T HE news from America and Spain grows hourly worse. War is as certain as anything human can be, for Spain absolutely refuses to yield her sovereign rights in Cuba, and American...

With the "SPECTATOR" of Saturday, April 30th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

WAR. W AR may or may not have been declared before these pages reach our readers' hands, but that it is now inevitable cannot be denied. And by "inevitable" we do not mean, as...

I T is quite clear that we have got another General, and of the first class. We are not so foolish as to think great things of a soldier merely because he has won a. successful...

I T is not very easy to perceive what the international effect of the Spanish-American war will be, but two n r three points stand out with something like clearness. a t first,...

a lesson to be learned from the battle of Atbara, which the statesmen of Europe who are commencing a long career of struggle and ascendency in Asia and Africa will do well to...

T HE Zola affair is not yet over, and, tiresome as it is in one way, it is necessary to watch it. It menaces the French Republic more than any incident which has occurred since...

" W HILE these sentences are in reading the - - - churchwardens shall receive the alms for the poor and other devotions of the people in a decent basin." This is the origin of...

Spaniards from the other Southern races of Europe, but they are qualities displayed in such excess that they appear to constitute an entirely separate national character, which...

N r iT HEN a wise man goes to stay in the country he asks for the local paper. He knows that there, as no- 'where else, he will obtain a knowledge of men and things, or rather...

A CORRESPONDENT writing in last week's Spectator gives some account of the habits of the Canada geese in Manitoba. At the present moment some fifty pairs of these geese, which...

ENGLAND AND AMERICA. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SP ECTATOR."] SIR, — What seems to me most important in the new develop- ments of the last few weeks is the rapid growth of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."1 SIR. — May I be allowed to add two other objections to those already urged in your article in the Spectator of April 9th under the above...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR "1 $IUI — As a soldier I have read your correspondence on "Bribery in Business" in the Spectator of April 9th with great interest, for, strange...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTLTOB."11 SIR,—It was in the Spectator of November 13th, 1897' that I first saw the idea mooted that Wolmer Forest might be formed into a sanctuary...

article on " Punishment " in the Spectator of April 9th you weigh carefully two aspects of the case. Punishment is, doubtless, intended to reform the criminal and to deter...

[To ME EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR:9 SIR,—Can you not suggest that writers on natural history should, if only for variety, tell ordinary folk the things we all want to know about...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—The following, from Arthur Young's " Autobiography," edited by M. Betham-Edwards, p. 45, may interest your readers :— "And here I may...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—The interests of the West Indian planters and time interests of the eight hundred thousand Creoles in the West Indies are not identical...

RIDING at dawn, riding alone, Gillespie left the town behind ; Before he turned by the Westward road A horseman crossed him, staggering blind. 4‘ The Devil's abroad in false...

THE RULE OF THE EXCEPTIONAL MAN.* WITH the main idea of this work, which is quite the most important that Mr. Mallock has yet produced, we do not think there can be any dispute,...

the truth of the old maxim that the part is more than the whole. Within its font hundred and fifty pages Mr. Ottley has probably made or quoted every possible remark on the use...

THE burgesses of Northampton profess no respect for ancient or aristocratic institutions ; yet, like most Radicals, they are as proud as can be of the antiquity and completeness...

THE joint authors of the work on Wild Birds' Protection Acts which forms the subject of the present review have produced under a modest title a useful and interesting book,...

Ir there were celebrated in this country an annual thanks- giving for the prosperity of our Empire overseas—and that there is not goes far to prove the survival of old super-...

volume is, we think, the .sditor's memoir of Laurence Sterne. Mr. Lee has had access to a considerable quantity of hitherto unpublished matter, contemporary notices and...

(John Murray. 12s.)—This is an interesting book on an interesting and little known subject, and is written in an interesting style. Yet the effect of a perusal on the reader is...

francs.)—" Legends are the smiles of history," says Mgr. Le Nordez at the beginning of this book, as a reason for including a great many of the traditions which cling round the...

and Co.)—This is the first volume of a new• series of volumes to be known as "The Social England Series," the publication of which, we are assured, " rests upon the conviction...

The English Black Monks of St. Benedict. By the Rev. Ethelred L. Taunton. 2 vols. (J. C. Nimmo. 21s. net.)—There was a call for this book, for it certainly fills up a gap in...

translation by Mrs. A. E. Whitehead of "La Legende de in Mort en Basse Bretagne," by A. Le Braz, introduces us to Breton superstition, religious usage, and folk-lore. " Fanciful...

Illus- trated by Daniel Verge. (Lawrence and Bullen. Ss. 6d. net.)—The village of Argamasilla, in the province of La Mancha, claims to be the birthplace of Don Quixote, and the...

" Isthmian Library" of sports has received a further con- tribution in the shape of a treatise upon what has been called " the noble art of self-defence." In the course of an...

16s.)—Some of the chapters of this book have already appeared in a serial form in Blackwood's Magazine, and one is glad to find the information they convey extended and...

W. Hunter, Edinburgh.)—Mr. MacArthur died in his twenty-fifth year, after an academical career (at Edinburgh) of great distinction. His friends have selected for publication...

and Abroad. By Augustine Birrell, M.P. (Macmillan and Co.)— The last of these four lectures is given to the Employers' Liability Bill. Mr. Birrell, who here appears in the...

principal figure in this story, is a type that will excite the sympathy of many readers. A strong, clever, but ill- balanced man, whose eccentricity and impatient pride...

S. Bremner. (Swan Sonnenechein and Co.)—Misr Bremner gives nearly a quarter of her space to elementary education, not quite as much to secondary, and more than half to higher....

Son. 12s.)—A testator leaves all his property to a niece with the proviso that she is to forfeit it if she marries a certain person whom he names. She takes it for granted that...

differs somewhat from the other records of the Queen's reign and life. The first chapter describes " London on the eve of the Queen's birth." England, thinks Mr. Davey, was...

have been tardy in noticing this book, a volume in the " Story of the Nations" Series, we must plead that a work of this kind, compressing a vast subject into a small space, is...

Rylands. (Chetham Society.)—This, is the third volume of "Lancashire and Cheshire Wills," beginning with the year 1563 and bringing us down as far as 1807. They lack the...

Mr. Cowen's songs are difficult to class. They do not offend against good taste, they are written in a scholarly manner, there is melody of a certain kind, and the harmony is...

E. Vincent. (Macmillan and Co.)—Dynamic Idealism. By Alfred St. Lloyd, M.A. (McClury and Co., Chicago. )—The Leading Aisles. Vol. I. (Alex. Gardner.)—Army Letters. By H. 0....

(Digby, Long, and Co.)—Mr. Stewart's descriptions of English birds are pleasant and chatty, and evidently derived largely from observation. There is nothing unusually...

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