fighting is, on the whole, satisfactory.. It shows that the new invasion of Natal has failed, and that the attacks on Forts Itala and Prospect, in which the Boers showed a...

the Chinese soldiery. It was important because it took an anti- foreign direction and missionaries were compelled to fly, and also because it was organised by the dreaded Triad,...

WE have dealt elsewhere with the feeling of dissatisfac- • V 1' • tion that is spreading in the cou'ntry' in regard to the conduct of the war. Needless to say, there is not the...

filet with his capital. The Council of Berlin, by a nearly unanimous vote, has again elected Herr Kaufmann as Second Burgomaster, and the Emperor, as King of Prussia, has again...

of the attack made by Delarey on Colonel Kekewich's force. Delarey's force was said to have been over a thousand, and he appears to have acted with great dash and vigour. Our...

of the Medical and Nursing Services of the Army were published. on Monday. The recommendations of this Com- mittee may be briefly summarised as follows :—(1) The estab- lishment...

appeared to us a kind of glorified Lord Mayor possessed by excessive, and even dangerous, ambitions. He hoped to be made Dictator during a revolt. He had, however, some clear...

mention here Mr. Redmond's reply, made at a meeting of the United Irish League in the Antient Concert Rooms, Dublin, on Tuesday,—a reply which showed how entirely ineffective...

the old assertion that but for the brutal interference of the soldiery and police Ireland would rise like one man, and talked of Ireland's four and _a half millions and what...

coloured men in its island-continent, even risking a sharp contest with Queensland, where the system of importing Polynesians has, says Mr. Barton, the Premier of the...

at first be a success. The Jesuits, against whom it was especially directed, have fled, their four Provincials leaving behind them a long and well-worded protest, in which they...

for him by the Bishop of Exeter, gave rise to a lively discussion on Mr. Rudyard Kipling's writings. The Bishop of Calcutta some- what unnecessarily went out of his way to...

by the foundering of the 'Cobra' was concluded on Thursday. The evidence of the lightship-keeper, of the skipper of the herring-boat who picked up the bodies, and of the divers...

Bishop of• Chichester giving the inaugural address. The most striking passage was that on Christian unity, which, the Bishop pointed out with great earnestness, was not the same...

Kent at last. On Wednesday a "core" brought up from the boring in Shakespeare Cliff showed large fragments of "good bright bituminous household coal," and on Thursday morning,...

the town, was during the earlier part of the week believed to be over, 'out Friday's news points, we regret to say, to a con- tinuance of friction. Employers and men originally...

of Generals Buller and Wood to command the First and Second Army Corps have been very strongly taken up throughout the Press. The Times has written vigorously on the question,...

ing the story of the enlistment of Boer prisoners for service outside South Africa. Some two hundred are said to be already undergoing drill. We trust, however, that this pro-...

Friday 93-1-.

THE SITUATION DT SOUTH AFRICA. W E refuse now, as absolutely as we refused in the dark days of Colenso and Spion Kop, to take a pessi- mistic view of the ultimate result of the...

W E should say that the Triple Alliance, though apparently strengthened by the visit of the Czar to Prance, which, of course, wakes Central Europe to its need of self-defence,...

M R. ASQUITH'S speech at Ladybank on Saturday last has many good things in it, but on the whole it is disappointing, for it fails in the one thing needful at the present...

1V[ It. RIDER HAGGARD has now finished the survey of English agriculture which he has been publish- ing in the Daily Express, and the conclusions at which he has arrived are...

NI ANY persons must have been set thinking on more or less hopeful lines by the reports of the Con- ferences recently held (September 20th and 21st) at Birmingham and Bournville...

T HE dislike of Kings for their capitals, and of their capitals for them, is a historical fact of some interest for which it is difficult to find a satisfactory explanation. The...

Till notion that the habit of silence is a virtuous habit is assing away. It is part of the ascetic ideal in .which we no longer believe, and it is strange to recollect how...

T HE stings of wasps and bees and their relations are simpler instruments than the elaborate machinery by which jellyfish and some other sea beasts paralyse the creatures on...

[To THE EDITOR Or TER "SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—In your review of the new volumes of the "Dictionary of National Biography" in the Spectator of September 21st you mention, as one of...

ITO TIIE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—It occurs to me that a brief record of impressions and observations garnered during a visit to the Boer prisoners in St. Helena may be...

MR. KIPLING ON THE APPOINTMENTS TO THE FIRST AND SECOND ARMY CORPS. [To TEE EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTATOR.") Stn,—In your protest against the appointments of Generals Buller and...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Snt,—I have read in the Spectator of September 28th an abuse of General Buller as the Commander of the First Army Corps. I wonder whether...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR"} SIE, — As the publication of my letter upon the above subject in the Spectator of September 7th has called forth so many inquiries from...

Sin,—On July 11th, 1890, I had a 'very vivid dream : I . dreamed that I was standing in a darkened room, in the • middle of which was a closed coffin, and as I stood at the...

• [To TH4 EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—In 1884 I wrote to Professor' Tyndall inquiring as ts the nimbus which I had so frequently seen in South Africa. In reply he sent me...

CM THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.] crave your indulgence for a few lines in reference to your notice of the above-named book in the $pectator of September 28th. Of. course, I...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]' your notice of this event (September 28th) there are bra slight errors which you will perhaps kindly allow me to correct , (1) The...

gra,—For some long time past letters have been appearing in your columns from various correspondents giving accounts of clreara experiences. I have not the back numbers of the...

rTo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—In the Spectator of September 28th "T." says that the Society for Psychical Research in April, 1888, "issued a circular pointing eat that...

[TO ERR EDITOR OF TER " SPECTATOR:] Sra,—Permit me to correct an error of your contributor "C. L. G." on the above subject in your issue of Sep- tember 21st. To Mr. Lee...

SARAH, DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH.* M. FITZGERALD MOLLOY has lost a chance. An age of plots and treachery knew no finer expert in the perilous game than Thu Queen's Comrade : the...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR.'] Sin,—A young man, the son of a woman my wife is interested in, has lately been discharged from the Imperial Yeomanry after service in South...

ENGLISH SACRED EPIGRAM (AFTER CRASHAW). " T od expendi habui, uod servavi perdidi, uod donavi habeo." THREE women on the Sacred Page This paradox of life presage. _ Like...

Lectures Dr. George Adam Smith is concerned chiefly with the future position of the Old Testament in the Christian Church. He does not omit, however, to refer to its influence...

DR. LEA has little need of commendation to those who are acquainted with his writings. He is one of the most laborious and accurate of historical students. If he does not attain...

THE Nineteenth Century for October contains, among other papers, one of considerable literary merit. This is "A Winter's Walk in Canada," by Mr. Arnold Haultain, a writer with...

Mn. KIPLIKG'S recent books have been keenly canvassed, and widely divergent estimates have been formed of them by his avowed admirers. It is pleasant to think that there can •...

63.)—Mr. Christie Murray gives fair warning in his title that he, at any rate, has no intention of cheering his readers. His book is a clever study of a man whose life is...

Herb of Grace. By Rosa Nouchette Carey. (Macmillan and Co. Gs.)—There is always evidence of good, solid, painstaking work in Miss Carey's novels. And that she has her reward who...

Murray. 6s.)—The position of this "Handbook to the History of Greater Britain" is already assured. It is unnecessary to do more than call attention to the changes and additions...

6s.)—A Sower of Wheat is a tale of an emigrant's experiences and adventures in Western Canada. It is pleasantly told in unpre- tentious and unaffected English, and it mingles in...

Co. 6s.)—No one who has not read Mr. Gunter's latest book can conceive how droll is the effect produced by the narration of a romantic story of the time of Louis XIV. in the...

(Grant Richards. 6s.)—For those who must have sensation The Octopu s will do better, and The Octopus is really an exceedingly interest- ing book. Not, as the title suggests, a...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not bees reserved for review in other forms.] Lord Milner. By W. B. Luke. (S. W. Partridge and Co. is. Cd. net).—Mr....

and Co. 6s.)—The manner of The Secret Orchard is so stagey that if one did not know that the book had been a story before it was made into a play for Mr. and Mrs. Kendal to act,...

Tom Gallon has drunk so deeply of the literature of Dickens that nothing he writes can avoid reminding us of the master. The unfortunate thing is that it is not Dickens the...

6s.)—In Mr. Hewlett's New Canterbury Tales his large circle of admirers will find all the characteristic features and qualities of his former books,—masterly use of an archaic...

by W. 0. J. Nienwenkamp and J. G. Veldheer. (T. Fisher ljnwin. 21s. net.)—Here we have the towns and villages of the Zuyder Zee described by native pen and pencil. The author...

Co., 2 fr. 60 0.) worthily maintains the repute of this interest- ing and well-edited periodical. Amongst its varied contents we may notice a suggestive article by M. Louis...

8s. 6d. net.)—This "historical study of the Gospel according to St. Mark" is a valuable piece of work, executed with a tho- roughly competent acquaintance with the subject, and...

Allsheler (J. A.), The Wilderness Road, cr Svo (Heinemann) 6/0 Archer (W.), Poets of the Younger Generation, Svo (Lane) net 21/0 Barlow (G.). To the Women of England, & other...

Great Queen Street, W.C. and Published by Soar Batas for the "Spiscwroa" (Ishnite d) M their (Mu, No. 1 Wallinrton Street, in the Precinct of the Savoy. Shand, in the Conatv of...

TO prrtator No. 3,823.] FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1901. ABRO AD A D ) 5 GRATIS. ET R ARN E = S T

M. BROADHURST'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY.* BRAM:MI:MST'S autobiography is excellent reading. It is so absolutely free from every sort of affectation, so wholesome and good tempered, and...

LONDON: OCTOBER 5th, 1901.

the reproduction of valuable photographs give to this new edition all the interest of a new book. Canon Rawnsley has learned the difficult art of prattling gracefully and...

THE literature of the late Chinese War is nearing its end, and we are returning to the old-fashioned book of travel in place of special correspondence. Meanwhile, Mr....

Israel's Messianic Hope. By George Stephen Goodspeed, (Macmillan and Co. 6s.)—Professor Goodspeed traces "the historical development of the foreshadovrings of the Christ" as...

New College. By Hastings Rashdall, MA., and Robert S. Bait, MA. (Robinson and Co. 5s. net.)—The most striking part of the history of New College is the story of its foundation....

A Book of Brittany. By S. Baring-Gould. With 69 Illustra- tions. (Methuen and Co. 68.)—Mr. Baring-Gould is untiring, and in his manifold writings never ceases to be readable....

The Distribution of Rainfall over the Land. By Andrew J. Herbertson. (J. Murray. 5s.)—Only the practical meteorologist, we suppose, can quite appreciate the years of patient and...

A Survey of London : the First Volume of the Register of As Committee for the Survey of the Memorials of Greater London containing the Parish of Bromley-by-Bow. E lited by C. le...

The Scientific Memoirs of T. H. Huxley. Edited by Professor Sir Michael Foster and by Professor E. Ray Lankester. Vol. III. (Macmillan and Co. 30s. net.)—The third volume of...

of the interesting preface to Poisie s Choisies, which is the work of M. Armand Geste, will note that the verse of Doctor Henri Fauvel is warmly appreciated by his...

Italian Cities. By Edwin Howland Blashfield and Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield. 2 vols. (A. H. Bullen. 12s.)—The authors 4 of the admirable new version of Vasari's Lives ought to...

Pies Years an Ireland, 1895 - 1900. By M. J. F. McCarthy. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 7s. 6d.)—Con tho whole, Mr. McCarthy's review of Irish life and politics of the five years...

The Housing Question in London. (London County Conned.) — Cities and Citizens. By the Author of "A Coleny of Mercy." (H. Marshall and Son. 6s.)—In the sincere and touching...

Modem Europe, 1815 - 1899. By W. Alison Phillips, M.A.. "Periods of European History," VIII. (Rivingtons. 6s. net.)—This author calls his book a history of the forces which have...

The Germ. (Elliot Stock. 10s. 6d.)—This is a facsimile reprint of the organ of the Preraphaelite Brotherhood, the first number of which was published on January let, 1850, and...

DiaT of the Unionist Parliament (1895 - 1900). By Henry W. Lucy. (7 W. Arse wsmith, Bristol. 6s.)—Doubtless all fairly careful and interested readers of newspapers read this...

The Indian Borderland. By Sir T. H. Holdich. (Methuen and Co. 15s.)—Sir Thomas Holdich having for twenty years—be- tween 1880-1900—beets connected with those military and...

The Mammals of South Africa. By W. L. Sclater, MA., F.Z S., Director of the South African Museum, Cape Town. Vol. II., with Illustrations. (R. H. Porter. £1 10s.)—The second...

On the Results of a Deep-Bea Sounding Expedition in the North Atlantic during the Summer of 1899. By R. E. Peake. With Notes by Sir John Murray. (J. Murray. 5s.)—Our knowledge...

Sea a,id Coast Fishing. By . F. G. Afialo. (Grant Richards. 6s.) —Angling for sea fish is a sport which has made great strides of late years, partly, we suppose, on account of...

Charles St. John's Note - books : 1846 - 1853. Edited by Admiral II. C. St. John. (David Douglas. 7s. 6d.)—Those who have derived delight from St. John's books on the...

Travels in Western Australia. By May Vivienne (W. Heine' mann. 15s. net.)—Although second only to New South Wales in point of settlement, Western Australia is latest in point of...

Translation of the Psalms and Canticles, with Commentary. By James McSweney, S.J. (Sands and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—In this volume we have a bi- columnar translation of the Pealing,...

Lusus Regius : being Poems and other Pieces by King James the First. Now first set forth and edited by Robert S. Reit, Fellow of New College, Oxford. (I Constable and Co. .C2...

Poems. By Lady Margaret Saekville. (John Lane. :Is. 6d. net.) —The main feature of this little volume is the accomplishment and scholarly distinction of the verse. Lady Margaret...

Kewest England. By Henry Demarest Lloyd. (Gay and Bird. 103. net.)—The title of this book is happily chosen. The writer's aim is to show that New Zealand is in very deed the...

A Garden of Simples. By Martha Bockee Flint. (D. Nutt. 65.)—An American volume of garden and folk lore makes a pleasant variety among the many little books of the same sort that...

F. G. Tait: a Record. By John L. Low. (S. Nisbet and Co. 6s.)—F. G. Tait was both born and made a golfer. His father was an enthusiast, and he himself began to play at the age...

General Sir Arthur Cotton. By hIs Daughter, Lady Hope. (Hodder and Stoughton. 12s. net.)—Sir Arthur Cotton may not have been what his biographer, with filial enthusiasm, styles...