• A FTER a rather longer delay than had been expected, the German offensive was resumed on Monday. It has come to be regarded as inevitable that the preliminary onset by either...

The French report of that night recorded the lose of the Vregny Plateau, and the taking of Soissons from the west ; while on the other " horn " of the thrust the enemy was...

the Irish Nationalists, a courtship which has been echoed with equal ineptitude by a great portion of the Radical and Official Press. We do not wonder that the stomachs of the...

TO OUR READERS.—The shortage of paper has obliged us to adopt the policy of refusing to allow the " Spectator" to be "on sale or return." All that it is necessary for readers to...

and Soissons, whore both British and French troops were attacked. The British divisions held a front of fifteen miles in the bend of the line across the Aisne towards Reims,...

of greatly superior numbers enabled the forces of the German Crown Prince to sweep beyond the Chemin des Dames, and carry the northern heights of the Mane east of Soissons, on a...

Sinn Feiners as to the Nationalists. A correspondent sends us a " Limerick " which aptly fits the situation :- " There were some young men of Sinn Fein, Who proclaimed...

an admirable letter contributed by Mr. J. R. Fisher, of the Ulster Unionist Council, to the Northern Whig of May 24th. His letter is an answer to the Home Rule paper which...

only a partial solution, is for the Allies, including Japan, to accept the invitation of Russia, and to form a military rallying-point in Siberia. Our own Government have...

meant to stand by Russia has made the prOblem how to help Russia very real. Both the Bolsheviks and the Cadets have ap- pealed in different forms for help from the Allies. Every...

said that he had no intention of making any statement at present on affairs in Ireland. This terse refusal satisfied the great majority of mem- bers, who are frankly delighted...

very great attack by the German armies," Mr. Lloyd George said that he felt happier than he had done since the war began, because the Allies bad secured unity of direction and...

of Ireland having done well in recruiting, they have done very badly, and unless the matter is put right by Conscription, Ireland will go down to history condemned for having...

dealt with two periods—before and after the Irish Re- bellion of April, 1916—and covered the attempts of the German Government to foment rebellion in Ireland, and the...

the city of Edinburgh ; and the speech in which he acknowledged the honour expressed his firm confidence in the victory of the Allies, and his equally firm belief that we cannot...

facts, which destroy, smash, and pulverize the contention that Ireland cannot yield us any more soldiers because of her special position as in agricultural country :— " Dealing...

persons, it has withered away at Westminster during Mr. Dillon's absence. All impartial people recognize that the Government have acted in an urgent manner because the times are...

in the mass are not Bolshevik by conviction. Bolshevism, now that its principles are thoroughly understood, turns out to be nothing but an autocracy " by the proletariat "—and...

new acreage will justify itself. Some of the land has been indifferently cultivated ; some of the old land has not been kept as clean as it should be owing to shortage of labour...

to pretend that because Lord Newton used flippant phrases about its proceed- ings his feelings are flippant about prisoners. His actions prove the exact contrary. He did his...

and as the Adminis- tration are responsible for the direct conduct of the war, they must directly manage the affairs of the country to an extent that is wholly unnecessary in...

of Labour, said that one thing he had learned during the war was that the least governed were the best governed. Most of the people who had clamoured for centralization were now...

papers of Wednesday, is a very satisfactory document,. More grassland has been brought under tillage than was conceived possible when the campaign of last autumn was started. It...

a patriotic man use all his extraordinary powers of publicity and his singular methods in order to make his opinion prevail, and, as he thinks, to save the country. The persons...

Desart, and Lord Oranmore asked questions about the policy of the Govern- ment as to prisoners of war. All of them were careful to pay a thoroughly well-deserved tribute to the...

is the converging movement of several Labour leaders, of whom Mr. G. H. Roberts and Mr. Havelock Wilson are only two, towards a " patriotic " working men's reconstruction. This...

un- compromising denunciation of the " stunt " methods of the North- cliffe Press. Here is his description of the stunt proper. " You ascertain beforehand that a certain thing...

dealt with the difficult subject of demobilization after the war in a spirit which showed that he is for what may be called a strong, contented, and " patriotic " industrial...

April 5,1917.

BIRRELLISM.—THIRD EDITION. O N the surface the Government's policy in regard to the Irish situation seems satisfactory, and we need hardly say that we are heartily glad that...

TITRE is Mr. Lloyd George's pledge to the people of North-East Ulster, made on March 7th, 1917 :— In tke north-eastern portion of Ireland you have a population as hostile to...

I S Mr. Lloyd George going to keep his pledge to the nation in regard to Conscription for Ireland ? Remember, it is a pledge, and not merely a declaration of policy. The ready...

T statements issued in France by General Foch, by M. Clemenceau, and by others who are in close touch with the Generalissimo, assure us that the German onrush, which is...

A LTHOUGH the public is already more than a trifle bored _in- with the number of Reports issued by the ever-increasing multitude of Committees and Sub-Committees dealing with...

on two hundred years by the Southern sea, looking west, by Cape Clear, towards America. It and its forerunner—there is scarcely a house in Ireland that did not, towards the...

T HE other day the present writer heard a doctor warmly defending human nature, and as warmly defending his own right to an opinion. The experienced physician had, he said,...

[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.] A PROTEST AGAINST HOME RULE....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Among the many historical parallels suggested by the present war, these lines from Swinburne's " Memorial Verses on the Death of Karl...

ITo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIE,—In Vol. IV., Part I. (Madrid, 1:::), of his Historia de las Ideas Estiticas en Espana the eminent Spanish critic Marcelino Menendez y...

THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—A propos of your continued criticism of the Government treatment of the Maurice publications, will you answer the follow- ing query? Is an officer, who...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Does it not become increasingly clear that the principle of Bcati Possidentes, which we, less cynically, express by the phrase of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."3 Sre.,—Cam5es, if he still lived in these degenerate days, would not agree with the writer of the article in the Spectator of May 25th in his...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."3 SIR,—It is my fortune to live at the centre of a barrage arrange- ment, and when, as on Sunday night (May 19th), our German visitors fly...

SPELTATOR."1 Ste,—Of your kindness permit the to reiterate the appeal for the . poorer clergy which for some years past has been made by my dear old friend Dr. Bonavia Hunt,...

(To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sta,—You have kindly allowed me once or twice to say a few words in the Spectator on points of literary interest in connexion with India. I...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECT1TGR:1 S1R,—I have seen in the Spectator and elsewhere advertisements and comments on indigo and dyes produced in England, and the references are...

Sszersroz."l SIR,—A:few days 'ego I Visaed Mattereey Priory, Notts, the only °libertine House - in the country. Very scanty _ruins remain. From a notice-board acid from -...

as another example of " Continental English" a notice seen in the dining-room of an hotel at Lugano in 1912 ? "Guests are requested to be in time for meals, otherwise they will...

SIR, —My mother once called on a lady in a German town who took a " select number " of resident pupils. A sister of mine was to be one. The housekeeper, however, received my...

Sta,—Some years ago the catalogue of pictures in a well-known church in Venice contained the following translations from Italian: (1) " Moise who spring the water "; (2) "...

still taking interest in mistranslations, I can vouch for the following one: Donnez - vows la peine de you: asseoir. Translation : " Does it hurt you to sit down ? "—I am,

THE DEBT. Tsar have given their all for England! Never now Will they have joy in meadows and green lanes, Gather the 1ia-rvest, guide the quiet plough, Go singing homeward as...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Snt.—The following examples of Continental English may interest your readers :—Over a letter-box in Paris: " Intorpreturs Spot- ring all...

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...

THE MEMOIRS OF MERCY ARGEIVIEAU.• THE bulk of the ancestral papers of the Argenteaus are deposited at the National Library at Washington. But when the present Countess,...

EVERY schoolboy has heard of the Spanish treasure-fleets which throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries bore the riches of the Indies home to Seville, braving the...

Ir is reported by Mr. H. - B. Iriing in his Introduction to his Book of Remarkable Criminals that Tennyson and JOWett once sat up till the small hours discussing murders. " The...

statement of the grounds upon which she justifies a further extension of her methods of education. Her first successes were with mentally deficient children. She then increased...

MARY PLANTAGENET.* Mn. Sfedrrn is a writer of many moods and manners, but here he is at his very best, handling a somewhat complicated plot with unfailing resource, -singular...

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