been altogether a success. The police precautions taken were of the most elaborate character, and, taken together with the corps d'armie which accompanied the Emperor-King,...

appears to have been to convince his Polish subjects that they had nothing to hope from any quarrel between Germany and Russia. His Majesty invited the Governor-General of...

a striking passage declared that " any one who maintains that my Catholic subjects have difficulties placed in the way of their religious belief, or that they are forced to...

Croatia. A journal of Belgrade had published an article offensive to Croatians, which was republished in Agram, and the populace resolved to wreak vengeance on the Servians in...

P R ESIDENT ROOSEVELT—curiously enough, within three days of the anniversary of President McKinley's assassination—has had a narrow escape from death. He was driving from...

case.

internal duties and allowing to Europeans free access to the internal waters of China appears to be fairly safe. The real difficulty seems to have been the clause assigning the...

Holborn Town Hall, and was attended by some five hundred delegates. Mr. Steadman in his Presidential address on Tuesday observed that the Parliamentary retrospect had been...

the centenary of the birth of Louis Kossuth, and the Ministry are rather perplexed. They honour Kossuth as a patriot and a hero, but they cannot forget that he proclaimed the...

doned. Mont Pelee has broken out afresh, and on August 30th destroyed Morne Rouge. the watering-place of the island, and many villages in the central districts. The instrument...

hot the speeches at Potsdam at the banquets given in his honour were singularly cautious and colourless. The German papers say they were intended to announce that the Triple...

war-medals to members of the Birmingham corps of the St. John's Ambulance Brigade who served with the R.A.M.C. in South Africa, and delivered a short but interest- ing speech....

factory. The Cape Parliament is certainly not a political engine which can be said to consume its own smoke, but we see no reason to feel any very great misgivings as to the...

some years ago received peerages for their great and notable services to the Empire, have made a splendid gift to London. They have jointly made over to King Edward's Hospital...

in Dublin yesterday week. By far the most striking speech—that of The O'Conor Don—was delivered against Mr. Wyndham's Bill. The grounds of his eloquent denunciation are...

counties proclaimed under the Crimes Act, which now includes the county boroughs of Dublin and Limerick. A great deal has been made of the incident, the word "proclamation"...

showed the need of the President's plea, a colourless reference to the late war as " most remarkable" being amended by the addition of the words "most unjust" in a resolution...

is pro- ceeding in Ireland between Mr. Michael Davitt and Bishop Clancy. On Tuesday Mr. Davitt published in the Freeman's Journal a strong letter denouncing his antagonist. One...

New Consols (2k) were on Friday 93g.

THE QUESTION OF THE PERSIAN GULF. I T is a commonplace of political criticism that our statesmen take too little thought as to strategic con- siderations when they shape their...

our statesmen, and diminishes the energy of our whole political organisation, seems especially feeble if studied by the light of recent history. The theory of old ruling men is...

any explanation in regard to Mr. Chamberlain's recent speech at Birming- ham. The meaning of his words was quite clear. " We have been criticised," said Mr. Chamberlain,...

THE Kings and Presidents are all moving about, calling on each other at their capitals, attending great ban- quets, and making pretty speeches, which are carefully reported in...

T ' proceedings of the Trade-Union Congress began on Monday with a speech from the Chairman of the London County Council. The Council is a well-abused institution, and it is...

the root of good manners as they are taught in the New Testament. The first is self-suppression,—the consciousness in the individual that he is part of a community whose...

I T was some three thousand years ago that Homer compared " the men of the present day " to " the wonderful giants of old," and the tendency to believe, or at all events to...

L OCH GR1JINART is an arm of the sea running up into the middle of one of the largest islands which compose the Inner Hebrides. Like many other such Bea-lochs, it Presents a...

THE VIRTUE OF TOLERATION. (To TILE EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTATOR." J Silt,—One cannot hope to contribute anything that is new to a controversy which has ever since the days of St....

Snt,—Apparently I have failed to express my meaning. That the wise are entitled to coerce the ignorant in matters of fact is universally admitted. Otherwise we must clear out...

to be allowed a very few words on this subject. While toleration as regards speculative opinions was certainly a distinctive note of the Founder of Christianity (as exhibited in...

not conceive the idea that all Catholics are of Mr. Gainsford's way of thinking with regard to this question of toleration. More than once has my blood boiled to hear you...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECIATOR.1 SIE, — The following extract from a letter written by the Rev. J. W. Roxburgh, priest in charge of Umtali, Rhodesia, speaks for itself:—...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECIAT0e1 STR,—Wellwishers of the Church of England will be grateful to you for the sympathetic and able manner in which you have brought this subject...

[To THE EDITOE OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Sig,—May I tell you the results of some experience in a Church Training College (secondary) in regard to a question that has more than...

[To TUE EDITOR OF TUN " SP liCTATOR."J Sin,—English spelling is uo doubt a result of evolution, and therefore a thing to be historically studied. But its evolution is partly...

Dean for many years and in two different deaneries I have had considerable experience in the various matters referred to in Mr. Beeching's letter and your article in the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SID,—Your article in the Spectator of August 30th on the proposed destruction of the Sonning Bridges must appeal to the sympathies of all...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—With reference to your article on "The Secret Trans- mission of News " in the Spectator of August 16th, I find Mr•. S. L. Hinde on...

I send a sketch, is to be destroyed and a single-arch iron bridge put in its place in order to get rid of the steep incline on its west side. A temporary bridge will have to be...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In observance of the sound principle—palniam gut meruit ferat ! — it seems due to the memory of one of Canning's collaborateurs...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—Your• excellent article in the Spectator of August 30th on the Royal Commission on physical training deserves the close attention...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Agreeing as I do with every word of " W. H. G.'s " letter in the Spectator of August 30th, will you kindly allow me to specify one of...

article on "The Secret Transmission of News " in the Spectator of August 16th with a great deal of interest, and I hope that it may lead to further explanations of the...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—The words which you quote from South have a potency of meaning expressed even more compendiously by John Selden. " Syllables," he...

[TO TUE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTAT011.1 SIR,—As the Spectator has shown so much interest in rifle clubs, I beg to send the result of some practice made by a 'chance squad of nine...

By the old track I mean— And if you meet me on the way No ghost will you have seen. For here it is my ghost does flit, While, from these shadows far, On heathered hills...

ENGLAND AND AMERICA.* UNLESS we are very much mistaken, this important volume of essays is destined to have a marked influence upon the political, and even upon the social,...

in last week's Spectator, the College at Swanley was described as . Agricultural" instead of "Horticultural."]

PERSIA. is a topic of the day, and the books about it are multiplying. It is not long since we noticed Colonel Yate's Khurasan and Sietan, and already it has its counterpart in...

How to translate the title of these essays, and whether the phrase is a quotation or an invention of the writers, we confess • Contratio Varitatia Essava in oosstriwass...

less likely to gain the sympathies of the English public than most of those French people whose memoirs or letters have been translated in this interesting series.. Her name...

THE best commentary on Mr. John Fortescue's admirably written but—to us at least—most unconvincing defence of General Buller, " Some Blunders and a Scapegoat," which stands...

THE VULTURES.* THE term " vultures " when applied to human beings is not complimentary, but in the present case it is employed in a Pickwickian sense. Paul Deaths, Joseph P....

PANSIES. Pansies. By Ennis May. (G. Allen. 3s. 61 net.)—This is a little volume of graceful and sympathetic verse. We feel, indeed, bound to repeat once more what we have...

Windus. 6s.)—The" Prince of Good Fellows" is James V, of Scot- land. James, it will be remembered, had a way of being a Scottish Haronn-al-Raachid, besides cherishing, not...

6.1.).-The anonymous author of Lady Beatrix and the Forbidden Man writes with a jaunty and flippant vulgarity to which we are getting only too much accustomed. This kind of book...

3s. 6d.)—This is a melodramatic book, and not at all a bad one of its kind. But we cannot help thinking the sudden relenting of the female villain at the end a little...

Taylor and Co., New York.)—These "Stories of the Jews" are mostly slight in texture,—the first really occupies some twenty pages with telling us how an old woman tried to...

and Co. 6s.)—As is often the case in a book of short stories, some of these stories are amusing and some are not. "The Last of the Stuarts" is one of the best, though "That...

Co. Gs.) — One longs in reading this story for an interval of plain English. Never was such a conglomerate of tongues. There is Matt Scargil, yeoman, with his Derbyshire...

Cooke, M.A. (E. Stanford. 9s.)—This is a sixth edition, and has been revised and augmented. Various things have been changed ; other things, golf for instance, have been...

Guide is a most useful and instructive book, and supplies a want long felt by the students of prehistoric anthropology. On the whole, we can accord to the volume the highest...

Edward Hulme. (Hutchinson and Co. 12s. &I. net.)—This is a charming book, copiously illustrated with very attractive drawings. These, as well as the 'letterpress, are Mr....

2s. ed. net.)—We find nothing absolutely novel in this " Glance at the State of the World about the Time of Augustus," but it is a useful and instructive bit of work. It is a...

Liddell. (Grant Richards. Gs.)—Our notice of this book must be both general and brief. Its main object may be described as the assertion of scientific principles as underlying...

Edwards. (C. H. Kelly. 35. ad.)—Mr. Edwards gives us here studies of fourteen preachers. (Of the six Anglicans in this number, four, we may remark, are Bishops and one a...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the reek as hate not been reserred for renew in other forms.] An Eastern Exposition of the Gospel of Jesus according to St. John. By...