Algeria. It is their practice to allow their settlers in a com- mune to rule it, and the settlers abuse their powers, especially as regards the transfer of land. Recently some...

T ILE war news this week is happily of the same character as last. While we have had no set-back of any sort, there has been a perpetual wastage going on in all the Boer com-...

are going, but the Ministers have drawn up a plan for the international occupation of Chih-li. Great Britain, Germany, France, Japan, and Italy are to maintain a total force of...

Pekin correspondent describing the report of the Com- mittee of British, German, French, and Japanese Ministers regarding the indemnity. They give four alternatives for raising...

on April 29th, and must, therefore, have passed the Censor, reports that General Kuropatkine, the Minister of War, has proposed a military Convention with Servia. Under this...

to keep away Chinese troops from Chih-li and partly to make themselves terrible in Mandarins' eyes. On April 23rd and 24th, for instance, a body of Germans marched from...

case.

Chinese policy, whatever it is, is not getting on any more than ours is, and while our people do not care, being pre- occupied with South Africa, his do care, having a fancy...

the question of the Coal-duties by an acrimonious discussion which arose over a private Bill of the London and North-Western Railway Company. That Company has not, it appears, a...

that the Clerical campaign in Hungary is becoming energetic. The present effort is to conquer the Universities and expel Liberal Professors, and the students are enlisted in...

on Monday to read the Military Instruction Bill a second time. As far as we understand the Bill from the account given of it by Lord Frankfort de Montmorency, it will deal...

the different fractions of the " Nationalist" Opposition, delivered on Monday at Remiremont a furious tirade against the Administration. Its members, he said, treated every...

of the London and North-Western directors who had voted for it were challenged by Mr. Swift MacNeill and Mr. Bryn Roberts, and a general discussion on the point was kept up till...

to com- sdete the sum for the salaries and expenses of the Law Officers' Department led to an animated debate, and a reduction was moved on the ground of the costliness of the...

article on the right way of treating Mr. Merriman. After condemning the rowdyism of a section of the Edinburgh public, our contemporary continues : " The proper way to treat Mr....

the total number of recruits enlisted (including Imperial Yeomanry, Royal Reservists, and recruits enlisted for one year) stands at 98,361, as against 42,700 in 1899, there was...

taken up by Sir Michael Hicks-Beach in regard to the Coal-tax, we are bound to admit that his speech in reply was able and impressive in no small degree, and adduced some very...

night did not, unfortunately, conclude that evening, but was adjourned. Sir William Harcourt, who opened the dis- cussion, denounced the Coal-duty, if not, to borrow Stevenson's...

mag- nificent property in Cardiff, the late Lord Bute left personalty exceeding five millions sterling. That amount is not sufficient to place him in the first, or even the...

in last week's issue of the British Medical Journal, by Dr. Willoughby Gardner. Roughly speaking, the world's con- sumption of sugar in the last fifteen years has doubled, while...

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1.1:Lel DUTY OF THE UNIONIST PARTY. T HERE are signs, only too many and too apparent, that a great number of Unionists, both inside and outside the House of Commons, do not...

is that Great Britain and Germany may be left alone there with much- worn forces to contend against a guerilla war of a new and most exhausting kind. They are very nearly alone...

E NGLISHMEN, say many foreign thinkers with some truth, rarely apprehend accurately the trend of Continental politics. They are not directly interested in them, they know little...

W E cannot sympathise with the attacks which are being made in so many quarters just now in re- gard to Mr. Brodrick's Army scheme. We are quite willing to admit that the scheme...

M R. WYNDHAM need not have pointed his excellent defence of the House of Commons by a jibe at the House of Lords. It may be that to men fresh from the House of Commons or the...

I T is a little surprising as well as amusing to an English- man to be told that one of his main characteristics is " sweetness " ; yet an observant American, Mr. Eltweed...

A CCORDING to Louis Stevenson, "some men love a secret for the congenial exercise of keeping it," and perhaps it would be true to say that all men love a secret, whether for the...

Z EBRAS have always had a great attraction for English feeling. We look on them as far the most beautiful wild example of the horse, and the horse is undoubtedly the favourite...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] have to ask you to-day to lend me your aid on behalr of the Mansion House Council on the Dwellings of the Poor. This Council was initiated...

I admit that I wrote with some heat upon this subject (Spectator, April 20th). Perhaps you will kindly permit me to re- state the case more temperately, but not less firmly. Do...

OUR " ADMIRABLE " SERVICE RIFLE. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR ; Will you let me say a few words in reply to Mr. Baillie- Grohman's last letter ? Reasons of space...

(Spectator, April 20th) on the members of the South African cricket team is both un- generous and unfounded, as I think an acquaintance with the circumstances will convince you....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] reference to your most interesting article on " Vast- ness and Isolation" in the Spectator of April 20th, may I draw your attention to...

Sin,—The writer of the article on " Vastness and Isolation " in the Spectator of April 20th has undoubtedly struck a rich vein of interest. It is a common thing for writers on...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,-Iu reading your interesting article on " The Quarterly Review on Queen Victoria" in the Spectator of April 27th I was greatly struck by...

SIR, —A propos of the article in the Spectator of April 20th entitled Vastness and Isolation," it may be of interest to the author to hear that one of his readers was, as a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Is it really true that the Queen bad no intimate friend- ships ? It is a hard thing to say of any man or woman, and we were told long...

[To TUE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —May it not be that, though we forget, there is one kind of remembrance which, if not direct, is quite trustworthy? We have forgotten...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—The following extract from a judgment delivered by Lord Chief Justice Cockburn in the Court of Queen's Bench (" Wason v. Walter," LR 4...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —Your optimistic leaderette in the Spectator of March 16th with regard to the reduction of population in Western India will scarcely be...

with interest your article on " Vastness and Isolation " in the Spectator of April 20th, having myself experienced the sensation described on several occasions. When the trance...

H. Butcher, in the Spectator of April 27th, in giving Wordsworth's own explana- tion of the lines- " Obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—" W. H. B.'s " very interesting letter on the above sub- ject in the Spectator of April 27th contains no reference to the most...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Srn,—I wonder if you and many of your readers can picture the real position of a working man with only £1 a week, and a home, a wife, and...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The following on the visits of rare birds may interest your readers. Crossing Hyde Park about 5.30 the other day, I saw a fine large...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTA.TOR.9 think a point was missed in your article (Spectator, February 23rd) when you spoke of " the chorus you will hear in the summer twilight."...

THE ACADEMY.—L To be delighted or disgusted by the Academy depends on the point of view of the visitor. If we expect great art, we shall be disappointed. If we expect to find...

THE CARRIER-DOG OF BRUSSELS. OUT in the street I saw him lie,— His sorrowful lack-lustre eye Could read his master's look no more, His days of faithful work were o'er. Numbed...

SOME SERMONS BY JOWETT.* ABOUT forty years ago at Oxford, as Mr. John Morley has said, the star of Newman was setting, and that of Mill was rising. At the same time a far more...

attractive volume by this author and the well-known expert, M. Langlois, wherein was advocated a new departure in history, the laws of which were to be mastered by proper...

Hume has sketched the vain struggles which took place in Britain and elsewhere for Catholic supremacy during the last years of Elizabeth's reign. The struggle was inevitable,...

IT is curious that no American publisher, in or out of New York, should have been found willing to bring out this book. The author, who is an American economist of some...

THE perusal of a novel by " Zack," if not exactly an ex- hilarating, is always an engrossing and in a sense a refreshing experience. For " Zack " depends neither on slang nor...

THE Nineteenth Century has rather too many articles,—thus producing a sense no doubt of great variety, but also a certain want of sufficiency. The one which will perhaps be most...

The "criticism" about which Sir John Prichard, Mr. Unwin, and their friends discourse is the criticism of the belles- lettres, fiction and verse. The question is proposed :...

Pinder this heading we notice such Books of the week as tars not been reserved for review in other eorms.) • Poetical Tributes to the Memory of Queen Victoria. Edited by...

COMPANY LAW. Responsibilities of Directors and Working of Companies under the Companies Acts, 1862-1900. By Anthony Paibrook, Solicitor. (Effingham Wilson. 3s. 6d. net.)—The...

(John Murray. 2s. 6d.)—This "reader for schools" gives, in the form of a series of extracts, the outline of a continuous history of the growth of the British Empire. An...

notice in these columns to the "Pastas" Treasury, selected by Albert Broadbent (A. Broadbent, Manchester). Mr. Broadbent has selected some characteristic passages from Pastas,...

Is. 6d. net.)—This volume is one of the "Famous Scots Series," a series which should be endless, the past stock holding out till the living qualify. It is an admirable sketch of...

Wellby. 3s. 6&)—Mr. Greentree gives anlintroductory essay on the character of the Malay race. His own residence in the country has helped him to make his picture unusually...

4s. 6d.)—Mr. Sutherland tells us that be has been taking note for the twenty years past of the inventions brought out. Hence his " forecast " is largely derived from ex-...

(Grant Richards. 3s. 6d. net.)—This volume carries on the series of " Historical Guides " which was initiated by Mr. Grant Allen, and which he had intended to carry out, it...

(S.P.C.K. 4s.)—Chote, Nagpur (which must be distinguished from Nagpur in the Central Provinces) is a region lying some two hundred miles to the north-west of Calcutta, chiefly...

Shanklin, Isle of Wight. 6d.)—Dr. Dabbs tells us that this is a new, and, he thinks, an original, play. He asks the judgment of the reading public upon it, the playgoing public...

their latest novelties,—the " Heraldic " series of post-cards. On the back of each card the arms of one of the leading cities or towns of Great Britain are beautifully printed...

(Nelson and Sons, 2s. net per volume) we have Old Mortality and The Legend of Montrose and The Black Dwarf, being the fifth and sixth volumes of "The New Century Scott." We have...