of Wednesday, May 31st, and continued into the "glorious first of June," with results which need not fear to be associated with that historic naval day. We follow almost exactly...

A / 1ER twenty-two months of war the German High Sea Fleet at last came out of its shelter and offered battle on Wednes- day, May 31st. In the greatest naval battle of the...

fought by Admiral Beatty. Ho ma,nreuvred his ships so successfully in upsetting the spotting corrections of the enemy that no seriously disabling hits were registered against...

in naval battles. Relatively to their strength, the Germans lost snore heavily, and it is quite likely that even their absolute losses were heavier than ours. We lost the...

battle- ships could be seen approaching in three divisions, behind a screen of destroyers. The German battle-cruisers turned and took station in front of their battleships....

High Sea Fleet will take months to recover from the shock. There were no surprises. All that there was to be known is now known. Except by a mischance, Germany cannot possibly...

case.

was glorious in its audacity, and we feel sure we shall be able to say when Admiral Jellieoe's despatch appears that it was also great in its skill. Every Admiral, every...

that Mr. Balfour should say, as he did in his speech at the Cannon Street Hotel on Wednesday, that he could not see how he could have done otherwise than he did. Fired by this...

and the night fighting. The British destroyers when released asked for nothing but to sink something or be sunk. At least one great German ship was sent to the bottom by a...

have been set forth :— On the afternoon of Wednesday, May 31st, the greatest naval action of the present war took place off the coast of Jutland. Though only a portion of our...

heavy part of the battle we can choose only two for mention. First, We appalling suddenness with which the 'Queen Mary' and the other battle-cruiseis were lost. It seems that...

John jellicoe, who deployed his ships, by a perfect piece of manoeuvring, between Admiral Beatty's battle-cruisers and the Queen Elizabeths. The whole British Fleet was now...

that have been made aga4 res,; aifour and the Admiralty because they announced the event our great sea victory in so dingy a style, and, according to some of their more...

good land news from the South-East. The Russian offensive, which began about the same time as the battle of Jutland, was not only earlier than we had any right to expect, but...

from the German Fleet, and the nimbus of British world supremacy had disappeared. "A new chapter in the history of the world has been opened by you " ; "The German Fleet has...

will be seen that we have included no fact which anly became known after the issue of Friday week's communiqui. Our additions, if any, are direct, logical, and therefore...

remind our readers that in our issue of March 7th, 1914, we set forth in detail the amendments to the Government of Ireland Bin which would be required in order to exclude the...

more pleasant. The only shadow which falls across it is the thought that Lord Kitchener will not be in Petrograd to express, as the nation's representative, our delight in so...

only comment upon three of them. No man has earned his peerage better than Sir Arthur Nicolson. Mr. C. W. Bowerman, Labour Member for Deptford, by his character and action...

fighting has taken place in the Salient The German attacks, -which were fiercest on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, appear to have failed everywhere, except in the case of our...

Kitchener, who together with his Staff was lost in the Hampshire 'off the Orkneys on Monday evening. Lord Kitchener was on his way to Russia, and it is supposed that the '...

not worth while, to notice the amnaing flood of acrid rhetoric which Herr von Bethmann Ifollweg poured upon the Reichstag at the beginning of the week. We must, however, find a...

Churchill to a very considerable extent misled us in regard to the question of servants at the front, and we apologize both to them and to their officers.. We ought, of course,...

has been done justice to by the immortal cartoon which Mr. Raemakers has con- tributed to the Daily Mail. It shows the Kaiser caparisoned as Falstaff, waving his sword, and...

8th, 1914.

LORD KITCHENER. I N attempting an appreciation of the character of the great soldier whom all Englishmen mourn, we need not sur- vey the familiar achievements that marked him...

W E have always held that the Ulstermen are not only the salt of Ireland, but the salt of the Empire. Joined to their native courage, their steadfastness, their responsibility,...

FPO the question, " How are we to know who is the victor!" -.I our forefathers gave the answer, "He who holds the Death-stead.".. _We held the Death-stead on June 1st, and we...

[CosimuxicarED.1 T HE most contradictory reports regarding the food position in Germany have appeared. We hear some- times that food is exceedingly dear and scarce, and...

F IGHTING at sea changes its character less than fighting on land, no doubt because it is conditioned by an unchanging element. It might, however, be maintained that land...

I F in the Elysian Fields they are moved at all by mortal things, we may be sure that Voltaire watches with eagle eyes Le Itoi des Bulgares trying to Prussianize the world. We...

REMINISCZNCES OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR.—II. ITO TEE EDITOn Or Tilt " SPECTATOZ."! Sm,—What struck me most in talking with the officers with whom I lived was the entire...

THE FRENCH CRUSADE AGAINST ALCOHOLISM. [TO TER EDITOR 01? TRH " SPECTATOR.") Sre,—The great interest which the Spectator has shown in the much. needed work of temperance reform...

" SINICTATOR.1 Sin,—Lord Cromer's letter in the Times on President Wilson's recent speech was also in my opinion so useful that I sent our paper a trans2 lation of it. And I...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—Mr. A F. Harvey's suggestive letter in your issue of May 27th on the Board's recent Report contained an inaccuracy, not since...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR-1 Sia,—One utterance at least of President Wilson's will find an echo in every freemen's heart, and mightily comfort the People of Ulster in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THR "SPECTATOR.") Sia,—I think the following quotation from The Naval War of 1812, by Mr. Roosevelt (Third Edition, New York, 1897), will interest your...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—In the Spectator of May 20th appeared an article headed " Fir $ Blood for the V.T.C.," in which was mentioned the mortal wounding of my...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." Sue,— One hears frequently of the generosity and usefulness of motor-eas owners in coming to the assistance of our wounded soldiers, a phase...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE • SPECTATOR. SIR,—The Executive Committee of the Irish Association of Volunteer Training Corps desire me to return you their most sincere thanks for the...

(TO TEE EDITOR OF THE ' SPECTATOR' . ) notice your well-deserved tribute to the Dublin( ompanies of the V.T.C. for their services during the recent rising, and your sympathy...

iTo THE EDITOR OF TRH " SPECTATOR."1 Sta,—I cordially agree with Mr. Winston Churchill that too large a proportion of our Army is non-combatant, but I do not consider ti...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " ECTATOE.1 Sm,—As indicative of what is in the mind of at least some of the men in our Army, I beg to send to you the following extract from a letter...

Sra,—I have just received my Spectator for last week (May 27th), but I hope I shall not be too late in writing to you. In your comments on the "News of the Week" you speak of...

SIR,—With reference to your criticism on Mr. Churchill's speed re " wastage in the ranks." As regards "officers' servants," let me state the facts existing in the battalion to...

;To 1HE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 , Bra,—I thought you might care to have enclosed, which I have translated from the Conversations-Lezikon of Meyer, the great German...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE -8PECTATOP..-1 am not a conscientious objector, but one loses nothing, I think, by being fair to one's neighbour, even if one doesn't agree with him, and...

[To TER EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."' enclose a copy of verses sent to my baby from her godfather, Lieutenant at the front. They were written one night in the trenches at Ypres...

• [TO TRH EDITOR 07 MR "SPECTATOR."] 8m,—May I be allowed to contribute a very small sum towards sending the Spectator to the base hospitals in France ? I enclose a cheque for...

Sist,—Please find enclosed cheque for £3 to be used specially to send your number for May 20th to our soldiers. The articles on Ireland are specially instructive.—I am, Sir,...

[To ME EDITOR 07 THR " SPECTATOR:1 Sia,—Last week you reprinted a passage from what you rightly call " an extraordinarily prescient article" by the late Mr. Meredith Townsend...

[TO THE EDITOR OP TRH " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—The shortage of labour is universal. It can obviously not be ;alleviated by transferring labour employed in some necessary occupation...

"Spectator arrived quite up to date, also three C.F.N.'a, for which so many thanks. The sermons are very nice, and the one you mention Is very straight indeed (temperance). I...

iTo THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Some years ago we possessed a goose and a gander. For some reason or other the goslings were taken away from them, and the gander went...

(To THE EDITOR 07 THB "SPECTATOR." I . Sra,—The Chairman of the British Women's Hospital has received the . following letter from Mr. Arthur Stanley, asking the Committee to •...

[TO THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPEOTATOIL'l SIR,—We are threatened in the near future with a very serious milk famine, as well as a diminution of production in our home-grown food....

You, who with poisoned pen and art malign So long have striven his power to undermine, Now that a crafty and relentless foe Has laid the greatest of our War Lords low, Have yet...

Wire was the first to give the name, Ill-omened, to this mountain side ? On some dark winter's night he came, What dreams were his before he died! What figures, awful,...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPEOTAT01.1 Sre,—I am encouraged by the two most instructive reviews of recent poetry which have appeared in your columns in the last two weeks to ask you...

[TO THZ EDITOR OF TH1 " SPECTAT01.1 Sie,—Burrowing rabbits are excavating the ground under some of the largest megaliths at Stonehenge. In comparatively recent times one, at...

LORD KITCHENER. (Demmer, JUNE 5111, 19104 Tax unresting giant, who, above war's din, Held his grave course and laboured mightily, Now, beyond toil and clamour, sleeps within...

THE RULE OF THE MAJORITY.* CARLYLE, in one of those sweeping and hasty generalizations in which he was wont to indulge, said that before the French Revolution there were "50...

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...

Trra practice of printing verse as prose is not new. In moments of emotional expansion it is sometimes indulged in (unintentionally) by serious writers. Thackemy resorted to it...

Mn. F. W. WILE has done a really useful service to English readers during the war by summarizing for them the news and comments of German newspapers. In his new book, The...

the series of articles published by us over the signature of "A Student in Arms" has been reprinted in book form, together with two other articles by the same writer which...

Mn. GEOFFREY DRAGE has brought together a selection from the speeches and papers which he has published in the course of his work as a member of what he calls, with a happy...

In the Nineteenth Century Sir Charles Lucas, who discusses the sugges- tions for the future government of - the Empire made in Mr. Basil Worsfold's book, The Empire on the...

THE original of society, maintains Mr. Shandy in the famous passage, was mcrely conjugal, and consisted in nothing more than the getting to ether of a man and a woman,...

any one imagine a more delectable place to live in than a cottage perched on the hills overlooking the Wye Valley, with views of the Welsh hills, Tintem Abbey, the river, and a...

6s.)—An Anglo-Indian novel which deals with the incidents of the Tirah Campaign.—Spectators. By Clara Smith • Christina's Son. By W. M. Letts. London: Wells Gardner, Dorton r.s....

CHRISTINA'S SON.* . Nor a few novelists of eminence in recent years have lent support to the now—indeed, one of them is credited with having expressly said so— that normal...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude eub.7e2usnt review.] La Write. By J. Bertourieux. (Geneva : Imprimerie Jent.)–s This substantial book of respectable outward...

Trench, and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—Nicholas Evrainov has a fantastio touch, and A Merry Death—recently given a production in London by the Pioneer Players—has much that is attractive...

3d.), is a useful little book or pamphlet, fit for distribution in rural districts. It states the need plainly, and should encourage women and girls to tell the village...