fact that the political character impressed upon the Papacy by the desire to recover the temporal power begins to alienate Roman Catholics in many lands. The Americans...

be the dismissal of the Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Meiningen from the command of the Sixth Army Corps. The Prince, who married the Emperor's eldest sister, being, it is said,...

which means, we fear, not that any real improvement has taken place, but that the Turks have been more successful in suppressing news from the centres of disaffection. In all...

D URING the week the King and Queen have been in Scot- land, and both in Edinburgh, where a Court was held in the Palace of Holyrood, and in Glasgow they have been greeted with...

beginning of the week by a statement that Russia had renewed her military occupation of Newchwang, the garrison which had been withdrawn having marched back. All kinds of...

case.

early age of entry, as supported by the almost unanimous approval of the Service, and held that the combination of special and general education necessary could only be secured...

cussion took place on the Navy Estimates, during which there was a pretty general agreement that it would be unwise to decrease naval expenditure at the present time, though it...

by the appointment of Lord Onslow, who thus enters the Cabinet. Lord Onslow, who has been Governor of New Zealand and Under-Secretary of State both for India and the Colonies,...

in the Committee of Ways and Means on Tuesday, it being decided that no general debate could take place before the second reading of the Finance Bill. The Chancellor of the...

some friendly questions by Lord Spencer, Lord Selborne made a long and important statement in reference to the Admiralty Memorandum in the Lords on Friday week. In defending the...

Unionist candidate by the substantial majority of 2,149. Mr. Kerr, the Unionist, polled 8,639 votes ; and Mr. Hodge, the Labour candidate, but receiving Liberal recog- nition...

Just before the departure of the Cunard liner Umbria ' on the 9th inst. the police were informed by letter that the Mafia Secret Society had declared war on Great Britain, and...

meeting of the County Council. Lord Welby esti- mated last year for an expenditure of £4,347,023 and a revenue of £4,251,061, leaving £95,962 to be taken from the cash balance....

opening a library at West Ham presented by Mr. Pass. more Edwards to the citizens. He announced his opinion that patriotism must become " larger in its scope," and that Europe...

to protest against the relief of the food of the people from taxation will not have been reported before these pages have gone to press ; but we feel sure that we may rely upon...

organised Government has used its legislative power to restrict, or rather to suppress, a Labour movement. The strike of the railway- men in Victoria has so irritated the...

success. So confident were the great financiers and the general body of investors that it would rise to a premium that they subscribed the total amount nearly forty times over....

his post at the Education Office. We do not feel convinced by the official explanation of the incident given in the Commons on Thursday, and prima facie it is difficult to...

Regimental Institutes was published on Thursday. Since, however, it was not completely issued to the Press, and since the whole matter will, we understand, be discussed in...

Consols (2i per cent.) were on Friday 92.

RUSSIA IN MANCHURIA. For this reason we hold that if we are wise we shall entirely separate the territorial from the commercial question in Manchuria, shall let the territorial...

against the repeal of the Corn-dutir 11 grows in volume. Agricultural associations of all kinds are active in protest, and 'they have 'the - valuable support of the Times:...

T HE Commission en the Auxiliary Forces which is about to begin its sittings may prove, nay, ought to prove, an event of great moment in our military history. . The reference to...

T HE unprecedented volume of the subscriptions to the ' Transvaal Loan is in one way an unanswerable testimony to the solidity of British credit. It is true that the hopes which...

in common between the Austrian Chancellor, Count Goluchowski, and Mr. Carnegie ; but they both have the same idea, that Europe is threatened by the vastness of all things...

R EGARDED from the strictly literary point of view as an anthology of devotion, the Prayer-book of the Church of England is probably unsurpassed in any language. It is finer, we...

THERE is an aspect of a question which has lately been a subject of discussion among cricketers—the question of widening the wicket—to which sufficient attention has not yet...

T HE Romans apparently looked on the woodpecker as the first inventor of spirit-rapping, and identified it with a remarkably old-fashioned god who had the gift of rustic...

THE RELATIONS OF GREAT BRITAIN WITH RUSSIA. (To TRH EDITOR Or TOR "SPECTATOR:1 am glad that the strongest protest against Lord Lansdowne's • declaration regarding the Persian...

"SPRCTATOR.1 SIE,—May I ask your permission to make a statement on a point raised in your review in the Spectator of April 25th of my "Essay on the Reform of Local Taxation " ?...

Sia,—In your interesting leader on the above-named subject in the Spectator of May 9th I read the two following sentences, to which I venture to call attention :—" Manchuria...

article which appeared under the above heading in the last number of the Spectator you con- tend that " Manchuria will be just as advantageous to us in Russian hands, provided...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIB,—" The Sublime Porte declares that the bomb outrages in Salonica are Anarchist in manner and degree, and should so be regarded by...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR.1 SIR,—It may prove of interest at the present time to recall the previous occasions on which the Albanians have taken up arms against their...

[To THE EDITOR OF TIM "SPECTTLT013.1 Sin,—The Rev. Edward B. Haskell has published a second letter in the Spectator (May 2nd) in which he apologises for having accused me of...

[To THE EDITOR OP TER "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—As we say in Ireland, " you never said a truer word" than when you told your readers in the Spectator of May 9th that the introduction...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Allow me a correction of the short notice that appeared in the 'Spectator of May 2nd. My temper is no doubt atrocious ; but your...

[To TEE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR." j SIR, — An article in the Spectator of April 25th largely touch. ing on the Co-operative movement and commercial corruption has just been...

" SPECTATOR." j Sin,—Seeing that Charles Dickens, of ever-delightful memory, imparted to Mr. James T. Fields, author of " Yesterdays with Authors," that Pepys was one of his...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR,—To all who have ever enjoyed the privilege of a sojourn on that enchanted little island, and to many who have never been so...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,— " C. M.'s " letter in the Spectator of April 25th has sug- gested to me to send you a few more Irish stories, if you are not already...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Fifty years ago every University had its " Professor of Natural Philosophy." He professed a subject which is now divided into at least...

[To THE EDrroa OF THE "SrEcrirop.. - 1 SIB,—Your correspondent, " An Old Dip., " in the 42 . ,tectater of April 18th says that " it would be interesting to know the authority...

ero THE EDITOR OF THE e seecreronee SIR, — Would you be kind enough to substitute the name of H.M.S. 'Hood ' for H.M.S. Andromeda ' as the crack shooting ship of the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." J SIB, —As a most important instance of fact being stronger than fiction, I beg to send the following brief account of an Incident in the...

(EMPRESS-DOWAGER. OF CHINA). WE know the East ' s fantastic art I But what dim courts are these Where no intruding breezes part The silken tapestries, Upon whose strange and...

THE ACADEMY.—II. DOES the Academy justify its existence ? That is a question which every one who treats art seriously must ask. Before giving any answer to it some attempt must...

GEORGE CANNING.* MR. lianniorr blunts, if he does not altogether disarm, criticism by his modest prefatory note. In it be expresses the desire that his pages " should be read...

IN January, 1902, M. J. de Morgan, the superintendent of the exploration works that have been for years carried on at Susa, the old-time Persepolis, by the French Government,...

MONSIEUR TRIERS is the central figure, if not precisely the hero, of the first volume of M. Hanotaux's valuable book. Everybody knows Bonnat's portrait of the brilliant little...

Sons of Francis is a book of singular fascination. And this- . in spite of grave faults of form. It is cumbrous in method and cumbrous also in its physical bulk. The volume is...

ART-BOOKS. In the "Makers of British Art" Series (Walter Scott Publishing Company, 3s. 6d.) Mr. R. Chignell writes the Life of Turner. A feature of the book is the space given...

6s.)—Mr. Frankfort Moore's new story deals with Ireland during the "Thorough" campaign of Cromwell. It must be con- fessed that the Protector's conduct towards that unhappy land...

Blackett. 3s. 6d.)—The first story has a thread of the preter- natural running through it. This is a difficult thing to manage, but Miss Whitby does it with considerable...

Pearson. 6s.)—It cannot be denied that Captain Kettle is beginning to weary some of his readers. There is no particular sequence in his adventures, and if we are to have another...

THE ADVENTURES OF HARRY REVEL.* MR. Qun.LER-Coucn's new novel is delightful to read, but by no means easy to review. It is inevitable, to begin with, that one should note the...

and Co. 6s.)—Here we have more deeds of daring. This time they are performed by a commercial traveller, who, as the title of the story indicates, is travelling in the interests...

6s.) — Miss Braddon, having written much about this world, sighs, it would seem, for other worlds to write about. This present story is a very weird tale of a revenant—not the...

all the people who try three-colour process printing Mr. Menpes succeeds best. That is to say, his work when done in this way has fewer of the defects of the process than any...

Sons. 7s. 6d.)—The author gossips pleasantly about Reynolds and his Johnsonian circle. Without being a deep study of the master, the book contains much sympathetic and...

T. Sturge Moore. (The Unicorn Press.)—The rude force of the early German woodcuts makes them interesting. It matters not whether the subject be two ill- favoured lovers sitting...

Laking (Brad- bury, Agnew, and Co. 10s. 6d.)—At the instance of Lord Grenfell while Governor of Malta, Mr. Laking rearranged the armoury and made a classified catalogue. Apart...

[Under this heading toe notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Constructive Congregational Ideals. Edited by D. Macfadyen, M.A. (R....

1 ls.)—Travellers in Italy often get wearied by the soulless multiplication of buildings coming under the general style of " Palladian architecture." By reading the present work...

late Sir W. W. Hunter. Edited by Lady Hunter. (Longman and Co. 9s. net.) —That Sir William Hunter knew as much of British India—we might say India generally—as any man ever did...

6d.)—Perhaps the most hopeful sign in modern English art is the attention now being paid to wall decoration. At present the movement is small, and much of the energy is...

Dent and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—The sub-title of this work sufficiently describes its ob- ject, "Descriptive Sketches of All Recognised Exhibition Varieties, with many Original...

6d.)—That he will find something very smart and clever will be the first reflection of any one who reads this title ; his second may possibly be that in the matter of taste he...

This, it should be said, is the " May " edition, containing the latest corrections and additions, in view, no doubt, of the London season.

(Swan Sonnenschein and Co. 10s. (i1.)--Signor Rodolphe Lanciani writes a preface for this second edition, in which he makes much, as he is quite entitled to do, of the general...

Blackburn.)—Mr. Hull has brought together here more than fifty poets as represented by extracts from their works. These fifty-odd are the poetical harvest of Blackburn during...

stable and Co. 5s. net.)—We must be content with the briefest notice of this "Quarterly Review of County and Family History, Heraldry, and Antiquities." The principal articles...