NAPOLEON-WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra,-Reading Lord Rosebery's masterly presentation of Napoleon, and analysis of a personality so abnormal,...

OUR QUEEN'S PERSONAL APPEARANCE. [TO TILE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOL"J SIn,-When her late Majesty visited Manchester about half-acentury ago, one of the great merchants, a friend...

THE "EDINBURGH" ON SOUTH AFRICA. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,-It was pleasant to observe the tone of moderation in your article of- January 26th on " The Edinburgh...

A PROTEST. [TO THE EDITOR OF THU 'SPEOTLTOR."] SIR,-Will you allow me to state that my story, " The StrangWooing of Mary Bowler," which I have just seen that Messrs. Pearson...

A COINCIDENCE. [TO THE EDITOR OF THF "SPEcrkAront.' SIp.,-Ts it not a strange coincidence that history should so far repeat itself that Elizabeth should die with a Cecil as the...

" CLUE." (To THE EDITOR Or THE ';.3PFOrlTOn."] SiR,-In yonr review in the Spectator of February 2nd of the book mentioned above, in which I attempt to show that portions of the...

I The Emperor Francis Joseph addressed the two Houses of the Reichsrath on Monday. He reminded his hearers that he had bestowed the Constitution on his dominions in the...

i It is impossible to doubt that during the past three weeksI our relations with foreign nations have undergone a consider. ; able change for the better. The warmth and good...

I The Chinese negotiations, instead of being concluded by the acceptance of the Joint Note, seem to have taken a new lease of life. At present the dispute is as to who is to be...

Three Messages from the King-to " My People," to "My People beyond the seas," and to "' the Princes and People of India"-were issued in Monday's London Gazette. In the first,...

The South African news is again meagre, and as yet tbere is no indication of the nature of Lord Kitchener's plans. There have been a certain number of excursions and alarms,...

In the Message to the Princes and People of India, I I King Edward, after greeting the ruling Chiefs of the native States, and the inbabitants of his Indian dominions, recalls...

The Emperor of Germany left England on Tuesday after- I I noon. On his former visits he had attracted the attention due to his exalted station, his vivid personality, his...

I On Monday afternoon the Queen waR laid to rest by the T side of the Prince Consort in the Royal Mausoleum at Frog- more. The funeral procession, composed almost entirely of...

I The scene in London on the Saturday was nut less impressive. Here it was the hush of the great black human lane that filled the London streets which touched men's hearts,...

The procession through London passed without mishap of any kind, but when the Queen's body arrived at Windsor Station it was found that one of the horses harnessed to the...

I Truly silence was never more impressive, and it is no exag- geration to say that the awe which inaLes a mau hold his breath passed down the line of ships as the procession...

We alluded shor-ly last week to the impressive scene preWe alluded shoftly last week to the impressive scene pre-I sented by the passage of the Queen's body from the shores I...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. THE past week has been memorable for the compl etion of the ceremonies through which the country has paid I reverence to the Queen. No Sovereign was ever...

I An extraordinary duelling incident is reported from Morchingen, a town in Lorraine. At the Emperor's birthday banquet, Captain Adams, an officer of the 17th Infantry...

On Thursday Queen Wilbelmina of Holland was married in the Great Church at The Hague to Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. The world has not outgrown its sentiment, and this...

I At the request of many correspondents, we have decided to reprint in the form of a memorial pamphlet, entitled " The Queen's Best Monument," the articles, notes, poems, and...

Under the heading of " Army Drill Reform " the imnes of I Thursday states that great changes are in contemplation in our systeri of military training in the earlier stages of...

I A striking letter on the conduct of the British troops in South Africa has appeared in the Gazette de Lausanne from M. Constangon, the Swiss Consul at Pretoria. Charges of...

The vigorous appeals for reinforcements, and in par- I ticular for mounted troops, for South Africa made throughout the Press have met with i. speedy response. On Thurs. day...

Lord Rosebery, spearing at the County Buildings at I Edinburgh on Wednesday, delivered a graceful iloge on Queen Victoria. She bad, he said, the magnetic faculty of inspiring...

UNITY WITHOUT UNIFORMITY. We have read with great pleasure a tiny pamphlet entitled Why We Believe there may be Unity without Uniformity: a Reply to the Rev. Canon Hammond's "...

AN ENGLISHMAN'S LOVE-LETTERS. I An Eaiglishman's Love-Letters. (At the Sign of the Unicorn. 2s. Cd. net.)-This is a very amusing and quite legitimate skit. The writer...

C URRENT LITERATURE. THE STORY OF THE UGANDA PROTECTORATE. The Story of the Uganda Protectorate. By General F. D. Lugard. (Horace Marshall. Is. 6d.)-The extremely complicated...

SOMIE BOOKS OF THE WEEK, - rUiIer !I-is Xseadiig %se ,otic swch Books of the weeu as Rave not been resderle for rerietc in otker forms.] From Capetown to Ladysmith, and Egypt...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."J SiR,-In reading the correspondence in the Spectator on the proper definition of a gentleman, I have not noticed that any one has referred...

[TO TaZ EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SiB,-On a very interesting occasion the late Bishop Thorold gave as good a definition of the word " gentleman " as perhaps exists. He had...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOIU."] SIR,-The definition of a gentleman once given by an Irish peasant may interest some of your readers: '-A man that never did a hand's turn...

POETRY. THE QUEEN'S PASSLNG. BESIDE her bed an Empire knelt, In her last great undaunted bour, In blind dismay, and rising felt Shorn of its power. Not o'er the pageantry of...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SiN,-Without admitting for one moment the correctness of Mr. Corbet's curious definition of the term " gentleman," may I point out a...

[To THE EDITOR OF TIIE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Your correspondents may be glad to know that there is a clear definition of a gentleman, one which has been pressed upon the public...

![TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPEOTATOL") SiR,-Chaucer wrote five hundred years ago, and not " in the last quarter of the nineteenth century," but would Mr. Reginald Corbet be...

[To THE EDtTOR OF TIlE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I have followed with much interest your correspond- I ence on the definition of the word " gentleman," the more so I because in a most...

THE QUEEN'S LOVE FOR ANIMALS. WIHEN Queen Victoria lay dying she sent for her W favourite little Pomeranian dog 'AMarco,' and caressed it as it jumped on her bed. This love for...

GERMAN EXPERIMENTS IN PROTECTION. FOR some considerable time there has been an agitaF tion in Germany for agrarian reform, and within the last few weeks the reformers have seen...

We have received a new edition of The Idylls of Theocritus, translated into English Verse by James Henry Hallant (Rivington's, 5s.) We cannot criticise it at length but we may...

Saint Nicholas I. By Jules Roy. Translated by Margaret I Maitland. (Duckworth and Co. 3s. 6d.)-This is one of the I ? series of " The Saints." Of Pope Nicholas, indeed, we...

" The Shop." By Captain F. G. Guggisberg, R.E. (Cassell I ei and Co. 12s. Gd net.)-By "The Shop " is meant the Royal oi Military Academy at Woolwich, the institution from...

I Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901 (Dean and Son, 7s.6d.), has reached its "thirty-fifth annual edition." The information which it gives is both...

Stories of the Queen. (Review of Reviews Office. 6d.)-A very I interesting little collection this, which ought to find, and probably will find, thousands of readers. Was there...

The Men tcho Made the Nation. By Edwin Erse Sparkes, Ph.D (Macmillan and Co. 8s. 6d.)-The "nation'" is the United States, and this volume is described as an " outline of its...

Algernon Charles Swinburns. By TheodoreWratislaw. (Greening and Co. 3s. 6d.)-It is a good, or, anyhow, a convenient, rule not to criticise criticism. Mr. Wratislaw's...

Macaulay. By Sir Richard C. Jebb, M.P. (Cambridge Uni- I M versity Press. 2s. and Is.)-We have here a lecture delivered k last August at the Summer Meeting of University...

MOSQUITOES AND MALARIA.* IN a great world-Empire like ours no medical question can be of more importance than the study of malaria. When we speak of one of our possessions as "...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE QUEEN AND THE AMERtCAN PEOPLE. \ TOTH[NG has been lore striking, nothing more Nw imoving, to the British as a nation, than the way in which the Queen...

THE FITNESS OF THE FUNERAL PAGEANT. ARELY has pageantry so completely justified itself it as at Queen Victoria's funeral. Through every one of its stages, from the chamber of...

THE DEFINITION OF A GENTLEMAN. [To THE EDITOR OP TUE "SPECTATOR."I SiR,-I do not know whether oar good King Edward VII. reads the Spectator, but it would be an incalculable...

[To THE EDITOR OF TIHE "SPECTATOR."] SiE,-Many objections will no doubt be urged against Mr. Corbet s definition of a gentleman, but it may be soothing to remember that if that...

THE "TIMES" HISTORY OF THE WAR. [To TUE EDITOr OP THE "SPECTATOIL"] Sin,-May I claim for "The Tines History of the War" the courtesy of your columns to ask officers and others...

[TO THE EDrrOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I regret that I should have fallen into the mistake of thinking that the writer of " Conferences on Books and Men" (see Spectator of...

The Laws of Scientific Hand Reading. By William G. Benham. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. lSs.)-When a gentleman has taken the pains to write considerably more than six hundred closely...

NEW EDITION-.- -We are delighted to welcome a handsome new edition of " Hugh Haliburton's " Horace in Homespun (lBlackwood and Sons, 6s.), those genial monologues of I...

KING EDWARD VIL [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEcTATOR."] SiP,-Your article on "The King" comes as a refreshing draft of common-sense loyalty. But what are we to think of the Church...

A PRAYER FOR THE KING. [To TIH EDITOR OF TIHE "SPECuA'TOR."j SIR.-011 the Sunday after the birth of his Majesty King Edward VII., then Duke of Cornwall, Sydney Smith, preaching...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. THE QUEEN'S NAVAL FUNERAL. [TO THU EDITOR OF THE " SPRCT-TOR."] SIR,-I should like, if you will allow me, to try to describe the singular beauty of...

A GREAT AlMRICAN JUDGE. ON Monday was celebrated at Washington the centenary of the initiation of Chief Justice Marshall as head of the American Supreme Court. All intelligent...

BAGHDAD.* IT is a singular fact that almost nothing was known of the history and growth of Baghdad before the publication of this volume. Like many literary classics which are...

"MARK RUTHERFORD'S" ESSAYS.* Tii E essays in this volume show "Mark Rutherford " in a new lighlt. Hitherto most of his work has been stories dealing chiefly with a society...

PROFESSIONAL CRIMINALS. IN the Nineteenth Centutry for this month Dr. Robert I Auderson gives us the result of the experience of the criminal classes which he has gained as...

TTHE MAGAZINES. I THE best article in this month's Conilewporary is undoubtedly Mr. Meredith Townsend's "The Influence of t Europe on Asia." We have, however, dealt with this...

NOVELS OF THE WEEK.* A NE'W novel from the author of Jl73lersnzoor constitutes a welcome oasis in the desert of fiction throngh which we have been passing during the last few...

BO OK S. THE EXGLISHMAN IN CHINA.' SiR RUTHERFORD ALCOCK was born in May, 1809, and died in the winter of 1897. Originally trained as a surgeon, he passed with distinction...

VICTORIA. 6 .-7;G, E7.;.uas C gq'f$f.O TtX.G 5,wi J,1 U SraSarci -aXptaP l'0oY X?1V91OL4EI EmmA GURNEY SALTER.

"GOD SAVE THE QUEEN." [It has been we11 s;LiI by the Spectator that henceforth no Englishman now living, whether British or Colonial, can recollect without a sob in his throat...

SIC ITUR. Wno having served her generation fell on sleep, Our island Queen, let her be rocked upon the English Deep Once more, bringing her to the grave where love would bie...

VIRGIL AND TENNYSON. B IOGRAPHY, it has been said, is an affair not of likeness, but of difference. We recognise the great more clearly by the traits which are peculiar to them...

AASIA ANI) ET'ROPE. T HE Con~temniorury for iFebruarv contains a verv remarkable article fromi the peii of Mr. Meredith Townseud dealing withthe influence of Europe upon Asia....