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. „ Francesco Crispi, the last of the great group
The Spectatorwho en. franchised Italy, died in Naples on the 11th inst., being eighty- two years.of age. His death is of no political importanee, for he bad' retired from public life, but...
One would much like to understand the precise position of
The SpectatorCount VO11 Weldersee within the German Empire.' He was sent to China with a grand flourish of trumpets, when there he was nominated ComMander-in-Chief of the Allied Armies, and...
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorL ORITKITCHENER'S proclamation, the appearance of which we were able to Chronicle last week, - seems to be bearing good fruit. The first week after its issue was a record week...
It is alleged in an American telegram that Ministers in
The SpectatorChina have at last,been able to agree as to the protocol, and the new duties will therefore be collected from October. The un- expected British resistance is said to have been...
On Tuesday the Duke and Duchess of York, who arrived
The Spectatorthis week in Natal, were present at a great public reception and review in Pietermaritzburg. - Not only did the Duke and Duchess witness a most striking ceremony . in the...
The Empress Frederick was buried at Potsdam on August 13th
The Spectatorin the beautiful Friedenskirche with a stately ceremonial, which, however, she herself would have, pro- nounced "too strictly 'military." There were Generals in dozens and...
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On Saturday last a great Unionist demonstration was held at
The SpectatorBlenheim, at which Mr. Balfour and Mr. Chamberlain were the chief speakers. We have alluded elsewhere to the chief incident of the gathering,—i.e., the declarations of the two...
On Thursday, after the privilege question had been got rid
The Spectatorof, the House indulged in a war debate. Sir William Harcourt made ' many criticisms in regard to the war, especially questioning our right to deprive the Boers after Septem her...
The "United States of Colombia" are quarrelling gravely with Venezuela.
The SpectatorAlthough it is in South America, the war may turn out to be of importance, for the Government of the United States is inclined to interfere. President McKinley will declare, it...
We have stated elsewhere our reasons for regretting the course
The Spectatortaken by the Government, and can only say here that no question of doing anything contrary to Roman Catholic feeling was involved. The convents objected to inspection because it...
In the House of Commons on Monday the Government suffered
The Spectatora defeat in the lobbies in regard to the clause affect- ing the working of women and young persons in factories on Saturday. The Government proposed to make 1 o'clock the hour...
On Thursday the House of Commons indulged in yet another
The Spectatorof its childish squabbles with the Press,—squabbles which do much more to lower the position of the House o f Commons than the newspaper articles which are resented by its...
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We publish in our correspondence columns a letter from Mr.
The SpectatorC. J. Rhodes which should finally settle the controversy between "C. B." (Mr. Charles Boyd) and Sir Henry Camp- bell-Bannerman. Mr. Rhodes has sent to South Africa for the...
Whatever shortcomings may have existed in other refugee camps, that
The Spectatorat Klerksdorp, as described by Reuter's corre- spondent in Wednesday's Times, leaves little room for adverse criticism. In this camp, which contains about three thousand...
The Zoological Conference now sitting in Berlin will, we see,
The Spectatorhelp to confirm the popular idea as to the wisdom of the ant. Professor Morel, of Switzerland, who has made that insect his study, says the ant's brain, in the workers at all...
• In the disoussion on the airship of M. Santos-Dumont,
The Spectatora curious fact has come out. Another Brazilian, Bartholomeo de GTISMiL11, who had been educated by the Jesuits of Paraguay, constructed an aerial machine in 1709, in which he "...
The friends of municipal reform in New York have won
The Spectatoran important success. They have always asserted that the agents of Tammany Hall in the New York police have raised a revenue by selling impunity to the keepers of -saloons,...
The only other matter of special importance contained in the
The Spectatorspeeches was Mr. Balfour's announcement in regard to the alliance between the two sections of the Unionist party. "It was once an alliance," said Mr. Balfour; "it is now an...
A remarkable letter, from an M.P.'s brother now serving in
The SpectatorSouth Africa, has been circulated by the Press Association, and appears in Tuesday's Times. The writer, whose letter is dated from Prieska, July 22nd, describes a conversation...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.'
The SpectatorMR. RHODES AND 'DIE LIBERAL PARTY. rr HE letter from Mr. C. J. Rhodes in regard to the con- troversy between " 0. B." and. Sir Henry Campbell- Ikannerman which we publish in...
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THE GOVERNMENT'S DECLARATION AS TO TRISH OVER-REPRESENTATION.
The SpectatorJ UST eight weeks ago, and on the publication of the Census Returns, which showed how great was the Parliamentary under-representation of England, we made a strong appeal to the...
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A SOUTHERN POLITICIAN. F RANCESCO CRISP', the Sicilian, the last of
The Spectatorthe group who in 1860-62 made Italy, after living into - wha.t in Italy is extreme old age, has at last passel away. What a group they were, and how the hearts of Europe went...
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MUNICIPAL CORRUPTION.
The SpectatorT HE sentence of five years' penal servitude passed last Saturday upon Bissert, a New York detective employ(' of the police, is of some importance, first, because it shows the...
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THE LAUNDRY SURRENDER.
The SpectatorT HE passing of the Factories Bill is in many respects so good and honourable a legislative achievement that its disfigurement by the gratuitous surrender on the laundries...
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ENGLISH HISTORICAL MEMORY.
The SpectatorQ IR FREDERICK POLLOCK'S lecture on King Alfred 1C. , delivered on Monday at Oxford to University Extension students is both instructive and entertaining, but it misses one...
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THE HERMIT QF CAPE MAMBA. TEADFASTLY through the centuries the
The Spectatorfrowning pro- montory of Cape Malea keeps vigil over the breadth of brilliant blue that divides it from Cerigo,—lovely Cerigo, with Kythera nestling under her overhanging green....
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A COLONY OF LITTLE TERNS.
The SpectatorE have often thought that terns are not only the most TV engaging of the feathered tribes, but must be the happiest. Excepting song, they have all the advantages which a...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The SpectatorMR. RHODES'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE FUNDS OF THE LIBERAL PARTY. [TO THE EDTIOE OP THE "SPECTATOR:] Sra,—I have seen in your paper the controversy between "0. B." and Sir Henry...
[To THE EDITOR OP THE 'SPECTATOR.1 Sna,—Surely your comments on
The Spectatormy letter in the Spectator of .4 'Ind 3rd are scarcely worthy of your judgment and - fair- ness. One of your four objections to Mr. Rhodes - w as hi s gift of 210,000 to the...
THE FRIENDS' MANIFESTO ON THE WAR.
The Spectator[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sra,—In view of a repeated application to give the publical of the pulpit to the "Plea for a Peaceable Spirit" put forth by the Society of -...
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A COLONIAL MEMORIAL.
The Spectator(To Via EDITOR OF VIE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,--May I be allowed to correct two errors into which your correspondent, Mr. Myers, seems to have fallen in the matter of the Archbishop...
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 Szn,—Mr. Howard Hodgkin tells
The Spectatorus that the Manifesto did nothing but "repeat the well-known tenet of the Friends that all war is necessarily un-Christian." Why, then, did the meeting circulate it among the...
• THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC IN S017TH - AFRICA.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR."] SIB,—The able article on "The Natives of South Africa" in the Spectator of August 10th will command - the sympathy of all who desire the...
THE ENGLISH A.TTITUDE TOWARDS ROMAN CATHOLICS.
The Spectator[TO TIIE EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTATOR." SIII,—The article in the Spectator of August 3rd on this sub- ject recalls to my mind an interesting anecdote told me by an old Oxford...
THE NATIVES OF SOUTH AFRICA. [To THE EDITOR OF THE
The Spectator"SPECTATOR."] SIB,—In the Spectator of August 10th you suggest in your article on "The Natives of South Africa" "that if the natives cannot be got to work in sufficient numbers...
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DERWENT WATER PRESERVATION.
The Spectatorpro TES EDITOR Or TILE " SPECTATOR."] Sts,—I have read with great pleasure the letter from "A Stroller," published in the Spectator of August 3rd, in which he makes known his...
THE LATE BISHOP OF DVHILA,1/ AT HARROW. MO TEE EDIT9B
The SpectatorCAE THE "SPEcTAT0E.1 Sin,—The lamented death of the Bishop of Durham remind 4 m e of all his goodness to me during my school-time at Harrow. With yeuthful naiveté I once asked...
A CORRECTION.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OD TILE "SPEITRTOR."] you allow me to correct the statement made by your reviewer of Mr. McCabe's " Abelard" (Spectator, Augnst 10th) that the author "was for...
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MUSIC.
The SpectatorSOME MUSICAL ANTICIPATIONS. Di a former article in these columns an effort was made to indicate the trend of modern opera. But opera, though the most impressive, is not the...
POETRY.
The SpectatorJUST ONCE. " JUST once to gaze on English landscape fair— Through deep, green-shadowed lanes to stray; Just once to breathe the soft-sea-laden air,— In hallowed English fames...
AN AUDACIOUS FALCON.
The SpectatorrTo THE EDITOR OF TES " SPECTATOR:1 Sia,,--As I was with my little dog ascending Froswick (a mountain in the wild country between Ambleside and Hawes Water) on July 15th, a...
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BOOKS.
The SpectatorOLD ENGLISH HOUSES.* ' This is an interesting book spoilt by an inapposite jisotilaritY' being written in the familiar style of the local guide - book. Had Mr. Moss told us...
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' VARIA.*
The SpectatorTilts volume of essays contains Many interesting papers, and a few dell ones. The first six are by far the best. The later articles are less original, and one of the longest,...
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THE JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA.*
The SpectatorThere is without doubt a certain magnificence in the coa sep . tion of the Jewish Encyclopedia. To gather together into the compass of one work all that concerns the Hebrew pe...
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VIEWS ON THE AFRIKANDER,S.* Iris recorded in the Life of
The SpectatorMacaulay that a prize was once founded, at Cambridge for an annual essay on William m. Sir %erg* Trevelyan, if we remember right, comments on the portentous scrutiny thus...
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NOVELS OF THE WEEK.*
The SpectatorSYDNEY SMITH'S nickname for a beau of the "forties "— " The Cool of the Evening "—might well be applied to the hero of Mr. Marriott Watson's whimsical sketches, The Skirts of...
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C URRENT LITERATURE.
The SpectatorDR. MARTINEAU AND PROFESSOR KNIGHT.. Inter Arnim: Letters between James Martineau and William Knight, 1869 - 72. (John Murray. 5s.)—This volume contains a sermon, a reprinted...
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Where is my Husband ? and other Brown Studies. By
The SpectatorGeorge Frost. (T. Burleigh. 2e. 6d. net.)—This little collection of essays is decidedly amusing, and contains some very happy sentences, in spite of its somewhat infelicitous...
SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK. •
The Spectator[Under this heading ore notice such Books of the week as hare not been reserved for review in other forms.] The Tale of the Argonauts. By Apollonins of Rhodes. Trans- lated by...
CHURCH HISTORY FOR LAY READERS.
The SpectatorThe Post - Apostolic Age. By Lucius Waterman, D.D. With an Introduction by Henry Codman Potter, D.D., LL.D., Bishop of New York. (T. and T. Clark, Edinburgh. 6s.)—The author of...
The Transit of Civilization from England to America in the,
The SpectatorSeventeenth Century. By Edward Eggleston. (Hirschfeld Brothers. 6s. net.)—The book to which this not very intelligible title is given is intended to correct popular notions...
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In the 11 Rural Science Series" (Macmfdan and Co., 5s.
The Spectatornet each vol.), we have two volumes :—The Feeding of Animals, by If litrnan Howard Jordan, and Farm Poultry, by J. C. Watson. _ I t will be remembered that the series is of...
Original Papers. By the late John Hopkinson, D.Sc. Vol. I.,
The Spectator"Technical Papers." edited, with a Memoir, by B. Hopkinson. Vol. IL, "Scientific Papers," same Editor. (Cambridge University Press. 10s. ad. per vol.) -The papers in the first...
Leaves from a Journal in the East. By Julia Smith.
The Spectator(W. R. Russell and Co.)—There is no particular reason why Miss Smith should have published her journal. There are even some reasons why she should not. Generally, there is the...
inditithuality and the Moral Aim in American Education. By B.
The SpectatorThiselton Mark: (Longmans and Co'. 6s.)—This is the Gilchrist Report for the present year, and embodies the results of Mr. Mark's inquiries among American schools and teachers....
A jubilee medal commemorating the origin of the Crystal Palace
The Spectatorand the holding of the Naval and Military Exhibition has been struck. It presents the heads of "Victoria and Albert" on one side, and "Edward and Alexandra" on the other. It is...
