to a vote by the Boer delegates were curiously like those described in the " Holy War," to which we compared them in anticipation. They began with very high terms, and even when...

P EACE has come at last, and come in ,a form and under conditions which are the rightful and just reward of the admirable temper in which the British people carried on the...

the news in the country generally was sensible and dignified, but that in London the mob on the Monday night showed a tendency to rough horse-play of a very disgraceful kind....

lay down their arms and recognise the King as their lawful Sovereign. (2) All burghers in the field outside the two new Colonies and all the prisoners of war will, on declaring...

follows. Rebels will be tried by the law of the Colony to which they belong. The Government have stated that they will not en- force the strict law. The rank-and-file of the...

case.

question of abolishing bounties on sugar. The Government agreed formally to that abolition, which will save it millions a year, and constitutionally it has full power to make...

which threatens a financial rupture between the two States, has, according to the acute corre- spondent of the Times in Vienna, produced one unexpected result. The Slays and...

times his epigrammatic utterances on England, on America, and on the Triple Alliance have raised a storm, and he has recently given mortal offence to all Polish subjects of...

Waldeck-Rousseau formally resigns the Premiership. His reasons for this act, which is a most unusual one in constitu- tional history, the elections having greatly strengthened...

President of the Chamber, whose confirmation in that great post is now taking place as we write. He preferred it to the Premiership, and the Radical party in the Chamber...

of the higher Roman Catholic clergy, who, as we mentioned last week, seem unanimous in expecting a popular rising against the foreigner, is almost confined to what is called the...

Senor Canalejas, and has prorogued the Cortes until October. Much of the interval will be occupied, it is said, in negotiations with the Vatican, the Government having formally...

Message regarding the grant to Lord Kitchener had been re- ferred to Committee of Supply, the debate on the Education Bill in Committee was resumed. Dr. Macnamara moved an...

Committee of Supply on Thursday. Mr. Balfour dwelt at length on the formidable difficulties which con- fronted him in the suppression of the guerilla warfare, and the great...

the veterans of the Army, and made a most bold and striking speech on the situation in the Philippines. He said the Americans would teach the Filipinos how to use their freedom,...

been appointed to the British Embassy at Washington. We stated last week our reasons for holding that in the exceptional case of Washington it would be better to appoint a...

of their system, educational or ecclesiastical, but we are delighted to see that Father Vaughan was successful in his libel action against the Rock newspaper, tried on Monday...

Friday 964.

THE PEACE. T HE terms of peace are worthy of the British people, but they can afford no surprise to those who have watched the temper of the nation during the war, or who have...

O N Thursday Lord Kitchener received for the second time what is in our view the greatest honour which any Englishman can possibly receive,—the thanks of the British Parliament....

" U NITY is our necessity ; that alone will bring victory to our forces." These golden words of Mr. Herbert Gladstone's seem in a fair way to being adopted as the watchword of...

after their victory at the elections, may enter on a rather perilous path. The Radicals have emerged from the struggle decidedly stronger, not only in the numbers of their...

C ONVENTIONAL wisdom is often true wisdom, though it is always so tiresome, and the most conventional of all utterances about the result of this war is also the most valuable....

T HE Sermon on the Mount is the corner-stone of Christianity. It contains the most characteristic teaching of our Lord, given in accordance with His most characteristic method....

I N reference to an article on the University of London which appeared in the Spectator of May 17th, a corre- spondent, whose letter is to be found in another column, asks a...

There was another boy who was compelled to lead a double life, the trials of which were very obvious to sympathetic persons. His father was a keeper, and for six months in the...

COMMUNAL SETTLEMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA. LTO TILE EDITOP. OP TUE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—I have read Mr. Palfrey's communication in the Spectator of May 24th with very great interest,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—One of those men—by no means a small class—of whom it may be said that they do not make so much mark in the world as their inferiors,...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. ° J SIR, — May I venture to disagree with the direction of your article in the Spectator of May 31st which treats of Lord Pauncefote's...

[TO Tile EDITOP. OR TUB "SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—Your article on the London University in the Spectator of May 17th prompts me to say a word more than your own about one of the...

PEACE. THE SETTLERS. (A FORECAST ON THE DECLARATION OF PEACE.) How green the earth, how blue the sky, How quiet now the days that pass, Here, where the British settlers lie...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The Spectator hae always shown so notable a sympathy with all wise and humane efforts for the diminution of suffer- ing that we venture...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TILE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your correspondent, " Anglo-German," in the Spectator of May 31st would appear to ignore certain arcana imperil. Why did England lose...

[TO TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR21 SIR,—It is most refreshing to find you dealing so faithfully in the Spectator of May 31st with Mr. Bullen, who wishes with all his soul "...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SFECTATOR."1 SIR,--Perhaps you will not think it inconsistent with your closure of the correspondence on Hebron to let me disclaim an undeserved honour...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—There is a mistake in the review of Mr. Tuckwell's "A. W. Kinglake" in the Spectator for May 31st. My first cousin, Brigadier-General...

THE " TIMES " HISTORY OF THE WAR.* THIS book will cause much argument and give some offence. That it must do so is inevitable from the fact that it tells the truth about the...

WE stand one with the men that died ; Whatever the goal, we have these beside ! Living or dead, we are comrades all,— Our battles are won by the men that fall ! He who died...

worthily inaugurates the series of " The Great Peoples," edited by Professor York Powell, and published by Mr. Heinemann. In it Mr. Hume boldly departs from the conventional...

Ties relations of China with the Western Powers have always been of the kind that is described in its earlier stages as delicate, and then strained. The heartfelt wish of China...

established himself as a writer on the outdoor world and the wild life of England that his new volume is certain of an immediate welcome. It was a happy idea to take the river...

Ecoaroarrear, problems dominate a solid number of the Nineteenth Century. Mr. Edmund Robertson discusses the Atlantic Shipping " Combine " with special reference to the...

A FRIEND OF NELSON.* MR. HORACE HUTCHINSON has an hereditary justification— perpetuated in his own name and that of his father—for the choice of his theme, since his grandfather...

W. P. Drury. (A. H. Bullen. 3s. 6d.)—The Marine who tells some of these stories is not unworthy to be ranked with Mr. Kipling's infantry of the Line. Possibly he exaggerates the...

(Mrs. Francis Blundell). (G. Newnes. 6s.)—These fifteen short stories, repub- lished from Country Life, may be supposed to represent the manners of Lancashire ("North "),...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Eneyclopredia Britannica. Supplementary VoL II. (A. and C....

are people, it is probable, who could give names to the motley crowd of Judges, counsel, women of fashion, financiers, and music-hall singers with whom Mr. Richardson fills his...

Co. 6a.)—We cannot but own, with the remembrance of "A Cardinal and his Conscience" before us, that "Graham Hope's" new novel is a great disappointment. The theme of the former...

is always an irresistible attraction in any book dealing with the desire of the Jews to return to Palestine. Not yet has the genius of poetry deserted their prayers, and the...

White and Co. 6s.)—Nothing but the verve and "go" with which the "difficulties" of the Duchess are treated could possibly excuse the vulgarity and absurdity of this story. But,...

Sons. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Styan writes a brief introduction giving the history of the cross-slab as used to mark the site of a grave— the use in this kingdom seems to date from...

M.A. (Luzac and Co. 2s.)—Mr. Wilkinson argues that there are proofs of a lack of coherence in the narrative which describes the events previous to the birth of the Baptist and...

and Co., 4s. 6d. net), is a volume in " Dent's County Guides," appearing under the general editorship of Mr. G. A. B. Dewar. It is arranged in " Itineraries," of which there are...

D.D. (Longmans and Co. 5s. net.)—Dr. Knox (Bishop of Coventry) pub- lishes here six lectures on Pastoral Theology delivered this year in the Divinity School at Cambridge. They...

Karl B. Spurgin. (Walter Scott Publishing Company.)—Mr. Spurgin reached Cape Town on February 27th, 1900; he came under fire for the first time at Rooidam about two months...

Vince, M.A. (Cornish Brothers. 12s. net.)—Mr. Vince, in continuing the work of the late Mr. J. T. Bunce, bespeaks the patience of his readers as having to write on a subject of...