FROM JULY 15 . 1 TO DECEMBER 30t12, 1916, INCLUSIVE. TOPICS OF THE DAY. A CCIDENTAL Literature Literature of the War. .. 761 Administrators, Lord Wellesley's :,(.Itool for 282...

and satisfactory announcement was made by Lord Robert Cecil in regard to the Declaration of London. Adhesion to that ill-omened pact has now been totally abandoned. In agreement...

or nothing to record, except that the forces of the Grand Shereef are stated to have taken Medina. It must not of course be expected that the Turks will sit down and see the...

be briefly recorded. On Thursday week in the Commons Sir Edward Grey stated that some two thousand British prisoners transferred to parts of Russia in German occupation had...

any case.

ceived, from which it appeared that the rations were again reduced at Ruhleben, and the money which should have been spent on them had been accumulated. The British Government...

news of Im- portance this week, though a note of preparation and suspense can be found sequestered between the lines of the despatches. It is not for us to pry into the...

prisoners taken by the Russians is now just over two hundred thousand, and there- fore the estimate of half-a-million total casualties can hardly be called extravagant. It is...

very much slowed down, the omens are promising. No doubt the Austrians have been very heavily reinforced by the Germans, who realize that it is vital to them to hold the Luck...

our Allies has been of the most satisfactory kind. Almost the whole of the ground lost when the great Austrian push took place has been regained, and we may expect before long...

T HOUGH during the past week there have been no military events of great importance, the whole tendency has been distinctly in favour of the Allies. In the first place, the...

which we mentioned briefly last week, seems to have caused the loss of forty men killed on the American side. Seventeen others were taken prisoners by the Mexicans. President...

Reserve will give a good account of themselves. In the rush of the recruiting for the New Armies it was pe&haps inevitable that what they did should be ignored. Yet it is not...

in the House of Lords on Tuesday he briefly explained his reasons. Although ke recognized that Mr. Lloyd George was necessarily entrusted with krge powers, he bad never...

at dinner on Friday week, on the eve of his departure. Mr. Bonar Law and Lord Rosebery were among the speakers, and we must note Mr. Bonar Law's statement that the resolutions...

of special interest to the readers of the Spectator, since it deals with the organization of the National Reserve, which has now obtained the official title of the Royal Defence...

Admiral Li Ting-hsin, Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Navy, has sent an ultimatum to President Li Yuan-hung announcing that the Navy will declare its independence unless a new...

the British market, and have set up as shipowners. The vessels will be called "The Commonwealth Government Line." Mr. Hughes stated that, as freights threatened to become...

the Duke of Connaught will retire from the Governor-Generalship of Canada in October, after having served five years. His conduct of his office has been unfailingly successful,...

Govern- ment; the decrees dissolving the Chamber and ordering a general demobilization have already been published ; and it is expected that the elections will be held in or...

rendered to the Empire by Sir Reginald Wingate, the Governor of the Sudan, for it is to him in the first place that our success in the Sudan must be attributed. We may add that...

a very Interesting and important speech on the Arab rising and the recent operations in the Sudan against the Sultan of Darfur. The action of the Shereef of Mecca was, he...

French repeated with renewed emphasis what he said at the London review in regard to the utility of the Volunteers :— "We are all," he declared, "working very hard to establish...

which it is given almost as much as for its object. It seta a true example. We hate the notion of being afraid to continue our devotion to literature and the arts because of the...

8th, 1914.

Academy to be used by them for the foundation of a prize to encourage the study of Greek. We admire and approve the gift from two points of view. Though we are opponents of...

express ex opinion as to the value of Lord Haldane's services ? Will any one dare after these words to pursue Lord Haldane with the unjust attacks to which he has been exposed ?...

his position, intended to vindicate him from the charge of having attempted to seduce Irish soldiers to fight on the German side, or for any country but their own. It was an...

In our columns the tribute paid by him to Lord Haldane. We must quote it textually. Speaking of the Volunteers generally, he declared that "It was reserved for Lord Haldane to...

able after the evidence tendered, in a verdict of "Guilty," and the passing of the sentence of death by the Court. We give below some account of the trial, but may say here that...

trans- lations—it was in order to accomplish this that Jowott spent so many years of his life in giving us Plato, Thucydides, and Aristotle in a version which, above all things,...

high treason began In the High Court on Monday before the Lord Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Avery, and Mr. Justice Horridge, with a jury. Much of the evidence was the same that...

THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS AND THE DUTY OF UNIONISTS. T ORD SELBORNE'S resignation owing to disagreement with the Government's Irish policy has not, we are glad to say, been...

W E want to help and save Greece. That is one of the principal meanings of the recent action of the Allies in Greece. It is true, of course, that the Allies have had to help and...

I N the year 1909, writing on the new way of life which we must adopt and the instant need of preparation for war, we declared that just as Denton, copying Bacon, made"...

the London representative of the United Press of America is a welcome corrective to the rather gloomy views sometimes expressed in the City of London. Lord Revelstoke is frankly...

ri - 1HE evidence given in the trial of Sir Roger Casement about I. the attempts to induce Irish prisoners of war in Germany to join the so-called Irish Brigade will have been...

THE CASE OF THE DISABLED. (To TER EDITOR OF THE " Srecuro».71 Sm,—On the day on which this issue of the Spectator appears the Statutory Committee of the Royal Patriotic Fund...

p RICES are gone up in the spiritual as well as in the natural world. Even a good conscience is far dearer than it used to be, and peace of mind is hardly procurable. If we are...

OF THE " Sexemix0l."1 Sra,—As a Roman Catholic, may I be allowed to make a few remarks on the excellent letter of your correspondent "An Ulsterwoman " 1 All she says about the...

OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—Do the authorities of this country realize the serious diminution which is taking place in the bovine and ovine breeds ? If they do, why let the fruits...

[TO THE EDITOR Or TII1 "SPECTATOR."] Bra,- -Tn your remarks on the economic proposals of the Allies in last Saturday's issue of the Spectator you say : "We want to smack the...

[TO THR EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR-1 Snt,—I sent you an old copy of the London Chronicle of 1779, and to-night have looked up historically the incident in which history has...

[To THE EDITOR Of THZ " SPEOTATOIL1 SER,—I was greatly impressed with the article on "Fatigue and Effi- ciency " in the April 22nd issue of your paper. The hardship caused by...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 hardly ever know an Englishman attempt to deal with things Scottish without making a blunder. Mr. Marston's example of how fine young...

Sin,—Lord Cromer's article on the School of Oriental Studies is most interesting, especially the importance of members el the Civil Service and officers of the Army having a...

the letter in your last issue from Dr. W. G. Black, I have to say that the teaching of the School of Oriental Studles will be open to all classes of students. If your...

(To TEl EDITOR OF TII• " SPECTATOR:1 STR,—While duly acknowledging Mr. Marston's appreciation of one of our finest Scotch regiments—the Black Watch—does he really think the...

Sm,—Your correspondent Dr. W. G. Black points out that the uses of the new School of Oriental Studies in the matter of training miss:onaries have been ignored. He is perhaps...

[To THE EDITOR OF THZ 'SPECTATOR.") Sra,—Lord Cromer, writing in your issue of June 17th on the subject of the School of Oriental Studies, says :— " Perhaps the most important...

SIR,—You had better leave that thorny controversy alone till you are as well informed on its intricacies as you are on most things which delight your readers week by week. You...

Em s ---The question as to whether we should use the word " English " or the word " British " in certain cases depends upon whether we think geographical divisions of greater...

permit an Englishman who has lived in Scotland for a good many years to give tho results of his observation upon the sentiments of Scotsmen ? There are two very distinct classes...

SIR,—There is much in a name, and doubtless you will receive more letters on this subject than you have room for, but if you can find space for a few lines from an old reader,...

[Ti THE EDITOR OP THE " srserarea_l Snt,—Canon Rawnsley's letter, which appeared in your last issue, Is a timely reminder of the truth that the preservation of commons can only...

[To VIZ EDITOR Or TES 'SPECTATOR., Sro,—It is now some two and a half years since I first commu icated with you drawing your attention to this method of building, and I have...

Or THE " SPECTATOR."' SER,—Your review of Lord Cromer's essays opens with the following sentences : "Literature that has appeared in the daily, weekly, or oven monthly Press...

go TUB EDITOR OP THB "SPECTATOR."] SER,—As in May last you kindly published in the Spectator an appeal that books for the Canadian Soldiers' Club at Chasemoor, Hindliead, should...

[TO TEE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR.") Sirt,—Amicl all the distractions of this hurrying time, I think your invaluable journal should find space to record some les. - ,ons from the...

Sra,—Your paper has so many readers and friends in and about Kent that I beg you will kindly allow me to say that at Lees Court Military Hospital, near Faversham, in the heart...

name 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...

"SPECTATOR."] Sur,—The description of the bittern and its booming note in "The Deserted Village," IL 43-44, seems more true to Nature than those quoted from Southey and Thomson...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THII " BPROTATOR.") Scr,—I beg that you will kindly pardon my writing to ask if you would be so good as to assist me a little in an effort I have made to...

[TO TDB EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Is not this eulogy by Mme. de Sevigne of the great Turenne most applicable to our groat Field-Marshal, Lord Kitchener 7— " Ne croyez...

GERMANS AND OTHERS ON GERMANS.* LA FONTAINE has familiarized the world with the exceptions taken by. the lion to the portrait of himself drawn by man. Only a lion, he I...

(Killed by a Sniper.) How can we mourn or weep for one so bright ? Spending himself so gladly for the Cause. Shot by a sniper's bullet in the night, "Doing his bit" without a...

PEACE TALK IN A HOSPITAL. "SHOULD peace be sought ? " I asked, and with fine scorn The mother said, "Two of my sons were slain On Loos's front, and this my youngest-born...

heart of the tramp. His nostalgia takes the paradoxical form of making him more sick for unexplored places than for home. If he desires to go back upon his tracks, it is to...

IT is a ebmmonplace of tho day that the war has produced few or no men of supreme d'st:netion. Whether that is true or not we shall not attempt to inquire just now ; but at any...

PROFESSOR RASHDALL can write about morals and theology in a manner which never ceases to interest the ordinary reader. His last book, Conscience and Christ, is " readable " in a...

THE list of books which deal directly or indirectly with the career and achievements of General Grant runs already to a considerable length. Only last year we noticed General...

IT was a singularly happy inspiration which led Professor Rhys Roberts, on the anniversary of St. Crispin's Day, to contrast the exhortations of the poet-patriots of ancient...

Wight is an epitome of the greater part of English strata, and England itself a summary of most of the world's geological history, so the study of the ethnology of the Central...

THE DAUGHTER OF THE STORAGE.t Mn. HOWELLS must be very nearly the doyen of American novelists, but his latest volume of short stories and sketches in prose and verse shows him...

Ii is extraordinary to what lengths even lovers of Shakespeare will go in their endeavours to reconcile his genius with their own particular theories. Miss Mary Woods in her...

Street, Stratford-on-Avon. Is. net.)—This "catalogue of original Documents" preserved in Stratford-on-Avon (compiled by Frederick 1Vellstood, M.A.), illustrating Shakespeare's...

is laid in a village called Peacewold, which contains a hermit, a convent (ono of the novice; elopes with the hermit), a marvellous lady benefactress, and an organist of great...

In this book (the authorship is anonymous), "realizing that knowledge Is the first need of the reformer," and that in order to cure an evil it is necessary to deal with causes...

[Notice in this column does not neeessarild preclude suh:e2usat reoies .1 The Supernatural in Tragedy. By Charles E. Whitmore. (Oxford University Press. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr....

(Allen and Unwin, (3d. net each) which we hope will be useful in spreading knowledge and stimulating interest. The Polish Question as an Inter- national Problem is an historical...

E. Mildred Nevfil. ( London Missionary Society 6d. net.)—A series of five missionary lessons suitable for children of the infant class of a Sunday echooL There are talks and...