FROM JANUARY 6th TO JUNE 30th, 1900, INCLUSIVE, INDIANA UNIVEtibITY TOPICS OF THE DAY. A CADEMY Celebration in Berlin, the.. .. 409 Africa, North, the Cloud in 338 Africa,...

from the Western Frontier. On New Year's Eve Lieutenant-Colonel Pilcher left Belmont with a small flying column of about seven hundred men, including two hundred Queenslanders...

Dordrecht, which was taken by the British at the beginning of the week, was later evacuated, the Boers having began a general advance in this region. Not only did they reoccupy...

T HE general military situation has not changed much since last week, but there have been movements in the southern and western sections of the theatre of war which have been,...

doubly welcome from the fact that his force was princi- pally composed of Australians and Canadians, who have thus struck the first blow and have been the first to shed their...

we are on the eve of great events, but very properly the newspaper correspondents, though allowed to tell us about the activity of the Boers, give no indications as to what are...

case.

order to win a place for the Empire which is not yet attained, and the concrete objects which are sought, are discussed by us at length elsewhere. We will only say here that...

French Senate sitting as a High Court was brought to a conclusion on Thursday, after lasting nearly four months. On Tuesday M. Andr6 Buffet was found guilty "of having...

may almost be said that with the exception of Sir John Lubbock's well-deserved peerage, the list is official. Sir Safford Northoote also becomes a Peer, but he is going to...

Newton Hall, was a strange jumble of rhetoric and prejudice, interspersed, however, with some sen- sible things. After very rightly inveighing against inflated Imperialism, he...

striking speech to the officers of the Berlin garrison. The first day of the new century, said the Emperor, saw the Army—i.e., the people—in arms gathered round their standards....

and of well- earned honours, a noble profession loses one of its noblest figures. Born in 1814, he commenced practice in 1837, and only retired from it half-a-dozen years ago....

from Mr. Channing, who, in effect, wants to give iu and end the war because we have found that the fighting Boer is such a fine fellow. Were not the Southerners fine fellows and...

Indian troops in South Africa, though vigorously attacked in certain quarters, very properly commands respect and acquiescence. It is none the less satisfactory to learn that...

rapidly, and the enthusiasm is unabated. On Thursday some nine hundred men of the City of London Volunteers took the oath at the Guildhall, and it is evident that the corps will...

lished between the man who subscribes at home and the man who goes to the front. The subscriber should feel it a duty to help the man he has equipped if he comes home wounded or...

the opening of a new public free library at Acton on Wednesday. He described the operation of the travelling libraries in the State of New York—as a means of bringing home...

financial year were published on Monday, and show an increase over the preceding year of £4,379,000. The Chancellor of the Exchequer's estimate of increase for the entire year...

New Consols (2k) were on Friday 99.

WAR OFFICE REFORM AND THE WAR. T HE unsatisfactory condition of our military affairs has filled the country with cries for War Office reform,—cries which in the main have been...

T HE Daily Telegraph of Monday contains a striking article in regard to the rise of the German Empire, and as to German aspirations and the possibilities of the future. With...

"A T last !" was the cry of satisfaction with which the Toronto Company, engaged in the brilliant little fight at Sunnyside on New Year's Day, received the order to double into...

S OME months ago there was an article in the National Review setting out the gains that would follow to the public from a reconstruction of the Cabinet on other than party...

S UFFERING can be better endured when it contributes to the growth of knowledge. The patient who is informed that his disease presents some features new to medicine finds an...

P ERHAPS it is premature to ask how we are going to reward our Army when the war is finished. Yet the list of New Year honours is so meagre as to make us fancy that the...

O NCE more the logic of events is compelling the atten- tion of all and sundry to the fact, hardly realised by the great majority of people, that in the personnel of the Navy we...

T HEE'VE got no water in 'ee, and if 'ee don't fillee avore New Year, 'ee'll be no more good for a stree-um"! Thus briefly, to Father Thames, the shepherd of Sinodun Hill. He...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—The anxiety which we are now enduring may be for the nation either of two very different things. It may con- tinue to be what many...

THE BLOOD-ACCUSATION. [TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:'] Sin,—In the Spectator of December 30th you wish that I would explain to you the constant recurrence of " the strange...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I desire to thank you for your sympathetic treat- ment in the Spectator of December 30th of my appeal on behalf of our Dutch...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.1 Sin,—Your article under this title in the Spectator of December 30th rightly states that the chief lesson to be learnt is the necessity of...

whose letters to his father and mother at home I have been allowed to see. The writer while still in his native Somersetshire village worked as a collier, and was a young man of...

Sin,—The confusion as to the date when a new century commences seems to be no new thing. In Scott ' s " Life of Dryden " —Sect. viii.—occurs the following passage " It was...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—May I point out that the question of the " close of the century " is not one to be settled by arithmetic as you seem to suppose, but...

hard on this " so-called nineteenth century" if it were hurried out of existence before the com- pletion of the very nineteenth-century year which gave it its name,—the year...

" suggestion is not by any means a new one, and shields of the description he proposes have been made and tested ; but it is doubtful if they are ever likely to be carried by...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Your correspondent, "A. M. A.," suggests in the Spectator of December 30th that our men should carry tempered steel shields, G ft. by 3...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I was very glad to see the letter signed " A. M. A." on this subject in the Spectator of December 30th. I feel con. vinced that the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I am very glad to see that you are advocating the for. mation of rifle clubs. It has for many years been a great annoyance to me to...

OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—The r old Indian story " to which you refer at p. 941 of the Spectator of December 30th is thus related by Colonel James Welsh in his "Military...

[To TH2 EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.1 SIB,—The British will not be behind their American cousins in bearing the strain of war. Our Civil War cost (as reported by the Hon. C. Depew...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' Sts,—My attention has been called to the following para- graph in your article of December 30th : "After the publica- tion, without leave, of...

Sin,—You may be interested to hear that some years ago a young otter was adopted in a country house in Ireland. A feeding-bottle carried it over its early youth, and it became...

[To rim EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —As, perhaps, interesting evidence of how closely your American readers note any slips you may make, I beg leave to call attention to...

THE VANDYCK EXHIBITION AT THE ACADEMY. NOTHING is more striking in the present Exhibition than the decadence of the art of Vandyck in his later years, and the superiority of...

ENGLAND AT WAR. 'Tis past : the hour of parting's o'er, The troopship's on the main, And some have looked on Eng- land's shore That ne'er shall look again : The last adieus...

to a dimpled chin :- Repentant lips and heart on mischief bent— Grant, Lord, of sueh repentance we repent. H.

JAMES HACK TUBE.* ONE almost hesitates before bestowing on James Hack Take the hackneyed name " philanthropist," and yet in its true ety- mological meaning no man of our time...

infer much about two persons, the sitter and the artist ; and so from the pleasant record of his rambles in English country places which Mr. Clifton Johnson has put together it...

is becoming so complex in its researches into detail that a subsection of a single depart- ment now furnishes work enough for the lifetime of an able man, is ever approaching...

WE find Mr. Frank Mathew's historical romance of Queen Elizabeth's time a decided advance on his Defender of the Faith. in which he essayed to paint for us the Court of Henry...

THE magazines, like the newspapers, are a little choked np by the war. The Nineteenth Century has eight, and the Contemporary Review four, articles almost directly inspired by...

Edinburgh. le. ) —This yearly publication gives much ecclesiastical and academical information in a small compass and in an accessible form. There is nothing like it in England...

3s. 6d )—This is said on the title-page to be " A Simple Account of the Origin and Formation of the Principal Countries and States of Modern Europe:' If this description had...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK. [Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] A Birthday Book : Wise and Pithy Sayings....

Counter-Reformation." By the late Dr. Wilhelm Moeller. Edited by Dr. G. Kaweran. Translated from the German by J. H. Freese, M.A. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co. 16s.)— Professor...

(G. Bell and Sons. is. 6d.) —This is a volume of the series of " Famous Churches" which is to supplement Messrs. Bell's "Cathedral Series." The two churches now described rank...