seems certain that Kuropatkin intends to defend Mukden, and that Marshal Oyama has decided with his fresh reinforcements to endeavour once more to envelop the Russian army ; but...

Treaty with Tibet, which had been forwarded to Pekin, and was there shown to its correspondent. There are ten clauses of which the first provides for a delimitation of the...

Friday's papers, it was decided at an extra- ordinary meeting of a Commission appointed by the Russian Government that coal, cotton, and iron materials should be declared to be...

on the same lines, and have clearly laid down the principles involved. It cannot, they say, be admitted that the absence of proof, in its nature impossible to make, can justify...

again to fall "within ten days " ; but the only thing certain is that the protracted contest is exasperating both parties to madness. No quarter is given, and apparently no...

cendent, for on September 15th a decree issued by order of the Chinese Emperor deposes the Dalai Lama, and orders that his spiritual dignities shall be transferred to the Teshu...

on Tuesday. He quizzed the two parties into which the Government are divided,—the party of Mr. Chamberlain, which is nakedly Protectionist, and the party of Mr. Balfour, which...

State and King Leopold's Commission appears in the Times of Tuesday. M. Carl Herrmann, the secretary of the "Federation for the Protection of Belgian Interests in Foreign...

to be named Humbert, and is to be styled Prince of Piedmont, to the indignation of many extremists, who hoped that he would have been styled Prince of Rome as a defiance to the...

remarkable consequence of the war in the Far East. The horrors and sufferings attendant on that war have struck the imagination of the French, and deepened the growing....

at Friedrichsruh has excited an amount of attention natural when one considers his birth and the hopes which his great father had formed of his career. He was not, however, an...

day, the ceremony passing off without any "untoward inci- dent." It was expected that he would be shot at while proceeding from the Palace to the Cathedral, but he was not. The...

an astonishing example of German militarism. A cadet at Strassburg, seeing the servant of a well-known lawyer riding a bicycle in the street, mistook the man's livery for...

Government. He did not find that any of the foreign agreements into which they had entered, and of which their followers were proud, had been followed by any reduction of...

to issue one million El shares at a premium of is. in order to enable them to carry on the government of Rhodesia. This issue will raise their capital to a total of E6,000,000....

ingenuity in championing the cause of Free-trade, gives in its Thursday's issue a most amazing example of how if Protection is adopted, every trade, whether flourishing or...

master-General in regard to the "cash-on-delivery" system has led. to an interesting correspondence in the columns of the Times. A few letters have appeared in opposition to the...

Unionists in the Thanet division are making a strong protest against the candidature of Mr. Marks, whom they do not consider, whether chosen or not by the party organisation, to...

to his constituents at Bramley (Surrey) on Monday, represented the Government as one which needed no apologies to be made for it. Referring to the Fiscal question, he declared...

of his modified approval of some sort of semi-Free-trade ; but if he thinks such an attitude can satisfy those who mean business, and not talk, when they take their stand...

W ILL Mr. Balfour have the courage to do his duty to the cause of the Union next Session, and introduce and pass a Bill for the reduction of the preposterous and undemocratic...

address 'which Colonel Younghusband delivered to the Lamas in the Audience Hall of the Palace-Monastery at Lhasa foreshadowed, probably was intended to fore- shadow, the terms...

sons whom in other countries we describe as beggars, who do not intend to work, and who by herding together in the lowest quarters increase alike their own suffering and, their...

to deal the Russians a blow of terrible severity at Mukden, one fact will remain, and a fact of immense importance. It is that in' General Kuropatkin. the Russians possess a...

decide the result of the campaign, he can at his pleasure make defeat more interesting than victory. Unfortunately, the recent advance in the speed with which messages are...

future conduct." The respective nations have been differently brought up. "The whole of the two divergent systems," he continues, "is summed up, not merely speciously, in the...

numbers of Englishmen regard the prevailing fashion in men's clothes has at last found an outlet. Attracted, it would seem, by the appearance and demeanour of a prominent actor...

being of Russian descent. But he is now eight years old, and for the greater part of his life has been under German tuition. If a quarter of the feats which he apparently...

good authorities that the supply of milk is being inter- fered with by the tradition of a non-commercial price. The low rent of cottages has largely been caused, and now, I...

Rosebery made a speech in which be advocated putting Lord Kitchener at the head of the War Office, or at all events in a capacity, other than that of tho now mercifully defunct...

by an announcement in a recent issue of the Berliner Tageblatt. According to that newspaper, Professor Lutz-Korodi has been appointed Senior Master in an important Prussian...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR"] the Spectator of September 10th, when considering the question of Japanese emigration, you drew attention to the future relations between...

unusual thing for an English journal to admit any discussion pertaining to Welsh matters into its columns, I shall hardly venture to express my opinions on the attitude of...

SIR,—I beg to send you the following copy of John Stuart Blackie's Confession of Faith. Many of your readers will remember the late Professor of Greek, Gaelic, and Good Humour...

interested in your review in the Spectator of the 10th inst. of Earle's "Micro-cosmographie," and in the sketch you have given of Bishop Earle's life. I should like to be...

point you raise in your issue of the 17th inst. as to Welsh sheep-dogs. They are undoubtedly worked in Welsh. On some farms a mixture of Welsh and English is the language they...

your issue of September 10th your correspondent " K." suggests a Celtic origin for the word "soak," meaning "dry." Some of your readers may be interested to know that in Sussex...

last issue : "We wonder whether Welsh sheep-dogs are worked in Welsh." I think I can testify that they are not. I have on two occasions been present at sheep-dog trials at...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "8PECTATOR:1 have read your remarks in last week's Spectator wondering whether Welsh sheep-dogs are worked in Welsh. I have lately spent a month near...

AMID the crowd of war-books and "impressions" of this or that belligerent, we hope that this serious and informing study of Japan's aims and achievements by her own states- men...

pro THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—I extract the following from an estimate tendered by a Chinese carpenter out here to our padre, who needed a new pulpit for his church...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—Your article in last week's Spectator on "The Rat Plague" is of very general interest. If sanitary authorities and others would first...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE m SPROTATOEL"j Sin,—The concluding sentences of your article under the above title in your issue of the 17th inst. recall to me a rule which was, at least...

Where never burns the fierce white light of day, Where never laughter breaks their sadnesses; Only a sapphire dusk and sombre sky, And wandering mourning winds that blow across...

this first instalment of the letters written by the late Lord Acton to Miss Mary Gladstone should have been edited with so considerable a disregard for the feelings of persons...

WE do not understand what useful purpose has been served by making a facsimile of the whole of this manuscript; for the handwritings are those of scriveners of the day, and are...

iT is some time since we reviewed the first volume of Mrs. Devonshire's excellent translation of M. Taine's Life and Letters. This present volume—we hope and suppose that there...

and Stoughton. real IT is a curious, but not by any means inexplicable, fact that alongside with the immense development of steam marine traffic there should have been so...

this is quite a readable little story, it is not the best work of which "Sarah Tytler" is capable. The gruff old Judge, who is finally softened by the charming character of his...

Don Duarte's Treasure : a Story of Cape Colony. By H. A. Bryden. (Chapman and Hall. 6s.)—Mr. Bryden has taken old ingredients, but he has mixed them pleasantly. We have all the...

MR. CHOATE ON ALEXANDER HAMILTON. sidered him the greatest of all his contemporaries, Napoleon not excepted), but by the judgment of posterity. His fame has indeed grown with...

Horses, Guns, and Dogs. By J. Otho Paget, George A. B. Dewar, A. B. Portman, and A. limes Shand. (G. Allen. 6s.)—This is a new volume in the "Young England Library," and the...

Co. 6s.)—This is a good melodrama, with a mystery which is very properly mysterious until it is explained. Even after this explanation the reader has some fun for his money, as...

Os. net.)—Mr. Booker Washington, having told us the story of his own life (reviewed in the Spectator, July 13th, 1901), now describes his work at the Tuskegee Institute, over...

Maria Edgeworth. By the Hon. Emily Lawless. "English Men of Letters." (Macmillan and Co. 2s. net.)—Miss Lawless's Life of . Maria Edgeworth will certainly take its place among...

and intelligence, and expressed with a literary skill which makes it as attractive as it is valuable. Mr. Lang does not hesitate to describe himself as "a professed enthusiast...

position is significantly indicated by the title which he has given to his volume. The phrase means, in ordinary use, that portion of the Church whose main function is to learn,...

(Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.) The Fourth Shakespeare Folio. (Methuen and Co. ..t4 4s. net.)— This...

and Co. 6s. net.)—Mr. Bull went out to South Africa in January, 1900. Some three months after this data he was at the front ; reaching Bloemfontein early in April, he was...

Summary, and an Enlarged Index," Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, 2 vols. (Methuen and Co., 218. net). Dr. Ca,nnan gives a careful account of the editions published in Adam...

Cheltenham. 5s. net.)—Mr. Branch gives a general descrip- tion of the Cotswold country in his first chapter, and in his second goes on to speak of what is perhaps its most...

and Sons. 5s. net.)—Mr. Litchfield divides his subject in a convenient manner. The first two chapters are given to kinds of furniture which are likely to come in the way of an...

Unvrin. 12s. net.)—Mr. Mills gives this title, taken from one of Petrarch's works, to the studies of the poet's life and character. In the first part he treats of the relation...