China's neutrality, and being in fear that Japanese vessels might enter the harbour and resort to force, addressed communications to the thirteen Consuls in the port asking for...

off the South African coast between East London and Durban by a Russian cruiser which was supposed to be the Smolensk.' After examination of her papers, she was allowed to...

the active little Russian cruiser the Novik ' will never reach Vladivostok. She was caught by two Japanese cruisers off the island of Saghalien, and after a sharp engagement, in...

church of the Peterhof Palace. The ceremonial was stately and brilliant, being attended by representatives of most of the great States of Europe, as well as all the greater...

he forbids absolutely the supply of coal " to any belligerent fleet proceeding to the seat of war, or to any position on the line of route with the object of intercepting...

figure. A penniless Irishman, he started as assistant at a railway refreshment counter at Indianapolis, where be subsequently became a hotel proprietor and Mayor. Although both...

evidences are accumulating of a sincere and general desire to promote a modus vivendi. Thus it is stated that a large and influential body of United Free Churchmen, while...

rapid and romantic rise to power and influence of Messrs. Cortelyou and Taggart, the chairmen of the Republican and Democratic Committees respectively. Mr. Cortelyou began life...

the Treaty. The Dalai Lama, who is either in a monastery "eight marches off," or has fled to Mongolia, makes no sign ; and the officials left behind have con- ceded nothing...

the more active dealers were aware. There is grave deficiency in the crops in the American Union, Canada, Russia, and Great Britain. There would be a considerable rise in prices...

succeeded as Ambassador at Paris by the Hon. Sir Francis Bertie, now Ambassador at Rome. Sir Francis Bertie's career has been an educating one—he was, for example, Assistant...

and all who are jealous of the party in power, are greatly delighted by a split which they think is approaching among the Socialists. The fanatics of that party, as we have...

activity on the part of the Unionist Free-traders. In a circular issued by the Hon. Arthur Elliot, M.P., to every member of the Unionist Free-Trade Club it is stated that the...

many other important papers and discussions read and held during the meeting, but may note with satisfaction the unanimous election of Professor George Darwin as President for...

obstructions, which only aggravated the evil. In Germany, he confirmed, there had always been Protection— at least, from the eighteenth century—whereas her great prosperity was...

Association on Friday week were of unusual interest, papers on the Fiscal question being read by three distin- guished foreigners, while the discussion was opened by a fourth,...

the Anthropological Section on the possible deteriora- tion of our race arising mainly from the drift towards the cities. The Premier, in an address which we have criticised at...

teresting paper was read by Mr. J. A. Hutton on " Cotton- Growing in the Empire." The consumption of cotton had overtaken production, with the result that many mills had to run...

THE STATESMAN AS PROPHET. P ROPHETS, like other experts, grow to love the exercise of their function. The more they have prophesied in the past the more disposed they are to...

good deal of what is going on in the thoughts of the Continental masses. A large division of the French Socialists, as the public know, have accepted. the advice of their...

and Englishmen therefore read with the keenest interest what he has to say upon a question so important as the deterioration of the British race, and one, too, upon which there...

declaring that the English Poor Law system had prevented the occurrence of social revolutions in this country ; but it has certainly not prevented the persistence of a social...

we believe that newspaper agitations on such questions are apt to do a great deal more harm than good. When a case becomes the shuttlecock of journalists many wild charges are...

invariably adopts it," says Professor James in his " Varieties of Religious Experience." We are perhaps too often inclined to be satisfied with this simple explanation of the...

occupy the attention and the lifetime of a competent historian. The part played by sea-power in the upbuilding of the Roman sway has, of course, been recognised both by Mommsen...

? Physiologists tell us that although an entire segment of the brain—viz., the olfactory lobe—is apportioned to the olfactory fibres, what we now possess is probably " the mere...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—In the first letter on this subject (Spectator, April 25th, 1903) an instance was given of poetic imagination in the case of a poor...

where a definite sum of money, or certain definite funds, are bequeathed by a testator for behoof of certain persons, on conditions clearly specified. Very common, also, are...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —Mr. Thomas Hodgkin's letter in your last issue might surely have received gentle correction at the bands of "Ed. Spectator." One can...

you tersely put it, the United Free Church has been denuded of all its property because it presumed to think. Almost uni- versally—with the exception of the Scotsman, whose...

lord of the manor, near neighbours, or living on his property, knowing or hearing about his reduced income and the burden of his unlet farms. In these circumstances, it is...

bered that an owner cannot be expected to build cottages without the prospect of getting some slight return on his outlay; and it is very difficult to get a weekly rent which...

in the towns." So said a friend of mine who is a house agent at Guildford ; and told me how he had had a working man come to him with tears in his eyes, unable to find a cottage...

appropriate to the present condition of things brought about by the Free Church of Scotland. You may remember that it served Carlyle as a motto for his history of the French...

one of our Belfast news- papers writes : " The Imperial Tariff Reform Committee last night issued for circulation throughout the length and breadth of the country some...

Free Church, or was till I left Edinburgh some time ago. I have been able to take an intelligent adult interest in the affairs of that great and 'scholarly Church for the last...

the Scottish Church case is that of supposing that the union of the Free and United Presbyterian Churches had the full consent of the congregations. In an article in the...

in the Spectator of August 13th. I earnestly trust that, in the consideration of what Governments may here- after do, no one will lose the opportunity of himself aiding to the...

"indifferent and timid" (Spectator, August 20th, p. 248) because they did not consecrate Dr. Seabury as Bishop of Connecticut in 1783. The facts are these. Dr. Seabury was...

a cause that badly needs a hundred like her. She describes in her letter the miserable conditions of rural life that prevail in all villages which are not exceptionally...

work on " Fishing " which appeared in your issue of August 13th. I have not yet read the book, but I take it that your reviewer is expressing his own opinion when he questions...

Mr. Horace G. Hutchinson's work on " Fishing," wherein it is stated that "Mr. A. Jardine gives the necessary instructions about tackle and method" (pike fishing). " He does the...

issue of August 6th, the interesting feature of the Norway lobster consists in its character as an outlying colony of an exclusively Northern type, which has died out elsewhere...

SIR,—Your correspondent with the above signature in the Spectator of August 13th describes himself as " a small, dark, spare man of Celtic or Brythonic origin," and evidently...

Melon GIBBONS is one of the many adventurous English• men over whom Cecil Rhodes threw the spell of his dreams. The glamour of the North, that mysterious point of the compass...

Starlit, or 'neath the burning blue—. Day after day, and month by month, Safely the mail-train passes thro'. A vital pulse, replenishing, From the whole world beyond the waves,...

with a philosophy in the making, and search each new volume from his pen for signs of growth in definiteness and con- sistency, will lay down The Double Garden with a certain...

ing in book form his valuable lectures on the common law de- livered "to the Law Schools of several American Universities last autumn." They are prefaced by " the address given...

volume of impressions and anecdotes : there is in it too little of the author and of his special work in life, and perhaps a trifle too much of the familiar anecdotal side of...

interesting light on the composition of historical romances. The scene is laid in Paris in the year 1400, but we are very little troubled with the chronicles of cloak and sword,...

Legge. (John Lane. 3s. 6d. net.)—There are two poets at work within the boards of Mr. Legge's slim volume. One is a minor bard, with a gift of dainty versification on the...

Sons. 6s.)—This is the tale of a man who makes a slip in his youth and is cast off by his kinsfolk. His cousin, a prosperous business man, refuses to restore to him his mother's...

6s.)—While many of the books which come before us are so distinctively American that they could not possibly have been written in any other country in the world, the reader has...

(Smith, Elder, and Co. 6s.)—Mr. Bradby has written a most amusing farce, which we can cordially recommend for holiday reading. It has the true quality of farce in that, while...

Whetham. (John Murray. Is. 6d. net.)—" In the following pages,' says Mr. Whetham in his introductory chapter, "an attempt will be made first to consider the philosophic...

by Louise von Cosset. Vol. III., " The Shake- spearean Period in England." (Duckworth and Co. 10s. net.)— This clear and accurate account of the Elizabethan stage will prove of...

Esher printed this pamphlet "for private circulation among those interested in the formation of a Secretariat to he Defence Committee." He has now consented to publish it, and...

F.R.S., and A. E. Shipley, F.R.S. (Cambridge University Press. 4s. net.)—This volume is published contemporaneously with the Cambridge meeting of the British Association. The...

for the Year of Agitation 1903-1904. Edited by J. A. Spender. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—Mr. Spender's admirable wit and acute sense of every phase of political -feeling have enabled...

Noble). (W. Heinemann. 7s. 6d.)—The writer of this volume keeps herself, for the most part, out of the range of the ordinary understanding. When she cries, for instance, "Oh,...

have The Chalfont Country, by S. Graveson, with Introduction by the Rev. W. H. Summers (Homeland Association, ls. net). By the "Chalfont Country" is meant a region of...

Moring) is Royal Letters, Edited by Robert Steele (2s. 6d. net). The volume contains thirty-two letters written by Henry VII., or addressed to him, or immediately referring to...

Sons. 2s. 6d. net.)—This is a book full of interesting matter. The total number of " British" birds is, we are told in the preface, three hundred and sixty-seven. But about a...

Dumfries. 5s.)—Elspeth Simpson or Buchan was an ill- educated woman of dubious character; Hugh White was a minister of the Relief Church in Scotland, who was expelled for...

Drane. ls.)—This seems, as far as we are able to judge, a serviceable little book, full of practical wisdom, if readers are only able to apply it. One suggestion they can easily...

new monthly, of which two issues (July and August) are now before us. They contain some good work. We may mention Miss S. Gertrude Ford's "Art of William Watson," and Mr. D....