terms of a pitiless conqueror. Russia is to cede not only Courland, Lithuania, and Poland, whose further fate is to be defined by Germany and Austria " in agreement with their...

displayed the most abject cowardice, varied now and then by still more pitiful bluster. As soon as the Germans began their advance on Monday week, M. Lenin telegraphed his...

suggest that this is a real war, but its bulletins have contained few references to fighting, and these are almost certainly untrue. Its first statement that Revel was occupied...

Monday, said that 31r. Runciman's recent suggestion of a meeting of belligerents would be a way to remove misunderstandings as to questions " which can really be settled only by...

of the Russians, both of the North and of the Ukraine, has been forced to enter into negotiations for peace. Bulgaria is demanding the whole of the Dobrudja, the Central Powers...

T HE whole situation, both political and military, during the past week, has been coloured by the tragic collapse of Russia. It was foreseen, of course, by almost every one that...

18th, resumed the war against an enemy who could not and would not fight. While Austria ostentatiously proclaimed that she was not at war with Russia, the German troops began...

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

Sunday after a fifteen months' cruise in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans, bringing four hundred prisoners and a cargo of booty. She is presumed by the Admiralty to have...

principles of peace, based on justice and the rights of nationalities. He then went on to defend the shameless German conquests in Russia as crusades to rescue peoples oppressed...

who thoroughly understand that the tepid creed of internationalism and its various cognate sets of principles have no attraction for the British working man. Those leaders...

to the bonus to munition workers, liberated his soul as a real working man speaking to his comrades. He said that, whether the bonus cost fourteen or forty millions, it would be...

very serious last Reek. Fourteen large vessels over 1,600 tons and three smaller vessels were sunk, as compared with ten large and three small vessels in the previous week. We...

one successful trench raid on the French front south of Leon American volunteers are reported to have played a useful part. While the troops are apparently inactive, the airmen...

in the Chamber on Saturday last in reply to Count Herding and Count Czernin. He disavowed Imperialist aims, and declared that Italy's " demands as regards Austria-Hungary...

the hollowness of Count Hertling's speech by comparing his pro- fessions with his practice. Taking the question of Belgium as a touchstone of German sincerity, Mr. Balfour...

east of Jerusalem and occupied the village of Jericho on Thursday week. The London Territorials had two days of hard fighting among the rocky defiles before the Australian and...

counties of Middlesex, Hertfordshire, Essex, Kent, Surrey, and Sussex were put on rations of meat, butter, and margarine. The ration-cards had not all been distributed, but the...

ex- plained the first Estimates presented by the new Air Ministry. He said that the work of the Air Force must not be judged solely by the number of enemy machines brought down,...

Mr. Samuel's complaint that the Government estimates of shipbuilding had been far too rose-coloured, admitted that the output for January and February had been very...

engineer's experience of the discipline directed by the Amalgamated Society of Engineers towards the maintenance of the " ea' canny " principle, is of sufficient interest to...

the Labour movement if only they are not wilfully estranged from it. There never was such an opportunity for Labour. If an honest and frankly confessed love of country is joined...

talk among his men ; " The great grievance is in regard to food at home ; women write piteous tales about the shortage of this and that and the men very naturally say ` If there...

men at the front assuring them that there is no shortage of food at home, but only great inconvenience in procuring it. Official statements of this kind cannot have been made...

Mr. Havelock Wilson, for instance, to have nothing to do with German ships in future, to refuse to unload German cargoes or to carry German passengers, is a very significant...

of the proposal to raise £100,000,000 in War Bonds during the " Business Men's Week," beginning on Monday next. He explained that he had not tried to raise another great loan...

April 5, 1917.

A MORAL TEST. I T seems possible—some people may think it probable, while others may think it even certain—that the people of this country are shortly to be brought to a severe...

I T is satisfactory news that the Government have at last taken decided action in County Clare. If the first duty of a Government is to govern, this action was long overdue. It...

T HE lengthy Memorandum on War Aims adopted by the Allied Labour and Socialist Conference held in London last week affords in the main gratifying evidence that all sections of...

T HE print of the essay entitled " Some Gains of the War," which was read by Sir Walter Raleigh at a meeting of the Royal Colonial Institute on February 13th, is prefaced by the...

• A NY complaints ? " Regularly at dinner time the Orderly _Pk Officer materializes for a fraction of a second in the men's mess, and having uttered this challenge, vanishes,...

[CoriaturucaTan.] r r HERE are many hopeful signs in rural England to-day, and not the least of these is the amazing rapidity with which the agricultural labourer is joining...

[To THE EDITOR OF TUE " SPECTATOR."' Sin,—We have been learning with new insight and conviction that the true basis of peace and concord in the international sphere is justice...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIE,—I venture to express the hope that we shall have a little more common-sense shown in regard to the rearing of pigs than some Ministers...

SPECTATOR."] SIE,—I have been greatly interested in the eel all my life, and ala sending your correspondent Mrs. Somerset a copy of my paper for February 16th, which contains...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore mare effective, than those which Jill treble the space.] THE TREASURY AND...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR.") Sm,—To an independent outsider the position of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland at this moment is a very interesting one. The advent of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—S0 much has been, said and written on. the conscription of wealth lately that it may be advantageous to consider (1) the causes which...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOE."3 Sia,—Far be it from me to make any excuse for the men in Ireland who could have gone to fight' and did not, much less for those rebels who...

[To TM EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SM.—There is at the moment much talk about " ideals," but the term is bandied a - bout in a way.suggestive rather of its usefulness a , 4...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sra,—I appeal on behalf of our Royal Navy prisoners, the men who have unfortunately fallen into enemy hands whilst protecting our shores and...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTLTOR."] saw and heard a soaring and singing lark on January 25th last, which I think beats all records. We are fortunate enough to live on the...

[To TEIE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—Near here are large Government works employing over three hundred men. The last two Saturdays I and others have gone there at pay-time...

Sta,—Your correspondent whose letter appears in your paper of the 23rd inst. under this heading names February 11th as an unusually early date to hear the lark. I should like...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Sm,—The letter of the Vicar of Knowsley on " Facial - Memory " in the issue of February 9th is most interesting. I never forget a face, but...

[To THE EDFTOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") was much impressed by your splendid appeal " To Our Fellow-Countrywomen " in your issue of February 9th. Sir Auckland Geddes made a similar...

Zy Octet Kea neairov. THE darkness clutches at the land, Darkness pricked out with tongues of fire, Not such as wonderfully did stand Upon the Twelve at their desire; A broken...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sia,—Until I- read Mrs. Carr's letter on this subject in your issue of last Saturday I had not noticed that Lord Rhondda con- templated any...

/TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Benvenuto Cellini (Vita II. xi.) had already suggested a French explanation for Dante's cryptic line. He rendered it: "Paix, pair,...

ITO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I did not expect that Mr. Whitbread would admit that any evidence, however damaging, could convict the Trade. Neither the accused nor...

Sin,—With reference to your comment on the Ladies' Appeal to their Fellow-Countrywomen on the subject of extravagance in dress, may I be allowed to call attention to a single...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, Will you allow an appeal, on behalf of many who are silent, to those who ring a church bell in populous centres before every one of...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR."] • Sza,—A little poem of Heine's—of which I have ventured to make a translation—shows that the German virtue of hatred is not so new as many...

ITO THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Between Seaforth and Liverpool, along the north bank of the Mersey, lies the meet valuable chain of docks in the world, and in the...

AT the request of many of our readers our leading article "New Year Resolves," which appeared in the Spectator on Decem- ber 29th. 1917, has been republished in pamphlet form....

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...

THE CONTROL OF THE DRINK TRADE.* Mn. HENRY CanTER's account of the work of the Liquor Control Board is the most encouraging book on the Drink Question that we have ever read....

UmEss a man is what we generally call " great," two thick volumes of biography are apt to weary the reader. Mr. Jacks's Life of his father-in-law, Stopford Brooke, fills two...

Tan name of Grotius has often been on men's lips of late years, but outside a limited circle of historical students and international jurists singularly little is known of the...

the case with the poets, there is no doubt that the painters have responded very little to the stimulus of the war. This contention is not weakened but rather emphasized by one...

BEFORE THE 1VIND.t Miss JAN= Larva has given us a war novel in which the scene is laid at home and the plot developed with freshness and originn-lity. Ann Charteris became...

Metes in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review:I The Note-Book of an Intelligence Officer. By Eric Fisher Wood. (New York : Century Company. 81.75.)—Major...

for rapidly calculating purchasing value of coupons from 4- to 24 " will be invaluable to the puzzled housewife who is trying to use the family meat-cards to the best advantage...

the War. By Richardson Evans. (Wimbledon : E. Trim. 6d.)—In this pamphlet, notable for its even temper and good sense, Mr. Richardson Evans records the impressions left on his...

Koch. (J. M. Dent and Sons. 6d. net.)—Mr. Koch, of the library of Congress, gives in this pamphlet a short account of the University of Louvain and of the deliberate destruction...

net.)—No one who has any intimate knowledge of Auxiliary Military Hospitals can fail to find great entertainment in this volume. From the mobilizing of the Great Woman who gives...

Milford, for the British Academy. 2s. net.)—Professor Flinders Petrie, turning from ancient Egypt to early Britain, champions the claims of the Welsh chronicle of Tysilio to be...

Fields—an interesting collection that is far too little known— have published a shilling set of Postcards with photographs of the museum and its attractive, though somewhat...

University Press. 4s. 6d. net.)—This new volume of the " Cam- bridge Greek Testament for Schools " is very ably edited: Mr. Nairne's historical and entice' survey of the problem...

our two Eastern campaigns. One is a Strategical Map of Mesopotamia and Asia Minor (2s. 6d. net) on a scale of forty- eight miles to an inch ; the other is a Strategical Map of...

(6s.) contains an important article on the battle of Charleroi, in August, 1914, by Major T. E. Compton, and a highly instructive translation of " A German Captain's Narrative...