was a little conventional, the Duke of Devonshire, as the new leader 'of the party in that House, making the .announceMent in very simple and direct terms; while Lord Spencer...

A GREAT political change hasbccurred since our last issue. It has been understood for many months past that Lord • Salisbury, who is said to be suffering from a loss of...

continue as Chancellor of the Exchequer, which seems certain, we trust that Mr. Balfour may be induced to -follow the example of Mr. Pitt and Mr. Gladstone and be his own...

Unionist party called in order to hear the announcement of his appointment to the position of Prime Minister. After Mr. Balfour had dwelt upon the loss to the party caused by...

recon. struct his Cabinet is universally admitted. Already the resig- nations of Sir Michael Hicks Beach and Lord Cadogan are announced, and it seems certain that Lord James of...

case.

gratis, an Eight-Page Supplement, containing the Half-Yearly Index and Title-Page,-1.e., from January 4th to June 28th, 1902, inclusive.

is making to cultivate good relations with Great Britain with somewhat mixed feelings. It is pleased, of course, that its great ally should be persona grata any- where, but it...

manner. The wound is healing so rapidly that the doctors see no further necessity for issuing daily bulletins; and on Tuesday his Majesty was carefully removed to his yacht at...

have been warmly received by the Czar, though at the State banquet at Peterhof the speeches were unusually con- ventional. The visit is watched with some jealousy both in...

is said to be exhausting itself, many of them exhibiting a decidedly sullen temper. They are angry at the cession of certain dis- tricts of the Transvaal to Natal, and at the...

Catholic Church through the police, which is a grave mistake. The unauthorised Orders have transferred their two thousand schools nominally to laymen, and demand that if they...

been determined. Possibly Mr. Balfour will prefer the plan which obtained in his own case, and the new Viceroy will not be in the Cabinet,—Ireland being represented there by the...

about the Philippines. The friars of the great Orders, who have large property there, are detested by the Filipinos, and the American Government were anxious that they should be...

which has characterised England since our Elizabethan poets based their plots on Italian novels, and no Englishman thought himself a man of the world unless he had "swum in a...

" leakage " to the Press of information unfavourable to Sir Redvers Buller. In our judgment, there is no good ground for this innuendo, and Sir Edward Grey was, we think, most...

suggestions which underlie Sir Edward Grey's asser- tion that Sir Redvers Buller was cruelly and unfairly assailed by the Press. The suggestions have no foundation. There is, in...

whole it was sound and conclusive against the plea of unfair treatment. As to Mr. Brodrick's defence of the Government, we think that it may be admitted as regards the keeping...

tions fairly by any abstract of our own, we will quote textually his tramming-up of the chief points in his case;—" In the first place, his (General Buller's] first simple...

receiving the freedom of the borough at Southampton, which he acknowledged in an adroit speech, enjoyed in London the kind of welcome which stands with us for the honour of a...

Bisley on Thursday under most encouraging circumstances, thirty-four clubs having entered for the Competition, and some hundred and sixty riflemen actually taking part in the...

Grey did Sir Redvers Buller the great disservice of bringing his case forward, on the plea that Sir Redvers Buller had been placed in an unfair position by the partial and...

New Consols (2i) were on Friday 95g.

LORD SALISBURY'S RESIGNATION. LMOST in silence, without a jar, with no uproar in Parliament and no popular demonstration, the com- mand of that huge barque, the British'...

W E are heartily glad that Mr. Balfour should be the - successor of Lord Salisbury in the Premiership. Few men have contrived to attain to supreme power in the State with such...

I S it tradition, or race dislike, or inability to endure the peculiar • brutality of Parisian caricaturists which makes so many of our contemporaries exhibit a Lind of spite...

I F, for the sake of argument, we may suppose a State which throughout its history had been governed by a despot, the people having had no voice whatever in making laws or...

whether we had forgotten the Duke of Connaught when we wrote that the man to succeed Lord Roberts is Lord Kitchener. "Surely," be adds, "he has some claim to be...

T is said that Kaid Abderrabman Ben Abder-Sadek, Governor of Fez, the Bey delegated by the Emperor of Morocco to attend the Coronation of King Edward VII., exclaimed on the eve...

T HERE is a story of an eccentric philanthropist who used to amuse himself, and, as he believed, used to educate his friends, by cutting out from newspapers and pasting up on...

O N the hottest day of the week a distribution of bats for horses, presented to the poorer owners and drivers of horses, took place in Vincent Yard, near Vincent Square,...

CO-OPERATION IN ARCADIA. [To THR EDITOR OP TUB " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—No one with an eye to see or heart to feel can be indifferent about the pressing problem of the housing of the...

[To THE EDITOR OE THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—As the attention of many people who are not serious students of history is likely to be drawn towards the charactei and career of Henry...

THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT AS COMMANDER- IN-CHIEF. (To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—As a constant reader of the Spectator, I wish to write to you re your article in your...

your readers will be most thankful for your article in the Spectator of July 12th on Mr. James's book on religious conversions. It presents very ably the aspirations of many a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR: Sly,—Re your article on "Mr.. William James on Religious Conversion" in the Spectator of July 12th, I should like to draw your attention to...

To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."3 Sin,—Those who have been convinced of the profound dis- loyalty of the Irish peasant and artisan will scarcely be pre- pared to believe, what...

SIR,—Conversing with Russians in Russia, one learns that when they speak of Catholics they mean. members of the Church of Rome, and that they describe themselves as Orthodox....

sprevAros."1 SIR, — Give me half-a-dozen lines in reply to the legion of assailants. In Justinian's days all heresies were on the Trinity,—to be sound on that doctrine was to be...

LTo THE EDITOR OF TILE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Whether it was so in the towns I do not know, but here in the West of England, where the news of the postponement of the Coronation...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.] SrR,—The subjoined extract from the Memoirs of Felicia Skene of Oxford shows that you were not without authority in your surmise that a bride...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—It is grievous to read that the Campanile in the Piazza San Marco has subsided, and that that beautiful feature of Venice and of the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,"] SIR,—Without presuming to discuss the wisdom or the un- wisdom, the justice or the injustice, of the Sandhurst punish- ments, may I call...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J Sin, — You must allow an Englishman to enter his protest against your capitulation to Lord Balfour of Burleigh as to the use of the word...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—It was most refreshing to read your views in the Spectator of July 12th on the question of the training of teachers as expressed in...

"SPECTATOR." SIR,—There are so many excellent reasons why we should never abandon the "command of the Mediterranean" that one regrets to see any fallacious one advanced,...

AVE, ATQUE VALE. IN that long rank of English statesmen stand, Who well have served their Ruler and their Land; Upon thy brow the laurel wreath of fame Shall add fresh lustre...

THE WEB OF EMPIRE.* SIR DONALD MACKENZIE WALLACE has acquitted himself creditably of a difficult task. It is no easy matter to Write an " authorised" diary of a Royal tour...

pro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR,---I shall be very much obliged if you can find room for the accompanying note in the Spectator. I am very anxious to make the...

Thorneycroft's Mounted Infantry, was my brother.—I am, Sir, &c., TUFNELL C. A. BARRETT. Christ Church Vicarage, Belper, Derbyshire. From a letter written by Captain Green,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR,—Twice in my life I have met with cases of a fire being caused by globular water - bottles acting as burning-glasses. In one case,...

number of letters asking us to publish Lord Acton's list of books. We can only say, as we said last week, that we have not the list in our possession, but we trust that at some...

POLo is at once the most ancient and the most modern of games. The idea of hockey on horseback is at least two thousand years old, but the modern developments of that idea: date...

THE manual of Imperial Yeomanry Training is a far less perfect book than the Infantry Training, and shows traces of hasty and heterogeneous compilation. It is interesting for...

of Slate Trials have greatly increased our obligation to Mr. Stephen. The author has again exercised his choice of materials with the utmost dis- cretion and care, and deserves...

ed.)—There is a great deal that is good in this novel, though the author seems, to use a vulgar ex- pression, to have got hold of the wrong end of the stick, and confused causes...

bitrnia).* OLDFIELD is a -Kentucky Cranford—with a difference. The difference is that the setting of outside things in which Miss Banks puts her human figures is much more...

and Co. Gs.)—It is impossible to congratulate Miss Hodgson on the title of her novel. It is indeed extraordinarily clumsy when used out of its context and on a title-page....

(Jd.)—It is no disparagement of a detective-story to say that it reminds one of Edgar Poe. Literary—or shall we say business?— necessities compel the fiction-writer of to-day to...

Book (G. Bell and Sons, .C2 2s.) Facsimile reproductions of the pages are given, and there are notes and an introduction. The interest of the book consists in the fact that we...

Late Returning is as a story a little too allusive. The reader for a long time wonders where he is, and (to para- phrase Calverley) "who on earth they were, and what this is all...

Macqueen. 3s. 6d.)—Here we have another detective-story, and so another difficulty in the task of reviewing. We will confess that the secret of the denouement is well kept, and...

Ernest Law. (Hanfstaengl.)—This is a book worthy of its subject. The photogravures are good, and the historical notes by Hr. Law interesting. The author in carrying out his plan...

Walter Crane's Line and Form (G. Beliaand Sons, 6s.) We hardly blow which to admire the more, the excellent sense of Mr. Crane's writing or the be auty and ingenuity of his...

(Grant Richards. 6s.)—Lady Peggy goes to London, masquerades there in man's dress, and has to encounter adventures and perils that are far more serious than masquerading. The...

ART BOOKS. Choranni Segantini. By L. Villari. (T. Fisher Unwin. 21s.) —" Oh the hills and the snow upon the hills!" These words of the Lama in "Kim" fitly describe the passion...

only to look at Mr. Spielmann's British Sculpture and Sculptors of To - day (Cassell and Co., 'Ts. 6d.) It would not be far from the mark to say that our average level of...

The Principles of English Constitutional History. By Lucy Dale. (Longmans and Co. 6s.)—Mrs. Dale has here produced an extremely careful and well-written history of England from...

Notes by W. T. Stead. (Review of Reviews. 2s. 6d.)—We need hardly say that there are many things in this volume which we must not be supposed to accept because we pass them over...

(Published by order of the Trustees of the British Museum.) —This elaborately illustrated book with its numbers of photo- gravures shows us the richness, variety, and splendour...

and Co., New York.)—This volume is an outcome of the excellent system by which the higher degrees of certain American Universities are awarded for theses written by the can-...

[Under this heading we notice such Boob of the teeth as hare not been reserved for review in other forms.] The third of the new volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (A. and...

Oust. 2 vols. (Cassell and Co. .26 6s.)—This work, of which the first volume only halappeared, is a fitting continuation of the catalogue of the National Gallery already...

ls.) —This " Lincolnshire Legend of 1643" is subitantially a true narrative of one of the most disastrous reverses that the Royalists suffered in the early part of the Civil...

Fogerty. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)— Miss Fogerty has used, by permission, Mr. A. S. Way's translation of the play. She could not have done better. She proceeds to...

Lean will be remembered as having • be- queathed 450,000 to the free libraries of Bristol—he was a native of Clifton—and the same sum to the British Museum. (Has anything been...

Sonnenschein and Co. la. 6d. net.)—This book, a second edition of "To-morrow," sets forth an attempt to combat our great evil of the day, the depopulation of the country and the...

Hugh Keith Fraser. (A. L. Humphreys.)—This volume is "privately printed" ; as, however, it has been sent to the Spectator for notice, wo may venture to remark that we expected...

Co., Colchester.)—William Gilbert was a physician (President of the College in 1600) who ranks high among the pioneers of experimental science. Mr. Benham justly claims for him,...