scheme. Their repeated assaults wore repulsed everywhere during the day. In the course of the night, the Germans concentrated their attack on the low ridge east of Ypres,...

on the Chemin des Dames, north of the Mane. Almost every day the Crown Prince has renewed his efforts to drive the French off the ridge from which they menace the whole southern...

shelter enemy submarines. The ' U '-boat 'B23,' which, in a damaged condition. entered Cortuma, has been interned at Ferrol. H. Ribot told the French Chamber on Tuesday that the...

TIIELD-MABSHAL HAIG resumed the offensive on a large I scale early on Tuesday morning.- With a French army under General Anthoine on his left, he broke out of the Ypres Salient...

on Balkan affairs held in Paris last week. The Conference, it was officially announced, resolved that the troops of France, Great Britain, and Italy should forthwith evacuate...

by an enemy submarine. Unhappily thirty-eight men were killed by the ex- plosion of the torpedo ; the rest of the ship's company were saved. The' Ariadne,' launched in 1898, had...

which it began last week in the Eastern Carpathians. In the Upper Putna and Casio Valleys the Austrians have been driven from a series of fortified hills with heavy lessee. On a...

North of the Dniester, they are making a stand on the river Zbruce, which marks the frontier of Galicia. To the south of Brody, which is still in Russian hands, they have even...

several days beforehand they had been extremely active behind the enemy's lines. On Friday and Saturday of last week they destroyed thirty- one enemy aeroplanes and two...

six weeks' Conference with the Serbian Government at Corfu, have drafted a charter for the future "Kingdom of the Serb., Croats, and Slovenes" under the Karageorgevitch dynasty....

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

answer to Herr Michaelis on Monday in a speech to the Officers' Reserve Corps in New York. The fine words of Germany's auto- - cantle rulers were worthless; their promises, as...

of Commons to express its approval of the so-called peace resolution adopted by a majority of the Garman Reichstag on July 19th. German politicians are still disputing over the...

was building castles in the air. The Reichstag had no influence upon the German Government, and its resolution was "-an array of more or less ambiguous generalities," to which...

it is certain that-there can be no stable peace till that question is settled. The news that a South Slav Kingdom is definitely in the making is excellent. To strike the...

to theVienna journalists, complimenting the German Chancellor on the crystal clearness of the speech which Mr. Lloyd George had • described as equivocal. The Austrian Minister...

of HerrIfichaelis. It was true, he told the Chamber on Tuesday, that the ex-Tsar had in February last agreed to support the claim ef France to Alsace-Lorraine, and, if...

speech, showing clearly why the Governmenteould not enter Intodetailed expositions of the war aims of-the Allies. . In, their broad principles our war aims. are well known. -How...

kr the Reichstag on the origins of the war, referred to "the meeting of July 5th, 1914," as a matter that required explanation. In last Saturday's Times a well-informed...

of America's help, and in the American recognition of. the -fact that the United States, while she is helping us, is - in the strictest sense defending herself. With an unbeaten...

Monday - that, after three years" of war, "the French spirit is as buoyant, courageous, and resolute as ever." if, Ito said, we and the French held together, we should get...

Berlin reporters on Saturday last, denounced Great Britain and France for harbouring plans of conquest, whereas, by implication but not by direct statement, he was ready to...

addressed his constituents at Cambridge last Saturday. Ile told his audienoe that he was making the first speech in his life. It was true that he had been a railway porter, and...

'a sudden visit to Paris subsided on Wednesday when explanations were given in the House of Commons. His resignalon was de- manded because he had gone to Paris with Mr. Rameay...

matched by the confidence of the Grand Fleet, whose enterprise and daring passed all words. If the public did not let down the Army and Navy by impatience, carping criticism,...

return to the status quo, which Germans now speak of as being a highly reasonable proposal. Out of the situation before the war the Ger- mans made war with great ease. To...

the Hague by Lord Newton with the German delegates, has been ratified. A summary of its provisions was given to the House of Commons on Friday week. The medical testa imposed on...

further details of his negotiations at the Hague. It is gratifying to learn of the admission by the chief German representative that the treatment of prisoners in Great Britain...

of office acted without proper thought. Concentration is impera- tively needed. Personal hostages for the sanction of Labour are indispensable. People who do not me this have...

food supplies in the House of Lords yesterday week. Briefly summarized, his proposals are as follows. Prices am to be fixed for those articles of prime necessity over the supply...

that be would be the last man to interfere with the free play of supply and demand in peace time, but justified the interference as a temporary expedient rendered necessary by...

April 5th.

THE THIRD BATTLE OF YPRES. riallE General Staff ought really to receive credit for '-1- exercising that sort of profitable guile of which English- men are supposed to be...

'N EVER since the beginning of the war have there been so many speeches and 'declarations about peace, so many comings and goings, so many excursions and alarms— if the last...

A LTHOUGH there is a general—we might almost say a universal—desire to back the Government in any measures they may think it necessary to take in the public/ interest, it is...

W E are glad that Mr. Lloyd George his taken the oppor- tunity to declare that he believes in Russia. The sudden collapse of her Oalician armies undoubtedly made a very bad...

FillIERE is indisputably one thing which the war has done for the women of this country. It has given them a training in the use of money. Economists and philanthropists have...

B LOWN round the corner of the Deer Magets in the November darkness, I crossed the rain-swept Place St. Germain and was driven by the wind against the door of the Cantina...

Its me Emma or ens SPECT.06."1 S,,—I notice that the question of the sale of party honours is to be raised shortly in the House of Lords. It is one of the moat serious...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the spare.] THE PARALLEL CASE OF WEST...

[To TEC Emma or THE " Sescrcros."1 Sie,—Will you grant space for a few thoughts of a Colonial? I have read your articles for years, in spite of the fact that I am a Democratic...

[To me EDITOR or rne "Seecreroa."1 51a,-1 have rend with some surprise and many misgivings your article on "Adoption." I am fearfol lest your wholesale blessing en the system...

(To roe EDITOR or THE " Encraon.") Son,—It is, I suppose, a fact, recognised by even non-agricultural people like myself, that the nature of the English summers affects the...

[To THE EDITOR OT THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sie,—The Board of Agriculture have issued excellent leaflets, with good illustrations, describing the life-histories of insect pests and...

[To THE EDITOR Cr THE SPECTLTOR."1 Sui,—On June 9th you printed a letter of mine on the subject of footgear for British prisoners of war in Germany. I have just received a...

allowed to answer the letter of " Zero " which appeared in your issue of July 28th? In making his calculation he seems to have overlooked the fact that, in arriving at the sum...

Sto,—In reading your correspondent's letter on " Destructive Inserts," while one fully realizes the great utility of the careful display of injurious insects and their...

(To nu Emma or rue "Sera-rtroa."1 SIR.—I should like to put in a plea on behalf of fathers wishing to visit the death-beds of their sons in France. The War Office allows two...

tirocrtroa."] Sta,—I have been watching your paper to see what response would be offered to D030 Hensley Benson's letter on "Thu Clergy and Military Service S' in your issue of...

(To ran Enema or ens " SPECTATOR."1 SIR.—With reference to a letter under this heading from " Zero " in your issue of July 28th, which I have just read with considerable...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sum—Yet another Government Committee! This time it is formed "to keep before the Nation the causes of the War and the necessity for...

letter, but it strikes an outsider very curiously that a man "very fond of experimenting, full of enthusiasm and invention" (modest man!) can abandon such gifts from on high and...

Sreemon."1 Sin.—May I ask the hospitality of your columns to request your readers to suspend their judgment in the Private Brightmore case. in consequence of which, according to...

(To TEE EEOTOs or elm " SPECTATOR.") your review of Mr. Graham's Life of Penn 1Spectator, July 28th) you say of Penn "To Friends he will always be their great protagonist and...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR:1 PM—Your reviewer of Mr. Archer's Cod and Mr. Wells repeats the tiresome lie that I am a " deserter " from the " ranks " of the ^ atheists."...

LTo TUE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR . ) value your opinions in most matters very highly, but from at least one at the present time I respectfully venture to differ. In your issue...

(To THE EDITOR CF THE " SPECTATOR.") 810,—We are straining every nerve to save the babies, but we must not overlook the children who are in need of solvation too. and one of...

THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—As you have been good enough to allow my appeal for Neces- sitous Ladies to appear in your valuable paper in past summers. I venture ones again to...

Oro THE EDITOR Or THE SPECTATOR.] Slo,—The "National Committee for Relief in Belgium" recently announced that they were suspending their appeals in this country, as the U.S.A....

MOTHER, COMMAND! Disce in our hearts we hear our Country's call To rich and poor, whereer our lot be cast To every man and woman of no all The great chance comes at last. And...

MISS MARY - ADAIR MACDONALD'S three poems (" In the Ward," "Epiphany Vision," and "1k Last Year's Camp") have been reprinted from the pages of the Spectator in pamphlet form...

A FRENCHMAN'S MESSAGE.• Terse notes and letters written at the front by a young Parisian artist, who lies since disappeared and is probably dead, are etrange and beautiful...

[To Tad Erma cc sae "Sezereem."1 Sue—Through an oversight. I have only just seen a letter signed by the Rev. II. C. Perry in your issue of June 30th, in which he says that work...

name or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " COM. municated," use Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the riews therein arpressed or with the...

PASTEUR, when his now students asked him what book they ought to road as a guide, used to say to them: " I advise you to road my Studies of the DiSOBSOS of Silkworms." And we...

Da. JOHNSON'S Life of Pope is almost a model biography of a poet, and on that ground alone a new edition is to be welcomed. The tendency of modern " Lives '' is to be far too...

National Mission have set themselves to assess the results so far obtained, and to discuss • Tan and rttian• Series of Pradical Papa. Edited by F. L. Road. Londe. • Umbra ard...

THE LOOM OF YOUTH* Toss frank and audacious story of a boy's schooldays would captivate the reader even if he were told nothing about the author But the impression which it...

Bell and Sons. Is, net.)—This instructive study of tailoresses and boxmakers who work at house has been written by a lady member of the Ratcliff Settlement in the East End,...

Blackett. Ga.)—An Anglo-Indian novel of great interest. It deals partly with the baffling questions of the education and outlook of the young native ruler.—The Locust. By Joan...

as to the efficacy of defensive strategy at sea in this period of the war. Mr. Edmond Holmes, writing on "The Real Basis of Democracy," urges that improved methods of education...

ford. 6s. 6d. net.)—Arlington, the favourite Minister of Charles II., was disliked and ridiculed in his own day, and luta perhaps been underrated by later generations. Miss...

(Country Life. So. 6d. net.)—We have learned duriag the war • Profitable Herb Gratin" end Collecting. By Ads B. Teetgen. (Country Life. So. 6d. net.)—We have learned duriag the...

Glarehrook, and the Rev. H. D. A. Major, who drew up this Report for the Churchmen's Union, make some admirable suggestions for the better training of th5 clergy, in on the...

Government 7 By Harold Hodge. (John Lane. 8s. ne(.)—The late editor of the Saturday Review begins his traetate with a very doleful view of the Parliamentary and party system,...

for their Combination. By Sir R. T. Glazebrook. (Cambridge University Press. Is. ed. net.)—This year's Redo Lecture by the Director of the National Physical Laboratory throws...

have since January torpedoed every hospital ship that their submarines could waylay. This pamphlet contains eye- witnesses' accounts of these disgraceful outrages, against which...