rugged hills south of Lake Ochrida, on the extreme left of the Macedonian front, where it touches Albania- The. French and Russian troops employed had by Wednesday pushed...

down. Between Lake Nyasa and the sea, the British and Belgian columns at the end of last week achieved some considerable suc- cesses over German columns, which were driven from...

mist, have had a busy and successful week. The Naval Air Service on Monday and Tuesday dropped tons of bombs on the Ghent aero- dromes, the Bruges docks, and the railway...

S IR DOUGLAS HAIL has had no large operations to report during the past week, though the liveliness on the Western Front continues, especially round Ypres and Lens. The centre...

by mine or torpedo. This is the smallest weekly total yet announced by the Admiralty since February, and, so far as it goes, testifies to the increasing efficiency of the Navy's...

retreat on a front which, at a distance of about forty miles from Riga, curves from the mouth of the Melupe River, on the Gulf of Riga, to the Dvina's marshy banks at...

last week which has received loss publicity than it deserved. He said that ho had ascertained that so far the casualties from acre. plane attacks since January 1st were only...

no machines to spare for work of doubtful profit. He expressed his firm conviction that the Government and the two Air Services were doing their best to overtake the great...

north-east. of Gorizia, where the Austrians, heavily reinforced from the Russian front, are trying to stem General Cadorna's advance. Monte San Gabriele, which next to Monte...

north of Verdun, and captured a froth series of German positions ona fronted a mile and a half east of the Meuse. The French objectives were the northern side of the Fosses...

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

to the refusal of the Socialist. Party to support him, and to ..the eonsequent.withdrawal of IL Albert. Thomas, the Ministee of Munitions. M. Painleve, who has been a successful...

regularly the means of shelter in London against moonlight raids. These raids are likely to be repeated, in spite of the fact that they have done comparatively insignificant...

as a neutral, with an unscrupulous belligerent like Germany spying on her every movement, as a hungry crocodile watches his- prey. We know that the great majority of theSwedisb...

again last March, resigned office on Friday week. The direct cause of this was the resignation of M. Malay, his Minister of the Interior. He fell as a result of the affair of...

faith of these German messages, whose author was given his passports on Wednesday,'"and asktsl to leave Argentina at once. Count Luxburg's truly Prussian contempt for the...

which, after mentioning that it had transmitted American telegrams to Turkey as well as a German telegram about Kiao-chau, it denies-that we raised any objection in 1915 to the...

of three deciphered telegrams from Count Luxburg, the German -Charge d'Affaires at Buenos Aires, which had been de- spatched as Swedish official messages by the Swedish Legation...

last General Korniloff, who was appointed Commanders in-Chief six weeks ago, called upon M. Kerensky and his colleagues in the Provisional Government to resign their powers in...

this affair is certainly surprising, and calls for much more explanation than has.. been „offered from Stockholm. The Swedish Minister at Buenos Aires may have been culpably lax...

time on Tuesday, gives novel expression to the idea that if a man will not servo hit country he should not have a share in governing it. All members of the Canadian Oversea...

Marne which were published in the Paris Journal on the third anniversery of the fight, declared that General von Xluck made in fatal blunder, not merely in turning aside from...

services of the troops engaged in France andBelgium in the earliest stages of the war, up to and including the First Battle of Ypres, which began our October llth, 1014. A...

full report which we are enabled to publish of the addrem of the American Secretary of State to a body of American officers. We do not suppose that the officers of any country...

who used to be the leader of the American Peace Party, had been making speeches in favour of the war. The August number of his journal, the Commuter, which we have since...

murder. ing Anton Baumberg, a profligate alien who had attempted to seduce his wife, ended on Tuesday with the acquittal of the accused. The case excited great interest, even in...

war. Ile declared that the figures which he gave in the House last month with regard to our loans from submarine attack were perfectly accurate- The German efforts to disprove...

a notable letter deprecating the " very loose and mischievous talk about peace," and the foolish notions that "we have only to conclude a treaty of peace with Germany and all...

week, spoke of the decisive part that little nations are still playing in the world's history. "Great nations are necessary for protection, for security, for strength ; the...

of Mr. McCormick, a well-known Illinois member of Congress, expressed very frankly our gratitude to America for her generous financial assistance- We have helped our Allies with...

April 5th.

A LTHOUGH, as we have often explained, we regard all attempts to regulate, in other words to reduce, food prices with the utmost misgiving, we have to recognize now that Lord...

THE RUSSIAN CRISIS. T HE situation in Russia is critical, and it seems only too likely that the country . will be plunged in civil war, if indeed a state of civil war is not...

A MONG the resolutions passed without much discussion at the tail end of the Trade Union Congress at Black- pool was one condemning the lowering of the limit of exemption for...

A LITTLE book entitled I Appeal onto Caesar (Allen and Unwin, Is. net), written by a lady (Mrs. Henry Hob , house) whose eldest son is a Quaker and a conscientious objector and...

We hare obtained a full report of the memorable address delivered by Mr. Robert Lansing, the American Secretary of Slate, to the Reserve Officers' Training Corps at Madison...

(Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which Ad ;noble the space.] THE ROOT OF SOCIAL REFORM'....

the war, we aro looking forward to a gigantic task of building and rebuilding houses for the people, not only in the devastated parts of France and Belgium. but ales in our own...

(To THE EDITOR CP THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Your readers greatly apprecinte your chivalrous defence of Lord Haldane in last week's number of the Spectator. There are,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPRETAPOR."1 Stn,-16ey a Cheshire beekeeper express his pleasure at the attention which you are drawing to the production of honey ? It not only saves...

(To THE Enema or THE " SPECTATOZ."1 Sm,—It is always a matter of interest and satisfaction to readers of the Spectator to note the fulfilment of many of the forecasts which...

Fro THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sts,—I am greatly obliged to "F. W. B." for his valuable suggestion in your last number, and to yourself for your foot- note to his letter....

alternative treatment for Isle of Wight disease to recommend to your correspondent Mr. Elliston, who leas Impel "bacterol " with complete SUCCESS. My letter was concerned with...

(To nun EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 Sta,—Orce again I've found a few more spare moments to let you know am still one of old Fritz's tormentors and am enjoying best of health at...

9 SI IL, —Tbero is no novelty in the suggestion made by Lord Desborough. I have treated potatoes in this way for some years with success, end gave my experiences in the colonies...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."' Sta,—As Treasurer of the Special Appeal Fund of the Philanthropic Society's Farm School, Redhill, which is doing such national work in the...

[To TOE Enema or the " Sem - mm."1 Stn,—Your correspondent Mr. William Bayne is not alone in his surprise at the - confession of a recent writer in your columns: " The Psalms...

[To THE EDITOR or TDE "Seem...m."1 Sts,—Would any of your readers kindly tell me the best method of preparing and cooking badger hams ?-1 am, Sir, Se., G. I. H. 'Surely this...

letter some time ago recommending the planting of eyes of potatoes in seed boxes and transplanting then, later to prepared ground, I persuaded my gardener to try the experiment,...

[To THE Dorton or ins o flthernros."1 Sta,—In a review that appeared in your issue of the 1st inst. your reviewer makes merry over what he terms "military medical diagnosis" (I...

[To THE EDITOR or TEE "SPECTATOR. " ) Sm,—Announcement is made that the Life and Letters of the lute Joseph H. Choate, sometime American Ambassador to England, is in...

—I can roach for the handsome return obtained by following Lord Desborough's "tip" in the spring of last year to cut potato ends in the kitellen and plant. I have several rows...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor moat net necessarily be held to be Oil agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of...

GIFTS OF THE DEAD. Vs who in Sorrow's tents abide, Mourning your dead with bidden tears, Bethink yo what a wealth of pride They've won you for the coming yea.. Grievous the...

A BRIDGE TO THE CLASSICS.* SOME fine day the disputants in the great controversy about the humanities will discover the existence of tho "Loeb Classical Library " and realize...

devote the Bross Leeturee, which he was invited to give at Lake' Forest College,. Illinois, to a study • The Riffle Frahm.'fly J..11:11ggls. London; I.ongranns spa Co. tie....

IT has boon sought," writes Mr, H. E. Egerton; " without ex- tenuation and without malice, to tell in rough outline the com- plicated story of British polioy in its connexion...

WALTER BAGEUOT once explained tlmt the reason why no few good books were written was that so few people who could write knew anything. Mr. White is in the fortunate position of...

E. Manning Foster. (Cope and Ifenwick. 3s. ltd. Tho idea of this hook is to present Death beautifully as man through the eyes of ancient and modern poets, philosophers and...

7s. 6d. net.)—Cireumatances have tended to give the writing, of the late Padraie Pearao a greater prominence than they would perhepe -ordinarily have achieved, and the same...

Me. Gatswoneuv has written another very clever novel on a depressing but eternal theme. As one of his characters says: The man seems to think love is nothing but passion, and...

fortnightly, lies completed its third volutes° with a bulky and lavishly illustrated anniversary ntunber, full of messages from public men like Sir Douglas. Haig and M. Itibot....

and Co. 3s. Gd. not.)—This book, though somewhat tantalizing in its enforced omission of the many new machines and devices that have been invented for the war, contains,...

ed. net.)—Edward Alloys, the theatrical proprietor of Shake- speare's time, bought the manor of Dulwich iu 1005 and completed his College in 1616, for the reception of twelve...

Levier ape column does not seensarily reds* soliftuest miss] /ran Heald : hero and Humorist. With a Preface by Sidney Dark. (C. Arthur Pearson. 35. Od.)—The late 111r. Heald, a...

Werner Laurie. 2s. net.)—Mrs. Usborne insists in her Introduction to Chia useful handbook that girls must in future be trained like their brothers for the work which they wish...

E. Barnes, D.D. (Cambridge University Press. Is. Gd. net.)—This new volume of the well-known " Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges" leaves only Deuteronomy, which Principal...

Pendia advice to those about to marry—" Don't ! "—might well be applied to the way in which the hero and heroine of this novel face their responsibilities its the married state....

E. Harold Terry. (Methuen and Co. 2s. net.)—An attractive play showing how social conditions have been, and—according to Mr. Terry—will continue in future to be, affected by the...

(2s. ed.) of the Flanders battle front, from the sea to the neighbour. , hood of Ypres, showing the Belgian coast and the interior to Thick and Routers, with all the natural...

in Les Ruhaiyat d'Omar Khayyam (Leopold B. Hill, Is. 3d. net), an elegant booklet which will amuse the devotees: The l fleet stanza runs Dohout ! car le Matin dans la coupe de...