front a Red-book recently published in St. Petersburg containing the despatches dealing with the negotiations for the eight months before the outbreak of war. Russia at first...

Tokio a despatch suggesting that the time had arrived when," in the interest of the whole civilised world," the belligerents should place themselves in direct communication with...

summary of the battle of the Sea, of Japan, and the deductions to be drawn from it It is in the nature of an interim report, since, as he admits, the data are still very...

Japanese terms will be ; but Tokio keeps its secrets well, and there is still evidence of some uncertainty upon that point. It is probable, therefore, that the Czar wishes to...

not this time on political grounds. M. Delyannis, Premier of Greece, and for forty-three years the most conspicuous politician in the kingdom, had recently passed an Act...

Crown Prince of Sweden, become one day a King, was on Thursday married at Windsor to the Princess Margaret, daughter of the Duke of Connaught and niece of King Edward VII. The...

and character during the continuance of the Dreyfus affair, is publishing his opinion in the ..4urore on the comparative value of the German and French Armies. The numbers at...

Count von Tattenbacb, is an energetic as well as overbearing man, and he seems to have convinced the Sultan that if he will emancipate himself from French "influence," Germany...

through so easily or so rapidly as has been imagined. The King of Sweden is evidently greatly moved by his deposition, for which he had, he thinks, and as Norwegians...

the Committee appointed by the Army Council to investigate the question of sales and refunds to con- tractors in South Africa. The Committee, it will be remembered, consisted of...

week, and left again for home on Monday. During their stay in the Metropolis food and lodging wore provided by various philanthropic agencies, and a demon- stration took place...

at Oxford on Wednesday, formulated his views on the duty of Oxford to the nation and humanity. He was convinced, he said, that the true relation of Nature to man had been so...

Roberts, in which he appealed for funds for the new Rifle Club Association about to be formed with the aim of making rifle-shooting a national pursuit. We have dealt with the...

Great Britain and Ireland at Edinburgh, and made some entertaining confessions of his views on literature. Before an audience of publishers and booksellers' he claimed to speak...

on the subject of the pay of the cavalry officer. Subalterns in the American Army, who start three times as well off as their British brother-officers, are agitating for an...

contractor called Meyer bought oats from the Sales Depart- ment and resold them to the Army, making a profit of £1 on every three hundred pounds, or a gross daily profit upon...

appeal to the Liberal Unionist party at large for united action at the present juncture. After describing the specially disintegrating effect of the Fiscal question on Liberal...

the occasion of the Japanese Trafalgar to suggest that the time for negotiation between St. Petersburg and Tokio had arrived. Personally he is a hunianitarian ; as President be...

British people published in the papers on Monday will meet with an immediate and adequate response. For the last four years, as our readers are aware, we have been labouring to...

M R. HALDANE has contributed a very useful paper to that curiously miscellaneous series which Mr. Stead has christened " Coming Men on Coming Questions." The interest of this...

W E have no quarrel with those who boast so often• and so loudly of the progress of the world. There is progress, and great progress, visible to all who observe with any care,...

M ERE figures, however unchallengeable and however serious in their import, curiously fail to impress the mind of the average Englishman. He has not really been alarmed, or but...

trio very different individuals. Concerning the first we can make some predictions with safety. We know at least that in delicate cases' he will always lean towards the side...

particular type of person, possibly it is hardest to construct a satisfactory story of schoolboys. A few writers, of course, have succeeded ; but those who have been school-...

C HILDREN in a garden might well be the descendants of Titania's elves. They look upon themselves as the good fairies of the flowers to some extent, and would he delighted if...

.Sin,—Because a branch of the yellow race is now carrying ou a successful war on sea and land against one of the white nations of the West, it is supposed by some that, if...

THE SCOTTISH CHURCHES BILL. [TO TIIR EDITOR OP waQPAT0h.•] SIR,—The Churches (Scotland) Bill was not before you when writing your able article last week on the Lord...

[TO Till EDITOR OW Till " seaerAmon29 may be that the appeal made through the Press by Earl Roberts to the nation will meet with the success that it deserves, coming as it does...

to which many will take exception in your otherwise admirable article on the Scottish Churches Bill in the Spectator of June 10th. You say that unless all serious opposition to...

[TO THE EDITOR OP TUB "SPECTATOR-",J SIR, —Will you allow me to add a word in confirmation of " A German Free-Trader's " letter on the above (Spectator, June 10th)? I was for...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,-Mr. Horsfall has raised an interesting controversy, and one that I have heard keenly debated among British school- masters. As a whilom...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR...9 Sin,-I am not disposed to take "lying down" the statement of "The Tariff Commission" that the cotton industry as a whole is practically...

Sin,-In the town where Beethoven was born and in the hall erected to his memory a Festival has recently taken place,-a feast indeed of music. It began on Sunday, May 28th, and...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."( SIR, —Some of the readers of the Spectator may be interested to know that there is now an opportunity of securing for the National Gallery...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—May I remind the citizens of London of a truth which in their corporate capacity they fail to lay to heart ? It is that in their...

SIR,—In your critic's very kind review last week of my little romance, " The Flute of Pan," he refers to a remark made by me (in a lecture to the Dante Society) on the subject...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I venture to ask you again to insert in the Spectator an appeal on behalf of the Naples Society for the Protection of Animals. During...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "Sescrwrott."] SIR,—In the review of hooks on " Popular Natural History " in your number of May 20th is the following sentence with reference to the owl...

OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—" Duke Domnm," writing from Southern California in your issue of May 27th, expresses the wish "that there were a day set apart—a Sunday—as an...

in the Spectator of June 10th is not quite accurate in saying that the three parishes of Heydon, Great Chishall, and Little Chishall, transferred from Essex into Cambridgeshire,...

Herts.) Tux amount of subscriptions and fees received up to June 15th for the Cheap Cottages Exhibition is £1,323 17s. 6d., in addition to £320 promised to the Prizes Fund,...

and focussing upon it a light partly shed by a recent novel (" The Challoners "), I am tempted to beg a little of your space in the name of a growing class of modern parents who...

equally applicable to some of the grand pianofortes of to-day. And what is true of individual instruments is not less true of instruments in combination. In a suggestive article...

On ! the bosom of the morning is an altar to the Lord! See the incense of its prayer spiring up the early air ! All the moorland hearths are smoking up to Heaven with one...

Traits, in which he assumed the role of an inde- pendent and outspoken critic, and endeavoured to combat American prejudices and correct American shortcomings from the point of...

description of poetry, with the illustrative passages, which occupy pp. 22-39 are especially fine. " The essential charm of all Poetry," writes Professor Stewart, "for the sake...

READERS of Miss Sichel's former books will easily understand that this is not a complete biography of Catherine de' Medici, but a series of interesting and attractive historical...

England's relationship with her daughter-States will welcome Mr. Richard Jebb's book, even if they do not invariably agree with his conclusions. It is a record full of...

DOROTHY TIM.* STORIES of the sea and of seafaring men have entered on a new phase since Mr. Joseph Conrad brought his peculiar combination of experience and psychological...

The fashions in fiction aro apparently as binding on authors as the fashions in millinery are on fine ladies. At present the fashionable theme for fiction is based on the...

Unwin. 3s. 6d.)—It is a pity that Mr. Barry Pain should have contributed to a form of fiction exceedingly popular just now, and not a little harmful. Tho record, told in the...

author with so largo an output as Mr. Thomas Cobb is bound to be uneven in his work, and it must be confessed that the last few books from his pen have left the reader with a...

Phipson. Edited by Mark B. F. Major. (Cassell and Co. 3s. 6d.)—The late Major Phipson published two books, "The Redemption of Labour" and "The Science of Civilisation," of...

This is "an offering to charity," as the cover tells us, the special object being the " Printers' Pension Corporation." We cannot pretend that the buyer who may give a...

The United States: a History of Three Centuries. By W. E. Chancellor and F. W. Hewes. Vol. II. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 15s. net.)—This volume contains the period 1698-1774,...

and Co. 5s. net.)—This volume is another timely tribute to the Trafalgar year. The duties of the Trinity House are now wholly peaceful : it has the management of lighthouses...

Press. 4s.)—We find in this volume, which is described as a supplement to the author's " Short History of the Hebrews," the same excellent qualities which we saw in the...

(George Allen. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Foster is sometimes instruc- tive, but he is not humorous, and the non-humorous essayist is, we take it, a mistake. We have, indeed, a...

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Oxford. 3s. 6d. net.) —In 1676 Mr. Thomas Glover, "an ingenious cliirurgoon," communicated to the Royal Society "an account of Virginia, its situation, temperature,...

Blackwell, Oxford, 2s. Gd. net), is a selection of passages, carefully arranged to form is series of definitions, &c., from the "Theaetetus," " Republic," "Philebon," " Phaedo,"...