advance of the Germans into Serbia. They have captured Belgrade and a good deal of the surrounding country, thanks as usual to the tremendous power of their artillery. At the...

T HE essential news of the week is the great ohange for the worse in the Balkan situation. Serbia and the Allies are now at war with Bulgaria. Not only have diplomatic relations...

case.

distinetie good. The Germans, in spite of Marshal von Hindenburg'e furious efforts, are making little progress round Dviusk. and are suffering heavily. Thursday's reports from...

as we go to press, but M. Viviani's bold and most satisfactory speech in the French Chamber leaves no doubt as to the line which our Government will take—the line of national...

of confused fighting has been going on during the week, and happily with a general result favourable to the Allies. As far as we can analyse the accounts of what is happening,...

the London area on Wednesday night, and incendiary and explosive bombs wore dropped. Little material damage was done, and the few fires which resulted were quickly put out by...

afternoon, and is on sale at all Messrs. Smith and Son's London Bookstalls and all London Newsagents. All country readers can now obtain the paper on Saturday morning, and...

the only people who are likely to be threatened in the rear. The Russians, deeply moved by the perfidy and ingratitude of the Bulgarians, or rather of those who represent them...

Serbian road may in the end prove the path to victory. How- ever, this is not the moment for prophetic optimism. What we have got to do is to set our teeth and prepare for the...

Now Army declared that their conduct In the assault on the German lines was beyond all praise, and added that no words could express the valde to their country of their...

new 'Dreadnought' triplanes which are being built in France. These enormous flying machines carry a crew of six men each, and can carry twelve if necessary. Two pilots will work...

M. Khvostoff, the new Russian Minister of the Interior, has promised a liberal policy in domestic administra- tion. For example, be approves of liberty of discussion for the...

Censorship during the past week owing to an attack on the Censor made by Lord Selborne in a public speech; a letter, which we can only describe as a form of counter-attack,...

on Tuesday week. Four days previously British and French officers visited Salonika and obtained from the Greek officer in command information with a view to the landing. K...

the Censorship is often as petty and foolish as the Censorship itself, and it could hardly be more so. After all, weighed with the import- ance of the war, it really matters...

the Anglo-French Loan in the United States. It was objected that to offer a rate of interest which amounted to 7 per cent. (since the interest is free of Income Tax) was a...

it does not prevent wicked and lying rumours from circulating from mouth to mouth. Indeed, it encourages such rumours, because it prevents them from being stamped upon in the...

Sir Ian Hamilton, and this is the only news we have to chronicle about the Gallipoli campaign. He says that daring the past month at Swim Bay there have been patrol actions,...

embarkation of much material and equipment and many horses and guns, seems to have extended over three or four days. We cannot help reflecting on what this means. Salonika...

for which Lieutenant G. D'Oyly-Hughes, R.N., has received the D.S.O. Last August Mr. D'Oyly-Hughes volunteered to swim ashore from a submarine and try to blow up a bridge on the...

before. Entrance to the town is allowed only by three roads, and every one must present his Registration card to the guards. Those who are above or below the age for registra-...

the question raised by Sir Arthur Markham in the House of Commons on Tuesday in regard to "enlistment under age," did not take a stronger and more common.-sense line. What he...

with the Volunteers, and to these articles awl also to a letter on the subject we would direct the earnest attention of our readers. Matters have reached a critical stage in the...

London. The Order in Council applies to clubs as well as to licensed houses, as no fine distinctions seemed possible. The result was immediate. There was far less drinking. It...

has given way on the halfpenny-postage question, and that we newspapers are still to enjoy a subsidy from the Government in the matter of circulating our wares—for, unless we...

of a special body to decide a few weeks hence the question of monarchy or republic. The two thousand nominated persons will telegraph their votes from various centres. The...

the Germans weave webs of all sorts to try to improve th e ir position. We have lately beard of an effort " made in Germany" to induce Italy to abandon the cause of the Allies...

new Director of Recruiting will at once issue a revised and perfectly clear statement as to the terms of enlistment. They have been altered so . often that the public mind has...

8th, 1914,

"BOLDNESS, BOLDNESS, AND AGAIN BOLDNESS !" T HE gravity of the military situation can hardly be exaggerated. We have reached a crisis in the war fraught with consequences of...

E sincerely hope that Greece is not about to ruin her future. She stands at the parting of the ways, and no Englishman who has been fired by the traditions of Hellenism, has...

WE do not desire to overwhelm Lord Derby with too 1` V many recruiting suggestions. We have, however, one more to add to those made by us last week—one which we sincerely...

O N Monday the Times published a long extract from the Chicago Daily News containing a glowing account of the way in which Germany had become self- contained under the...

ATILITARY science had designed the trenches to run _al near the spot where Nature had placed a - wood. The members of the Volunteer Training Corps Who, at the request of the War...

C HARLES DICKENS, travelling in the North of Italy kJ twenty years after the poet's death, was amused at a Bolognese waiter's incessant references to " Lor Beeron " ; lett the...

I HESITATED as I got to the cottage gate. Everything looked so peaceful and lovely on this autumn afternoon that one could hardly realize the pain and sorrow that were gripping...

THE PROGRESS' OF THE VOLUNTEERS. [TO THE EDITOR OP TEI4 SPROTATOR."] Ste.,—The Spectator and its readers have' done so much for the Volunteers that I think they are entitled...

[To THE EDITOR OP TED "SPDCTATOR."] SIR,—You were recently good enough to insert a letter from me giving in a popular form the elementary principles of war finance. Later...

[TO TUX EDITOR Or THY "SPECTATOR."1 SIR, —Once more another batch of invalided prisoners has returned to England, and the account of their lives in the German prison camps is...

[To THE EDITOR OP Tan "SPROTATOR."] SIR,—In your editorial in last week's issue headed "Scientific Recruiting," which I think sets out clearly, as I have not seen them explained...

[To ran EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Slit,—At a time when national economy is being universally preached, and the urgent necessity for it universally admitted, we make no...

[To THE EDITOR, OW THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIR, — In your article headed "Arraying the Nation" you insinuate that "Chapels" have not done their duty in this war. There are five Free...

sure, desirous not only of promoting and maintaining national unity in these terribly critical days, but of rendering justice even where you strongly disagree. This leads me to...

ITC TRH EDITOR Or THE 4 ' SPROTATOR.”1 .Stn,—" Anzac," in last Saturday's issue asks t " What news can I take to Australia P " On his own figures, two per cent. of the total...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPEOTATOR."] Sin,—It is often said that the Income Tax is the most equit- able and just method of raising money ; but in many cases it is not so. Take...

[To TRH EDITOR OP TIIE " SPZOTATOR.1 SIE, — Your correspondent " W. R. M." quotes the " Ancient Ballad of Chevy-Chase" from Percy's Religues, which records that "when both the...

[To TRH EDITOR OP THE " SPEOTATOR. "] SIR, — The volte-face which has just been made by Bulgaria can appeal to no one more forcibly than to Mine. Novilcolf, who has just...

few words to " Anzac'a " letter in your issue of October 9th P Ho was our " convalescent guest" for a short time before starting for Australia. We live in a small private road...

Slit,—The stanza from Chevy Chase in the article of October 2nd belongs to the seventeenth-century version of the poem—the version which Addison discusses in the Spectator of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sru,—Some months ago the Emergency Voluntary Aid Committee of the Empress Ladies Club initiated a scheme for sending strong portable...

rTo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Srlt, - At a time when so many appeals are being made to the British public for assistance to the sufferers by the war, or their dependants,...

LTO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] 3In,—Your article in last Saturday's Spectator on " The Civil Service and the Army" makes known generally what many people have for some...

GERMANY AND EASTERN EUROPE.* IT cannot be doubted that the historians of the future, in their endeavours to unravel the tangled skein of opinions and events which dominate human...

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

VIE WESTERN LINE. *VERSES WRITTEN IN AN ARTILLERY OBSERVATION POST DURING A RELIEF: FLANDERS, MAY, 1915. 'NOE draws a chord invisible Across the shaking sky : I bear the...

PRESIDENT: LORD DESBOROUGH. Hors SECRETARY ; PERCY A. HARRIS, Zvi. Hun Ornass Judges' Quadrangle, Royal Courts of Justice (Carey Street entrance). • The aims and objects of...

AT a moment when Miss Marie Coral is lamenting that the war has not given us a Byron, the appearance of a critical study of Mr. Yeats is an illuminating example of the abiding...

WE must begin by pointing out that the little book which is the subject of this notice is one that ought to be in the hands of every Volunteer—officer or private. The man who...

is now raging has stirred up many recollections of the Civil War in the United States, and has thus been the means of adding a most interesting volume to the extensive library...

THE EXTRA DAY.t No reviewer, however hard he tried, could ever succeed in making clear to the general public what Mr. Blackwood's new story is all about. It is so insane, yet so...

of our fathers there were popular manuals, or " Bible Handbooks," the first and best being the celebrated Introduction to the Critical Study of the Holy Scriptures, by Thomas...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily producte subssquent review.] There is always something attractive about those books which are the work not of one man but of many,...

Co. 6s.)—Mr. de Lisser's story takes place in Jamaica and Panama. It is amusing, but certainly lacking in refinement and brilliancy.—The Caves of Spend. 13y David Hennessy....

is wise. She lifts us right away into the middle of her story. She gives us no opportunity to criticize, no time to feel bored : there we are, suddenly planted down in that...

6s.) — Robert Kennedy, son of old Mr. Kennedy of the firm in Canonbury Square, has bad. to auote his sister, "advantages that poor Pa never, never had." He works at an office,...

number of delicate half-tone photographs in With the Flowers and Trees in California (G rant Richards, 7s. 6d. net), and certainly the fields of poppy, blazing with their yellow...

of human behaviour from the poilit of view of psychology ; in Factora in Concintoi (T. Fisher Unwin, Ss. 6d. net) he debates the same subject on ethical lines. He begins his...