of peace in the Far East and India ; the preservation of the integrity and independence of China, and the enforcement of the principle of the " open door" in that Empire ; and...

indeed, that there is serious danger to European peace. The King had invited the five leaders of the "Coalition," without which he cannot create a Parliamentary Government, to...

on Parliament voting the recruits and supplies necessary for- the work of the Kingdom. The Opposition, who control Parliament, declare that the King, having no Hungarian...

St. Petersburg that the Russian representatives abroad bad been instructed to communicate to the Governments to which they are accredited invitations to a second Hague Peace...

and French Governments, and . the Parliamentary Paper now published contains the covering despatch from Lord Lans- downe to Sir Charles Hardinge, dated September 6th. Lord...

we trust, at last ended, an Agreement between the two Powers as to the Conference having been signed on Thursday. The basis of the Agreement is a reference of all the questions...

the conduct of certain well-known American insurance com- panies is revealing very remarkable methods of doing business. It will be remembered that the quarrel between the...

series of articles on " New Germany " by Mr. Sidney Low, who has been visiting the country as a special correspondent. Mr. Low's subject is that industrial Germany which has...

have been happily realised, the delegates at the Karlstad Conference having agreed on a Convention, which will doubtless be shortly ratified by the Riksdag and the Storthing....

of importance, is reported from Pekin. There is evidently a keen, though secret, struggle going on there between the Reformers and the Reactionaries, and recently the Dowager-...

the annual grant now paid as extra fees for the teaching of the Irish language in Irish primary schools has created a considerable stir in Ireland. When the grant was originally...

of Tuesday drives home the lessons to be drawn from the new Board of Trade Blue-book on " The Progress of Merchant Shipping in the United Kingdom and the Principal Maritime...

of Miss Flora Stevenson, well known in Edinburgh, and indeed throughout Scotland, for the remarkable work accomplished by her both in the philanthropic and the educational...

from 982,355 tons in 1870, it reached 2,322,045 in 1903. But ours in that year was 11,831,439 tons. To say with Mr. Chamberlain that " our bitterest and severest competitors and...

Suez Canal, took place on Thursday, happily with no evil results, though the experts would not commit themselves beforehand to any definite opinion as to what might not be the...

position of Great Britain in the Far East. As a beginning, Singapore, already a great port, will be turned, by the purchase of the immense private docks now known as the...

Trafalgar is being taken up throughout the country is most remarkable. It is, indeed, impossible to recall any historical commemoration which has attracted anything like the...

published on Wednesday. The nature of the original Treaty, followed as it was by the war with Russia, and the conclusion of a peace under which Japan's whole position both as...

rilHE Norwegians have now to settle what their future government shall be,—that is, whether it shall be Republican or Monarchical. They have compromised their differences with...

do not exhaust the tale of misdoing. There have been several instances of attacks by Chinamen on white workmen in the mines. In one instance, for example, a beam is said to have...

possibility of a break up of the Austrian Empire. It is so necessary to the peace of Europe, it has survived so many dangers, and its rulers have displayed such extra- ordinary...

" S YMPATHETIC consideration" is bespoken by Mr. Hugh Legge and Mr. Charles Alington, of the Trinity College, Oxford, Mission at Stratford, for the policy at present being...

like shyness, which gradually disappears in society. It is fervent in the nursery, strong in the domestic circle, tumultuous at school. The affections are the children of...

woman employed as a bookkeeper in a dairy at 245 Lavender Hill, near Clapham Junction, left the dairy at 7 p.m. last Sunday evening. Before going out she consulted an A.B.C....

life of birds seldom kept under close observation, such as emus, or of some foreign rodents, of which the jerboa and prairie dog are examples. There is always a chance, though...

ber 16th to your statement that "arbitration as a general principle is unattainable, for no nation will ever consent to arbitrate about things that vitally touch it." In...

printed in your last week's issue Sir Howard Vincent sings a paean over the Volunteer Review at Edinburgh, which, as he correctly expresses it, has given a " tangible reminder...

begins the very interesting article on the Volunteers in your issue. of September 23rd. Were the so-called Volunteer 'question one that could be dealt with by itself, and as an...

of the Week " is given to a consideration of Reuter's report of the Novoe Vreritya's reply to your article under the heading, " An Understanding with Russia." This is my warrant...

was much interested in your article in last week's issue, and also in the views of some of your correspondents. I may emphasise the fact that I gave my " impressions." I made it...

my father is for the most part so noble and true in its expressions that I am reluctant to be at issue with him. But the closing words give me and other members of my family...

review of the first volume of " The Layman ' s Book ot Saints " which I am writing. In it your reviewer accuses me of arbitrarily choosing from " the whole region of hagiology"...

a visit to the Cheap Cottages Exhibition at Letchworth, I read your article on the awards with great interest (Spectator, September 23rd). While agreeing with much that you say,...

its crest, and falling silently, There came a stranger anciently to land. Him the high gods had laden with every gift To make that land a place of peace and joy : Balms for all...

in a portly volume sums up the characteristics of a foreign people and the nature of their land. The reader will find in his work no disquisition on racial traits, no laboured...

General Election is bringing a large number of lawgivers and prophets into the field. The law- givers lay down what the Liberal party must do when it comes into office, and the...

the leaders of that time," said Lord Selborne on one occasion, speaking of the period of the Tractarian Movement, " all who knew them must admit that they were heroic...

THERE is certainly a very wide difference between the traveller of to-day and the traveller of a century ago.. Perhaps the • Italian Backgrounds. By Edith Wharton. Illustrated...

games, and other outdoor matters compels ns to include in one article some to which we would gladly give a longer review. First among the seven volumes before (1) Polo : Past...

sense, leads a dual life. There is the Mr. Morrison of the East End and of Essex, particularly old and vanishing Essex—the Mr. Morrison who wrote A Child of the Jago, The - Hole...

Blake. (Elliot Stock. 18s. net.)—This is the "second series "of the Records, following an earlier volume which included the period reaching from the fourteenth century...

as haw not been reserved for review in other forms.] Sir Heroic Men. By D. Alcock and others. (R.T.S. ls. 6d.)— The "six" are John Frith, Livingstone, John Lawrence, T. Fowell...

Garden City and Agriculture. By Thomas Adams. With Intro- duction by H. Rider Haggard. (Garden City Press. ls. 6d.)— This is an account of one side of the Garden City...

E. Brown, Vicar. (Elliot Stock. 2s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Brown is doing no inconsiderable part of his duty to his parish when he gives us this history of its fortunes. The parish lies...

By Charles Williams. (H. J. Glaisher. ls. 6d. net.)—We do not pretend to pronounce any authoritative opinion on this pamphlet, but we do not hesitate to say that it is very...

and Francis E. Ross. (Routledge and Sons. 2s. 6d. net.)—This is a very prettily contrived anthology, a collection of poems and pieces of descriptive prose about man and the...

have Twelfth Night. The notes, we may remind our readers, are " substantially those of the Junior School Shake- speare." — The Diary of Samuel Pepys. With an Introduction and...

3d.)—This " Short Account of the Laws of Health" is intended, we are told, for "Older Pupils in Primary Schools." If all such could be got to learn them, and take them to heart,...

(Walter Scott Publishing Company. 4d.)—Here we renew acquaintance with our old friend Will Adams. Most of us have heard of him, but his story is worth telling again, and Mr....

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