as deep as any in the series that has already caused the world to say that they are outside the pale of civilization. They have executed Captain Charles Fryatt, the master of...

forward on the whole front from Hardecourt to Hem, captured the entire system of German trenches, and reached the fringes of Maurepas. Since then they have not only beaten off...

case.

on one side has much more than its own intrinsic value ; it enjoys the addition of the confidence which is transferred from the other side. While the spirits of one side grow,...

Allies gained a triple success on the southern half of their front. General Kaledin, to the north-west of Luck, drove through the enemy's lines at Kashovka, on the Stokhod,...

the correspondents' messages, are at high-water mark. They were in suspense before the push as to what the new artillerymen could accomplish. Now they know that these new...

few months the large towns in the North of France have been subjected to a forcible evacuation, young girls and boys and their parents having been separated under menace of...

W HAT news there is from the Western Front is entirely good. The straightening out of the British and French lines on the Somme continues, not in the sinister sense in which a...

has been appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland with a seat in the Cabinet. Since Lord Wimborne and Mr. Birrell resigned office three months ago, Ireland has been without a civil...

an important statement upon the proceedings of the Allies' Economic Conference at Paris. Our objects were mainly (a) to show that the Allies will wage the war with as much unity...

inquired into the deplorable case of the drafts fresh from England that were landed at Karachi from the Ballarat' and sent up-country through Sind in the hot weather, with the...

for a disclosure of the Cabinet's plans relative to Ireland. He denounced Lord Lansdowne, with gross injustice, as the chief wrecker of the tentative agreement to set up Home...

a nominal superior in the Lord-Lieutenant. Mr. Asquith admitted that the Lord- Lieutenancy has become an anomaly, merely " enabling gracious, well-mannered persons to discharge...

on the use of petrol. Both the Navy and the Army are using enormous quantities, and we are supplying Franco and Italy as well. There are not enough tank steamers to bring all...

be taken off the statute-book. Upon this Mr. Boner Law made the just comment that, so far as he was able to prevent it, the Home Rule Act should never come into operation until...

are taken away from their parents, and are perhaps, as seems to be the fact at present, unable to communicate with them, is a cruelty which did not enter into the dreams of most...

when one would have expected nerves to be all on edge, and the tone of the speakers to be most rasping and threatening, there was a subdued air of something resembling complete...

has kept pegging away at the Government for months past to deprive the Duke of Cumberland, the Duke of Albany, and Prince Albert of Schleswig-Holstein of their British honours,...

resolutions—the chief of which had, he said, been drafted by Mr. Runciman—as necessary means of defence in the economic struggle of the future. In the debate, which reached an...

more warmly than in any previous utterance. Having appreciated more fully than ever what the industrial penetration of a country by Germany' means, he very rightly concentrates...

of firms, corporations, and persona in the United States, and forbidden all financial or commercial dealings between them and citizens of Great Britain, elicited a strong...

Govern. ment intend to black-list neutrals doing business with black-listed firms. But Sir Cecil Spring Rico had already made it clear in a supplementary statement, issued...

Wednes- day, when six or seven airships dropped a considerable number of bombs in the Eastern and South-Eastern counties. Up to the moment of our going to press no military...

may cost, however, we must have it. On the other hand, we are inclined to believe that even under what will be in the abstract a more expensive system of conducting our commerce...

the Germans have resumed their Zeppelin raids. On Friday, the 28th of July, three airships raided the East Coast between midnight and 1.30 a.m. and dropped thirty-two bombs in...

been a movement for his reprieve, but it had no more force, whether on grounds of law or expediency, than can be drafted into an argu- ment for the reprieve of any one condemned...

July 13th.

THE LATEST GER MAN BARBARISM. T HE judicial murder of Captain Fryatt, the master of the Great Eastern steam-packet Brussels,' involves an even more serious issue of law than the...

M R. DILLON ended his speech in the House of Commons on Monday by throwing out the suggestion that the treatment of Ireland was a violation of the principle of respect for small...

T HE Demobilization Committee of the Social Welfare Association for London are to be congratulated on the Memorandum they have drawn up on the reinstatement in civil employment...

met with in the battle of the Somme has reopened the old controversy about body armour. " If you protect the head, why not protect the body ? " is asked by an increasing number...

[COMMUNICATED.] D ' any one ever believe dogmatically that any kind of useful work was de g radin g ? No one, we suppose, would have been ready lo g ically to uphold the...

T HERE were twenty-four names on the Roll of Honour in the church porch. Not a great number ; but it represented a good percentage of the population, for the parish was small...

THE PROPOSED CHURCH COUNCIL. [To THI EDITOR Or THY "SPECTATOR.") you allow me to thank you very heartily for your review of the recent Report of the .Archbishops' Committee on...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " 8PECTITent."1 gm—Li Yilan Hung, the now President of China, is a man of a type most unusual in Chinese politics, and holding an unparalleled place in...

[To THE Enrroa or THE "IneeeTATOE."1 Sta,—Knowing the interest you take in the above, from letters in your - valuable paper and editorial remarks thereon, I wish to give a short...

[To TEE EDITOR or THE "SpseTATOR."1 SM,—As one who is certainly neither pacificist nor pro-Cerman, but not entirely in accord with the views of your article of July 15th on the...

[To THE EDITOR OP TEl " SPECTATOR.1 Sat,—The writer of the notice in the Spectator of July 8th of the Blackwood article, " In Trinity College during the Sinn Feb Rebellion," has...

[TO THE EDITOR OP TILE " SPECTATOR."] ilba, —A great many of us old Unionists are badly puzzled at the events of the last two or three months. We cannot understand what it was...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TEl SPECTATOR. "] Pm—Regarding your attitude—viz., that it is " wrong to criticize the Government "—I should like you to devote your attention to one example...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] have already trespassed considerably upon your space, but I shall be grateful if you will allow me to offer a few comments on the letter...

SPECTATOR."( SIR, —A propos of the remarks which you quote from Miss Repplier's striking comments in regard to American elementary education being almost entirely in the hands...

[To TRH EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."( SIR, —As a constant user of the same dictionary—" a miracle of se holar- ship and cheapness "—that " A. S." so wisely cherishes, may I be...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."( think Private H. Forrest has mistaken my letter, probably by my own fault. I had no wish to dispute anything he says as to the soldier's...

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

THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."( Sut,—A real and urgent necessity has arisen for more nurses, N'.A.D. nursing members (women), and V.A.D. general service members, in military...

(To THE EDITOR or THE "Srsoreroa. - 1 Sm,—It may interest some of your readers to know how old is the connexion between England and Di: muds. In the Patent Rolls of Henry III....

(To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."( Sre,—In his generally fair and sympathetic review of Mr. Norris's latest novel, Proud Peter, your reviewer writes : " Saints who sacrifice...

" SPEC-TATOU."( SIB,—May I carry Mr. E. W. Smithson's argument in last week's Spectator one stage further ? If " the best idea is to be distinguished by victory," and if "...

BALLADE OF MORSE—THE EXPERT. Toe thudding bane of every train that runs, The splattering metre of a horse's trot, The champing of a schoolboy eating buns: All these I hear in...

THE SOUTHERN SLAVS.f Ritsroxstste politicians, although they hare at times indicated with sufficient clearness the general objects for which we are now fighting, have so far...

won such popularity as F. W. It Myers's Saint Paul. It has passed through more than sixteen editions, and now at the end of nearly fifty years finds itself treated to the sort...

Sculpture to Architecture Mr. T. P. Bennett has given us an admirably clear and common-sense book on a recondite and contro- versial subject. Airy, not to say misty,...

THE intellectual debt that is owed to Mr. George Prothero is probably not fully recognized. The younger generation scarcely know of his assiduous teaching and lecturing at...

Mn. EDGAR CRAMMOND, writing on " The Reckoning " in the new Nineteenth Century, prefaces his argument in favour of a huge monetary indemnity by considering (a) the conditions...

IT is always deeply interesting to know what any man really thinks about religion, specially interesting perhaps when, hie Mr. Hutchinson, he describes a changed point of view....

SEVENTEEN.* THE age indicated by the title of Mr. Booth Tarkington's novel is tradi- tionally or proverbially associated in romance with the charm of girl- hood, and girls play...

part of the book, which deals with current events, is admirably written; but when the author begins to describe life in an Indian station after the conclusion of the Great War...

Scott. (Japan Advertiser Office, Tokyo.)—" A Letter to My Japanese Friends " in which Mr. Robertson Scott replies to some articles in a certain section of the Japanese Press...

Hammersmith. 2s. 6d. net.)—An attractive reprint of the seventeenth edition published by Anne Cobbett of Cobbett's well- known book. It is always a delight and an inspiration to...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subseyusnt review.) Casual Labour at the Docks. By H. A. Mess. (G. Bell and Sons. 2s. net.)—This is one of the publications...

1916 (Kelly's Direc- tories, 12s. 6d. net). This useful book of reference, in addition to giving a complete directory of the clergy in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and the...

net.)— From a bed in a general hospital Mr. Hill has seen the sufferings of what he calls " the unheroic) casualty," the man or woman who has "fallen out of the ranks, with no...

of French books are two volumes of Alfred de Vigny's plays, Jules Sandeau's Mlle. de la Seigliire, and Lamartine's Geneviive. Other authors whose works find places are Leon de...