raised the question of Venezuela. After a well-deserved panegyric of the manner in which Sir Michael Herbert had conducted the negotiations at Washington, he proceeded to...

Economic League of the Continent which is to establish a general Zollverein directed against the United States. It is, to begin with, to be a Customs Union of Germany, Austria-...

T HE correspondent of the Standard at Tientsin forwards a letter—not a telegram—in which be states that Chinese most friendly to the foreigners are seriously alarmed. They...

strike in Holland which in certain contingencies might prove of high political importance. The strike is to begin with the railwaymen throughout the country, who plead serious...

to increase American belief in the necessity for a strong Navy. It was supposed that Congress might reject President Roose- velt's advice in this sense, but at the last moment...

vote in the Chamber under which the Government is authorised to make a monopoly of - petroleum. That is rather a remarkable incident. The Governments of the Continent are just...

case.

Brodrick added that the Commander-in-Chief holds that the state of the battalion and the facts disclosed by Colonel Kin. loch's own evidence showed defects in his administration...

reply to a question by Mr. Gibson Bowles, declared that the Government were not prepared to buy the two Chilian first- class battleships recently launched by Messrs. Vickers and...

Pilgrims' Club on Tuesday. He said that the improve- ment in the relations between the States and Britain of late years was due, first of all, to the popular will on both sides...

John Colomb, stated that the Admiralty, in view of the growth of the Navy, had decided that it was necessary to form another naval establishment, and that the most advan-...

of the Committee of Defence, and moved that the growing needs of the Empire necessitated the establish- ment of the Committee on a permanent footing. Though we still do not feel...

his recent letter patronising the Old Testament, in parts at least, and the Babylonian King Hammurabi, whose period, however, he is said to have mistaken. He is, neverthe- less,...

accomplished, or even debated, till Thursday, but on that day several Service matters of moment came under consideration. The first was Mr. Brodrick's answer to Mr....

editor of the Atlanta Constitution of Georgia, in defence of his negro policy. Mr. Roosevelt states that he has considered character, fitness, and ability, not colour, as the...

the subject of our food supply in time of war, introduced by the Duke of Sutherland. The Prime Minister in his speech, with his usual skill in analysis and dialectic, put his...

colonisation in Brazil which has appeared in the Cologne Gazette. It appears that the hopes of the German settlers in the South Brazilian State of Santa Catharina that railways,...

retired after a most successful career of nearly thirteen years, during which he has twice on great ceremonial occasions had to organise arrangements almost as complicated as...

Pontificate passed off on Tuesday without a hitch. The Basilica of St. Peter was filled with a dense throng of seventy thousand worshippers, mostly strangers to Rome; and the...

last been completed, and the expedition from Obbia has reached Debit, whence it will advance, according to the latest telegram, upon Galkayu. The force has with it provisions...

the Nonconformist Unionist Association, Sir George Hayter Chubb presiding. After Mr. Balfour had spoken of the intense desire of the Government to settle the education question...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 91i.

AN ALTERNATIVE GOVERNMENT. T O deplore the fact that there is no alternative Govern- ment available has become one of the commonplaces of our political life. The regret of...

W E are not able, unhappily, to believe very whole- heartedly in Lord Lansdowne as Foreign Secre- tary, but we find ourselves very often inclined strongly to sympathise with...

T EM close of the fifty-seventh Congress of the United States, and of a Session which has been well-nigh barren, has given rise to a great deal of very free criticism in the...

DEOFESSING, of course, to give the friendliest advice, Sir John Gorst makes in the Nineteenth Century of this month a grave attack upon the Unionist Government. He accuses them...

F EW things excite the House of Commons more than ..12 any sign of an agreement between the Front Benches. The private Member at once recognises his natural enemies, —the enemy...

live occupies an absolutely central position in that universe; (3) that it is extremely unlikely that in the universe there exists another earth capable of bearing life such as...

M RS. HUGH BELL has published a new volume of essays. The book is called "The Minor Moralist" (E. Arnold. 4s. 6d. net), and deals with "the art of every. day conduct,"--i.e.,...

"L'IXCEPT for the tribute always paid to the cleverness of _12J blind men's dogs, nearly all the credit for sense or sagacity among animals goes to those bred and kept in the...

GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES. [To THR EDITOR OF THE " SPRCTATOR.1 Si, — In my first two letters (Spectator, December 20th and February 21st) a good deal has been said, though...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] Sin,—In your article on the above in the Spectator of January 31st you say that "the idea of the coast in the minds of the diplomatists who...

THE UNION JACK CLUB. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECT&TOR."1 Sin, — Although I am aware that the Spectator does not usually open its columns to ordinary appeals, I venture to hope...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." J Sue,—As Lord Charles Beresford's disappearance from the House of Commons leaves the Navy once more without a Parliamentary representative,...

[To THE EDITOR OF TER "SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—I trust I may be pardoned for saying that your article on director-Ministers in the Spectator of February 28th appears to overlook one...

SIR,—The article on "The Alaskan Boundary" in the Spectator of January 31st is in marked contrast to most of those which have appeared in the papers of the United States. In the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — In your notice of Professor Max Miiller's Life in the Spectator of February 28th the writer says : "Dr. Elwes, organist of New...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — In your article on "The Irish Land Problem" in the Spectator of February 28th I see you suggest that the Government should reserve...

[To THE EDITOR OP TEE "SPECTATOR."1 SIE, — With reference to Lord Hardwicke's remarks at the prize distribution of the Queen's Westminster Volunteers on February 28th, I trust...

(To THZ EDITOR OP THE "SPEcteron..") SIR—You recently alluded to discrepancies in the postal service by which Canada is knit much more closely to the United States than to...

Sra,—The writer of the article under the above title in the Spectator of February 28th may like to be reminded that it is possible to read optimism as well as pessimism into the...

[TO THB EDITOR OP THK "SPECTATOR:1 Wainewright in the Spectator of February 28th throws doubt upon my facts on strong primd -facie grounds. But truth is stranger than fiction,...

pro THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR." Sru,—In view of recent correspondence in the Spectator, your readers may be interested in the following lines from Dryden's "Absolom and...

Sin,—Having seen both the letters in the Spectator on this subject, I write to tell you that my grandfather, Gilbert Heathcote, was born in 1765; entered New College, Oxford, in...

THE PERMANENCE OF HUMAN PERSONALITY.* WE recently reviewed Mr. Frank Podmore's able work in two volumes on Modern Spiritualism, and on that occasion dealt with the abnormal...

OF THE uspacreroa."1 Sin,—May I ask for a corner to thank an unknown friend who kindly sends me the Spectator from time to time ? I should like to say how much I appreciate it,...

And fire and steel have found you true ! Our stubborn patience did not tire Till all our brothers' hearts we knew. But three long years of battle leave The greater, nobler task...

THERE is a question—a foolish question, since it can have no answer—that often arises as one reads the work of our best secondary poets, or, as they might be called, our best...

Irish subjects "—which we are glad to see issued by a Dublin publisher, and well printed at the leading Irish press—deals throughout with "the influences material, intellectual,...

Mn. LONG has already made his mark as an excellent observer of wild animals. He has, moreover, the power of describing exactly what he sees. The great lakes and forests of North...

PROFESSOR VAMBERY in the Nineteenth Century devotes nearly forty pages to an examination of the "agitation against England's power." But the gist of the article may be summed up...

6s.) —John Axon, the hero of this novel, is an interesting person. Born in the working class and a Socialist by conviction, he raises himself to a position of responsibility in...

LADY ROSE'S DAUGHTER.* EiRS. HIIMPHRY WARD'S new novel is differentiated from its predecessors in two particulars. In the first place, it is not a romance of strictly...

there is far too much of the "luxury of woe," if we may say so, to please us. Mr. 011ivant is a young man, we take it; when he has lived longer, he will find out that there are...

Baker, and Co. as. 6d.)—It is to be concluded that the advantage of a story told in the form of the letters of two women friends is that these young (or moderately young) ladies...

THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE. The Triumph of Love. By Edmond Holmes. (John Lane. as. 6d. net.)—In a short treatise upon the sonnet-form in English, the best contribution yet made to the...

Templar, who is an undergraduate of St. Michael's College, Cambridge, brings home with him a friend, Thurketyl by name. They are friends per eontraria. Templar has not much...

6s.)—If a reader takes up a novel called The Little Red Fish, he must expect to find that he has a melodrama before him. The mysterious element in the book is not quite well...

the Sixth Hungarian Edition by R. Nisbet Bain. (Jerrold and Sons. 6s.)—This is a sequel to the story of "The Wild Carpathians," and tells the fortunes of the last Prince of...

A Londoner's Log - Book. By the Author of "Collections and Recollections." (Smith, Elder, and Co. 5s.)—Mr. G. W. E. Russell has added to the debt which he has already conferred...

Co. is. 6d.)—These six lectures, delivered two years ago, treat the subject theoretically and practically. Canon Bernard distinguishes between the Hebrew and the Jewish or...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] The History of the Society of Merchant Venturers of the City of...

Education and Professions, and Needlework. Edited by Ethel M. M. McKenna. "The Woman's Library," Vols. I. and II. (Chapman and Hall. 5s. each.)—The first volume of this series...

Is. 6d.)—In his first chapter Mr. Compton tells us some of his experiences in book-hunting. He has had successes ; he has had to lament over mistakes. To sell a mass of books en...

Co. 5s.)—This is a volume of the "Oxford Library of Practical Theology," written with great ability, and marking with precision the theological standpoint of the writer and of...

Co. 10s. 6d.)—Mr. Hill collects here in a volume a number of illustrations which, with a very few exceptions, have appeared in the series of "Elementary Classics." There are...

MA. (Columbia University Press, New York. 5s. net.) —This volume is the outcome of the system of post-graduation study which is so well developed in the United States, and so...

compiled by Frances E. Wood (S.S.U., 125. 6d.), deserves mention. It is admirably clear and effective. The scale is three miles to the inch, quite sufficient for all practical...

William Makepeace Thackeray, edited by Walter Jerrold, illus- trated by C. E. Brock (3s. net). The Sketch-Book was the result of an arrangement with Messrs. Chapman and Hall,...

missionary. The editor writes a preface which is, as usual, sensible, and not without humour. The clergy sees to be a somewhat troublesome clientele. Not a few are too ready to...

Smith (Macinillan and Co., 2s. 6d.) The volume is of the slenderest. Mr. s m iqi writes, it is dear, only when he feels that he has something to say. Most of it, also, has been...

Sonnenschein and Co. Be. 6d. net.)—Possibly the adjective " best " may be applied a little too liberally. Here are four hundred and eighty-seven pages (exclusive of the indices)...

Fisher Unwin. ls.)—Mr. Sheppard subdivides his subjects into" Qualifications," "Training," "Work." This indicates that the title does not exactly describe the contents of the...