villa, or destroyed château, the Army commander is studying his maps, receiving his reports, and sending out his orders, and, in spite of the pandemonium of noise, the dust and...

E ASTER, 1917, will be remembered as long as the English- speaking race lasts, for a signal victory, and one in which the forces of the Empire played a great and historic part....

note the seizure of the German ships in American harbours, representing upwards of half-a-million of tonnage, and the intern- ment of their crews, while the work of repairing...

matters comparatively little, for the telegraphic news that has come through during the week has not been of a very illuminating kind. The general impression received, however,...

and 833 raid on Zeebrugge last Saturday night. Seaplanes of the R.X.A.S. dropped many bombs on Zeebrugge Mole, and attacks were also made in co-operation with the military on...

wont to press with our last issue. To take them in order, the effect of the President's address was overwhelming not merely on Congress but throughout the country, wiping out...

of Arras elsewhere, but must add here some account, however short, of the perfectly wonderful work done by the artillery throughout the engagement. The bombardment before Easter...

sent to President Wilson by the Sovereigns and leading Ministers of the Allied Powers—messages which render justico to the momentous and enlightened decision of the United...

existence of a state of war with Germany by 82 votes to 6, but almost all the Pacificists promised their support once war began. Early on Friday morning after seventeen hours'...

give definite orders to their newsagents for a copy of the " Spectator " to be reserved for them each week till countermanded.

the Western front still continues. The only explanation that we have seen put forward by the Germans is incredible, or, rather, would be incredible in the case of any other...

seizure of all Austrian vessels in American ports—fourteen in number and of a total tonnage of sixty-seven thousand—are believed to portend a speedy declaration of war. Cuba has...

for Relief in Belgium a statement rebutting the assertions made by Mr. Whitaker in the Times and Daily Mail as to the food supply in Belgium and Northern France. We are unable...

kindly, and courteous of Englishmen used to confess that he never drove up to a friend's door to stay or to dine or to lunch without feeling what he described as the chill of...

Americans arc our flesh and blood and because they talk English they must necessarily be incorporated in the British Army. If they prefer to serve with the French or the...

Bancourt, a village just east of Bapaume " In the village , of Bancourt it 18 . 121Q1)3 important to set fire to the houses than to blow them up. 11th Maroh.—Straw will be...

so many friends of America that the United States should at once be repre- sented at the front by at least a brigade. Here we wish to meet one more objection to the despatch of...

co-operate with the Allies is to be found in the Americas_ of the £1,000,000,000 Loan authorized on Tuesday night by the Ways and Means Committee of the House of...

rage has been the meticulous brutality, the sublimated dirtiness, the vagaries, as of some type of .nauseous ape, which have dia- graced the German retreat. Here are the...

and we say frankly that we arc not going to be deterred from saying so by any ridiculous punctilio that it is not our business, or that America will resent such unwarranted...

' It is all very well for the Spectator to talk about virtue. It does not publish betting odds, and has no "Captain Coe" to fascinate its readers.' That is true, but we may...

on the food question to Wednesday's Times, to which too much publicity cannot be given. It will be remembered that Lord Milner, misled of course by his technical advisers, made...

k roi. The Food Controller appears-3f course he is not really so—more anxious to prevent malt being used for food and to compel its destruction as a food than the Brewer ! Well...

We regret to see that the Government have decided that they will not pass the legislation necessary to put a stop to the publication of racing tips and betting odds. It would be...

very thoroughly of the contention of Mr. Llewelyn Williams, M.P., that the Church in Wales has profited greatly by the delay in dis- establishing it, and that the Church will be...

as in America, in so far that the Chinese Government has broken off relations with Germany and stopped payment of her share of the Boxer indemnity. Yet, according to the 'Limes...

protest. against Mr. Churchill's suggestion that the late Air Board, under Lord Curzon, failed in its duty, and was thus responsible for the recent casualties in the Flying...

we have ever read. In plain terms, it comes to this. The Star thinks it wrong to print betting odds in time of war. It feels, however, that if it ceased doing wrong, other...

his fifty-first birthday, will be deeply mourned not only by the friends of his own station, but also by the hundreds of poor boys" and young men to whom he had been a guide,...

April 5th.

THE BATTLE OF ARRAS. T HE battle of Arras (Easter Monday, 1917) is up till now, . fromthe British point of view, the greatest single-day military event of the war. It is this...

menacing, but unfortunately the Government Department specially concerned seems to become less and less competent in its methods of dealing with it. The greater and more...

W HAT is wanted now above all things is a compromise on the liquor question. Nothing shows this more clearly than the arguments used by the supporters of the varying shades of...

W E are delighted to see that the movement in favour of a brigade being despatched to the Western front is gaining ground in America. Military and political pedants here and in...

T ORD DEVONPORT and those who help to design his policy may be recommended to read the article on " Food Prices and Food Supplies " by Dr. Arthur Shadwell in the Nineteenth...

and pride, last week's Spectator, with its satisfying articles on " the most important thing that has yet happened in the war," the alliance of the United States with the "...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading; paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] VICTUALLING THE NATION....

reprint of an article which appeared in the Spectator of July 19th, 1714, written by Addison, may be of interest to our readers:- " No vices are so incurable as those which men...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SIZeTATOR."3 Sts,—The article under the above heading in your issue of the 24th ult. is of great interest to me as a, Quartermaster "in the Field." Two...

Subscriptions should be addressed to THE . " SPECTATOR," I Wellington Street, Strand, London, W .C. 2. The letters " D. G." should be clearly written on the envelope. Cheques...

turned his attention, amongst other things, to tea, and another fiasco is on the tapis. When he took this in hand tea could be bought by the public at 2s. per'pound. There has...

March 31st, urging the utilization of our Public School boys. I have already written to the daily Press to the same purpose. I doubt if many people who have not visited a Public...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECFAT0R."1 SIR,—I know you are all against the waste of good food by turning it into poisonous alcohol. But you have a pretty big crowd up against you,...

readers of an article in your issue of March 31st to know that the first suggestion contained in it has already been adopted, and will be carried ont next term in many Public...

(To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECUTOR."] Sm,—The subjoined passages from Mr. W. Straker's monthly circular to the Northumberland miners, as reported in a New- castle paper, will...

article on "Boy-Power and Soldier- Power " - in your issue of March 31st with much interest, and I venture to make a suggestion which 1 think will meet some of the objections to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Ste,---The enclosed paper will show the preparation made for the pyre in a sub-Metropolitan borough and urban district. The collections are...

Six,—The writer of the article on Boy-Power in your number for March 31et seems to have heard little or nothing of the ways in which Public School boys have "sacrificed ease in...

much interested in the article which appeared in your columns on March 31st on the important question of con- serving all paper waste for remanufacturing purposes. There is no...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—. - News has come to hand that on February 17th Geoffrey Lupton, private in the Royal Fusiliers, was killed at the front, aged...

Sin,—Permit me to say how strongly the British Constitution 'Association has upheld the need of Proportional Representation. The decay of the influence of Parliament has been...

A STOIC.* OF Stoics in the modern sense there are millions just now. Our brave men in the Somme trenches and on the North Sea endure discomfort and peril as uncomplainingly as...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Your article on " Our Friend the Horse," alluding as it does to our great sportsman-author Whyte-Melville, reminds me of a story he...

(To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR ,—Whyte-MElville was not alone in having recourse to tobacco " when he faced a difficult country." I was told 1.4 a trooper of the 3rd...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR ."I SIR,—You may think the following lines remarkable as a fore- cast:— "Gigantic daughter of the West, We drink to thee across the flood, We...

ECTITANASY. Pnixce Azesre, wan Azrael, The ghastly Cavalier, To view this battle-field of earth On his pale horse drew near. Ah! never since our world had birth More terrible...

THE reader cares nothing for the motives that inspired Pope to write the Dunciad, or Dryden to the composition of one of his flamboyant dedications. Satire and panegyric are...

SIR HERBERT MAXWELL'S historical study is a careful and competent, yet thoroughly readable, account of the men and the influences that have formed the Edinburgh of to-day....

Ma. AINGER does not follow the example of Mr. Arthur Coleridge and Mr. Eric Parker by calling his book Eton in the " Fifties," because his purpose is not merely to give a...

and Co. ls. net.)—The nation is pledged to restore to the Trade Unions after the war the conditions existing in July, 1914. Mr.,Webb maintains that this will be impossible, and...

D.D. (Paisley : A. Gardner. 7s. ed. net.)—The late Dr. Metcalfe, of Paisley, who did much useful work for Scottish history and literature, left behind him also this scholarly...

(Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subseguent review.] My Remembrances. By Edward H. Sothern. (Cassell and Co. 12s. net.)—Never surely was writer of memoirs...

By J. H. Freese. Vol. II., " English-Russian." (Kogan Paul and Co. 5s. net.)—We praised the Russian-English volume of Mr. Freese's now dictionary a few months ago, and are glad...

on December 17th last, under the title of Farewell (Eton College : Spottis- woode, Ballantyne, and Co., Gd.), with a preface addressed to the Eton boys of 1916 and with a few...

Dalton. (Cam- bridge University Press. 25s. net.)—The stately church of Ottery St. Mary was built in 1337-42 by Bishop Grandisson of Exeter, who did so much for the CathedraL...

Soott. 5s. net.)—In the spring of 1914 Miss Conway and a girl friend, fresh from the British School at Athens, made a long tour round Greece, visiting many out-of-the-way places...

net.)—The unnamed editor of this choice selection from Rupert Brooke's two volumes of verse has done his work admirably. All, or nearly all, the noteworthy poems are included,...

University Press. 10s. ed. net.)—This is a lucid and scholarly sketch of a vast subject which is by no means remote from practical politics, though it nominally closed with the...

Darbishire. (Cassell and Co. 7s. Gd. net. )—The late Mr. Darbishire, an accomplished young Oxford biologist, died of illness contracted in camp before ho could complete his...

Press. 8s. Gd. net.)—On behalf of the Institute for Research in Agri- cultural Economics at Oxford, Mr. Orr made a systematic survey of the Oxfordshire farms in 1914, and now...