INDEX. FROM JANUARY 4th TO JUNE 27/17, 1896, litCLII81YE. TOPICS OF THE DAY. A BYSEIINIA, the Italian Disaster in ... 328-365439 Adowa, the Meaning of the Defeat at 4.39...

the tone of German opinion about the difficulty in the Transvaal. He quotes paper after paper, one being the Vossische Zeilung, which is Liberal, in which the Government is...

so peaceful. The President gives no sign that he has changed his mind, and he is said to be supported by a vast body of opinion in the Western and Southern States, where a...

of anything like complicity in filibustering. If it had wanted to annex the Transvaal it would have taken far other means, but it did not want. Mr. Chamberlain hurried to town...

to " jump " the Transvaal will become a question of much importance. It seems clear that the Government was innocent, and indeed that was on the face of things. No man as able...

Jameson will be tried by court-martial, that Sir Hercules Robinson has arrived in Pretoria and is negotiating, first of all, for lenient treatment of the invaders, and that the...

I T is a time of surprises, all of them unpleasant The British Government had hardly recovered from the American President's Message when it found a civil war breaking out in...

any case.

of assault was tried, which brought out curiously the imagina- tive side of the Irish character, as well as its curiously loose and wandering conception of evidence. An old man...

Fermoy last Sunday, at which the Parnellite leader, Mr. J. Redmond, spoke in his usual strain. He had no pleasure, he said, in referring to the petty squabbles which had rent...

as every one had known for the last few weeks that he would be. It is in the main, we take it, a political appointment, though we are by no means disposed to speak so lightly of...

the Positivists at Newton 1;411 on Wednesday. For once he took the English side, in ipeaking of the im- broglio with America, though we do not know that he did mach to conjure...

presumably demi-official, Sir F. Scott, in command of the Ashantee Expedition, has made an important statement:4 At a "palaver," or formal interview, with the King of Akim-...

Venezuela boundary question. The Commissioners are Mr. Justice Brewer of the Supreme Court, Mr. R. N. Alvey, " Chief Justice " of the district of Colombia (Washington), Mr....

received from its special correspondent in America, which, if they are authentic, and not modified by subsequent papers, tend to show that the Schomburgk line between Venezuela...

had to deal with it, though in the greatly modified form of three monks. In the year 1360 these refugees came to the King at Reading, and made complaint that the Mussulmans were...

differently in the different circumstances of twenty-three years ago, the process should most certainly be one of levelling up. Trinity College has a great past and great...

year which elapsed on Tuesday last, show a wonderful -elasticity of the revenue, though an elasticity which will be more than absorbed by a very small war. The net increase of...

as to the gigantic proportions assumed by the rabbit war in Australia. A few years ago New South Wales paid for the skins of twenty-seven million rabbits in twelve months, yet...

a clear, straightforward, and, on principle, reasonable statement of his views in regard to Irish Uni- versity Education. His main contention is that there must be equality of...

New Consols (22) were on Friday, 106i.

THE GATHERIISTG CLOUDS. T WO or three months ago no one would have said that the foreign policy of the United Kingdom was in any special degree anxious and threatening. Of...

fire so long smouldering in the Transvaal, is singularly inopportune. Great Britain commences the year loaded down with disputes, and there is now added to them a small civil...

a very much brighter people than their English neighbours and,—as they still absurdly think after half a century of not always wise humouring,—their English oppressors. But for...

W E warned our readers last week not to believe that the American danger was entirely over, and the news of this week entirely confirms that warning. The danger of war, it is...

people are beginning to get uneasy as to the state of their Colonial Empire, and to wonder whether it is worth the cost, are still accumulating. For a long time there has been...

that the Sultan is not personally responsible for the misgovernment of Turkey, being, in fact, merely the mouthpiece of the gang A eunuchs, chamberlains, aides-de-camp, and...

M ANY of us are familiar with the long-standing controversy about pew-rents. The pew-rented church rises at once before our imaginations,—a building divided into wooden pens,...

C ANON GORE, who appears to us nearly the only theologian of the Anglican Church who is at once in the largest sense profoundly learned, and also in the largest sense thoroughly...

T HE Iiebaudy incident, as it was called in the French Chamber, was probably in great part accidental. The unhappy "little sugar man" was not persecuted so savagely because he...

T HE old family nurse has been a favourite character in fiction from the time of Shakespeare, with his admirable ,portrait of the nurse in Romeo and Juliet, down to modern days...

THE ISLAND OF PEMBA. [To THE Enrroa OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Many who have read with interest, as I have done, the article, "Negro Capacity.—A Suggestion," in the Spectator of...

wire-haired Devonshire terrier whose acquaintance I have made while staying with his mis- tress, my daughter, has shown instances of intelligence which I think may interest...

[To THI EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I give another instance of the power which dogs seem to possess of understanding what is said in their pre- sence? We have a...

[To TEE EDITOR OF TAX " SPICTATOR."] SIR,—Only a year or two ago a young couple (both still living and unmarried) used "to walk out together," and during the engagement he, by...

have read your article in the Spectator of December 28th, entitled "Negro Capacity,—A Suggestion," with much interest, and in reply I may perhaps venture to say that if, when...

[To ram EDITOR OF THS "SPECTATOR. " ) Ern,—During the twenty-four years of my residence in Antananarivo, I have been a regular reader of the Spectator. I have always been struck...

RECOLLECTIONS. how nice the old days were, When you and I together Went nutting in the autumn woods, And all was golden weather ! The squirrel peeped, the squirrel leaped,...

that doge very rarely understand the use of mechanical contrivances, and that my young half-bred collie certainly does the use of bells, I hope you will admit a notice of him...

SPANISH ART AT THE NEW GALLERY.—I. WHAT with our National Gallery, and the collection brought together at the New Gallery, London possesses this winter am exhibition of the...

THE AMEER AT HOME.* IF no man is a hero to his valet, no man can remain a stranger to his physician. Mr. John Alfred Gray was surgeon to the Ameer of Afghanistan from 1889-91....

their accompanying illus- trations is sufficiently indicated by the design on the cover, —the shepherdess with her crook, the lover with his lute, and a background of silly...

A DESCRIPTIVE history of Constantinople has long been wanting to the traveller and student, who, until to-day, has had to depend upon his Murray or his Baedeker abroad, and •...

Miss SICHEL has lived in imagination in the drawing-room of the olden time—drawing-rooms in that especial sense in which the French have stamped their very language upon the...

THERE is much to be said, from many points of view, for our national habit of getting along somehow and employing our- selves too busily to pause to consider how we are going...

Mu. E. J. DILLON, the correspondent of the Daily Tekgrapk in Armenia, occupies the place of honour in the Contemporary Review with the worst account yet published of the horrors...

Mr. Allnutt continues the subject of Provincial Presses down to the year 1750. Many of the notices refer to newspapers. Sir E. M. Thompson writes on "The Grotesque and the...

The Expositor. (Hodder and Stoughton.) —We heartily welcome the first volume of the new (fifth) series of The Expositor, edited by the Rev. W. Robertson. The first paper, by...

too long and in certain respects somewhat common- place novel tells with not unpleasant variations the old story of man's injustice to woman and of woman's revenge. Felix...

Flash of Summer, by Mrs. W. K. Clifford, in the article on "Recent Novels," in the Spectator of December 28th, was in error as to the mode of the heroine's death, which was not...

Provost of Eton (d. 1540) founded a school in his native town of Scdbergh, and joined with it a chantry. The chantry of course was seized temp. Edward VI, but the school had...

edited by George Carter, M.A., containing sixteen maps showing the geography of the Orbis Veteribus Notus. — We have also to acknowledge two volumes of the New Technical...

Critical Apparatus, by the late J. H. Onions. (Clarendon Press.)—This volume, which appears under the care of Professor W. M. Lindsay, contains the work which Mr. Onions, at his...

—This book, the outcome of a paper on" The Birth of Invention," read at the Centenary of the American Patent System in 1891, is constructed on something of the same lines that...

MacEwen. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—One's first impulse on taking this massive volume—it contains more than eight hundred pages—into one's hands, is to exclaim against the...

Renan was, as he was wont to say himself, a mixture of Breton and Gascon. The story of his mental and spiritual development is one of the most curious on record. The Breton was...

New edition, revised, corrected, and enlarged. (Cassell )—Dr. Brewer explains that this book, which has reached in a period of twenty-five years its hundredth thousand, has been...

and Water Birds. By Mabel Osgood Wright. Illustrated. (Macmillan and Co.)—New England ornithology gains little in interest from a perusal of the early chapters of this book....

a Preface by F. E. Beddard, F.R.S. (Horace Cox), is a collection of miscellaneous short papers descriptive of animals and insects added to the Zoological Society's collection...

With 108 Illustrations. (Archibald Constable and Co.)—The last half of this book should have been omitted. It consists of miscellaneous papers on animal anatomy, and does not...

volume deals with one of the by-ways of Eaglish life. Some of our readers may have seen the preacher in a London church preceded to the pulpit by an official carrying a staff....

be taxed." This is the significant sentence in Mr. Laycock's volume. We shall not attempt to analyse or to refute the arguments by which he arrives at it; but we may remark that...

of the garden and of the field. It is a vindication, by reference to chemical analysis and modern medical practice, of the old " herbals ; " a modern "herbal," in fact, with the...

11. Emerson, M.R.C.S. Illustrated. (David Nutt.) —In his preface to this book the author goes out of his way to depreciate "The Birds of Norfolk," the work of the late Mr....