C OUNT VON BULOW has made two important speeches this week on South African affairs. In the first, which we have discussed elsewhere, he defended the Government for disregarding...

at large, but evidently much harassed by the indefatigable pursuit of General Charles Knox, whose crossing of the Caledon River when in flood at Karreepoort must be reckoned...

to an amendment by Senator Davis, which virtually insists that the United States shall have military control of the canal and a right of fortifying it. That is supposed to be...

that negotiations are about to commence. The water near Taku is frozen, and there seems to be some doubt whether supplies can be forwarded to Pekin in sufficient quantity. The...

a speech by the spokesman of the Pan-Germans, Count von Billow reiterated still more emphatically his exclusive devotion to German interests, even denying that he would or could...

but received no promise of aid ; and in a subsequent visit from the Foreign Minister it was pointed out to him that while the Dutch sympathised with his cause, they could take...

any case.

replied at length to the addresses presented by the people of Cape Town and the Mayor and Councillors of that city. It was tempting, he said, though unprofitable, to speculate...

South Africa, raised by Mr. Emmott, produced a speech from Mr. Chamberlain of an unexpectedly conciliatory character. We have said enough about it elsewhere, but may add here...

Wednesday, in which the extreme Radicals obtained their opportunity of denouncing the war. They had, however, little that was new to say, except that they detested Sir Alfred...

In the first, delivered at a public luncheon on Monday, he paid a notable and significant tribute to Lord Kitchener, "in whose judgment and military skill he had implicit...

of the Transvaal, with the additional distinction of being the resi- dence of the High Commissioner for South Africa. From the standpoint of utility the claims of Johannesburg...

attended by some eight thousand people, passed off without disturbance, though violent attacks were made upon Sir Alfred Milner. On the 11th a deputation appointed by the...

sented the supplementary Estimate of sixteen millions for the war in South Africa and the military operations in China. In the course of what the Opposition leader correctly...

Mr. Brodrick and Sir Michael Hicks-Beach. Mr. Brodrick clearly intends to investigate what are called " the disasters," and to punish the officers he finds responsible for them,...

Government, the first by Mr. Bartley, the second by Mr. Lloyd-George. Mr. Bartley moved as an amendment to the Address that the House express regret at the appointment of so...

In a speech the effect of which was rather spoiled by its silly suspiciousness, the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs endeavoured to show that Mr. Chamberlain and his relatives...

mentary party. The " National Convention " opened in the Rotunda, Dublin, at noon on Tuesday, and was attended by between two thousand and three thousand persons, many priests,...

know bow to reward the private soldier for service in the field. There is often no prize-money to distribute, honours cannot be sown broadcast, though we are a little too stingy...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 971.

for his nepotism was a rather unreal affair. Even the mover of the amendment was obliged to make it seem serious by an onslaught on the new Secretary for War, who is not a Cecil...

-4--- THE SETTLEMENT OF SOUTH AFRICA. T HE debate of Friday week upon South Africa was in many ways an exceedingly satisfactory one. In the first place, it showed that the...

O N Monday the German Imperial Chancellor explained in the Reichstag the attitude of his country towards the late Transvaal Republic and its itinerant ex-President. It was a...

an Irish Nationalist Convention has excommuni- cated by far the ablest living Irish Nationalist. How far this vote corresponds to the actual condition of feeling in Nationalist...

Julian Ralph which we print in another column describes with Brea' exactness what a war correspondent ought to be and hoe —being what he ought to be—he should be treated by the...

W HILE reading the very spirited account of his service in South Africa sent to Blackwood by Mr. Ernest Dawson, a thought occurred to the writer which was not altogether...

has published an interesting series of papers by various writers, including Mr. Bryce, Mr. T. W. Higginson, Dr. Fairbairn, and Professor Stanley Hall, on " The Greatest Books of...

A MONTH of wet and darkness like that just past sensibly reduces the vitality of human beings and disposes them to sickness. How, then, do the animals, which have no protection...

CENSORS AND WAR CORRESPONDENTS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The experience of all who represented the Press in the war in South Africa, and of all the military...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sra,—The great difficulty in the way of attracting clever boys to the Army, and the reason why so many of the purely " playing-field " type...

on "The Prelirp inary Education of Officers " in the Spectator of December 8th Dr. Maguire is quoted as saying that candidates pass into the Army who would be "not eligible by...

Sm, — I have a paper on " Conditional Immortality " which my father wrote and read some twenty-five years ago at a small clerical meeting, and in which he states that, to him,...

THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I give you the true version of the encounter between the late Duke of Albany and Canon Pearson ? During the time of the Prince ' s undergraduate life...

[re THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIB, —St. James must not be made responsible for the too common misunderstanding of his chap. i. 27. He has in view a rigid ceremonialist...

Szn, — I have just had a curious confirmation of Mr. Schiller ' s suggestion (Spectator, November 24th). A lady corre- spondent in Canada, whose letter, posted actually on...

SIR,—Should one not say rather that with children the sense of justice is rigid and ideal? In their code, expediency, extenuating circumstances, and degrees of guilt have no...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR, — Your correspondent, " H. L., " and you are, I beg to say, incorrect in •saying in the Spectator of December 8th that in Scotch cookery...

SIR, — Your correspondent " Scot " (Spectator, December 8th) reminds me of a story of the days of my youth very much on the same lines as his own. The clergyman was holding...

whom I had the greatest respect), having spent the greater part of his life in devotion and study, thought it his duty to go and preach to the poor. One of his first sermons was...

THE ENGLISH OFFICER. THROUGH bitter nights and burning days He watched the veldt stretch bare and grim ; At home beside the cheerful blaze We wrote our views of him. We...

the wicked man, in the time of his brief prosperity, is said to have "made collops of fat on his flanks." This exactly corresponds to Dr. Ogilvie's "piece of flesh; a think...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —You quote a story from Mr. Hare's autobiography (Spectator, December 1st), in which two brothers sleep in a room with a corpse, but...

yet another meaning in the North of England fifty years ago, and may, for all I know, still have it. My grandmother, a Westmoreland woman, told me that in her youth on the...

ITO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—On reading the last quotation in your review of the Ameer's autobiography, I seemed to remember something of the incidents there set...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR"] Sin,—You alluded some time ago to the numerous petty grievances which the travelling public in this country have to suffer at the hands of the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The letter of L. Obel which appeared in your issue of September 1st on the subject of the needless slaughter of birds reminded me of an...

is a collop' ? " it is not a "pure Scotticism," and has nothing to say to " mince-meat," but is an Irish mode of expressing the amount of stock a farm or field will carry to the...

meaning of the word " collop " as used by Irish peasants? It has been referred to in the last two Spectators, but without the true explanation being given. The word is applied...

[To THE EDITOR OP THY " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your correspondent, "A. J. C.," in the Spectator of November 17th, will find the exact counterpart of the " triangular station" of his...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—A propos of your article, " The German Emperor's Plan," in the Spectator of the 8th inst., in which you suggest that " German colonists...

HEROD.* THE first thing to strike a reader of Mr. Phillips's play who knows his Josephus is the simplicity with which the poet has followed the Jewish historian. Not only are...

children's sayings, and we think the book will be read with pleasure. Childhood is charming to most people, even though they have no children, or at least none after the flesh....

Ma. AMERY'S history does not take us further than the out- break of hostilities, being wholly occupied, after an intro. ductory chapter on the political importance of the war,...

Ma. ANTHONY Wrialns comes very near to our conception of the ideal traveller. A man of science with an eye for the picturesque and with full command of the descriptive faculty,...

IT is pleasant to find that Miss Rhoda Broughton retains her vigour and incisiveness of expression. It is a matter for regret that she cannot find it in her heart to portray...

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