IL PARADISO.* No time could be more appropriate than this year of horror; which finds England and Italy allied in defence of the Kingdom of the Spirit, for the appearance of any...

LONDON NOVEMBER 20th, 1915.

. • and we must be forgiven everything." "It is easy to forgive in the sun." Mr. George Hall, " the Gypsy's Parson," quotes these words from Mr. Hichens's The Garden of Allah in...

IT is probable that to the majority of Englishmen Denmark and her people, though BO close to these islands, are little known. For this reason Denmark and the Danes, written...

makes my mouth water! What a tale I There's everything the heart could desire ghosts, enchanters, demons, mystery, and a * (1) Grandmother's Fairy Tales. From the French of...

81xcE the war the " man in the street " has found himself forced by circumstances to face a variety of problems connected with subjects which he had hitherto considered to be...

PROFESSOR PATRICE GEDDES describes his book as "An Introduction to the Town Planning Movement and to the Study of Civics." We should have preferred as a sub-title "The Romance...

NASSAU has translated into English a number of West African legends and folk-lore tales which have been recited to him by natives. The result is a collection of delightful...

WE remember vaguely a story of some plain-spoken dignitary who caught a modern herald in error about a great cere- monial, and said to him : "You foolish man, You don't even...

boys based on noble lives in different spheres. This year is ne exception, though the books have to vie with daily papers in times when active heroism is displayed on every side...

IN the stirring speech which be delivered at the London Opera House on September 11th, 1914, Mr. Winston Churchill pointed out that the first principle which we should keep...

FROM DAY TO DAY, Lawns who like to possess small volumes suitable as birthday books or diaries with a quotation for each day will find a new one in The Boc:Intender Book of...

MR. ASQUITH. Bio g raphies of the livin g are now too fre q uent to call for discussion or epi g ram upon the principles involved. Mr. Harold Spender "presents" Herbert Henry...

The writin g s of "Pat " are so personal, spirited, and practical that they are pleasant to road,. but we doubt whether be would prove a pleasant anta g onist, for bitterness is...

is the first and lon g est of another little, collection of essays, published by the anonymous author of Times and Days. The -writer is for the most part concerned with g eneral...

the Times reported that M. Carp, a former Roumanian Premier and an avowed pro-German, had said that his country would take up arms on the side of Germany nest mouth. He...

by this time have obtained possession of practically the whole railway between Belgrade and Nish—in other words, they will be able to send munitions freely to Constantinople...

• 1 - 1VENTS in the Balkans continue to occupy the attention 11.1 of the world. The Serbian Army is hard pressed indeed, but every day that it continues its resistance and...

of the first importance. The Balkan correspondent of the Times, in a message to Friday week's paper, says that Roumanians believe it to be impossible now to save the Serbian...

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

side. On Thursday week the Greek Government, unable to govern without the co-operation of the Venezelist majority, dissolved the Chamber. New elections are fixed for December...

LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

be Eastern Bulgaria or Thrace. The distance of Salonika from the main front in Serbia, with the necessity of guarding a long line of communications, is regarded in Roumania as...

FOR TIM rEsatimannn AS A }PAWN ON. Nr EEK ENDING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1915. LPOSTAGX A.BROAD Nawsraana. ° "w°' o.

case.

Germans have made another attack upon the French in the Labyrinth and penetrated some trenches, but they were soon dislodged'. The German losses were high.

by Lord Derby repeating and emphasizing the substance of the statement which Mr. Asquith made in the House of Commons on November 2nd. "The Prime Minister on that occasion,"...

to say that in the imagined circumstances it would be their duty, according to international law, to intern any Allied troops. A moment's consideration will show that such a...

After a fortnight's constant fighting, they drove Marshal von Hindenburg back, took Kemmern and Anting, and advanced still further westwards. Russian ships of war co-operated....

George, accompanied by their advisers, have visited Paris "for consultation with the French Government "—a antis. factory proof that the Allies mean to draw continually closer...

married men of military age understanding the situation clearly. Mr. Asquith is a master of clear state- ment, and it would be easy for him to put the matter beyond doubt. Ma...

Mr. Churchill resigned from the Cabinet. In this letter to Mr. Asquith Mr. Churchill points out that when he left the Admiralty be accepted the light duties. of the Duchy of...

brought compulsion a long step nearer—so the average reader said. Yet it led to considerable dispute, which culminated in the Commons on Tuesday. In answer to questions, Mr....

his sincere grief at Mr. Churchill's departure. We cannot honestly share this grief. We know the promptitude. and strong grasp of the situation which , Mr. Churchill displayed...

mean to have it. King Constantine cannot be in any doubt about our complete power of exacting it. The Navy is our instrument. As a pre- liminary means of pressure, and we...

letter of thanks from the Ordnance Officer at Didcot for the excellent work done there by Volunteers affiliated to the Association. The Volunteers were chiefly from Oxford. The...

Albert Hall on Thursday, the 18th, with Mrs. Pankleurat in the chair, and Lord Willoughby de Broke, Mr. Annan Bryce, M,P., and Miss Annie Kenney as speakers, was extensively...

have invented, the project really originated with Lord Kitchener and the French Government. On October tad, 1914, it became known that the Belgians were about to evacuate...

framed entirely by expert and technical minds." It was "a legitimate war gamble" for great stakes. Russia had asked for some action to be taken to relieve the pressure in the...

the real aim of the meeting, and the protests which appeared in 'various papers, the Council of the Albert Hall refused to allow the building to be used for the purpose, and...

had spoken with loyalty and discretion. He added, however: "He has said one or two things I had rather be bad not said, but he has necessarily and naturally left unsaid some...

criticized the Headquarters Staff and several other Staffs of the British Armies in France. Appointments were made because of a man's social position or wealth, or because he...

the causes of his resignation from his own point of view in a speech which was admitted by all to be a remark- able effort in expository skill. It did not, however, do any-...

ship Anglia,' which struck a mine in the Channel on Wednesday. Of the thirteen officers and three hundred and seventy-two men on board, about three hundred were saved. Another...

issued an appeal to the Persian people, stating that Russia has resolved, in agreement with the Persian Government. to put an end to the activities of German agents...

Stli, 1914.

C HATTER about peace has begun in America, and is being reflected hero. For example, the special corre- spondent of the Daily Mail, Mr. Sydney Brooks, telegraph- ing from New...

F RANCE is an example to the world and to posterity of bow a nation can bend itself to the work in hand, and labour with its whole body, its whole mind, and its whole soul. The...

'F ROM all parts of the country , encouraging reports are coming of the way in which employers and work- people have responded to the call for agreater output of munitions....

[COMMUNICATED.] A NY one visiting Russia after a year of the war, and able to compare the conditions as he sees them there to-day with those that obtained during previous...

L ITTLE girls constantly ash of each other and of their elders: "What is your favourite colour ?" Their contemporaries answer them instantly—pink, or blue, or gold, or whatever...

from the northern winds by a rampart of mountains rising almost sheer front the Government road and clothed to the s kyline with sombre forests that catch the clouds, and that...

A STRIKING instance of the formation of a temporary subterranean passage has recently occurred in con- nexion with the escape of two German officers from Donington Ball. With...

THE SALONIKA LANDING. [To TRIP EDITOU or rue "SPECTATOR."] San, — An attempt to draw an analogy between the German invasion of neutral Belgium and the lauding of the Allied...

to see in your issue of November 6th your further article dealing with the drink question. I believe nothing that has happened since the war began took the heart out of the...

of our best mcn by the war we must endure through no fault of our own ; but we lose a greater number every year directly or indirectly through liquor, and this we can prevent,...

my suffrage to those who are thanking you for your articles on the suppression of the drink enrse? The course of events in Russia (Bee Fraser's book) proves that compulsory...

[To TUE Barite OP TEE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,-Mr. Asquith spoke with the utmost gravity of the serious financial position to-day, and urged "the most strict and stringent rule of...

[To ma Einvoti (3. THE "SPACTLTOR."1 SIR,—Inspired by valuable articles and letters in your columns, as well as in those of some of the daily papers—some months ago—I summoned...

[To TH. EDITOR Or TIM "APROTATOR."] Ste.,—I have read with great interest the letter of Mrs. NoSl Paton on the above subject in the Spectator of November 6th. I am sincerely...

the obelisk erected in memory of those who fell at the battle of Newbury on September 20th, 1643, are engraved the following three quotations :— "Jueturn Whim quibus necessarium...

[To tea Eynon or via ..areirravea."] Sts,—Here is the first day's experience of a recruiter for Lord Derby's scheme in the South-West:— " (1) The first house I called at was...

[To Tan Eurroa or Tun " SPEcrTATOR."] Site, — You have persistently for ninny years advocated an Income Tax on wages to be collected week by week by the employer, and Mr. Harold...

[To THE EDITOR 01 THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Will you allow me to call the attention of your readers to a remarkable prophecy occurring in the poem of " Kilmeny," written by James...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The letter of Mr. S. C. Kaines Smith in your issue of October 30th reminds me of a Persian story which may have some interest at the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "{SPECTATOR. "] Srn,—I wonder if, in your experiments with rammed earth walls, you have tried the effect of mixing the earth with a binder. In making dried...

THE " SPECTATOR.") Sie,—May I venture to send you these extracts from letters written home from the front P—not because the young officer they describe was in any way braver...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR, —May I trespass upon your space with a few quotations from a letter written by my godson at the front to his parents From the...

[To Tin: EDITOR OY TILE! "SPECTATOR:'] SIR, — The Committee of the Public Library at Lincoln are willing—and it is their own suggestion—to set apart a room to become the home...

[To THE EDITOR Or Ills " SPIICTATOIL."] feel sure that you and a large number of your readers must be familiar with the lovely old town of Guildford, and will be as distressed...

[To TOR EDITOR Or Tile " SPECTATOR."'" Sm—You let me ask for help last May for the Urgency Cases Hospital in France, and your readers were so generous then that I venture to ask...

[TO Tile EDITOR Or TRH " SeROYATOR.1 SIR, —Men who have been blinded in fighting for us and who have been trained at St. Dunstan's, Regent's Park, London, in one of the many...

We feel sure your readers will be interested to know of the progress of the Victoria League Club, which has been opened since last June at 16 Regent Street. So great has been...

AN ETHICAL ICONOCLAST.* THERE have been in the world before now, not only marry selfish men and women, but also schools of philosophy which have been tainted with selfishness....

Psastiszarr LORD DES130ROUGH. HON. SECRETARY: PERCY A. HARRIS, Esq. BEAD OFFICES: Judges' Quadrangle, Royal Courts of Justice (Carey Street entrance). The aims and objects of...

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 anode of...

LAST POST. (To A. 0. IL) LAST summer, centuries ago, I watched the postman's lantern glow, As night by night on leaden feet He twinkled down our darkened street. So welcome...

Tuts is the strangest book we have read about the war. It is vivid and thrilling, but at the same time puzzling. The author tells us that be ie not a " practised writer," and...

war correspondent—the gentleman who was cultivated by Generals and Headquarters Staffs, and had a roving commission to get mixed up in every sort of battle— has been made...

MR. %seam; has devoted a great deal of time and thought to his book, and, without proclaiming any new discoveries or pro- leasing to eapply literary aspirants with any...

Hall. Ss.)—Mr. Cullum tells us of one Gordon Carbhoy, who, having at the age of twenty-four a bill of one hundred thousand dollars to wine, women, and gambling, interviewed his...

IPEMI-ROYALt Ma. A.SHTON Haunts gives us in Demi-Royal a set of spirited variations on an historical theme. Yet, while the temper of his book is eminently romantic, he follows...

own when a cookery-book such as this, which appeals to the "moderate" feeder, and does not attach other virtue than that of economy to any particular form of diet, yet lays...

Girl's Own Paper and Woman's Magazine, ls. net), is really a very Sensible little hook. This is, we know, very high praise to bestow upon an etiquette-book, and some of our...

[Naito in this column does not necessarily producte subsequent rovirial We are all familiar with the helpless self-consciousness which assails a Man who has undertaken to toll...

and Co., 6s. net) gives his reasons for publishing a book of essays which were written in days of peace, and are far removed from the problems which are filling all our minds....

Kotelis.nsk3r and J. M. Murry. (Maunsel and Co. Be. 6d. net.)—These brilliant, coarse, absorbing stories are admirably translated.—Old Delabole. By Eden Phillpotts. (William...