disapproving, has assented to the pro- posal, and America accepts it with reserves; but Germany is bitterly annoyed, Austria and Italy side with Germany, and Great Britain,...

T HE scene in China has changed greatly this week, Russia having, for the moment at least, seceded from the Concert. On September let the Government published in St. Petersburg...

Hung Chang, Prince Ching, .Yung-Ln, and Hsu-tung, another reactionary noble, its plenipotentiaries, and the first-named will, it is alleged, at once proceed to Tientsin. He...

a proclamation annexing the Transvaal. As we have explained elsewhere, this of course is, strictly speaking, a procla- mation resuming the Queen's sovereignty, for, as the...

undecided. The situation is briefly as follows. Botha and the major part of the Boers still in arms retreated on Lyden- burg, and were followed by General Buller till he found...

mour's report upon his relief expedition. One is that he felt compelled to go because he bad received a despatch from Sir Claude Macdonald saying that unless relief arrived at...

case.

should follow his lead in Chinese affairs. Unfortunately for him, he has been advised not to visit the Paris Exhibition, as the French had greatly wished, and he has accordingly...

Mr. William Pickles delivering the Pre- sidential address on the following day. Ten years ago, said Mr. Pickles, the problem was how best to determine toe rights and duties of...

tember 1st. His Majesty did not venture to appear in public, but he received presents and congratulations from most of the Powers of the world. All the Ambassadors were present...

is the heroic defence of Ladybrand. On Tuesday news was received that a body of one hundred and fifty British soldiers without any large guns were being besieged at Ladybrand by...

in Paris on Wednesday, Lord Avebury (Sir J. Lubbock), as Chairman, delivering the address. His speech touched on many topics, as, for example, the evil of investors displaying...

and denounced Jewish and Masonic cosmopolitanism," writes to the Gazette de France to condemn centralisation. "Decentralisation," he says, "is economy; it is liberty ; it is the...

by Mr. Holt Schooling giving the exact figures as to the over-representation of Ireland and the under-representa- tion of England. At present, if the representatives of the...

to the structure and polymorphic character of cell-plasm and nucleus, and the difference between secretive and nerve cells, Sir William Turner reviewed the successive dis-...

most important judgment in regard to Trade-Unions. The question before him was whether the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants could or could not be restrained by...

cousin of the King of Italy, had returned from his Arctic Expedition in the Stella Polare.' The vessel was for eleven months held fast in the ice, and the explorers suffered...

Gazette of Tuesday a striking paper on the British officer as seen in the war. He is not by any means an indulgent critic, but two things in regard to the British officer he...

at Bradford. Sir William Turner, the new President, dealt in his inaugural address with the progress made during the past century in his own special line of study,—viz., the...

decidedly reassuring. The official bulletin issued on Thursday—the fifteenth day since the outbreak—showed that for two days no fresh cases had occurred, and as medical experts...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 981.

THE RUSSIAN PROPOSALS. T HE Russian Government has placed all the Powers, and especially this country, in a position of grave embarrasstnent. She has announced in an unusually...

A S we write the fate of Botha and of the last remnants of the Boer Army still hangs in the balance, but nothing can now avert the final overthrow of the Boers. We may...

I N the September number of the Nineteenth Century Mr. Edmund Robertson writes a very able and inter- esting contribution under the above title, his object being to help on the...

O NCE upon a time a young man insured his life, and, with the feeling natural to his age that what interested him must be interesting to others, he mentioned the fact to a...

I r has been settled in laws which human will cannot alter that men cannot live in great numbers without extracting from the ground more food than it spontaneously yields. The...

T HB first and most real reason why the intelligence that the plague has appeared in Glasgow causes such excite- ment is that the majority of men dread death. They all know that...

W E were only able last week to refer briefly to the great loss sustained by English culture in the death of Professor Henry Sidgwick. - This week we propose to say a little...

E VEN by those who have walked the fells for several years, it must be confessed that the finest series of experiences are met with in a ramble under the moonlight. Many...

. RIFLE CLUBS. MO THE EDITOR OF TIM "SPECTATOR.") Si,—Mr. 17rwick's letter in the spectator of September 1st is an indication that facilities exist for rifle practice apart...

in which members of a rifle club, who from various causes are unable to join Volunteer regiments, and are consequently untrained men, might be useful in case of invasion. If...

(To TEE EDITOR OP TUB "SPECTATOR.") Srit,—It is refreshing to find a student of Mr. Herbert Spencer's writings who is able to draw, attention to a .. diffi- culty in them...

the above in the Spectator of August 25th was most interesting as a clever criticism, but, noting the invariably unbiassed tone of your paper, I ask : Is it fair? You state that...

suggest it, but is it possible that Mr. Lloyd Engstrom (Spectator, September 1st) is only tripping over a phrase? "Something to be explained," A problem to be solved," "A...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE "SyEcTATort."] Sin,—In the Spectator of August 25th I observe an interesting letter on the above subject. Of the barn swallow your con respondent writes :...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—May I respectfully suggest that your statement in a review of books about London in the issue of September 1st that "the High Church...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIE,—Absolutely unique in his service to the agricultural world was the strong, and strenuous, and yet withal modest, personality who has...

(To TEE EDITOR Or THY "SPECTATOR.') Sue—Our attention has been called to a letter under the above heading, and signed with the initials "A. de N.," which appeared in the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR, —In the article upon Tennyson's ornithology which appeared in the Spectator of August 18th there occurs the following sentence :—"...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SrR,—Recently I spent a holiday in Unst, the northmost of the Shetland Islands, and went to see the Muckle Flugga lighthouse, which stands...

(To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") SIE, — On the 31st ult. a letter, dated " Tokio, July lith," appeared in the Times from a correspondent signing himself "F. B." The writer...

"SPECTATOR:') Sne—In the charming article entitled "Butterfly Sleep" in the Spectator of September let the writer says that by sunset bees "are all asleep in their communal...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:] Snr,—Count von Waldersee's appointment to the supreme command in China, practically after the relief of the Pekin Legations, must, of course,...

DAWN AMONG THE ALPS. A THOUSAND and ten thousand years ago So softly poised the golden-footed day On you high-lifted minarets of snow, That crown the wrinkled glaciers chill...

(To TIIE EDITOR OH THE "SescrAvon.1 SIR,—It is a pity that so many inaccuracies about important matters should appear even in high-class periodicals. A case in point is the...

SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE.* THE book known as The Travels of Sir John. Mandeville is a real book of the Middle Ages, credulous, imaginative, and entertaining. It is legend rather than...

Coleridge (or was it Leigh Hunt?) would scarcely have put his question, Who reads an American book ? While the American people have yet to come to complete self- consciousness...

the Pentateuch, and of what most scholars are now agreed in regarding as its supplement, the Book of Joshua, has appeared in this country. We welcome it as the outcome of a...

SIR STAMFORD RAFFLES was a type of British administrator to which the history of our Empire scarcely affords a parallel. Born in comparatively humble circumstances, he had a...

is a brilliant and interesting rather that a convincing achievement. The appeal which is made to the reader's sympathies is weakened by a mul- tiplicity of motives. By turns a...

THE magazines of the month are hardly as interesting as usual; in particular they contain few articles on China which'are decidedly nutritive. The most readable, perhaps, is...

heard, Is. 6d.) contains as usual a mass of interesting facts. The inceme 1. a sum which seems impressive when we hear it, some- thing-short of-..£123,000 (net), but is quite...

the fifth edition of Colonel Ounter's The Officer's Field Note Book. This most useful little book has been revised and rewritten and brought up to date The additional memoranda...

(A. Melrose. ls.)—This is one of the books by which an expected demand is always anticipated. We have no complaint to make of it. It appears to be reasonably well done. But we...

(Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.) Hints from Boden - Powell. By the Rev. R. L. Bellamy. (Gale and...

BefleCtions on the French Revolution, by Edmund Burke, with an Introduction by George Sampson. Mr. Sampson gives an excellent account of the circumstances which led to the...

Mechanic. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co. 2s.• 6d ) -There is nothing, one might almost say, on which an "Amateur Mechanic" is not ready to instruct us. Aquariums, balloons, barrels,...

which we have often had occasion to commend for its practical utility, we have The Tutorial History of Engl•sh Literature, by A. 3. Wyatt, M.A. (2s. 6d.) This seems, as far as...