HE most important event of the week has been the fall of T the great Austrian fortress of Przemyal in Galicia, after a siege which, with one short interruption, lasted nearly...

policy in the west still goes on, and calculations are made on the basis of the inquiry— If it cost us so many thousand men to advance two miles on a front of four, how many men...

interests will not suffer if we allow the Germans to break their heads on our lines of defence. There seems a good deal of probability that this is what they are now preparing...

little to recount. Both armies appear to be resting after the engagements at Neuve Chapelle and St. Eloi. The detailed accounts of those operations which are now reaching this...

content with congratulating themselves on the fall of the fortress, but with the true military instinct have instantly followed it up by a more vigorous offensive in the...

as well as we do, and therefore they will not attack." Thoae who argue thus, however, forget that all German military policy favours taking and keeping the offensive, and,...

at present. The military authorities, who know ail the facts and not merely a portion of them, and on whom the responsibility rests, will do what they think right and will not...

to believe that the German submarine ' U29' bad been sunk with all hands. The vessel was commanded by Captain Weddigen, who sank three British cruisers at the be- ginning of the...

the Volunteer Training Corps more seriously every week. In various parts of the country Volunteers have already been doing patrol and guard duties. There is every prospect that...

at Liverpool and about thirteen thousand at Manchester. After the Liverpool review Lord Kibobener handed to Mr. Sexton, Secretary of the Dock Labourers' Union, a letter in...

the Allies. In our opinion, no action can now be expected from any of them till the problem of Constantinople is decided. If the Allies are successful in forcing the Straits and...

been very scanty. This Las been chiefly due to the very stormy weather which has prevailed in the Straits. The minesweepers are reported to be working with the spray breaking...

and naval preparations of the Government go on with increased intensity. At the same time, the negotiations for the buying off by Austria of Italian hostility seem to have...

been considerable, and on Thursday the Dutch steamer 'Medea,' flying the Dutch flag, with a Dutch crew, and with her name and port of origin painted in large letters on her...

Thursday in the form of an official communique, which stated that on Tuesday a German squadron consisting of seven battleships and twenty-eight torpedo-boats cruised off the...

by the extraordinary conduct of Germany towards other Dutch merchantmen. Two vessels, the Zaanstroom ' and the • Batavier V.,' have been seized by a submarine in the North Sea...

if the Germans and Austrians win their position will necessarily be precarious. These considerations do not, of course, in any way settle the question of Italy's intervention....

an article which the notorious General von Bernhardi wrote for the New York Sun after months of silence. It is indeed a different Bernhardi who writes ; one can hardly recognize...

and Labour representatives at the Treasury reached a staves.- ful conclusion on Friday week. The Labour representatives agreed to recommend to the Trade Unions a scheme the...

Sir John French is reported to have said that the problem set by this war was a comparatively simple one ; it was "munitions, more munitions, always more munitions." He had felt...

her right to freedom and independence, and to free the world from the British yoke. She never meant to conquer smaller countries. When he himself formerly wrote that Germany...

there was every reason to believe that the German light fast cruiser 'Karlsruhe' was sunk near the West Indies in November. The survivors seem to have reached Germany in the...

by the Dunkirk Squadron on Wednesday. Five aeroplanes started, the objective being the yard in which German sub- marines are being constructed. Two of the pilots had to return...

are in a satisfactory state. Eleven days before the end of the financial year Mr. Lloyd George was eight millions ahead of his estimate for the whole year. The Customs receipts...

haa, as the Times well says, adjusted his strategy as well as his morals. He says nothing about the desiderated rapid offen- sive; he does not mention the Battle of the Aisne ;...

the effect that fighting had again occurred with the Turks near the Suez Canal. On Monday a body of Turks about a thousand strong, with some cavalry and guns, was dis- covered...

Aug. 8th.

PRESIDENT WILSON'S MISTAKE. N O one who has read the letters from American corre- spondents in the columns of the Spectator or followed the tendency of American public opinion...

S IR EDWARD GREY in his speech at Mr. Buchan's lecture on Monday said exactly the right things in exactly the right way on the origin of the war and the conditions of peace. As...

THE Russians are to be heartily congratulated on their JL splendid success at Przemysl. They brought about the fall of one of the great fortresses of the world by a cool and...

T "present industrial situation shows how completely what we may call the economic pacificists misjudged the probable effects of a great European war. Instead of our industries...

T AM wiser than the aged," said the Psalmist, and most I- of us think like him. We ask their advice a good deal more often than we take it, and we may be right. The people of...

T HE tide had been ebbing out of the creek about two hours, and the east was pink and dove.coloured with the dawn, when Burke Thurgood's boat grated alongside the causeway to...

forest. The enemy bad decided to make a bold dash for our mitraillenses, which had made such havoc in theirranks daring their attacks on our trenches. At eleven o'clock—the...

THE RACING PROBLEM. [Tor am Elmo. or Tor .13roorArox..] SIR,—The Jockey Club has declined to stop race meetings even for the present year. The Club has, I am convinced,...

[To an EDITOR or an "Brrooros."1 EIR,—I have read the Spectator for many years, always with enjoyment, often with sincere gratitude for its able setting forth of high ideals....

[To roe Barron or Tor IIIPACTRTOR."1 Sts, Will you permit a minister of religion, whose duties lie in a provincial town and a few neighbouring villages, to tell you from the...

as to the action of the Jockey Chas. I have no great interest in racing, but I have for many ran had a little " flatter " by investing in a large sweepstakes on the "Derby." I...

[To ran EDITOR 07 Ws ETROTATOR...] BIE,—The Government and not the people are prolonging the war. The Government can shorten it, and begin to do so now, by (o) telling the...

[To role Maxon or Too .ifiroorrroa..1 SIR, Would you allow me to supplement the letter you were good enough to insert last week, and to point out that it is not the poorest...

"(To era Boma or roe 'New Tsar Trace.'] It is a pity there are so few Americans in England at present. Our countrymen are always welcome enough here and are never regarded as...

(To Tax Emma or rem 4.flrocraroan Sim,—In a recent issue of the Spectator you published a letter from "O. D. M.," of Boston, in which that writer seriously warned you, in a...

[To riff Maros or ran "Srocrrroa..] Six,—In your keine of October 10th last you published a letter from me entitled "The Biological Effect of Voluntary Enlistment." It is now...

fro X11/ EDITOR or via "9PIAOffla0a...3 Sru,—As the Spectator was first, and is still foremost, in advocating that Russia should be given the guardianship of Constantinople and...

AMERICA. [To no Lessee or on " SrfferATOO..] SIR, Incorrect inferences are liable to be drawn from a very great error which appears in the quotation appended to the letter of...

[To Vas Easoes or ran n Bream,...] Sin,—Amongst the poetry hitherto produced by the war I have come across nothing more striking than the following lines, which hare not, I...

[To ran EDITION or Tn. "SraarAroa."] S/R,-2 propos of Germany's "Poem of Hate," for which the author has just been decorated by the Kaiser, Landor's lines arc worth recalling:...

[To rue Earroa or an. "Hascraros."] Sre,—The death on March 18th of the distinguished " Adam Smith" Professor of Political Economy in Glasgow University is not likely to pass...

(To not Zones or Tau "Brt.crAroa."] Sra,—Mr. Carter makes a very good ease in your last issue against the claim of Morse to be the first inventor of the electric telegraph....

[To ram Emu's or ram "Braortroa."1 you be good enough to grant me a small space to draw attention to the fact that throughout the kingdom there exists a considerable body of...

[To rev Eorros or Tex ..Sercrwrox:1 SIR,—The Spectator of last Saturday contains a long review of that moat valuable letter of Charles Francis Adams to Lord Newton which you...

Sir Walter Scott it is stated that "the external appearance of Napoleon was not imposing at the first glance, his stature being only five feet six inches English." In the...

contradict your correspondent " Seventy-eight," but the following anecdote may amuse him. Just forty years ago a famous surgeon was making a medical examination of candidates...

Sin,—It makes me laugh to read this controversy in last Saturday's Spectator as to the Duke of Wellington's height. Why not ask somebody who had been in the habit of seeing him...

Sra,—As a boy I lived with an officer who had been through the Peninsular War and also at Waterloo under the Duke of Wellington. He said if you met the Duke walking he was a...

that the Duke of Wellington was tall, and your correspondent "Seventy-eight's" suggestion that his height was five feet ten inches, may be set the valuable testimony of Thomas...

..BriteraT0a..] Szn,—Like your correspondent who signs himself "Seventy. eight" in the letter printed in your issue of March 20th, I feel sure that the writer of your article on...

in last week's Spectator "-bout the Duke of Wellington's height, may I endorse the statement in the letter of "Seventy-eight "? As one of the few Bur. vivors of those who...

"EireCTATOIL.'] Sru,—It may interest those of your readers who have been kind enough to subscribe to the funds of the above hospital, which owes its origin to the initiative and...

[To Tn. Norms or T. ..SP7 , 077707...1 Sva,—Last November, while in hospital myself with typhoid, I saw a short reference to " enteravaccine" in the Daily Telegraph. I wrote to...

[To van Entvoa or vas " Sracrema."1 Sua, — Your correspondent "A." mentions the errors of the clergy in the matter of commas. He might have instanced Pros. xxviii. 1, which runs...

(To ma Emma or ms aremsvoz."1 Snt,—I send you a few more specimens :- 1901, April 19th.—In the Church Times a Dover correspondent writes of a Church Association meeting that...

Snt,—I notice that "A." asks in your issue of March 20th why it is almost universal to say the words, "Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven," as though the comma came...

following two "hulls," if that word correctly expresses them, and they may be considered worthy of reproduction : (1) A church official in an argumentative speech at a parish...

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 made payable to the "...

PRESIDENT LORD DESHOROUGH. Hoar. Sztaarrear PERCY A. HARRIS, Esq. HEAD Gramm, Judges' Quadrangle, Royal Courts of Justice ((Amy Street entrance). The aims and objects of this...

RUSSIA IN WAR TIME.• THE good fortune which is Mr. Stephen Graham's due where Russia is concerned awaited him at the outbreak of the war. He was staying in a Cossack village on...

THE MINESWEEPERS. (Over three hundred of Grimsby's great fleet of trawlers are engaged in the hazardous tusk of sweeping the seas for mines sown by the Germans.) "'WARE mine !...

Is this entertaining little volume of reminiscences Sir Robert Baden-Powell joyfully accepts the title of spy, and he thus does something to remove the absurd discredit...

Ire a postscript to the preface of this important book Mr. Fletcher writes :— "I let the text of this book (which was already in pages in the spring of 1014) stand, partly...

Mn. /al/BENCE BINTOWS grave and beautiful poetry is always worthy of attention, but in his slender volume on the Great War, which he calls The Winnowing Each he seems to us to...

PROFESSOR E. A. Ross, who occupies the Chair of Sociology in the University of Wisconsin, has just published an elaborate and instructive essay on the great part played by...

THE "plum and potato war"—as the brief Austro-Prussian Campaign of 1778 is nicknamed—has furnished Mr. Harold Temperley with the materials of an interesting and timely...

ALICE AND A FAMILY.* lies ERTINN is better known as a dramatist than a novelist, but MVO. Martin's Man, recently noticed in these columns, proved that he is in istrunaque...

CANON Wrnmoosnuc's " memories" are very mush more entertaining than his "musings." He remembers South Africa for something like half a century, and he remembers London in 1847....

leading form of history, and the war seems to be producing quite a crop of them. We cannot, of course, include among them The Berlin Court under William II., by Count Axel von...

[Notice in this column dose not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] We are glad to be able to remind our readers of America- Latina, of which we have now received the...

6s.)—A sound, religious sermon strung on to a very slender plot the only pity is that most of the virtuous characters are terrible prigs.—Les Belle Alliance. By Rowland Grey....

admire greatly the courage and breadth of Miss Mordaunt's plan, and her success in writing of a family as a community. She has sketched her individuals brilliantly, without a...

6s.)—Much of Mr. Beresford'e book, which is the last of the trilogy concerning Jacob Stahl, and deals with the completion of his career as writer and lover, is of bitter...

of Vie Poems of John Keats (Cbatto and Windus, 2 vols., 15s. net), which is most welcome. In the first place, it is beautifully produced, being printed in the well-known...

the "jig.saw," Patience remains as the staple recreation for the solitary mind. Two additions to the literature of the subject will accordingly find a wide welcome. These are d...

as folk-dances had ever existed in England, still less that they still survived in some districts. The study of our folk-mneic has a somewhat longer date, but has only recently...

great interest to the general public except in a few rare cases. And it is doubtful whether The History of the Evelyn Family, by Helen Evelyn (Eveleigh Nash, 16a. net), is...

new Volumes in the "Home University Library" and Norgate, Is. net each), Mr. John Bailey's delightful criticism of Milton. The remaining three, which we must pass with a mere...

of human life is beginning to be generally understood. Mr. O. A. Ealand in Insects and Han (Grant Richards, 12s. net) discusses the habits of those among the insects which come...

As Mr. Norman Douglas remarks in his book upon Old Calabria (Martin Sacker, 15s. net), "the adventurous type of Anglo-Saxon probably thinks the country too tame; scholars, too...

has been chosen by Professor Frederick Tupper and ProfessorJamesW.Tupper (HumphreyMilford for the American Branch of the Oxford University Press, Se. net). To select a dozen...

man's Library "(J. M. Dent and Sons, la. net each). Amongst them we may mention a translation of Caesar's Gallic War, a volume of Josephus, two volumes of Carlyle's Essays,...