countrymen of a duty so obvious as to keep their heads and play the past of men, even if /int does fall. It is, however, only too cleai that, if the blow falls, a section of the...

good. The Germans have been hurling themselves against the French lines, but with terrible losses. On Tuesday on the right bank of the Meuse they made a fierce attack in force,...

may quote the following example of its quality :— " We can only win if we are convinced of victory in our innermost hearts. In this contest, where numbers and technical skill...

a patriotic but impartially minded German living, say, in the Argentine, the article would fill him with the utmost consternation. It is a cry of despair. What is more, it...

it may have had a hard knock, has not been destroyed or demoralized. It has got plenty of " go " left in it, and every member of the force, from the General in supreme command...

T HE most important military event of the week has been the failure of the British force engaged in the attempt to relieve Nut to carry the trenches at Sanna-i-Yat, fifteen...

bridle" at Verdun and pushing the attack with the extremity of vigour can be read in a most interesting article in the Vossische Zeitang, a translation of which is to be found...

will feel • pang as deep as any they have yet felt in the war, it would be most unwise to let our regrets lead us into exaggerating the importance of the event from a military...

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readers can help us to meet the Paper Famine is by informing the Newsagents, Booksellers, or Railway Bookstalls from which They are accustomed to purchase their paper that they...

other side, the Qedernment have a case for saying that they are not going to intro- duce a new system of compulsion till they have properly exhausted the one already adopted....

, be considered in a tragic, light. Even if the Government meet it with a direct negative, we do not suppose that more than a hundred or so Unionists will vote for it ; but that...

defined the policy of the Allies. The German Chancellor had suggested that if there were to be peace discussions, England must assume the attitude of a defeated to a victorious...

did rather more damage than we were able to report last week. Three Zeppelins came and three separate districts were visited. One child was killed, and two men, one woman, and...

bst Sunday, and on Monday visited the King and Queen at Bucking. ham Palace and Sir Edward Grey at the Foreign Office. In the evening they dined at Lancaster House, when Mr....

riEstroyed by enemy submarines has unhappily been large. Though the subject is not one for panic, it is one for grave anxiety. rho calls upon shipping, for feeding the people of...

debate on the forthcoming Economic Conference in Paris. Lord Courtney, who as usual spoke almost entirely for himself, expressed a fear that • the object of the Conference was...

moved that a Member of Parliament who was also a soldier or sailor must elect whether to receive his Parliamentary salary or his military or naval pay. He could not have both....

made a long and very important statement on the inten , Mons of Germany. In his review of the military situation he took the strange course of saying that Germany could never be...

regard ao the British position in France. Throughout the whole week there have been eictusions and alartuns, but the ebb and flovt of battle has loft the position very much as...

motion calling %r amendments to the Military Service Act which will make all men of military age liable for military service during the war. He wishes ix facilities to debate...

strong movement in favour of giving a series of abatements to Income Tax payers with large families. The principle is one which we most heartily desire to endorse, and we would...

policy equally strong for our suggested scale of abatements. In the case of persons with incomes of from £150 to £300 or £500 a year, if a larger scale of abatement were...

3s. ed. rate, owing either to their income being earned or to it being below the £800 limit, we would allow a deduction of, say, £30 a year for every child up to the number of...

be to make people feel that a combination of a high Income Tax and a large family of children will not be allowed to reduce them to ruin. If people believe that owing to...

that the Allies were intent upon destroying Germany economically as well as militarily:— " Everywhere there is brutal rage to destroy and to annihilate, and the calculated...

:— " Herr Asquith speaks of the principle of nationalities. When he does that, and if he can put himself in the place of his unconquered and invincible enemy—can he really...

Russian Red Cross expressing deep concern and sympathy at the loss of the Russian hospital ship Portugal.' It will be remembered that the 'Portugal' was torpedoed by a German...

with diffi- culties, and we admit also that it isquite possible that the specific suggestions we have made will not stand criticism or may be shown to be not sufficiently...

the paper of Friday week, says that Tsar Ferdinand has been encouraged to believe it possible for Bulgaria to reconquer at least a part of the territory which Roumania seized...

Tuesday on Herr von Bethmann Hollweg's speech in the Reichstag. He suggested that some official answer should be made to that speech, if only to show to the world, and possibly...

8th, 1911.

THE CASE OF THE MARRIED MEN. W E have no desire to take a harsh or unsympathetic • line in regard to the married men. Though the notion that any pledge made to them has been...

I F Defoe were alive to write of the plague of typhus in the prisoners' camp at Wittenberg in Prussia, we think he would have to heighten his language. There have been...

P EOPLE are beginning once again to talk about the possibilities of a Cabinet collapse. If, it is said, the attempt to relieve Kut fails, the Government must fall. The...

to be in the wrong in what we have written in the preceding article, and it should prove difficult to remake the Ministry on its present lines, the Prime Minister has got a...

a suitable moment. Nor did she ever shrink from dishonourable means when it suited her purpose. To break solemn pledges or to falsify a telegram is all the same for those whose...

W ORLDLINGS are generally supposed to belong to that world which, with histrionic vanity, poses as the world. As a matter of fact, worldliness is to be found everywhere. It is...

T HE following is an attempt to produce a kind of verbal photograph of a day in the trenches, by recording syste- matically the events of periods of, on an average, thirty...

W E seem to read without end observations on the mental and moral results of the impact of war upon the nation. We hear of the effects of intense personal danger upon young...

(To TRH EDITOR OP THU SPECTATOR...1 Sin,—For upwards of twenty years I have been a regular reader of your most valuable paper, and I take this occasion to express my sense of...

THE UNSEEN BOND. (To TER EDITOR OD THE SPECTATOR...I SIR,—An American of British descent not on Life's editorial staff, who has read "The Unseen Bond," cannot resist the...

ON THE SPECTATOR:1 Bra,—I am enclosing with this papers issued by the American Rights -Committee. I should like to call the special attention of your readers to the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " EPECTATOR.1 fins,—George Washburn Smalley has been for now forty years a eon- 'meting link between England and the United States, and I think a few...

• [To TIM EDITOR OP TRH "SPECTATOR.") Sra,—Will you permit me, as an Australian officer, to point out the real matter in which our Government has, in my opinion, fallen...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THR SPECTATOR.") Sna—Mr. Asquith, in his reply to the German Chancellor's speech, points out the absurdity (or hypocrisy) of Germany talking about "giving...

[TO TEE EDITOR OF THE " 8pm-won:] Slir,—Relative to your fine article in the last issue of the Spectator under the above title, may I be permitted to suggest a different...

[TO TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] STR,—At such a time as the present, when there is more history crammed into a single hour than has been compiled in the past forty years...

TEl " SPECTATOR."1 Szn,—The closing paragraph of Mr. Arnold F. Hills's letter in your issue of March 25th raises the one really serious objection to the State purchase of the...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] think the small voice of the father of a large family ought to be heard in these days of high Income Tax, but I am afraid, as he belongs to...

(TO THZ EDITOB OH THE "SPECTATOR.") Sta,—In making reference to the King's most generous and gracious gift to the nation you say you cannot understand why the authorities...

[To THE EDITOR OP TEl "SPECTATOR."] Srs,—In your review of Bigelow's Prussian Memories (Spectator, April 1st) I read the following : "In Prussia . . . the most powerful and...

[To THE EDITOR Olt THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—The article—so admirable on the whole—on the above-mentioned subject in your last issue did less than justice to the aura of the...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPEOTATOR.1 Sra,—There are those who demand reprisals against the Germans. We are to become baby-killers, I suppose. That is one extreme. There are...

[To nth EDITOR ON TEl " SPECTATOR.1 SIEL,—May I add a word to the interesting correspondence you have had on the above subject following the article on" Heroes and Heroics "?...

(TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."( Sra,—Nothing could be more generous or, I may add, more character- istic than are your words of last Saturday in this regard. Beyond all...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR:1 Srit,—As Secretary of the Gladwys Lodge and a constant reader of your gaper for fifteen years, I brought your "Down Glasses" policy to the...

(TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."( SIR,—May I offer some suggestions following on General Tyrrell's interesting letter in your issue of April 1st ? It has often occurred to...

TO THE DISTANT ONE. Theo' wild byways I come to you, my love, Nor ask of those I meet the surest way: What way I turn I cannot go astray And miss you in my life. Tho' fate may...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — In this far-off corner of the Empire there is a good deal of per- plexity in regard to the correct flag to fly on land. There is...

■■■■••■■•■■■■ THE CENTURY OF THE RENAISSANCE.* Is the very interesting and instructive essay with which Mr Bodley has prefaced the English...

Fats falls the sunlight ; silvery, shivering Like leaves of aspens languidly quivering In fitful evening breezes, Ocean Slumbers, and stables his angry horses. How changed the...

[To TITE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 SrR,—Lord Sydenham and Mr. John Oxenham have made an appeal for "what is not" in a girl's life, which the Young Women's Christian...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—Wishin& to encourage a young person to save, I tried to pay 1.5s. 6d. and to obtain a War Savings book for her, but the Post Office...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sra,—For several years past numbers of brain-fagged and toil-debilitated clergy of scanty means, some of them with their equally...

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

LADY Poona writes with an easy-running pen, and has the art of fitting her anecdotes to her theme. The result is an extremely agreeable book, cheerful, informing, and always in...

of this pleasant and useful little book is their choice of a title. It is taken from the Hudibrastio couplet :— "As cats when they can get no mice Content themselves with...

[COMMUNICATED.] PROFESSOR HART contributes a valuable history of the Monroe Doctrine and of the principles upon which it was announced from the foundation of the Republic in...

MR. SETON GORDON is- a pioneer. Even in these-days, when so many have set out after the first discoverers, he has contrived to mark down a field of search and observation for...

is, we think, to be found in following the development from youth to maturity of a strong and attractive character. "It is clear from many passages in these journals," Mrs. Ady...

TASKER JEVONS.* Jr would be hard to find a better illustration of the gulf that divides Georgian from mid-Victorian fiction than that which is furnished by Miss Sir.elair's...

12s. net.)—An account of sanitation work in, among other places the Malay Archipelago, Sumatra, the Philippine Islands, and Panama, dealing principally with the control of...

[Sodas in this column dyes not necessarily prat:dub tu5seysant reviele.1 A History of South Africa. By W. C. Scully. (Longmans and Co. 3s. 6d.)—Mr. Scully has written a very...

Os.)—A story of social life.—The Game of the Tangled Web. By S. C. Nethersole. (Mills and Boon. 13s.)—The "tangle" of the title is caused by the adoption of a child.—The...

6d. net.)—Five addresses given by Mr. Taft in the Page Lecture Series, 1914, before the Senior Class of the Sheffield Scientific School. Yale University. The first is a short...

net.)—Dr. Coleman Phillipson has re-edited a fifth edition of this standard work. Sir Frederick Pollock contributes an introduction deploring Germany's disregard of the comity...