as the result of an invitation from M. Francis Kossuth, the Minister for Commerce, was entertained at a. banquet given by the Hungarian Government at Budapest last Saturday. The...

action of the Diet of the duchy. The legiti- mate heir, the Duke of Cumberland, having refused to renounce his claims to the kingdom of Hanover, which was incorporated in the...

A S we go to press the Cuban crisis is still undecided. During the whole of the past week Mr. Taft has been busily engaged in negotiating with the Cuban Government on the one...

years, left the island on Tuesday. In a farewell proclama- tion to the Cretans the Prince urged upon them the need of showing Peace, harmony, and prudence if they were to con-...

misled into thinking that the attack which Archbishop Bourne, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, thought it right to make upon the French Government in his speech to...

case.

week the scene of a shocking outbreak of race animosity. As the result of a systematic newspaper campaign advocating lynch- ing, and even, it is alleged, offering rewards for...

connexion between the Church and State in England, we realise that under the conditions prevailing in France it has become impossible to have an Established Church. The...

Grange, County Limerick, declared that in a score • of instances the present Government had disregarded Irish public opinion and falsified promises given, thereby showing that...

Tuesday by a very entertaining paper on Christian Science by the Rev. Robert Benson. Father Benson alluded to Mrs. Eddy's declaration that material things did not exist. "Since,...

disaster was held on Monday and Tuesday, and resulted in a verdict of accidental death. The evidence given showed that nothing was amiss with either rolling-stock or permanent...

new buildings of the University of Aberdeen. The ceremony was both dignified and magnificent, and in every sense worthy of the ancient and eminent University and of the splendid...

Mr. Chamberlain's health have not been borne out by further authorised statements published in the Press on Wednesday. Although Mr. Chamberlain is making progress, it appears...

this indiscriminate massacre fully deserves the severe con- demnation of the New York Evening Post, which, after describing. the ," Atlanta. pogrom." as the result of a...

regard to her treatment of Mohammedans, not only in India, but in Egypt and in every other part of the world where Englishmen have come in contact with Islam. We have never...

and well-reasoned leading article in the Times of Wednesday dealing with the deputation representing the Mohammedan community throughout India which is to wait on the Viceroy on...

finances of the Labour Party in Thursday's papers. Each of the twenty-nine M.P.'s qualified to receive benefits from the Parliamentary Fund is paid 2290 a. year, and this, with...

proposals leading up to Home-rule. When produced, the Irish Party would consider them, and submit them to the judgment of the Irish people in a National Convention. He would...

estate (the exact figure is 21,300,000) to the list of Mr. Asquith's windfalls, has left one very interesting bequest. He leaves 240,000 to be used to repair the chapel at...

but the speech shows how absolute a difference there is • between what English Liberals and Irish Nationalists mean respectively by Home-rule, and how impossible it is to...

-third article on the "MacDonnell Mystery" a letter from Colonel .Saunderson which demands that the uneasy feeling existing in many quarters in regard to the MacDonnell letters...

NATIONAL TRAINING CENTRES—WHY SHOULD NOT LANCASHIRE LEAD? W E published last week, and publish also in our issue • of to-day, several extremely interesting letters in regard to...

AS we write all the indications seem to point to the fact that within a very few days the United States will once more be in military occupation of Cuba. It is possible, no...

wonder, of previous attempts to pass a Channel Tunnel Bill through the House of Commons ? It is possible to admire per- tinacity of purpose and devotion to an idea, however...

Hungarian Parliament is now close at hand, and the stability of the Coalition Government will soon be put to a severer test than was possible at a time when its main efforts...

I T is not difficult to comprehend the motives, complicated though they may be, which have induced the Chinese Government, not, indeed, to prohibit the use of opium, but to...

is only fair to add that he is a Liberal) once confessed that he had never been farther East in London than the Bank. That is not very far, certainly. But to reach the East...

T HAT part of literature which may be generally described as table-talk is by no means the least significant, as it is assuredly one of the most interesting. We include under...

October is probably the season of the year when our avine population is the least numerous: Generally speaking, the summer migrants have gone and the winter migrants have not...

[TO TUS EDITOR OF Tax "SP ROT A.TOR."] SIR,—Some years ago, when Mr. William O'Brien came to Canada propagating Home-rule, an association was formed, under the name of "The...

Sia,—In your issue of the 15th inst. we had the welcome news that henceforth the influence of the Spectator will be on the side of those who believe that military training for...

[TO TR& EDITOR Of THE "SPECTATOR."] is to Le hoped that our popular War Minister has watched with interest the progress and result of the Spectator Experimental Company, and,...

SIR,—Many of your readers will, I am sure, look with interest, if not with anxiety, to the comment which you promise us on the offer of alliance held out to the Spectator last...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TIIR .SPECTATOR." J SIR,—In your article of the 1st inst. under this title the explanation which you suppose will be given of the great increase in poor...

TIIR EDITOR OP TRH " SPROMTOIL"J Su,—The evident sincerity of the letter from Mr. Auberon Herbert headed "The Free Man or the Bound Man P" pub- lished in your columns of...

ITo THR EDITOR OP THR " SPECTATOR.") hope you will see your way to carry out the suggestien made by Mr. Auberon Herbert in the latter portion of his letter published in your...

"compulsion," as an argument against universal military service, is an argument most unsound and unphilosophical. Does Mr. Auberon Herbert (Spectator, September 22nd) admit its...

[To TEE Earroa OF THE "SPECTATOR:"] SIRACCOrding to the last available statistics, the number of students who attended an evening school at any time during the year 1903-4 was...

[To TIIR EDITOR. ON THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Will you kindly allow me a word on some passages in the review of Mr. Shore's book, "The Origin of the Anglo-Saxon Race," in the...

THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I ought to have remembered that it is only the First Series of Wesley's Sermons, fifty-three in number, "to which reference is made in the Trust-Deeds of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In your very fair article upon "Socialism and Labour' in the Spectator of September 22nd one point is omitted from the consideration of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In your review of "Memorials of Old Somerset" in the Spectator of September 15th you have adopted the now generally received opinion...

EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTATOR."] have the pleasure of reading the Spectator lent me by a friend, to whom I loan a paper equally interesting to him, and as I looked over your special...

VILLAGE STUDY. THE window of the fruiterer's shop had been Just dressed by his dark daughter, Emmeline; I call the girl creative in her way, She gives us a fresh picture every...

NAMES. [To TH1 EDITOR Or THI "Srectaroa."] SIR,—Your correspondent Mr. A. L. Mayhew in the Spectator of September 22nd is surely a little hasty, both in his facts and in his...

MRS. GASKELL AND HER WORK.* "IN the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons." This, the first sentence of Cranford, might very well stand as a criticism of...

of telling us that the main causes of our military unpreparednessare a .want ofpatriotisni in our people and .the „manosuvres of the politicians. We are far from convinced that...

THE four books on the Balkans which form the subject of this notice, though of varying scope and unequal merit, all deserve the attention of the reader who is interested in the...

AMONG the explorers of the seventeenth century La Salle holds a foremost place. From the time that he first set foot in America he cherished the same ambition: the discovery of...

world grows older, and writers who are disinclined to stand To invent new literary forms becomes increasingly difficult as the world grows older, and writers who are disinclined...

(Methuen and Co. 6s.)—It is not often that the reader of a novel actually welcomes a hint in the publisher's circular that in all probability a sequel will follow. Such,...

Hall. 6s.)—This novel follows the very modern plan in which the heroine is made a writer of fiction, but it must be confessed that Rachel Langton's works are even more shadowy...

CHARLOTTE BRONTR AND HER SISTERS. Charlotte Brontii and her Sisters. By Clement K. Shorter. (Hodder and Stoughton. 3s. 6d.)—Mr. Shorter has by assiduous -work and painstaking...

Fighting Ships. By Fred T. Jane. Ninth Year of Issue. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. 21s. net.)—This year's issue of Fighting Ships is, as before, divided into two parts. The...

Williamson. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—Mr. and Mrs. Williamson's new novel is an im- provement on their former motoring novels in that the motor is contrived to be an integral part...

The Active Service Pocket - Book. By Bertram Stewart, Second Lieutenant, West Kent Imperial Yeomanry. (Gale and Polden. 2s. 6d. net.)—This handy little book is a careful...

vols. (Chatto and Windus. 21s. net.)—The story, as here told, covers somewhat more than a century and a half. The theatre was opened on December 6th, 1732, with a revival of...

Browne. (James Speirs. 6s. net.)—Mr. Browne travelled from Cape Town up to the Victoria Falls and saw the cities—or what may pass as such—and learnt the thoughts of many men. He...

Sons. 158. net.)—We are glad to see this addition to the series of "Memorials of the Counties of England." It is con- structed on the usual plan : a number of papers specially...

Introduction by Richard Davey. (W. Heinemann. 6s.)—One Henry Redhead Yorke went to Paris in the days of the Revolution and witnessed some striking events, the trial of the King...

[Muter this heading we notice such Books of the week as hese not been reserved for review in other forms.] George Herbert and his Times. By A. G. Hyde. (Methuen and Co. 10s. 6d....

and Blackett. Os. net.)—M. Dumas went out to report on the results of Alexander IL's emancipation of the serfs. If he went to bless, he did not exactly fulfil his purpose, for...

Stead. (Methuen and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—" It is our object," say the authors of this book in the opening lines of their first chapter, "to show to what point of development we...

I. (A. Constable and Co. 31s. 6d. net.)—We have received the first volume of this addition to the "Victoria County Histories." We may be able to give a further notice when the...

H. Hall. (W. A. Gullick, Sydney.)—This, the first volume of the kind published by the New South Wales Government, is, we need hardly say, full of interesting facts. After a...

headed "Race, History, Topography"; chap. 2, "Biography, Genealogy, Sm." ; chap. 3, "Language, Dialect." Of course, many curious and fanciful things are to be found among these"...