THE SACRAMENT.* Trorcn a certain number of the essays and poems in this little volume firs' appeared in our columins, we make no apology for drawing the n etteention of our...

THE TWO (ROSSES.* AbiiDST the abundant literature produced by the war, few blooks ,re more calculated to bring home to us its ghastly realitics than that written by the gifted...

On Monday the British progress was necessarily slower, but all the ground won vas held. 'The most furious tEliting for us was now round La Boisselle and Ovillers. La Boisselle...

As we go to press on Thursday afternoon the latest news from the Albert Iront is that we have been anle to hold our own againEt the German counter-attacks upon our new...

The " push " began at 7.30 last Saturday morning. It had been I heralded by many days of furious bombardment, diversified with r raids for testing the strength of the enemy and...

The general object of the Allied tactics has been to spare the infantry as much as possible and annihilate the German trcnches with artillery. But this is not to say that...

As the Germans were forced back east of Albert their line became a salient with its point at Fricourt. It was about here that the British success was most marked. A labyrinth...

NEWTS OF THE WEEK. (N the surface of London life there is hardly a ripple, and 0) yet not a hundred and fifty nmiles from our shores is being waged the first stage of what in...

We have dealt elsewhere mith the ultimate hero of the war, the British infantryman, but here we must aEk our readers to Scar in mind that while praising the man in front of...

At the moment there seems little advantage in making anv effort to smooth out the tangled story of the advance. We may be sure, however, that the fight in and around La...

WOMEN-S HOLIDAY FUND. [TO Th3 EDIIOR OF TIII " SPECK KTOr.."] RM.--I hope that your readers who have so often helped the Women's Holidav Fund in past years will not forsake it...

PREPARATION FOR PEACE. THrE following statement is communicated to the Editor of the S~pectator by the War Pensions, &-c., Statutory Committee:- " Rcferring to the leading...

WOMiEN AND THE CIVIL SERVICE. [To TUrE EDITOR OF THE " Sr.CTATOR."] Rm,-Tt Is understood that it is found impossible to release from their pcesont duties in Covernmnt officesC...

PO E TRY. THE CHOOSERS. Ox ye ! Fragile and tremulous Haunters of the deep glades I Shall I see ye again, Parting the leaves of beech and aspen Ere ye slip through? Mlen have...

THE OSSIAN BOOK CLUB (BRAILLE). [TO THE lDITOR OF TIHE " SrECTATOR."I *nTRS,-M1ay we intrude on your valuable space to correct an impression that conms to have got abroad with...

THE NEMESIS OF "PRETEXN)." I , _ . .. . .. . CHILDREN in their games are someti'mes fond of creating B some imaginary danger, such as the appearance of a burglar, and tihen in...

SAVE OR SERVE TILE STATE. [To THm EDITOR 0o THE ' SPECTATOR."] SrR,-In a paragraph in " News of the Week " in your last issue you say: "As Pope said, the Cavendishes care not...

" CONSCIENCE AND CHRIST." (TO THE EDITOR OF THS - SPECTATOR."1 Sm,-In the interesting review in your last issue of Cunscience and I Chrit occurs the sentence : " There is a...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THM " SrEWTATOR."] Sm,-I do not wish to take part in the controversy in your columns as to the usage of the words " British " and " English " respectively....

FOOTMEN AFTER THE WAR. [To iHu EDITOR oi THE " SPECTaTOL" gim,-The Bishop of London the other week in a speech said he hoped that after the war men would not return to such...

BIRDS IN NETS. (To THE EDIToR OF TIUE " S rCTATCa."] SIR,-Will you allow me to seggest to the b.rd-l.vers among youw readers that during the 6unmmcr season they 6!ould make a...

THE MIEDIAEVAL TITHE BARN AT BRADFORlD-ON -AVO.N. [To THlE EDITOR OF TlE " SPECTA10R.!] SrR,-You were good enough last year to notice the effort bo!ng niadl by the W'Vilts...

"VERDUN TO THE VOSGES.` [To imu EDITOR OF THE "SPEC-AT0-."1 SmR,-The reviewer of Verdun to the Vos3j0,, by Corald Canpboell, In your issue of Juno 24th, statos that the fact is...

PLAUTUS ON THE WAR. [TO TaU. EDITOR OP THR " SPECTATOR."] Sm,-Having made a collection of dicta which might conceivably have been written in view of the war, I have found nouc...

PREPARATIONS FOR PEACE. THERE are signs, which we are very glad to record, that T when peace comes the country will not be taken unawares through want of forethought as to how...

WhDo would have dared to contradict the military critics if they had said: " Well, you may conceivably improvise a trustworthy infantryman, but to improvise a gunner is a...

President Wilson's hopes of avouching war with Mexico have I been increased by the rcturn of the Eeventcen American prisoners. Moreover, General Carranza has not repeated his...

| During the past week the newspapers have been full of the Ruhlue ben horror, and of the proposals for saving the interned British, civilians from slow starvation. There have...

The Peking correspondent of the Times says that mandates have I been issued to convene the Chinese Parliament, which was arbitrarily dissolved in 1913, to restore the validity...

I Liberal Home Rulers, however, must remember that we Unionists take note of the fact that assent to the experiment has been forced upon us owing to the exigencies of the war....

In regard to the other battle fronts we have left ourselves little apace for comment. We must record, however, that GCeneral Bru'iloff continues his triumphant advance. A...

In the House of Commons on Monday Mr. Pease presented the I - . . . . .s_. by . - - - - . . . _- s annuai.listimates o0 teLe ostuince. one pront Dalance ior iio-io was...

The n-eeting of the Unionist Party will be taking place just at the time when the Spectator is published on Friday, and we therefore can offer no comment upon the announcements...

The Royal Commission which inquired into the Irish revolt I issued their Report-exceptionally well written-on Monday. It is shown that even beforo August, 1914, the Irish...

I In exIsting circumstances that, we feel, Is the only course which could wisely be adopted. If the Unionist Party were to refuse to allow this experiment to proceed, provided...

i We do not desire to haras our Government with criticism, but we cannot help expressing cur great regret that they should have threatened retaliation upon German prisoners...

We are glad to see signs of a reaction in the attitude of the Pi itih ,I people towards Turkey. BecauseatGallipoli theTurkslhappened to I besomewhat more chivalrous fighters...

An American correspondent sCIIds us an extract from an article which appeared recently in the Berliner Tageblat. dealing with the refusal of the Allies to discuss peaco on the...

If the alien enemy refuses to go because he much prefers intern- I ment here to the untender mercies of the German Government, then lot him be dumped on some neutral soil....

As for the German civilian prisoners interned here, though they greatly outnumber the British civilian prisoners in Cernany, we would gladly send them all back if they were...

On 'Wednesday Mr. James Beck, the well -known American jurist I and former Assistanlt- Attorney-ncueralct the United cStates, wviow llI go down to history as the author of the...

The Ottoman dominance has got to disappear altogether, not inl the least because it is MIohanmmoedan, but because it is evil and tyrannical. We are no enemies of Islam, and...

A topic of the week which descrves a special comment is I the restoration of the war correspondents to the exercise of a considerable part of their former profession. The...

But though we say this, we arc not against a proper system of reprisals, or rather of punishment for crames. W;e are going to Wlin the war, and we are going to make peace not...

" Why not paste this ill the hat of every Englishnman ? " adds our correspondent. We can assure him that there is no necd. u Jur people realizequite clearly tlle solidarity of...

I Mr. Beck's speech moved hiq audience very greatly, and this was another remarkable fact, for it is not too much to say that the more distinguished your hearers the less...

THE NATIONAL ECONOMY EXHIBITION. W HILE soldiers are sacrificing their lives all that non-comNV T batants can do is to sacrifice their time and money and luxuries. As the...

A Tenryson Dictionary. By A. E. Baker. RI nl RR nn not t-Mr Thn.L CnI Il b1,. . (George Routledge and rW am A;1#7 A AS I nab- -A. -a. -ex. x~w-1-mu. a ...u u .J..Uo.uy UU1UJiU...

Dream Dragon. By Anita Dudley. Io - A- - - - - _ vI E ., (Arthur L Humphrey-. I I . .. . ... . - os. net.)-In these essays, written with a good deal of imagination, Mrs....

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK - e [Katie fin tUrn columnn dock not necessarily przclutd sue~u:.t TepLWJ Irndiazn Tales of the Grcat Ones. By Cornelia Sorabji. (Blackle and I Son....

iShake-speare and the English Ideal. By H. C. Beeching, D.D. (Publio I 1 Library Committee, Norwich. 6d.)-The qualities that go to make up the English ideal, as Shakespeare...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SmR,-To the majority of the Scottish people, according to Mr. Bennet Copplestone, " the war is quite literally one between Scotland and...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. ENGLISH OR BRITISH ? [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] &r.,-I read with interest the article In your issue of June 24th on the vexed question of "...

[TO TFE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SiR,-The whole tone of Mr. Copplestone's letter, endorsed as it is by your own note, is so false and misla'dimg that I hope, with your...

,ER&MANY, 1S15-1S52.* No such compact mass of information about the German States between 1815 and 1852 as is contained in this book has previourly appeared in English....

THE NEW DOMIINOLOGy'.* rP~~~- -- > IT\., .. A . . __ _ _ - .tpe;ulius ISO Iu!m1 on personality that the best books on education arc generally the most personal ones, thoso that...

THE MAGAZINES. 1N the new Nincfeen7! Century Mr. J. W. Headlam has a timely paper on the various'speeches of the German Chancellor in which he has alluded to the end of the...

BO O KS. LAFAYETTE.* WIt. HILAIRE BELLOC has given to the wor' l a fees graphic sketche3 of some of the most important events whichl outirred during the period when the old...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. c TIlE BATTLE OF TIIE SOMME~. '5HERIE are some people who are never satisfiled, or, T rather, can ovnlv satisfy thlemselves if they have sometiling to...

FICTIONN. THE AM1AZING a'PIILA.NTIIPOPISTS.* TnE epithet " amazing " has been rather overworked of late, but we hale no ground for complaint against its u1se lv Miss...

THE NEW BRITISH SOLDIER. A LL accounts of the battle of the Somme agree in regard A to one thina-the bravery, the discipline, and the sohlierly qualities of tihe now British...

SEEMLITNESS. I a strong sense of seemliness a virtue ? Some people are very proud of being without it. They look upon it as nothi;ng else than a superficial regard for...