authority of M. Combos, that the elections for one- third of the Senate, which have just occurred, are favourable to the Government. He also remarks upon the gradual change of...

a new party in the Reichstag, who shall be independent both of the Agrarians and the Democrats, and shall be known as the Kaiser's party. The same plan was tried by George III....

with respect to the Civil Service of that Colony, has, we perceive, actually been carried by a majority of eleven. He declared that he could not conduct his Administration if...

T HE British and German Governments on the 7th inst. handed in to the Government of Venezuela ultimatums to be accepted or rejected within forty-eight hours, after which time...

four small armed vessels, which submitted without a struggle in the harbour of La Guayra, three of which are said to have been subsequently sunk. This report, at the moment of...

case.

notablo for a strong speech against the Bill from the Bishop of Here- ford. It was, he argued, a misapprehension to state that the opposition to the Bill was mainly a...

Clause 7 was proposed by the Bishop of Man- chester and carried against the Government. This provides that all damage due to wear and tear in voluntary schools should be made...

more than we do. As a consequence of the coal strikes in Pennsylvania, which have now ended, many of the cities of the East are passing through a coal famine. The weather is...

in constructing the great Assouan dam, which was formally opened on Wednesday. Sir Benjamin Baker, K.C.M.G., has been made a Knight of the Bath, and Sir W. E. Garstin a Grand...

House, St. James's Street, after receiving a deputation from the National Free Church Council. After Dr. Townsend, Dr. Massie, Mr. Perks, M.P., and Dr. Clifford had delivered...

House of Lords on Friday week. Lord Londonderry, who admitted the difficulty of saying anything new on the subject, traced the agitation against the measure to Sir William...

cross-voting on the new clause moved by Lord Lytton empowering managers of all public elementary schools, at the request of parents, to permit religious instruction to be given...

Bill, the report stage being reached on Wednesday. Mr. Long has given way on the question of the representation of the London County Council, which now stands at fourteen mem-...

moderation, declares that there exists in France a secret University which grants degrees in occult science, such as "licentiate in hermetic science," or "doctor in Cabala." The...

Bill, adjourned on November 10th, was resumed on Tuesday. Aftera Motion to adjourn the House had been defeated, Mr. Brodrick proceeded to explain the scope of the BilL It...

Sweyn) Hedin, the great Swedish explorer, gave a most interesting address on Monday to the Royal Geographical Society. After mention- ing some Chinese manuscripts of the fourth...

on the whole with a certain decision against that system. They admit that foreign steamship companies have occasionally benefited by subsidies, especially as regards high...

for the Uganda Railway was discussed in the Commons on Tuesday evening. Lord Cranborne, in moving the Resolution, dealt with the special difficulties which had beset the under-...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 93.

VENEZUELA. W E cannot profess to be entirely content with this Venezuelan business. The expedition may be a necessity—we think it is one—but it is a disagreeable necessity, and...

W ITHIN a 'few days the Education Bill will be placed upon the Statute Book, and a new educa- tional era will have opened with the passing into law of a measure destined to be...

TNCIDENTALLY, the discreditable scene of Monday in the French Chamber teaches one lesson it may be worth while to remember. The right of duelling in no degree improves manners....

altogether decisive preponder- ance of competent testimony as to the existence at the present moment of an exceptional amount of distress in the poorer parts of London, as well...

heartily on the result of Tuesday's debate on the Militia and Yeomanry Bill. By his courageous surrender of Section 3 of that Bill he has not only made a valuable concession to...

recently been compelled to take action in regard to one of the strangest pil- grimages of modern times. In the third week of October about fifteen hundred of the...

T HIS is an age of munificent benefactions. The Rhodes Scholarships, the free libraries and educational endow- ments which Mr. Carnegie showers right and left, the Nobel prizes,...

A MQNG the minor forms of return still left to the English landowner is the vastly increased sporting value of anything like good ground for game. Formerly it was mainlyin...

THE BLIND FAITH OF THE ORIENTAL. [TO TIM EDITOR OF THR "SHICTATOR.1 Sr,—Faith was once defined by a child essayist as "believing things which your common-sense tells you can't...

GENERAL DE WET'S ACCOUNT OF THE WAR. [To TIM EDITOR Of TRY " SPROILTOB..1 Si;a,—I observe that your critic in reviewing General Christian De Wet's account of the war take a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—About ten years ago I had a very startling personal experience of what, in lieu of a better name, I call Kaffir telepathy. Not being...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE especrkroa."] Si,—In the Spectator of December 6th, in the review of De Wet's "Three Years' War," I find the following reference to blockhouses :—" His...

[To TRH EDITOR Of THE " SPIATAT01."] SIR,—A propos of the acute conflict between Church and State now raging in France, it may be of interest to your readers to hear the...

[To ma EDITOR Or THB "SPIWUTOR.1 SIH,—If Nonconformists were in law deemed members of the Church of England, they would be eligible for election as governors of the Ilminster...

SIE,—Your interesting article on " Fog " in the Spectator of December 66, which states that hill-fogs are dry and sea-fogs are wet, is not borne out by the old Exmoor adage : "A...

[To TUE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-1 have just been reading the article on "Fog" in the Spectator of December 6th with much interest, for on Sunday, November 30th, there...

THE CONVERT. HERE in the dark I lie alone : And how I love the silence! You, I think, would love it, had you known, As I, the howling of that crew That bade me sca.pe the...

RECOLLECTIONS OF A DIPLOMATIST.* To the stay-at-home Englishman the Diplomatic Service is something of a mystery. Not one in a thousand could name offhand the seven gloriously...

MR. WALTER WOOD has made a valuable volume of selections from Colonel Gurwood's twelve volumes of despatches. . For such a selection there is no need of excuse. Few have either...

in children. The idea has been borne in upon us while reading Mrs. Dearmer's new book, The Noisy Years. Mrs. Dearmer presents us with a study of two little boys. She has...

IF The Sailing of the Long - Ships could hardly be expected to evoke the surprised delight which greeted Mr. Newbolt's Island Race, this is not to imply any falling off in his...

THE DISENTANGLERS.* Ma. LANG has more than once collaborated with other workers in the domain of fiction—Mr. Rider Haggard and Mr. Mason, to be explicit—but since be gave us a...

33. 6d.)—This is a charming story of peasant life in Switzer- land. Some passages might without exaggeration be called idyllic. The volume is small and prettily bound. It is...

Glyn's new book is very much like the "Letters of Elizabeth." Ambrosine is Elizabeth over again ; but after the first few chapters she is a married Elizabeth. Her husband,...

this volume are various. In it we find nine translations of Japanese tales, some fragments from the diary of a Japanese working woman, and several essays more or less connected...

A Patrick's Day Hunt. By Martin Ross and E.

Putnam's Sons. 6a.)—This is a very spirited story of the fall of the Second Empire. The heroine is finely imagined; there is a touch of real genius in the way in which she is...

plenty of good work in this book. Both Leslie and her father are finely drawn figures, and so are the two curiously different women,—Mrs. Ogilvy, who may stand for tragedy, and...

THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Vol. XXXI. (VII. of the Supple- ment.) (A. and C. Black.)—The longest and most important article in Vol. XXXI. is that...

68.) —We wonder where this "Far Riding" is supposed to be. Some- where in the mountain region of Northern England., we gather from the description of the country. But then the...

is full of interesting facts ; specially interesting because in more than one important matter New Zealand has taken the lead. The population in 1901 was 787,657, showing an...

the Welfare and Protection of Children, edited by Sir William Chance, Bart. (P. S. King and Son, 28. 6d. net). The Congress was held at the Mansion House, London, July 15th to...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as hare not been reserved for renew in other forms.] A History of the Church of Christ. By Herbert Kelly. Vol. II., 324-430...

zines :—The Church Worker (Church of England Sunday School Institute, 2s. 4d.) ; Young People, edited by the Rev. Ernest F. H. Capey (G. Burroughs) ; The Boys' and Girls'...

tho political standpoint. The commissioners of party newspapers are too apt to have their conclusions fixed beforehand. Here is Mr. Haw saying that "the main reasons why country...

Son. ls.)—This little volume contains tributes of affection appreciative of Mr. Price Hughes's work from some who were associated with him in his Christian enterprises, or had...

5s. not), a book now so well established in the public favour that it is needless to say anything about it. It grows in size ; we are all becoming distinguished now. Part I....

-with Introduction, by W. M. Metcalfe, D.D. (Alexander Gardner, Paisley. 215. net.)—The town of Paisley grew up round the monastery, which, founded in 1172—this was the date of...

Co. is. net.)—This volume belongs to the series of "Temple Primers." M. Paris has the ease of exposition which comes from a thorough knowledge of his subject. It is no slight...

: Year I. (Church of England Sunday School Institute. 2s.) — Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne. With NOBS by R. Kearton, and Photographs taken from Nature. (Cassell...