all points in the direction of war. As we write the Spanish Government is considering some form of ultimate proposals, if not an ultimatum, sent them from Washington. What these...

so materially affects their external policy, and is at this moment involving them in all kinds of difficulties, is natural enough. Our countrymen do not acknowledge it, but...

THE UNITED STATES AND SPAIN. I N spite of the optimistic telegrams that have been so freely sent from America as to the result of the Report on the loss of the Maine,' we...

in a controversy than to find out what are the real contentions of the other side,—to understand their case. What is the French case in West Africa ?—that is a question of...

M R. ALFRED HOPKINSON, Q.C., the lawyer who has just been placed at the head of the Owen's College, Manchester, and who is a man of thought as well as experience, has described...

I F India cannot pay her way, Great Britain must pay it for her ; that is, must put on an extra Income-tax, which if she once opens her Treasury to Indian demands, may easily...

print to-day raises in an unexpected form a question of constant recurrence and perennial interest. The nine- teenth century might not unfairly be described as the century of...

M R. JAMES PAYN was not a man of genius, not a great novelist, not even a considerable litteratenr, but he interested and amused an entire generation in a way which that...

A N American author is, it is stated, about to publish a sort of "golden book" of the aristocracy of wealth. At the price of 2250, or some such figure, a work is to be issued—by...

M R. E. STEWART, in a paper on crocodile-shooting in India, contributes much interesting information as to the numbers and habits of these creatures to the Contemporary Review...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR21 SIR,—Five years ago, through your kindness and the liberality of your readers, the empty conservatory at Friedenheim, the Home of Peace for...

SECRET COMMISSIONS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SFECTATOR."] Sin,—Your advertisement pages of last Saturday bear evidence of how widespread is the habit of paying commis- sions...

[TO 7'HE EDITOR OE THE "SPECI'ATOIC.'] SIR,—A few years ago, when I was staying in Sussex, I hap- pened to hear Mrs. Smith, who was at once the village postmistress and the...

[To THE EDITOR OP TEE SPEOTATOIL."] SIR,—I venture to call your attention to a misquotation and a mistranslation from Goethe in your interesting review of Professor Max...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 SIR,—In an article on Mr. Zangwill's "Dreamers of the Ghetto" in the Spectator of March 26th, you say that he does not give "any thread of...

[To TRX EDITOX OF TIM " EIPXOTATOX.") SIR,—For love of Mr. H. 0. Coxe I should like to be allowed to correct the inadequate version given in the Spectator of March 26th of the...

MOONLIGHT IN LONDON. Lo a monster moon on the borders of the city, Suddenly cast up through the mist of evening, looms, 'Golden, leaning low on the ridge of distant housetops,...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOH."] 'Sia,—May I point out to you that the translation of Odysseus's address to Nausicaa, quoted by your reviewer in your notice of Mr. W. C....

EGYPT AND SEA-POWER.* a. CAMERON knows, and knows thoroughly, not only Egypt itself, but the literature dealing with modern Egypt —i.e., Egypt since 1800—and therefore we can...

Ma. GRAHAM WALLAS is to be congratulated on baying produced not only a clear and well-proportioned record of a singularly full and many-sided life, but a vivid portrait-study of...

M. HOURST is no friend to England, and has not been choice in the expression of his unfriendliness. But he has written a valuable book of travels, telling the story of his...

Office, who bad every opportunity of knowing, gave it as his opinion of the mtich-vexed question of competitive examination in the Civil Service that it made no difference...

pleasant little volume of miscellaneous stories, poems, articles, and sketches, many of which are reprinted from magazines and newspapers, while others are now first given to...

Notes " to this volume a brief bibliography of his verse publications. His first ventures were made in the "Poets' Corner" of various magazines. The first collection appeared...

Letters on Strategy. By Prince Kraft zu Hohenlohe Ingelfingen. "The Wolseley Series." 2 vols. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co. 30s.)—If, as we gather from Lord Wolseley's...

is of the type of story which a French novelist writes when she wishes to accommodate herself to the tastes of lea jeunes fills,. Bijou is a beauty of the first order ; every...

is no country in the world which makes so large and generous a provision for its poor, whether by legal or voluntary agencies for relief, as our own, and none in which that...

(Edin.), Professor of Political Economy in the University of New Brunswick. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.) — Professor Davidson has given us a valuable critical discussion of the theory...

(J. M. Dent and Co.)—Dean Stubbs gives us two lectures delivered by him at Cambridge last year. The sub- ject of the first is "The Shrine of St. Awdrey " ("Awdrey" is the...

many of these chapters have already ap- peared in serial form, we cannot withhold a few words as to the excellent treatment of her subject which at once places Mrs. Brightwen...

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From the Bavarian Highlands. By Edward Elgar. - (Joseph Williams.)—The first of this series of six choral songs is called "The Dance ; " it is a part-song of real interest and...

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as this lady's striking experiences are, the economi- cal and political chapters in the book are the most valuable. Our author has collected the opinions of a great many...

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