American Government, which was greatly alarmed by the outbreak of yellow fever owing to insanitary conditions. The President, moreover, though he has displayed most creditable...

the harbour of Manilla is not over yet. The Germans will not obey hints as to their movements, fraternise in the city openly with the Spaniards, and appear inclined to side with...

France. M. Cavaignac, in his recent speech, declared that Dreyfus had, on the day of his degradation, confessed his guilt to an officer, or, rather, that he confessed to having...

S ANTIAGO has surrendered. General Toral, who, since General Linares was wounded has been in command of the province, demanded permission to march with his troops to Havana, but...

in the Govern- ment of Madrid between the Ministers who think it time to make overtures for peace, and those who would go on with the war indefinitely. For the moment the war...

case.

issued' gratis, an Eight-Page Supplement, containing the Half-Yearly Index and Title-Page,--i.e., from January 1st to June 25th, 1898, inclusive.

is the letter addressed to M. Brisson, the Prime Minister, by Colonel Picquart, in which that officer makes certain assertions as to the secret documents, referred to by M....

break of obstruction among a certain section of the Radical Home-rulers, their object being to embarrass the Government in the work of passing the Irish Local Government Bill....

last begun to produce its natural results. A revolt has broken out in Kwangeee, controlled, it is said, by the managers of the Triad, the great secret society of China, long...

inci- dent arose in the discussion of the Irish Estimates. Some wonderful Celtic gold ornaments were lately discovered in Ireland and bought by the British Museum and...

Strathcona and Monntroyal moved the second reading of the Colonial Marriages (Deceased Wife's Sister) Bill, and explained that its object was to render a marriage between a man...

has required very severe measures for its suppression. The peasantry there, who are very poor, and, as Englishmen would think, much oppressed, detest two classes,—the land-...

Burke which has been placed in the church of St. Mary and All Saints, Beaconsfield. At the necessary luncheon, held at Hall Barn (Sir Edward Lawson's house) Lord Rosebery, after...

the course of business during the remainder of the Session. Supply was not as forward as it ought to be owing to the long -discussions which had taken place on foreign affairs...

Gravesend. The contest ended on Thursday in a vote of 1,955 for Mr. W. Runciman, and 2 372 for Mr. J. H. D. Ryder, showing a majority of 417 for the Con- servative. This ie a...

week at Devonport shows that foreign Powers include her in their schemes for obtaining information by treachery. William Matthews, a signalman on board the Ganges,' surrendered...

on Tuesday, the Archbishop of Canterbury wanting to know why he had said that the religious instruction in Board- schools was better than in voluntary schools. In making that...

good sense as well as his pluck by writing a letter to his constituents abandoning Home-rule and declaring his inten- tion in future of strengthening the Liberal Unionists,...

the result of the Imperial Conference on Postal Rates. It was announced on Wednesday that arrangements had been made for an Imperial penny postage between Canada, New-...

New Consols (2,1) were on Friday, Mt •

'WHAT DOES THE "RUIN" OF A STATE MEAN? T HE whole European Press, with the Times at their head, are, as we believe, discussing the reasons which make for peace from a mistaken...

I F the telegrams from China as to the revolt in the Southern provinces are not exaggerated, and if the Triads—the strongest and most dreaded of all the Chinese secret...

W E make no attempt to decide whether Dreyfus is innocent or guilty. Like, possibly, the men who judged him, we have not seen the evidence which is supposed to prove the crime...

W E wish to state our own view of this complex matter with some clearness. We believe that the first necessity of the English people, and indeed of the general proletariat of...

W E are unable to doubt, though we are unwilling to believe, that the feeling of the Continent is genuinely unfriendly to America. The Governments, of course, are fairly civil,...

Imperial Conference on postal ra t if not entirely satisfactory, is at least far more than had generally been expected. We should have 1 to see a simple intimation that there...

TA ORD ROSEBERY'S little speech on Burke at the unveiling of the memorial in Beaconsfield Church affords yet another proof of how eternally interesting Burke is to all English...

W E fear very much it will turn out when the investiga- tion now proceeding at New York has been completed that the worst stories as to the scene on board 'La Bourgogne' before...

T HE present summer has witnessed a marked in- crease in the numbers of the fish in the London Thames. Not long ago a writer in the Spectator predicted that if the improvement...

" SPECTATOR...I SIR,—An earnest effort is being made to assist those clergy- men whose livings have seriously decreased in value through the long continued agricultural...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR...1 Sirt,—In reference to the letters of Mr. Marshall Sturge and " B." in the Spectator of July `?rid and 9th, permit me to point out that the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR, —Many of your readers will remember, and some may like to be reminded, that the beautiful legend translated in the Spectator of July 9th...

CANON GORE ON PRAYER. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In your review of my little book on prayer in the Spectator of July 9th you discuss the very interesting and...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR,—I venture to think that Mr. Henry Strachey's interest- ing letter in the Spectator of July 9th does not quite meet the point of Mr....

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I think the following gives quite a new view of the Spanish-American War, as seen through Irish spectacles. I asked my servant (who...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In your article on this subject in the Spectator of July 9th, is there not too much stress laid on what women do. in this century (or...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sns,—Referring to your article in the Spectator of July 2nd on the Philippines, German warships at Manilla, &c., " What do the millions say...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] quite agree with Mr. Stillman that it is strange that Englishmen and others interested "in the country and in the antagonism of Church and...

Sin,—Your critic in his notice of the above, which appears in the Spectator of Jnly 9th, asks me a question. He writes: "Mr. Worsfold's translations are generally good, but why...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.1 do not assert that the Irish claim is just, but I do not think that you state it adequately in your article in the Spectator of July 9th. It...

THE MUTINY.* THE Indian Mutiny, the blackest and perhaps the most glorious episode of the century, has been described a hundred times in prose and verse, in history and fiction....

" SPECTATOL " ] SIR, -Will you permit us to appeal through your columns for help for the above Fend ? Last summer 31,412 children were sent through its agency to cottages in...

MAIDEN LADY. 'Tis Cupid's dart ! How came it there ? Perplexed I pondered much upon it : Then gasped. The blind god, aiming where

THE NEW HOME. THE verdure-covered cabin lies Where yonder smoke-wreath fades away 'Tie sweet when light deserts the skies To wander at the close of day Along the rock-encircled...

THE first feeling which will occur to every reader interested. in poetry, after making full acquaintance with this fantastic and singular volume of biography, will be one of...

Ma. ANDREW LAN G's 1)00k on the Making of Beliefs is an instructive and forcible statement of his latest conclusions upon the origins of religion, and a criticism upon some...

IT is undeniable that the tendency of events, powerfully reinforced by the great gold discoveries of recent years, appears to be towards the ideal, championed by Lord Farrer in...

recreation delivered a dozen years or more ago, defined its essence to consist in surprise, and it is this quality which lends a special charm to Mr. Hooper's excellent tale,...

By Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Alderson, P.S.C. (Methuen and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—Colonel Alderson tells his story in a straightforward, soldierlike way,—just the way, in fact, in...

The new volume of the Dictionary of National Biography (Smith, Elder, and Co. 15s. net) contains the interesting names of Talbot, Stuart, Swift, and Taylor. Three "Talbot" lives...

bridge University Press.)—Mr. Adam gives us here a careful edition of the text, accompanied throughout by critical footnotes, and he has prefixed an introduction in which he...

and Co. 15s.)—This is the third edition of a book first published about twenty years ago. The second edition (1881) was greatly enlarged from the first, and that now before us...

Co.)—Dr. Poore's book is full of good sense and practically useful suggestions. He is for the earth-closet as against the water-closet. This is perhaps his most important...

Paris.)—A duodecimo, telling the story of a visit to Scotland upon an invitation to join the Committee of the Franco- Scottish Association, and dedicated to Lord Reay, its...

LL.D. " Short Histories of the Literatures of the World." (W. Heinemann. 6s.)—This seems to us as satisfactory a book as could possibly be written on its subject, within the...

Joseph Horsley Mayo. 2 vols. (A. Constable and Co. £3 3s. net.)—It is quite impossible to do justice by any means, or within any space at our command, to this splendid book. Mr....

D.D. (Blackie and Son.)—One would hardly suppose that so much could have been said on the use and misuse of the two auxiliaries 4 ‘ . shall " and "will" as has been said here...

upon it. This welcome volume completes his labours on the dramatist, except, indeed, so far as the Fragments are concerned. We have still to wait for the volume that is to deal...

He divides the period of production by the date 1000 A.D., each portion having three divisions, Byzantine, Anglo-Saxon, Carlovingian for the first, and Italian, French, and...

Ferran, Browne, and Co.)—This is a pleasant and entertaining story of life, though it will not, we fear, meet with the approval of some high authorities in educational matters....

and Co.)—This is certainly a striking story. The scene is laid is Australia, and that country, when it is suffering from its greatest plague, or drought, is powerfully...