5 MARCH 1904

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In a speech recently made by Mr. Root at the

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Union League Club in New York (the chief Republican club in that city) he described President Roosevelt in the following words :—" Men say he is not safe ! He is not safe for...

Though we hear so little that is intelligible from the

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seat of war, there are indications that feeling is running very high in Russia against Britain. To a great extent this is fostered by the military party, who hope by inflaming...

A painful sensation has been caused by the action brought

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in the Brussels Law Courts by Princess Louise of Coburg and Princess Stephanie (Countess Lonyay) against their father, the King of the Belgians. The case has been forced on by...

MHOUGH every day the newspapers have been filled with 1

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telegrams from the Far East, our knowledge of what is going on has been in reality very little increased. Behind the veil of mist we see dim shadows battling and armed men...

the notion that the Social Democratic party lent itself to

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the dissemination of "terrorist" literature ; the real terrorism was that of the Russian Government, whose Far Eastern policy he vehemently attacked. Count von Biilow, who had...

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An amendment was moved by Mr. Herbert Roberts and seconded

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by Mr. Buchanan representing that in view of our expanding naval expenditure—estimated at above £40,000,000 for this year—and in the interests of international peace, our...

Lord Milner made an important statement to the Inter. Colonial

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Council at Johannesburg on Tuesday, an extra- ordinary Session having been opened to consider the financial situation in view of falling railway receipts. The revenue for the...

On Monday the Committee on War Office Reform issued the

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second part of their Report, which, it was intimated, had been seen and approved by the King. We have dealt at length with the Report elsewhere, but here we may sum- marise the...

It was announced on Wednesday that the Duke of Connaught

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had been appointed to the post of Inspector-General. The Inspector-General cannot, it should be noted, initiate policy ; he can only report on facts; and though he is to act as...

The debate in Committee of Supply was maintained at a

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high level on Tuesday, an unusually large number of Front Bench men and ex-Cabinet Ministers taking part in the dis- cussion, which was mainly concerned with the two-Power...

In the House of Commons on Monday, Mr. Pretyman, the

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Secretary to the Admiralty, made the annual explanatory statement with regard to the Navy Estimates. Their magni- tude was considerable, but that was the inevitable result of...

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The Government game of "hunt the slipper" in regard to

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their fiscal policy was played on Thursday night both in the Lords and Commons. In the Lords, Lord Lansdowne, in regard to preference, complained that the Government were called...

On Tuesday the King and Queen, accompanied by the Princess

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Victoria, visited Cambridge to open the new buildings which have been erected to meet the needs of scientific instruction. The last Royal visit to the University was made by...

Sir Edward Grey endorsed the protest made by other speakers

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against the view that the two-Power standard was wholly in- elastic. The present time might not be the best to suggest reduction, but he did think something might be done in...

Two by - elections have taken place since we last wrote, one

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in a constituency which may be called the central stronghold of Chamberlainism and Protection, the other in a stronghold of Liberalism. In the Unionist stronghold—i.e., South...

Lord Rosebery took the chair at a dinner of the

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Liberal League on Monday, and reviewed the achievements of that association in a short but somewhat injudicious speech. It had been started, he said, in "a prepared atmosphere...

At the evening sitting of the House on Wednesday Mr.

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Lough moved a Resolution calling attention to the Sugar Commission and the failure of the Brussels Convention to achieve its anticipated objects. The exports of sugar from the...

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though a war with us would bring France in, France

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tied up in a war with Britain could give Russia no help against Japan." Those who are inclined to argue thus forget that what Russia feels most acutely just now is the...

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HOME-RULE AND THE DUTY OF UNIONISTS.

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I N our view, as our readers know, the action of Free-trade Unionists in opposing a Government who, whatever they may call themselves, owe their main support to Protectionists,...

HE "NEW MODEL" ARMY.

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L ORD ESHER'S Committee have issued the second part of their Report, and the boldness and thorough- ness which they displayed in the first part show no decrease in the present...

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O F quite exceptional interest is the little Blue-book of twelve

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pages lately issued on the selection of candi- dates for nomination as naval cadets. Seldom indeed - Can a Minister of State write Q.E.F. as to one of the more difficult...

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SIR 'WILLIAM HARCO1JRT.

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m R. GLADSTONE has upset, at all events for his own contemporaries, all the customary estimates of old age. Three score and ten has ceased to have any • special meaning as an...

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rrHE latest critic of the Fourth Gospel, Professor James Drummond,

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Principal of Manchester College, Oxford, whose striking study—" An Inquiry into the Character and Authorship of the Fourth Gospel" (London : Williams and Norgate, 10s. 6d.)—has...

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SCHOOLBOYS' POCKET-MONEY.

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T HE "cost of public schools" is one of those "hardy perennial" questions which come up year after year for discussion among correspondents of newspapers,—the reason being,...

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ANIMAL STOWAWAYS.

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O NE of the oddest cases which have come before the Courts since the passing of the Employers' Liability Act was recently decided against a colliery company. The parents of a...

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THE CASE OF FREE-TRADERS WHO ARE SUPPORTERS OF THE GOVERNMENT.

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r TO THE EDITOR OF THS " SPECTATOR."1 "A Free-Trade Supporter of the Government" have in mind Mr. Lyttelton's speech on the fiscal debate in the House of Commons when he wrote...

MR. GLADSTONE ON RETALIATION. LT0 rss Eorros or TIM "SrEoraror.."1

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SIR,—The following is, I think, instructive in view of tho Government's policy of retaliation as an aid to "freer trade." Of the period between 1841 and 1844 Mr. Gladstone wrote...

LORD MACAULAY ON FREE-TRADE AND LABOUR REGULATION.

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[To TEM EDITOR OF TEl 'SPECTATOR") SIS,—It has recently been suggested by Protectionists, and especially by Mr. Alfred Lyttelton, that the introduction of Free-trade belonged...

[To TES EDITOR OF TICS " SPECTATOR:] think you—England generally—should

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know some- thing more than is now known of the strength of the Free-trade party in Australia. The present controversy in England is watched with the greatest interest and-...

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] have read with great

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interest your article in the Spectator a February 27th entitled "Our Foreign Policy." I agree with every word you say. Is, however, the matter to end with your article ? Is...

OUR FOREIGN POLICY.

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rro TUB EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—.Your article in the Spectator of February 27th on "Our Foreign Policy" is exceedingly wise and timely. No thinking person can doubt...

CHINESE LABOUR IN SOUTH AFRICA.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—As a resident during many years on the Pacific Slope and an employer of Chinese labour (both skilled and unskilled), may I make a few...

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THE CASH VALUE OF ANIMALS.

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(To xas EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,--You may perhaps consider it worth while to eorrect . a • slip made in your particularly interesting and informing article in the...

[To Tag EDITOR OP THE "SPECTAT0R:]

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have read with interest the letters of the three corre- spondents in the Spectator of February 27th on the above subject, and I trust you will allow me to make a few remarks...

JOHN BRIG-HT'S ANCESTRY.

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(To TEE EDITOR OP -TEN "SPECTATOR.") attentien has been drawn to an article in the Spectator of January 23rd, p. 118, in which it is stated thatJohn • Bright had "a thinstinin...

SIR LESLIE STEPHEN.

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[To TEE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR:1 read with great interest the article ,you published in the Spectator of February 27th on Sir Leslie Stephen. I quite understand, and in part...

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POETRY.

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TO LORD ROBERTS. FAREWELL! The sad sweet word Rings sweetly, sadly now on every ear: The far tones of a trumpet faintly heard Telling the camp is near. Yet though the long...

BOOKS.

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MR. ERNEST MYERS'S POEMS.* ALL lovers of poetry will welcome the appearance of Mr. Ernest Myers's collected poems. Those of them who can carry their minds back twenty years will...

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MACHIAVELLI AND MODERN NATIONS.*

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A GREAT fear of the future is responsible for this very read- able and very wrong-beaded book. Captain Ross believes that Germany since the accession of the present Emperor has...

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THE TRAVELS OF MONTAIGNE.*

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IN June, 1580, M. de Montaigne started from his home in Perigord to make a tour abroad, with the hope of curing the painful ailments from which he suffered by visits to certain...

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POPULAR NATURAL HISTORY.*

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NEW books about birds appear in rapid succession. Mr. Lodge's contribution to ornithology is primarily a picture- book, and his text is chiefly an account of the circumstances...

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THE MAGAZINES.

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OF the two articles connected directly or indirectly with the war in the Far East which appear in the new Nineteenth Century, that of Mr. Pownall on "Russia, Japan, and Our-...

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THE success of the "First Novel Library" has already been.

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assured, though personally we are inclined to think that the community would profit far more from the institution of a "First and Last Novel Library,"—provided, of course, that...

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Jewel. By Clara Louise Burnham. (A. Constable and Co. 6s.)—

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Jewel is a novel of "Christian Science," and the cynic will probably smile over the very modern little girl who refuses to obey her doctor's orders, and cures her own sore...

decades of the eighteenth century in Ireland, when Catholic property

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was confiscated and young men were forced into foreign service, and a race of vulgar time-servers battened on the dis- abilities of the old houses. A young girl is forced by her...

Stella Fregelius. By H. Rider Haggard. (Longmans and Co. 6s.)—Mr.

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Rider Haggard may pile up as many horrors as he pleases round such a creation as "She," but we object to the process when we have been introduced to so attractive a creature as...

A Change of Face. By Thomas Cobb. (Methuen and Co.

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6s.) —A lucky attack of facial paralysis saves Mr. Cobb's heroine from marriage with a very selfish, though handsome, young gentleman, who is obviously of opinion that his...

The Man from Downing Street. By William Le Queux. (Hurst

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and Blackett. 6s.)—People who get this book thinking that it has a hidden bearing on the political problems of the day will find themselves very much disappointed. The book is a...

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Thoughts an Judaism. By Lily H. Montagu. (R. Brimley Johnson.

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2s. 6d.)—We feel that we shall best discharge our duty in respect of this book by generally commending it to our readers, and by a special mention of the chapter in which the...

Cambridge and its Story. By C. W. Stubbs, D.D., Dean

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of Ely. With Illustrations by Dlr. Herbert Railton. (J. M. Dent and Co. 21s. net.)—The two older English Universities have a charm which is all their own. In their rich...

Thomas Wakefield: Missionary and Geographical Pioneer in Africa. By E.

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S. Wakefield. (R.T.S. 3s. 6d.)—Mr. Wakefield laboured for between twenty and thirty years in Eastern Africa, going out there in 1862, and returning finally to England, much, it...

Justice in Education. By W. Sanday. (Longmans and Co. is.

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net.)—We hope that this "word for peace" may not have been spoken in vain. "I cannot help wondering," writes Canon Sanday, after a fair, and even kindly, reference to the...

Exiles of Eternity. By the Rev. John S. Carroll. (Hodder

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and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.)—This "Exposition of Dante's Inferno" is a most informing work. Mr. Carroll follows the text of Dante with a continuous commentary, explains the...

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Men and Women of Soho. By the Rev. J. H.

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Cardwell and Others. (Truslove and Hanson. 6s. net.)—" Famous and In- famous" is the description appended to the list of persons described in this volume. Happily there are many...

surviving child of the late Judge Stansfeld, of Moorlands, By

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her especial wish, no flowers or wreaths.

Flower-Time in the Oberland. By the Rev. H. D. Rawnsley.

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(J. Ma,cLehose and Sons, Glasgow. 5s. net.)—" There is no month "—so does Mr. Rawnsley begin his book—" like the month of May in Switzerland, for May is the month of flowering...