its Madrid correspondent on the Moroccan question. He asserts that about the end of last summer M. Delcasse submitted to Lord Lansdowne definite proposals for the settlement of...

though a month has elapsed since Count Lamsdorff and Count Goluchowski arrived at a "complete understanding" on the subject. The result of this delay is shown in dissatisfaction...

to dwell on the details of the negotiations, but it is important to put on record a quotation from a German newspaper sent by the very able Berlin correspondent of the Times to...

A NOTHER week has passed without any solution of the Venezuelan trouble being arrived at, and it is difficult to say from the confused telegrams sent from Washington, which vary...

the King was ill, and that the Royal visit to Chats- worth must be abandoned. The King had caught a alight attack of influenza, and his physicians naturally refused to sanction...

case.

31st, has relieved the Government of India from what might have become a most difficult, as well as distress- ing, situation. As the official account guardedly suggests, the...

Oxford and Cambridge. Sir George Gabriel Stokes, who died on February 1st in his eighty-fifth year, probably possessed the profoundest scientific intellect of our time, and...

Mr. Chamberlain prefaced his remarks with a tribute to Mr. Rhodes. There was, he said, nothing mean or petty about Mr. Rhodes. "He had great ideas, he was careless of luxin-y...

two important speeches on the following day. Replying to addresses of welcome in the Town Hall in the morning, Mr. Chamberlain, after a cordial reference to the work of those...

Commerce, on Friday, the 30th ult., made some strange observations on the Venezuelan imbroglio. He is reported to have said that "it was not in order to assure the bondholders,...

Dr. James Edwards Sewell, Warden of New College, on Janu- ary 29th, in his ninety-third year, is snapped probably the last link that connected modern Oxford with the home of...

trekked to Bloemfontein, visiting and conversing with all the farmers along his route. Three miles outside Bloemfontein Mr. Chamberlain and his party, at the end of a...

Problems of the Army," which appeared on Tuesday, is occupied with the • problem of home defence, and is perhaps the most interesting of the series. The writer of the article...

Holland Fine Art Gallery of works executed with M. Raffaelli's solid oil colours. The plan consists in mixing the dry powder colour with a very small quantity of oil and a...

is given in Tuesday's Times. According to the writer; in point of time the real pioneer was the late Professor D. E. Hughes, who as far back as 1879 with a sparking coil and a...

New York Journal by Mr. Carnegie's munificence. "'Has Andhrew Carnaygie given ye a libry yet r asked Mr. Dooley. Not that I know iv,' said Mr. Hennessy. He will,' said Mr....

last Saturday night, but happily without emulating the ineptitude of his colleague. His speech, indeed, made out as good a case as could be made out for anything so humiliating,...

Divisional Council on Wednesday, made an announcement of no little political importance. It was to the effect that the time was coming when the Government ought to deal with the...

are being made throughout the country, irrespective of political opinions, to put the Education Act in operation at an early date. The succession of circulars issued by the...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 93i.

that we hesitate to give it. Still, as it does fit which will make the matter clear. It has been suggested, the facts, and as it does not involve the supposition of for...

W E are not among those who believe that the black races, and especially the natives of Africa, can be equalised with the white, either socially or politically. Instead, we hold...

I T is one of the lessons of history that although for all countries the greatest national task must always be that of averting the greatest national danger, there are times...

rfIllE Duke of Devonshire possesses in an eminent _L degree the faculty of doing injustice to himself. Probably no Minister is less known outside the Cabinet. Certainly no...

rrIHE extraordinary complexity of the great Imperial _L mission undertaken by Mr. Chamberlain in South Africa is, perhaps, only now beginning to be realised by the British...

J ET it be explained at once that the words which follow 4 make no pretence of dealing with the "higher criticism," either of the Bible or of Shakespeare. It may be that there...

r influenza season is upon us, and we cannot open the papers without seeing a long list of "distinguished invalids," while we have a lurking fear that we too may soon be on the...

W INDS and -thunder are two elemental forces which fancy ha.sialways personified. The winds of England, like those of old Italy, have their known characters, in which every one...

THE GERMAN ALLIANCE. [To THE EDITOR OP THR " SPRCTATOR.1 SIR,—Without disputing the general soundness of your condemnation of the Anglo- German co-operation in Venezuela, is it...

[TO MR EDITOR OP TRY "SPECTATOR.1 Sin,—Is there no one at our Foreign Office who understands the status of non-Mussulmans in Turkey P I ask because the Foreign Office has...

LTO TEDI EDITOR OP TRH "SPECTATOR.") Sra,—An article in the Spectator of October 11th, 1902, is ancient history to most readers. My excuse must be that I am an Englishman in...

[To TIER EDITOR OF THE " SP ROTATOR."] Sin,—In the Standard's obituary notice of the Rev. Dr. Sewell, late Warden of New College, Oxford, occur the words: "Sewell was ordained...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your statement of the case of Mr. J. D. Beazley and his remarkable ascent of the ladder of learning, no mention has yet been made of...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Srs,—Your readers may be interested by a few biographical details in regard to one of the most interesting personalities of contemporary...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In reply to the inquiry which you append to my letter in the Spectator of January 31st, I beg to say that of the ten members of this...

Pro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—Many of your readers will, I think, be interested in a short notice of a very remarkable personality which has just passed from our...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SP ECTATOR."] SIR,—I feel indebted to "T. E. P." (Spectator, January 31st4 for his luminous and instructive article on "Bridge," the main scope of which,...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOZ."1 SIR,—Permit a casual reader of the Spectator to add some- thing to the recent letters on "Kaffir Telegraphy." I refer to that of Mr....

" SPECTATOR."f SIR, — If the remark to which "H. G." takes exception (Spectator, January 31st) had really been offered as a " generalisation " describing the specific characters...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—In your notice in the Spectator of January 31st of Admiral Kennedy's "Sport in the Navy, and Naval Yarns," the reviewer commended the...

A DREAM OF SPRING. r" As I have travelled in your country I have seen the graves of British Soldiers in many places, and very often these were aide by side with those of Boers...

MODERN SPIRITUALISM.* THE modern history of spiritualism is a subject that both fascinates . and repels the mind.' It fascinates inasmuch as it presents the extraordinary...

Srn,—In his letter to his brother James, February 20113, 1794, Coleridge writes : "My assumed name is Silas Tomkyn Comberbacke." In my "History of Jesus College" I wrote the...

Sni,—The letter of "T. E. P." in the Spectator of January 31st leads me to give one proof that bridge has not finally disposed of whist. Two years ago or so about a dozen men...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sra,—The writer of the notice in the Spectator of January 31st of "The Birds in Our Wood" is seemingly not aware that the common French name...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "'SPECTATOR.") Sra,—Mr. J. Dykes Campbell, in the Memoir which is generally considered the dernier mot on all matters connected with Coleridge, says that...

ALTHOUGH the recently published list of the dignitaries of the new Edwardian Academy suggested uncomfortable com- parisons between ourselves and certain dates of the Victorian...

such a great sculptor as Jean Goujon, the present volume deserves a word of welcome. But though we welcome Mr. Litter's work, it is in no sense a complete, and therefore wholly...

Teixeira, whoee journey from India to Italy has recently been translated by Mr. W. F. Sinclair for the Hakluyt Society. He is said to have belonged to a family of Portuguese...

IN the Nineteenth Century Mr. Sidney Low endeavours to make' England "wake up to the important changes and organic modifications which our Constitution is undergoing from day to...

1.11/. RED HOUSE.* Tam, unless we are mistaken, is the first novel of a writer who has already laid her readers under a considerable debt of obligation by her earlier ventures...

THREE DRAMAS. The Knight of the Maypole. By John Davidson. (Grant Richards. 5s. net.)—This drama has the rare merit—rare, as the writer of this notice has learnt by a long...

6s.)—We have lately been told that if there is an increase of crime in Scotland, it is due to a certain "relaxation of doctrine." The "Dwellers in the Mist "—we gather that one...

is a book about a lunatic, who in his lucid intervals engaged two doctors for himself, and disguised one (the cleverer of the two) as the family butler. The scene passes in an...

V. White and Co. 6s.)—There is nothing grey or dreary about the adventures of the hero and heroine of this novel. Harrowing as are the scenes through which they pass, they are...

Heinemann. 6s.)—The theme of this novel—the utter subjugation of a whole family to the home-life of an idiot—is such that the story is bound to be a sad one. But there is no...

Co. 6s.)—John Ermine is a white man, natural- ised, so to speak. among the Indians in his earliest years, and then brought again into contact with his own race. This combination...

South Africa and its Future. Edited by Louis Creswicke. (T. C. and E. C. Jack. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Creswicke has collected here twelve essays, all of them by writers who have more...

The Courtship of _Perk. Translated from the Old Irish by A. H. Leahy. Illustrated by Caroline Watts. (D. Nutt. 2s. net.)— Mr. Leahy has translated an interesting tale from the...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] The International Quarterly. Edited by Frederick A. Richard- son. (T....

The Story of the Bold Pecopin. By Victor Hugo. Done into English by Eleanor and Augustine BirrelL (Smith, Elder, and Co. Is. 6d.)—The humour of the "legend of the Rhine" is of...

IlEvangile et Par AHred Loisy. (Alphonse Picard et File, Paris. 3 fr. 50 c.)—The Abbe Loisy is one of the few Roman Catholic scholars who have definitely abandoned the...

Personal Knowledge of Christ, by G. H. S. Walpole, D.D. (Elliot Stock, 2s. 6d. net), has been called for. The book is of that devotional character which puts it beyond the...

pared under the Direction of J. G. Bartholomew. (J. Bartholomew and Co., Edinburgh. Monthly part, 2s. 6d.; to be completed in 21 parts.)—This publication is described as "a...

as good as usual, and more we need not say. Wherever you may dip into it you will find something worthy of notice. Our first venture revealed a method by which one can make...

Boulton. (John Murray. 31s. 6d. net.)—The authors of this volume claim a very modest antiquity for the sport of yachting. They trace it back to Charles II., who in the days of...

Marshall and Sons. ls.)—The title of this little volume speaks for itself. We do not say that the housewife who reads it will accomplish the result aimed at; she will certainly...

P. Put- nam's Sons. 7s. 6d.)—Mr. Lee has written a long book which we find it more than usually difficult to estimate. That he is not satisfied with his literary and...