less sensational than was expected. He estimated the expenditure at the enormous figure of £144,000,000, and the deficit at rather more than E8,000,000. He proposes no grand...

ARLI A MENT reassembled on Thursday. Mr. Balfour's first duty was to propose a Motion-for taking the whole time of the House for Government business. This very right and...

Bucharest which declares that Russia is now urging on Turkey a revival of the famous Treaty of Unkiar-Skelessi, a Treaty made in 1833, under which Turkey, bad it not been...

to the Pennsylvanian coal strike. Great pressure has been applied to the railway magnates who own the mines, and after much resistance they have agreed, with Mr. Pierpont Morgan...

been made abundantly clear by the assembly of Parliament. Unionist Members have been thoroughly awakened by the unfair attacks on the Bill to the need of giving the Govern- ment...

case.

extraordinary amount of semi-official lying, that the Revolutionary party in Macedonia is in full insurrection. The plan adopted seems to be to attack any isolated detachments...

of his constituents. We have dealt with his admirably lucid and comprehensive speech elsewhere, and will only note here the chief points raised by Mr. Balfour. The main aim of...

Friday week in Berlin, several speakers addressed the assemblage in favour of concentrating emigration upon Brazil. There were already two hundred thousand colonists in that...

of the Times, published in the Austrian journal, the Ness Freie Presse, an account of M. Delcasse's behaviour during the Fashoda negotiations. The French suspected us of...

continues. The members of the Zenistvos or local Councils ask for greater liberty of speech, and some- times when this is refused resign in a body. They demand also, as a first...

House on Wednesday, Mr. Balfour prefaced his remarks with a remarkable tribute to Lord Salisbury. Turning to the work before them in Parliament, Mr. Balfour spoke with...

in St. James's Hall to protest against the Education Bill as it affects women. The Bill if it passed in its present form would, it was urged, establish education authorities on...

heavy cost of human life amongst the experimenters. At 7.30 on Mon- day morning M. de Bradsky, a Hungarian Baron, accom- panied by his engineer, M. Morin, started from the...

clared that it was a very distinct duty of every man to fit himself voluntarily for the defence of his country. The Auxiliary troops should be sufficiently trained to justify...

pleasure or satisfaction that the British public read on Thursday the extracts from the Berlin Imperial Gazette announcing that the German Emperor had been "most graciously...

a mile of foreshore on Lake Derwentwater to public use and enjoyment for ever. We congratulate the National Trust most heartily upon having thus secured public access to one of...

minster vacant by the retirement of Dean Bradley, who has held the appointment so long and so worthily, had been given to Canon Robinson, and that Canon Robinson was succeeded...

Black, M.P. for Morayshire, was published in the Times of Monday. Mr. Black having been asked to support Lord Rosebery at his Edinburgh meeting, wrote to ask whether his...

statue of Mr. Gladstone delivered a singularly eloquent and appreciative eulogy of its original. He described him as "one of the great figures of our country," a man who might...

Friday M.

TEE NEED OF STERNNESS IN PUBLIC LIFE. I T is, we confess, with a sense almost of despair that we read the Report of the five Major-Generals upon the Remounts Department. It is...

m . BALFOUR in his speech at Manchester on Tuesday made a defence of the Education Bill which, if the ears of the nation are not stopped with the wax of intellectual sloth,...

W E wish that our statesmen, instead of watching one of the most prominent of their number galloping over the bloodless battlefields of East Prussia in the train of the German...

and Mr. Black, published in the Times of Monday, does not 850 11 to have attracted much public attention. There have been fewer comments on it than is at all usual in such...

on the question of principle eith the desire of the London County Council to supplement its name and its work with a local habita- tion wo thy of the gigantic labours that...

humour may be," says " John Oliver Hobbes" in her last novel, "it is a question whether those who possess it love the best or make the truest friends." "Terror of the laugh,"...

A N amusing comment on 'Hayward's "Pearls and Mock Pearls of History" comes from an English writer who was taken by a French officer to see a new statue. It was erected to the...

THERE are few prettier rural sights than that of a number - 1 - of ploughs at work. The writer once passed a small field lying open to the breeze, where as many as six were...

SIR MICHAEL HICKS BEACH AND THE WAR OFFICE. [TO TIla EDITOR OF TOR "SpEciveroa."1 Sia,—Some months recently spent in the ranks of the Army, both in South Africa and at home...

[To THE EDITOR OT TAR "SPECTATOR."] have read your articles on the Education Bill with great attention, but though I fully recognise the possibilities of the Bill in the...

[To TUN EDITOR OP THE " SPECTLTOILI SIR,—The reception which has been accorded the proposal to purchase the house at Selborne in which Gilbert White, the naturalist, lived...

[To TEE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR-1 have been reading your review (Spectator, July Nth) of various books of verse. It seems to me that verse, good. and strong—dealing mainly...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR"] SIR, — It would seem to be a very general opinion that if we were once possessed of an overwhelming Navy—that is, of a Navy equal to any...

[To THE EDITOR Os THE "SPECTATOR,"] Srrt.—In connection with South African finance an American friend, who supplies almost the entire timber to the Johannes. burg mines, gave...

[To THE EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTATOR.") Sr,—All your readers must have perused the article in the Spectator of October 11th, "White Labour in the Gold Mines," with the closest...

[TO THE EDITOR OF VIE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The admirable article under the above title which appeared in your issue of October 4th deserves the widest circulation. Can you not...

[To TILE EDITOR OF TIIR ''SPECTAT0R21 SIR,—In the light of our present agricultural difficulties, I am by no means an impassioned advocate for Free-trade; but as one who knows...

have waited a week, hoping that somebody of higher authority than myself in matters of hygiene would correct the fallacy in Major M. Collie's reference to the work of the...

Stn,—Would not Mr. Wyse's purpose be served by describing "boycott," "Bobby," and the like as "nominant words," or, still more simply, as " nominants " ? In common speech this...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:1 [TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—May I add to your remarks on M. Zola in the Spectator of October 4th by citing some words of...

PROPER NAMES. (To THE EDITOR. OP THE "SPECTATOR:] Sin,—A word derived from a man's name may be correctly denoted by " anthroponym." Also " anthroponymic," formed like...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPROTATOR.1 SIR,—The letter under the above heading in the Spectator of October 11th awakens a reminiscence of the way Greek was taught in the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' Srk , —Referring to the article on "The Sayings of Christ Out- side the Gospels" in the Spectator of October 11th, and the suggestion of...

j 8 . 11 , — In the interesting article on "Finger-Prints as Detec- tives" in the Spectator of September 20th you refer to the recent case in the Central Criminal Court as...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR...I SIR,—Though fully alive on general principles to the foolish- ness of complaining of criticism, I Lope you will allow me a few lines to...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' Sin,—Pope Pius IX. protested many times in his long Pon- tificate against the spoliation of the religious Orders. If he saw some...

[To THE Eurroft or THE " SPECTATOR." _I sm.—These "sayings of children" may amuse your readers. I vouch for them all as true Bills. Tommy's grandmother is old-fasbioned and...

LAND-HORSES AND SEA-HORSES. THE patient horses of the plough, Dark-coloured like the new-turned soil, Their meek, strong necks submissive bow From dawn till dusk, at irksome...

SIR ALFRED LYALL ON TENNYSON.* WHILE it is quite easy to understand why Mr. Morley should have wished to include in his series a volume from the cul- tivated literary...

Few writers have got so easily into the skin of the century which they have 'Chosen for their own as Mr. Austin Dobson. He is of the eighteenth century, and he writes, and even...

IT will probably occur to a good many people when they read the title of Mr. Andrew Lang's work that the mystery of Mary Stuart should have been solved by this time, or if not...

A VOLUME like this of Mr. Godley's is a perfect godsend to the indolent ,reviewer. It is so slim that it can be read through in half an hour, it is full of good things, and...

FROM A THATCHED COTTAGE. THE excellent qualities revealed by the author of Travels Bound Our Village emerge anew in what we believe to be her first serioas excursion into the...

and Co 6s.)—Mr. Norris, contrary to his usual practice, has given us a motif in his new novel which distinctly borders upon bad morals. In the opening scene a husband,...

George and Son is as sordid a little tragedy as it is possible to con- ceive. The father and son are an abominable pair of adventurers, but they are so worsted by fate that it...

one will cry, after reading some fifty pages of Pau/ %elver, "Here is David Copperfield' over again." There is some- thing distinctly Micawberish about Paul's father ; the aunt...

6s.)—Miss MacMahon might well have finished the quota- tion in her title, for her unfortunate hero most distinctly is "deceived" in life. Luckily for him, the deception is...

C. L. Clark, Lancaster, Mass., U.S.A. 6s.)—In 1863 the Alcott family, with a small company of enthusiasts, of whom Bronson Alcott was the chief, came to Harvard. Bronson...

68.)--Mr. Sutcliffe has given us in Under the White Cockade a tale of the " Forty-five " that is well worth reading. Maurice Anstruther, a young Englishman, attracted by the...

6s.)—This is a most fatiguing book, very brilliant, though the brilliance is sometimes as tinsel, but almost passing human endurance. Everything is at high pressure ; the...

(Mac- millan and Co. 65. net.)—Dr. Segall, after explaining the cause of Spanish influences on French literature, gives a brief account of Corneille's early career as a...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of tho week as have not Lee, reserved for review in other forms.] Forster's Life of Charles Dickens. Abridged and revised by George...

ME STUDY OF TIIE NATURAL HISTORY OF DISEASE. The Study of the Natural History of Disease. By Sir Thomas Barlow, Bart. (British Medical Journal Republication.)— Sir Thomas...

Constable and Co. 6s.)—This is, without doubt, a powerful story, and worked out artistically to the necessary end. We have a prejudice, possibly old-fashioned, for the "...

B.A. (Cassell and Co. 10s. 6d.)—This very handsome volume does credit ti all concerned in its production. It is worthy of the occasion. Mr. Loftie's name is sufficient...

plete Edition. (Smith and Elder. 10s. 6d.)—This is the "final" edition of Sir A. Conan Doyle's book ; he cautions, however, his readers against supposing that adequate...

son. (Blackwood and Sons. 3s.)—Mr. Robertson's prolegomena to this useful volume are (1) chronological notes, to illustrate the life and circumstances of Chaucer, going back...

(Macmillan and Co. 85. 61. net.)—This volume contains a very elaborate study of one particular region of Dante lore. This region is considerably larger than one would at first...

2s. 6d. net) is The Book of Climbing Plants and Wall Shrubs, by S. Arnett, who has already contributed "The Book of Bulbs." The number and variety of these things are quite...

C. Nicol, MA. (Cambridge 'University Press. 2s. 6d.)—Mr. Nicol follows up his useful edition of the Pro Loge Manilla" with another volume which is, in some sense, a sequel to...

Bartle. (Grant Richards. 5s.)—Miss Bartle's plan is to give one name for each day in the year, the name of some cele- brated person whose birthday it was, to append to the...