destructive analysis of the Home Rule Bill. He was astonished at the slowness of Scotsmen and Englishmen to recognize the appalling gravity of the prospect in Ulster. Those who...

NOTHING has yet been made public in regard to the conversations which are going on between the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition. All the signs, however, point to...

NO Englishman can help watching with sympathy the efforts of the United States to remove General Huerta from the Presidency of Mexico, because we all know that in principle the...

. -LIBERALS who sit at home at ease in England often wonder why the Ulster Protestants object to being placed under a Dublin Parliament, and ask" What are they afraid of ? " If...

XTHOUGH the humorous side of the Duke of Sutherland's offer to Mr. Lloyd George for the moment preponderates, there is a very serious side attached to the business, and it is to...

.DRAWING and painting, it is probable, originated in shades,'" said the great physiognomist of the eighteenth century, Lavater. He delighted in the study of silhouettes, and...

WE print elsewhere a letter from Lord Sudeley in a cause which, we believe, he invented, which he has industriously laboured for, and of which he already has the satisfaction of...

THE correspondence which has been lately running in the pages of the Times on the subject of badgers is a capital example of the difficulty of finding a single satisfactory...

[To TIIE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." SIR,—On July 19th you were good enough to publish a letter from me, in which I gave particulars of the Landowners' Rural Housing Society...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It must have become clear to most people that the various plans and suggestions which have been called forth by the supposed necessity...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your article, "What Civil War in Ulster would Mean," you say that "the calling out of the Reserve and the taking of the Expeditionary...

[To TEE EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTATOR,"] SIR,— The motive force of the Ulster volunteer movement, we are often told, is bigotry, while Orange halls are supposed to be specially...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I find that quite a number of people have never beard of Gladstone's speech in Aberdeen in 1871, in which he banned Home Rule...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your review (signed "C ") of Mr. Thorold's Life of Mr. Labouchere there is a grave error which, in the interests of historical...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It is indeed disheartening for all who desire the welfare of the people of the Scottish Highlands to see the manner in which...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Will you allow me to invite the co-operation of your readers in the movement for popularizing our museums, with a view to making the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—After first showing, as Mr. Payne suggests, bow to make the tillage of poor land pay, Mr. Lloyd George might proceed gently up the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Mr. Lloyd George's speech at Swindon is one more example of the growing tendency of the present Government to belittle the local...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I think it may interest the readers of the Spectator to know that a cottage exactly the same in design and con. struction as that...

[To ms EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Allow one who works like a labourer alongside his men to say one word in season. It is not so much higher wages as it is more leisure...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—On reading your article under this heading, which appeared in the Spectator of September 27th, in which you have treated the Armenian...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] see in the Daily Mail of the 3rd inst. a telegram from its Lisbon correspondent saying that "A woman named Julia Brito e Cunha, who was...

Un redacteur d'Azatamart ayant interviews le general Savoff (a Constantinople), celui-ci fit sur la valeur des soldats et officiers armeniens, sujets bulgares, la declaration...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—Four years ago last spring British statesmen of all parties called public attention to the gravity of the Imperial Defence problem....

[To nu EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Lord Montagu, in the course of his letter which appears in your issue of November 1st, refers to a matter of very considerable interest,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR.,-" Whatever else he was or was not, everybody admits that he was the greatest English wit since Sheridan." Thus Mr. Algar Thorold writes...

[To THE EDITOR Ol THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-So far from Mr. Stephen Graham's assertion being correct, viz., that "the journey of the Russian peasants to Jerusalem has never been...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE. " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Your reviewer says in last week's issue, "Whatever defence can be made of the Jesuits, their great and irrefutable condemnation is...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Surely you are wrong in attributing the advice given to Queen Victoria, when she wished to alter the title of her husband. The Queen did...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-In Lord Tennyson's memoir of his father (vol. H., p. 222) the following passage occurs. Ruskin on one occasion had been lunching with...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-As the Spectator interests itself in long lives and the links which they create, you may care to publish the following. There died at...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-With your kind permission I venture to request a place for the following in the columns of the Spectator. It occurs to me that just now,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-" H. C." may be interested in knowing that it is not merely among rural Juges de Paix and in the affairs of postboys that the idea...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEN "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-In your issue of October 18th I see under the heading of "Oil on the Troubled Waters," a quotation from Bede's " Historia," iii., 17: "...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-In your notice last week of Mr. Kipling's "Songs from Books" the writer says, "Surely he meant Valentia in Ireland, not Valencia in...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEl "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Some of us like to preserve the good custom of saying grace before meat. Can any of your readers supply a form that is (1) brief and...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Surely all animal locomotion is effected by means of wheel action modified to suit the special conditions ? Legs and arms move on wheels...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-In an editorial comment on a letter published in the Spectator on November 1st, you say : "We would place in the hands of the people...

[TO THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR.,—ThC recent letters in your paper on this subject brought to my recollection a story in Edward FitzGerald's Letters about his "doing his...

No one who has hurried through the press view of a big exhibition, with his artistic sensibility reacting violently to the hundreds of assaults upon it by the opposing varieties...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your review of Sir R. Payne-Gallwey's book on Pheasant Shooting you comment on the author's assertion that pheasants overhead look...

I SAT in my chamber yesternight ; I lit the lamp, I drew the blind, And scratched with a quill at paper white ; With Mistress Bess was all my mind ! But stormy gusts had rent...

IF any Englishman possessing a casual acquaintance with the history of his own country were asked what he knew of Lord North, the reply would probably be that he was a Minister...

TENNYSON is, of course, no longer in England what he was for two, if not three, generations, the poet of his age. The new births of time which he presaged and announced have...

THE relations of the various peoples which comprise the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary have long been an attractive subject of study to Englishmen. Several Englishmen who...

By Adolf Friedrich, Duke of Mecklenburg. 2 vols. London : Duckworth and Co. [328. net.1

IN reading the narrative of the latest big African expedition one is impressed by the speed with which the obscurer parts of the continent are being opened up. The area visited...

IN this work the author, Mr. Conrad Gill, gives a very full account of the mutinies at Spithead and the Nore during the great war with France, and seeks to explain their causes....

Bowls about the weather have their own fascination; everybody likes to believe or disbelieve what somebody else says about that most baffling of topics. The author of this...

IF it were fair to sum up Major Gambier-Parry's book in one matter-of-fact, dull sentence, it should be epitomized as an account of the downfall of hand labour before the coming...

IN the Nineteenth Century the indefatigable Professor J. H. Morgan writes at length on Ulster. He pronounces against the policy of exclusion on the ground that it is only...

MR. JAMES STEPHENS'S new volume marks a considerable advance on The Crock of Gold, the short story, or fantasia being a much better vehicle for his peculiar and remarkable...

(tinder this heading we notice st.ich Books of the reek as have not Leen reserved for review In other forms.]

By A. E. Johnson. With illustrations by Rene Bull. (Constable and Co. 21s. stories of most of the ballets that have been produced in London during the last two years by M. de...

(Cobden Club, Broadway Court, Westminster. 2d.)—It is now ten years since Mr. Chamberlain opened his Tariff Reform campaign, and the Cobden Club celebrates the occasion by...

By Ernest Dimnet. (Constable and Co. is. net.)—At a time when the revival of patriotic and religious feeling in France is being watched over here with so much interest, M....

By Louise H6ritte-Viardot. Translated from the German manuscript and arranged by E. S. Buchheim. (Mills and Boon. 10s. 6d. net.)—The author of these reminiscences is the...

duction, by E. A. Wallis Budge, M.A., Litt.D. 2 vols. (Philip Lee Warner. £2 net.)—The Papyrus of Ani, which was acquired by the British Museum in 1888, is the best of all the...

Tombal—Trahysh. Press. By Sir James A. H. Murray. (Oxford University Press. 5s.)—The latest section of the great Oxford dictionary contains altogether three thousand two...

Abbott (E. A.), Miscellanea Evangelica, demy 8vo (Cambridge Press) 20 Adams (C. F.), Trans-Atlantic Historical Solidarity (Clarendon Press) net 6n et (C. M.), Pius II., the...

WANTED, for the Doveton Protestant College, Madras, an ASSISTANT MASTER. Graduate of a British University. Salary Rs. 300 per month (£240 per ann.), rising by annual increments...

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nHATEAU DE BE A.UREGARD, NEUCHATEL.— Bev. G. A. Bienemann, M.A., Oriel Coll., Oxon (late M. Taylors' and Sherborne), Brit. Chaplain, and Mr. W. W. Hunt, M.A.Cantab. 11th Sen....

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The determination of the Government to force the Welsh Disestablishment Bill through Parliament before a General Election compels Churchmen to redouble their efforts to defeat...

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HOW IT IS ATTAINED The Same Opportunity Within the Reach of England. Official statistics just issued show that despite her small population Bulgaria possesses the greatest...

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