that the war may somehow turn out not to be war. Possibly he is hoping that the Russian Revolution may suddenly have a mighty echo in Berlin, or that the tired Turks or...

by German submarines, and several American lives have been lost. Some of the survivors from one vessel, including a woman, who were sent adrift in a boat two hundred miles from...

by M. Cheidze, is their success in prevailing upon soldiers to throw off military discipline. A significant fact also is the order issued that the old Russian titles of "...

most interesting and promising situation on the Western front, wo will say no more on the subject here. There is little fresh BOWS from Me-cFo tam ia, but that little is good....

who resented the questions asked him by the Chamber, has been soon followed by that of M. Briand-himself. The new Premier is an old, experienced, and trusted hand, M. Ribot. He...

telegraphs a long narrative, in which the Tsar is stated to have exclaimed "Thank God!" when he heard of the wish of the people that he should abdicate. The exclamation agrees...

that General Russky is believed to have been the principal person who persuaded the Tsar not to attempt to suppress the Revolution. The Tsar unexpectedly came to Pakoff, where...

THE PAPER SHORTAGE.—We trust that readers of the " Spectator " will give definite orders to their newsagents for a copy of the " Spectator " to be reserved for them each week...

several days was removed at the end of last week, when the details of a tremendous revolution were made known. The refusal cf a regiment of soldiers in Petrograd to fire upon a...

made a statement as to national expenditure. The total payments for all services (war and peace) between February 11th and March 31st were estimated to work out at an average of...

was not touched on by Mr. Churchill. He failed to tell us what was meant by the words of the War Council, which presumably he bed a hand in drafting, or which at any rate he...

tongue- tied or paralysed by a nervous regard for the possible opinion of their political superiors is to suppose that they had really abdicated the functions which they were...

nob having called the War Council together between March 9th and May 14th, 1915. He complained that, in spite of the censure passed upon him by the words of the Report, he was...

Lord Kitchener, who, he declares, was by no means " the solitary and taciturn autocrat " represented by the Commissioners. (4n this point Mr. Asquith let us into en important...

that both the sailings and arrivals were considerably more than in the previous week. The arrivals rose from 1,986 th 2,528 and the tailings from 1,959 to 2,554. The number of...

Wednesday under the chairmanship of Mr. Walter Long. The Conference is to discuss and vote on matters which are not immediately dealt with by the War Cabinet. India is...

War Council was most interesting, and clears up a good many obscure points. Specially powerful was his treatment of the experts problem. In our opinion, it very largely disposes...

his statement on the Dardanelles Report. He began by a dignified protest against the publication of the Report without the evidence on which it was based, as being likely to...

exceedingly able and sometimes very witty—for example, when he declared that the principle which the Commission laid down about experts was that " you must always overrule an...

is better, by sincerity, and by anxiety that in defending himself he should not injure his country's interests, with a striking peroration, which we may sum up by quoting the...

But we may lay special emphasis here on a point of groat im- portance. Though we still hold and believe that the incorporating Union of Pitt is the best, and indeed the only,...

successful Spectator " fads" for which we might have taken credit in a recent article, but forgot to do so. Chief of these was the Spectator Experimental Company, which, it is...

all kinds—Parliamentary Nationalists like Mr. Redmond and Mr. Dillon, Sinn Feiners and the representatives of what is still the strongest thing in Ireland, the Roman Church—wore...

followers do not meet Ulster's demands is because they cannot—because Nationalist Ireland does not want what Mr. Redmond and his colleagues pretend it wants, but something very...

appeal for the Govern- ment in regard to their general liquor policy. He expressed the hope that on the road on which they were travelling they would arrive at a system of...

supply of malted barley was exhausted next November, but not till then apparently, they would have to decide between using barley for food or for the production of alcohol. This...

the war was raised by the Bishop of Llandaff in the House of Lords on Tuesday, and he was supported by, among others, Lord Balfour of Burleigh, who declared that if the position...

opposing the ridiculous scheme, so characteristically brought forward by the Germans, under which we were to go into a kind of partnership with them in building the Baghdad...

is our insistence that the question of the South Slays was sure to become the greatest of world problems. We confess that the passage we quote below, written in November, 1908,...

of foodstuffs in the manufacture of beer going on now or likely to go on in the immediate future. The number of barrels had been reduced from thirty-four millions before the war...

to manufacture beer, it is amazing that Captain Bathurst should have made the very sensational answer which he gave to Mr. Richardson's question whether it was true that London...

Jan.18th.

A GRAND VICTUALLER TO THE NATION. I F only we can obtain enough food, nothing can now pre- vent the triumph of our arms—the triumph of justice over crime, of freedom over...

S IR DOUGLAS HAIG continues to pour towns and villages as if they were cherries or greengages into the outspread apron of Madame La Republique. Meanwhile her own gallant sons do...

two and a half years has been more charged with promise for the future of civilized men than the Russian Revolution. We salute the representatives of the new order with the...

Lobbies at Westminster are full of expectation of something being done, and done quickly, to settle Ireland, and there is vague and futile talk about British statesmanship being...

W ELL-WISHERS of the new order in Russia can desire for its leaders nothing better than that they may be able to hasten slowly. To say this is not to , express a single regret...

is no group of people so unlettered that it cannot appreciate wit. The artist in words working on a tiny canvas is sure of pops. , larity if he has talent. Those who refuse to...

The situation created by the Shortage of Food and the continued destruction of cereals in the manufacture of intoxicants is so serious that we have determined to ask our readers...

" SPECTATOR."] SIR, — I beg to thank you for giving me the opportunity of reply- ing to Mr. Denis Crane; but I do not intend trespassing upon your space in order to criticize at...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sie,—The following extract from my brother's letter, received on Friday week from the front, where he is with a Heavy Artillery, battery, I...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SLR,—In last week's Spectator you state that very few people wrote to you in support of your " Prohibition fad." May I therefore venture to...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sta,—You may be interested in the results of Prohibition in Ontario and its present effects. As one who constitutionally objects to have...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—You may like to remind your readers of Hector's opinion of alcohol in war time (Iliad, VI. 258). Hecuba offers him wine :— AXXS:...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which jilt treble the spare.] BREAD AND BARLEY. [To THE...

(To THZ EDITOR OF ZHE " SPECELT02."1 SLE,—You were good enough to publish not long ago a letter of mine in which I ventured to make a definite suggestion on the above question....

[TO THE EDITOR OP TM 45 SPECIATOR."] SIR,—At a time when every one is full of the troubles, losses, and horrors of the war, it is a help, and to some extent a consola- tion, to...

(To THE EDITOR OP THE " 81.2E111'0321 SIR,—Not long ago you published in your columns a letter from a Canadian soldier that exhibited the loftiest motives, though' simply...

(To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Some of your readers appear to be horrified because energetic measures are to be taken to provide for the treatment and cure of these...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—My attention has been called to a letter in the Spectator from Mr. Prescott Row, of the Homeland Association, asking that antiquities...

[To THE EDITOR. Or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—Lord Desborough made an excellent suggestion for providing potato sets for seed. My gardener tells me, however, that single eyes cut...

in the Spectator of March 17th suggests the following:— A tooth for a tooth, and an eye for an eye, Were the lessons we learnt in our youth; Now Lord Desborough shows how the...

(To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—At the risk of showing what is almost too sacred to be known outside the family, I send you this incident. Whilst training at Sandling...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—"No holiday this year " will be the reward of many a parish priest for his extra pains and privations during the past anxious months,...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] STE,—Having read in a daily paper last April that it was the ditty of every householder to keep at least six hens, I determined to try the...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Fia,—Viewing the gravity of the hour, and the doubts and diffi- culties that seem rather to increase than to grow less, I am confident that...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The recent statement of the Socialist Ledebour in open Reichstag that the term "Huns," as applied to Germans, was started by the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Pray give to a man who has never before written a letter to a newspaper, nor taken any public part, an opportunity of associating...

(To THE EDITOR. OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Reading your protest against the treatment of Lord Kitchener by the Weekly Dispatch, a quotation very applic- able to the Northcliffe...

Lae brown lords of the Brisbane beaches, Lithe-limbed kings of the Culgoa bends, Princes that ride where the Roper reaches, Captains that camp where the grey Gulf ends-- Never...

GENERAL SMUTS.* WE hail the presence of General Smuts in England as one of the many signs that the Allies hold the winning cards against the Germans. That one who was in arms...

(To THE EDITOR OP rsa " SPECTATOR.") " Z.," the writer of the letter in your issue of December 16th, be good enough to unveil himself, either directly • or through your...

war on literature has been most marked. We may say with perfect truth of the. Army what Dr. Johnson said of Pembroke College. " It is a nest of singing birds." Not all the...

Mn. ItIoxmou-NATIA.N's volume is a welcome addition to the already considerable and steadily accumulating library of English works— expository and critical—which deal with...

WE congratulate Mr. Nevinson most heartily on the fascinating book which forms the subject of this notice. Unfortunately, nothing is more difficult than to review a book of...

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