They intend neither to conquer nor to annex the great peninsula, but to govern it as the British govern Egypt. The country is already occupied by Japanese troops, and the...

T HE news of the week from the Far East consists of rumours, a few probable, many improbable, but all requiring con- firmation. It is certain that the Japanese Fleet on March...

monastic Orders in France. He has brought in a Bill sup- pressing all their schools, and prohibiting all monks and nuns from teaching, except in private. Substitutes for the...

native proprietary, declares that in the present war the immense bulk of educated native opinion is on the side of the Japanese. This arises partly, says our contemporary, from...

going on all the week in the Reichstag, have drawn forth at least one remarkable expression of opinion. Herr Bebel, as spokesman of the Social Democrats, declared that whole...

the admirable memorandum of the Bishop of Mashonaland. The Bishop states that personally he is of the opinion that "if the mines of Johannesburg were given a longer lease, and...

of Lords on Friday week. In the course of the debate Lord LansdowL frankly admitted that the introduction of the Chinese was a regrettable necessity, that they were not re-...

the cruelties now officially described as occurring within the Congo Free State, but they show symptoms of strong annoy- ance at their King's conduct towards his daughters. The...

the Cabinet has been passing through a condition of cryptic crisis owing to the refusal of Mr. Brodrick to endure without protest the slight he considers to have been placed...

and the Redistribution Bill was read the first time. It pro- vides for three additional seats in the Legislative Council and twelve in the House of Assembly, a reform which, in...

before the House of Commons. Unfortu- nately, we cannot deal here with the immense mass of details discussed, but we may say generally that we believe Mr. Arnold-Forster to be a...

in the Southern States seems to grow greater, instead of de- creasing, with the gradual education of the negro. The whites are savage in repressing negro crime, and the blacks...

detail, but must note one passage in Mr. Asquith's speech. "What," he asked, "was Mr. Balfour's attitude to the Member for Bir- mingham when they parted company for what they...

the Government policy,—a policy which, as we have shown, if it is put in practice and made efficient, must end in a regular tariff of the Continental type. It is Chamberlainism...

in the House of Lords by Lord Rosebery, who not unnaturally protested against the Prime Minister describing his words in regard to the document as "a calumny." Lord Lansdowne...

last, and resulted in the maintenance, practically intact, of the Progressive majority. There were 233 candidates for the 118 seats, and the electorate numbered 730,796, of whom...

the Session on Mr. Pine's Motion calling attention to the conflicting statements of Ministers on the fiscal issue, and expressing condemnation of preference and Protection. In...

Budget prospects. The Estimates for 1903-4 put the revenue at £144,000,000, but as only £122,500,000 had been collected up to February 27th, the writer puts the total revenue at...

Cabinet were discussed in the House of Commona on a Motion for the adjournment of the House. We have told the story of these transactions at length elsewhere, and will only note...

THE TRIUMPH OF THE CHAMBERLAINITES. W E have always asked Free-trade Unionists, both in the House of Commons and in the country, to consider deeds rather than words, to draw...

most amazing thing about the Japanese of to-day is their efficiency in administration. Other races of Asia, notably the Arabs, have displayed high capacity for certain forms of...

portion of my life which I shall endeavour to obliterate from my memory is that connected with the closing incident of my official career." It was with these .words that Lord...

A l_3 the spring draws near the anxiety of those who wish to avert further suffering in the Near East grows more acute. The Austro-Russian scheme of reform still holds the field...

O UR countrymen, we think, in part misconceive the nature of the struggle which is going on in France between the Government and the Opposition. They regard it as a struggle...

in celebration of the centenary of the British and Foreign Bible Society, comparatively few have drawn atten- tion to a point which surely deserves the closest and most earnest...

I T is impossible to define vulgarity. It is a disease of character, producing different symptoms according to the moral constitution upon which it fastens and the social...

T HOUGH the sale of the Townshend pictures and silver was one mainly of objects appealing more to family sentiment than to connoisseurs, the silver plate and the series of...

THE BLUE-BOOK ON CHINESE LABOUR. [To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—It is impossible to peruse the latest Blue-book on the Transvaal labour question without being...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—You are good enough in the Spectator of March 5th to invite an answer to the question why Protectionist Unionists should support the...

HOME-RULE AND THE DUTY OF UNIONISTS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra,—In your article in the Spectator of March 5th on "Home-Rule and the Duty of Unionists" you seem...

[TO Tar EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In dealing with the over-representation of Home-rule the choice lies between a simple rearrangement of seats, and waiting for an ideal...

[To TUN EDITOR OF THR "SPECTATOR."] think Mr. Horace Annesley Vachell in his letter in the Spectator of March 5th has not followed some statements of my letter with entire...

Sin,—The replies to Mr. John Clapperton's queries (Spectator, February 20th) are obvious. Where the Chinaman comes in the white workman goes out. He• is as intelligent as the...

January 23rd there appeared a letter over the signature of F. Horace Rose (Maritzburg) in which exception was vislently taken to the method adopted by the Rand Daily Mail in...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra,—In your interesting article on the above subject in the Spectator of March 5th I think you overlook one very serious objection alike to...

[To THE EDITOR OP TH2 " SPRCTATOR."] SrE, — In the Spectator of February 6th a letter from Mr. Atkinson, of Boston, suggests that, if imports into England from the United...

the Spectator of March 5th on "The Gate of the Navy" is a sanguine one, and it is to be hoped that the results of the new method of selection will prove its justification. There...

pro THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SE, -If the German Emperor is the capable man he is con- sidered to be, his course, I think, will be directly opposite to what you suggest...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The present seems a good oPportunity to recall atten- tion to this subject. Among the many ways of earning money adopted by girls and...

your notice (Spectator, February 27th) of Mr. Sidney Webb's valuable pamphlet on this subject, you do not say whether he has emphasised what those who have been con- nected...

tion of 1878 an English family paused in front of a marble group of a man standing in the bows of a boat, looking .eagerly forward, with, I think, a torch in his hand. Under-...

put me in mind of an old favourite, "The Claverings," by A. Trollope. There the widow-heroine tries to propose to her former lover. "She did write to him a completed note,...

February 20th Mr. Parry asks : "What is the origin of the phrase, the man in the street' P" He gives an example of its use as far back as 1831; but the phrase seems to be very...

Fowkes's letter in the Spectator of February 20th on the Tractarian influence of Miss Yonge's writings, it may interest you to know that thirty-five years ago in a large school...

the date indicated by Mr. Parry (Spectator, February 20th). Again, in "The Conduct of Life," Article VI., on "Worship," referring to Free-trade, has this sentence : "Well,' says...

of interest to you. I am the owner of a pony and a email black pig, which, after the manner of the country, runs loose and finds its own food. The pony is kept stabled at night,...

ORHIS CIVILIS ? Sit rosa nomine dicta alio, sed suavis olebit. Dimidio fact= eat quicquid scite incipiatur. Omnia non sunt aurea quae velut sures fulgent. Assibus ille full...

should be considered for protecting an author's title. That of one of my earlier books was taken not long ago, I may say to the very courteously expressed regret of both author...

THE great function of Sunday last, when the highest repre- sentatives of Church and State united to celebrate the centenary of the Bible Society, may fairly be called a triumph...

" Animal Stowaways" reminds me of an experience some years ago when on my way to Australia in a sailing ship. Rats, as it is commonly known, are very much given to sea voyaging...

Spectator of February 27th, under the heading of "The Cash Value of Animals," in which it is asserted that "the record price for a bull was for a Hereford, not a shorthorn, the...

For those that ask it, let them have their fill— But must the peasants go So far away from home across the snow To perish in a land Whose very name they hardly know And for a...

Or all Latin writers in prose, Tacitus is the most impressive. What be has to say is always striking, and his style is unique. Though less florid and diffuse, his stately...

whether- their epic is later or earlier than the Cuchulain cycle, and what historic fact is woven into their strange web, are- questions which are still at issue among scholars....

meet Elizabeth again, and Elizabeth orb her travels is an even more charming companion than Elizabeth at home. In the present book she tells of a twelve days' driving tour round...

MRS. JACOB is to be doubly congratulated on The Interloper, —first, on having written a singularly interesting and attractive story, and second, on having maintained the high...

"). (T. Fisher Unwin. Ss.)—This is a collection of rather striking Australian stories and sketches, of which the first, which gives the book its title, is by no means the best....

In the Monthly Review Mr. ii. J. Tennant, M.P., makes a real contribution to the fiscal discussion by his article on "The Favoured Foreigner : a Comparison in Burdens." Mr....

6s.) — Mr. Tom Gallon gives us in this book the story of six most exciting days spent by an escaped convict. Inasmuch as he is marked out for the role of hero, he necessarily...

5s.)—It is not uninteresting or uninstructive to compare this- story with romances of the "Jack Sheppard" kind. Ruderick Clowd is a first-class thief—in New York, it should be...

of this story is a small Italian State at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Cardinal d'Este (" his Eminence" of the title) has at the beginning of the novel a successful,...

and F. C. Gould. (Methuen and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—The greater part of this book has already delighted the readers of the West- minster Gazette in fragments, and we welcome their...

as halm not been reserved for review in other forms.] Laura Bridgman. By Maude Howe and Florence Howe Hall. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.)—This is a book of intense and...

Press, is. net.)—This pamphlet is the revised form of a lecture delivered at Cambridge, and in it the author surveys a very wide field, and gives us a general view of...

(J. M. Dent and Co., 3s. 6d. net) is a painstaking com- pilation, showing a careful assimilation of the literature of the subject, from which the writer borrows freely, but with...

News, and published monthly at sixpence, will, it is hoped, have a new and prosperous lease of life. The March number of the new series, which lies before us, ,contains...

net.)—Dr. Hodges, having had occasion to reside at Studley for some weeks, interested himself in the history of the great Benedictine Abbey near that place, and has put together...

F. Pelle. 2 vols. (Skeffington and Son. 12s. net.)—In 1808 Mr. Charles Thomson, who had been Secretary to the United States Congress, published this translation from the...

and Co. 2s. 6d.)—If we say but little of this excellent book, it is not because we do not value it highly. It is simply impossible to criticise the multitude of comments,...

Taylor. (J. M. Dent and Co. is. 6d. net.)—Mr. Taylor began this translation when he was a boy of sixteen, and left it, if not exactly complete, for he looked forward to revising...

the more satisfactory reading, because it deals with enterprises which, whatever their merits of management and success, are straight- forward and commendable. The Stock...

The Catalogue of English Pottery, by R. L. Hobson, B.A. (Long- mans and Co., and others). It is not within our province to dis- cuss this volume ; but we may say that it has...