to involve important personages. M. Melcot, Advocate-General of the Court of Caseation, declares that he heard from one of those present that at a meeting of Royalists and "...

mination of the Colonies to take their share in a war which is in every sense Imperial. They cannot, owing to the dis- tances and to the nature of their local forces, bear any...

T HOUGH the first shot has not been fired as we write, war is now inevitable, if, indeed, it has not already begun. The commandeering of the gold — something like 4800,000, the...

to find some means for preventing the outbreak of hostilities, and for bringing about a compromise. We feel nothing but respect for those who have made one more effort in the...

laid to resist an invasion pending the arrival of reinforcements. If the Boers come down the centre of the triangle by the main road—the railway will of course have been...

case.

the grief of the Clerical party, and the Emperor, alter several attempts to induce leading politicians to accept the Premiership, has appointed a Ministry of Affairs," with...

made on Sunday a striking speech at Limoges. He declared that the present Ministry had been formed to defend the Republic from the attacks of "a hybrid coalition," which,...

on Tuesday. It is substantially in favour of the British contention, the frontier of British Guiana being extended to the Schomburgk line. Venezuela, however, receives a small...

had received the editor of La Croix with every mark of distinction, and even affection. The statement was denied, and seemed im- possible, but on October 3rd La Croix boasted...

and 'Columbia' have been sailed this week off Sandy Hook without decisive result, owing to the fixture of a time limit. Both on Tuesday and Thursday the wind flat- tened, the...

unexampled enthusiasm, the whole population turning out with addresses of welcome. It is even proposed with some seriousness to run the Admiral in 1900 as the candidate of both...

had the courage, in spite of his political ties, to speak out strongly on the side of the Outlanders. With strange perversity of taste as well as of reason, as it seems to us,...

Kruger from the pen of their Pretoria correspondent appears in Tuesday's issue of the Manchester Guardian, a paper sin- cerely and vehemently opposed to the South African policy...

Vonlet in the French Soudan is now confirmed by official reports. The narrative which originally appeared and which we quoted was exactly correct, with the exception that...

clergy, not as Metropolitan of the Northern Province, but as a Diocesan, is excellent in tone and temper, and puts the injunction to obedience in the matter of the liturgical...

Winchester in the course of an admirable address delivered to his clergy at Andover on Saturday last spoke most searchingly and strongly against the confessionaL The gist of his...

September 30th, the total increase over the corresponding half of the previous year being £3,495,000, or E660,000 more than Sir Michael Hicks-Beach's estimate. This is most...

New Consols (2i) were on Friday 103.

THE BOERS IN THE FIELD. I T seems now practically certain that war will come in a few hours, and will come, not by an advance of our forces into the Transvaal, but by the...

B Y far the greatest danger to the permanent progress of Europe towards that educated civilisation which is with us all the latent ideal is the possibility of a period of...

and probably will be again, a good deal of foolish talk about Imperialism and the Empire ; but in spite of that, we hold not only that the Imperial idea is a sound one, but that...

in Servo. have probably disgusted all who read them, and have possibly led some persons to look askance on a race in whose borders such things can happen. But the Slavonic race...

T HERE is one argument against this war which the Boers themselves do not use, except occasionally for effect, but which weighs heavily with many worthy Englishmen. It is a...

.4 lives and in treasure," one of our own novelists has said, the cost of the conquest of the empire of the air may even exceed all that has been spent in man's great conquest...

1. , \T E have read the lectures delivered this year at the have of the Medical Schools with a certain regret. One of them, Dr. Manson's, on the rat as the great propagator of...

J. E. HARTING, in a letter to the Field of Sep- tember 23rd, asks which is the largest bird which has the power of flight ? In the table of weights given the male bustard...

THE TRADE IN PLACES OF INTEREST. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. ] Sin,—.The owners of places of interest appear to have realised the idea that there is a trade to be done in...

THE DECLINE OF RIFLE-SHOOTING. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:] SIR,-I should feel grateful if you could find space for the following brief remarks respecting your article...

Sin,—Your very suggestive remarks upon Mr. Heinle- Grohman's article in the Nineteenth Century on the decline of rifle-shooting in this country naturally fall into a rather...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—If every thinking man in Great Britain would put that question of yours to himself, and try to find an answer, alike satisfactory to his...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—In the article, "The Church in the Village," in the Spectator of September 30th, there is much, no doubt, that is true; but the writer...

[TO Tam EDITOR or THE "SPEOTATOR.1 Si,—The great question of the day is whether we shall do our duty by the Outlanders, however disagreeable it may be to us, or leave them to...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] &R, —Your correspondent, Mr. F. Reginald Statham, cites, as an outstanding example of alleged "extra- ordinary misstatements of fact" in...

FATHERHOOD. A Kiss, a word of thanks, away They're gone, and you, forsaken, learn The blessedness of giving ; they (So Nature bids) forget, nor turn To where you sit and watch...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") S IR,—A few weeks ago (if I remember rightly) a correspondent favoured you with a Greek version of the situation in France from one of the...

ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE CIVIL WAR.* • Personal Rec,liccifons of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. R. Gilmore (almond Kirke). London : John Mao4ueen. [12s.] Ma. Grxatoaa's...

to insist that all great quarrels spring out of petty feuds ; but none has pointed out how from great strifes there follow mean ones. There is never a fight in the field...

TO lit perctator FOR THE No. 3,719.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1899. [TRITL . ,7:::::..) GRATIS.

A NEW STUDY OF TENNYSON.* IT is a very long time since we have come upon a volume of criticism which is so sane, and at the same time so fresh and stimulating, as the one before...

LONDON : OCTOBER 7th, 1899.

of many biographies is wont after a time to classify them roughly under two heads,—those that are written by near relatives, and those that are not. The latter, generally being...

WE rejoice to see that the Royal Irish Academy has not for- gotten its splendid traditions as the promoter of archwalogical research in Ireland. The publication of accurate...

NATURAL HISTORY BOOKS. The Geography of Mammals. By William Lutley Sclater and Philip Lutley Sclater. (Eegan Paul, Trench. and Co. 12s.)—More than forty years ago Dr. Sclater...

Warne and Co. 6s.) — This is a volume of the "Library of Natural History Romance." Mr. Step is already known as the author of "Wayside and Woodland Blossoms,"—a guide to...

(J. M. Dent and Co. 7s. 6d.)—The Hampshire highlands, which Mr. Dewar most pleasantly describes in this volume of the "Haddon Hall Library," lie in the north-western corner of...

Dan Meinertz- hagen and B. P. Hornby. (R. H. Porter. 4s.)—Some of our readers may have already heard of Mr. Dan Meinertzhagen, an enthusiastic ornithologist, whose sad death at...

6s.)—There are certainly few more enthusiastic observers of birds than Mr. Dixon, and few who record and publish their ornithological experiences more regularly. It is but a few...

Lepidoptera, Diptera, Aphanip- tera, Thysanoptera, Hemiptera, Anoplura. By David Sharp, M.A. (Cantab.), M.B. (Edin.), F.R.S. "Cambridge Natural History," Vol. VI. (Macmillan and...

the Chiswick Press. 2s. 6d.)—This is a little book of tales for children relating to various spiders, frogs, insects, and plants, under such titles as "The Tree-Frogs," "The...

Singing Rhymes, and Methods of Playing according to the Variants Extant and Recorded in Different Parts of the Kingdom. Collected and annotated by Alice Bertha Gomme. Vol. II.,...

Familiar Introduction to the Use of the Instrument, and the Study of Microscopical Science. By Jabez Hogg, M.R.C.S., F.R.M.S. With upwards of 900 Engraved and Coloured Illustra-...

Colour in Nature : a Study in Biology. By Marion J. New- bigin, D.Sc. (Load.), Lecturer on Zoology in the Medical College for Women, Edinburgh. (John Murray. 75. 6d.)— This book...

By George H. Carpenter, B.Sc. Load. (J. M. Dent and Co. 4s. 6d.) —" Of making many books" on insects "there is no end," but still the subject remains unexhausted and...

F.L.S. (W. B. Clive. 6s. 61)—This b ook, which is one of the "Univer- sity Tutorial Series," has been specially designed for the use of students preparing for the London...

of Man. By Ernst Haeckel (Jena). With Notes and Biographical Sketches by Hans Gadow, F.R.S. (Cambridge). (A. and C. Black. 28. 6d.)—The substance of this little book consists of...

many volumes are long records of unending crises of soul." Now we are quite willing to read the works of a pessimistic philosophy provided the philosopher be of sufficiently...

By William P. Trent. (Macmillan and Co. 3s.)—Mr. Trent is an American author who is painfully convinced of the fact that both English- men and Americans do not think so highly...

M.A.. F.R.A.S. With Illustrations. (Hutchinson and Co. Us. 6d.)—Our knowledge of the earth has increased, pan i passe, with modern facilities for travel, and it no longer...

Modern Land Law. By Edward Jenks, M.A. (The Clarendon Press, Oxford. 15s.)—The writing of a new book on the law of real property is not a task to be undertaken lightly, though...

of the Middle Temple. (Stevens and Sons.)—The distinction between monopolies and patents is somewhat un- defined, but the law, which recognises the inventor and rewards him with...

Tyrrell, S.J. (Duckworth and Co. 3s.)—Freeman has some- where compared Washington, Charlemagne, and Alfred as ideal rulers. Probably a comparison between Alfred and the good St....

(Sands and Co. 3s.)—The stage Irishman dies so hard that we fear he is immortal ; and, at all events, it is annoying to find Mr. Martin, who bears a well-known Irish name, doing...

—" Vassar" is a well-known women's college, a sort of American Girton. The " Studies" are not stories, they are sketches of college life. Their "essential motive," according to...

paid a visit to Tunis, and written a book describing its government and inhabitants. The bulk of these, about one million eight hundred thousand, are of course Arabs. There are,...

Harvard University. (Archibald Constable and Co. 6s.)—It is not very easy to catch the central idea of Professor Mansterberg as set forth in this volume. The writer says that...

A. Brooke. (Macmillan and Co. is. 6d.)—This is a "recast," with abridgments and also with additions, of Mr. Stop- ford Brooke's larger work on "Early English Literature up to...

Right Hon. Professor F. Max Muller. (Longmans and Co. 10s. 8d.)—This work is not so interesting as the first series of Auld Lang Syne. It is far less personal and anecdotal, and...

and Co. 6s.)—The ostensible aim of this book is, by careful examin- ation of the constituent elements of social life, to ascertain the com- parative importance of the...

Writings and Addresses of the Rt. Hon. and the Most Rev. Frederick Temple, D.D., Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. Selected and arranged, with his Grace's permission, by J. H....

J. Higham. (A. and C. Black. ls.)—This is a volume of extracts from Sir Walter Scott illustrating warfare. The encounter of Sir Kenneth with the Saracen in the "Talisman," the...

(Macmillan and Co. Gs.)—This is an attempt in verse which recalls Mr. Bret Harte's, and prose which does not quite so readily recall Mr. Rudyard Kipling's, to describe the often...

by Isabella M. Anderton. With Introduction by Andrew Lang. (Longmans and Co. 1Gs.)—Professor Comparetti's work on the K.ilevala, with which he deals almost exclusively, was...

Edited by Samuel Rawson Gardiner. Vol. I. (Printed for the Navy Records Society.)— All the publications of the Council of the Navy Records Society are of much value to the...

by his Daughter. (r. and T. Clark, Edinburgh.) — The sub- ject of this interesting and, in many places, pathetic book, who died last year at the great age of ninety-one, was...

son, and Ferrier, Edinburgh. Is. 6d )—Professor Murison erred in being too enthusiastic in the monograph on Sir William Wal- lace, which he contributed to the "Famous Scots...

Co.)—Although this is in the strictest sense a study in United States "slum sociology," it deserves the serious attention of students of similar problems on this side of the...

(George Allen. 6s. net.)—Dr. Garnett here makes a welcome addition to his admirable "Library Series." Of course the addresses and papers which make up this volume are intended...

Great Queen Street, W.C. ; and Published by JOHN BASER for the "SPECTATOR" (Limited) at their Office, No. 1 Wellin g ton Street, in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand. In the...

Ma. BOLTON KING has given us what was long needed, a comprehensive, impartial, and thoroughly readable history of the Italian movement for unity and independence. If at times we...

volume of abort stories--Life is Life —has naturally caused much to be expected of her new ven- ture, which, after running its serial course in Blackwood, now appears in book...

ARTICLES in magazines on South Africa seem now all a little belated, but we would recommend one in the Contem- porary Review by Mr. E. Garrett, Member of the Cape Assembly, as...

Cox.) —The author of this book claims to speak from a very con- siderable experience. He has contributed to publications of all kinds, and his success should be no small...

Clarke and Co. 3s. 6d.)—These sermons, twenty-six in number, were preached at Roslyn Hill Chapel, Hampstead. They are excellent specimens of their class, simple, without...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK. [Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Texts Explained. By F. W. Farrar, D.D....

C. Black. 2s.) — Mrs. Henry Fawcett, who writes an introduc- tion, and Miss Honuor Morten are just a little—shall we say irreconcilable ? Surely, for instance, Miss Morten might...

Co. 5s.)—Miss Bramston, who is known to a multitude of readers by her excellent tales, has attempted here a difficult task, and performed it with courage and discretion. The...

Cruttwell, M.A. (Skeilington and Son. 3s. 6d.)—Mr. Cruttwell has delivered these lectures at various meetings of Churchmen, and now publishes them by request. They give a very...

is.)—Mr. Brend treats of ice both as it is and as it has been. He explains, that is, the properties of the substance, and describes the forms in which it is commonly seen,—as...

Travels and Researches in South Africa" are furnished with a few pages of notes by Mr. F. Stanley Arnot, and with parallel maps of South Africa made respec- tively in 1854 and...

be mentioned together. These are Young England: an Illustrated Magazine for Bays (S.S.U., 58.), and Chivas: an Illustrated Paper for Boys (Cassell and Co., 88.) We have no...

L. D'Ooge and M. Grant Daniell. • (Ginn and Co., Boston, U.S.)—We do not quite understand what Is meant by "Second Year." If it is that the scholar will be able by the end of...