T HE tops of the bayonets and sabres are just beginning to appear through "the fog of war" which for the last fortnight has been drifting in such wide wreaths and involving in...

as follows. The Boer raiders have been entirely cleared out of the south-east angle of the Free State, and it is still possible that some of them may be caught in the...

wrong, is gloomy in his anticipations of the next meeting of the Austrian Parliament, which begins on May 8th. A language Bill is to be introduced, and it is believed that the...

rather, a compromise which secures his main object, —viz., a great fighting Fleet. The Catholic Centre has refused to give him cruisers for foreign service, but has consented...

its Meat Bill. It is said that a compromise has been arranged about this also, but it is not one which avoids the main difficulty. The Agrarians, who are masters of the situa-...

news from Cuba and the Philippines. The Cubans are said to be so discontented that they threaten insurrec- tion, and the President has found it necessary to remove one of the...

if any Power would intervene on behalf of the Boer Republics have been most " sympathetically" received in Holland, but have evidently satisfied themselves that no European...

result that the Home-rule candidate, Mr. Bramsdon, was returned by a majority of 579,—the figures being T. A. Bramsdon, 10,287; and J. H. A. Majendie, 9,708. In 1895 the...

members, Sir William MacCormac and Mr. Treves, on Saturday last, in recognition of their distinguished services in South Africa. Lord Rosebery presided with his usual urbanity,...

Grogan. He is the latest African explorer, and he read on Wednesday to the Royal Geographical Society an account of his journey from the Cape to Cairo which, if his book is one...

proceedings in Parliament this week, for the debate on the Spion Kop despatches will not be reported in time for comment from us. Mr. Brodrick explained, however, in Committee...

recorded last week. The "lumber city" of Hull was almost swept away, sttid the total damage is estimated at £3,000,000, very little of which is "covered," the insurance offices...

been contributing to the Daily Mail have been full, not merely of wonderful campaign pictures, but full also of rare moral and political insight. His eyes see right into the...

to the Australian delegates was a memorable event, but, considering that the Duke of Devonshire, the Prime Minister, and Mr. Chamberlain, as well as Mr. Barton, Mr- Tarte, and...

or a candidate, no British reader can fail to be touched by the generous words he lately used to a delegation of Canadians at Chicago. "We are," said Admiral Dewey, "of the same...

Monday's paper, reports that Mr. Elihu Root, Secretary of War, used the following phrases at a dinner of the Grant Memorial Association No man who carefully watches the signs...

in Friday's paper descriptions of the anti-tax riots in Bulgaria which, if not exaggerated, amount to a. peasant revolt. It is said that three thousand peasants are marching on...

Dooley's satire, we have anxiously awaited the pro- nouncement of the Chicago sage on his candidature for the Presidency. As we expected, Mr. Dooley regards it as an amiable...

is given in a recent issue of Die Information — the well-known and well-informed Viennese news-sheet—by a Belgrade correspondent of that journal. Apprehending that his hold...

Friday mi.

SOLDIER-SETTLERS FOR SOUTH AFRICA.. W E are delighted to note that Mr. Arnold-Forster in a letter to Thursday's Times warmly supports the scheme for the settlement of soldiers...

the two German Emperors—for the Emperor of Austria is by nationality as much a German as his rival—which com- menced yesterday, excites the keenest interest on the Con-...

of the American War Secretary, Mr. Elihu Root, on the Monroe doctrine has called forth a great deal of comment in America and Europe,— most of it of a hostile kind. He has...

W E have read with keen interest the series of papers in which Mr. Hesketh Prichard is describing in the Daily Express his experiences of Hayti. Those experiences are unhappily...

to the legality of the Reservation of the Sacrament,—and given it in their capacity of Metropolitans of the Provinces of Canterbury and York. That decision is expressed in the...

A CARD which we have just received inviting us to *be present at a series of lectures on the "appearing of our Lord near at hand" induces us to remark on the dis- appearance of...

Penn "dealt only," to use his own expression, "in sub- stantial wares." And he sets the reader wondering how much time it is worth while to give to the deliberate contemplation...

W HETHER expressed or implied, there is certainly a deep-rooted idea in the minds of shore-dwellers that the vast fenceless fields of ocean are in these latter days well, not to...

SIR,—From the accounts which have appeared in the news- papers it seems that both in America and on the Continent of Europe steps have been taken to provide the navies with...

SUBMARINE BOATS. [TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I am glad to see that you have allowed the question of submarine boats to be raised in your columns. The matter is...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] see you quote from the recently published "Memoirs of the Baroness Cecile de Courtot." But can they be authentic ? Take her adventures during...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—We have seen in your issue of April 28th references to this book, and we would inform you that to every troopship going out we have...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTAIJR."] SIR,—I was interested in your account of the original and some- what extraordinary present sent by the Czar of Russia to Presi- dent...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:] SIR,—I should be obliged if you would publish the following letter, which has been sent to the Press :— " The disasters and the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I be allowed to write a few remarks upon an article in your issue of April 21st with the above heading ? I make the request as one...

[To THE EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your friendly and, I think, true reference to the late Duke of Argyll you imply that he was a Whig. That was at one time my own...

VOCATION. ry I might choose my simple lot Far from the town and quite forgot, All in a slIeltered nook and warm, 'Tis I would have a violet farm. No daffodils should me...

THE ACADEMY.—I. Two pictures stand out from the mass in the present Exhibi- tion, and by the largeness of their conception and complete- ness of their carrying out exercise a...

ONE word of this weary war All our hearts are waiting for, Of the hero, England bore, Kind and gay : The soul so calm whate'er befalls it; For no peril yet appals it. And his...

THE ATHEN/EITM CLUB.* A TIME will come, in the course of the century which is about to commence, when all good libraries will possess a book containing full and accurate...

Da. MACKINNON holds a place midway between the old historians and the new. On the one hand, he has patiently examined the chronicles and documents of the time; on the other, he...

or is he only giving us a speci- men of what Robert Louis Stevenson termed his "incom- municable humour," when in the preface to the first volume of a work which must have cost...

EDWARD FITZGERALD'S name will live as long as the English language and literature. He died seventeen years ago; yet this is the first attempt at writing his biography. As most...

MR. CHAMBERS, who seems to be in a very prolific mood just now, has given us in A Gay Conspiracy a romance which may not be unfairly described as a blend of Messrs. Anthony Hope...

THE most important paper in the Nineteenth Century for May is the first, Mr. Robertson's, on submarine boats. Its substance is that the British public confuses submarine boats,...

CRICKET TN MANY CLIMES. Cricket in Many Climes. By P. F. Warner. With 72 Illustra- tions. (W illiam Heinemann. 7s. Gd.)—Mr. Warner's experi- ences of cricket overseas cover...

(T. Fisher Unwin. 3s. 6d.)—Miss Wright has collected a number of rhymes about the weather, about animals, games, men, women, and children, choosing, for the most part, such as...

(Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been resen . ed for review in other forms.) Plymouth and Devonport. By Henry Francis Whitfield. (Chapple,...

Inter- national Congress of Women held in June and July of last year under the presidency of the Countess of Aberdeen, who has edited these records of the meetings. The books...

Memoirs of The Baroness Cecile de Courtot. Translated from the German by Jessie Haynes. (W. Heinemann. 9s.)—Grave doubts —as will be seen from a letter which we publish...

Sons. 2s. 6d. net.)—This useful pamphlet deserves the attention of all those who are interested in the decision of the Archbishops. It consists of (1) Mr. Dibdin's speech...

(Macmillan and Co.), Boswell's Life of Samuel .Tohnson, LL.D., 3 vols. (10s. 6d. net). The text is reprinted from Mr. Mowbray Morris's Globe Edition, and Mr. Morris's Biblio-...

rent of the British Museum, by W. de Gray Birch, LL.D., Vol. VI. and Index to the Charters and Rolls in the British Museum, edited by H. J. Ellis and F. B. Bickley (British...

German - English Dictionary (H. Grevel and Co., 14s.), though now issued in an "abridged edition," is no literary chicken in point of size. But as to its comprehensiveness and...

Corinthians, Galatians, Romans, and Philippians. By James Drummond, M.A. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 7s. 6d.)—This is one of the series of "International Handbooks to the New...

Directory, compiled and edited by Sir H. Burdett (Scientific Press, 5s.) It contains, besides a sketch of the laws affecting nurses, a " Directory of Nurses," London and...

the number of books for which it gives occasion. Leading Points in South African History, by Edwin A. Pratt (John Murray, 7s. 6d.), gives, conveniently arranged, what may be...

A second edition.—Eferodotus, Book IT. A translation, with Test Papers, by J. F. Stout, B.A. (W. B. Clive. 3s. 6d.)—The Princess. By Alfred, Lord Tenny- son. Edited by...

6d.)—This book is evidently the outcome of much thought, careful observation, and genuine interest in the subject of childhood, which has made both thought and observation...