provide that the administration of the law shall be strong enough and well organised enough to secure complete protection to the individual against any oppressive and illegal...

his voyage, and mentioned that except at Port Said—as the Times remarks, only a technical exception—he and the Princess never once set foot on soil, over which the British flag...

D URING the earlier part of the week the war news was meagre, but on Friday came the welcome intelligence that the captures made on Wednesday in various parts of the Transvaal...

the Prince and Princess of Wales which took place on Thursday proved in every sense of the phrase an un- qualified success. The enthusiasm of the crowds and the splendours of...

very sensational announcements, is a most striking and memorable production. It bears all through the stamp of a vigorous and comprehensive mind. Here, at any rate, is a man who...

case.

Minister last Saturday appears to have given general satisfaction. Signor di Broglio can point to a surphis of- 21,648,000 of revenue over expenditure for 1901, after spending...

sub- sequent arrest and. deportation, was sent to Wednesday's papers by Miss Emily Hobhouse. While denouncing' the action of the responsible authorities as tyrannical and law-...

Bismarck's correspondence in 1877 and 1878. These relate to the efforts made by Count Macke]: Von D o enersmark, then residing in Paris, to bring about a meet- ing between...

Mr. Chamberlain's reference to the Franco. Prussian War, the -Berlin correspondent of the Eloile Beige haa.quoted some.remarkable extracts- from a book written by Herr...

that a doctrine fraught with such tremendous consequences can rest upon air. Re therefore calls for a strong Navy in order to guarantee, secure, and enforce the Monroe doctrine....

the Treaty with Great Britain in regard to the Isthmian Canal, which he hopes the Senate will ratify, guarantees to the United Staten "every right it has ever asked formn con-...

as well as official denial of the rumours as to a serious rUptiire of the doinestic relations of the young Queen of Holland and her husband. We are thus happily relieved of the...

his case for party purposes entirely knocked the bottom out of the Hyde Park demonstration on the following day. . A procession estimated at from five to ten thousand people, in...

pro- motion of the natural and increasing desire for white men's goods. Everything that was possible should be done to develop this stimulus and create these wants. Meantime he...

Wednesday resulted, after a lively meeting, ha the formula- tion of a demand for what the Daily Chronicle aptly calls "another Majuba settlement." A number of amendments of a...

pany held on Wednesday, Lord Grey made a most interest- ing speech on the labour question. After replying to the harsh criticism passed on his previous utterances on the...

Telegraph a very striking account of the attack on Colonel Benson's column, and of the charge made by a thousand mounted Boers. The Boers charged, not our men, but rather rushed...

does him the greatest credit, he refused to avail him- self of the opportunity presented by the Devonian banquet last Saturday night either to harass the Government or ad-...

New Consols (2i) were on Friday 924.

THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR FOREIGN POLICY. W HEN the war is over it will become necessary for the nation to give its most serious attention to the foundations upon which our...

P Bunyan's Mr. Facing-Both-Ways had turned his 1 thoughts from religion to politics, he might have made very much such a speech as that in which Count von Billow introduced the...

TT is a trite remark, we fear, that heroism may belong . as much to the faithful daily performance of laborious ,civil duties ante the more conspicuous deeds of the battle-...

C APTAIN MA HAN'S thoughtful and powerful paper —and when did Captain Mahan wrte anything which -was not both ?—in the December National Review states, we believe, the exact...

I N other spheres than that of Parliament a single change counts as "two votes on a division," and very emphatically is this so in the case of many of those who are born and...

TT is understood that the Coronation, which will be the " Chief event of next year's season, is to be - consideinbly shorn of IN ancient glories; therein following the,...

T HE early morning was sombre and chilly, giving. small promise of its later brightness, and the carter lads shivered and beat their arms on their breasts as they led forth the...

A PROPOSAL for a new and model highway from BILL London to Windsor is made by Mr. W. Rees Jeffreys in the Surveyor and Municipal County Engineer of November 15th. His suggestion...

THE PROBLEM OF AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE. [To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECT1THE.1 Sin,—The admirable letter which you published in the Spec. tator of November 30th on the above subject from...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TER "SPECTATOR.") SIE,—I desire to lay the following suggestions before your readers :— The problem of how to obtain soldiers is one which is becoming more...

lectured and laboured for some years past in the cause of sea power, I hope you will permit me to reply to Mr. Fitchett's advocacy in the Spectator of November 30th of a purely...

letter to you' about the Burial Service and Professor Huxley may be quite right. I think he is. But if he is, the Revised Version is quite wrong, for the Revised Version reads...

Sin,—The passage from Professor Huxley's letter quoted by M.r. Magee in the Spectator of November 30th is most' interesting and suggestive 'quite apart from the question of...

as if Mr. Magee (Spectator, November 30th) had failed to catch the inne.rmostness of Huxley's strikingly religious letter to Kingsley. Despite the "slovenliness of the...

of your correspondent, Mr. A. V. Magee, in the Spectator of November 30th written somewhat hurriedly? A reference to the Revised Version would show that the punctuation he so...

ere THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In 'connection with the letter in your issue of November 30th calling attention to Professor Huxley's "mistake," may I venture to make a...

Sin,—Your reviewer in the Spectator of Noyember 30th of "Roads to Rome" helps to make clear the fact that many are seeking a perfect Church, and through it the true knowledge of...

(TO TUE EDITOR OF THE "Sexcvs.voa:'3 5111.,-1 notice in your issue of November 23rd a letter under the above .headline. I am reminded of Robert Louis .Steven- son in "...

(To THE Mime OF THE "SPLVTA.TOR-1 Stn,—By a curious coincidence, almost immediately after reading your article in the Spectator of November 80th on the meaning of the Greek...

[To THE EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTATOR"] SIE,—Win you permit me to traverse one statement in your excellent and kindly article in the Spectator of November 30th upon "Roads to Rome" ?...

very able article in your issue of November 30th on the language of modern Greece surely rather forgets that, ever since Greek became a written lan- guage, the speech, whether...

[To Tug EDITOR OF THE "SPEcTATon:1 am aghast to see by your article on this subject in the Spectator of November 31,Ith that you have ceded five hundred square miles of English...

ITO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") read a few days ago in an English newspaper that the offer of situations to one hundred trained women teachers for the concentration camps...

[To THE Eorroa or THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—In your notice of " Superstitions of. the Higlilands " in the Spectator of November 16th your critic says of the men- ded fairy Glaistig...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] StE,—When cutting up the first volume of Tait's Eel;nburgh :Magazine, 1834, for our " Oxford English Dictionary," I came on the following...

RA_EB1TRN.* TEE life and art of Raeburn were alike; both being straight. forward, simple, and effective, without hesitations or doubts. Common-sense and energy of character are...

THE DRYA_t)'S HOUSE. TIIIa cool and glooming summer wooA Is wise and silent in its mood, For ever moving in its dream Of breathing leaf and sunny gleam. Whatever voice,...

FREDERIC HARRISON, although he holds some opinions which by no means commend themselves to the majority of his countrymen, has long ago obtained, and has well deserved to...

about the war written by one on the Boer side is, in our present satiety of information about our- selves, worth five times as much as a book written from our own point of view....

THE Nineteenth Century is full of articles of practical sugges- tion. With the most striking of these Sir Robert Anderson's "How to Put an End to Professional Crime "—we deal...

Arbiter Mrs. Hugh Bell combines an original plot with a very clever study of some of those complicated cross-relations and" duties of family life to which she has given so much...

Usurper is a novel with two heroes and two heroines, and a. double plot of love and ambition, in which the destinies of the. four cross one another. The romance of the poet who...

TIIE PORTION OF LABOUR.* Toss are some very obvious criticisms to be made on Miss Wilkins's new book. It is too long and flags somewhat in interest in the latter chapters. What...

many are "flying south," in the series of "Macmillan's Guides" (Macmillan anti Co.) These are Guide to the Western Madder- rawer' and Guide to the Eastern Mediterranean. The...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of ths wok as haws not h is reserved for review in other forms.] William McKinley, Private and President. By Thomaa Co s Meech. (S. W....

and Co. 60.)—If Miss Orne Jewett's description of the old Colonial days invites comparison with Miss Johnson's books, they can stand the test ; and readers of the Atlantic...

Os.) —After twenty years "Mar Adeler " has given us another novel. People who like to wander leisurely about a quiet country town enjoying walks by the river and in the chestnut...

W. Partridge and Co. 3s. 6d.)—In this story of everyday life in a village Mrs. Rantoul Esler has succeeded in giving a touch of poetry and romance to that ordinarily prosaic...

handsome edition, bound in black morocco, of The Book of Common Prayer, containing all the recent corrections. "Great primer royal 4to" is the technical description of the...

Curtis, Guildford. 2a.)—We welcome this charming little reprint of the first edition of FitzGerald's "Omar" for several reasons. In the first place, it is in itself a very...

Abbott (L.), The Rights of Man, cr 8vo Abdy (T.), Twinkling Stars, 4to Addis (X. E. L.), Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys, 8vo 7/ 6* Armstrong (H. E.), National Education...

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TO No. 3,832.] FOR THE REGISTERED FOR ) WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1901. [Lx8xssu8sIoN ABROAD.> GRATIS.

THE BUDDHIST EMPEROR* la the people is really happy that has no history, ancient India must have enjoyed exceptional felicity. In no country were the national records worse...

LONDON: DECEMBER 7th, 1901.

THE Mexico of to-day presents some very curious phases and contrasts. It is peopled by a race of Indians who have been in contact with Europeans for several centuries; yet it...

BETWEEN the book as a material chattel and the book as a spiritual and intellectual force there will always be the same puzzling dichotomy as divides soul and body. It is...

. THE PULPIT BIBLE * THIS volume .is actually and literally a "pulpit Bible,"—i.e., a Bible to be used in the pulpit. It is a solid, handsomely bound quarto. But we are...

quarto, richly bound in royal scarlet and gold, with sumptuously wide margins, and all that is desirable in paper and print, has an appearance that is not below the dignity of...

Chambers. Gs.)—The story opens with the arrival at a girls' school Of the new teacher of literature. Then we are introduced to a dozen or so of the ' characters ; the...

by W. Paget. (Ernest Nister. is. (ld.)—Mr. Paget's drawings are nob unworthy of the subject ; six are in colour, the rest, of which there are as many as seventy, including...

Mae/peen. 5s )—The pearl divers are the sons of a squatter who, journeying too far in quest of a fresh grazing country, and after many adventures with blacks, come out on the...

S..Boyd. (Chatto and Windus. 6s.)—This is a charmingly written account of a few weeks spent at Versailles. "The Boy," who was at school there, WSW laid up with scarlet fever,...

ls.)—We are glad to see so good a subject wisely and courage- ously handled. "Miraculous visitations, superhuman power, ecstatic visions during which the bodily senses were...

fairy-stories are admirable in their way, as good, in fact, as we should expect them to be when they come from "Carmen Sylva's " pan. What we most miss in them is the delightful...

net.) —Miss Thorpe very properly begins with the Tower, which, though hardly as old as Julius Caesar, is doubtless the oldest building in London. Westminster Hall itself has not...

and R. Chambers. 35. 6d.)—Mr. Kenyon's modern Argonauts seek the lost treasure of the Incas, and though they find it, when the story closes they return without it. Nevertheless,...

Chambers. 5a)—Mr. Manville Fenn tells us the story of how a few companies hold a kopje for weeks against a cunning and not over-scrupulous foe. There are sallies, surprises,...

8s. and 5s.)--If we were asked to define the meaning of "young "—a useful thing in judging of this kind of volume— we should say " eight to eleven," with a certain latitude at...

(George Allen. 6s.)—This is a book of the very best quality, and should be a great success. We cannot imagine a boy not liking it, and being the better for reading it. We...

:— In Original Girl. By Ethel F. Heddle. (Blackie and Son. 69.) —We do not see that there is anything especially " original " about the heroine ; she turns out to be an...

A. Rusden. (Sherratt and Hughes, Manchester. 3s. 6d.)—This is an amusing collection of verses and pictures that is sure to be liked by children. Here is a verse from "Our Cat"...

Books on Egypt and Chaldaea :—Vol. V., Assyrian Language: Easy Lessons in the Cuneiform Inscriptions, by L. W. King. Vols. VI.-VIII., The Book of the Dead, by E. A. Wallis...

FROM 111.6 CAPE TO CAIRO. From the Cape to Cairo : the First Traverse of Africa from Iteuth, to North. By Ewart S. Grogan and Arthur H. Sharp. (Hurst and Blackett. 2 1 s .) —"...

The Roman Theocracy and the Republic, 1946.1849. By R. M. Johnston. (Macmillan and Co. 1O.)—This substantial mono- graph of nearly four hundred pages deals with one of the...

The Education of the American Citizen. By Arthur Twining Hadley. (Edward Arnold. 6s. 6d.)—The President of Yale University could not have more effectually justified at once the...

Hugh of Lincoln. By C. L. Manion. (E. Arnold. 3s. 6114—Mr. Marson's opening is calculated to attract English readers to one of our most typical English Church-statesmen, who...

Handbook to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament. By Frederic G. Kenyon. (Macmillan and Co. 10s. net.)—We could not desire a more complete, careful, and sober-minded...

The War of the Civilisations: being the Record of a "Foreign Devil's" Experiences with the Allies in China. By George Lynch. With Illustrations. (Longmans and Co. 6s. net.)—This...

The Wessex of Thomas Hardy. Written by Bertram C. A. Windle, F. B.S., F.S.A. Illustrated by Edmund H. New. (John Lane. 21s. net.)—The old kingdom of Wessex, lying between Sussex...

Newd igate. now published by Lady Newdigate-Newdegate are yet another proof of the Service rendered by old country houses in preserving historical documents and traditions. Sir...

Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek. By Henry Barclay Swete, D.D. (Cambridge University Press. 7s. Gd. net.)—" The literature of the subject is," as Professor Swete says,...

English Church Niedlework. By Maud R. Hall. (Grant Richards. 108. 6d.)—There is a great ' deal of technical knowledge in this book", and Miss Hall's advice as to materials and...

Monsieur Vincent. By James Adderley. (E. Arnold. 3s. 6d ) —Mr. Adderley's sketch of St. Vincent de Paul is intended for "the man in the street" first and foremost, both by its...

Noble Women of Our Time. By Frederick Douglas How. (Isbister and Co. 5s.)—The impression left on the mind by this interesting book is "How many good people there are in the...

M.A. (Parker and Co., Oxford.)—Mr. Foster adds in this very handsome volume another service to the many already rendered by him to true genealogical knowledge. It is wholly...

Morris. (John Lane. is. and is 6d.)—This twelfth volume Of the" Flowers of Parnassus" series makes a charming little book. The songs need no comment, and of the illustrations we...

A Study of the Ethics of Spinout. By Harold H. Joachim. (Clarendon Press. 10s.,6d. not )—No real study of Spinoza has ever been written, or will ever be Written, from the inside...

The Beltesworth Book : Talks with a Surrey Peasant. By George Bonnie. (Lamley and Co. Gs. net.)—We have read this book with great pleasure. It is the faithful record of...

in Colour by Chas. Dixon, R.I., and in Monochrome by C. J. Staniland, RI. (George Newnes. 10s. 6d.)- These pictures of old and new battleships and the accounts of the fights...

professes to have written a guide only for the use of hunters ; but slight as his volume is, it is distinctly readable, with an easy style and no dull pages. There are some good...

G. L. Apperson. (George Allen. 3s. 6d.)-This is a little volume of essays, for the most part reprinted from the Globe. The author writes on various subjects, from blackberries...

(Bemrose and Sons. 12s.)-The seventh volume of this quarterly journal has, as usual, many interesting and well-illustrated papers. That on "Lights of Other Days" shows us the...