of the ringleaders are now in Admiral Noel's hands, a detachment of the Rifle Brigade three hundred strong has arrived at Candia from Egypt—this ubiquity of the British soldier...

T HERE is little or nothing to say this week as to the crisis on the Upper Nile. No news has been received from the Sirdar, though by this time he must have arrived at Fashoda....

to be recorded. Colonel Picquart, the Staff officer who has so strenuously insisted on inquiry, has conse- quently been persecuted by his superiors. They sent him to Tunis in...

though the firmness of M. Brisson and his Telma to be frightened out of a reconsideration of the Dreyfus case by threats of a military coup d'itat have, we are glad to see, met...

of France, published on Monday a most injudicious Manifesto. In it he declares that those who advocate the revision of the Dreyfus trial are guilty of an "odious plot against...

case.

frightened the officials that his legal "mother," the Empress Dowager, has sent him to bed again. He issued, without consulting Ins Councillors, decrees establishing a post,...

has agreed to a common plan for watching and expelling Anarchists, thus in practice driving them from Europe. We do not believe it. That Lord Salisbury has replied appre-...

Chili and the Argentine Republic. They have been quarrelling for years, the Chilians claiming under the last Treaty some large, high valleys in the Andes, and the Argentines...

insurgents are masters in most of the islands, and in the in- terior of Luzon, but have no particular purpose except to be free of Spain. They have "elected," or at least got...

in favour of peace was admirably worded, and had a note in it of real personal feeling. The Proclamations of the young Queen of Holland, which she is said to have written...

of anecdotes illustrating the fitchting temper of the American sailor. The keynote of Admiral Dewey's- character "is found in his battle-signal, Keep cool and obey orders.'" He...

on "The Position of the Bishops." Though the words are apparently as strong as ever, it is pretty clear that reflection has shown the leader of the Opposition that there is not...

agrees that the life and soul of the Church of England lies in its being comprehensive, but be wants to know how far com- prehension is to extend. That is, on the face of it, a...

Kensit is reported to have said in a recent address that "there would be work for Oliver Cromwells before many years were over." Mr. Kensit's words and deeds incline us to...

Era pass one by one away. Sir George Grey, who died on Monday evening at the great age of eighty-six, was never of importance in English politics ; but he was one of the ablest...

the Liberal Unionist candidate, Mr. Pease, by a majority of 688. Mr. Pike Pease polled 3,497 votes, and Mr. Owen Phillips 2,809. In 1895 the Unionist majority was 657, and in...

the subject of redistribution. The conclusion of the article is that redistribation, if carried out arithmetically in the three kingdoms, would produce a loss of Unionist seats,...

sometimes most effectively, but they have rarely been consummate artists in words. The Daily Mail has, however, found a man of that kind, Mr. G. W. Steevens, whose description...

letter addressed by the Bishop of Gibraltar to the English congregations under his charge. In the portion 'which deals with private confession the Bishop states plainly that the...

last Saturday's paper, asks whether the problem of the better housing of people in the country could not be solved by using a cheaper material for cottages. Why not, he asks,...

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W E regard the latest news from France as positively terrible. France, and Paris more especially, is falling into one of those moods of angry distrust of all men, of disposition...

THE FRENCH AT FASHODA. T HERE is little definite fresh news since we last wrote on the subject of Fashoda, but during the past week it has become generally admitted and...

3,000; to Porto Rico, 4,000; and to Honolulu, 1,000." The rest will be volunteer regiments, but these will, of course, be none the less under the command and absolute con- trol...

has suddenly become interesting again. It really seems as if the dry bones were stirring. Moved by an influence of which we shall have more to say, the young man who is supposed...

connection with the murder of the Empress Elisabeth which has hitherto escaped attention, and which seems to us to have real and per- manent political importance. This is the...

" V i TE have no intention of entering upon the much- disputed question of the water-supply of East London. Whether the Company is to be blamed for not giving the consumers...

the game, and 4 the Duke of Argyll, writing on "Discipline in the Church of England" in Tuesday's Times, is able to add, from the standpoint of a Presbyterian, a most valuable...

W E should not ourselves call either vegetarians or teetotalers "faddists," at least not in any oppro- brious sense. They are faddists, no doubt, inasmuch as they give to a...

A GOVERNMENT inquiry seldom has the good fortune to suggest a way out of an economic tangle by a path so attractive as that recommended to the people of the West Indies. The...

'THE EVIDENCE BEFORE THE INDIAN CURRENCY COMMITTEE. [TO rm EDITOZ or THZ SPECTATOR:9 `81n,—The .evidence given before the Indian Currency Com- mittee is of great interest,...

Sin,—May I draw the attention of your readers to a some- what remarkable prophecy concerning the Soudan War and the battle of Kerrere or Omdurman? It is contained in the • "...

THE " SPECIITOR."1 SIR,—You advocate with great ability the construction of a. tunnel between Great Britain and Ireland, to make the two islands which are one politically also...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE "SracriTore'l SIR,—I have read with interest your review of Mr. Clarke's , " City Churches" in the Spectator of September 10th. Could not the problem be...

THR " SPEOTATOR."] :Si,—Mr. Archibald Little's letter on "The Value of Thibet to England" in the Spectator of September 17th reopens a , question which has hardly been before...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:"] SIR,—I hope it will be some comfort to your correspondent, Mr. W. J. Stillman, to learn that the squirrels, which, according to his...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—To your interesting article on "The Sleeping Homes of Animals" in the Spectator of August 20th an appen- dix might have been added of...

journal, which I have read for forty years, probably, has followed me here; and because many people may think, as Mr. Stillman does, that this Society can interpose to prevent...

SPECTAT0IL. 9 1 Srn, — The kindly interest which you frequently exhibit in the ways of oar friends among the lower orders of Creation leads me to bring under your notice the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPF.CTATOR.'] Stn,—In connection with Canon MacColl's letter in the Spectator of September 10th, can you find room for the following extract from •`...

DEAN MERIVALE.* Ow the eve of his sixty-fourth birthday Charles Merivale, who had then been Dean of Ely for a little more than two years, began to write his autobiography. The...

OLD NOVELS AND NEW. IN all the novels of the past, This or that classic friend, Heroes and heroines find at last Their Eden at the end ; Their luck may fail at first, yet r.o,...

OF all the manias that afflict mankind the most ancient and curious is probably the mania for collecting. The victims of this craze collect pretty nearly everything, from books...

lead- ing journals, however much we may regret the scandalous incidents which first provoked them, will not be without advantage if they direct attention once more to the very...

THE writer of the records before us has played a conspicuous part in the life of his time. A man of letters by profession and by taste, and one of the most trusted and versatile...

should be tasted, a few chewed and digested, others, again, read by deputy or in extracts. It is not clear on which of these pegs we ought to bang the present lively supplement...

MR. MERRIMAN must be congratulated not only on the excel:- lence of his new novel, but the singular prescience displayed in his choice of a theme. Its appearance in serial form...

(Sampson Low and Co.)—The sub-title of the book is this, "Literary Passages from the Bible Rewritten, Idea for Idea, in Modern Style." Book I. contains Job, Joel, and Psalms...

The Dreyfus Case (Revised Edition). By Georges Guyon. Cu r - rent Events Series," No. 1. (Patrick Geddes, Edinburgh.)—The idea of a "Current Events Series" of pamphlets is a...

hero tells us of his love affair while still a boy in the sixth form, how it got noised abroad, and how he thrashed the yokel who spied him kissing the young lady. Sylvia throws...

is a story of the "University Extension Lectures,"—a new theme for fiction, as far as we know. "The general impression seemed to be that it was undesirable and likely to lead to...

his Polynesia well, and, moreover, has that real sympathy with the islanders that convinces the reader that he is studying the natives as they really are. He gives us some most...

T. Lucas. (Arrowsmilh, Bristol.)—Mr. Lucas has a very light and pleasant touch, and the prose essays that furnish out most of this mis- cellany ought to find a great many...

Co.) .—Professor Aldwyn is a very brutal and selfish fellow who bullies his wife, and would bully his daughter if she would suffer and who turns his son out of doors. A fit of...

and Sons.)—Dr. Wilson began his career early, for he. delivered his first lecture—on the human frame—at the age of fifteen. Naturally he magnifies his office, nor are we...

II.," Shakespeare to Dryden." (Blackie and Son.)—A useful little book. It must always be difficult to deal adequately with an important period of literature within the limits of...

a very old property of the novelist doing duty again,—twins indistinguishable from each other except in .character. One is honest, one is a villain; the bad man tries to kill...

Introduction and Notes by F. F. Beget, B.A. (Macmillan and Co.)—A good edition of one of Scribe's best plays. The audacious liberties which the author takes with the history of...

Smith. (Ginn and Co., Boston, U.S.A.)—A good school edition of Macaulay's celebrated essay. The notes have been carefully compiled, and the biographical sketch displays much...

as the title indicates, is a story of the seamy side of medical life, and of other kinds of life also. There is a villainous solicitor, a rich and foolish aunt (almost...

Con- -way. (J. M. Dent and Co.)—Sir Martin Conway supplements in this volume the story which he told in his "First Crossing of 'Spitsbergen." (Let every one take warning that to...

to read the satirists and parodists before they put pen to paper. Would Mr. Sinjohn have written,— " A vhort sobbing breath of wind sighed through the olives, Their bps met,"...

an accepted joke, but to answer in person an advertisement for a governess, offering ..t30 salary, under the idea that they would get the money, sounds a little out of the...

(F. V. White.) —Major Gruffoldi, the hero of another of Mrs. Kennard's hunt- ing stories, is a really good character. Our author describes in him a type of the hard-headed...

Spenser's Faerie Queene. Books II. and III. Edited by Kate M. Warren. (Archibald Constable and Co.)—If ever there were a poem which would bear being issued in separate books it...

Black.)— An edition of King Lear for the use of schools. In order to avoid bewildering the young student, the editor has wisely confined his notes to what is absolutely...

and Co.)—The editors of this volume—one of a series of French authors—could not have made a better selection than Meuriet's graceful idyll, which forms an agreeable contrast to...

Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by William Tappan. (Ginn and Co., Boston, U.S.A.)—Mr. Tappan has, as he says in his preface, endeavoured "to avoid the fault of over...

Eugene Pelissier. (Macmillan and Co.)—Sacs et Parehemins. Edited by B. Minssen. (Rivingtons.)—The first of these works is an abridged edition of Sandeau's witty and amusing...

—A story this of racing, in which an Australian horse wins a -match for £10,000 against a Derby winner. The parties con- -earned seem to have been fairly honest, except that the...

Lond. and Camb. (W. B. Clive.)—Mr. Wyatt in this edition has chiefly followed the earlier commentators. Many of his readings are ingenious, though in some instances we are...

M.A. (Belle Brothers.)—A useful and unpretentious little work. We have no doubt it will attain its object,—" To provide a text-book of the elements of English Grammar which...

Biographical Notice, Notes, and Vocabulary by G. Euggtne Fasnacht. (Macmillan and Co.)—Our thanks are due to M. Fasnacht for this new edition of Xavier de Maistre's charming jeu...

most excellent and practical little volume, evidently the work of a trained teacher. It combinn admirably, and in an entertaining form, the advantages of th conversational with...

and C. Black.)—The idea of grouping a collection of passages from French historical writers round one central figure has much to recommend it, combining, as it does, many of the...

(Macmillan and Co.) —Mrs. Frazer tells us that she has written this little book "with the twofold object of teaching English children my native tongue, and of amusing them." We...

L. Hirsch, Ph.D. (Macmillan and Co.)—An abridged edition of Elstees stirring novel of the Franco - German War. It is one of a series of school editions of well-known German...

Sketches by .J. Duhamel, (Rivingtons.)—A collection of stories by eminent French writers. The tales, some of which are charming, are arranged with great judgment and taste, each...

M.A. (Macmillan and Co.)—Grillparzer is a poet little known in this country, and this new edition of his great tragedy will be acceptable to all students of German litera- ture....

Garnould, B.-le-Sc., and W. G. Isbister, RA. Lond. (Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons.)—The authors of this work certainly deserve all the praise due to courage. Their attempt to...