now four hundred miles west of Land's End, and no doubt by the time these pages are in our readers' hands we shall hear more of the vessel. It may be remem- bered that the '...

the week was lifted on Friday by a statement from the Secretary to the Admiralty saying that, the weather having moderated, the bombardment of the outer forts was renewed on...

A MOVEMENT which will appeal to many people as the most significant and romantic in the war was begun on Friday week, when an Anglo-French fleet appeared off the Dardanelles and...

past week has been without any marked features, but from the eastern were received on Friday reports of a. distinctly encouraging character. The Austrian armiea in Eastern...

in the centre of the Russian line opposite Warsaw or to the north and west; but the Germans appear still to be pressing their offensive very hard, and profess to have captured...

some- what obscured by recent events in the North Sea and the German " paper " blockade. This much-talked-of vessel does not take the eea stage with the éclat which seemed...

of the action at the Dardanelles, but cannot refrain here from a word on the picturesque side of the subject. It may well be that in a very short time we shall hear of naval...

Government were examining the position of the Welsh Church Bill. Points submitted to them were being con- sidered, and there was some prospect of an agreement. Mr. Chamberlain...

bombs at Colchester, Coggeshall, and Braintree. No one saw the aeroplane, though it was beard at many places. The principal damage was done in Hutt Road, Colchester, where part...

subject of Mr. Montague Meyer's timber purchases for the War Office. After Mr. Harold Baker had expressed the cont. plete satisfaction of the War Office with their bargain and...

War Office and the Government should not be deflected from their work of beating the Germans into financial side-issues, how- ever important. These bad better wait till the war...

Allied Governments were still considering what action it would be proper to take against the German policy of destroying Allied and neutral vessels without warning. A Note from...

formation about the seizure of the ' Wilhelmina.' and the use of the American flag by the Lusitania' wan published in the papers of last Saturday. He refers to the German...

the text of letters which were exchanged between M. Poincare and the King on the eve of war. M. Poineare's letter, dated July 31st, was an appeal to the King to make it clear at...

of Works admitted that the sums paid to Mr. Meyer were large, but that " the sums saved to the country by Mr. Meye•'s services were infinitely larger." That, of course, is the...

Board of Agriculture, explained the view of the Govern- ment in regard to the deficiency of labour on farms. The work, he admitted, must be done somehow, but all other...

but we may remark, in regard to the second part of Mr. Horne's first question, that but for the influx of some thirty or forty thousand National Reservists from Class I. into...

are enable to accede to the request of the Belgian Relief Commission for a monthly subvention. The fact is that the Government would like nothing better than to aid this...

policy of the Germans at sea would yield its results, for it is the most difficult thing in the world to guard against assassination. But the number of ships sunk by torpedoes...

who are driven by farts from every other form of belittling the Reserve any that after all it was quite useless because the men would all have come forward just the same even if...

new mined area in the Irish Channel. All vessels wishing to go through the North Channel must pass to the southward of Rathlin Island between sunrise and sunset. In other words,...

are unable to give these figures. We do hope that the matter• will not be left here, but that the Government will at any rate make some general statement of what has been done...

asked by Mr. Horne in the House of Commons on Monday :— " How many members of the National Reserve in Class I. have joined the colour., either in the Special Reserve or other...

a portion of the 5th Light Infantry—recruited chiefly from Mohammedans of the Eastern Punjab—mutinied and caused a serious riot. Thirty-five persons, including civilians, were...

others, should not be credited to the National Reserve, while at the same time a series of stories, often apocryphal, of old and decrepit National Reservists fly about the...

Aug. 8th.

W E desire to express our strongest sympathy and agreement With the admirable "leader" on "The Uses of Publicity" to be found in Monday's Tinos. A better or sounder piece of...

THE ATTACK ON THE DARDANELLES. THE British public have recognized the importance of 1 the attack on the Dardanelles. They have seen instinctively that it means a great deal...

I N an extremely interesting paper read before the Royal Society of Arts on Wednesday, Professor W. J. Ashley expressed the opinion that the German authorities had based their...

rilHE debate in the House of Commons on the Govern- ment dye scheme revealed that Assembly . at its worst. At a time of political truce and of national warfare it might have...

O BSERVERS of birds have been much interested by the evidence, which seems to be fairly satisfactory, that pheasants in as remote a part of Englund as Westmor- land were...

A BLACK square of star-pricked night makes the fourth wall of the squadron mess, where bottle-sconced candles gutter in the pungent wood-smoke that drifts from the blaze...

CAN picture the development of the misled reformer who introduced the comma into the languages of men. His laborious finger lost itself time after time among the elaborate...

[To vas EDITOR or TN. SPSCIA70.1 SIR,—In your article of the 13th inst.," The New Day' and Merchant Shipping," you make the suggestion that America would only have to say to...

GERMAN HATRED OF ENGLAND. [To tits Eorros or me "srser,vos."] Sin,—It is always well to try to understand your adversary's point of view. Many good people seem to be both...

[To rum EDITOR Orr • 'srsevsros."] SIR, — Many of ns must be wondering what the promoters of the Channel Tunnel enterprise think about the matter now. To those of us who are of...

that Professor Beget will be disappointed, 'and I feel that no Swiss who returned to his native country to make her neutrality respected will fail to be restored when he comes...

[To ram Eorron Or Tea " Srrcreroo. " ] Sr a,—In one of our leading papers, the Ncue Ziirchcr Zeitung, I read that in your number of January 23rd there is an appeal of Professor...

Sit,-1 propos of the letter beaded "War and Waste" in your issue of the 13th Meth it is an interesting fact that a certain Home for Girls in the neighbourhood of one of our...

AGO. [To rue Emma or vas "Srsouros."1 Sin,—The beautiful epitaph enclosed is to be found on a monument in the garden at the Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham, where are laid to...

f To sac EDITOR or Ins 8rmeneron."1 Sin, In the delightful article on "The Psychology of Drill" in last week's Spectator I was much struck with the reference to those who cannot...

[To SHE ED1708 OF 7118 ..SPEC T170."] was walking yesterday on a remote country road. I came across a fine young man scraping the mud off. I asked how much a week he got for his...

[To ass EDITOR OP Ten “SPECT■701."] Sin,—In your editorial remarks at the end of a letter in the Spectator of February 13th on the above subject you say: " We trust that the...

[To THIC EDETOM or ass •• NFFCTAT011:1 Sit,—It has occurred to me that my experience, derived from about thirty years of mountain walking and climbing, relative to the treatment...

[To sax Enema or ma "SPEC...R."1 SIR,—In your issue of February 6th Mr. Malleson has shown that he can claim priority for Thucydidee over Bishop Berkeley and Sir William Jones...

[To TDB EDITOR, or ens SPECTATOR."] SIE,—The late Sir Charles Gough bad no bar to his Cross. He was gazetted once, on October 21st, 1859, for services ren- dered on four...

SIR,—I am addressing you with reference to your statement OD p. 250 of your issue of February 20th "Sir Charles Gough bad three bars to his Cross." Can you substantiate this P I...

[To Ton Ennon or Tun "SesenTon."] SIR, — A scheme has recently been started which will enable, it is hoped, Englishwomen of the working class to learn some- thing of the...

give • me the benefit of their criticism upon the following inscription which I desire to place upon the base of a monument dedicated to the memory of Lord Halifax P The...

[To THR EDITOR or Tn. " Srscuron.."] SIR, — In your review entitled " Sir Alfred Lyall's Later Essays" (Spectator, February 13th) you speak of "the anonymous Pandurang Hare The...

[To ran Eynon or rem " Serc-Lerox."] Sza,—Some weeks ago you most kindly inserted in your columns an appeal in aid of the East African Field Force Fund, and con- siderable help...

[To THIN EOM's or THE •• SPECTATOR."] Sta,—Will you allow me through the medium of your columns to make known to the generous donors of gifts in kind and money for the benefit...

[To THE EDITOR or THE . SPECTATOS.'1 • Sin, — Will you allow me to enlighten Mr. Curtis Brown as to Low this country stands towards Russia in the matter of literary copyright?...

[To . sus Bowen OF Ton ..SFECTATOIC1 Sra,—Your readers are possibly not aware. that a very large number of students, past and present, of the Schools of Surgery of the Royal...

[To ran Ennon or ens "SPEC...M:1 Sre,—Your article on "Social Incompatibility " in last week's Spectator must have interested many of your readers, for most of us realize that...

[To sae EDITOR or D. "Prue...n."] Stu, — At a time when the country is engaged in a life-and- death struggle the Times publishes the miserable squabblings of ecclesiastics, and...

MR. JOHN BUCHAN'S HISTORY OF THE WAR.* Suenitia, histories of the war are already being published in parts. We cannot undertake to notice there all, but may record a general...

I. B. B. (Qt./Amos HIGHLANDERS). ("Pea ici most cur Is champ d'honneur.") Tam guerdon, in the days of chivalry, France gave the soldier whom she held so dear, Still should his...

Pro THE Emma or am "Brsersrea."1 Sia,—Would your readers very kindly help me to collect a number of modern books for a lending library which is being started by our V.A.D. unit...

Pairunswr ; LORD DESBOROUGH. Hon. Siecazranv PERCY A. HARRIS, Esq. Ilsrm Ovricas Judges' Quadrangle, Royal Courts of Justice (Carey Street entrance). The aims and objects of...

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

SrBSCRIPTIONS for this Fund should be sent to the Spectator Office, or direct to Messrs. Barclay and Co., Goslings' Branch, 19 Fleet Street, London, E.C. Cheques should be made...

SOME of the best comments on the war have appeared in the most unexpected quarters, and this little volume of editorials reprinted from New York Life is a case in point. Life is...

IT might seem at first matter for regret that a work so momentous ea Mr. Cook's Zeus should appear at a time when public and even specialist attention is distracted from...

STILL they come. Despite the "forty-parson power" of Blue Books and Missionary Reports, despite the educative influence of financial advisers and the investor's close scrutiny...

Da. Flews is an historian of the first class: a preacher certainly not below the second class ; how to rank him as a controversialist would depend on what is held to be the end...

the last few months may incline some of us to think that such a book as this collection of the late Professor• Westlake's writings on public international law must in future...

Ma. RIVERS, whose previous book on the Todas was an admirable example of "scientific method as applied to the collection and recording of ethnographical facts," now pub- lishes...

A JOURNEY TO NATIJEE.t THE narrator of this experience in regeneration—in which the personages introduced are, so the author• tells us, freely drawn from life — is a Wall...

"Sixth Sense" which Mr. McKenna has chosen for his title-page is that of telepathy; the main theme of the novel ie, however, the question of suffragist militancy. We assume that...

In the Lands of the Sun (Eveleigh Nash, 16a, net), an enter- taining account of a journey to the Middle East undertaken by him at the end of 1911. The original object of the...

University Press containing a series of lectures delivered at the University upon Germany in the Nineteenth Century. The same Press has now issued a second series of three...

6s.)—Miss Mack's writing is, in many ways, commonplace enough, with no especial distinction, either of style or of thought; yet she possesses in abundance the gift of creating...

the subject of a dissertation by Dr. Robert Stanley Forsythe (Humphrey Milford for the Columbia University Preen, 8s. 6d. net). Shirley belonged to the very tail-end of the...

Bruce gives a description of his observations in a volume called Brazil and the Brazilians (Methuen and Co., 7e. 6d. net). Among the subjects treated in rapid succession are the...

for writing, and is, moreover, an enthusiast for Russia . and Russian ideals, and, we may add, for his own ideals as well. His new book upon Russia and the World (Cassell and...

[Notice to this column does not necessarily preclude eubsequent racism.] We should like to draw our readers' attention to the very admirable work which is being done in...

Dent and Sons, 8s. 6d. net), is a well-compiled history of a dozen parishes in the neighbourhood of Cheddar, in Somerset. The district with which Mr. Knight deals is not only...

sort of guide-book to the rigid impersonality of a Baedeker. The visitor to Sicily will find just such a companion in Vistas in Sicily, by Arthur Stanley Riggs (Grant Richards,...

Co. 6s.)—This account of a man and woman who love each other but are divorced through a misunderstanding has some clever character-drawing, but is chiefly about vulgar...

manner of their action, have long supplied opportunities for iontroversy. Mr. Edward A. Martin in his Dow-Ponds: Victory, Observation, acid Experiment (T. Werner Laurie, 6s.)...

5s. net.)—Joking apart, this is a ridiculous book. Almost any reader will find it exasperating. At the some time, almost any reader will laugh occasionally, wherever he may be...

The Methodist Who's Who (C. H. Kelly, Is. 6d. net), a volume the scope of which is sufficiently shown by the title, and The London Diocese Book (S.P.C.K., Is. 6d. net).— Another...