to rejoin the colours in regiments to be called Royal Reserve Battalions was published in all the newspapers. As far as it goes that is excellent (though we should have...

duced his motion for enforcing the Militia Ballot. Though there were some excellent things in his speech we agree on the whole with Lord Lansdowne and the Government in thinking...

moved for a fall inquiry into "the origin and circumstances of the conspiracy against the Transvaal Government and of the incursion into the South African Republic." Both his...

T HE war newt:4 of the week has been almost wholly good, but as we write on Friday it is not yet decisive, and till it is decisive we have no right to indulge in heroics. What...

General Buller, after his dogged attempts to get through the Boer lines on the West, has tried the Eastern flank, and with the best possible results. He has not only taken...

any ease.

in the Reichstag which will not facilitate alliance between Germany and France. There is a clause in the constitution of Alsace-Lorraine which enables the Stadt- holder in...

praise. Nothing could have been more honourable or more generous than the way in which he dealt with the personal innuendos against Mr. Chamberlain. In this respect his speech...

but he found considerable difficulty in both defending his own and Sir William Harcourt's action in allowing the inquiry to end in a fiasco, and also asking for a new inquiry...

pro- posed inquiry failed, for it was in essence a blow directed against Mr. Chamberlain personally,—an attempt to use Mr. Rhodes's offences to crush not the real culprit, but...

less explicable than the agitation caused, not only in Austria but in Germany, by any report that the Emperor Francis Joseph is seriously ill. It is not only fear for the loss...

to produce "did appear to imply the complicity of the Colonial Office," like those which were produced, but they were of no more value as evidence than the telegrams actually...

the Opposition) makes a very remarkable statement in regard to the alleged complicity of the Colonial Office in the Raid. He states that he knew Mr. Fairfield well, and that...

give no quarter to the Maffia, the secret society, which in Naples and Sicily protects criminals, levies black- mail on all landlords and traders, and professes to protect the...

Joseph Cowen, editor of the Newcastle Chronicle, and, for many years, Member for that city. He was one of the earliest of the Imperialist Radicals, resisted Boer claims in...

on Wednesday, made fitting reference to the heavy losses suffered by the Canadian contingent in Lord Roberts's advance. The news, he said, at once cheered and saddened their...

vote of the House of Commons in favour of adding" religion" to the rest of the descriptive facts demanded of the householder by census- takers. It will fail, we fancy, the...

his fifty- eighth year, was one of the brilliant band of writers associated with Mr. Greenwood's editorship of the Pall Mall Gazette. Later on he joined the staff of the Daily...

a diplomatist at Vienna : "Why, all the rag tag and bobtail (Strolehe) of Europe seem to be banded against England !" A correspondent, writing from Vienna, calls our attention...

the pur- poses of the war undoubtedly checks the growth of funds like that for the relief of the Indian famine, but we believe there is another check also. The disaster seems...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 104.

LORD ROBERTS. W HETHER Lord Roberts has failed or succeeded in his attempt to destroy General Cronje's army— the result remains uncertain as we write—there can be no doubt as...

be without a Russian scare. Too optimistic upon Inkny points, and cheery upon almost all, our journalists are liable whenever Russia is concerned to accesses of nervousness...

]J OWmuch would each of the one hundred and eighty thousand armed men now fighting for Britain in South Africa willingly pity to be quite sure that his Commander-in-Chief Was a...

had after all to go to the Pope for help. It distrusts in advance its own proposed legislation. The substitution of limited im- prisonment for unlimited exile and the closing of...

W E see that yet another attempt is being made in America to stop the ratification of the modifica- tions of the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty on the ground that Great Britain forbids...

T HOSE who assail the officials qua officials—an assault which recurs periodically whenever things go wrong— seem to us usually to miss in their vehemence the true point of...

I N his poem, entitled "The New Age," Matthew Arnold, after depicting the noisy and fleeting popularity achieved by many a new writer soon to be forgotten, likens the few...

T 4 ASTSunday afternoon, while a concert was being held at the Crystal Palace, an elephant belonging to a circus which had been performing there broke from its fastenings and...

THE BRITISH AND THE FOREIGN SOLDIER. [TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Since the South African campaign has taken a more satisfactory turn, and the public, which always...

Spectator of February 17th Mr. H. W. Massingham, in support of his views as to the want of capacity among Englishmen of the present day, makes the statement that England has...

the Spectator of February 17th objects to your "sweeping condemnation" of his letter in the Daily Chronicle of February 5th on the ground that "departments or sections of the...

CAUSES OF DISASTER. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." SIR,—I see Mr. Massingham in the Spectator of February 17th gives as one proof of our national decadence the fact that...

which Mr. Massingham aspires to solve imply, presumably, accomplishments—and, under all the circumstances, rather brilliant ones—on the part of our friends the foe. It is...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR, —Of the many suggestions that are abroad for increasing the defences of the Kingdom a large number are mutually exclusive, and all have...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Si,—As a reader of the Spectator for many years, I should like to say a few words as to the attitude of the American people towards the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] Sin,—In stating last Iveek that I declared that the Govern- ment proposals encouraged the notion that we were to be protected against...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Si.—In the House of Lords on February 15th Lord R,osebery said :—" I have the highest respect for the Volunteers. They have given their time...

the Spectator of February 17th has entirely mistaken the reserve with which Christian men pray: they do not wish to dictate to the Almighty, but to learn to accept His will ;...

THE "SPECTATOR:] Sin,—May I submit a criticism upon your article, "The Dis- missal of Sir E. Clarke," in the Spectator of February 17th? You say : "There may come a war which is...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sru,—The statement in the Spectator of February 17th by my friend Dr. Mackennal, that he finds everywhere in the Free Churches "a painful...

am amazed at Dr. Mackennal's letter in the Spectator of February 17th. Let a Wesleyan minister answer a Congregationalist. In my public prayers I continually ask, in the...

"SPECTATOR:1 SIE.—I have read with pleasure your instructive review of Sir Spenser St. John's "Life of Rajah Brooke," in the Spectator of February 17th. Will you not, in your...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] congratulate you on your proposal for a Colonial monument. It must of course be in Trafalgar Square. England, the Mother, ought to be...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TFIE " SPECTiTOR.1 SIR,—With reference to your article on Mr. Baillie- Grohman's suggestion, in the Spectator of February 10th, it may interest you to know...

SIR,—Having long preached consolidation of the resources of the Empire for its defence, I beg space to say a few words. The proposal Mr. Sadler so strenuously supports is this :...

SIR,—May I suggest with regard to the idea you so ad- mirably advocate, of a monument being erected in the heart of London to our gallant Colonial soldiers who have fallen in...

EDITOR OF 'THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Most Englishmen at all acquainted with German aspirations will agree with your able correspondent, Mr. Conybeare, in the Spectator of February...

FEBRUARY, 1904:k SPRING and the flowers return. The world is gay, Once more the old sun on the ancient earth Shines forth and brings a million buds to birth. Where are those...

MR. AUGUSTINE BIRRELL'S COLLECTED ESSAYS.* THESE volumes should be read through,—but not all at once. The essays are chiefly literary estimates, or, more correctly speaking,...

"Inter-migration between the Scotch and Irish" recently delivered before the Irish Literary Society, Mr. E. F. Vesey Knox gave some very significant facts and figures with...

THE story of Bibar's life is more wonderful, more brilliantly coloured than the Arabian Nights, and it loses little of its excitement in Mr. Stanley Lane-Poole's monograph. The...

THERE are few points of resemblance between the two works we have classed together save in the subject and a certain appreciative temper of mind. Both writers confess them-...

an admirable delineator of the amenities of rural life in the States, and her graceful talent has never been more happily displayed than in the quaintly named volume before us,...

THE REAL FRENCH REVOLUTIONIST. The Real French Revolutionist. By Henry Jephson. (Mac- millan and Co. 6s)—Mr. Jephson has given a very vivid account of the Vendean War, mainly...

Thought in the Nineteenth Century. By Marcus F. P. Dorman. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co. 12s.)—Mr. Dorman believes that he can get at the mind of the nation by analysing its...

The House of Commons. By Sir Richard Temple, Bart. (John Long. 3s. 6d.)—Sir Richard Temple is as well qualified as most men to write a handbook to the House of Commons, for from...

The New Democracy : a Political Study. By W. Jethro Brown, M.A., LL.D. (Macmillan and Co. 7s. 6d.)—The author of this thoughtful work is a professor in the University of...

A History of the Law of Nations. Vol. I. Prom the Earliest Times to the Peace of Westphalia. By Thomas Alfred Walker, M.A., LL.D. (Cambridge University Press. 10s. net.)—Mr....

Table. By Margaret Vere Farrington. (Putnam's Sons.) —These versions of the old romances are pleasant reading. The style is easy, and though the sentences have an appropriate...

San. 5s.)--Canon Robinson has written a very informing and—which is more than we had any right to expect -70. very entertainina 'book. His neenunt of the Haunts is the most...

Robinson and Co. 5s. net.)—We reviewed Mr. Macleane's larger history of his college between two and three years ago, and there is little to say about the volume which he now...

of particular importance. About Charlotte Bronte's work there is a pretty general agreement of intellectual judgment, at least, if not of taste ; but there is plenty of room for...

wood and Sons. 6s. net.)—This is the eleventh volume of the series of "Periods of European Literature," appearing, it will be observed, out of its order, for it is practically a...

6d. net.)—Mr. Holmes is himself a poet, and though he has not caught the ear of the multitude, and probably never will, he has secured the suffrages of not a few excellent...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review trkother forms.] Michel de L'Hospital. By C. T. Atkinson. (Longmans and Co. 4s.)—Michel...

T. Clark. 6s.)—This subject, in the series of "Eras of the Christian Church," was originally assigned to Dr. A. C. Coxe, Bishop of Western New York. An admirable substitute has...

Oxford. 4s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Stock republishes with alterations and additions a book- that appeared in 1988 under the title of Deductive Logic, and. supplements. the matter by a...