The Government of Simla is nearly as reticent as that of Tokio, and must, one would imagine, have insisted that the corre- spondents, and even officers, with the expedition...

pouring out their lives like water, carry position after position. Some of their assaults, nevertheless, have been repulsed, and they clearly have not yet made the fortress...

been of the highest importance. At first no authentic information came through ; all we knew was that a great battle, in which half-a-million men were said to be engaged, had...

certainly suggest that the island Empire is just now an object of the special favour of fortune. It is said that a goldfield has been discovered which, according to one account,...

attractive picture of Tibetan scenery, which, if the land ever becomes open to travellers, should give the wandering Briton a new objective for his pilgrimages. Near Nagartse...

party. If the dissensions and disunion at present existing were allowed to continue, Unionists must look forward to a General Election, come when it might, with the greatest...

Lord Dunraven as its president, under the title of the Irish Reform Association, and its programme was formally made public on Tuesday. The aim of the Association is defined as...

private interment on the next day, has, it is officially stated, greatly grieved the Sultan ; but it must also have greatly relieved him. Murad V. has been a prisoner—very...

a tour to the European capitals, from which it is supposed that he will not return to the island. He has proved himself an incompetent High Commissioner, and after drawing all...

years much suppressed—has recently broken out again. The causes of quarrel are some oppres- sions alleged to have been suffered in the Italian Tyrol, and a suspicion that the...

been appointed to succeed the Earl of Minto as Governor-General of Canada. The connection of the Greys with Canada and the Colonies, as the Times points out, dates back for...

the Pope. He has quitted his diocese without consulting the civil authority, has repaired to Rome, and will, it is said, be appointed to a canonry. The incident is much...

Ridding, Bishop of Southwell, and of Dean Hole, of Rochester. Dr. Ridding had been for eighteen years the successful Head- Master of Winchester before he was appointed in 1884...

Craven Agricultural Society at Skipton. on Saturday last, and delivered an excellent speech. After an amusing autobio- graphical reference to "the intense pride and pleasure...

annual Conference on August 30th at Newcastle-on. Tyne, Dr. Hodgkin, the president, gave expression to a thought whioh must be present to many modern minds. After a gentle moan...

Fulton gives his version of the incidents of the Beck trial in 1896. He points out that the question whether Mr. Beck was Smith was never in issue before the Court, and that the...

the British Empire were issued this week.. In round numbers, the total coal production of the world is now about 790,000,000 tons, of which the United Kingdom produces rather...

Far East is near at hand. The Japanese have triumphed in the campaign, but not necessarily in the war. The courage of the Russians, and. their readiness to sacrifice themselves,...

between landlords and tenants in Ireland, which took shape first in the Land Conference at the end of 1902, issuing in the scheme that furnished the basis for the Land Purchase...

instructive account of recent French colonial policy in Indo-China. Twenty years ago this was the most discredited of French possessions,—a mere political shuttlecock tossed to...

"The Position of British Indians in the Transvaal." It is very short as compared with Blue-books in general, and concerned with a subject relatively small, the position of a few...

Review on "The Small Industries of France." Like much else about our nearest neighbour, the facts come as something of a surprise. Englishmen are accustomed to regard the French...

T HE limits of the liberty of prophesying in scientific inquiry is a matter which has been hotly disputed since the beginning of science itself. Bacon, who more than any other...

ITHE term " fogger," as readers of "The Scouring of the White Horse" are aware, is a Wessex variant of " fodderer," and signifies the man who tends and feeds the " cow cattle"...

T HERE are no sadder countries to travel in than the desolate lands about the Aegean. Plants and beasts and man have never prospered there in their struggle with the earth, and...

your correspondent "An Englishman" does not know Dr. Thomas Hodgkin better than to consider him capable of an "unjustifiable endeavour to add the fuel of national resentment to...

THE CONFLICT IN THE SCOTCH CHURCHES. I To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." Siit,—My statement in a former letter that "the decisions of the Courts of the Church of Scotland are...

loss to know whether to take your corre- spondent "X.," in last week's Spectator, seriously, or as of the type of the Tooley Street tailors. He asks you to accept as indicative...

of the Scotch Church controversy which I have not seen noticed. The union which the Free and United Presbyterian Church clergy promoted, and which many clergymen would like to...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TR& SPROTATOR,"] you allow me as an Anglican, but also a Scotsman, and one who has had some occasion to study the law and con- stitution of the Christian...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." _I Six,—Those British politicians who are agitating for the restriction of foreign commerce must be more than ordinarily blind if they do not...

THE " SPECT•TOR.1 SIR,—Some time ago you printed letters from Mr. Czarnikow and myself on the subject of the Brussels Sugar Convention. Mr. Czarnikow was sure that this first...

[TO THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — In the Crescent Gardens at Filey are five stone sockets, one ornamented with animal figures, which are said to be the supports of a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.} SIR, — Referring to Mr. Godwin Austen's statement quoted on p. 288 in last week's Spectator that the Norway lobster "has not been recorded...

the Week" in your last issue it is asked whether it would be impossible to give the children milk in the schools. "That would supply the wanting nutriment without cancelling the...

SIR,—I wonder if the writer of the interesting letters on "English as Spoken in Ireland" has met the two following curious uses of English words. In the north of the County...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR.1 SIR, — You ask for evidence respecting the mental effect of city life, and express doubt as to the soundness of "the old notion of the people...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.] may perhaps be of interest to "C. M.," your corre- spondent of last week, to be reminded of the lines :— " nunc non e manibus illis nunc non...

couple mentioned in the article, "Yeoman's Service," in our issue of August 6th.—En. Spectator.]

THE CHILDREN. THE children live in heaven all day, And if we watch them as they play Perhaps we may some hint surprise Of secret dealings with the skies. They dance, they run,...

FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN EUROPE.* WE can hardly imagine a work better designed than these twelve lectures to arouse the interest and curiosity of those who are ignorant of, or only...

PEDRO FERNANDEZ DE QUIROS, whose Voyages have now been translated and edited for the Hakluyt Society by Sir Clements Markham, bore not the slightest resem- blance to the valiant...

SABLTIER'S Outlines of Religion, to which the present work is a sequel, has been translated into most of the languages of Europe. It is the most brilliant and the most...

diversity of talent in the few works be has given to the world. He is the author of some very trenchant and para.- doxical criticisms of the popular idols of economics and...

doubtedly the most striking, if not the most convincing, is that by Mr. Carl Joubert on "The Coming Revolution in Russia." The writer declares that the revolutionary party is...

always fully recognised in his lifetime, and the knowledge that we shall have no more stories from the pen of Mr. H. S. Merriman certainly enables novel- readers and reviewers...

and Co. 2s.)—The "Duke" of this little book is an American "Boss," not a British nobleman, and the story is con- cerned with the efforts of the Warden of what in England would...

Beattie and his Friends. By Margaret Forbes. (A. Constable and Co. 15s. net.)—Although somewhat belated in its date of publica- tion, this will be found an interesting book,...

The Ancient Capital of Scotland : the Story of Perth from the Invasion of Agricola to the Passing of the Reform Bill. By Samuel Cowan. 2 vols. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co....

Bast. By Mrs Hugh Fraser. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—Mrs. Hugh Fraser has chosen a fitting moment to publish these delicate and sympa- thetic idylls of Japan, when Western Europe is...

6s.)—Mr. Horace Hutchinson has given us a, very pleasant specimen of a very pleasant genre, the romance of the Highland shooting-box. The ingredients were mixed long ago with a...

net) is a new translation from the text of Laotze's great book, with intro- duction and commentary by Walter Gorn Old. Laotze, whose work may be described as a treatise on...

and John Garstang. (A. Constable and Co. 3s. 6d.)—This is a quite admirable little book, containing in its hundred-odd pages as clear and sufficient an outline of Egyptian...

Co. 6s.)—Mr. Chamberlin—the name is, strangely enough, spelt in two ways in the "Introductory Note "—went out as war correspondent for the New York Sun in the "Boxer" Rising and...

Company. Is.)—" Bregant-Forda " is in common speech" Brentford," and Mr. Sharpe's object is to show that the crossing of the Thames described by Caesar in V. 18 was at this...

Blanche McManus. (T. Werner Laurie. 6s. net.) —By "Northern Prance" is meant, roughly speaking, that part of the country which lies north of a line drawn from the month of the...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for revWic in other forms.] The Assouan Reservoir and Lake Moeris. By Sir William Will- cocks,...

and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—Signor Villari explores this bypath of history very carefully and thoroughly. Ragusa, according to the more generally received opinion, occupies...

consists of a paper of directions with twenty-seven cards, on which are given the various attitudes by which the letters of the alphabet and other symbols are represented. There...

Home and Abroad Readers, I.-VI. (E. Arnold, 10d.- ls.) The six volumes are graduated in the usual way, beginning in I. with "Glimpses of the Homeland," and going on in VI. to...

net.) —We must own to a certain feeling of distaste for a book of this kind. The subject is, of course, mainly treated from the ludicrous point of view. Not a little historical...

and 28.) we have The Life of Wellington, by William Hamilton Maxwell, Abridged and Newly Edited, with Notes, by the Rev. L. T. Dodd. Mr. Dodd's notes, brought though they are...

attractive as ever, with its portraits of grandes dames, its pictures of great houses and fine gardens, its memoranda about sport of all kinds, and the quite innumerable...

is The Commission of H.M.S. 'Talbot,' 1901 - 1904, by W. A. May, R.M.L.I., with an Introductory Article by Lionel Yexley. Mr. Yexley's Introduction gives the circumstances which...