the Alps to the north of Venice. They have been pushed back a little by the weight of superior numbers and heavier guns, but they have made the enemy pay dearly for the peaks...

J ERUSALEDI was surrendered last Sunday to the British Army We have described elsewhers the stages of General Allenby's brief and brilliant campaign. Ile made his formal entry...

space to record all the important events of the week, we must make room to pay a Well- deserved tribute to the frank, honest, and valuable speech made in London on Friday week...

shows that fourteen large vessels and seven small vessels were lost last week, as compared with sixteen large vessels and one small vessel in the previous week. This was the...

gained on December 4th in the Diala Valley, north-east of Baghdad, and drove the Turks northward Omagh the Jebel Hamrin range towards their advanced base at Kiln. The Russian...

attacked the Admiralty, and as his words were not reported in many papers, it is worth while to reproduce them. We take the following brief summary from the Daily Mail :— " The...

the three religions would be protected according to their eustoms was read from the steps of the Citadel. Indian Moham- medan guards were placed round the Mosque of Omar. Guards...

an offensive in the West that their immediate thoughts may run in a different direction. During this week their artillery has been very active between Arras and Cambrai. On...

nesday week, the Cambrai front has seen no serious infantry fighting, though we improved our line north of La Vacquerie on Friday week. Both sides are busily engaged in digging...

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

by the Anarchists to have taken arms against them, in conjunction with General Komiloff, who recently escaped from prison. Another Cossack, General Dotal, has occupied Orenburg...

Anarchist gang in Petrograd, styling themselves the "Commissioners of the People," threaten to abolish the Constituent Assembly if, as seems probable, the electors have not...

to one who represents Labour " Lot every one," he said, " subordinate personal considerations so the gene-4 intereete of the State. Let Capital realize its responsi- bility to...

of the situation. The trouble is that Cabinet government, as we used to know it, has disappeared, and few Ministers feel that they owe any loyalty to their brother-Ministers. In...

War Alms Committee. He recalled the anxious days of 1914 when he, as Prime Minister, had to decide between war and a shameful neutrality, and declared that he did not regret his...

that Germany had informed the British Government last September, through a neutral source, that she world be glad to make a com- munication relative to peace. The Government...

and the German people. We sought to destroy not a people but a system, "which has used as its instroment, first in Prussia, then in the rest of Germany, 'that two-handed engine...

mainly rerponsible for this underestimate, were it not for the curious.fact, which an American correspondent brought to our notice the other day, that Lord Northcliffe tries to...

furious outcry which was raised before the war when a few millions were added to the national expenditure upon social reform, and the quiescence with which the nation now...

if it permitted the continuance of a" veiled war." "A clean peace ! That is what the people of this country and all the Allied peoples desire." To attain it, and nothing less,...

a continual belittling of the saorifiece made by the British people. This also is absolutely true He found that the American people were astounded when he told them exactly what...

unravel the Pacifleist scandals in France by asking the Chamber, through General Dubai], the Military Governor of Paris, to suspend the Parliamentary immunity of M. Caillaux, so...

to be resumed on Wednesday. Trotsky informed the Allies that he had found the enemy delegates evasive, that he would not sign an armistice unless the Germans agreed to evacuate...

House of Commons on Friday week. Representatives of the British parties concurred in describing the Bill as a fair compromise, and in complimenting the Speaker, to whose tact in...

the German metal syndicate from regaining its hold over our indus- tries, was read a second time in the House of Commons on Tuesday by a majority of 182 votes to 79. The Bill...

Credit for £550,000,000, to cover expenditure to the end of March. The total sum voted for the finaneialyear would be £2,450,000,000. The gross daily expenditure for the year up...

Thurs- day week by the explosion of a ship laden with munitions, which collided in the harbour with a Belgian relief ship, took fire, and blew up. The force of the explosion was...

days after the battle of Marston Moor, was sold in the Morrison collection at Sotheby's on Tuesday for the sum of £300. Cromwell began with a brief account of the greet victory...

result of which the Unionist Opposition overthrew the Democratic Ministry, whose leaders were on their way home from the Allied Conference in Paris. The Lisbon garrison took...

lack of support from the ex-Tsar's Government, has now been placed in a perilous position by the Russian Anarchist agitation for peace. The Russian commander on the Rumanian...

April 5th,

A NATIONAL MINISTRY. A GOOD deal of despondency and anxiety has been visible in the Press and in the public mind during the past week. This despondency has come primarily from...

A LL that we have read and heard about the Government policy of building State shipyards causes us to take an even more serious view of the matter than we expressed when we...

- PROM every point of view—the historical, the moral, and the military—the fall of Jerusalem is an event to stir • the emotions of the world. General Allenby might have arrived...

129,000,000 122,000,000 Looking at these figures by themselves, we are justified in IFILE Russian Revolution has, temporarily at any rate, 1. removed Russia from her...

I T must be a staggering thing for a man to find himself possessed of a spiritual good the lack of which he has secretly bemoaned. A sudden access of faith, for instance, would...

A FEW months ago we started in our village a Women's Institute. For the sake of those who dwell in cities I must explain that a Women's Institute is "a group of women banded...

[To raz Emma or ran " flescurroa."1 Sm,—Your article on the policy of National Shipyards is full of interest. If there is one feature of the war which more than any other...

[To me Emma OF sue " Srecrtarox.") Sm.—My letter you kindly published under the heading "The Claims of Italy" in your Mate Of November 10th was written on October 27th, when no...

OF Tut EPOLTATCM.'1 Sut,—You will be interested to see a copy of the admirable Christmas greeting which has gone on behalf of Columbia University to those Columbia men, some two...

(To ram EDITOR or ran SIRMS7011.") his—At a grave crisis when the country is threatened with de- pression it is everything that a man of note and genius should utter the right...

[Leiters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often snore read, and therefore snore effective, than those which fill treble the space.] A TIMELY MESSAGE. (To TIM...

[To me Emma or Tan n Sereraos."] Sia,—Readers of The Letters of Queen Victoria will find a very instructive one from Mr. Odo Russell (afterwards Lord Ampthill) which was...

this subject was very interesting to flier and ProabIllablY to others, who have been longing to hear the thunder e Rome against the damnable conduct of Germany. But is it...

81g.—You asked certain questions in your " leader " of the 15t inst.—which I have only just noticed—and venture to ;submit replies, as I am in a position to respond with some...

a few comments on thia correspondence? W. A. S." has, through my own faulty expression, iniaappre- hendedi my meaning. No one whose main appeal is not constantly to...

ITo THE Emma or vim " Stwarsvoa."1 Set,—The Loom of Youth appears to have fluttered the academic dovecotes! It is certainly not a " pretty " book, and, in spite of its...

surprised that the correspondence on this subject should be limited to schoolmasters. May I, as a parent of one of the masters and an old Public School boy, say a few words...

Sm,—The alternative scansions suggested by Mr. Haines for the " Gareth " line- " Phosphar 1 is than I O r n :L IC ' s His 1 perils"— lack melody. The initial trochee would...

Pro Tar Emma or um grecuroa."1 Sra,—Is not the essential point in connexion with this proposal contained in the fable of "The Prudent Tiger " told by the writer who styled...

(To TUE EDITOR Or VII SPECTATOR."1 Sia.—Nothing gave my son greater pleasure when in France— until his leg was smashed, hopelessly, and he was invalided home —than to receive...

It's an ill soul'd bird o't faals t' es.' nest. Not sooa mah lad wi' thee, Thu dusn't forget thi maker:and, Tho thart across the sea. The darksome pictur of oar tahn. Set in...

rue Sescrarom"3 Suz,—The following quotations from letters written by John Bright at the time of the American Civil War seem to me so apposite at the present moment that I send...

(TO VIZ EDITOR OF TEL: •. Stovrrros.".1 Sra,—Owing to our somewhat erratic mail service English papers do not reach us with the regularity of pre-war days. The miracle is that...

any surrender on the part of the South at present, fearing that men would-be an glad to have peace that they would admit the Slave States again in their fellowship, and that...

Brizareroa."] Sur,—I doubt if any idea of games would have appealed to the Romans no we know and play them. On the other hand, races on sea or land were familiar to them, and I...

[To me Rums or see " flesurrox."1 SIR, — The Home Secretary is an equity lawyer, and may disdain baring recourse for his guidance to the Manual of Military. Lase. If, however,...

[To Tat EDITOR OP TED n SPECTITOR."] Sia,—Thank you for giving space to the discussion on this subject. As a man not yet thirty, who has not been deaf many years. I can say from...

THE TWO MAGICIANS, LIFO was the Good Magician and the friend,. In happier days, while yet behind the- veil Was hid this Desolation without end. That broke the sequence of our...

[To res Emma or rim "Sexcesroa."1 Sui,—Possibly the enclosed letter from a young girl relative, who has lately taken up work on the land, may interest some of your readers who...

A SUPER.CENTRAREDROPE.* Ties famous Peace Resolution of the German Reichstag- of July 19th trumpeted forth to all the world that the German people were anxious for a peace of...

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

Ws-are very glad-to be able to inform our readers that we-have received permission to reprint themoble Address by Mr. Lansing- whisk was, published in the Spectator of September...

THE books of Sir Arthur Helps are little read by this generation, though one of them, The Spanish Conquest in A meriecs, is still • standard work. But this collection of his...

Loan EvEnstny has written a highly interesting book on the rise and fall of the Ottoman Turks.' It is the most picturesque, and also the most discreditable, chapter of European...

it in our hearts to be envious of Mr. Reginald Ferrer and of his companion Mr. Purdom. All through that summer of 1914, during which we passed from the shadow of war to the...

Burma By B. M. Croker. (Carmen and Co. Os.)—The Burmese miseen- sane is the most interesting part of this modern story, the account of the native puppet plays being specially...

A BOOK on mathematica does not, at first sight, appear an attractive Christmas gift. Even enthusiastic mathematicians who agree with " Lewis Carroll" that "ouch a theorem as the...

HIS LAST BOW.. THE reports of Sherlock Holmes's death which gained currency. some years ago proved to be "greatly exaggerated," and we are further reassured, on the...

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sent us a copy of its Arinua/ Report, which shows that the school has already trained and found poets for twenty-three qualified women in provincial towns and national...