turned away from himself, has called its attention in a rather unusual way. He has telegraphed to the Czar and the Mikado requesting permission to invest General Stossel and...

said to have been submitted to the Japanese Govern- ment by General Kodama, Governor of Formosa, before the war. In this paper the General accepts " war with the Western Powers...

captured at Port. Arthur, which showed that the surrender of that fortress was not caused by the failure of ammunition. Over eighty thousand shells have been given up, as well...

alleged to have been made to M. Marcel Hutin by Vice- Admiral Dubassoff, the Russian Commissioner on the North Sea Inquiry. Briefly summarised, it amounts to this,—that Admiral...

in a sentence. The Czar and his advisers have decided that the war must go on till " a great Russian victory " has been obtained, and the Mikado and his advisers have accepted...

Sea incident resumed its sittings. Baron von Spann presided, and proposed as President Admiral Fournier, which was unanimously agreed to. The French delegate then took the...

£70 in this country), or prior enrolment in the First Volksraad list of voters. The High Commissioner declared himself generally in sympathy with. these principles, which seem...

a serious defeat. The Assembly commenced a new Session on Tuesday, and it was expected that M. Brisson would be reappointed President of the Chamber without serious opposition....

by the fall of Port Arthur, and inclined to restore complete order in Macedonia by severe measures. They have appointed officers to command the troops there whose record is One...

Exports Exports Imports. (British). (Total). Imports. Exports. (L) Dec., 1904... 52,845,366... 28,072,134... 34,512,410... 4,957,645... 4,294,606 „ 1903... 52,319,618......

We are not prepared to say, with some political meteorologists, that an impending Dissolution is foreshadowed by the com- parative lateness of this date, but undoubtedly omens...

we taxed the products of countries with high tariffs we should compel them to reduce them, and that Preferential duties would bind Colonies which may hereafter contain fifty...

banquet at Glasgow on Thursday night, and delivered an interesting and important speech. Deliberately avoiding controversial subjects, Mr. Balfour confined himself to eulogising...

last Saturday to ally itself with the reconstituted Liberal Unionist Council has led to the resignation of Lord Belper, the president ; Sir Charles Seely, vice-president; and...

success. The Conservative Associations declined to pledge themselves to his policy, and even after his " great " speech of Wednesday the resolution carried only committed the...

Wales was concluded on Saturday last, when the Lord Chancellor, as president, delivered an excellent address. In particular, he pleaded for a judicious extension of the...

result of the polling in the Stalybridge division was de- clared shortly before 10 p.m. on Saturday last, the figures being: Mr. J. F. Cheetham (L.), 4,029; Mr. Travis-Clegg...

His points are the same as he has made in the past on many platforms,—Retaliation, to secure the revision of foreign tariffs : Colonial Preference to increase our Colonial trade...

the war, is by far the most interest- ing question now discussed in Europe, and the one which presses most closely on all diplomatists. It is clear that the struggle in the Far...

that virtue when he arranged to add Preston to the list of his missionary engagements. For from the outset of his Fiscal campaign it has been generally discerned that the...

calculated to cause, and probably have caused, some uneasiness among the contributors to the various funds for the relief of the unemployed. The first called attention to the...

in the speculations of those who believe, as thousands of excellent and thoughtful men undoubtedly do believe, that war will by and by be extinguished. We doubt, to begin with,...

will, for legally recognised position or official rank is often thought better worth chronicling than sheer upside-down careers such as hers: But what an amazingly interesting...

has lately published quotes the proverb, Qui multum peregrinatur, raro sanctifteatur, as the apology for any shortcomings which may pertain to the wanderer. That sanctity and...

to give a due weed of admiration to the historian of Halicar- nassus ; and yet this most charming and genial of classical writers labours under grave imputations of want of...

Sin,—You are quite right in saying in reply to Orr Rope, Lethbridge (Spectator, January 7th) that my letter had nothing whatever to do with the Cobden Club, but I am sorry that...

Post, I observe, is engaged in instituting an informal Referendum on the question of Tariff Revision. Its questions are being put, not, indeed, to the American public generally,...

over Mr. Harold Cox in last week's Spectator on the point raised in Mr. Brodrick's speech at Shere. But, in common with other Tariff Reformers, he forgets that the Indian...

prices ruling in London, as com- pared with those in New York, in the Spectator of Decem- ber 31st, 1904, does not get us much "forrarder." It may be interesting, but is not...

a criticism of an article in the Spectator. I do so with the greatest diffidence, hoping the while that the pen of a more ready writer will be wielded to some purpose in...

Lord Colchester, that his letter in the Spectator of January 7th, although it asserts that the story of "the hungry forties" is irrelevant to the Fiscal question of the present...

the Spectator of January 7th, you say : " The place, remember, was not defended by Chinese or by natives of India, but by Russians"; and further down : " There is no State in...

Working Men's College in last week's Spectator you question whether its students are indeed working men. As this is a matter of some importance to the College, I trust you will...

of Dr. Rose's " Napoleonic Studies " on the question of Canning, Denmark, and Tilsit. Having only just returned from abroad, Dr. Rose's essay is not to hand, though I believe it...

read the Spectator for years, and do sometimes find those pearls of great price in its pages; but the writer of an article on " Employment and Extravagance" in your issue for...

Spectator of December 31st, 1904, the writer, in suggesting certain methods as to the disposal of Fulham Palace to the best advantage (assuming that London House is...

attitude, I send you the following quotation from Fielding :—" Surely the actions of men seem to be the justest interpreters of their thoughts, and the truest standard by which...

in your columns last year the writer regretted that Major Hale ' s work, "How to Tie Salmon-Flies, " was quite out of print and scarce. I should be obliged if you will allow me...

part is quoted in your issue of December 31st, 1904, is not accurately given. The admonition and the reply should, I am confident, run as follows :— " To A SCHOLAR OF YE...

correspondent " A. G. W. " (Spectator, December 31st, 1904), whom I recognise under his initials as an old friend of my own and of the late Rev. R. E. Bartlett. I knew the...

epigrams, may I give you the version of the " Port and Porter " which occurs in my father ' s commonplace-book ? He took his B.A. degree in 1848, so his authority is that of a...

/2 2 0 Margaret Evans ... 1 1 0 E. F. C. Roger. ... 10 0 W. IL Cooper 1 1 0 William Ransom, DR., I.P. 2 2 0 2 ... 2 0 ... 1 1 0 We are asked by the "County Gentleman" to...

for November 12th, 1904, you were good enough to devote considerable space to a review of " The Master of Game, " in which the oldest treatise on hunting, written by the...

Which men called old two thousand years ago : Match me such marvel, save in Eastern clime,— A rose-red city—half as old as Time." They will be found in his poems. " Petra " is...

Exhibition at the New Gallery is that English art is repre- sented by the work of a very small circle ; and the next thing the visitor naturally asks himself is whether this is...

friendly fires, the close-drawn ring of chairs, And stories of old ghosts ; the musing cigarette, And the soft rippling of women's laughter: A small oasis, wherein haply one Out...

Chief Justice of England, died, a great figure passed from the stage of English law, letters, and society. There is, as has often been noticed, much in common between the...

Teignmouth Shore takes the excessive production of books dealing with recent developments in the Far East as typical of the congested book market. No doubt the supply of such...

Powerful as they are in their day, posterity tends to forget merits which have a real or fancied resemblance to its own, and confines its admiration to the meteoric beings who...

children is pure and simple delight ; one's second, amazement that nobody has ever had the happy thought before of opening up this rich field of infant character and charm. The...

Noble's striking story in this column. Viewed simply as a story it can only appeal to a limited circle of readers, partly because it is destitute of the ordinary romantic...

By Edward Noble. London: w. • Blackwood add Soar. Lthid realises that the action takes place under the Union Jack, not under the Stars and Stripes. Through the medium of an...

managed by the wife of its owner, "Bray of Buckholt," whose husband at the opening of the book has left her keeping house for his father, while he himself has sought his fortune...

Blackwood and Sons. 6s.)—The figure of the young man who is eager to break the narrow bounds of life in England, and to embark rather vaguely on a larger sphere, is very true to...

net.)—Mr. Lang has continued the entertaining series of historical mysteries which he began in his "Valet's Tragedy" in a volume of less detail and a more popular character....

sonally, we are inclined to think not. Anyhow, we have nothing but congratulations to offer Sir Robert Edgcumbe on his pions act of homage to the memory of his friend and...

Constable and Co. 6s.)—Besides throwing very interesting side- lights on the history of Canada under French rule, Mr. Charles Roberts tells us a charming love-story in his new...

D.D. (Hodder and Stoughton. 3s. 6d.)—Professor Stalker makes a fitting contribution to the celebration of the fourth centenary of John Knox's birth in this book (we are...

and Sons, Hertford.)—Mr. Bertram, who is the Liberal candidate for North Herta, has been contributing to the Hertz Mercury a series of short articles on the Fiscal controversy,...

as haw 1106 been reserved for review in other forms.] An Outline of the History of Eolithic Flint Implements. By Benjamin Harrison, (The Author, Ightham, Kent. 6d.)—Mr. Harrison...

they receive. Among the most valuable contributions we should be inclined to put that of Mr. W. C. Allen on the question, " Are the Gospels True ?" a very powerful argument, as...

Co. 15s. net.)—Mr. Hudson laboured at this book for many years, but died before it was published. It now appears under the editorship of his son. The " Warwickshire parish" is...

Kingsmill Moore, D.D. (Macmillan and Co. 7s. Gd. net.)—This " unwritten chapter," the story of twenty years of effort to con- ciliate the warring denominations and parties in a...

P. Putnam's Sons. 5s. net.)--Mr. Hutton labours under a considerable disadvantage in the scarcity of materials. The Scottish Universities have not been wanting in distinguished...

Gs. 6d. net.)—The most generally interesting of the five essays contained in this volume is the first, dealing with the curious question of the religious position of Boethius as...

Alex. Wilmot. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. 15s. net.)—Richard Southey was a lad of twelve when he went out to South Africa with his father (a first-cousin one degree removed...

2s. 6d.)—This little book is full of good sense. Much that concerns the welfare of a child depends on causes out of control, or " even knowledge." " You should begin with the...

book considering its size, but, like others which aim at getting too much in a small space, incomplete. We also notice some inaccuracies. The particulars for 1904 are made up to...

(Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. 16s. net.)—Mr. Browne's book was copyrighted, wo see, in what we:presume was its first form, as early as 1901. It was anyhow written before the...

Edinburgh. ls. net.)—In this volume we have an interesting statement of the proceedings which resulted in the 6.mous judgment of the House of Lords. In the Second Division of...

volume of the series, shows a not very prosperous condi- tion of the book market. The average price fetched by the 6,275 lots was £2 9s. 3d. As usual, many of the items are...

Albemarle Street. 30s.)—This volume consists of a reproduction of a hundred and seventy drawings of Roman monuments, dating from the early part of the sixteenth century, and...