successful diplomatist, but he every now and then uses menace as an instrument with most unsatisfactory results. His threat to treat the Chinese as the Huns treated their...

T HE Boer surrenders are going on most satisfactorily, and already eleven thousand have come in. But while this is in itself most satisfactory, what is still more so is the fact...

of the law of lese-majeste, but the Slays of Austria have taken up the quarrel of their kinsfolk, and on Tuesday a Czech Member of the Reichstag poured out a flood of insulting...

M. Waldeck-Rousseau, has been formed more rapidly than usual. M. Brisson and M. Bourgeois having declined, M. Combes accepted the Premiership, and in a few hours the list of the...

fact that though not humiliated, the Boers have been thoroughly and absolutely beaten, and by force of arms alone. They cannot nurse the feeling that but for this or that piece...

case.

drawn in our correspondence columns, was formally opened on Friday week by Mr. Chamberlain. The Club, the formation of which is entirely due to a happy thought of Miss Violet...

that there would be a general inquiry into the war by means of a small Royal Commission, the reference to which would be stated later. Probably parts of the inquiry will be held...

discus- sion has been almost purely financial. We have dealt else- where with the Chancellor of the Exchequer's declarations as to the Zollverein made on Monday and Tuesday, but...

increase of lawlessness in London. The special occasion is a murder which seems to have been committed by the young roughs now called "Hooligans" without motive and out of pure...

agricultural labourers. In Andalusia there is a nearly uni- versal strike, and in Estremadura the men have taken up arms, defied the old soldiers who form the Guardia Civile,...

Rosebery, and attended by Mr. Asquith and many other prominent Liberals, was held at the Queen's Hall, Langharn Place, to protest against the Education Bill. Lord Rose- bery's...

persecution. Fifty thousand of them have, it is stated, been ordered to quit the "mining province" of Russia, and to reside within the Pale after sacrificing their occupations...

and the Agrarians, has accepted the Sugar Convention as arranged at Brussels. It remains, therefore, only to overcome the resistance of the French beet growers, which threatens...

fanatical appeal in regard to the use of the word " Protestant " sent to their Bishops by a number of High Church extremists, and communicated to the Press. The clergymen who...

on Wednesday to the London Chamber of Commerce on the Monroe doctrine, gave expression to a view which has often been urged in these columns, namely, that we ought formally to...

Oxford, a remarkable lecture on the "advanced and backward races of mankind," who are now, he said, touching each other at all points. He described with much sense as well as...

in Queen Victoria Street in broad daylight on Monday evening. The building, which is close to the Mansion House Station of the District Railway and only three hundred yards from...

the dinner of the Eighty Club on Wednesday. Both threatened determined resistance to the Education Bill and the Corn-tax,—two proposals, said Mr. Asquith, by which the...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 97.

SIR 3.11CHAEL HICKS BEACH AND THE PROTECTIONIST IDEAL. T HOSE who agree with the views which have been expressed in these columns in regard to Free-trade and the Empire cannot...

W E shall know very soon whether the increase in the Radical party which is the marked fact of the French elections is due to public opinion, or is the result of accidental,...

" L OOK on the tragic loading of this bed. This is thy work." Such are the words that rise to our lips when we think of the terrible list of the blunders and disasters of the...

Friday week on the condition of the national credit, which extorted from Lord Salisbury a sort of cry of appreciation, is a real help towards a true estimate of the strain on...

I T is one of the many problems which France presents to an admiring—and wondering—Europe that her people combine two apparently incompatible sentiments,— profound submission...

T HE Jew is arrogant. Such is the common verdict. Perhaps it has sometimes occurred to the Jew to apply the same word to the Gentile ; but Tu quoque is, as we know, no argument....

F EW byways of science are more interesting than that which leads us to study the history of power as applied to industry. Originally, for countless ages after man raised...

O N Monday the open season for fishing begins in the Thames. Until then only trout may be taken, but with mid-Jane the pleasures of the thousands of bank and "box" anglers...

LTO TUE EDITOR OP TUB " SPECTATOR.I Si,—As an Englishman of German extraction, I should regard it as very unfortunate if the sentiments, indicative of supercilious contempt...

OUR NEW FOE. [To THE Emu. OF TRE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—" Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war," and now that the war has been brought to a close these words will no...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TI1R "SPECTATOR.") Sta,—A letter of mine under the above title appeared in the Spectator for November 11th, 1899. May I beg the favour of a reprint of that...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIB,—In the Spectator of March 22nd your correspondent signing himself "Miles Antiquua " surely proves himself somewhat unworthy of his...

have been disappointed to find no letter in the Spectator of June 7th bearing on the interest- ing and pathetic letter of "De Profundis" in your issue of May 31st. May I be...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—Your correspondent, "De Profundis," in the Spectator of May 31st says that to pray to God to interfere with the machinery, once started,...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.1 Sin,—Referring to Mr. Stapleton Martin's letter in your issue of May 31st, the objection usually made to "which" in the two passages quoted...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") &Er — WM.11d " De Profundis" pardon me if through your columns you would kindly allow me to draw his attention to an exquisite little poem of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR."] Szn,—I was much struck by your indulgent comments on cynicism as a safeguard against misguided enthusiasm (Spectator, May 31st), some...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—Your very interesting article on "The Sermon on the Mount" in the Spectator of June 7th refers to the striking metaphors, paradoxes, and...

SIR, — Your correspondent in the Spectator of May 31st may be glad to know that in the American Protestant Episcopal Church "who" is substituted for "which" both in the Lord's...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."f Si,—As a constant and interested though humble reader of the Spectator, perhaps you will allow me, if you have space, to say one word in...

[TO THE EDITOB OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—In your article "What is Peace F" in the Spectator of May 31st allusion is made to Dante's aspiration for the joint Peace of the Papacy...

rTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."1 Sin,=-In the interesting estimate of St. Peter's character in the Spectator of May 10th, his words, "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, 0...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] have only just seen the Spectator of May 17th and I dare say before now other correspondents have called your attention to the literary...

[TO TIM EDITOR OF TRH "SPECTATOR."J SIR,—I should like to answer a question put by your reviewer while noticing my novel, "The Blood Tax," in the Spectator of May 24th. Having...

OF THE "SPECTATOR-1 Sin—In his "Facts and Comments" Mr. Herbert Spencer has a brief article headed "A Few Americanisms," in which he protests, and very justly so, against the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In relation to inscriptions in the mosques in Cairo, by means of which the history of gifts, repairs, and additions may be traced (see...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sre.,—In Dr. Hartog's excellent and timely article in the Fortnightly Review for June, "The Teaching of Style in Schools," he advocates the...

UNIFORM. ETO THE EDITOR OF TILE "Sesersrou.") SIB,—I have listened for many a year to complaints about the discomfort and unpracticalness of Army uniform from those who wore...

• [To THE EDITOR OE THE "SPECTATOR."] appeal to you, as a lover and defender of that glorious estate, the English language—of which I, an American, claim to be, even as...

"SPECTATOR."] Sut,—I should be obliged if you would insert the following announcement :- It is intended to issue at an early date lists of the chief errata in the "Dictionary...

MR. WATSON'S CORONATION ODE.* MB. WILLIAM WATSON has broken silence with a poem of such fine poetical quality, such elevation of thought and distinction of style, as will go far...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." Sra,—Will you permit me, as circumstancee prevented my correcting a proof of "The Settlers" before publication in the Spectator of June 7th,...

And some are haunts of strife ; . In some all wars must cease, In some all wars are rife. Oh, grant a heart to me Where holy peace may dwell ; And let my heart not be War's...

Carnegie's latest book would have been con- siderably enhanced if he could have found time to condense it and bring it up to date. His advice to young men as to how they may...

ME. HAMA'S. has lost a golden chance. With such a title as The Preach People he might have given us a fresh and -valuable book. He might have regarded our neighbours from a...

IN the series of "Mediaeval Towns" published by Messrs., J. M. Dent and Co., Mr. Stanley Lane-Poole, who has an hereditary title to be accepted as an authority on Egyptian_...

MARTA.* Tax choice of Spain as the scene of a modern romantic novel is natural enough, since there is more of the "patient deep disdain" of modernity in the Peninsula than in...

Pryce is not so readable on the Nile as she is in the harem of "The Pasha" at Constantinople. Still, there is such a fascination about that ancient river that the baldest...

6s.)—Mrs. Glasgow in her new novel follows her previous plan of introducing us to hero and heroine during their childhood. This time, however, the beginning of the book does not...

(Sands and Co. 6s.)—If Mr. Hudson had not thought himself capable of achieving that most difficult of all realisms, jocular middle-class realism, he would have produced a very...

an English form, shows us a strangely mixed personality. He seems to have an unbounded faith in human nature. Left to itself, especially if it is not hampered by religion, it...

—It would be well to make Irish political history "taboo" as a subject for fiction. We can read with absolute equanimity a partisan romance of the Civil War, but the Irish fires...

W. Arrowsmith, Bristol. 3s. 6d.)—That a girl should poison the old lover who refused to return compromising letters is probable enough; but what are we to say of the parson who...

and Co. 6s.)—This is a good story of its kind, historical in a way, as introducing various real personages whose existence and general character and surroundings are matters of...

6s. net.)—After a brief preliminary chapter—we could wish that it had been longer, but, the book being a class-book, the author wished, we suppose, to get to business at once—we...

St. Antony of Padua. By M. l'Abbei A. Lepitre. Translated by Edith Guest. (Duckworth and Co. 3s.)—We cannot see that the method followed in this biography—the remark applies to...

LIFE AND LEITERS IN THE FOURTH CENTURY. Life and Letters in the Fourth Century. By T. R. Glover. (Cambridge University Press. 10s.)—This is one of those efforts to popularise...

Ernest Bergholt. (H. T. Coates and Co., Philadelphia, IT S A) —We are glad to see that in one part of the world at least whist holds its ground so well that it is still worth...

Bradley. (Macmillan and Co. 8s. 6d. net.)—We welcome a second edition, at a reduced price, of Lewis Nettleship's philo- sophical and literary papers. We do not know any volume...

Davis. Vol. IV., 1802-1837. (Eyre and Spottiswoode. 24s.)—Colonel Davis continues to tell the story of his regiment on a scale which enables him to do justice to details. It is...

Seton-Thompson is a skilful exponent of the outer and inner life of the maims!! world. He explains in his "Note to the Reader" that his method of exposition has been changed. At...

Education League.)—Mr. Hollowell must observe the decencies of controversy before he can expect to be taken seriously. He speaks of the proceedings which resulted in the...

MA. (J. C. Nimmo. 5s. net.)—Readers brought up in the Bible- lore of forty or fifty years ago must by this time have about exhausted their faculty of surprise. They will not...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the seek as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Guide to the Great Siberian Railway. Edited by A. I. Draitriev-...

(G. P. Putnam's Sons. 21s.)—This book resembles the late Dr. Brewer's "Dictionary of Fact and Fable," and seems, as far as we have been able to examine it, to be the work of an...

5s.)—This is a curious and significant little narrative, the story of how a, certain Sir John Warner and his wife became Roman Catholics, and ultimately made the monastic...

Ulm in. 3s. 6d.) —" In Time of Peace" the author adds to the title of his book. In fact, it ends with the declaration of war by the Boers. It is chiefly occupied with the ups...

Charley. ! (Marshall Brothers. 10s. 6d.)—Sir W. Charley gives us some experiences of travel "in holy place and classic) land." There is nothing remarkable about them; but what...

6d.)—This volume is not intended, we hasten to say, to teach its readers to write verse; "its object is to stimulate a reasonable pleasure in poetry." And it is well calculated...

M.A. (Art and Book Company. 2s. 6d. net.)—It troubles the author of this book that some people speak of "the savage and persecuting Church of Rome." "There is no better reply,"...

Waggett, (S.P.C.K. Is. 6d.)—By "Religion of Nature" is meant not "Natural Religion," but "Naturalism when proposed as a sub- stitute for Religion in the hitherto accepted...