to the extent to which the Chinese are employing Japanese to instruct their soldiers and the artisans of their great arsenals. It is asserted on the one hand that the Japanese...

telegram from its Paris correspondent, de- scribing a cosmopolitan dinner given by "a Frenchman of high political rank," at which a Dutchman, "a man of a certain age" and well...

at Cape Town on Thursday. Conspicuous in the pro- cession which accompanied the body from the Houses of Parliament to the Cathedral were Mr. Merriman, Mr. Sauer, Mr. Molten°,...

if it was not so meant, especially when we remember that the German Government never made any real apology for, or ex- planation of, the telegram? The present writer held at the...

stories as to the execution of the so-called Australian officers—they seem, in reality, to have been, not Australian officers, but officers of a South African irregular corps...

WHERE is nothing definite to record in regard to the 1 - peace negotiations. All that it is safe to say is that Mr. Schalk Burger and his colleagues have got into touch with Mr....

case.

of worrying the authors of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty. Their Ambassador in Pekin has, it is said, suggested that Thibet should be declared independent, obviously as a blow to...

Papacy, though it has lost great amounts through injudicious investment, is still fairly well off. Its invest- ments, which have now been transferred to Italian under- takings,...

the French Chamber, and hitherto supposed to be secretly allied to the Nationalists, made at Remiremont on Sunday last a rather remarkable speech. He repudiated Bonapartism...

of the unrest in Arabia which is certainly of some, a nd may be of much, political interest. He believes that a descendant of the Wahabee dynasty, crushed in 1818 by Ibrahim...

Sultan, tormented by fears of rebellion and assassina- tion, has quietly executed his brother, Raschid Pasha, who, according to Mahommedan law, ranks before the Sultan's own...

country, has been greatly struck by the reported terms of Mr. Rhodes's will. Its conductors even consider the great legacies to educa. tion as homages to intelligence and ideas,...

present, though the unrest there would under other circum- stances produce complications. Bulgaria is simmering with discontent, partly produced by the financial situation, the...

British and German trade published in the Times of Thursday that although the increase in the latter has during the last five years been abnormal, it has not been at the expense...

connected with the supply of material to Governments and public bodies to study the able and lucid reflections on the whole subject contained in a series of despatches written...

a protest from Sir Robert Giffen in regard to the proposed Imperial Zollverein. He notes that a Zollverein presupposes and requires geographical contiguity, and that therefore...

his mind more clearly than when he is dealing with the training of soldiers. On Wednesday was issued an Army Order on the training of troops " approved " by the...

New Consols (2f) were on Friday 94f.

THE POWER OF THE TREASURY. T HE world of politics, like the world of art and litera- ture, or even the world of theology, has its fashions. At present one of the most marked of...

believe, had a serious reflex influence in Europe. It has made the grouping of the Powers much more definite, and probably wider in its scope. Its first result, as we all know,...

TN this month's Nineteenth Century we have a rejoinder . by Colonel Pedder to the criticisms of Colonel Har- court and Mr. Waters on his article, "Where are the • Village...

the Aborigines' Protection Society to the British Government to intervene on behalf of the natives of the Congo State ought at once to be heard. That Society has often been...

W E are always deploring, and with good reason, the want of open spaces near London for the exercising of our troops in field tactics. Except for one or two commons, like...

]1.1 R. HOWELLS has recently published a set of papers on "The Heroines of Fiction" (London : Harper and Brothers, 15s. net), and very pleasant reading they are. The American...

I T is the fashion among a number of persons to look down upon the suburbs and dwellers in the suburbs. The word " suburban " conveys, or is often used to convey, a certain...

T HOSE familiar with the valley of the Thames and with the wild population both of the riverside and of the adjacent hills will set down the carrion crow as the typical resident...

THREE SOUTH AFRICAN QUESTIONS. (To THE EDITOR OP TIIR "SPECTATOR:1 ST, —The parent who watches day by day the growth of a child is often precluded, by reason of accustomed...

THE "SPECTATOR" PRIZE AT BISLEY. [To TR& EDITOR OB THE "SPECTA.TOR.1 Si,—As several persons have expressed the opinion re the Spectator Competition at Bisley that Volunteers...

THE "SPEOTATOR."J SIB,—I have several times seen it stated by correspondents of yours that after the suppression of our great rebellion, in 1865, we made wholesale...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE g`SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—In the article on this subject in your issue of March 22nd it is stated that it would be interesting to know if the cuckoo gives the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—A propos of " Linesman's " recent plea for the use of the bicycle in the Army, it is interesting to note that Keats in 1819...

(To TRH EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."1 Silk—There is a perplexing use of the name " Hebron " in Browning's " Saul " :— "For I wake in the grey dewy covert, while Hebron...

[To THE EDTTOR OP TEE "SPECTATOR:] Sin,—The Head-Master of Loretto, writing to you on "Com- pulsory Volunteering" in the Spectator of March 22nd, says in criticising the...

rTO THE EDITOR Or TER "SPECTATOR.".1 SER,—In reference to your article on " Grace " in the Spec- tator for March 29th, will you allow me to make the following quotation from...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] Stn,—One feature in the training of the Swiss citizen has only received a passing notice in the instructive pamphlet by Mr. Coulton,...

SIR,—If the question be What is grace ? (as distinct from what may be postulated about it), then I think Canon Body's is one that deserves to rank among great definitions. He...

[TO THE EDITOR OE THE "SPECTATOR."] Sfa,—We should esteem it a favour if you could mention that Mr. Bolton King is now engaged upon a biography of Mazzini, and will be...

On! met ye April on your way— And was she grave or was she gay— Saw ye a primrose chaplet lair— Upon her tangled, wind-tossed hair ? And had she on a kirtle green, The...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—I have been asked by M. Paul Sabat,ier to make known to all lovers of St. Francis that a new Society is being formed of all students...

BOOK-COLLECTORS.* THE book-collector differs in intent very little from the hunter of postage-stamps. It is not his business to spoil his treasures by opening their pages. A...

Tars collection does not, of course, mark Mr. Hardy's first appearance in the ranks of the poets. In 1898 he put out a volume entitled Wessex Poems, and other Verses, of much...

one of the most curious problems of archaeology. Though known to the early Portu. guese voyagers, they were forgotten and vanished from observation for more than three...

is the autobiography of Jacob Riis, a Dane who went as a very young man to seek his fortune in America. The book opens with some charming pictures of his boyhood in the little...

THE Nineteenth Century this month is a fair average number. South African topics are still the most interesting reading for a good many of us, and the two articles which come...

THE HOUND OF THE BASICERVLLLES.* raw( what depths of the Infernal Regions came the hell- hound which haunted the dreary moor near Baskerville Hall, and who was the lone watcher...

[Under this heading ice notice such Books of the week as have not bun reserved for review in other forms.] The Ancestor, No. 1. (A. Constable and Co. 5s. net.)—We offer a...

and others. (Ward, Lock, and Co. 6s )—" Zike Monldom " is the title story of a volume of capital tales of life among navvies. "Orme Agana" paints his rough characters with a...

and Co. 6s.)—This is a story of provincial France in the time of Charles VI., and gives a grim picture of the lives of the peasants, and of their attempts at vengeance against...

and Son. 6s.)—This might be called "The Mysteries of St. Rule's," for theta is a lady who appears mysteriously, and a diamond that disappears with equal strangeness. The plot...

is exaspe- rating to find him trying to amuse us with such a very silly and impossible invention as this story of the pirate's daughter. Kate Bonnet, heroine and godmother of...

With Illustrations by Frank Dadd and A. Forestier. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—The King crowned in Max Pemberton's romance of the days of Queen Mary—Mary Tudor, by the way, not...

have a wicked doctor working out a secret theory and making experi- ments in a remote Lincolnshire village, who in a rash moment in- vites a lively young niece to come and live...

RUSSIA, ENGLAND, AND GERMANY. Russia, England, and Germany. By Malcolm Ma,cColl, Canon of Ripon. (Chapman and Hall. Is.)—Canon MacColl's views as to the relations which...

2s. 6d.)—This volume, one of the "Handbooks for the Clergy" Series appearing under the editorship of the Rev. A. W. Robinson, should reassure any one who may have doubted as...

the assistance of J. P. A. Renwick, M.A. (Mac- millan and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—This book grows in bulk, having increased by eighty-three pages in three years, while the in-...

and Stoughton. Gs. net.)—There is no occasion for a criticism of this interesting volume. We know what to expect, and we get it ; it may be said that we get more. The...

with, B.D. (Macmillan and Co. 4s. net.)—Mr. Askwith's first chapter is given to a study of Acts xvii. 4. It is manifest that the Thessalonian Church largely consisted of...

Co. 5s. net.)—We must be content with a very brief notice of this book. It would be unreasonable for an out- sider to pronounce on the social and economical questions...

Wickham Legg and W. 11. St. John Hope, M.A. (A. Constable and Co. 21s. net.)—These inventories cover a period of about five centuries. The earliest, however (1294), concern s...

Walpole. (Longmans and Co. 4s. 6d. net.)—These thirty letters were addressed between the years 1766 and 1792—Horace Walpole died in 1797—to Thomas Walpole, a cousin, and...

process of publication a "new enlarged edition" of Pamili tr Wild Flowers, by F. E. Hulme, F. L.S. (Cassell and Co., 6d. net per number). The first number now before us contains...