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A CTORS, an Academy for ... "Aerial Woodman's" Work, the America
The Spectatorand Russia ... Animals, Japanese - the Cash Value of... ... - the World's Riding ... - which Play Games • . • • • • Arena, the Cult of the Army, the New Constitution of the...
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M. Delcasse touched but slightly upon colonial questions, evidently believing
The Spectatorthat the colonies acquired during the last twenty years increase the dignity of France rather than her power. He stated, however, that while France was devoted to the...
We do not discuss the various rumours about mobilisations in
The Spectatorthe Far East, for we do not believe that they are, or can be, accurately reported. The cables and wires are under Russian and Japanese control, and neither of those two Powers...
tained, were the more necessary because of the great masses
The Spectatorof power in which Europe was now distributed. Germany had felt the necessity immediately after her great victories, and the Triple Alliance produced and justified the Dual...
T HE war between Russia and Japan draws ever nearer, and
The Spectatorit is even stated that January 10th, to-morrow week, is the date fixed beyond which negotiations will not be prolonged. It is just possible that at the last moment the Czar, who...
All Italians received a shock last Saturday when they heard
The Spectatorof the death, after a short illness, of Signor Zanardelli, so lately the Premier, and through life one of the directors of Liberal opinion. He was almost the last of the great...
The two Powers " immediately interested" in Macedonia appear determined
The Spectatorto defeat the Sultan's policy of delay. Their Dragoman called on the Minister of Foreign Affairs on December 26th to inform him that if he did not apply to Italy at once for a...
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The debate on the question of Chinese labour opened in
The Spectatorthe Transvaal Legislative Council on Monday. Sir George Farrar moved a Resolution requesting the Government to introduce a draft ordinance providing for the importation of...
The telegraphic summary of the debate, though fairly full, does
The Spectatornot enable us to see how the supporters of the Motion met the arguments, based on official statistics, put forward in recent issues of the Johannesburg Star, the paper until...
A further list of names added to Mr. Chamberlain's Tariff
The SpectatorCommission was published on Wednesday. Of these the most important are those of Sir Robert Herbert, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1871 to 1892; Sir...
A frightful catastrophe is reported from Chicago, the city of
The Spectatorcatastrophes. A fire broke out on December 30th in a new theatre called the " Iroquois" while a matinee performance was going on, and spread almost instantly to the auditorium,...
The papers on Friday contained an interesting piece of news.
The SpectatorThe Federal Ministry, on behalf of the people of the Australian Commonwealth, has telegraphed an invitation to Mr. Chamberlain to visit Australia, adding that the Prefer- ential...
The Motion was further supported by Mr. Van Rensbnrg and
The SpectatorGeneral Andries Cronje (who spoke in Dutch), on the ground that it would relieve the sufferings of the farmers, who, owing to the shortage of labour, were obliged to keep their...
The British Government has now recognised the new Republic of
The SpectatorPanama, the delay having only been caused by a wish to understand more clearly whether Panama accepted any of the financial responsibilities of Colombia. It appears that she...
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A striking letter on our physical deterioration from Dr. Farquharson,
The Spectatorthe popular Member for West Aberdeenshire, appeared in last Saturday's Times. As a former Army doctor, medical officer to one of our great public schools, and physician to a...
We print in another column a letter from a valued
The Spectatorcorre- spondent on the campaign which is being conducted against the Duke of Devonshire by weak-kneed Free-fooders. Of the guerilla warfare waged by Sir Henry Howorth in his...
Sir William Ramsay, lecturing on stars and atoms at a
The Spectatormeeting of the British Astronomical Society on Wednesday, made a curious announcement with regard to radium. It appears that Messrs. Johnson, Matthey, and Co., platinum...
We regret to note the death of Mr. George Gissing,
The Spectatorthe novelist. Though many people found his novels almost un- readable from their sustained dreariness, he could not be accused of the gratuitous delineation of middle-class...
The excessive gambling on the cotton market in the United
The SpectatorStates seems to have produced its natural result in heavy failures and a temporary dislocation of the industry. In this connection it is interesting to note the proceedings of...
Since our last issue the deaths of three Members of
The SpectatorParliament have been announced,—Mr. Orr-Ewing, who represented the Ayr Burghs ; Sir Harry Bullard, Mem- ber for Norwich; and Sir William Allan, Member for Gateshead since 1893,...
Mr. Haldane, speaking at Edinburgh on Monday night, gave an
The Spectatoradmirable summary of Germany's position under Protection, which we commend to any of our readers who may be perplexed by the analogy from Germany drawn by Protectionist...
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T HE Archbishop of Canterbury, we are told—we unfortunately missed his
The Spectatorspeech—said recently that the century which is just beginning would probably be the most interesting and one of the greatest of all centuries. He made, no doubt, a mental...
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M i nterval CHAMBERLAIN has only lately retired from a Conservative
The SpectatorGovernment, but in that short nterval he has become the least Conservative of politicians. He rises superior to all weak regrets for the system under which he has passed his...
BRITISH SYMPATHIES IN THE FAR EAST.
The SpectatorI F we are dragged into this war in the Far East, as we may be, we shall have at least one advantage. The country will not be divided in sympathy, as it sometimes has been. The...
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T HE Times' review of the state of the " Legal
The SpectatorPoor rof London," which was published on Saturday last, is this year exceptionally full and interesting, and also exceptionally depressing. For it seems to leave no doubt that,...
it TR. FOSTER, the Canadian statesman who recently ilL made
The Spectatora tour of Britain on behalf of Mr. Chamber- lain's policy, addressed a large audience of his countrymen on his return. The chief part of his speech was concerned with fiscal...
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Royal in any European country, however remote from the chance
The Spectatorof succession, have any freedom of action in this the most important of the relations of life. It is always open to them, of course, to renounce their blood and become private...
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Interesting, however, as figures of the kind suggested might be,
The Spectatorthere is a far more interesting question arising out of our English custom of giviiig " tips " and Christmas-boxes, and that is : Do the majority of those who give money at...
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The long and narrow islands of Japan, which have furnished
The SpectatorEuropean gardeners with so many beautiful and fairly hardy flowers, also maintain a very large and interesting popula- tion both of beasts and birds. The indigenous animals are...
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[To TUE EDITOR Or TEE " SPECTATOR. n i
The SpectatorSts,—The letter of the Duke of Devonshire on behalf of the Unionist Free-Food League has given .rise to extraordinary comments from some persons who profess their attachment to...
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[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SID, —In the
The Spectatorlast paragraph of Mr. Massie's letter in the Spectator of December 26th, 1903, lies the crux of the situa- tion. Liberal Free-traders welcome the support of the Unionist...
[To THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR...1 SIR, — When Mr. Chamberlain began
The Spectatorhis campaign he ap- pealed to us all to be ready to sacrifice something to draw the Colonies closer to us and to maintain the Empire. There was something noble in that. When,...
STR, —" Barrister " (Spectator, December 26th, 1903) is in doubt
The Spectatorhow to vote. If he votes for a supporter of Mr. Balfour or Mr. Chamberlain, he will vote against Free-trade. We are engaged in a fight for the principles of freedom and...
STATES.
The Spectator[To THE EDff 02 OF THE "SPECTATOR."] STR,—Permit me to add a few remarks to Dr. Starling's letter in the Spectator of December 26th, 1903, relative to the Constitutional barrier...
[TO TIM EDITOR OF THE ° SPECTATOR-1 SIR, — The other day I
The Spectatorwas in a part of the country when, railways are few, and I had to travel across country in an omnibus. A man got in, who presently engaged me in con- versation on the subject of...
• [To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.1 SIR, — In the
The SpectatorSpectator of December 26th, 1903, " Barrister" inquires : "How am I to vote for the present-day Radicals, who would give Home-rule to Ireland ? " &c., and " Sigma" inquires if...
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(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—Your correspondent Mr.
The SpectatorD. S. MacColl in the Spectator of December 26th, 1903, says : " It is perhaps a shame to give away the secrets of poetry." On this, to find what I had been given, I read his...
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATO81 Sra,—I hate quoting
The Spectatorfrom myself; but your readers may like to compare or contrast Mr. Essington's high estimate of Keate (Spectator, December 26th, 1903) with the quaint account of that plagosus...
Srn,—When the gallant Marshal of seventy-three summers met Wellington at
The Spectatorthe farm of La Belle Alliance, he suggested its name as the one most suitable for the great victory just completed. The Iron Duke, with characteristic raideur, re- fused the...
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[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Long before this can
The Spectatorreach you, a dozen or more corre- spondents will probably have called your attention to the fact, in connection with the letters of " F. B. E." and Mr. Pears (Spectator,...
[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "]
The SpectatorSIR,—In the Spectator of April 25th, 1903, there is an article by Mr. F. T. Bullen on the wandering albatross. Speaking of the habits of this species, Mr. Bullen says that when...
SIR,—Two years ago in a country library I came across
The Spectatorthe article by Robert Louis Stevenson to which your corre- spondent refers in a letter under the above heading in the Spectator of December 26th. It was, as well as I can remem-...
[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."]
The SpectatorSIR,—Is it a fore-determined or foolish question to ask,— Why does it not strike rich and patriotic Englishmen to offer to the Royal Naval and Military Colleges of England...
[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "]
The SpectatorSIR,—The epithet " canting " applied to Dr. Goodall, the well-known Provost of Eton, is singularly inappropriate, and it will shock the few persons—alas! how few—who remember...
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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "]
The SpectatorSlit,—The following extract from my diary dated Sep- tember bth, 1903, written on board the ss. Chingtu ' soon after leaving Townsville, North Queenslimd, for Hong- kong, may be...
[To rim EDITOR OF TIER "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Touching Mr. R. Y.
The SpectatorTyrrell's letter (Spectator, Decem- ber 26th, 1903) on your contributor's negligence, may I come to the rescue and lighten the offence by drawing upon Macaulay, " Samuel...
[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIE, — Allow me to point
The Spectatorout that the article on "The Empire of Silence" in the Spectator of December 26th, 1903, is a singularly unjust piece of special pleading. It is not true that Whistler received...
[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIE, — It is necessary to
The Spectatorthe proper understanding of these words to read the whole of the sentence in which they occur : Quapropter securus judicat orbis terrarum, bonos non ease qui se dividunt ab orbe...
[TO THE EDITOR OP THB "SPBCFLTOR.1
The SpectatorSIR,—Your article on " Russian Socialism" in the Spectator of December 19th, 1903, has interested me very much, and I have endeavoured in a few words to state the reasons why I...
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known that it was then that Joseph Lancaster, a young
The SpectatorQuaker, started his first school in Southwark, which was so successful that he established a number of other schools, and was assisted by a Committee formed in 1804, which...
AFTER full many a mutual delay
The SpectatorMy friend and I at last fixed on a day For seeing Black Cross Farm, which he had long Boasted the fittest theme for tale or song In all that charming region round about :...
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THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.*
The SpectatorMANY books have been published of late concerning the Duke of Wellington, and it is the highest possible tribute to his character that the more known of him the greater he...
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GERMANY: THE WELDING OF A WORLD-POWER.* Tars writer is highly
The Spectatoresteemed in the United States as an authority on German affairs. After service with the Saxon Army in the Franco-German War and a literary interlude at Chicago, he represented...
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MRS. EDMUND HELPS thinks that if Mr. Horsley could have
The Spectatormade up his mind to put his recollections into shape some years earlier, a more important work might have been produced. It is possible ; but we may be well content with what we...
Valley, where Colonel Younghusband's transport was attacked by rinderpest. He
The Spectatorhas much to say of Chnmbi, the Tibetan valley which is on the direct road of our Mission to Gyangtse, and its strategical advantages. Some of Mr. Freshfield's companions,...
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IT is highly necessary in attempting to appraise Mr. Conrad's
The Spectatorwork to distinguish between the various forms in which it appears. There is, first, the Mr. Conrad who writes, and writes in inimitable fashion, about the Malay Archipelago and...
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C URRENT LITERAT URE.
The SpectatorA Keystone of Empire. By the Author of "The Martyrdom of an Empress." (Harper and Brothers. 7s. 6d.)—The writer of this book would seem to have been very much behind the scenes,...
The Motor Pirate. By G. Sidney Paternoster. (Chatto and Windus.
The SpectatorBs. 6d.) — It is, of course, permissible for a novel which is frankly a " shocker " to be a little thin in quality. A " shocker " must have one startling idea, which must be...
Tychiades. By Alexander Dickeson. (T. Fisher Unwin. 68.) —Mr. Dickeson
The Spectatormay please himself by describing his " Tale of the Ptolemies " as a translation from an original of the third century B.C.; but it would have been well to invent a better name...
My Poor Relations. By Maarten Maartens. (Constable and Co. 6s.)—If
The Spectatorany one wishes to see almost unmitigated squalor, let him look at these " Stories of Dutch Peasant Life." "Almost," we say, because there is a little relief here and there,—it...
Gran'ma's Jane. By Mary E. Mann. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)
The Spectator—Mrs. Mann begins her story in a way that indicates no little courage. A man is hanged; a wife of a year's standing dies in childbirth—the child is the heroine of the story—and...
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The Log of a Cowboy. By Andy Adams. (Constable and
The SpectatorCo. 6s.)—This is a very truthful, and at times picturesque, record of the cowboy's life on the trail. It describes a great drive of cattle from Brownsville, on the Texas shores...
has certainly advanced the whole question considerably. Whether the last
The Spectatorword has yet been said is doubtful. There is still an intermediate class of "supposed" portraits between the " authentic" and the "false,"—we use Mr. Cust's phraseology. The...
Buy English Acres. By C. F. Dowsett. (The Author, Winkle-
The Spectatorbury, Basingstoke. 10d. post-free.)—Mr. Dowsett, whose book, " Land : its Attractions and Riches," is probably within the memory of many of our readers, briefly states in the...
Eton in 1829 - 1830. By T. K. Selwyn. (John Murray. 10s.
The Spectator6c1. net.)—T. K. Selwyn, younger brother of Lord Justice Selwyn (Senior Classic, 1828) and Bishop G. A. Selwyn, of New Zealand and Lichfield (Second Classic, 1831), was at Eton...
Marcus Tullius Cicero : Ten Orations. Edited by Richard Alexander
The Spectatorvon Minckwitz. (Macmillan and Co. 7s.)—This is an excellent and eminently " practical " book by an experienced Latin teacher in New York. It consists of the text of ten of the...
W. M. Thackeray. By G. K. Chesterton and Lewis Melville.
The Spectator(Hodder and Stoughton. ls. net.)—This is one of the " Bookman Biographies," and is as conspicuous as the "Tennyson" lately noticed in these columns for the number and excellence...
From Paris to New York by Land. By Harry de
The SpectatorWindt. (G. Newnes. 12s. 6d. net.)—Mr. de Windt had had experience before of making by land journeys which ordinary men are content to make by sea. But even then he could hardly...
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Marriage and Marriages. By E. C. Harvey-Brooks. (Longmans and Co.
The Spectatorfis.)—This is an excellent book, full of good feeling and good sense. It is largely, we are given to understand, the outcome of personal experience, and the observations and...
