A MAGNIFICENT feat of airmanship was performed at three o'clock on Monday morning by Flight-Sub- Lieutenant R. A. J. Warneford, R.N., who single-handed attacked a Zeppelin...

Zeppelin visited the East Coast during last night. Incendiary and explosive bombs were dropped, causing two fires, and resulting in five deaths and forty injured."

supremo effort they have made both as regards men and the expenditure of shell. But if they continue to wage the Polish war in this strenuous manner, it is clear that they will...

week been active and successful. It destroyed several Turkish coaling-places and also sunk two Turkish steamers. In the Baltic, as we learn from a Petrograd telegram published...

a huge scale. The Germans under General Mackensen are striving their hardest to reach Lemberg. Though it must be admitted that they have made a considerable amount of progress...

detail the capture of a strongly fortified position at Quenne- vibres on June 6th. After the French artillery had smashed the German defensive works, an assault was made by four...

French continues. They now hold all the villages of Neuville St. Yeast, and they have made great progress in the "Labyrinth " and in the region of Ilebuterne. Thursday's papers...

and is on sale at ail Messrs. Smith and Son's Bookstalls and all other Newsagents'. All country readers can now obtain the paper on Saturday morning, and should instruct their...

case.

on the Stelvio, on the Brenner, and, most important of all, on the Isonzo. They now occupy, indeed, a considerable portion of Austrian territory, and hold both sides of the...

and the situation which has arisen from it The terms of the Note sent by Mr. Bryan's successor, which was despatched on Thursday from Washington, are not known, and will not be...

Admiralty, announced that another German submarine had been sunk, and that six officers and twenty-one men had been captured. He added that in future the treatment of sub-...

Thursday week. Several new Ministers were absent, waiting for the passage of the Bill which will relieve them from the necessity of re-election. Sir John Simon, the new Home...

stated that the total British casualties in the Flanders and Mediterranean Expeditionary Forces, including of course the Dominion and Indian contingents, up till the last day of...

Munitions Bill, Lord Stanhope, who was at the front as lately as last Saturday and returned there on Thursday, made a striking speech in which he pointed out that while the...

the German Government batched a gigantic scheme for obtaining control of all the leading gun and munition factories in the United States, with the object of preventing them from...

provide some interesting details. In the early hours of Thursday week the Germans broke through on the north and entered the town. The 10th Austrian Corps then advanced from the...

for a salary of £5,000 for the Minister of Munitions. The critics were again persistent Sir Henry Dalziel asked whether it were true that Ministers bad arranged, "behind the...

the new Defence of India Act was the occasion of remarkable revelations. One of the ringleaders, Amar Singh, bad emigrated to Canada in 1909, and there came in contact in 1913...

French's Headquarters. During his visit he conversed for half an hour with General Joffre, General Pooh, and M. Millerand. He informally inspected a brigade which had just come...

respects. A call for action in the abstract is very dangerous. The problem is not to do something or anything, but to do the right thing—to act wisely, not merely to act. If...

he has made since he ceased to be First Lord of the Admiralty, gave an account of his services to his constituents. He avoided recrimination, and said that the only thing for...

Manchester on Thursday week and addressed a meeting of engineers. His message, he said, was the most urgent ever delivered to Manchester. He had come to tell the truth. The...

many young Quakers has directed them to a different conclusion, just as Quakers in the American Civil War took up arms because they saw that the cause which they judged to be...

"Pray, don't talk about conscription as if it were anti-demo- cratio. We won and saved our liberties in this land on more than one occasion by compulsory service. France saved...

wrote to the Westminster Gazette of Wednesday to say that, though the Society of Friends "has decided not at present even to consider the wisdom of removing from membership the...

Aug. 8th.

THE ESSENTIAL NEED. U NLESS we beat the Germans they will bleed us to death, and grind their heels upon our faces. Those who in their hearts nourish a secret feeling that if...

filHE resignation of Mr. Bryan, the powerful American J. Secretary of State, which took the United States by surprise, must of course affect considerably the methods by which...

T HE National Government have very wisely taken a step which we strongly urged upon the late Government on February 28th, 1914, and again on July 4th of the same year. They are...

W E have dealt elsewhere with the main problem of increasing the national production of munitions of war. Here we desire to point out how voluntary effort may supplement the...

L AST week we wrote of the serenity with which soldiers at -1-4 the front accept the prospect of death, having put behind them all speculation as to their chances and all...

TN the sphere of expression all people can be divided into two classes, abbreviators and expanders, though it does not follow that laconic utterance betrays a lack of ideas or...

B ETWEEN October and February we had more than fifty convalescent Belgian soldiers in the Hill House Convalescent Home. By profession they ranged from Univer- sity students to...

[To r. Errroa or nu 4.8rEcr,roo."] Sin,—Germany's war is upon all the men, women, and children of its enemies. Neither age nor sex affords exemp- tion from its armed attack....

A VOICE FROM AMERICA. [To Tax EDITOR Or Sea .. 8PECT•70...] San,—The trouble and difficulty which the War Office is having to procure adequate supplies of munitions of war...

(TO Tan BPITOIS Or tan n SP.S.0."1 SIR,—As a result of the very extensive notice which the Press of the country was kind enough to give to nay recent letter on National...

iTo ens EDITOIL or re. • "sraeeseoe."l Sin,—Doee this interest you P Almost all the names of mew fit for service in my district are on the church-door as having gone to the...

[To ens EDITOZ or ran SPECSAT011...] SIR, I am asked by a friend who is going as chaplain to the front to forward to you the following document which was passed at a meeting...

[To Tea EDITOR. or TEE . sracTaToR - ] Sin,—As you have taken such a deep and practical interest in the above corps, may I venture to ask your opinion on one point ? Would it...

rat "Srroraxor.."] Sot,—I have read a letter on "Bird Life in the Battle Zone" taken from your paper dated May 29th, and the following may interest you. On April 27th I was...

[To ens EDITOR or Tax "ErICTATOR..] Sin,—In your issue of Tune 5th Mr. L. G. H. Horton-Smith writes "The can has got to set—now, once, and for ever— either on the British...

[To sus Enrros or raz Srrcrnroa."] SIR,—YOUT reference in last week's Spectator to the nation's "profound belief in the invincibility of our Fleet" raises an im- portant...

[To TER EDITOR or ran .. E.C111 . 011."] SIE,—The following facts witnessed by me during the last German attacks upon our portion of the line might help people at home to...

or ear "Eracraros."] SIR,—All those of your readers who have been accustomed to find in the teachings of Mr. Maurice a philosophic prescience may like to recall in 1914 what...

[To TEE EDITOR or TUB ESTMCTATOR") SIR, —Will you kindly allow me to call the attention of your readers to a valuable paper to be found in the last Annual Report of the China...

[To en EDITOR or ens ntirsc-mon...) Sun,—What part can women take in agriculture ? Is there a living for women on the land P Can they to any extent take the place of the men...

[To rex Elmos or ear ••srsorsros."] Sin,—Permit me to correct a misapprehension which might arise in the minds of most people from what Mr. Andrew W. Arnold says in his...

[To .a EDITOS or ear Sxn,—Like some other people that I know, I regard the Spectator as the best of newspapers for Sunday reading. Its outlook on the world of men and things...

PRESIDENT r LORD DES130ROUGH. Hors. Szcairreav PERCY A. HARRIS, Esq. HEAD OFFICES: Judges Quadrangle, Royal Courts of Justice (Carey Street entrance). The aims and objects of...

ENGLAND'S DEAD.* ("Mahe them to be numbered with thy Saints: in glory everlasting." HOMEWARD the long ships leap; swift-shod with joy, Striding the deep sea-dykes fast home...

[To T. EonOs or nal "SrrOTATOR."] Sin,—Will you give me leave to name a small tragedy involved with many greater in the above crime? We learn that a consignment of field...

" RenTATOS...] Sia,—Will yen allow me once again to appeal for help for our troops in British East Africa through the columns of your paper P My letter asking for comforts to...

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

THE DARWIN FAMILY LETTERS.* L/TCHFIELD has laid the reading public under a heavy and abiding obligation by these two delightful volumes. They cover a solid century, and deal...

with the general litera- ture of the war may not find much that is new to them in this remarkable volume ; it was not written for them. It is a valiant and very powerful attempt...

E. M. Scull writes of hunting in the Arctic he means what Americans call bunting and we call shooting. He has told hie story well, for a narrative about big-game shooting and...

will sympathize with Mr. Arnold J. Toynbee when they learn that he attributes the inception of hie extremely interesting book on Nationality and the War. to "an ingrained habit...

LITERARY studies and literary " Histories " abound in these days, and that is much to the good. The function of such books is aperitif; they are the guides which set an...

"Amseen ROBBERY WITH VIOLHNCIL—While riding his bicycle between two and three o'clock yesterday meaning along the un- frequented locality of the Pimlico Road, a young man of...

Ma. COULSON $1111NAHAN, whose delicate and ingenious fantasies have beguiled so many pleasant hours for us in the remote past of " before the war," has turned his remarkable...

Itr what tidy houses we should pass our well-ordered lives if we were all willing to buy experience in a shilling handbook. The teachers are there with attractive little volumes...

THE PRETENDER:I. Tam is not a story of the '15 or the '45. The bizarre wrapper as well as the sub-title make that sufficiently clear. The pretending in which the hero of Mr....

Samuel Johnson, compiled by the late Mr. W. P. Courtney, and revised by Mr. D. N. Smith (7s. 6d. net). It is in reality far more than a mere bibliography, and, owing to the...

of the modern position of women; it is coloured with a superficial optimism.—Beating Back. By Al Jennings and Will Irwin. (D. Appleton and Co. 6s.)—How Mr. Jennings lived as...

Muir. (Grant Richards. 6s.)—There was Jim McClure, who consulted the Contour Road Book and saw to all the practical arrangements, and Betty his wife, lovable, irresponsible...

novel seems to be Miss klears's first contribution to fiction ; we rather hope it is, for good and bad are so mingled in it that it would be pleasant to attribute to...

Part I. has appeared (Cambridge University Press, 3s. 6d. net), emphasizes the scientific aspect of the subject. The matters dealt with are largely those which are needed as...

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[Notice Si au ohms does rot swami-fly preclude nitsequentreoieva The Near East from Within (Cassell and Co., 10s. 6d. net) belongs to the familiar clams of books that may be...

Oxford Historical and Literary Studies" upon Henry Tubbe, by Mr. G. C. Moore Smith (Oxford University Press, 6s. 6d. net). Henry Tubb* was born in 1618 and lived till 1655. He...

in two sheets on a scale of about fifty miles to the Mob (12s. 6d.).—The same publishers have issued two maps which will be useful for the purpose of studying the operations...

out in 1900 his compilation upon The Sources and Literature of English History (from the Earliest Times to about 1485). A Committee of his Harvard colleagues have now made a...

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May 29th the author should have been described as Nisi Brailsford, not Mrs. Braitsford.]

brought out in 1900 his compilation upon The Sources and Literature of English History (from the Earliest Times to about 1485). A Committee of his Harvard colleagues have now...

in two sheets on a scale of about fifty miles to the inch (12s. 6d.).—The same publishers have issued two maps which will be useful for the purpose of studying the operations...