In effect it means that the Russians will give us satisfaction in regard to the captures by the volunteer cruisers, but that the far more serious problem of the sinking of the...

advantage of the Japanese. They are delaying, for reasons of their own, the final assault on Port Arthur, the capture of which becomes daily more important from a political...

with this incident at all," but which must be a legitimate cause of anxiety,—meaning thereby the case of the Knight Commander.' " We hold that it is not proper that, on the...

insist- ing on the duties of belligerents we must not forget the duties of neutrals. " The belligerent of to-day will be the neutral of to-morrow, and the neutral of to-day may...

been felt about the outcome of the controversy with Russia in regard to the seizure of British ships, not only in the Red Sea, but in the Pacific, where the sinking of the...

not wise to re- establish the brutal scenes of the arena. A fight was arranged. at San Sebastian between a bull and a tiger, and the whole population crowded to see. The beasts,...

The country is full of strikes, the most im- portant one being directed against the Beef Trust, which raises the price of food, and they are all marked by a savage bitterness...

his spiritual prerogatives to their full extent. In spite of the protest of the French Government, the Bishops of Laval and Dijon have been ordered to present themselves in Rome...

and some of its difficulties seem to be disappearing. The Dalai Lama, indeed, is as determined as ever, the fresh Envoys whom he despatched to Nagartse, some ninety miles from...

Czar, and certainly the grand advocate both of repression and of hostility to the Jews, was on Thursday blown to pieces. He was just on his way to report to the Emperor at...

gentlemen who brought him the formal "notification" of his nomination as Republican candidate which is intended to explain his whole policy. It is still Protectionist, but be...

speech at Carcassonne. It was a defence of the Republic as administered by M. Loubet and his advisers: After observing that the struggle with the Vatican might favour a...

to his identity to five years' penal servitude for swindling women, has been released, and will, we hope, be liberally com- pensated for such a monstrous, though accidental,...

Civil Lord of the Admiralty, to consider suggestions for the humane slaughtering of animals, the Report of which was published at the end of last week, has heard a great deal of...

of Devonshire called attention to the attitude of certain members of the Government towards the Fiscal question, and gave Lord Lansdowne an opportunity of clearing away any...

Wednesday, tells the same story that has been told by , all the other by-elections. The country will have nothing to do with Mr. Chamberlain's unhappy policy. I. pol at a...

meet this frank and simple challenge. He and his colleagues, he said, had done nothing inconsistent with his declaration in Parliament of February 19th and Mr. Balfour's...

of the House of Commons during the week. The report stages of the Licensing Bill and the Finance Bill have occupied the greater part of the time, but in neither case has much...

Thursday was on the whole reassuring, the situation created by Russian naval action must still be regarded as grave. In view of this fact, and of the com- plicated issues...

not be persisted in, and that in the end the Unionist Free- traders will realise that they cannot refuse to vote for a Free-trade Resolution without doing a grave injury to the...

for battle. She has relieved herself of a multitude of burdens which in any great emergency would have hampered her free action. She has maintained her Treaty with Russia so far...

the expression of his thought, a little too much. It is a rare fault in our day when the tendency is towards a slipshod diffuseness - but still it is a fault. We wish, for...

In some directions—in that of protec- tion to native industry, for example—its progress is lightning-like. He is a Free-trader one day, and a Pro- tectionist the next. But when...

Mr. Stanford has just published is a delight to the reader who finds pleasure in tantalising himself with reminiscences. A mere gazetteer, a list of names, will awaken the fancy...

great self-knowledge, a consummate gift for its expression in language, and an abnormal talent for feeling discomfort and discovering the ugly." This little portrait of a most...

such a change, prophetic of rain, that the windows of Windsor Castle could be plainly counted from the Great Western line near Slough, the thirsty birds also began to show signs...

ITO TUB EDITOR 01P THB "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—To 'nest of us comes sooner or later the comforting conviction that, for a grand total of solid virtues, Great Britain has a right to...

via EDITOR OF TIIR "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —In your issue of July 23rd I notice that when referring to the Report of the Tariff Commission on the Iron and Steel Trades you say :—"...

in connection with the Report of the Tariff Commission to which I should like to call the attention of your readers ; so far as I am aware, it has not been noticed in any London...

excellent description of " dumping, " —namely, " foreign importing under a vituperative alias. " Australian Protectionists when inducing us to adopt Pro. tection asserted that...

early one morning, and by the evening of the second day—so fine and hot was the weather — the crop was almost ready to be carried. The farmer, however, decided to wait till next...

In my opinion, and I have had some experience of many different sides of the question, it is a valuable temperance measure. This, however, is only a matter of opinion. I wish to...

due to you for the timely and welcome article in the Spectator of July 23rd on the preservation of the fell above Ullawater, nor the exceeding horror with which one hears of "...

London will be still in its streets, often hot, always noisy, generally airless, rarely beautiful. It is good to know that for these, who are the large majority, the electric...

as to see the friendly analysis of his character and position in your article entitled "A Word for the Ciar" (Spectator, July 23rd), its frankness, whether palatable or not,...

wrote :—" (1) We clearly did not know before our march began that the Lamas were so bitterly hostile to the entrance of Europeans into their country ; (2) we did not know that...

"SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—Your charming article on the above subject, and Miss Octavio, Hill's letter, in last week's issue deserve the practical attention of all private persons,...

SIR,—The letters in your issue of last week, coupled with your leading article, make it abundantly clear that there are two distinct classes of Volunteer to be dealt with,—viz.,...

interesting but singularly in- conclusive letter he does not mention how far the railway bridge over which the dog was thrown is from the bed where he lay in his nightmare. Was...

law of England is based on the divine law, and, as a matter of fact, many sins are also crimes. Thus crime and sin are often interchangeable terms. Now, if we substitute "...

altogether the fault of theologians or not, the hatred of theological terms, and particularly of the unhappy word "sin," is always very evident in the lay free-lance. Sometimes...

Spectator, July 23rd), is there any evidence for precisely " that kind of unconscious travelling" ? Perception at a distance seems always to be conditioned by conscious anxiety...

and ninety-six poor women for two or three weeks' holiday to the country. This year applications have been received from nearly one thousand women, and the number is increasing...

on the prairies of South Manitoba, Canada, I saw an interesting and ludicrous sight,—about twenty or more " prairie chicken" bowing and scraping, cutting the most fantastic...

the medium of your columns to ask for light on the following short passage in "The Pope." Speaking of Caponsacchi's self-sacrifice, the Pope says (Smith, Elder, and Co.'s two-...

great interest the review in the Spectator of June 4th of Miss Jekyll's book on " Old West Surrey." In the old expressions mentioned therein I recog- nise many—in fact, the...

the last speech day at Cooper's Hill in the Times of July 28th gives no precise information as to the future means decided on by Mr. Brodrick for obtaining civil engineers for...

(HORACE, "CARS!." III. v. 41-56.) HE turned—a Roman doomed to die— From wife's and children's pure embrace (So runs the tale), and, with set face, He downward bent a fearless...

ELIZABETHAN CRITICS.* IT has often been said without truth or reason that the Elizabethans were so busy creating masterpieces that they had not time to concern themselves with...

THAT John Bellows was a very remarkable man this volume will prove to all who did not know it beforehand. The picture is not, indeed, as complete as we could wish, and in parts...

The Veil of the Temple is a work of fiction—it is a novel in the true sense—with a purpose, but it is not very easy to say what that purpose is. We think it might be described...

co-operation, and hate a bureau in any form. The one touches the Englishman's feeling of independence, and the other tends to red-tape. In this country we limit our co-operation...

Hodder and Stoughton. f6s..] but bow much it is all a literary pose ! The knowledge of the sea, like knowledge of deserts and high mountains, comes only to those who have taken...

very liberal garnish of dialect, and photographs of houses and towns. The result ought to be curiously vivid ; but we fear that that intention has not been fully realised. One...

second time within the last few months we are called on to notice a novel dealing with the effect of a family house "in the old country" on newly returned Australians. In this...

Co. 6s.)—Miss Violet Simpson's last novel, " The Bonnet Conspirators," was a graceful and amusing story, perhaps a little slight, but well put together. Her present book, The...

Sons. 6s.)—It is difficult to imagine what induced Mr. Grier deliberately to throw " this book into the form of fiction," and then as deliberately warn the " ordinary novel...

METHODS OF SOCIAL ADVANCE. Methods of Social Advance. Edited by C. S. Loch. (Macmillan and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—This book consists of a set of papers by various authors, four of...

of quite a different stamp from that which belongs to the historical novel distinguishes this story of Northern Georgia. As the book is practically a " murder story," it is...

and Co. 21s.)—Mr. Jane, after giving us a succinct and lucid account of the modern Japanese Navy and its construction as affected by the Revolution, recapitulates the main...

and Spottiswoode.)—There have been few more interesting volumes than this published in the " Calendar " Series. Events which one is disposed to pass over with a cursory notice...

Ph.D. (Macmillan and Co. 12s. 6d. net.)--A very readable biography of the financier of the American Revolution Full details are given of Morris's public work, and of what is...

16s.)—This book gives, to quote its sub-title, a " com- pendium of the Law affecting the conditions under which the manual work of the working classes is performed in England."...

(B. H. Blackwell, Oxford. 2s. 6d. net.)—In this essay, to which the Stanhope Prize has been this year awarded, we have an excellent appreciation of a personage of some...

S.J. (Longman and Co. 5s. net.)—This book exhibits the qualities which one may expect in any production of its author. It is acute, powerfully reasoned, and characterised by a...

Mercure de France.)—M. D'Humieres has had considerably more experience of the countries about which ho writes than has often sufficed for the formation of a visitor's judgment....

Brothers. 6s.)—This volume will be found useful. It does not give hints, as one might guess from the title, as to how things should be said, but rather suggests matter. We do...

(Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Williams describes with much useful detail eighteen careers. He begins with the " Church," and he ends with Colonial openings. The...

speed is common, but in far back days. (The steamers were so famous for this quality that many were bought to use as blockade- runners in the American Civil War.) The first of...

the British Museum is A Guide to the Third and Fourth Egyptian Rooms. The objects described belong to a very great period of time,—from 4,500 B.C. downwards to the fourth...

M.A. (D. C. Heath. 5s.)—It is a good idea to give the general reader the advantage of seeing in English the original authorities from which Roman history is drawn. The selection...