NEWS OF DIE WEEK.
THE situation (as we write on Friday) is very different from that which we chronicled last week. It is true we then had high hopes of better things, but we did not dare to indulge them openly lest they should prove unsubstantial. Happily these hopes were not dupes. The apparent retreat of the Germans was a real retreat. The enemy which a fort- night ago was at the gates of Paris has fallen back day by day, and is now entrenched upon the Aisne. The progress of the war since the Germans entered France resembles the movements of dancers in a quadrille. Dame and Cavalier advance and reach a certain point and then fall back, while their vis-ez-via dance down over the same space of floor up which the first couple advanced. We do not believe that we shall have to press the analogy any further, or that the English and French partners will have to chasser back to the Paris-Verdun line.
