W E have written elsewhere of the raid by German airships on Tuesday night, but may mention here the bare facts. The airships, of which there were apparently three, were seen at...

would be the case, has denounced the raid and its deliberate attack on non-combatants in the sternest terms. The Americans have always been fierce fighters, but in the fiercest...

the Zeppelins are very much dependent on the weather. They are unlikely to come when there is any wind to speak of, or if the breeze is in the wrong direction, or if it is...

the American Press at the attempt to kill the Queen will greatly touch the King. But, in truth, neither she nor the King will be in the least disturbed by being singled out for...

indi- cates that it was not dropped by an aeroplane. As Mr. C. G. Grey says in the Times of Thursday, although bombs of 100 lb. are sometimes carried by aeroplanes„,not more...

indignant protests, but we must express our sense of profes- sional pride that our newspaper colleagnee in America have struck so clear and unhesitating a note. We have dealt...

from New York, published in Friday's Times, which points out bow dangerous are the maw:morns of the German emissaries in America. The telegram declares that the ramifications of...

flank ten miles from the Turkish centre, and another five thousand camels taking it to the left flank at a similar distance. Then picture the result of aircraft dropping bombs...

nervous and alarmist, we want to try to make our American friends understand the risks the American Government are running, not, we are sure, out of malice, but out of...

of Tuesday) for new issues of capital in order that the financial resources of the country may be husbanded. Issues are to be allowed in the United Kingdom only when it is...

the dangers ahead, we are well aware that we risk being accused of exaggeration even by our best friends. It is with the prospect of such an arraignment fully in mind that we...

In truth, the diffioulties of the invasion in force are almost insuperable. The Turks must follow the recognized El-Arish camel route. There is no other way in which even a...

little change of importance. There have been the usual attacks and counter-attacks, and, on the whole, the balance has been slightly in favour of the Allies, but that is all....

report, things bear a distinctly satisfactory look. Not only are the operations north of the Vistula progressing favour. ably, but the Russians have occupied Skempe, which was...

Caucasus, and the remnants of the 11th Army Corps are being hurled back on Erzrum. After the victory at Sary- kamysh, the Russians were pursuing the 10th Corps, when they OREme...

easy to carry trenches with a rush in Belgium and France. Why should we suppose taking trenches will be rapid work in Egypt P But if it ie not rapid work the Turks will die of...

'slower county cruisers came up. The ' Cornwall's' 6 in. guns "simply raked the' Leipzig' fore and aft." When the ' Leip- zig 'was on fire herfiag was still flying, and the'...

the subscriptions which we are raising in order to provide funds for the Central Association of Volunteer Training Corps—i.e., a fund for the headquarters of the Home Guards...

Russian Embassy, a narrative of the insults, privations, and assaults suffered by Russian subjects in Germany after the outbreak of war. All the facts have been carefully...

T.E.Page appealed to the Government to hold an Imperial Conference during the war. It has been commonly assumed that the usual Conference could not be held under the existing...

Monday, described the operations from January 5th to 15th. Rain, snow, wind, and fog made the conditions as disagreeable as they could be. Often the soldiers' rifles were so...

blunder in arresting Cardinal Mercier may be measured by their eagerness to explain the affair away. But the formal protest which Cardinal Mercier has circulated among his...

Lord Grimthorpe discussed the present state of political feeling in Italy, which he has just visited. He understands that the King is opposed to a war with Austria. In any case,...

the available evidence as to the physical and mental state of the German Army. On the whole, he thinks that the idea that Germany is going to gain anything by the war...

from members of the crews describing the naval battle off the Falklands. We cannot do more than mention one of them—that from Lieutenant Hickling, of the ' Glasgow,' which was...

Aug. 8th.

THE AIR RAID. T HE Germans have tried another " runaway ring," this time not from the sea, but from the air. The result, from the military point of view, has once again been...

E NGLISHMEN who love and admire America and desire to maintain our friendship with her unim- paired—in spite of all appearances, they are the vast majority of the British...

W E have often written of the cruel intolerance of the Magyar domination in Hungary, and we ventured to predict some years ago that when breaks and rifts appenred in the system...

C ERTAIN newspapers are trying to goad the public into a state of alarm about the rise of prices, especially the price of foodstuffs. This is a journalistic phenomenon that was...

it will be regarded by many of us with different feelings, by all of us, probably, with mixed feelings. By a startling innovation in our usual practice, the House of Lords...

M AN knows so little of his own heart that he is scarcely more competent than one of his friends to say what his feelings will be in circumstances which he has not yet...

A FAINT jingle of steel-work, the soft squelch of horses' feet churning the clayey hillside track, the sharp report of a cracking branch, a muffled oath, and the phantom...

ROW cuarsEwrrz FAILED TO UNDERSTAND NAPOLEON. [To =a Emirs or sag .firscrsnos.'n Ste,—In his strength as in his weakness Clausewitz was the child of his time. Living in a...

ORGANIZED RECRUITING. [To zee EDIT= OT Tel .. STEGT.01:1 SIR, —It may possibly be of some interest at this moment, when different principles and methods of recruiting are under...

[To TIM Ems. or Tan .Srscrxroz."] Sra,—Many young rankers in our company have received commissions. As an old Public School boy of mature years doing orderly sergeant'. work, I...

[To run Rams or sun oSrecrason."3 Sur,—Amidst the many appeals now being made to the eon. eideration of the charitable, one small claim in particular is in danger of being...

[To ran Eamon or vu ..Sracraron..] SI11,—The following incidents, recorded privately by the chief actor therein for the information of his family, and subse- quently committed...

[To ran Emelt or In "Sraersros.") Sill,—Your readers have cause to be grateful for the appear. aaoe of Professor Wilkinson's illuminating summary in your issue of January 9th...

"Sneer zoz."3 SIR, —As the effects of German propaganda in Italy have been discussed in the English Press, you will, perhaps, allow me to quote a few lines from a book which is...

spEcterox."3 Sra,—Touching the manifestation of the sympathy of the Americans with our nation in the present grave crisis in our history, it may not be inappropriate at this...

[To nun Bravos or vas “Sracrarol."] SIR,—May I call the attention of your readers to a striking letter to Carlyle, in which hie friend Sterling thus writes of Goethe P- " I...

[To TO EDITOS ON VIII SPICTATOIL"] bas especial reason to be grateful for the fact that the British Navy has so successfully asserted its sea power. It was in Madras, bombarded...

[To rat Eorroa or TM ‘. Sr.-mm.] SIR,—There is a veiled womanhood whose voice we cannot hear and whose burden of anxiety we cannot lighten. I speak of the wives of Indian...

[To TH. Eon. os Tax ••Srzer...o.") SIR,—I write to thank you and your readers for the substantial help they have accorded our scheme of ambulance buffets for the help of the...

[To THE Eonos or MI Sraemoa."1 Snz,—May I through the medium of your paper mention that the President, Vice-President, and Council of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland...

.. SPECTAT011.”] Snt,—We venture to bring to the notice of your readers a scheme for the provision of a Flying Surgical Field Hospital for the immediate treatment of urgent...

PIUMIDENT LORD DESEGROUGH. Hon. Szcarranor PERCY A. HARRIS, Esq. Hain Otsicas Judges' Quadrangle, Royal Courts of Justice (Carey Street entrance). The aims and objects of this...

[To TES Soma or Tao ..Srooraroa.”) Sea,—All your readers will surely acclaim your endorsement of Mr. Bailward's tribute to Mr. Loch's life of service at the Charity...

[To rex Roma or THE " Sr...mos.") • should be very grateful if you could find room to publish the following extract from a letter written on January 14th by an officer in the...

[To no Elmo. or no "Sroorrroa."1 SIR,—Men who have been preparing for the examinations of the Civil Service Commissioners have been exposed to a cruel dilemma of late. If they...

[To ins EOM. or Too " arscnoma."I Sin,—There must be many of your readers who are not engaged in any war work, but who would like to do some service to their country at this...

ITO vas Fame. or nes .SPSCTATOR..1 Sra,—If any of your readers have letters or interesting reminis. maces of my father, the late Sir John Henniker Heaton, I shall be most...

Fund 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 mado payable to the "...

THE NOMADS OF THE BALKANS.* MESSRS. WACE AND THOMPSON have produced a very agree- able example of scholarship lending itself to the study of humanity. With the wandering Vlachs...

THE SCHOLAR SOLDIER. Si fortuna vast, fies de rhetore 'Twat; in the late Victorian days When, freed from academic fetters And crowned with academic bays, He turned to London...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marled "Communicated," the Editor mast not necessarily to held to Is in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of...

Ws have so far seen no comment on the brief statement, which appeared a few weeks back, that Ambrose Bierce, who went to Mexico about a year ago, had not since been beard of and...

ill for the imagination of mankind that the Day of Judgment has suggested so much terror. It has always been regarded as "the universal catastrophe." Only for poets and...

WRITERS meet be saleable or silent in these days, and all books must be dressed for the market before they are put up for sale. Some of them are the worse for it, and school...

IN War and the Empire Colonel Hubert Foster discusses the principles of Imperial Defence. That Colonel Foster is well qualified for his task is shown by the list of the appoint-...

In the Edinburgh Mr. J. A. R. Marriott contributes an interesting article upon "England and the Low Countries." He discusses historically the relations between the two...

SVABNALATA.a READERS in search of an entirely unfamiliar literary experience may be strongly recommended to make trial of this tale of rural firers/data &ens, from Binds...

spacious days of Queen Elizabeth there arose a hot contention between one Jenson and one Davie, mariners both, for the love of fair Margaret and for the first landing on a far...

Society, 17 Baker Street, W.), in addition to the usual reports of the hard-working body which issues it, contains several articles of high merit. Dr. Philip Norman gives an...

he was interested in the adorable Madame de Sevign6. He devoted much of his abundant leisure to pre- paring a catalogue of the characters who figure in her correspondence, and...

to answer for, if tradition speak truly, but we doubt whether be was ever so lost to all sense of propriety as to say, "The dam indeed is scotched, but what of the lambkins P"...

Enlist in this column doss not necessarily products subsequentrroinn] "For a couple of hundred years," says Mr. H. G. Wells in his introduction to Friendly Russia, by Denis...

is an undistinguished but readable narrative of a holiday tour through South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia. The author was Chairman of the Bradford Health Committee when...

both pleasant for those who exercise it and entertaining to the rest of the world. We owe gratitude to Mr. H. Parker, late of the Ceylon Irrigation Department, for having put...

(Palestine Exploration Fund, 23. net) contains, amongst other interesting articles, a learned discussion of the route of the Exodus by Lieutenant Victor L. Tramper, in which be...

of the first rank who have shown conspicuous ability in other intel. lectual fields. He is therefore exceptionally qualified for success in his attempt " to apply to chess the...

Benson is developing a dangerous tendency to conventionality and caricature ; but here and there in Arundel he gives us of Lis best work.—But She Meant Well, By William Caine....

compiled by the Rev. St. John D. Seymour and Mr. Harry L. Neligan (Humphrey Milford, 3s. 6d. net). By the epithet "true" it is meant that the majority of the stories were sent...