Saturday when the Germansevacuated the southern bank of the Manic in great haste, leaving their guns behind them and sustaining considerable losses from aircraft attack and...

the Ourcq, and made several fierce counter-attacks last Sunday and Monday. But though they checked the advance for a few hours, they could not stop it. On Tuesday the Allies to...

the west, the Franco-Italian forces under General Berthelot on the eastern side of the salient between Reims and the Marna began to counter-attack General von Below's army,...

While the left flank held firm outside Soissons, the centre and right flank were pushed forward for several miles. The enemy counter- attacked with desperate energy - in the...

made a local attack north of Montdidier. The French troops, operating on a three-mile front west of the Avre, captured the villages of Mailly-Rainevel, Sauvillers, and...

'WE tide has turned on the Western Front. General Foch, after stopping the great German offensive launched on Monday week on either side of Reims, began on Thursday week an...

between Fontenoy on the Aisne, west of Soissons, and Chateau- thierry on the Marne, on a front of twenty-eight miles. The French infantry and strong American forces under...

new battle of the Marne. They harassed the enemy on the southern bank by bombing his bridges, and when he retreated they followed him up and attacked him with bombs and...

advance on a two-mile front to the west of Bailleul, ti lea% the village of Meteren by assault and capturing four hundred and fifty-three prisoners. Last Saturday, in the sector...

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...

Press about the probability of a General Election in the autumn. The discussion has revolved round a leading article in the Times which called upon the Government to frame a new...

upon the advice that they should adopt a programme which would assuredly revive Party strife in a bad form. Unity is wanted, not dissension ; concentration on the conduct of the...

many constituencies ; in some, Liberals are opposing Unionists, though both happen to be supporters of the Government ; and round the battleground of these primary contests all...

do one thing before the adjournment of Parliament ; that is, to insist that the Government shall give a clear and definite pledge that if voluntary recruiting breaks down in...

General of Food Production owing to the reversal of the Govern- ment's policy of increasing the area of arable land. In the discussion of Lord Lee's resignation there seems• to...

of the Prima Minister is to be heartily welcomed. The papers of Wednesday published a letter from Mr. Lloyd George to a correspondent in which he defended Sir George Cave in...

appearing lately between the Northcliffe Press and the Prime Minister may become wider, since Sir George Cave has been a peculiar object of attack from that part of the Press....

smaller piece of land adequately than to try to work a larger piece which cannot be thoroughly cleaned or fertilized. But the recognition of this fact implies no reversal of the...

on a few large vessels, last week torpedoed and sank threa big steamers, outward bound. The White Star liner Justicia,' a magnificent new vessel of :‘ 2,000 tons, which had just...

by them are said to have caused the loss of the American cruiser San Diego,' which sank off Fire Island on Saturday last. All but eight out of the largo crew were saved. Last...

often only too well founded, that the wrong sort of grassland has been brought under the plough. To plough up rich old pasture when the inferior or middling grasslands are still...

made a raid on Friday week on the Zeppelin sheds at Tondem in Schleswig. One large shed was destroyed by Captain Dixon and another was hit by Captain Smart. The Danish papers...

of merchant tonnage from all causes were the smallest recorded for an3r_month since September, 1916. Of British shipping 161,062 tons were sunk, and of Allied and neutral...

Wednesday that the War Cabinet had approved of "a clearly worked out scheme for the adoption of Preference within the Empire," which had been drafted by a Committee over which...

the details of the recent agreement with Germany for the exchange of prisoners would require much consideration by both Govern- ments. The Agreement, which he could not...

House on Tuesday, said that "all anxiety as to the great essentials of food was passed." America, with Canada, could send the Allies twice as much food this year as America sent...

the German Majority Socialists "accepted practically all the general principles" of the Allied Labour Conference on War Aims. We felt sure at the time that Mr. Henderson, whose...

German proposal to send a German battalion to guard the Embassy at Moscow. "In no case," said the Bolshevik message, "could the Russian Government permit the presence of a...

of Blockade in order, as Assistant Foreign Secretary, to take "a larger and more responsible part" in the work of the Foreign Office. He was succeeded as Minister of Blockade by...

a proposal from President Wilson, the Japanese Government have decided to send troops to Siberia. Japanese opinion is by no means unanimous on the question, but the Government...

of Northern Russia is defined in an Agreement between Great Britain, America, and France on the one part, and the Murman Regional Council on the other, which was circulated by...

order of a body calling itself the Ural Regional Council, which has an- nounced ominously that "the wife and son of Remand( have been sent to a place of security." The Russian...

an injustice to General Cadorna, his Assistant Chief of Staff, General Porro, and General Capello, who commanded the Second Italian Army at Caporetto. It seems that these...

April 5,1917.

GENERAL FOCH'S COUNTERSTROKE. W ITH General Foch's sledge-hammer blow at the German flank between the Aisne and the Marne on Thursday week, the great battle entered on a new...

of the manipulation of the discussions in the Press, that opposition to Mr. Montagu's dangerous scheme for Indian Home Rule is making itself sensibly felt. The British nation...

I T is necessary for the Government to make it clear that the present strike of munition workers is in a sense unlike all previous strikes in that it is a direct challenge to...

sympathy a very remarkable little book entitled The Oxford Stamp : Articles from the Educational Creed of an American Oxonian.* The author was Professor Aydelotte, snnetime...

[CommulticATED.] " E christianisme a adouci, jusqu'a us certain point, et:1'A° I brutale ardeur batailleuse des Germains ; mais it n'a pu la detruire, et quand la croix, ce...

W HAT'S your trade, my lad?" I inquired for the eightieth time that morning. "Please, Sir, a tripe and offal dresser." This came as a bit of a shock even to my seasoned nerves....

of view, Mr. Montagu's Report - is a very notable and dexterous performance. It is the work of a trained and able politician, dealing with the aspirations -and ambitions of...

[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 MONTAGU REPORT. [TO THE...

a monstrous wrong to India and to the rest of the great British Commonwealth to introduce radical changes in the Government of India without full and free consideration. I agree...

(To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—It is perhaps as inevitable as it is certainly to be regretted that, in India as in Ireland, those in authority seem to find it a more...

[To no EDITOR OW THE " SPEOTATOR."3 SIR,—In common, I believe, with all other students of East European politics, I welcomed Dr. Antonius nip's residence in London, if for no...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] Ste,—In the interests of truth : the petition Which is the subject of Mr. Fawkes's complaint in his letter to the Spectator of July 6th...

[To •IWIE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Your appreciative critique of Sir Herbert Maxwell's book on The Lowland Scots Regiments is interesting and suggestive, and makes one...

t,—It is much to be hoped that the clergy and College owners of land will give serious heed to your comments and criticisms. May I give a very short chapter of personal...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE" SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your article on "The Land of. Public Right" leads me to make a further suggestion. If land is to be made available, after the war, for...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,"] Sza,—Every lover of Africa is indebted to you for so boldly stating the moral obligation and the political wisdom of setting free the slaves...

THE" SPECTATOR."] Sie,—It may prove interesting to your readers to know that it is highly probable that the Charing Cross to Baghdad route (see Spectator, July 6th) will have...

(To THE ED/TOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The "amazement" which my comments on the action of Best, S., in the case of Rex v. Davison (1821) caused your corre- spondent Mr. E. T....

THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—A large number of clergy of the Southwark Diocese have recently left their parishes to join the Forces or to undertake war service of other kinds. We have...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") Sra,—To ask for money at a time like the present when every one is overwhelmed with appeals is a distasteful task, but necessary work must...

(To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—At no time has the welfare and training of our boys claimed more seriously the attention of our nation than at the present day. Many...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The sorely needed work which is being done at St. Luke's Hospital for Advanced Cases, 14 Pembridge Square, Bayswater, London, W. 2, is...

(To THE EDITOR OP TH1 "SPECTATOR."] Sts,—The decision of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to give a war bonus to the poorer clergy of the Church of England will be acclaimed by...

[To THE ED/TOR OF THE" SPECTATOR.") &n,—Naturally, the letters in your last numbers have deeply interested me, for many years of experience both as a mistress and a country...

SPECTATOR.") Sia,—Having read your suggestion that we should have a new history of the United States for our schoolchildren, I remembered a most delightful one, already written,...

SIR,—I hope I am not too late with my contribution towards the interesting discussion going on just now in your paper. I refer to the letters on domestic servants. May I, as one...

North Ferriby. --- " Did 'you ever read in the paper that dogs know the noise of a German aeroplane from one of ours ? I have read it and thought it nonsense. Well, I think...

Sia,—Will you kindly allow a domestic of thirty-two years' experi- ence to say a word in answer to "Dissatisfied Servant" P My experience has been, instead of domestic service...

with interest the correspondence in your columns on domestic service, and have discussed it with bachelor friends who have houses of their own. I find that they are not aware of...

OLD AND PLAIN. "0, FEILOW, come, the song we had last night. Mark it, Cesario, it is old and plain; • The spinsters and the knitters in the sun And the free maids that weave...

SID., — May I recommend to your correspondent a little book entitled Prayers for Little Men and Women, by John Martin, published by Messrs. Bell? It consists of prayers in the...

[TO 7'HE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — This is an appeal to your elderly readers. Can they help me to trace "Mrs. Mouser "? In the "fifties " of last century, or...

SIR,—I have read with interest the letters in your columns, but I fear until registries as at present conducted are abolished the status quo will not improve during the war. Two...

Sta,—Over the chimneypiece in the great hall of Farnham Castle is the following inscription : A Dieu Foy acts amis Foyer, which was rendered by a wag : "Good-bye Faith and burn...

SIR, — One of the best " howlers " has not, I think, appeared in your columns so . far. In an examination at my own school on Scripture the following question was set: "Give the...

SIE,—I do not know if the following would be of any use to your correspondent, but I have never found it fail to interest little children in their first prayers :— " Two little...

SIR, — Would not Herrick's Two Graces for Children partly meet the above want? "What God gives," &c., and the following one :— "Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my...

[TO THE EDETOR OF THE " SPECrATOR."] Sia,—A good many years ago I also searched in yain for a very simple first prayer, in verse, for children. Having had some experience in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECEATOR."3 Sie,—The enclosed may fit into your collection:— Hors d'ccuvre.—" Draught-horse." De gustibus non est disputanduni—" We should not discuss...

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

THE GALLANTRY OF FRANCE.* 1w these three essay's, based on lectures delivered at the Royal Institution, and supplemented by an article reprinted from the Edinburgh Review, Mr....

THE Abbe Wetterle, who sat from 1898 to 1914 in the Reichstag as Deputy for Ribeauville, in Alsace-Lorraine, has written an instructive and amusing account of his experiences....

GREAT adventures do not fall to the lot of most literary men. The novelists, at any rate, have led as a rule uneventful lives. Dosto- evsky, the great Victorian Russian, was a,...

of new systems, have rendered so much service to the development of philosophy as Dr. Wildon Carr. The International Congresses of Philosophy prac- tically owed their...

WITHIN recent years certain revelations incidental to an otherwise humdrum laweuit produced a distinct decline in the commercial value of books of memoirs. The publics were...

to write Mr. Ashbee down as a mere crank. It would also be very unjust. Certainly he has obsessions and delusions in common with most idealists and reformers, the chief being a...

6s.)—The hero of this story ii the assistant. doctor of a private lunatic asylum on the edge of the Desert near Cairo. The theme is rather thin, but the author is successful in...

THE FIRE OF GREEN BOUGHS.* Mits. R ICSARD'S novel commands attention not merely by its literary skill but by its unconventional outlook. A story of parents and children, it...

"Tax Modern Churchman's Library" is to consist, we are told, of "clear, short, truthful books dealing with the Christian religion from the standpoint of those who, while...

By A. G. Loraine. (Hazen, Watson, and Viney.)—Mr. Loraine confirms the view taken by a contributor to a recent issue of the Spectator that the new Portuguese Government under...

!Notice in this column elves not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] THE QUARTERLIES.—The Edinburgh Review for July opens with an instructive article by Dr. She.dwell on...

cryptic title of " Centuriation in ROMMEL Britain," Dr. Haverfield suggests that traces of the old Roman plan of laying out estates in rectangular plots (centuriae) bounded by...

(T. Fisher Unwin. Gs.)—An exhaustive study of veget- able culture which gives information on every conceivable nspect of the subject, from the choice of tools to "Hints for...

Son. 3d.) —Mr. Clynes in an Introduction rightly describes Mr. Hoover's recent speech, now reprinted, as "a remarkable contribution towards a better understanding of the...

shows how Germany has brought a world of enemies against her by allowing the military party to run amuck. He reminds us that Bismarck in his last great speech of February 6th,...

Sons. 7s. 6d. net. )—Lord Leverhulme in his Preface says that "the greatest wasters are those who concentrate their whole time on mere efforts for immediate and direct...

Ancient Buildings, of 20 Buckingham Street, Adelphi, contains as usual some attractive photographs of the old churches and towers in the fate of which the Society is interesting...

Litt.D. With 4 Maps. (T. Fisher Unwin. 25s. net.)—Dr. Phillipson is known as an authority on international law, and in his Preface he describes the tone and object .of his large...