T HE week has seen a great battle and a great victory, one on so large a scale that, did not the intricacies of trench warfare perplex the mind and distract the judgment, it...

"ALL FOR OLD ENGLAND ! " T N the Platonic Heaven where all the patterns of all that is on earth, great and small, material and immaterial, concrete and abstract., are laid...

I N Jul!, 1915, the Ministry of Munitions was created, and thereby the supreme advantage was secured that a single man became responsible to the country for the supply of...

W E showed last week how the war might be shortened by stimulating the surrender of German soldiers, and the weakening of German man-power be thereby achieved. To-day we desire...

AST week Mr. George Pownall, President of the Institute of Bankers, delivered in the hall of the Skinners' Company an address which is an excellent antidote to much of the loose...

the war the writer heard some one remark the other day that wealth would not be visibly diminished but that it would be in the hands of a new class. The speaker was thinking of...

awa■aralp.•■•• SECRECY AND DISEASE. (To THE EDITOR OF THE " SFECILTOIL"3 regret exceedingly that last week there were no letters on the subject of your article "Secrecy and...

(To TEE EDITOR. OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Those who wish to draw inferences as to President Wilson's future policy may be assisted by a summary of the results of the recent...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sus s —The Russian Budget for 1917 has just been submitted to the Duma and the Council of the Empire. Receipts from the sale of alcoholic...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,] Sia,—Can you find time to read what is reported out here and published without correction or comment of the attitude of Great Britain towards...

A public meeting was held in the Shire Hall on Saturday night last under the auspices of the Irish Relief Fund Association. Mr. McCirievy occupied the chair, and was supported...

[To 7HE EDITOR OF .THE " SPECTATOR.") his,—There are many of us who feel like your correspondent "V. W. " a difficulty in choosing between the various funds which clamour for...

[To riu: EDITOR OP THE "Sezerarcot.") tam,—Many of your readers will, I think, after reading the extracts which you give from the pamphlet written by Mr. Whitworth snore than a...

TEE "Srecreme."3 Ste,—A stray thought in connexion with the gathering of .national war savings has caused me to refer to several encyclopaedias and many likely other works ie...

_ [To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Apart from the general problem of the employment of exsoldiers and sailors, there are probably many young architects, paintere, and...

[To THE EDITOR GP THE " SPECTATOR.") p. 572 of your last number you attribute to"the Queen's pet lamb" the saying: "When I hear people say something must be done I know they...

(e() THE EDITOR OF THE " $PECTATOR.") Sri,—In the course of his letter in your issue of November .4th, provoked by a previous one from me, Mr. Cyril Lomas very rightly says :—...

(To THE EDITOR Or THM "SPECTATOR."3 Sra,-If Greek should cease to be compulsory for admission to Oxford and Cambridge, in a few years it will disappear from English education....

(To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,-1 welcome the example of the Czernavoda Bridge. Though it was blown up, the enemy seized it, mended it, and crossed by it, and appear...

(To THE EDITOR Of TEM "SMECI1TOR."1 Sie,-In answer to your note at the foot of my letter in your issue of November 11th, I would say that the document referred to was. I...

(To THE Eletion OF THE "SPECIATOR."7 Sta,-I notice that several correspondents have told you of the use which they have made, in church and hospital, of Lieutenant Donald...

letters you have published re "Don't Worry," may I say that not only have I read that article and the preceding one to all my scholars in place of the usual "chapter" at...

(To THE Envies or Tax " Sesersroa."1 Sut,-All readers of the Spectator must be grateful to Dr. Beattie Crozier for his letter in your last issue. He mentions Matthew Arnold. It...

WE have received a letter from Mrs. Anna de Xoven (1025 Park Avenue, New York City) in which, as the author of the Life and Letters of John Paul Jones, published by Scribner...

Tex 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. Speaight and Sons, 98-99...

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

THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-My Committee desire to bring to the notice of newspaper proprietors the work of this Centre, established in 1909 to provide opportunities for education of...

FOUR RYE SHEAVES. Facie rye sheaves to be my bed ; "Now God me save," was the prayer I said; And sweet was the sleep that came to me, For I was home where I fain would be ; And...

LONDON: NOVEMBER 18th, 1916. BOOKS. THE BOOK OF SORROW.* THE editor of this anthology has taken, he says, a sad pleasure in gathering together the poems he offers us to read....

IL JIISSERAND with his delightful books on English wayfaring life in the Middle Ages, on Shakespeare, and on our literature as a whole did a great deal to promote those friendly...

Tan thinking world invariably repents its false judgments. The men of whom the world was not worthy come by their own at last—. and something more. Giordano Bruno is certainly a...

a dramatist to be known by name, oven though audiences may be familiar with his work. It is very possible, therefore, that the general public knew nothing of Harold Chapin. A...

Gazer indeed is the debt that erudition owes to the Cambridge University Press. Without the beneficent intervention of some such public-spirited and disinterested midwife, a...

Tins book is based upon an essay on the psychology of religious experience which won the Burney Prize at Cambridge in 1908, and is offered as "a text-book to men and women who...

GIFT-BOOKS FOR CHILDREN.* The Allies' Fairy Book' is sure of a warm welcome, not only for its engaging title, but for its delightful contents. The stories are as well chosen...

LEGAL LIFE AND HUMOUR. Legal Life and Humour. By Joseph Heighten. (Header and Stoughton. 2s. Etch net.)--We had often suspected, from the reports of jokes in-Court proceedings,...

Lady Login's Recollections : 1820.1901. By E. Dalhousie Login. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—Lady Login was the wife of Sir John Login, of the Indian Medical Service,...

Shakespeare's Industry. By Mrs. C. C. Stopes. (G. Bell and Sons. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mrs. Stopea would appear to be a believer in the very debatable axiom that genius is an infinite...

a very interesting and, what is more a very courageous book. It consists of what purport to be communi_ cations made through spiritualistic mediums, professional and...

THE authors of these essays on the industrial reconstruction which will follow the war have a very pleasant style and splendid aspirations for their country, and they are not...

IT is only natural that Mr. James Stephens, whose novels and poems exhibit such a keen spiritual sense of Dublin life, should be moved to depict the violent upheaval in lds...

TI1E subject of Shakespeare's religion is one of perennial interest. Dr. Lyttelton, the late Head-Master of Eton, has raised it again in publishing a sermon preached by him in...

THE MACHINE., Ma. Fleets SPENDER in what we believe is his first novel carefully records the life history of a young man up to the age of forty or thereabouts, from his...

••••■••■■•■■■ [Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subupsent reciuo.] Women in War. By Francis Gribble. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—This book,...