predecessors with foreign Powers and individuals, Mulai Hafid, in the opinion of the German Government, ought not to repudiate them ; but the Government points out that...

delivered on Tuesday night. We record with much satisfaction its courteous and reasonable character. There is a good deal of circumlocution, but the reservations are not...

A NEW incident is adding to the uneasiness caused by the recent treatment of M. Guesboff, the Bulgarian diplomatic agent at Constantinople. Last Saturday's papers announced that...

the evidence of statistics and experts seems to show that the type of disease is much less severe than in the outbreaks of 1871 and 1892, and it is hoped that in another week...

in Persia. On Saturday last the Shah gave his answer to the identical Note of Great Britain and Russia. Its contents have not been disclosed, but the Persian correspondent of...

case.

Wales at a bazaar in aid of the funds of a Calvinistic Methodist chapel at Carnarvon on Wednesday. Combating the notion that the Celtic nationalities were fickle, while...

outspoken. In a statement issued on Monday night he supplies an illuminating commentary on Mr. Hearst's revelations, recalling Senator Foraker's attacks on all reforms proposed...

written an article on the finances of the German Empire, which was summarised in the North German Gazette on Tuesday. He announces that during the next five years a deficit of...

disclosures of Mr. Hearst. In three successive speeches at Columbus (Ohio), St. Louis, and Memphis (Ten- nessee) he has produced letters incriminating two Republican...

the city of Carlisle, and acknowledged the honour in a speech worthy of his office and his own high record. After dwelling, in an interesting retrospect, on the continuity of...

a local Australian Navy has been published in Australia. It states, according to a Reuter summary, that the Admiralty have had some difficulty in understanding Mr. Deakin's...

to the United Kingdom from Mr. Carnegie. Under the provisions of the new Carnegie Hero Fund Trust it is proposed to do for the British Islands what he has already done for...

speaking at a dinner held at Oxford on Saturday last in con- nexion with the meeting of the Motor Union, stated that that body had no responsibility for the " Four-inch" race in...

issued by the Local Government Board to County Councils and Town Councils of boroughs with a population exceeding ten thousand. While admitting that there is good ground for...

sent in answer to the many appeals on behalf of Daisy Lord, who, it will be remembered, was sentenced to death for the murder of her infant child. The capital sentence was...

vacancy created by the death of Mr. Cairns (Liberal), and the result was declared on Friday morning as follows :— Mr. G. Renwick (Unionist) Mr. E. Shortt (Liberal) ... Mr. E....

on August 24th, committed suicide yesterday week at a railway-crossing near Barham Court, where he had arrived on the previous evening to stay with his friend Colonel Wards,...

previous performances in flying. Travelling with perfect regularity round the triangular course, which is two thousand metres long, he stayed in the air for one hour and...

May 28th. Consols (2f) were on Friday 811--on Friday week 851.

THE AMBITIONS OF BULGARIA. A PPARENTLY trifling dissensions between nations ra are often only the superficial signs of the under- play of great forces. This is particularly...

The facts which it is necessary to chronicle are few. On the afternoon of Monday, August 24th, Major-General Charles Edward Luard found his wife lying dead in a wood near his...

T "great cotton industry in the North has reached a curious situation. A strike affecting a hundred thousand operatives, and causing the loss of weekly wages amounting to...

TT is accident rather than any preconcerted design, we believe, that has made Berlin during the present year the focus of so many international reunions, but the hearty welcome...

I NTEREST in religions, and especially in the history of religions, has made great growth in recent years. The third of the Congresses specially concerned with it has shown an...

W charming those men and women are whom their HO friends describe as childlike. There have always been such, and they have always been liked, but to-day there is a positive...

A NY one who has ever been in Canton will feel as I do, that not to add one's little say to what has been already said—and honestly, I do not think that is very much—would...

M OTORISTS on their way to Newhaven, Eastbourne, or Hastings, as soon as they are across the border into Sussex, have to climb over a high tract of wild heathland, from which...

THE SITUATION AT CONSTANTINOPLE. [To THE EMT= OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 Sin,—Perhaps you will allow me to supplement my previous letter with some further illustrations of the...

[To THE EDITOR or SPRCTATOR.1 Sin, — I have read with interest the article in the Spectator of June 13th entitled " Our South African Experiment." The writer of that article...

[TO THE EDITOR OP TRH "spiterwrou.^ SIR,—Certain Indian soldiers in the Transvaal have again appealed to be shot " on the battlefields where they served." The leaders of the...

[TO TOR EDITOR Or Till SPECTATOIL" J SIR,—Mr. Davenport (Spectator, September 19th) criticises in a kindly way my conclusion that the new Act is a distinct advance in the...

[TO THE EDITOR Or TILE "SPECTATOR."] Sin.,—The death of General Luard in singularly distressing circumstances gives rise to many disquieting thoughts, not only as to the...

[To TER EDITOR OF THE " SP SOT AT Olt."1 SIR,—With reference to the article on " The Bustard in Germany" in the Spectator of August 8th, it may be of interest to your readers...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOE.1 SIR,—As I was walking across St. James's Park between one and two o'clock in the afternoon of September 17th I saw a. large bat—it seemed...

[To Tile EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR:I SIR,—With reference to the statement of your correspondent from India (Spectator, July 11th) as to egrets discarding their feathers during...

ere efts EDITOR OF TIM • SPIL0CETOR.1 SIR,—I notice in your last issue that a correspondent has difficulty with my statement that the one-inch and six-inch Ordnance Survey...

any of the statements in the letter of Messrs. Cornish Brothers in last week's Spectator, but they seem to me completely to miss the true point. Here is an illustration which...

[To TIM EDITOR OF Till " BrIOTAT01.1 SrR,---May I call your attention to an artiole published in the Temps, issue of August 31st, of which the following lines are an abridged...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] 3ia,—At a farmhouse at which we have been staying a terrier, • Rough,' shares always his master's first breakfast,—the...

THE FORGOTTEN RABBI. (" Nis memory for a blessing I") Ream BEN SECALON'S wisdom none but his scholars know. • (High let his spirit journey, e ' en as his flesh lies low !)...

• MR. BARRIE'S NEW PLAY. Mn. BARBIE describes his new play at the Duke of York's Theatre as a "comedy," and that vague appellation is certainly the best that can be given...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of...

OP THIS "'SPECTATOR:'] SIR,—I write to acknowledge the generous help given by your readers to "Lord Roberts's Boys" at Bisley in August this year, and I should like to give...

TENNYSON'S LAST POEMS.* ENOUGH attention has hardly been paid to Tennyson's last poems as compared with that given to his earlier work, largely because they are his last. It is...

PROFESSOR ROYCE is the most distinguished exponent in America of the system of philosophy which we call idealism. In the present volume he has collected the lectures which he...

the thought of writing the history of her fifty years on the stage, delayed long on the threshold, till at last a friend informed her that the secret of all such work was just "...

Miss HAYDEN'S delightful talent as an observer of village life —already well known to readers of the Spectator—gains an added charm from the depth and wide range of her...

IT is always difficult to make a choice out of the very full volumes of The Victoria County History. But here is a curious sequence of causes and effects. In a table which gives...

THESE two volumes belong to the "Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis," and have all the merits of the series, excellent scholarship, set off by good paper and print...

LEAVEN.* IT was, we believe, the privilege of the Spectator to be the first English paper to review Prinsloo of Prinsloosdoip, the earliest of Mr. Blackburn's novels. In it, as...

THE author of this thoughtful and practical little book, who is, we believe, one of the occupants of land on the estate of the Small Holdings Association at Newdigate, writes on...

and Co. 6s.)—" Cousin Cinderella " appears, we observe, as "Cinderella of Canada" in the headlines. Cinderella, who is a Miss Trent, daughter of as big a millionaire as Canada...

Sons. 6s.)—The story is well written, and some scenes are very striking ; but we cannot feel much interest in these politics of the Near Eastern Powers masquerading under the...

own that we are among those who think "that this book demands an apology," and we would say further that such an apology cannot in the nature of things be forthcoming. Still, to...

[tinder this heading ire notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Phillips Brooks, 1835 - 1893. By Alexander V. G. Allen. (Hodder and...

6s.)— The fishing population of our coasts must be the largest tribe of those who " occupy their business in great waters." Here it finds a vates sacer. The power of...

Stoughton. 55. net.)—Dr. Smyth does not speak of the "passing of . Protestantism" in the sense Nhich would approve itself to some Anglican divines. Re is very far from...

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Information Office. 2s.)-The Colonies included in this publication are Canada, Australia (New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, West Australia, and Queens- land),...

(Herbert Clarke, Rue St. Honore, Paris. 7 f. 50 c.)-This book is something more than a catalogue raisonni of the famous pictures in the Louvre (a collection which greatly wants...

and Co., ls. 4d. each) we have two of Scott's best tales adapted for school purposes, with biographical introduction, notes, and glossaries. These are Quentin Durward, Edited by...

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Practical Gardening" (John Lane) is The Book of the Pansy, Viola, and Violet, by Howard H. Crane (2s. 6d. net). The book, which is amply illustrated, is of an eminently...

Work of C. J. Peck among the Eskimos, by Arthur Lewis (Hodder and Stoughton, 3s. 6d. net). Mr. Peck began life in the Navy, where he received impressions of a serious kind. (A...

by the late M. J. B. Baddeley, B.A., Thoroughly Revised and Edited by the Rev. A. E. Robertson, B.D. (T. Nelson and Sons, 6s. net). Part I. contains Edinburgh, Glasgow, and the...

English classics adapted for the reading of children. This is appearing under the editorship of Mr. Thomas Cartwright. The volumes before us are Reynard the Fox, Brave Beowulf,...

2s. 6d. net.)-This learned little book deals with two of the . festal practices observed in the Temple at Jerusalem, the Bikleurim, or presentation of the firstfruits, and the...

Cook. (A. Constable and Co. la. net.)-This volume will, of course, be useful to many readers. One point of general interest is the number of games which have come under an...

(The Army Press. 7s. 6d.)-There is no doubt but that this "Annual, Year-Book, and Almanack " supplies a want. We may summarise the contents of the volume. First is a conspectus...

Co. 15s. and 21s. net.)-This volume contains XIX.-XXI. of the original issue. Among the names are the Fitzalans and Fitzgeralds (forty in number), Fitzgibbon, Earl of Clare,...

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