unquestionably the French have of late had the positive as well as the negative advantage, though we admit that the former has up to the present been slight. The negative...

W E shall have, we foresee, to keep standing in type : "The German attacks at Verdun have continued throughout the week, but without any substantial results." To that statement...

courage and tenacity which show that their Generals and their Army are in the highest state of moral as well as physical fitness, refused to be awed by the fury of the German...

by the situation in Southern Galicia and on the angle where Roumania, Austria, and Russia join, fresh sources of trouble were soon to arise in the Balkans. Not only has the...

what are the plans of the Allies, and when they mean to attack or where. All we know is that the plan, whatever it is, has been adhered to. The German offensive at Verdun has...

war how great the failure at Verdun has been, and therefore how great the disappoint- ment of the German General Staff and the Government. We may, however, even now guess...

and probably will continue to envelop operations there for some time. The frost is breaking, and this means for the time mud so deep that the movement of troops is well-nigh...

to perform that very effective piece of major tactics which consists in grasping the initiative, and forcing the enemy to conform to your move- ments rather than to carry out...

readers can help us to meet the Paper Famine is by informing the Newsagents, Booksellers, or Railway Bookstalls from which they are accustomed to purchase their paper that they...

case.

Mr. Winston Churchill might say, we are only a few miles from victory, but, alas ! as in the case of the Dardanelles, those few miles may prove as hard to pass over as the gulf...

and land nationalizers, but the Liberal Party and the Labour Party, would regard an attack upon the principle of valuation as a breach of the party truce." We are very sorry...

the Register, Mr. Long dealt with great vigour and good sense with the so-dalled grievances of the married men. To meet casm of avoidable hardship the Government are going to...

to Thursday's Daily Mail a letter asking his supporters in the country to help him by signing the "Air Covenant." The Covenant, adorned with the significant "caption," "Sign the...

Service abroad think of Mr. Pemberton Billing and his campaign, we desire to draw the attention of our readers to the following letter, only just received :— [TO THE EDITOR OF...

this respect, our readers may remember that many months ago we proposed that in every recruiting area there should be an "Obstacles Com- mittee" whose business it would be to...

from a letter which he had received from France from a married man who went before it had become fashionable for married recruits to have grievances and talk about their special...

nay, condemnatory, of the Government, refused, we are glad, though not in the least surprised, to see, to have anything to do with the infamous attacks upon Lord Derby. On the...

names of those who signed this letter, but we take all responsibility in respect of it. The letter casts no reflection upon Mr. Pemberton Billing's bona fides, but it should...

made a. long, very interesting, and on the whole satisfactory statement on the Derby scheme and the -intentions of the Govern- ment. We are not going to weary cur readers in...

the Land Valuation could not be postponed till the conclusion of the war came under discussion. In the course of the debate Lord Cromer pointed out that the Government were...

and several persons were drowned alongside the vessel. The number of persons injured by the explosion was also unusually great. It is still not known exactly how many lives were...

a dis- cussion on the duties of delegates to the Economic Conference to be held in Paris. One demand made was that the delegates should go with precise instructions, and another...

and Sir William Robertson have been in Paris for the great Allied Conference, attended by the delegates of eight countries. It is impossible to discuss the subjects which the...

during the week, including the Dominion liner English- man ' and the Atlantic transport vessel Minneapolis.' The latter, it will be remembered, took part in the landing at Suvla...

pmetrated so far and so rapidly into Mexico in order to punish Villa is still awaited with much concern. The American War Department fears that President Carranza's principal...

which ran between Folkestone and Dieppe, was tor- pedoed off Dieppe while crowded with passengers. The French captain of the vessel distinctly saw the approaching torpedo, and...

Yuan Shih-kai of the sovereignty which he had assumed, believing that his act was agreeable to popular feeling, has by no means satisfied the Republican rebels. Mere...

resulted in a sweeping victory for the Coalition candidate, Mr. Percy Harris. He polled 7,826 votes to the 3,711 of Mr. T. G. Bowles, and thus had a majority of 4,115. We...

the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth, whose determination and ability have made so great an impression here. He seems to have over- taxed his strength, and is now suffering...

going on on the Clyde we desire at present to say as little as possible. This is emphatically a case in which the less said the soonest mended. On Tuesday it was announced that...

1914.

THE "VIA SACRA" OR MEMORIAL ROAD. W HEN the war is over, France, Belgium, and Britain will be faced with the problem of finding some form of war memorial adequate to the...

for a long time past. " Lively " seems perhaps too mild a word to use of such events as the naval air raid on Schleswig- Holstein, and the miniature fleet action among a...

P ROFESSOR J. H. MORGAN has already rendered good service by his German War Book — a work in which he gave us, with useful historical and critic,a1 notes, a translation of the...

ought to be grateful to the members of this Commission, and to the witnesses. Between November, 1913, and June, 1915, the Commissioners held eighty-five meetings, and heard...

" W HEN I think of Ned Homing— ! Before Thy Throne and Heaven, 0 God 1 Before Thy Throne---." • Kerning was a poor unhappy blighter. He had been track- riding in the States, and...

S YDNEY SMITH somewhere describes his delight in the omniscience, or what seems to the landsman the omniscience, of the ordinary seaman. A sail was sighted on the horizon, and...

I N civil life he had always said his prayers. They had done him good, too, in a way. They had been a sort of squaring of his accounts morally. He had tried to see where be had...

WOMEN AND THE LAND. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.' Sra,—While economy is being preached to us on all sides, there is one obvious form of economy which cannot be...

[To TIM EDITOR OE TEl "SPECTATOR., Bra,—It Is no mean achievement to write a standard educational work .which wins popularity among generations of schoolboys and schoolgirls,...

[To TEE EDITOR OF TEl "SPECTATOR."' Sra,—The retirement of Sir Henry Angst, K.C.H.G., from the post of H.B.M. Consul-General in Switzerland, which ho has held for tho last...

[To THE EDITOR OF THEI "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Through the courtesy of an English friend, Mr. A. Percy Eccles, of Liverpool, I am regularly in receipt of the Spectator. Allow me to...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPICE/TOIL") Sin,—Your correspondent Mr. A. E. Clarke makes the mistake that every literalist makes. The error of his application of the teaching of the...

[TO THB EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sur,—The enclosed extract from Mahan's Bea Power in its Relation to the War of 1812 seems to apply no less to President Wilson's epoch than...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THR " SPECTATOR.") common with all your readers, I have found an added charm in the Spectator through its discovery of "A Student in Arms." You last week dealt...

[TO THE EDITOR OP TUB " SPCITATOR."] Sra.—It would be interesting to hear from Quakers and other con- scientious objectors the attitude they assume in regard to payment of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") am glad to see that "A Student in Arms" has used his able pen to describe the treatment of soldiers in hospital from the patient's point of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TRH SPECTATOR.1 Sia,—Is it not possible for officers of the New Army to provide, by a system of mutual insurance, against the vicissitudes which may befall any...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTITOR:'1 SIR,—The examples of soldiers' slang given in your review of Ms. T. O'Toole's book are for the most part Hindustani expressions, not...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR...1 Snr,—With reference to your article in which you advocate the institu- tion of certain days of total abstinence from meat, sugar, &c., may I...

OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 Sin,—It may be interesting at the present moment to recall an avowal on record as having been made by Napoleon during his detention i St. Helena in the...

' [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOIL'i SIR,—Your note at the foot of Mr. Horsfall's letter on the above subject in your issue of March 18th is clearly the best way of dealing...

"A Saving Grace," in your issue of March 18th, we are told if we fasted from meat on Fridays, as a nation, we might probably save the country £4,000,000 a month. This is hardly...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.”1 Sin,—In a paper read by Mr Joseph Matins at the Annual Conference of the Western Temperance League at Exeter, September 18th, 1889, he sayi...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TED " SPECTATOR.") Sra,—The grave has lately closed over Mr. R. Dobie Wilson, whom I knew at Harrow, and who was one of my chief friends at Bailie' and in...

Srn,—I very much appreciate your suggestions about saying—the first practical ones I have seen—and my household and I are imme- diately acting upon them.—I am, Sir, &c., AGNES...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] ISze,—For any one in these strenuous days of war to sit down and read The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire shows perhaps either a...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sm,—At a moment when the practice of the shirker seems well-nigh becoming a fine art, the following instance of a "highest possible" in the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sre,—Your correspondent " Nemesis " in objecting to a flower show in war time seems to forget that it is the bounden duty of everybody too...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,"] SIR,—Jonson's well-known eulogy of Shakespeare includes the fol- lowing : "He was, indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature." This, as...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 8131,—I should be glad if you would kindly afford me an opportunity of making known to the charitable public the fact that the work of the...

CRUSADER. (By THE AUTHOR 011' "Thu SACRAXENT.") You took the cross, altho' you didn't show it, 'Twas graven on a heart and not a shield ; 'Twas for the cross, altho' you...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1 San,—Tufo, volcanic mud solidified into semi-stone, was largely used in Pompeian days, as now in Italy, for house-building. It evidently Jet...

PRUSSIANISIAL* BEFORE the outbreak of the present war, a constant theme of pacificists and their representative organs was that the friction which existed between Germany and...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Communi- cated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode...

Ma. ROOSEVELT has never carried war more hotly into the camp of the pacificists than in this volume of papers and addresses for which Pear dad and 7'ake roar 0 WIT Part. By...

wish to add something more directly personal and intimate to what is already known of the career of the most famous of English potters. The completion of what Julia Wedgwood...

Dn. ROBINSON has followed up his little book called God and the World, which was a brief survey of thought on the problems involved in Creation, by one upon the problems of...

KELEAGER.t ROMANCES founded on the basis of the plurality of worlds are familist enough to students of fiction, ancient and modern. Mr. H. G. Welt. • Christ and the Church : a...

THE most delightful biographies of all are those which tell us of people who were, in themselves, of no great historical importance. We love to be pleasantly introduced to a...

net.) —The writer of this volume on a country that is unfamiliar to most of us, thou g h its name is upon the lips of all, has evidently been there, and also to Constantinople,...

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Peg—Whatever Professor Vino g radoff writes, whether of our own law and custom or of Russia, is appreciated by En g lish readers. This last publication, based upon three...

6s.)—A story concerned with spies and their detection on the outbreak of war.—Private Pinkerton—Millionaire. By Harold Ashton. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. ls.)—Stories from the...

Duties of Neutral Powers and Persons in Case of War on Lar.d.--It is well that this Convention should be accessible to the public in black and white. This is the thirteenth...