the merder of the Japanese - Chancellor of Legation; and The letter of the Chinese Emperor apologising to Japan fOP the merder of the Japanese - Chancellor of Legation; and the...

British Columbia. They travel in a splendidly appointed train, with every luxury it is possible to secure for them, and the panorama through which they will pass is of most...

effect of sentences for murder has not marked the trial of Czolgosz, the Anarchist assassin. The jury was allowed to assemble on Monday without innumerable challenges, the...

wHE Czar concluded his French visit on September 22nd, after witnessing at Rheims a review of more than a hundred and fifty thousand men. At the lunch, which was given in a mag-...

President Roosevelt, who has been under fire pretty often, has evidently decided that the best way to deal with Anarchists is to defy them. He will Lave no personal guard and no...

of Wysztyten, on the Russian border, was on August 26th destroyed by fire. The Czar set aside 5,000 roubles for the suffering people, and, it is supposed, distrust- ing his own...

any case.

Winchester last week in a manner worthy of the °m- elon, the proceedings culminating in the unveiling by Lord Rosebery of a statue of Alfred, executed by Mr. Banjo Thorny....

not paying out money without the regulations being co mp li ed with to the letter; but why does not some big official at the War Office or the Treasury, or, for the matter of...

to the command of the First Army Corps, and the public-spirited protests of the St. James's Gazette and the Oellook in regard to it, but we may note here that the Outlook...

ment this week, though a "regrettable incident" has occurred at Vlakfontein, in the Orange River Colony, where two guns and upwards of a hundred officers and men were captured ;...

regard to the treatment which the Yeomanry are receiving in the matter of their arrears of pay. If the allegations made in the Daily Telegraph of Wednesday are true, and we see...

the function of public orator with his wonted skill. In Alfred, as be said, we venerate "not 80 much a striking actor in our history as the ideal English- man, the perfect...

a small but ancient burgh, which, if the Irish tunnel is ever completed, will be an important place. He praised Lord Dalrymple, whose family owns most of the district, for...

remarkable letter from the Abbess of the English Benedictine convent in Rome. It appears that the religious community in question purchased a building known as the College of...

where a vacancy had been created by the death of Mr. Colville, resulted, according to anticipation, in the capture of the seat by the Unionist candidate. Polling took place on...

ployers and the fishermen of Grimsby has failed, and there is every probability that the business will be transferred to other ports. The real, difficulty appears to be mutual...

by the authorities at the Vatican, unless, of course, it is beyond dispute, is impossible. Roman Catholic writers seldom miss an opportunity—and no fair-minded person will be...

The Irish Augustinians, according to the Abbess, acted like the cruel creditor in the parable. Not only did they sue the English nuns before the Italian tribunals, but having...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 93i.

SIE REDVERS HULLER AND THE FIRST ARMY CORPS. W E cannot but hope and, believe that there is some mistake in the statement that Sir Redvers Buller has been appointed to the...

T HE Czar must be glad to get back. again. His great adventure--for it was a great adventure, in which . he risked not only his life, but much of his political reputation—has...

M R- JOHN' REDMOND is entirely mistaken when h e suggests that the righting of the electoral injustice now done to England by its under-representation will not be taken in hand,...

indeed with the Germans for abusing the British for their conduct in South Africa, and in being so reflects accurately general English opinion. Our countrymen, having no dislike...

London School Board on Monday of a communication from the Local Government Board, in regard ,to precautions desirable to be taken against the spread of the present outbreak of...

" W HEN Paul reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled." It is difficult to read this passage without a thrill of emotion. What could St. Paul...

L ORD KELVLN, who may now be described as the grand old man of the scientific world, delivered ten days ago a lecture before the British Association the object of which, he...

T HE first Alpine season of this century, which has now come to an end, has been marked by the opening of a railway to Chamonix, and another step has been taken in the slow but...

CYCLIST MANCEUVRES. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.", Sm,—Since you have so often insisted in your columns upon the value of mobile riflemen in war, some account of the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR"] Sra,—Is it not time that some one came forward to vindicate the English officer against his detractors? The cant of patriotism may be...

DERWENTWATER. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIE,—I have the great pleasure of writing to say that the whole amount for which we appealed for the land at Derwent- water...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—From time to time I have been so interested and amused by reading in the Spectator accounts of vivid and realistic dreams that I feel...

you the account of a remarkable dream. It was told me by one of the last men in the world one would associate with the dreaming of dreams and the seeing of visions. The account...

[TO TRH EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR." Stn,—Without entering into any controversial questions, I venture to send you a cutting from the Natal Witness of August 31st which takes a...

rTO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.1 Sra,—In your issue of September 21st, p. 380, you say : "The banishment of all suspected Anarchists to an island in the ocean" is a...

Sts,—The story related by " Z." in the Spectator of Septem- ber 21st differs in some particulars -from other narratives of the same class, which, assuming that the dream is to...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:1 SrD.—You say "it would be impossible to get the people of this country to go to war" with America (Spectator, September 21st). If that is...

SIR, — That the story told in the Spectator of September 21st (by a parent who dreamed once of his son during the whole absence of the latter in South Africa) should be deemed...

(To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") Sne,—In reading your interesting article on "The English Monsoon" in the Spectator of September 21st, I think you must have made a mistake...

Sta,—The coincidence of the dream related by "Z." in the Spectator of September 21st was remarkable. May I relate a similar case which occurred in 1851? In the middle of one...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—While thanking you for your sympathetic notice of the first two volumes of the supplement to the "Dictionary of National Biography"...

[To THE EDITOH OF TIIE "SPECTATOlt."] SIE,—May' I be allowed to say that the point on which I expressed a difference of opinion from Professor Bradley (Spectator, September...

suggestion as to what may pCP.. sibly have been in Tennyson's mind wlsen he wrote the first lines of the elegy beginning— ":My love has talked with rocks and trees; He finds...

. [TO THE EDITOlt OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Szn,—Mr. Edward Eggleston may be "shaky in his classics, as you state in the notice of his "Transit of CiVilizano n contained in your...

ITO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—If your correspondent (the Rev. Henry Latham, Spectator, September 21st) will go out on his lawn some bright dewy morning when the sun...

of September 21st your correspondents describe two kinds of "the natural phenomenon known as the Spectre of the Brocken." In the description quoted from the Abbe Gorreb the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—In your article entitled "A Fit of Happiness" in the Spectator of September 21st you say :—" Experience would seem to suggest that...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 la,—In your article in the Spectator of September 21st entitled " The Search for Health" it is stated that "the detailed ac- counts of...

SEEKERS AFTER GOD. IP on some still and sombre night One set a candle on the ground, The worm and the woodlouse, lured by the light, Ere long will gather round: Those dingy...

[TO TEE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] .,I3,---May I suggest that the able advocate to whom was entrusted the " apology " for the Epistle of St. James in the S p jet or of...

[To THE EDITOR Of THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—It was doubtless difficult to find room for the whole of the remarkable interview with the Swedish-Norwegian Consul- General at the...

THE CHILDREN OF THE NATIONS.* THE world has changed its mind on many questions of politics, but there has never been so complete a right-about-turn as in English opinion on the...

more megr ims, but few more engaging figures than Edward and Waiter Bache, the story of whose lives has been told with a d m irable tact and sympathy and most judicious brevity...

the many points that dis- tinguish the traveller of to-day from his forerunner of, say, two g enerations back than the chan g e which has come over his attitude towards...

The Death of the Gods, by Dmitri Merejkowski, is, as we learn from the introduction contributed by the trans- lator, the first section of a trilogy named Christ and Anti-...

for this very agreeable book ofMiss Sichers among the literature of the French Renaissance. In English, at least we know no book that gives a historical account of the early...

puler this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been r eserved for review in other forms.] Cerenwnies and Processions of the Cathedral Church of Sarum. Edited by...

(Skeffington and Son. 5s.)—Mr. Meyriek was doubt- less reckoned a High Churchman forty years ago; but the sig- nificance of the term has now greatly changed. It is applied to...

MA. (Cambridge University Press. 7s. 6d.)—These tales, we are told, "were taken down from the lips of the Malay peasantry" during the Cambridge Expedition of 1899. They...

Trans- lated from the German by Henrietta Szold. (Macmillan and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—This is the first of four parts in which Professor Lazarus intends to discuss his subject....

Tylor and Gordon Hargrave. (S. W. Partridge and Co. 3s. 6d.) —Here are some fifty sketches of great men and important events during the first seven hundred years that came...

Jews. By Dr. Moses Gaster. (Not published.)—We noticed in these columns on August 10th the account of the Jewish applica- tion to Oliver Cromwell, made, it was alleged, by...

a Pre- face by Lord Charles Beresford. (C. A. Pearson. 5s.)—In this volume there is a combination of actual fact and what we may call hypothetical fact. By this latter we mean...

Rosebery's address on Alfred the Truthtellor, delivered at Winchester on the 20th inst. This interesting eulogy, to which we refer elsewhere, handsomely printed as an eight-page...

and Aftermath, by James Lane Allen (Macmillan and Co., 68.), deli g ht. fully illustrated after his manner by Mr. Hugh Thomson.-- We have also King Alfred, by Stopford A. Brooke...

W. Heinemann (2s. 6d.) an excellent reproduction of Mr. Nicholson's coloured drawing of the late President. It is striking example of the artist's powers, and shows him at his...

Agency. 5s.) — We notice this volume as an ladle Alen that things are returning to their normal condition, at least in set ae parts of the annexed States. There are other...

Co. 5s.)—Mr. Ross went out with the 69th Sussex Company Imperial Yeomanry. He reached the Vaal River on May 28th, 1900, came back to Cape Town in March last, and reached home...

3s. 6d.)—This is a very pleasing little book. Miss Ingelow was Lincolnshire born, and some of her best verse is inspired by her birth-land. On the whole, she never wrote any-...

Nisbet and Co. 6s.)—The little details about Queen Victoria's education which Mrs. Gurney has been able to gather from various sources are peculiarly interesting. There are...