whose vast popularity greatly conduced to Mr. McKinley's success, was elected Vice-President, and the elections for vacant seats in the Senate were filled up so as to give the...

6th in a decided victory for Mr. McKinley. Of the forty-five States he secured twenty- seven, and in the Electoral College he has 292 votes to 155. His "plurality at the polls"...

crumbs," rendered all the more difficult by heavy raid and violent storms, is being steadily pursued. Ventersbnrg has shared the fate of Botbaville; General Kitchener, command-...

captured and released, constant damage is inflicted on the railway, and marauding bands are still active in the neigh- boarhood of Bloemfontein, Aliwal North, Ronxville, and...

T HE work of Cabinet-making has proceeded all the week, but Lord Salisbury is evidently hampered by the restric- tions described elsewhere, and it is not complete even yet. Mr....

Sir Charles Tupper, the Conservative leader, even losing his own seat for the first time in his career. The event is worth recording, not only on account of the improved...

any case.

and, indeed, no authentic news has been received from thence, but there are a quantity of rumours, all of one kind, which point to a serious evil prevailing there. Too many...

the Congress of the South African League. His view, or rather, perhaps, the one he gave his audience, was that there had been no quarrel between the English and the Dutch, but...

nothing important except that the Opposition, who will be reinforced by all Clericals, intend to overthrow the Government if they can, and that M. Waldeck-Rousseau really...

correspondent there, for example, states on November 5th that the appointment of Yu-chang, lately Governor of Honan, to be Governor of Hupei creates alarm in the Yangtse Valley,...

at Godalming on Tuesday. It was rather an important speech, though it was a modest one. Mr. Brodrick asked his friends to reserve congratulations until he had done his work, and...

are manifesting a strong disposition to desert Prince Victor Bonaparte, and to replace him by his brother Prince Louis, now a General of Artillery in the Russian Service. Their...

Lord Wolseley in regard to the " treating" of home-coming soldiers has been repeated and endorsed in a farther appeal from Lord Roberts. In the admirable letter which he...

tion of Civil Engineers, Mr. James Mansergh, delivered on Tuesday evening, was of unusual interest. Dealing with the increasingly onerous responsibilities of 'the waterworks...

addresses were delivered by the President, Sir John Evans, and by Professor Flinders Petrie. Sir John Evans noted 'amongst the satisfactory features of a year marked by...

at Manchester has been concluded in a manner which will satisfy all who are concerned in the maintenance of a high standard of municipal integrity. Mr. Higginbottom, an Alder-...

Hunt, recorded in the Times of Monday, of an address, signed by a number of leading men, together with his por- trait painted by Sir W. B. Richmond, R.A. Whatever may be the...

boroughs, which were incomplete at the moment of our going to press last week, may be summarised as follows C onservatives ... ... ... ... ... 826 Progressives ... ... 456...

New Console (21) were on Friday 981.

CABINET-MAKING. C ABINET-MAKING is a very difficult business, worse even than choosing Bishops, though that has of late years been supposed to be a sore burden upon the dis-...

time in the election of the American President, and justly, for it concerns the whole world. We do not, it is true, believe that Mr. Bryan, if he had been elected, could have...

T HE results of the first municipal elections in the new Metropolitan boroughs, though not all that could have been wished, are certainly interesting, and, as it seems to us,...

Lyons was not alto- gether of good omen for the continued tranquillity of the Waldeck-Rousseau Ministry. Although by far the best and most honest Ministry France has had since...

I S we stand now upon the threshold of the cold weather, the problem of last winter, largely for gotten in the summer months, makes new demands on our attention. It would be...

• I T is hard for any one who reads the book which Mr. Fisher Unwin has just published upon the Jews of London to refrain from asking why the Jews are less than eight hundred...

T HE intelligence from China as to the attitude of the German officers towards the Chinese is apt to come as a shock to humane minds. We can scarcely doubt the accuracy of the...

T HE country labourer seldom gets the credit for half the excellent qualities be possesses, but he has every year enlisted more of the interest and respect of the rest of the...

THE HEGEMONY OF SPAIN. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—The Hispano-American Congress at Madrid is an event of considerable historical interest, and, it may be, even...

MR. MORLEY ON CROMWELL. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] " Sfa,—The strongly equipped critic who has done me the honour to review my book in your pages has not, I think,...

[To THE EDITOR OS THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sts, I venture to express the regret—shared, I know, by several of your readers—with which I have seen the Spectator join the chorus of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, Will you allow me to point out what appears a mis- conception of Scottish history in the judicious and dis- criminating article on this...

suppose, come within the scope of your article on " The Ecclesiastical Union in Scotland " to do more than refer to the all but accomplished fusion of the Free Church with the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —Although Mr. Phillips's new play doubtless owes nothing to his predecessors in the English drama, a short account of the story as...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—The opinion of Mr. Baumgarten as to the impossibility of absorbing the Dutch in South Africa was answered in the Spectator of September...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I imagine that many laymen will, like myself, have read the article in the Spectator of November 3rd on Mr. Beechinga Religio Laici "...

SIR, I do not know whether you care to admit any corre- spondence on the subject of Mr. Phillips's sombre, yet beautiful, play. But if I may be allowed, I should like to call...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The following anecdote told of the great Duke of Wel. lington by Gleig ("People's Edition," p. 448) seems an apt illustration of your...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Mr. Ludlow, in the Spectator of November 3rd, is quite right. The Englishman is not of the " Germanic " type. His skull is of quite a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the World of September 12th, describing a night. watch on the Trondhjem Fjord with the first mate of the Ragnvald Jarl,' I said :—"...

O fountain of peace and blessing ! 0 centre of storm and strife! The waves of thy will roll onward: I stand alone on thy shore : I veil mine eyes in thy presence : I seal my...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I make a suggestion through your columns respecting the " Hooligans " of whom we have heard so much lately ? It was hoped that...

[TO TUB EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR ."] SIR,—While thanking you for the appreciative review of " Motor Vehicles and Motors " in the Spectator of Novem- ber 3rd, will you allow me,...

PROFESSORHUXLEY'S LIFE.* TAKING it as a whole, this is an admirable biography, since it is to so great an extent autobiography. Mr. Huxley lets his father speak for himself...

IT may be said at once that Lord Rosebery's Napoleon is an admirable compilation. The very quality which makes the Liberal statesman an inefficient politician ensures historical...

Professor Raleigh's book with some trepidation. His book upon Louis Stevenson wis so Stevensonian in manner, and his book upon Style so stylistic, that we dreaded lest his...

THE first of the three chapters into which Mr. Bowen's book is divided treats of "The Oxford Movement," and begins with a candid recognition of the good which it worked in the...

APART from the versatility of which The Mantle of Elijah affords signal proof—for this is a novel of politics and society in the early " sixties "—no attentive reader of Mr....

MR. ARNOLD-FORSTER ON ARMY REFORM. noticed most of the letters as they appeared, but, now that they can be read continuously, they form a very serious indictment, and the...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as hare not been reserved for review in other forms.] Two COLLEGE HISTORIEL—Exeter College. By William Keatley Stride, M.A....

Lane. 5s. net.)—All regions are not so responsive to the art and care of the gardener as Cornwall. Nevertheless Mr. Roberts's experiences will be found useful. Useful or no,...

(C. Arthur Pearson. 16s.)—Mrs. Miln takes us East and West, North and South, and shows us the ceremonies that go to make up the ritual of marriage. We remember a pleasant book...

content to give a general notice, we have to mention The Maritime Codes of Italy, translated and annotated by his Honour Judge Raikes (Effingham Wilson, 123. 6d. net). This...

Sons. 6s.)--Is not this title just a little arrogant ? Has the world had to wait for Mr. David Lubin to pronounce his fiat ? The book is supposed to report the debates of a club...