertheless, of some interest. The prize-winners—i.e., thee who...

Hindoo minds. A great meeting was held at Bombay on Wednesday, at which some five thousand " Bohras " were present with their high priest, together with Professor Haff- kine,...

always worrying about our commercial and industrial decadence because we are " flooded " with cheap German cutlery and cheap German lamps, would look at the very striking...

Times as to the best method of preventing the "industrial wars" which every now and then break out in our manufacturing and mining districts, and inflict untold misery, besides...

Anti-Imperialist League. The object of the -organisation is, if possible, to prevent the ratification of the treaty of peace with Spain. The "signers" pro- test against "any...

it is now possible to send for a penny a letter not above half an ounce in weight to all places in the British Empire, except the Australasian Colonies and the Cape. It is...

came to offer him their Christmas congratulations. In answer to the address read by Cardinal Parocchi, the Pope assured the Sacred College "that though the weight of Apostolic...

New Consols (21) were on Friday, 1101.

THE GREAT FACT OF 1898. T HE dominant fact of the year 1898 has been the rise in the position of the English-speaking peoples, which has been so great that in a quiet week like...

by the Pope to the Cardinals in answer to their Christmas greetings shows that the Vatican—we speak rather of the institution than of the man—is determined to maintain and...

E rather regret that those about the Queen should have thought it necessary within the last few days to deny the authenticity) , of two speeches attributed in journals to her...

the con- queror are pretty much the same all the world over. They are always impressed by the unexpected severity with which they have been treated, and with the folly of their...

T HEproblem of how best to provide for the aged poor is always reappearing, and especially when, as at the end of the year, the statisticians take stock of the legal poor,—the...

and is some- times visible, but his power over anybody except playwrights is o little felt that any incident which reveals the place he occupies on the Continent calls forth in...

The author takes, we may say at the outset, a quite optimistic view of Germany. In a powerful, but we think too laudatory, review of Bismarck's career, he appraises the...

T HE Archbishop of Canterbury, according to the Daily Telegraph, recently declared his opinion that holidays, to be most beneficial, should be entirely unspoiled by work. We...

I N a note on trespass by animals the editor of Country Life states that the Welsh mountain sheep have obtained legal recognition of their capacity to distinguish boundaries and...

T HE little grey church lies in a verdant hollow that is set about with tall elms and graceful beeches, and 'bounded by a shallow stream. Beyond this, the fields sweep -away in...

CO-OPERATIVE MONEYLENDING. [To THZ EDITOR OP THZ " SPECTATOR...1 Sin,—Ireland is peculiarly adapted for the economic revolu- tion that has recently taken place in her rural...

beyond question offers lofty ideals ; but I would ask if it has ever, in the history of the Church, been more than the dream of a few benevolent and cultivated spirits, hoping...

LORD BEACONSFIELD AND UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN IRELAND. [TO THE EDITOR Or THZ SPECTATOR...1 is just a year since a remarkable "declaration" on the part of Irish Roman Catholics...

[To TER EDITOR Or TIES "SrscrArox."] SIR,—I expect you have a shower of protests against Mr. Tollemache's letter in the Spectator of December 24th telling a sad tale of the...

Sus,—Two anecdotes illustrative of the inconsiderate pitiless- neas of children may amuse your readers. The late Lady Taylor, wife of Sir Henry, gave a child's party, at which...

growing dislike to the word Protestant ' " the authority of Mr. Maurice's teaching, my friend, Mr. Percy Dearmer, in the Spectator of December 24th, forgets that no man ever...

[To TH2 EDITOR Or TH1 " Brzerrroa] Sin,—" Inquirer" asks in the Spectator of December 17th if there is good evidence to prove Traill's statement in his history of the Isle of...

"SPECTATOR.") Sin„—If the question of our Lord's nationality be raised, would it not be better to describe Him as an Israelite rather than a Jew ? He said of Nathaniel,...

THE SOUTH COUNTRY, WHEN I am living in the Midlands That are sodden and unkind, I light my lamp in the evening: My work is left behind ; And the great hills of the South Country...

I WOKE at dawn, and risen from my bed, Gazed at the new-born day serene and suave. Silver and gold and pearl were overhead Like some sea-shell new garnered from the wave,....

[To THZ EDITOR OF TH2 " BrzorAmos."1 Sin,—Sir W. Broadbent must have set many owners and managers of public rooms and public vehicles thinking how they can best bring moral...

fro Tio: EDITOR Of THZ " SPZCTATOR.") Sin,—The following incident is so characteristic of the close of the nineteenth century, that I think you will find a place for it in...

[Yo Tim EDITOR Of VIZ "SPLOTATOR Silk—While thanking your reviewer for the kindness of his notice of my book, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," in the Spectator of December 24th,...

MR. WATSON'S POEMS.* THOSE who have wondered whether the Spectator and other admirers of Mr. William Watson's poetry have not praised him too highly will surely have their...

as, on the whole, taking into account both the active and the speculative sides of his life, among the most remarkable, if not the most remarkable personality that the...

Tim book is quite as much of an explanation and a justifica- tion of, as it is the sequel to, that remarkable volume of revela- tions styled Pickle the Spy, which, when it...

THE Princess Elizabeth whose " Letters " are before us was the daughter of George III., the sister of George IV. and William IV., and the aunt of Queen Victoria. She died at the...

THE nomenclature of novels is often lacking in lucidity, but there is certainly no room for complaint on this score in The Confession of Catherine Sforza. Such a title is, as it...

Thomas Moore Anecdotes. (Janold and Sons.)—This amusing little volume consists of extracts from Moore's diary, and is due chiefly to his sense of humour, which induced him to...

(Smith, Elder, and Co. 15s. net.)—Among the most interest- ing names in the fifty-seventh volume of the Dictionary of Nationat Biography are Anthony Trollope, the novelist,...

Robertson. (Gay and Bird.)--This book seems to accomplish satisfactorily its object,—to give a simple and intelligible account of the successive styles of church architecture....

Homesteads and their Pounders, written and illustrated by Mrs. A. P. Trotter, is of such unusual interest that we desire to draw the attention of our readers to its pages. It...

Pandian. (Elliot Stcek.)—Mr. Pandian, who has already given the English public an idea of what appearance their works and ways present to an English eye, has put together here...

Charlton Anne (Ellam Fenwicke-Allan). (Burns and Oates.)— In calling her book "a social cinematographe," Mrs. Charlton Anne herself gives the clue to its weakness,—a...

of A Modern Meribah is a mysterious personage called Salvator, who founds a kind of theosophical monastery in the Spanish Pyrenees,—a peculiarly uncomfortable place, we should...

Trench, and Co.)—A dreary and unpleasant story, though not without power. Mr. Halliwell Sutcliffe is evidently a keen observer of Nature, and there is much poetry in his...

2 vols. (Downey and Co.)—Mr. Molloy's volumes take in, more or less exactly, the eighteenth century, the happy age before the gaiety of Dublin had been eclipsed by the Union....

and Co.)—Mr. S. R. Crockett, in the preface which he has written for the present reprint of Macfarlane's book, rightly says that, though not brilliant, it is entertaining. It...

Windus. is. 6d.)—Dr. Brewer died before he had completed the proof-reading of this edition, and the work has been com- pleted by his daughter. It is a guide to "famous names...

inning Bell, and an Introduction by C. H. Firth. (Methuen and Ce. 6s.)—Here an edition of The Pilgrim's Progress, with a readable introduction and some good illustra- tions....

and Co., 10s. 6c1.) ; and Fitzgerald's "Bubiiiydt of Omar R7tayydm (Mac- millan and Co., 12s. 6d.) Both Illustrated by W. B. Macdougall. —When Mr. Macdougall can restrain his...