it promptly. In the first place, the Government might go into the insurance business, as they did in the case of marine insurance, and insure for, say, eighty per cent. of the...

O N Wednesday afternoon the Admiralty announced that a Zeppelin visited the North-East Coast on Tuesday evening, dropping bombs. "Some fires were started, but they were...

work during the week in spite of the usual German wireless talk of "heavy French defeats," which means of course nothing more than the usual attacks and counter-attacks. In the...

are the owners of large warehouses and other commercial and industrial property in London. There is not the slightest fear of any fire spreading in the residential parts of...

can only be dealt with by the Government, and that they ought to deal with it at once and give cover "from to-day" to the business men who are placed in so cruel a predicament....

raids have caused fifty-six deaths. Considering that they began on December 25th and that there have been fourteen of them, the loss of life must be admitted to be extremely...

our troops have taken the offensive to the west of La Basses and to the east of Ypres. In the La Bassee district on Tueed.y evening they won several trenches, but these trenches...

plane was adopted. Our own predilection is for the third, but since the Government adopted the principles set forth in the first for marine insurance, it would perhaps be more...

cast

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

said with emotion that it was " a task as repugnant as could fall to the lot of any man" to part with loyal colleagues. To lose them had been the most painful experi- ence in...

a debate on the considerable rise in the cost of living. Mr. Runciman, in replying for the Board of Trade, said that no rise had given the Government more anxiety than that in...

deal of anxiety, though here we moist once more warn our readers against taking at their full value the German wireless boasts. The conceders of this "news service," though they...

of German submarine prisoners bas had, we are very glad to say, its due effect Telegrams from Berlin announce that the thirty-nine British officers who were sent to prison and...

was read a second time without discussion. This result was quite accidental, though the No. 2 Bill is formal and technical. Private Members expected Mr. McKenna to open the...

but the activity of the German submarines appears to have abated. It seems indeed admitted now that we shall have no difficulty in maintaining our ground, and, further, that the...

were torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine off the East Coast. Forty-one survivors were landed. These two vessels, built in 1906-7, belonged to the class originally known as...

and the Roman comezuniquef published in Thursday's papers shows that in the Trentino the Italians are gradually getting hold of the dominating points. In Carnia—that is, in the...

war, of national finance, and of the formation of the National Government with an intensity of feeling which produced an unusual impression on the House. The occasion VAS the...

the Venezelist party, which desires intervention in the war. In the new Chamber there are one hundred and ninety Venezeliats and ninety-three supporters of the present...

Cromer emphasized the importance of some decisive statement by Mr. Lloyd George as to (1) Trade Unions; (2) the profits of employers. While recognizing the value of Trade Unions...

Ignatius Timothy Tribich Lincoln, who has written for the New York World a cock-and-bull story of how he was dis- gusted by the cruel treatment of aliens in Britain, tried to...

of Baden, took place on Monday. No less than twenty-three aviators—some British and some French—joined in the attack, which was directed on the forts, the railway station, the...

described in Monday's paper the wonderful conduct of the Russians on May 30th, apparently near Warsaw, when the Germans for the first time in Poland used poisonous gam. As the...

meeting representative of the engineering trades in the West Country. Victory, he said, was impossible without the help of the engineers at home. Many engineers had gone to the...

League held its annual meeting under the chairman- ship of Lord Milner. Lord Milner in his address, though he stood firm to the principles of national service and universal...

a thoroughly frank and practical manner to employers and workers in the engineering and metal trades of South Wales. There was a shortage of shells, and he appealed for the want...

Aug. 8th.

CHATTER ABOUT PEACE. T HE student of foreign telegrams will not have failed to notice that during the past week there have been a good many hints as to the possibilities of...

THE text of the latest American Note to Germany, which had not appeared when we wrote last week, was published in the papers of last Saturday. A common criticism of it in...

THE progress made by the Volunteer Training Corps, or, as we have described them, the Homo Guards, is most satisfactory. Not only have the actual numbers of men joining the...

Mr. McKenna now _L has to solve is the possibility of raising revenue both from the general body of wage-earners and from those employers who are making special profits out of...

W E all have our favourite hours, just as we have our favourite days of the week and our favourite times of the year. Certain hours and seasons and days are not much liked by...

T HERE is an irrational belief, which is much too common, that the soldier as a type is without interest in letters or in the arts. It may be that the connexion between a...

T HE hospitals abroad where our sick and wounded are cared for are always in our mind, bat it may be of interest to consider what happens to our wounded soldiers when they...

fear that the paragraph in the Spectator of Jane 12th with reference to the attitude of the Society of Friends in the present crisis may be somewhat misleading. Although there...

[To run Morron or ran " Smeruon..] Sin,—My friend Mr. J. W. Graham, whose letter to the Westminster you quote in last week's issue, has overlooked the moat salient facts of...

Sme,—No one can fail to admire those young Quakers who, "nobler than their creed," have gone forth to help to uphold the standard of liberty against tyranny. Perhaps when they...

AMERICA AND THE WAR. [To ran Enron or ma "Sreernrox."] Sia,—Jest after the crime of the Lusitania; and before the publication of the American Note of protest to Germany, I...

rTo Tel EDITOR 07 eve •• 8rrcaroa."] SIR,—The public appeal now being made for an enormous increase in the production of munitions of war is so far directed to the patriotic...

the convinced pacificist in the presence of such a struggle as the present war must be a curiously difficult one. War, as every reflecting man and woman must recognize, is a...

[To THY ED1TOZ ON ass .. SPELT.LT08.”] Sin,—I have just read a letter in your issue of June 5th about animal life in the firing line. The following facts may be of interest....

[To THY Thais. Or THE SPECTATOH."1 Sin,—I am sure that you will be interested to know that a Surrey National Reservist was the first layman since the foundation of St. Mary's...

Sia,—With reference to Mr. Fisher's letter in your issue of June 5th, in which he suggests that a Civilian Training Corps should transfer its headquarters to a seaside resort...

[To sae Herron or see "Bram:mm."1 Sin,—In the amusing paper in the last Spectator on "Longs and Shorts " there are some good instances of fine language, but for sheer grandeur...

[To sea karma or TEM "sracrirea., SIE,—In the interesting letter which you published last week with reference to the diffusion of appropriate war literature in China, your...

rTo TRY EDITOR or THE n SPECIA708 . 1 SIR,—There are many who care for Ober-Ammergau, and they may like to bear that—except for the departure of some of the younger men—the...

[To rem EDER. or sae "8”OTATOR., Sss,—The existence in Great Britain of more than one organisa- tion for Polish relief has led to some confusion in the public mind. We think it...

[To TER Herron 07 MN "BreoraroA") EIR,—As the Boys' Country Work Society has received generous support from the readers of the Spectator, I think it may interest them to hear...

Tee “Sesorarou."] Sin,—May I suggest that Mrs. Grosvenor's letter in your issue of last Saturday should be circulated as a tract by the Society for the Propagation of the...

n SrseTrx02."1 Srs,—The nation ie now realizing very keenly that one of its most imperative and immediate duties is the care of the generation Cow growing up—a generation to...

THE FRONT: 1915. [o It is as if hell wars let loose.' . —Lettar from tea Front.] ARE you in hell, my son, While I am dreaming on this grassy bill, Ia the white blossoming Of...

[To 11[2 HMOs or Tin "Senererea."] Sur,—May I invite the attention of your readers to an appeal issued, at the request of the Commandant of the 21st General Hospital at...

PRESIDENT LORD DESBOROUGH. Hon. Ssehersair: PERCY A. HARRIS, Esq. Hasa OFFICZe: Judges' Quadrangle, Royal Courts of Justice (Carey Street entrance). The aims and objects of...

[To ran Eimer Or 555 ..Brearair01..] Sus,—Some members of the Public School Alpine Sports Club bare suggested that if subscriptions were invited from members of the Club a...

or initials, 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...

be Sent to the Spectator Office, or direct to Messrs. Barclay and Co., Goslinga' Branch, 19 Fleet Street, London, E.C. Cheques should be made payable to the " Spectator Home...

BEHIND THE LINES IN FRANCE.* Mn. GEOUGhi Anise, the Paris correspondent of the Times, has not attempted here any coherent chronicle of events, but law given ns a series of...

THE Infanta Eulalia, youngest daughter of Isabella II. of Spain, accompanied her mother into exile in 1868, living in Paris at the Petah: de Castile, and epending her summers in...

Tan war has enabled, or rather compelled, Mr. Tower to take his "first long holiday in England." For thirteen years he has lived continuously in Germany, and so has a fair title...

he February last Dr. Chalmers Mitchell delivered at the Royal Institution three lectures on "Evolution and War," the substance of which he has now expanded into a most readable,...

ME. KIECOPP LAKE has published under the title of The Stewardship of Faith some lectures delivered two years ago in America. They have all the clearness of thought and exactness...

Richards. 6s.)—When Gilbert Spottswood, not far from starvation, and unable to satisfy his ambition for journalistic work, lived in a slum in New York, his German landlord...

JOURNEYS WITH JERRY THE .TARVEY.I. Taw word "jersey " is a curious example of specialization. Nowadays it is applied nine times out of ten to the driver of an Irish car. But...

MACAULAY called Burdy's Life of Skelton an admirable picture of life in Ireland from 1707 to 1787. Skelton, it will be recalled, was an Ulster clergyman of considerable learning...

Hodgkinson has made his first adventure into fiction in the "First Novel Library," where he is, at all events, in good company. In his story he has chosen to concentrate all his...

Language at Manchester University, has written a deeply interesting study upon The Place-Names of Cumberland and Westmorland (Longmans and Co. for the Manchester Univer- sity...

the Year 1914 (Longmans and Co., ISa.). The task of the com- pilers of this most useful book must have been of extreme difficulty in the present instance. It is a hundred years...

of classical texts. It contains Ovid's Tristia, Epistulae as Ponta, and Halieutica, as well as fragments of lost works (Oxford University Press, 3s.). The text has been edited...

net) has been issued in the face of obvious difficulties. It has been impossible to obtain the usual official revision of the chapters upon Germany and Austria-Hungary; while,...

of the World (George Philip and Son, 2s. 6d. net). It con- tains a "War Supplement," consisting of small-scale maps of the two main fields of war said a tabular statement of the...

[Nair. in We column does not neesssorai, preetudo tubtrount rmilsw.] In his essay upon Political Ideals: their Nature and Development (Humphrey Milford, 2s. 6d. net), Mr. C....

of The Lady of the Decoration. (Hodder and Stough. ton. 6s.)—A prettily written and "understanding" story of young Americans in old Japan.—Battles of Life. By Austin Philips....