K ING EDWARD left Lisbon on the 7th inst., after a most successful visit. The Portuguese are evidently delighted at his cordiality, and the references made in his • short but...

their leaders evidently wish to push the contest to an extreme point They have prevented nearly all traffic on the railways, have arrested commerce by stopping work in the...

the former .province the rebellion is spreading, and the revolutionaries appear to direct their efforts against the means of communication. They are said to be in possession of...

opening the Dreyfus case. He insists that it shall be probed to the bottom, and on Monday he read a letter from General de Pellieux to M. Cavaignac, - who in August, 1898, was...

has failed to conciliate the Radicals, and dislikes some recent laws which they have passed liberating the Press and estab- lishing the ballot. On April 7th, accordingly, he...

spreading in Pekin. The Empress-Regent has started, as was announced, with the Emperor for Paoting-fu, where sums have been spent which would be incredible were only a momentary...

of Commons by Mr. Gerald Balfour on Monday. The main principles of the Bill are—(1) that a new port authority is to be created, consisting of fourteen appointed members (of whom...

personal explanation to the House, and to announce that he had resigned the office of Financial Secretary to the Treasury. This he did in a speech of no little feeling and...

Recess. Befon adjourning, however, the subject of the Baghdad Railway was raised in a printed answer to a question by Mr. Bowles and in a short debate on the adjournment. The...

on Tuesday. We have given an account of the measure elsewhere, and shown how in many respects the violence of the opposition with which the measure has been received cannot be...

every important place, and exciting an enthusiasui which is novel even in America. He spoke at Chicago about the Monroe doctrine, driving home the idea that it is useless to...

of a vicious system. If there had been a strict rule in regard to Ministers and directorships and their dealings with companies, either public or which some day might be turned...

but Mr. Sydney Buxton protested that it was not fair to make the County Council guarantee the loan, and yet not have a majority on the Board. The Bill is to be sent to a Joint...

Cornwall, where a vacancy was created by the death of Mr. W. S. Caine, was declared on Thursday, the figures being— Sir Wilfrid Lawson (L.) ..„ „, ,„ Mr. A. Strauss (L.13.)...

is melancholy reading. It shows that deaths from this terrible cause are increasing very fast, the rate rising from 2-7 per 10,000 of the living in 1864 to 31 in 1881, 4 . 6 in...

concludes the remarkable series of letters dealing with Germany, Britain, and the United States which be has contributed to our columns,—a series which we are glad to say he has...

satisfaction in Berlin. But the 1Vationo2 Zeitung, in an apparently inspired editorial, admits that although the Anatolian Railway is not "exclusively a German under- taking,"...

Com- mission to inquire into the Militia and Volunteers were an- nounced. They are :—Chairman—The Duke of Norfolk, Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding 2nd. V.B. Royal Sussex Regiment....

deserves separate record. When she died last Saturday she was within forty-three days of her hundred and eleventh year, and was, if not the oldest of his Majesty's subjects, at...

New Consols (21) were ou Thursday 911.

THE BAGHDAD RAILWAY. fr HE Baghdad Railway turns out to be a matter even more urgent than we believed. When we dealt with .the .matter last week we knew that the British...

into the House of Commons by Sir William Anson on Tuesday. We cannot say that its reception was of a very warm character, but we by no means feel sure that this is a sign that...

A N epidemic of strikes is raging on the Continent, to the dismay of all Ministers of the Interior, who regard strikes as petty insurrections ; but the strike in Holland is by...

W E have not been slow to criticise the Unionist Government when their actions, in our judgment, justified criticism, and we have admitted—with what has, we fear, seemed. to...

I T is not often that an application in Chancery is fraught with such vast consequences as that which was decided by Mr. Justice Farwell on Friday week. The application then...

in private life. It is, however, a difficult art to criticise, because it is one in which success goes generally unobserved, and failure is almost always apparent. The mark of a...

T 4 AST Saturday there died at St. Peter's Port, Guernsey, the "oldest Englishwoman," Mrs. Margaret Anne Neve, at the extraordinary age of one hundred and ten years. Mrs. Neve...

E VERY morning when it neither rains nor snows, four white cotton sunbonnets may be seen between 7 and 8 o'clock, earlier or later according to the season of the year, above the...

GERMANY AND BRITAIN ONCE MORE. [To THE EDITOR OF SHE " SPECT 11.TOR...) SIR,—In this concluding letter I propose to illustrate by quotation, first, the German view of Germany;...

NATIONAL SCOUTS. To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR:9 Sin,—For the last two years I have been studying what I call my district by means of bicycle - rides, each of which has...

SOUTH AFRICA. [To THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR:] SIRT — I most heartily agree with you that classical architec- ture is absolutely unfitted for a national monument. Not only...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:1 • SIE,—As an Englishman born and educated in France, where I have spent nearly half my life, will you allow me to any that I entirely differ...

find it my duty to trouble you again, if you will be kind enough to give me the space, in order to inform "A Londoner" of the facts which have escaped his notice in the...

[To TUB EDITOR OP TECH "SPEOTA.TOR."J Six,—In a footnote to the letter of "Canadian Soot" in the Spectator of March 7th you say that "the treatment of Canada by the British Post...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Your correspondent, Mr. J. Ralph ( Spectator, March 28th) is, I think, a bad political casuist. He is going to vote Liberal next...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Si,—In the course of the article under the above heading which appeared in the Spectator of March 28th, you point out that the simplest way...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] am sure that many thoughtful men must have wel- comed your proposal in a recent number that the Government now, at a time when the existence...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,"] SIR, — The following extract f.rom Carlyle's "Life of Sterling" (p. 242 in first edition), being part of a letter dated June 30th, 1839,...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR"] SIE, — I have seen frequent allusion in the columns of the Spectator, both in articles and letters on the above subject, to the disposal of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Snt,—In an article in the Spectator of March 21st on the subject of an Australian subsidy to the Imperial Navy the following statement...

THE SICK CHILD HE for whom the world was made Cannot lift his heavy head, All its pretty curls puffed out, - Btirnt with fevers, parched with drought. He, the tyrant,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—May I point out a rather strange error in the interesting article on "The Colours of English Flowers" in the Spectator of March 21st ?...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—In the month of July, 1893, I made a pilgrimage to the grave of Richard Jefferies, and in each succeeding year until 1902 I have paid...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sra,—In an article in the Spectator of March 21st on "Letter- Writing for*Girls a Century Ago," you say : "We do not know where the Temple of...

THE LIFE OF PRINCE CHRISTIAN VICTOR.* THE Memoir of Prince Christian Victor, which Mr. Warren has compiled with such sympathy and skill, was worth writing, if only to show how...

Government dis. covered that, in a country possessing eighty million acres of timber-growing jungle, wood for railway sleepers had to be imported from Norway owing to the waste...

Mn. Rue's book deals with slum life in New York, a life in many ways like slum life in London. Slums, as Mr. Riis says, are the offspring of no system ; the slum "comes much...

Tins book, which has occupied for many years the scanty leisure of the eminent statesman from whose pen it proceeds, will interest a very large public in Germany, and a smaller...

6s.)—Mr. Grier has allowed his love of a series of stories to lead him this time backwards instead of forwards. "The Warden of the Marches," published last year, is really the...

ROVING HEARTS.* WE do not believe in prying into the secrets of the literary prison-house, but are free to confess that there is something engaging as well as unique in the...

THE BRITISH ISLES. Europe, Vol. IL By Geo. G. Chisholm. "Stanford's Compen- dium" (New Issue). (E. Stanford. 15s.)—The new volume of that excellent work, the new issue of...

R. Stockton. (Cassell and Co. 6s.)—There is a delicately restrained extravagance in Mr. Stockton's fiction which is peculiarly attractive. It is different from farce, by which...

Co. 6s.)—"Myo-ok " means in Burmese "township officer," and the particular officer whose machinations we are invited to follow has charge of Myothit ; Anglia, Newtown. By an...

Studies in the History of Educational Opinion from the Renaissance. By S. S. Laurie, A.M., I e L.D. (Cambridge University Press. 6s.)—Dr. Laurie has given us here an extremely...

What, he will ask in vain, is the object of the young woman who marries her cousin, Alain Tenger, endows him with half her fortune, and then vanishes into space ? This is an...

to read this collection of short stories who is not overflowing with health and spirits. They are marked by a uniformly hopeless dreariness, and "A Brand of Discord" is almost...

and Co. 6s.)—Mr. Oppenheim's "Prince of Sinners" does not seem to the reader quite so wicked a person as the author imagines. He is, of course, a Marquis. In fiction the...

[Under this healing we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Oxford at the Cross-Roads. By Percy Gardner, Litt.D. (A. and C....

and Co. 6s.)—Anthony Bacon, a descendant of Lord Bacon's brother Anthony, was born in 1796, went to Eton, where he dis- tinguished himself by successfully declining to be...

5s. net.)—This is a thick book containing some six hundred pages. The title and the size both suggest the idea of heaviness, but the bZioli is far from heavy or dull. As a...

6s. net.)—This volume contains many useful facts and figures ; but we should not call it a "handbook." It is a powerful statement of the case for housing reform, but not a few...

2 vols. (George Allen. 21s. net.)—These volumes introduce us to various more or less interesting people. In high place among them is John Hawtrey, great-uncle of the lady who...

Book, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Ward, Lock, and Co., is. 6d.), a volume in the "Youth's Library" published by that &M. We are quite aware that ,when a volume of this size is...

the assistance of J. P. A. Renwick, M.A. (Macmillan and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—The notable feature in this year's issue (the fortieth) of this invaluable handbook is the result of...

C. Black. 7s. 6d. net.)—Lady Butler's letters and diary, the outcome of a few weeks' Journeyings in Palestine, express simply and forcibly the impressions made on a devout and...

and A. B. Beard. (G. Newnes. 6s. net.)—The authors begin with a serious chapter on carpentering ; they follow this up with some playful suggestions as to the "Possibilities of...

By John Marquess of Bute, J. H. Stevenson, and H. W. Lonsdale. (W. Blackwood and Sons. .R.2 2s. net.)—This may be described as a supplementary volume to the "Royal and...

(A. Constable and Co. 8s.)—The editor has given, it is clear, something of a free hand to his contributors. The reader of Mr. Marvin's essay on "The Elementary School" will be...

(G. Newnes. 7s. 6d. net.)—Here the Bible characters tell their own stories. The idea is new, at least in this connection, a little, or more than a little, audacious, and not, we...