nomi- nated as candidate of the entire party by a two-thirds majority, and the news' was telegraphed to him while Hiring at his country home. Instead of accepting, however, Mr....

great movement is in train. The main outlines of the scheme are clear, now that all the three Japanese armies have emerged from the mountainous country and are operating on the...

attack on the semi-divine personality of the Sovereign can have been written. by a Russian official of high rank still in Russia. If it has been, and if it expresses even in a...

Colonel-in-Chief of the 85th Russian Infantry, and as that regiment has been ordered to the front., be has tele- graphed to the commanding officer declaring that he is proud of...

Quarterly for July is a most serious incident. The Quarterly is the gravest, and one of the ablest, of all English periodicals ; it is supposed to represent, and often does...

by the aid of the "guillotine," passed through Committee. In one important particular, though, we fear, only in one, the Bill has been improved. By a Government amendment...

was published on Monday. The question of a conces- sion of land to the East Africa Syndicate is not in issue, Sir Charles having made no objection to this grant. Apparently Lord...

the Union has been electric. They were aware in a vague way that Justice Parker was a man of character, but they had not expected him to display such decision and energy, and...

service in making the wider British public understand that German dislike of England is not a whim or a fancy, or the mere outcome of bad manners, but the result of a carefully...

sion. Lord Lansdowne consulted certain Protectorate officers who happened to be in London at the time, and Sir Charles Eliot complains bitterly that such action was disloyal to...

—eight battleships and seven cruisers—to Plymouth has caused a considerable amount of perturbation in the public mind, or, at any rate, in the public Press. For ourselves, we...

in London providing for the settlement by arbitration of differences which may arise of a legal nature, or relating to the interpretation of existing Treaties between the two...

of the Government should refuse to attend the gathering, and so a fissure be opened in the Administration, it was deter- mined not to invite the Ministry. Mr. Chamberlain, in...

reform. We have dealt with its general outlines else- where, but must point out here that, owing no doubt to the complexity of the subject, his exposition was by no means free...

but unfortunately Mr. Arnold - Forster couples it •with plans for dealing with the Auxiliaries which call for the opposition of all who desire to strengthen instead of...

of Geneva, at 3 o'clock on Thursday morning,— pneumonia complicated by disease of the heart, being the cause of death. Had the event taken place four years ago, the whole world...

day to his newly organised Preferential and Protectionist Liberal Unionist party—the gathering numbered some twelve thousand people—was a fine piece of political oratory, in...

be a difficult one, as the force has many enemies ; but it is one well worth making. We trust, as we have said elsewhere, that the leadership in this truly national cause will...

Mr. Arnold-Forster in the House of Commons on Thursday we are in agreement. With the other portion we strongly disagree, and sincerely trust that the Govern- ment may be induced...

Hall tell us nothing which we did not know before in regard to his policy. They and the speeches of Lord Lansdowne and Mr. Alfred Lyttelton at the latter function, and the very...

by experts, whose schemes only broke down because they overlooked or never perceived one governing factor,—the truth that Japan was a great Power and not a little one. They...

weerld be more prosperity, were sufficient to compel the managers of the Convention to omit from the programme all reference to monetary issues. The omission, of course, shocked...

Bill now that it has passed through Com- mittee as they were when it was read a second time is not a matter of much moment except to themselves. Whatever objections they may...

of the Hibbert Journal entitled "Suggestions towards the Re-interpretation of Christian Doctrine," and the Bishop of Rochester has written in the current number of that able...

inspiration apparently derived—in my judgment really derived—from close communion with the supernatural and the celestial, a man who has that inspiration and adds to it the...

those who know the history of whaling, and its steady decline for centuries, that there is something like a revival of whaling, not only with the British coasts as a base, but...

THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR...1 Sin,—The apathy of the British public towards Indian questions is proverbial. In general, for obvious reasons, it works to the advantage of...

Si,—As you say in the Spectator of July 9th, I have not forgotten Mr. Balfour's letter to Mr. Chamberlain. But I am far from thinking that your interpretation of it as imply-...

late Premier of Victoria, at the banquet given to him by the various mercantile associations connected with Australia at the Trocadero on May 27th received, as was due to a...

Stn,--I send by same post a marked copy of the Sydney Morning Herald containing an article on " Cobden and the . Colonies." Some time since an endeavour was made, on the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra, — Referring to Sir John Colomb's remarks on my lettet in the Spectator of July 2nd, I would observe that whereas during the past fifty...

[To TER EDITOR OF TEE "SYRCTATOR."] SIR,—A few weeks since you kindly extended the hospitality of your columns to some remarks which I ventured to make on the liquor question....

OF THE "SPEOTATOR.1 Sin,—Your remarks in the Spectator of July 9th on Professor Metchnikoff's prediction that science will shortly find a cure for old age are deeply...

[To THE EDITOR OP TEN " SPZeTATOR.1 Sra,—In order to give greater publicity in Surrey to the Unionist Free-Trade Association which is proposed for• that county, and also in the...

MR. SWINBURNE'S POEMS AND BALLADS.* IN the interesting and characteristic preface which Mr. Swinburne contributes by way of general introduction to his collected poetical works,...

THE ROMANCE OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. [" The Bible in most parts, is a cheerful hook it is our piping theologies, tracts, sermons that are dull and dowie."—Bossaf Louts SfEVENSUN,...

by A. D. McCormick. London A. and C. Black. [Ws. net.] SIR MARTIN CONWAY has written a very delightful, and, we would add, to the lover of great hills a very soothing, book....

was known by his contemporaries as the "Old Gentleman." Ingenuity could not have found a more suitable name. An old gentleman in his youth, he never grew younger, and a...

publication of Sir Robert Biddulph's interesting account of Lord Cardwell's administration of the Army. In many ways the problems which confront Mr. Arnold-Forster to-day are...

(Chapman and HalL 3s. 6d.)—There is nothing serious about the stories of Mr. Pagett, ex-private of Marines, and some of them are very amusing. The most entertaining in the book...

of heredity will be interested in this book by the mere fact that it is written by "Miss Braddon's" son. The idea which is at the back of the story—the effect on a man who has...

6d.)—Miss Hepworth Dixon's collection of short stories is, if not very distinguished, quite readable. "The Fortune of Flora" is the most amusing of the sketches ; but in "The...

con- ventional world in which he has chosen to dwell so long, and has the courage to grapple with a real human problem. His work, therefore, deserves to be treated with all...

above the average in plot and character-drawing, bat it is a little spoilt to a fastidious reader by an occasional extraordinary vulgarity in the use of words. The expression "a...

the Rev. A. G. Morice, O.M.I. (W. Briggs, Toronto. 10s.)— Father Morice's dispassionate chronicle of the fur-trading days and the coming of the gold-seekers will probably not...

Translated by W. A. Scott, of the University of Wisconsin, and Professor Feilbogeu, of the University of Vienna. (Macmillan and Co. 4s. 6d.)—The Nature and Necessity of...

21s. net.)—Mr. A. J. Evans occupies a great part (about two-fifths) of this volume with a continuation of his discoveries in the Palace of Knossos. The wonder grows the more we...

GI net.) —These twenty-two poems represent the occasional utterances of half-a-century. Such a collection has nothing, so to speak, of the professional versifier about it ; now...

We have received a copy of Major-General Sir Alfred Turner's account of the manceuvres of the XIVth. German Army Corps, held in Baden and Wfirtemberg in September last. The...

Blackwood and Sons. 2s. 6d.)—We are seldom able to notice school-books, even when their merits are considerable. But we must find space for a few lines on this very good edition...

C. Brown, Langham, and Co. 2s.)—With respect to our social failures, Miss Higgs is in favour of adopting vigorous measures. We have let the laissez - faire method prevail, and...

and Sons. 6s. net.)—Chaucer owed not a little to Dante ; after Chaucei there is practically a blank, though there are resem- blances which are to be otherwise accounted for....

Adams. (B. T. Batsford. 10s. 6d. net.)—Here we have fifty plans of rural and suburban cottages, lodges, isolation homes, nurses' cottages, by various well-known architects. The...

and interesting reprints, to which we would gladly give more space were the claims upon us not so urgent. The first book on the list is, indeed, not a reprint at all,—The...

and Co. '7s. 6d. net.)—Miss Morison spent some weeks in solitary journeys in Kashmir, starting from Srinagar, and coming back to it, after many wanderings among valleys, plains,...

Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Ordish has added to a new edition of this book a chapter on Westminster and an Itinerary of Shakespeare's London. The Westminster chapter is largely...

Boy. (Macmillan and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—The "Old Boy's" recol- lections date back nearly to the beginning of the second half of the last century (Edward Thring went to lippingham...