the splendid work done by the tanks. The Germans tried very hard indeed to get to grips with them, but these good-humoured moving castles roamed about quite undismayed,...

lull, has throughout the week been excellent. The total tale of prisoners is now well over fourteen thousand, and the captured material includes two hundred and thirty guns. But...

a whole, there is something orchestral about it. The British trumpets began the great symphony. Then the French flutes took up the theme with all their soul-piercing passion and...

F ROM the military point of view the great event of the week has been the battle begun on Monday by the French—a battle still being waged. The German wireless, with a strange...

sonic extent complicated by the great dam which the Germans threw across the Souchez River. The inundation was partly for strategic purposes and partly to complete the...

have been added to from day to day, till the telegrams of Thursday afternoon show that they have reached a total of over seventeen thousand prisoners and at least eighty-seven...

of detail, the French, after ten days of intensive artillery preparation, began an attack on a twenty-five-mile front, stretching along the valley of the Aisne and opposite not...

They are also sure indications of total casualties. Speaking generally, the lists of killed and wounded show much the same ratios as those of prisoners. If the enemy have lost...

give definite orders to their newsagents for a ropy of the " Spectator " to be reserved for them each week till countermanded.

logy. On the contrary, what we should have liked was language of the kind to which South refers in his famous sermon on " Plainness of Speech." " There is a certain majesty in...

that of Mr. Ginnell, the Nationalist member, and the House of Lords unanimously, passed identically worded resolutions giving utterance to the nation's " profound appreciation "...

to his fellow-countrymen for unstinted war service. There was not a single selfish element in the cause they were fighting for— the rights of mankind and the future peace and...

Commons, and urged that it should .apply _itself to the great problems : of the. hour. Instead of doing this, it occupied itself when it met on Tuesday with a futile and...

shocked the whole world by his jaunty reference to " the great Corpse-Conversion Establishment " of an army group at Evergnicourt, where " nothing is to be allowed to go to...

full of sound sense and wise policy. We are sure, however, that he would be the first to admit that the speech of the evening was that made by the Ambassador, a speech worthy of...

of nations, rests in large measure on the farmers of the United States, Mr. Wilson lays stress on the great opportunity afforded to middlemen of every sort. The Government were...

the luncheon of the American Lun cheon Club and the dinner of the Pilgrims' Club at which honour was done, and done in super- lative fashion, to the President of the United...

met may he judged from the action of the chiefs of the railways and the great Meat Trust at Chicago, as reported by the New York correspondent of the Times in Wednesday's issue....

Thursday are a little worse than last week, but not specially bad. In all forty vessels, great and small, were destroyed. The number of unsuccessful attacks remains good—namely,...

This is clear from the report of the National War Savings Committee on its first year's work. Last June there were only 157 local Committees and 1,287 War Savings Associations...

been a most ardent admirer of the United States. The present writer well re- members him saying in private, a quarter of a century ago, that American friendship was the most...

were made, of which Mr. Churchill complains, was to invigorate, stimulate, and inspire the nation to greater activity. The animus was for a vigorous prosecution of the war and...

cent. April 5th.

upon the party of progress we can only call either malign or idiotic. It was quite on a par with Mr. Massingham's own brilliant discovery when he and other members of the...

be shown from the way in which those who support the Strength of Britain Movement met the fact that their pamphlet., Defeat or Victory ? was also forbidden to be circulated...

was to consider how Mr. Massingham, if he had been willing, as surely he should have been willing in war time, to sink his amour propre, should have taken the annoyance of...

us by building hundreds of new ships. It is, in the long run, the most effective reply to the German submarine campaign. Our forefathers saved themselves in the struggle with...

a most venomous attack on the Foreign Secretary. For reasons that will soon be apparent, Mr. Balfour did not attend the Pilgrims' dinner to Mr. Page. Upon this the Star wrote :-...

the assistance of the only person in the Press, as far as we know, who still takes him seriously or regards him as a patriotic statesman. He insisted that Ministers had said...

WHAT AILS THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ? PARLIAMENT met again on Tuesday and passed, by a majority of 231 (286-52), the second reading of the Bill prolonging its existence to the end...

"TEXT week, or very soon it is to be hoped; the Chancellor of the Exchequer will introduce a new Budget, and every one who is watching the present financial situation will...

W E are heartily glad to see the announcement that Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Director of National Service, is about to organize his Department on a new basis. As we...

O UR alliance with America, and the efforts which are still being made by Pro-Germans in the United States and elsewhere to explain and justify German espionage and intrigue...

A S we draw nearer and nearer to the actual shortage of food, and more especially of wheaten bread, two things are becoming clear. The first is that with very great care, with...

testing the old, not only as an incentive to valour and to endurance, but as a sedative, an anodyne, and a distraction. The greatest writers stand the test triumphantly....

that precedes this with the general aspects of the Food question. Here we want to point the road to definite action. The nation has to get much closer down to the work before...

S OME days ago in a shell-torn schoolroom I came across a paper copy of Cicero's De Senectute, and have been reading it again. There was something grimly ironical in that...

"Seecraroa."1 SIII,—It is to be fervently hoped that your powerful appeal to the " extreme Temperance Party " in your issue of the 14th inst. will not fall on deaf ears. Coming...

[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.] LATE SOWINGS AND GOOD CROPS....

Subscriptions should be addressed to THE " SPECTATOR," 1 Wellington Street, Strand, London, W.C. 2. The letters "D. G." should be clearly written on the envelope. Cheques should...

always enamoured of the policy of compromise. Every compromise, however, has to be judged upon its own inherent merits, whether it be good or whether it be evil. The compromise...

to learn through your article in last week's issue of the Spectator that you have made the timely discovery that the " unseen hand" is in the ownership of the Trade Unions and...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your issue of. March 3rd you kindly reviewed the book, One Young Man, under the heading of " The Sign of the Red Triangle." I now...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] am not going to enter into a controversy with you as to whether it is the Trade Unions or the Trade which is holding the Government back...

THE " SPECTATOR."] Sts,---It is gratifying to learn from the letter of the Head- Master of Rugby and the Secretary of the Cavendish Association in your issue of April 14th that...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Just about a year ago I had the privilege of writing a letter to your paper on the subject of the need for rest-rooms and hostels for...

A DIVERSITY OF CREATURES.* THE public are always thankful for a book of stories and poems by Mr. Kipling. They will be doubly thankful for the new volume at this moment, and...

AMERICA AT ST. PAUL'S. DEsTr9Y knocked at the door- " 0 men of the wilderness, speak ! Will you walk on the plain as of yore Or climb to the peak ? " They replied—" Be the...

[niter NOTICE.] As a friend of thirty years' standing, a poet., and an accomplished critic and man of letters, Mr. Edmund Gosse * comes to his difficult task with an equipment...

LADY NEWTON'S history of Lyme and its occupants will be found indispensable by any one who seeks to understand the life of country gentlemen in the seventeenth and eighteenth...

on a largo subject, and its smallness should ensure its being read by English Churchmen who have at heart the increased usefulness of their great Church. The conclusion of the...

JAN AND HER JOB.* • READERS of Mrs. Harker's novels look forward to each new work from her pen with an assured and pleasurable expectancy which she has never yet failed to...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsoptent resins.] Parish War Societies. By W. R. Boelter. (The Smallholders' Union. ld.)—This is a most opportune moment...

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are very glad to see that Mr. Melrose has issued a. cheap , reprint of four of the most popular essays by " A Student in Arms "— " The Beloved Captain," "Of Some who were Lost,...

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made by the publication of the Report of the Conference on New Ideals in Education held at Oxford last summer. A special feature of the Con- ference was the reservation of a day...