12 OCTOBER 1918

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The new Chancellor professed complete confidence in Germany's ability to

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avert defeat. But as tge struggle must not be protracted beyond "the moment when a termination of the war seems possible to us which does not affect our honour," he had sent a...

Prince Max went on to say that the co-operation of

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the Reichstag with the Government must continue after the war. A Bill would be introduced to authorize Deputies entering the Ministry to retain their seats. Prussia must, he...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE German Government, rearranged last week under Prince Max of Baden as Chancellor, addressed a Peace Note to President Wilson through the Swiss Government. The text of this...

Prince Max, addressing the Reichstag last Saturday, said that, in

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accordance with the Emperor's decree, the German Empire had "undergone a basic alteration of its political leadership." He intended to act in accord with the leaders of the...

The President, replying on Tuesday to the Note, said that

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he could not propose an armistice until the Central Empires had agreed "immediately to withdraw their forces everywhere from invaded territory," as a proof of good faith. As for...

Anticipating this objection, the German Emperor had on Thursday week

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appointed a new Ministry, headed by Prince Max of Baden, and including several Clerical and Socialist Deputies. Prince Max, who is descended through his mother from Eugene...

THE PAPER SHORTAGE.

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TO OUR READERS.—It is now necessary for readers to place a definite order for the " Spectator " with their Newsagent or at one of the Railway Book- stalls. Should any reader...

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Austria-Hungary acted with Germany in inviting President Wilson to arrange

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an armistice and peace negotiations. The Austrian Government, less careful than Prince Max, began their Note with the assertion that Austria, the unprovoked assailant of Serbia,...

In Champagne General Gouraud's steady advance on his right flank

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between the Suippes and the Argonne, combined with General Berthelot's advance towards the Aisne north-west of Reims, com- pelled the enemy on Friday week to abandon all his...

Turkey, according to the German official statements, was to act

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with her Allies, but no Peace Note from her has yet been pub- lished, though it is said to have been sent through the Spanish Government. An unofficial report indicates the fall...

There has been another week of very heavy fighting in

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France. The enemy's L-shaped front still hinges on the St. Gobain Forest between the Oise and the Aisne, but both the western and the southern sides of it are crumbling away...

On Wednesday night Sir Douglas Haig was able to announce

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that the enemy's whole defensive system from Arms to St. Quentin had been captured, and that our magnificent armies, with the French on their right flank, were advancing rapidly...

On either aide of the Argonne Forest the Franco-American pressure

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is gradually compelling the enemy to evacuate his last strongholds in that wild region. The Americans on Monday, after a most strenuous fight, captured the fortified hills above...

The abdication of King Ferdinand in favour of his son,

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the Crown Prince Boris, and the formal accession of the new monarch to his uneasy throne, were announced on Monday. The Government of Bulgaria's tender of resignation was met by...

The next stage began before dawn on Tuesday with a

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tremendous Allied offensive on the twenty-six-mile front from the north-east of Cambrai to the south-east of St. Quentin, directed against the German second line. Everywhere the...

The Allies in the Near East have been quick to

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profit by the collapse of Bulgaria. The Serbian and French troops took up the pursuit of the retreating Austrians and Germans, and are now advancing rapidly on a wide front...

On the enemy's western flank, while the Belgians have halted

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outside Bottlers and our Second Army have followed the retreating Germans to within a few miles of Lille, the battle of Cambrai has continued to rage furiously. The British and...

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General Allenby's cavalry in Southern Syria on Sunday last occu-

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pied Rayak and Zahleh, the chief towns on the railway running north- westwards from Damascus through the Lebanon foothills to Beirut. Last Sunday French and British warships...

The Daily News of Wednesday published a number of answers

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which it had received from the Lord Mayors and Mayors throughout the country about the desirability of a November election. The answers were overwhelmingly hostile to an...

A correspondent has sent us with some scathing comments a

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copy of a poster which is being exhibited at the front. We share his indignation. Soldiers at the front are now being invited to act as members of what may be called a universal...

In the heat of their very natural and most righteous

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indignation at German barbarity, some people seem to forget that to destroy any German town would be to destroy a good deal of art in the form of pictures or architecture. This...

Newspaper readers have been much interested by the announce- ment

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that the Daily Chronicle has been bought by a group repre- sented by Sir Henry Dalziel. As an immediate result of this purchase Mr. Donald, the editor of the Daily Chronicle,...

No doubt in these days, when the possession of a

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daily newspaper means a very large amount of capital, it is as difficult to avoid the syndicate as it is in any other trade. What may fairly be objected to is that the...

The War Cabinet published on Friday week its decision to

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appoint Sir George Cave as Chairman of the Inter-Departmental Prisoners of War Committee, and intimated that British prisoners of war in Bulgaria would be immediately released....

We have read with deep sympathy and approval, which we

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think must be shared by most people, the impressive warning which the French Government have addressed to Germany on the subject of German atrocities. It is most important for...

This is a very different method from the fantastic proposals

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one reads in some newspapers, that for every town in Belgium or France henceforth destroyed by the Germans a German town should be destroyed as a reprisal. When the war is over...

The poster is a picture of an enormous tumbler of

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pale yellow foaming beer that looks like lager (though probably nothing German is intended), and the following words accompany it : "Salve now and keep the price of beer down I"...

Bank rate, 5 per cent., changed.from 5i per cent. April

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6, 1917.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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PRESIDENT WILSON'S ANSWER. I F any one on first reading President Wilson's answer to the German peace proposal felt a tinge of disappointment that it did not fulfil the general...

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GERMAN SHIPPING.—THE CRIME AND THE PENALTY.

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THERE is nothing upon which Allied opinion is so thoroughly agreed as upon the penalty which must be exacted from the Germans for their crime of piracy upon the high seas. The...

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NATIONAL FINANCE AND PERSONAL ECONOMY.

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IN spite of the somewhat sensational methods used to advertise War Bonds—or perhaps in consequence of some of these methods—the public generally does not appear even yet to...

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THE VILLAGE CLUBS ASSOCIATION.

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T HE Corn Production Act has provided for a few years to come the basis of a restored agricultural life in Great Britain. An indication of the productiveness of British soil has...

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A BLACK COUNTRY VICAR. ■

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" C ALL me Old Tommy Two-Sticks," he used to say to the children when, owing to an accident, he had to walk with the aid of two sticks. And the name stuck to him for the rest of...

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THE 'JOHN McANDREW.'

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W HAT always annoys me infinitely is to look down from the bridge when we are plunging headlong into a beast of a sea, our fo'castle disappearing under a mountain of green...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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[Lettersof the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] THE WOMAN'S SENIOR WAR...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

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Sia,—In reading the correspondence under the above heading. I have been interested to note that there has been no reference to what has always seemed to me a great fault in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE ." SPECTATOR.")

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Sni,—Are not some of the writers of various letters on V.A.D. matters in your issue of the 5th under a misapprehension as to the actual meaning of the word " Voluntary " ?...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—You told us in

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your leading article that you were com- pelled to use the language of panic, and you found your panic problem in the letter of a Commandant whose experience, although of some...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]

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Sra,—In view of Lady Ampthill's letter in your issue of October 5th, I enclose a copy of the Memorandum adopted by the Surrey Branch of the British Red Cross Society in ease...

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THE TERMS OF PEACE.

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(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 submit that it is of the most vital importance that the terms of peace which the Allies intend to dictate should be promul- gated without...

THE POLITICAL PESSIMIST AND THE DOMINIONS. [To THE EDITOR OF

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THE " SPECTATOR:] is so long before your paper reaches us, and a reply can be sent, that a letter from here seems of doubtful value. There Is, however, a matter which has been...

THE MONTAGU REPORT.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—May I ask for the hospitality of your columns to draw attention ta three points in connexion - with the publication of the...

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GERMANY'S INDUSTRIAL PENETRATION.

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(To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.") Si&,—In your issue of July 27th, on p. 86, I note your remark : " One is tempted to think that the success of our arms has had a Lad...

THE GERMAN IDEA OF GOOD FAITH.

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(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—" How little reliance could be placed upon a Peace Treaty with an undefeated Germany must be clear "•—your own words, so far, on...

THE RAILWAY STRIKE AND ITS LESSONS. (To THE EDITOR Or

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THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—In your excellent leading article under the above heading you make use of the following words :— "Of course the process of which we are now reaping...

INDUSTRIAL EARNINGS.

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[To Tim EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."3 Sta,—The times seem to call for enlightenment on the wages question, so that the general public can form a fair and just opinion having...

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AN AMERICAN RETURNED.

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(To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia, — Except for brief trips, I have been away from the United States for over four years. To return now is to return to a new nation. I...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

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SI1A,—In your article " The Railway Strike and its Lessons," which I hope will be widely read, you quote President Wilson as saying that the man who is allowed at home is only...

THE HOUSEHOLD FUEL AND LIGHTING ORDER. (To THE EDITOR Or

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THE " SPECTATOR.") Ssa,—I was most annoyed when I first read "A. M.'s" letter on his coming fuel and lighting troubles; then when I thought it over it struck me as being...

COAL ECONOMY.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sus, — On the Western Front we have been successful in making an excellent substitute fuel for coal out of a mixture of coal-dust and...

THE BRITISH RAJ IN MESOPOTAMIA.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—At a time when British morality has been subjected to severe oriticism by Mr. Bok, you may care to print the following testi- mony...

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REJECTED VOLUNTEERS.

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[To THE EDITOR OF ens ‘. SPECTATOR.") SIR,—" J. E. B." is right in that his experience is by no means unique, and moreover there is no doubt that if some slight dis-...

"THE NEW TEACHING."

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[TO THE EDITOR OT THE " SPECTATOR.") Sue—After having read your review on "The New Teaching" I should like heartily to endorse what is there said about "inten- sive culture"...

SORTES BIBLICAE.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Even those who with good ground demand the revision of the Lectionary cannot have failed of late to be impressed with the curious...

PRESIDENT WILSON.

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(To ram Mirror: or sem " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—A very lifelike portrait of President Wilson (by Mr. Sargent) was recently exhibited in Chicago. After seeing it I wrote the...

THE DANGER OF UNCONTROLLED ZIONISM. [To THE EDITOR OF THE

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" SPECTATOR.") SIR,—With reference to the correspondence which took place in your columns a few months ago concerning the alleged "danger of uncontrolled Zionism," I have just...

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ST. JOHN yin. 44.

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(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sia,—Unfortunately for the ingenious theory of Professor Courtney Kenny that the nine Honour Mods. candidates had all read Dr. Moncure...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I beg leave

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to offer one or two very brief comments and queries on the letter of "W. T.," who is so severe on the alleged bad English of Government officials and others. (1) In his own...

BOOKS.

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ENGLAND AND PALESTINE.* Ma. SIDEBOTHAM'S interesting book on England and Palestine falls into two parts. The first is an attractive sketch of the history of Palestine from early...

A QUESTION OF AUTHORSHIP.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THZ " SPECTLTOR."1 . STR,—Can you or any of your readers kindly say where the follow- ing quotations come from ? The last quotation is, I am afraid, "The...

BAD LANGUAGE.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] StR,—Your correspondent " Retired " writes "May one finally raise the question whether there are any instances, in prose or poetry, before...

"HE TRIED TO MAKE BEAUTIFUL THINGS." [To THE EDITOR OF

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THE "SPECTATOR") SIR,—I should be greatly obliged if you, or one of your readers, could tell me the origin of the epitaph in which is included the line : "He tried to make...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sea,—" H. C."

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asks, in his witty article in the Spectator of September 21st, "what amount of filling out can make 'as to' presentable?" The New English Dictionary, by anticipation, supplies...

POETRY.

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AFTER FOUR YEARS. A. Prayer from Internment. [Nors. — On October 11th, 1914. some fifteen hundred men of the Royal Naval Division were interned at Groningen and Leeuwarden,...

NOTICE.—When "Correspondence" or Articles are signed with the writer's name

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or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agree- ment with the views therein expressed or with the mode of...

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RECENT POEMS.*

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POETS are not always the best critics of each other, but Lord Dunsany has left little to be said in his affectionate and sympathetic Introduction to these Last Songst of Francis...

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THE INTERESTS OF INDIA.*

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MINUTES of the proceedings of Annual Meetings of Societies are generally the dullest of publications. The proceedings of the first Annual Meeting of the Indo-British Association...

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ECONOMICS PL US MORALS.* HR. HARTLEY Wrrezes has added one

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more to his rapidly growing, list of volumes on economic problems. His new book is called The Business of Finance, and ranges over a somewhat wide area. It might indeed almost...

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THE TOWER FROM WITHIN.*

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MAJOR-GENERAL SIR GEORGE YOUNGHIISBAND writes of The Tower from Within. He is Keeper of the Jewels, and has his official residence in St. Thomas's Tower. The reader, entranced...

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION IN ENGLISH HISTORY.*

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LIEUTENANT BROWN, who was killed in France in 1916 at the age of twenty-nine, was an able young Oxford historian who had made his mark as a lecturer for the Workers' Educational...

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The Collection of Franklin Imprints in the Museum of the

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Curtis Publishing Company. By W. J. Campbell. (Philadelphia : Curtis Publishing Company.)—In this handsome volume, printed in a fine and bold type recalling the...

Pearl. Rendered into Modern English Verse by E. J. B.

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Kirtlan. (C. H. Kelly. 2s. 6d. net.)—Thl remarkable English fourteenth. century poem, "Pearl," which Dr. Gollancz has brought to the notice of our generation, has attracted...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

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INdics in This column Joss not necessarily pescludo tubloguost My German Prisons. By Captain H. G. Gilliland. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s. net.)—Captain Gilliland's narrative...

The German Empire of Central Africa. By Emil Zimmermann. (Longmans

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and Co. is. net.)—Mr. Edwyn Bevan has thrown new light on German war aims in his Introduction to this German pamphlet, advocating for military and economic reasons the seizure...

READABLE NOVELS.—The Years for Rachel. By Berta Ruck, (Hodder and

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Stoughton. es.)—A story of a very long engagement, of which the reader will get almost as tired as did the heroine. Her sudden marriage to an enterprising flying man at the...

FICTION.

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THE NEW MOON.* MR. OLIVER ONIONS takes his title from a passage in More's Utopia which compares the shape of the fabulous island to a new moon, and the " rubrications " of his...

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Alfred de V igny : Fames Choisis. Edited by E.

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Allison Peers. (Longmans and Manchester University Press. 3s. 6d. net.)-- Those who wish to read some good French poetry will find this scholarly edition of Alfred de Vigny...

Studies in Napoleonic Strategy. By Captain R. A. Hall. (Allen

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and Unwin. 4s. 6d. net.)--This is an instructive little book, largely influenced by the writings of Marshal Foch and Captain Colin, on Napoleon's methods, with notes showing how...

A Book of Jewish Thoughts. Selected and Arrangod by the

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Chief Rabbi. (Eyre and Spottiswoode.)—Dr. Hertz, the Chief Rabbi, compiled an admirable little anthology for the Jewish sailors and soldiers, and has now revised and enlarged...

A Minstrel in France. By Harry Lauder. (Melrose. 78. 6d.

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net.) —Mr. Harry Lauder's account of his visit to the front, partly to entertain the troops but mainly to see his only son's grave on the Somme, is an interesting book, by...

Warriors and Statesmen. From the " Gleanings " of the

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late Earl Brassey. Eelected and Arranged by Horace G. Hutchinson. (J. Murray. 9s. net.)—The late Lord Brassey kept a commonplace. book and printed three volumes of selections...

The War Office is issuing to the public fortnightly, at

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the prim of sixpence each, the Economic and Reconstruction supplements to the Daily Review of the Foreign Press, which is compiled for official purposes. There is a good deal of...

In the September number of Les Peuples Libres, a valuable

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monthly published at Lausanne and also by Messrs. Hachette of Paris, there is a noteworthy article on the Bolsheviks by M. Semionov, who shows by quotations from the Russian...