.A FFAIRS in China have advanced this week to an im. portant degree. As our readers are aware, the Govern- ment have decided to make no territorial acquisitions in China, but to...

With the " Sprac - muros" of Saturday, January 29th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages .of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To...

T HE Daily Telegraph of Thursday heads a telegram from its Cairo correspondent "A Scare in the Soudan," and the telegram below this heading declares that the sending of British...

THE CRISIS IN THE FAR EAST. I T is evident from the numerous, though rather vague, telegrams which arrive from China, from the speeches of Cabinet Ministers like Mr. Balfour,...

thick in France. In the absence of a strong Pretender—though, remember, a plebiscite solves all difficulties of descent, and Louis Bonaparte, the Russian Colonel of Artillery,...

in their fight with the engineering capitalists, and it is probably on the whole better for the future of industry that they should be beaten. The masters are indisputably in...

W HEN some two months ago the advocates of coun- tervailing duties on bounty-fed sugar began their campaign, and endeavoured to induce the Government to impose such duties, we...

London took occasion the other day to describe his episcopal work in terms which have possibly caused some surprise. Certainly it is not at all what episcopal work is sometimes...

I N his speech the other day on the conclusion of Sir Walter Besant's lecture on "The Educational Aspect of the History of London" the Bishop of London took exception to the...

O NE cannot truly say that by the death of Lewis Carroll the gaiety of nurseries has been eclipsed, for it is practically certain that even had he lived another ten or twenty...

T HE "Sykes case," which ended on Tuesday evening after a trial which lasted five days, was a bad case which- ever way it is looked at. It was only a civil suit instituted to...

T HE latest report from the bases whence relief expeditions or impatient prospectors must start next spring for Klondike deserves a place among what Frank Buckland called the...

Rat. WARD ON THE CATHOLIC POSITIOIT. [To THZ EDITOR OF THE " SPECTALTOR. n ] SIB., — Mr. Wilfrid Ward closes his Life of Cardinal Wiseman with a chapter entitled "The Exclusive...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—When the Times spoke last month of "The Life and Times of Cardinal Wiseman" as being a very long biography because it contains over...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In the current number of the Edinburgh Review there- is a charming article on "The Birds of London," in which the following passage...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — If, as I believe to be the case, you are still of opinion that some liberty of the Press should be retained in India, is. it certain...

[To Yu EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR:] propos of the Tilford Oak. No one has thought it worth while to give the actual words in which it is mentioned in the charter of Henry de...

BACK TO IRELAND. On, tell me will I ever get to Ireland again, Achray—from the far North West P Have we given all the rainbows an' green woods an' rain For the suns an' the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Yon were right and "X. X. X." wrong. The memo- rialists are entirely to blame for making their agitation public. The fault was theirs,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " BrEcrkros."] SIR,—Like Mr. Winter's horse in Manitoba, mine has repeatedly brought me home safely when I had utterly lost myself in the dense fog upon...

Oca, what was it got me at all that time To promise I'd marry a Rachray man? An' now he'll not listen to rason or rhyme, He strivin' to hurry me all that he can. "Come on, an'...

GARDINER'S "HISTORY OF THE COMMON- WEALTH." Mn. GARDINER belongs to that brilliant group of historians who were the pride of English literature in the " sixties " and...

be none." Such should be the most fitting epitaph of the singular and self-devoted hero whose story is here retold to us in little with all Mr. Frederic Harrison's consummate...

before us is certain to be widely read; and the incautious reader, dazzled by the array • Some 17Arecognisest Laws of Nature. By Ignatius Singer and Lewis H. Berens. With...

THE usual fault of children's books is that the facts are seen in a wrong focus. That is, the grown-up person, with his head in the air, determines to adopt the attitude of mind...

pure theory from Professor Sidgwick ; in the present volume, however, we make his acquaintance as an exponent of practice. That is not, we think, his forte, for his is perhaps...

THE subject of this book is an attractive one. And it is also a large one. Rather too large, we think, for the space Mr. Fitz-Gerald has given to it. The ideal book about famous...

The Edinburgh Review. — The number of the Edinburgh Reriets for January is a most attractive one. With one exception—the critique on Mr. Rudyard Kipling's works, which strikes...

volume is made up, as the author tells us with a praiseworthy candour, of newspaper articles. They furnished entertainment to one set of readers, and we hope they will do the...

Pannett Peters, D.D. 2 vols. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 25s.) —It is to be regretted that Dr. Peters did not give the story of his work at Nippur to the world a little sooner, and...

and Co.)—This volume is intended as a manual to be used by candidates. It is not, of course, authoritative ; but as the author is Examining Chaplain to one of the Bishops, a...

This is exactly the kind of subject which Dean Farrar knows how to treat. It is full of picturesque incidents and of striking contrasts of character, and these he arranges with...

and Co.)—This is an exciting and brilliant romance of the great Napoleon's days. The hero, an officer in the Guards, saves Napoleon's life on his return from Italy, and then...

far too skilful a novelist not to be well aware that his hero's self-sacrifice belongs to romance rather than to the fiction which has to do with realities. "It is magnificent,...

Mr. Pemberton's " Queen " is historical we cannot say, but we are quite sure that she makes a very picturesque figure. There is a little difficulty, perhaps, about her age, for...

Fleming and Richard Franklin are fellow- workers in the cause of Labour. But Franklin has a conception of woman's province and woman's duties not uncommon among those who hold...

Douglas, Edinburgh.)—These are two little "Drawing-room" farces, belonging to the same series as "The Mousetrap,"—not so amusing as that, but both good in their way as specimens...

Allen. (Grant Richards.)—Practical Idealism. By William Delvitt Hyde. (Macmillan and Co.)—The Origin and Growth of Plato's Logos. By Wincenty Lutoslawski. (Longmans and...

Love-Story. Translated by Francis W. Bourdillon, M.A. (Macmillan and Co.)—In the issue of "George Meredith's Novels" (Constable and Co.), Sandra Belloni, originally Emilia in...

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