The last thing we wish to do is to recall this incident for the purpose of bringing Mr. Lloyd Gcorge into any kind of diefavour or idicule. In our opinion, he has atoned over...

If this be so, between August 4th and the end of October, 1914, | Turkish politics were in a condition of delicate balance, and there was still the possibility that Enver might...

The particular injustice which Lord Haldano has suffered in all I the vulgar, malicious, and half-informed abuse that has been showered on him lies in this, that all his...

The late Sir Robert Giffen used to say that " hat is cconomically unsound may be politically expedient." The high pric03 of food have causod a good deal of unrest, which does...

In ordinaiy cireumstances nc should have little co!ifidenc3 in the Food Controller's ability to regulate-that is, to reduceprices without decreasing supplies. Moreover, there...

The Food Controller's powrers over the supply of food-which is in reality far more important than the price, however highhave been cxtended by a Royal Proclamation of August...

Last week in wiiting of the Greek White Book we suggested I that when our Foreign Office and the British Amba&sador at Constantinople " accepted the soothing assurances " of...

Ir. E. D. M.orel, secretary of the Un.ion of Democratic C'ontro!, pleaded guilty at Bow Street on Tu.sday to the charge 05 iMciting Miss Ethel Sidgwick to convey a propagandiat...

Lord Rhondda, the Food Controller, has during the week issued a series of Orders regulating the prices of various foodstuffs. The reduction of the price of the four-pound loaf...

READABIDE N'OVES.-The Kingdol of the Blind. By E. Phillips L . . .- _ _ _ - . I Oppenheiua. (Hodder and StoughWon. 3a. net.)-Averyexciting spy story of whiclh it is diffioult...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK. Eyolice i U, ,I c.lu.... do-s "nt - .,eUsyrili preclud, sidiseque reetew.] TH- SEPrEMIBER MuONHLES.- -The Nine.teeth C-1- ry ope-s -ith a trenchant...

FICTION. ANNE LULIVORTII.* lts. Siowica has wvritten alnother amuBesing book. Light comedy ids very wele ini thes days, alid it may be found il tho story of Anno LWl,-orthl....

The Round Talbe for September contains some very sane and I isitructive articles on current problems. The note of " The Ilternal Problem i Germany " is that CGrmany cannot be...

Sir Philip Mlagnus has reprinted from the Jewihk Chroicle an I article of his on Jewish Adctio and Jewish Ide1al (St. Clement's l 1'ress), emphasising his view that for Jes "...

With Our Faces ib the Light. By Frederick Palmer. (J. Murray. 2s. Gd. net.)-This charming little book was written by the wellknown American war correspondent for his own...

|Thle victorious Italialis, after a patisc for road-making and brisging up the guns, have resumed their adva-ec on the isonzo front, especially to thc north of Gorizia. After...

The French Anny on Friday week delivered a hurricane attack I on the front north of the Aisne, and " at one bound " carried the I I German positions north-veot of Hurtetioc,...

There has been much local activity on the British front during I the week, but bad weather forbade any large operations and restricted the work of the airmen. To the north and...

We must face the facts and reogni that Russia, as a decisive I military factor, has ceased to count. (J.e-eral Kormnolt W-ariled the Moscow Conference that Riga was il danger...

I Two despatcews from E.st Africa show that the British snd Belgian oolums were at the end of August beginning to reap the fruits of their hard work. The enemy are eneloEcd in...

I The Rumanian Army, un..deterred by the niisfortunes of its Allics, has withstood for another week the fierce attacks directcd by Marshal Maekensen ag.inst its southern front...

I Last week we lost by mine or torpedo eighteen large inerchantmen, l and two under 1,600 tone, The corrected totel of the Io0SK in the previous week was twenty large Vessels...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. THE most dramatic event of the week has been the ev-cuation of Riga by the Russians on Monday. The enemy on Saturday last opencd a heavy bombardment of -the...

I Our North Sea patrols last Saturday morning caught four evenly armed travlers sweepin1g for mines off the coast of J utlan am"I destroyed them. A hundred men escaped from the...

The Polish Couneil of State has resigned, as a protest agaillat tieo despateh of the Polish Legionseto the-front in Galicia. Thc Council was-set up inNovember,l1)16, when the...

The Trade Union (longreas at Bleckpool-on Tue3day:rejeoted the proposal to send British delegates to the International hocialist Conference at Stoekholm. Only 91,000 votes were...

Lord Robort Cecil made an impotant statement, published in Monday's paper, on President Wilson's reference in his Note to the Pope to the inexpediency and futility of...

A stisfaetorv reply to these raids by fast noroplanos from s the Bclgian coast has bcens made by tho Naval Air Sorv-ic-. Night after night since Friday wook our naval aircraft...

The pwolitical situation in Ruasia has become worde rather than I better since tho Moncow Conference ended. In theecrucial mitter of restoring disciplille in the Army, no...

It in announcerJ that the 'City of Athens,' a liner of 5,6OO tons I bound from Now YorkJ to the (ape and India, was sunk off Cape Town by a mine on August 11th....

The trath is that where Lortd Huldano:made mistake8, he erred i . - . , - _ . .. I .. . . I. . . . taroegn lIac Juugment and by no neaens through -want of patriobism. Although...

The Labour organizations throughout America have this week held meetings to assure the President of their whole-hearted support of the war. The President, in a letter to Mr....

Taki!g ndvantago of the moonlight, enemy aeroplancs on threc I as~ce35ive nights vi-sitod the South-East of 'England. Last 8uiday nsight o!1 aeroplane dropped bombs on Das-er,...

I Duing the week the Manehestr Guardian has published several artides defending Lord Haldane against the abuse which he has suffered as a result of his visit to Berlin in 1912....

CAPTAIN BOWEN-COLTIHIURST. (TO TIE EDITOR cr TE "SPECTATOR."I SIRn-1l reference to the ease of Captain Bow-en-Cotth-rst, I -ent-re to support tble tlpcal -ade thl-o.gh your...

WALTER GREENWAXY. [TO .n. EDITOR OF T..E SPECIATCR."J 61i,-Mtany of -our reiders must Live 1been interektrd in, the -o-terfiut ytos MiN Itubeit holmes gave in Blek:rood's ,llo...

SOME FALLACIES OF SOCIALISM. [TO Too EDITOR OF TOO Soocm ."J SIR,-Inl disrsem~g Sscillisl ju t it this ti-e it is almost imperative to forget Karl MI.. -old tu n to the simlple...

POETRY. ASLEEP! (A.;ESB.lY C.U.CIIYAMD.) TneY lie -klecp, beneath the quiet award, With lichened steno to mark cach final eouh'ere, in this Chureh, they called upon thb...

130 OK S. ITALY AN INDEPENDENT NATION.* W! EN Italy upo- A.gust Srd, 1914, rofusod to bo dra'dl inito anggessivo w-ar on. the side of tho Conitral Powr.s and iss-ucl h-r...

TIHE TRIUE SPIRIT OF EMPIRE. [TO . 0E ErnSOr, or -or SPECTATOR."] FIR,-ThOe ulo of Cl-odi.n qu.oted hy Mr. Ilarold Cox, ro approj,riate to thle lriti,1h Emipire, were...

WAR BREAD. ITO TOO EDITOR OF T-O " SPECTTOO."l F,,O,-'i(Or otatenae-nt that " Do-tors are allowed to or-1-r a ite U.! ad for their patie-ts "I"en thev r'nider it .ece 4ry " isr...

FTOliACE, AND HOUN11OITF. [TO .no EDIToR OF Too SPCooTAO. ] Fki,-Tl illing oser 11- lioiace I was str-ck by the appoitleness of the words whitli in, Ode 111. 5 b uts in the...

[TO TE EDITO. oF . " SrEC-ATOn. 3 S!r,-Mr. Ilartley Withers when dealiseg with this silject in t0ar Mosey cod the StOte asserts It is -o-osily said that we ore still, as a...

THE PSAL3MS INT MODERNT LIFE. [TO -HE EDITOR C- THE "SPECrTOn."I SIR,-I -as somewhat sulrprised to read il the article on " National Song " in the Sprrtalor of Aulguist 18th...

DOES POSTERITY PAY? [TO T. E EDITOR OF TEE" SPETATO ' Sis,-Volr corrIeso!,Itd-t Mr-. loreton ircewe in his letter ap)ijicarilig in yo=r iss-oc of A,:gost 25t en l)oes...

OUR SHIPPING INDUSTRY AND THE STATE. O NE of the best thing3 that the State h1a3 done in thn 0 industrial sphere since the beginning of the wer has beern the planning aslld...

LETTERS TO TrE EDITOR. [Letters ol the flftIgtL oh one ol oar ea1tdii3 paragrophs arc often ,1orc read, a.d thrzefore e ore effe-tioc, than those which filt trebic the sosee....

TOPICS OF THE DAY. UNDER THE BAN. W E dwelt, last; week upon the sincerity and ability of the State Papeer which President. Wilson has issued in answer to the Pope's...

" FALSEHOOD AND PREVARICATION." IN our first article we have discussed President Wilson'g excellent reasons for refusing to make peace with tho Hohenzollerns. By a strange...

THE NEW BOASTING. CHILDREN boast by instinct. The natural man boasts. J The more civilized he becomes, the more effectually is this tendency cubed. Even children put it down...

THE LATEST GERMAN UTOPIA.' Is the pulilication of this b0ook a sign of the times ? Can it be that a change of heart is comning o-er Germany ? Had a professed Socialist .et...

TIHE NATIONAL PARTY. HE formation of a new political party to be called the National Party, which was announced last week, has been received, ine our opinion, with too little...

ACCORDING TO THEIR LIGHTS. HE world was a streak of green and white bubbles, and there vwas a great roaring noise which disturbed his thoughts. " Boots-Boots-I must get them...

THE REVOLT IN ARABIA.' Tne well-known Profe-sor of Arabic at Leydnl Unisiersit vtio ha lived in AMecc, haa writtmn a most instruetis little bok, tinsV translated from the...

AVEST AFRICAN FOLK-TALES.* |ReADERs of Mis. Kingoloy' (k'lighltfill il ll l 4fiu "ill | reensl-er licr torrifyiig su-sr --y ef t h not wit t.o he sum soo in shat siso toh nW...

POTATO ENDS. [TO To EDITOR OF -ILE " SECIATOR."] Sta,-Last spring, .hen there was a great shortage of s6ed pot tees, I wrote to you suggesting that before cvery potato was se-t...

"THE SPIRITUAL INDEPENDENCE 01 THlE (HURCIH." (TO T. E EDITO- OF TIE "SPECTATOR."] Sin-I think Mflr. T. P. Brsrkleharst ib unwittingly il error in statinig that the Weslya...

TrO T E - EDITOR OF TUE SPECTATO." - I Snx-I venture to think that there is usoro in the t ile and Liberty Movement" than was suggested either by your article or by your...

THE CHURCH OF IRELAND'S FRANCHISE. LTO . EDITOR or Taz- SrCT-TOR."I Sm.-None of the writers who have discrussed what shoul-d the franehise for the laity in the Church of...

POTATO CAKES. [TO m. E.DrOR 01 Tm. "SPECTTOU.'] Sm--The disadantage of the recipes given in yo-r i--ne ,s Septemnber lt is that tley give no q antities ef tihe illnleditls tb...