Sir Edward Carson leaves the Admiralty and joins the War Cabinet without portfolio. Sir Erie Geddes becomes First Lord. Dr. Addison leaves the Ministry of Munitions and becomes...

German merchantmen off the Dutch coast. The enemy vessels refused to stop and were fired upon. Two were driven ashore, but four were captured and brought into harbour. These...

' Vanguard,' a Dreadnought of 19,250 tons launched at Barrow in 1909, was blown up at anchor on the previous Monday night as the result of an internal explosion and sank...

especially in Champagne and at Verdun. They celebrated the fall of the Bastille on Saturday last by capturing half-a-mile of the enemy positions north of Mont Haut and the...

to oust the Provisional Government by means of an armed demonstration. Mutinous soldiers and workmen on strike paraded the streets all night, but loyal troops used their rifles...

S IR DOUGLAS HAIG reports this week a series of raids and counter-raids in every sector of our Western Front. From the sea to St. Quentin, the enemy is being kept in a state of...

been checked in his advance beyond Halle; partly by the arrival of heavy German reinforcements for the broken Austrians, and partly, as his reports show, by the July rains,...

braves public opinion, and we fear that he has thereby shaken the position of the Government. In hie very act of accepting office Mr. Churchill gives a new token of his...

ease of most general principles, and we must say at once that Mr. Lloyd George is stretching the patience of many of his supporters to the breaking- point by his appointment of...

gratis, an Eight-Page Suprlement, containing the Half-Yearly Index and Tide-Page—i.e., from January 64 to June 30th, 1917, inclusive.

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

-This time he- was accompanied by the -Queen, who during the ten - d0g4 spent. in France and Belgium visited ttlargenurriliezof hospitals and Institut ons in the Lines of...

in detail the debates in Parliament on Thursday and Friday of last week on the Mesopotamian 'affair, important though they were. The chief scent in the House of Commons...

to carry out the King's intention of changing-the mom of the Royal House and Pamily. The meeting was attended by 'the Duke of Connaught, the Primate, the Lord Chancellor, the...

for certain what her name was, but that she believed it was D'Este. In the Middle Ages a D'Este who married a Guelph assumed his -wife's name. Hence it was, also arguable that...

to a Noble Lord;". the pamphlet defending -himself from the- attack' of the Duke-of Bodfordend Lord Lauderdale in the House ef Lords 'Here-Burke speaks of the " proud-Keep of...

*MAMA which:builds a bridge between the Royal:House and ordinary British families obviously required cthat the -question of the King's name should be settled withoutdelay....

in direct contact with labour questions of the first importance. A fantastic act of headiness or egotism there might set the Labour world ablaze. We can only implore -the...

pans on. For God's-sake let us pass on !" He indeed went to the heart of the matter. A Report which-is not .used so as to help us to get. on with the war has become. a...

1.1r. Asquith ridieukel, the idea of asking two. or three Judges to decide whether this or that statesman, soldier, or sailor had acted upon a intstakenjudgment or policy. He...

proposed Court of Inquiry it was seen that the civilians censured were not 'verbally -included. • Ho explained in answer to .questions that the civilians would be- required to...

an inquiry into the Mesopotamian Inquiry have been dropped. It is ardently to be hoped that the Government and the nation will now concen- trate on getting on with the war free...

believe it is, it was necessary when Mr. Lloyd George spoke. We should be kept at a constant pitch of effort and self-restraint and never be encouraged to believe that things...

" are employed we may be starved, goes- on : "The enemy knows this, and has staked everything upon it. If ho succeeds, victory will rest with him ; but if he fails, his defeat...

concern at the want of steadiness and balance with which the Government address the nation and generally conduct their business. It is difficult to trace continuity or settled...

found neither in the boasts of Admiral von Capelle and the confident predictions of Dr. Lehmann, the founder of the Commercial Sub- marine Company which owns or owned the...

AprilSta..

of Commons and the country that, "so long as we were raising by loan the money we were spending on the war, we were living in a false atmosphere." The difficulties of the...

an. nounced that the Government had decided to- give an additional allowance of • 2s. 6d a week to old-age pensioners. A grant of au additional 2s. 6d. a week was made-last...

has been current during the week that aeroplanes had been with- drawn from England at the time of the lath German raid on London in order " to protect the King " during his...

over 1,600 tons, four smaller vessels, and eight fishing. boats, according to the Admiralty return. The losses were thus- almost exactly , the same as in the preceding week.

appropriate to a great seat of- learning. The family of the hate Mr. GeorgeSmith, of Smith and Elder, have presented the Dictionary of National Biography to the University of...

insist on passing the Corn Production Bill into law before the adjournment. The principle of the Bill has been accepted by a large majority in the House . of Cbmmons. In...

Borden tarried his resolution in favour of the extension, by Imperial Act, of the life of the Canadian Parliament for another year. But' as he only obtained a majority of...

CONCENTRATE. T HE essential need of the Government is to concentrate their attention on the war, and sternly and consistently to refuse all distractions. If Mr. Lloyd George...

W E think we may take it for granted that the infectious spirit of the Russian Revolution, together with the declarations from Britain and France that peace could be made more...

I 1' history does not repeat itself, it offers at least many instructive parallels for our guidance. "The Mesopo- tamian controversy of to-day resembles very closely the violent...

911-1REE years ago the war, breaking in suddenly upon our domestic quarrels, saved us from great social and industrial perils. -We were within sight of civil war in the...

1 T is said that we forget nothing ; that at any raomeut say experience that we have ever hud may recur to us as vividly as when it was new. It is certain that personalities...

W HEN sympathetic people ask whether work in a war hospita l does not necessitate the witnessing of dreadful sights, it is a temptation to answer with a " nothing-can-horrify-me...

(Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs an often more read, and therdore more cftectire, than those which fill treble the space.] PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION....

[To Tag EDITOR or Tee. "Bemuse:L - 1 Sia,—At a meeting of the-Canadian Presbyterian Mission Staff in Central India a Committee was asked to write to you en -Britain's attitude...

"Seecrense."1 SI11,—The letter upon the above subject in the Spectator of the 7th inst. provides yet another of those contradictions which are rapidly making that Committee and...

SPLCUTOR."1 Sm,—The following passage culled from a pamphlet written by Dr. Johnson in 1771 seems to be peculiarly apposite at the present time:- " If he that shared the danger...

rue EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."' Sru,—As an old reader of the Spectator, I was greatly surprised to reed in Saturday's Daily News the following remark in an article signed " A....

phrases maker, but- I can tell you what it means out here among Unsold ]ands. Here a profiteer is one who makes profit out of the war— not " excess profit," " undue profit," or...

SIR,—Two correspondents have pointed out in your columns that the medical profession and salaried officials are exceptions to the rule that "the rise in the price of labour is...

our meeting of missionaries last week a communication was read from our Consul calling for volunteers for combatant military service. All those of military age responded,...

Siu,—As you so kindly found a space in your paper for my first letter regarding the gift of fruit-trees for France from the women and children of our own land, to which-I hare...

[To EDITOR or aue "fiememoa."1 See,—The letter published in the Spectator of June 16th and written by a Public School boy was very fine. Perhaps it may interest your readers to...

[To THE Enema or TILE "Snc - naon."1 Szn,—We desire to make an earnest appeal on behalf of the National Home-Reading Union, which during the there years of war has suffered...

[To ens Enrroe or 7116 "SPECTATOR."1 Sus,--Signorina Teresa Pavesi, who has devoted much time to helping the peasant women in their correspondence with their sons and husbands...

[To THE Xenon Or THE " SPECTATOR:'] Sta,-1 was prepared to believe that tinder the unwritten Law of Nations, as on general principles of humanity, the destruction of...

(To THE Eynon or THE "SreerAoa u '7 fie,—Reading Virgil's first Georgic lost evening, the following tines struck me as so peculiarly applicable - to the present world- wide...

(To one Saloon or me "Seecuma."3 Sera,—May I add something to the letter of " Herbert George" in your last issue ? He refers to "eighty, per cent. of these blacks (Basutos and...

BOTHA AND SMUTS. AGAINST us once, now by our side they stand, Helpers of foremost rank with head and hand. Let far-spread empires from this drama learn; Royal our boon, and...

(To THE Eerrem er ma "Sreerstom"l Sts,—As one of the many interested in horticulture, it would be helpful to know which are the destructive insects. I understand' the parent of...

THE LABOURER AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.• Tam book is a remarkable achievement in illuminating research and in the art of graceful summary. Croat pains most have gone to its...

[To TES EDITOR or TEE SPECTATOR:1 Sue s —The green lawns and the trees standing in the very midst of the heat and bustle cf the streets are indeed delicions, and the passers-by...

Mass Maar-Anne MACDONALD'S three poems ("In the Ward." " Epiphany Vision," and " In Last Year's Camp") have been reprinted from the pages of the Spectator in pamphlet form under...

or initials, or wills a pseudonym, or are marked " Com- municated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein ezprowed or with the mode...

THE writer of these chapters, which originally appeared in the Month, was for the first eighteen months of the war attached to the British Expeditionary Forte as Chaplain to a...

Iv cannot be mid that Colonel David Humphreys was altogether unknown to fickle fame, even before his descendant compiled this substantial and interesting biography. To students...

By F. D. Ascoli. (Clarendon Press. 4s. Od. net.)—The history of British Irolia.fromthe departure of Warren Hastings to the Mutiny is studied by few Englishmen, despite its...

Patrick Geddes and V. Branford.—Ideas oh War. By Patrick Geddes find G. Slater. (Williams and Norgate. 5s. net each.)—Professor Geddes', the most active exponent in this country...

complete text-book have certainly earned the thanks of their profession and their work deserves to be .praised and recognized by all of us. They mt themselves to write out the...

Votive is this MUM, doer not useessarily preclude eitespisot nasal Poems. By Alan Seeger. (Constable and Co. 5s. not.)—Alan Seeger, a young Harvard man living in Paris when the...

THE MAID WITH WINGff.f Trrottou for convenience' sake Mr. Onhorn's fantasies may be regarded as -falling under the category of the short story, there are very few of them that...

Co. (16.)—A restful story of which the scene is chiefly -laid in beautiful gardens in Itchy.—Fetters on lite Feel. By Mrs. Fred Reynolds. (Edward Arnold. 6s.)—An 'interesting...

the Department of Civic Design, Liverpool University (2s. Gd. net), contains an illustrated account of the designs submitted in the Dublin town-planning competition. The prize...

Co-operative Printing Society.)—This instructive little book shows that Cu-operation has gained a firm footing among the Ruesian peasantry, and that the network of village...

7s. Gd. net)—Miss Metcalfe has written a history of the Woman's Suffrage movement from 1906, with a brief summary of preceding events from the late "sixties," when John Stuart...

Gd. net.)—This is a well-written and thoroughly practical handbook that many people may bo glad to hear of, though it must be pointed out that tame rabbits need a good deal of...

Graves that commemorates the Loan Exhibition of War Relics held nt South Lodge, Horsham, last August (Putnam). Among tho rarities figured is Mr. Godinan's Justin medal, in gold,...

War Map of Palestine (Gs. net), on a scale of eleven miles to an inch. with art inset, on a smaller scale, of Lower Egypt and the Canal. The Turks are credited by the map-maker...

(Macmillan and Co. 18s. not.)—The Fellows of the Royal Society have had a dining.elub since 1743, and their ex-President has compiled its annals in a volume, Well illudrated...

10, Gd. net.)—This is a very readable account of a traveller's experienete in British East Africa and Uganda, including an ascent of the Ruwenzori or Mountains of the Moon. am...

Barb& (Blackie and Son. Gs. not.)—This able Intl., monograph gives for the first time from contemporary manuscripts, mostly hitherto unpublished, a full narrative of tits...

(S.P.C.IC. 7s. Gd. net.)—Professor Compston's history of the Magdalen Hospital at Streatham—the oldest Penitentiary in England—is interesting and authoritative. The Hospital was...

2s. thi. not.)—This little devotional anthology has been compiled with care and good taste. It is divided into sections named after the various parts of the Church and the...