what authority, that our warships operating on the Flanders coast had been compelled by the gale on Tuesday to put out to sea, and therefore could not assist our troops in the...

on the Chemin des Dames, north of the Aisne, where the Crown Prince, as at Verdun, is exhausting his strength in vain efforts to break the French resistance. The chief German...

on Monday night by raiding the Turkish-German fleet off Constantinople. They approached unobeerved, descended within 800 feet of the sea, and dropped bombs on the battle-cruiser...

last week is again less unfavourable than we had feared. Thirteen largo merchantmen and three small ships were sunk, while thirteen boat off the assailants and escaped. These...

hard last week at the enemy's centre in Galicia, north and south of Brzezany, General Brussiloff has delivered a still more vigorous blow at his right flank between the Dniester...

S IR DOUGLAS HAIG has reported this week a slight but annoying reversenorth of Nieuport—the first we have suffered for a very long time. On Tuesday evening the Germans attacked...

would be to confess that we are being spoiled by good fortune. A conspicuous lesson of the war is that any small position can be taken if it is shelled heavily enough and...

raid on London yet accomplished by the Germans occurred last Saturday morning. The raiders, which crossed London from north-west to south-east, are said to have numbered...

wild birds in regular formation, with the bomb-droppers occupying the inner line and the fighting machines which protected them outside, will always have an image of it in their...

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

question on the air raid, Mr. Boner Law announced that the Government proposed to move the adjournment of the House in order that there might be a private sitting to discuss the...

of air raids, a moral which is much more important than the question of " reprisals." The raids hitherto have been only a faint foretaste of what must be expected in future if...

last week,. when the Reichstag met. In the Main Committee, Herr Erdrerger, of the Centre Party, at the instance, it is odd, of Austria, made a vigorous speech adVocating...

coast and the Isle of Thanet about 9.30 a.m. In the Isle of Thanet three persons were killed and three injured, and in the London area forty were killed and one hundred and...

Proclamation. The Proclamation, which opens with the words "Whereas the public safety requires that succour shall be prevented from reaching the enemy," prohibits the...

from all others yet experienced. The threatening lowness of the raiders, as it seemed, was a portent not to be disregarded, and the vast majority of people sought shelter. It is...

Rouse of Lords on Tuesday. Lord Tenterden, who raised the question, complained of the inadequacy of the measures taken by the Government for the production of aeroplanes. Lord...

operations than anything which encouraged the Germans to believe that by these raids they could excite such a clamour in this country that the Government could not resist the...

Bill entered the Committee stage. On the first clause Mr. Shaw moved to amend the bonus szheme by paying the bonus for wheat and oats on the acreage cultivated instead of on the...

Law an- nounced that as he had been unable to devote the necessary time to his duties in the War Cabinet, the Prime Minister would probably find it necessary to make other...

Belgian Socialist delegates, to the Dutch-Scandinavian Socialist Committee at Stockholm, published in the Times of Friday the 6th, is a most striking and noble document. The...

that, with a view to disciplinary measures against the persons censured in the Mesopotamian Report, the special machinery provided by the Army (Courts of Inquiry) Act of 1916...

late Major W. Redmond, resulted in the election of Mr. de Valera, the Sinn Fein candidate, by 5,010 votes to 2,035. This great Sinn Fein majority of 2,975 was entirely...

nearly a week of secret Sessions. The debate was remarkable for the speech of M. Painleve on military policy. He frankly admitted that grave mistakes had been made in the April...

Paris to discuss the military and political situation in the Balkans, interest attaches to the official statement of the Provisional Government in Russia. Their representatives...

take part in the Convention, which is to meet on July 25th, with Mr. Duke as temporary Chairman. We shall say nothing to disturb the beatific "atmosphere "—the accepted phrase...

appear, we need say little in the way of comment at present. We aro very glad that the Government wish to proceed cautiously, and not to impose penalties which would be a mere...

the Manchu dynasty having lasted barely a week. On Saturday last General Chang Hsun, finding his position desperate, tendered his resignation, and the young'Emperor issued an...

April 5th.

AIR RAIDS. I F people would remember (what they can scarcely dispute) that the methods of defending ourselves against air raids are purely a military problem, they would find...

L AST week we expressed great pleasure at that passage in Mr. Lloyd George's Glasgow speech in which he spoke of the need for steadiness in the nation. He told us that all would...

W E have heard a great deal this week of an alleged political crisis in Germany. The Reichstag was opened on Thursday week, and on Friday in the Main Com- mittee, which meets in...

" W HAT we want," said the Chancellor of the Exchequer during the debate last week upon National Expen- diture, " is some method which will keep policy distinct from...

1 T is the almost daily task of every subaltern on active service to collect and censor the letters of the men under his command. That this is no small labour many a weary...

91HERE is generally same drawback to the pleasure to be got out 1 of a garden. Just now the amount of work which mutt be done in it by the owner's wife or daughter to keep it...

or THE "SPECTATOR.") Sta,—Your article on the above subject on June 23rd seems to be unanswerable. Your argument is: if you reduce the price of bread, you stimulate the demand,...

THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I gather from a communication just received from the Hampstead Food Control Committee that the Government con s templates the issue of a command to the...

[Leiters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more clinntinc, than those which fill treble the spare.] AN ESSENTIAL TOWARDS NATIONAL...

" Seeevaree."1 Ste,—We have read with entire approval your articles en Profiteering " and the effect of compulsory lowering of food pi ices. We believe, with you, that the...

(To Ins Eorros. or THE " SrrcrAxon."1 Ste,—I must thank you for your courteous insertion of my letter as to War Memorials, especially as you intimate editorial dis- agreement...

ITo THE EDFFOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 Sm,—If, as Lord Hugh Cecil declares in your lost issue, the waters of the well of truth have disagreed with us, is not the blame to be laid...

have long had much the same thought in my mind as your correspondent Mrs. Wigan, and as a fact I was on the point of trying to find some influential person to take the matter...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECMOR:1 Sur,—A new scheme regulating the number, weight, and method of despatching of parcels for officer prisoners has been issued by the War Office,...

LTo THE EDITOR OF THE " Sncrxrox.”.1 Sur,—May I call the attention of your readers to the fact that a scheme already exists to carry out the object advocated by Mrs. Wigan in...

fTo cost Eorror. or THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sis. — For reasons into which there is no need to go, I am opposed to the special penalization of the shipping interest adopted in this...

THE " SPECTATOR."1 Siu,—Is there really a food shortage 7 Many people are beginning to ask this question. We have just had a food economy week and have been taught how to lire...

(To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Sts,—Somewhere in France there is a large camp of Kaffirs. When I first saw them, my British ignorance and prejudice made me jump to the...

"DIED OF WOUNDS." I DON'T know why you look so frightened, dear. What, mother, what? You say I'm looking queer? I'm quite all right, only I'm drenched and cold. The old mare...

[To THE Enema or THE "Sewers:m."1 Sia,—A few weeks ago you kindly published a letter from me, in which I referred to Homer's Odyssey and gave quotations there- from. May I say...

lisa,—Four Public School boys, all of whom are seventeen years of age, are willing to give their services together for the last fortnight In August on any good farm in return...

[To THE EDITOR Cr THE " SPECTATOR.") Ssn,—On Wednesday next the Wesleyan Conference will meet in the Central Hall, Westminster. But for the war, Burslem would have been the...

SIR,—Mr. Prior is quite right. Why should artists waste their time in executing masterpieces like Michael Angelo's tomb of the Medici, when the public and Mr. Prior think the...

[To THE Earroa or THE " SPECTATOR."1 gin,—Ycu kindly allowed me to inform your readers of a scheme to mark the centenary of Jane Austen 's death by placing a memorial tablet on...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are 'narked" Com- municated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in ayreemcnt with the views therein expressed or with the mode...

Mule hIzar-Anzia Msceoxste's three poems (" In Me Ward," "Epiphany Vision," and "In Last Year's Camp") have been reprinted from the pages of the Spectator in pamphlet form under...

111k EXPANSION OF EUROPE.* Saxon Professor Ramsay Muir wrote these essays, describing how Europe has impressed herself upon the character of the whole world, the Russian...

Arran long years spent in the East with literary results agreeably familiar to many readers, Mr. Fielding-Hall gives us the outcome in this volume of ten years' study of England...

character finds a peculiarly happy illustration in the early history of our foreign trade. Nothing could be loss like the orderly development imagined by the theoretical...

FROM one point of view, this is a very interesting and valuable book, bring, so far as we know, the first detailed and accurate description in English of one of the many and...

MR. RUBY JUMPS THE TRACES.* Ix one of the most characteristic of the " Bab Ballads " the late Sir William Gilbert describes how a man who had lived a perfectly blameless life...

Co. Gs.)—A story of German plots in Natal in 1914 and 1915. It throws much light on the wide- spread nature of Germany's preparations for war.—The Cross Roads. By A. B. A. Shute...

Guardia*. Is. Myres has collected some valuable notes on the church bells in the neighbourhood of Preston, with some interesting information about their use. St. Chad's,...

By A. Seth Pringle.Pattison. (Clarendon Press. Its. 6d. not.)—Professor Pringle.Pattison's Gifford Lectures, delivered at Aberdeen in 1912.13, have been somewhat slow to appear...

(T. Fisher Unwin. 2s. 6d. not.)—This woll-writton and practical little hand- book may be commended to the young women who bare thoughts of taking up the dispenser's...

5s. net.)—These learned lectures on the origins of the cults of Dionysos, Apollo, Artemis, and Aphrodite are full of curious information. Dr. Harris traces Dionysos to the ivy...

Co. ls. not.)—This pamphlet- gives in a compact form the facts concerning our merchant marine before and during the war, and emphasises the value of its services to tho country.

charming little poems were written, the author tells us, on active service in German East Africa ; but the tropical bush and swamp are seldom mentioned, and only two pieces—"...

5s. net.)—Professor Todd's well-planned and ably written text- book on money, exchange, and banking deserves attention because he draws freely upon our experiences of finance in...

Press. 66. Od. net.)—The late Sir William Markby, after serving for twelve years as a Judge of the High Court at Calcutta, returned to Oxford in 1878 as Reader of Indian Law and...

63. 6d. not.)—Like M. do Jusserand and other French writers, American students are devoting much attention to the early rela- t ions between Franco and America. Crevecceur, the...

(Christian Literature Society. 2s. net.)—This attractive little book, with plenty of illustrations and maps, should interest boys and girls in the rise of our Indian Empire. The...

2a net.}— This little handbook will be - very useful to civilians who want to identify a soldier's regiment from his cap badge. The outline sketches of the badges are...

been reprinted from the Dublin Review (Burns and Oates, Is. not), and many besides the friends of that brave and able young soldier will be glad to have it in this form.

ance. (Herbert Jenkins. I2s. ild. net.)—This is a cheerful book of reminiscences of the interesting people whom the author met in the course of a wandering outdoor career as the...

Ototits in ai.1 column Son net necusarily preecide satawarat In Memoriam A. H. By Maurice Baring. (Oxford : B. H. Blackwell. Is. net.)—This dignified and touching elegy on the...

T. H. Pear. (Longman and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—It is common knowledge that many soldiers have suffered mentally as well as physically under the terrible strain of trench warfare and...