for the parties which support the Government and the Republic, who returned 246 of their candidates against 166 pledged to the Nationalists. There are, it is true, 175 second...

is stated that the sufferings of the peasantry in the South, the most populous and richest division of the Empire, involve actual hunger, and that in the provinces of Pultawa...

bulletins have been reduced to one a day, the devoted Queen- mother occasionally leaves her daughter's bedside, and even the persistent rumours of a slow convalescence and a...

resign. It is said that he greatly dislikes office, that he only accepted it to preserve the Republic, and that his work being accomplished he will willingly return to the...

T HE news from the front has during the past week been extremely meagre. In fact, all the information that has been allowed to reach us consists in a few statements in regard to...

case.

the House of Commons on Monday afternoon, those regulating Supply being first dealt with. Mr. Chan- fling's amendment to eliminate from the rule the auto- matic Closure at the...

Members see clearly that substantial power has passed to other hands, the Deputies are bored by the discussions, and on most days it is difficult to get a quorum together. As it...

natural and well deserved, they being in the main an ex- cellent and peaceable people, but their power of resisting " Russification " is exaggerated. The Russians are against...

was almost entirely consumed by the protests of champions of the liberty of debate against the proposed time-limit in the new Question Rule, though Mr. Balfour was able to show...

assembled in Durbar at Peshawur a rather remarkable speech. He assured them that the British Government never interfered with religion, that it sought no land on the Frontier,...

of Burleigh, the chairman of the Joint Committee appointed to inquire into the London Water Bill, made an important announcement. Mr. Long's proposal was that the new Water...

strongly marked this week. Mr. L. M. Shaw, the new Secretary of the American Treasury, while celebrating General Grant's birthday, delivered a speech of the old "high falutin' "...

matter with becoming seriousness, but without any in- dications of sensationalism or panic. It was ridiculous to accuse the Government of want of knowledge. Though they had no...

of home affairs by a "Colonial." We tremble lest the editor should ask him to express his views in regard to the exclusion of the Volunteers from Richmond Park. The present...

able leading article which appeared in the Morning Poet of Monday. It was specially useful, as it will prevent it being said that it is the wealthier and better-educated section...

War whether he would state "what open spaces were available within easy march for the field training of London Volunteer corps; whether his official information showed that the...

the House, opened a very interesting, though not very conclu- sive, debate on the Atlantic Shipping Combine. Mr. Bowles, who seconded the Motion, appealed to the Goverment to...

tone was for the most part adopted by the various speakers. After Mr. Bryce had pointed out that the Trust legislation of the United States gave abundant food for reflection,...

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THE ATLANTIC STEAMSHIP COMBINE. T HERE has been a great deal too much "tall talk" and exaggeration about the doings of the Atlantic Steamship Combine. To read some of the...

M. Waldeck-Rousseau, but Paris is bored. That is, we take it, the broad meaning of the French elections. They are not over yet, the provoking, though logical, system of second...

sider and recast his proposals in regard to an in- creased Stamp-duty on cheques. His suggestion in regard to a rebate of a penny on cheques below 42 was met with loud laughter...

serious even than we thought. We still remain convinced that if the Government is determined, the Army faithful, and the peasantry quiescent, any movement whatever can be put...

TT A.VE the public any legitimate interest in the posses- sions of private owners ? The answer alike of the law and of common-sense is clear enough. A man's own is that with...

God that he was not as other men are had a very poor opinion of other men. He put them all down as "extortioners, unjust, and adulterers," and his low view of human nature...

MHE case of the child William Llewellyn, who three weeks ago unaccountably disappeared in the street of a Welsh town, and whose body was discovered on the summit of a...

W HEN Eden Hall became the home of the Musgraves by inheritance in the middle of the fifteenth century, the site must have delighted that "ancient and warlike family" in the...

Park and the Volunteers (Spectator, April 26th) recalls the following incident which took place when I lived at Richmond about thirty years ago. The local corps had been...

RICHMOND PARK AS A MANCEUVRING GROUND. (To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Your correspondent, "A Squire," ill the Spectator of April 26th, may deplore the fact that the...

SIE,—In the discussion which has arisen on the proposed 'Morgan Combination" attention has perhaps not been sufficiently directed to the statutory provisions relating to the...

[TO TUX EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." that,—In your issue of March 29th the communicated article about the late Cecil Rhodes contains one error to which I venture to call...

rro THZ EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") Sra,—The friends of education see another Bill greeted, not by keen criticism and generous amendment, but by reckless opposition and bulldog...

Snr,—In the Spectator of April 26th you despair of inducing the Nonconformists to approach the Education Bill in a spirit of compromise. We are too "excited." And all the blame...

[To THZ EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—I happened to read in the Spectator of April 26th a review of "A History of the Turf," and among other inter- esting comments something...

rTo THE EDITOR OF THE "Rpm-rims:1 SIR,—In your review of my new book, " Japan : Our New Ally," in the Spectator of April 12th, you state that "four- fifths of the Chamber voted...

"SPECTATOR."] SIRr - I can entirely endorse what Mr. Tower Townshend says in the Spectator of April 26th about the value of a cross between the Welsh pony and a thoroughbred...

THE CHILD'S GRAVE. WE let his grave return to grass. Sweet grass in shine and showers, Where the winds sing, the shadows Wraps that lost lamb of ours. Oh, why should Earth so...

THE ACADEMY.—L IT is the custom of the historian of nations long dead to strive to rekindle the spirit of the times he interprets by an appeal to the arts of the past. By their...

THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA.* THIS capital version of the Souvenirs of a well-known French prosateur and poet need not have been headed by a catchpenny English adjective suggestive...

IT was a happy thought which led the publishers of the "Bad- minton Library" to extend their admirable series by a volume on automobilism, and a still happier one which made...

THERE was a lady of old time who, when a grandchild tried to excuse herself for some fault, used to say, "My dear, you are not the Devil !" This is the kind of answer that one...

I navz tried throughout," writes Mr. Thomson in his pre- face, " to present the Chinese view of the matters in dispute equally with that of the Powers." This is the dominant...

THE editor of the Nineteenth Century provides both bane and antidote—in regard to high finance—in the new number, and with a wise instinct puts the antidote first in the shape...

problem of unfailing interest is how far the Christian ideal of neighbourly love is attainable in the present day. And this is the issue which Miss Birrell sets before us in her...

George Barr McCutcheon. (Grant Richards. 6s.)—The throne in Mr. McCutcheon's story is such a very little one that, like the celebrated baby, it really hardly counts. The only...

TIM LADY PARAMOUNT.* Mn. HARLAND would certainly have been more than human if, after the resounding success achieved in The Cardinal's Snuff-Box, he had refrained from...

Dyke. (G. Newnes. 6s.)—" Tales of Ruling Passions" is Mr. Van Dyke's description of his short stories, and it is true enough. But it is not the passion that really rules; it is...

[Under this heading tre rotice such Books of the week as have not been reserved far review in other forms.] The Ruin of Education in Ireland. By F. Hugh O'Donnell, MA. (D. Nutt....

6s.)—This is a really brilliant book. It is very long, but the six hundred and fifty pages, not at all loosely printed, do not weary one. It does not tell much of a story, but...

of Her Mother to Elizabeth." (T. Fisher Unwin. 6s.)—This is another tale of revolution. There is a touch, in fact more than a touch, of cynicism about it, or is it rather a note...

2s. 6d.)—The fog is a mere device used by Mr. Harding Davis to string a number of detective stories together. It is clear, too, from the beginning that the stories will...

Inigo Triggs. (B. T. Batsford. 21s.)—This is a portfolio of plans and pictures of gardens. The first is Montacute in Somersetahfre, where architectural features play a part in...

MR. ALFRED AUSTIN'S NEW VOLUME OF VERSE. A Tale of True Love, and other Poems. By Alfred Austin. (Macmillan and Co. 5s.)—We cannot say much for the "tale" that gives a title to...

6d.)—" The Chief Pioneer of Municipal Public Libraries" is the description which Mr. Greenwood gives of the subject of his biography. A "biography" it hardly is. The picture of...

MacDonagh. (P. S. King and Son. 7s. 6d.)—The first chapter of Mr. MacDonagh's book—a sequel, we may remark, of his earlier work, "The Book of Parliament "—is given to the...

the Rev. Patrick Boyle. (Gill and Son, Dublin. 2s. 6d.) —The authors from whom Father Boyle draws these "instruc- tions" are St. Francis Borgia, St Francis de Sales, and St....

and Co. 2s.)—This edition contains besides " Merope," a work which probably represented Arnold's ideal of the poetic art, two prize poems, " Alaric," written at Rugby, and...

PowelL (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 15s.)—The word "historic" naturally has a significance somewhat different from that which it bears on this side of the Atlantic. Chicago,...

Stock. 4s. 6d.)—Mr. Wheatley is an expert in all things that concern books. And he has what few experts have, a way of giving to his knowledge, even when it is of the technical...

Harry Roberts (John Lane, 2s. 6d. not), we have the seventh volume, The Book of Vegetables, by George Withes. The volume is divided into two parts, dealing respectively with the...

Jacobi (C. Whittingham and Co., 6s. net), a "new and enlarged edition" of a useful book, originally issued under the title of "On the Making and Issuing of Books." It is a...