at Southampton, where they were met by Lord Roberts, Lord Kitchener, and Mr. Chamberlain. Arrange- ments had been made that after the interview they should proceed to Spithead,...

In the first place, its Shanghai correspondent tele- graphs that he learns "from an entirely trustworthy authority in the north " that Wang Chili-chun, the newly appointed...

T TIR review of the Fleet by the King at Spithead last Saturday passed off without a hitch in splendid weather. The Royal flotilla left Cowes at 2 o'clock, and steamed through...

to deal with indemnity Bills relating to the non-summoning of Parliament, unauthorised expenditure, and other matters. The Times correspondent, who is much opposed to the...

of national anticlimax, and suffered from the clashing attrac- tion of the Boer generals, his reception has not been lacking in official prestige or public demonstrativeness....

un- authorised Orders in France has been completed, and happily without bloodshed. The resistance was longest and most deter- mined in Brittany, but even there it yielded before...

case.

printed in Wednesday's issue, General Botha pays a striking tribute to the bravery of the British soldier. Describing the battle of Colenso, General Botha states that at the...

at Homburg on Tuesday the Kaiser paid an eloquent tribute to the powerful influence exerted by his " illustrious mother " on education, social life, art, and philanthropy in...

from the Chambers of Mines and Commerce. He pointed out the peculiar position of the Government, which was being pressed on the one hand to pass immediately the most important...

summarised in Thursday's Times, makes most interesting reading. Dr. Tempest Anderson and Dr. J. S. Platt, who were commies ioned to proceed to the West Indies by the Royal...

Rousseau has recently been cruising in Norwegian waters, has published in the Figaro a lively account of their meeting with Kaiser Wilhelm in the Sorfjord. During his visit to...

Ladysmith telegrams, which are stated to be published at the desire of Sir Redvers Buller, to explain the telegrams which passed between -him and Lord Roberts,—Sir Redvers...

Saturday's Times, closes an interesting chapter in the history of North Central Africa. According to the Times corre- spondent, the Senussi was by no means the sort of Emperor...

no seats for novelists or poets. That is the substance of the announcement made on Thursday to the effect that the King, acting on the advice of the Privy Council Committee, had...

in Ireland and one in Kent. The Irish election, held on Monday, was in South Belfast, the vacancy being caused by the death of Mr. Johnston, the champion of ultra-Protestant-...

official Reichsanzeiger this week show the difference between the actual receipts and expenditure of the Empire in 1901 and the estimates for that year. The account for military...

on Thursday, and resulted in the return of Mr. H. W. Forster, who sought re-election owing to his appointment as Junior Lord of the Treasury,—the figures being Forster, 5,333;...

in rifle club organisation made last Saturday on the Surrey Downs. The experiment, as will be seen by our corre- spondent's account, was on a very small scale, but it cer-...

person of Colonel Kitson, sometime Governor of Kingston Military College, Canada. Colonel Kitson, it may be remem- bered, gave most valuable evidence before the Royal Commis-...

New Consols (2i) were on Friday 95.

FRANCE, GERMANY, AND ENGLAND. T HE "Colonist" who gives us the benefit of his views in the columns of the Daily Express is often somewhat truculent in tone and by no means...

W E do not agree that the enthusiastic scenes at Southampton and Waterloo last Saturday were altogether unworthy of us as a nation. It is true that the memory of the crowd is...

Civilian " which will be found in another column will probably surprise a great number of readers. They will find what they have always sup- posed to be one of the best...

W E note, but not without a certain sense of regret, the sa! action expressed in the Press at the news that Lord Roberts and the Secretary of State for War are to witness the...

I N May last a writer in Justice, the organ of the Social Democratic Federation, called attention to the " con- spiracy of silence " with which, as he alleged, the " capitalist...

the columns of "Answers to Correspondents" in a journal of repute, we came across one to this effect : — ".Regina (Malvern).— Has your fiance read Lecky's Map of Life' ? It is...

T HE lore of the veld as it is known to the Boer in the Cape Colony is not only an interesting, but in many ways an instructive study. It is always remarkable that in a new...

G ILBERT WHITE'S house at Selborne is for sale, and a movement is, we understand from the letter of " Naturalist " published in our correspondence columns, being made to collect...

A RIFLE CLUB EXPERIMENT. [To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—It may interest your readers—or those, at all events, who believe that there are lessons to be learnt from...

(To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. ") SIR,—All that Mr. Harris Stone says in the Spectator of August 2nd of the poverty of the Achill Islanders is true enough, but there is a...

THE WORSHIP OF FETISHES IN ENGLAND. PTO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—When an Englishman comes home after some years' service abroad he is struck by the prevalence of...

(To TIM Ramon Or THE "seacrAxos.1 SIR,—I was at Selborne the other day, and learnt that the Rev. Gilbert White's house in the village was for sale. Can anything be done to...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Stn,—Your extremely interesting article in the Spectator of August 16th on " The Secret Transmission of News " tempts me to trouble you...

Sia,—In reference to your article on the secret transmission of intelligence, the following extract from Murray's Handbook to Kent may be of interest : " One of the lower rooms...

[TO THY EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. ") Sin,—Your article on " The Secret Transmission of News " in the Spectator of August 16th raises an interesting question. Mysterious...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—In your " News of the Week " for the 16th inst. you make some remarks about the raising of Imperial Yeomanry for South Africa. Speaking...

my youth—some fifty years since—we children were invited to write the following lines from dic- tation :— " Whilst hewing yews Hugh lost his ewe And put it in the hue-and-cry;...

[TO THE EDITOR,Or THE "SPHOTATOR." . ] SIR,—Few, with the exception of those who are practical farmers, realise the harm which the increase of game is doing to this country. The...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—In the Spectator of August 9th I observe a letter on " Our Strange Language." This letter abundantly exhibits what should rather be...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR." j SIR,—There is one statement made by you in the Spectator of August 9th which seems contrary to fact,—viz., "Elizabeth during the first...

[To THE EDITOR Or TEE " SPECTATOR.'] Sra,—In the article on " Change of Air" in the Spectator of August 16th the writer says : " Jane Austen's people were content to migrate '...

Bull of St. Pius V, excommunicating Queen Elizabeth was a disastrous blunder, to be deplored, as one of that Pope's successors expressed it, "in tears of blood." No doubt a...

[TO THE. EDITOR OP THE • SPECTATOR."] Stn,—Knowing that you are an enemy of blockhouses and other immobile military contrivances, I send you the following quotation from...

THE "SPECTATOR. ") SrR,—Among the many accounts of the King's dinners to the poor lately published in various journals, I have not yet seen one that purports to be from the pen...

[To THE EDITOR 01 THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sut,—What the whole Unionist party desires to see in office is a Cabinet " true to the spirit of the age," abreast of national progress, in...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. ") Sur,—Among the many excellent articles in the Spectator those on the war are certainly not the least interesting. With the one headed " The...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SID,—As an old naturalist who has derived great pleasure from Nature study, I heartily rejoice to see the move to provide similar enjoyment...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPICTITOR.1 Sts,—I would ask permission to trespass on your valuable space in the hope that I may be of some use in helping to rid people at home of the...

ON THE WETTERHORN. (AvousT 16rw, 1902.) As grass upon the hillside, in the morning growing green, By noon is mown and withered, and the next day is not seen, Even so the strong...

[TO THB EDITOR OF TRH u.srsoraroa."3 SIR, —It may interest some of your readers to know that in this garden a young kestrel hawk is being nourished and brought up by a...

[To THB EDITOR OF TIM " SPECTATOR:1 SIR, —Your review of the Life of Admiral Winslow, U.S. Navy, recalls an episode in connection with the sinking of the ' Alabama' which is...

THE SOLOMON ISLANDS.• No spot upon the globe has had a stranger history than the Solomon Islands. Discovered by a band of valiant Spaniards in 1568, they were instantly lost...

THE name of Fersen is one that neither history nor romance will willingly let die. The present volume gives for the first time in English, we believe, all that there is of...

to that distinguished antiquary, the late Sir Wollaston Franks, that, with the exception of a work on Japanese ceramic, he never published catalogues of the collections under...

nations," says Mr. Lindsay, the editor of the series of histories of which Sir Herbert Max- well's substantial volumes constitute the first, "can only deal with the acts of...

IIIGH POLICY.* IT is the fashion to bewail the exhaustion of available plots, and to found thereon a defence of the exploitation of the abnormal. Yet what splendid materials...

INDIA AND ITS PROBLEMS. India and its Problems. By W. S. Lilly. (Sands and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Lilly's object in writing this very slight volume is " the diffusion of...

V. White and Co. 6s.)—No one can say that Major Griffiths's stories are verbose. The writer goes straight to the point, and says what he has to say without circumlocution. But...

On Commando. By Dietlof van Warmelo. (Methuen and Co. 3s. 6d.)—This is an interesting, and in many ways a very touch- ing, little volume. It describes in the simplest of...

of this novel seems to us an excellent bit of work, better than what we have seen before from Mrs. Alexander's pen. As long as Monica Deering is permitted to remain a simple,...

Windus. 6s.)—Here we have eighteen stories, more or less of the sporting kind, which have been told, it is supposed, in a tavern club-room. The first is not a happy specimen. It...

and Ferrier. 3s. 6d.)—The missionary work here described was carried on in Central India. The pictures given of its various details, its difficulties, its successes, the...

(Under this heading ice tiotice such Books of the week as have not been wsorood for reriew in other forme.] Military Sketch Map of Relief of Ladysmith. By Captain H....

is.) —This story may be said to begin with the discovery of the New World. The energies which had fruitlessly sought an outlet in the French wars found their proper scope in the...

M. James. (J. M. Dent and Co. 4e. 6d. net.)—Chaps. 1-5 give the history of Verona, its flourishing period being from 1240 to 1387, including the reign of Ezzelino da Romano and...

D. Gillespie- Addison. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co. 5s.)—In December, 1901, the Memoirs of Field-Marshal von Blumenthal were published. [n this volume may be found the...

Os. 6d. net.)—The " Politics of the Patrician Claudii," by George Converse Fiske, is a valuable contribution to the study of Roman history. The Claudii are a puzzling race,...

of a quarterly magazine, "published at Stratford-on-Avon." We welcome it, and hope that it will prosper. We would venture, however, to suggest that such articles as " Hamlet and...

of the many excellent text-books which we owe to the intel- le3tual activity of teachers on the other side of the Atlantic. We cannot examine it in detail, but we may refer to...

Co. net.)—This is one of the series of " Temple Primers," not a guide- book, or a description of Venice as it is now, but a carefully written and skilfully compressed story of...