week the air has been full, about negotiations between Lord Rose- bery and Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman. Sometimes they are described as letters, again as messages, and...

Firman's camp at Tweefontein to have been one of De Wet's boldest and most ably executed strokes. Major Williams, in the absence of Colonel Firman, had encamped on the side of a...

1 ORD ROSEBERY has published an authorised edition of I his Chesterfield speech, which he says, however, contains only "the skeleton " of his policy, He adds a remark which,...

of Venezuela, not, as seems to be imagined, as money owing by private citizens to German subjects, but as money violently withheld by the Government of Venezuela, most of it...

must be placed the incontestable evidence of further attrition furnished during the week. The reduc- tion in the enemy's strength in December amounts to a thousand, probably...

" protocol " which was to settle everything so satis- factorily has been signed, but nothing is settled more than before. Both Republics are calling out troops, and in Buenos...

children for refusing to learn prayers in German, has of course created much excitement in Galicia. In order to avoid an impassioned debate in the Diet, Prince Czartoryski, a...

to the remarkable article—the first of a series— which Colonel Picquart has contributed to the Grande Revue for January. In the first instalment of these " Notes on the Military...

the Legations before the murder of the German Ambassador came from the missionaries in North China, They hear reports not only from their converts, but from the subordinate...

financial position of Roumania. The State has, it appears, greatly overspent itself, and in 1899 was compelled to make a bargain with the financiers who supply it, under which...

of comment and criticism in the Press, notably in the Daily Telegraph. Our contemporary admits that the more stringent regulations now put forward are the logical outcome of Mr....

which induces the Imperial Government to hesitate in suspending the Constitution. The Ausgleich, or fundamental " arrangement " between Hungary and Austria upon which the Dual...

coal supplies of the United Kingdom was announced on Monday. The terms of reference, besides investigation into available resources and rate of exhaustion, prescribe inquiries...

to the name of the English Royal house, asking whether it really ought to be changed with the accession of a Coburg Prince. The Atmanach de Gotha changes it, and it is certain...

has just returned after a five months journey in the hitherto forbidden Hinterland of Tripoli. The expedition had been organised for scientific purposes, but proved rich in...

tide of controversy flowing briskly in the columns of the Times. We have no intention of emulating the hospitality of our contemporary, but may permit ourselves one observation...

the year ending March 31st, 1902, were issued on Tuesday. The total amount paid into the Exchequer was £33,071,628, show- ing an advance of £3,596,659 on the three months ended...

in the hands of the King to be used for the prevention and alleviation of pulmonary disease. His Majesty has accordingly ordered that it shall be used for the foundation and...

makes a valuable suggestion. The writer desires to combine a steady minimum of fair wages for regular work with the inducements to extra work and the display of inventive power...

Friday 941.

LORD ROSEBERY'S PARTIAL SUCCESS. -FI ORD ROSEBERY has not yet succeeded in inducing the Radical wing of the Liberal party to accept his leadership. They tried at first, it is...

C ONTINENTAL publicists in their more acrid moods are fond of dwelling on the " isolation " of Great Britain, who, they assert, has not only not an ally but not a friend in the...

" C OMBATANT non-combatants" is a paradoxical phrase to be sure ; but nothing less than a staring contradiction will describe the case of those who accept all the dangers of war...

T "questions referred to the last Royal Commission on the coal supplies of the United Kingdom were by no means so wide and complex as those on which the Commission just...

which was started in the Times nearly two months since has not led to any very positive conclusion. That there is some, perhaps much, truth in what the corre- spondent of the...

I F the condition of the poor is not bettered during the next few years, it will not be because the statistics of that condition are not generally known. What Mr. Charles Booth...

T HE well-known French proverb which declares that le mieux est l'ennemi du bier appears to be reversed in the minds of many critics of contemporary English literature. They...

W HEN the frost broke up after Christmas Day the water fowl, which had been frozen out for a week, might have been expected to show some signs of pleasure at the immunity from...

GERMANY AND THE PERSIAN GULF. [To THE EDITOR OF TUB 'SPECTATOR. ' ] SIP, —The inner meaning of the affair at Kuweit is not hard to perceive, and one was quite prepared to find...

MORNING WINDS. [TO THE EDITOR OF TILE "SPECTATOR."] Siu,—In a charming letter to you last week Mr. W. W. Ward has quoted, largely from sources which, alas! are sealed to me,...

recall another fine passage descriptive of the wind before dawn which, like the lines from Long- fellow quoted by your correspondent in the Spectator of December 28th,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:'] Sus,—As the publication of some letters on the above subject in the Spectator a few weeks ago has called forth many inquiries from various...

December 28th Mr. W. W. Ward asks for a satisfactory explanation of Wordsworth's line,— " The winds come to me from the fields of sleep." In my ignorance of any discussion on...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR :] SIR,—Under the genial influence of the Christmas fireside elderly and prosperous men are prone to display a generous enthusiasm on behalf of...

[TO TUE EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTATOR") think the article in the Spectator of the 21st ult. on Lord Rosebery's speech leaves out of account certain individuals, of whom I am one,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—Your correspondent, "Imperialist," very rightly calls attention in the Spectator of December 28th to the serious news lately...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SVIICTATOR.'l SIR,—In discussing Lord Rosebery's difficulties in the Spectator of December 28th you advocate an arrangement by which Secretaries of State...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPEdTATOR.1 SIR, In the review of "Links with the Past," by Mrs. Charles Bagot, in the Spectator of December 28th, two of the foot- notes are incorrect....

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR"] SIR, —In the very interesting article in the Spectator of December 14th on " The Stars and their Names" there is mention of "the Great...

fTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR•1 SIB, —When Southey penned the following remarks concern- ing the conduct of the Opposition during the Peninsular War•, be little foresaw how...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR"] SIB, —In reply to your• reviewer's criticism in the Spectator of December 14th that I have " not " been "quite fair" to the Greek clubs, allow...

[TO TILE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."1 have found the article headed •" The Motives of Misers" in the Spectator of December 28th extremely in- trresting. An instance has,...

THE LIFE OF WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE, MR. HERBERT PAUL tells us that this book is a dry, un- adorned narrative of facts, with their appropriate dates. That may be true, in a...

Oh, Infant Jesus, meek and mild, From 'mid the glory and the rays Look on a little child. As one child to Another may, He talks without a thought of fear, Commending to a Child...

[To TIIE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIR, —In the Spectator of December 28th, under the above heading, a correspondent draws attention to the suffering resulting from the...

SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —Allow me to add two more warnings to book thieves. The one is from a school-book of 1795 belonging to a boy of my family at that date :— " Si quis in hum...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 • find I was in error in the impression (Spectator, December 21st) that an official acknowledgment of the services of the Australian...

ITO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIB,—Ton may be interested to learn the following facts concerning the new pastime to which reference is made in your issue of December...

enterprise, changes with its material. And so stoutly conservative is mankind that the material of warfare changes faster - than its tactics. The same characteristic may be...

fine a critic not to have made the best selection possible from such letters of FitzGerald as were available when he issued his excellent edition of the Literary Remains in...

M. DU CHAILLU in a very lightly written but sugges- tive volume called The World of the Great Forest has given us an instalment of what might be a most attractive addition to...

SIR ANDREW CLARKE, whose paper on " Our Naval Position in Eastern Seas " stands first in the January Nin'eteenth Century, reiterates the warning uttered by him at intervals...

CASHEL BYRON'S PROFESSION.* MR. BERNARD SHAW has adopted an original and thoroughly characteristic method of forestalling the treatment to which successful authors are often...

Ways Home is the sort of book that requires neither description nor criticism, only genial recommendation. The stories are all short, ingenious, romantic, wholesome, and full cf...

the space we are able to give to Mr. Alfred Hodder's most cunningly clever novel, The New Americans, it would be barely possible to give a catalogue raisonnd of the...

Our Town" is Edinburgh, and at first it seems as if its characteristics and peculiar charm were to hold the first place in the story. But as we read the human interest develops,...

This story of the American War of Independence, telling of the spirit and charm of the Colonial dames, as well as of the bravery of the men, leads one to speculate whether the...

Kinross has forestalled the reviewer, and has himself called attention to the fact that his book is written in the manner of Stevenson's "New Arabian Nights." The wisdom of thus...

Real World is another elaborate study of American social life, with a more introspective bias and a slightly morbid tone of moralising. Jack Pemberton, the hero, seeks" reality"...

THE ROYAL NAVY. The Royal Navy. Edited by W. Laird Clowes. Vol. VI. (S imp- son Low, Marston, and Co. 259. net.)—The peculiarity of this volume is that it begins and ends with...

Briscoe (Gay and Bird, 2s. 6d. net), we have Persian Love Songs, containing translations and paraphrases from some fifteen poets, of whom the best known names are Ferdusi, Omar...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as haus not been reserred fur reniew in other forms.] Eirenny Priory. By Colonel J. B. Turbervill. (Elliot Stock. is....

(Eyre and Spottiswoode. 6s.)—Dr. Douglas takes up a strongly con- servative position, holding, for instance, that Deuteronomy was written by Moses, though possibly showing a...

Matheson and Sydney C. Maple (S. C. Mayle, 2s. 63. net). The first paper is a well-deserved tribute of praise and gratitude to air Walter Besant. We see some noteworthy remarks...

John Capgrave, and others. Re-edited by Carl Horstman, Ph.D. "2 vols. (The Clarendon Press. 36s. net.)—A " Note," not worded, we may say in passing, with academia elegance,...

(Cambridge University Press. 10s.)—This edition is the " only direct memorial of Neil's work as a classical scholar." His life was given to teaching. So far we are reminded of...

Boston, U.S. 7s. 6d.)—This is an able sketch of Roman history regarded from within. The foreign relations of the State are outlined, while its domestic constitution, its...