published on Monday that pardons: are- to-- be granted on October 5th—the third anniversary of- the proclamation of the Portuguese- Republic—to- certain Royalist prisoners. The...

suppression of the rebellion- in the Yang-taze provinces.. The prolongation of the -siege after the surrender of the-- Wusung forts on August 13th had encouraged the Southern...

B ULGARIA has taken the highly important decision to treat directly with Turkey. This means, of course, that she has abandoned all hope of immediate help from the Powers. Her...

new and remarkable newspaper scheme organized to promote the interests of Germany's trade and foreign policy. The scheme, which is set forth in a letter addressed to the new...

the Princess Augustine, daughter of the Prince of Hohenzollern, took place at Sigmaringen on Thursday. Great Britain and Germany were represented by the Prince of Wales and...

be passe0..in United States. It has often been prophesied that the " interests " would be strong enough to prevent any reduction of duties, but after a long period of suspense...

has already been promised from leading armament firms, the Vulkan Company, and other companies which build warships, and the Foreign Office is now asked to make a further...

case.

to his constituents. It has had the effect of breaking the political holiday. Speaking of the Parliament Act he says : " The Act, it is true, is but a lop-sided measure which...

naturally happen in the House of Lords if at a general election the people sanctioned Home Rule. We are very glad that Lord Curzon has made this explanation, as Mr. Birrelrs...

not that it shows Lord Wolmer to have been wrong, but that it shows Mr. Lloyd George to be still persisting in the deplorable opinion that because he lost money in the long run...

not exist proves to our mind that some " way out" of the Rome Rule imbroglio will be found. Liberals cannot really mean to be more Cossack than the Cossacks in their policy of...

Lord Wolmer with reference to a statement made by the latter as to the impropriety of the Chancellor's investment in American Marconi shares and the profit that he might have...

in which be retorted on Mr. Birrell, and explained what he meant when he spoke in the House of Lords about making the Home Rule Bill more "palatable" if the people approved of...

delivered the Presidential address at the Trade Union Congress at Manchester on Monday, contrasted the growth of trade unionism since the last Congress at Manchester in 1882—an...

railway accident early on Tuesday morning on the Midland line near Kirkby Stephen. Two Scotch expresses had left Carlisle -at 1.35 and 1.47 respectively, and at about three...

public opinion has been painfully stirred by a disaster in the slums. Two houses suddenly collapsed in Church Street on Tuesday night, killing eight people outright, injuring...

stoned the police, broke windows,- and looted shops, were dispersed by baton charges. In all nearly six hundred persons, including fifty-seven policemen, have been treated for...

briefly mentioned in our last tissue, proved the pre- lude to serious street rioting in Dublin. Larkin and four other men were admitted to bail on Thursday week, on an...

the police is generally supported, and confidence is felt as to its result, the attitude of the Trade Union Congress towards the Dublin strikes finding no support amongst...

the London strikes is the refusal of Lord Beauchamp, on behalf of the Office of Works, to agree to the demands of the London Building Industries' Federation in regard to...

Console (St) were on Friday —Friday week 7413G-.

LAW AND THE NATIONS. TA ORD COLERIDGE and Lord Russell of Killowen both visited America and delivered their messages on the ideals of their profession, but Lord Haldane has...

of the Trade Union Congress was opened by a remarkable presidential address from Mr. W..J. Davis, of the Brassfounders of Birmingham. Hitherto Mr. Davis has had rather the...

T ESS than three years ago, near Hawes, on the Midland line, there was a terrible railway accident in which the train caught fire after the collision and several persons...

T HE Educational Supplement to the Times of Tuesday brings together a large mass of material bearing on the choice of a site for the new buildings in which it is proposed to...

T HE Bog of Allen slid past the window of the railway carriage, in long floors of grey and brown, rifted with mauve; the horizon was level as a bow-string, and the grey sky...

S EEING Italy would be such a simple affair if there were only one Italy to see, but there are many. The air is full of echoes, and we strain our ears to catch faint, elusive...

U NDETERRED by exposures of the inaccuracy, or worse, of its previous articles on " Game and the Land," the Daily Chronicle returns to the subject in its issue of Tuesday with a...

THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF LABOUR. [To TEE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."] Sir,—What alarms me most among the phenomena of our industrial life is the growing irresponsibility of the...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."] gathered from the final paragraph of the note upon my letter in your issue of August 23rd that you had decided to close the controversy upon...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—During the last few days I have received the official report issued by the Government of New Zealand relative to the citizen army of...

[TO TEN EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I had not intended to trouble you again, but your note appended to Mr. Arthur C. James's letter (Spectator, August 30th) contains a...

[To THE EDITOR OP TER "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —Once upon a time there was a man who had a dog and three cats. The dog was fond of the man, but did not care for the cats, and the...

[To TRY EDITOR 01 TEN " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —With reference to "The Six Panics" of Mr. Hirst, your argument that in certain cases " it_ seems an abuse of words to call the...

THE " SPECTATOR. 'l SIR,—I thank your correspondent, Mr. Bray, for calling my attention to the return giving ages, &c., of Territorials on October 1st last., which I had not...

SIR,—With reference to the letter signed F. E. Bray, which appeared in your last issue, regarding the ages of the men of the Territorial Force, may I be allowed space for a few...

[TO THE EDITOR 01 THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In the interesting article on " Friends : Active and Passive," in your issue of August 23rd, you refer to cases in which wives have a "...

SPECTATOR, " ] Siu,-I have read with great interest from time to time the details of busy lives led by British housemothers at home and abroad, and I think it might interest...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, —Bellows, in. his pocket Anglo-French dictionary, finds space to inform his readers that these words are generally misspelt by the...

Siu,—A saying of Cicero is worth recording in this con• nexion "Animi est ingenui, cui multura debeas, eidena plurimum velle debere." ("Epp. ad div." 2. 6.)—I am, Sir, &c.,

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sra,—Being interested in the building of cheap cottages, I am very anxious to get information as to places where squared chalk blocks are...

HIS NEW HOUSE. "Pax ingressuris Pas egredientibus esto, Incola Par cedes protegat alma tune . To you whose house and lands increase We say what David says, Peace be within...

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...

PROFESSIONAL EGOTISM. SOME psychologist with a taste for statistics might do worse than attempt to give us a curve of professional reticence. Of the material available for such...

THE NAVAL AND MILITARY SITUATION OF THE BRITISH ISLES.* A PORTION of these extremely interesting essays was pub- lished a year ago in the TVestminster Gazette, when they not...

IT is to-day too often the misfortune of departed greatness to suffer from what may, perhaps, be called a certain importunity of admiration. No sooner is a man of any...

PHILOSOPHY has its fashions like human dress, and those fashions have their local habitation. A generation or two ago every philosophic impulse seemed to come out of Germany,...

IT is very fitting that an edition of The Vision of Piers the Plowman should be published for a reading public that appreciates Mr. Masefield's Everlasting Mercy. Amidst all the...

MR. BRADLEY has justified his publishers' request that he should write a volume of personal memoirs, and we must com- pliment him upon overcoming any temptation to make it up...

brief chapters the Bishop of St. Asaph gives a brilliant sketch of the history of the Welsh Church from the first beginnings of Christianity in Britain to the present day, and...

THE word " romance " on the title-page of Mr. Noel Williams's. recent book, Unruly Daughters : a Romance of the House of Orleans, seems singularly unsuited to the sordid,...

LORD ROBERTS'S article on " How to Restore Military Efficiency " in the Nineteenth, Century takes the form of a short but effective reply to the proposals of the Duke of...

1.11.h MORNING'S W...1R.* Ix one of the most striking chapters of his novel Mr. Montague gives us a fine picture of the editor of a great provincial daily newspaper who refuses...

[Under this leadin g us talcs such Looks of the week as Sara not Less reserved for review in other forms.] The Franco - Prussian War and its Hidden Causes. By Emile 011ivier....

of a gutter child of astounding refinement, who makes a success on the stage without train- ing, and then is practically adopted by an elderly duke of not irreproachable...

these studies of Indian life those which deal with the natives are much more readable and less conventional than the stories in which the characters are Anglo-Indians. "A...

Rawnsley. (James MacLehose and Sons. 5s. net.)—In this most agree- able little volume Canon Rawnsley deals with a variety of subjects. His first chapter is an address delivered...

an Anglo-Indian novel, treated on rather different lines from those usually taken by Anglo-Indian novelists. In the first place, the modern trick of giving no explanations and...

net.)—With this volume Dr. Sven Hedin com- pletes the story of his discoveries and adventures in Tibet. The most interesting parts of the book deal with the exploration of the...

and G. Wells, Winchester. 2s. 6d. net).—This excellent little volume, compiled by the Winchester College Archaeological Society, makes one realize how great a change has- come...

Law and Custom of the Ilso of the Awka Neighbourhood, Southern Nigeria." Part II.: " English-Ibo and lbo-English Dictionary." Part III.: "Proverbs, Narratives, Vocabularies, and...