Italy, and M. Waldeck-Rousseau, Premier of France, are all taking or about to take holiday on or near the Lake of Garda. The Continent is greatly interested in their movements,...

I T appears to be certain that the Russian agreement with China about Manchuria has not been signed, - and that the position of the Chinese Ambassador in St. Petersburg is con-...

the students of the Russian Empire has been discovered, and papers found which show that the intentions of the leaders were directly revolutionary. As the policy of condemning...

it is said, remonstrated with Russia against her proposed agreement with China about Manchuria. The answer of the Russian Foreign Office is that it objects to discuss with third...

or rather a proclamation, by the Chinese Emperor, just published in Pekin. It is immensely long, and a little confused by its author's wish not to favour the old Reform- ing...

ease.

very satiSfaetory as far as the totals are concerned. The actual revenue, that is, has exceeded the estimates by about 22,869,000. Considering all the circumstances, that is a...

a vote of 303 to 224. It has still to be accepted by the Senate, but the Senate is not religious, and with some modifications the Bill will probably get through, and then within...

can be said is that the process of attrition goes steadily on. On Monday Lord Kitchener telegraphed that General French, whose column has been sweeping the country to the east...

there is any great need for anxiety about Lord Salisbury's health. He has had an attack of influenza, but it has been of a mild kind; and he is now better and is going to the...

recent attack upon his person. He keeps on pouring out his thoughts in little speeches, all of which indicate that his confidence in his subjects and his position has received a...

the House of Commons Committee on the Civil List. The recommendations seem eminently fair and reason- able. During the late reign the total charge was £553,000; it is now to be...

evidently shocked by these revelations of the Emperor's mind, and the comments have been so outspoken that his Majesty has made another speech in order to say that he remains...

much as hunting for a mare's-nest. The second reading of the Demise of the Crown Bill, moved by the Attorney-General on Monday night, afforded a delightful opportunity for...

Tuesday) declaring the seat void. They found also that Dr. Rutherfoord Harris had published statements derogatory to his opponent within the meaning of the Act recently passed...

south-westerly gale and torrents of rain, resulted in a sensational, but not unexpected, win for Oxford. Cambridge, who won the toss and chose the Surrey side or weather, berth,...

the Budget is to be introduced. Before adjourning the House of Commons had to listen to a thoroughly well- intentioned; and also' thoroughly futile, speech from Mr. Shaw on the...

interesting account of the way in which a Committee of that body took up and carried out the excellent work of contradicting the falsehoods in regard to British policy and the...

read at a meeting of the Liberal Thousand at Leeds which has been taken by the Home-rule Press as a political manifesto of importance. After abusing the Government for many...

AGRICULTURAL RATING. I T is very greatly to be hoped that when the Government introduce their Bill to renew the Agricultural Rites Act they will put their case better than they...

Emperor. It nourishes his natural tendency to exaggeration, and to a repetition of Nero's dying cry, "Oh, what an artist will the world lose in me !" He is essentially a man of...

of any class with the bitter scorn which Mr. John Ellis recently poured upon the men who are enlisting for the Imperial Yeomanry ; but the thought which he expressed so r....

AFFAIRS. W E wish our leading statesmen would adopt a truer view of the place that ought to be assigned to public opinion in the conduct of foreign affairs, or rather that they...

A COMMITTEE of the House of Commons has thrown out the scheme of the London County Council for providing a new service of steamers on the Thames. The arguments for and against...

T HE Contemporary Review for this month contains a paper by the late Bishop of London which was pre- pared for delivery to a Midland audience, but apparently, for reasons which...

T HE United Kingdom has just followed Germany in the collection of the Census returns. The increase of the German population is most remarkable, the Empire now numbering...

A "N°the honourable remnant of dogs which really earn their living the decoyman's dog holds a justly high place. The decoy ducks must also be reckoned among the very few birds...

MR. ELLIS AND THE YEOMANRY. (TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Snt,—I am not concerned to defend Mr. Ellis under the chastise- ment which you give to his indiscretions in the...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Mr. Tripp forgets (Spectator, March 30th) the reason why sugar is untaxed. It is because it is a valuable article of food, and the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR...) Suz,—Having been a Revenue official from March, 1853—a month before Mr. Gladstone introduced his first Budget— until my retirement a few...

[To THE EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTATOR.") a recent issue you inserted an earnest appeal for an endowment fund for Lord Leighton's house. Will you allow me to add a few words on the...

“sriccrAroa.".1 see a letter in the Spectator of March 30th by "n Emi g rant." It is not difficult for the British Women's Emi g ration Association, who have made the "protected...

Siz,—The followin g account of a case in which the Industrial Law Indemnity Fund was applied to the relief -of a g irl improperly dismissed from her employment will clea r ly...

[T9 THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATQR:] Stu,—In "C. L. G.'s" very interestin g article under the above title in the Spectator of March 24th, there are one or two statements about...

Siu,—Of the measures you wish the Government to undertake the over-representation of Ireland is indeed the most pressing, for Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Balfour have each quite...

(TO TIER EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Will you allow me a few words with regard to the memorial of Dr. George Macdonald, a subject which has received some attention in your...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The relatives of those who died of disease or were killed by the enemy last year during the ' siege of Ladysmith may feel an interest in...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPE(TATOR.") SEn,—In answer to "An Old Liberal " (Spectator, March 30th), I beg leave to say that having sat on the "Jamaica Com- mittee " with John...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Will you allow me to draw the attention of yew readers, some of whom have helped us before, to a piece of work which the National Trust...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") should strongly recommend those who desire to water down the King ' s Declaration against Romish Preten- sions and IN. „trines to read...

CHRISTITS CUNCTATOR. So far beyond the things of Space— So high above the things of Time— And yet, how human is thy face, How near, how neighbourly, thy clime:! Thou wast not...

A SUBALTERN ON THE WAR.* A Subaltern's Letters to his Wife is one of the most striking and readable books we have yet read in regard to the war. Though Mr. Winston Churchill's...

170 THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR."] Sra,—The reference to Mr. Weller's story of the crumpets in the Spectator of March 16th (review of "Stray Papers by Thackeray," p. 388)...

THE letters of the Francis family suggest a drama, in which Philip plays the part of protagonist. Whatever the others do or say is only interesting as it affects the principal...

Mn. LEONARD COURTNEY, banished by circumstances from • the House of Commons, has devoted a portion of his leisure to describing, in little more than three hundred pretty closely...

preface with words not a little resembling those with which Juvenal begins his first satire. " &raper ego auditor tantum ?" exclaims the Roman poet, wearied almost to death by...

of American fiction projected by Mr. Heinemann, makes an auspicious start with Mr. Hough's "Story of the Plains." The theme he has chosen is that of the wonderful westward...

THE April number of the Nineteenth Century is not very interesting. There are no less than five military articles, and the only one of them in which we find anything original is...

Helmet and Spear : Stories from the Wars of the Greeks and Romans. By the Rev. A. J. Church, M.A. (Seeley and Co. 5s.) —" War," says Mr. Church 'in the epilogue of this...

THE JOURNAL OF THE C.I.V. IN SOUTH AFRICA. The Journal of the C.I.V. in South. Africa. By Major-General W. H. Mackinnon, Commandant of the Corps. (J. Murray. 6s.) —Though not a...

Life and Sport on the Pacific Coast. By H. A. VachelL With Illustrations. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)—Mr. Vachell has worked as well as fished and hunted on the Pacific Slope,...

when Frederick Temple went up to Oxford, " Balliol gave promise of rivalling Oriel as a chief centre of University scholarship," is not exactly the way in which one would put...

Press. 2s. 6d.)—With this part begins VoL VI. It contains more than two thousand words, an unusual number, Sue to the fact that not many are of individual importance. "Lady"...

Brownen. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. ls.)—Mr. Skrine, who grows tea, tells us how the plant ought to he, and how it is, dealt with, and Mr. Brownen, who is a chemist, discusses...

millan and Co. 10s. 6d.)—This number is mainly devoted to the recent discoveries at Cnossus in Crete, Messrs. A. J. Evans and D. G. Hogarth describing the Mycentean Pslace and...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as hare not teen reserred for review in other forms.] The Books of the New Testament. By the Rev. Leighton Pullen....

Brimley Johnson. 3s. 6d )—Mr. Tarpey puts together in this vcaume thirteen studies of life in Northern England, not a little lurid in colour, and mostly of the dismal character...

Seneca by W. B. Langsdorf, Litt.D. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 3s. 6d.)—This is a desirable little volume, whether one regards its substance or its form. Professor Langs. dorf does...

and Co. is. )—Mr. Hardy gives us his customary com- bination of good stories and good advice. Of the quality of the advice we have no complaint to make ; some of the stories...

and Bird. 85 net.)—We cannot profess faith in the author's "new discoveries," or his claim to have put palmistry on a truly scientific basis. One passage from the summary of...

a specimen sheet of a Map of Scotland three inches to the mile), a clear and excellent bit of map-work, in a talc case which is, to us at /east, a novelty.

Selected and arranged by Zoe Procter. (J. Lane. 3s. 6d. net.) —There is something absurd—except, indeed, as a permanent source of somewhat doubtful jokes—in these "birthday...

mentioned together. The first and second are designed to assist candidates in passing the examinations now made necessary qualifications for commissions and for promotion. These...

Wrench, ld. each). They include reproductions of famous pictures, Dyckman's " Blind Beggar" and Moroui's "Tailor," for instance ; landscapes and seascapes, a series from the...

Edinburgh )— We have never seen a more frank and serenely confident assertion that the one thing which, from the collector's point of view, does not concern a book's value is...

(Hodges and Figgie, Dublin) has been completed by the appearance of Vol. VII., containing an Index (7s. 6d.) We have more than once taken an opportunity of expressing a high...

Memoriam" edition of the Book of Common Prayer, together with Hymns, Ancient and Modern (3s.) Prefixed are the "Special Forms of Service to be used on the Day of the Funeral or...