of the Members of the Duma withdrew at once to Viborg, in Finland, to consider their position. On Monday they issued a Manifesto, which was signed by every Deputy present except...

and the Dutch people owing to the failure of her Majesty's hopes of giving an heir to the house of Orange has a significance more than national. It is still quite possible, no...

F OR the moment the fog of uncertainty has lifted in Russia. The autocracy has exercised its power, and chosen the path of forcible repression. Last Sunday a Ukase by the...

even in the storm-centres of Moscow and St. Petersburg, is outwardly calm. The Manifesto of the Dutna has apparently met with no response in the country, and the autocracy,...

case.

Mr. Haldane's Army projects was chiefly remarkable for an excellent speech by the Duke of Bedford on the problem of the Militia. Mr. Haldane's scheme pointed to a revolution in...

Canterbury dealt with the Returns as to religious instruc- tion in Provided schools and the syllabuses for such instruction, He was thankful that in the great majority of the...

of State for India introduced the Indian Budget in a speech which for its moderation, insight, and candour has won the approbation of men of every party. It is surely to be...

at an end in Natal, for there is rumour of unrest among the Pondos and the tribes of the South ; but at any rate the organised rebellion in Zululand seems to have 'been...

Report stage of the Education Bill an amendment was moved by Mr. Harold Cox to the effect that when the local authorities and the owners of a schoolhouse failed to arrange for...

Sir William Anson moved an amendment to the fourth clause, and appealed to the government at the eleventh hour to make it obligatopr on thelocal education authority to grant the...

was commonly called an "insoluble problem" ; but insoluble or not, it was one which had to be faced. He had done his best to get at the truth, but he did not dare to dogmatise....

our readers know, we attach immense importance to the creation of a sound Militia, but no true reform of the Militia can possibly be attained if the War Office are to regard the...

debate was chiefly remarkable for the speech delivered by Mr. W. J. Bryan, who moved a resolution based upon the abortive Anglo-American Treaty of 1897. The resolution requires...

of Lord Weardale in the Royal Gallery q Westminster Palace. Representatives were present from almost all European and from many American Parliaments. The dissolution of the Duma...

the victory of Mr. Freeman-Thomas, the Liberal candidate, by a majority of 1,093. Last January Mr. Agar-Robartee, who was unseated on petition. polled a majority of 1,172 votes....

on Friday week, and proved to be in every way a testament worthy of a far-sighted and public-spirited man. Among the more important bequests, we may note that the famous...

this task has become owing to the mischievous and unfair attacks that have been made on Cowper-Temple teaching during the present controversy. How can Church- men be expected to...

on Thursday. The principal recommendaticns are as follows. The present general speed-limit of twenty miles an hour is to be abolished. There is to be a special speed-limit of...

H. C. Monro, of the Local Government Board, did not agree to the proposal for the abolition of the speed-limit. On the whole, we regard the Report as reasonable and...

at Newlands Corner, near Guildford, at some field opera- tions, described by a correspondent in another portion of our issue, in which Volunteers and local riflemen took part....

June 21st. Consols (24-) were on Friday 87i—on Friday week 874.

DISARMAMENT. W ITH the cause of international arbitration, so long as it is kept within reasonable limits and advocated on practical lines, we have the greatest possible...

The moderate majority in the Duma, who have hitherto displayed great self-control, and who, it is well understood, would have furnished a competent Ministry if the Court would...

A S our readers blow, we feel very strongly that the greatest care must be taken in framing the Trans- vaal Constitution, so as to preserve to the inhabitants of British origin...

M R. MORLEY has three qualities which are essential to the man who would rule India well and wisely. He is impressed with the importance of his task ; he has imagination to...

W E are accustomed by this time to displays of intemperate temperance. Each of the great organisations labours periodically to injure an excellent cause by injudicious advocacy,...

Father Bernard Vaughan has been edifying large congregations with his denunciations of fashionable sins. We do not question the integrity of his purpose, but we are far from...

MHERE are certain moral and mental defects of which few men ever genuinely accuse themselves. Many a man knows himself to be hot-tempered, and most men complain of a bad memory,...

T "day of the true sea-fisherman is not yet. The sport in which he takes pleasure is understood only by sea- fishermen. The salmon-fisher, working hie shining fly in the...

MR. HALDANE'S INSPECTION OF THE NORTH DOWNS RIFLE CLUBS. LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:] Sin, -- Readers of the Spectator may be glad to have some account of the...

ON THE WRONG TRACK. [To TEIE EDITOR. OF Tile "SP genTOR.1 SIR,—By a gradual process of exclusion, Mr. Chamberlain in his second Birmingham speech has arrived at certain...

" SPECTATOR...I Sin,—Mr. Burns has before him a great opportunity. There is always a difficulty in reconciling the less instructed portion of the democracy to the lessons of...

TO TDB EDITOR OP THIS "SPECTATOR:] SIR, — In the "News of the Week" in your issue of July 21st I see that you note with approval the Bishop of Ripon's assertion that the Church...

[To TIIII EDITOR OF Tag "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—When the Archbishops of the Mother-Church in England joined with the heads of the daughter-Churches in appealing to the Christian...

(TO THE EDITOR OF TUB "SPECTATOlt..1 SIR, — Seeing that you have been good enough to grant Mr. Creswell some of your valuable space to express his particular views and...

LTO TUE EDITOR Or THE " SYRCTATOR."] SIR, — In your interesting article of last Saturday on the Divine Personality the writer seems a little puzzled as to the right...

[To TRH EDITOR. OR THE " sr carATon."1 SIR, — You may remember that I called attention in your columns a year or two ago to the needs of the Home for the Pensioners of the...

THE TALBOT COMETIL ["This man was to the French people, a very scouts and a daily terror, in so much that as his person was fearf a, and terrible to his adversaries present so...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." j Sin,—Since my last letter, published a fortnight ago, the chief event here has been the inspection of the Company by Lord Methnen which took...

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Notwithstanding M. Clemenceau's efforts to put an end to bull-fights in France, the following appeared in all the French papers on...

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.* Tag reeram of Abraham Lincoln is the, common heritage of both branches of the Anglo-Saxon race. The rugged figure, "gentle, plain, just, and resolute," with...

be were asked what literary form had most progressed during the last twenty years, might reasonably answer the literature of travel. The old days when a record of travel was a...

mention is now made of Arcadia. It is briefly referred to as one of those places which only deserve a visit on account of the celebrity which they once enjoyed. The tide of...

a year ago we were indebted to the pen of Mr. Amery, in his third volume of this history, for what was undoubtedly one of the most thoughtful as well as one of the most...

6d.)—The "ha'penny millionaire" is not an impostor, but a very worthy man who is "passing rich" on a pension of ..t3 a week and £50 in the bank. Having spent the whole of his...

6s.1 —Mr. Eyre Hussey's title most accurately describes his heroine if it is to be taken in the sense that she is always ready with an appropriate quotation. She also has a...

THE SIN OF GEORGE WARRENER.* THERE are signs of a new school of fiction arising in America. Hitherto the novelists who have dealt realistically with American life have confined...

PALESTINE EXPLORATION FUND QUARTERLY STATEMENT. Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement: July. (38 Con- duit Street, W. 2s. 6d.)—The Fund makes an appeal for help. It...

[Undo this heading v notios such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review is other Jonas.] ' Palestine Notes, and other Papers. By J. Wilhelm Rowntree. Edited by...

Work in Camp. (The Bedfordshire Times Publishing Company, Mill Street, Bedford.)—This little pamphlet will, we trust, serve as an example to the Colonels of other Militia...

by the Rev. W. Hudson. (Jarrold and Sons. 25s. net.)—This volume will, with that which is to follow it, give an account of all the docu- ments which the Corporation of Norwich...

Co. is. 6d. not.)—This is one of a series of Miniature Road Books." Those are of a size which makes them eminently "pocket books." And as they are very convenient, so are they...

Meehan. (Meehan and Co. 12s. 6d. net.)—Some five years ago "The Famous Houses of Bath and District" appeared. It by no means exhausted the subject, and now we have a...

3s. 6d.)—There is, as one might expect, much good sense and right feeling in this volume ; but the critic feels bound to suggest that there is another side to that which the...

My Life and Sacred Songs. By Ira D. Sankey. (Hodder and Stoughton. 5s.)—Mr. Sankey's first meeting with the great partner in his labours, Mr. Dwight L. Moody, took place in...

(Alston Rivers. 2s. net.)—Here is another con- tribution to the art of building cheap and serviceable houses. It is not the cottage, this time, which is in view, but the...

net.)—Mr. Talbot J. Taylor's house, situated at Cedar Hurst, in Long Island, shows a fascinating exterior as it is pictured for us in this volume, and the catalogue of its...

6d.), we have received Harold's Town and its Vicinity : Waltham Abbey, Waltham Cross, Cheshunt, and High Beech, by Freeman Bunting, with Photographic Illustrations by J. A. C....

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