• INCLUSIVE, 111 , FROM JULY 6th TO DECEMBER 28th, 1918, TOPICS OF THE DAY. A ERICA (East), Indians in .. .. .. 246 IS. African (East) Slaves, the German .. 39 O lean Native,...

have worried the enemy by a number of local attacks at different points, which resulted in useful gains of ground and in the capture of nearly three thousand prisoners. Our...

to consider the Alien question. Four of the five members have for a long time been associated with a strong anti-alien cam- paign. At the same time Sir George Cave has been...

T HE great news of the week is the announcement by the American Secretary of War that more than a million American soldiers have sailed for France. The letter, dated on Monday,...

Piave may be estimated by the speech in which Dr. Wekerle, the Premier, on Friday week tried to reassure the Hungarian Parliament. He said that seventy Austro-Hungarian...

and feeding her armies is becoming apparent. In June the American yards produced 180,000 tons of new shipping. Our own yards in June turned out only 134,000 tons of shipping, as...

Austrians with the object of recovering some of the important mountain positions east and west of the Brenta Valley. Until the enemy is pushed back well to the north of the...

of German railway stations and munition works, has been excep- tionally active during the past week. Our bombing squadrons thrice attacked Mannheim on the Rhine between last...

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...

torpedoed without warning and sunk by a German submarine at half-past ten in the evening of Thursday week, when she was out in the Atlantic one hundred and sixteen miles west of...

time thought, and have often said, that alien influences arenot traated with enough seriousness or coherence. What we are objecting to now is by no means the thorough regulation...

after denouncing the Allies for making " secret Treaties," made a secret Treaty with Germany at Brest-Litovsk in regard to Poland. By this Treaty the Bolsheviks agreed to...

published to the world the appeal on behalf of the Irish Nationalists and Sinn Feiners which he had originally intended to convey in person to Washington. As we have said...

the London Chamber of Commerce on Thursday week a characteristic appeal for the immediate construction and publication of a definite programme of Imperial economic organization...

and for all to the possibility of those methods of penetration being repeated. The popular indignation, with which we sympathize, has been expressed by no body of men more...

were suffering under far worse grievances than anything which living Irishmen can remember. To-day Ireland is a petted, over- indulged, lightly taxed, and over-represented...

Federalism was published in Monday's papers. He said that he had always been a strong Federalist, and that Parliament must be relieved of some of its work in order to give time...

steamer was making for Petchenga, on the Murman coast of mussie. and that Finnish and German forces were marching northward to that district, which is outside the borders of...

effect that the Sinn Fein organization, the Sinn Fein clubs, the Irish Volunteers, the Cumann-na-Bhan, and the Gaelic League would henceforth be regarded as dangerous." The...

the calling up of thirty thousand skilled young farm-workers to the Army, contrary to the pledge given by the Government a year ago, meant "to a great extent the wrecking, or at...

behalf of some Church-school managers against Clause 22 of the Educa- tion Bill, which will abolish all fees in elementary schools after five years. Mr. Bigland and Mr. Marriott...

acceptance of a decision which threatens to undo much of his excellent work. On the very eve of the great harvest for which he has toiled un- ceasingly, he had to admit that the...

Geddes " confessed that he was extremely stupid " not to have realized the obvious and hopeless confusion between medical grades and Army categories, which forced the Chairman...

illumine the darkness of grading, and of assurances about medical safeguards. But Sir Donald Maclean brought the House back to the point, that men must be graded fairly, and...

is natural that farmers should be asking the Government to restrict the policy of the plough. Members of both Houses met on Tuesday to urge, on the farmers' behalf, that the...

Lord Rhondda. He was only sixty-two. If, as we fear, the excessive strain of his duties as Food Controller overtasked the physical energy that remained to him after an...

a useful speech on German finance, the true state of which is little known either here or in Germany. Lord Emmott pointed out that, in order to reduce this year's deficit to...

Wednesday, took effect from Monday. Its object is to save a quarter of the coal available for domestic use in the shape of fuel or of gas and electricity. Seventy-five thousand...

April 5,1917.

W RITING this article on American Independence Day, we must begin by expressing our admiration of the tremendous military feat of the Americans by which the anniversary is...

A LEAGUE OF NATIONS.—I. T HERE HERE is no more soul-shaking ghost story than that of the long-pedigree Poltergeist in the Scots : castle. The owner of the castle was much...

the Labour Party, which offers membership to those who earn their living with their brains as well as to those who earn their living with their hands, has set the Party a...

Select Committee on National Expenditure was issued this week. It deals, in the first instance, with the waste incurred over National Shipyards ; it also devotes considerable...

elHARING Cross to Bagdad " is the prophetic title of a most persuasive pamphlet on the Channel Tunnel published last autumn by the Daily Chronicle.' The political, commercial,...

A T moments it was almost possible to imagine it was not war time. The turf had its traditional smoothness and green- ness. Observers who, in the usual numbers, critically...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] THE LATE LORD CROMER. [To...

fint,—I have not yet had the good fortune to read the work in which Mr. Lytton Strachey deals with " Eminent Victorians," but the extract quoted in the letter addressed to you...

[To THE Enrroa or THE "Sezoreroa:"] Sie,—In the course of your admirable article entitled " Thoughts about Ireland" in the issue of June 22nd -you suggest the -need for...

[To Tat Eorron OF THE " Specraeoa.") SIR,—It seems strange that advocates of a League of Nations should have overlooked the light upon their theme which issues from a land that...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPEDTAITOR."7 SIR,—It is some fifteen years ago that in the National Review I called attention to the danger to the Empire of the disloyalty of the...

[To me EDITOR or THE " SPECIATOR."] Sze.,—I am too glad and proud that French-Canadians are now " heartily joining up " to allow Mr. Alex. Clement to draw me into a criticism-of...

[To vim Enrroa or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I think that readers of Mr. Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians would do well to bear in mind -that Arthur Hugh Clough gave time,...

" SPECTATOR."] SIR,—You are always so friendly to this country that I think your review with, the above heading in the Spectator of April 17th must reflect the tone of Mr....

THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—As a national scheme of sea training is now under considera- tion, will you allow me to give through your columns a reminder and to make an appeal ? I....

a mere male the chance to contemplate the handling of " Satisfied Mistress " by her own sex. Even "H.'s " rapier will probably have failed to touch her. Influenza has, again,...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The Council of King George's Fund for Sailors desire to bring before the public- the opportunity afforded by the Fund for the...

[Tovaz EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, With respect to the article in your issue of June 8th and the letter of "Satisfied Mistress" of June 22nd, will you allow MO to give my...

Sie,—May I quote the present Minister of Labour from your columns of a fortnight ago ? "The impersonal nature of the relation between employer and employed is the greatest blot...

know your interest in children and animals, and send you the following, which appeals to me very keenly, though, as father. I am biassed. A few words of explanation. The untidy...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR:9 Sra,—Evidently Mr. W. Holmden knows nothing of the long correspondence headed "Peccavi" which appeared in the Times Literary Supplement and...

SPECTATOR."1 Sia,—Your heading week by week about Mr. Lloyd George's Pledges is curious, as he said a much stronger thing in the same debate, * "Peccavi" appeared in Punch of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] ETTR,—Will you allow me to call attention to the enclosed Petition to Convocation now being circulated among the clergy P When it is...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] Sie,—Many years ago the following was on an alms-box in Millie Cathedral :— "To THE CHARITABLE& The Brothers so-called of Mercy ask slender...

WEST AWAY. (Home Thoughts front the Jungle.) A PRIL in the Jungle : hot weather comes a-wooing (Dry and dead and leaves upon the ground). Time to quit the station and be up...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—On the advice of a small Committee, Mrs. Ady (Julia Cart- wright) has been invited, and has agreed, to write a Memoir of the late Henry...

NATIONAL SELF-GOVERNMENT.* PROFESSOR RAMAN' Musa's interesting essay on national self- government is in effect, though not in intention, a commentary on President Wilson's...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —Mr. Sydney Walton's reference to my letter about "Goose- berries " entirely misses my point—that is, when sugar is short, and nets are...

SIR, — I have always believed that the word " stunt " was closely allied to "stint." As a child brought up near Boston, Massachu- setts, I was " set a stint " when sewing a...

name or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agree. tnent with the views therein expressed or with the...

THE wide range of " Every Irishman's Library " is clearly shown ' by two recent additions to the series—the Recollections of Jonah Barrington and the Poems of Sir Samuel...

NovNova year ago there passed away in London one of the most remarkable of European artiste, Matthew Marie, a Dutchman of Bohemian. descent. He had lived in England for many...

ALL the people in the country—we mean all the residents in country houses and country villas and country cottages—are talking about ducks. The hens' bills, we understand, are...

Dors the reader recall a little yellow-paper book of some ten years ago with the device of a seraphic and magnificently pinioned pig on the cover, and the title of If? Endless...

THE BELLS OF PARADISE.* THERE are ninny interesting points in Mr. Geoffrey N'Vhitworth's novel which, if it be his first, is quite an achievement—his study of the woman...

clever novel showing the reversion to type of the hero, who, though brought up at Rotherhithe, is really the grandson of an Irish Baronet. The story follows the fortunes of...

London Survey Committee, with Drawings by H. V. C. Csulis.—This elaborately illustrated account of a beautiful old Tudor house near Barking is of much intrinsic interest. It is...

(Macmillan and Co. 16s. net.)--Despite the difficulties occasioned by the war, Sir J. S. Keltie has contrived to give a great deal of new information even in regard to enemy...

(Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent retina] Tan JULY MONTHLIES.—Mr. J. R. Fisher in the Nineteenth Century exposes the delusive nature of " The...

two instructive pamphlets on Italia Irrederda by Mr. E. Bullough, one dealing with Irredentism and the War (4d.) and the other with The Trentino (6d.). Mr. Bullough shows that...

Lane. Gs. net.)—Thu late Mr. J. L. Griffiths, tho American Consul at Liverpool from 1005 to 1909 and in London from 1909 till his death in 1914, was greatly esteemed in England...

the Archbishops' Second Committee of Inquiry. (S.P.C.K.)—The Committee, headed by the Dean of Christ Church, who were appointed last year to consider " ways in which the public...

Beech. (Kegan Paul. Os. net.)—This practical and interesting little book on the chief language of the East African coast contains, besides specimens of good and bad Swahili...

to know that a full Index to the first twelve volumes has been published at the expense of a Committee of subscribers, headed by Lord Rosebery and Mr. Balfour, who desired to...

sity Press, and Longmans and Co. Is. net.)—Professor Herford's eloquent lecture at the John Rylands Library on Lucretius was de- livered six months before Lord Morley in his...

by Henry Vaughan and Andrew Marvell. (Allen and Unwin. as. net.)— In this attractive little book Mr. Francis Meynell has put together a selection from the poems of Vaughan and...