he had been very seasick, he made at Dunkirk on May 27th a noteworthy speech. His reception, he said, had exceeded in cordiality and solicitude all that he could have hoped, and...

for the Clericals, who have increased their majority in the Chamber by five. This is a disappointment to the Liberals, who had expected a " demonstration " in favour of...

his master's friends and party in the city. Finally, says Mr. Loth-to-Stoop : "I have one more thing to propound, and then I am got to the end of my commission. Suppose that...

A GAIN it is impossible to say definitely that peace is an accomplished fact, but Mr. Balfour virtually promises an announcement on Monday, and meantime all the omens are...

some reduction of taxation ; but the accounts show only what is described as an "equilibrium." This has weakened the Government, and the Radicals attack it both for financial...

case.

Indies, but La Pelee, in Martinique, is still pouring out ashes, which reach as far• as Barbados, and are not, the chemists now explain, in any way fertilising. If no further...

to be recorded in regard to its deliberations. On Wednesday the House of Commons could not be induced to reappoint the Committee to inquire into the operation of subsidies to...

must inevitably be the case. Her two burning questions are Clerical ascendency and the tenure, and Senor Canalejas, who on those two points represents in the Cabinet ultra-...

Navy Estimates. The discussion covered a wide range, but it was not of a very illuminative or conclusive character. Mr. Arnold-Forster declared that the Admiralty were fully...

somewhat suddenly last Saturday at Washington. At the time of his appointment to Washington in 1889 Sir Julian Pauncefote, alter a long and honourable career as a Colonial Judge...

or two, and then, it is stated, M. Waldeck-Rousseau and his colleagues will hand in their resignations, so that on June 10th when the Chamber has finished the "verification of...

explaining their agreement with the Atlantic Ship- ping Combine. The German companies, already subsidised by their Government, in return for submitting to various restrictions...

quarrel or to have arranged to postpone it. They have agreed to a Treaty under which King Edward VII. is appointed general arbitrator, they promise not to increase their Fleets,...

new electric accumulator, which is light, powerful, cheap, does not leak, and so renders back all the electricity put into it, is of the utmost importance. It means, says Mr....

within the last eight days which were obviously dictated by some previous agreement. Lord Rosebery spoke first at the National Liberal Club on Friday week, and commenced by...

Dr. Johnson observed in Sir Joshua Reynolds,—he was invulnerable to attack. Thus, while the " saffron journalists " could find no joints in his harness, Americans of light and...

nearly the same effect, though with more bitterness and more insistence on the vast expenditure of the Government. It had, he maintained, increased the regular expenditure apart...

Wednesday, the Duke of Cambridge said some very wise, as well as friendly, things about the Volunteers :—" I cannot say too much with regard to my own appreciation of the...

Thursday iss,,e of that journal a very striking item of news. It appears that Mgr. Passerini, Vicar-Apostolic of Southern Shen-si, who has arrived in Rome after thirteen years'...

Friday 961.

THE POSSIBLE WITHDRAWAL OF THE CORN-DUTY. W E trust that there may be truth in the rumour that the Government is seriously considering the with- drawal of the Corn-tax in view...

to the National Liberal Club, and of Sir Henry Campbell-Banner- man to the electors of Darlington, deserve a little more attention than they have received. The Liberals, it is...

I T is not only uncertain who will be the next French Premier, though M. Bourgeois has the best chance, but uncertain whether any Premier will be able to retain power for six...

a real and great loss in the death of Lord Pauncefote. It is true that his retirement could not have been long delayed, but had he lived, as his friends hoped he would for many...

T HERE is scarcely any adjective that seems, when applied to a politician, to carry with it more popular condemnation than "cynical." To call a man dishonest or self-seeking is...

terms is not a matter that seriously appeals to the populace. The great mass of men deal with words as with money. They demand an abso- lute exchange value in ideas, and are...

J UDGING by a good deal of the conversation of the present day, there are a large number of people who have a positive horror of home. This curious revulsion of feeling is taken...

T HE Register of Cheap Land published weekly by our contemporary, the County Gentleman, is a suggestive sheet. No land is offered for which more than fifteen guineas an acre is...

THE NORTH ATLANTIC SHIPPING COMBINATION . (To THE EDITOR OF TEM "SPECTATOR.") SIR, —If the brief summary cabled from London be an accurate indication of public opinion,...

Sin,—Yielding to no one in my admiration for what I believe is the most impartially and ably conducted paper in Britain. I yet feel exceedingly troubled at the tone of your...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—In 1895.I called on the German Ambassador in Washington. but he being out, I spoke to the Chancellor sub- stantially as follows :—"...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your knowledge of America is so uncommonly wide and sound that I should like to suggest a slight modification in the article...

SIR,—In the various discussions of this subject in the Press, I have not seen the fact mentioned that about sixty years ago, and earlier, the carrying of passengers and...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] Srn,—Though unwilling to take up your valuable space by any words of mine, I am desirous of enlisting your sympathy in a club that is...

"SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—While congratulating you upon the result of your advocacy of the use of Richmond Park for the training of Volunteers, I should like to call attention to...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR:9 SIR, — On the question of the fixing of a definite period at the end of which representative government should be established in South...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] saw in the issue of the Spectator for January 25th an account of the Boer camp in Umballa. I think it may there- fore interest your...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." _I SIB, —With reference to the most interesting article on the spade as a part of the " mechanism of war " which appeared in your issue of...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEM "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—Will you allow me to call your attention to an error in an article entitled " The Empire State's' Game-Book " which appeared in your...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." SIR, —Mr. de Layen in the Spectator of May 24th objects to what " one of your correspondents writes " about the battle of Waterloo. I...

Stu,—While reading with great interest your article on "The Empire State's' Game-Book " I noted the explanation sug- gested of the presence of the herring in Lake...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." j SIB, - 4t is with great diffidence that I write to you. I should not venture to do so at all did I not know that if I have any- thing worth...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—The powers that be have recently altered the punctua- tion of this prayer in the Book of Common Prayer by causing the comma to be...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:] SIR, — While admitting the force of your argument in the Spectator of May 17th as going to prove that a great and violent catastrophe does...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—With due respect I must decline to pursue a controversy with Canon MacColl (Spectator, May 24th), as I find that be has not yet...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J you kindly permit me, the son of a German, to de- precate your severe criticisms of German policy in the Spectator of May 24th? You say...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." J Sna,—In the review of " Five Stuart Princesses " in the Spectator of May 24th them occurred the following criticism on my essay :—" An...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTAT011.1 Sin,—I shall be very grateful if you will again insert in the columns of the Spectator, as you have so kindly done in former years, an...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—When you say in the Spectator of May 24th that Alfonso XIII. is the only instance of a ruler who was born a King you overlook certain...

CASTLES IN THE AIR. ["If you want to know what a man is, examine his castles in the air."— Spectator, May 17th, 1902.] WHERE is my castle in the air, My true self's home...

TWO IRISH SIBYLS.* She said, ' God knows they owe me nought, I tossed them to the foaming sea, I tossed them to the howling waste, Yet still their love comes back to me.'" "...

WHEN Mr. Dicey says that "a consecutive narrative of the events which, under the Khedivate, have rendered England the permanent Power in Egypt has not yet been given," we gaze...

lax Churchmen, those agreeable, good-natured men of the world, who, if they added to the charm of society under the old regime in France, cer- tainly did nothing to arrest its...

still remains the best work that can be put into the hands of one who wishes to have a clear idea of the principles of the most fascinating of sciences—we wish that he would...

THE CONQUEROR.• THE advice tendered by Mr. Balfour a few years ago to novelists in search of a theme to write life-histories, though often acted on before and since, has...

Dawe's books are more exciting reading when he is dealing with adventures in China than when he is describing modern life in London. The central figure of his story, however,...

of art." If Miss Christian herself had perceived this fact 'before she began to write she would have given us an infinitely better piece of work. As it is, however, there is...

THE LIFE OF A CENTURY. The Life of a Century. By Edwin Hodder. (G. Newnes. 108.6d. net.)—This is one of the books, not inconsiderable in number, which must be reviewed either...

(Chatto and Windus. 6s.)—The "Tear of Kalee" is the usual diamond stolen from the usual Indian idol, and pursued with'the usual cruelty and pertinacity by that same idol's...

—We cannot help thinking that "Edna Lyall" has written this book, not for the sake of the story, for such it can hardly be called, but that she,might have _the opportunity of...

Mrs. Barr has, at least, come very near to success in the very difficult task of writing a genuine historical tale. The story of adventure is always easy, and the great struggle...

6s. 6d.)—We must own that we do not feel clear as to what Mr. White means. Certainly the general upshot of these five stories of "Love and Politics" is that politicians have...

La More Press. 25s. net.)—The seals figured in this volume number one hundred, each of the fifty plates giving two. The plates are preceded by verbal description, in which a...

Sons. 4s. 6d.)—Mr. Tuckwell begins by a notice of the Eastern litera- ture of the fourth decade of the nineteenth century, and declares, truly enough, that "Eothen" is the...

Abruzzi. (H. W. Bell. 3s.)—The narrative has the interest, and, we must add, the monotony, of all such stories of travel. Nowhere does man carry on a harder fight against...

An Old Westminster Endowment. By E. S. Day. (Hugh Rees. 35. net.)—In this very readable little book Miss Day tells the story of the Grey Coat Day School, of which she is the...

(R.T.S. 2s. 6d.)—This is a pleasant, readable little book, carefully put together, and furnished with illustrations from an account of the Coronation of George IV. These have...

are very glad that the editor of "Murray's Home and School Library" persuaded Professor Campbell that there was room for another book on the "Republic." The great dialogue wants...

Walsh. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co. 7s. 6d.)—It is difficult to give such ari appreciation of this volume as would cause no offence. It contains, as might be expected, dicaula...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as hare not lain reserved for review In other forms.] The Coronation Prayer - Book. (Oxford University Press. 12s. 6d....

Age • Press. 2d.)—This " Open Letter to Dr. A. Conan Doyle " may be dismissed with but very few words. We have seen before some of Mr. Robertson's work, enough to convince...

and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—One might use of Mr. Goldwin Smith the phrase which Mr. Courtney used so very infelicitously of Lord 3filner,—" a lost mind." There is to be seen in...

Volunteer Movement" is sufficiently strong to stand being laughed at. Indeed, after the South African experiences, some of the jokes that are aimed at them are a little out of...

Contagia. By G. V. Poore, M.D. (Longmans and Co. 5s. net.)— Dr. Poore pursues with admirable energy his crusade against the popular system of sanitation so-called. He...

and Co. 3s. (ld.)—Mrs. Terton has had a considerable and varied experience of nursing. She began by being a " supplementary nurse." This, she explains, is a dignified name for...

and Co. ls. 6d.)—This is one of a class of books which does not call for criticism. The multitudes of people who have heard about Mr. Passmore Edwards, and have been...

sufficient demand to warrant a new edition of Tecumseh, by Charles Mair (W. Briggs, Toronto). Mr. Mair has added some poems from an earlier volume. Tecumseh, it will be...

a collection of "Saturday middles,"—we may be excused for explaining, there being no bounds to human ignorance, that a "Saturday middle " is mutatis mutandis the equivalent to...