the " King " has submitted. The terms dic- tated by our Government were accepted without discussion, and Ashantee becomes henceforward a British province. We do not understand...

telegram has been an approach by Lord Salisbury to both Russia and France ; and the Westminster Gazette of Saturday published an account of this "rapprochement" with details....

the politics of the world can hardly be satisfactory to his Majesty. The Boers have not jumped into his arms, and Mr. Hofmeyr, the recognised leader of the Dutch party at the...

T HE prospect is becoming a little brighter. The German Emperor, it would seem, really thought that if he distinctly menaced Great Britain her Government would recede, and would...

in Glasgow and Manchester, in Glasgow twice on Tuesday, when he was presented with the freedom of the city, and in Manchester on Wednesday, when he met his con- stituents in the...

iS issued, gratis, an Eight-Page Supplement, containing the Half-Yearly Index and Title-Page,—i.e., fro»1 July Gth to December 28th, 1895, inclusive.

case.

With the " SPICTA.TOlt" of Saturday, January 25th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

dinner by the Northern Conservative Club at Newcastle-on-Tyne on Tuesday, and made a speech from which it would appear that the majority of the Ministers,—so far at least as...

with foreign affairs. After briefly stating that the Government felt itself bound to redeem all its pledges with regard to agriculture, the voluntary schools, and the Indian...

particular having been affirmed and denied three times. The Colonial Office, however, believes that he will be sent with his followers to England, there to be tried under the...

Chartered Company of South Africa. The following telegram from Sir Hercules Robinson to Mr. Chamberlain seems a little ominous :—" It is alleged that the Government have docu-...

Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce upon the value of our South African possessions, which he has recently been visiting. He evidently believes that the agricultural resources of the...

and earnestness, treating the great idea of a common alliance between the English-speaking peoples all over the globe, with an enthusiasm almost equal to that of the late Mr. W....

the Danish West India Islands, including St. Thomas, which will be made a great naval station. The Danes, who once held positions in two or three parts of the world, have found...

a substitute for meat made by the Japanese out of vegetable products. This, called "tofu," consists principally of the protein matter of the soya bean, and is said to be as...

intermission. The ships of the new Flying Squadron hoisted their pennons on Tuesday; but this did not stop the activity at the dockyards, where the men are still working...

matter of corruption. It is believed that if Arton is in the end brought to trial, scores of Deputies and Senators will be shown to have received gratifications out of the funds...

Legislative Membership of the Indian Viceroy's Council. The new Member, Mr. M. D. Chalmers, is the County Court Judge of Birmingham, and has had comparatively little opportunity...

cloud which darkened the commercial horizon was " the relationship between capital and labour." " There was an absolute identity of interest between capital and labour. They...

rougher order, from the new Poet Laureate, on Dr. Jameson's raid, which will hardly tend to glorify that conception of British rule which his great predecessor made so...

Mr. George Curzon delivered a speech on British Trade and Foreign Competition. Part of the business of the Foreign Office was to help all British traders who showed a...

New Consols (21) were on Friday, 1072.

MR. BALFOUR'S EQUANIMITY. N_L R. BALFOUR'S great power lies in his undisturbed equanimity, which was visible enough in all the speeches he has been making this week. In the very...

T HE "jack-boot policy" of the German Emperor, as the Kladcleradatsch approvingly calls it, is forcing Englishmen to consider the question of alliances very earnestly, and there...

W E have pointed out in repeated articles that although the interest of the great millionaires is almost always on the side of order, they might, if they took to politics,...

P RESIDENT KRUGER, in his message to the Volksraad on the Jameson raid, declaring his in- tention to discuss with them " in later and calmer moments the causes which led to the...

I T is more than prudent, it is absolutely necessary, that we should build more ships for the Navy, and so make our command of the sea unchallengeable. But while we do this, we...

comes out in all recent information from the Continent is the untrust- worthiness of the Press. In every one of the great scandals which have recently shocked France—the Panama...

TAT E do not propose to attempt to allot with any pre- V the amount of blame which is due either to the Bishop of Winchester or to Mr. Dolling in the recent controversy about...

interesting address which he has just published on " Education and Equality," •—perhaps "Education and In- equality " would have hit the exact drift of his thought more...

I T is just the hour for a great discovery, whether in the region of science, or philosophic thought, or, if that were possible without a new revelation, in the morality which...

M R. COKE of Holkham, afterwards created Earl of Leicester, was wont to say that when he first acquired his Norfolk estate he used to see two rabbits quarrelling for one blade...

versity of London. His indomitable pluck and endurance in doing so when in the grip of mortal illness even equalled those of the late Sir George Jessel. On one occasion he was...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIE,—As you and your readers seem to take great interest in natural history, I venture to attract your attention to the subject of life in...

ARBITRATION. HE cum and punched me on the nose, and he punched me in the eye, And either luvly horgan luk'd swollen and awry ; And Marianne, she looked at me with a disdainful...

THZ "SPECTATOR. " ] SIB., — In the interesting paper on " The Red Cliffs of Devon," in the Spectator of January 11th, the writer alludes to the precious finds " sometimes picked...

an incident occurred to me in con- nection with a Scotch collie that is remarkable in its singu- larity, and that, in my opinion, demonstrated that the animal possessed a...

[TO TRZ EDITOR OF THY " SPECTATOR. - ] SIR, We have in the house a Russian poodle who bears the name of Teufel,' and never did dog better deserve his patronymic, assuming that...

[To Tam EDITOR or TEL EPISOTATOR."] SIR,—Reading as I do with much interest the dog and cat stories in the Spectator, I think the following instances of intel- ligence and...

THE OLD MASTERS.—I. REALISM AND DECORATION. AN exhibition containing Rousseau and Corot, Delacroix and Millet, Turner and Constable, Watteau and Gainsborougb, Tintoretto and...

MISS BALFOUR IN AFRICA.* IT is seldom that a woman, on essaying the ordeal of print, practises such rigorous restraint as the author of this exceedingly genial record of South...

Gallery, II.," p. 52, line 41, for "and could not draw them," read " and could draw them."]

Lentheric, in their original French version, have been favourably known for many years to the cultivated minority of travellers and residents on the French Riviera. The volume,...

perhaps even Mr. Stevenson himself, believed that his achievement in verse was by no means inconsiderable. Yet the greater public could never be induced to regard the author of...

MRS. OLIPHANT'S new book on Rome is in some ways more attractive than her well-known Makers of Florence, or than the fresher and less familiar Makers of Venice. It brings home...

book at once extremely short and extremely good is a rare achievement. It is more especially difficult to do so when the subject to be treated ie. one about which a great many...

in the States with much enjoyment to himself ; and, taking the reader frankly into his confidence, he records in these pages the impressions made upon him during this rapid...

zines, the purpose of which is indicated by their titles :-The Church Worker (Church of England Sunday-School Institute), "a Magazine for Sunday-School Teachers and...

and Co.) -Many of Mr. Percy Fitzgerald's identifica- tions are curious. Eatanswilt appears to be Ipswich, and Sir Fitzroy Kelly is identified with "Fizkin," one of the...

David Hannay. (Navy Records Society.)-These letters and the docu- ments which illustrate them (letters from other officers, &c., and extracts from log-books) relate to the naval...

We have received the annual issues of various " Peerages," all of them established books of reference, with merits and con- veniences of their own, and so carefully kept up to a...

(Rivington, Percival, and Co.)—Mr. Hallidie's exercises seem well and judiciously constructed, and he does not fall into the error of taking his pupil too quick or too far. We...

Paston—Percy. (Smith, Elder, & Co.) —The chief families which appear in this volume are Paston (the writers of the famous "Parton Letters "), Paulet (Marquis of Winchester),...

(Blackie and Son.)—This book, intended for schools, sufficiently indicates its purpose by its title. Preliminary drill and marching, free exercises, Swedish exercises,...

Brownrigg, M.A. With an Introduction by T. H. Warren, M A. (Blackie and Son.)—This is a selection from writers reaching over a period of about one hundred and sixty years (14 A...

(Rivington, Percival and Co.)—Mr. Smith is putting the case a little too strongly when he says that "in all literature there is no one who is less known to us as a man than...

improvement in microscopes in regard to the accessories of illumination and the mechanical part of the in- strument progresses fast. Arrangements that a few years ago were...

Litt.D., and M. A. Bayfield. (Macmillan and Co.)—Mr. Hayfield has adapted to school purposes, altering and supplementing as his experience in education bast suggested, the...

English Dictionary, edited by Dr. James G. H. Murray (Clarendon Press). Two volumes, III. and IV., are now in progress. In the former, under Dr. Murray's immediate...