far greater had the disaster occurred a few hours earlier when all the theatres were crowded, but the extent of the calamity may be gathered from the second despatch received at...

in the face of a catastrophe which has cost the United States five thousand lives, probably £40,000,000 in property, and wiped out a splendid city which stood in a class by...

the telegram sent by the German Emperor to Count Goluchowski thanking Austria for her unshakable support at Algeciras, "a fine deed of a true-hearted ally." In a strain of...

Office, has resigned, and his resignation has been accepted by the Emperor. He was in effect the permanent head of the Wilhelmstrasse, and had probably a more extensive...

T HE eruption of Vesdvius has been followed by another and far more appalling convulsion of Nature. News reached London on Wednesday afternoon that San Francisco had been...

any case.

An-tung and Ta-tung-kau will be opened to trade on May 1st, while the opening of Mukden will follow on June 1st. The news is interesting as the notification to the world of that...

Khedive of Egypt arising out of the Turkish occupation of the post of Tabah, in the Sinai Peninsula, which has always been regarded as being within Egyptian territory, is still...

France show no sign of decreasing in violence. At Lieven on Tuesday the gendarmerie barracks were attacked, and at Billy-Montigny the Prefect of the Pas-de-Calais has been shut...

having tied into the Zululand bush, the Zulu chiefs were summoned to assist in his capture, and two of them, Siganandi and N'Dubi. have flatly refused. They are , reported to...

Tuesday, escorted by a squadrip of Greek and British warships—the spectacle of the procession passing up the Saronic Gulf in cloudless sunshine is described as most im-...

of articles from its special, correspondent on the question of the partition of Bengal. The policy was a simple one of adminis- trative readjustment. In the Eastern di strict of...

corre- spondent of the Times on Tuesday had some interesting comments to make on the manifestoes of the various parties. All the many sections of Socialism have united for...

Console (21 per cent.) were on Friday 00i.

was announced last Saturday, was an admirable specimen of the unselfish scholar who amasses learning only to impart it as widely and freely as possible to his fellows. He had...

over the Education Bill. Tuesday's papers contained a letter addressed by the Bishop of London to the Rural Deans in his diocese denouncing the Bill as a measure of compulsory...

of men attended, was held in the Market Square at Johannesburg. Resolutions were passed in favour of the ordinary measures in a Labour programme—adult suffrage, an eight-hour...

on the occasion of the opening of the new offices for Congressional Committees. The President took as his text Bunyan's description of the Man with the Muckrake, which he held...

lunacy question. With the one treating of its medical aspect it is obviously impossible for us to deal in detail, It is enough to state that the writer laments the slow progress...

a more serious character since it spread into Zululand. The chief Bambaata,, after running amok in his own district near Greytown, fled over the border and hid himself in the...

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ON MULTI- MILLIONAIRES. I T is quite natural that the President of the United States should be the first among ruling statesmen to denounce the new...

more embarrassing than his frowns. A better instance of this can hardly be desired than his recent telegram to Count Goluchowski. The feeling expressed in it, indeed, is natural...

W E have hitherto refrained from commenting at length on the Lord Chancellor's Bill, which last month passed its second reading in the House of Lords, because to some extent it...

" NATE are learning that nothing can be accomplished. on a large scale without the indispensable pre- liminary of first taking thought." So says Mr Haldane in the preface to an...

T O the traveller looking down from one of the rolling ridges of a great open tract of country such as Salisbury Plain, when the outlines of the broad woods and hills are...

H E perched on a bough close by, and sang a beautiful little ballad right through, keeping the tail of his eye upon his audience all the while. He had clearly selected that...

B ROWN, white, and green, in every kind of shade, are the colours for a traveller to use in painting in his memory the picture of Yanina : white birds against the green light of...

BIBLE CHRISTIANITY. [TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR...I SIE,-Mr. Haldane has lately insisted on the need of "clear thinking" on the part of our legislators and publicists....

[TO THB EDITOR Or THE . SPECTATOR:] Sin,—I quite agree with you as to the inestimable value and the suitableness for children of the Scriptural instruction and the prayers and...

SIR,—After reading your article in last week's issue on the subject of our present educational problem, I am impelled to write to you on the subject. In bygone years the...

to be permitted to express my sincere admiration of the tone you have adopted in your article of April 14th in dealing with this Bill. Its great defect is that it is directed to...

WAR. [To TRZ EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — In your issue of April 7th is a letter signed "Z." It takes your reviewer of the " German Official Account of the War in South...

the Spectator almost from beginning to end every week, and greatly admires its ability and fairness, may I venture to put before you the case of at least one section of the...

the following incident sufficiently relevant to the present controversy to be worthy of publication. About twenty years ago I attended a service at a Roman Catholic church in...

[TO VIZ EDITOR OF TER"SPECTATOR. " ] SEIL,—Will you allow me briefly to comment on Dr. P. V. Smith's letter on Church endowments in your paper of April 7th? Without any wrong...

[To TRY EDITOR OP TER "SPECTATOL "] SIR, — The awful catastrophe in the French coal-mining centre, with its appalling loss of life, is but little alleviated by the recovery of a...

[To ras EDITOR OF TER "srscrAroa."] Sin,—Seeing that you have on several occasions published letters in connection with the study of modern languages, I would be grateful if...

[To THE EDITOR OP TIM 'SPECTFATOR.1 SIne■Will you kindly repeat the privilege which you granted to me last year, and allow me through your columns to call the attention of your...

THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Is the origin of the word " boss," used in the sense of a master, definitely settled ? In South Africa the term "baas " is commonly supposed to be the...

SPECTATOR.") Sm,—The difference that a well-worked soldiers' institute makes in the life of a soldier has been truly described by an officer to amount not merely to a clainge,...

take charge of another tortoise. All went well as long as the two were hibernating. This warm April weather they awoke from their sleep, and as soon as 'Tommy' found there was...

[TO TIM EDITOR OF TIIR "SPECTATOR.') SIR, —Travelling abroad, I have only just received the Spectatof of 'March 17th, with your admirable reflections on " Criticism of the...

[TO TUE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR-1 SIR,—In your issue of the 7th inst. Canon CoNyley-Brown states that he has " often wished we had what may be called a Child's . Bible,...

[To TUB EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR." J Srn,—Your readers will be glad to hear that our progress continues to be most encouraging. I do not pretend that we are still advancing " by...

ANTOINETTE STERLING. .1usr as in the domain of letters there have been certain writers who have appealed with a special force to the members of their own calling—Gray,...

THE FLOWER-GATHERERS. I LEFT behind the ways of care, The crowded hurrying hours, I breathed again the woodland air, I plucked the woodland flowers : Bluebells as yet but half...

THE VICTORIAN CHANCELLORS.* WE congratulate Mr. Allay on the happy inspiration which has led him to continue—in effect, though not in name—Lord Campbell's Lives of the...

WHETHER we regard them from a psychological, a dramatic, or a legal point of view, there is an interest in famous trials which no other form of printed matter possesses. They...

WAGNER, receiving company at the Wahnfried on an " off " night of one of the first cycle performances of the Nibelungen, was complimented by an English guest on the notoriety...

is a severe and precise- business. It has almost become an exact science, and has, nearly severed its world-old connection with romance. There are very few corners of the earth...

5s.)—Though this book is not, properly speaking, a novel, the account of the doings of the children in the nursery of Squire Staniland is much more amusing reading than most...

SALTED ALMONDS.* ANSTEY'S new book furnishes very welcome evidence that after twenty-five years spent largely in providing the public with food for honest mirth—Vice Versa'...

and Co. 6s.)—The Shadow of Life is rather a disappointment to those readers who enjoyed the delicate irony which distin- guished the author's earlier book, "The Confounding of...

and Blackett. 6s.)—The beginning of this novel is not very felicitous. A note of interest in two characters is touched in a striking way in the first chapter, and then these...

Through India with the Prince. By G. F. Abbott. (E. Arnold. 12s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Abbott went as a special correspondent to a Calcutta newspaper when the Prince of Wales made his...

SEA SPRAY. Sea Spray. By Frank T. Bullen. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)—The spray from the sea has made its way inland, as it some- times does in a more or less alterecliform....

Black. 6s.)—Mr. Snell knows all about his subject ; in fact, he gives now and then the impression of being somewhat embarrassed with the wealth of his knowledge. He is...

not within the range of every one's reading, Stanley's Memorials of Canterbury, with a preface that is only too brief, touching Stanley's character- istic qualities with much...

the French of Austin Bertha, and Edited by Harold Castle, M.A. 2 vols. (J. Duffy and Co., Dublin.)—We are conscious of not occupying the point of view from which it is intended...

that it Co., is. and 2s. net per vol.) has now appeared. Among the volumes is adequate to its subject. Lincoln is one of the most interesting as it is one of the most ancient...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Reform in Sunday School Teaching. By Arthur S. Peake, M.A. (James...

Heisch. (Elliot Stock. 2s. 6d. net.)—Miss Heisch gives some excellent counsel, which will do as much as counsel can do for the improving of an author's work. She says judicious...

(Smith, Elder, and Co. 5s. net.)—Browning and Doinett were both "Camberwell men" and poets—does not Samuel Weller the elder tell us that the only coachman that he knew to have...

Stoughton. 30s. net.)—Mr. A. S. Boyd, who contributed largely to the entertainment, and, perhaps we might add, Do instruction, of Glasgow folk by his drawings in two illustrated...

Broomhall. (Country Gentlemen's Association. 10s. 6d.)—The first section of this book gives the "Legislation in 1905," so far as it concerns the subject ; the second is a...