the situation in China. Here we will only note that the Chinese plenipotentiaries are said to have agreed to the Joint Note in principle, but want to discuss it in detail. This...

T HE event of the week which has most occupied public attention has been the return of Lord Roberts, and rightly, for England never had a worthier soldier hero to honour. We...

on New Year's Day in Sydney with the pageantry and enthusiasm befitting a great historical ocoasioe. The great procession, two miles loug, passed along a roll , . decorated with...

to the Queen. On the Thursday he landed at Southamp- ton and proceeded to London, where the welcome from the Prince and Princess of Wales and half the great men of the nation...

for we are not alarmed by the fact that the Elo■ - ■ commandos that have penetrated into the Celony have as pig been able to evade capture, and that they have even gut within...

case.

in regard to China with a Japanese diplomatist at present in St. Petersburg which is of the highest interest. The Japanese have, he declares, an enormous advantage over all the...

hardly worthy of the dawn of a new century. We note, how- ever, with satisfaction the bestowal of Privy Councillorships on Mr. Barton, one of the protagonists in the drama of...

effect of the Pope's threats. We hope and believe that some compromise in regard to the Bill will be arrived at, as we hold the policy of harrying the Orders to be utterly...

remarkable article in the Soir on the Bonapartists' plans. According to the writer, great efforts are being made in France to place Prince Louis Napoleon—the Russian General —on...

able American lawyer, defending the action of the Senate in its recent handling of the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty. We have always held that the Americanisation of the canal and its...

tant conversation held by a member of its staff with the Pope, in which Leo XIIL discusses the relations of France and the Vatican, and, in fact, takes up the challenge flung...

interpretation of the rights of the French fishermen for whom a separate reserve was created on the coast of Newfoundland by the various treaties and agreements beginning with...

a conversation with some Boer prisoners on their way to Ceylon which deserves special attention as showing the real feeling of the Boers. "You will return," said the writer in...

or, more correctly, renewed, a decree forbidding Jews to remain in Palestine for more than three months. By this means he evidently intends to strike not only at pilgrims and...

Sailors' Families Association, has issued a further appeal for subscriptions. The task imposed on the Association by the exigencies of the war has been the maintenance of the...

health, has addressed a parting manifesto to the Irish nation. Primarily his address takes the form of an appeal for subscriptions to the Parliamentary Fund, in the course of...

of Bellona—is the last that will appear from the pen of Sir John Tenniel, who retiree, after an unbroken connec- tion of fifty years, from the active staff of the journal so...

and great destruction of shipping and damage to sea - defence works, raged throughout the whole of Friday week. The ' Primrose Hill,' a four-masted ship, was wrecked off the...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 97.

THE SITUATION IN CHINA. W HEN a few marauding binds break into Cape Colony and play hide-and-seek there with our troops, the British public grows anxious and restless and...

lIl `E Queen, of course, always says the right thing on public occasions, great and small, but her Govern- ments are not so infallible. There is, therefore, much ground for...

W E stated last week that we reserved the subject of the voluntary forces available for military pur- poses for future treatment. We propose on the present occasion to make a...

12V - E are not very much alarmed by the signs of Mammonism in Berlin detected by our correspon- dent, " L. K.-D.," in his letter in another column,—at least in the form in...

W E have not hitherto said anything about the judgment of Mr. Justice Wills and Mr. Justice Kennedy in " The Queen v. Cockerton," and we desire to repair the omission ; though...

ever made a worse shot than did John Stuart Mill when he expressed wonder that there had not been a revival of the Manichean philosophy. For what- ever else may be affirmed of...

A T the opening of a new century the minds of some men look forward with hope, whilst others turn back- wards with a lingering regret. To these the ()harms of the past are more...

T HE storm of this week came in two relays, either of which would have made more than ample disturbance in the normal changes of weather inland, where, except for the...

THE WATERWAYS AND WATER-POWER OF CANADA. [To THU EDITOR Or Tai " sorwroam SIR,—There is nothing in the world like the waterways and water-power of Canada. A bare catalogue of...

THE GROWTH OF MAMMONISM IN BERLIN. (To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sts,—Our journals will, in their retrospective articles usual at this time, express their satisfaction...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR." a Sra,—Is it any wonder that we are apathetic about educa- tion, when the Education Department has for thirty years abstained from doing...

[To THE EDITOR OF TILE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I hope the " shrinkage of the world" has made sufficient progress to allow a reference from Australia to the admirable article in...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your expressed desire that men would look upon Christianity as a heroic adventure, to which " A Lay Worker" refers in the Spectator of...

[fo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —The correspondents who have referred, in two recent issues of the Spectator, to the " dog and cooking-pot" occurrence in the Ameer's...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Six.,—Your issue for November 3rd contains a notice of my work, "Songs of Modern Greece." The critic, in his other- wise very sympathetic...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR." Sic..—In the interest of every man of letters in England, will you allow me to say a few words about your article on Sir Arthur Sullivan, by...

"SPECTATOR."] Srn,—Referring to your article on " The ITnproductiveness of British Labour" in the Spectator of December 29th, may I give you my experience in a spinning mill P...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." Sra.—With the " piece of musical fooling which, in the opinion of many competent judges, Sullivan himself never surpassed," as " C. L. G."...

article on this subject in the Spectator of December 29th you altogether omit (can it be intentionally P) any reference to another contributory cause of inefficiency of labour,...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR." Sin,—In your article in the Spectator of December 29th on "Mr. Brodrick's Task" you suggest with regard to the reform of the Yeomanry, " We...

[To THR EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—According to the Right Hon. Mr. Morley, Lord Brook, when besieging Lichfield, was shot in a room. And he says nothing about the spot...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—From Canon Gore's letter in your recent issue of December 22nd, 1900, one might be led to infer that the ques- tion of procuring...

Sin,—Your article in the Spectator of December 29th on " The Unproductiveness of British Labour" ought, in my opinion, to be issued in the form of a leaflet and circulated...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sra,—People are asking the question, What is to be done with the Army? and many are the suggestions that have been put forward, but I have...

TWO GREAT PORTRAIT PAINTERS.* THE proper way to write the Life of an artist is a matter of controversy. As a rule, books dealing with the lives and' works of painters are...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—The following extract from Thayer's Life of Abraham Lincoln may be of interest at the present moment :- " In less than two months...

NICHOLAS IL TEE double eagle of thy crest Looks either way, for sign The Empires of the East and West, Past and to come, are thine. To thee their hundred millions bow, Whom...

[To TIER EDITOR OP TEE "EPDOTAT011.1 Ackworth's letter is hardly ad rem.,—the temporary loss of his empty portmanteau and the other petty grievances he enumerates are annoying...

LADY KNUTSFORD has undertaken in a spirit of filial loyalty a task which a bold man might well shrink from, and she has carried it through with a praiseworthy sympathy. The...

Mr. Alfred Russel Wallace presents us with the varied fruit of several years of study in the form of numerous essays dealing with problems both in physical and social science....

WHEN the first volume of Sir William Hunter's History of British India appeared every one thought that, in the loss of his chance of writing the far larger work he had at one...

MR. TREHERNE'S From Valet to Ambassador is far removed from the category of books of which From Log - Cabin to White House may serve as a typical example. If it be true that no...

THE Nineteenth Century and After. This is how Mr. Knowles has got out of the difficulty of his title. He leaves us, in fact, a name with so many worthy traditions, and yet...

C. Mayle. (S. C. Mayle. 2s. 6d. net.)—The Annual presents a quite imposing list of contributors : Dr. Garnett, Professor Hales, and Messrs. Ernest Rhys, Arnold White, and I....

opportunity afforded by the time. Accordingly we have as the Review of Reviews Annual, "Lest we Forget" : a Keepsake from the Nineteenth Century (Review of Reviews Office, is.)...

Stoughton. 12s.)—" A Compendium of Religious and Secular Thought" is a pretty large scheme. In fact, it compre- hends all things temporal and eternal. Mr. Cavalier has put...

contains the usual information, statistical, ecclesiastical, &c., with authoritative directions for fasts, abstinence days, " holidays of obligation," " days of devotion," &c....

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] We gladly renew our annual welcome to the Journal of Educe'. turn,...

is needless to say much about this annual volume. The Art Journal is, we think, the oldest of the periodicals of its class, and need not, as regards either its literary or its...

By R. F. Foster. (Lawrence and Millen. 624-Bridge is, in the opinion of some critics, a noxious intruder on the domain of whist. It has attractions-otherwise it would not be...

2s.)-We are especially glad to see a cheap reprint of this book, one which may be read, perhaps, with more unmixed pleasure than any of Borrow's writing. What a strange story it...

Sister of the Congregation of St. Catharine of Siena. Edited by the Very Rev. Father Procter. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co. is. 6d )- Ham Sufferings. By Francois Cop*. Trans-...

a volume of graceful sketches. The faces are very pretty; we have not often seen as pretty. This goes a long way, for the humour of pictures goes off, so to speak, while the...

Freer and the late John, Marquess of Bute. (C. Arthur Pearson. 2s.)-Much of this volume has already appeared, bat this new edition contains some interesting additions. Some of...

and Son. ls. 6d.)-One of the " Illustrated Latin Series." There is a useful essay in the prolegomena on Ballast's style and diction, and another on the political aspect of the...