on Monday to the German proposals. His " frank and direct statement of his decision " will go down to history. After noting that the present German Government and a large...

at once to a distance of not less than thirty kilometres behind the firing-line ; to treat prisoners humanely and properly ; to allow Dutch representatives to visit the prison...

to Germany on the treatment of prisoners of war. They announce that they are unable to yield to the German demand that the recent arrangement for the exchange of prisoners...

President Wilson through the Spanish Embassy on Monday. Turkey, with whom America is not at war, asked the President to re-establish peace and to invite the belligerents to...

that one of the terms of peace which it had accepted—in his Mount Vernon speech of July 4th—required " the destruction of every arbitrary power ,anywhere that can separately,...

RESIDENT WILSON received on Monday the German I Government's reply to the three questions which he formulated in regard to the German Note asking for an armistice and accepting...

neither America nor the Allies would " consent to consider an armistice so long as the armed forces of Germany continue the illegal and inhuman practices which they still...

the Imperial Chancellor is speaking merely for the constituted authorities of the Empire who have so far conducted the war," the German Note said :— " The present German...

TO OUR READERS.—It is now necessary for readers to place a definite order for the " Spectator" with their Newsagent or at one of the Railway Book- stalls. Should any reader...

in the war was an absolute failure. It should never be forgotten that one of our greatest assets—a fact that will immeasurably support our authority and our prestige in the...

attacked again on a crescent front of twenty-eight miles from near Dixntude to the Lys above Meain, while our monitors bombarded the German coast batteries. There was no...

encountered very stubborn resistance on the line of the river Selle. On Monday, indeed, the enemy made a regular-attack on our posts east of the Selle, but was repulsed....

the French armies by brilliant manceuvring and hard fighting have effected a great ohange in the war map. The- persistent attacks of General Mangin, with the help of an Italian...

Lords on Wednesday. For our part, -we think that Lord Newton made a very good defence of his 'actions. His Department has worked with limited powers, and his concern for the...

evidence described the occasional kind treatment they received from doctors and officers, but these acts of kindness seem like pin-points of light in a black dungeon. There is...

a White Paper by Mr. Justice Younger's Committee on the treatment of prisoners of war in Germany was published in the papers of Tuesday. It is a horrible story at which the...

Allied advance in the centre in pursuit of the retreating enemy and a slower advance on the right and the left—in the Meuse Valley and in Flanders—against very strong enemy...

the Argonne completed by Thursday week the task of clearing its tangled thickets and swampy ravines, obstinately defended by German machine-gunners. They thus united their...

through Syria. Last Sunday they occupied the port of Tripoli. On Tuesday they entered Hems, ninety miles north of Damascus, and nearly half-way from that city to Aleppo. The...

so long an abstention from publio affairs, of Lord Grey of Fallodon when he spoke of a League of Nations on Thursday week at the Central Hall, Westminster. The League, he said,...

vessels is their best protection, and that they are safer when alone than when being convoyed. Whatever may be the justice or otherwise of this defence, the last people who have...

Germans and Austrians before them. The gallant Serbian Army had the satisfaction on Saturday last of recapturing Nish, which was held by a German garrison. The German " Balkan...

Speaking Union, made a brief and interesting statement about U '-boat strength. Many people thought that from fifty to a hundred U '-boats kept the sea at the same time ; the...

all Irish grievances is that the British Government are withholding Con- seriptionin order that they may blacken the Irish military character 1 This is perhaps an ironical...

has warned the American people that the enemy submarines are " held but . not mastered." " A great renewed effort on Germany's part is impending," he said in a message to the...

luncheon given in their honour on Friday week by the English- Speaking Union, opened with an observation which should have restrained the early-peace ebullition of the end of...

well-known Irish mail-steamer Leinster ' soon after she had left Kingstown for Holyhead. The ship carried six hundred and fifty passengers, including many women and children,...

have been laid on the table of the House of Commons. The familiar cross-currents of rumour as to whether the Government will or will not reach the actual point of imposing...

cent. April 5, 1917.

THE SNARE OF PEACE TALK. A TIME comes in all bitter and long wars when people arc exposed to the temptation prematurely to throw up their hats and say that everything is over....

to Germany by means of questions lies in the fact that his method prepared the way for the paralysing answer which he addressed to the rulers of Germany on Monday. Now that...

O NE of the most satisfactory results of the success of the Allied Armies is the encouragement it has given to the disruptive forces within the Teutonic Empires. From the point...

T HE last, and certainly not the least important, of the five Committees of Inquiry into the life of the Church of England, appointed by the Archbishops as an outcome of the...

philosophers pride themselves upon being masters of Realpolitik. For them such abstract ideas as national honour, national probity, national good faith, do not exist. They...

W HAT type of men is " the air " producing ? Seafaring men are not like landsmen ; neither will airmen be. Already they have a demeanour of their own, a jaunty, light-hearted,...

THE DISCOMFITURE OF A GERMAN ARCHITECT. (To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTRTOR21 Sur,—In view of the wanton damage wrought by the German armies in France during their recent retreat,...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] THE WOMAN'S SENIOR WAR...

has naturally interested all members of Voluntary Aid Detachments, although the writers of various letters have wandered into many bypaths from the original article on " The...

V.A.D., proud of the title and all that it stands for, I should like to record my agreement with all that your correspondent " V.A.D. Commandant " says in your issue of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sne—It is interesting to look back and see what were the ideas. of Germany upon a satisfactory peace four years ago. It was the tactless...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Just at the time when the Bolshevik penetration was causing disturbance in the Caucasus and the Mid-East, and the situation was...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sia,—My attention was called to a communication which appeared in your paper on the 5th inst. headed " Germany in Portugal." I think that a...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—That Germany, while grovelling for peace, should try to beat her record for atrocity presents a problem for those to whom diabolic...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—The " League of Nations " which can internationalize the Aegaeo-Euxine Straits can internationalize the two " Belts." When we reflect...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Much has been said at various times about alleged super- human interpositions in our favour when, in " that dire autumn " of 1914, our...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Ste,—On the merits of the late Sir Hubert Parry as a composer opinions are divided. Modernists regard him as standing too firm on the...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It is astonishing to read in the review of Sir George Forrest's Life of Clive printed in the Spectator of October 5th, not . only a...

THE " SPECTATOR."] SIL—I wish to invoke the aid of your powerful paper to obtain an answer from the Government to the following questions. How can the widows of officers in the...

(To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The correspondent " E. B." of your issue of September 7th seems to me to have a remarkable insight into the difficulties and the...

1858. (To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sue.—Happening to have on my shelves the Spectator, 1851 to May, 1857, I took it out to see if there was a review of Two Years Ago,...

"'The little cares that fretted me," the authorship of 'which was asked for by a correspondent to the - Spectator of October 12th, is from a little poem by Mrs. E. B. Browning...

IVINGHOB. ROUND Ivinghoe the lanes are red With swollen fruit of rose and may, And autumn breaches in the woods Drop rainbow-gold the livelong day. With silver tufts of...

Sin,—I beg to offer a brief reply to the letter of a "Civil Servant." (1) " Final cause " is a term used by Aristotle in his analysis of causation. I am disposed to admit that...

GERMAN SOCIAL DEMOCRACY DURING THE WAR.* Tan author of The House of &lessens, turning aside from Greek history, has employed his critical powers in writing a dispassionate study...

[To rue Emma OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Six,—In reply to " Civil Servant's question, the reputed author of " I feel a feeling which I feel that you all feel " was the late Dr....

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Though my experience does not go quite so far back as 1878, I remember that in the "eighties" the translation "for he [the devil] is a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Six,—Your reviewer may well wonder what Sir Walter Ralegh's " pateirt wine" tasted like. The gallant author of The Tower from Within seems...

[To rue Metros or THE " Seeoreros."] Sus,—The last quotation in " Inquirer's " letter appearing in last Saturday's Spectator is from " A Ballad of Trees and the Master," by...

name 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...

their History of the Irish Rebellion the joint authors adopt the same attitude " to the best of their capacity for political detachment." They endeavour " to exhibit, not to...

UNDER this title Mr. Halsey Ricardo has made a very notable addition to the admirable series of pamphlets issued by the Civic Arts Association. As a stimulus to the aesthetic...

MR. CRAWFIIRD PRICE, formerly correspondent of the Tinges with the Serbian Army, gives us in this volume a full and spirited account of the three Austrian invasions of Serbia in...

[Notice in this column does 'not necessarily preclude subsequent revise.] Sir Walter Scott as a Judge. By John Chisholm. (Edinburgh : W. Green. '7s. 6d. net.)—The present...

BRIDGET:* IT is a good many years now since Mrs. Croker began writing her pleasant and vivacious stories mainly of Anglo-Indian or Indo- Hibernian life. Perhaps she has never...

reviewer's life is to adhere to the strict path of duty when he takes up a new volume by Mr. Lucas. After all, the business of a critic is to criticize ; he is not employed to...

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Like his father and his grandfather before him, Mr. Temple has served the Corporation all his life, and his reminisoences of the Guildhall are ourious and amusing. The best...

(Edin- burgh : Scottish Chronicle Press. 2e.)—This amusing little pamphlet, to which the Bishop of Glasgow and Gallowaycontributes a Preface, describes a chaplain's experienced...

VII., " Naval," Part DI. (The Times.)--The new volume of this remark- able and well-edited collection of documents bearing on the war deals with naval affairs in January and...

tribution a useful pamphlet entitled Aims and E f fort of the War : Britain's Case after Pour Years, which describes by quotation the Allies' war aims and the enemy's war aims,...

Huneker's new volume of essays on literature, art, sad music is the product of a vivacious and catholic mind, interested in all new movements, but holding fast to the standards...

and Reports edited by J. J. Findlay. (Sidgwick and Jackson. 8s. 6d. net.)—This valuable little book, written by members of the Uplands Association, discusses various aspects of...

editorship of Mr. a Johnson and Mr. J. P. Whitney, a modest but very useful series of sixpenny pamphlets, Helps for Students of History. In the first four numbers- Mr. R. C....

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