to do magnificently. That is not surprising, but what is sur- prising is the rapidity of their advance. It is no doubt premature to say that the fall of Breslau, the capital of...

moving, message from the Secretary to the Admiralty. We give it in full "Yesterday and to-day strong and numerous squadrons of flotillas have made a complete sweep of the North...

I T would be most unwise, nay, worse, ignoble, to begin shouting about victory merely because our gallant Army has not been destroyed, and because the Germans have been checked...

tained. Although the check to the Germans must not be exaggerated, there do seem to be grounds for thinking that the retreat has been marked by a great number of small actions...

more notable, and nothing more creditable to Mr. Asquith's states- manship and power to grasp the essentials of a question, than the way in which he has from the beginning stuck...

a speech of very great importance. He asked for a vote for five hundred thousand men over and above the half-million already sanctioned. Before the war the vote for our Regular...

case.

a word as to an omission from it. Though he referred to the National Reserve, be did not tell us how many men that body has given to the Army. No doubt the difficulty about a...

France, and Russia have agreed "not to conclude peace separately during the present war." Of course, it was quite unthinkable that Britain, France, or Russia should be so base...

to the Secretary of State was read in both Houses of Parliament. The telegram contains a summary of offers of services and money made in India to the Viceroy. The rulers of the...

a recom- mendation originally made in these columns, though one, of course, for which we claim no patent—that where there is congestion men after enlistment should go back to...

Brigade out of the Reserves for whom there is at present no opportunity for service afloat. The Crystal Palace, it is said, will be used as headquarters. The Brigades will not...

It is really preposterous that the wives should be kept a whole month without their money. They no doubt get it fully in the end, but since weekly payments are a universal habit...

must make some reference to Mr. Asquith's speech at the Guildhall on September 4th. A more dignified or more worthy call to arms to a free people was never made. What Mr....

had dealt with the situation, which praise, we agree, is thoroughly well merited, and which we should like, as occasional critics of that institution, to endorse, Mr. Asquith...

of horses and camels " with their drivers." The Maharaja of Rewa, besides his troops and his money, has offered his private jewellery for the service of the King-Emperor. Even...

Government would make themselves responsible for the care of the Belgian refugees. During the week there has been a steady flow of refugees from both Belgium and France. Most of...

Chirol on Baron de Reuter's explanation to the Press Association of the attitude of Reuter's Agency towards " the German organization for influencing the Press of other...

has touched my heart, and has inspired to the highest issues the love and devotion which, as I well know, have ever linked my Indian subjects and myself. I recall to mind...

My Self-Governing Dominions," published to the world on Wednesday, is noble in its sincerity of word and thought. What could be said better or with a truer dignity than the...

cruiser ' Pathfinder,' which was sunk by a mine or a submarine in the North Sea last Saturday, about twenty miles off the East Coast. About two hundred lives were lost

to chronicle the election of the new Pope—Cardinal della Chiesa. Let us trust that, though he takes possession of the Holy See at a period of such stress and storm, the major...

must fall back further, for the enveloping movement still threatened him, and the ground, though already entrenched, was not suitable for a firm resistance. The exhausted troops...

the British Field Force from August 23rd to 28th was issued on Thursday morning. Although it is a narrative of constant retreat, it is as reassuring as an announcement of two or...

" in the New Statesman of last week. The writer has shown, better than we could argue the case ourselves, how natural is the awakening of a spirit of revenge at the spectacle of...

two German army corps and perhaps a cavalry division were opposed to the British position at Mons. On Sunday, the 23rd, he received "a most unexpected message " from General...

Aug. 8th.

FAIRLY WELL—SO FAR. W E are not going to begin shouting before we are out of the wood. We say this out of no foolish superstition that it is unlucky to do so, but for the very...

W E desire to address a word to the American people, a word which must be spoken, though we are fully aware that it will be liable to misunderstanding and misconstruction, and...

A N opinion is gradually but markedly coming to the front among a certain school of thought—not, we are glad to think, a large one—that the ultimate victory of the Allies will...

W HILE the tide of war rolls uncertainly many people are calculating, and not without good reason, on the ultimate economic exhaustion of Germany. It is therefore worth while to...

[The following is the essential portion of the letter which the poet Wordsworth wrote in 1811 to Pasley on the publica- tion of his Essay. It was published in the " United...

Commerce" in our issue of last week there was an error. Owing to the omission of the words "in default of," the passage stated that acceptors of bills have a right to claim from...

P ERHAPS the Germans did not believe that the Belgians would open their sluices and let the waters of the Schelde arrest the hostile advance at so great a coat to the owners of...

" LEASE direct No. G-. 65 Private H. Willis to proceed with the least possible delay and report himself to the Officer Commanding the Depot, Boughton Barracks, Caxford, for...

LORD ROBERTS'S FIELD GLASSES. [To THY EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR.'] SIR, — The result of my appeal to sportsmen who are unable to take the field to give the use of their race...

T HE illuminating light thrown on " maritime capture "— is., the capture of merchant vessels—in the present war is one among its striking results, and is none the less...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Just a hundred years ago the town of Cattaro was blockaded by a British fleet and besieged by a Montenegrin army. History is repeating...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE"SPECTATOR.'] SIR, —You say in your first article of last Saturday : "They [the Germans] will utterly fail to stir up trouble in India, for no Indian is mad...

[To THE EDITOR OP THA "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—As the aftermath of these heroic experiments to which you referred last week cannot now be long delayed, perhaps you will permit me a...

[To THE EDITOR OP THZ "SPECTATOR.") Stu,—You and I have worked for long for a National Army— you for ten years, with much wisdom, I for thirty, with con- siderable knowledge...

[To Tax EDITOR OF TEl "SrECTITOR.'1 Sin,—I live in a district of colliers and ironworkers, very Radical and very Trade Unionist. Up to the early part of last week we had...

[To TER EDITOR OF THE “SPECTLTOR.'1 Snt, — You say in your last issue with regard to recruiting that " the response from the great centres of population must in some cases have...

[To THR EDITOR OF THE "SrECTATOR.n SIR,—" There is only one way to shorten the war and to bring ns peace. That is to make adequate military preparations, and to raise an...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—I have read with much interest your article in the Spectator of September 5th on the delay in dealing with the numbers of recruits now...

To TER EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—I had thought before of writing to you to ask you to give us a lead in regard to the recruiting problem, but your answer to "A...

[TO TER EDITOR. Or THE "SrACTAT014 . 1 SIR, — When the "nuts" of Boston would not go to the war, and preferred lounging in ease and criticizing their betters for not helping to...

think it fit to insert the enclosed notice. It should, I think, encourage recruiting—especially if an editorial note were appended suggesting that all old public- school boys...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—While I agree with your editorial comments in last Saturday's Spectator on Mr. Frederic Harrison's extraordinary suggestion, I feel...

[To THE EDITOR Or VIZ "SrscrIroa."] Sts,—The next new Army is to contain public-school battalions—twenty, it is rumoured. This is excellent news; but better would be the further...

[To THR EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sts,—An extract from a letter written by a daughter who has lived for some years in the Orange Free State, usually considered the most...

[To vas EDITOR or THR " Srre-nroa."] SIR,—The Board of Trade has adopted my last effort to assist in the present struggle, leaving me free to help in other ways, and if those...

TEX " Bracmroa.-] Sru,—In the Spectator of September 5th (p. 315) you remark:— " When Blucher wanted to blow up the Pont de Jena, and had actually mined it for the purpose,...

1111 "SrscrAroa."] Srn,—A few days ago I came across a passage in Vives which struck me as very pathetic in its contrast with the present state of Louvain. But then I felt how...

[To THIS EDITOR or THIS " SPECTATOR."' SIR,—The following extract from Dr. William King's Political and Literary Anecdotes of Kis Own Times (second edition, 1819, pp. 7 to 9)...

WE are informed that a story told in a letter from a corre- spondent signing herself " A Country District Visitor," and published on August 22nd, 1914, has had an injurious...

"srzerAves."1 SIR, Many columns of the newspapers have been filled with advice to women on the one hand, and with offers of service from women on the other, and it is clear that...

[To THE EDITOR 01 Tas " SPECTATOR."] am afraid your correspondent "Ex-Scholar" (Spec- tator, September 5th), in quoting a "howler," has committed a little one himself. The...

[To TH2 EDITOR OF TEE 5ProTATOR."] Sra,—We are anxious to draw your attention to the Women's League of Service dining-rooms for mothers. This League, the head office of which is...

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

THE FLEETS AT WAR.• Ma. HURn's book is a manual for any one who wants to have in a handy form the essential facts about the navies at war. But it is more. Mr. Hurd has given us...

WHAT HE COULD DO. [It has been suggested that Open Spaces and Waste Lands should be utilized for growing vegetables.] JoHN Sum', Esquire, of Shepherd's Bush, Was sixty-six but...

By an excellent piece of good fortune it has fallen to the Surrey Record Society to publish as their second number one of the most thrilling and timely publications given to the...

inevitable, but we do not remember to have ever seen a more candid statement of the difficulties which beset the anthologist than that to be found in Mr. Padric Gregory's...

THE meeting of the British Association, usually a stand-by for the newspapers during the dull summer days, has, like the sun, suffered from a total eclipse this August, and the...

beginning. The opening chapter of his Memories of My Youth is concerned with four years, 1844-1848, and as regards the first of them he pleads with justice that, as it was also...

THE LURE OF ROMANCE.* ME. PREVOST BATTERSBY'S equipment as a writer of adven- turous fiction places him in a strong position es against the shafts of the stay-at-home critic....

Iat this country the study of rhetoric, once the keystone of our educational system, has practically disappeared. It survives, indeed, like a rudimentary organ, in the programme...

tender fhis heading us notice such Books of the week as haws not lbsint reserved for review in other forms.] What Are We Fighting For 1 By the Rev. the Hon. E. Lyttelton....

6s.) — The date of this novel is the year 1808, and there are many adventures in it concerning the "Free Traders " of that day. The mystery of the hero's birth is con- cealed...

? (The Lady Trevor, Chirk, 2d.), in which Mr. F. L. Petre explains in simple language how Germany's wanton declara- tion of war "made it impossible for any honourable English...

and Son. 1d.)—Our enthusiastic and exuberant friends, the Boy Scouts, have risen so finely to the needs of the present emergency as fully to justify the hopes of their gallant...

SS. Peter and Paul. ld.)—How many there must be to-day who are in spirit always with the gallant men in the firing line, and whose mute prayers go up hour by hour for their...

Messages from Home for Our Soldiers and Sailors (6d.). It is a packet containing forty neat cards, each headed by the words " God bless you and bring you safely home again," and...

(35 Monsell Road, London, ld.), Mr. 0. F. Maclagan suggests that universal peace might be attained by a general agreement that all the nations of the world would combine to...

clear and excellent maps published under the auspices of the Daily Mail. These include a second edition of the General War Map of Europe (4d. net), with insets showing at a...

_Magazine in time for notice with the rest of the magazines last week. The new number is, as may be imagined, of particular interest, and nearly all the articles are concerned...