Pekin has actually commenced. A Japanese corps d' armge supposed to be fifteen thousand strong, but probably larger, is ad- vancing from Shan-hei-kwan on the coast by a route...

Anar- chists have murdered the King of Italy, a Monarch against whom there is no allegation, even among Republicans. Late in the evening of Sunday last King Humbert was...

themselves at war with Russia, and include masses of details as to fighting all along the Amur, at various places in Manchuria, and at Keigan in Mongolia, at Mukden, and at...

E UROPE has been greatly surprised this week, and also relieved. The Ambassadors, though besieged in Pekin, are all alive with the exception of the German, who was murdered...

Pekin to Segan, of which we spoke at length last week, are said to be advancing. The Chinese have even repaired the railroad from Pekin to Paotingfa, which extends for the first...

case.

death of her second son, Prince Alfred, reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, at the age of fifty-four. A sailor by profession, and, it is said, a competent Admiral, the Prince...

have few political consequences, but this insecurity of the Kings, Presidents, and prominent statesmen is a most serious political evil. It makes them all distrust liberal...

in which he declared a propos of Lord Salisbury's remarks as to failure of past schemes of invasion: "Unhappy is the nation that relies for its security on its past history."...

was illustrated this week by the attack made on the Shah, who is now visiting the Paris Exhibition. As he was driving in the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne in an open carriage at 9...

the troops which left Bremerhaven on Friday week for China, his Majesty ordered them to give no quarter and take no prisoners, but use their weapons so that, like the Hans under...

we hoped, and we are often accused of being too optimistic. On Saturday last Lord Roberts was able to report that 5,000 Boers had been hemmed in by Generals Hunter and Rundle...

Wemyss again mentioned the opinion of the British Military Attach6 unnamed who had declared that it was all-important that the country "should be strong and unassailable in the...

of evidence being, on the whole, on the aide of the efficiency of the hospitals. The examination of the patients at Netley produced some excellent replies. One man had fought in...

to our policy and position in China which is, on the whole, very satisfactory, and shows that the Govern. ment have no notion of being hounded by the Jingoes into any wild and...

Commons, and, we are glad to say, " like a giant refreshed." We do not agree with his speech, and even think much of it wrong-headed and unfair, but there is no dis- puting its...

chequer made a statement as to the raising of the money required for the supplementary estimates. The previous borrowings by Treasury bills and the war loan had amounted to...

Lord Wemyss and Lord Rosebery should have placed the dis- cussion on the lines they did. We strongly object to the system of calling men alarmists, panicmongers, or old women...

Friday 97i.

THE OFFICE OF PRIME MINISTER AND THE POSITION OF THE EXPERT IN OUR ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM. A DDRESSING the House of Lords on Friday week, Lord Salibbury used words which imply...

China is a great relief to Europe, and also.a cause of great bewilder- nient. Communications from the British, German, and Japanese Legations in Pekin, besides one from the...

King Humbert, though a most deplorable event, as increasing the uneasiness, and therefore the severity, of all ruling persons, will not, we think, produce any grave political...

South Africa has very greatly improved during the past week. General Prinsloo's large commando in the north-east of the Orange Colony has surrendered, already some two thousand...

O N the Friday evening of last week a banquet was given in the Middle Temple Hall by members of the Bench and Bar of England to the representatives of the Bench and Bar of the...

THE contempt of Asiatics for Europeans is a little difficult I- to understand and most difficult to explain. Their hatred is natural enough, for the European is usually a con-...

S OME writer has been advocating in the Press the estab- lishment here of schools of oratory as they have them in America. John Bull, it is well known, is no great speaker, and...

T uE county of Surrey has been highly favoured by Nature. Although the industry of 1312.11 has sadly dis- figured large portions near London, others, nearer the borders of...

A FIT OF HOMESICKNESS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. - ] SIR,—I am in Canada writing in a huge Western hotel, within earshot of a big public " banquet," and am earnestly...

SlIti — MY. Stone's letter in the Spectator of July 23th, though tdo not think it goes to the root of this matter, which is at bottom, I believe, the extraordinary indifference...

Snt,—My letters may possibly give - the impression that I am an apologist for Mouravieff. Will you therefore allow me to saythat he was far from being a favourite of mine P I...

THE LACK OF CANDIDATES FOR HOLY ORDERS. [TO THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR.") Sfa,—Mr. Stone in the Spectator of July 28th expresses the opinion that the "increasing nobleness"...

[To TUE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—Canon MaeColl having devoted a long letter to the endeavour to prove the " ignorance " of diplomatists in general, and of those...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—May I be permitted the use of your columns to dispel an illusion which has prevailed for many years, and which evidently still obtains ?...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Stn,—I wish to call your attention to a scheme, started in Salford by the 3rd Volunteer Battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers, which, I...

[To TRY EDITOR OF THE "SPECT4TOR:1 SIB,—There is much in your article on the Volunteers that must command assent; but is imitation of the Boers the best ideal to set before...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE eseeerAme.1 Sre,—I venture to point out to you the importance of sub- stituting an entire British staff on all the railways in the Orange River Colony and...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] read with no little interest your article bearing this title, but while, as a Broad Churchman, I agree with all that you say in support of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The recent discussion on the Colonial Estimates brings prominently into notice the fact that the Liberal party, as such, are without a...

THE "SPacrAT0s..."1 SIE,—May not the line- " necdum etiam geminos a tergo respicit angues," quoted in your review of Mr. Page's 2Eneid, V11,-X11, in your issue of July 28th,...

[TO TII2 EDITOR OF TRZ "SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—I have a small country house, less than thirty miles from London and within two and a half miles of the Eden Bridge Station on the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TIIR “SpEcre.rort."] Srs,—Your article in the Spectator of July 14th on the improvement of square gardens is so interesting to the London gardener, and draws...

[To THE EDITOR OF TIM 'SPECTATOR:] Sin,—Many will be prompted by your article in the Spectator of July 21st on "Unoccupied Coast" to wish that owners of property on the coast...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIR, — The faculty of imitating sounds and songs not their own must be more frequent in blackbirds than is generally supposed. I remember in...

from Tunis to Marseilles in the early Spring, we were delighted at dinner-time to see six swallows all in a row sitting on a bar above the saloon dining-table. They remained...

• [To THE EDITOR OF TIIR " SeEcTexon.."11 SIR, — I was considerably surprised to notice in the speech of Lord Lansdowne in Friday week's debate in the House of Lords his...

THE FUTURE OF THE FAR EAST.* COLQHHOUN has written a book which will be read with profound attentidn by all who are interested in the problems • The • Overland to Mina. By...

ISOLATION. THE moon is large, the heavens are clear: Above the trees that crown the height Two stars are shining, two so near, It seems their shimmering rays unite. But she...

Croquet Up to Date is to be congratulated upon the attainment of an object well-nigh essential to literary success at the moment. He has succeeded in securely hitching on his...

INGE complains in the opening sentence of his first lecture of the loose way in which the-word "mysticism" is used. It is made to cover a wide variety of thinkers, as well as...

THE prayer for protection "for all that travel by land or by water" might well be used on behalf of all the characters in Mr. Morgan Robertson's collection of Spun-Yarn sea-...

ME Nineteenth Century for August is a heavy number, with more than its usual share of articles of limited interest. The editor publishes a long list of businesslike people who...

THE KINGDOM OF THE YELLOW ROBE. The Kingdom of the Yellow Robe. By Ernest Young. (Archi- bald Constable and Co. Cs.)—This book opens with a lively description of Bankok,—the...

All Introduction to English Politics. By John M, Robertson. (Grant Richards. 10s. 6d.)—Mr. Robertson's laborious work is a good instance of the merits and demerits of the...

A Sportswoman in India : Personal Adventures in Known and Unknown India. By Isabel Savory. (Hutchinson and Co. 16s.) —Miss Savory defines a sportswoman as "a fair shot,...

Travels in England. By Richard Le Gallienne. (Grant Richards. 6s.)—.4 Scot's Wanderjahre. By David Lowe. (Wilson and Co., Glasgow. 2s. 6d. net.)—Both of the books before us are...

Great Books as Life-Teachers. By Newell Dwight Hillis. (Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier, Edinburgh. 35. 6d.)—The fact that the author of this volume has been the hero—the some-...

Our Great Oily. By H. 0. Arnold-Forater. (Cassell and Co. Is. 9d.)—"A book at three hundred pages," says Mr. Arnold. Forster, "cannot pretend to do more than give brief extracts...

5s.)—To compress even the merest outlines of equity into less than two hundred pages of large print is no easy business, and Mr. S. Williams has done the task which he set...

(Under this heading we notice such Books of the weac CO have not been reserved for review in other forms.] and Japan," "Asia," "China," "The World," "From Taku to Pekin," "Port...

Gates, by the Rev. Charles A. Fox (Marshall Brothers, 6c1.), and from the same publishers, The Christian in Complete Armour, by W. Gurnall, 1616 - 1676, Selections arranged by...

108.6d.)—Mr. McCarthy, who is now "Director-General of the Siamese Government Surveys," tells us the story of his work during the years 1881-1893 in collecting material for a...

and Reginald L. Poole, M.A. (Longmans and Co. 5s.)— We are inclined to express a preference, among the four longer articles, for Mr. Arthur Tilley's "Humanism under Francis I."...

: — The Century, the Pall Mall Magazine, St. Nicholas, the Humanitarian, the Review of Reviews, Scribner's Magazine, Knowledge, the Girl's Realm, the Wide World Magazine, the...