King Christian of Denmark died suddenly from heart failure in his eighty-eighth year, after a reign of more than forty-two years. No European Monarch was more popular in this...

any further loans to Russia are out of the question,—at any rate, till the new Constitution has become a reality. The grounds of the belief are that fresh advances would go in...

T HE Election returns are now completed, save for the two Scottish University seats and the Orkneys and Shetlands. Leaving out these seats, 378 Liberals have been elected, 51...

case.

a logical preliminary to the enforcement of the Separation Law, has led to painful disturbances in some of the churches in Paris. The inspectors of the Exchequer were mobbed in...

there was an excited debate in the Chamber, caused by an interpella- tion addressed to the Government by M. Allard, a Socialist. M. Ronvier declared that the recent incidents...

the rank-and-file of the Unionist Party are beginning to show un- easiness at the apparent determination of the Unionist leaders to keep the flag of Protection flying at all...

of last week Count Andrassy had an interview with the King, and, on being invited to form a Government, declined owing to the King's refusal to yield on the military question....

made a speech at Montreal on Canada's relation to the Preferential policy which deserves the atten- tion of all Imperialists. He described as a " calumny " the suggestion that...

been focussed on Biarritz, and the King of Spain's betrothal to Princess Ena of Battenberg, though not yet officially announced, may now be regarded as an accomplished fact....

picture of Count Witte, based on an article by M. Paul Adam, of the Paris Journal. Count Witte's position, in the opinion of the French publicist, is that of a master who reigns...

made the occasion for an inflammatory speech by Count Ballestrem, the President of the Reichstag, at its annual banquet. Count Ballestrem dwelt with enthusiasm on the Kaiser's...

dealing with matters which are either not controversial, or are opposed only by the Moroccan delegates. The main question has been that of financial reform, and the Committee...

of the chief Egyptian and Soudanese officials, formally opened the new railway from the Nile to the Red Sea. The terminus on one side is the new harbour near Suakim, and on the...

important lecture on the Church in France, a subject on which he is entitled to speak with peculiar authority. He began by pointing out the extreme prejudice which French law...

his appeal to the nation, made last June, for funds to encourage rifle-shooting as a national pursuit. In that appeal £100,000 was named as a minimum figure, but unfortunately...

done a very sensible as well as a very courageous thing in refusing to 'allow the Guardians of the parish of Lambeth to buy an estate of five hundred and sixty-seven acres near...

in Pretoria on Friday week. Sir Percy FitzPatrick described the attempt, now promoted with all the resources and energies of Het Volk and its allies, to change the electoral...

on Tuesday of Mr. C. J. Cornish, the well-known writer on natural history and country sports and pastimes, whose delightful articles in the Spectator have for the past fifteen...

p q nsols (2 per cent.) were on Friday 90}.

THE FUTURE OF THE UNIONIST PARTY. W HAT we hoped and believed would happen is already happening. A movement, and a strong movement, is beginning, not among the leaders, but...

_Li CARICATURE published in the Pall Mall Gazette of Tuesday represents with great skill. and without malice a real doubt in the mind of many sensible people. The Premier as...

T n; last week of January is a memorable date in the annals of Egypt and the Soudan. It was the - week which twenty-one years ago saw Gordon dare "the high that proved too...

M R HALDANE'S speech at Edinburgh this day week bore an encouraging unlikeness to the usual addresses of War Secretaries. He took for his subject the need of ideas in politics,...

Election is over the public will once more be able to turn its attention to other matters of importance. We trust that in the case of our readers they will interest themselves...

T HE rage to live is no new thing. It was Pope who first used the expression. Flavia, who personifies it, stands near to Calypso in that dream of fashionable women with which he...

W HENEVER a crime has been committed, or supposed to have been committed, and the police admit that they are unable to lay their bands on the criminal, one point should be...

T HE duck is a person who seldom gets his deserts. Some centuries ago Chaucer blasted his character, and he has never since got it properly repaired. This is hard, for there is...

THE FUTURE OF THE UNIONIST PARTY. [TO TIM EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTILTOR:1 SIE,—.118 one of those Liberals who have insisted from the outset of Mr. Chamberlain's mad enterprise that...

pro TIIE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,'] SIR,—Why does ".0. A.," in last week's Spectator, not mention Bristol ? Mr. Chamberlain made the speech here in Novem. ber which many people...

['r0 THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Do you really think the Fiscal verdict in the recent elections was as decisive as you hope P It does not appear so to the majority of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPRCTATOR.'l Sue,—To a letter in your last issue urging our need of a national University to train business men you append a note contrasting our...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." _I Snt,—Crushing and complete as the defeat of the Unionist Party has been, it is well we should realise that the defeat would have been even...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPICTATOR."1 Sin,—A late learned Bishop is reported to have said that he believed in three things: the Christian religion, the multipli- cation-table,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR-1 Sin,—In the Spectator of January 27th, "E. W." in discussing the attitude of the Labour Party to Free-trade says that "at the next General...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Will you permit me to enter a strong protest against the use of the term " Unionist " as applied to the reactionary party who have been...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Siu,—Have you not done less than justice to your ouin side of the house in your somewhat sweeping generalisations on "the powerlessness of...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR...1 SIR,—May I express a hope, in which I feel sure I shall have many sympathisers, that you will reconsider the resolution, announced in your...

week's issue asks you "what special interest Free-trade has to Nonconformist ministers, that they should preach politics from their pulpits, and address meetings all over the...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR.".1 Sur,—Not a few Protectionist speakers and writers, like "A Constant Reader" in your issue of January 27th, speak of Nonconformist ministers...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 SID,—In your "News of the Week" of January 27th you speak of the "sound democratic principle" of "One vote one value" as applied to the...

Srn,—I think the following extract from Lord Tennyson's new edition of "In Memoriam" is specially interesting just now, bearing as it does very forcibly on the religions...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEOTATOR,"I SIR,—My attention has just been called to a letter signed "W. B. 0." which appeared in the Spectator of January 20th. I do not recognise...

Snt,—The opponents of "One vote one value" in the Transvaal declare that there are no precedents for such a course, and that all existing systems, both in this country and in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOE.1 SIR,—Your reviewer in his notice of this work in the Spectator of January 27th leaves it to be inferred that Moliere was, "after hesitation"...

1..TE THE EDITOR OF TUB -sescrixoa.1 Sra,—We have to thank you for your interesting notice of our "Nature Calendar." Evidently the reviewer VMS in a merry mood when he penned...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE osesersToRm Sra,—Will you kindly give publicity in your columns to a movement that is now being instituted, to induce farmers to work their horses without...

[To Tao EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] Sra,—I have read with much pleasure the interesting and suggestive article on fairy-tales in the Spectator of Novem- ber 11th, 1905. No one,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR."] Sr,—Mr. Horace Wyndham in your last issue admits that the sentence of a military Court-Martial requires confirma- tion by a superior...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "EPRUCATOR:1 am a little afraid that your kind and appreciative notice of my "Principles of Parish Work" in the Spectator of January 27th may lead your...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "EPROTATOR:'.1 SIR,—YOU are generally so accurate in your statements that I must call your attention to a mistake in last week's issue. On p. 131 you...

IN ANY GARDEN. DOWN his long garden he did slowly go, For fairer sight did each new path disclose Now bent he where the purple asters glow, Now stayed his feet beside a...

ALMOND OF LORETTO.* Wao was Almond, and where and what was Loretto ? Patriotic and properly proud of her own heroes as Scotland is, potent and pervasive as is her influence...

[Tim experiment proposed by Colonel Pollock for which we are asking subscriptions may be briefly described as follows. Colonel Pollock declares that if funds sufficient to meet...

a modern history shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth." This danger Dr. Rose is well aware of. Many events of the last thirty years are still...

regarded by the Army as its acknowledged, and, as it were, hereditary, champion against the dissolvent forms of Parliamentary government; and this view was in a large measure...

drama does not diminish. "Age cannot wither it, nor custom stale." Occasionally, as part of a pose, a clever farceur like Mr. Bernard Shaw may protest that Shakespeare is...

6s.)—The story of The House of Riddles oscillates between the Kiondyke and a seaside University town in Scotland which the reader of the book will have no difficulty in...

and Stoughton. 6s.) —There is a great deal of charm in this account of what may be called the resuscitation of an old maid. Cynthia Day has, in actual years, reached the...

published by an English house, The Scar is, like the book mentioned above, a story of American life. The scene is laid in Virginia, and the whole atmosphere of the book is as...

I VENDETTA IN VANITY FAIR.* THE novel of society manners (or mannerlessness) has been produced, or perhaps we should say manufactured, in such quantities of late years that a...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as halm not bun curved for review in other forms.] Ten Years' Experience in the Manchester and Salford County Courts. By...

to their series of "English School Texts," Edited by W. H. D. Rouse, Litt.D. (6d. each). These are The Siege of Jerusalem (from Lodge's translation of Josephns), An Embassy to...

lah HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE. A General View of the History of the English Bible. By Brooke Foss Westcott, D.D. Third Edition, Revised by William Aldis Wright. (Macmillan...

Constance Masefield. (E. Grant Richards. 3s. 6d. net.)—This is a pretty little book, recalling by its format the fashion of the period to which its contents belong. The...

glad to have the opportunity of noticing the yearly 'volume of this magazine. Chambers's Journal, in point of seuiority, yields only to Blackwood, the Gentleman's Magazine being...

(T. C. and E. C. Jack. 21s. net.)—The Abbe Casgraiu wrote the story of the conquest of Canada—he might have been rather inclined to say the loss of Canada—with a certain...

Prices of Books, Edited by Luther S. Livingston (Elliot Stock, by subscription, .f.,8 8s.), containing the prices given in English and American auction-rooms for books during...

Black. 2s. 6d.)—This, the twenty-sixth issue, gives the customary information about education, employments and pro- fessions—with special treatment of various occupations of all...

By Edmund Lodge. (Kelly's Directories. 31s. 6d.) —This, the seventy-fifth edition, exhibits not a few changes and developments from the first issue, and is about as satisfactory...