S IR DOUGLAS EfAIG has no luck in the weather. In Flanders, as on the Somme last autumn, his operations have been sorely hindered by heavy and continuous rain, turning the...

hot work in the Epehy sector, due east of which the Cambrai-St. Quentin Canal runs underground for a mile or two, leaving a gap in the natural defensive line formed by this...

line. In the Ypres sector small advances near Langemarck and fierce counter-attacks by the enemy further south on Inverness Cops; on the high ground near the Menin road, were...

be recovering its spirit, is again showing signs of fatal insubordination. When the enemy attacked east of Czernowitz, near the Russian frontier, on Tuesday, some of the Russian...

Friday week the French troops carried at a rush . Hill 304, west of the Mort Hamme, and thus completed the reconquest of their old first-lime positions west of the Meuse. They...

between Gorizia and the sea. Here they massed their best troops. They failed to hold the Selo petitions, north-west of Herm iota, but their lines are naturally so formidable...

large merchant vessels sunk by mine or torpedo, as compared with fourteen in each of the two preceding weeks. The total losses in the four weeks of August number sixty-six, as...

had captured from April 9th, the battle of Arras, to August 22nd, 167,780 German and Austrian prisoners. Wo took 46,155 of these, making a total of 102,218 Gorman prisoners...

modestly and wisely waited for a week before announcing any definite mune, but on Saturday last he reported that Monts Santo, the lofty mountain north of Gorizia, which was the...

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

about the Army, "stricken with the terrible evil of disorganization and insubordination." If Rusais, were to be saved, the Army must he regenerated at all costs. Recently a...

Turkey 'became an ally of Germany-on August 4th, 1914ssome hours before Great Britain declared war. M. Theotokis, the Greek Minister in Berlin, learned this the same day from...

long as she has a central Government, and so long as she rejects a separate peace with the enemy. General Kornfioff has undoubtedly checked the disaffection in the Army. 'Even...

to the Greek- Chamber on Monday the full story of his differences with the ex-King-Constantine, which led to the. Salonika secession, and ultimately to the fall of the King. In...

hold over the Government And no right to co-operate in any way with the Federal Council, the "Imo Committee" is nominally a slight con- cession to the demand for Parliamentary...

unMr- tunately destroyed-many:hundreds of houses and Tendered a-large number of people homeless. It is not to be supposed that a disaster on this scale can happen without...

his scheme for " co-operation between the leaders of the Empire and the great 'parties." Besides appointing-two or three Deputies—who will vacate their seats—to unimportant...

which be appealed to all Russian citizens to unite, as the country was in mortal danger. In face of a powerful, implacable, and organized enemy, Russians must put aside their...

debate on - Saturday last that they regard the constitutional monarchy of King -Alexander as a provisional -state of affairs. M. Venizeloa in reply said that, though the ex-King...

was signed—August 4th, 1914, the &Lyon which Groat Britain declared war--is very interesting. It cannot of course be believed that Germany and Turkey talked over all the details...

acts until the llama can bo elected, summoned a National Ounference, which met at the Grand Opera House in Moscow last Saturday. Leading public mon were invited, and the Army,...

Pope's peace proposals. The violence of the contrast between the whole-hearted resolution of the United States to-day and what Matthew Arnold might have called their " almost...

Americans, having exhausted all the resources of reason and per- suasion in their long negotiations with an unscrupulous and merciless antagonist, recognize now that it is...

Every one, we supPose, has heard of the brilliant and daring work of Bias Gertrude-Bell. Before the war she was already famous as a daring traveller and a scholar in Oriental...

Powers which are adjacent to Germany and Austria, has decided that in future these neutrals cannot be allowed to draw any supplies from the United States that would either...

the decorations and medals given to working men and women without a sense of pride and a feeling that no rewards have been better earned. But here again wo think a bold...

Central Hall, Westminster, on Tuesday and Wednesday, was even lees helpful than we expected it to be. The Socialists adopted the methods of " secret diplomacy " which they are...

the two new Orders, the Order of the British Empire and the Order of Companions of Honour, which have been instituted by the King in recognition of services rendered by British...

measures taken by the Government to allay industrial unrest, in accordance with the advice of the recent Commissions of Inquiry. Under the new Munitions Act, the grievances of...

the name of a single person who has not done something, and probably something handsome, to deserve distinction. Nevertheless, when we reflect that these new honours have been...

the age of sixty-sir. He was a great Imperialist in the best sense of the word. As Administrator of Rhodesia from 1895 to 1897, when the Matabele rebelled and the Boers were...

the Stokes gun. No gun is better known in the trenches ; none has done more execution among the Germans, and none has proved a better or more trusty friend to the British...

April 5th.

.THE DUPES OF FEAR. I T would be too much to say that at the present moment there is discouragement in the country in regard to the war. There is, however, undoubtedly a great...

1 N reviewing. the military situation the other day we insisted on what we imagine must be admitted by every one to be a truth, that time is an essential element in our problem....

T HE Socialists in this and in other countries have been making themselves so prominent of late that it is worth while to consider what is the basis of their claim for separate...

O UR first feeling on reading President- Wilson's fine and eloquent answer to the Vatican Peace proposals was that this was what the Pope should have written. It is easy to...

L ONDON is just now the land of good excuses. No well.disposed person likes to drive home even a reasonable complaint. The same undeniable excuse of "the war" flies to tho lips...

A LONG certain corridorsof the hospital the wards are arranged in pairs. Their doors being immediately opposite, the two wards can be managed by one Sister, and their staffs are...

THE ROOT or SOCIAIT REFORM'. [To rue EDITOR or THE " Serrraroa.'7 " This Congress urgently directs the attention of the timers- ment to the critical need for the prevision of...

" SPECTATOR:1 Sre,—" Life and Liberty " is a felicitous watchword, if we place the accent on "Life." That word names the true Lome. For the Church, even the Established Church,...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the apace.] THE VATICAN PEACE TERMS. (To...

TEE "SPECTATOR."' • Sue—Mr. Fisher is being greatly blamed for the omission from his Bill of better provision for religious instruction in the nation'. schools. But who is...

THE SPECIATOR.".1 Stn,—st propos of Dean Rashdall's paper read last week at the Conference of Modern Churchmen held at Cambridge, I wonder if the status of the Wesleyan...

Sts,—My excuse for writing on this subject is that, having worked for over twenty years in a branch of our Church possessing self- government on the lines suggested by the...

and admires the Spectator, may I say how mach I regret your attitude towards the " Life and Liberty Movement " in the Church of England? Your theory of a Church which ib...

(To ran EDITOR OF run " SPLOTATOR.'1 Smw,—No people will respond more readily to the "glad eye "— i.e., to friendliness—titan Australians of all grades. I have proved this on my...

(To sun EDITOR or run " SPEC7ATOR."1 Ss, 7n your issue of August 18th you refer to the adoption of the Alternative Vote in terms of commendation, and speak as though it would...

[TO THE EDITOR or THE SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—To be a dissentient voice in a general chorus of approbation is always a not only ungrateful, but probably unprofitable, part. But there...

ITo THE EDITOR. OF THE "SPECTATOR:I Ste,—Each week the Spectator offers valuable general information, and your last issue was no exception. Your correspondent raises an...

(To TEL EDITOR or sun "SPECTATOR."' you grant me the opportunity of making a suggestion to people through your columns? There seems to be no doubt that several cases of illness...

TM " Sewn:mm."1 Stn,—I was much interested in reading an article of yours on the liquor question, reproduced in the Literary Digest of New York. May I ask you to give space to...

[To atm EDITOR OF THR " SeEcTrroe."1 Sic, — I have just read the appreciative review of M. Benjamin Vallotton's book, Potterat and the ll•ar, in the Spectator of July 29th. Now,...

ITo sun Emma or THE " SPECTAT011-"I may perhaps interest some of your readers to learn—front an example—soteething of the kind of -work we hove been able to do for British...

ITo ens EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") S/R,—I read the Spectator article," Summer Time for Ever," with considerable interest. Tasmania is so much a terra incognita to the world...

ITo rait Emma or Tan " SPECTATOR.") Sea,-1 am gratified beyond measure to know that the Government intend to give to proud though son-owing parents a memo. I ial of their...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") Ste,—In that storehouse of homely wisdom, the distant original of Aesop and La Fontaine, the famous Panchatantra, a wise and experienced...

(To TEE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") lent,—Mr. Vincent Saline's new biography of Akbar no doubt deserves the praise it received from your reviewer (July 28th), but those who...

ITO TEE EDITOR or ens "Seocriroa."1 Sta,—Unfortunately I am unable to refer either- to the Indian Penal Code or tile Indian Law Reports before replying to the letters of " Your...

(To tae EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."' Sia, — On behalf of the Loudon Battalions of the Boys ' Brigade. I desire to make a moat earnest appeal to young men elm to-day have leisure...

(To THE Emma or ear "Sazeraeoa."1 Sin, — As one of the few persona well acquainted with the great danger which Siam — eow ranged on the side of the Allies—ran cf passing...

milk. enough flour to bind, dripping, currants, a pinch of salt, a pinch of sugar; roll out to no inch thick, cut into round cakes, and bake in oven till a golden brown; serve...

[To nu Emma or rue "fireorsron."1 Set,—The allusion to the delicate little warning not to tread on thin ice which is quoted in the extremely interesting article under the above...

the inquiry of Mr. Welkin Williams. I append a recipe for potato- cakes given ma by an Irish lady, wlicsa provision of these delectable cakes was immensely appreciated by the...

(To am Dorton or THE "Sexcerron."1 Sus — Your. correspondent " Inquirer " does not appear correctly to appreciate the effect of a country repudiating its.iuternal Debt. Such...

(To THE EDITOR or IDE " SPECTATOR."' Sin, — A correspondent asks for a potato cake recipe. Whoa the urgency for economy in wheat beearno so. paramount I suggested to my cook (a...

Me. II. G. Weiss has suggested to us that we should publish the whole of is correspondence which has taken place between him and the temporarily Acting Editor of the -...

MISS MARY-ADAIR MACDONALD'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...

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

name 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...

Tot 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 - 90...

Owitio to the large and continued demand for copies of the poem entitled "Christ in Flanders," which appeared in our issue of September llth, 1915, it has now been reprinted in...

MORITIIRI TE SALUTANT. Ix this last hour, before the bugles blare The summons of the dawn, we turn again To you, dear country, you whom unaware, Through summer years of idle...

THE ROAD TO PEACE.* " WE really possess not a Fatherland but only a dynasty." Thus in a sentence Herr Fernau, who has published in Switzerland a book which he would not have...

Evarry Englishman has a warm corner in his heart for Switzerland, not only as the playground of Europe, but as the traditional land of liberty and simplicity under whose...

Turanz are two. or three terms in_ use in the military diagnosis of disease which fill the lay mind with joy. A patient will be Wane- hared, for example, with only the mystic...

of the Atlantic in problems of State finance is reflected its the recent appearance of several books upon the financial methods of the British and of other Governments. Two of...

IN this little pamphlet Mr. Temple tells the story of the National Mission, its aims and some of its results, anti calls upon the Church to pursue the considered policy then...

Stoughton. Is. net.)—There is no sort of doubt that Griselda, Chubb's calthorse, fulfils the dignified till of the heroine of this novel. Neither Maurice Unwin, the...

THE FORTUNES OF RICHARD MAHONY.• Ma. Rimasnosotes clever, whimsical, exasperating story is laltelled " Australia Felix. T.," hinting at more to follow, and when one has read it...

By the Right HIM. J. M. Robertson, M.P. (T. Fisher Darwin. 6d.)—Professor Meyer, who holds the Chair of History at Berlin and who is known by his erudite History of Antiquity,...

By an Ulster Irishman/. (Belfast : W. and 0. Baird.)—Sfr. Adam Duflin, the author of this pamphlet, analyses the Nationalist scheme of Irish finance put forward by Mr. M. A....

Unwin. 3s. Od. net.)—All who delight in Lord Dtmsany's strange fantastic imagination will give a warm welcome to this collection of four of his plays. In The Laughter of the...

amusing journal of the Mediterranean destroyer flotilla from the autumn of 1914 to the spring of 1915 will be treasured by the friends and relatives of the men who did so much...

Agriculture and. The Series Agricultural ,Situntioa. by Mr. W. W. Philip, of Gigha, Argyllshire (Dumfries : J. Maxwell. is. each), who maintains that the Corn Product ion Act,...

Co. 28. 6d. net.)—Lance-Corporal Ward Muir has been serving as an orderly in the 3rd London General Hospital since the outbreak of war, and these humorous and pathetic sketches...

Is 6d. net.)—These collected addresses and essays, ranging over a period of twenty years, are sanely critical, and yet hopeful. Mr. Matheson reminds teachers and parents that in...

23rd last, by issuing a neat little pamphlet, to be read in the schools, explaining why Empire Day is set apart to mark and impress on our minds the character, extent, and...

5s. net.)—Mr, Bevan, whose House of Seleucus attested his high com- petence in ancient history, has turned his scholarly mind to this " fresh consideration of the case between...

P. Thomson. (Routledge. lOs 6d. net.)—Mr. Thornson'e history of Australia, New Zealand, and the adjacent islands from their discovery to the present day is an interesting and...

Isaias is thu column does not necessarily preclude sulaspient rennue.1 A meat instructive German official Report on the defence of Cionuneemet on July let, 1916, when the bat...

Is. Od. net.)—Dr. Ginsburg has put together in a handy little pamphlet eighteen of the more notable speeches made during the war, with a useful historical and critical...