The Journal of Education. (W. Rice. 7s. 6d.)-The Journal I of Education continues to hold its place in the very front rank of publications which concern themselves with...

The Register of King's College, Cambridge, compiled by John J. I ' Witness, M.A. (Smith, Elder, and Co., 's. 6d. net), contains, I e - _ of- I .t ely J ]Hra besides a list of...

The eighth issue of The London Manual, edited by Robert Donald | (E. Lloyd, is. 6d.), is full, as we need hardly say, of information. The work of the London County Council in...

Robert Browning. By James Douglas. (Hodder a-nd Stoughton. 1s. net.)-This is another of the "Bookman Biographies," and possesses the merits of its predecessors in the series....

Two little volumes of considerable interest may be mentioned together. In the ' Temple Series of English Texts" (J. M. Dent and Co.), we have Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesie,...

THE MAGAZINES. IF Sir Robert Giffen's earliest utterances on tariff reform seemed to indicate a sentimental leaning towards Mr. Chamberlain's policy, further developments of...

I It is stated with some appearance of authority that the Bulgarian Government has resolved, if Russia is fairly iumersed in a war with Japan, to compel the Sultan to grant the...

I The Sultan has at last acceded to the appointment of an Italian general for the gendarmerie of Macedonia, and he has received his commission. He is an officer of Engineers,...

I The Times correspondent in Madrid states that thle Government is slowly going to pieces before the attacks of the Liberals, who want much larger changes, especially as...

The attitude of the Great Powers of Europe towards the war is still undefined. It seems certain that t rance wiull not waste her wealth upon a quarrel in which she has no...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. THE war between Russia and Japan draws nearer still, so that any day may witness an incident which will be the commencement of actual hostilities. The...

On the other side, the Japanese are convinced, whether by sue woras oI an omciaL answer or L)y aiuewnL va4uV1, ±Auu St. Petersburg, that the Russians will face the risks of war...

Sir Edward Grey spoke twice at Carnarvon on Tuesday night, I I and dealt with the Far Eastern, the education, and the fiscal questions. In regard to the prospects of war, Sir...

Mr. C. W. Macara, the chairman of the meeting of the Lancashire cotton trade to which we referred in our notes last week, has addressed to his fellow cotton-spinners a letter...

Polling in the Ashburton division of Devonshire, rendered vacant by the death of the well-known Liberal Member, Mr. Seale-Havne, took place on Thursday. The late Member's...

Mr. Haldane has written an important letter on the question of Home-rule. Replying to a correspondent on January 2nd, he expresses his entire agreement with Mr. Winston...

In connection with Mr. Deakin's significant omission of any allusion to Australia's " offer,"' and his specific reference to Mr. Chamberlain's "proposed agreements," we may...

Lord Rosebery made a short speech on Tuesday night at a I dinner given by the Scottish Liberal Club in Edinburgh to Mr. Haldane. After a eulogy, with which we heartily agree,...

Mr. Chamberlain, as Chancellor of the University of I -. . . . - . . Birmingham, presided on Tuesday evening at a meeting in the Birmingham Town Hall at which Sir Oliver Lodge...

The Royal visit to the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth this week, at which Mr. balfour was also a guest, is an interesting example of the wise aloofness which the Monarchy...

The Government of the Transvaal evidently intends to I import Chinese labour. It issued on January 6th a draft ordinance settling the terms on which non-European labourers will...

I In the Times of Thursday Sir Frederick Pollock had an admirable little letter, with which we find ourselves in complete agreement. He answers the challenge to Liberal...

Persistent rumours have been circulated throughout the week of a coalition between the Duke of Devonshire and the leaders of the Liberal party. In answer to a telegram from the...

I The full text of the messages which have passed between Mr. Deakin, Premier of the Australian Commonwealth, and Mr. Chamberlain was published on Monday. Mr. Deakin and his...

The correspondent of the Times who has accompanied Lord Curzon to the Persian Gulf draws an impressive picture of the "Norwegian" scene, round at its entrance, and gives a most...

The Temps of the 3rd inst. has an interesting article on the present condition of the Egyptian question. To the current complaints, "Nous avons perdu l'Egypte," the writer...

NOVELS. TIHE BOY, SOME HORSES, AND A GIRL.' MRS. CONYERS'S novel is sure of success, and to a great extent deserves it, so full are her pages of graphic description, racy...

DIOMEDEA EXULANS. [TO THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR."] SIa,-Mr. H. Guthrie-Smith's letter in the Spectator of January 2nd is a little difficult to deal with. He quotes from Sir...

" ORIGINAL POEMS." [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-YoUr interesting review of the new edition of ' Ori'linal Poems" by my aunts, Ann and Jane Taylor (Spectator,...

POETRY. "SURELY HE HATH BORNE OUR GRIEFS." (CHICAGO, DECEMBEPR 30TH, 1903.) WE might have spared Him this, The worst of all the sorrows of the year, The many children whom He...

A RT. THE OLD MASTERS AT THE ACADEMY. THERE is no lack of variety in the schools of painting represented in the present Exhibition at the Academy. Beginning with the...

DR MARTINEAU'S RELATION TO UNITARIANISM. rTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] ,. A . I .1 I 1 I . .. I. I .. I . I I . SiR,-The letters on this subject which have appeared in...

A CORRECTION. [TO THr. EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."J Sir.,-The " fine words " as to the position of a Colony which you ascribe to Tennyson in the Spectator of January 2nd (p. 7)...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. ASIA AND EUROPE. A GOOD many persons among us, and at least one or AR two journals, seem anxious that the Government should act with much greater...

FREE-TRADE AND HOME-RULE. THE opponents of Free-trade, confident as they declare T themselves to be of a victory at the polls, do not seem at all anxious to leave the next...

MAN'S PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE.* DR. RuSSEL WALLACE has been in no sense daunted by the hostile reception of his article which a ppeared simultaneously in the Fortnightly Review...

CHURCH FUNDS AND PARLIAMENT. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I have no desire to raise a discussion on the relations of Church and State, but I hope you will permit...

FRIEDRICH LIST AND FREE-TRADE. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SiR,-Amidst the mass of correspondence respecting the fiscal question, it has not, so far as I am aware, been...

BISMARCK AND PROTECTION. [TO TIlE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SiR,-In an interesting volume which appeared last year entitled "Personal Reminiscences of Prince Bismarck," the...

TARIFF REFORM AND MID-DEVON. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sirs,-Might I be permitted to give just two or three extracts from the speeches that are being addressed to...

STATESMANSHIP BY GLOBE-TROTTING. THE recently published correspondence between the T Australian1 Premier and Mir. Clhamberlain contains some hint of a new theory of...

THE PRINCESS MATHILDE. THE Princess Mathilde Bonaparte, who died on Saturday last at the great age of eighty-three, was too conspicuous a figure in European society to be...

A HISTORY OF CLASSICAL SCHOLARSHIP.* THIS book disarms criticism, for it takes as its motto this mediaeval definition of scholarship: " Qualis substantia est scolaris ? Est...

THE MEANING OF RADIUM. lITE talk glibly about the "revelation" of radium, this NV wonderful and bewildering new element which is the most important contribution of the...

A Way of His Own. By "A Knoteutter." (Henry J. Drane. I 3s. 6d.)-This is a distinctly amusing story, if story it may be called, for it is more a series of experiences and...

Tommy Wideawake. By H. HI. Dasliford. (John Lane. 3s. 6d.) ._ At - 1.A ATN1o-a -This very charming book contains another of those agreeably intimate and sympathetic studies of...

I SOAME BOOKS OF THE WEEK. [Under this heading tre notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other Jolrns.] Ii The Life and Letters of Robert...

The Young Gerande. By Edmund White. (W. Blackwood and . _ I .- - _ -- _ _I __ a Sons. 6s.)-Mr. White indicates the purpose of his novel by the sub-title. It is " an episode in...

I Songs, Old and New,for Young Singers. By Miss W. L. Rooper and Aliss Gaynor Simpson. I~t {to -" + 1-4 goNllN+A1..11, (Newman and Co. 3s.)-Tlhe old I- oswAl.a.. .. -1 A H . ....

Old Time Travel. By Alexander Innes Shand. (John Murray. 12s. net.)-This book is not, as one might suppose from the title, a companion volume to the " Hakluyt Voyages " or a...

C URRENT LITERAT URE. PLATONISM IN ENGLISH POETRY. Platonism in English Poetry of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth | Centuries. By John Smith Harrison. (Macmillan and Co. 6s.)...

|From y Window in Chelsea. By Ella Fuller Maitland. I "F"- _m'Y I - T - 1 I I -1 . (Smith, Elder, and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)-Xavier de Maistre, restricted to his room, made a...

A Splendid Impostor. By Fred Whishaw. -_ I t :_ _1 ------ :--,.- - - _ ,. (Chatto and Windus. I 1 . _ c .. I 6s.)-There is always an attraction in "Claimant Stories "some of...

THE GLAMOUR OF HIGH ALTITUDES. S CAFLCELY a monlth passes without new%-s of some mounS taineering fatality, and in the sum mer and at holiday seasons the number of accidents is...

BO OK S. THE MIDDLE EASTERN QUESTION.* MR. VALENTINE CHIROL has followed up his book on the Far East with a study of the politics of that part of Asia with which Britain is...

THE ELECTRESS SOPHIA.* "BE it Enacted and Declared .... . that the Crown and Regal Government of the said Kingdoms of England, France and Ireland, and of the Dominions...

WELLINGTON AND BLVCHER. rfo TnE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Your correspondent Mr. Foljambe Hall in his interesting letter of January 2nd does ample justice to Blicher and...

THE BATTLE OF LA BELLE ALLIANCE. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOL"J SIR,-With reference to Mr. Henry FoIjambe Hall's inteie61in'. communication on the above subject in the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SiR,-Shoil~d you be able to find spaee in your columns four the enclosed extracts from tbe diary of Madame dArblay (Fanny Burney), they...

IS HOME-RULE DEAD? [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIr.,-" Home-rule, if not dead, is at present asleep," so says your correspondent " S." in the Spectator of January 2nd....

THE M1ORALS OF THE POTTERIES. PROBABLY the first feeling in the minds of most people on reading, two or three weeks ago, the statements made by Mr. Tyrwhitt, the vicar of...

JAPANESE IDEALS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-As regards my critics, Air. Alfred Stead and Dr. Seymour (Spectator, December 26th, 1903), I cannot say that I see any...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. RUSSIA AND JAPAN. [TO T1rE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sir,-In the Spectator of January 2nd you seek to apportion equally between the two parties the...

MENTAL LISTLESSNESS. I T is something more than convention, and something greater than convenience, which has ordained that at the end of one period of the Calendar, and at the...