great friend of King Edward. has thought it advisable to explain the position of Portugal in respect to her East African colonies through an Austrian interviewer. King Carlos,...

and to be reduced in size. Only three thousand men are to be employed, and they will almost all be Africans, the Indian troops being " kept back," partly to strengthen Aden,...

just issued in the form of an address to the "Society at Pressburg for Hungarian Culture" a manifesto which, as we have pointed out elsewhere, may prove of serious import. He is...

York on Wednesday. The proprietors of the New York Journal had arranged for an exhibition of fireworks in Madison Square to celebrate the election returns. Among the fireworks...

demand for full redress against the officials responsible for the murder of two missionaries in Hunan. The Mandarin. who Shut the door of his official residence against Mr....

T HE results of the Congressional elections in the United States are more than usually interesting. The Republican party has lost a good deal of ground, but it is clear that it...

any case.

others of our late foes in South Africa, have offered their services for Somaliland. We wish most heartily that they could have been accepted. A Boer Brigade of, say, a thousand...

on this subject, but will express here our satisfaction at the admirable letter on the subject contributed by Canon Hensley Henson to Friday's Times, in which he points out that...

on Wednesday, was remarkable for a most satis- factory and able speech by Mr. Chamberlain in regard to his visit to South Africa. He was going to South Africa with an open mind,...

the old question whether it is possible for a whole people to go mad. These Russian immigrants were settled and prosperous when the fancy suddenly seized them that they had no...

during the week been as persistent as ever, with the result that though there has been progress, it has been very slow. The matter of most importance settled during the week has...

exceptional circumstances necessitating the reopening of Supply in order to provide for the free grants to the burghers (23,000,000), for compensations for war losses to the...

last at a great meeting held in the Alexandra Palace against the Education Bill. Neither had much that was new to say. Mr. Asquith, indeed, though in an exaggerated way, pressed...

on Saturday last, but must mention h e re his extraordinary suggestion that Lord Kitchener ought not to have been sent to India as Commander- i n -Chief, but kept here as...

spoilt a regiment so utterly as active service is well known. It has a counterpart in a remark made in the Pall Mall Gazette of Wednesday in a description of the review by the...

fact that Mr. J. P. FitzPatrick has received the honour of knighthood, which was gazetted on Saturday last. Sir Percy FitzPatrick, as one of the leaders of the Reform party in...

in the East Toxteth division of Liverpool. Pot Cleveland a Liberal, Mr. Herbert Samuel, was returned by a majority of 2,036. In 1897, when the last election took place, the...

of improving and extending secondary education. We spend 213,000,000 a year on primary schools, and may well, he thought, contribute a few tens of thousands to those of a higher...

a fact, as was his duty, but no doubt many determinations were formed by energetic and exact officers and drill-ser- geants to drill this wanton elasticity learnt in the battle-...

taught in University College School who have fallen in South Africa, and made quite a series of appetising and humorous speeches. In the first he recalled his old teachers,...

Friday 93f.

THE GERMAN EMPEROR'S VISIT AND ITS OBJECTS. T HE German Emperor lands in England to-day. We desire to treat his Imperial Majesty with all possible courtesy, not only because he...

I T is difficult, now that the kingdom is tranquil, to interest our countrymen in the affairs of Hungary, though in 1848 they occupied so much 'of their thoughts ; but we hope...

T ORD ROSEBERY'S hasty and, as we think, ill-judged I remarks as to the wisdom of having a soldier as Secretary of State for War have once again brought this inept proposal...

a belief, a strong belief, that when the , Education Bill has been in operation for a very ',la . years the amendment proposed by Colonel Kenyon- Janey on Friday week. and...

el_REAT as are the differences of opinion as to the condi- tion of Ireland, only a very shallow politician would deny that it holds, and seems likely to hold, a front place in...

"That independence Britons prize too high Keeps man from man and breaks the social tie." O LIVER GOLDSMITH wrote these words in 1764. If he had lived in 1902, would be have...

T O the question, "What is fair criticism ? " few stranger answers have been given than the verdict of the jury in the case of " McQuire v. the Western Morning News," decided in...

C ONSIDERING that there are no limits to the power of birds to migrate across the land, except vast desert barriers like the Sahara, it is curious that so many of the boats that...

SIR,—A propos of your interesting article in the Spectator of October 25th on the ancient friendship of the English for the Italians, the following quotation from the " Diilogns...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Snt,—The following rough translation of an article in the Tribuna of Rome dealing with your article on "England and Italy" in the Spectator...

THE NEED OF STERNNESS IN PUBLIC LIFE. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPF.CTATOR.”1 SIR,—One of the profoundest problems which confront statesmanship, and, I may add, earnest...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.".1 Si,—Will you allow me, though late, to add my mite to this discussion ? My foreign surroundings may make it easier for me to catch some...

one, I believe, has yet come forward to inform the "American Mother" that if an undergraduate's rooms are shabby it is because he chooses to have them so. Excepting at a very...

[To TIE EDITOR OF THE " SFECTAT011.".1 SIR, — In common with many other readers, I have for some time noticed with grave concern your tendency to belittle the status of the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—I have read in your issue of November 1st a letter signed "A Quondam Don" on "Undergraduates' Rooms." As this is a matter of no small...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' recurrence to the review of Mr. Frederic Harrison's book on John Ruskin in the Spectator of October 25th induces me to offer you some...

Spectator of October 25th of Mr. Frederic Harrison's recent misrepresentation of Ruskin is, from the point of view of students of Ruskin, in a very great measure misleading. (By...

[To TIM EDITOR OF TIM "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—A quondam teacher in a school tells me of an odd answer which she herself saw in an examination paper. Q. What do you know of the Atlas...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR, — Having read with appreciation your article on "The Schoolboy of Fiction" published in the Spectator some weeks ago, it occurs to me...

Sut,—Will you allow me to add a few more anecdotes to the interesting collection of children's sayings lately appearing in the Spectator? A little grandson of mine, living in...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "sencricron.1 SIR,—I have just read the article in the Spectator of October 25th entitled "An Unknown Prophet of the New Testament." It is a pity that the...

(TO THE EDITOR OP THE 'SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Daily in the London streets there must pass a vast amount of unrecorded humour. Also unappreciated humour, for some, alas! "ain't got...

THE JEWS OF BUCHAREST. "TAKE heed ! the stairs are worn and damp!" My soft-tongued Southern guardian said, And held more low his twinkling lamp To light my cautious, downward...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—I notice that a compilation of Mr. Orby Shipley's, which he entitles " Carmine, Mariana : an English Anthology in Verse. In Honour of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIE,—It is rather interesting to note Bacon's observation on the words, "Sell all thou haat " :— "Beware how in making the Portraiture thou...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sza,—Under "New Editions" in "Some Books of the Week in your issue of November 1st you are good enough to refer to "Pour Modern Naval...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.”) SIR,—Much encouraged by what I have seen of the result of the action of the National Trust in securing an indescribably beautiful estate for...

THE sexcrAToa..1 Sin,—I have read with much interest your article of last week on the above subject. I am afraid that English music does not - get its deserts at the hands of...

[TO THE EDITOR OP TIIE "SPECPATOR.1 SIR,—With respect to Mr. H. J. Bardsley's suggestion (Spectator, November 1st) that I was over-critical in refusing to accept his statement...

THE EMPEROR WILLIAM'S SPEECHES.* IN a loquacious age, in a world craving to express its ideas and emotions, there still remains among us one silent class. The Sovereigns of...

Mallet du Pan, written by his great-grandson, is in every way one of the best and most interesting books that have been published this year. Every educated person knows the...

Mn. GEORGE PASTOR is a wanderer in the byways and narrow lanes of life and letters. It is his pleasure to explore such forgotten corners as have escaped the vigilance of other...

Miss E. E. CONSTANCE JONES, the distinguished Lecturer on Philosophy at Girton College, !Cambridge, has admir- ably performed a most useful task in the preparation for...

IT is perhaps a reflection on the quality of the serious contri- butions to the November Nineteenth Century that the longest and most fascinating paper it contains is that of...

THE FOUR FEATHERS.* THE mainspring of Mr. Mason's interesting and exciting story is akin to that of Mr. Conrad's sombre and powerful romance, Lord Jim, and doubtless other...

Brothers. 6s.)—This is a Japanese novel,—that is, it is a novel about Japanese people, and the scene is laid in Japan. No preface or publishers' note suggests that it is a...

(Hodder and Stoughton. 5a.)—This is a finely drawn little study of life. Mrs. Wiggs is a Mark Tapley with the farce left out, the farce being quite in its right place where...

and H. Perry Robinson. (Isbister and Co. 6s.)—These three brothers have given us a decidedly entertaining volume. The stories are of a nature to pass half-an-hour very quickly...

6s.)--A considerable portion of this book having been contributed to the columns of the Spectator some eight years since, we are pre- cluded from noticing it in the way that we...

Antrobus. (Chatto and Windus. 6s.)—The stories are of excellent quality. The imaginative power that Miss Antrobus shows in "The Strange Preacher," and the strong simplicity of...

6s.)—A Soul Apart is a story suitable for the Roman Catholic young person. It begins and ends in a convent. The writing is pretty, but the plot is exceedingly weak. The heroine...

6s.)—These " romances " are excellent reading. "Raimond de Beaufoy, hereditary suzerain of the fief of that name," is a Frenchman, but the reader thinks of him as the aboriginal...

MOZART. Mr. Eustace J. Breakspeare, who contributes the volume on Mozart to the "Master Musicians" Series, edited by Mr. F. J. Crowest (J. M. Dent and Co.; 3s. 6d.), has been...

(Methuen and Co. 6s.)—" Q's" idea of a "fireside tale" is not always such as approves itself to our taste. In the story which gives a title to the volume a Norse seaman boards a...

by Mrs. J. N. Bell, and the A.B.C. of Cookery for Invalids, by Aline Riddle (Henry J. Drone, is. each).

Paul, Trench, and Co. 6s.)—Professor E. Dowden, who introduces Mr. Phin, promises that the student of Shakespeare will find much that is valuable in this book, and the promise...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] The Coalfields of Scotland. By Robert W. Dron. (Blackie and Son. 15s....

Co. is. 6d. net.)—This volume, one of the "New Century Leaders" series, would have been better without its first chapter. We are glad to have details of Canon Barnett's work in...

(W. Blackwood and Sons. 15s. net.)—This is an excellent book, though the contents are not quite as well arranged as they might have been. The first chapter should have been...

T. F. Henderson. 4 vols. (W. Blackwood and Sons. 42s. net.) —This is much more than a reprint of Sir Walter Scott's work. The editor, after describing the genesis of the book,...

(Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier. 21s.)—We have been very tardy in our notice of this book, having waited in vain for some opportunity of giving it an adequate appreciation. The...

Grown Hardy Perennials, by George H. Vos, B.A., edited by T. W. Sanders (W. H. and L. Collingridge, 5s.) It is copiously illustrated with reproduced photographs. Here is a...

2s. and is. net) Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift, and The Natural History of Selborne, by Gilbert White. These are numbered respectively XX. and XXII. ; XXI. is to be...