but it is of a sufficiently sensational character. The capture of 203-Metre Hill, recorded last week, has achieved the result which the Japanese expected. The bombardment of the...

pro- jectiles from the hindmost ships of the ironclad division should hit our own vessels." • Further, it goes on to state that the cruiser • Aurora' had actually been struck...

interest to students of international law. The Supreme Prize Court of St. Petersburg has reversed the decision of the Vladivostok Prize Court in the case of the German steamer...

203-Metre Hill has meant the evacuation of several adjoining positions, such as Red Hill, the Russians being unable to endure the fire from the greater height, while the...

culminated on Wednesday in a long and important statement from M. Delcasse. He reproached those Senators who allowed the Newfoundland Convention to absorb their attention, to...

the finances of the United States was submitted to Congress on Wednesday. For the fiscal year ended June 30th, 1904., there is a deficit of 28,354,114, total receipts being...

non-Union men in its employment or seeking to be employed under it. Turning to the question of Corporations and Trusts, he asserts that the national Government alone can deal...

Baron von Stengel, in the Reichstag last Saturday. During the current financial year there had been a decline in the revenue from Customs of over £700,000 as compared with last...

Billow, in replying to Herr Bebel, gave a curious exposition of German Weltpolitik. His attack upon the inconsistency of the Socialists in their excursions in foreign policy was...

issue, deplores the recrudescence of a blind un- reasonableness in French party strife. He notes as the worst feature of the present situation the deliberate resolve of the...

until there is a judicial way of enforcing a right in international law it would be wicked and retrograde for any civilised Power to disarm, since such a step would mean an...

of Imperial defence. Under the heading of "The Great Sea Raid" the writer gives, in the form of a circumstantial narrative, illustrated by maps, an imaginative forecast of the...

Mr. Chamberlain and Messrs. Icke and Sharp, Limited, one of the chief Birmingham firms of confectionery manufacturers. The latter wrote pointing out the disastrous effects on...

1904. Increase over 1903. Imports £498,523,697 £7,920,574 British Exports 272,745,763 6,467,985 Foreign and Colonial Re-exports 63,881,642 145,035 The increase of imports was...

on Monday, the Duke of Devonshire referred to the questions of rural depopulation and the dearth of satisfactory labourers. The housing difficulty, due to the considerable cost...

end, and all signs point to a period of prosperity for our greatest manufacturing industry. The American cotton crop of this year has been the largest on record, with the result...

mission to deal with the Scottish Church problem, but indulged for the rest of his speech in a series of caustic and destructive criticisms of the policy of the Premier and Mr....

inconsiderate of Mr. Chamberlain's most cherished feelings. With a bluntness which is positively indecent, month after month they give a flat denial to his declarations that our...

Fleet reaches the China seas is a matter still in doubt, though at the present moment the signs point to a speedy end to the siege. But in any case the war is entering upon a...

adopted the Anglo-French Agreement in its entirety. But though M. Delcass6's warm defence of the Agree- ment evidently impressed his hearers, and though the Senate, like the...

his benediction on the pro- posed Commission on the Scotch Church case, and con- gratulated the Government on their action. We do not follow all his arguments,—in particular, we...

has an interest for Englishmen. Ordi- narily speaking, the demands of the national expenditure and the methods by which the national revenue is raised have no true political...

are worth noting. Though only represen- tatives of the Orange River Colony attended, yet the organisation of the Dutch party is so effective that it speaks with the same voice...

site for "an adequate Shakespeare Memorial" is one of those decisions arrived at by a public body which it is impos- sible to regard without approval, but which compel mis-...

bath at the hotel, and he had also been polite to her under vexation." This remark, recorded by Mr. Meredith, serves to remind us that gentlemanliness in its origin, and on a...

relations of episodes in the life of the animals of North America, "The Kindred of the Wild," has written a second, under the title of "The Watchers of the Trails" (London :...

Sin,—I read in the last issue of the Spectator the following comment on M. Combes's policy regarding the Disestablishment Bill in France :—" As for M. Combes's references to...

of 1,000 white workmen. Assuming 500 are married, with an average of five per family, this means 3,000 white people living in prosperous conditions who were previously out of...

Sin,—In the remarkable article by Mr. S. S. McClure in McClure's Magazine for the current month,, on which you commented lately, the increase of lawlessness in the United States...

much better for a Cadet corps to wear uniform? Imagine an adult Volunteer corps wearing ordinary clothes : the image can hardly be tolerated. Lord Meath says that "the War...

think, have picked another hole in Shakespeare's law. Towards the close of the trial-scene in The Merchant of Venice, Portia, after insisting that Shylock in cutting off the...

the cause of Unionist Free-trade by taking an early opportunity of describing precisely the nature of the new Unionist Free- Trade Club. Is it a " club " in the ordinary sense,...

a correspondent who deprecates the clerical manifesto against Free-trade is desirous of " muzzling the clergy" (see Spectator, December 3rd, p. 896). That might be said if he...

your article "The Undergraduate" in the Spectator of December 3rd ? You say : "It is unfortunate that beautiful maidens do not often fall into the Cherwell, and that even if...

States Industrial Commission in 1901 had occasion, I observe, to cite (p. 528), as an instance of the success of un- restricted imports, the fact that "Great Britain, producing...

WHO comes, to sob of slow-breathed guns borne past In solemn pageant ? This is he that threw Challenge to England. From the veld he drew A strength that bade her sea-strength...

but most are agreed that the perfect history must combine something of the interest of story with the signifi- cance of science. They differ only in the emphasis which they...

... £1. 1 0 W. M. Cooper ... ... 41 1 o We are informed by the County Gentleman that a large number of persons of influence and position, including the Duke of Devonshire, Lord...

observes Mr. Hirst of The Wealth of Nations, "is inextricably bound up with the doctrine of free-trade." It would be difficult for any one who has read even a tithe of the...

tinction among all the innumerable volumes which have dealt with various aspects or phases of the long struggle, that it is the only considerable treatise which has not been...

Illustrations in Photc- gravure. Loudon and Brothers. [We. net.] —of which the degraded taste of Louis XV. was only one, and among which must be counted the general decay in...

in certain quarters, there can be little doubt that, a favourable impression has been created by his conciliatory utterances. The value of Count von Bfilow'a pacific assur-...

A DAUGHTER OF JAEL.* LADY RIDLEY'S new novel, the appearance of which will excite pleasurable anticipations in those who remember her earlier ventures in fiction, illustrates in...

Windus. 6s.)—It is an unpleasant surprise at the end of this book (aimed, as the reader till then believes, against the pomps and vanities of this wicked world) to come upon the...

6d. net.)—We read with hope the first paragraph of Miss Goodrich-Freer's first chapter in which she quotes the counsel of a friendly publisher : "Never mind where Absolom's Tomb...

Co. 68.)—Mr. Fraser has put together here the story of six famous fighting ships : he begins with the Monmouth' at Chatham (when the Dutch were on the Medway), and he ends with...

net.)—Mr. Fox, as the son of Sir Charles Fox, has had many opportunities of storing up these "engineering reminiscences." He begins with some account of Sir Charles's father,...

the heroine of this novel of literary New York com- mits an unpardonable fraud in palming off a dead man's novel as her own, the author obviously has much sympathy with her, a...

H. N. Bonar. (H. Frowde. 6s. net.)—It is not necessary to estimate the value of H. Bonar's hymns. They are accepted everywhere. Anglican, and even Roman, collections include...

Edition by J. M. Easton. (Stevens and Haynes.)—This work was first published in 1870. Many changes in the law have taken place since that date, chiefly in the matter of...

selection of diaries and pocket-books, suited for all pockets in both senses of the word. Very pretty is the Quarterly Pocket Diary, which, while fitted with the first quarter...

a useful supplement to Whir's Who. Parliament, learned societies, academies, Government officials, hospitals (with their staffs), magazines and newspapers (with their...

new volume of this periodical, which we had the pleasure of introducing, on its first appearance, to the English public. It defines himself as a " small popular encyclopaedia of...