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con- cerns Port Arthur, where during the past week the most persistent attempts have been made to carry the fortress by assault. These attempts have been marked by a heroism,...

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more nearly to the ideal of absolute Free-trade. He pointed out how under the Protectionist regime—which inspired Byron's scornful lines on the county patriots, "born to hunt,...

banquet held at the Hotel Cecil on Monday. Referring to his leadership of the House of Commons, Mr. Balfour said that the task—to which he had often found himself unequal, but...

German Army Bill, which is designed to increase gradually the strength of the Army on a peace footing until it reaches the number of 505,839 men during the financial year 1909....

into the French Chamber met with the usual fate of such a fiscal reform in France. It has been a hobby of many Finance Ministers, from M. Doumer to M. Rouvier, and has been...

and the right of public meeting. Political equality must be given to every citizen, and village, life purged of the last traces of serfdom, and placed ifnclCr the protection of...

of a settlement. The Secretary for Scotland, Mr. Graham- Murray, recently met the leaders of the two Churches, and as a result he has proposed that both sides should consent to...

was that they were apt to adopt defensive rather than offensive tactics. In view of their unparalleled achievements, it was surely out of place to adopt an apologetic tone. "Do...

flood of oratory on Fiscal and other topics which deluged Thursday's papers. We can only allude in passing to Lord Rosebery's amusing speech, delivered at the St. Andrew's Day...

Wednesday night at the Whitehall Rooms. Mr. Arnold- Forster, in proposing the toast of the evening, alluded very happily to the infinite opportunities for the work of scientifi-...

of Imperial History which Mr. Alfred Beit proposes to equip at Oxford for seven years, on the understanding that if . the University authorities at the end of that period are...

Club was held at Devonshire House. As, however, the meeting was called for the transaction of business only, the speeches were of a formal character. We have dealt with the...

tion refused to agree to the proposed statute exempting candidates for honours in mathematics and natural science from compulsory Greek in Responsions. The President of...

It marks the formation, we will not say of a new political party, but at any rate of a new political connection. The fixed intention of the Unionist Free-traders is to remain...

are of a very encouraging character. They might have been—had they followed the tradition of similar assemblies they would have been —a mere demand for certain favourite...

law in which they usually result. They may begin with ambitions towards a new heaven and a new earth, but they end, as a rule, with some modest contri- bution to the question of...

investigate the circumstances of Mr. Beck's conviction have, as we stated briefly last week, issued a Report which every one must read with a certain satisfaction. It is a very...

stopping the exodus from the country into the towns by the provision of more cottages, we expressed. the hope that some day we might see an Exhibition of cheap cottages. That...

it is the manner of it we dislike," said La Rochefou- cauld. Stripped of its cynicism, the saying comes to this : that while praise is eternally pleasant, there are fashions in...

Schoolboy" to a wider circle of friends than that which the original—for presumably there , was an original, or something like an original, of Godfrey Marten—can have possessed,...

and in till its members fell victims to tuberculosis. His letter should be read carefully; but the practical outcome is, first, that the survivors are to be sold on December 8th...

Glen Deep, Limited, in his speech from the chair is reported to have said :—" But some unscrupulous people, anxious, no doubt, to improve their miserable election chances, will...

never imagined that the country could lose as much as 28,000,000 sterling a year." You have possibly forgotten that there was at any rate one person in England who fully foresaw...

in the Spectator of November 26th, I should like to direct your readers' attention to a few points. Mr. George Martineau, who is the Government's expert adviser, in a letter to...

com- ments on my article in the Daily Mail on the effect of the abolition of the sugar-bounties on the confectionery trade— what time the tax on sugar remained—you point out...

has enhanced the plane of living in this country ; it is well known that owing to it, it costs more to build a ship in this country than it does abroad ; it is well known that...

consequence of the dry summer on the Continent, there has been a shortage of the beet crop estimated at over a million tons, and it is to this that the recent rise in the price...

on one side there was a declared Home-rule Free-trader, and on the other a declared Unionist Protectionist, it would, I think, be of much interest to many of your readers to...

Two great obstacles have hitherto stood in the way of the Trusts. The first is that over 80 per cent. of existing licenses are " tied" to brewers. The second lies in the custom...

Holmes in last week ' s Spectator do not appear to detract in any degree from the value of Mr. Austin Taylor ' s letter relative to the effect of Protection upon American...

26th, makes two astounding statements : — (1) That the vessels of other nations (France and America excepted) get cheaper insurance than English vessels. Will he kindly furnish...

was glad to see that in your article on "National Education on the Physical Side" which appeared in the Spectator of November 19th you strongly advocate the mili- tary training...

finds some amusement in a manifesto almost Pontifical in its tone of infallibility signed by fourteen gentlemen, admittedly men of mark, but whose names will not impress the...

the Spectator of November 19th dealing with "National Educa- tion on the Physical Side," and I heartily approve of your suggestion to extend the scope of the Bishop of...

November 5th you quote with approval the words of Mr. Churton Collins about the "minute and undeviating accuracy" of the poet's references to legal matters. There is, however,...

correctly that the Confederate cavalry was fit for the field after four months' training. But it is a dangerous example to cite without qualification. If ever there existed a...

refer in your admirable article upon this subject in last week's Spectator, I shall be obliged if you will allow me to point out what appear to me to be the conditions essential...

Sin,—On August 27th you were good enough to publish a letter from me challenging a statement which had appeared in your columns as to perch never attaining any size beyond 3 lb....

in your issue of November 19th on the question of compulsory Greek you allude incidentally to the teaching of history in our schools. You rightly lament the very inadequate...

They found small stint and little dearth : Tale two from out their goodly ways The wide-span walls and open hearth. The hearth where all Mid gather round Set square wr shining...

from the Board of Trade to say that the order for the Snowdon and Bettws-y-Coed Light Railway, about which I wrote to you in April last, has been confirmed. I shall be glad if...

you speak of the number of " friends " brought into being by Thackeray, George Eliot, and other novelists. The last volume of the biographical edition of Thackeray's works, "The...

last issue P You say in your article on "The Increase of Lawless- ness in the United States," by way of contrast to the 31,395 murders and homicides in three years in that...

book on a subject which is as a rule neither fresh nor interesting. Borrowing the title of Sir John Forteseue's fifteenth-century work, he has aimed at giving an analysis of the...

his brother. Though he lived always in the great world, he was not so closely in touch with the statesmen of the day, and his Diary can never possess the historical value which...

or the German that England is not a military nation. Lord Lans- downe is not the first of our Foreign Secretaries who has re- garded war as "the most futile and ferocious of...

in the sixth century—will come as something of a surprise to those who regarded Mr. Gissing as the relentless delineator of the submerged middle class of to-day or yesterday....

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Montresor gives us a good deal of very pleasant writing in the new novel which she calls, after Stevenson's poem, The Celestial Surgeon. Her character-drawing is like life, in....

standpoint of the layman. . The method in which this knowledge is forced upon the Reverend John Smith is described at length in the beginning of the story, and is too amusing to...

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wish to speak with all respect of these essays, but we must own to finding them somewhat trite. Miss Murray takes some vast subject—" Truth," for instance, is the theme of her...

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of the Cotton Collection. Professor Cook's edition of the poem is already well known in the United States, and we are glad to see it reproduced here in this very convenient and...