19 JANUARY 1918

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The Admiralty return for last week of losses by mine

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or submarine is encouraging. It is the best, save one, that we have had since the new 'U '-boat campaign began last February. We lost only four large ships, one smaller ship,...

Mr. Baker, the American Secretary of War, has given the

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Senate a most encouraging account of America's military preparations. At the close of the year, the American Army numbered 110,856 officers and 1,428,650 men ; it had been...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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S IR AUCKLAND GEDDES, the Minister of National Service, made an important statement on Man-Power when the House of Commons reassembled on Monday. Our armies, he said, were...

The battle-front in France and Flanders has been relatively quiet

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during the past week, though the guns have never ceased to thunder, and though there have been many small trench raids at various points. Our Italian Allies, however, profited...

Yarmouth was bombarded from the sea on Monday night, presumably

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by an enemy submarine. The firing lasted for five minutes. Twenty shells fell in the town, causing the death of six persons and wounding seven others. Some houses were badly...

The Board of Admiralty has been reorganized, and the Staff

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has been largely remanned with officers who have been at sea during the war. The division of the Board's functions between Operations and Maintenance has been extended to the...

This great naval and military effort,IEfir Auckland Geddes went on,

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must be maintained. Therefore from 420,000 to 450,000 civilians at least must be called up, and replaced in part by discharged soldiers. The Government would not either lower or...

The new Military Service Bill which Sir Auckland Geddes was

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in- troducing would, he explained, abolish the two months' exemption enjoyed by certain men in certified occupations. It would also en- able the Department to withdraw...

THE PAPER SHORTAGE.—We trust that readers of the "Spectator" will

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

NOTICE.—With this week's number of the " SPECTATOR" is issued, gratis,

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an Eight-Page Suplement, containing the Half-Yearly Index and Title-Page—i.e., from July 7th to December 29th, 1917, inclusive.

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The papers of Wednesday published a message to the Russian

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people, signed by Mr. C. W. Bowerman on behalf of the Parliamen- tary Committee of the Trade Union Congress, and by Mr. Arthur Henderson on behalf of the National Executive of...

We must take definite exception, however, to at least two

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of the pronouncements in this manifesto. The authors can find no evidence that German administration in tropical Africa has been much worse than that of other European...

The political crisis -in Australia has ended in the resumption

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of office by Mr. Hughes and his old Cabinet, which has a large majority in both Houses of the Federal Parliament The Governor-General, Sir R. Munro-Ferguson, has explained that...

M. Joseph Cramer, the ex-Premier, was arrested on Monday in

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connexion with the Bolo affair. The French Chamber had already suspended his Parliamentary immunities, at the request of H. Clemenceau. Two telegrams - sent in February, 1915,...

Mr. Balfour, speaking at Edinburgh on Thursday week, con- trasted

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the Allies' war aims, as clearly expounded by President Wilson and Mr. Lloyd George, - with the enemy's aims, which had never been defined, but which must, by inference, be the...

Throughout last week the Russian Anarchist delegates, abandon- ing their

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demand for the -removal of the Peace Conference to Stockholm, continued to discuss with the enemy delegates at Brest-Litovsk the fate of the Baltic Provinces and Poland. Baron...

hL Pichon, the French Foreign Minister, told the Chamber on

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Friday week that the war aims of France were identical in spirit and substance with those expounded for America and Great Britain by President Wilson and Mr. Lloyd Jaeorge. "We...

Another point which we dislike, but at which we cannot

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pretend to be surprised, is that the authors write as though they represented the British people. In this they are wrong. Their views may happen to coincide with those of the...

It is important to record that at Brest-Litovsk the independence

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of the Ukraine was recognized both by the Petrograd Anarchists and by the enemy. In other respects the Russian domestic situation is still confused and obscure.- Fighting still...

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The House of Lords on Tuesday rejected, by 90 votes

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to 62, the proposal to refer the Woman Suffrage clause to a pbll of the women registered as local government electors. The opponents of Woman Suffrage made out a plausible case;...

Sir Alfred Keogh, the Director-General of Army Medical Services, is

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resigning his great office and returning on March 1st to his post as Director of the Imperial College of Science. He has accom- plished a wonderful work, and millions of sick...

We are glad that Mr. Asquith did not take his

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stand upon any mistaken point of pride, and think that dignity was best served and misstatement best answered by silence. In a general way, we agree that the leaders of the...

We desire to inform our readers that, in response to

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several reqaests, the leading article entitled "New Year Resolves" which appeared in the Spectator of December 29th. 1917, has been republished in pamphlet form. We give...

Mr. Asquith, as President of the London Liberal Federation, addressed

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on Tuesday a private meeting of the leading members of the Party Associations. Liberalism, he said, was not the creed of Quiescence or of doubt, and its articles could not be...

The Morning Post of Tuesday published a letter in which

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the Duke of Somerset apologized for baying said that Mr. Asquith had "shaken hands with the Sinn Fein prisoners" after the Dublin Revolt. In a footnote, the Morning Post stated...

Cambridge has lost a stately and familiar figure in Dr.

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Montagu Butler, - the Master of Trinity, who died on Monday at the age of eighty-four. He was the old academic tradition incarnate. The son of a Head-Master of Harrow who was...

The House of Lords on Thursday week, after two days'

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debate in Committee, rejected Lord Loreburn's proposal to omit Woman Suffrage from the Franchise Bill by 134 votes against 71. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Haldane, and...

The War Cabinet, having already increased the pay of the

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sailors and soldiers from October 1st last, has now increased the pay of the junior officers of the Navy and Army from the same date. The minimum rate for an Army officer will...

Bank rate, 5 J:sr cent., changed from 51 per cent.

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April 5, 1917.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE MAN-POWER PROPOSALS. W E have to congratulate Sir Auckland Geddes on much the best and most scientific review of the Man-Power question which has yet been placed before...

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PREMIUM BONDS.

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S IR ROBERT KINDERSLEY has done good service to his country by issuing a powerful counterblast to the current Press agitation in favour of premium bonds. That agitation is...

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FEDERATION THROUGH THE PRIVY COUNCIL TF we may legitimately derive

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consolation from the tragedy of this war, we shall find it in the thought of what the war has done for the British Empire. Never was the Empire so closely united as it is now ;...

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THE BOLSHEVIK NEGOTIATIONS WITH GERMANY.

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I T is impossible to discover in the whole course of history anything resembling the negotiations between the Bol- sheviks and the German representatives at Brest-Litovsk. The...

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AN AMERICAN DEAF MAN.

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T HEY are tiresome people who harp upon the " happiness " which they " observe " in the physically afflicted. Just now they are harping ad nauseam. Unintentionally they deny to...

I APPEAL TO THE CHURCH OF THE ENGLISH. T HE Bishop

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of Oxford's letter to the Archbishop protesting against the consecration of the Dean of Durham is a moment- ous incident. Its sequel may evolve a deeper faith or wreck an...

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THE LATE MASTER OF TRINITY.—A REMINISCENC'a

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N EARLY fifty-five years ago I was taken down to Harrow by shy father, there to be entered as a new boy. Dr. Vaughan. who had revived the fortunes of the famous school after the...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fin treble the space.] THE HEREFORD CONTROVERSY....

"WHAT -MIGHT HAVE BEEN."

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(To THE EDITOR op THE " EPECTATOR."] Sza,—Mr. Gatty's George Wyndham, although more in the nature of a votive offering than a biography, contains one State document of high...

[To THE EDITOR OF TES " SPECTATOR."] Sia, — Canon Bdwards Rees

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says that "the sire And 1mm:we of the Self-government Association is the recovery by the Church of liberties which she once possessed and exercised." Will your correspondent...

[To vas EDITOR OP yes " SpEcTAT0R."] SIR,—Referring to the

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controversy over Dr. Henson's appointment, what occurs to me, as an ordinary layman, is, if he is fit to be a Dean of Dueham, surely he is also fit to be a Bishop of Hereford.

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POTATOES IN BREAD.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTAT01. SIR,—I am much interested in your notice in the "News of the Week" of January 5th of the bread made with the addition of potatoes, as for...

MAN-POWER AND THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " Specrseoe."3 SIR,—In view of the development of man-power under the scheme of Sir Auckland Geddes and in the former scheme of National Service of Mr....

REGISTRATION AND RATIONS.

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(To TIM EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-1L is proposed to amend the National Registration Act by registering bogs Who had hot attained the age of fifteen years when the...

THE VATICAN AND THE WAR.

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(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] .Sig,—In the recent debates in Parliament stress was laid by the opponents of Female Suffrage on the supposed opposition by women in...

VOLUNTARY RATIONING OF BEER.

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Fro THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sta,—We can confirm your note in last week's issue that Sir Arthur Yapp suggested voluntary rationing of beer. Some five hundred of our...

(To THE EDITOR. Or THE "SPECTATOR."]

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SIR,—I was intereeted in the eecipe you gave a fortnight ago for bread-making with potatoes, and was anxious to experiment. My grocer and my baker, however, tell me that they...

JERUSALEM ARTICHOKES.

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(To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Now that every one is trying to get as much food out of the land as possible, it strikes ma that Jerusalem artichokes are a • vegetable...

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GERMAN NATIVE TROOPS IN EAST AFRICA.

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ET° THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR?'] gra,—In your "News of the Week" ending January 12th there is a reference to the composition of the German black troops in East Africa which...

COAL ECONOMY AND NATIONAL WEALTH.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sia,—On behalf of my Committee, may I be allowed to take excep- tion to a rather sweeping statement made under the above heading . in your...

THE LATE MASTER OF TRINITY.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sta,—Will you allow me the privilege of paying in your columns a brief tribute of respect—as I have officially known perhaps better than...

"PLAY THE GAME."

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your issue of November 24th "Kismet" asks for a Latin translation of "Play the game." There is no Latin translation possible, I...

LADY VICTORIA HERBERT'S SCHEME FOR BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECIATOR."1 SIR,—The generosity of many subscribers has enabled this depot to send food and other necessaries to a large number of our prisoners abroad...

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B 0 0 K S .

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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.* Tun Franklin literature, already extremely voluminous, and culminating in the authoritative and monumental edition of his writings prepared by the late Mr....

"-NEW YEAR RESOLVES."

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AT the request of many of our readers our leading article "New Year Resolves," which appeared in the Spectator on Decem- ber 29th. 1917, has been republished in pamphlet form....

POETRY.

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TO MY GODSON. THEY shall come, back through heaven's bans When June has filled the earth with joy, And you are seeking playmates, boy, To share your Kingdom of the stars, Or...

AN AUTHOR WANTED.

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- THE EDITOR- or THE " SPECT/TOR."3 Em,-4 should be grateful if any of your readers could tell me the author and name of the poem where the following beautiful limes occur "I...

"CHRIST IN FLANDERS."

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Ownca to the large and continued demand for copies of the poem entitled " Christ in Flanders," which appeared in our issue of September 11th, 1915, it has now been reprinted...

NOTICE.- 7 -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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TREATIES OF PEACE.•

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A CYNIC, after reading Sir Walter Phillimore's invaluable little book, might vary the old Latin tag and say of many sets of bygone diplomatists : "They made a treaty, and called...

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LISTER.* Sin RICKMAN GODLEE has written a book which needs

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no review : it takes its place among the books which are bought and held in honour. There is no man living who was so near to Lister in family, in science, and in practice.:...

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Cromwell House, Highgate. By Philip Norman. (J. Murray. is. net.)—The

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fine old Jacobean house on Highgate Hill, opposite Waterlow Park, which is now used as a convalescent home for the Hospital for Sick Children in Groat Ormond Street, is...

SOME BOOKS OF THE wum

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Mace in this oluinta des n7t necess2rily preends subs.suent resins.] The Lily of Malud, and other Poems. By J. C. Squire. (Martin Seeker. 2s. 6d.)—Mr. Squire's poems of love...

Among the Druzes of Lebanon and Bashan. By Joseph T.

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Parfit. (Hunter and Longhurst. 5s. net.)—Canon Parfit, who has worked for years as a missionary in the Lebanon, has written a highly interesting little book on the Druzes and...

short . extracts arranged under six heads—autobiography, the philosophy of life,

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love and marriage, politics, religion and war. They are not all wise or sincere, but they are all interesting. "A nation ought never to do anything contrary to honour, for in...

FICTION.

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FOOL DIVINE.t MR. LANCASTER'S story of the American tropics is very different from those Whimsical and fantastic tales of life in the small Latin Republics in which "0. Henry"...

HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS IN WILTSHIRE.*

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EVERY county in England has fine old churches and houses for those who care to seek them, but few counties possess so rich a store as Wiltshire. Mr. Edward Hutton, who has...

READABLE NOVELS.—Stealthy Terror. By J. A. Ferguson. (John Lane. 138.)—A

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pre-war spy story of a very exciting kind. The opening scene is laid in Berlin, and the hero and his mysterious map go through a series of thrilling adventures before the happy...

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Hampi Ruins. By A. H. Longhurst. (Madras : Government Press.

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4s. 6d.)—The Superintendent of the Indian Archaeological Survey, Southern Circle, has written a scholarly account of the ruins of the once famous Hindu capital of Vijayanagar or...

WORKS OF REFERENCE.—The New Mizell Annual for 1918, edited by

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T. A. Ingram (H. Frowde and Hodder and Stoughton, 5s. net), has swelled to 920 pages, and includes a very full and good summary of the war in its various aspects, with maps and...

Organise for Peace. By Edward L. George. (Drones. Gs.)— The

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kernel of Mr. George's somewhat rhetorical book lies in the suggestion that there should be a minimum wage for every person, the wage being graded according to capacity, whether...

Mr. R. T. Gunther, the well-known Oxford zoologist, has pub-

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lished a Report on Agricultural Damage by Vermin and Birds in Norfolk and Oxfordshire in 2916 (H. Milford, 2s. 6d. not) which throws light on an old controversy. Mr. Gunther...

Le Purgatoire. Par Mme. la Comtesse Horace de Choiseul (Paris

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: Firmin-Didot. En vente chez Baranger, 5 Rue des Saints- Peres. 15 fr.)—Le Paradis. Par Mine. la Comtessa Horace de Choiseul. (Paris : Hachette et Cie. 15 fr.)—These beautiful...

Papers Relating to the Army of the Solemn League and

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Covenant. Edited by C. S. Terry. 2 vols. (Edinburgh : T. and A. Constable, for the Scottish History Society.)—Professor Sanford Terry has done a service in editing the accounts...