the proposal to arraign the Kaiser a proposal for ex post facto law. The methods of trying War Criminals, and the punishments which may be inflicted upon them, are set forth in...

I T is being asserted in many quarters that the ex-German Emperor cannot be tried because he has not committed any act which before the war was recognized es a punishable...

laid down in the_official Manual of Military Law, compiled and published by our War Office on behalf of the British nation (1914). This book is a very carefully prepared summary...

and of course do not make any invidious comparisons with the French. The French had a great conscript army at the beginning of the war when we had very little indeed to put...

at Dover on December 20th. We have read something in the newspapers about preparations at Dover to receive him, but what about preparations elsewhere ? A most unfortunate...

Whether Conscription in any form would be required in the future would depend upon the terms of Peace. The existence of great conscript armies on the Continent provoked the war....

letters submitted to him, but when stamped and addressed envelopes are sent he will do his beet to return contributions in case of rejection.

TO OUR READERS.—It is now necessary for readers to place a definite order for the " Spectator " with their Newsagent or at one of the Railway Book- stalls. Should any reader...

and enthusiastic audience, speaking with pride, and not unjustifiable self-satisfaction, on the second anniversary of his summons to serve as Prime Minister, as " the only...

of women his idea of "a clean peace," which could be made only by men who regarded themselves "as trustees for the whole future of the civilized world." Women must now work for...

being kuned by the Labour Party and by a good many Liberals into a Brst-class political Issue. Apart from Mr. Lloyd George's speech, the most remarkable statement on the subject...

London, on Monday Mr. Lloyd George professed himself a believer in Women's Suffrage for not less than twenty years. Now nearly seven millions of women have the vote, having won...

not touch this proposal till after the Election, or at all events till the "League of Nations nonsense" had been discussed. Mr. Thomas's comment was : "That is what the military...

rendered all warships in Turkish waters or in the Black Sea. The notorious Goebel' ' is now in our charge in the Bosphorus. Four U '-boats also were given up. The Russian...

statement. Yet when he was asked at Cupar on Wednesday the plain question, "Are you prepared to coerce Ulster ? " he took refuge in the ambiguous and evasive reply, " I do not...

Cologne on Friday week, and have since occupied Bonn. The Belgian Army holds the left bank of the Rhine north of Cologne. The Americans are at Coblenz and occupy the picturesque...

be wanted again— and we sincerely hope that this may be true—it nevertheless remains very sound policy to have a large pool of men to choose from, even if the comparatively...

they may be, and we earnestly hope will be, enormously reduced. In these circumstances it is surely the part of every good denlocrat to admit that the service which a man...

that Belgium would ask at the Peace Conference for the revision of the Treaty of 1839. This Treaty gave part of Limburg to Holland and part of the province of Liege to Prussia,...

and editor of the Preu.ssische Jahrbilther, the chief German monthly review, confesses in the December issue, according to the Times, that, like Grote, he has outlived his...

shipping during the war, up to the end of October, amounted to 3,4431012 tons. Our total losses from all causes were 9,031,828 tons, but we built 4,342,296 tons of new shipping,...

week a force of soldiers, after offering Herr Ebert the Presidency of the "German Social Republic," arrested the Committee of the Workmen's and Soldiers' Council and dispersed...

and French troops formed part of his escort. Not only has Rumania been liberated from the erfemy, but the four million Rumanians across the mountains in Transylvania have...

make reparation for the wilful damage done by her in France and Belgium and elsewhere and to our merchant shipping have revived the old paradox that France benefited in 1871 by...

next day the War Cabinet conceded them the principle of an eight-hour day, beginning with February lst, and the strike was averted. It was then explained by Sir Albert Stanley...

summarized in Monday's papers, shows that the aeroplane and the airship may be used to good purpose for carrying passengers, mails, and light articles, not only at home but in...

for a fresh trial of his action against Sir Charles Hobhouse. The Court held that there had been no misdirection of the original trial by Mr. Justice Darling. It will be...

their work of propaganda and spying during the war, has now found that she must deny the Bolshevik agents a similar privilege. Voronsky, the Bolshevik emissary at Stockholm, has...

of wages than the employers would concede. The em- ployers offered a rise of 40 per cent, on standard rates ; the spinners asked for 40 per cent, on their current wages, which...

April 5, 1917.

PRESIDENT WILSON'S VISIT AND ITS SEQUELS. T HE heartiest greetings of the whole British race go to President Wilson and the most sincere wishes for the success of his historic...

M R. CHURCHILL quite casually in one of his election speeches has thrown out the announcement that the railways are to be taken over by the State. Since he made this...

O NE of the few satisfactory features of the present General Election is the way in which electoral pressure has stiffened the attitude of the Government with regard to an...

the Italian Alps possess a form of uational monument conspicuous for beauty even in the land which possesses beauty as a dower—the Sacro-Monte, or Holy Hill. The Sacro-Monte is...

M OST moderate sinners have some sympathy with the faults of their acquaintance—so long, of course, as all is done in moderation ! We do not sympathize with criminality, and...

T HE ancient city, hoary with age, sitting in its jewels and its rags amidst the baked and barren hills of Judaea, feels new life in its veins. Jerusalem is giddy with...

Sin,—" Among the crimes of which the Kaiser can be rightly and justly accused" surely the invasion of the neutral territory of Belgium ought to be included. Articles I. and II....

[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.] HOW OUGHT WE TO DEAL WITH...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sta,—Mr. Dixon's warning lest we ask for a war indemnity from Germany in gold is hardly necessary. Germany's aggregate of gold is at most...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sig,—Whither is this alien-hunt leading us ? At one moment.the Prime Minister, speaking the saner mind of the country, diamieses it as a...

[TO THE EDITOE Or THE " SPEGRATOB.,,"] Ste,—The "last ditch" of the partisans of the Ottoman Caliphate is the contention that the Moslem world, and especially the Moslems of...

[To THE EDITOR or crez "SPECTATOR.") Stit,—With regard to the letters of Mr. Moe and Mr. Prior in the Spectator of November Seth and December 7th. and your notes thereon, may I...

[To THE EDITOR. Or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sia,—In a letter to the Spectator of December 7th Mr. W. R. Prior writes :— "First of all she [Deumark] wants the iniquitous Peace of...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—NOW that the war has been brought to a victorious 'con- clusion, the period of reconstruction is at last within sight. The problem of...

(To THE Enrroa Or THE " SPEcrnsoa.") . "beg to take exception to the following sentence in the , "News of the Week" in your edition of the 30th ult.—viz., "The proxy system is...

[To THE EDITOR Or T'HE " SPECTATOR.") Stn,—Many people could give instances of "Ca' canny" as forcible as the one quoted by Mr. Barnes-Austin in the Spectator; few, I imagine,...

Or THE "SPECTATOR."] IFTu,—The Greek Anthology contains an epigram (Anth. Pal. IX. 75) curiously appropriate to recent events in Belgium. The vine- tree addresses its mortal...

(To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.") , gin,—Your correspondents in the issue of November 30th who advocate the joining of the Six Counties of Ulster with Scotland instead of with...

"SPECTATOR."] was much interested in your article on "The Development ad Our Fisheries," and the writer touches the vital spot when he mentions "distribution." The entire...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR...] SIH.—Having read your remarks concerning the Central Church Fund in your issue of November 30th, I venture to suggest that the scheme of...

(To THE Maros or THE "Srecraroa.") Sie,—You have already been kind enough to publish one or two letters dealing with the Winchester College War Memorial. Mr. Herbert Baker's...

make an appeal through your columns to Wyke- hamists, and lovers of the beautiful, to do all in their power to prevent the destruction of Ringsgate Street, Winchester? The...

(To THE Eritrea OF THE " Siscuroa."1 Sie,—Pnblic School Masters are indebted to your contributor for having drawn attention to the position of those who teach in the Public...

article on " The Position of Assistant- Masters in the Public Schools of England" does not appear to be aware that the Board of Education intends to bring under the new Pension...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SLR,—Can you help us (the wives and mothers of dead heroes now lying abroad) to remonstrate against the arbitrary manner in which the "War...

OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sra,—I do not know Sir Alfred Mond; but in the name of our million dead sons, and in the name of my own two young eons killed by the Huns, I write to ask...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sur,—Limavady is a town of only two thousand seven hundred inhabitants, but it is, I believe, the first town in Ireland which has made...

[To THE EDP/OR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sna—No doubt you have read the article with this title in the Times of December 6th. Surely it cannot be meant to be taken seriously. Are...

ENGLAND'S DEAD. Mho peventh of December was a special day of celebration throughout the United States of England's part in the war, and of commemoration of her heroic dead. It...

SIR ROBERT HART.* DIR. MORSE explains in a Prefatory Note to the second volume of his monumental work that when he began it he did not intend to write a history. What he planned...

(To THE Eorroa Or THE " SPECTATOR•"1 Eirs,—I think the following is a good illustration of valet some children feel about the dark, and also about their elders' pious...

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

THE question whether Germany is to regain her lost Colonies has now been virtually decided in the negative. It is unthinkable that the Allies should fail to concur in the very...

TEE native-written, native-acted, native-produced drama in Ireland has, after many vicissitudes, reached a stage of suspense from which it is doubtful how far or in what...

Co. 6s. net. )—Short stories by Mr. Cutdiffe 11y:ware. always good reading. Perhaps the first of these sketches, entitled "Getting Terrific to Sea," is the most...

CHILDREN'S BOOKS.t In Wheelabout and Gears/one is a charming story-book. Fairies and mortals live on good terms in Wheelabout Wood, and though evil, as personified in the...

IN this collection of short stories Mr. Neil Munro reveals himself in various moods. Three of the eleven tales end in tragedy, Aeschylean in its black intensity in "Young...

A HANDY volume giving the texts of the principal European Treaties from ISIS with brief Introductions and notes is very welcome at this moment, and Sir Augustus Oakes and Mr. R....

Tire servant problem, rendered acute by the war, is not one which we can hope will disappear with the coming of peace. In a tem- porary reaction it may become less acute for a...

[Notice Ws AO column dow sot nowasarily preclude subsequent reettv.1 Cotton. By G. Bigwood. (Constable. 6s. 6d. net.)--In this readable book Mr. Bigwood describes the...

MB. 1"zn crY F. WESTERMAN'S With Beatty off Jutland (Blackie, 5s. net) is a spirited yarn, mainly concerned with a destroyer that was badly damaged in the action, but it is...

war, may now hope once again to attract young men by their calendars and handbooks, which have received scant ' attention since 1914. We may briefly record the appearance of the...

6d. net.)—Mr. Willmore has collected some of the references to the German tribes which are made by the historians of the Roman and early Byzantine Empires, and gives the Latin...

fresh series of its charming Christmas cards and calendars, which show that the English colour-printer now need fear no rival in Munich or Vienna. Some of the illustrations on...

the year is of course principally concerned with the war, and parries the story down to the acceptance of the terms of armistice by Germany. The illustrations are numerous and...

Henry Burdett (Scientific Press, 12s. 6d. net), is now in its twenty-ninth year. The introduptory chapters, dealing with hospital problems in war time, with the remarkable...

Withers. (Oxford University Press. 3d. net.)—Mr. Withers says that mankind is confronted with the question : "Are its best energies and efforts to be devoted henceforward to...

is a complete translation of the secret Memorandum addressed to the German Chancellor in December, 1917, by the Association of German Iron and Steel Manufacturers. These...