Poland, and in Galicia continues excellent. The Germans have lon g ceased to make any headway, and the Russians are now plenti- fully supplied with shell, and as the weeks roll...

are told that on the 22nd General Towusheud's division attacked the Turkish position at Ctesiphon, ei g hteen miles from Ba g hdad. After severe li g htin g the position was...

W E have dealt at len g th elsewhere with the g eneral military situation. Here we will only repeat that the position on the whole is favourable. Thou g h there is little...

He was received by Kin g Constantine, and also visited the Premier and the heads of the Greek Army. Afterwards the Cabinet had a lon g sittin g . It is believed in Athens that a...

case.

a business that it is difficult to make any predictions as to what will happen in the Italian theatre of war. It does, however, look as if the lon g resistance of the Austrians...

enemy, who has suffered heavily. If necessary, there will be a slow retirement into Albania, in which the Serbians will contest every inch of g round in order to g ive the...

is dark. As we write on Thursday the news is that Austro- Hun g arian troops have captured Mitrovitzs, and German troops Prishtina, which is on the ed g e of the Kossovo Plain,...

asked the Government to give a " broad and coloured outline" of military operations in the Near East. It was understood, be said, that when Sir Charles Monro was " hustled from...

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

on Wednesday morning, dealt very faithfully with the accuse, tiens of Lord St. Davide against the General Staff, and also with Lord Ribbleadale's dangerous indisoretione in...

Prime Minister and his colleagues on the War Committee of the Cabinet ot.ght to make at once, and while the can- vassers are still at work, a short and telling appeal to the...

language, but in our opinion he deserved not censure but support. He has had the courage to say plainly what thousands of his countrymen are thinking, and we honour him for...

who wish Lord Derby to succeed, will be rendering a very evil service to their cause if they do not do their beet to impress upon the country that the battle is not won, lint...

of which no sufficient warning had been given to the House. Nevertheless he answered the speech so far as the public interest allowed him to do so. Lord Lansdowne's courtesy is...

:- "A man who gives information to the enemy goes by a very ugly name, and it can be given just as much by a speech delivered in the House of Lords as it can he by the man who...

working of his tribunals, and dealt very clearly with many points in regard to exemption. It will, however, we trust, be noted most carefully by the nation that Lord Derby was...

read out the passage in his former speech which had to do with the presence of ladies at the front, and then added sortie words of explanation. The names of the ladies, so he...

Lord Derby's scheme has been satisfactorily removed, as we felt sure it would be. If less fuss had been made by over-captious critics there would have been no check to...

sacred liquor trade goes, we may quote from an address on national thrift delivered by the Roman Catholio Bishop of Ross end issued with the compliments of the Irish War Savings...

their Swedish officers are in revolt against the Govern- ment in Northern Persia. At Shiraz and other towns in the South the gendarmerie have seized and deported the British...

18th was launched and ended in catastrophe—three capital ships lost and several others seriously damaged. Mr. Ashinead-Bartlett thinks that Mr. Churchill misunderstood the whole...

Aehmead-Bartlett criticizing Mr. Churchill's recent apologia for the Dardanelles adventure. Mr. Ashmead- Bartlett, whether he be right or wrong, states his case with remarkable...

addressed a large reoruiting meeting at the Queen's Hall on Tuesday night. Ho is always eloquent, but there was a note of buoyant exhilaration in his speech which was quite...

the Exchequer spoke with great seriousness on the financial position and the need of saving. It was necessary, he declared, to bring home " to the 'ergo classes who were now...

801, 1914.

the creation of the local tribunals under Lord Derby's recruiting scheme. The chief duty of the tribunals will be to decide whether men of military ago shell be excused service...

• THE INITIATIVE IN WAR. T N spite of Serbia's agony and of our temporary setback in front of Baghdad, the military situation as a whole remains good. In Flanders both we and...

that Greece will give the assurances required by the Quadruple Euteute. It would be madness for us to undertake the first difficult operations in Serbia without knowing for...

T HE need of the moment is a " Stop-the-Drink Campaign "—a campaign founded on the facts that as a nation we must economize, and that the only great national economy open to us...

I N the House of Commons on Monday Mr. McKenna sketched out a new scheme for inducing the wage- earning classes to save money and lend it to the Govern- ment. The necessity for...

W E bad intended to say nothing more than we said last week on the subject of Lord St. Davids's deplorable remarks in the House of Lords about the Headquarters Stuff and other...

W ILLIAM'S family spreads, with ramifications, through. out the lower stratum of the village wave-earning class. William is seventy-four, but he comes of a long- lived stock...

I N our young days we were taught to regard the fly as a pretty, harmless little creature whom it was a crime to torment and utterly senseless to kill. How often would we lie...

A. NATIONAL HUMILIATION. rre Tilt E 1 TO It Or Tat “SrtlITATOlt."1 Sra e —In my opinion, it is nothing less than a national humiliation that we should discuss at what time the...

bold attitude taken by yourself and others, a large proportion of the more thoughtful of our population are now reading " the writing on the wall, " the writing which our King,...

much interested in your articles and letters in connexion with the drink traffic, and think now is the time for the Government to step in and buy up " the trade " on a basis of...

to open the Spectator. One is not faced by quack advertisements, linen-drapers' portraits of women in every kind of underclothing, or by that tiresome picture of a man, in the...

a letter which appears in the last number of the Spectator signed " Hilda N. Richardson " there is a fallacy which occurs so frequently in the letters and speeches one reads on...

extract from a letter written by an elementary-school teacher in a ruining district:— "As one goes about in towns such as Rotherham and Sheffield. one wonders why the Government...

with considerable interest the articles and letters which have appeared in the Spectator recently on the subject of drink and its evils in the present crisis. By far the saddest...

up the cause of temperance, and who could gainsay such letters as appeared in your last issue P May I suggest to your readers a study of the seventh chapter of the Book of...

reader of the Spectator, in reading the correspondence on the above subject I note the letter of Admiral King-Hall giving extraordinary figures as to the enormous amounts of...

IT° Tn. EDITOR OF THE " BPECTATOE:"1 SIR, —As one who has devoted the greater part of his life to the promotion of temperance reform, may I be permitted to thank you for...

abstainer and non-smoker. I read with some interest the correspondence now appearing in your columns on the subject of " Drink." I spent two years as secretary of a junior...

vary as to Mr. Lloyd George's ante-bellum activities, there is no doubt he possesses qualities that at the present time are invaluable, and those who have the well-being and...

/7'0 TUN EDITOR OF Ting "SPZOTAT01.1 Sin,—Would you permit a short note on the finance of war— a note not suggesting any scheme, but merely to attract thinkers at a time of...

[To THE EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTAFOR.") Silt,—We are all making the most of our blue cards. If we could honestly assure single men and married alike that what can be done to assure...

The EDITOlt OP vas "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—How to deal with the lean years coming upon us, and to cheek the extravagance and waste now and for many years prevalent in all classes,...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SrscTnroa. •, l Sut,—Your article of November 13th on that of Mr. Charles Bathurst in the Nineteenth Century on the above subject was very interesting....

rTo THE EDITOR Or Tns "EPEcTATOIL."1 your article on " Compulsion, Moral and Legal," in the issue of November 6th, you say 1— " We have always been in favour of universal...

(To THE EDITOIL OP TEE "PiPPOTAT011...) Sut,—There is a grave danger in the present agitation to make every man give up his vocation in order to go out and fight, irrespective...

there is much truth in your state- ment that " it is certain that when the war is over tens of thousands of soldiers will not want to return to their former urban occupations "...

[To TRII EDITOR 01 osrscrierea."] Sia,—Surely the real objection to the word "Fatherland" is not that it is " the symbol of . . . the German doctrine of the State "—that...

[TO TRII EDITOR OP THE "SPROTATOR.".1 Sin,—In our Universities, and everywhere, older men are thinking daily of the spirit in which our gallant youths, one after the other,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 am, I believe, the only survivor of the Higbelere guests who, during the early "seventies," assisted at the inauguration of the monument to...

rTe, TUN Eamon OF Tux "ereersrea."1 CIS,,—The persistent vilification of Lord Kitchener by the German Press recalls to my mind that I never met a more whole-hearted admirer of...

TUN to Ear atoa.") SIR,—I have just come across a passage in a letter of Petrarch (Ad Pant., XIV., 5) to the Doge and Council of Genoa which seems remarkably applicable, with...

" SPECTATo R." Sin,—Your article of November 6th on this subject suggests one or two reflections. Since the premium system of wage- payment was invented by the American Halsey,...

rTo TUE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' Sill, — After reading a letter in the Spectator on the subject of "Sortes," I tried to see what Virgil had to say that might seem apposite to...

THE SPECTATOR."' SIR,—In making up their minds at the present time the Greeks would do well to attend to the wisdom of the ancients, and particularly to what one of their own...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR,"1 SIR, —The following extract from the late Lord Broughton's diary may have authority enough to settle the discussion as to what the Duke of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—May I mention, for the benefit of those of your readers who did not see the recent notice in the Times, the collection of reproductions...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —The question of the preponderance of males among infants born in war time is a complex one which I do not propose to discuss from a...

rTo THY EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The following is the text of a letter received by the Secretary of the War Library from the Chaplain at a Casualty Clearing Station in...

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 of...

rTo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—If there be any amongst your readers who ere anxious to find useful and interesting work in London during the coming winter, I would...

HUDSON and Charles have open hearts, And fine are they to see; And I love the broad land of the folk That have been good to me. But I must count the hours, the hours Till I...

PRESIDENT LORD DESBOROTIGH. Hera Szcarratir : PERCY A. HARRIS, Esq. BEAD OFFICES Judges' Quadrangle, Royal Courts of Justice (Carey Street entrance). The aims and objects of...

[" England was never made by her Statesman. England was made by her dveliturers."—GissEnku Gannon.] THEY sit at home and they dream and daily, Raking the embers of long-dead...

THE REGIME OF THE YOUNG TURK.* SIB MARK SYKES'S work, The Caliphs' Last Heritage, is divided into two wholly distinct parts. The first deals with the history of the Ottoman...

of English Literature at Yale, has long been an ardent admirer of Browning, and is said to have infected many of his pupils with his enthusiasm. After reading his book, Robert...

A CERTAIN interest attaches to the character of Anne Hyde, the first wife of James II., because she was the mother of two Queens of England. Mr. J. R. Henslowe has written an...

Correspondence If Jonathan Swaft we paid our tribute to the scholarly method, the sound judgment, the terseness and lucidity, which dis- tinguished Ball's work : now that the...

"EVERY Irishman's Library" makes its first appearance before the public in six octavo volumes, soberly and appropriately bound in green cloth, and both light in the hand and...

NEWNHkid PADD0X, in Warwickshire, the old home of the Feildings, possesses a large collection of documents, con- nected, for the most part, with the period when the family was...

CAPTAIN A. Mona's, who is Instructor of Musketry to the Falmouth Garrison, has published an eminently practical little treatise i on the art of teaching recruits how to shoot....

Writs this book Mr. Stephen Gwynn completes the task be net before himself nine years ago in The Fair Hills of Ireland ; he turns from the country to the town, and through...

"FOR THIS I HAD BORNE READERS of Dick will welcome a sequel to that engaging study of a schoolboy. And as the sequel resolves itself into • A Posie from a Royal Garden:...

be said at once that no distinctively Roman doctrine, nothing inconsistent with the beliefs of the universal Christian Church, is to be found in this excellent little book. In a...

6d.)—Penelope has reappeared in a hook which is just a memory of a life other than that which we now live, the life of the years before 1914. The little accounts of her days in...

Ones. With Illustrations from the Bradford Scheme. By E. J. Smith. (P. S. King and Son. ls. net.)—Mr. Smith, the Chairman of the Health Committee of the Bradford Corporation, is...

of these short stories tell of the adventurous lives of white men and of natives on the Yukon River. Some are tragedies, some comedies; some, and among them the best, are...

Relief in Belgium a little story of the lesser tragedies of the war, called Pierrot, Dog of Belgium (Duckworth and Co., 2s. 6d. net). It is charmingly written, without a trace...

W. Walton Claridge (John Murray, 2 vols., 36s. net), covers the whole period from the time of the earliest records of that part of West Africa down to the beginning of the...

6d. net.)—Mr. Kent's handy little booklet on "National Service, Industrial and Military," makes a timely appearance. Re describes the French, German, and Swiss systems of...

[Notice in this cotstmn does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.' Mr. Hartley Withers has written an excellent pamphlet upon War and Self.Denial (J. M. Dent and Sons,...

Worley (G. Bell and Sons, 5a. net), is an excellent local guide-book for those interested in church architecture. The parishes are arranged alphabetically, and a short account...

6s.)—Although Mrs. Deland is less successful in the domain of the short story than in her full-length novels, her romances of Chester in the days of crinolines are pleasant...