corre- spondent who asked why we had sent troops to Russia " to meddle with her internal affairs," and how long we meant to keep them there. No one who had read the newspapers...

" at the Elysee, said that in all he had done he had tried to translate the thoughts of his people into action. They desired to establish the eternal principles of right and...

acclaiming Mr. Wilson. It was a welcome by the citizens, of whom President Wilson will become one, by edict of the Paris Muni- cipality. M. Poincare, at the Elysee, testified to...

week at Revel, the chief port of Esthonia. Its mission is to help that unhappy little nation, which, after having been robbed by the German troops, now runs the risk of...

with Germany by a month to January 17th. He reserved the right to occupy the neutral zone east of the Rhine, from Cologne northward to Wesel, if he deemed it necessary. He...

P RESIDENT WILSON reached Brest on Friday week, making a landing which would have been historic, apart from the momentous cause of his visit ; he was the first President of the...

on Thursday and Friday week and occupied the bridgehead east of the river. General Plumer himself took the salute of his splendid troops, the Cavalry, the 29th and 9th...

letters submitted to him, but when stamped and addressed envelopes are sent he will do his best to return contributions in case of rejection.

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...

has been completed during the war as far as Nisibin, a hundred miles west of Mosul The great tunnels through the Taurus and Anti-Taurus are finished, so that there is railway...

peared in several American papers signed by Mt. Bertrand Shadwell. Mr. Shadwell points out that the Spectator had suggested that the United States might " take over as large a...

under Admiral Rodman, printed in Wednesday's papers, expressed the mingled feelings with which every true sailor regarded the abject surrender of the German High Sea Fleet. " It...

assassinated in the streets of Lisbon on Saturday last. He had exercised supreme power for just a year, as the revolution by which he overthrew his predecessor, Dr. Machado, had...

delay in dis- tributing the Crown droits to the Navy. The old Victorian Pro- clamation which provided for the distribution of prize money was superseded by an Order in Council...

in no conceivable circumstances be allowed to resume control of her Colonies. She had proved herself utterly unfit to rule native races, and the native races must be secured...

we all know only too well what happens when those who can and do speak for themselves address demands to the Government. The Government instantly yield. The Prime Minister...

on the Peace terms are now clearly, though unofficially, foreshadowed. She desires to recover the frontier strip, including Malmedy, annexed by Prussia in 1815 ; the portion of...

prize money for the Navy, and it may be hoped that the sailors have come appreciably nearer to receiving their due. The whole question of prize money is •complicated, and we...

This pioneer of air travel was Major-General W. G. H. Salmond, who commands the Air Force in the Middle East, and who is the brother of the commander of the Air Force in France....

hearty welcome to Sir Douglas Haig and his Generals. Under their superb leading the British Armies broke the enemy's spirit in a series of the greatest battles in our history,...

German peace party to become stronger, and that it was well worthy of encouragement. Such encouragement, in his view, probably required that we should not seem to provoke...

Haldane, in which he explained the military policy of the Liberal Government before the war. The reasons, says Lord Haldane, why universal military service was not adopted...

this moment, but we really must protest against the character and tone of a singular communication issued to Tuesday's papers by the Press Bureau. It began thus ; " In connexion...

votes of the absent millions was the true came of last Saturday's dull- ness. The Englishman, with his sporting instinct for a contest, wants to know the result forthwith. If...

sailors and soldiers, when demobilized, to resume and complete their University and professional studies. This will be an act of justice to the many thousands of our ablest...

sleepiness, was the first of the Universities to complete its Parlia- mentary polling and the first constituency to decide a contest under the new Reform Act. The result was...

living memory. The newspapers made a gallant effort to pretend that the country was deeply stirred by the first contests under universal suffrage, but in the average...

Haldane is perfectly just to them. Lord Roberts of course always understood that the defences of this country would not necessarily lie on our own coasts. As every one sees...

April 5, 1917.

THE ARMY THAT WE NEED. I T is difficult to keep patience while the conditions of future military service are being . discussed as they are being discussed now. Between...

, N 0 one can say from day to day, or even from hour to hour, what may happen in Germany. There is a tremendous clash of rival authorities and rival doctrines. On the whole the...

TI1HE European Association of Calcutta has issued an official statement of its views on the Montagu-Chelms- ford reform scheme, which ought carefully to be- studied by all those...

ri lHE recent annexation of Spitsbergen to the British Empire, which passed almost unnoticed amid the stirring events of the war, has settled a very old and curious problem. We...

I T takes a great many qualities to make a successful present- giver. giver. It is idle to imagine that intelligence and benevolence are sufficient. Success demands that the...

"S O it really is true !" I exclaimed, as J. filled in the registration papers which for the first time included me as an elector. Up to that moment, when I saw the space set...

T WOgardeners, a builder, a stonemason, the bookstall clerk, the Vicar, and two or three " residents "—these were our Committee, and our object was to promote 'metal recreation...

[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 TRUE DOCTRINE OF NAVAL...

ITo TUC EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, —In your last issue Sir Herbert Stephen (writing under the heading of " How Ought We to Deal with the Kaiser ? ") says : " No one has...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, We have noted your comments on our letter in the Spectator of November 30th. You say : " The Dance seem to want no more than the...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sta,—In 1898 Mr. Sohn Hay, then Ambassador of the United States to Great Britain, wrote to Senator Lodge : " It is hardly too muoh to say...

OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, — The letter of "Experto Crede" published in the Spectator of December 7th seeks to enlighten you upon some aspects of the health of the working...

having in any previous letter referred to official Denmark as voiced by a Rigsdag resolution of October 23rd, mentioned by Mr. Erik Maier in his letter in last Saturday's issue....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") you allow me a little space to reply to the arguments of " Fair Play "? Those of us who are pressing, as is the British Empire Union, for...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In an editorial article in last Saturday's issue occurs this passage :— " Our readers will call to mind the example of the London...

that the resolution passed by the Mullah Rigsdag on October 23rd, referred to in Mr. Erik Moller's letter in the S'pectutor of December 14th, is premature, especially as events...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOT1: . ] SIR,—The greatest European man of letters of his age, Goethe, in his Autobiography records how deeply he was indebted to the author of...

[To eas EDITOR or THE " SPF.CTATOR."] SIR, — There may be many readers interested in the recalling or passage in Mommsen which touches upon the question of the validity of the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —Long ere this reaches you I trust more capable pens than mine will have intervened to show the other side of the canvas which Mr....

SIR,—In your issue of December 14th Mr. Howard wrote in a reassuring spirit on the subject of " The Position of Assistant- Masters in Public Schools" with regard to the Pension...

(To THE EDITOR OP THE " Spectnent.") SIR,—Limavady is to be congratulated on the form which its War Memorial is to take. There can surely be no more useful kind of...

THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, —The Village Centres Council have now good hopes of being in a position to open their Centre in Hampshire early in the New Year. I think perhaps your...

OF TES " SPECTATOR.") 5ui,—The claim to consideration made by "An Assistant-Master in a Smaller Public School " on behalf of his colleagues is a just and imperative claim, but...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.''] Sia,—In the Spectator of January 23rd, 1904, appeared an article entitled " Germany in Africa." It impressed me so much at the time that I...

OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I add my protest to those of Mr. R. B. Marston and of Mrs. Skrine in your issue of the 14th lust. both as regards the association of Sir Alfred...

" SPECTATOR."] Sia, — A great deal is being written about the reconstruction of domestic service and also about the importance of the woman's vote, but I have not seen...

OP THE "SPECTATOR.") Snt,—With teferenee to your footnote to my letter on this subject in the Spectator of December 14th, will you permit me to say that I am entirely in accord...

Sia, — Is it too much to hope that in the planning of War Memo- rials, the need of open spaces for the people in our large towns, the need of playing-grounds for the children of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Ste,—As regards the attribution of the evening hymn, " Forgive me, dearest Lord, for Thy dear Son," &c., to Jeremy Taylor, do not these...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agree- ment wills the views therein expressed or with the mode...

TOMTIT AND COCONUT. Wno would follow with the swallow Summer round the world? If you travel, how unravel Half the riddle curled In the seasons' fourfold secret Like a flag...

" R. L. S." : NEW POEMS.* CHARLES DICICE.NS once seriously meditated calling his magazine Charles Dickens : Conducted by Himself—a much more revolu- tionary proposition in the...

THE history of painting in India is an amazing one. There, as in Europe, primitive man of the Stone Age drew animals on, the rock walls of caves, and later a great school of...

SIR Wrr.t.rAst HOTRAM belonged to one of those families which, as' "Bennet Copplestone " tells us, are dedicated to the service of the sea. His uncle, another Sir William,...

Wa can well imagine a devout Churchman saying that a book con- taining the Collects and a commentary upon the Collects is a book tee much. They are in the Prayer Book, and...

Lovuns of that •did favourite book, Le Resit d'une Stour, will pro- bably be among those most strongly attracted' by Mrs. Romanist's touching memoir of her daughter;Sister...

stealing and restealing of secret plans for the improvement of naval guns is the theme of this story. The dateis just before the war, the hero is the inventor of the plan, and...

THE WAR AND ELIZABE'flt* MR. MANNERING, the redemption of whose "volatile, recalcitrant soul " is told in Mrs. Humphry Ward's pages, was a country gentleman of exquisite...

Me. Cossets - Ks apologizes in his Preface to this book of essays for their lack of connexion and unity, and for the antiquity of many of his themes. But his study of Euripides,...

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a useful little War Nap of the Western Front, just issued by Messrs. W. and A. K. Johnston (1s. net). It shows the successive battle-fronts from 1914 onwards, while the enemy...

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