to do next ? We sincerely trust that they will yield to the tempta- tion to push on westward till they reach the sea and overflow the whole of Belgium. It is to be feared,...

are moving from a great many points, and on a tremendously long front. It may well be, therefore, that at the end of another fortnight the Germans will be obliged to bring back...

D URING the early part of the week there was little apparent progress in the theatre of war. The players were getting ready for the parts assigned to them. On Thursday, however,...

of the war. In Lorraine the French have been steadily gaining ground, and, as the Times Military Corre- spondent points out on Friday, an army with a front of nearly forty miles...

the French on. That may be good strategy, no doubt, but at the same time there is always a danger of the French doing so well as to be in a position to threaten the German left...

towards the west, now extending in an unbroken line from the Dutch frontier near Antwerp to Metz, may be forced by dream. stances into becoming a main action, to which both...

any case.

serve abroad, and those who are unable to do so. There will be no invidious distinctions between the classes. The one is as necessary as the other. Indeed, Lord Kitchener would...

News comes slowly from the Danube, but that is very largely because it is such bad news. If Austria had won victories, they would by this time bare been trumpeted all over...

that is good news. Will the German Fleet come out ? It is to be greatly hoped that it may, and with transports behind it intended to raid our shores, for if that enterprise were...

of our Army " being sent abroad, and of these islands being without any defence, we may as well give them a few figures, though necessarily of a rather round character. We have...

an important explanation of Lord Kitchener's plan for raising troops. The Regular Army with ifs Expeditionary Force, and the Special Reserve, will remain as they are. The...

unanimity and warmth of feeling with which Americans have rallied to the British cause. Germany has lost every inch of the ground she had gradually gained in American public...

to have brought in seventy thousand. That is good, though, we confess, not so rapid as we should like to see it. This comparative slowness is, no doubt, very largely 'due to the...

the building, engineering, shipbuilding, works of construction, and saw-milling trades (roughly speaking, three million workers, or more than one-quarter of the total workers in...

hear from a specially well-informed correspondent, are very great. Thousands are imprisoned, and many have been shot already, and the fate of others cannot, it is. to be feared,...

character as well as of great goodness of heart, but no one but a flatterer could suggest that he had the intellectual qualities requisite for his great office. His theological...

Expeditionary Force was ended, and it was announced in the papers that the Force had been landed at Boulogne without a single casualty. Thus within a fortnight of the...

great interest, which was published in the July number of the Revue des Deux Monde; written in 1870 after Sedan by Emile 011ivier, Prime Minister of France, to the King of...

loss of the Amphion.' On August 5th she was with the Third Flotilla when information was given by a trawler that a suspicious ship had been sighted " throwing things over-...

preliminary steps the Government are taking for capturing for British manufacturers the trade with the Colonies and with neutrals which before the war was carried on by Germany....

Thursday morning. In a moment of lucidity, just before his death, his Holiness is reported to have said: "Now I begin to think the end is approaching. The Almighty in His in-...

Kitchener to the Expeditionary Force were both admir- able—simple, practical, and likely to be carried in the memory. The King said:— " You are leaving home to fight for the...

they can be kept in every soldier's Active Service Pay Book. No Army could go to war in possession of a better brief code of manly and self-respecting conduct :— " You are...

withdrawal of all German armed vessels from the Far East; (2) the unconditional surrender of the entire territory of ,Kiao-chau. Germany is given till noon to-morrow to reply....

Aug. 8th.

THE NEED FOR LORD KITCHENER'S SECOND ARMY. W E most sincerely trust that because some seventy thousand men have already been secured for Lord Kitchener's Second Army, and the...

piece of news in regard to the final interview between Sir Edward Goschen, our Ambassador at Berlin, and the German Imperial Chancellor, Herr von Bethmann Hollweg, which is of...

I TALY as one of the Great Powers, and Roumania, Greece, Holland, and Denmark, and, finally, Turkey, as smaller Powers, will have to consider their positions very carefully, in...

T F it were not that so many events, each fit to inaugurate an epoch of history, were taking place at the same time, every student of foreign affairs would be confessing that...

I T is gratifying to find that the public is rapidly waking up to the fact that other prospects than those of universal unemployment arise out of the present war. The daily...

I T has been decided that war correspondents are not to be allowed "for the present" to accompany the British troops and their allies in the field. The prohibition would not...

D URING the last fortnight or so most of us have under- gone some new experiences. A great many of us have seen a terrible apparition—the apparition of personal financial rain....

W HEN so great a business as war comes upon England, the sports and games of the country fall into their proper places. Cricket has been packed into an obscure corner of the...

ITALY AND THE WAR. rTo Vas EVITOU or VIII "131MCIATOL") Sin,—Your interesting article in last week's Spectator states very clearly and convincingly the advantages that would...

the words of your article in the Spectator of last Saturday, I have taken upon myself, as being the acknowledged leader of the village, to placard the village with the...

[To SHE EDITOR Or THE "spEciaros.'i am somewhat doubtful about the wisdom of the advice you give in the above article in your last issue to masters to discharge those servants...

[TO THE EDITOR Or TEE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I have just read with pleasure and admiration your article on " The Call to Arms." But it is not long since I read with dismay that...

SIR,—You would do well to inform all Rifle Clubs and Village Guards that they should not use firearms against the enemy unless they are in uniform. Personally I do not think...

SIR, —I read your article on Town Guards (Spectator, August 15th) with great interest, but cannot understand why you ignore Class III. of the National Reserve so completely. The...

ITO THE EDITOR or TER " SEXCTATOR.") SIR,—In connexion with your most useful article in the last issue, " Rifle Clubs and Village Guards," and the letter of "A Solicitor," may I...

LTO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The treatment of free Belgium by the Germans recalls to the minds of scholars a parallel episode of ancient history, We are in the year...

"SpEcTATon.") SIE,—The article on this subject in your last issue has prompted me to write down some of the things said to me about the war by the women in my district. Our...

[To THE EDITOR 05 7HZ -Srtcreroa."1 SIR,—Your comments on the letters of your correspondents are almost invariably as valuable as the letters. Perhaps, then, you will allow me...

(To THE EDITOR 01 THE "SPTCTATOH. • '7 am very glad to see that you approve the enlisting of fresh Guides in far country districts, and I am sure you would have liked to review...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEl "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The news of the offer by Austria to Italy of Savoy, Nice, Corsica, and Tunis reached us when we were staying in Dorset. According to...

" Con tutto it mcndo guerra, Ma pace con Inghilterra " ?

Purg. xiv. 63 :— " Mold di vita, e se di pregio priva."

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] you give your readers your views as to whether it is desirable or undesirable that the richer classes should cut down their expenditure on...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —Had things turned out in Belgium as the Germans hoped—viz., an occupation of the country, Antwerp and the Belgian sea coast included,...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR."] • append two extracts from Robert Hall's sermon, " The Sentiments Proper to the Present Crisis," preached at Bristol on a general fast-day...

[To TH1 EDITOR Or THZ " SPECTATOR."] Sra,—I notice from the news that reaches us as to the fighting in Alsace and Lorraine that Germany once more pursues her system of...

[To TER EDITOR OF THR "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—If the enclosed from an American citizen is of interest to you to peruse or publish, pray do so.—I am, Sir, &c., E. K. P. " University...

[To THE EDITOR Or TEE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, —In your article on " Italy's Position " in last week's Spectator you state that we have never before been at war with Austria....

[To THE EDITOR OF THR "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Might I ask you to give publicity to this letter ? So many people are making the " many-tailed " bandages, used for abdominal cases....

THE " EPF.CTATOR."1 SIR,—No doubt hundreds of letters similar in spirit to the enclosed are being received now from the North Sea, and therefore you may possibly care to print...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Stu.,—If we can credit the newspapers, the Russian Tsar has promised autonomy to the reorganized and rehabilitated Poland that, we trust,...

POMPEIUS. THOUGH drifted dust entombs Mycenae's halls, Though drear obscurity is now my fats, Remember famous Ilium's shattered walls, And Priam's palace, lying desolate....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sru,—What a contrast between the National Reserve Prizes Competition at the recent Bisley meeting and the correspond- ing contest of last year...

IDLE TEARS. MELEAGER. WHAT though the callous earth doth separate My Heliodora from her widowed mate? Sad tears, the relics of a shipwrecked love, Perchance may pierce to...

[To THE Narrow or THE " SPECTATOR."] STN, —After a day of tension in the City, I had the great pleasure last evening (August 14th) of watching with my glasses for an hour a...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—If the country should decide to dispense with mourning wear for those who fall in the war, the economic effect would be to save a...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " EPECTATOE."I view of the intense interest excited by the war in remote townships and on lonely farms in the Dominions beyond the seas, may I say that we...

[To THE EDITOR O' ' THE "SPECTATOR."] you kindly publish another protest to the one you so generously publirhed last week against what appeared to be a very ungenerous attack in...

writer's name or initials, or with a pteudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the Mews therein expressed or with...

AYREIITH ON THE EVE OF WAR. Inter arma s nt Musae ; but Bayreuth on the eve of the war showed verfAew signs of the coming cataclysm. It is true that on the preistion of the...

GERMANY AND ENGLAND.* Tun brilliant author of these lectures, which had not been completely revised for the press at the time of his death, was Professor of Modern History in...

[COMMUNICATED.] A PECULIAR and permanent interest attaches to Dr. Wn Ting - fang's book on America and the Americans, already briefly noticed in these columns, because of the...

THE author of Foundations of the Nineteenth Century attempted in that ambitious work to provide a principle of illumination for modern history. We may have our doubts about the...

TIME was, and not a very distant time, when historians of ancient India were content to say that the Indian races of old days " lacked the historical instinct," and left behind...

Ma. ARTHUR LNNEB has written some good historical text- books, and has proved himself a well-equipped modern student of history. In the present work he has attempted the task of...

NOB.ALISTS may contemn the economics of Poverty and Waste, and cold economists may resent the moralizing. But, as a matter of fact, ethics and economics react upon each other so...

DR. ASHFORD AND HIS NEIGHBOURS.• THERE must be many sedulous novel-readers who find it a little difficult in these agitated days to distract their attentions from the real to...

careful novel, with a par- ticularly clever study of a frivolous woman. The "case " of faith-healing at the end is a little forced and out of keeping with the simplicity of the...

Rees. 8s. 6d. net.)—When Major R. S. McClintock was preparing this excellent translation of M. Houssaye's picturesque narrative of the campaign of 1814, he could hardly guess...

Mr. Arthur Applin's new book is interesting, he does not manage to achieve a complete result. His figure of " Lobb," the man who controls the great destinies of Lobb's Stores,...

deal of light is thrown by Mr. Westrup on the problem of life in modern Johannesburg. The hero of the book is a "shift boss" in a mine, and the heroine, Molly Rayde, goes out to...

[Under this heading •Les notice such nooks of the week as haws 114$ his reserved for review tin other forms.] We have received a timely reprint of Commerce in War, by L. A....

and Polden. 3a net.)—Most military students, like the majority of other people, find it difficult to visualize the land- scape represented by a map. Much nonsense is written in...

spirit of Cromwell's Ironsides, to battle for justice and liberty. We have little doubt that the equipment of most of them, like that of the Ironsides, will comprise a pocket...

6d. net.)—These sketches of travel have many lands for their background. Mr. Young flits from one place to another with the flickering speed of the cinematograph—from Russia to...

(John Hogg. ls. net.)—Now that the deadly torpedo is about to undergo its first practical test on an adequate scale, many civilians will be keenly interested in these notes on...

Allen and Unwin. 5s. net.)—Captain Johnstone, who is Military Lecturer in the University of Edinburgh, here gives us the very book that is needed by those who wish intelligently...

Murray. 10a 6d. net.)—The title of Sir George Aston's lucid and timely treatise shows what a remarkable advance has been vade in warfare since he published his well-known and...

net.)—The author of this bandy guide has received much assistance from the Cardiff Naturalists' Society : we note that the nightingale is reported " to have been some- times met...