I T appears to be nearly certain that the Arbitration Treaty with the United States is lost. The Committee of the Senate on Foreign Relations, unwilling to incur the odium of a...

THE WALTHAMSTOW ELECTION. I T would be idle to deny that the Walthamstow election is a most unpleasant fact. The Opposition candidate has been able to turn a minority of 2,353...

"fey." During the whole of the Long Vacation we have carefully noted the signs of the times, and have felt persuaded that they were bent, to some extent perhaps without clearly...

waves, enemies are approaching from every side, there are symptoms in the forecastle of discontent, it may be necessary in half an hour to clear the decks for action, and the...

D ISAPPOINTMENT and annoyance have been ex- pressed in certain quarters at the tone of Mr. Chamberlain's speech on the South African Committee. We by no means share that sense...

I T is nearly impossible as one reads reports of the constant oscillations in the European Alliances, of the fears that they may break up, and of the elaborate efforts made to...

W E greatly regret to observe that Sir George Trevelyan's retirement from the representation of Glasgow is due to ill-health. We trust, however, that the ill-health will soon...

W E hold, and we believe all competent politicians of both parties hold, that there is real danger lest within the next few years Great Britain should be attacked by a coalition...

Vi TE are not going to write about Church Reform. We will frankly say that in our opinion some of our friends are inclined to attach far too much importance to it. Machinery is...

P ROFESSOR CROOKES chose a highly speculative subject for his address to the Society of Psychical Research, when he insisted yesterday week on the unreason- ableness of...

W E cannot, of course, pretend to criticise or even to describe the lecture delivered on Friday week by Professor Jagadis Chunder Bose at the Royal Institution on electric...

L ORD BETE'S vineyards at Castle Coch, near Cardiff, have produced another great crop. The incessant rain of September made it difficult to gather the grapes -dry. But the...

SIR,—My memories of Balliol have lately been reawakened by Professor Knight's interesting Life of Nichol, and, still more, by that charming biography of a charming man, Sir H....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I am quite sure that your usual impartiality and sense- of justice would have prevented you from publishing in its- present form the...

DENNY. DENNY mine, I contemplate, Half alarmed and half elate, Half amused and half beguiled, Such a decorative child : It is true There are plenty of the others, You have...

[To THY EDITOR Or TER " FIrscrAToa.") SIR,—I beg you to allow me to correct a mistake in the Spectator of January 30th in reference to myself. I am not " recognised as a member...

[To TER EDITOR 07 THR " SrEcrwroz.") SIE,—It is but a small thing that I propose, one that costs nothing, which, though it will seem to many as only a scrap of sentiment, is at...

[To Tux Boma or rim "Briccriros."] SIR,—I have read with much interest the article on this subject in the Spectator of January 30th, and in its general conclusions I cordially...

College of Physicians in succession to Sir Andrew Clark, and who died on May 29th of the same year, is extremely well written by one who, as Lady Reynolds tells us, was for five...

Csar in May of last year, as described by many spectators, brought home to Englishmen a fresh realisation of the peculiarly intimate relation between Church and State in Russia....

DIE new " Rejected Addresses " of Mr. Owen Seaman are quite worthy to be ranked with the classic volumes of Horace and James. It is a disadvantage to have to parody, not Byron,...

There was never anything pinchbeck or slipshod in the literary work of Edward Gibbon, and there is nothing pinch- beck or slipshod in the production of the autobiographies and...

ANY one who is wearied by the monotonous sameness that pervades economic literature will be refreshed by a perusal of Mr. Dunning MacLeod's very perfervid work, whioh he...

THE essence of Lord Charles Beresford's paper on "Urgent Questions for the Council of Defence," which has the place of honour in the Nineteenth Century for February, is...

It was perhaps inevitable that politics, in its many shapes, should occupy a much more prominent place than literature in the new number of the Edinburgh Review. No fewer than...

Hoannua—Bssmarr.—On January 30tb, at St. George's Church. Hanover Square, by the Rev. W. Anderson, Frederick John Horniman. M.P. for Penryn and Falmouth, of Brighton, Croydon,...

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