have for a week been debating at Moscow the future Constitution. The authorities have not permitted the debate, but neither have they dispersed or punished the delegates. The...

war news of any importance, either from Manchuria or in regard to the naval situation in the China seas. To judge from the telegrams, indeed, both sides would seem to have been...

to Kabul, has described his reception there to an interviewer. His statement is not, of course, either full or clear, as the arrangements made have still to be sanctioned at...

has prevailed during the week owing to the possible consequences of a dispute between Japan and France on alleged breaches by the latter Power of the rules which should govern...

.Allemand " appears in the last number of L'Eaergis Francaise, a new weekly conducted by the well-known French publicist, M. Cheradame. M. Cheradame holds that France made a...

despatched by the German Emperor to Fez, has instructions to demand that the French instructors in the Shereefian Army should be dismissed and replaced by Germans. This...

of the Birmingham, Aston, and Handsworth Liberal Unionist Association on Friday week. They were, he said, face to face with the prospect of a General Election, and, so far as...

League at the Albert Hall on Friday week, and delivered what may be termed a characteristic rather than a convincing speech. After alluding to the agita- tion against yellow...

been called a mystery, but, like most mysteries, the explana- tion is quite simple. It is all very well for Mr. Balfour to talk about unworthy suspicions, and of people accusing...

honour at the Mansion House on Friday week was worthy of himself and of the occasion. Though torn asunder by con- flicting emotions, he was really suffering from home-sickness :...

the reasons for his resignation of the post of Chief Secretary for Ireland. He did not, he declared, differ from his late colleagues on any issue of policy ; and he had not...

feelings of deep indignation and humiliation. He had always believed that such occurrences were rarer under British rule than elsewhere, and it was most mortifying that these...

by the Archbishop of Canterbury to the distressing Report recently submitted by Dr. Roth, Native Protector for Queensland, who had been appointed by the Governor of Western...

was issued on Tuesday. The facts of the ease are set out as follows. Tenders were invited last autumn, and the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, the holders of the contract,...

Royal Mail Company, and the offer of the former was provisionally accepted, the decision between Elder, Dempster and discontinuance being left to the Colonial Legislatures. The...

the conclusions arrived at by the Committee of Defence, made what is admitted on all bands to have been a speech of a most momentous significance. The two essential assertions...

momentous to be dealt with hastily, and we shall therefore make no apology to our readers for postponing detailed comment till our next issue. We must add, however, that we do...

Wednesday afternoon in support of the Cheap Cottages Exhibition, at which Lord Onslow, who presided, declared that if the forthcoming Exhibition showed that cottages could be...

thought-out series of suggestions in regard to the principles upon which the Volunteers should be organised. The first and most important of the six principles laid down is that...

confidence of grave men throughout the country, and making such men, whether Unionists or Liberals, anxious at the prospect of the interests of the nation being longer retained...

conflict of views between Lord Kitchener and Lord Curzon. We should not, however, be doing our duty to the public if we were to attempt to ignore that conflict, or to pretend...

uneasy and newspapers talkative—the questions, that is, of neutrality and Morocco—we believe the second to be much the more dangerous, or, at all events, the more important. It...

situation in Russia as expressed in his letter of last week, but it is quite possible that Englishmen exaggerate the progress as yet made in that country towards freedom and a...

substantial accuracy of Mr. Chamberlain's account of his own wishes in regard to a Dissolution of Parliament. He does not think that anything has been gained by putting off the...

hundredth birthday ; this year, the centenary of his death, she takes the opportunity to recall once more the memory of her Suabian poet. A Schiller festival has always...

T HERE are a certain number of superstitions and fallacies which it seems almost uncharitable to expose. They ought to be protected from rough usage, surely, if only because of...

On the north border of Westmorland near the river Eamont is a wild and lofty tract called Whinfell Forest, dry, wind-swept, and little inhabited, and almost water- less except...

FOR THE FIELD. [TO VIE EDITOR OF THE "SPBOTATOlt,"] Si, — In your issues of April 8th and April 15th you have given a well-deserved publicity to the statistics compiled by...

[To MB EDITOR OP Tan SPIPCPATOR."] • SIB,—It requires but a modest portion of prophetic courage to affirm that there is considerable likelihood of our having to renew before...

[To THB EDITOR OF THE "Sesersron.7] SIR,—The letter of Mr. Walter B. Kingsford in your last issue is far from conclusive as to the authorship of this poem, in face of the...

read in your issue of May 6th, in regard to " Musica, Ecelesiastica," commonly known by the heading of its first book, " Imitatio Christi," that its "writer is, before all...

[To THE EDITOR OP THR "SPECTATOR.1 Sie,—In the discriminating essay on "The Imitation of Christ" in the Spectator of May 6th you justly speak of that remarkable work as an...

Sin,—The following is an extract from your article on the Transvaal Constitution (Spectator, April 29th) :— " We have proved again and again in the past that the more complete...

Sin,—The words " Je vas on je vais mourir ; l'un on l'autre se dit!" are said by the author of "Curiosities of Literature" (in the chapter on "Poetical and Grammatical Deaths ")...

in the• Times of Monday leaves little to be Eiaid of Robert Herbert's career; but as one who knew him, and has been to some extent associated with him, perhaps I may be allowed...

LTO TRIO EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sia,—Your article on "The Question of Holland" (Spectator, May 6th) contains the suggestive statement that, according to Germanophils, "if...

in one of the last volumes of his Diary, Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff's garbled resuscitation of an ancient French "chestnut," attributed by him to 011endorff, whom he curiously...

of "so disc" (Spectator, May 6th, p. 671). At a moment when the Academy was agitated whether "l'un on Ventre" took a singular or a plural, and what was the first person present...

Srn,—Allow me to thank you for the kindly notice of my book on our "National Bibliography" which appeared in your impression of April 22nd, when I was away from London. With...

11th for the Cheap Cottages Exhibition is 41,151, in addition to 4420 promised to the Prizes Fund, making a total of 21,571. The President of the Board of Agriculture, the Right...

know whether you are still interested in dog stories; but if you are, the following facts, collected on Perth Station platform on the night of April 29th, may interest you. I...

Tli.b1 NORTHERN LIGHTS. ALL scentless lie the fields of snow, The valley mists hang deep below, No earthy damps attaint the air, And all is pure and white and fair. No stir...

the subject pictures. The latter are for the most part singularly wanting in originality and force. False sentiment and deadening conventionality make success impossible in so...

literary remains, prefaced by a short memoir, and excluding all but a very few of the letters here printed. Mr. Shorthouse lived so regularly and con- scientiously the double...

explanation of the dictionaries, "one skilled in accounts," is too comprehensive, since, as Lord Roeebery has complained, it would include a large number of persons who are now...

what they are than for what they do. It was never his ambition to make an effect. He loved scholarship for its own sake, and was content if, in the pursuit of learning, he...

two previous volumes of his history of Scotland will be somewhat disappointed with their successor. Not that it also does not exhibit, in innumerable notes and references, marks...

language, an extremely vivid picture of municipal politics in New York at a time which from descriptions of incidents in the book and by the illustrations we should judge...

Co. 6s.)—Miss Braddon must be congratulated on having described a real human being in her new novel. Daniel Lester, the poet, to whom the reader is introduced in the very first...

THE REAPER.* A COUPLE of years ago we had occasion to notice in this column a striking story of Louisiana, Out of the Cypress Swamp. With that ubiquitousness which is...

Highways and Byways in Derbyshire. By J. B. Firth. (Mac- millan and Co. 6s.)—Mr. Firth remarks that his book is of "narration rather than description." He tells the reader where...

"good wine needs no bush," it stands to reason that a very large shrub displayed before the door of an inn is apt to make the intending guest rather chary of testing the quality...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of thi week as have not been reserved for IMAM in other forms.] Gladstone Ghosts. By Cecil Chesterton. (Brown, Langham, and Co. 2e. 6d....

THE ITALIAN POETS. The Italian Poets since Dante. By William Everett. (Duck- worth and Co. 65. net.)—Mr. Everett begins with Petrarch and onds with Leopardi. The interval is...

the German by E. A. Andrews. (Macmillan and Co. 5s. net.)— These "Lectures on the Modern Science of History" are as tough a morsel as we have had experience of. The science of...

(A. and C. Black. 3s.)—Mr. Nicklin concludes in this volume an excellent piece of work. The period which is hose covered begins with the death of Jehosaphat and is extended to...

12s. net.)—This "Mother of Czars" was the Princess Dorothea of Wartemberg who married the Czarevitch Paul, son of Catherine II., assuming the name of Marie Feodorowna. The...

Lewis. (Hodder and Stoughton. 3s. 6d.)—Mrs. Lewis has made three journeys for the purpose of ministering relief to the Balkan Christians, and she has seen the people, made...

in the Holy Land. By Jennie Street and Sorella. (Sunday School Union. 2s.)—" Fatma " is a touching little story. The heroine belonged to the village of El-Teen, and learnt the...

Allbutt, M.D. (Macmillan and Co. 2s. (3d. net.)—Professor Allbutt limits his subject by the words "to the end of the sixteenth century," but the general reference to the present...

and Sons. is. net.)—The student will find this a useful little manual. Perhaps the best way of showing what it aims to do is to give the items of a page-opening : Chattel,...

Bryers, and Walker, Dublin. 2s. 6d.)—Dr. Kelly has given us in this volume a number of interesting particulars about Oliver Gold- smith. He questions, apparently with good...