O RDER reigns in St. Petersburg, but it_ a b.only on the surface that there is peace ; aneefib f ulli the streets are quiet and the strikers are returning to their work, the...

has been very confusing, but it is evident that a great battle, which will probably bear the name of the battle of Chang-tan, began last Sunday by a Russian attack, and ended...

the earlier part of the week Warsaw was the scene 'of fierce street fighting, in which it is alleged that about one thousand casualties occurred, including several hundred...

week the Russian officers sent back from Admiral Rozhdestvensky's squadron gave their evidence, and were subjected to a searching cross-examination by Mr. Pickford, the British...

have been many rumours that he now seriously intends to enter on the path of reform and to create liberal institutions. The special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph even...

Times of Monday, points to the fact that two sections of the Unionist party—Free-traders and Fiscal Reformers—hold irreconcilably opposite views on Tariff questions ; that...

the issue of the Hungarian elections was in the balance, the indications pointing to a small majority for the Liberals and Count Tisza. In the result, however, the Kossuth or...

of the Tibetan Expedition and its results. It is chiefly remarkable for the difference of opinion which it shows between the Imperial Government and the Govern- ment of India on...

Club at Philadelphia on Monday evening, made an important declaration in regard to the control of Trusts, with specific reference to railways. No free people, said the...

with M. Kossuth himself. The Independent leader contemplates neither total political, nor even complete economic, separation ; be has publicly declared that his party is not...

its policy. Last Saturday, at a meeting held in Pretoria under the presidency of General Botha, it was resolved to demand full responsible government and to refuse to co-operate...

Tuesday, recapitulates his views on the subject of Retaliation. He holds by his view that heroic legislation may be rendered necessary by extraordinary circumstances, but be is...

was sympathetic, and he made a most sound and practical suggestion. It was that the Dean of Canterbury, or some other representative of the deputation, should come forward as a...

Wednesday, after an interval clouded by a severe domestic bereavement which has elicited the genuine sympathy of supporters and opponents alike. He disclaimed all party or...

food will cost you more." They said it with every kind of exaggeration, and they produced a great effect, though that effect could not continue. " No party in the long run...

the Princess Victoria, bad been obliged to undergo an operation for appendicitis. There was at first a natural anxiety as to the result, but we are glad to be able to record...

past week. It was announced on Tuesday that Mr. Graham Murray, Secretary for Scotland, had been appointed to the vacant post of Lord Justice-General for Scotland,— an...

deputation representative of the clergy who have signified their adhesion to the principle suggested by the Dean of Canterbury, that nothing can be accepted as truly catholic...

THE UNIONIST FREE-TRADERS AND THE LIBERALS. T HE statement that the official Liberal organisation in Durham is about to bring out a candidate to oppose Mr. Arthur Elliot is a...

the true character of the Czar. He is repre- sented to us• in so many different colours and from so many points of view that the public mind is bewildered. Whether rightly or...

veto on any exploitation of the country, which prevents foreign encroachments, which, in short, gives us a virtual protectorate. We have also enormously increased our prestige...

mark Bishop Gore's administration of his new diocese was struck by him at the meeting of the Birmingham Church Extension Society over which he presided on Monday. While he has...

is wanted for the relief, not only of the workmen on strike, but also of the " hundreds of women and children dependent on the victims of last Sunday week's massacre." They "...

nuzzled 'twixt tho breasts of happiness, Who winks and shuts his apprehensions up, From common sense of what men were and are, Who would not know what men must be—lot such...

announcement were suddenly made that a cheap process had been dis- covered by which coal could be converted into diamonds, there would be plenty of people who would be afraid of...

to complain of the discomfort of his quarters in the Castle. Our "Justices in eyre" have, perhaps, no right to insist on all the comforts of a home when occupying judges'...

813,—The correspondence, recently made public, between the Archbishop of Canterbury and Mr. Frederic Macke:mess on the subject of Chinese labour has directed my attention to one...

Sui,—Amid the tremendous clash of important discussions concerning our first and second lines of defence, the war in the Far East, the Fiscal question, and the unemployed, there...

that the discussion upon the rights and wrongs of the importation of Chinese labourers into the Transvaal will, by the time this letter reaches its destination, have been...

your last issue on the above subject the word in question is defined, widely speak- ing, as " pity killed " (and " rightly killed ") ; and the final sentence runs : " There is...

this city. In connection with the supply of ironwork for a large contract here, a local firm of founders quotes about half-a-crown (reduced to English money) below the cost of...

on this subject in the Spectator of January 21st is under a misapprehension. He confounds wages with the supplementary aid which labourers received from the Poor-rates. I have...

Sin,—May I point out to Mr. Chamberlain and the members of the Tariff Reform League that,it is a doubtful policy, if they wish to gain adherents to their cause, to send out a...

in the name of all my colleagues reviewed en bloc in your issue of the 28th nit.) against this sentence of the reviewer : " The antithesis of minor poetry is not great poetry,...

the Crimean War the nepotism of highly placed persons in the Army was being discussed in Dean Mangers presence, with especial reference to the number of inefficient junior...

last week's issue) is wrong. Brougham, in " Statesmen of the Time of George III.," speaking of Thurlow, says : " His aspect was more solemn and imposing than any other person's...

as Mr. Fletcher suggests. If ever it was aimed at the latter, it must have been after Thurlow's death, from an unwillingness to let a good story lose its point. There is...

greatest dangers which can happen to national freedom by any formal statute. Even now a minister might avail himself of the temper of a Parliament elected in some moment of...

hon. secretary of the Lads' Drill Association from the Southfields Miniature Rifle Club. As stated in this letter, one of the chief obstacles to the practice of rifle-shooting...

to your article under the above heading in your issue of January 28th P In that article this sentence occurs : " all the Protestant sects, except the Society of Friends, teach...

Sin,-:-Herodotus's description of the camel (mentioned in your issue of January 14th, p. 47) as having an extra pair of knees, though absurd enough, is not quite as preposterous...

point out an error into which the writer of the article on "Seaside Farms" in last week's Spectator has fallen in painting his beautiful picture of the East Devon coast-lands P...

trading to Valparaiso, in which he says;- " On the afternoon of Saturday, December 24th, off Bardsey Island, a homing pigeon fell on deck at my feet with a broken leg. It tried...

SIR,—I venture to write to you the history of my copy of the Spectator as a witness to the esteem in which your valua■le paper is held. This copy is purchased in the first...

of January 28th, I am induced to ask you if you will publish the following account. In September, 1899, I bought, in Paris, a pair of tiny (I think Japanese) birds, and brought...

There is many a road to stir the blood Of him who fareth forth ; All roads seem good to the wise of mood, But of all the roads that be, My chosen way is the broad Ridgeway,...

jest of the late Dean Mansel which Mr. Lionel Tolle- mache mentions in the letter printed in your issue of January 28th. It was in "the sixties,” not "the fifties," that Mr....

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Efn is a bold man who sets out in quest of the key which shall unlock the mystery of Shakespeare's sonnets. In that country the roads make heavy walking, and " airy tongues that...

THE limelight photograph taken in the council-chamber of the Potala after the Treaty had been signed was the seal upon the grave of the last Asian mystery. We know all about the...

the very title of this volume. Professor Butcher, as it still seems natural to call him, was always a most charming and attractive writer, especially on the topics he has made...

our list without immediate reference to one of the burning questions of the day,—What is the future of the Anglican Church ? In the second half of her volume Miss Guiney has...

to Russia and Japan, but in none of them is the war touched upon save indirectly. Mr. Hagberg Wright in " Russia's-- View of her Mission " is chiefly concerned to vindicate...

as an alert and entertaining delineator of the vagaries, foibles, and extravagances of smart society. To call him a social satirist would be to overshoot the mark, for his...

Heinemann. 6s.)—Mr. Benson has given us a slight but pleasing study df life in a small Cathedral town. The brother and sister of a poor nobleman settle there, and introduce a...

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Edited t"by Lucian Oldershaw. (R. Brimley Johnson. 3s. 6d. net.)—These nine essays should be read with sympathy, for their authors are 'very much in earnest, and feel with...

'orrest give many a fine opportunity for romance, for the leader was one of the most memorable personalities in a great epodh, and civil war, waged as he waged it, brought into...

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as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] The Unemployed : a National Question. By Percy Alden, M.A. (P. S. King and Son. ls. 6d. net.)—Mr. Alden sees the main...

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and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—This volume (the twenty-sixth annual issue) contains, besides the usual matter, the Report of the Committee of the House of Lords on the administration of...

(Methuen and Co. 22 2s. net.)—Mr. Redfern divides this very handsome and interesting volume nearly equally between gloves and shoes. Historically and artistically the gloves...

Murray. Vol. VII., " Pargeten-Pennached." (Clarendon Press. Treble Section, 7s. 6d.)—Out of four thousand seven hundred and twenty words (all reckoned), " two only have any...

Co. 8s. 6d. net.)—What is one to say about five hundred and eighty-seven closely printed pages of anecdotes, grave and gay, about soldiers of the past and present? Perhaps the...

When the subject is so large much space could not be given to any part. The book would have been more interesting—we do not say more valuable—if it had been limited to buildings...

A Valle. (Macmillan and Co. 128. 6d. net.)—This volume, like its predecessor, " Great Golfers," is copiously illustrated with photo- graphs, taken, as Mr. Beldam explains, under...

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and Co. le, 6d. net.)—Mr. Foster's principles seem sound and his rules judicious. Of the rules it is needless to give examples. Of the principles perhaps the most generally...