We record for the information of such of our readers as the I matter may concern the appearance of a Manual of Colloquial Tibetan, by C. T. Bell (Baptist Mission Press,...

NEW EDITIONS.- -Fenwick's Career. By Mrs. Humphry Ward. I 2 vols. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 21s. net.)-A handsome illustrated edition (with drawings by Albert Sterner), with...

The Statesman's Year Book. Edited by J. Scott Keltie, LL.D., I with the Assistance of L. P. A. Renwick, M.A. (Macmillan and Co. lOs. 6d. net.)-Elhis, the forty-third issue,...

A Paris telegram in Thursday's Timcs gives some verv curious and interesting information in regard to the Anarchist Press which has been collected by the Gaulois. It appears...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. URING the week the German Emperor has been visiting D1) the Emperor of Austria in Vienna. The visit, it was at first supposed, would lead to no international...

Mateo Morral, the author of the bomb outrage at Madrid, committed suicide at Torrejon, a small town about twenty miles from Madrid, on Saturday last, after shooting a local...

I Stormy scenes marked the debates of the Duma early in the week owing to the violent and uncompromising attitude of the peasant Members, who for a while refused a hearing to...

I The American meat-packing scandals have entered on a new phase. The preliminary Report of Messrs. Reynolda and I Neill, who were appointed by the President to inquire into...

The announcement of certain important and highbly satis- factory improvements in the Foreign and Colonial Post was made on Tuesday. The Postal Union Congress has decided to...

Parliament reassembled on Thursday, and applied itself to tfe Army Etistmates. A great deal of ground was covered in the discussion. Some of it was desultory and irresponsible,...

The appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into Trinity College, Dublin, and the University of Dublin was announced last Saturday. The Commissioners are Sir Edward Fry...

The writer in the Times very properly points out the I significance of Herr Harden's admissions in regard to the action of Germany last summer. As he says, the policy of saying...

There is little doubt that it was Holstein who directed I the German policy of this time last year, the policy which so nearly plunged Europe into war. The crippling of Russia...

Tuesday's Times gives a very interesting account of an I article in the Whitsun Day issue of the Neue Freie Presse dealing with the fall of Herr von Holstein, written by the...

The Fifth Queen. By Ford Madox Hueffer. (Alston Rivers. I -- _ _ . -6s.)-Xr. Madox Hueffer's story or jsatnarine nowara ana Henry VIII. is full of the atmosphere of the time....

C URRENT LITERATURE. THE COMPLETE CRICKETER. The Complete Cricketer. By Albert E. Knight. (Methuon and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)-The title of Mr. Albert Knight's book is no...

The Arena. By Harold Spender. (A. Constable and Co. 6s.) -This novel is semi-political; or perhaps even the " semi " might be left out, as, although the chief interest of the...

AN APPEAL TO NONCONFORMIST LAYMEN. [TO THE EDITOR OF TH " SPECTATOB.'j SiR,-In my letter to you published in your issue of May 26th I had no intention whatever of putting...

THE EDUCATION BILL. [TO THE EDITOR O THE "SPECIVA rOR."] SIR,-Sir Alfred Bagge's letter and the resolutions of the South-West Norfolk Conservatives noticed in your last issue...

IZZET PASHA. [TO THE EDITOR OP THE aSPECTATORL*] SiR,-Recent events have thrown so strong a light upon Constantinople that even the obscure recesses of Yildiz Kiosk have not...

"LEADERS OF THE CHURCH." [To THE EDITOR OF THE S SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I do not think that the words which your reviewer quotes from my little book on Dean Church in last week's...

COMPOUNDING FOR RATES. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I inserted the following clause some years ago in the agreements for letting cottages the rates of which are...

THE INSPECTION OF THE "SPECTATOR" EXPERIMENTAL COMPANY BY H.M. THE KING. LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "Sp nE k roit.*| SIR,-Before commencing to describe our march to Windsor on...

Mr. Brodrick's valuable letter on " Medical Science and Military Strength" in Wednesday's Times will, we trust, meet with the attention that it deserves. Why, he asks, should...

The past week has been noteworthy for the visit of a I number of distinguished representatives of the French Universities and the Ministry of Public Instruction. It is...

The 'Lusitania,' the first of the two turbine liners con- structed for the Cunard Company under their agreement with the Government, was launched at Clydebank on Thursday. The...

Those are wise words, and we trust that the VictoriajI College may make for racial fusion. It is one of the weaknesses of Mohammedanism that it does not make for social...

The Times of Monday publishes a very striking letter in I large type signed "Enquirer." The letter asks whether in our secondary schools, in which " the great majority of the...

We felt when the House of Lords threw out the Bill I amending the Aliens Act so as to prevent foreign labourers coming into this country to take the place of strikers that...

Mr. Chamberlain delivered a vigorous speech to the West Birmingham Unionists at a garden party at Highbury on Tuesday. He reiterated his familiar arguments for the need of...

The Thames and its Story, from the Cotswolds to the Nore. I (Cassell and Co. 6s.)-We see that the writer, to begin with the beginning, finds the true source of the Thames in...

I The Management of Children. By Howard Barrett. (Routledge -L ---4- . and Sons. 5s. net.)-Thirty-three years ago mr. tsarreru wrlL, - book on this subject which has been of...

Constantinople. Painted by Warwick Goble. Described by Alexander van Millingen. (A. and C. Black. 20s. net.)-This is one of the very fine series of illustrated volumes wnicn...

THE CHURCH AND COMMONWEALTH. I The Church and Commonwealth. Visitation Charges of George Ridding, D.D., First Bishop of Southwell. Edited by Lady Laura I Ridding. (Edward...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK. [Under this heading woe notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for Tovietw in other forrM. I Handbook to Shakespeare's Works. By...

Pictorial London. (Cassell and Co. 12s.)-Here we have between five and six hundred drawings of London and its environs. The important buildings and thoroughfares of the...

Personal Reminiscences of Thirty Years' Residence in the Model Settlement, 1870-1900. By Charles M. Dyce. (Chapman and Hall. 6s.)-The " Model Settlement" is Shanghai;...

COURAGE AND CREED. PROFESSOR GOLDWIN SMITH'S new book, " In P Quest of Light" (Macmillan and Co., 4s. net), consists of letters, most of which were originally published in the...

LITERARY ECCENTRICS.* WE do not know why Mr. Fyvie has chosen to describe the men of letters of whom he discourses as eccentric. In one sense every man is " eccentric " who...

PADRI ELLIOTT OF FAIZABAD.* WE get our first sight of Joseph Elliott when he was a fiveyear-old boy, and it is easy to discern in him the father of the tireless, fearless man...

THE AMERICAN MEAT SCANDALS. THE American public can stand a great deal, but the T meat-packing industry of Chicago seems likely to discover that there is a limit to popular...

NOVELS. COUNT BUNKER.* MODERN fiction, whether home-made or of foreign extraction, is in the main sombre rather than cheerful in its complexion. Indeed, it may almost be laid...

THE MAGAZINES. Sip ROBERT GIFFEN'S paper on "The Prospects of Liberal Finance " occupies the place of honour in the new Nineteenth Century. Discussing possibilities of...

THE SWEATED INDUSTRIES EXHIBITION. TWO conditions are always necessary to success in breaking down a social evil. One is an accurate knowledge of the extent to which the evil...

GOBLIN COOMBE. I F thou'lt wesh thine eyes wi' water vrom Pearce's Well, thou'lt vind no mwore o' thy pain. Vur be do rise toward the zun, look'm, an' '8 waters be wonderful...

POE TRY. THE IRISH PIPES. I HEARD the piper playing, The piper old and blind, And knew its secret sayingThe voice of the summer wind. I heard clear waters falling, Lapping...

B O0 K S.o. SIDELIGHTS ON THE HOME-RULE MOVEMENT.* WHEN the author of this volume was urged a year or two ago to write his reminiscences, he replied that it was his intention...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. SIGNS OF COMPROMISE. THE leading article in last Saturday's Westminster T Gazette dealing with the Spectator proposals for amending Mr. Birrell's Bill is a...

LE'TTERS TO THE EDITOR. MEMORIAL OF LAY CHURCHMEN TO THE ARCHBISHOPS OF CANTERBURY AND YORK. ITO TIHE EDITOR OF THlE SPECTATOR."] SIR,-The enclosed memorial, which has been...

THE " SPECTATOR" EXPERIMENTAL COMPANY AT WINDSOR. THE readers of the Spectator whose generosity enabled the Spectator Experimental Company to be formed and trained have every...

THE MANUFACTURE OF PAUPERS.* III.-OLD-AGE PENSIONS. FOR a good many years politicians and sentimentalists F have occupied themselves with the subject of old-age pensions. It...

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING.* MR. LUBBOCK'S title is too modest. His book is omuch more than a study of Mrs. Browning based on her own letters; it is a fairly complete and most...

ANARCHISTS. MANY things conspired to deepen the horror with Ai which the news of the attempt to assassinate King Alfonso and his bride was received throughout Europe. The...