captured by tribes friendly to the Sultan, Mulai Hafid, was confirmed and amplified at the end of last week. Bu Hamara, took sanctuary in a mosque, but was nevertheless led...

to advance. A new camp has been formed at Sok El Arba, but this has so far proved chiefly an incitement to the Moors to make new attacks. Fortunately the camp is in a strong...

state of affairs in the South-Western portion of the Congo State, and in Portuguese and British territory abutting on the Congo border. All this area is exposed to the opera-...

O N Thursday the world learnt with astonishment., not unmixed with scepticism, that Dr. Cook, an American Arctic explorer of experience, who was surgeon to the Peary Expedition,...

case.

of course be neceasary to verify his story and to calculate whether he really got to the place he believed himself to have reached. We note that the experts say that this will...

all mention of Sir Joseph Thomson's presidential address at the opening meeting of the British Association at Winnipeg. It was an admirable address, being both clear and...

units of electricity would supply the material for what might be called a molecular . theory of electricity, and would be a starting-point for a theory of the structure of...

performance, as though to inaugurate the new route between Fishguard and New York. The homeward voyage to Queenstown was made in four days fourteen hours twenty-seven minutes,...

this means that the Government have .grasped the importance of not concentrating all their favours on the picnicker and forgetting the soldier, and that care will be taken to...

for national interests shown in the way in which on Wednesday he met Lord Robert Cecil's amend- ment to the clause exempting front taxation parks and open spaces to which the...

attention to the state of business, and asked Lord Crewe for information as to the further work of the Session. In days when first-rate Bills were passed through the House of...

Town Planning Bill was discussed in Committee. Under a special Closure Resolution the Committee work was to last only two days. There is something more to be said, however, for...

which is composed of professionals, has been 'very interesting because the point at issue was whether Trade- Unionism should get a footing in the field of sport. The...

M.P., has put down a Motion for the rejection of the Development Bill introduced by the Government. To a representative of the Daily Mail who asked the reason Lord Robert Cecil...

them in the plainest terms that their business is to wait to be charged, and therefore to run. The sword at the Yeoman's side, or, perhaps better still, at the Yeoman's saddle,...

of Oxford University, mentions a fact which we record with no small satisfaction,—namely, that Lord Hugh Cecil's Committee have already received nearly two thousand six hundred...

April 1st. Consols (24) were on Friday 84k—Friday week 841.

" endorses the remarks of the Military Corre- spondent of the Times as to the helpless condition of the Territorial cavalry when mounted because they are given no weapon which...

the use of the sword will use it better than the man who has not bad that training, but because there is not time for acquiring the niceties of swordsmanship it is little short...

THE HOUSE OF LORDS AND THE BUDGET. O N Tuesday the Press Association issued an apparently inspired statement in regard to the "fate of the Budget in another place." Discussions...

maintained in these columns the proposition that our present licensing system involves the profligate dissipation of a national asset. For moral reasons the State has thought it...

TM immediate cause of the military revolt which J. threw Athens into a ferment of excitement on Friday week was undoubtedly the so-called humiliation of Greece in Crete. The...

T HE debate on the Trade Boards Bill in the Lords on Monday was of that thoroughly unsatisfactory kind with which we have of late years grown familiar when tie subject is social...

'Write, write, write, a letter. Good advice will make us better. Father, mother, sister, brother, Let us all advise each ether." rhyme was repeated to the present writer by a...

W print elsewhere an interesting and vivacious letter from a lady who has recently returned from South Africa, and who has some comparisons to make between English and Colonial...

11TH: N the Chancellor of the Exchequer first introduced is proposals to devote a certain sum of money, obtained from the taxes on motor-cars and petrol, to the improvement of...

THE REPRESENTATION OF OXFORD UNIVERSITY. [To TRY EDITOR OF TER "Srzyn.Tos."1 SIR,—The letter of "A Member of Convoeation " in your last issue is an example of a mode of...

"THE SHOWING UP OF BLANCO POSNET." [To THE EDITOR Or TEE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The performance of Mr. Shaw's new play at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin is over, and I expect a good...

tr. TEX EDITOR 01, TER "SPECTATOR...1 Sin,—I am so wholly with you in condemning Socialist experiments resting on air, and not on solid economic facts, and am also so convinced...

attendant upon the construction of the special motor roads suggested by Mr. Lloyd George's Bill been fully considered ? The Bill provides (S. 7, c. 2) that the new Road Boards...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—If one may assume that all taxation ought properly to come out of income, why does not some bold Chancellor of the Exchequer sweep away...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—Lord Macaulay writes in his essay on Southey :— "It is not by the intermethlling of the omniscient and omnipotent State, but by the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 See,—Will you allow me, as one who has read for some time at the Paris Faculte de Droit, to point out that, from my experience, there are...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Stu, — The animus of the proposed Land-taxes is well shown (Wyman's Debates for August 10th, p. 172) by the provision that if the owner of...

['TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin e —Your correspondent "Proprietor" in the Spectator of August 21st is mistaken in his argument that—in England at any rate, I cannot...

THJA "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The most striking points of difference between English and Colonial girls of the same class—and I am speaking of the daughters of gentlemen—are to be...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] S]ra,—I should not ordinarily think of offering the Spectator a puzzle, but here is one so exceptional that I make the venture:—I have with...

"SPECTATOR."] BIB,—In view of the present discussion of the censorship of plays, some of your readers may be interested to recall the very apt opinion given in "Don Quixote." I...

" SPECTATOR."' SIR, — The great and striking fact brought home by your living article on this subject in last w eek's Spectator is that they were gentlemen in those days, and...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."J SIR, — May I add one to the instances of reason in animals now appearing in the Spectator ? On my island ranche I had a young Jersey bull and...

A COLONIAL GIRL. AUSTRALIA'S great, and rich, and fair, Jewels of price are common there, But Phoebe's one a king might wear. She is as witty as she's wise, And has the...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views Therein expressed or with the mode of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Long ago a great authority took me to task for having written, while omitting to insert either the "M." (Monsieur) or the Christian...

THE "POETICS" OF ARISTOTLE.* THERE is no living Greek scholar in England, perhaps in the world, who carries a weightier equipment of learning and sound judgment than the...

MR. RUFUS JONES'S" Studies" are full of charm and interest. The writer leads us through some of those byways of Christi- anity lying outside the beaten track marked out by the...

LET us say at once that we will take our own holiday in Connemara with Mr. Stephen Gwynn. He has written a book which has some charming descriptions of Irish life and Irish...

was one of those persons to whom Fortune gives a great opportunity, but clogs it with almost impossible conditions. Had he reached Khartoum in time to save Gordon, he would have...

Tins is a most useful book, and we heartily recommend it to all persons interested in riding and the management of the horse. The hints for learning how to balance, and how not...

Sm. ARTHUR DOUGLAS ends his account of the Colony with the remark : "New Zealanders may well say that they have a goodly heritage, and that their lines have fallen in pleasant •...

Tins book is one of unusual interest, both for its own sake and for its bearing on one of the most important questions of the day ; we might say that it is actually the most...

THE Nineteenth Century has three articles oft India, the grave charges brought against our rule, and our future policy. Mr. Elliot G. Colvin, who is at work in Rajputana,...

story, like most of Father Benson's novels, is written with a purpose. The purpose seems to be to show the extreme danger of dabbling in spiritualism owing to the evil origin of...

MOl7NT. , FOR some of us the publication of Mr. C. F. Keary's The Wanderer over twenty years ago was an event ; not one of the great literary events of a lifetime, but one of...

[(Neter this heading we notice such, Books of the week am have not been reserved for review in other forms.] The First Chapter of Genesis : is it Defensible? By the Rev. G....

and Public Law," published by the Columbia University, New York (Longmans and Co.) We wish that we could give them the detailed notice which they deserve. We may take as a...

Keeble. (Robert Culley. 2s. net.)—The plan of this book is that various writers, thirteen in number, all members, we are told, of the Wesleyan Methodist Social Union, have taken...

is a novel of the "thirties" and "forties" of the nineteenth century, and concerns itself, not with the great political events of that era, but with the quiet and rather humdrum...

(Andrew Melrose. 7s. 6d. net.)—Commonly we find it unprofitable, or at least unadvisablo, to criticise criticism, and consequently pass over books of this kind with very brief...

6s.)—A good story of English rural life in the early part of the nineteenth century, a young idealist coming into conflict with the social arrangements exemplified by the old...

7s. 6d. net.)—This is a pleasant book to read. There is nothing certainly of the " Smelfungus " tone about it. Everything pleased the traveller, except perhaps the etiquette of...

Mann. (The Author, Vectis, Ben Lomond, California. 10c.)—Here we have an indictment in vigorous language of one of the specifics prescribed for the evil of drink. Briefly...

edition of their Guide to Switzer/and (2s. 6d.) It has been rewritten and reillustrated. It doss not, of course, compare in magnitude and minuteness of detail with its great...