peace there has always been complete freedom of the seas. Ships of all nationalities have been allowed to come and go everywhere as they pleased. The British Navy ensured that....

of Peace Aims, that we need not do more here than summarize briefly the principal points in Mr. Wilson's fine Message. He demand id open diplomacy ; the abolition of all...

at Westminster last Saturday, defined anew the War Aims of Great Britain, so that all citizens might understand clearly what we are fighting for. The Prime Minister explained...

Serbia, and whose present rulers had negotiated for peace without consulting the Allies, the Prime Minister pointed out that Germany meant to keep the occupied Russian lands and...

complete restoration of Belgian independence and reparation for the damage done by the enemy. " Reparation means recognition." If the offender against international law could...

Pacificists (that is to say, all except the very extreme and most capricious sort) have no longer any raison d'are. All parties, all classes, all schools of thought, are behind...

P RESIDENT WILSON delivered a memorable Message to Congress on Tuesday. He stated, in the most explicit manner conceivably possible at the moment, the terms on which the United...

Wilson's request of a year ago that they should state their positive war aims, though the Allies, in reply to the President, made a full declaration of policy. Count Czernin, at...

will give definite orders to their newsagents for a copy of the " Spectator" to be reserved for them each week till countermanded.

the wintry weather. The enemy, however, tried twice, on Saturday last and again on Tuesday, to regain his footing in the Hinden- burg line east of Bullecourt. On each occasion...

were once more very serious. We lost sixteen large ships over 1,600 tons and two smaller ships, with four fishing-boats, as com- pared with seventeen large and four small...

no part of our war aims. But the causes of unrest in that part of Europe would remain unless genuine self-government on true democratic principles were granted to those...

need only record that it was most favourably received by all parties at home, including even the extreme Pacificists like Mr. Snowden and Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, and by the...

"they are held at the disposal of a Conference whose decision must have primary regard to the wishes and interests of the native inhabi- tants." The enemy's suggestion that the...

injuries done in violation of international law, and especially for the abominable submarine outrages. There would be a world . shortage of raw materials after the war, and the...

ground that their peoples have expressed a desire for German rule has excited indignation among the German Socialists as well as among the visionaries at Petrograd. A vigorous...

German claims to Courland, Lithuania, and Poland could not be accepted, proposed to transfer the Peace Conference from Brest-Litovsk to Stockholm. The German Chancellor stated...

an enemy submarine in the Bristol Channel on the night of Friday week. The sick and wounded were all safely transferred to the boats, and picked up an hour or two later by...

our Minister at Petrograd for the past eight years, has left Russia for reasons of health. No man did more than he to promote a better understanding between Russia and Great...

fallen in the hills to the north of Venice, and has made any large offensive movement impossible. The gallant defence offered by the Italian armies on the Asiago plateau and...

their desire t-, convert the British Museum into offices for the Air Board. Lord Curzon told the House of Lords on Wednesday, in reply to a vigorous protest by Lord Sudeley,...

fail, and indeed we feel certain that it will. The controversy is a test of strength within the Church on many subjects, and we shall be greatly surprised if the opponents of...

work of the American War Mission, headed by Colonel House, which came to London in November. The Americans, working with method and energy, arranged in a few weeks their plans...

is likely that there will be opposition to the confirmation of Dean Hensley Henson. When we first wrote about the controversy we wrote only of the opposition to Dean Hensley...

reports of a speech which he delivered on Monday that he is the first person in authority who has suggested any voluntary rationing of beer. We must confess that we have...

on Thursday week, again predicted with evident reluctance the introduction of compulsory rationing. The scheme was nearly ready for submission to the War Cabinet. The Food...

thousand names—of additional New Year Honours which was published in the papers of Tuesday. What can we do but say that we congratulate all our friends who are in the list ? May...

at Petrograd, and has sent missions abroad to the belligerent and neutral countries. France, Sweden, and Germany have already re- cognized the independence of Finland. It may be...

home on leave. Lord Reading, the Lord Chief Justice, has been appointed " High Commissioner in the United States in the character of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary...

the great shortage of food, to appeal to those who drink beer to give up, in the form of bread, as much foodstuffs as they use in the shape of beer. But if this be thought too...

Tuesday. The Nationalist Party, of which he is the leader, has a large majority in both Houses of the Australian Parliament, but Mr. Hughes long ago declared his intention to...

April 5, 1917.

OUR WAR AIMS. M R. LLOYD GEORGE'S speech has been accepted every- where except in Germany as a most just, reasonable, and moderate statement of the War Aims of the Allies. It...

in Sir Douglas Haig's clear and soldierlike despatch is that it provides a perfectly plain and satisfactory answer to the current questions of the amateur strategist in 1917....

General Diaz used in describing to a British correspondent the military situation in Italy seems to have escaped notice in these days when the attention of most people is bent...

of the public—is beginning at last to awaken to the con- sequences of the attempt to control food prices. In the poorest quarters it is to-day a common saying that " Directly...

THE initial horrors of the German rush for Paris have been THE and with great moderation described in such works as the Report of the Bryce Commission, Professor Morgan's German...

rilHERE is a sense in which average society is better than the beat. A knowledge of the world is a better thing than an exclusive knowledge either of the intellectual or...

I HAD always longed to see a shepherdess, keeping her sheep .1 on the Downs, and watching them feed, in sober security. I think it was that desire that made me, when at Oxford,...

Sia,—Your contributor on " The Meaning of the Hereford Controversy " underrates the full blast of discontent which prevails amongst a large and earnest section of the Church of...

The following extracts are from the Life of Archbishop Tait (Vol. II., pp. 57 to 60) :- "Reference to the Times for the months of November and December, 1869, shows that there...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which ji 1 I treble the space.] THE HEREFORD CONTROVERSY....

" SPECTATOR."] Sta,—The correspondence in your solumns forced me to read The Loom of Youth, and conscience colapels me to try to estimate the truth of the indictment contained...

Or THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR,—To the assertion that Ruskin was the mainspring of English travel to Italy Sir George Trevelyan replied : "Robert Browning has said the best things...

[To THE EDITOR or THE SPECTATOR.") SIR,—By some printer's error it would seem that a sentence from some other correspondent's letter has been transposed into mine. I wrote : "...

[TO Tar EDITOR OP ear " SPWTATOR.") SIE,—The recipe given in last Saturday's Spectator is practically what was used forty years ago in many towns in Ireland with great success,...

to you for the recipe for bread-making with potatoes which was in last Saturday's issue of your paper. I made the bread exactly in the manner described, and with great success....

[To rim Emroa or THE " Sescreroa.") SIR,—In your article of last week, " Coal Economy and National Wealth," you make the following statements: " It matters nothing to the...

(To rite Kerma or ran " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Including Super Tax, I have to pay .6900 a year Income Tax. This X900 is the whole income I derive from 418,000 saved during a...

• [To THE EDITOFt or THE " SPICIATOR."] Sui,—In an article in the Fatnightly Review of October, 1906 . entitled "The Papal Aggression in France," the writer throws it...

(To TEE EDITOR OF TEO "SPECTATOR.") - Sia,—The meat problem, which has been in full view for ten years past, can best be relieved, as you pointed out in your final issue of the...

Sia,—Mr. Jacob Epstein in his exhibition at the Leicester Gal- leries wrote on the front page of his catalogue, "I rest silent in mg work," and following this example, I have...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SID, — Scarcely a day passes but one or two Ministers and a score or so of Controllers call "grave" and " drastic" to their rescue, These...

[To THE EDITOR or TEL " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I have been to-day hunting round some of the old bookshops in Oxford, and I found in one shop on a stall marked M. two very excellent...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR...3 SIR, —It is my lot to live in a large native village near Lake Nyasa. The season's harvest has been a very poor one. Where it is possible,...

TO ENGLAND IN THE NEW YEAR. O ENGLAND, there are foes within thy gates, The deadlier because we ealled them friend : For foe is he who halts and hesitates To keep the stern...

[To tam Earroa or rue " SPECTATOR."] Sta,—The thanks of the public are due to you for your publica- tion in your last issue of the letter signed " A Loyal Irish Tax- payer"...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—In 1794 various resolutions for a peace with France were introduced into Parliament. Against one of these Lord Abingdon uttered -...

name or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be h eld to be in agree- meat with the views therein expressed or with the...

AT the request of many of our readers our leading article "New Year Resolves," which appeared in the Spectator on Decem- ber 29th, 1917, has been republished in pamphlet form....

THE LATE LORD GREY.* THIS little book had its origin in a letter which the late Lord Grey wrote shortly before his death, when he knew he was dying, to Mr. Begbie. He asked for...

his admirable prose descriptions will reawaken in many readers the longing to see those Islands of the Blest in the Western Pacific which Robert Louis Stevenson, following many...

WE have delayed too long to notice Mr. Maxse's admirable new number of the Potsdam Diary, now to be called, however, The National Review Diary. Mr. Maxse is to be admired and...

Ix this sequel to The First Hundred Thousand we lose a good deal of the rich flavour of that exhilarating work, but we resume agree- able acquaintance with some of our friends,...

Putnam's Sons. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Johnson, who is on the staff of Columbia University, has in this little book shown very clearly " that the Prussian ideal of government and the...

KNIGHTS OF ARABY.* MsaiscanuxE PicKmaxa. describes himself on the title-page of his new work as " Author of Said the Fisherman," and rightly, for though he has written several...

Holdich, has an important and suggestive paper on " Geographical War Problems in the Near East," bearing especially on the future of the Czechs and the Southern Slays, whose...

in its seventy-third annual issue, contains some interesting articles on the British Press in war time and on the new problems of Empire trade, besides its remarkably complete...

Atherton's enigmatic title would not lead any one to suppose that her new book is in fact an account of the work of leading Frenchwomen during the war, with an outspoken and...

Co. 6s. 6d. net.)—Professor Pollard has collected in this volume his scattered writings on the war, together with his lecture on " The Growth of an Imperial Parliament," which...

Adam. By J. 0. P. Bland. (W. Heinemann. 5s. not.)—When Mine. Adam edited the Nouvelle Revue she contributed to it a series of shrewd and vivacious " Letters on Foreign Policy,"...

plaice in this column duo net necessarily preclude subsequent review.] An article on " Sources of Potash" in Nature for January 3rd reveals the fact that Germany's monopoly,...

The Thistle Souvenir Book (No. 2) (Glasgow : Menzies, ls. 6d. net), edited by Mrs. Milroy, of Glasgow, and published in aid of the Scottish Women's Hospitals for foreign...

Blumenthal, the author of this admirable little book, is a distinguished Alsatian, who was Mayor of Colmar for nine years, a member of the Senate of Alsace, and Deputy for...