must be demanded " because there was no guarantee that Germany had become or was becoming a democracy. " It is evident that the German people have no means of commanding the...

a long and designedly obscure speech, mainly designed to persuade the outer world that the trifling Constitutional changes which have been promised really amount to a. new and...

T HE German Government published on Monday an involved and cryptic reply to President Wilson ' s second Note of a week before. It began by assuming that the evacuation of the...

a reaffir- mation of the pretence that Prince Max ' s Ministry signifies a " funda- mental change " in the German Constitution, as it possesses the confidence of the Reichstag...

charge of illegal and inhuman practices that is made against the German land and sea forces, and thereby against the German people. " Destruc - tions were necessary to cover a...

published as we go to press on Thursday, and after our leading article on the subject of the German-American nego- tiations was written, he said that in view of the German...

his dynasty, issued on Thursday week a manifesto to his ." loyal Austrian peoples, " announcing that " without delay we must now begin the reconstruction of the Fatherland on...

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...

and was abandoned by the Germans on the same day. Our Second, Fifth, and First Armies now began kgerteral advance eastward on the fifty-mile-front between the Cambrai region and...

has been caused by- a statement which Lord Milner gave for publication in the Evening Standard last week. The general impression produced by the statement was that Lord Milner...

statement made by M. Painleve in answer to Lord Milner which the Evening Standard published on Wednesday. M. Painleve pointed out that the sincerity of the German people may be...

a conse- quence of the Allied victories in Flanders, was swiftly followed last Saturday by the entry of the Belgian troops into Bruges and Zeebrugge, while the French captured...

by the Allies and America as the Provisional Govern- ment of its people in Bohemia and Moravia and the Slovak districts of Hungary, published on Monday its reply to the Emperor...

north and south of Le Coteau, where ow Third and . Fourth Armies, with some American divisions, have continued the offensive in co - oper- ation with the French First Army on...

pressure compelled the enemy to fall back from the neighbourhood of La Fare ripen the so-called " Minding " line between the Serre and the Aisne, north and north-east of Laon....

" self-determination " would placate the Allies, he must have been rudely undeceived by President Wilson's reply—published on Saturday last--to the Austrian Peace Note. The...

to the Australian and New Zealand Luncheon Club. The British Empire, he said, was Imperial but not Imperialistica useful and vital distinction which is too often obscured. To...

a bad month for the ' U '-boats. The losses of British shipping from all causes amounted to 151,593 tons, and of Allied and neutral shipping to 88,007 tons. The losses from...

of the garden and the household, they cannot be fatted up to a fit condition for killing without a final stage of meal. Unless the store pig can be turned into the pig fit for...

still fighting hard between the Upper Aisne and the Meuse. The Argonne Forest has been cleared, but in the wooded hills to the north and north-east the enemy in great force,...

to 25, on the motion of Mr. Samuel, that a Bill should be passed forthreith to legalize the election of women as Members of Perlis- meat. The overwhelming majority showed that...

that the necessary papers for the application of Conscription in Ireland had been laid on the table of the House of COLIM10118. In accepting a statement which we' ead in some...

Sir Edward Fry, at the age of ninety. He was the first Quaker to reach the English Bench, and he served with distinction as a Judge of the High Court and as a Leed Justice of...

British Ambassador at Washington in the early and critical years of the war rendered his country an immeasurable service, will be kept green -at Eton and Balliol. His old school...

L, each side of which is about a hundred miles long, while the apex is on the Serre, ten miles north of Leon. But the side running due south from the Duteh frontier is being...

into sad con- fusion, from which we think it ought to be rescued. At the beginning of the year the Government made a strong appeal to the nation to keep pigs, and a Director of...

April 5,1911

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. I T is no exaggeration to say that the fate of the civilized world and of all human progress hangs upon whether we take the right or the wrong path in...

S INCE the publication of our last issue there have been two events by which we may judge the German attitude towards peace. The first of these is the German reply to President...

OBJECTS OF THE LEAGUE. The object with which the League of Nations is formed is the preservation of the sanctity of Treaty Contracts made between Sovereign States. Members of...

S IR DOUGLAS HAIG'S despatch describing the terrible days when the British armies were being pushed -back by the great German advance which began on March 21st has been...

P REsmEgT WILSON'S reply to Austria is in one respect even more satisfactory than his various Notes to Germany. The German Government have very astutely based all their appeals...

S OCIAL tests and shibboleths should be triviaL Then they can be easily changed, and persons of strong mind can more readily disregard them. They then serve their little...

The object of this interesting experiment in Separation Allowances is to keep the home going as it was before the soldier's enlistment, and at the same standard, neither better...

" SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I feel sure it will be of interest to all who have followed the letters in the Spectator dealing with the subject of "The Woman's Senior War Service" to...

"ACCOUNT RENDERED." [To THE EDITOR or THE " SPEC/11'0821 SIB, — It is to be doubted whether the full meaning of the words " Reparation and Restitution " is at all adequately...

[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 eECHS IN ENGLAND. [To...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] have been making a collection of metaphysical Limericks on the lines of one which appeared in the Spectator not long ago. Those of your...

Sus,—Aa an old V.A.D. member, who has nursed since May, 1913, I should like to state what I think are a few of the reasons for the depletion of the V.A.D. ranks, which more or...

Sia,—As a V.A.D., may I say that the letter of " A V.A.D." in your issue of Ootober 12th, and that of " Pre-War V.A.D." in your lame of October 19th, go more surely than others...

MO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") S IR,—I crave the courtesy of your columns in the interests of the millions of heroes to whom we owe so much to give a brief outline of the...

by the Rev. W. Elliot Bradley and repeated by the Bishop of Durham in your issue of October 19th appears to be a variant of the tales of the " Angels of Mons," current at an...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—As one who is looking forward with eagerness to yOur promised draft scheme . of a League of :Nations, may I . call attention to a...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sra,—While it is interesting to hear that some of the men whose lives were saved by the German halt at Mons are still alive, the Bishop of...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR :1 am anxious to obtain information about some of the contents of a Prayer Book in my possession, printed in Dublin in 1766, "according to the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In para. 136 of the Montagu-Chelmsford Report it is pointed out that the fraction of the Indian people who are town dwellers contribute...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In view of your article upon " The Teaching Office of the Church," which is itself based upon the Report of the Committee appointed by...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sut,—Your paper is so widely read by persons of all classes that venture to hope you will find room in your columns for the fol- lowing...

THE " SPECUTOR."3 SIB,—It is unfortunate that the writer of the letter with the above title (whom I imagine to be of the feminine sex) did not take the trouble to verify her...

(To raz Enrroa or rirs " SPECTATOR.") Sue—Haydn's Dictionary of Dates under the above heading states that "a subscription loan was opened in London on the 5th December, 1790,...

THE " SPECTATOR.") Sts, I shall be glad if you will be good enough to publish this letter in your next issue on behalf of the' Star and Garter ' Musical Fund. The hospital is...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Many find it necessary to obtain an hour or two's respite now and then from the preoccupations of the war, and few need it more than...

in the Spectator of October 19th, "The Inade- quacy of Officers' Widows' Pensions," officers of the Army and Navy should be encouraged to insure with (Government approved)...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In behalf of many of my brother-Olergymen I thank the Spectator for its encouragement from the first of the steadfast belief that the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] have been intensely interested in the letters you printed on this subject. I most thoroughly agree with the one from "M. ILL" I am an old...

Sza,—May I reply to some of the letters that have appeared in the Spectator criticizing or approving of my original letter signed "Satisfied Mistress" P In that letter I...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—At a mess-table here there were forgathered one evening four Englishmen, the inevitable Scot, and an officer, Italian by birth, of high...

treated with marked indifference dis- tinctions between singular and plural pronouns when one of his characters addressed another whether in prose or verse. Examples could be...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Snt„—In discussing the above passage your correspondents have now traced the father of the Devil as far back as 1876. I have been able to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Matthew Arnold began his addresfl on Milton—delivered in lit, Margaret's Church, Westminster, February lath, 1888, and subsequently...

(To THE Berme Cr THE " SPECTATOR.") Sia,—For years not a few some unknown good friend has been sending me the Spectator, and I have no means of thanking him or her for so great...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I have an old wooden cup, date of James I. or so, with inscriptions, very much defaced, on it. Probably it was used in connexion with...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") have • been disappointed by not seeing mentioned in the recent letters in the Spectator on the subject of " Children's Prayers " the...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sta,—There has-never been a time, I suppose, when the entrance of new words into our language has not been vehemently opposed. Addison...

" The Spectator and the Prussian Royal Marriage of 1858" was wrongly given. It should hare been "Robert Bowes," not " Jones.")

ORATORY, BRITISH AND IRISH.* NOT only the general reader, but serious students of English eloquence and of English prose, are indebted to Mr. Godfrey Locker Lampson for his...

Gmumn with white daisies was the great green world Your restless feet have pressed this long day through— Come now and let me whisper to your dreams A little song grown from my...

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

fourteen points " of January 8th last, which Germany professes to have accepted as the berms of peace, is that An independent Polish State should be erected which should include...

been a standing disproof of the pessi- mistic saying that journalism is the grave of literary ambition. It is true that he is perhaps best known in the world of letters for the...

the breathless cinema actor in Mr. Morgan's chapter headings. " I am Born—I Take to the Gutter—I am Saved from an Alligator—I Fall of! Mustangs—Pleasant Habit/ of the Seminole...

Ms. BARKER'S work is addressed avowedly to students. It is written especially for the man who is preparing against the time when he will be called upon to " give a brief outline...

DR. SuLtv's new volume belongs to that class of books, unhappily rare, which are much more pleasant to read than to criticize. Its merits, like those of a well-baked cake, are...

THE WANDERERS.• Miss JOHNSTON has won a well-deserved repute as a novelist of the Omit American Civil War, but she has occasionally deviated into other fields of romance....

MR. Ilorsurs was in Belgium, Germany, and Russia just after the Sarajevo murders, and in France on the declaration of war and during the anxious days that followed. He thus has...

[Notice in this column dies not necessarily preclude subsequent review.) The Quarterly Review for October contains a number of valuable and timely articles. Professor Alison...

5s. net. )—A paying guest who is highly eligible from the matrimonial point of view is the hero of this story. It is difficult to credit that any one could be quite so ingenuous...

M. Brougham. (J. Lane. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mies Brougham has set her- self the pleasant task of selecting pretty trifles by our minor poets between the fourteenth and the seventeenth...

H. J. Tennant. (Glasgow : MaoLehose. 5s. net.)—Mr. Tennant's attractive little book cerntaine extracts from letters about shooting from his Berwickshire gamekeeper, Thomas...

lections Fund (Queen Anne's Chambers, Westminster) has been delayed by the exigencies of war, but is welcome as showing that the good work of the Fund continues. The works of...

Committee a new and revised edition of her valuable Map of the Main Prison Camps in Germany and Austria (Nisbet, 284, with a gazetteer and index giving brief details in regard...

Nevin Forbes, and G. A. Birkett. (Clarendon Press. 8s. Oci. net.)—This concise, readable, and scholarly history of Russia up to the Revolution is the very book for which many...

and Military Gazette. 1 rupee 8 annas.)—This little book is written by an Indian Police officer for the benefit of young civilians joining the force from home, and, as Sir...

Superin- tendent of Government Printing. 4s. 6d.)—When Alexander the Great invaded India, the old and famous city of Taxila, ruling a large part of the Indus Valley, received...

C. Jebb. (Cambridge University Press. 3s. net.)—The late Sir R. C. Jebb printed privately in 1872 for the use of his students at Cambridge a commentary on Areopagitica. After...

—Many readers of Blackwood will be glad to know that " Klaxon's " very clever sketches of life in the Navy in war time have been collected into a volume, and those who have not...

(The Aero- plane. 6e. net.)—In this ingenious little book Captain Swinton discusses in detail the possibilities of the aeroplane as a commercial vehicle when peace returns. He...