special satis- faction that the left wing of the Allied Armies is now in touch with the Italian force working from Valona. While speaking of the Allies in the Balkans, we may...

• T HE war news during the week has been good as regards the Western front and bad as regards the Eastern front. We will deal with the bad news first. On Wednesday it was...

we are only creeping on, but it is a kind of creeping which we are bound to say would, if we were Germans, distinctly get on our nerves. There is something appalling in the...

it should not, the French will soon have recovered all the ground lost at Verdun, and nothing will remain of the great German offensive but the vast losses in dead, wounded, and...

case.

On Wednesday it was announced that the French, covered by their superb artillery, had made a great attack at Verdun, and had reconquered lost ground to the depth of nearly two...

to counteract that impression. Accordingly they have had post- cards printed showing rows of Bulgarian prisoners drawing rations— the men in file with a loaf of bread in one...

Transyl- vanian mountain frontier—Falkenhayn's armies, which are assaulting the passes with the greatest vehemence, have, we regret to say, won considerable successes, though...

and will only say here that as long as the Rumanian forces not merely remain in being, but remain as little injured as is apparently now the case, there is no sort of ground for...

the British front on the Somme, our progress has been distinctly satisfactory and we have taken something like a thousand German prisoners. All through Tuesday night and during...

Association in London on Monday at a public luncheon, made one of the most sagacious, and also one of the Most vsei0I, speeches delivered since the beginning of the war. Not...

there was a serious shortage which must be made good. Every stroke of the miner's pick was a blow at the enemy. In the end a resolution was carried pledging the representatives...

of the coal industry at the Central Hall, West- minster, on the importance of increasing the output of coal. Nearly three thousand representatives of the industry were present....

speech. We wish that in dealing with the League to Enforce Peace which has sprung up in America, he had advised those who founded that well- meant orgariiiitticin to read,...

the week, but may note one or two points. In' the first place, Lord Rothermere, who appears to be doing very well as Director-General of Clothing Supplies, announced that the...

do now for the peace of the world was to develop public opinion in favour of such a general agreement among the PoWera as might prevent war for the future. tut though Lord Grey...

Kolbers ' class (about 4,000 tons, built about 1907) was torpedoed by a British Submarine in the Nerth Sea on Thirtaday week. When last seen the cruiser was " steaming slovoly...

and equally luminous :— " We must never forget, es we go through this war, that an offer was made to us to keep out of the war. We were asked by the German Government to engage...

took a long vie* always foresaw they must reach. Such a prophecy was not really bold or rash. It was fairly obvious that if the war went on long enough the War Office would not...

last Saturday. The assassin was Dr. Friedrich Adler, a Vienna journalist, who - is a son of Dr. Victor Adler, the well-known Deputy and founder of the• Austrian Socialist Party....

" Appeal to America " in the Dutch Telegraaf. The article points out that one Dutch merchant vessel after another is sunk by German sub- marines, and that the same thing is true...

in the prisoners' camp at Gardelegen, between Berlin and Hanover. It is a terrible record, recalling the brutality, callousness, and cowardice of the German officials at...

Friday week of the Serbian Society of Great Britain. The aims of the We are very glad to record the successful inauguration on Friday week of the Serbian Society of Great...

Somerset, was fined £100 and 25 guineas costs for having conveyed to a friend in New York information as to the destruction of British ammunition at the front in France. Mr....

in German East Africa has been reached. According to a statement from the War Office published in the papers on Friday week, General Smuts is driving the enemy into the valley...

his speech of the absurd illusion that the Society is hostile to Italian aims. Naturally, he said, the Italians desired a predominant influence in the Adriatic. He hoped that...

tions of Volunteers. This time he visited Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk. At West Ham he said that it was possible now to provide Volunteers with nearly all the equipment they...

July 13th.

that Mr. Arthur Henderson is to become Minister of Pensions. In August Mr. Henderson resigned from the Board of Education in order to devpte himself to the work of Labour...

Arthur Stanley explained the arrangements made by the Central Prisoners of War Committee for sending parcels. The object is to prevent over- lapping and waste, and to secure...

I T is not only the most honourable but the safest of rules to stand by one's friends in dangerous times. We think the time has come for Great Britain to state with no uncertain...

RUMANIA AND VERDUN. T HAT the military situation in Rumania is a cause of deep disappointment and of no little anxiety must be admitted, even by such hardy optimists as...

and does not waste a single life unnecessarily. At the same ti me, there is no greater error possible in war than for Generals or statesmen or nations to try to base their...

A BOUT a fortnight ego there was brought before the Magistrate at the Westminster Police Court a man, described as a leading storehouseman in the Royal Army Clothing Factory at...

T HE important meeting at the Mansion House on Tuesday of the National Council for Combatin g Venereal Diseases, and the communications from well-known men and women in the...

I AM not a psycholo g ist, and I have not seen many people die in their beds ; but I think that it is established that very few people are afraid of a natural death when it...

THE KING!. (To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."' Ste.,—If there really do exist any English people who can be such " fools and blind " as not to appreciate King George because...

(To THE EDITOR Of SZE " SPECTATOR.") 8'14 — At the outbreak of the war there were over six thousand voluntary workers acting as members of Children's Care (School) Committees in...

" SPECTATOR.") Sni,—Your . contributor " S." in the last number of the . Spectator tells us that " the learned scholars in the most learned' of the Colleges of Oxford "...

Elerroa or TEE " fiseuriana."1 Su,—The war and after- suggest the questions now engaging the attention of thoughtful people. Of the war there is but one opinion. We must "carry...

the great commonwealth of stations which we speak of oddly as the British Empire, and for the good of the Irish people themselves, it is most desirable that the Military Service...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOE.") SIR,—"Islander " awakens memories of the high ideals of the writer of the open letter and those that worked for the Agenda Club (see...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sta,—I send an excerpt from Collier's Weekly.—I am, Sir, Ac.. Z. " Winston Spencer Churchill's article, The War by Land and Sea,' in this...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] • BIE,—I wish to make known to your readers the above association, whose headquarters, the " liaison des Alli4s," is at 1 Square du Roule,...

(TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In the late summer I spent a few days at a little village on the border-line between Derbyshire and Staffordshire. Crossing the...

town and papers caused me to miss " Islander's " generous letter in your issue of September 30th. It was probably Captain E. V. Birchall (he died of wounds last July, a day...

[To THE EDITOR OF THZ SPECTATOR."] Sra,—In America the scarcity of domestic servants is a serious problem. Cooks, able to do only plain cooking, are receiving from forty to...

[To THZ EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra,—Since its inauguration at the Mansion House by the Lord Mayor in the early part of the year, the Civic Arts Association has steadily...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR."] 8111,—More than two years ago I made an appeal to the public on behalf of the Fund for the relief of families and dependants of officers...

" SPECTATOR.") is, indeed, a happy relief, in the midst of the horrors of war—rendered more horrible and besmirched by criminal acts of wilful murder, misnamed " frightfulness...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Mr. W. E. Hoyle, contributor to Chambers's Encyclopaedia of the article on the squirrel, mentions the fact that this animal does not...

Snt,—To any one who has read (and re-read) and appreciated the articles of " A Student in Arms " appearing in the Spectator, the tragic news of his death must come with a sense...

(To ran EDITOR or TEl "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I was about to call the attention of your readers (if per- mitted) to the striking suggestion of dug-outs, aeroplanes, sub- marines, and...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] mourn with you and many others the death of Donald Hankey. May I express the earnest hope that you will issue in book form his remaining...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sta,—Your correspondents writing in connexion with the pro- posed new bridge at Charing Cross and the triumphal arch there, refer to a via...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, —May I crave space to mention one instance (of many) which shows the interest Nonconformists take in the National Mission of Repentance...

[To TILE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") Snt,—It has been decided to commemorate the residence and death in Chelsea of Henry James. By so doing a permanent mark of his maintenance...

[To THE Entree or THE " Sezeteroa."] Sza,—Canon Ainger's excellent Limerick, which appeared in your last issue, reminds me of a witty saying of his which I recorded long ago,...

SIR,—It happened that I lent " A Student in Arms' " book to three men in the small Red Cross hospital in which I nurse. Two of the men were sergeants, one a " Contemptible," the...

Ste,—As there are a number of incorrect or partially correct statements being published in regard to the life of my brother, Lieutenant Donald William Alen Hankey, the " Student...

Tax article under the above heading, dealing with the desecration of beautiful places by the seattering of pieces of paper and other picnic debris, which appeared in our issue...

following additional subscriptions to the above Fund :- £ s. d. I £ e. d. Previously acknowledged 93 16 6 I H. M. N. 5 0 0 Mrs. Richard Pilkington 5 0 0 . £103,16 8

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked" Communi- cated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein, expressed or with the mode...

BOARDED OUT. I'm sitting here in Bristol Town beside the Severn Sea, But my head's a.ring with foreign names that once were naught to me. I can't forget the road I walked that...

Sta,—Perhape the following incident may be of interest to you. The writer has read all the articles which have appeared in the Spectator from " A Student in Arms," including...

Eta,—We, his familiars, all knew him as Donald, and as Donald we loved him. In a peculiar way his name and personality fitted each to each. Had we any other friend bearing that...

THE ANGLO-FRENCH ENTENTE.• M. DE LANESSIN possesses all the qualifications necessary in order to enable him to write a valuable and instructive history of the Anglo- French...

" Born CABLE " needs no introduction to our readers. Other writers about the war may have graces which are outside his register, but we do not know of one who is so unfailingly...

book does not actually quote Pestalozzi, het plan for the education of little children seems to be founded on his. While that eccentric, eager old Swiss theorist taught that...

of her recital that for her part she has often regretted having said too much and never deplored having said too little. In this interesting volume she has, on the whole,...

'The Necessity of Christ' is a very serious and very impressive plea for orthodox Christianity. Mr. Orchard believes materialism to be dead and the tide turned in favour of...

Tax late Sir Henry Roscoe will be remembered not so much for his contributions to the science of chemistry as for what he did to enhance the repute of the chemist in England....

net.)— In ordinary times this stout volume would perhaps have reosived the serious notice that - it deserves. There is comparative silence about its subject now, bit there is...

A DIARY OF THE GREAT WARR.* PREYS has often been imitated, but seldom with a greater measure of success, than by the ingenious anonymous writer of this Diary of the Great Warr....

Co. 6s.)—A very charming story in which the two principal characters are representatives of old City families. The poetic aspects of the old City buildings were never more...

[Nam fn this column dais not nrestearity preclude rub;equent roam.] Termination of War and Treaties of Peace. By Coleman Phillipson, M.A., LL.D., Litt.D. (T. Fisher Unwin. 21s....

(T. Fisher Unwin. 15e. )—Prebendary Durham, ae an old climber, has solaced himself in war time, when Switzerland became inaccessible foe mere tourists, by recalling the climbs...

net.) —This collection of reprinted papers deals mainly with naval history, and especially with Drake, Popp, and Nelson. It is light reading, and good reading too, for the...

Dent and Sons. 5s. net.)—This witty little book, by a former Harvard Professor, is a destructive analysis of the very un-Platonic " idealism " which is the essence of German...

W. Walters. (Joseph Johnson. 3s. net.)—The admiring author of this biography seems a little uncertain whether there is a " new " Lloyd George. His book is useful for the long...

(Sir Isaac Pitman. 3s. 6d. net.)—This instructive book gives the results of inquiries made by the Economic Science section of the British Association, which published a similar...