T HREE considerable events mark the war news of the week. Santiagci has been "sealed up" by sinking a collier in the narrowest part of the channel leading to the harbour; an...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, June 25th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

THE CONGESTION OF INDIA. T HE debate of Tuesday in the House of Commons on Indian finance was in one way of unusual interest. Lord George Hamilton suddenly interrupted himself...

this week. Slowly, very slowly, but without pause, the American resources are developing themselves, and so also, with equal tardiness and equal relentlessness, are the effects...

I T is difficult to regard Sir William Harcourt's speech on the Finance Bill without anger and impatience. He had so good a case, and spoilt it so completely. He is perfectly...

presented by the poverty of the country clergy has again been brought into prominence by the debate on the rating of tithe-rent charge which took place last Monday. Into the...

'T HE Globe of Monday affirms, on information which to its conductors seems conclusive, that the Emperor • ef China has resolved to quit Pekin, that the needful arrangements are...

W E are not at all sure that the Bishops have not been rather embarrassed than helped by the recent assurances of obedience on the part of the clergy. Under any circumstances...

to respect for a certain masculineness of thought, said last week in an address to the Co-operative Congress at Peter- borough that he believed the first cause of discontent in...

W HEN George Eliot was asked what was the chief lesson she had learnt from life's experience, she replied, "Tolerance." This, if we are to judge from his very interesting...

F OR imaginative children the first visit to the Zoo is a day of joy, yet not unmixed with doubt. To such, and especially to the solitary child, the creatures have existed as...

WAGNER'S "RING DES NIBELUNGEN." pro THE EIHTOE OF THE "SPILOTATOR..1 Si a,—Wagner's famous operatic tetralogy, Der Ring des Hibel- ungen, is now passing through the third...

SIR JOHN SCOTT'S JUDICIAL REFORMS IN EGYPT. [To THE EDITOR. OP 1115 " EIPPCTS.POR:1 Sin,—Sir John Scott's sudden retirement from the important post of Judicial Adviser to his...

[To mu EDITOR OF TEE " SPACTATOR."] 8i,—In the Spectator of May '7th, for the second time within a few months, the assertion is made, in considering the present condition of...

[To TRA EDITOB OF TEM " SFECTATOR."] Sin,—You have dealt with the question of Americans as Anglo-Saxons lately. Permit me to send this list of Army and Navy officers for you to...

[To Tar EDITOR 01 ERZ " SPECTATOR "] Sin,—How do those who deny or doubt the currency of Latin in Roman Britain dispose of the evidence of Bede P " This island at present...

[To TUE EDITOR OF TEN " SPACTATOR."3 Sit,—Having remained in Italy during the present outbreak, and knowing the country and its people fairly well, I should like to draw...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TH2 "Semor•Tolt."] SIR,—In your interesting article on another side of Mr, Gladstone's powerful character in the Spectator of June 4th, you say that, "though...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Srn,—I observe that in a footnote to my letter which you published in the Spectator of June 4th you lay down the maxim that, as Great...

[To TH2 Enrron OF THE " spacTiTos."] SIR,—Having in mind the passionate righteous bursts of indignation manifested by Mr. Gladstone with regard to the- Armenian atrocities, it...

[To TEE EDITOR OF TEL "SPECTATOR."' SIR,—Yonr reviewer of Mr. Gardiner's book on Dante well points out the misfortune of the great poet being regarded too much as "the Bard of...

[To TEL EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —Under this heading in the Spectator of June 4th you do a cruel injustice to the memory of General McClellan. Having drilled and...

(TO TEL EDITOR or TEE " spacmva.°1 Sin,—About two years ago, whilst sailing alone off the coast of one of the Bahama Islands, I saw what I believed to be at shark leap out of...

[To ma EDITOR OF THY "SPECTATOR,"] SIR, - I see in your "News of the Week" in the Spectator of June 4th you mention the appointment of Mr. Lubbock and myself as expert advisers...

[To nu EDITOR Or TH2 "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your article in the Spectator of October 23rd, 1897, as to the power of animals to see in the night, and as to their tendency to panic at...

MATER SEVERA. WHERE the huge Atlantic swings heavy water eastward, Ireland, square to meet it, shoulders off the seas; Wild are all her coasts with stress of cliff and billow,...

MRS. WARD'S NEW NOVEL.* THE novelist's is, after all, a narrow field. Convention, or shall we say the universal expectancy of mankind, requires that the idylls of the novel...

Mn. GODKIN is one of the most distinguished representatives of a class which, during the last fifteen years of American history, has unhappily been as a voice crying in the...

IN Collections and Recollections the Duke of Wellington is said to have complained that all his life he bad been "much exposed to authors." Mr. George Russell has all his life...

Professors Foster and Ray Lankester, the editors of these memoirs, to undertake the work which, begun in this large volume of over six hundred pages, is expected to extend to...

IN the second portion of the little volume of verse just pub- fished by Mr. Bret Harts, the delighted reader will find himself once more in the presence of Truthful James, of...

WHEN Miss Fowler has learnt not to put all her goods into her shop-front she will do better work, artistically, than is to be found in Concerning Isabel Carnaby. In the...

Heinemann.)—Mr. Brailsford describes his book as a "novel." We do not know why. It is really a description, founded, we suppose, on personal observation, of the war in Thessaly....

Cricket. By the Hon. R. H. Lyttelton. (Duckworth and Co.)—This is not, like Prince Ranjitsinhji's great work, a monumental treatise upon the science of what bids fair to become...

Lectures on Landscape. By John Ruskin. (George Allen. 42a.) —These lectures were delivered twenty-seven years ago at Oxford. All Mr. Ruskin's qualities are to be found in them,—...

Brothers, Glasgow. 42s.)—This book is a collection of essays (several by the Archbishop), on every aspect of the 'Cathedral, by eight authors. The most interesting chapters, in...

Publish- ing Company.)—Mr. Shaxby marshals the arguments, theoretical and practical, which may be urged against the proposal of State interference. But this does not imply...

Hodgkin, D.C.L. (Headley 13rothers.)—Scarborough Summer School is an English adaptation of the Chautauquan system and the Long Vacation meetings at Oxford. The initiation and...

Introduced by W. B. Yeats. (The Unicorn Press.) — We read Mr. Yeats's " Introducing " with much pleasure, but must own that the emotion subsided when we came to the thing...

the British Navy. By Hamilton Williams. M.A. (Macmillan and Co.)—Mr. Williams is an instructor of Naval Cadets on the Britannia,' and is, therefore, well qualified to write a...

Joseph C. Ford. (E. Stanford.)—Jamaica, with an area of 4,207 square miles, had in 1891 a population of 639,491, or 152 per mile. This shows an increase of 50,887 in ten years ;...

Co.)—We commend this volume to our readers. They will find it really illuminating in the study of the Canterbury glass. The Cathedral contains some very precious relics of this...

is one of those artists who do not lend them- selves to biography. He wrote few letters, and led an uneventful life, greatly beloved by his friends. Under these circumstances,...

Strang. (The Unicorn Press.)—The author carries on the tradition of the old giants, with their insatiable hunger and tragic deaths ; and he truly remarks,— " Their whols-...

and Co.)—The author traces the resemblances between existing small bronze statues and large statues in marble. Also, he makes various conjectures as to the great statues at...

copy of "an absolute facsimile" of the last sketch made from the late Mr. Gladstone's features, by Mr. Ernest Prater. The sketch has necessarily the painful look always...

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