on Tuesday the greatest surprise that he has yet experienced. At dawn, on a wide front south-west of Cambrai, where nothing unusual had happened for mouths, a fleet of our tanks...

the past week. They made a slight advance on Tuesday in the Chaume Wood, north of Verdun, and on Wednesday broke up an enemy attack in the same sector. On Wednesday they...

Palestine. He occupied Jaffa on Saturday last, and thus secured a port which will ease the difficulty of supplying his army from Egypt by a singe lino of rail. Having driven the...

well on the front north and cast of Venice. On the Trentino border, north-cast of Asiago, the enemy has repeatedly failed to break into the Brenta Valley, and the Italians have...

rlITE splendid results of Sir Douglas Haig'e latest advance 1. have come at a fortunate moment. They will impress themselves not only upon the mind of the enemy but upon public...

Bight sighted four German light cruisers and chased them back through their minefields until four enemy battleships and battle- cruisers appeared on the scene. Our cruisers hit...

task in what was German East Africa. The British and Belgian columns converging from various points have this month broken up the enemy's main forces, captured all his heavy...

as yet unbroken by shell-fire, between the Bapaume-Cambrai road on the north and the Cambrai-St. Quentin canal to the east. The British and Irish troops engaged broke the triple...

the pleasure of employing his cavalry to good purpose in the action, is of the highest significance. It illustrates anew the supreme importance of the Western 'Front. It...

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

the Socialists have united on a policy of war to the end, in concert with the Allies. Signor Giolitti reappeared last week in the Chamber, where he had not spoken since Italy...

Mr. Lloyd George's Paris speech to a searching examination. The Government, he said, was ultimately responsible for what was done or left undone ; it could not shift the blame...

by mine or submarine was unfavourable. We lost ten merchantmen over 1,600 tons and, seven smaller vessels. Two. were attacked without success. The total number of ships entering...

Anglo-Hellenic League at the Mansion House on Friday week. Mr. Balfour and Lord Curzon, on behalf of the Government, attended to pay their tribute to the great Greek-atatesman....

with the outer world. The Anarchists control Petrograd and Moscow, and have defeated the scanty forces gathered by H. Kerensky in an attempt to regain the capital. IL Kerensky...

the age of seventy-six is still the strongest personality in the French political world, has succeeded M. Painleee as Premier. He accepted , office on Thursday week, he formed...

had telegraphed to Colonel House saying that " unity of plan and control between all the Allies and the United States was essential in order to achieve a just and permanent...

Ministers and officials in the Cabinet room at 10 Downing Street on Tuesday. Mr. Lloyd George declared that the most urgent problems were those of man-power and shipping. Much...

sudden death. in Mesopotamia on Sunday last, of Lieutenant-General Sir Stanley Maude, abllic age of fifty-three. As the King said in his telegram of condolence, General Ifaude...

the soldiers, and made little or no attempt to justify his reading. of the history of the war in Serbia or elsewhere. Lord Kitchener had suggested an Allied- War Council in...

Prime Minister declining his "repeated invitation that I should take charge of the new Air Ministry." He declined, he said, because, while the United States and Canada showed...

in the war private soldiers and non-commissioned officers who were suffering from very severe shell-shock and had lost their mental balance were sent to asylums, and that then,...

sufficient reason for not setting Captain Colthurst entirely at liberty, we should like to ask why ho cannot be allowed to go from Broadmoor to some Horne where he would be...

the develop- ment of the Society known as Comrades of the Great War. No society could have had a more romantic origin. One night before an attack, as we read, an officer and a...

in his house at Meudon. He was seventy-seven. He began life as a working mason, and failed to gain admittance to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. But his lack of academic training...

the Paris speech beforehand for a deliberate purpose. The Rapallo agree- ment setting up a War Council was drafted by the War Cabinet in London. On his return to Paris he " set...

to 171 an amendment to the Franchise Bill disqualifying the con- scientious objector who has been exempted from service or who, having been enlisted, has been punished for...

the Air Ministry to Lord Northcliffe surprised no one more than Lord Cowdray, the President of the Air Board. In a letter to the Prime Minister, published last Saturday, he...

the Home Office in withholding exact medical information from Mrs. Bowen-Colthurst about the condition of her husband in liroadmoor Asylum as wanting in humanity. Many people...

to extend the local government franchise to the wives of municipal electors, provided that the women were thirty years of age and would thus have Parliamentary votes. It was...

April 5th,

THE PRIME MINISTER'S DEFENCE. A CAREFUL reading of the speech which Mr. Lloyd George delivered in the House of Commons on Monday leave one wondering why he should have made the...

A BODY of very able and distinguished men, one-half of them Peers and one-half members of the House of Commons, are at this moment in conference, under the chairmanship. of Lord...

S IR EDWARD CARSON on Tuesday administered just the right words to cure a political fever. " Steady," he said, was the motto for the moment, and he could not possibly have...

W E make no apology for reverting to the important subject of the taxation of capital, for the public has not yet sufficiently realized the grave danger in which the nation is...

E have been arraigned for the " unfairness " with which we fastened upon a few unguarded words' in Mr. Lloyd George's Paris speech and represented him as having insinuated that...

dragged from the bag-racks were feverishly searched, and yielded .up a weird harvest of torn and thumbed music, some of it out out of the Weekly Diepalch, some of it copies of...

„H E, Ls belle Marguerite, un jus." There was an unholy twinkle in my eyes as I watched an outraged companion fill the proffered bowl with coffee, but my own turn was to oome. "...

my thanks and congratulations for the "News of the Week " paragraphs and the leading article in last Saturday's Spectator on Mr. Lloyd George. They are splendid.— I rim, Sir,...

not, with ninny of your readers who for the last ten years and more have found their own opinions faith- fully reflected in the Spectator, I experienced this morning a great...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are of ten snore read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] TIER " SPECTATOR " AND THE...

the Spectator for the last thirty-five years, and have always admired its temperance and restraint. One has not associated these qualities with Mr. Lloyd George, but in spite of...

disagree with your stringent, but richly deserved, criticism of Mr. Lloyd George's fatal indiscretion in Paris last week. If such a speech had been necessary, then clearly it...

sass "Sercraroa."1 Sut,—The cartoon in last week's Punch drew attention to the advantages accruing to the enemy front questions and supple- mentary questions asked in...

" SPECI1,7011."] your review of- Lord Morley's Recollections, speaking of the friendship between Lord Morley and Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, it is stated that " it was Mr....

(To THE EDIT. or rim " Serum-ea") Srs,—It is the last duty of a patriot fn these days to complain of the action of any military authority, but the commandeering of Church...

" SPECTAT011.") February you kindly apeited your columns for subscrip. lions to our campaign for War-Time Prohibition. May I call the attention of your readers, and especially...

[To THE. EDITO7 ae THE " SPECTATO,"3 SIR,—It is to be hoped that [mom; the authorities Mr. Armitage hopes to consult in India may be some of the younger civil inns, men more in...

[To THE EDIT. or THE " Seseraroa.") Sra,—Between October 26th and to-day, I have traversed Northern Italy from Venice to Milan, Turin and Genoa (for Rapallo), and then back to...

[To ME EDITOR or THE " Sescraroe."1 611t, — IL is probable that few men, whether in the Government or out of it, quite realize the practical difficulties which beset the...

[To THE Eamon or ens " SPECTATOR.") is to be hoped the generous public will "subscribe largely," as Miss Rimmer suggests in her letter of the 10th inst., to a fund projected to...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sni,—It is long since I have read a more pathetic letter than that from Mrs. Bowen-Colthuret in your issue of November 10th. Doctore who have...

[To Inc Emma or rue SPECTATOR."] BM—The idea that the Ulstermen had any notion of appealing to the Kaiser is rubbish. I am reminded of a very old story. A candidate for...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR."] Sie,—May I add a further word to express my gratitude for your admirable article, " The Essential League "? Surely your feeling is right,...

(To MC EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, —I have small excuse for writing, but I write when some correspondent excites me to reply—so far I have always torn my letters up. It...

somewhat regret that my modest letter under the above heading-should have led to correspondence, becoming more and more personal and irrelevant to the matter I wished to deal...

[To TIE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—There isn't any hope for us unless the electric invention from America proves successful. Then we should have to decide whether it is...

[TO THE EDITOR or THE "SeaCTATOR."] Walker's letter in the issue of October lath will, I am sure, be rend with interest and pleusere by a large number Of your readers,...

SPECTATOR.") "1 SIR,—May we ask for the hospitality of your columns on behalf of the Serbian Relief Fund? Of all the members of the Grand Alliance none has suffered more...

SIR, —Your correspondents are eager to condemn The Lew of Youth, yet schoolmasters may learn something from it. Will they deny (a) that the language used at Fernhurst is common...

LTo THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."3 Sra,—Mr. Graves was justified in his scepticism. The juxta- position of the rhymes he singles out shows that " feather " was intended to...

LTo vas Einem or THE " Seitcraroa."1 81s,—Your correspondents seem to me to be making a mistake which I should have expected some of them to avoid. In your last issue one...

SURVIVAL. (To the Author of " The Survival of Jesus.") WHO of mere nature with assurance know their souls, my friend, immortal souls to he, Trill know, with like assurance,...

LORD MORLEY'S RECOLLECTIONS:* [CONCLUDING NOTICE.] THERE is a short but pregnant chapter in Lord Morley's second volume in which he refers to his Roman. Lecture of 1897 on...

ITo nit Eonma or ma " fIrcermos.") Sm.—As I ant unable to trace the saying attributed to Nelson- " When they become my prisoners, I become their protector "- I should be...

Ito ran EDITOR or nes " SPECT.011."1 SIE,-111 the spring of 1998 I brought up two young rooks who bad been blown out of their nests. When they were able to fly they were always...

Pro TRH EDITOR. OP Ins " Senerrnes."1 Ent,—As you kindly open your columns to those in search of quotations, will you help me to find some one who can render into Latin, in two...

(To THE EDITOR or Tun " SPECTAT01.") Foe,—May I ask through your columns for the use of any material in the way of unpublished letters, journals, or reminiscences your readers...

Wz are very glad to beable to inform our readers that we have received permission to reprint the noble Address by Mr. Lansing which was published in the Spectator of September...

name or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Coin. snunicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in ayeeement with the stews therein expressed or with the...

SIR SIDNEY COLVIN has turned his release from official duties 1 admirable purpose in this volume. The Keats literature is already large, but he was right in saying that "there...

search of a wife. However, fate awaits him in the person of one of the younger and more lively members of the dramatis personao.—The Gulf. By Hugh F. Spender. (W. Collins,...

Wars ie a very disappointing subject for the conaeientions artist. If he ie a student of the graphic arts, he draws carefully studied pictures of battles as they ought to be,...

AN AUTUMN SOWING.. Ma. Sesser's new novel is a proof of his industry and versatility without revealing the qualities which have won him his most resounding popularity. For this...

which has been somewhat delayed in its appearance, should be road by those who wish to understand the difficult position of the Polish patriots now that Russia is, for the time...

by Mr. J. W. Robertson-Scott (50 sen) and printed in English and Japanese, contains some instructive articles on Japanese problems and on the attitude of some Japanese critics...

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