before in war. The two halves of the so-called broken line closed like the jaws of a nut-cracker on the German force, and the penetrators found out in action the simple but...

will not always play the game—that the wedge does not always divide them sufficiently, that their line meioses too quickly, and that armies that appear to have been driven...

ing as Secretary of State for War, he was naturally anxious not to talk in terms of vague and oily optimism—like, shall we say P a censored newspaper. We may feel pretty sure...

on in what we call the centre, the extreme Russian right wing has apparently been making fair progress in East Prussia, though for some reason neither side talks much about that...

B Y far the most important event of the week has been the progress of the Russian armies in Poland. The Russian official communications, it is true, have refused to talk either...

exceed- ingly interesting from the strategic point of view, and well illustrates certain fundamental principles in the art of war. Our readers will remember how some six weeks...

ease.

sent from Buda-Pesth to the London correspondent of a Hungarian newspaper and published in Friday's Morning Post. It describes a journey undertaken by Count Tisza to Berlin with...

of Turkey, and dealing with that fruitful source of ineffective dialectic, the Censorship, Lord Kitchener passed on to the vital point, the point in his speech which most of all...

an announcement whieh has been received with deep sorrow. The battleship 'Bulwark,' which was lying at Sheerness, blew up at 7.53 on the morning of that day. "The Vice- and...

a general statement in regard to the progress of the war. After well-deserved tributes to the Belgian and French Armies, and to the splendid way in which the latter have held...

" We are awaiting now two great events to decide our fate. If the battle in Poland should be a defeat and Count Tisza's mission a failure, that is, if the invasion of Hungary...

to Lord Charnwood, that approximately recruits are coming in to the number of thirty thousand a week, " besides the regiments that were being formed by different localities." "I...

contents of this remarkable document, our readers will be very unwise if they jump to the conclusion that " the game is up" in Austria-Hungary, and that we may very soon see the...

say that that is not the way to deal with the question of numbers. The country wants something far more specifie than this. It wants to have a clear ideal put before it—...

hands—the port from which sea access is obtained by a ship canal to Bruges—was bombarded by a British flotilla, including two battleships with 12-inch guns. The damage done...

pleasant picture of the popularity of the Russian Emperor. The change is extraordinary from the times when he travelled about through avenues of guarding soldiers. The Emperor...

concessions to the brewers. He admitted that it was necessary to give the trade time to adapt itself to the heavy new taxation. The Government stood by the 17s. 3d. duty, but...

end, though during the past week the rebels fought one clever and successful action about thirty miles north of Pretoria. The proclamation of the Government on November 12th...

to the recent reverse in East Africa. An important German railway terminus was reported to be weakly held, and on November 2nd a small force was sent by sea from British East...

was reported on the northern coast of Scotland on Monday and was rammed by a British patrol vessel. The submarine disappeared for an hour, and was then seen on the surface...

made some interesting statements about the war. He said that in the opinion of the War Office the second million of men now asked for ought to be enough to bring the war to a...

Monday about the Censorship had an important sequel. Lord Robert Cecil moved an amendment to the clause in the Defence of the Realm Consolidation Bill which authorizes...

with the Naval Division in Belgium, asked for instruc- tions as to what civilians were to do in the event of invasion. Were they to hand over their weapons to an appointed...

British airmen on the Zeppelin factory at Friedrichsbafen. Squadron- Commander E. F. Briggs, Flight-Commander J. T. Babington, and Flight-Lieutenant S. V. Sippe penetrated one...

is the port of Baghdad and the great sea emporium of Mesopotamia, had been occupied on November 21st. Basra lies about fifty miles up the river Shat-el-Arab, and is just below...

Aug. 8th.

T HOUGH we are strongly convinced that compulsion, had we adopted it in peace, would have preserved the nation from its present peril, and might probably have prevented the war,...

THE NEED FOR MEN. O NE of the best things that have been said on the recruiting problem is to be found in a letter from Mr. J. A. Grant, the Unionist Member for the Egremont...

O UR readers will remember that in the first weeks of the war we strongly urged that men of non- mil itary age who were still able-bodied enough to do something in the way of...

T HE treatment by the Government in the last few weeks of criticism in England and of sedition in Ireland presents one of the strangest contrasts we can call to mind. In his...

T HAT the war loan would be a success was so widely assumed in advance that the public may not fully appreciate what a remarkable achievement this success has been. In the first...

p IIBLIC opinion is seldom wron g when it does not declare itself in a passion, but advances steadily alon g a particular line, increasin g almost unconsciously in stren g th as...

F RANCE is Europe's duelling-ground, and the best phrases for literary duellers have ever been forged in France. When Romantics and Classics were crossing swords, description...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPEC.LT0/1.1 SIR,—The entrance of the Ottoman Empire into the great European war has made it also an Asiatic one, and possibly a literal as well as a...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SrEcTAToR.'] SIR,—Knowing your deep and active interest in the recruiting problem, may I ask you kindly to bring the following sugges- tion before the...

RUSSIA AND CONSTANTINOPLE. [To THE EDITOR 0/ TES "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Your article on "Russia and Constantinople" in the issue of November 14th strikes a note which will be...

to be desired that football-players and other athletes should go to the front, is it quite fair, when our system is, rightly or wrongly, a voluntary one, to make a dead set at...

[To TIM EDITOR Or TEL "EFECTATOR.1 SIR,—Reading your articles in the Spectator about the need of more men induces me to write and let you know the position out here. There are...

for more men there is one item of information lacking. We were told some weeks ago, and still believe, that, as far as the British contingents are con- cerned, the most...

recent articles on recruiting, you may be interested to hear what two or three busy women in this manufacturing town have done in their sr are time in this direction. Though the...

SID,—If Members of Parliament were to go through their constituencies, towns, villages, hamlets, farms, as they go through them when an election is pending, and were to tell...

[To THZ EDITOR OF TEl " STECTATOR."1 SIR,—It would be a public service if you .could elicit from the War Office a statement of any intelligible principle on which the...

[To THB EDITOR OF TEl "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—With reference to Sir EL Shaw Stewart's letter to the Spectator (November 21st), it may be of some slight assistance to send you the...

[To TER EDITOR Or TER " SPECTATOR."] SIR, - Mr. Alfred 011ivant's letter in the Spectator of November 7th regarding the organization of a Reserve of Veterans expresses the...

[To TER EDITOR OP TER sricrAroz."] SIR,—The following summary of the experience of the North with regard to conscription in the War of Secession is offered as a supplement to...

[To TIM EDITOR OF TR, " SPECTATOR.") SIR, —I have read your correspondence, and from careful obser- vation I think the Scottish returns when complete will surprise us all....

[To rue EDITOR OP THE " SPICTATOZ."[ Sts,—The Government has done much towards clearing up the questions of separation allowances to wives and children and other dependants...

[To Tell EDITOR OT TBX " erscrATott.") SIR,—The aim of the British Ambulance Committee, whose headquarters are at Wimborne House, Arlington Street, Piccadilly, W., kindly lent...

[TO THR EDITOR 07 TEl "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your correspondent " H. C." wrongly calls Beethoven a Prussian. He was a Rhinelander by birth, but his grandfather was an immigrant...

[To T/I1 EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Now that our genial Solicitor-General and Director of the Press Bureau may be supposed to be convalescent after the shock of the...

[To THE EDITOR OP TH1 "SPECTATOR."] Stu,—I do not think that the man in the street has realized the difference between this war and other wars. I also observe that some...

[To TH1 EDITOR OP THR "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I think your readers may like to see an extract from a letter written by a member of the Spectator Experimental Company who bas...

[To TIM EDITOR Or Till "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The Cavendish Association was only launched so recently as November last year, yet since its inception it has brought into prominence...

[To TH1 EDITOR 07 THEI "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Why not let Lord Roberts's memorial take the form of a military school for sons of soldiers fallen in action, such as the Duke of...

[To THE EDITOR OP THR "SPECTATOR...1 SIR,—The Teuton's attack on the English language and all that it represents by its heritage from Boadicea, Harold of Hastings, Magna...

[To SIR EDITOR or THZ " SPECTATOR.") SIR, — Some days ago a letter appeared in the Press headed "Diverted Charity." The writer referred to the diminution of income of one...

DISRAELI: THIRD VOLUME.* THE late Mr. W. F. Monypenny wrote two volumes of Benjamin Disraeli's Life, and now Mr. G. E. Buckle has taken over the task. The narrative goes...

PRESIDENT : LORD DESBOROITHH. Hon. SECRETARY : H. PERCY HARRIS, RIAD OrricEs : Judges' Quadrangle, Royal Courts of Justice (Carey Street entrance). The aims and objects of this...

NEU TRA LITY, Is it neutrality you proclaim, A cosy nook in sheltered bowers, Safe from the fiends who slay and maim, Mocking the prate of maudlin Powers P Wipe your spectacles,...

THE article on the above subject has now been reprinted in pamphlet form by the London and County Printing Works, Bazaar Buildings, Drury Lane. London, W.C. Copies can be...

or initials, or with a pendently', 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...

Tan travels of a philosopher are always interesting, if only lie has the gift of language. Mr. Lowes Dickinson, as is well known, has this gift in a high degree. Two books by...

WHEN one reflects on the peculiarly international character of the republic of music, one cannot avoid the conclusion that Joachim was fortunate in closing his long and honoured...

of animated dis- cussion of principles of taxation, and recent Budgets have not tended to decrease the solid or ephemeral output. It is there- fore from a highly interesting...

SPECIALIZATION is the chief feature of three new contribu- tions to industrial history. Mr. Salzmann, whose wide antiquarian knowledge has been so valuable in the series of the...

ARCADIAN ADVENTURES WITH THE IDLE RICH.• Ma. STEPHEN LEACOCK, who indemnifies himself for his professorial allegiance to the dismal science by periodio excursions into the...

are very few novels written about China. It is so easy to create a pseudo-Japanese "atmosphere" with geisha and cherry-blossom. so difficult to make a Chinese setting at all...

and Co. 6s.)—The simplicity of this biography of one Truffles is unusual. Miss Irwin takes no account of psychology, makes no detailed inquiry into cause and effect, but gives...

Library" (Williams .and. Norgate, ls. net each) include an excellent brief History .of Scotland; by Professor R. S. Rait; a masterly summary of our knowledge of The Ancient...

well-written novel of the influence of four men on a girl's life. Its only fault is a tendency to dulness.—Fetters of the Port8i. By Helen 'Colebrooke. (John Murray....

we note a distinguished little book—apparently not a reprint, as most of these volumes are—in which Miss M. Betham- Edwards gives her impressions of life Under the German...

the Bexhill Division of the National Service League. The poster emphasizes the point so often made in the Spectator—namely, that a long war will be the most appalling of...

by the Marquis of Ravigny, whose genealogical skill is a guarantee for its general accuracy. in producing the first issue of The Titled Nobility of Europe (Harrison and Sons,...

f Notice in This column does sot necessarill preclude subsequent reeismj The thoroughness with which Americans study agricultural problems is illustrated by a number of books...

Chubb's Descriptive List of the Printed Mars of Scratersetshire, published by the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, Taunton. The book is most clear, and is...

must strongly recommend Philips' Contour War Map of Europe (George Philip and Son, ls. net on paper, 2s. 6d. net on cloth). This map, on a scale of sixty-three miles to the...