Mafe. king. Colonel Plumer, who is advancing from the North to relieve the town, seems to have been stopped about fifty miles off, probably by some difficulty as to supplies....

recog. nise the heroism of her Irish soldiers has met with an eager response. In all parts of Great Britain, especially the Metropolis, St. Patrick's Day was treated not as an...

T HERE is a lull in the greater operations in South Africa. Lord Roberts at Bloemfontein is delaying his invasion of the Transvaal in order to clear the country between him and...

resented than in the most radical and democratic of our Colonies. Lord Ranfurly, the Governor of New Zealand, has cabled an important message on this subject to Mr. Chamberlain....

in Cape Colony. One or two of the latter are being tried for treason, and so concerned is President Kruger about their fate that on February 10th he intimated to Lord Salisbury...

the City Liberal Club. He described the Liberal party, of which he is so distinguished a member, as in a bad way, and doubted if it would be better until it widened its basis by...

on Tuesday with regard to the training of the Yeomanry this year. The main feature of the projected arrangement, which the Secretary of War was careful to describe as of an...

Parliament met for the first time on August 12th, 1895, and might therefore sit until July, 1902, but it is an un- written Constitutional rule that no Parliament shall expire by...

the House on Monday with regard to the War Loan. The number of applications was about 39,800, and the total amount applied for was £335,500,000, so that, roughly speaking, the...

fraudulent Army contractors was not altogether satisfactory. It was quite evident from the facts adduced during the dis- cussion that although, as Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman...

of Saturday last in which grave charges are levelled against General Buller and Colonel Kekewich. The delay in relieving Kimberley was, in Mr. Rhodes's opinion, inexcusable....

with them has induced the Gaulois to "circularise" a number of English notabilities, and Tuesday's issue contains answers, amongst others, from Cardinal Vaughan, the Bishop of...

dated January 3rd and published on Tuesday, gives a curiously interesting study of Colonel Baden-Powell. So far from being the joyous farceur as described in so many accounts,...

India, is a great disappointment to all Anglo- Indians. They believed him to be not only an excellent general and a good organiser, but a soldier-statesman who could be trusted...

recently wrecked on the occasion of Mr. Cronwright-Schreiner's visit to Scarborough, have issued a most dignified and magnanimous address to their fellow- citizens. In evidence...

welcome piece of news on Wednesday. Lord Tennyson, Governor of South Australia, has received a tele- gram from Mr: Chamberlain stating that the War Office offers one hundred and...

Irish Nationalists at the Hotel Cecil on Tuesday proved a somewhat stormy affair. Mr. John Redmond, who presided, described the war as "brutal and cruel," and said that they...

reassuring. The heavy charges for the famine in the past year have been discharged out of revenue, there would but for the famine have been a large surplus, and a probable...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 102.

OUR PROSPECTS. T HE first act of the South African drama dragged, and seemed to the over-impatient audience tediously long, but the second has gone through with a rapidity of...

of Saturday last, and especially of one side of it, the genuine friendliness which the English displayed towards everything Irish. This friendliness is constantly denied,...

A T the moment when a War Budget and a War Loan are before the public, and when the total South African casualties, in killed, wounded, missing, and prisoners (up to March...

counsel of his love of peace and of his desire to advance the cause of religion, nothing seems to him better than silence. It is this preference, doubt- less, that is the cause...

a large number of judicial decisions on questions concerned with the employment of labour. It has been held that workmen engaged by the day are excluded from benefit under the...

T HE Christianity of few Englishmen contents their religious instructors; but, nevertheless, Englishmen as a body have advanced so far on the Christian path that they hardly...

T HERE have been few recent celebrations more interesting than that of the Bicentenary of the Academy of Sciences at Berlin. This great institution was founded mainly through...

R EADY cash is as necessary to an army in the field as to any private traveller, and often as difficult to obtain. Almost the first step taken by Lord Roberts on the occupation...

Sts, — In fairness to the Swiss, will you publish the altogether contrary experiences of another Englishman, by way of counterblast to your correspondent from Lausanne, in the...

AN IMPERIAL PARALLEL. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIB, —Yon may think it worth while to print the following verses written early in the fifth century concerning Rome,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—At pro-slavery, otherwise called pro-Boer, meetings, the principles of Bright, Gladstone, Cobden, &c., are con- stantly referred to,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—This is a matter of vital importance not only as con- cerns the inhabitants of the two Republics, but also with regard to the Dutch...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:'] SIR, —In your review in the Spectator of March 3rd of Father Barnes's book, " St. Peter in Rome," you say that the Babylon mentioned in the...

[TO THE EDITOR OP ME "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I venture to send you two little stories about the shamrock which may interest your readers. Several invalid soldiers from South Africa...

[To THZ EDITOR OF TIM "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The Boer terms of peace have reminded me of a passage in the second chapter of " Pickwick." Speaking of the " mili- tary" in Rochester,...

[To THE EDITOR OH THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In your article on " The Naturalist on the Battlefield " in the Spectator of January 13th, you mention the case of the intelligent...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In reference to the above subject, in the " Maga zine " article in the Spectator of March 10th you quote some figures which are...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:] Sin,—Your correspondent, "A. A.," under the above title quotes the passage, " Careat successibus," as from Ovid's " Tristia" (Spectator, March...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—In your review of Dr. Wilson's " Theology of Modern Literature" you say:—"Dr. Wilson boldly asserts that the best scholarship of...

FREEDOM'S SLAVE. SHAKE the poisoned dust of cities from your feet, Shun the vice, the masquerade, and the veneer, Where all-devouring envy sits at meat, And the wealthy greets...

(TO TILE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") seldom write to the papers to correct the multitudi- nous lies with which a certain section of the Press is filled whenever it touches on...

IN the two volumes before us Mr. Kipling has collected the bulk of the special correspondence and occasional articles written by him for the Civil and Military Gazette and the...

THE WARDEN OF THE KHYBER.* SIR RORERT WA.RBURTON, with a unique opportunity, enjoyed a unique career. The son of a British officer and an Afghan lady, he was born (so to say)...

TnIS beautiful book is a rare treat in many ways. It is printed admirably on very good paper ; it is full of excellent illustrations of all kinds, done by the best and most...

MR. Tnomes ARNOLD'S account of his mental and spiritual wanderings is much more interesting than that of his corporeal ones. When he goes back to a generation of great men now...

Ex Africa semper is becoming the motto of the literary as well as the political world. Only the other day we noticed in A Daughter of the Transvaal a clever though rather...

of Heath- cote, which have Descended out of the County of Darby. By Evelyn D. Heathcote, M.A. (Warren and Sons, Winchester.)— This very handsome volume does great credit to its...

IRELAND AND THE EMPIRE. Mr. T. W. Rolleston, an Irishman and a Nationalist, who distinguished himself during the acute period of the Home-rule agitation by his courageous...

The Scientific Basis of Morality. By G. Gore, LL.D., F.R.S. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co. 10s. 6d.)— Tuba portentous work of nearly six hundred closely-printed pages is written,...

lated by John Andrews, M.A. (Blackwell, Oxford. Ss. Gd.)—De Maistre's book was published in 1794, a second part, entitled "A Night Journey Round My Boom," appearing some thirty...

Alys Fane Trotter. (B. T. Bataford. 10s. 8d.)—Mr. Herbert Baker prefixes a chapter in which he describes the growth of the Colonial Dutch architecture out of the Dutch style of...

—This " indictment of Paul Kruger " leaves us in no doubt of the writer's sentiments and opinions. It does not exactly appear on what authority he speaks, but he seems to be...

(Under this heading we no:ice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Evolution. By Frank B. Jevons. (Methuen and Co. 8s. Gd.)— This...

B. Gilder. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)—Mr. Lowell went to Madrid as American Minister in 1877, and remained there till he was transferred to the Court of St. James in 1880. Whether...

6s.1—This volume will introduce the reader to a world which, unless he is quite exceptionally well informed, will be mostly new to him. How many could write down the names of...

(Cambridge University Press. 4s.)—Regarded as a text- book Mr. Woodward's little book is just what is wanted,— a clear narrative of the origin of each Colony, the personnel of...

Maurice de Fleury by Stacy B. Collins, M.D. (Downey and Co. 12s. net.)—This treatise, to which a prize has been awarded by the Academie Francaise, cannot, from its nature, be...

(Macmillan and Co. 6s.)—Irrigation is of far more importance to our good cousins across the Atlantic than it is to us, yet the most striking example of irrigation known is,...

Steven- son. (George Redway. 2s. 6d.)—It is perhaps necessary to add that The Square of Sevens is a reprint of " The Square of Sevens and the Parallelogram " of Robert Antrobus....

(Macmillan and Co. 4s. 6d.)—Dr. Warner addresses himself rather to the teacher than to the family, so that fathers and mothers will find his tone somewhat scientific and...

Scarlet is most distinctly a word in season. Colonel Alderson's theme is the adaptation of the knowledge acquired in the hunting field to the practice of war. No one doubts be...

and Stoughton.)—We do not wish to make fun out of what are, without doubt, serious convictions in the mind of Dr. Grattan Guiness, though it would be only too easy to do so. He...

New South Africa (Simpkin and Co., es.), though it appears in the original form of the first edition in 18f..43, is interesting from a comparative point of view.—We have...