meeting of the Primrose League which is destined, we believe, to have a great and far-reaching influence on our national life. He told the country plainly that though all...

there is as yet no positive news of it having begun. All that we hear from Elandslaagte are accounts of outpost skirmishes, and of "a general expectation" that some big...

is the account of the riot at Wei-hai-wei. We have been raising a Chinese regiment there, and on May 5th the temper of the men was tried. The Chinese officials, who are, as...

S INCE our last issue Lord Roberts's advance has been rapid and continuous. After seizing Winburg and the junction of the Winbnrg branch with the main railway, he continued to...

the distress from want of food is evidently very great. According to Cape Town rumours, relief will come to Mafe- ki ng within a week, but that is evidently only a guess. In...

case.

on Sunday nine seats in the Municipal Council, the most violent among them proving exceptionally popular, and they think, therefore, that Paris as a whole is with them. They do...

accident and amid strong manifestations of popular approval. The gathering of grandees to do honour to the majority of the Crown Prince, who was eighteen on Sunday, May tkh, is...

answering Lord Portsmouth, defended the publication of the Spion Kop despatches. His chief point was that the de- spatches having been received, the Government were bound either...

money for anybody outside Yildiz Kiosk, and the Sultan is evidently warned by his spies that plots are constantly on foot, some of which threaten his life. He is, therefore,...

usual, or even more than the usual, outburst of after. dinner oratory. The King of Sweden and Norway, the Prince of Wales, Lord Salisbury, Mr. Goschen, the Arch- bishop of...

Austrian Army, and the Imperial speeches at the State banquet, which were written out before- hand, were obviously intended to assure the world that the Triple Alliance still...

should have heard more of one which was visible this week. A great storm threw down the Exhibition statue of the Republic, which again in its fall broke the statue of Icarus to...

same eourse as in the House of Lords. After Mr. Wyndham bad put the official case, and after Mr. Asquith had very ably made mincemeat of it, Sir Arthur Acland-Hood, a soldier...

suggestions that has yet been made for solving the problem of Australian appeals. Let the Imperial Parliament, be advises, so modify Clause 74 of the Commonwealth Act as to...

resigned the office of Master of the Rolls and been made a Lord of Appeal, and that Sir Richard Webster has succeeded him. Sir Robert Finlay becomes Attorney - General, and Mr....

the memory of the present generation than the march of the Naval Brigade through London on Monday. The bluejackets from Ladysmith, headed by Captain Lambton of the Powerful,'...

of Lords that legislative effect should be given to such recommendations of the Royal Commission on the Licensing Laws as were common to the Majority and Minority Reports. Lord...

by Ministers, ex-Ministers, or movers of a Bill or Resolution to twenty minutes' duration, furnished the House of Commons with an hour's excellent entertainment on Tuesday...

of the Crown should in future be a director of a public company, alleging that 32 per cent. of the Ministry held directorships, and hinting that the present war had been caused...

Friday 1001.

LORD SALISBURY AND RIFLE CLUBS. T HE nation should be grateful to Lord Salisbury, for he has spoken out on the subject of national security. Without in any way using unduly...

I T is not of much use to speculate on the character of the German Crown Prince, who has just been pro- claimed of age, interesting figure though he is as a man who in due...

T ORD SALISBURY'S speech at the Academy I banquet was no doubt meant for the most part to be humorous, but there was also present a certain note of real annoyance at the...

T HE Nationalists of Paris have carried nine fresh seats in the Municipal Council, and the anti- Republican parties who when acting together assume. that name are almost frantic...

T HERE is a Bill before Parliament, introduced at the instance of the Trustees of the British Museum, which will probably be thought at first sight.to be a very practical and...

W E have often had occasion to blame rich women for their carelessness in keeping jewellery secure. They would not for the world leave fifty sovereigns on the table unprotected,...

W HILE the dramatic presentation of the Scriptural narrative is no new thing—miracle plays are as old as the fourth century—it is only within the memory of living men—"...

W HAT Mr. Goschen had in his mind when he discouraged experiments with submarine boats on the ground that they were the weapon of a weaker Power, and of the defensive, was...

A SERIOUS DEFECT IN THE NAVY. [To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPrcriTan."] Six,—The present war in South Africa has shown up some grave defects in the British Army organisation, and many...

Sin,—It is to be hoped that the admirable scheme fore- shadowed in your article under the above title in the Spectator of May 5th may meet with at least approximate realisation....

THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 13'31, - 1 fancy that all candid considerers of the war, foreign as well as Boer and British, regard its issue as a...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—A little time ago you thought it well to publish some quotations from Bacon which had a bearing on politics of to-day. I have by chance...

[TO THE EDITOR OP TER "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—One thought as to the Boer character has seemingly thus far escaped notice. It may be said, to parody a well- known saying, "Scratch a...

[To TEE EDITOR OF TIM " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — May I offer a suggestion or two regarding your inter- eating article so headed in the Spectator of April 28th ? I fear that at least...

[To TILE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — In your editorial remark at the foot of " The So-called `Stupid' Officer" (April 21st), you hit the mark appropriately by calling it...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SEE, —I have read with much interest the letters that have appeared in your recent issues on submarine boats. None of your correspondents...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Your correspondent, Lady Warwick, in the ,Spectator of May 5th is extremely indignant with a clerical school manager who, in order to...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATORM SIR,—In the course of the interesting article upon the "Australian Commonwealth and the Privy Council " which appears in your issue of April...

SIR,—Lady Warwick's letter puts, as pithily as gracefully, the case against your article on the teachers' claim for reasonably secure tenure of office. All that teachers ask is...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I enclose you an extract of a letter just received from a well-known American Brigadier-General, now on the retired list, who did hard...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin, — It would be an extraordinary task for Mr. Haiku to write of the sea without taking me (among the very little fishes) into his net of...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—In view of the recent laudable concessions to the his- toric sentiment of the Anglo-Celtic race, I make bold to offer a suggestion. In...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ; SIB,—It grieves me to see you repeat the error made by the daily papers in the report of Admiral Dewey's speech tele- graphed from America,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TILE -sritcrAroa."] Sta,—Yonr notice of Mr. Waugh's book in the Spectator of May 5th reminds me of a story connected with the Athena3um which was told me many...

WAKING AT NIGHT. WHEN I wake up alone at night I feel as if I had no eyes ; I stare and stare with all my might, But only blackness round me lies. I listen for the faintest...

THE ACADEMY.—IL LANDSCAPES. IT is melancholy, but it is a fact that landscape painting in England is in a state of decay. This is greatly to be re- gretted, considering the...

Ma. HEINEMANN sends us two handsome volumes of French memoirs, selected and translated by an American lady, Miss Katherine Prescott Wormeley, who is already known as the...

HOW ENGLAND SAVED EUROPE.* Ma. FITCHETT continues to show the same power of giving a clear and comprehensive view of a campaign or a battle, and the same felicitous choice of...

To be convinced of the " worth and vigour of Anglicanism" and to abjure the heresy of Disestablishment constitute the qualification of Mr. Henson's contributors. " I...

AT the suggestion of the Director, Sir Edward Poynter, Messrs. Cassell and Co. have issued a catalogue which may be described as monumental. The edition is limited to one...

1 1 .4.9OTJEABLT predisposed in advance towards his new volume by recollections of Mr. Harland's Comedies and Error we have found our anticipations more than fulfilled in the O...

M.A. (Macmillan and Co. 9s.)—Mr. Hill's aim is not so much to furnish the coin collector with a guide, as to point out to the student of history how he may utilise the knowledge...

The opening volume of the new History of the English Church (Macmillan and Co., 5s. net), which is coming out under the joint editorship of the Dean of Winchester and Mr....

MR. G. F. BODLEI'S POEMS. Poems. By G. F. Bodley, A.R.A., F.S.A. (George Bell and Sons. 5s. net.)—When approved masters in one great art make excursion into another, their...

Literature." (George Bell and Sons. 3s. 6d.)—Mr. Seccombe has certainly done his best in this very interesting volume to dissipate the contempt (if contempt there be) for...

Rait. (A. Constable. do. tid. net.)--In this volume we have the " Counterblast to TQbacco," a tractate very seldom read, though often quoted (it is but brief, about the length...

(Duckworth and Co. 3s.)—Father Largent has made avery interesting book out of the very ample material which the life of St. Jerome supplies. And he has had the advantage of...

6d. net.)—This is a volume of " The Rural Science Series," and has for its subject "the making of the rural home, and the laying-out of the farm." It must be understood that the...

and Co, Boston, U.S.A. Cs. 6d.)—The manuscript of the "Christ" is the glory of Exeter Cathedral, to which it was given by Bishop Leofric in 1046. The poem, if the three parts of...

H. Smith, M.A., and H. B. Walters, MA. (British Museum.)— A bequest (by Miss Emma Tarnow Turner) enabled the Trustees to set these experts to work, and the result has been...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have saes been 'carved for review in other forms.] Annals of an East Anglian Bank. By W. H. Bidwell. (A. H. Goose,...

Dent and Co. 3e. 6d.)—This is an alphabetically arranged account of the more famous saints and the emblems commonly employed in art. It begins, for instance, with St. Agatha,...

(S. We Partridge and Co. le. 6d.)—Miss Lowndes takes us back to the ante-war days. She went out for health's sake, and found a situation as a teacher, first in a Dutch family...

is some good sense in this volume, and, we cannot but think, some paradox. That it was to the religious that Christ addressed His strongest rebukes is a fact that is practically...

assistance of J. P. A. Renwick. (Macmillan and Co. 10s. 6d,)— The principal additions to this year's issue—the thirty-seventh —concern the delimitation of European territories...

Slater has given us under a modest title, which he uses to signify effort rather than attainment, some very good work. He is not wanting in ambition, for he has made a "frontal...

Icelandic by Eirfkr Magnesson and William Morris (Longman and Co.), first published about thirty years ago. , — Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro. By Alfred Russel Wallace,...

and Works of Charlotte 13ronte and her Sisters" (Smith, Elder, and Co., Cs.) contains The Life of Charlotte &ante, by Mrs. Gaskell, furnished with an Introduction and Notes by...