A HISTORY OF THE FRENCH NOVEL.. Ten fascinating book leaven us marvelling anew at Professor Saintsbury's erudition, and at the sustained power of the French literary genius....

LONDON: NOVEMBER 17th, 1917.

TOE aim of Dean Beeching'e exceedingly able and pithy lecture is to combat a belief which has lately been revived, that Shakespeare was what Max Nordau or Lombroso would term a...

Tao Soots laird found Johnson's Dictionary " fine confused feeding." We might say the same of this valuable Dictionary of London, which the late Mr. Harben spent many years in...

Tim aim of this book ie to Enka a general survey of European Watery during the lastt hundred years, to extract from the welter of unorganizable facts the chief principles on...

Tim Report of the chief evidence taken by the Cinema Commission of Inquiry, instituted by the National Council of Public Morale, has been published in book form. A aort of Blue...

"Jr appears that we are on the eve of a very great improve. meet in the teaching of handwriting." This is very good news ! We get it from a little pamphlet containing a reprint...

" A MAN who had the art of being minute without tediousness and general without confusion ; whose language was copious without exuberance, exact without restraint, and easy...

A o0On deal lies been written by historians and legal writers on the subject of domestic: relations in England in the past. Dr. Powell's plan has been to study those relations...

LORD WARWICR'H reminiscences of society, travel, and sport are genial and amusing. He has enjoyed life, and looks back on his varied experiences with unaffected pleasure. He...

TERME is no way mush pleasauter of forgetting for a while the strain and anxieties of the war than to travel leisurely, in the pages of some book, through the countryside on a...

FROM the average man's point of view, the style of a novel is only a secondary consideration. The patron of the circulating library is venally blieefully unaware whether or not...

STORIES FOR CHILDREN. How 11 . e Baffled the Germane, by Eric Wood (T. Nelson and Sons, 35.0d. net), is a capital story of the war in South-West Africa. There are two heroes,...

Old Country (J. M. Dent and Sons, Is. 6d. net), in which are collected passages from many authors, living or dead, in praise of England, with numerous illustrations. Hakluyt's...

Mijatovich's version of Serbian Fairy Tales, cleverly illustrated in colour by Mr, Sidney Stanley (W. Heinemann, es. not). " Papalluga " is n curious variant of Cinderella ; the...

of a devotional character. The most ambitious are reproduc- tions by the Medici colour process of old masters, such as Raphael's "Madonna in a Meadow," or of modern works by Mr....

(John Lane, 3s. 6d. net), with some imaginative drawings by Miss Stella Langdale, is mainly interesting for the long and pleasantly egotistical introduction by Mr. Lewis Hind,...

K. Collett (T. C. and E. C. Jack, 7s. 6d. net), is a moat attractive book describing month by month the birds that we may see or hear in a country walk. Mr. Beach Thomas used to...

L'Ernpire Britanniane et la Guerre. Par Paul Hamelle. (Perils : Blond et. Gay.)—Of the essays collected in this little book, to which Lord Bryce contributes a preface, we like...

Daniel. Ss. net.)—This " Enquiry whether learning from books does not lengthen the ears rather than the understanding " is amusing. Away with books, cries the author, and let us...

The " Times" Documentary History of the War. Vole. (The Times. 15s. not each volume.)—This promisee to be a very valuable publication, which will be indispensable for...

THE CRIME. The Crime. Vol. I. By the Author of J'Aceuee I (Hodder and Stoughton. 16s. 6d. net.)—An elaborate reply by the author of J'Accuse 1 to the German critics of that...

net.)—Edward Thomas, who fell in France last April, was known before the war as a true lover of Nature and an appreciative critic of good literature. This little book, to which...

clever and discreet summary of our political history since 1914—the issue for September 1st of the publication called Le Fait de la Semaine, which does not, however, appear...

A History of the Bristol Royal Infirmary. By G. Munro Smith. (Bristol : Arrowsmith. I2s. 6d. net.)—Bristol was the first town in Great Britain outside London to open a hospital...

E.C. 4 ; and enblInhed by ALP/TD Enigma for the "IIPZMATOL. (malted). at their Oalos. So. 1 Wallington Street (W.C.2).1. the Precinct oI tn. boroY, Wand, in the County at...

the Government at home need not adopt the policy which he and his colleagues, under the advice of the new set of military experts, may propose to them. As a matter of fact, the...

at Versailles would not only have the power but the moral right to choose between their two sets of military advisers and to adopt the advice which at the moment seemed the more...

determination to carry out the Allies ' war aims are the qualities required in a Prime Minister, we should be quite content to see Mr. Asquith return to power, returning, as we...

in our pada of Parliament, with Mr. Lloyd George ' s scheme for an international War Council with its special military advisors. We need say for the moment only that the text of...

spoon h and by the form of Council which he proposes is deep and wide - spread. It is indeed not too much to say that there are few truly responsible men who would not feel...

control of the Chief of the General Staff or of the Commander-in-Chief by dismissing them, the right and proper way of dealing with the matter if a Prime Minister seriously...

W E have dealt at length elsewhere with Mr. Lloyd George ' s mischievous speech. Here we must speak of the duty of Parliament and of public opinion in view of this untoward...

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

LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

the fate of Rumania, and to say that they took too little account of the collapse of Russia in preparing their plans for the present year, thus enabling the enemy to menace...

to Italy last week and met Signor Orlando, the Italian Premier, at Rapallo. General Smote and Sir Henry Wilson accompanied Mr. Lloyd George, and General Sir William Robertson...

Saturday, on the ridge to the north of Passchendaele. In drenching- rain the Canadians fought their way along the crest and British troops struggled through the swamps on the...

Friday week, when they established themselves on the right bank of the Piave, which flows into the Adriatic twenty-five miles north-east of Venice. The forces holding the...

November 7th and smashed the Turkish line to the east, rapidly followed up his brilliant victory. Our infantry, doggedly toiling through the sandhills on the coast, occupied...

the Prime Minister whether the Supreme War Council of the Allies would have power, if so advised by its Military Staff, to override, the opinions of our General Staff and our...

Monday that the Allied Council would be a War Council of the British, French, and Italian Governments. It would meet, as a rule, at Versailles at leant once a month, but might...

was enter- tained at lunch on Monday by M. Painleve. He took the oppor- tunity to deliver the mischievous speech to which we have already referred. He said that the strategic...

one large merchantman was sunk last week by enemy mine or sub - marine, as compared with six the week before, whereas the weekly average for October was almost thirteen. Five...

Commons keeps its head it will tell Mr. Lloyd George, that it understands his game, and that it does notintend that he shall getabsolnte andsupreme control over ors• military...

possible that the German paymasters of the Sinn Fein leaders may black- mail them into action. Men who have once accepted money corruptly are more or leas at the mercy of the...

the significance of the Supreme War Council, which he regarded as a step towards the unity of command that might become possible hereafter. He said that Sir Douglas Haig had...

down small boys for drilling behind high hedges and leaving the directing and controlling Bolos and rebels untouched. They have apparently taken too literally the Shakespearean...

Kerensky, who had escaped from Petrograd to the Army, had gained control of the great wireless station at Tsarekoe Selo, mes- sages from which reported that " the liquidation of...

Fuesday and resigned. M. Painleve had reconstructed his Ministry after the critical debate of October 19th, excluding M. Ribot and putting M. Barthou in his place at the Foreign...

the Anarchists. K Trotsky, as President of the Petrograd Workmen's Council, declared the dissolution of the Provisional Government and the Preliminary Parliament and ordered the...

Fortress of St. Peter and St Paul," says a recent telegram from Petrograd. Lord Halifax, the Trimmer, tolls us that ' in a Revo. lution in a week you see the same faces in the...

on Thursday week, for the purpose of taking part in the Allies' War Conference. Mr. Lansing stated on the same day that America, in the employment of her man-power and material...

pay a particular tribute of respect to Colonel House. A man of a most penetrating judgment and scrupulous and straightforward motives, he used to add, we imagine, the touch of...

Mr. De Valera are proclaimed, the Sinn Fein leader nevertheless contrives to address a meeting at some spot not far removed from the place originally agreed upon, and this...

on Tuesday in the House of Commons, will establish an Air Council, whose President will be a Secretary of State. The Air Council will exercise over the Air Force such authority...

April 5th.

THE APPLE OF DISCORD. IjhUE Prime Minister in his speech at Paris apologized for J. speaking with brutal frankness. We mean to follow his example, and to deal quite plainly...

W E dealt last week with the leading lies used b y Irish extremists to poison the public opinion of England and the world in regard to the Irish problem. There are other lies...

A FTER carefully reading all the speeches which have- been made lately by Lord Rhondda, Mr. Prothero, Sir Arthur Yapp, and others on the food.resources of the country, we have...

LTHOUGH the Chancellor of the Exchequer has as yet given no sign that he appreciates the danger of currency inflation, due to the policy of borrowing from bankers rather than of...

G ENERAL ALLENBY'S brilliant opening of the campaign in Palestine lends significance to the agitation among British Jews for "the reconstitution of Palestine as the National...

N EVER does one realize the extraordinary indifference of wild life to mechanical sounds so much as when starlings wheel and circle above the turgid masses of smoke and fumes...

Sia,-1 have Just read with profound astonishment your emphatic remarks in last week's Spectator about Ulster and Germany. I e as in Belfast and the neighbourhood in the spring...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often snore read, and therefore snore effective, than those which lift treble the space.] TIE GRAND...

ITo Tar Emma or ran " SPICTITOR.") Suc,—Your remarks on camouflage, or the "wholesale 1150 of tic lie as an instrument in Irish politics," sent me back to Lord Morley's Life of...

Suc,—In your first article under date November 10th you say :-- " It is possible that some obscure and excitable Orangeman may have said that he would rather live under the rule...

Eta,—Once more the weakest point in the German armour proves to be the psyeliological insight iota the soul of the enemy. The sudden onrush against Italian defences was made to...

' (To ran EDITOR or roe " Srscreroa.") Sts,—I have to-day received a cutting from the Spectator of Octo- ber 9th under the heading, "An Australian Protest." It isaLleged that I...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE SPECTATOR.") Fm,—Reading the article in the Spectator in which the action of the Government in Ireland is compared to that of a man who says " Poor pussy...

CTo rot EDITOT or see " Srscrsron."3 is the penny and the halfpenny that stand in the way of making the change on the only possible basis, that of the sove- reign. The present...

brigading with Regulars may have taken place when the Territorials first' went out and were yet untried, I know that most of them went out in divisions and contin u ed to act in...

[To run Emma or roe " Srscrsroa."1 Sus,—Can you spare me a few lines in which I would lay emphasis on one point brought forward by "A Mere Schoolmaster "? I refer to the...

ITO THE EDITOR or ran SPECTATOR.") FIR,---I was very surprised to read in the last issue of the Spectator a letter headed as above, and signed by a correspondent w ho tells us...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."] &H,—The following quotation from Coleridge (written in 1609) seems apposite enough to deserve a plum in your columns :— " For a nation to...

[To me Emma or me "Sreerairoa."1 Ste,-1 should like to call the attention of your readers to the new scale of salaries for teachers in secondary schools, recently issued by the...

IT0 THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."I SIR,—Most people do not, probably, read their Spectator in the light of the Gospel for the day! Personally, I em compelled to do no by the...

ITo Tau EDITOR Or THE " fitsrx-reros."3 Ste.—Your Macedonian correspondent " T." has probably Over- looked, or else forgotten, how, in introducing Walter Creensray to the...

your issue of November lOth under the above heading contains much sound comment on Mr. Waugh's book, but "A Mere Schoolmaster" seems to have shrunk from putting his real opinion...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SrECTATOIs."1 SIR,—I see that my friend "C. R. H." has not forgotten his Greek in the last forty years, wherein he has, to a large extent, the advantage...

ITo THE EDITOR or me " Sreerseen."3 Sie,—The appointment of Graf Beetling to the Chancellorship of the German Empire reminds me of a remark attributed to Bismarck—which I never...

(To THE EDITOS or THE " SPECTATOR.") tire,—Some of your readers may be interested to hear of the formation of the Wimbledon Park Co-operative Kitchen Associa- tion, Ltd., with...

(To ran EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Ste,—The word "push" as meaning "attack" or "offensive" seems to be shunned by serious journalists as if it were slang. The use of the word...

ITo THE EDITOR OF THZ " SPECTATOR.") Ste,—May one wino is himself deaf thank your correspondent Mr. C. M. Paine for his letter in last week's Spectator, and you for publishing...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sta,—Having kept a tame rook, I have been interested in the letters which have appeared in the Spectator, and am curious to know whether...

(To ran Emma or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sca.—The reader. of the Spectator gave ns generous help in 1912 when the Travellers' Aid Society was in sore need of funds. I shall be...

ITo THE EDITOR OF ran " SPECTSTOR."1 Ssa,—As a reader of your paper I have noticed you welcome instances of special sagacity in animals, and the following instance may he of...

(To THB EDITO1 OF THR SPECTATOR:1 " Out of the stress of the doing Into the peace of the done." Ste.,—I am pleased to be able to give the name of the author of these...

the name "Bolo" discussed in last week's Spectator, it seems to me that it is probably the Arabic form of " Paul."—

Sut,—It seems possible to account for the first part of this word, as the various shades of meaning are included in the sense of "coil "—twist, entangle, awry. "I got collied...

(To rite Enema or run SPEOTATOR."] Sm,—In a letter in the Spectator of November 3rd there is a quotation from Dr. Bridge's Cheshire Proverbs, in which ho sag- geets that if the...

[To TEE EDITOR. or THE " SPECTATOR."3 Sia,—Your 'reviewer of the book by the Master of University College on Religious Changes in Oxford during the Last Fifty Tears " reminds"...

writer's name or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Com- municated," the Editor mud not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the view therein expressed or...

Tun leading article in the Spectator on the death of Lieutenant Hankey and his article "Don't Worry" have been republished as a leaflet by Messrs. W. Speuight and Sons, 98.99...

Owns° to the large and continued demand for copies of the poem entitled "Christ in Flanders," which appeared in our issue of September 11th, 1913, it has now been reprinted in...

Tan article under the above heading, dealing with the desecration of beautiful places by the scattering of pieces of paper and other picnic d4bris, which appeared in our issue...

Mies MART-ADAIR Idsceorcan's three poems (" In the Ward,' "Epiphany Vision," and "In Last Year's Camp ") have been reprinted from the pages of the Spectator in pamphlet form...

We are very glad to be able to inform our readers that we has., received permission to reprint the noble Address by Mr. Lansing which was published in the Spectator of September...

TO AMERICA, ON HER FIRST SONS FALLEN IN THE GREAT WAR. Now you are cue with us, you know our tears, Those tears of pride and pain so fast to flow; You too have sipped the first...

LORD MORLEY'S RECOLLECTIONS.* inesm Nemec.) A CASUAL note in Lord Morley's memoirs throws much light on the author and on his remarkable book "A lady of quality, on...

MR. Scrow-WArsos's sympathies ore well known, and lie makes no attempt to conceal them. fie is frankly on the side of the Balkan nations, more especially of the Serbs ; he is...

Toe general aim of " The Music-Lover's Library " as set forth in the advertisement—" a series of small books on musical subjects in a popular style for the general reader "--is...

Tue limitations which Lord Crowe has imposed upon himself in the address now before us prevent him, unfortunately, from considering that aspect of it which touches all of us...

THE LONG TRICK.• " BARTIMELIS " has so frankly forestalled certain obvious criticism. of his new book in Iris engaging " Foreword " that only the most captious of reviewers...

Unwire. tis.)—A very entertaining pre-war story about a heroine who has to make her own way in the world She is well described by her ulster as " a Puritanical adventurer. ,...

State Railways several highly interesting English pamphlets on the work of the Italian Navy during the war. These are published for the Italian Ministry of Marino by Messrs....

Europe—Sonthern Area (Is. Ott. not) is the very map that is needed by newspaper readers in these critical days. The map, which is printed in colours to show the physical,...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily pedals subsequent resists.] My Four Years in Germany. By James IV. Gerard. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7e. 6d. net.)—Mr. Gerants...

Co. 75. W. net.)—M. Varies describes in detail the flight of the Belgian refugees to England, their efforts to organize themselves as a community, and their various activities,...

John Kirkland. (National Bakery School, Borough Polytechnic, S.E. 3s.)—This pamphlet has been carefully compiled, and will be useful for reference. Mr. Kirkland's comparison of...