Note embodying the demands of the Powers in regard to Macedonia is summarised in Friday's Times. The chief feature of this unsatisfactory document consists in the attempt to...

even a passionate, speech against Clericalism at the annual banquet of the Republican Committee of Commerce and Industry. He declared that peace was the first need and first...

censored, has been a little contradictory, and nothing definitive has occurred. On Tuesday matters looked black, for a telegram reached the Times stating that the 'Chinese...

a sort of spasm of courage in the counsels of Pekin. The Chinese Foreign Office has suddenly agreed to a treaty with America under which the port of Mukden and two other ports...

Pekin ; how far the Chinese Government is in favour of the Japanese, or to what extent the reforms in the Chinese Army have actually been carried out. The Japanese Government'...

in an important speech, which is said to have fallen a little flat upon his audience. It was not, however, addressed to them, but to the Unionist party at large. Its general...

stood to be following up their Treaty of Arbitration by a deliberate and honest attempt to come to agreements upon all the questions which now divide, or are likely to divide,...

and Mr. Chamberlain elsewhere, but must add here that the victory which many presage for Mr. Chamber- lain will, we think, prove unreal. He may obtain a majority vote of the...

year 1902, which is published this week as a Blue-book, is full of valuable information. It contains a complete account of the Kano Campaign, which brought about the end of the...

but he apologised for not entering upon foreign affairs. His reason was that "while Great Britain will to the full carry out all her Treaty engagements and obliga- tions in...

the Mullah's followers, estimated at about five thousand, at Jidballi, in the Nogal Valley, and completely routed them. He reports that this was probably the Mullah's chief...

to luncheon on Tuesday, and made an interesting speech. He would not, he said, speak on the fiscal problem, but asked leave to compress his speech of the previous night into two...

the Mullah's followers, estimated at about five thousand, at Jidballi, in the Nogal Valley, and completely routed them. He reports that this was probably the Mullah's chief...

who served with distinction in the war, has a strong letter on the Chinese labour question in the Times of Tuesday. The importation of these "yellow slaves," Major Seely...

should read the article on " Free Trade and the Unionist Party " in the new number of the Edinburgh Review. It is a masterly summary of the whole situation, and the writer's...

in our last issue, will require very adroit handling to prove of any assistance to Mr. Chamberlain. The total volume of trade is valued at £903,000,000, or £25,000,000 above...

of fourteen names, bringing the total up to fifty-eight, having been published on Wednesday. The new members include Sir Charles Elliott, the distinguished Indian civilian,...

and Silversmiths' Association on Monday, and spoke for an hour on Imperial policy. Dealing with the charge of unpreparedness in connection with the war, Mr. Chamberlain said it...

with our Colonies had increased. But this trade was already seriously threatened by foreign tariffs, and would (unless we reformed our fiscal policy) go the way of our export...

Wednesday, and made some good points. The Prime Minister, he pointed out, had recently delivered a homily on the dangers of baste, but meanwhile the author of the proposed...

and it pathised with the agent who had gone ? He knew there gives them both a loophole. There must be many among was plenty of time. He knew, or might have known, that them who...

maintain under the pre- sent circumstances the existence of the Liberal Unionist organisation." If it continues, the central office will have to subsidise local associations...

kept between Russia and Japan. The difference between the interests, as well as between the aspirations, of the two Powers is too nearly incurable to be settled by diplomacy....

at Scotland Yard, has had a remarkable measure of success in educating opinion, both official and public, towards agree- ment with the conclusions he himself adopted as the...

us the news of the first real success which has attended the British arms. It is not yet clear whether the force of five thousand men which Sir Charles Egerton scattered on...

A S distances shrink and facilities for rapid transit in- crease, some change must take place in the interests and sympathies of mankind. The enlargement of the mental horizon...

I T is only on rare occasions, such as the coronation of a King, the opening of Parliament, or the reception of a foreign Monarch, that the people of these islands are re-...

G IVEN certain circumstances, there are few things more enjoyable than a thoroughly wet day. Two conditions at least are necessary to this enjoyment. It must be abso- lutely...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIE,-The great weight justly attaching to the opinions or Mr. Charles Booth renders it important to examine the proposals for fiscal reform...

[TO TEE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] have come by chance across a passage in Lecky's " England in the Eighteenth Century " which bears on the question of the day, and to which I...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Srit,—The Spectator appears to be the only newspaper which until now has recognised the paramount importance of con- solidating the...

SIR,—It must be incomprehensible to most people of British birth why Mr. Henry Foljambe Hall and some few others who feel as he does can so persistently go out of their way to...

cherish hopes of.special reforms are exercised in their minds as to their active co-operation with others, who may not have the same convictions, in the crisis aroused by this...

SIR, — It is urgently necessary in the interests of Free-trade that a compromise on the education question be speedily arrived at. The Norwich election is showing clearly that...

January 2nd is open to a good deal of comment. As regards the composition of Napoleon's army, I quite agree that the number of veterans must have been exceedingly small. The...

Sin,—Published some thirty years ago, the Waterloo narrative of Fanny Burney, the epoch-making lady novelist of forty years earlier (see Spectator, January 9th), has no...

f To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." J Sin,—In the Spectator of January 9th you mention an article in the Contemporary Review in which a Mr. Alexander Ular congratulates Lord...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Perhaps you will allow me to correct an error into which your corrrespondent Mr. H. G. Keene (Spectator, January 9th) has fallen. So...

[TD THE Mnros OF THE “spacrirop....] Sim,—In your notice in the Spectator of January 2nd of Mr. T. K. Selwyn's " Eton in 1829-1830 " you state that the late Lord Justice...

THE Exhibitions of the International Society are always looked forward to with interest by those whose outlook is not limited by a parochial view of art. The present collection...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIB,—May I—a political atom, or rather, an electron, but one with a vote which would have been given for Home-rule before Mr....

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The most remarkable thing about Dr. Keats was the singular successes of the boys. Among those at Eton from 1820 to 1829 were twelve...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—Your reviewer says (Spectator, January 9th) that Dr. Sandys quotes Warren Hastings, and says : " I am astounded at my own...

AT THE GATE. BEYOND the gate I see a hand, It beckons me and I must go, The garden plot grows small and I Must rise and travel forth and know- Ah, little son, 'tis but the white...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sts., — I notice that in your excellent review of Mr. Chirol's book, "The Middle Eastern Question," in the Spectator of January 9th, you...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Will you kindly allow me space to assure Mr. Norman (Spectator, January 9th) that a willingness to abandon British supremacy in India...

WE cannot pay Miss Ida Taylor the compliment of saying that in writing this Life of Lord Edward Fitzgerald she has pre- served with absolute consistency the judicial temper...

IT is a strong witness to the perennial charm of Venice that a new book on the subject is always welcome, though one would have thought that everything had been said already a...

THE second and fourth volumes of Messrs. Garnett and Gosse's illustrated record of English literature do not belie the promise of their predecessors. That is to say, they...

Tan sources of the Nile formed for more than two thousand years the chief speculation of geographers, and, as Sir Harry Johnston well says, since the discovery of America they...

JUDGED by statistics, there can be little doubt as to the superior attractiveness of the '45 to the '15 in providing novelists with the raw materials of romance. Mr. Wymond....

W. Arrowsmith, Bristol. 6s.)—The first of these eight stories, " Stephen of Steens," has a very strong Cornish flavour indeed. The hero has been ousted from the property held...

Co. 6s.)—We are accustomed to see Mrs. L. B. Walford's name on the title-pages of novels of modern life, and accustomed also to find something good in them. We cannot...

With 16 Illustrations after the Antique. (Seeley and Co. 6s.)— Professor Church, who has done so much to make the unlearned value the literary wealth of Greece and Rome, and...

and Hall. 6s.)—The title of Mr. Oswald Crawfurd's book suggests that the millionaire in its pages will be found to indulge in all sorts of nefarious practices. On the...

book can hardly fail to remind the reader of a certain famous novel. Mr. Gideon Horville is a Presbyterian minister, not an Anglican ; his mentor is not a sceptical squire, but...

and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.)—This annual volume (VIII. of the sixth series) is full, as usual, of excellent matter. Most of the articles do not admit of brief description. We may...

Doctors and their Work. By Robert Brudenell Carter. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 6s.)—From the layman's point of view, this must be accounted one of the most sensible and practical...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for renew in other forms.] A Versatile Professor. Edited by the Rev. G. Cecil White. (R. Brimley...

and Co. 12s. 6d. net.)—We may remind our readers that this work was reviewed in the Spectator of Novem- ber 8th, 1902, not long after its first appearance in Germany. Various...

and Almanac (Nisbet and Co., 28. net), consisting of three parts, —(1) "General Information," reaching to sixty pages, and giving, along with a calendar, various details about...

Albert Broadbent, Manchester (3d.), may be mentioned together, —A Treasury of Translations (Verse), by W. E. A. Axon, Selected by Albert Broadbent ; The Emerson Treasury,...

in England, by Henry Thomas Buckle, Vol. IL (18. net); and Of the Imitation of Christ, by Thomas a Kempis (1s. net). We are not told by whom the translation was executed, or...

Murray. " Outyet-Ozat." (Clarendon Press. 2s. 6d.)—This section concludes the letter " 0," leaving " P " to complete Vol. VII. of the great work. It makes the customary...