The German attack, which formed the last phase, was at two . . - .. . I -- e- TM'I ___J_ ponift. in tie soutn (at nco nortn enu. oi iDonavis i1awgo anIu in the Gonnelieu...

Sir George Buchanan, fresh from his trying experience as British Ambassador to Russia, said on Friday week that he had warned the Tsar in the winter of 1916 of the danger of...

-The Russian Anarchist delegates signed a Peace Treaty with the enemy last Sunday, accepting without discussion all the terms imposed on them. By this treaty Russia is...

I As many of the local Workmen's Councils in Russia, less un- patriotic than the Petrograd Anarchists, have expressed their dislike of the Geiman peace, a general Congress of...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. T HE despatch on the battle of Cambrai, which was published T in the papers of Tuesday, will do much-if such a thing be necessary-to confirm the good opinion...

The fact must be mentioned, as not least among the considerations in Sir Douglas Haig's mind, that by a push at Cambrai he would be greatly helping the Italians. There is no...

I Rumania. threatened with enemies in the rear by the advance of Austrian troops into Bes~sarabia, by the collapse of Russia and the defection of the Ukraine, signed a...

A RT. MR. NE% l'VSO.\'S WAR PICTURES. ONE thoughtful writer, looking back in 1915 on the strange anarchic phases of art, Futurist, Post-Impressionist, Cubist, and the rest,...

CENTRAL FUND OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Six,-In the early part of February a statement by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York was...

PO E TRfY. THE LEARNER. A H.ANDFL of swift years was yours, 0 dear dead Boy beyond my care, Whose youth undying death secures, Unalterably pure and fair. Some things he knew:...

Canada, Past, Present, and Future. By Percy Hurd. (G. Allen and Unwin. is. net.)-In this new volume of the " International Information Series " Mr. Hurd gives a lucid and...

The Round Table for March (2s. 6d.) deserves to be read atten- I timely as a whole. We may single out for special commendation the article on " Three Doctrines in Conflict...

Faith, War, and Policy. By Gilbert Murray. (H. Milford. 6s I net.)-Professor Murray's lectures and essays on the war are well worth reading, though in his efforts to maintain...

'We have pleasure in calling attention to the first number of 8udan AoNotes and Records (Sudan G3overmnent Ruailways Uffice, 5 Northumberland Avenue, W.C., 3s.), a most...

1914-19: How Our Infant Mfortality was Halved. By Graemro| Halkerston. (John Bale, Sons, and Danielsson. 6d. net. )-This piquant little sketch of an imaginary medical officer...

|WORRS OF REFERENCE.I . .- _ .. The Year's Art, 1918, edited by A. C. R. Carter (Hutchinson and Co., 7s. 6d. net), is the thirty-ninth issue of a useful and interesting...

We learn from the Repcr, for 1917 of the Liverpool National I Service Part-Time Committee that the Committee arranged for the employment of 1,646 volunteers who did over 10,000...

Affores!4tion and the Partially Disablcd. By T. H. Mawson. (Grant Richards. ls.)-Mr. Mlawson has followed up his general proposal to found industrial villages for partially...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I [Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are I often more read, and therefore more effective, than...

AN EXODUS FROM FLANDERS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SiP,,-Not many of your readers, perhaps, make a daily study pt the Temps. May I make a very brief summary of an...

" THE NEW MODEL "? [To THE EDITOR OF TRE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,-I hope I shall not be the only member of the House of Laymen (unavoidably absent from the recent Session) to...

THE SHIPBUILDING CRISIS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOa."] Sin,-With interest one reads in your " News of the W'eek. - that the Government have decided "to let the people of...

THE GERMAN TREATMENT OF PRISONERS. [TO TrE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] T. - __ __ - I I . - * 1. . 1 ..... I - .. Z51,-It would bX ditficult in all history to find any moral...

SOCIAL LIFE IN BRITAIN FROMA THE CONQUEST TO THEI REFOR3MATION.* at Ir_ _ _ s w - . I. I I I . I e I * I I - MR. COULTON'S delightful new book must be of keen interest to every...

I We lost last week by mine or submarine twelve merchant ships over 1,600 tons and six smaller ships. In the previous week we had lost fourteen large and three small ships....

Lord Lansdowne contributed a letter to Tuesday's Daily Tele- grabph, in which he developed the view that Count Hertling's recent speech, " unsatisfactory as it is at many...

Italy has a short way with those Pacificists whose lack of I patriotism borders on active treason Signor Lazzari and Signor Bombacci, secretary and assistant-secretary of the...

M. Pichon, the French Foreign Minister, on Friday week spoke on the question of Alsace-Lorraine, recalling the solermin protest made forty-seven years ago by the Deputies of...

M. Viviani, who was Premier and Foreign Minister in those critical days, has recalled his conversation WiaM naron von ocnoen on Friday, July 31st, 1914. The Ambassador asked...

I Sir Eric Geddes, in introducing the Navy Estimates on Tuesday, told the House that, contrary to general belief, there had been no surface barrage across the Straits of Dover...

Herr Scheidemaun's Socialist organ, Vorwarts, as we expected, has described the Allied Socialist peace terms as impossible ideals. In Germany, it says, there are only two...

Lord Wrenbury, in a letter which the Times published on Monday, set forth succinctly the demands of the civilized conscience in the matter of peace terms. The legal mind, like...

I The Western Front has been in a state of violent agitation through- out the week. On the night of Friday week the enemy attempted no less than eight raids into our lines, and...

Sweden, whose evident partiality for Germany caused much surprise and regret here in tne eariy uays >Im Nw ius, b U. - eovering her error. Germany, on the pretext of assisting...

FINLAND. THE present civil war in Finland owes its origin to the infil1 tration of Bolshevik ideas among the town populations of Helsingfors, Viborg, and Tammerfors. It is...

" TIE ENEMY OF ISLA-." [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] cw _ . _ - v _- : n- - --- _- I . . - - _ .%rA SIR,-As (Germnan agents in Turkey, Ilersla, and Arabua for nmany...

THE LARK. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I have no doubt you have already had comnmenits on D)r. Reginald Hann's letter in your issue of February 23rd about ihe lark....

LABOUR AWAKENING IN RURAL ENGLAND. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sip,-In your issue of March 2nd a contributor, Mr. F. E Green, refers to the statement that an...

ILLEGAL DFSTRUCTION OF BITTERN-S. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. ] SIR,-The rare and most interesting bittern is - pioteoted - throughout the year in Hampshire, yet three...

LESS FOOD-CONTINUED FOOD DESTRUCTION. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE a SPECTATOR."] bal,-i note that Mr. G. Ernest winterton does not expect that i would admit that any evidence,...

SUGAR BEETS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."I SIR,-I have been trying experiments with sugar beets, and I can now recommend the following as a useful jam, specially for...

HOW TO DOUBLE THE BUTTER RATION. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,-For those who find it difficult to make their quarter-poundl ration of butter meet all the needs of...

I If we were to criticize-and an honest biographical note must say something in criticism-we would remark that Mr. Redmond was a much weaker politician than his admirers...

I We must accept the Government's denial of complicity, but it would be an affectation to pretend that it satisfies us. So long as the men controlling the very newspapers which...

Sir Eric Geddes went on to say that the curve of the losses of Allied and neutral merchant shipping was still continuing in a downward direction. If the losses in the five...

Mr. Llovd Georze in the House of Commons on Mondav paid a I fine tribute to the late Sir Stanley Maude, in proposing a grant of £25,000 to his widow. General Maude completely...

Sir Edward Carson's words on this subject were so striking, and we fear so true, that we must quote them textually:" The whole time that he was at the Admiralty, one of the...

Larger numbers of 'U '-boats, Sir Erie Geddes continued, were being sunk, as quickly, indeed, as they could be built. The chances against an enemy submarine returning home from...

Sir Edward Carsoni told the House of Commons on Wednesday I that he, as a member of the War Cabinet, had not been consulted as to the dismissal of Lord Jellicoe, and that, when...

We greatly regret to record the death of Mr. John Redmond, winclc occurred in London on Luesuay morning. Ever since nis declaration at the beginning of the war that the Irish...

We must be grateful to any one who can offor us even a crumb of comfort as to food supplies, when there is talk of bread-rationing and a further " dilution " of the loaf. Dr....

THE NATURE OF PROPAGANDA. [TO THE EDrIOrR OF THE " SPFCTATOR.' ] SIR,-Speaking a few days ago in the House during the debate upon Home Propaganda, Mr. Bonar Law is reported (in...

THE BASIS OF INDUSTPIAL CONCORD. [TO THE EDITOR or rEE S SPECTATOR."] Sin,-As a memrber of the National Union of Manufacturers (Incorporated) and Honorary Editor of the United...

RATIONING DRINK. [TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-AS a reaider of your paper for over thirty years, and a d?river of much benefit from its teachings, may I ask your...

A CLOSER APPROACH OF THE ANGLO-SAXON NATIONS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."I S,1-A passage in your interesting article descriptive of ,-,r Walter Raleigh's essay on "...

THE SORTIE FROM THE DARDANELLES. [TO THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,-I notice that in one of your notes under "News of the Week," published on January 26th, you spoke of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIP,-Under the above heading is a letter in the Spectator of Mtarch 2nd. I remember that somoe years ago Sir Johnston ForbesRobertson was...

RUSKIN ON THE GERMAN CHARACTER. [To STE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-By the merest chance I came across the following passage in Ruskin's Fors Clavigera, which I think...

" THE BELOVED OAPTAIN." [To Tix EDITOR Or TRE " SPECTATOL."] SiR,-If only to show working out to fuller issues the fine spirit that animated Donald Rankey's " Beloved Captain,"...

FACIAL MEMORY AND VOICES. [To THE EDITOR Or TEE " SprcrAToR."] SIR,-May I supplement " H. D.'s" interesting letter on this subject by a personal reminiscence? I am one of seven...

PASSMORE EDWARDS SETTLEMENT. [TO THE EDITOR OF TH " SPECTATOR."] - D .A - .. --..-- I . A .osI,-.iuay i in tnese days ask space in your columns to plead the cause of a Social...

THE SPIRIT OF THE UNITED STATES. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOB."] SiR,-The enclosed, from a Divinity Professor at Harvard, may be of interest, as showing the resolute...

BRITISH PRISONERS IN HOLLAND. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-If any of your readers wish to help the men of our Royal Naval Division interned in Holland since...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE WILL TO VICTORY. HISTORY has shown again and again, we said last H iveek, that the tenacious nation 'was much nearer success towards the end of a war...

A RUMANIAN DIARY.* LADY KENXARD'S book is particularly welcome, for we imagine that the general publio here know little of the conditions of life in the country of our gallant...

A RUSSIAN SCHOOLBOY.t WITH the publication of these recollections of school and college life Mr. J. D. Duff completes his translation of the Memoirs of Serge Aksikoff, the...

MID-VICTORIAN OXFORD.* THE great majority of Oxford Reminiscences have been written from an aeademic Standpoint. The differentir. of Mr. Plowman's agreeable volume is its dual...

B1 0 0 K S.- r ALSACE.LORRAINE.* A&LSASCE-LORRAIN'E.* I] ThE question of Alsace-Lorraine is stated very ably annd very rlearly in M. Duuhem's little book.' It is also...

THE CHURCH IN ITALY DURING THE WAR. NE of Italy's most serious stumbling-blocks has been ecclesi0U astical opposition. Some people, indeed, assume that the Church in Italy is...

I FU -- EELS. FROOD is the most prosaic thing in the world, but in the pro, F curing of it lies the essence of poetry. In normal times the town-dweller is in danger of...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK, I [Notice in this column do s not necessarily preclude eubsequent revLew.1 THnE MARCH MorNTHxEs.! _ . - I s . . s -The Nineteenth Century has an...

F I T IO N. OUR LITTLE KINGDOM.' Mn. CRESWIOK has cast his story in the form of an autobiography extending from childhood to early manhood. The plan of a lifehistory is in the...

GERMANY'S ECONOMIC WEAKNESS. ALTHOUGH economic warfare can never be an effective A~ substitute for victory in the field, yet it is worth while to consider what opportunities...

THE SHIPBUILDING CRISIS. IN the heading to this article we have called the situation with regard to shipbuilding a " crisis " because it is nothing less. The statement by Sir...

JAPAN, RUSSIA, AND GERMANY. ^~~~~ . . . ' . .. . . . . C YRITICS in this country have already divided themselves J into two groups, according as they applaud or deprecate the...