T HE Emperor and Empress-Regent of China re-entered their capital on Tuesday, the 7th inst., with stately cere- monial. They moved forward surrounded by a thousand " noblemen "...

of Count von Billow. Count lido von Stolberg took occasion on Wednesday to say that Mr. Chamberlains comparison between British methods in the Transvaal and German methods in -...

of German policy during the year. Its general drift is that the usual anxiety of the German Government not to quarrel with Russia has been fully maintained, Germany having been...

manufacturers of engines their right of competition for Indian contracts on account of German Anglophobia is, for reasons stated elsewhere, of course untrue, but it appears to...

that the only way to impress the Chinese was to refuse to negotiate with the ultimate cause of the whole calamity, the Empress-Regent herself. That would have brought all her...

progress. The weekly report from the columns shows a diminution of the Boer fighting forces by 378 (36 killed, 9 wounded, 261 prisoners, and 72 surrenders), no fewer than four...

splendid record of the Imperial Light Horse, and have more than once expressed a hope that some means might be found for per- manently commemorating their achievements. We are...

a banquet given by the Johannesburg Town Council on Wednesday. took a decidedly hopeful view of the situation. This view was justified, he said, not merely by the improved...

cause of sane Imperialism, published last Saturday a striking commentary on Lord Roberts's official denial of one of the worst of the many atrocious libels on the British Army...

Dublin on Tuesday under the presidency of Mr. John Redmond, who begged the country to subscribe £12,000 a, year in order that the Nationalist representatives might be able to...

from Warsaw. He was a Polish Jew, who had accumulated a large fortune as a banker and railway contractor, and earned much renown among his countrymen by economic writings when...

the Sanitary Inspectors' Association last Saturday, dealt instructively with the small-pox epidemic. Though the present visitation was calculated to cause anxiety, it was...

Fund—a local association for the purpose of relieving temporary distress by local and voluntary effort—Mr. Cham- berlain laid down two governing principles on the recognition of...

significant rejoinder to the Pro-Boers who have sought to minimise Lord Rosebery's references to the war and the settlement. Speaking—if we except his inconclusive allusion to...

on Army reorganisation and reform to the Tavi- stock Liberal Unionist Association, of which he is president. Taking for his standpoint the fact that not less than one hundred...

cellor of the Exchequer will have to meet a deficit of £10,000,000, and argues that the time has arrived for a redistribution of taxation. He thinks that the Treasury now...

adequate . foreign-service Army was to make the soldier's life more attractive, and. his place and situation more tempting. That meant increased expense, but such expense would...

New Consols (2f) were on Friday 93i.

MR. RUDYARD KIPLING'S IDEA. F EW English poets have been satirists, the national character tending to the use of broadly humorous ridicule rather than stinging rebuke. Moore...

O UR contemporaries, we see, in commenting upon the return of the Chinese Empress , to Pekin are unable to resist that suggestion of the comic, almost the farcical, which every...

T HE uses of diplomacy, and still more of diplomats, are not exhausted, and we see no reason to suppose that they ever will be. Science, which has seemed to supersede them, has...

I r.is satisfactory news that the Government are buying 80,000 morgen of land in the Ficksburg district in add Lion to the 45,000 morgen already bought in the Thaba 'Nchu...

W E accept, of course, with a whole heart the assur ance of the Daily Express that the spurious letter from the India Office to certain German millowners which it published in a...

P ROBABLY since the world began there was never a period when men wasted their time as little as they do now Whether they use it well or ill, they at least dO not let it slip...

I T is hard to decide whether Royal patronage is or is not of benefit to the patronised department of thought or effort. Historians have always affirmed the former, and have...

I N the Year-Book published by that very practical paper, Farm and Home, there is, among a mass of useful infor- mation, a chapter on the poisonous plants of this country. Some...

THE WAR OFFICE AND THE VOLUNTEERS. (To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—The policy of the Army Orders of November 14th and December 24th must appear to many of us as a...

[TO TUE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") think I can throw some light on some of the things which you consider " still obscure " in Mr. Gladstone's political life. (1) " The...

70 THU EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR: •] Sxa,—A story current in the Commonwealth describes the arrival of an Australian and his son (a bush lad) in London. On leaving the railway...

[To Tun EDITOR OF 'TOR "SWIM .TOR." J Rudyard Kipling's fiery lines in the' Times of January 4th throw into bold relief some of the ominous portents of our day. But though "...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.”) SIR,—I have read with interest your remarks during the last few weeks on the Chili-Argentine question. As I have just returned from Chili,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —In an article in last week's Spectator you allude to the conduct during the action of November 15th at Frere Station of Engine-driver...

(To TILE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." J SIR, —In view of Lord Rosebery's recent utterances,'and the multitude of conjectures raised thereby, it may not be with- out interest to...

[TO TILE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIR, —Mr. W. W. Ward's letter in the Spectator of Decem- ber 28th is a most valuable contribution to a very interesting subject; but while...

article in the Spectator of January 4th on " Combatant Non-Combatants " you have made no mention of Army chaplains, commissioned or civilian. Surely they come in. Here is one...

have said that Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton ; and yet a man, one Rudyard Kipling, ventures to reprove the nation for devoting itself heart and soul to the...

SIR,—Mr. Eric M. Wilkins in the Spectator of January 4th is in error in describing the common red poppy as the papaver somniferum. The poppy of the cornfields is the papaver...

SPECTATOR.1 • Snt,—The Spectator of August 3rd has just reached me, and in it I find an article on " The Genesis of Roads " which interests me deeply. Could the writer see the...

Spectator on the breeze which attends the sunrise has an interesting bearing on a passage (already quoted by Mr. Ward) in that most ancient and most exquisite of pastoral...

you on morning winds which appears in the Spectator of January 4th has not Mr. Eric Wilkins over- looked the fact that corn-poppies do not flower till Mid- summer ? In the poem...

I am sure your readers are all grateful, to Mr. Bullen for his letter in the Spectator of January 4th. It dispels from the mind all doubt on the subject. The doubt came to me...

With thunder up the shore. All fitfully the West wind sighed In answer to the curlew's call; The sullen fires of sunset died, And darkness shrouded all. Once through the mist a...

[TO TUE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR ; Bir. Robert Gardiner, in the Spectator of January 4th, is perfectly well aware that the instance quoted from my former letter to your...

[TO THE EDITOR. OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the interests of accuracy, permission is solicited to correct a statement made by a correspondent in the Spectator of November 78th...

" SPECTATOR." . 1 SInf"-YOU are, of course, like very many Englishmen, a great authority on the question of our language, and your articles about this question are of great...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR"] SIR,—Permit me to correct an oversight in your reviewer's notice of the late R. A. Neil's " Equites of Aristophanes" in the Spectator of...

THE OLD MASTERS AT THE ACADEMY. THE French have many expressions qualifying successes. Nacces de snobisine is one. This kind of success, it is to be feared, has been forced...

THE LETTERS OF JOHN RICHARD GREEN.* IT was high time that the Life of so notable a man as John Richard Green should be given to the world, although we doubt not that there were...

of the last century had no finer type of Royal grandeur and grace to show than the author of these journals. At the head of one of those im- posing cavalcades of "the Myrmidons...

Mn. W. H. WILKINS'S study of Queen Caroline has not the same interest as his sketch of the hapless Sophie Dorothea. Caroline plays her part on the larger stage of history, and...

in South Africa, the prob! lema which_ it will leave behind it loom large on the horizon. • Lincoln's Phial 1p/construction. By Charles H. McCarthy. Ph.D. (Ys.) London :...

Stoughton. 63.)—Mr. Ackworth gives us an interesting account of the rise of Methodism in a small country town. The picture he draws of life in England at that time is rather a...

SWEETHEART MANETTB.* ENGLISH readers are excusably inclined to regard modern American fiction as falling under three heads,—historical romance, studies of city life, and New...

this book there are two threads of story, at times closely woven together, at others too loosely connected for a quite satisfactory artistic effect. The events take place partly...

(Sands and Co. 3s. 6d.)—These stories will appeal to people who like to read of supernatural adventures and " black magic." In the first three stories the scene is laid in the...

HA.TJD IMMEMOR. Hata /mmemor. By Charles Stewart. (W. Blackwood and Sons. 7e. 6d.)—This book is one of the pleasantest volumes of gossip and reminiscence that have been...

6s.)—The title of this book is rather unprepossessing, but the story itself is worth reading. Roger Torre inherited a big estate and considerable wealth after be had started his...

— An Hand Interlude is a slight but pleasant novel in which a man of forty makes acquaintance with a young and pretty girl whom he believes to be the penniless companion of an...

6s.)—Slightly crude, but exceedingly clever and arresting, is Miss Bennett's story of Priscilla, the charming maiden of Puritan ideals who marries a man of the world, and runs...

does not wish it shorter. The point of view is so consistently Irish, Roman Catholic, and—in the only good sense of the word—reactionary that one would guess the calling and the...

Letters on Life. By Claudius Clear. (Hodder and Stoughton. 3s. (Id.)—" Claudius Clear" does not belong to the select order of essayists who say things so well that it is...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not beim reserved for review in other forms.] The Pension Book of Gray's Inn. Edited by Reginald J. Fletcher, M.A....

S. Burrows. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co. 2s. net.)-This is one of the " West. minster Biographies," written, as one might anticipate, in a dis- tinctly sympathetic spirit. This...

millan and Co. 8s. 6d.)-Dr. Selwyn's main contention is that Silas and Luke were identical, the former name giving place to the latter for reasons which are detailed in chap. 1....

Johnson. Bs. 6d.)—This books belongs to a class which is one of the puzzles of literature. It has plenty of cleverness, a play of weird fancy, a certain power of...

a selection from their Almanacs and Diaries. The " Victoria " and " Miniature " of the smaller, the " Commercial " and " Royal" of the larger, kind seem well suited to their...

The Catholic Directory, Ecclesiastical Register, and Almanac (Burns and Oates, 1s. 6d. net); Who's Who (A. and C. Black, 52. net); The Public School Year Book (Swan Sonnenschein...

net, or 3s. 6d. net per vol.)—This is described as a " thin-paper edition," the three volumes containing respectively the " Tragedies," the " Histories and P ems," and the "...