T HE King has done a big thing, and done it with chaise. teristio modesty and freedom from sensationalism. On Thursday there was published a letter addressed by his private...

made to him, went much further in his answ,r than might have been expected. He showed plainly that he. at any rate, is on the side of the sliipbuilders and of total prohibition....

King's action, and there will, we are sure, be the keenest satisfac- tion throughout the nation. We are delighted not merely because the King's action will have a potent effect...

asked to make what will seem to them an unnecessary sacrifice. B, who has nothing whatever to do with the pro. duction of munitions of war, is to have his whisky and beer out...

for so in fact it is, was the deputation from the Shipbuilding Employers' Federation which waited upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Secretary for Scotland on Monday...

forward a purely business proposition. The Government say that they must have supplies of the munitions of war at the very quickest rate which it is humanly possible to produce...

be monstrous to frame upon it a moral indiotment, or condemna- tion, of the men. To begin with, they are not conscious that by drinking more they are diminishing the country's...

ease.

Saturday—when the cargo steamship • Aguila' was torpedoed off Pembroke. Eight of the crew and one passenger were killed or drowned. The Aguila ' tried to escape, but could do...

captain saw that escape was impossible he ordered the boats to be lowered. His total company consisted of about two hundred and forty persons, of whom about one hundred and...

is not the temporary interference with individual liberty. It is the difficulty of how to deal with the great trade and industry which will be rendered partially or temporarily...

holds the highest authorities of Berlin directly responsible. It was they who ordered the atrocities in Belgium, and now they have probably decreed the murder of helpless...

in asking, not for restrictions, but for total prohibition :— "Having gone into this matter a great deal more closely daring the last few weeks, I must say that I have a...

because the stormy weather has continued, and partly also, no doubt, owing to the fact that the Allies are preparing, but not yet ready, for another big attack. There has,...

have been given since the German submarine campaign began was that of the captain of the British steamship 'Vosges' lest Saturday. When sixty miles off the Cornish coast Captain...

an accident we do not know, but in any can there is a most curious absence of news both from the western and the eastern theatres of the war. In the western sea area we read of...

means so great as they appear. We shall find no insuperable financial obstacles to a course of action which will prevent prohibition from bringing ruin on innocent people, as...

of munitions "I say that, not only on ray own authority, but on the authority of our great General, Sir John French. He has made it quite Blear what his conviction is on the...

of St. George's Channel by a German sub. marine, and about a hundred and tan lives were lost, including those of more than fifty passengers. This is the worst crime which...

very sincere speech by stating that he had that morning had an audience with the King, and that he was " permitted to say by him that he is very deeply concerned on this very...

took place on Wednesday, at the age of seventy-four. It is probably truer to say of Lord Rothschild that he held a great financial position than that be was a great financier....

Bureau is valuable. He says that it creates rather than suppresses news. The result is that, whereas we should expect Germans to become depressed by the deferment of their...

the effect that the Intelligence Division of the Admiralty have obtained information that there ie an extensive conspiracy of German agents in this country to foment strikes in...

intended for circulation in the United States, as to the justification of our blockade of Germany. Mr. Balfour answers first the objection that the policy of the Allies is not...

"pro- tracted war," and a correspondent of the Times asked him for an interpretation of the phrase. The interpretation is as follows : "The protraction of the war depends...

in a sermon at St. Margaret's, Westminster, on Thursday week have caused a storm in a tea-cup. Dr. Lyttelton argued that the Germans must be saved from the results of their own...

war was published in the papers of Monday. It is mainly interesting for its estimate of the wastage of the German forces. It is calculated that daring the first five months of...

to the Times his impressions of Germany during the war sent a very interesting article to Monday's paper. He says that opinion has greatly changed since his last visit to...

Aug. 8th.

WHY DO THE GOVERNMENT HESITATE ? WE offer our warm congratulations to the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the spirit in which he met the deputation from the Shipbuilding...

A WORD or two of explanation seems necessary in regard to the attitude which we and others have taken up towards football displays, racing, and drinking during the war. Some...

I the April number of the Nineteenth Century there is 1 a very remarkable compilation made by Mr. J. Ellis Barker from what Bismarck wrote on foreign policy after his dismissal...

T HE revenue returns for the year 1914-15 are, so far as they go, most satisfactory. They show that, in spite of the war, the yield of the revenue has far exceeded Mr. Lloyd...

M Y bedside book was The Pilgrim's Progress. In it I was reading as my eyes closed ;-- '• So they told the King, but he would not come down to see him; but commanded the two...

I T is not very uncommon to hear some one say that happi- ness in no way depends upon money. By this the speaker generally means that it is possible to be very unhappy with or...

I N a letter to the Times last week Lord Brassey, who understands the affairs of the sea as well as any amateur living, described an experience in a large ocean liner. In...

GERMANS IN THE UNITED STATES. [To rs. Boma or yin Sezorarox."] Sts,—In your issue of February 20th, bearing upon the alleged influence of the German vote in the United States,...

[To ram Dorms or vas ”SrOCTATOI."] EIR, — Is not your illustration needlessly elaborate P Would not A, fighting B because he catches B beating and robbing an innocent small...

SIR, —The reason given by Mr. Lloyd George for the further restrictions in the sale of alcohol which he indicates will shortly be imposed by the Government is that the abuse of...

[To TIrs ED1T011 Or res .. EirscrAr0...9 B ra,—On March 27th you justly remarked that Sir Edward Grey "never forgot, as so many of our Pacificista forget, that we have allies."...

[To Tax Erma OD ins " &memo.") Sat,—It is not very clear what some people mean by " prohibition," but apparently it is nothing lees than for- bidding the production and...

[To las Erma or en, “ersostros.9 Sra,—The great majority of your readers will, no doubt, be in sympathy with your article on the neutrality of President Wilson. A much stranger...

[To vox Roma or vas "serorevea."1 Sin,—The logical defect in Dr. Lyttelton's reasoning and of those who think with him seems to be that they confuse cause and effect. One is...

as ras ”Elreeratos."1 Sts,—On March 20th you discussed the problem of how to deal with the terrible injury being done now to the nation by drink as regards the production of...

BM—The announcement of the death of Lady Grant Duff, who had spent the years of her widowhood in a quiet Suffolk village, sends one hack with fresh interest to the early volumes...

Snt,—May I point out a method by which the whole nation could assist this fund, so eloquently advocated by Lady Lansdowne P Let the Government exempt from taxation the officers'...

rro ens ED1Top or ma n 8.10rA7011.1 SIR, — One of the finest factories we have for the production of steel—at Glengarnook, in Ayrshire--has been idle now for month& There may be...

[To van Eorma or ram "Srscrovoa.1 Sra,—The puppets which converse in "A Dialogue of the Dead" (Coleridge and. Sara Coleridge) in your issue of March 20th are, no doubt,...

“SrearaTel....i Srit, — I am forwarding you a letter from H.R.H. the Due d*Aumale written to my aunt, Lady Waldegrave, in 1870. He had been over to Paris a month previously to...

Sim—Your correspondent Mr. Boultbee tells us that in buying a Prayer Book be always asks for one in which the Lord's Prayer is punctuated in the traditional manner. But how can...

[To Tax Nome or eat "SPECT,7014 . ] Sim—In the very courteous notice which you gave last week to my book on Frederic the Great and Kaiser .Toseph, I notice two points on which...

[To rag Enrros or rae "Srzomoa.1 SUL — Pray allow me to give credit where credit is due. The Reports on the ancient monuments in Flintshire and Denbigh- shire (see Spectator,...

[TO rat EDITOR Or 717.. "Srmcreeoz."] S/3, — Your reviewer of "The Great Age" in the Spectator of March 20th refers to" a famous Limerick " as follows: "They are enough to have...

[To TEA E1117011 07 SI. "Sr.crreo.") SIR,—I am glad you have not closed this correspondence, as I have called to mind two instances which I had omitted from my late letter. A...

raz “Sercreroa."1 Sin,—What really matters in regard to the punctuation of the Lord's Prayer is not that we should abide by the traditional use of the Prayer Book, but that we...

WE HOPE TO WIN. " WE hope to win "P By God's help, "Yes"; Though of the " when" no man may guesei, Since there must yet be weary strain, Alternate joy, alternate pain, Till...

PRESIDENT: LORD DESBOROUGH. HON. Sanaa-rear r PERCY A. HARRIS, Esq. Haan 0371C2S .7 Judges' Quadrangle, Royal Courts of Justice (Carey Street entrance). The aims and objects...

use, surely now is the time. So far those in the county in which I live have done nothing whatever as a body. Individual Deputies are doing good work in various capacities, but...

THE ASCENT OF MOUNT McKINLEY.* WE have written "Mount McKinley" at the head of this review with some hesitation, for Dr. Hodson Stuck, the plucky Alaskan missionary who with his...

[To vet Eamon 07 .1 "See OT•T011."] SIR,—I have a book by J. E. Harting, published in 1883 by Horace Cox. In it is a paper on " Trapping Hawke in Holland." This describes how...

aPACT■701:9 8m,—May we call the attention of your readers to the thirteenth Vacation Term for Biblical Study which It is hoped to hold this year at Cambridge from July 24th to...

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 payable to the "...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor used nal necessarily be held to be in agreement with the vines therein expressed or with the mode of...

Mn. (31IiIIPNEY8 has been entrusted with a good subject and has handled it well. He bad ample material in the "Retro. spect " which Mrs. Drummond was persuaded at the end of her...

IT is one of the tragedies of letters when an incompetent scribe " discovers " a fresh and fireterate subject and then "queers the pitch " for those who come after him. And con-...

THIS is a charming collection of essays. The writer is, as he tells us, a parson, "an anti-Clerical Catholic "—that ie, we gather, a High Anglican with a hatred of...

THE brilliant article which Captain A. F. Becke published in the eleventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica under the heading " Waterloo Campaign" showed all competent...

Ma. DAWBATtri has given ns an interesting little collection of short biographies of contemporary, or all but contemporary, French men and women. The only fault we have to find...

THE TOLLHOIISE.f WE have read a good deal in the papers of the effect of the war on country districts, of the strange variations between apathetic indifference and patriotic...

TSB book before us is of a very unusual type. Ostensibly it consists of considerations offered to the student of religions, and much of it was given in the form of lectures to...

Winans. 6e.)—The Woman in the Car. By the some author. (T. Fisher Unwin. 6s.)—It is not every author who dares to produce two long six-shilling novels at once, yet neither of...

MacMunn, D.S.O. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 6s.) —An exceedingly complicated and difficult, but intimate, romance of Kashmir in the late eighteenth century, in the days of the great...

a large question, the fringe of which is touched upon by Mr. Clayton Sedgwiek Cooper in The Modernizing of the Orient T. Fisher Unwin, Ss. 6d. net). This volume records the...

Health Series " are being issued by the Cambridge University Press under the general editorship of Dr. G. S. Graham-Smith and Mr. J. E. Purvis. A new addition to the series is a...

[Reties in this miens don not evevssartly prscluds subsequent vertu.] Dr. Bernard Bosanquet has just published Three Lectures as Aesthetic (Macmillan and Co., 3s. 6d. net),...

by Mr. Harry Beat (T. Y. Crowell Co., $2 net). It is a study on a considerable scale of the position of deaf-mutes in American society, and of the provision made in the various...

Company, by Nicholas Everitt (T. Werner Laurie, 128. 6d. net), is concerned only with America. Mr. Everitt, who postulates in his intro- duction that " style has little to do...

regarded as one of the signs of the Empire's decadence. Fear of a parallel state of affairs in America seems to have prompted the writing of Hinduism in Europe and America by...

of existing by most English readers. They know nothing, for instance, of the succession of satirical comedies which through more than a century have been the pride of the...

that have appeared in the columns of our contemporary the New Statesman, and published them under the name of The Book of This and That (Mills and Boon, 45. 6d. net). The papers...

6d. net) is a volume of essays on literary subjects by Mr. Arthur Waugh. Besides the article which gives its title to the collection, we may mention one dealing with " Some...