negotiations is the object with which the Russians are protracting them. If, that is, they have resolved not to accept what the Japanese say they must accept, why do they not...

but as they are the firms which it usually employs, the denial is disbelieved, and the French are exceedingly angry. They say they had a promise that no concession would be...

257 258 259 260 261 262 The Standard of Wednesday published a most interesting account of a secret meeting held in Moscow and a neighbour- ing village by two hundred peasant...

drag, because during the week three points of importance have been settled. The Russians have conceded to Japan a protectorate over Korea, veiling it, however, in an...

authorise before separating themselves from Sweden was taken on Sunday, and the result revealed unexpected unanimity. Although 84-87 per cent. of the electors voted, there were...

which, in fact, was exceedingly well organised. Every usual honour was paid to the visitors, and one which, we believe, is without a precedent. The officers of the French Fleet...

Nation, a leading weekly periodical published in Berlin, Mr. Bryce has contributed a statement of his views with regard to public opinion in England about Germany. Mr. Bryce...

on Tuesday, and anchored off Ymuiden on Wednesday morning, the usual ceremonious interchange of visits between the British and Dutch Admirals taking place during the day. On...

one tone, the appreciation of France being the more marked from the total absence of provocation to any other Power. Mr. Balfour's was the most important and the best. His...

Anda- lusia has been visited with a protracted drought, and it is officially reported that two hundred thousand persons are without means of subsistence. There is no Poor-law,...

of serious perplexity to the statesmen in Berlin. Much is due to the conduct of General von Troths, the Commander-in-Chief, whose methods of blood and iron scarcely commend...

landed at Cape Town, and the South African meeting was inaugurated the same evening by the delivery in the City Hall by the President, Professor G. H. Darwin, of the first half...

the steps already taken in the Transvaal to encourage rifle-shooting as a national pursuit. Under the Volunteer Corps Ordinance of 1902 provision is made for the voluntary...

on "University Education and National Life" deserves special notice. Sir Richard Jebb, who described himself as being, thanks to the opportunities offered by the visit of the...

dealing with the sale of Army stores. It is now expressly laid down that whenever, on the conclusion of a campaign or the reduction or removal of a garrison, a General finds...

week at a Conference at Manchester between the employers and representatives of the operatives. The difficulty arose over a demand by the card-room hands at Oldham for a rise of...

the question of the Chantrey Trust in a Memorandum on the Report of the House of Lords' Committee published as a Par- liamentary paper on Monday. While unable to accept all the...

series of questions sent out by the Scottish Anti-Tobacco Society, have furnished full and interesting information as to the extent to which the use of tobacco by the young is...

E NGLISHMEN habitually make one mistake in their judgment on foreign politics, and especially on the politics of Russia. They do not allow sufficiently for the possible...

I T is a fashion with some of our contemporaries and. a few Members of extreme views to accuse the Prime Minister of despising the House of Commons. We have never endorsed that...

Norway and Sweden has been dissolved is explained by the figures of the recent plebiscitum. Whatever else those figures may show, they indicate a wonderful unanimity in the...

subject of graduated Income-taxes in force in foreign countries are remark- able not only for the valuable information they contain, but as marking a new departure in the...

danger of a conflict in the Lancashire cotton industry has been averted. Late on Thursday evening, after two days of arduous and anxious discussion within closed doors, the...

of " Bushido " (London : G. P. Putnam's . Sons. Ss. net), his book about the "Precepts of Knight- hood," the 'noblesse oblige, that is, of "the warrior class" in Japan. The idea...

to a matter which every lover of wild Nature should have at heart. Sir Martin Conway is one of the "old guard" of mountaineers, and his knowledge of the Alps from end to end is...

sometimes sends letters to the present writer describing her country home and amusements. She is, perhaps, an almost ideally balanced child ; sane (for she recognises the...

Perhaps it may seem, as was said in the preceding paper, a little invidious to insist upon the distinction between an Australian and an Englishman. It is the fine ideal of many...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The country owes a great debt of gratitude to Sir Howard Vincent for his strong and determined championship of the Volunteers, which...

Srit,—I venture to draw your attention to the tendency of the present authorities at the War Office and Treasury to reduce the status and strength of the Corps of Royal...

12th) — presumably a layman—when he stigmatises St. Peter as "a snob " ? The late Bishop Walsham How, who edited an otherwise attractive "Commentary of the Four Gospels,"...

Sin,—The admirable article on the Report of the Royal Commission on the Supply of Food and Raw Material in Time of War, in the Spectator of August 12th, induces me to say a...

SIR,—You have always shown yourself so sympathetic in the matter of schoolboy rifle-shooting that I venture to make a suggestion which I believe may be of value even as things...

POETRY. WHEN first we wandered, you and I, Oh! you and I, o'er fell and field, There seemed a contest—Earth and sky, Which should the greater glory yield? Earth showed so...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Reviewing a new edition of Carlyle's "Cromwell," the Spectator (July 22nd) says of the Squire Papers: "The whole thing was a monstrous...

while it at once invigorates and delights, it also renders criticism superfluous by its instant appeal to every healthy palate. There is, however, another kind of poetry which,...

(To TES EDITOR OF THS SPECTATOR:1 Sra,—Some of your correspondents, who have recently been writing about the wrong use of words, may possibly find cause to rejoice with me...

SIR,—The prevailing entente cordiale recalls many sentiments expressed in past days by our neighbours towards ourselves. May I bring to recollection a remark of Mlle. Julie de...

Sin,—I call your attention to the mistake in the name of the Secretary of the Navy in your note to Mr. H. Warren Smith's letter under the above heading in the Spectator of...

for the Cheap Cottages Exhibition is ..£1,731 13s. The Cheap Cottages Exhibition can be reached from London, via King's- Cross, in about an hour. The station is Letchworth,...

from the mass of war correspondence as the work of a soldier, who for his years has seen much service, and who looks at the war not from the aesthetic or political standpoint,...

Cheshire village about the beginning of the reign of George II. His first venture was a sawmill ; he ended by being "a shipowner and perhaps a shipbuilder." Liverpool was then a...

Betham- Edwards's books on France are invariably interesting and full of information. It is not unnatural that a writer whose sympathies are all with the Republican majority in...

actual experiences of the writer, but, granting this premiss, there is scope for great diversity of treatment, according as the writer inclines to the realistic or the romantic...

cities illustrated profusely with coloured reproductions of sketches. The best of these is Colonel Goff's Florence (20s.), in which are a number of brilliant impressions of the...

net.)—Sir Henry Bessemer died seven years ago, leaving this autobiography incomplete,—it ends, curiously enough, with an account of what we may call his "anti-sea-sickness...

3s. 6d. net.) —The Persian Prince who comes over to test the value and consistency of Christianity is a latter-day "Citizen of the World." It is easy to point out the defects...

(G. P. Putnam's Sons. 10s. 6d. net.)—This is the second edition of a book first published in 1901. Captain Winslow commanded the Kearsarge ' in the duel with the Alabama,' the...

Francis Aveling, D.D. (Sands and Co., 6d. net), we have two tractates which will be found useful by those who have to deal with the questions discussed in them. These are The...

and Wagnalls Company. 6s.)—Mr. Wilkin- son gives sketches of eighteen well-known preachers. Five of these are English, Dr. M`Laren, happily still with us, and J. H. Newman,...

and Co.) we have The Talisman, by Sir Walter Scott (1s. 6d.) Mr. G. L. Turnbull, M.A., furnishes a Biographical Introduction, Notes, and Glossary. Considering that "no one reads...

Wagnalls Company. 6s.)—Mr. Berkeley Smith has written about Paris before, and written in a very picturesque fashion. (" How Paris Amuses Itself" will probably occur to many of...

Books, Edited by Luther S. Livingston (Elliot Stock. In 4 vols., £8 8s. the set.)—The first was noticed in the Spectator of June 24th. We may remind our readers that this is...

Co.)—This is the title given to two series of articles, pub- lished in separate volumes (Is. each), in which such subjects as "simple cow-keeping," pigs, poultry, gardens, and...

D.C.L. (J. E. Francis.)—This is one of the series of "Letter-Books" preserved in the archives of the City of London. It covers the period A.D. 1352-1374. It is scarcely...

List at Cambridge came out in 1824 (not 1823, as given in last week's Spectator). The Chancellor's medals were given in Macaulay's time, but candidates had to qualify by being...

Half-Page (Column) 6 6 0 Half Narrow Column 2 2 0 Quarter-Page (Half-Column) 3 8 0 Quarter Narrow Column 1 1 0 Column, two-thirds width of page, LS 13.1. COMPANIES. Outside...

H.), Outlines of Physiological Chemistry, C? 8v0 (Macmillan) net 8/6 Beldam (G. W.) and Fry (C. B.),- Great Batsmen: their Methods at • Glance. 8.0 (Macmillan) net 21/0 Book...