plied last Sunday to President Wilson's Note which placed the fate of the Hapsburg Monarchy in the hands of the Bohemians and the Southern Slave. Count Andrassy accepted the...

their Emperor, the first and only sign of any Nationalist movement within the Army had been given at Fiume, the Croatian port belonging to Hungary, where a Croatian regiment...

T HE breaking up of Austria-Hungary from within has made this week memorable. The Bohemian Slays and the Southern Slays in Croatia have carried out a bloodless revolution and...

by the thought that the coming peace settlement may reunite to Denmark a part or all of the annexed provinces. The Danes are concentrating their attention upon Article V. of the...

Thursday week that the Government meant to carry out President Wilson's principles " honestly." The pretence of giving Alsace- Lorraine " autonomy " by the appointment of a few...

in Paris this week to examine the enemy's proposals for peace negotiations and request for an armistice. Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Balfour attended, and Colonel House was present...

drastic Note. " The President is aware," it said, " of the far-reaching changes which have been carried out and are being carried out in the German Constitutional structure." It...

the real ruler of Germany for the past two years, was dismissed on Sunday last by the Emperor. His successor, it is said, will be General Groner or General von Lossberg, who...

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...

the Allies, continued from Thursday week to Saturday last their great offensive south of Valenoiennes. The enemy offered a moat stubborn resistance, but was forced back across...

soldiers and sailors seem now to have forgotten their original argument. They want a General Election for its own sake. But what the advantage of it would be we have never been...

never been taken. Now the,question is being revived. Personally we should like to see the Duchies bodily restored to Denmark, but it would be useless to give Denmark more than...

the Upper Oise south of Le Cateau and the Upper Mane at Bethel, began a combined offensive on Thursday week. The enemy had constructed strong lines from the Oise to the Berm and...

round - Monte Grappa,. between the Brenta and the Piave, to the Adriatic at the mouthiof the Piave. The battle opened with a vigorous attack in the mountains on the left, where...

On Tuesday he sent his Third Army across the Lower Piave, thus extending his right to the sea, while on the left he developed his attack in the mountains on either side of the...

a General Election, and it is now asserted that the Election will probably take place early in Deoember. It seems certain that if the Election cannot be arranged for by then, it...

Congress at the coming elections is a reminder that America, though united in support of the war, has not put aside her domestic politics. The President has asked the nation "...

in the centre of their long line, between Valenciennes on the Schelde and the Upper Aisne near Bethel. The Allied left in Flanders has been advanced a little, so that the left...

more serious diseases has become a pandemic rather than an epidemic, and is exciting the utmost concern. It has spread with astounding rapidity almost all over the world, and in...

and Mr. Huysmans, travelled to Folkestone with the intention of crossing to France. The crew of the steamer in which they had booked their passage refused to carry them. The...

on, occupied Muslimie, where the Syrian line joins the Baghdad Railway. The Turkish communications with Mosul on the Tigris were thus interrupted. A week earlier General...

rapidly, crossing the Oise and the Serre, and clearing the district between these rivers. Guise, one of the pillars of the enemy's resistance, was almost encircled on Wednesday....

after the war were conveyed, in his absence through illness, to a meeting of the Women's Total Abstinence Union and Church of England Temperance Society Women's Union at the end...

of Commons on Monday, was described by Mr. Hayes Fisher as only an instal- ment of the Government housing programme which he unfolded in May, during the discussion on Local...

diture (White Paper 121), published on Monday, concurs in the general opinion that Parliamentary control over expenditure is inadequate. The House Committee on Supply " has the...

Serbians, who have marched and fought like supermen, were on Wednesday within forty miles of Belgrade, and were also nearing their western frontier on the road to Sarajevo....

cent. April 5.1617.

THE GERMAN COLONIES. W E have never entertained any fears or anxieties in regard to an unwise policy being ultimately pursued in connexion with the German colonies. By an...

W HATEVER may be the natural doubts about the sincerity of the forms in which Germany is asking for peace, there can be no doubt about the desperate appeals from...

feeling more pro- foundly than the horrible treatment 0 out men who are prisoners in the hands of the enemy. It is now certain that the truth, bad as it has seemed hitherto, was...

laillEN the time arrives for presenting to Germany the Y V final terms of peace for her acceptance or rejection, it will he of the utmost importance that all the Associated...

O WING to the great interest that has been reawakened in Lord Clive by the publication of Sir George Forrest's Life, we feel sure that our readers will be glad to see a reprint...

T HE ways of Governments are past finding out. They are an eternal riddle. Perhaps Eastern Governments, less full of good intentions, are the easiest to understand : those...

SPECTATOR."] Sea,-4f such a scheme as that suggested in your article could be enforced it would naturally appeal to all reasonable nations, but I am at a loss to see what could...

era,—Given goodwill and good faith all round, the " League " would seem almost unnecessary, and without them unworkable. Should the process of recovery from Prassianism run to...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Please pardon me for the heading I have chosen. The word " Montford " facilitates reference and economizes space, while it is...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs era often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] THE WOMAN'S SENIOR WAR...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra,—Mr. Vincent Smith's strictures on your reviewer and the conduct of Clive with regard to the Omichund transaction seem to me to be not...

to associate myself with Mr. Vincent Smith's regret that the Spectator's reviewer should defend without quali- fication Clive's action in the case of Omichund. The tendency of...

THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The letter signed "Major-General's Wife" on this subject does an injustice to the writer of the original letter who signed herself "Fiat Xustitia." I...

[To THE Emma OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In thanking you heartily for your admirable article on " The Teaching Office of the Church " in your issue of October 19th, may I be...

" SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—The Federal form of government being much in men's minds, may I with respect record my disagreement with a portion of Mr. Balfour's otherwise delightful...

[To THE EDITOR OT THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Shakespears has a " metaphysical Limerick," but it is in prose. Had it been in rhyme the " Old man of Cadiz, Who asserted, `Life is...

THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sm,—Many of those who knew and admired Mr. Justice Neville during his long association with the Courts of Law, first as the fair and skilful...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—A misprint in my letter which you kindly published last Saturday has considerably weakened the argument; for "thirty- eight " 'read "...

THE OLDEST STORY OF THE FLOOD.* A FEW little clay tablets, stamped with wedge-like characters, which were found by American scholars come time before the war on the site of...

WILLIAM GLADSTONE (COLDSTREAM GUARDS), KILLED IN ACTION SEPTEMBER 27ru. CAPTAIN OF His " TUTOR," 1916. BRAVE oarsman, of the gracious silence, loved By all, my captain, once I...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I venture to say that the need for warm garments for our men at the front and in hospitals is one that must appeal to every loyal woman...

the admirable theological Limerick attributed to the author of .4 Spiritual Aeneid:— " There was a young man who said ' Damn! It grieves me to think that I am Predestined to...

you with another Limerick current in Oxford some years ago, authorship attributed, I believe, to Ronald Knox : " There was a young man who said, God Must think it exceedingly...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I notice that the writer of " Gait, Laughter, and Apparel " attributes the saying on which he bases his article to Peaeham, the...

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...

Ma.s. HVBIPRRY WARD does well to call her book A Writer's Recollections, for not only was the literary instinct early developed in her, but she has counted among her intimate...

Paget published the political and diplomatic correspondence of his father, Sir Arthur, Lord Hylton has now edited a selection from his domestic corre- spondence consisting...

THE public is indebted to the National Review for the publication of a most interesting map entitled The German Blight : an Exposure of German War Aims. In the Introductory...

The satirist must always maintain a detached attitude to life, and Miss Delafield's detachment is so complete as to render her novels a little inhuman. It is hardly decent that...

SHOPS -AND HOUSES.* Ma. Fa&xu SWINNERTON has laid the scehe of his new novel in a small town fifteen miles from London upon the nearest borders of Kent and Surrey, which " from...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] The Edinburgh Review for October has an instructive article by the editor, Mr. Harold Cox, on " Commerce...

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