present the amended Treaty again to Great Britain, or whether he will simply allow the whole matter to drop for the present. If he adopts the latter course there is naturally...

T HE news from the front during the past week has been bad. We give below the details of the action at Nocagedacht, but in addition to that disaster comes the telegram that two...

on in China. The rivers in Chi-li are frozen, and the "armies" at Pekin and Tientsin are hanging on to the coast by a single line of railway. At present, however, there appears...

there was a debate in the House of Lords in regard to Lord Hardwicke's ' connection with the Stock Exchange, raised by Lord Rosebery, with which we have dealt at length...

week has been anything bat calculated to raise that body in the opinion of serious people. It has not only treated a diplo- matic instrument of great importance in itself, and...

case.

majority,—the opponents, in fact, having been gradually reduced to two. This Bill forbids criminal prosecutions against any one concerned in the Dreyfus case, thus pardoning...

very good and bold act. He has ordered forty boxes of loot belonging to General Frey which have arrived in Marseilles to be seized, with a view to sending their contents back to...

into frequent use, is getting "obsessed" with his Navy. The Germans have not had formidable enemies to meet in China, but in speaking to some sailors returned from thence on the...

Nooitgedacht, briefly mentioned in our last issue, makes it clear that the British troops, though surprised by superior numbers—the proportion must have been three to one—...

intended to proceed with his "measures of Republican defence," of which the Bill against religious Associations is one. It is said this Bill will be carried, though the Pope has...

limping on, and must cost a fortune in telegrams to Europe, no one on the spot being trusted to arrange the smallest detail. According to the latest reports, which may be...

by M. Szell, the Premier of Hungary, on the 13th inst., the reception of which by the Chamber of Deputies is of some importance to Europe. M. Szell declared that the Triple...

question in Belgium now is the strengthening of military defence. It is proposed to raise the Army from a hundred and fifty thousand to a hundred and eighty thousand men, to...

Ridley were gazetted on Wednesday. Mr. Goschen becomes Viscount Goschen of Hawkhurat, and Sir Matthew White Ridley Viscount Ridley and Baron Wensleydale. Sir Matthew White...

last Sunday for Jews serving in the Regular and Auxiliary forces was attended by about two hundred and fifty men, including some twenty officers and several members of the...

that of having sent an electioneering telegram stating that "every seat won by the Liberals was a seat sold to the Boers." Mr. Chamberlain at once denied the accuracy of this...

Conference of the National Union of Conservative and Con- stitutional Associations. His chief point, after reminding his audience of the extraordinary change which had made...

Guardians on the system of "Labour Homes," devised by Mr. Noel Buxton, one of their number, with a view to assisting the "genuinely workless" to independent life. The Labour...

New Consols (2k) were on Friday 96f.

SOME SOUTH AFRICAN PROBLEMS. I N spite of the fact that the past week has been a bad one for the British forces in South Africa, and in spite of the natural indignation that...

the politics of to-day upon which we fail to understand the English people. They obviously take no interest in their position in China. No one ever refers to it in conversation...

W E cannot rest satisfied with Lord Salisbury's decision that Lord Hardwicke may remain a member of the Stock Exchange and a sleeping partner in a firm of stock- brokers while a...

in its day, but there is one in particular which it seems destined to go on serving till the end of time. It is to be a standing puzzle to Englishmen. They began by thinking...

1 1WHEN Mr. Bryce speaks as historian he is always worthy of study. He observes patiently, he thinks in a large way because he knows much, and he endeavours almost painfully to...

I T is very di ffi cult, at least for observers who are outside their community, to understand the precise relation between Jews and Mahommedans. Though the latter in some...

U PWARDS of two years ago America was scandalised by the dismissal of Dr. E. B. Andrewes from the Presi- dency of Brown University, Rhode Island, because, , it Was alleged, of...

W HEN the English army was in the Crimea, we suppose after Alma, the Irish regiments got into trouble for shooting at game when on the march. Bustards of great size and most...

THE PRELIMINARY EDUCATION OF OFFICERS. [To THE EDITOR OF TIM "SPECTATOR. "] Sm,—This is a humble attempt to justify the existence of myself and others. I cannot answer for the...

Snt,—Your correspondent " F. E. B.," whose initials have been familiar to me for the best part of thirty years, is no doubt right in advocating an increase in the pay of...

what he has seen (Spectator, December 15th). But does he ever see the better class of public-school boy, and is it fair to condemn such schools because the boys who do come to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sta,—The signs of the times lead one to believe that the talk about War Office reform will end in talk Ministers' speeches have mentioned it,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Would not outbursts like that of last summer be best prevented in the future by conditions of peace which both humiliated the Chinese...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR"] SIR, —As germane to the subject of " X.'s " letter (Spectator, November 17th), I might tell you that I recollect an occasion in 1867 when the...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I venture to express an opinion on this subject (Spec- tator, December 15th) because in connection with my duties on the staff of a...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." Sra,—The letter of my friend Dr. Llewelyn Davies (Spectator, December 1st), if he will allow me to claim his friendship, suggests some...

[TO TIM EDITOR 0)? TEE "SPECTATOR. " ] Stu,—May one who has in his time, as the Spectator knows, been something of a poet as well as of a dramatist, add to the well-worthy...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your article on St. Francis of Assisi in the Spectator of December 1st you expressed a wish for men who would look on Christianity...

"SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I suppose your readers by this time are pretty tired of the correspondence on "Hell and Annihilation." But if you care to print another note on the subject,...

Sin,—At a meeting held on Thursday, December 6th, at the Working Men's College, Great Ormond Street, by persons deeply interested in the welfare of the institution, it was...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Probably many of your readers are aware of the lament- able and widespread effect on the health of the workers of the lead which has...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—On November 13th I read in the paper the French naval shipbuilding programme. The night before I chanced on the following in De...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Stit,—As one who was on visiting terms with Mr. Patmore the last fourteen years of his life, and enjoyed many and many a tete - a - tete with...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In your review of Jesse (Spectator, December 1st) you speak of the hideous scandals which implicated the King (James I.) in the death...

SIR, —In Lord Rosebery's " Napoleon" the following words w as the Duke of Wellington are quoted :—" Sir Hudson Lowe was a very bad choice ; he was a man wanting in education...

THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —Referring to Mr. Ackworth's letter in the Spectator of December 15th. How many letters could the Post Office deliver without delay if the addresses they...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,— Referring to the letter on the above subject appearing in the Spectator of the 8th inst., not having read Miss Tynan's novel, I do not...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIE;It may be of interest to point out, in connection with your review of the Ameer Abdurrahman's memoirs in the Spectator of December 8th,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SLR,—The story of the two brothers and the corpse is quoted in " The Annals of the Warwickshire Hunt," by the late Sir C. Mordaunt and the...

CHRISTMAS. Now the year is closing to the season set apart When the mother draws her wanderers homeward to her heart: As through air enchanted currents on man's errand run, So...

RICHELIEU.* THE career of Richelieu has interested novelists and en- thralled dramatists because it is marked by all the changes and contrasts which popular taste demands. But...

So.,—The anecdote of the dog and the saucepan referred to by your correspondent, Mr. B. Calvert, in the Spectator of December 15th, and traced back by him to the " Percy...

every book of genuine reminiscences is sure of a welcome. We wish indeed. that every senior resident member of the University would commit his memories to paper. A few of the...

necessary for the heading of this article. It should have been Pekin : so completely has the old Eastern question been obliterated in the question of the Far East. But Mr....

THE recreations of a busy and distinguished man have always for us a charm above their intrinsic value. The essays of a litterateur may be good or bad, but they are parcel of...

on human life steers a mean course between placidity and acidity, has once more laid her readers under an obligation in the excellent story to which she has given the name of...

BOOKS ON THE WAR. In the Web of War. By H. F. Prevost Batteraby. (Methuen and Co. 681 — Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa. By A. G. Hales. (Cassell and Co. 6s.)—Both...

A.. Streeter. (Catholic Truth Society. 6d.)—These two little books are prettily got up in grey and white covers. The accounts of the painters are very slight, and a person who...

In the "Oxford Library of Practical Theology" (Longmans and Co., 5s.) we have Holy Matrimony, by the Rev. Knox Little. We must be content to leave this book with but a very...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not hewn reserved for review in other forms.] The Three Friends. By A. G. Butler. (H. Frowde. 3s.)— This story, the...

Romanes. (Mowbray. 2s. 6d.) — This second part of Mrs. Romanes's Thoughts upon the Collects has the qualities of its pre- decessor. Though written simply for simple people, it...

With Illustrations by Eva Roos. (Dent and Co. 3s. 6d.)—This "posy for mothers" is a very good collection of poems for and about children who are more or less " reluctantly "...

by Franklin Brook. (F. E. Robinson and Co. ls. net.)—The 1805 score shows the name of Lord Byron in the Harrow eleven (scores 7 and 2). Curiously enough, the name just above him...

Burke. (Harrison and Sons. 42s.)-The editor shows a most praiseworthy desire to make this book as complete and as accurate as possible. He gives some interesting particulars,...

mentioned together, - The Natural History Nursery Rhymes, by G. B (Sands and Co., 3s. 6d ) ; Cats, Pictured by Louis Wain and Versed by " Grimalkin " (same publishers); and The...

a number of interesting things in this volume ; among others, we should like to call the reader's attention to an article on Mr. Edward Stott by Laurence Housman, with...

and Co., Is. 6c1. net per vol.), Vasar-e's Lives of the Painters, Vols. VII. and VIII., completing the work ; The Inferno of Dante A/ighieri; and The Master Mosaic - Workers,...

appears in a fifty-third issue, and exhibits a steady growth in comprehensiveness. It consists of two parts, the first giving information about official persons and facts, the...

James Adderley ( Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co., 2s. 6d.), " a Monthly Magazine for the People," and containing, among other things, a record of pastoral work in London ; and...

York- shire, by J. S. Fletcher (J. M. Dent and Co., la. net), containing "The Ribble from Sawley to Settle," "Round about Ingle- borough," and part of " Dent, Sedbergh, and...

" greatest book in the world," the London Post Office Directory (Kelly's Directories, 32s.) It increases yearly in bulk, and it has, so far resembling Africa, semper aliquid...

Osborn (Walter Scott, le. per vol.), we have three numbers before us,-Secondary Education, by Christabel Osborn and Florence B. Low; Elementary Teaching, by Christabel Osborn;...