resolved to make no changes in consequence of the murder of M. de Plehve. Count Mouravieff, who holds M. de Plehve's opinions, will, it is reported, be his successor ; the Czar...

the Pope's power to deprive the Government of its position as protector of all Roman Catholics in Asia, a position which gives it a special foothold in Syria, and some other...

Port Arthur. What appears to be true is that the Japanese commenced a great assault upon the fortress on July 26th, and that after three days' fighting, during which the...

rupture. The Mission has been ordered to leave Rome, and has, of course, obeyed; and the Nuncio, having been officially informed that his residence in Paris was "of no further...

is afraid of publicity, and between them both all war news from the Far East is hidden in a mist of vagueness. It appears to be certain, however, that in three days of desperate...

Lhasa. They began crossing the Brahmaputra at a point where it is a hundred and fifty yards broad on July 25th. They might have been destroyed by a resolute enemy, for the...

Mr. Asquith—whose very able and straightforward speech may best be described as the quintessence of what clear- minded and straight-seeing men are thinking throughout the...

Club made a remark which will be received in India with a certain disgust. He gave as a message from India to British politicians : " In the first place, come and see us." That...

bell-Bannerman moved as a vote of censure a Resolution regretting the action of those Ministers who had accepted office in the Liberal Unionist organisation, that body having...

Im- perial Defence Committee came under discussion, Mr. Balfour pointed out that the Committee was still in an embryonic condition. The Committee would not trench upon the...

those of Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Balfour. Mr. Chamberlain denied that the Tariff Reform organisation had ever been directed against Unionist Members, unless their constituencies...

or, as an alternative, to force France to protect him by active intervention. His people already suspect and hate him as a man who prefers the ideas of the West—in truth, he...

of the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Colonel Sauuderson called atten- tion to the case of Constable Anderson, and his persecution at the instigation of a village priest, with, as...

which he has decided cannot be passed this Session. They are sixteen in number, and include the Port of London Bill, the Aliens Bill, the Valuation Bill, and the Scotch...

with the objections. His new taxes might slightly raise the prices of the articles affected, but it did not follow that because the price of the raw material was raised the...

on Thursday afternoon, was in truly magnificent form. He taxed the foreigner ; he kept out in- truding corn, and cheese, and meat, and milk, and while he did not increase the...

little further in his progress through the morass of fiscal nonsense in which he waded up to the neck at Welbeck, but, unfortunately, we cannot find time or space to do • so on...

with the consideration of the Licensing Bill, and, as usual in that House, the debating has been on a high level. But though the need for discretion and moderation in treating...

case of the United Free Church of Scotland against the twenty-four ministers who object to the fusion of the Free Church with the United Presbyterians, which was voted in 1900...

THE VOTE OF CENSURE. T HE debate on the vote of censure ended, as it was certain to end, in a majority for the Government. It must not be thought, however, that therefore there...

1_ the theatre of war is lifting, and before very long we may expect to hear definite news of the great enveloping movement in which the Japanese have been so sedulously and so...

decision of the House of Lords in the great case of the Free Church of Scotland v. Lord Overtoun and others will be received by all the Nonconformist Churches of the United...

and the Papacy, but we made one reserve,—a possible willingness at the Vatican to see the Concordat " denounced." There is reason to-day to believe that this reserve was only...

one of his intellectual characteristics. He is seldom deceived by his own reasoning, and from time to time he lets it be seen that he is not. He has this week " addressed to a...

Testament contains more suggestions of Christianity than any other sacred literature the world produced before the Christian era. Isaiah and Job taught definitely that God was...

holiday-rejoicing spirit down ? " Long before Elia's gentle spirit fretted away " the golden years amid the irksome confinement of an office" in Mincing Lane, the answer to his...

from the culinary point of view, has made a shy appear- ance from time to time during recent years in London. Like many other debutante, it has come before the public under a...

[To THII EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Six,—The year before last several of the Surrey rifle clubs, as a token of recognising the stern circumstances in which their sport would...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—The two paragraphs which you devoted to this matter It would be useless to deny that the document is drawn with great dialectical...

[TO THE EDITOR OP TIER " SPRCTLTOR21 SIR, - Your correspondent " H." in the Spectator of July 30th makes use of the familiar plea of our Tariff Reformers to explain away the...

with my London address, and ask you for space to state that I am not the writer, and have not the pleasure of his acquaintance. I suc- ceeded the late Mr. Maule, Q.C. (the first...

the Spectator of July 30th as to the bad manners of some English travellers, I give the story related to me by a Parisian lady whose friend, an educated gentleman, kept a shop...

Public Prosecutor" in the Spectator of July 30th. The railway bridge is about a mile and a quarter from this house ; there. fore I could not have heard any "dying yell." There...

introduce Protection into the United Kingdom under the shield of Colonial Preference will not be successful at the next General Election. To that extent the Free-traders will...

D. B.'s " inquiry in last week's Spectator, I venture to submit the following interpretation of the passage quoted by him from the Pope's speech. The Church can claim no credit...

of the new edition of the Corpus Poetaruna Latinorum, and in accuracy and scholarship the present volume is on a level with them. Its contents, however, are immeasurably...

[With Apologies to Mr. Rudgard Kipling : see the "Times," August 1st.] ["And Joseph said unto them . . . Wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine P "—Genesis xliv....

to acquiesce in the notion that while other great poets " abide our question," and reveal to the patient student of their works something of their inner history, Shakespeare...

to the same writer's Life of Madame de Pompadour, but a good deal better worth reading. The subject is decidedly more curious and more interesting. Apart from Madame de...

she has essayed a more ambitious task. Her object, as she says in the preface, is to give some account of the two great revolutionary move- ments of the fifteenth and sixteenth...

the preliminaries of war the offences against international etiquette may not have been wholly on the side of Russia. He maintains that Japan, so far from attacking Russia with-...

difficult task, and faithfully laboured at it. His aim is to draw a full- length portrait of the hard man of the world : the man without ideals, without imagination, living in a...

6s.)—The" Bachelor in Arcady" is of the school of " Eliza- beth and her German Garden," and this school is by no means so appropriate to the male point of view as to the female....

Series. Vol. IX. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.)—This is a peculiarly interesting volume. The largest portion is con- tributed by Professor W. M. Ramsay, and the value of the...

it is not a very cheerful point for a novel to aim at. There is one excellent piece of character-drawing in the story, that of the heroine's mother. This lady is quite helpless...

(Elliot Stock, and others. 6s. net.)—This volume belongs to the praiseworthy series of the "Homeland Library," and is published by the joint enterprise of the Homeland...

He traces the story of Tibetan exploration. It is interesting throughout, though of Lhasa there is little' to be said. No European has seen the place since 1846, when the French...

Daughter, E. F. Cunliffe. (Riverside Press, Edinburgh.)—All autobio- graphies have an interest, if they are honestly written, and the honesty of this is manifest. Most readers...

Translated from the French by H. E. W. and M. M. (R.T.S. ls. 6d.)—"I am not entering into polemics, but simply telling how I was led to leave Rome and embrace Protestantism." So...

(G. Newnes. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Boulger has, of course, many interesting things to tell us about Belgium and its people. It is a country in which the language difficulty is acute....

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] The Credentials of the Pentateuch. By the late John Sealy Townsend....

(Tanuma Publishing Company, Yokohama and Tokio). The text of the declaration of war, the story of the previous negotia- tions, the despatches from the seat of war, narratives of...

6s.)—Mr. Warren, who wrote "How to Deal with Your Banker," now follows up the attack—what he says practically amounts to an attack—with the volume before us. It is a " guide to...

is a praiseworthy effort to give an appreciable meaning to the " parts of speech," the technical terms of the early part of grammar, words to which the learner has much...

by Captain S. Pasfield Oliver. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—This is the fourth volume in the series of " Dryden House Memoirs." The Count Benyowsky crowded into...