'T ILE war news during the week has been fairly satisfactory. There has been a certain amount of heavy fighting with Delarey, but it ended successfully for us ; and in various...

do not care to desCribe quite fully. • The Navy is in a condition of peaceful mutiny, the officers demanding that the Government should either 'provide for its...

at last determined to deal vigorously with the Sultan, have decided on a naval demonstration,—ending, of course, if necessary ; with the seizure either of an important Custom...

a Irian of remarkable ability, but he really takes' himself a little too seriously. He received Dr. Beniler, the new Bishop of Metz, on the 24th inst. in solemn state, and after...

sion that in China they placed French troops at the disposal of the German General. They have, therefore, allowed three letters to be published in the Matin. which were written...

ease.

week. In the afternoon, addressing the General Council of the Scottish Liberal Association, he declared that he and his hearers were impervious to obloquy and abuse: "We do not...

Tuesday by electrocution. He died bravely enough, avowing that he killed his victim deliberately "because I thought it would benefit the good people, the good working people,"...

contained a passage in regard to South Africa which should have a good effect. All reasonable people know that the Governinent contemplate for South Africa no other ultimate...

once more, and though its immediate seat is the island of Samar, there are risings in Luzon also, and a new leader who, it is said, has much of the popularity of Aguinaldo. No...

is about to use France's share of the Chinese indem- nity to choke the deficit of this year and the next. As the indemnity is to be paid gradually, this of itself would not...

of the Times, upon a new idea. They threaten, if their prayers are not granted, to become Free-traders in a mass. Free-trade, they say, will open new markets for them, will make...

in the Waverley Market a speech in his best fighting style. But though he has ample excuse for his hard hitting in the malignity and unfairness with which he has been assailed,...

Chamberlain's reference to the over - representation of Ireland,— a reference which the Lord Chancellor, considering his publicly expressed views on the subject, will hardly...

Hampstead, the occasion being the twenty-first anniversary of Dr. Horton's Congregational Church. After an interesting description of the changes in Hampstead, which have so...

unfair to the originals, we cannot look for- ward to any increase in the architectural beauties of the Metropolis from the Queen's Memorial. The total effect may be grandiose;...

sections of the Press that the original protests on General Buller's appointment were due to the machinations of "the Rhodesian gang." Could anything be more ridiculous? A...

over military policy, but must note here the speech made by Mr. Wyndham at Dover on Wednesday. According to Mr. Wyndham, the Cabinet are by no means content to choose the best...

Press in regard to the question of cyder. For ourselves, we believe that an increased consumption of cyder in substitution for that of beer, cheap wines, and spirits would be...

the safe arrival of the Duke and Duchess of York on English soil. Their safe and happy return after their long journey is a cause of sincere satisfaction to the whole nation....

has made two impressive speeches during the week at Pietermaritzburg and Durban. In the first, after paying a generous tribute to the disinterested patriotism and self-sacrifice...

New Consols (2i) were on Friday 92i.

BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY. T HE National Review for November contains an article on British foreign policy which deserves careful attention. With certain of the details of the...

T ' Duke of Devonshire, who, though he stands too much aloof from the hard work of politics, hears everything, and has a clear perception of the drift of events, accepts, we are...

O UR countrymen as a body are very indifferent, perhaps too indifferent, to the opinion of foreigners, but no educated Englishman can read without pain the torrent of abuse...

1W E publish in another column a letter from Mr. Arthur H. Lee protesting against the views we expressed last week in regard to civilians and military policy. Mr. Lee's...

T HE return of the Duke of Cornwall and. York from his prolonged journeyings has an interest of greater extent and importance than is likely to be realised by the crowds which...

Vienne has issued a confidential circular to all his subordinates, in which he asks for the following items of'information about the citizens under their jurisdiction :— "...

M ANY people nowadays pride themselves upon being fastidious. They possess, they think, the faculty of fastidious discrimination in a marked degree, and not a few of them are...

S ITUATION rather than size is the main beauty of lakes and pools of water. Those of large dimensions are seen only in the Lake Country proper. But the number of smaller lakes...

MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL AND THE WAR. [To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") SEE,—T so seldom find myself in disagreement with the views of the Spectator that I feel the more moved...

• [TO THE EDTTOE OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIE,—I enclose a communication I have just received from a non-commissioned officer of much experience and judgment at present...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Si,—May I be permitted to make a few observations on " Senex's " letter in the Spectator of October 26th in re officers' impedimenta? "...

[To THE EDITOR OF THZ " SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—Of late the lights have gone out fast. One after another our great ones have passed away, leaving us in a darkened land. To-day we...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] have read with very great interest the letter signed "X." in the Spectator of October 26th, and with particular sympathy for the sentiments...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." SIR,—May I be allowed to enter a protest against certain assertions in an article in the Spectator of October 19th as to the conduct of the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,--4 wonder whether you will allow one who has some personal experience of the Malay Peninsula to make a few comments on your reviewer's...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—It is with a feeling little short of amazement that I see you instancing Lincoln (Spectator, October 26th) as a man who learnt that...

SIR,—I was interested in the paragraph closing your "News of the Week" in the Spectator of October 19th, and its refer- ence to the constant fear of invasion in the early...

[To THE EDITOR OP TOR " SPIIICDATOR."1 SIR,—The following extract from a journal kept by my grandfather, Mr. John Lewis Mallet, who had in 1800 been appointed to a post in the...

"SPECTATOR."] note you regret having fallen into an error in attributing to me a statement I never made. You do not. appear to appreciate the gravity of a suggestion that a man...

"SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In the Spectator of October 26th you quote the Daily Express as responsible for the statement that the military authorities are preparing a scheme for a...

(To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—The death of Lady Mount Temple, who was the last survivor of my fathers sisters, will be regarded as the sever- ance of a precious...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1 agree with your contention in the Spectator of October 19th that tramway companies, which, as is rapidly being found by experience, very...

STEVENSON'S PERSONALITY.* THERE is no need to sketch for any one in the least acquainted with modern literature the broad outline of Stevenson's varied and romantic life. There...

THE FISHERMEN. THE quiet pastime of their choice On Beauly rocks, in Derwent glades, Still seems to move to Walton's voice, Singing of dace and dairy- maids : His water...

MR. ANDREW LANG is so delightful a writer in his lighter vein that one is apt to forget that he is also one of our • Magic and Religion. By Andrew Lang. London Longman' and...

THE editor of the Nineteenth Century and After gives pro- minence in his November issue to a plea—put forward on behalf of " The Administrative Reform Association "—for the...

well-written and interesting autobiography of a successful naval man, who seems to have owed his advancement rather to his own energy and zeal in his profession than to personal...

THAT Mr. Stephen Gwynn would sooner or later write a novel was a foregone conclusion, seeing that it was about the only department of humane literature unexplored by his...

Willoudene Will : a Romance. By Halliwell Sutcliffe. Illus. tmted by Powell Chace. (C. Arthur Pearson. 6s.)—In the midst of all the various kinds of modern novel—the...

A. S. Hartrick. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—Most beautiful but most melancholy are the "tales of Dunstable Weir " Zack " gives us in a very fascinating little volume. The stories...

6e.)—In Love Like a Gipsy one is struck by the bold originality of manner and matter, — an originality that fascinates, a boldness that sometimes repels. Against the hero,...

V. White and Co. 6s.)—This is not, as might be expected from the title, the story of a traveller who starts from Deal and roaches Cape Town or Pretoria. It is a collection of...

[Under this heading we notice such, Books of the week as have not be reserved for review in other forms.) Pro Petrie et Regina. Collected and Edited by Professor Knight....

and Co. 3s. 6d.) —It is not often that the task of a conscientious reviewer resolves itself into an agreeable sinecure. Mr. Jacobs, however, convinces us of the propriety of...

Percy Favor Bicknell. (J. Macqueen. 6s.)—" Retold" means that the translator has considerably shortened what he calls the "pitiless prolixity" of the original. It is a pity...

Co. 6s.)—Mr. Keightley lays himself out to please all kinds of readers. There is a heroine made up after the maxim that a woman's life begins with marriage, and another who...

Macqneen. 38. 6d.)—This is a good specimen of the minor books about the war. The author writes as we might expect a man of sense and good feeling would write. There is no...

—In this story Mr. Cable has forsaken his favourite theme, the description of Creole life in some old-fashionezl town, for something more stirring, the great struggle between...

A. Mirick, A.M. (Macmillan and Co. 2s. 6d.)—.A grammar of the English language, illustrated from old English ' usages, as well as Latin and Greek.—A Primer of Political...

the Debates, Divisions, and General Legislative Action of the Session of 1901 as Vol. C. of Parliamentary Debates (Wyman and Sons).

Mr. Reid propounds various opinions which will be more or less questioned in various quarters. He absolutely disbelieves in the utility of the forcible restraint of indulgence...

(W. and R. Chambers. 3s. 6d.)—We have found this dictionary satisfactory, as far as our examination has gone, though, indeed, for really effective inquiry long-continued trial...

"Little Black &lobo." (James Nisbet and Co. is. 6d.)—It is with great pleasure that we welcome an introduction to Little Black Mingo, a near relation to that delightful...

(Methuen and Co.), we have Isaiah, Vol. I, i.-xxxix., ex- plained by W. E. Barnes, D.D. Dr. Barnes holds that there are more Isaiahs than one. The theory of the proto and...

have the boots of Genesis, edited-by A. H. Sayce, D.D., and Exodus, edited by A, IL S.• Kennedy, D.D. The two volubies are of convenient shape find size and very agreeable...

3s. 6d. net.)—Love Poems of Burns. (Same publisher.)—In the "Windsor Edition of the Novels of W. Harrison Ainsworth" (Gibbings and Co., 6s. net), Windsor Castle, 2...

(E. and F. N. Spon. 6s. net.)—Mr. Wileocks deals, as may be supposed, with big figures. The needs of Egypt in the way of water, and the cost at which this need may be...

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HODSON OF HODSON'S HORSE.* A-1[mm the great men of the Mutiny—and surely never a crisis produced a more heroic band—two stand out pre- eminent in the shortness and...

LONDON: NOVEMBER end, 1901.

SIR MICHAEL FOSTER, whose great treatise on physiology has long been the standard authority on that important subject in our schools of medicine, here reprints, with some...

at Cape Adare, South Victoria Land, the Southern Cross' returning to Australia. Mr. Bernacchi affirms, indeed, that Wood Bay, considerably further south, would be a perfectly...

LAMB'S SHAKESPEARE TALES BY DR. F1JRNIVALL.* IT was a happy thought to entrust to an eminent Shak e . spearian scholar this edition de luxe of Charles and Ila i y Lamb's Tales...

"LESLIE KEITH " gives us some really good and subtle studies of character in this story. "Cynthia's brother" is, to put the matter briefly, a ne'er-do-weeL People and...

Nister. 513.)—Mr. Manville Fenn always moves our admiration by his genius for detail. One would think from his description of the scene that he had spent a considerable...

6d.)—The "playground" reminds us of Dotheboys Hail; Mr. Timson, chief of the "small academy," is not unlike Mr. Squeers, and Clifford Baxter has a considerable resemblance to...

6d.)—This is one of the numerous "Alice in Wonder- land" tribe, with sentiment put in the place of fan. We must own that the fun pleases us better, and we should think that...

6s.) —In the first chapter of this "Boys' Book of the Army" Mr. Hayens gives a brief sketch of British battles from Hastings down to the end of the War of the Roses ; in the...

Sons. 50 —A reader is not favourably impressed by this "Story of Spanish Brigands" when he finds very early in the narrative an uncle described as "an avuncular relative."...

5s. net), is a pretty volume of little sketches from life, done by pen and pencil. Possibly there is just a little tendency for sentiment to run into the sentimental, but there...

and Co. es.)—The story opens with a striking scene. Colonel Huguenin and Captain Middleton (who tells the story) are bound to the stake, to be tortured to death by the Red...

3s. 6d.)—This " Story of the Young Pioneers of the Reformation at Oxford" is told with a moderation and a breadth of view•which are not very often found in fiction of this...

Outlaws, by the Rev. E. Gilliat (Seeley and Co., 5s.) It will be remembered that St. Hugh of Lincoln, one of the most picturesque characters in medimval Church history, plays a...

is a very forcibly drawn picture of a determined, high- spirited woman, dominated by a sense of duty. Her husband deserts her, and she sets herself with great courage to provide...

strongly recommend this as a book to be read; at the same time, we would suggest that it should be read piece by piece. One wearies of the monotonous mischief into which these...

ls.)—We do not care for the domestic tragedy which sends the hero to the recruiting sergeant. Doubtless incon- venient codicils have been thrown into the fire, but we cannot...

6s.)—This is a pretty book; the story is well told, though there might be improvements. Our chief objection is to the mixing of Homeric and post-Homeric legends. The latter...

we have the usual abundant supply. It is really impes. sible, even if it were a thing to be desired, to discriminate or make comparisons between them. Generally, we may say that...

and Others of the Boundaries" is the full title of the book. The "Boundaries" creatures are some seventeen wild creatures, from the black fox, who is king, Mooswa,' the elk, a...

Charles Robinson. (J. M. Dent and Co. 4s. fid. net.)—Old King Cole had, we all know, "fiddlers three." It is not so generally known that one of these was a German, another a...

giGlITEENTH-PENTURY SCOTLAND. . Life in Scotland a Hundred Years Ago. By James Murray, M.A. (Alexander Gardner, Paisley. 63.)—The Last Jacobite Rising, 1745. Edited by C....

Hypnotism and Suggestion. By R. Osgood Mason. (Kogan Paul, Trench, and Co. Gs.) — Hypnotism and its allied phenomena are only nowadays beginning to be treated in a rational...

From the Heart of the Rose. By Helen Milman (Mrs. Cald- well Crofton). (J. Lane. 6s.)—To leisurely people, living out of the swim—and to such more particularly Mrs. Crofton...

Glories of Spain. By Charles W. Wood, F.R.G.S. With 85 Illustrations. (Macmillan and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Charles Wood, as a writer, belongs distinctly to the romantic...

Hudson, LL.D. (T. C. and E. C. Jack. 2s. net a volume, about forty volumes. eight ready.)—The third of the series of new Shake- spearee is a pleasant little edition called The...

The Oldest Civilisation of Greece. By H. R. Hall, M.A. (David Nutt. 15s.)—Mr. Hall's position in the British Museum enables him to speak authoritatively on the connection...

The Works of William Shakespeare. (Constable and Co. Twenty volumes ; 2s. 6d net each volume ; per set, £2 10s.)—Messrs. Constable have provided an excellent form and shape...

Vol. I , Part I. (Grant Richards. .410. In 5s. parts. Can only be obtained complete.)—Mr. Grant Richards is preparing a great p leasure for bibliophiles in "The Edinburgh...

British " Gothenburg " Experiments and Public-House Trusts. By Joseph Rowntree and Arthur Sherwell. (Hodder and Stoughton. 2s. 6d.)—This useful and interesting little book...

The Forward Policy and its Results. By Richard Isaac C.I.E. (Longmans and Co. 15s.)—In these Memoirs which Mr. Bruce has published of his thirty-five years' work among the...

Sunshine and Surf. By Douglas B. Hall and L - Ira Albert Osborne. (A. and C. Black. 12s. 6c1.)—This story of "A Year's Wanderings in South Seas" reminds us of The Earl and the...

Leisurable Studies. By the Rev. T. H. Passmore. (Longmans and Co. 4s.)—There is plenty both of good sense and of humour in these articles reprinted from the Church Review. We...

The Odyssey Rendered int ) English Prose. By Samuel Butler. (Longmans and Co. 7s. 6d.)—Mr. Butler includes in his title "for the Use of Those who Cannot Read the Original."...

Liberty Documents. Selected and Prepared by Mabel Hill. (Longmans and Co. 7s. 6d.)—This book directing students to the evolution of constitutional government from the time of...

The Art of Building a Home. By Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin. (Longmans and Co. 10s. 6d.)—People who are thinking of building and furnishing a house will be interested in...

Glimpses of Three Nations. By the late G. W. Steevens. ( W. Blackwood and Sons. 6s.)—In these collected sketches of London, Paris, and modern Germany the work of the late G....

Life of Major General Sir Robert Murdoch Smith. By W. R. Dickson. (W. Blackwood and Sons. 15s. net.)—R. M. Smith had the opportunity which has been given to not a few men of...

The Last Muster, and other Poems. By John S. Arkwright. (Grant Richards. 3s. net.)—In this little book the war poems are very much the best, but all have a certain scholarly...

Editor of "Daily Strength for Daily Needs." (Lon gmans and Co. 3s. 6d.)—The editor has put together from a great variety of sources extracts of a devotional character. For...

Social Control. By Edward Alsworth Ross, Ph.D. (Mac- millan and Co. 5s. net.)—This collection of essays, which in original form were contributed mainly to the American Journal...