may note that since our article was written the Times correspondent at Tokio telegraphs that the newspaper reports of the speech are erroneous, contradictions of it having been...

T HE Austrian Emperor in his Speech from the Throne on Saturday last alludes with satisfaction to the improve- ment of the general European situation :— " The mitigation already...

of the United States Navy by Mr. Henry Reuterdahl, Associate of the United States Naval Institute and American editor of Mr. Jane's "Fighting Ships," which is bound to attract a...

guilty of libelling the French Army in his paper, La Guerre Sociale, and sentenced to a year's imprisonment and a fine of three thousand francs. The case was tried before a jury...

week's Evening Standard and St. James's Gazette, is a shrewd as well as entertaining commentary on the responsi- bilities of America as a world-Power :- "In th' good old days...

first Duma for disseminating the Viborg Manifesto has been pro- ceeding in St. Petersburg. The scene at the trial has, accord- ing to the Times correspondent, been most moving,...

case.

children if underfed will be taken off their hands, and that the money which they used to be obliged to spend on them can go in other ways, whereas if their children are...

there is anything substantial in these allegations, but at any rate they are serious enough to demand the attention of the American public. If they are true, or only partially...

the British Government, the Egyptian authorities have decided to pardon all the Denshawi prisoners, and that they would be released on the Khedive's accession day. There are,...

Rothschild, Lord Avebury, and Mr. Balfour was published in the Press appealing to the public to provide the funds to feed those London school-children who may be ascertained to...

fully organised by the proprietors of the Daily Telegraph was held in the Albert Hall on Monday. Of the eleven hundred sur- vivors of the campaigns of 1857-58, upwards of five...

to be as great, while of the broadside guns of the American ships it is said that they are even more unsatisfactory as regards position than those in the forward turrets. The...

Party. A Conference has been held in Dublin with a view to reconcile the Parliamentary Party, represented by Mr. John Redmond, the chairman, and Mr. William O'Brien, and on...

think they have a right to dictate to the people of Italy how they should manage their affairs and lay out their cities because Italy showered on the world in the past the...

Company, who died on November 2nd last, left the bulk of his property, subject to his wife's life interest, to Trinity College, Cambridge. By the death of Lady Pearce, which...

Truth an article dwelling strongly upon the dangers of the present system of identifying prisoners. The witness has a number of persons paraded before him, and be then picks out...

at Mr. Gwynn and Mr. Kettle, speaking at Abbeyleix, strongly deprecated any concessions to Mr. William O'Brien, an attitude which it is believed is shared by Mr. Dillon and a...

of Court in having advocated cattle-driving on an estate under the control of the Land Court, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment by Mr. Justice Ross. As Mr. Ginnell did...

Nov. 7th. Consols (2i) were on Friday 82i--on Friday week 84.

JAPAN AND INDIA. A GOOD deal too much attention has been paid to the speech of Count Okuma, the Japanese ex-Premier, reported in all Monday's papers. In the first place, it is...

I N current political controversy it is generally assumed that Socialism and Tariff Reform are alternative to one another. Our own belief is that they are essentially in...

Russia has been arranged just in time. But for this Agreement between the two Powers there would have been serious risk of a great war. The long decay of the vast kingdom of...

I NTERFERENCE by criticism between the different races which make up a nationality is, as a rule, as dangerous and as invidious as interference between man and wife. Neither...

been expressed that Mr. Lloyd-George should have his office raised to the rank of a Secretaryship of State. The distinction between one Cabinet Minister and another rests on no...

T HE Bishop of Chichester has recently defended the rich against attack. " They are the target," be wrote, " at which every one who is not rich thinks he has a right to shoot...

MRADITION says that St. Luke was a painter. St. Paul, 1 who knew and loved him, tells us that he was a doctor. The scholars of to-day believe him to have been a Greek slave, and...

T HE neighbourhood of Christmas is a season set apart, among other urgent matters, for the consideration of the small boy; and he, for his part, will refuse to be troubled by...

SIR JOHN STRACHEY. [To TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—The obituary article on Sir John Strachey in the Times of December 20th was so full and accurate that it is...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—You were good enough a few months ago to comment in a favourable manner upon the effort I am making to pur- chase Glastonbury Abbey for...

LTD THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—As a reply to those Liberal journals that, knowing the subject but imperfectly, object to the application of the Crimes Act on the...

• ITO THE EDITOR OF THE"SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—As one of that " majority of Unionists who are opposed to you on the Fiscal question," may I say how entirely I agree with the...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—With reference to Mr. Tattersall's letter on Free-trade in India, and your note thereon, in your issue of the 14th inst., I must...

this subject are moat interesting. I quite agree with " Contentus sorts mei " that " apparently necessary and inevitable expenses are not really so." Here I believe is the crux...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin, — Strong though my surprise and admiration are at the achievement of " Contentus sorts meit," that twentieth-century successor of...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—In view of the agitation in this country about the enormous relative increase of the German Navy Estimates in comparison with our own,...

[TO THY EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The very interesting letter in your issue of Decem- ber 21st from your correspondent " A Sufferer " may perhaps create the impression...

ITO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECrTATOR."1 SIR,—Your issue of the 21st inst. contains a communication from the town clerk of Bristol in which he states that "There is absolutely no...

ITo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." . 1 SIR,—On Wednesday next, New Year's Day, an Act comes into operation which cannot fail to be of the greatest interest and advantage to the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sra,—I venture to draw attention to a point in regard to outdoor relief which I think should be emphasised in support of the statement in...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. ") SIR,—" G. C. B.'s " suggestion in last week's Spectator that the unemployed in Britain should be converted during the winter months into...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." j Sin,—In May, 1904, I contributed to the Spectator a list of seventeen maxims and witticisms ascribed to Disraeli which had the appearance of...

SIR,—The historical lines in question (Spectator, December 21st) were taught me by my grandmother in the "forties," and as her education ceased in 1785 they are probably...

and Queens of England that your correspondent is seeking are to be found in a volume of the " Little Library "—" The British Story "—published by John Harris, St. Paul's...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—The request of your correspondent Mr. Charles W. Bell in the last issue of the Spectator called up the memory of early lessons and of a...

SIR,—I was much interested in reading the letter in your last issue about the poison ivy of California. I have had a some- what similar experience from another plant, the...

SIR,—The rhymes on the Kings and Queens of England which your correspondent Mr. Bell desires to find (Spectator, December 21st) are included in a little book, Infantile...

[TO TSB EDITOR OP TSB NSPIOTITOR."] SIR,—It anay interest you to know that Edward Lear was a great friend of my father, W. Frith, R.A.; that he wrote some of his "nonsense"...

me that the lines quoted are from a child's book called "The Book of Infantine Knowledge," which also contained spelling columns, arithmetical tables, short stories, and ....

"L'ART ADMINISTRATIF." THERE are few pleasanter occupations than the building of castles in the air; and the more elaborate and detailed the construction, the ,greater the...

TO LIEUTENANT E. H. SHACKLETON AND HIS COMRADES. [The latest South Polar expedition, , under the command of Lieutenant Shackleton, is due to leave Port Lyttelton, in New...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, - "In your last week's issue you express approval of the action of the London County Council in declining to put into operation the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " spicarsTon..] SIR, — Yesterday (December 19th) in St. James's Park I again saw the blackheaded gulls chasing two dabchicks. The latter always dived to...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin, — May I offer you a word of thanks for the leniency you show in dealing with the appalling mistake I made in my attempted condemnation...

[To THE EDITOR OW THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — In your amusing article on "Ins and Outs" in last week's Spectator you quote Lady Grove as assuring us that certain unfashionable...

THE LITERARY MAN'S BIBLE.* MR. W. L. COURTNEY has made an anthology from the literature of the Old Testament, and has called it The Literary Man's Bible. He believes that a...

of Dr. Holmes's former book on the conquest of Gaul anticipated that ancient Britain would come next. It is part of the same " sphere of influence," and Dr. Holmes is impelled...

To nothing more than to caricature is Abraham Lincoln's famous formula appropriate,—" For those who like that sort of thing, that's just the sort of thing they like." It must be...

THERE was room for a writer who should look at London apart from streets and houses, and Mrs. Evelyn Cecil has filled the gap with an engaging book. Topographical writers who...

written by Major Parry is in some measure the history of Eton during the greater part of the last century, and therefore the record of the early days of a multitude of men who...

contribution to the vast litera- ture of the salmon that has appeared for some time. Mr. W. L. Calderwood, as Inspector of Salmon Fisheries for Scotland, can speak with...

THE YOUNGER SET.t THE evolution of Mr. Chambers's talent is following a course not unfamiliar amongst novelists on this side of the Atlantic. • The Crusaders in the East : a...

in insisting that a history of the Crusades, to have an organic unity after the commence- ment, must be written as a history of the Crusading States in Syria. We are too apt to...

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5s.)—Mr. Tylee gives us here a very vigorous picture of the Revolution in France. Philip Aston, a lad of fourteen, of partly French descent, comes to Havre, on his way to Paris,...

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and Co. 31s. 6d. net.)—This fourth instalment of the work of the school may be said to indicate by its contents the range of its subjects. Mr. T. E. Peet's paper on "The Early...

aware that a French almanac differs considerably from an English. Many things are to be found in Hachette that are not to be found, say, in " Whitaker "; others that we should...