the German Press, but mast set forth a passage from the Tagliche Rundschau, one of the two papers which are said to be read daily by the Emperor. It declares that "seldom has...

We allude to his interesting story that after the "black week" of Colenso be supplied Queen Victoria with a plan of campaign for the South African War. This plan of campaign,...

his action in Morocco in regard to the recognition of Mulai Hafid, but we must note his general assurance that his actions speak louder than words in the matter of friendship...

T HE event of the week has been the publication by the Daily Telegraph on Wednesday of an interview between one whom it described as an ex-diplomatist and the German Emperor. We...

England has been veiy great, but it is as nothing compared with that caused in Germany. It is, indeed, hardly too much to say that no act in the Emperor's career has been more...

will only say, as we have said elsewhere, that we have no quarrel whatevar with the Emperor's claim that Germany has a right to build as many ships as she likes without being...

case.

took place on Monday in the House of Commons. The Labour attack was led by Mr. Keir Hardie, who moved an amendment. We cannot do more than touch on one point in the courageous...

It declares that "during the Boer War there was a divergence of opinion between the German people and the German Government, and the policy of the day was con- ducted on the...

of the German Press deals with the German Emperor's advice as to the proper conduct of the Boer War, we quote the following extract from the Pan-German and Anglophobe...

in the Near East. Bulgaria's answer to the Note presented to her by the Triple Entente cannot be described as altogether satisfactory, since it does not contain a definite...

the second reading of • the Public Houses (Extension of Facilities) Bill. The Bill seeks to provide publicans with powers to improve or enlarge their premises by adding...

dexterity, denied that there was anything novel in the Government schemes. Everything that was substantial in them was founded on the policy of the Unionist Government. As for...

American Presidential Election, are performing prodigies of physical endurance. The New York correspondent of the Times describes a specimen day in which Mr. Bryan begins...

is stated by Mr. Boscawen to have compared himself with Zacchaeus. "Zacchaeus was a little man; so was he. Zacchaeus was a tax-gatherer ; so was he. Zacchaeus was up a tree ; so...

announced his intention not to contest the constituency again in a remarkable letter addressed to the secretary of the local Liberal Association. Mr. O'Donnell gives as his...

of Commons on Wednesday night. More than a dozen members of the "Women's Freedom League," having been admitted to the Ladies' Gallery, interrupted the debate by hanging out a...

of the subscribers to the British School at Athens on Tuesday. Drawing on his own experience, and noting that the main obstacles to the effective treatment of all...

being themselves responsible for the degree and intensity of unemployment. Government expenditure from Imperial sources would amount to 2800,000. Whatever might be the cause,...

trate held that an illegal act had been fully proved against the women suffragists. Mrs. Pankhurst and Mrs. Drummond were ordered to be bound over in the sum of 2100 and two...

elections. In the last Parliament Sir Wilfrid Laurier had a majority of sixty-six; he has now one of fifty. The only province where he has lost heavily is British Columbia....

Universities were held last Saturday. At Glasgow the votes of the "nations" were equally divided between Lord Curzon and Mr. Lloyd George, and the former was only returned by...

the issue of Saturday last that the statement that the King is unlikely to assent to the Natal Bill forbidding the grant of trading licenses to Indian immigrants, and taking...

May 28th. Consols (2f) were on Friday 84t--on Friday week 84i.

THE GERMAN EMPEROR AND BRITAIN. H APPILY the impulsive character of the German Emperor, and his fondness for the personal appeal, make it possible for the British people to take...

who were sentenced at Bow Street last Saturday is worth examination for its illustrations of their singular frame of mind. A fortnight ago we remarked upon the arrangements...

D URING the past week Mr. Burns has been made the target of a series of attacks, direct and indirect, by the extremists of the Liberal Party. They realise that but for his pluck...

I T is an open secret that the Government have warded off a threatened revolt of the group of land-taxers in the Liberal Party by promising to deal with the question in next...

I N the early days of the South African War there was a great clamour for the business man in politics. Money had been wasted over the equipment of the army, and it was believed...

" rrtHE truth shall make you free," said Christ. "Beware 1. of that freedom !" has been through all the ages the comment of ecclesiasticism. "'We do not claim it," cry the...

JI ST week the American Ambassador in unveiling at Bath a memorial tablet to Burke said that Burke was greater than Nelson, Wolfe, Clive, either of the Pitts, Goldsmith, or...

[COMMUNICATED.] O N August 15th we called our readers' attention to the curious interrelation between the script of different automatic writers, to which the name "...

A PLEA FOR THE PERSIAN NATIONALISTS. [TO TUB EDITOR OP Tilt 'SPECTATOR:1 SIE,-A year ago to-day (October 26th) you were kind enough to insert in the Spectator a letter of mine...

rTo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.] Srit,—Since the publication of my letter and your leader (October 10th) on the above subject, five other letters have appeared. Of the three...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sta,—On reading the suggestive article on Bacon in your issue of October 24th I was reminded of a fact which has sometimes puzzled me....

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 Stu, — Sir Brampton Gurdon'e objection to equal representa- tion for Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom (Spectator, October 24th) is...

rTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."1 Sta,—To my letter headed "Finances and Taxation," pub- lished in your issue of the 17th inst., you appended a note in which you said : "That...

F. K." (Spectator, October 24th) charges me with unwisdom in adducing George Eliot as as example of the value of women's work to the world because she has put into the mouth of...

may or may not be "wise for Mrs. Beckham to bring the name of George Eliot into her challenge of Dr. Maephairs statements." There can be no doubt as to the wisdom of "H. F....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 SIB,—Your correspondent "H. F. K." (Spectator, October 24th) thinks that "it is not very wise" of Mrs. Beckham to fortify herself with George...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE esseersmoa..91 SIE,—In the island of Guernsey a friend of mine was told by an old inhabitant that the little twirling dust-whirlwinds were caused by the...

[To THE EDITOS OF vas " SPZETATOIt."] Sth,—Not many of your readers will have noticed that tha Municipal Council of Fourmies (Nord) have passed three resolutions which may be of...

[To THE EDTTOII Or Till" SPECTATOR:] STR,—May we beg a few lines of your space to make an appeal of a most urgent nature? It may be known to many of your readers that in 1902 an...

[To TUN EDITOR 01 Till "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—Since July 11th, when you kindly acknowledged the sum of 220 108. as the result of my letter inserted in the Spectator, I have received...

[TO THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR. " J Sis,—One grave result of the Old-Age Pensions Act is beginning to become apparent which has repeatedly been foretold, but has not. I think,...

[To THE EDITOR 01 Till "SPECTATOH.1 SIR,—After reading Lady Blomfield's unfortunate experience (Spectator, October 24th) in bringing a dog from abroad, I should like to relate...

OF THE VALUE OF MASTERPIECES.—A DISPUTE. NOTHING, you say, was ever worth the throes Of thinking save it met its counterpart In other minds; no sonnet, lyric, tale, Worth...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." Sit,—The East London Tenants' and General Legal Protection Committee was founded in 1899 to protect poor persons from the infringement of...

LADY EPPING'S LAWSUIT. LIGHT comedy bears the same relation to serious drama as a water-colour sketch to a portrait in oils. The impression which it produces is as a rule less...

Su,—May I beg the hospitality of your columns to remove a misunderstanding? I find that members of the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League, in all parts of London, are feeling...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of...

LORD PANM17RE, THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE, AND THE CRIMEAN WAR.* PUBLIC opinion about Lord Paannure, who succeeded the Duke of Newcastle as Secretary for War during the Crimean War,...

range will be as thoroughly exploited as the Alps. High mountains on the Equator are a paradox which is bound to draw ambitious mountaineers in increasing numbers. Meantime we...

Ma. RYAN'S Queen Anne is as good a specimen as another of the sugared history which to-day is threatening the popu- larity of the novel. The subject, it is true, is hardly...

ROGER NORTH says of Serjeant Maynard that he had such a relish of the old Year-Books that he carried one in his coach to divert Lim in travel, and said he chose it before any...

the white-skinned Aryaa and the dark-skinned Dasyas, and to come down to the time when the Honourable Company gave place to the Crown, means a task of no common magnitude. We...

PATHS OF THE RIGHTEOUS.* A NOVEL from the pen of Miss Dougall is always welcome, for she is a writer who combines distinction of thought and high purpose with a notable power of...

Australia and New Zealand have been frequent of late, so frequent that a certain amount of overlapping has inevitably occurred. The -case is similar with the records of...

" - THE reader who seriously gives his attention to the matters -treated of in this book cannot fail to be interested, but the • (1) Maori Life in do-tea. By Johannes Anderson....

Co. 6s.)—If this continuation—the title at once recalls the Baroness Orczy's great success—is in any way a falling off, it is - because the reader is pretty sure how it is all...

Murray. 6s.)—This is a story of two charming children brought up by an even more charming old maid and old bachelor. The older people are Scotch and the little boys English, and...

net.) —We are told in the introduction to A Book of Simples that the original was in all probability the still-room book of some manor or large farm. And in this character it...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been weserred for review in other forms.] The Practical Wisdom of the Bible. Edited, with an Introduction, by J....

Co. 6s.)—This is the story, told in Mrs. Mann's delightful way, of a fascinating young lady who, after becoming an inmate of her aunt's house on false pretences, does several...

International Free-Trade Congress (Caxton House, Westminster, 5s.) The Congress, which owed its inception to Messrs. John de Witt Warner and Harvey N. Shepard, two American...

Co. 2s.)—M. Meynier puts together here a record of German interferences with France during the period between the Peace of Frankfort (1871) and the Conference of Algeciras...

Defence Association. The aim of the magazine is stated to be "to give information and spread knowledge on a subject upon which too many oven of the most leisured among us are...

Olympic Games are rather an old story; but we cannot help returning to the subject in order to have the pleasure of acknowledging a pamphlet by Mr. Francis Peabody which has...

- includes, together with information on current . matters, an the , ' lists of honours from the beginning. It is worth noting that in 1824, when the Classical Tripos was first...

Oman, D.Lit. (T. Fisher Unwin, 14s. net), is a greatly enlarged reissue of a volume published some years ago under the title of" Indian Life; Religious and Social."—My Inner...

and Co. is. net.)—This is a volume of contributions voluntarily given for the benefit of a charity, "The National Book-Trade Provident Society." Criticism would be out of place....

and Sons. 2s. net.)—Dr. Murray, whom we would con- gratulate on his exchanging the status of the Emeritus Professor for that of active service, shows in this little volume that...