admit the claim of Macedonia, and express a willingness that France should act provided Great Britain will act with her. This, however, they say, is impossible until the British...

resigned the office of Financial Secretary, has written an admirable letter to Mr. James Todd, which was published in Wednesday's papers. He could not, he says, remain any...

created by so sound a Free-trader as the Duke of Devonshire remaining in a Government whose chief has declared himself in favour of .Protection,—a Protection which only lags...

T HE suspense, and, let us add, the uneasiness, created by the resignations announced eight days ago still continue. It is generally understood that Mr. Austen Chamberlain is to...

news from Macedonia. The Sultan, according to the Sofia correspondent of the Times, has issued an Trade accepting most of the proposals put forward by the Bulgarian Government,...

case.

in a march past Lord Roberts at Newbury. Taken as a whole, they must be pronounced to have been a great success, and no one who marched with the troops or saw them at first hand...

Democratic vote in Germany appears in Tuesday's Daily Mail. In the opinion of the writer, Mr. Andrew Caird, it is not anti- militarism, but resentment against the taxation of...

affirms in the strongest way that the Government is preparing an expedition for the conquest of the Hinterland of Morocco. The Government point- blank denies this ; but it seems...

into a struggle between Hungary and Austria. On the 16th inst. the Emperor published at Chlopy, a little town in Galicia, an important Imperial Order. In it he highly praised...

letter on South African politics which is unsigned, but is evidently written by an experienced observer. He says that the coming Election at the Cape is of first-rate...

Hedervary, who has undertaken to form an ad interim, Ministry, the Emperor Francis Joseph consented to issue a Message to the Hungarians, in the form of a letter to the Premier,...

declares that the persecution of the Jews, of which there has been a fresh instance at Gomel, is due entirely to Jewish malignity and hatred of all Christians. It admits that...

was not only well selected, but it had been strongly entrenched. This position Sir John French tried to envelop. But in doing so he was obliged greatly to attenuate his line....

in the return of Mr. Tuff, the Unionist candidate, by 521 votes, a majority greater by 42 votes than that secured by Lord Cranborne. Mr. Tuff] was personally very popular....

appears that four gentlemen — Mr. S. Ridsdale, Mr. A. E. W. Garratt, Mr. H. L. Jupp, and Mr. R. W. Broadrick—attempted on Monday to ascend the Scafell Pillar, one of the most...

the American Army, from which it appears that West Point, the Sandhurst and Woolwich of that Army, is in admirable order. The officers are practically picked by competitive...

ground for regret in regard to the carrying out of the Manceuvres. We cannot but feel a very real disappointment that no effort was made to supply one of the rival Generals with...

Evelyn Wood or Sir John French carried the day. It is enough to know that both commanders availed themselves of the opportunities given them by the admirably thought out scheme...

Consols (2-• per cent.) were on Friday 88i.

is replaced by a body of new men the better it will be vigorous, if mistaken, fanaticism. A more pitiable exhi- for the nation. The new Government will have, we admit, bition of...

AS we write on Thursday evening no definite informa- tion has been published as to the filling up of the vacant places in the Cabinet, but it is clear that Mr. Balfour is...

T HE hopes of the genuine Protectionists of the country are fixed upon Mr. Chamberlain. They extend to Mr. Balfour a benevolent approval, for they see that hewould go farther if...

just now in European politics which most of those who attend to them are aware of, but to which the public does not pay quite the attention it deserves. Neither Austria nor...

A PROPOSAL has been made this week which we heartily welcome. It is to found a Society in the United Kingdom with an object similar to those of Societies already existing in...

" O FTEN as I have been in Robert Browning's company, I have never met the poet. Tennyson hides himself behind his laurels, Browning behind the man of the world." These words...

T HE report that some malicious person had liberated rattlesnakes in Ireland turned out to be untrue. But in the comments which followed attention was drawn to the great...

HE place of a private secretary," said Miss Adela Ferrara, "is by his chief's wife. We all know that." In seriousness, it is difficult to say what is, still more, what is not, a...

MACEDONIA. [To THE EDITOR 01 THE "SPECIATOF.."] SIR,—I am afraid your article on the Macedonian question in the Spectator of September 19th overlooks the complete change that...

[TO TRH EDITOR OP TRH "SPECTATOR:1 should not take the trouble to translate these lines (Spectator, September 19th), or ask you to be good enough to find room for the...

[TO THE Eorros OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sts,—As I have had three months' Militia training this year, I feel that lain in a position to endorse a great deal of "Victim's" letter...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR.1 Stn,—May I add the testimony of a moderately conscientious subaltern to that of " Lieutenant-Colonel " in the Spectator of September 12th?...

[To THE EDITOR OF TER " SPECTATOR:1 SIR, —It is obviously a commonplace, but none the less a principle constantly to be kept in view, that there are many things eminently...

[To THE EDITOR OP ,THR " SPECTATOR."] SIE,—May I suggest that "Ex-Officer's Daughter" (Spectator, September 19th) is hardly fair in assuming that by throwing "open the Army to...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—It seems to me that in the discussion, Protection v. Free-trade, too little notice has been taken of the fact that England did not...

TEE 4. SPEDTATOR.1 SIR,—When we wish to ascertain the effects of different modes of treatment on similar bodies, it is an essential condition that the experiments, in order to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—All educated Australians view with profound astonish- ment the apparent conversion to the Protective fallacy of Mr. Chamberlain and the...

THE COUNTRY. [To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.') Sin,—.A great deal of discussion is current in the Press on the subject of the increasing importation of foreign manu- factures...

[To Tan EDITOR OP THR "SPECTATOR' Sin,—Having read your article on England and Australia (Spectator, September 5th), I, as an Englishman long resident in Australia, venture to...

[To Tile EDITOR OF TUB "SrEcrATorl.1 Sin,-With reference to the letter in the Spectator of August 15th in which your correspondent " Leonis " pro- tests against the possible...

[To THY EDITOR OF TUB " SPRCI'ATOR.1 want to make an appeal to the Spectator and its correspondents for more discussion and light on a point that seems to me generally ignored....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR...] Slit,—Sir Norman Lockyer in his recent address to the British Association proposed, by increased endowment of the Univer- sities, to...

[TO THE EDITOR OP TUE "SPECTATOR'] Sin,--Your recent appreciation of Mr. Hay has been well received on this side of the Atlantic, being reprinted in full or in part by many...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 Sin,—Your correspondent in the Spectator of September 5th errs in his correction of your previous correspondent on this subject. The...

Sis,—Your correspondent (Spectator, September 5th), is, I fear, unfamiliar with Ireland when he ventures to say that the expression used is not "How well !" but "All, well!" I...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE - spscrvron.-j Snt,—In your interesting review in the Spectator of Sep- tember 19th of "My Colonial Service, &c.," by Sir William Des Vceux, and your...

[To THE EDITOB OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—There is in "Wilhelm Meister" a passage so like the one quoted in the Spectator of August '29th in the article entitled "They," that it...

THE UNSUNG. WHO sings of the soldier? Of the chieftain whose shoulders bear the weight Of an army's weal, of an Empire's fate, Of the half-starved marcher in heat and wet, Of...

ENGLISH HOUSES.* Ma. MOW is neither a good writer nor a sound historian. He is incorrigibly interested in the trivialities of life. He not in- appropriately chooses as his...

mild regret that it should have been left to an American scholar to accomplish a piece of valuable research into the history of British Constitutionalism. At the same time, as...

THEss are the Memoirs of a perfectly undistinguished man who served in the 12th Regiment of Foot (the present Suf- folk Regiment) from 1796 to 1812, a period when the entire...

JOSEPH &Burr's most abiding title to immortality is perhaps to be found in the general preface to the Waverley notes, where Sir Walter Scott freely admits that if he had not...

THE ROSE OF JOY.* Miss MIRY FINDLAMER, whether in partnership with her sister or on her own account, always commands the attention, and often the admiration, of the reviewer....

felt that they had by no means exhausted the attractions of Captain Kettle will be much obliged to Mr. Cutcliffe Hype for introducing them to McTodd. But those jaded persons who...

Shaven- neen," which lathe Irish equivalent of Johanna, would have been a more melodious title, both for Mrs. Croker's book and her heroine. Although the heroine in question is...

Co. 10s. 6d. net.),—The frontispiece, drawn by far. W. ,14 Wyllie, LEA., pictures a bugler sounding the call known as "The Last Post." The book itself is a catalogue of all the...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as havs not bun resn.roect for review in other forms.] Christian Social Union Addresses. By Bishop Westcott. (Mac- millan...

—This is an excellent story of the old-fashioned "Desert Island" school. The only trace of contamination from modern methods is the discovery of a gold-mine which turns hero and...

6s.)—This is a Viking story, belonging to the "romance" 'order of fiction—does not Balder himself become an inmate of the hero's dwelling ?—and so, to a certain extent,...

OLD-AGE PENSIONS. Old-Age Pensions: Pro and Con. By Frederick Rogers and Frederick Millar. (Isbister and Co. 28. 6d net.)—This is the first volume of a projected "Pro and Con....

6s.)—Although this book opens well, Mr. Carlton Dane seems not quite familiar with the political world of which he is writing, and the result is that his story is a little...

Cousin, by E. (E. Somerville and Martin Ross (Longmans and Co., 6s.), originally published in two volumes by Messrs. Bentley in 1889. It was the good fortune of the present...

as Erb (with a soft breathing)—is a carman. He takes up a grievance of his fellows with distinguished success, but is sacrificed himself. "You're a restless organizer," says the...

Coutts. (J. Avery, Aberdeen.)—James Hampton Brown seems to have been a man of remarkable energy. Besides doing a multiplicity of business as banker, insurance agent, factor,...

by F. Charles Laroche, LL.D. (Chatto and Windus. 6s.)—A small part of this book may be described as worth publishing, two chapters in fact,—viz., "A Lover of Charlotte Corday,"...

(Ginsberg and Co., 2s. 6d.), contains, in addition to the customary items of information, special articles, among which may be noted Mr. Greenberg's analysis and criticism of...

A. H. Sayce, D.D. (R.T.S.)—The Empire of Business. By Andrew Carnegie. (Doubleday, Page, and Co. 3 dole. net.)— We do not know whether there are any additions to thie new issue;...

le. 6d. net.)—This is one of the most interesting volumes of the series which bears the title of the "Fascination of London." The subject is too big for the space, possibly for...

le. net.)—This "Romance in Five Acts," a prose drama written in such prose as "Vernon Lee" has the secret of, is one of the delicate pieces of literary work which a critic is...