though no doubt they are on somewhat short commons, are showing the finest possible spirit. It must never be forgotten that besieged places in which the military spirit is well...

administered a powerful and thoroughly well-deserved rebuff to Lord Portsmouth for asking questions which it is amazing that a man of his official experience could have thought...

T HE news from Verdun was good last week, but this week it is distinctly better. It cannot be too often impressed upon those who still have anxious minds that for the Germans...

against Lord Derby and the Government of a breach of faith in respect of the married men. Hero we will only say that we note with special satisfaction the signs that the...

apart from the exempted trades, refused the call, and the Government then kept their bargain by introducing, passing, and putting into operation a Compulsory Bill. These are the...

Flanders during the week has been a small and successful night raid near Verlorenhoek. On the Tigris, however, there has been a certain amount of activity. Thursday's papers...

said to two Deputies of the French Chamber : " The load is now off my mind, and I am certain of final success." Unless, then, the Germans are willing to acknowledge defeat,...

he felt about the matter, Lord Lansdowne, who, remember, is nothing if not a moderate and conciliatory man, ended his speech as follows :- " I am going to ask the noble Earl...

case.

ono which we think shOuld have preceded and not followed - Lord Ikerby's, as it sheated how futile is the plea of pledge- breaiing. Hero is the essential portion of Lord...

Prime Minister, Mr. Hughes, the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth, attended the Cabinet meeting on Thursday week. It will be remembered that Sir Robert Borden, the Prime...

of the Temperance Council Of the Christian Churches, used language about the drink question to which, in our opinion, sufficient attention has not been drawn. Here are the words...

of -Beaulieu made a long speech on the Air Service which was packed with information. He urged the Government to establish a Board, and later a Ministry, of Aviation. This was...

professional mind well 'instructed on the mechanical side of the problem. Moreover, although it was very critical, it was bracing. He has not to reproach himself with having...

the Army Estimates with a long review of the situation which left some things unsaid and said little new. He read a message from Sir Douglas Haig framed in excellent spirits....

presumptuous menaces of those who claimed to represent, 'but do not represent, the great Temperance - movement. Happily there seems reason to 'believe that they are beginning to...

six preposterous charges made by the German Government that German women and children have been ill-treated , in England. The charges, when they do not refer to wholly imaginary...

of Mr. Lloyd George's remarks, we cannot help thinking that what he-s:meant to convey to his hearers was 'that he still has hopes of carrying through the thoroughly...

word to be said. We desire to endorse, with the utmost earnest- ness of 'which we are capable, his urgent appeal that the Govern- ment should realize ", the absolute necessity...

go to his capital for fear of Zapata. A new revolution looms on the horizon under the control of Felix Diaz. Mr. Garrison, who recently ceased to bo War Secretary, has...

has been occupied by General Peyton. The Bedouin who joined the rising are hungry, demoralized, and openly repentant. Some of the headmen of these tribes, who were misled by...

their former protégé, Villa, the Mexican leader, who has lately raided American border towns, looting and murdering. We fear that the United States is in for something bigger...

beginning of the war to advocate co-operation with the Allies was held in New York on Monday, and was attended by about four thousand persons. The meeting was organized by the...

news that the Dutch liner Tubantia,' 14,000 tons, has been torpedoed near the North Hinder lightship off the coast of Holland. AR the passengers were saved in boats. It is...

boat ' No. 11,' and the Mercantile Fleet auxiliary Fauvetto ' have been sunk by mines off the East Coast. The losses were six officers and fifty-three men. Reports of the...

from a leading daily paper of March 13th :— VOOTHAN, first of two (under butler); age 25-30; Ineligible for Army, or older man, not necessarily In livery ; 2; 18 Indoor...

issue of to-day, the writer speaks to the converted when he urges on us a greater and wider publicity in America for the British case. In the article on " The Uses of Publicity...

fascina- ting account of the heterogeneous collection of craft which have been pressed into the transport service on the Tigris. The paddle-steamers, which are the parent ships,...

goes far to justify the very serious note of warning In the Appeal of " The United Workers " to be found on the next page. It would also justify the rumour that there is to be a...

3th, 1311.

" BROKEN PLEDGES " T HERE have been many bad things, reckless things, and irresponsible things done in the course of the war, but in our opinion nothing has been so bad as the...

may seem to other small and hesitating neutral States to have taken a bold step, but she has really taken the only line of safety. When she seized the German vessels in the...

W E are sick, and the country, if it is not so already, will very soon be sick, of the chatter about saving —chatter which results in little or no action, and will make us the...

up shipping. No one suggests that anybody's health or TT is an open secret that for many years past Germany happiness is going to be destroyed by three day& economy -11- has...

T HE view from Richmond Hill is, of course, one of the most famous in the world, and one of the easiest for Londoners to reach. For those who go by train the journey is not...

A COUNTRY when it is in love is apt to be a little sensitive and self-conscious. We wonder rather too much and too often what our former sweet enemy thinks of us. We make...

T HERE is no better test of a charitable institution than its capacity to inspire an esprit de corps in those who have been under its ministrations. If the letters of " old boys...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPROTATOR.1 Sra,—I have read with the greatest interest the article by " A Student in Arms " on " The Indignity of Labour " in your number of March 4th....

THE NECESSITY OF MAKING OUR CASE MORE WIDELY KNOWN. [To THE EDITOR OP THE “EiPzereroa.”1 Siu,—The Spectator in its issue of February 27th, 1915, had a far- seeing article...

THE EDITOR OP TH8 " sesorieroz.1 SIR,—The tenor of your excellent article on Colonel Winston Churchill recalls the Italian proverb : Nos perde chi perde, penis chi vuol rifare...

" conscientious objector " for twenty years, freed from sectarian trammels by the war, I would urge Mr. Armstrong to open his mind to the whole teaching of the Lord. He will...

" 8rscrercat."] fiut,—I heartily agree with you that to establish the historical accuracy of the " Message to the Six Nations," which you printed in your issue of the 20th...

" A Student in Arms," I also have experienced the joys and sorrows of a private, an N.C.O., and a commissioned officer. Surely the bond which exists between officers and men in...

[To THE EDITOR 01 THE " SPECTATOR.") Sre,—Your fight for human efficiency and preventing of human wastage on account of the drink habit excites a sympathetic interest among...

Sin,—An article in the Spectator of February 26th, under the title of " The Cost of Education," recommends the abolition of evening schools. A much more economical course would...

[To THE EDITOR 01 THE S11.0111'0E-1 SIE,—I have read with interest your article on " Justice and Security " as summarizing Mr. Asquith's declarations regarding the conditions...

[To ens Emma or THE " SpEoTAT0R.1 Srn,—In your interesting review in the Issue of January 8th of a new book on Abraham Lincoln you rightly say : " We can never hear too much...

fro TER EDITOR OP THE " 8PEoTATOR.1 Sre,—On a dreary morning in December, 1914, the ancient town of Whitby was suddenly startled by a roar so deafening as to suggest tho crack...

rr0 THE Fames OF THE "Monroe.") Sta,—Was Napoleon the author of the saying that God is on the aide of the big battalions ? Bartlett attributes it to Voltaire, and says it...

[To TEE EDITOR or TRH " SpEerATOIL."1 Sra,—I have to thank you for your kindness in inserting my letter in your issue of March 4th. I should be glad if you could see your way to...

Sre,—We, the undersigned librarians, bog to associate ourselves with the appeal made in your columns for the " Shakespeare Head Press " at Stratford-upon-Avon. The endowment of...

THE Home Secretary and the President of the Board of Trade send for publication the attached important appeal to employers with regard to the substitution of women for mon in...

MEMORIAL VERSES. D. B. (Killed in action September 29th, 1915.) His heart was like a day of early spring, Without a cloud, without a ruinous shower He faced the onset of the...

Against all odds more swift to do and dare ; But now you rest beyond all battle-care, Here, where the waves about the Headland rolled, Spake to his soul with voices manifold,...

THE NEW EMPIRE PARTNERSHIP.• TEM authors of this work have chosen an excellent and business- like title for an excellent and businesslike work. " He who is never scourged is...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are morbid "Communicated," the Editor mud not necessarily be held to bs in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mods of...

Sin HENRY NEWBOLT i has contributed an admirable volume to the series of regimental histories contained in the " Country Life Library." What is known to-day as the Oxfordshire...

WE have a great admiration for M. Loisy as a critic, and as a master of the French language ; still more as a patient sufferer in the cause of freedom of thought ; but he has...

IlisTourArrs repeat themselves, as Brewer nearly says, and they also repeat each other, which is worse. History books are sometimes, therefore, not very stimulating things, and...

JITNY AND THE BOYS.t TEE merits and defects of Mr. Copplestone's book are equally obvious, and 83CM to lie in distinct patches. We do not often • Isabella d'Este, Marchioness...

WE welcome this new edition of Mrs. Ady's attractive book ; perhaps the most attractive of her well-known studies in Renaissance history and biography. It is as well printed...

6s.)—There is much in Mr. Wray's story which is quite conventional : we find youthful love episodes such as his recorded in almost every autobiographical novel ; but all those...

WOW in This column does not neessrarily procesis subserseat revisit.) Life of John Edward Nassau Molesworth, D.D. By his Youngest Son, Sir Guilford Lindsey Molesworth, K.C.I.E....

strange little book is oddly different from Mr. Walpole's usual work. It contains nine studies of children of varying ages, from three months to ten years, a prologue, and an...

and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—There are many things in Clara Barton's " Life " to interest us, but naturally just now it is her nursing work, her labours on the battlefield as the "...

Bt. (John Lane. 10s. 6d. net.)—Captain Lutyens never spoke to Napoleon, but was Orderly Officer at Longwood for fourteen months, and among his duties was to report daily or more...