The correspondent of the Standard who is followhin the I manocuvres of the French Army of the East at Troyes sends an interesting report to Thursday's issue. The most...

Since our last issue the Channel Fleet has been at Danzig, I where three hundred British sailors were entertained by the municipality. The Bturgomaster in his speech declared...

| The Times last Saturday published an article which tells the story of the Han-kau-Canton Railway. The main outlines of this discreditable episode in concession-hunting are as...

The Echo de Paris reports a singular incident. The editor I of that journal, anxious for an independent account of the condition of the French Army, asked Colonel G idke, one...

IThe Times last Saturday contained an instructive article on the present position of the Panama Canal. The Anierican G overnment originally entered upon the task in a great...

j The Australian Federal Government is contemplatinfg talking a wise step. Alarmed by the slow increase of popuhition, and aware that it is only by a full tide of immigratio:1...

A telegram addressed by the Czar to General Linevitch announcing peace has called forth a chorus of animadversion throughout Europe. His Majesty states all the terms which...

THE Treaty of Peace between Russia and Japan, which will be known, we presume, as the " Treaty of Portsinouth," NEWS OF THE WEEK. was signed on Tuesday, and now awaits only...

The disorders and discontents are, however, terribly serious. There must be something in the reports of an amount of discontent in the army of Manchuria which alarms the...

The clouds over Morocco are dispersing a little. The Makbzan, or Governing Council, itwill be remembered, arrested an Algerian Frenchman in dleffillace of the Capitulations....

The Peace is accepted in both countries as a relief, but in neither is it considered satisfactory. The Leader of the Opposition at Tokio, Count Okuma, declares that lie cannot...

A significant and important statement was made by the ! Attorney-General of the Transvaal in the Legislative Council on Monday. Sir Richard Solomon said that the total...

On Friday week the British Association brouglht its I South African meeting to a close in Johannesburg. One of the most gratifying features of the meeting has been tbe number...

The TimCs of Wednesday contains a striking letter "On France, England, and the Eiile'de," over the signature " Vidi." The writer, an Englishmiian wlho has lived on the...

In connection with the visit of the British Association to I Kiniberley on Tuesday, Sir William Croo'Kes delivered a very interesting lecture on diamonds. He explained in...

Mr. Asquith, spealking at a meeting of West Perthfshire Liberals at Abercairney, near Crieif, on Saturday last, dealt in a very wvise and statesmanlike spirit with the...

Canterbury. By J. Charles Cox. (Methuen and Co. 4s. 6d. I net.)-The contents of this volume are, as might be expected, largely ecclesiastical, concerning the history of the...

Litera)1 Celebrities of the Lake District. By Frederick Sessions. (Elliot Stock. Gs.)-Mr. Sessions has had abundance of material on which to work. Some of it has required not a...

NEW EDITIONs.-In the "Completo Works of Count Leo N. Tolstoy," Translated and Edited by Professor Leo Wiener (J. M. Dent and Co., 3s. 6d. net per vol.), wo have Vol. XVIII.,...

| The Journal of Education (W. Rice, 6d.) for August contains, besides its usual variety of good reading, a seasonable article entitled "Board and Lodging: the Complete House...

I CLASS AND SCHOOL BooKs.-A Printer of Logic. By E. E. I Constance Jones. (John Murray. Is. Gd.)-" How( different from our old friend Aldrich !" was the first thought that...

Simple Lessons on Health. By Sir Michael Foster. (Macmillan ! and Co. ls.)-These explanations of the processes of nutrition, the value of foods, stimulants, &c., the need of...

THE POOR AND THE LAND.* MR. RIDER HAGGARD was well advised to seek the permission of the Treasury and the Rhodes Trust to republish in book form his Report upon the Salvation...

CONSTANTINE. C URRENT LITERAT UTRE. Constantine. By John B. Firth. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 5s.) -This is one of the -IHeroes of the Nations" series. Constantine, it is true, was...

A VOLUME OF RECOLLECTIONS. Tracks of a Rolling Stone. By the Hon. Henry J. Coke. (Smllitlh, Elder, and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)-Mr. Coke gives us sundry things which we (1o not...

I The Brassworkers of Berlin and Birmingham. I SOME BOOKS OF TfHE WEEK. [Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been rese).ved for e eview in other...

PROFESSOR DICEY ON HOMIE-RULE AND FREE-TRADE. TROFESSOR DICEY has contributed to the Contemporary IReview a very interesting survey of the -~ . . . A - r political situation....

THE PROSPECTS OF GENERAL PEACE. HE Treaty between Russia and Japan was signed on Tuesday, and the Western world exults in the prospect of a lasting peace. They are probably in...

THE NEW 'TREATY WITH JAPAN. TOPICS OF THE DAY. Eincline to believe that the Government have acted wvisely in consenting to widen the terms of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty. There...

ANIMALS' RESTING PLACES. N the dream of Nebuchadnezzar the terrible doom pronounced on the Dlihllty tree aLlected alike both birds ,Vh'Il leasts. The beasts of the field were...

HOW IT STRIKES AN AUSTRALIAN. V.-THE SOLDIERS. NE sunny morning, about five years ago, a regiment of British infantry marched through the market square of Bloemfontein on its...

THlE GOVERNMENT AND THE VOLUNTEERS. I LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Thie typographical arrangement of the letter signed ,;Volunteer Field Officer" which appeared in...

IS INDIA HALF-CIVILISED? TO THP EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SiR,-I venture to call your attention to what I am sure can only be a lapsus calaini in the article on " Lord Curzon...

THE FOLLY OF INDIAN OFFICIALS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Iii Mr. Kipling's story, " William the Conqueror" (;' The Day's Work "), we read:-" His [Scott's]...

THE GOVERNMENT OF MOROCCO. [TO THlE EDITOR OF THE "SPECrATOR."] SiP.,-Tlie Spectator has lent the sanction of its authority to an incorrect way of spelling the designation of...

AN UNFORGOTTEN WORTHY. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOr."] SIR-As regards " Mr. Balfour's responsibility," your correspondent, Mr. W. K. Gill (Spectator, September 2ndl). is...

" L'ART DE LA LECTURE." LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SIECTATOM"J Sir,,-" In a somewhat startling passage . . . M...M. Legouv6 shows how a fine reader must necessarily be a capable...

SIR.-I have read your article on "L'Art de la Lecture" I FTO TUE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] in last week's Spectator with much interest. But does not the writer somewhat run...

PO E T RY. RIVER SONG. OII Thlamnes, beneath the Hatrts'ock 'Wood Goes clad in silks, serenely, A inaiden in a tranquil mood, That. throughl a world scarce niiilersoo 1 MKoves...

THE HIGHLAND RAILWAY. [TO Tlft EnDInon OF THE "SPECrATOR."J SIR,-Returning from a delightful holiday in the Highlands and off the West Coast, it has been a pleasure to read and...

CHEAP COTTAGES EXHIBITION. (The Garden City, Letchworth, near Hitchin, Irer-ts.) Tnn Cheap Cottages Exhibition can be reached from London, riilt King's Cross, in about an hour....

NATURE'S " TREMBLING HAND." I rTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."1 SiR,-The familiar thougtht, quoted on p. 324 of the Spectator of September 2nd from Dr. Gardner's "Grammar of...

JEWISH HUMOURISTS. EBREW Humour, and other Essays," by J. Chlotzner (London: Luzac and Co., 5s. net), is a collection of papers which "deal somewhat extensively with the...

THE CHARM OF WALES.* WHAT is the charm of Wales? Few countries have a charm so real, yet so hidden and intimate; so undeniable, yet so difficult to catch and to describe....

MR. MASTERMAN'S ESSAYS.* NOBILITY of temper; catholicity of personal, literary, and religious, though hardly of political, appreciation; and frequently a striking felicity of...

A NECESSARY SEQUEL TO THE " ENTENTE CORDIALE." Ml'TTERS TO THE EDITOR. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SrECTATOR."] Fi.,-Last May you found space for a letter on the relations of...

HELLENISM.* BO OK S. .0 THE lectures upon Hellenism which Professor Mahaffy delivered in the University of Chicago are eminently characteristic of their author. They are...

THE MAGAZINES. THE most attractive articles in the Nineteenth Century are the first and the last,-Sir William Garstin's intensely interesting paper on "Some Problems of the...

THE OPPORTUNITIES OF WAEALT. T is by no means only becauise of its size that Mr. E. G. BaId-elnls gift of C1: 1U,001) fur charitable purposes, d(tails of which were 4tiVe by...

THE DISSOLUTION OF THE SCANDINAVIAN UNION. I ~To TiF' EIroa OF TIll' "SPEcTATOR."] SIR,-As a constant reader for many years of the Spectator. I have always perceived your...

THE TRADE-UNION CONG RESS. CASUAL observer of British affairs, lookium at this year's Report of the Parliament arv Committee of thoe Trade-Uiioin Congress, pullishe(l on the...

NOVELS. NAPOLEON'S LOVE STORY.* IF it be true, as the translator asserts in his preface, that the story of Madame Walewska has never yet been embodied in an historical...

THE BASUTO QUESTION. HE question of the future of B3asutoland promises to be more difficult than at first seemed likely. Lerothodi, the Paramount Chief, is dead, and, as in...