to record beyond the fact that the Russians by a combined naval and military movement have captured the town of Rizeh, a port on the Black Sea forty miles east of Trebizond....

to the state of the Navy, and also with Colonel Churchill's amazing intervention in the debate. It remains only to refer to the well-merited castigation which Colonel Churchill...

whole of Mr. Balfour's scathing exposure of Colonel Churchill's sinister paradoxes, and no attempt to compress that exposure would be successful. We must he content to advis3...

French have held their line, the German attacks have been maintained, or rather ranewed, with no little violence. It is still, however, uncer- tain whether this renewal of the...

T HE French hold their own at Verdun. That is the essential fact to record in summarising the week's news, and it is enough. The strain upon the French, hitherto always happier...

necessary man at the Admiralty, Mr. Balfour spoke of "the profound stupefaction" caused by his words. Colonel Churchill a very short time ago had stated in publio and in private...

is true not only of the ground around Verdun, but of the rest of the line. For instance, on Wednesday, March 8th, the French recovered trenches in Champagne which the Germans...

any case.

Readers of the " SPECTATOR" are no doubt aware that the Press is now required to practise drastic economies in the use of paper. Speaking generally, we may say that the...

for what was in effect a vote of confi- dence, and he has received it. A courageous statesman may always be sure of such a response when he appeals to his country- men to...

doubt that the House of Representatives would follow suit. This happened on Tuesday, when there were three tests by voting, and the President's policy gathered adherents during...

a wide area- It was a surprise to every one, as the weather was very unfavourable. During the raid there wer& several snowstorms. It may be that the Zeppelins travelled above...

Mr. Wilson's foreign policy :— " First, laok of foresight to make timely provision for backing up American diplomacy by actual or assured military or naval force. Second, the...

in the coming electoral campaign in the United States seems to have been removed by Mr. Elihu Root's speech at the New York State Republican Convention on February 15th. It was...

ago, when Lord Fisher was just as much a necessary man as he is now, Colonel Churchill was not only willing to fling him over, but in effect insisted that he must go. Now,...

Act took place in the House of Lords on Thursday week, when Lord Derby spoke very plainly about the number of exemptions. These, he said, were excessive beyond all reason. The...

as important as munitions. It was inevitable that some single men should be exempted in order to work on the land. Lord Harris entirely disagreed with Lord Selborne, and as a...

Balfour's " sword-play " was a very poor affair. After a whining complaint that Mr. Balfour's dialectical skill had been used against "one so much younger than himself," Colonel...

will be regarded with warm satisfaction. We may recall here that it follows the linos which were suggested by the Central Association in May of last year. The Act of 1863 and...

felt strongly for the married men, who were being called up much sooner than he had anticipated. At the same time, he would be casting a slur on the patriotism of these married...

on Monday. This is a truly important movement, and we heartily wish it success. The Duke of Marlborough, as "the largest farmer in England, with perhaps two excep- tions," said...

the statement that the 't127,' the German submarine which sank the 'Arabic,' was herself sunk on the same day—August lath. This is particularly interesting, for, as the New York...

explanation of the position which the Volunteer Corps will occupy on the recognition which has been promised by the Government, and which will very shortly take concrete shape....

of Commerce on the defence of trade and employment within the Empire after the war. Ho admitted that, since the war was bound to revolutionize the whole economic outlook of the...

All that he is afraid of is being told that he must do Volunteer duty at some hour which makes the carrying on of his usual vocation impossible. No man need fear such...

conclusion, he will be entirely wrong. What we have been saying only applies to the Volunteers under normal conditions and before embodiment. If embodiment takes place, then the...

that the War Office will invite Volunteer units to take on specifies pieces of work in such a way that the ordinary vocation of the Volunteers will not be interfered with. By a...

be done by the Volunteers ; but even if only a small amount of work were accomplished, the Volunteer movement would have justified itself. Not only do the men know their drill,...

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THE ANATOMY OF AN ALTERNATIVE.' T ORD HALIFAX, greatest and keenest of political JILJ critics, once gave to the world The Anatomy of an Equivalent. We wish that some of the...

there have been certain rumours that the Navy, owing to want of foresight in this or that direction, or owing to a lack of driving-force in the Board of Admiralty, was not in so...

I N private life Colonel Churchill may very likely have all the virtues, or even the graces, of personal conduct. We should not be surprised to learn that he was scrupulously...

I N view of the possible necessity of another War Loan, the Daily Mail and some other newspapers are now booming the idea of what are called bonus bonds. In substance a bonus...

T HE moral of troops was pronounced by Napoleon to be three times as important as numbers. No doubt when Napoleon said that he spoke in a figure, for he was also the author of...

W E are a Special Reserve battalion, and here on our barrack square you may see both the raw material and the finished product : the Derby recruit but newly arrived from the...

THE SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS. [TO TEl EDITOR Olt TH3 " SPECTATOR.") Sre,—We are reluctant to add to the multitude of public appeals, but we feel ourselves justified in urging...

[TO THE EDITOR OP TRH "SPROTATOI.n SER,—To do is easier than to suffer. The blood-boiling enthusiasm of the charge in attack must be less strain than the protracted patient...

Or TRH " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Your readers will be glad to know that at the last meeting of the National Trust we accepted an important gift of an open space, which has the added...

the case of the conscientious objector skims for argument the verbal surface of the parabolical sayings of Jesus Christ, it may be worth while, for the sake of a younger...

SIE,—As one who was present at some of the interrupted meetings at Devonshire House, Bishopsgate, I feel that we must in fairness give the anti-Germanists credit for abstention...

(TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—If "our foolish want of adequate preparation cannot be attributed to Free Trade," to what then are we to attribute it ? The country,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—I have been much interested in the description of cob building by your correspondent in the Spectator of February 26th. I re- member a...

(To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Will you allow me to give the facts in regard to the protests made at the Devonshire House pacificist meetings by members of the...

(To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR:) SIR,—" This is a war of finance." "It is the non-combatants that must vin this war." I quote these words spoken in Edinburgh lately by...

ITO THE EDITOR 07 TUE 'SPECTATOR" ) Siu,—The "mud and stud" cottages of Lincolnshire, which I do not think I have seen mentioned in your articles and correspondence on pith de...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") 8111,—Give mo leave to say with what deep regret and astonishment I observe that you have given the weighty sanction of the Spectator to...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THP " SPECTATOR."' SIE,—Contributors to your correspondence columns in recent issues have made the following statements about the affairs of Pennsyl- vania in...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] you find me space to name a development in the scheme Inaugurated by the late Lord Roberts for providing field glasses and telescopes for the...

SOUTH OF PANAMA.* Tun graphic account which Lord Bryce published in 1912 of his travels in South America does not purport to be a political disquisition on the present...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TUB " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—The Women's League of Service, which is striving to check the death-rate of infants and help the mothers by providing them with dinners...

DTTONUIT DOMENTS. THUNDERS and lightnings and the trumpet pealing Loud, through the smoke of Sinai aflame, Witnessed to Israel at the Law's revealing, Told of the terrors of...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of...

THE Nietzschean idea of the superman is so familiarly associated with the German motive in making war that Herr Berg's attempt —translated into excellent English—to trace the...

A PECULIAR interest attaches to this volume, apart from the intrinsic merit of the letters from America, Canada, and the South Seas originally contributed by Rupert Brooke to...

THE now number of the Round Table is as good as ever. But the Round Table is the despair of the magazine reviewer, because it is not a magazine in the ordinary sense—that is, a...

THE first place in the new Nineteenth Century is given to Sir Francis Piggott'spaper on "The Reorganisation of the Empire: Counsels of Perfection." Theoretically, the claim of...

MRS. BALFAME.* Is one of the "Bab Ballads" the late Sir W. S. Gilbert described the career of a man who indemnified himself in middle age for long years of impeccable integrity...

Cities (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 61-25 net) has reached a fourth edition. Primarily a record and secondarily a thesis, it is useful to those who care for civic art, even outside the...

(S.P.C.K. 6s. net.)—The Savilian Professor at Oxford delivered these lectures to children at the Royal Institute in the Christmas holidays two years ago. In book-form they will...

[Notice in this celumn does not necessarily preclude sampan: review.] The Man Napoleon. By William H. Hudson. (George G. Harrap and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Hudson's avowed aim is...

10s. 6d. net.)—Mr. White " redis- covered " a tract of country lying on the German side of a barrier of mountains between British and German East Africa, and gives us his diary...