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The despatch next points out the great dangers of farther
The Spectatordelay and the necessity for relieving the strain which has already caused so much injury, and earnestly presses "for an immediate and definite reply to the present proposal." If...
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorQIISPENSE is still the dominant feature of the South African situation. On Friday the only thing that can be said with certainty is that the question of peace and war hangs in...
All civilised men outside France were shocked to bear on
The SpectatorSaturday evening last that the Court-Martial at Rennes by a vote of five to two had found Alfred Dreyfus guilty, " with extenuating circumstances," and had condemned him to...
The very latest news as to Captain Dreyfus's chances of
The Spectatorregaining his liberty is reassuring. On Friday the Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph announced on "the very highest authority " that "Captain Dreyfus is to be set at...
The verdict has produced an explosion of feeling through- out
The Spectatorthe world to which we can recollect no parallel. It is one of loathing contempt, not only for the French Staff, which may be just, but for France, which, after all, contains a...
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It is a melancholy fact that while the great religious
The Spectatorpapers of Rome thus exult in the conviction of Dreyfus, and while no Bishop or leading cleric in France has stepped forward to defend the innocent or preach the sacred- ness of...
It is with very great regret that we note that
The Spectatorthe official organs of the Vatican are reported to have accepted the decision of the Dreyfus case not with grief, but with satis- faction. The Osservalare _Romano, for example,...
The annual meeting of the British Association was opened on
The SpectatorWednesday at Dover with a somewhat tedious though thoughtful speech from the President, Sir Michael Foster. As this is the last year of the century, he dwelt upon the past, and...
On Saturday Lord Rosebery, at a dinner of the emplOyAs
The Spectatorof the Caledonian Railway, made a speech in extenuation of railway unpunctuality. Railway passengers, he said, had doubled in number in twenty years, and of course the...
The death of Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt is reported from New
The SpectatorYork. He died on Tuesday of the disease which kills American millionaires,—failure of the heart. He was only fifty-six years old. He was an important person in the United...
A huge State trial began on Friday week in Servia,
The Spectatorwhere twenty-seven persons, most of them leaders of the Radical party, are accused of high treason in conspiring to assist a man named Knezevitch to murder ex-King Milan. Kneze-...
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The special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, in Rome telegraphs
The Spectatorto Thursday's paper some curious gossip about the Pope. It seems that, though weak, the rumours about his health have been as usual very much exaggerated. It is announced,...
On Friday, September 9th, Lord Rosebery, opening a Jubilee Cottage
The SpectatorHospital at Bishop Auckland, told an excellent story of the love of addressing their fellow-creatures which is so strongly felt by many otherwise respectable people. At a public...
The Rev. E. Francis Crosse, of Barrow-in-Farness, has addressed a
The Spectatorletter to his brother Presidents, delegates, and members of the Council of the English Church Union which does him the greatest possible credit. Though a strong Ritualist, he...
The Daily News of Tuesday has an instructive, and on
The Spectatorthe whole reassuring, article on the tricks of the modern smuggler. The Customs House searching at Charing Cross or Victoria is not nearly so rigorous as it used to be, partly...
In regard to the much-debated question as to what was
The Spectatormeant by our reservation of suzerainty or paramountcy in the case of the Transvaal, it is interesting to look back to what was said on this point at the moment when their...
Mr. Stiens, a Russian electrical engineer residing in this country,
The Spectatoris credited by the Daily News with claiming to be able to give artificial sight to the blind. The inventor's apparatus—full details concerning which are withheld beyond the...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorTHE DREYFUS VERDICT. T HE secret of the great crime committed at Rennes on Saturday is, as we believe, this. The majority of French officers are convinced that a verdict...
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MR.. RHODES AND THE CRISIS IN SOUTH AFRICA.
The SpectatorT T is useless for us to attempt to discuss the main issue in the South African controversy, for the results of our final offer to the Boers will not be known till after we have...
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THE POISONING OF PUBLIC OPINION. T HE second trial of Captain
The SpectatorDreyfus is a severe blow to the democratic theory. All convinced democrats believe that, although there may be a divine law above it, the working law for this world is " Public...
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THE EUPHRATES VALLEY RAILWAY.
The SpectatorI T is with great satisfaction that we learn from the Times that a compromise has been arranged between the representatives of the German and of the English capitalists who have...
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THE RESURRECTION OF THE ROAD. u - NLESS all the signs and
The Spectatoromens are illusory, the ques- tion of our roads will soon become one of the most debated and most important in the range of domestic politics, and we shall find that what really...
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ROADS TO IMPORTANCE.
The SpectatorI T is not very easy to become a person of importance in England. The old roads, indeed, are open—through service to the State, either in Parliament, or in the field, or...
THE ENGLISH " AGER PUBLICUS."
The SpectatorI F the Stonehenge estate is bought by the nation, the purchases of land by the State for other purposes than building or agriculture will nearly equal the area of the New...
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LONDON THREE-QUARTERS OF A CENTURY AGO.
The SpectatorI T is difficult, even for those who have lived through the last seventy-five years, to realise the changes which have come over the face of the Metropolis within that time. A...
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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Your correspondent, Mr. Piers
The SpectatorClaughton, has decided with p/usquana-archiepiscopal authority that incense and pro_ sessional lights are "essential to the catholicity of the English Church." Some rather...
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
The SpectatorClaughton's letter cannot surely reflect the opinion of more than a small minority in the Church of England.. That "two matters of ritual" should be "essential to the...
A HIDEOUS BLUNDER.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — I should be glad if you would permit me to comment on a note of yours on the letter of " W. W. V." which appeared in the Spectator of...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The SpectatorTHE RITUALISTS AND THE DECISION OF THE ARCHBISHOPS. [To THE. EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] F:111, — In your remarks upon my letter you say that " the preface" to the Prayer-book...
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.")
The SpectatorSIR, — At the present time, when some members of the Church of England are hesitating whether they shall obey the ruling of the Bishops and Archbishops of the Church in respect...
AN EXPERIMENT IN PUBLIC-HOUSE MANAGEMENT.
The Spectator[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—It may encourage persons disposed to follow up this matter to know that the ' Fox and Pelican' at Grayshott has almost more business...
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THE JEWS AND THE DREYFUS CASE.
The Spectator[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Reading aloud " Daniel Deronda" this afternoon, I was much struck by the applicability of the following extract, quoted by George Eliot...
THE SIERRA LEONE MALARIA-MOSQUITO.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—I hope in fairness to the originators of the mosquito theory of malarial infection, you will allow me to state in a few words what that...
THE DREYFUS CASE.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Late on Saturday last I heard of the verdict given at Rennes. On Sunday morning, after my custom, I attended my parish church, and the...
CAMPING OUT.
The Spectator[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I have been much interested in your article in the Spectator of September 2nd on this subject. I have just returned from a three weeks'...
THEISTIC LITERATURE. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Yon surely
The Spectatorwould not do any one a great wrong.—i.e., not willingly. Therefore I count on your sense of justice to allow me to correct a misrepresentation of Theism and Theistic tastes in...
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SEPTEMBER 9TH, 1899.
The SpectatorSHE stands convicted by the public voice—. Her friends desert her and her foes rejoice- Scorn'd by the nations ! This is France; who still In ancient days through good report...
POETRY AND MUSIC.
The Spectator(TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR, —" S. B.'s " letter in the Spectator of Septem- ber 2nd reminds me of a question which I have some- times discussed with a friend, —...
POETRY.
The SpectatorTHAT SHE REPENT ! THY vengeance, God of old, upon the Gaul I For retribution as for rain we call ! Is there not passion where Thy tempests roll, Or in Thy thunder some...
THE SHAME OF FRANCE. So then, our wildest fears were
The Spectatortrue ! The incredible disgrace : A darker shame than erst she knew Bows France's downcast face. The forger, and the forger's tool, The thrice-convicted liar, The slave, the...
GRAINGER'S " SUGAR-CANE."
The Spectator(To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—The writer of the article on "Agricultural Poetry" in your last issue has given quite a wrong version of Boswell's story about...
BOOKS.
The SpectatorSA'DrS " GULISTAN."* THE Gul;stan is the portal by which ninety-nine out of a hundred Western students enter the realms of Eastern letters, and a most admirable introduction it...
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ADMIRAL PHILLIP.* ARTHUR PHILLIP was but half an Englishman, and
The Spectatorin no sense a hero of the quarter-deck. His father, a native of Frankfort, taught German in the city, and though his mother's former husband had been a Captain of the Royal...
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MR. MIGG S.*
The SpectatorMR. MiqGs has not been altogether fortunate in the occasion of his nativity, at least in book form. He began to hold forth in the Pall Mall Gazette about five years ago, or very...
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH THOUGHT.*
The SpectatorPROFESSOR PATTEN, hitherto chiefly known as the successor of Carey in vigorous advocacy of Protectionism in the United States, has in this volume broken new ground, more...
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NOVELS OF THE WEEK.*
The SpectatorWITH the approach of the autumn publishing season a welcome improvement is noticeable in the quality of current fiction. Mr. Arthur Morrison's To London Town—which, as we learn...
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University Problems in the United Stales. By Daniel Coit Gilman,
The SpectatorLL.D., President of the Johns Hopkins University. (The Century Company, New York. 10s. 6d.)—Dr. Gilman, as head of the great University which the munificence of Mr. Hopkins...
Mr. G. H. Powell's Pocket Guide to Croquet (1s.) is
The Spectatora compact and " confidential " little treatise on modern scientific croquet. The author begins by bringing the reader and himself into agreement as to the serious nature and...
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The SpectatorCOLLEGE HISTORIES. —Merton College. By Bernard W. Hender- son. (F. E. Robinson. 5s. net.)—Mr. Henderson rightly claims for his College a virtual priority of foundation over...
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Les Anglais aux Indes et en Egypte, Par Eugtseie Aubin.
The Spectator(A. Colin et Cie., Paris.)—M. Aubin, who is an old member of the French colony in Egypt, gives us in this volume his ideas on the relations between France and England in that...
China. By Harold E. Gorst. (Sands and Co.)—This is the
The Spectatorfirst volume of a series which bears the title of the " Imperial Interest Library," and is to be under the general editorship of Mr. Hamish Hendry. The chief object of the book,...
Pickivickian Studies. By Percy Fitzgerald. (New Century Press. 5s.)—Dickens identifications
The Spectatormake an amusing subject, if too much is not made of them, or originals are not ingeniously invented where, in all probability, the author was drawing from imagination....
Bpi.stolm Acadenticze Oxonienses. Edited by the Rev. Henry Anstey, M.A.
The SpectatorPart I., 1421-1457 ; Part IL, 1457-1509. (The Oxford Historical Society. 42s.)—These letters cover, it will be seen, something less than a century, the word "letters" including,...
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SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
The Spectator[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] The Expository Times. Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Vol. X. (T. and...
The History of the European Fauna. By R. F. Scharff,
The SpectatorB.Sc. (Walter Scott. Gs.)—Mr. Scharff modestly ascribes to his book a tentative character. It indicates, he hopes, a " suitable method of treatment." It seems to us, as far as...
Some Textual Notes on the Tragedie of Antony and Cleopatra.
The SpectatorBy Alfred Edward Thiselton. (C. S. Palmer. 2s. 6d.)—Mr. Thiselton takes up a conservative position in respect of the text of the folio, defending its readings and its...
The Logic of Vegetarianism . By Henry S. Salt. (The
The SpectatorIdeal Publishing Union. ls.) —" A. civilised future," hopes Mr. Salt, " will not for ever content itself with the diet of a barbarous past." He is quite within his right in so...
Quince .Tours d Londres. Par Maria Star. (Paul 011endorf, Paris.)—This
The Spectatoris an account of a fortnight's visit to London made by a French lady at the time of the last Jubilee. Her im- pressions of England and of English society are worth reading,...
Taxower.—The Student Christian Movement of Britain. By H. W. Oldham.
The Spectator(British College Christian Union.) —This is the history of a movement which has begun, so to speak, from below. By " below " we do not mean, in the least, that the movers in it...
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GUIDE - Bowis. — Assouan as a Health Resort. By W. E. Kingsford. (Simpkin,
The SpectatorMarshall, and Co.)—Mr. Kingsford gives a variety of facts and figures to show that the climate of Assouan is much to be recommended for certain forms of disease. The winter...
