L I The Prose Dramas of Henrik Ibsen. New and Revised Edition by | I William Archer. (Walte -Scott. Paper covers, is. 6d.; cloth, 2s. 6d. per vol.)-In the general...

Dalmatia. Illustrated by Willilm Royle. (Vinton and Co. 12s. Gd. net.)-This is a rather wandering accountof a yachting tour among the islands of Dalmatia, illustrated by the...

| A History of New York.. By Diedrich Knickerbocker. I 8 Pictures by Maxfield Parrisb, Esq. (John, Lane., 1?s, 6d.)This edition of Washington Irving's Knickerbocker.History is...

| The H ocA-j Annual, 1900-1901. Compiled and edited by " Diana." (George Newnes. Is. 6d. net.)-We can recommend this little handbook to hockey players. The chapter on " The...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK. rUnde, t'his Tading we -notice such Books of 'the Week as has, no icy raserced for raview in chcr -forms.] Australasia and New Zealand. By.Arthur W....

C URRENT LITERATURE. | THE LITTLE BOY BOOK. 'i| I The Little Boy Book. Verses by Helen Hay. Pictures by A I Frank Verbeck. (John Lane. 6s.)-This is a delightful addi. tion...

I Th7ree Little Maids. By Etbel Turner. (Ward, Look, and Co. 3s. 6d.)-This book is written in a rather disconnected way, and it ends abruptly, but the people have definite...

The Complete Works of John Keats. Edited by H. Buxton Forman. Vol.III. (Cowans and Co., Glasgo'w. Is. net.)-We must I own to a certain preference for the "Poems of Keats," as...

Th4 Itinerar.y of King Edward I., A.D. 1272-1307. Edited and translated by Henry Gough. 2 vols. (Alexander Gardner.) -Mr. Gough has employed for this record a considerable...

I Proportional Representation Applied to Party Government. By I T. R. Ashworth and H. P. C. Ashworth. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co. 6s. net.)-Is party government a thing...

I Bret Harte. By T. Edgar Pemberton. (Greening and Co. 3s. 6d.)-If all books about yet living celebrities were as well managed as this we should have no objection to them. It...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. THE QUEEN AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. [To THE EDITEQ OF TME "SPECTATOR.") SiR,-May I be allowed, as an Englishman but recently returned from nearly five...

A further recommendation of the Provisional Committee appointed to decide on the national memorial to Queen Victoria was issued on Wednesday. On Monday the King visited the...

The sitting of the House of Commons on Tuesday ended in g a disgraceful and unprecedented scene. The House had gone I r into Committee of Supply on a vote of credit of...

I The Times Paris correspondent records a remarkable instance of the breakdown of the system of Protection. 31. M6line and his followers have forced upon the Chambers taxes on...

The London County Council elections, which took place on I Saturday last, have resulted in a sweeping victory for the Progressives. The composition of the Council stands at...

The Bishop of Stepney, Dr. Winnington Ingram, has been appointed to fill the vacant See of London. The appointment strikes us as a good as well as a bold one. The Bishop is...

I Atthe Central Criminal Court on Saturdaylast, the prisoner Bennett was found guilty of the murder of his wife. We have no desire to comment upon the verdict, which we have no...

On Thursday night, after the House had rescinded the I order suspending Mr. Jordan as made in error, Mr. Balfoar in a speech of great dignity moved an amendment to the effect...

I Lord Lansdowne's answer on the abstract Doint in regard to the position which the Commander-in-Chief ought to occupy was, in our opinion, no answer at all. As regards Lord...

There is no doubt, we believe, that the French Senate will I reject or emasculate the Anti-.Millionaire Bill, but on February 28th the Deputies inserted in the Associations...

The cause of this tone is said to be a great increase of | economic anxiety in Germany. Lean years are believed to be coming on. The taxation is very heavy, the expenditure in...

| In the House of Lords on Monday the Duke of Bedford in an able speech, which, unfortunately, was very meagrelv reported, drew attention to the present system of Arnn...

I We cannot attempt to abstract the rest of the speeches made either on Monday or on Tuesday night, but we may note two points, one from Lord Rosebery's speech and one from the...

The struggle among the parties in Spain has ended in re- placing the Liberals in power. Sefior Sagasta has once more formed a Ministry, and has secured the support of General...

The notes of the President's Inaugural Speech were exultation in the prosperity of the States, and condemnation of those who think expansion outside the province or beyond the...

The desire for pomp is an inherent foible in the human mind, and is, we see, invading the United States. Mr. McKinley was "inaugurated" for the second time on March 4th, and a...

I The Gelman Chancellor delivered on Tuesday a long specel on the relations between Germany and England and Germnan3 and Russia, which we have discussed at length elsewhere...

Affairs in China do not advance. The question of execu. tions may be considered shelved, the most guilty, including Prince Tuan, having escaped with nominal penalties, but that...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. I 'HERE is still no war news of any importance, thoughI Tat the moment of our going to press a despatch from I Lord Kitchener announces the repulse of a...

At Bremen on Wednesday evening the German Emperor, I after supping with the Burgomaster and the Senators in the vaults of the Rathans, was driving to the railway station in an...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE POSITION OF THE COMNIANDER-IN-CIIEF. H EIE debate on the position of the Commander-in1Cbief was thoroughly unsatisfactory. There was temper, there was...

THE AXE AND THE TREES. I MMBER for ordinary building is dear at present, a fact T which renders the public rather more attentive to the voice of the professional forester than...

We have received the third yearly issue of The Nursing Pro- I fession: How aud Where to Train, by Sir H. Burdett (Scientific I Press, 2s. net). It gives a preliminary aocount...

NEW EDITIONS.- -In the series of "Sportsman's Classics" (Gay I and Bird) we have Izaal. lWalton's Complete Angler (is. Gd. net), a " careful reprint," we are told, " of the...

Rprmondsew: its Historic Memories and Associadions. By E. T. I C larke. (Elliot Stock. 12s. 61. net.) -The great feature of ancient I lBermondsey was, of course, its Abbey....

I The Politician's Handbook. Bv H. Whates. (Vacher and Sons. 6s. net.)-In this volume we have in a convenient form the substance of many Blue-books, it appears, not...

Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys. By the Rev. D. Butler. (A.. I and C. Black. L;. Gd.)-Principal Story writes a preface for this volume, and explains that Mr. Butler has...

Dissent in England. By HI. IHensley Henson, B.D. (Published | for the author by 13ivingtons.)-We have here two lectures actually delivered out of a total course of nine, the...

We have to notice the new issue (sixty-third thousand) of The Law of Bills, Cheques, Notes, and L.0. U.'s, by James Walter Smith, LL.D. (Effilgham Wilson, 1s. Gd. net). It has...

The Companion Dictionaru of Quotations, selected and arranged I .by Norman MacMunn (Grant Richards, 2s. 6d.), is a very neat- I looking and handy volunme. That it contains...

Walford's County Families of the United Kingdom. (Chatto and Windus. 50s.)-This volume, now in its forty-first year, has to deal with a somewhat vaguely defined...

The Story of Art in the British Islas. By J. Ernest Phythian. (G. Newnos. Is. )-This little book, belonging to a series of which we have had o casion more than once to speak...

We must be content with giving the title and sub-title of The Myths of Greece Explained and Dated: an Embalmed History from Uranus to Perseus, Incluiing the Eleusinian...

A Treatise on the history of Confession. By C. 31. Roberts, I B.D. (C. J. Clay and Son. 3s. Gd.)-.51r. Roberts traces the I history of the doctrine and practice of confession...

RULERS OF THE SOUTH. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECrATOR."] SiR,-In the Spectator of February 23frd there is a review of Mr. Marion Crawford's " Rulers of the South " which...

I [TO TUE ZDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR."] SLR,-Did any one consider the feelings of the English Roman Catholic Bishops, and the other ecclesiastics who were British subjects, at...

THE ROMAAN CATHOLIC PEERS' PROTEST. [TO TaE EDITOR O0 TUE ' SPECTATOR."] SiB,-Let me su-gest your printing in your columns some extracts from the Papal Index Expurgatorius side...

A LINK WITH LORD CLIVE. [TO TEE EDITOR OF TIIE "SPECTATOR."] SirP,-Your readers may like the following "link with the past." I can quite well remember my grandmother, who died...

To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sir,-Your article in the Spectator of March 2nd on " Stupid Building By-laws " will be welcome to many of your readers, to none more than to...

POETRY. AN EMPTY HOUSE. DoP.A little lads, I never cease To look for you to spoil my rhymes, To break in on my working times And waste my precious hour of peace; But now, no...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,-I live in the warmest house I ever inhabited, built of chalk with a coating of plaster, with walls about 18 in. thick. It was built in...

BO OK S. HANNAH MORE. * A NOVELST of the present time mnay look back with envy to the palmiy days when fiction was scarce, and Evelina and COleba ia Search of a Wife made the...

MRS. GATTY'S " SUN-DIALS." * For. purposes of enjoyment we are not sure that the edition of Mrs. Gatty's Book of Sun-Dials published in 1899 was not a more perfect work than...

NOVELS OF THE WEEK.* PREFACES written by enthusiastic translators of foreign novels are not always convincing; but we have no ground for complaint with Mr. Nisbet Bain's...

AMERICA AND THE REFERENDUM.* THE most superficial students of American politics know that for many years there have been deep lamentations over the decline of both the Federal...

STUPID BUILDING BY-LAWS. [To THE EDITOR OF TRE "SPECTATOR."] Sir,-Your article in the Spectator of March 2nd was so strained that I fear it must produce an utterly erroneous...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TIM {'SPECTATOR."] Sin,-Every architect will be interested in the very able article which appeared in the Spectator of March 2nd under the title of "Stupid...

UNITY WITHOUT UNIFORMITY. [TO TInE EDITOR OF THE "SSPECTATOP.."] $IR,-You will, I am sure, do me an act of bare justice. In the spectator of February 9th (which, unfortunately,...

THE CINQUE PORTS.* THE author of this work has lived within the liberties of one or other of the five ports ever since he can remember. Iln addition to his knowledge of...

COUNT VON BUirhows SPEECH. W I LIAM II. made a most felicitous choice when he selected Count von BuIiow to be the new Chancellor of the Empire. The Emparor wanted a man who...

THE COUNTY COUNCIL ELECTION. " XTO good," says the typical old salt in some seafaring I5 novel-" no good ever comes of changing a ship's name." The organisers of the Moderate...

THIE DEAD-SET AGAINST SIR ALFRED MKILNER. I DUlIN-G tile past few weeks the advocates of the I I Boer cause have been engaged in making a deadset against Sir Alfred Milner....

THE SILENCE OF CHINA. M UCH the most striking, if not the most alarming, 1M1 feature in this Chinese imbroglio is the silence of the Chinese. Europe has occupied and plundered...

I THE CHARM OF THE BOOK OF JOB. MANY persons, doubtless, like the present writer, can recall the time in early life when they turned from some parts of the Old Testament,...

THE MAGAZINES. THE Nineteenth Century is full of interesting papers. Most people will turn with curiosity to Mr. E. Robertson's account of " The Civil List," though he confines...

CHARITY. A CHANGE which from an intellectual point of view a A rather noteworthy is said to be passing over the philanthropic world, a world as separate and nearly as well...