adjourned was due to the increase of our advances to our allies, and the mueli larger output of munitions. Mr. Asquith stated, however, that the cost of the Navy had shown 'a...

of the war. In asking for a further Vote of Credit for £250,000,000, he gave detailed statistics as to the cost of the war. The net expenditure per day from April 1st to the...

the exception of Mr. Balfour's interesting statement on air raids, which we notice elsewhere, dealt with the question of compulsory service, the most striking being that of...

T HE statements made by Lord Kitchener and Mr. Asquith in Parliament on Wednesday were just what was needed. They provided enough information to let the country know where it...

the front requires to be completely renovated almost twice in a year. Any one who bears this in mind, and believes that we shall be able in the long run to avoid compulsion,...

our armies, Mr. Asquith said that some three million men, first and last, had "offered themselves to the country." But he did not make it clear .whether this number included...

for many weeks. The Russian armies have all made good their retreat and occupy a defensible line. As for the Germans, they .have to decide what to do next. If they decide to...

afternoon, and is on sale at all Messrs. Smith and Son's London Bookstalls and all London Newsagents. AU country readers can now obtain the paper on Saturday morning, and should...

Russians in Galicia have added to their success at Tarnopol, which we recorded last week, another south-west of Trembovla. Here they took over seven thousand prisoners, besides...

case.

fighting desperately to defeat the loan which the Anglo- French Financial Commission are endeavouring to negotiate with the American bankers. The Germans rely chiefly on the...

the vessel was probably sunk by a mine. Obviously Count Bernstorff's assurances, such as they are, are quite valueless if it is to be open to submarine commanders to say that...

Washington, which we recorded last week, have caused President Wilson to take action. He informed the Austrian Government that Dr. Dumba was "no longer acceptable." It is said...

declared that the Government had taken control of practically all the engineering works in the country, and were appropriating their war profits for the benefit of the State....

the invitation of the Trade Union Congress to speak at Bristol on Thursday week. The chief question which he had been asked to answer was how the Government were keeping their...

"If we are not allowed to equip our factories and workshops with adequate labour to supply our armies, because we must not transgress regulations applicable to normal conditions...

Sofia dated September 13th states that the relations of Roumania with the Central Powers have reached a critical stage. According to his ihformation, the German Govern. meat in...

the collection of Mr. Lloyd George's war speeches. It is a remarkable challenge to the nation, and we cannot help regarding its appearance, for reasons which we have given...

Public Expenditure appears in Wednesday's papers. According to the Parliamentary representative of the Daily News, the principal recommendation relates to the Post Office...

Officers. Other Ranks. TotaL Killed or died of wounds 4,965 ... 70,992 ... 75,957 Wounded • ■• 0•• 9,973 ... 241,086 ... 251,059 Missing .0• 000 004 1,501 ... 53,466 ......

Scott had been appointed "to take charge of the gunnery defences of London against attack by enemy air- craft." Recent events had given rise to a vary widespread feeling that it...

part of the United Kingdom, but he could guarantee, Without being unduly optimistic, that everything was being done to organize such defences as were possible. Though much...

first of eight parties, each consisting of seven representative workmen and one Labour member of the Parliamentary Munitions Com- mittee, appeared in Tuesday's papers. The visit...

in the Commons on Wednesday on aerial raids. He admitted that it was a paradox that the Admiralty should be in charge of the defenoe of London, but it had grown out of the...

out of the doldrums. We recorded last week the acceptance by the War Office of the principle that Volunteer battalions should serve for a month at a time in France. Last Sunday...

among railway employees. It is understood that the men consider the war bonus as inadequate, and demand in addition an all-round advance in wages ; but their representatives,...

8th, 1914.

uninter- rupted activity on the part of the enemy's airships and aero- planes. Zeppelin raids on the East Coast took place last Saturday, Sunday, and Monday nights, in all three...

MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S CHALLENGE. I F we are not greatly mistaken in our judgment, Mr. Lloyd George's publication of a preface to his war speeches is one of the most important...

his speech in the House of Lords on Wednesday rendered the country a service for which we too often look in vain to politicians, and even to men who have the reputation of being...

F M:MY next week Mr. McKenna will lay before the House of Commons the first of his War Budgets; there is little hope that it will be the last. That it must be framed on a...

T HE papers recently laid before Parliament on the subject of contract labour in Portuguese West Africa present a very marked contrast to those which were published two years...

PROLOGUE. SCENE. The Parlour of an Auberge. Pillows.. A stout motherly MADAME, a wrinklediatherly MoNsiliun, and a plain but pleasant MA'MSELLE. Some English soldiers drinking....

R L. STEITENSON boldly coupled these two pleasures, and put them together with an educated man's delight in the companionship of Nature, as though all three were equally...

sure that you and your readers, and indeed all well-informed English men and women generally, have no doubts of the whole-hearted sympathy of the great majority of our people —...

O N September 6th, 1870, Edmond de Goncourt entered the Cafe Brebant in search of dinner. There, in the Salon rouge, he found but one habitue seated at the large table — Renan,...

AMERICAN SYMPATHY FOR THE ALLIES. ITo MN EDITOR Or THE " SIMOTATOR."] Sin, — The writer of the enclosed note is Judge Emile Henry Lacombe, who has a national reputation as a...

[To TAR EDITOR 011 TIlW ""SPECTATOR.""] SIR,—I see in the Spectator of September 11th Mr. Horsfall's letter in answer to mine of the previous week. If he looks at my letter...

[To ree EDITOR OF TILE SFECTATOR.'1 SIR,—Asa supporter of the National Service League, I very much regret to see that you say compulsion is not to apply to the shops. Whatever...

[To 7118 ED/TOR OF 7/1/ ""SPECTATOR. "] Siu,—Many,deputations of men from the workshops and of Trade Union pffieials have been sent to the front to see for themselves the truth...

[TO 7111 EDITOR OF TAW " SPECTATOR.”] &n,—With reference to your article " The Paoifioist Vision in America" in your issue of July 24th, you may care to print the subjoined...

THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The last number of the Spectator contains an unfor- tunate misstatement. In the note on Mr. Balfour's letter (p. 323) he is quoted as saying that, "...

[To THE EDITOU Or TIM SPECTATOE...] SIR.,—While every one agrees that all classes ought,to share according to their ability in bearing the enormous financial burden of this...

SPROTATOII."] Stn,—Having read with great interest the article on " Age and the War" by " Senex" in last Saturday's Spectator, I venture to suggest a few thoughts that must be...

[To TEE EDITOE OW TEN " $PECTATPE."3 Sim,—We are asked to economize, but the Government will not allow us to do so. As wo were short of a teacher, I offered to assist without...

[To THE EDITOR OF TIIR SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It was not without hesitation that the Council of the Churchmen's Union for the Advancement of Liberal Thought in the Church decided to...

[To Title EDITOR, or MI " SPECTATOR."' SIR,—In 1870 I travelled alone in Transcaucasia, &c., for some months. The post service then involved an entry in the Government register...

"SPECTAToR.") SIR,—One of the amazing things about our Army and Navy is the excellent moral of the men. They have won golden opinions from officers and visitors who have seen...

ITo THE EDITOR OT THE "SPECTATOR...1 SIR,—At the present time interest in a point of textual criticism cannot be long maintained, and there are signs that this correspondence...

[To THE EDITOR OT TOR ".SPECTATOR.""] Sin,—A full etymology of this word (see Spectator, Septem- ber 4th) will be found s.v. "Bozza " in T. C. Donkin's Etymo- logical Dictionary...

[To THZ EDITOR OF THE "sr:a:urea."] Sgt,—Reading your article " Live Truisms " (Spectator, September 11th), I was much perplexed by the use which the writer has made of the...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—May I point out a few errors in the trench argot quoted in your article? "Happoo fineesh" should read "Nappoo fineesh" (P n'y a plus...

[To Taz EDITOR OF THE " snoTerort.'l Sin,—In the spectator of August 28th your contributor, in the delightful article entitled " In Birdland," asks : " What is the secret charm...

[To ram EDITOR or TIM "SrEcurost."] Sra,—Amongst your readers there probably can be found some men of sufficient leisure who, for quite legitimate reasons of health and...

" BFROTATOR."] Sia,—I venture again to appeal to you to lot it be known that I have large quantities of Alpine and herbaceous plants for sale, consisting of saxifrages,...

[To Tall EDITOR or TIER "SFECTATOR."] Sra,—Were not the war so all-engrossing, it would seem strange that no one, I think, should have recalled the fact that the late Sir Claude...

[To TIM EDITOR OF TIa "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Mr. Archibald Hurd has contributed to the current Fortnightly Review an article based on the German Chan- cellor's assertion that...

Pessrosurr, LORD DESBOROUGN. Hon. SECRETARY: PERCY A. HARRIS, Esq. Ham) °mom: Judges' Quadrangle, Royal Courts of Justice (Carey Street entrance). The aims and objects of this...

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

should be sent to the Spectator Office, or direct to Messrs. Barclay and Co., Goslings' Branch, 19 Fleet Street, London, E.C. Cheques should be made payable to the " Spectator...

TO THE LIVING FROM THE DEAD. WE who were once such men as you are, brothers, Have one last word for you ere we are sped Upon our journey through the silent spaces, The dim and...

THE BALKANS, ITALY, AND THE ADRIATIC.* IT would be difficult to agree more heartily with any state- ment than we agree with Dr. Seton-Watson's statement that the settlement of...

TSB value of M. Alesinsky's very interesting book, Russia and the Great War, is increased by his own position. He is a converted. Revolutionist. He speaks of the Russian...

and compilers of this anthology, though they have been able to include in their collection a good many poems representative of the " Neo-Celtic Renaissance," have not escaped...

NAPOLEOAT once described his special form of strategy by saying that be made war with his soldiers' legs. The art of marching, however, has always been of high account among...

THE need for a new and good book on the idea of the Church has been plain enough for some years, and has become more pressing since the war began. Mr. Bradfield,' anxious to...

" BRIGHT " and "cheery" are perhaps unexpected epithets for a book about the realities of the Great War ; but they are the epithets which a critic of Mrs. Creed's account of A...

—It is not easy to say what it is about Mrs. Blundell's work that raises it above the average love story, and saves it from sentimentality. There is certainly nothing original...

THE MONEY MASTER,* THERE is nothing topical in Sir Gilbert Parker's new novel, nothing that bears directly on the war. Indirectly, however, it has a certain opportuneness in...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent revitsc.1 The current number of the Round Table (Macmillan and Co., 2s. 6d.) contains several important articles...

6s.)—Mr. Benediall writes well for a new- comer to fiction : his story of a blind girl's love is light-hearted, if undistinguished.—Pretty Maids All in a Bow. By Justin Huntly...

lished we may select for a brief mention Soldiers of the Tsar, by Mr. Julius West (The Iris Publishing Co., 2s. 6d. net). It contains a number of separate sketches (some of them...

been difficult to obtain. This state of things has now been changed by the publication by Messrs. Stanford of a reproduction of the relevant portion of the German Official Map...