W E have dealt elsewhere with the military situation in its more general aspects. Here we may say that throughout the week the news from the Western Front, both British and...

the Commander- in-Chief, or as to what moves are to be expected on the chess- board of war. One thing, however, is clear. The nation has every right to feel the utmost...

assume to be an irremediable breakdown in the House of Commons on Mon- day. Mr. Redmond opened fire by asking Mr. Asquith whether the Government had made up their mind to insert...

might perhaps be wise now to give up the use of the word " Territorials," except on formal official occasions. It seems to suggest a little patronage, or a kind of mild surprise...

interpretation which has been put upon one clause of the agreement. That clause was inserted in the draft Bill by the Government. We stand by every word of it." He then went on...

Thursday's telegrams show that Erzingan, the base of the Turkish armies in the Caucasus and a place crammed with munitions of all kinds, has been taken by General Yudenitch, one...

three months' training, and are such very new wine poured into such very old bottles, seem to do just as well, and are just as steady in action, as the oldest of old soldiers....

case.

Redmond promised the House a " dispassionate statement, leaving the facts to speak for themselves." The feature of the agree- ment was that the proposals should remain in force...

has added another to the two military successes already obtained by him since the early part of July. He has driven .back the enemy on the Slonuvka River, a tributary of the...

camps in Germany have been published during the - week. Dili. McCarthy and Ohnesorg, of the American Embassy, state that most•of the camps are satisfactory, but that they found...

the exclusion of the six counties was simply a matter of phraseology. He agreed that the exclusion was to be " provisional," for it was to be reviewed at the end of the war by...

new pro- posals would mean an " absolute and disgraceful breach of faith " an his part. A final challenge concluded the speech "My attitude on the war remains unalterable, but...

'both of civil and military 'affairs. in , his youth he was one of the' Secretaries to the Commission.. that. inquired into the Jamaica. rebellion. He was also Secretary to the...

Irish negotia. dons we must say a word about the very unfair criticism that has been directed - against Sir Edward Carson. In our opinion, Sir Edward Carson throughout acted...

Irish negotia- tions- as a whole.is to quote the American epitaph on the child of three weeks old :- " If I was so quickly done for, I wonder what I was began for."

Hamilton, ex-Secretary of State for India and ex-First Lord of the. Admiralty. The appointment is a thoroughly, good one, for Lord George Hamilton has held with honour and dis-...

in Dublin was published on Saturday last. It proves that if the civil authorities were culpably negligent in- allowing - the conspiracy to mature; the soldiers showed...

report any improvement in the civilians' camp at Ruhleben. After nearly two years of war the barracks are still overcrowded. " It is intolerable," he. says, that " people of...

a fine speech showed how in the negotiations he had thought only of winning the war. Irish distractions were a playing of the . German game. "It would not be a bad day for this...

Curragh and from England. A cordon was drawn round the north of the city, and a line of posts established from the west to the centre at Trinity College. But in the south-east...

outside Dublin mainly to the activity of Brigadier-Generals Stafford and Hackett Pain, commanding at Queenstown and in Ulster respectively. A body of rebels at Ashbourne, in...

weekly technical paper Prometheus describing the general lines of large submarines which are reported to be under construction "by the two foremost naval Powers." These vessels...

Tuesday the state of the commercial controversy between Germany and Switzerland. Switzerland has hitherto received grain-food generally from the Allies, and coal and iron...

Poland on the night of June 20th. Leaving Nancy at 9.30 p.m., ho dropped leaflets—not bombs—upon Berlin at dawn. Thence, " winding with ease Through the pure marble air his...

for £5,000,000 the islands of St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix, in the West Indies. The formal consent of both the Danish and American Parliaments is still necessary. The New...

officers and men of the Armies who have served at home or abroad since August, 1914, but through age, wounds, or sickness have left the Service. The badge will also be awarded...

to the review by Lord Cromer entitled "The Terms of Peace" to be found in our issue of to-day. It is interesting to note that in his article, which was written before he had...

dribbled into action on July 1st, somewhere near Albert, was formally placed among the regimental treasures at the depot at Kingston on Friday week. It was a little ceremony...

was published in the Times of Tuesday. The exhibits are all things stopped on their way to enemy countries. There are, for instance, carefully rolled newspapers which are found...

July 13th.

A • LL the messages from the Western Front indicate that 11 during the past week the British movement has been marked by what boxers call " in-fighting." The comparative...

'THE - FUTURE GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND. WE deal elsewhere with the causes which led to -Mr. 'Ilicimmid's refupal to seize the extraordinary piece of good fortune (from his paint...

W E held, and still hold, that it was a most grave mistake to break the moratorium which had been placed on the Parliamentary side of the Irish question during the war. When,...

M R. ASQUITH, saying he would ne'er consent, has consented to the appointment of Commissions to inquire into the Mesopotamian and Dardanelles campaigns. He was doubtless right...

tCOM1WN1CATED.] " A NZAC " was not at all like an English child. She was not 13.. yet six when she came from the Land of the Southern Cross, but she had the independence and...

A T seventeen one does it by stealth, ashamed of being ignorant of anything ; at twenty-seven and for ever after, if one is sincere, one keeps one's dictionary at one's elbow...

IRELAND, LORD LANSDOWNE, AND MR. LONG. [TO TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' Slit,-I find it most difficult to go along with the Spectator as to the new policy of the...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " spEcTATor....] Slit,—I read the " Appeal to Unionists " in the Spectator of July 15th, and have delayed writing expecting some further advice in the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sts,—May I, through your courtesy, extend a pen-and-ink handshake to " W. V. H.," who in your issue of July 15th writes ono of the most...

SIR VICTOR HORSLEY. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' Gm,—Let me try to say something of what we have lost by Victor Horsley's death. I knew him for thirty years. There was...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:I Srs,—Many of our gallant defenders have these qualifications at the present moment, but their time is strictly devoted for the most part to...

[TO TM EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.''j SIE,—The following is a Shakespearean address descriptive of the present military situation. I only claim that in it there is not a...

[To THE EDITOZ OF THE " SPECTAT011 Sue,—The philosopher Hegel (born at Stuttgart, removed to Berlin in 1818, died there in 1831) taught views about war that may be stated as...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTAT011.1 Ste,—Roferring to your correspondence on this subject and the sug- gestion that there should be a " Soldiers' and Sailors' Friend " in every...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sla,—You have so generously lent your valuable space to the Volunteer movement and the drink question that I venture, as a " Tommy " of the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] Sm,----The other day, walking southwards (the direction is important, as you will presently see), I met a young man in khaki, who, with...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—If cleanliness be next to godliness, then surely the B.E.F. strives after the good ! In the trenches all ranks inevitably become, and...

SIE,-- The letter of Colonel Chrystie gives welcome news to many unofficial soldiers' friends, that the name and address of the special Soldiers' Friend "—i.e., the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR "] SIR,—In your issue of June 24th your correspondent Mr. Lawson has given an explanation of " Soldiers and their Religion." Could I venture a...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPEOTATOR."] SIR,—The problem of how to deal with the conscientious objector is rather a difficult one for the authorities. The conscientious object();...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR., SIR—It may interest your readers to know that plaster oasts of thirteen of the German war medals acquired by the British Museum are now on...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR...1 SIR, —On reading the letter signed " J. R. F." in your last issue, I half expected to find attached a form of application for shares in...

[To TEE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR:' SIR, —The British Empire is a wonderful entity, so vast geographically speaking, ea small in reality, bound together as its component parts...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTRTOR."1 SIR,—We, the undersigned thirty-seven past students of the Secondary Training Department, Bristol University, loam with consternation from...

THE NEW ZEALANDER. MONODY ON THE DEATH Ox A MEMBER OF THE NEW ZEALAND CONTINGENT, WHO, GOING TO REST HIMSELF ON THE BEACH, WAS KILLED IN HIS SLEEP BY A DISCHARGE OF SHRAPNEL....

THE TERMS OF PEACE.• IT is very frequently necessary to insert what is called an "interpretation clams " in Acts of Parliament in order to explain the precise meaning which,...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Communi- cated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode...

ITO VII EDITOR OF TES " sraerarea."; SIR,—" Steele the rogue has done the impudentest thing in the world : he said something in a Tatter that we ought to use the word Great...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.1 SIB,—I was glad to see Mr. Allen's letter in last week's Spectator ; but could not weeding be extended to the farms ? I travel constantly in...

more pedantic interpreters of Shakespeare from the thraldom of crankiness and mania, probably nothing ever will. Here you have extraordinarily particular knowledge culled by...

MR. ROGERS.* Some little time back we noticed an edition of The Scholia on the" Birds," and referred •to it as a remarkable example of that combination of technical knowledge...

" Fon some of us modems who have been touched with the spirit of science prophesying is almost a habit of mind." So writes Mr. H. G. Wells upon the first page of his newest...

WE are all economic students nowadays. Some of us think that we are grown-up economists and therein err, for the science grows faster - — ••(1) A History of Political Economy....

Or the topical articles in the Quarterly none is more likely to attract attention than the first instalment of Mr. J. M. de Beaufort's " Voyage of Discovery in Northern...

Press. 10s. 6d. net.)—The veteran editor of this familiar and indispensable book again asks in his preface for a successor, as he has worked for the voluntary hospitals through...

pre-war book deamibing the adventures of a young lady who very properly objects to living at home with nothing to do. Tho problems involved would hardly arise at this...

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Record (Office of the London Topographical Society), a series which ought to interest every Londoner with a grain of local patriotism. Tho special articles in this issue include...

PROUD PETER.* hie. W. E. NORRIS has been writing novels for nearly forty years, but though he must have close on thirty books to his credit, ho has never declined to the level...

and Co. 8s. net.)—Professor Findlay writes for the intelligent reader who knows a little chemistry and would like to know morn. He explains the leading principles of modern...

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Movement, Chancery Lane. Lid. net.)—A reprint of some very useful articles contributed to the Student Movement by Miss Anne Richardson, the public-spirited Vice-Principal of...

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