if that word prejudges the question too much, of attack. It is asserted that his statement to the Czar as to his effectives is untrue, their number being much more than double...

Russia's recent action on this very question of Chinese neutrality. She has addressed a circular to the Powers com- plaining that Japan has violated China's neutrality with...

mation and some disorderly scenes, M. Baudry d'Asson earning the official " censure " by offering M. Combes a copper basin, which it seems is slang in France for a spy ; but the...

a cavalry raid made by part of Kuropatkin's army against Japanese communications. The objective was the town of Newchwang, which is the base of the Japanese river transport, and...

Combes. It was evident after the election by secret ballot of a hostile President of the Chamber that the French Govern- ment needed a vote of confidence, and on Friday week the...

but it is not easily intelligible. He states that the total receipts for 1904 amounted to £197,752,000, while the regular expenditure was some ten millions lower; but he admits...

coal- mining district of Germany, of which the centre is Essen-on- Ruhr. The men complain of their wages, of the tyranny of their foremen, of the " insolence " of employers, of...

have added greatly to the unrest in Russia. The movement began with the workmen in the metal trade, but it spread to the Government shipbuilding works on the Neva, where twelve...

was held on Thursday afternoon, when the cases of the British and Russian Governments were formally presented. The Commission will next proceed to hear evidence in support, and...

that it is precisely those who know them best and have their interests most at heart who are most dissatisfied at the manner in which the experiment has been carried out. The...

a few words of comment. Last week Mr. Lionel Phillips con- gratulated the Government on their pluck, but on Tuesday Lord Teynham, at the annual meeting of the Rand Victoria Gold...

humiliating and dishonoured position " that any Government had held since the time of the Stuarts, Which is the kind of rhetorical exaggeration to which philosopher-politicians...

Junction, between Leeds and Sheffield, early on Thursday morning. The Scotch up express, drawn by two engines, and travelling at fifty miles an hour, ran into a mail train from...

had asked whether it would be an act of disloyalty to the Conservative leaders to join the Unionist Free-Trade Club, the Hon. W. F. D. Smith, M.P., chairman of the London...

at Stirling on Tuesday night. He con- tended that this Parliament had never been an honestly constituted Parliament, and that the only interest attaching to the new Session hung...

deputation representing the confectioners, mineral-water manufacturers, and other trades interested in sugar, who urge a repeal of the Sugar-duty. Their trades, they contended,...

Free-trade meeting at Blackburn yesterday week, and delivered the best of the many admirable speeches he has made since ho resigned office. Dealing with the cotton industry,...

the electors of France evidently desire to continue his policy ; that is, to suppress the religious Orders, to separate Church and State, to adopt certain social reforms which...

wise when in his speech at Glasgow he declared with such epigrammatic force that " the problem of the British Army is the problem of the defence of Afghanistan." The words are...

a lecture on " Strategy " delivered under the auspices of the University of London, and made an in- teresting speech on the difficult question of military education. It is too...

the prevention of a deplorable catastrophe. They have received due notice. In presence of the fall of Port Arthur, the Turkish Government feels itself definitely unchained. If...

and curses ; they come home to roost. Under Parliamentary government, however, their return does not always annoy their real author. Mr. Austen Chamberlain was...

week at Liskeard, when a bust of Charles Buller was unveiled—an address which was in every way a worthy tribute to a remarkable and most attractive man— there is an interesting...

of them, for some have taken no notice—have been full of accounts of what are described as " great religious revivals." There has been a revival in Wales ; there is a revival...

and the wind, frozen on the Arctic wave, comes blowing over the shoulder of the world. Its puny Northern villages lie huddled in morass and bog; and all of the outside world it...

SIE,—Mr. J. W. Gordon in last week's Spectator seems utterly to misconceive the object of my reference to France in my letter which appeared in your issue of January 7th. I had...

like, with your permission, to say a few words in answer to Lord Colchester's letter in year issue of January 7th. It is a pleasure to find in the ranks of the Tariff Reformers...

by the number of children the man had, not by his age - or capacity for work. An unmarried man with no family received the lowest wage per week,—I dare hardly write it, but,...

be realised unless your readers are acquainted with one or two circumstances which have not met with adequate recognition in the London Press. Perhaps the most important is the...

it, I take leave to hope that you will authorise the publication in your columns of the following open letter.— I am, Sir, &c., C. E. LIIARD. " SOCIETY OF MINIATURE RIFLE CLUBS.

this Society, marking half your endowment for Men's Rifle Clubs, and half for School Rifle Clubs, or, alternatively, the whole of it for the last named ? There is much to be...

to the Journal of Education, the first two lines of the epigram on Blayds, which we now know to have been written by Bartlett, are thus given :- " 0 scholar running fast to...

be : "To reconcile principles to circumstances, and to be no wiser than the times will permit." Mr. Balfour's attitude is perhaps more correctly described by Sydney Smith than...

Club, Ventnor, I.W. NAPOLEONIC STUDIES.

Mr. Temperley's interesting letter in your last issue respecting the means by which Canning gained the important news from Tilsit in 1807. It is evident from Mr. Temperley's...

my letter in last week's Spectator, doubtless due to my hand- writing. I wrote : " Major Hale has received many suggestions from amateur salmon-fly dressers," not "salmon-fly...

a readable and intelligent Life of Honore de Balza°. She has made little attempt to estimate the value and character of his writings, and therein she is wise, for such few...

revealed to arrested eyes, Burning unquenchably below Life and its commonplace disguise. Would burst their rison like flames released; Surely they lurk in us, me and you, Man...

afterwards Dean of St. Paul's, at a meeting when the subject of admitting graduates of Dublin University to the same degree at Oxford was under consideration :- " When Alma...

1 David. Gillespie... 3 R. M. Stevenson ... 5 Tom Bullongh 2 Trinity College, Oxford ... 1 Basil Williams 1 0 A. Prewin LI 2 1 0 E. F. C. Rogers ... ... 10 1 0 William Ransom,...

of essays, the most mature in style and thought, and the most attractive in subject-matter. With the exception of Casanova, the men he writes of are of a kindred stamp, and his...

work of Mr. Maurice Hewlett may not unfairly be called an acquired taste. His peculiarities of idea and expression are striking, and by no means always agreeable : his beauties...

admits of interpreta- tion in a musical as well as an economic sense, and there are few more interesting features in the recent annals of the art than the development and...

spirited but somewhat lurid romance,—the ten days' revolt of Naples against Spanish tyranny in the middle of the seventeenth century, headed by that extraordinary figure,...

—We opened this book with pleasant recollections of Mr. Gwynne's earlier stories, and our hopes have not been disappointed. A writer who takes us into a world out of the beaten...

to our vast and ever-increasing country literature. There is a touch of sadness in the first chapter, where the "old Dominie : a worn-out schoolmaster" describes the little...

Frankfort Moore has given us a collection of six stories of the other side of life, the inexplicable invasions of our world by something strange and un-mortal. In most of the...

(W. Black- wood and Sons. 7s. 6d. net.) —This is a pleasant, informing, but not historically pedantic book, which seems to have been suggested to its author by the Coronation of...

Napoleon. By Theodore Ayranit Dodge. Vols. I. and II. (Gay and Bird. 32s. net.)—Colonel Dodge has postponed the publication of his narrative of the campaigns of Frederick the...

W. (Duckworth and Co. 3s.)—Peter Fourier was a very admirable person, to whose virtues his biographer does full justice, though he sometimes fails, we think, to guide his pen...

there is in that country a frightful amount of crimes of violence is c, ( n- eeded on all hands. Mr. Bausman finds some of the causes in a foolish sentimental sympathy with...

and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Ealand has republished, with the addition of two more recent essays, four "sermon-lectures" which he gave to the world some twelve years ago. The new...

is a quotation in prose, describing the methods of a certain person whom it would be more prudent not to name, but who claims that he is another Elijah. "The difference between...

(Parker and Co. 4s. net.)—Mr. John E. Acland has written a memoir of his father, Arthur Acland, who late in life, on succession to a relative's property, assumed the name of...

we find when the actual curriculum is reached) is the object of this book. But with these suggestions are joined some very good exposition of principles which should underlie...

(J. M. Dent and Co. 21s. net.)-After an introductory chapter on the nature, use, significance, &c., of corporate seals, we have an alpha- betical list of cities and boroughs...

B.A. (Blackie and Son, 2s.), is an annotated edition of the "Third Chapter of Macaulay's History." Macaulay collected his materials with unsparing industry, and the...

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in their way, we have to mention the following :-Lodge's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage of the British Empire (Kelly's Directories, 31s. 6d.), now published...