pHE war news during the week has been excellent. We do not, 1. however, intend to record it here in detail, for we have dealt with the military situation in our leading columns....

that, though heavy sacrifices must still be made, the German troops would certainly keep their line unbroken. " Still another and still another village may be lost, but the...

ten airships are believed to have taken part. One airship approached London from the north-west, but was brought to earth in flames near Potter's Bar shortly before midnight....

New Model superseded an inefficient type of army. Ours only outdoes the old Army in one respect—it is more numerous. The old Army, the Army of Mons, remains the Theban band,...

more reviewed the war. The Allies can have little fault to find with the speech, for it was from beginning to end a cry of desperation. The Chancellor, after a reference to the...

pushing on the Transylvanian front have developed enough man-power to cross the Danube at three places, and are now threatening Mackensen's army, which for the last fortnight,...

part of a Mirabeau and is trying to save the dynasty. At a Te Delon at Canea to celebrate the establishment of the Provisional Govern- ment the Bishop prayed that King...

any case.

us elsewhere, and his previous warm commendations of the New Army are glorious reading. Indeed, of the troops of this second New Model we may say what Cromwell said of the first...

Greek Ministry, but up to the time of our going to press no clear indications of the effect of this new development had been received. It is plain, however, that the...

LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

UM 1 madness we should like to draw attention to the very able treatment of " Mr. Churchill as Strategist " by Mr. Arthur Pollen which is to be found in Land and Water of...

see the enemy you should sit still and call upon him to stand, and if heavill not stand you presently call the Fleet together and thank Cod yOu are rid of a knave. We are more...

pre- posterous negation of the whole of our naval policy since the founda- tions of our sea power were laid. Did not her seamen tell Queen Elizabeth that if our Navy stood on...

Lloyd George's warning. Writing on the " Terms of Peace " on July 15th, we described the attitude of the normal Briton as follows: "The Allies are not going to give the Germans...

interview given by Mr. Lloyd George to a representative of the United Press of America, one of the great Press Agencies of the United States. Mr. Lloyd George's remarks are...

day's Times in regard to the Serbian Society, of which he is President. Some misapprehension, he tells us, appears to exist as to the aims and objects of the Society, and he...

' Never again!' has become our battle - cry. At home the suffering and the sorrow is great and is growing. As to the war zone its terrors are indescribable. I have just visited...

Italians are naturally sensitive in regard to all that concerns the Adriatic, but there is plenty of room for a settlement which shall satisfy them and yet not injure the South...

in regard to naval policy lately made by Mr. Churchill. Here is Lord Sydenham's summary :— " The lay mind,' ho [Mr. Churchill] tolls us, falls to understand that ` the...

" full of interesting and valuable matter contributed by men so distinguished as Lord Bryce, Dr. Eliot, at one time President of Harvard-University, and exTresident Taft,...

a similar nature, and is specially angry that " British subjects are engaged in Ireland by tens of thousands" to fight against the Confederates " in defiance both of the law of...

is the encouragement of that hoary convention which in these columns we have never ceased to protest against, that England took the side of the South during the Civil War, and...

library at Elba, and has picked out for the edification of the readers of the Times some passages which Napoleon had marked. The book which seems to have attracted Napoleon most...

desire here is not only absolutely contrary to the fact, but keeps alive in the minds of Americans an idea, widely spread by German writers and speakers in the United States,...

papers of Friday week to say that the King wished to collect a complete series of re gi mental histories for the Royal Library. Certain regi- ments and battalions have compiled...

asked to report are : (1) Simplification of our registration machinery. (2) Changes in the franchise. (3) Redistribution of seats on an equit- able and automatic basis. (4)...

of our contention as to British action is to point out the fact that if our Government were favourable to the Confederate States, the latter at any rate were unaware of the...

July 13th.

of medical work at the front which is the best thing we have read on this subject that is all too little written about. Lord Northcliffe, assuming no knowledge on the part of...

should keep out of the quarrel, there was of course an intense feeling of dis- appointment that, while refusing to engage in hostilities, she did not make that protest which one...

contained some highly interesting information about the Conference on Electoral Reform. The Conference, which was criginally reggested by Mr. Walter Long, will be confined to...

MORE MEN. T "question how to obtain more men for our armies is becoming urgent. Compulsory service has given us a great many men, but owing to the wide extension of the policy...

The two commodities to which most attention is devoted are meat and milk. The Committee give in considerable detail the history of the rise in prices of meat, home and imported,...

I T is very satisfactory to be able to say that the progress of the Allies in the field has been as great as was expected at that moment of sanguine hopes when Rumania entered...

of Messrs. Thorp's provincial cata- logues of second-hand books lately put into our posses- sion a square-shaped pamphlet of the year 1710 entitled " Considerations on Peace and...

I T is good for every man's character that there should be some spiritual region in which he can do as he likes, some land of little things where he may be delivered altogether...

T HE "interview" which the German Crown Prince gave to an American correspondent, and which was summarized in the Times of Tuesday, is one of the most curious, and for us (from...

THE LIBRARY OF LOUVAIN. ITO THE EDITOS Or rite " SPECTATOR:1 Sra, — The Executive Committee (appointed early in the year at a large representative meeting, with Viscount...

[To THE EDITOR 01 THE " STEOTATOR."] Sin,- -Your correspondent the Rev. T. B. A. Saunders is sadly at sea In identifying General Friedrich von Bernhardi with the distinguished...

" smerarea.1 - Sna—The very' interesting article on Lord 1Vellcaley'a College at Fart William in your issue of September 9th closes with a sad, but surely unwarranted, regret...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TER " SPECTATOR.") Sna—Will you allow an ex-Minister to bear testimony from personal experience to the absolute truth of your article in your List issue on...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:'] 8112,--I think that the enclosed extract from a letter recently written by en Englishman temporarily resident in the United States to a...

[To s'ax EDITOR OF THE " Era . ..urea.") Sin,--Scotland is being slowly robbed of her woods-one sacrifice to the war to which she has willingly given so much else. But is the...

Sna—The enclosed extract from a Dublin paper of last week may interest your readers. Comment is needless.—I am, Sir, &c., Tirreaslay. " The Freeman's Journal, the official...

[TO TOR EDITOR OF THE " SFECTATOR.") Sra,—Your correspondent Mr. W. J. Bremner Davis gives a rule, not very exact but quite useful, for tolling the ago of tho moon on any day,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Snt,—Anxious to see the latest developments of the world-war, one glances at the breakfast-table, only to be disgusted by what one seat...

[TO THE EDITOR 01 TES " SrEcrATos."1 Sta,—I was extremely interested to road in the Spectator of Septem- ber 2nd the poem, " The Cricketera of Flanders," and also your...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' Srn,—Most of us must admit that " C. F." is right in saying that pre- occupation is one of the greatest factors in banishing fear. An...

[TO THE EDITOR OP TEE " SPECTATOR"] FM—After the Irish Rebellion you were kind enough to express warm appreciation of the work done by the Dublin V.T.C. men in the defence of...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] have read Mr. Laws's letter in reply to mine on this subject. I have had thirty years' close experience with agricultural conditions, and...

Snt,—I hope that you will allow me to add ono more admirable French Limerick to your list. I have not seen it in print " II (twit un homme do Madere, Qui cams la tote h son...

Sm,—The following paraphrase in French of an English Limerick was done by a scholar of my acquaintance who has a good colloquia knowledge of French, and I think it may...

" SPECTATOR."] STR,—I am re-reading Meredith's Sandra Belloni, and at the close of chap. xliii. find the following (the italicized word is the author's) :— " Dine as well as...

[TO THE EDITOR OP Till " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—This Limerick has, I believe, never been in print—one of the most complete puns on record :— " Said the famous Henry Ward...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR"] BIR,--A correspondent in the United States has sent this incident to a Toronto paper. I hope you can reproduce it :- " A party of convivial...

[To THE EDITOR OF T1111 " Sreentros., Sian—The quotation given by your correspondent "H. V." in your last issue is interesting, but I am rather astonished that the views...

[TO THE EDITOR Off TAR " SPECTATOR."] Sae,—In reply to the letter which appeared in your issue of September 23rd, there is no doubt that the Oxford Dictionary was quoting...

ITO THE EDITOR OP THE " arzerezort:') Snt,—The eyes of the Spectator are always open, and it is possible that this characteristic is true of its readers also. If this be the...

ITO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") BIR,—I am starting next week a Lads' Rest for munition workers and others in Birmingham. I should be grateful if any of your readers...

THE VERDICT OF AMERICA.* THE political mind of the Anglo-Saxon is never really at rest unless he can find a moral basis on which to rest the policy pursued by the country of...

ITO THE EDITOR OF THE ."8ezerwroa.") SIR,—Your well-informed and sympathetic article on " What the Public Schools are Doing " would suggest that " public ignorance " on the...

THE article under the above heading, dealing with the desecration of beautiful places by the scattering of pieces of paper and other picnio debris, which appeared in our issue...

" SPECTATOR.") Snr,—May I correct a misprint in my letter to you in the last number of the Spectator 1 The latest development of the G.F.S. is not craft bases but craft roses....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Bin,—Ought not the Christian Church to be for each of its members an

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

WE have received the following additional subscriptions to the above Fund :— £ R. d. £ a. d. Previously acknowledged 45 3 6 Lt.-Col. Pringle .. 1 1 0 Miss Katharine H....

THE DISTANT GUNS. NEGLIGENTLY the cart-track descends into the valley ; The drench of the rain has passed, and the clover breathes ; Scents are abroad : in the valley a mist...

(TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Sm,—May I point out that Captain Philippe Millet in rendering Cheshire cheese as cheater is not making a slip or coining a " portmanteau...

Mn. MASEFIELD has written much in prose and verse of high quality, but he has never written anything worthier of unreserved admiration than this little book on Gallipoli. That...

beyond counting, but nearly all of them are by Americans. There is plenty of room for 'English appreciations of Lincoln, for his qualities were just such as please Englishmen,...

TO the *prrtator ;Co. MOO.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1916, r T R ..arn 0 s o AB O R R O AD i GRAT IS.

LONDON : OCTOBER 7th, 1916.

WAR-TIME POEMS.* Si. CAMMAERTS has collected under the title of New Belgian Poems' the verses written by him from Easter, 1915, to Easter, 1916. They need no commendation to...

was a tendency on the part of some people to regard housekeeping as synonymous with drudgery, and to consider that the details of household work were beneath the talents of....

Ma. PEARCE gives as a sub-title " A Sixty Years' Gossiping Record of ' Stage and Society (1777 to 1837)." It would have been a fairer descrip- tion of his book if he had put...

Unwin. 3s. 6d. net.)—A slight but attractively written account of a voyage to and holiday in Japan. Mr. Wood has the gift of gay inconsequent humour and can be very...

Turf title of this book unites two names which are connected traditionally with romance. The romance of the Middle Ages, however, is to a large extent illusory, for they were...

German soul " in an English book is not at this moment very easy. Baron Friedrich von Hugel, who has just written a disquisition upon it, has the essential qualification for the...

our youth to be told that the Latin for " school " was also the Latin for " play," and the facetious attempts of masters to derive " school " itself from the Greek for " leisure...

Nurae Leveckdd'a Legacy, besides "being: a mighty fine -col/cation of tho most noble, memorable and -veracious Nursery Rhymes," -as the title- - page - has it, is a most...

• Nurse Lovechild'a Legacy. .4 Coliection of Nursery Rhymes. Loudon: The Poetry Bookshop. Us. Beta t Curious Caw- and Amusing Adieus: 4d -Law. . London: Sweet And-liazwa 1...

A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLISH RURAL LITE. A Short History of English Rural Life. By Montague Foidham. (Allen and Uawin. 3s. Od. net.)--This attempt to reconstruct village life in...

IT will be a lazy or a stupid boy or girl who can read these two hundred and forty brightly written and copiously illustrated pages without aegigiring a lifelong,intereat in the...

Tins beautiful book—which, but for an unhappy accident, should have been noticed here on its first appearance—was designed to serve a two. fold purpose. It was to raise...

The End of a Chapter. By Shane Leslie. (Constable and Co. Ss. net).— This witty and indiscreet little book is the work of a very young man who, when invalided in hospital,...

W. Kennedy. (Routledge. 6s. net.)—Dr. Kennedy of Princeton has made a readable prose version of the Biblical poems in Anglo-Saxon long attributed to the monk of Whitby of whom...

4s. 6d. net.)—The main idea of this notable little essay is that national power does not promote national prosperity, and that wars waged for economic ends can yield no...

The After-War Settlement and Employment of ex-Service Men in the Oversee Dominions. Report to the Royal Colonial Institute by Sir Rider Haggard. (Saint Catherine Press....

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Iar this country there is still some difference of opinion as to whether poultry-farming can be made to pay sufficiently well for it to be regarded as a good business...

IN the Nineteenth Century Major-General Long, C.B., late Director of Supplies and Transports, discusses the problem of demobilization after the war. It is, he admits, to some...

is twenty-two years sines Dr. George Adam Smith gave us his His- torical Geography of the Holy Land, which took the place for the present generation of Stanley's Sinai and...

APRIL FOLLY.• Ma. Sr. Joins Lucas is one of the very best of our short-story writers, to say nothing of his excellent anthologies of French and Italian verse and his graceful...

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