left, has stood firm on the west bank of the Canal du Nord, north of Mceuvres, while the Allied line to the south of him, as far as the Aisne, has moved forward rapidly. The...

the enemy from Wytschaete to Givenchy. Day by day our lines have been pushed closer to the Messines Ridge, to Armentieres, and to La Bassee, in front of which our troops are now...

open country south-west of St. Quentin, though there was sharp fighting near St. Simon last Sunday, he has held stubbornly to the wooded hills between. the Oise and the Aisne,...

ground between Peiziere, close to Epehy, and Havrincourt Wood. They captured Gouzeaucourt Wood and our old trenches overlooking the village of that name, where the Germans...

night and on Wednesday morning, to the south and west of Houthulst Forest. The Belgians penetrated the enemy's defences beyond Kippe, on the Dixmude road. Further south, between...

week that a visit to the yards on the North-Eas1 Coast had given him encouragement. The yards were being enlarged rapidly and the men were working well. In the past six months...

S IR DOUGLAS HAIG'S Special Order of the Day, thanking the British armies under his command for their part in the Allied victories, is an historic document. In a month they...

hundred and fifty commanders of German submarines which our Navy has disposed of. A hundred and sixteen of these men are dead, twenty- seven are prisoners, six are interned in...

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...

between the Somme and the Oise. They took Ham, Chauny, and Tergnier on Friday week, when some divisions advanced over six miles. On Saturday last the French covered another five...

the treatment of the natives under German rule, which was published on Thursday as a Blue Book. It is a terrible document, based on German official and unofficial evidence as...

" New Russia " at the dinner of the British Russia Club on Friday week, gave an interesting and authoritative estimate of the character of the late Tsar, clearing his memory,...

the German Fleet to become Chief of the Admiralty Staff, has persuaded the Emperor to accord " greater freedom than hitherto " to the Staff " with a view to naval warfare."...

Note demanding satisfaction for the murder of our Naval Attache, Captain Cromie, and the sacking of the British Embassy. On the contrary, they have, it is feared, placed under...

Prohibition for the whole of the United States during the war represents the measure of American enthusiasm, nothing can make them ever appreciate the extent of that enthusiasm....

in the Times when we read in the leading article of Wednesday the following words :- " It would be ridiculous to charge the House of Commons with the highly teohnical task of...

German Army and people, warning them against Allied propaganda by means of "a drumfire of printed paper" dropped from aero- planes and balloons. He gravely recorded that...

The Crecho-Slovaks advancing eastward from Lake Baikal took Chita, where the Manchurian and Amur Railways diverge, and on Tuesday week effected a junctipn with General...

of the extreme character that was expected when the Moderates refused to have anything to do with the Congress. The decisions proved that the Extremists are entirely...

have been wholly allayed by the Prime Minister's very generous con- cessions. General Macready has offered the men collective representation through a Police Association,...

workers, the Government have followed a hand-to-mouth policy. They have never thought out clearly an industrial policy. They have behaved like a Commander-in-Chief in the field...

noticeably charged with rumours of an approaching General Election. We hope that this may mean that the Prime Minister is weakening in his desire for such a dangerous expedient....

to be sent in duplicate by different ships ? No doubt a certain number of them Will be torpedoed. Whether the prosecution of the war would or would not be served by such...

earnest blue- jacket or private soldier who has written to his proxy describing the nature of his own political convictions. He could hardly have done more than write a vague...

blackberry erop of this year. Firemen, cotton operatives, municipal servants, shop assistants, teachers, in various parts of the country are talking in more or less definite...

material difficulties of a General Election during a war when about half the male electors are away on foreign service ? If it is true that the new Register, as regards voters...

the pro- tests of Mr. Clynes, voted by a small majority a resolution in favour of a meat subsidy. The idea was that the price of meat should be fixed below cost and that the...

to 567,000 on a card vote, not to form a Trade Union Labour Party, but to remain with the Labour Party. The attempt of a strong and sane minority of Trade Unionists to escape...

attempt to rescue the Trade Unionists from Socialistic and Pacificist control, no one who was present at the Congress, we believe, failed to notice that the leaders whom Mr....

April 5, 1917.

WHAT ABOUT IRELAND ? T HE pledges of the Government about Conscription in Ireland are not, we hope, forgotten by the nation, though it seems to be in a forgetful mind. On April...

in the days of defeat. It cannot be said that Germany has stood the test well, The Allies, with the exception of Russia, have been tried in the furnace, and have come out more...

A N article by Sir Frederick Maurice in the Daily OAronide of Thursday plainly expresses a fear that the strategy of Easternism, which events, we should have thought, ought...

I N spite of the numerous advertisements issued by the Coal Controller, it is doubtful whether the general public yet appreciates the gravity of the Coal Problem. Indeed, it is...

" EATHERNECK," " Jolly," " Turkey," call him what 4 you will, he's a member of the finest Corps in the world. I know that this general statement sounds like a newly engaged...

T HE British Science Guild is an organization formed in 1905 to promote and extend scientific education and the applica- tion of scientific principles to industrial and general...

[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.] THE WOMAN'S SENIOR WAR...

[To. THE Beason or THE " Sascrarott."3 Sna,—I have a free evening and some stories to tell, and so you are going to have them inflicted on you. One incident came to we from a...

STR,—Your article is well timed. Reform is greatly needed. Will it be believed that educated and well-bred girls who before the war broke out had qualified in First Aid and Home...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] FIR,—I am not surprised that you " cannot follow Sir Theodore Morison in his argument about the revolution or Anglicization of Indian...

[To eez EDITOR OP THE " SPICMTOR."] Sia,—Your correspondent "E. M. V." ignores the fact that the British blockade of Germany did not apply to food for, the civil population till...

entitled " The Frcie Zeitung-A Democratic • Organ," in your issue of June 15th. Unluckily for the author, " H. B.," though he wrote as far back as the earlier part of June, he...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In reference to the letter published in your issue of August 31st, the signatories of the memorial of the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines'...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") reference to the letter from " J. M. L. S." in your issue of August 31st, the only statement that can be made with assurance is that at...

notice A letter signed "6. B." in the Spectator of August 31st asking for a receipt for grape jam. We have a vine on our rottage wall, and I always make jelly of the grapes...

SPECTATOR.") Sia,—Your correspondent " S. B." may like to try the enclosed recipe for grape and blackberry jam. I think she will be pleased with the result.—I am, Sir, &c., MART...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'1 Sia,—The announcements of the Coal Mines Department of the Board of Trade conform to the as-it-was-told-in-the-nursery style deemed fitting...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sia,—The General Election appears to be imminent and patriotic Labour must mobilize for the fray. The Bolshie Bosses control the Labour...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Referring to your remarks on this subject in "News of the Week" in your last issue, you and your readers will be interested to learn...

Spectator of August 31st Mr. Geo. Smith wrote under the above heading and asked whether a family of six cygnets is not an unusually large number. I do not think it is; indeed a...

[To THE EDITOR or TIM " SPECTATOR."] see the question asked by a correspondent in your issue of August 31st as to whether large broods of cygnets have been noticed in England...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Among the barbed wire and the ruins of a French sector is a canteen (under the British Committee of the French Red Gross) whose staff,...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The following "howler " occurred in an English examina- tion at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, during - My last term there. In...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The author wanted by your correspondent L. A. Scot, is R. C. Stead. The poem entitled " Mother and Son," of which the last verse is...

EIR,—It may interest your correspondent to know that although the swan's family as a rule is limited to two or three, some years ago a pair on the river here were the happy...

THE IRON RATION.* MR. SCHREINER'S account of the economic and social effects of the Allied blockade on Germany and Austria is highly interesting. and seems to us to bear the...

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...

THE REPROBATE. I SNOW where linnets make their nests And broom) , heaths where rabbits burrow, I know, before a blade is seen, When corn will gently fledge the furrow. I know...

AT last we have a history of the Church of England which an English Churchman who is not a member of the High Church party can read without loss of self-respect. For too long...

OARLYLB thought that Shakespeare was our greatest possession. Shakespeare, who never thought about himself or his fame, who greatly appreciated sailors and gave us the phrase a...

68.)—A novel concerned with the first days of the war. The most exciting chapters are those describing the historic hours which ended at midnight on August 4th, 1914.—The Test....

THE ANCHOR.* MR. SADLER gives us in his new novel a minute and mordant study of a very modern young man, intensely self-conscious and highly self-critical, nervous to the verge...

VERY entertaining are these letters by " Thomasina Atkins," private in the W.A.A.C. on active service. " Thomasina " joined up in October,. 1917, and was sent to France in the...

Libraries, have edited a remarkable Catalogue of the Birmingham Collection under their charge (Birmingham : Cornish). This bulky volume, containing over eleven hundred quarto...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent revise.] Disloyalty : the Blight of Pacifism. By Harold Owen. (Hurst and Blaekett. fig. net.)—Mr. Owen is...

appearance in the Spectator for September 11th, 1915, has found appreciative readers throughout the English-speaking world, has been set to music by Mr. Henry Guise (Novelle,...

and Co. 21s. net.)—Professor Bone's treatise is of great interest and importance. He discusses not merely the chemical composition and combustion of coal and the gas industries,...

which has just issued its eighteenth monthly number, is still as informing and amusing as ever. The comic sketch entitled The Birth of a Rumour " is irresistible. It would be...

Riddell. (New York : Columbia University. London : Longmans and Co. 7s. Bd. net.)—This valuable essay by a Canadian Presbyterian on the history of the Roman Catholic Church in...

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(The Times.) — This is the first part of the " Overseas " section of this in- valuable collection of documents. It relates to Canada from the end of July, 1914, to the end of...

Press. 9d. net.)—This interesting and sensible paper was first read to the Eton College Essay Society last March. When it was redelivered in part at Mill Hill last July, a...

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