with Spain as to Morocco, which at one time seemed likely to interfere with the fulfilment of the Anglo-French Agreement, has been removed. The terms are not yet published ; but...

Division of the Russian Army at Liao-yang, but has been incapacitated by a fall from his horse, has given his opinion on the result of the next campaign. It is not optimistic....

into, as he thinks, an impregnable position, in which, if he is beaten before Mukden. he can reconcentmte and renew his shattered forces. At Port Arthur a furious attack was...

signed in Lhasa still requires ratification. The Amban, it is reported, did not sign it, having no authority from the Chinese Emperor, and the Viceroy of India, it is officially...

that colonies are not always profitable. The German officers in South-West Africa are by no means optimistic as to the prospects of the Herero War. The tribesmen show no...

The earlier part was filled with the usual mixture of jeremiads over the condition of industry and agriculture at home, and of declarations that our relations with the Colonies...

to the members of the Scottish Conservative Club. After a feeling reference to Sir William Harcourt, and a declaration that no bargaining with the Irish party can, or ever will,...

days is a sad one,—the sudden death of Sir William Harcourt, who passed away in his sleep in his own house at Nuueham, Oxford- shire, on Saturday last. He was an old man, having...

claim to the sovereignty of the little State, which, though it contains only one hundred and forty thousand in- habitants, is in theory as independent as Prussia, has long been...

in a very curt telegram, declared that as the legal situation has not been cleared up, he could not recognise such a Regency, and "will not allow the military to take the oath."...

Fiscal question it was to make the apparently very important announcement that if he was returned to power after the next Election he would summon representatives, not only from...

statement, and will only say here that in reality it merely amounts to a repudiation of a policy which neither Mr. Chamberlain nor any one else professes to advocate at the...

on Monday, and has attracted unusual attention because of the uncertainty of its cause. The express from Milford was approaching Loughor when one of the two engines employed...

can only term an endorsement of Mr. Balfour's declarations at Edinburgh. Mr. Balfour has repudiated for himself the name of Protectionist. "I also," said Mr. Chamberlain,...

regard to Army and Navy expenditure which will, we trust, receive the close attention of all those who care for the national safety, military, naval, and financial. His main...

Wednesday to a large audience at the United Wards Club, stated that the scheme of a barrage, or dam, across the Thames at Gravesend, which has been recently recommended as a...

play a leading part in the work of preaching the Gospel to every creature ; and if the Church failed as a missionary Church, her doom was sealed. In conclusion, Dr. Chavasse...

at its opening meeting on Tuesday in a striking and dignified address. He dwelt with justifiable pride on the public spirit of the municipality and the civic virtue and...

MR. BALFOUR AND MR. CHAMBERLAIN. -w HAT is the exact meaning of the speeches made this week by Mr. Balfour and Mr. Chamberlain ? That is the question which the country at large...

article to the October Contemporary Review which, even though we cannot agree with all its facts and conclusions, gives occasion for grave thought. The main contention to be...

this not merely because of our occasional approval of his policy, and, also occasional, admiration of his character. With his death a great figure dis- appears from Parliament,...

"Literary Supplement" of the Times on Friday, September 30th. The writer, whose means of knowing are vouched for in a subsequent leader in the same journal, relates for the...

W HILE a small number of Irish Unionists, under the leadership of Lord Dunraven, are pursuing the object of general conciliation, with the best intentions, but with more than...

of the cunning, but perhaps there never was a time when fools were in the same danger of exploitation as in these days of psychical research. Psychology, like medicine,...

it might be found possible to discontinue the quarrying for road-metal in the cliffs of the Avon. We expressed the hope, and cannot but believe, that the Corporation of Bristol...

lake, and the shooting of one of them, which has been reprobated in every newspaper in England, is a reminder of the opportunity which the possession of a lake or large pool of...

no denying that the question presents many difficulties, but that in itself constitutes no sufficient reason for adopting that policy of laissez faire which has proved so...

Sin,—To one travelling in America, who is at the present moment living in a comfortable wooden house, some of the arguments that are used in England against the cheap wooden...

having each its distinctive national impress ? There was no Scotsman on the Committee which drew up the Shorter Catechism. Dr. A. F. Mitchell says (" Catechisms of the Second...

hope no one will accuse me of raising an unnecessary note of alarm if I point out that the close of the Russo- Japanese War may find this country in a very unpleasant pre-...

the letter of Mr. Richard Barnes in last week's Spectator disposes of his objection to the phrase in the Catechism, "to do my duty in that state of life, unto which it shall...

you allow me to express the regret which many of us feel that you have decided to exclude further correspondence on this subject from your columns ? Your paper is uniformly...

of the Spectator will not be able to accept what has been already stated on either side of this question as conclusive evidence, I shall try in as short a space as possible to...

curiosity, to see whether any of your readers would take up the cudgels on behalf of the lady who has given us Lord Acton's letters. If, for want of a better champion, I venture...

And clouds lie low on the misty bill, A lover comes with the grey October A blank in our empty hearts to fill. In the ingle she waits with red-gold tresses, With rosy cheeks...

of the statement that "Cumberland shepherds still count their sheep in Welsh." It is, I believe, a fairly well-known fact that the shepherds of not only parts of Cumberland, but...

Friends is a book which could only have been written after the leisurely research of many years. It is not a treatise hastily put together to meet this or that publishing...

Sin,—There is an old saying about misfortune coming in threes, and to the destruction at the Avon and Cheddai Gorges referred to in your last issue may I add that now being...

the two sentences attributed to Dr. Hutton (see the Spectator of October 1st) in the report of the annual meeting of the Disestablishment Council for Scotland in the Daily...

Srn,—In the Spectator of September 24th a correspondent gives "preaching tub" as a new name for "pulpit," invented by a Chinese carpenter. In J. K. Fowler's "Echoes of Old...

applies to the biography of a "Hero" who, starting as a minor "king of strips," by a long series of victories in war and peace changed his little "Nation" into a first-rate...

progress has never been continuous, but the fact that for a hundred genera- tions civilised races were content to live with a moral cancer so debasing is witness to the...

his narrative, "How Russia Brought on the War." The strength of his indictment is enhanced by his frequent textual citation of the Russian official notes, despatches, and...

for the sense of their own shortcomings or fallures by learning that there are others in a worse case than themselves. Many of me are in need of such comfort as we consider the...

novel of "society" has several points which differen- tiate it agreeably from most of its contemporaries, and for which the reader who wants to be amused without his intellect...

'THERE is a happy topical appropriateness in the publication of Mrs. Thurston's remarkable story at a time when the public mind is much exercised by the question of " doubles."...

3s, 6d. net.)—Mr. Anton begins these" Reconsiderations and Recreations" with a very doubtful statement. "I follow," he says, "the example of that great Apostle who loved to hang...

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week es have loot bun reserved for room in. other forms.] In "Bell's Miniature Series of Great Writers" (G. Bell and Sons, 1s....

6s.)—Mrs. Belfort's Stratagem, if not equal to Mr. Cobb's first books, is a great improvement on those which he has given to the public lately. There is a distinct touch of...

G. Canning. (T. Fisher Unwin. Is. ad. net.)—This is a revision of a work published some time ago. Some corrections, it seems to- ns, yet remain to be made. "John Wickliffe [why...

not much interested in missions ; the friends of missions view the scholars with suspicion. This is the situation to which Dr. Horton addresses himself. He shows that the...

The Dictionary of the Bible. Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Assisted by John A. Selbie, D.D. Extra Volume. (T. and T. Clark. 28s.)—This supplementary volume contains two kinds...

Herefordshire, and Cheshire. By J. Parkinson and E. A. Ould. (B. T. Batsford. 21s. net.)—This is a companion volume to one which deals with a kindred subject, the half.....

Nisbet and Co. Us.)—Mrs. Boas draws portraits of Charles and his chief friends and courtiers, of Cromwell and of the leading Puritans, of some of the great Churchmen and...

Co. 6s.)—There is no want of variety in the contents of Mr. Morley Roberts's "note-book." There is variety of condition and variety of place. He has been an out-of-work at San...

James Drummond. (Whitcombe and Tombs. 155. net.)—The list of the New Zealand animals is curious. The mammalia number twenty- four species. But of these, two only, both bats, are...

Edwardina Castle went out to Sierra Leone as a missionary's wife a few days before the beginning of 1903, and died on her way home before the end of that year. Here we have...

Compiled by Frances Parthenope Verney and Margaret M. Verney. 2 vols. (Longmans and Co. 12s. net.)—The Verney Papers were first dealt with in 1858 by the late Mr. Bruce. Soon...

Sydney.)—Why "Red Pagan"? The blind man de- scribed scarlet by saying it was like a trumpet, and there is certainly not a little "blare" about these essays. As for "Pagan," we...