during the past week is the allegation that our Government is raising its terms, and that they would not now be content with Sir Alfred Milner's minimum and general conditions....

with the Dreyfus case, but the drift of the trial has been in his favour. To the surprise of the doctors, his counsel, Me. Labori, has recovered from his wound, and though the...

is improved by the new proposals or not, but we are not inclined to take a very hopeful view. The Boers know perfectly well that we shall not, and indeed cannot, yield on the...

lasted seven hours, and was, in fact, a minute history of the case, profoundly impressed the seven officers who formed the Court. They were supposed to be most hostile to...

A GAIN there is no definite news to be recorded from the Tramsvaal. It seems, however, probable that President Kruger has offered terms as regards the franchise, equivalent to...

was concerned with the alleged confession by Dreyfus. The testimony with. regard to that confession having taken place shrank to nothing, and Captain Dreyfus in a short speech...

Case.

and they have now a dispute on hand as to the owner- ship of the North Pole. Herr Theodor Lerner, a German, has established a commercial settlement on Bear Island, near...

the status of the South African Republic which has passed between our Government and the Transvaal. We have dealt elsewhere with the very striking statement of Sir Robert...

has discovered at Sierra Leone the mosquito whose bite conveys malaria to the human subject. He has forwarded parti- culars of his discovery to the Liverpool School of Tropical...

M. Guerin and his followers, now reduced to ten, still defy arrest, and the Ministry of the Interior for some inexplicable reason still refuse to employ force. The street is...

ex- pedition, composed of five officers, twenty Spahis, and about a thousand followers, six hundred of them armed, was recently dispatched to explore the territory, chiefly...

Paris. The Anarchists do not like to see active " demonstra- tions " by anybody but themselves, and on Sunday they broke out to put an end, they said, "to the monopoly of the...

defeat. He is extremely desirous of constructing a canal between the Elbe and the Rhine, which will, he thinks, greatly develop trade, and as the Conservative majority in...

returns to the charge in regard to the purchase of Sir Michael Hicks- Beach's estate on Salisbury Plain. His innuendo is that the Chancellor of the Exchequer was greatly...

spondence, but we may note the very long argumentative despatches of Mr. Leyds, and the letter of Mr. Reitz, the State Secretary. In effect the Transvaal officials contend that...

at the meeting of the Royal Niger Company on Wednesday. He contended that the Company had not only conceived and prepared a British province within the boun- daries of its own...

his diocese announcing the decision of the Archbishops, published on Wednesday, is in many ways a model document. After noting that the points under consideration had to do...

described in an interesting article in Tuesday's Times. The estate purchased by " General " Booth in 1890 consists of three thousand acres on the north shore of the Thames...

Friday 104.

OUR SUZERAINTY OVER THE TRANSVAAL. A S we write there is no definite news as to the answer of the Transvaal Government to Mr. Chamberlain's proposals for a joint inquiry, but...

I N our article last week a propos of Mr. Chaplin's proposals for a return to the Corn-laws in miniature, we dwelt upon the dangers to the Unionist party involved in such a...

Niger may prove very serious. It is not only that an entire French expedition, carefully organised, with five officers and twenty Spahis to drill its thousand irregulars, has...

W E see little reason for the extreme apprehension which any bad riot in Paris always causes among intelligent Frenchmen, apprehension so great that the audience at Rennes could...

A VERY keen eye for the commercial interests of the Empire has always been one of William IL's most marked characteristics. It is a part of that curious com- bination of modern...

T HE people of this country do not enjoy a summer such as we are now passing through, a really hot, dry sum- mer in which the thermometer has either stood or seemed to stand—for...

O NE summer day, shortly after Waterloo, two great Germans found themselves within the mighty fabric of Cologne Cathedral. The great minster was the meeting place of Stein and...

W E are clearly of opinion that the nation should buy Stonehenge—though not at the price said to be put on it by Sir Edmund Antrobus. That price (L125,000 for the thirteen...

IMPERIAL RULE IN INDIA.—I. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,--Not many, I presume, of your readers have as yet read Mr. Morison's treatise on Imperial Rule in India.*...

"A HIDEOUS BLUNDER." [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—As a Liberal, who feels strongly how important it is for all party spirit to be laid aside at this crisis, I must...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I think the following is an instance of a very high order of intelligence in an animal ; of a power of reasoning as distinct from any...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTLTOR "] Siu,—Philadelphia is said to be a sleepy town—perhaps it is —at any rate, it is an excellent place in which to dream. I had a dream there...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") STS, -It is refreshing, to those of us who believe that Eng- land has an Imperial mission in the world, to read in the Spectator of August...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,--I often read with interest the thoughtful articles on various subjects which appear in the Spectator. There is in your latest issue a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Siu,—Permit me to protest against the attack made on the saintly Bishop of Geneva in the Spectator of 12th August, 1899, p. 229, when your...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —Your correspondent "H. G." confidently quotes the above saying from the books of the Hebrew " Wise Men," as a rebuke to the "...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Thirty or forty years ago, Henry S. Bicknell and I went to that beautiful spot, Chipstead, Surrey. In the churchyard there he noticed...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —More than one vanishing form of bird life has fallen a victim to the collecting mania of the amateur naturalist during the last six...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—That the fear of death is absent in the last hours— which few who have been brought much into contact with the " king of terrors " will...

SIB,—In the course of this most interesting discussion, I have been surprised that neither the writer of the article nor any of your correspondents have adduced the well-known...

THE "SPECTATOR.'] Sin, .—It may interest your readers to hear of one impression produced upon our country people by the recent military manoeuvres in this neighbourhood ; our...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The travelling public are indebted to you for your article on the unpunctuality of trains on the London and South-Western Railway....

[To. THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —The severe strictures passed by a Frenchman on Manchester weather, quoted in your article on " The Charms of an Irish Holiday,"...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Being interested in the subject brought forward in the Spectator concerning the lack of labourers in rural parishes, I made inquiries...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—As I was in France when your short review on my book appeared, I trust you will allow me to make a correction. Your reviewer states " it...

SIR,—In an interesting article on "The Military Situation and the Transvaal," in the Spectator of August 19th, it is stated that there are some thirty thousand Outlanders in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—May I be permitted to defend myself ? In your foot, note to my letter in the Spectator of August 19th you refer me to the Ordination...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—While recognising to the full the force of all that is said in honour of Wordsworth in the Spectator of August 5th, and. noting the...

THE BELLS. ON one of these still Autumn days, I know not where, I know not when, Far o'er the hills beyond the haze I lighted on a lonely glen. Brushing the bracken with my...

A Bong of Springtime in Summer. GENTLEST Season I earth is rife With the signs and sounds of life, Life whose crescent age will soon Pass from Mayhood on to June, Month of mild...

THE PHILOSOPHY OF INDIA.* THE vast and little-known regions of Indian thought with their rarified atmosphere and their inaccessible peaks soaring upwards into the blue have been...

Mn. DECLE'S book on the French Army is rather a record of personal experience than a general indictment. He does not subscribe to the fierce condemnation of M. Urbain Gohier,...

A NEW satirist has arisen, and, appropriately enough, from Africa, the home of surprises. The anonymous author of Prinsloo of Prinsloosdarp, a true disciple of Swift, has not...

inadequately under- stood by the average reader as that of the medimval Italian. With the Borgia type the modern imagination is familiar ; and we have definitely conceived the...

in Perthshire, a large, fine, and, according to several witnesses, cheerful-looking place, situated amid fine scenery. Lord Bute, describing it, says in a letter to a Catholic...

readers for Concerning Teddy, has further ministered to their pleasure in the companion or complementary volume, entitled Chronicles of Teddy's Village. The point of view of the...

Albemarle Street.)—This is a volume published by the New Oriental Translation Fund, the successor of a useful in- stitution which commenced its operations as far back as the...

is the second edition of a book published about eight years ago. The author has revised and enlarged it, and given it additional value. It now leaves nothing to be desired in...

Mr. Gladstone's Religious 'Development, by Mr. George Russell (Rivingtons, Is.), is not only a most able and interesting piece of work, but it contains a lesson which we trust...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] The Kew Gardens "Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information," 1898. (Eyre...

Bowden. ls.)—This is a very taking title, and as it is, we pre- sume, reprinted from Truth, in which the author writes under the name of " Madge," it is bound to be exact....

(C. Lloyd, is.)—It contains, besides the usual items of information, the London Government Bill, passed last Session, the full text being given, with references to other Acts,...

(A. and C. Black. 2s.)—This is the second of three " Historical Latin Readers." The idea is a good one. Passages are taken from various Latin authors relating incidents of...