29 JULY 1916

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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W E have dealt elsewhere with the military situation in its more general aspects. Here we may say that throughout the week the news from the Western Front, both British and...

We of course know nothing as to the plans of

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the Commander- in-Chief, or as to what moves are to be expected on the chess- board of war. One thing, however, is clear. The nation has every right to feel the utmost...

The proposed Irish " settlement " reached what we must

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assume to be an irremediable breakdown in the House of Commons on Mon- day. Mr. Redmond opened fire by asking Mr. Asquith whether the Government had made up their mind to insert...

In this context we may hazard the remark that it

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might perhaps be wise now to give up the use of the word " Territorials," except on formal official occasions. It seems to suggest a little patronage, or a kind of mild surprise...

Mr. Redmond at once retorted with: "I emphatically repudiate the

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interpretation which has been put upon one clause of the agreement. That clause was inserted in the draft Bill by the Government. We stand by every word of it." He then went on...

The Russian news is very good. In the first place,

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Thursday's telegrams show that Erzingan, the base of the Turkish armies in the Caucasus and a place crammed with munitions of all kinds, has been taken by General Yudenitch, one...

Happily the men who go out in drafts after only

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three months' training, and are such very new wine poured into such very old bottles, seem to do just as well, and are just as steady in action, as the oldest of old soldiers....

*** The Editor cannot undertake to return Manuscript in any

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case.

The debate on the adjournment came on after dinner. Mr.

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Redmond promised the House a " dispassionate statement, leaving the facts to speak for themselves." The feature of the agree- ment was that the proposals should remain in force...

In the Northern section of the Galician front General Sakharoff

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has added another to the two military successes already obtained by him since the early part of July. He has driven .back the enemy on the Slonuvka River, a tributary of the...

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Further reports on the conditions of the prisoners - of war

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camps in Germany have been published during the - week. Dili. McCarthy and Ohnesorg, of the American Embassy, state that most•of the camps are satisfactory, but that they found...

Mr. Lloyd George argued with both moderation and cogency that

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the exclusion of the six counties was simply a matter of phraseology. He agreed that the exclusion was to be " provisional," for it was to be reviewed at the end of the war by...

Mr. Redmond went on to say that acceptance of the

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new pro- posals would mean an " absolute and disgraceful breach of faith " an his part. A final challenge concluded the speech "My attitude on the war remains unalterable, but...

it is interesting to recall how - wide and - long-"is Lord Ciower's experience

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'both of civil and military 'affairs. in , his youth he was one of the' Secretaries to the Commission.. that. inquired into the Jamaica. rebellion. He was also Secretary to the...

Before we leave the subject of the breakdown of the

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Irish negotia. dons we must say a word about the very unfair criticism that has been directed - against Sir Edward Carson. In our opinion, Sir Edward Carson throughout acted...

- Perhaps the best commentary we can make on the

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Irish negotia- tions- as a whole.is to quote the American epitaph on the child of three weeks old :- " If I was so quickly done for, I wonder what I was began for."

The Mesopotamian Commission is to have as Chairman Lord George

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Hamilton, ex-Secretary of State for India and ex-First Lord of the. Admiralty. The appointment is a thoroughly, good one, for Lord George Hamilton has held with honour and dis-...

General Sir John Maxwell's Report on the Sinn Fein rebellion

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in Dublin was published on Saturday last. It proves that if the civil authorities were culpably negligent in- allowing - the conspiracy to mature; the soldiers showed...

Mr. Gerard, the American Ambassador, is unfortunately not able to

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report any improvement in the civilians' camp at Ruhleben. After nearly two years of war the barracks are still overcrowded. " It is intolerable," he. says, that " people of...

There is little more to relate. Sir Edward Carson in

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a fine speech showed how in the negotiations he had thought only of winning the war. Irish distractions were a playing of the . German game. "It would not be a bad day for this...

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On Tuesday, April 25th, reinforcements began to arrive from the

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Curragh and from England. A cordon was drawn round the north of the city, and a line of posts established from the west to the centre at Trinity College. But in the south-east...

General Maxwell attributes the failure of the Sinn Fein movement

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outside Dublin mainly to the activity of Brigadier-Generals Stafford and Hackett Pain, commanding at Queenstown and in Ulster respectively. A body of rebels at Ashbourne, in...

The Times of Monday printed an extract from the German

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weekly technical paper Prometheus describing the general lines of large submarines which are reported to be under construction "by the two foremost naval Powers." These vessels...

The special correspondent of the Timee at Berne explained on

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Tuesday the state of the commercial controversy between Germany and Switzerland. Switzerland has hitherto received grain-food generally from the Allies, and coal and iron...

A French airman, Lieutenant Marchal, flew right across Germany into

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Poland on the night of June 20th. Leaving Nancy at 9.30 p.m., ho dropped leaflets—not bombs—upon Berlin at dawn. Thence, " winding with ease Through the pure marble air his...

Denmark has provisionally agreed to sell to the. United States

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for £5,000,000 the islands of St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix, in the West Indies. The formal consent of both the Danish and American Parliaments is still necessary. The New...

A silver badge has been issued to be worn by

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officers and men of the Armies who have served at home or abroad since August, 1914, but through age, wounds, or sickness have left the Service. The badge will also be awarded...

We desire to draw the special attention of our readers

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to the review by Lord Cromer entitled "The Terms of Peace" to be found in our issue of to-day. It is interesting to note that in his article, which was written before he had...

The football which a battalion of the East Surrey Regiment

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dribbled into action on July 1st, somewhere near Albert, was formally placed among the regimental treasures at the depot at Kingston on Friday week. It was a little ceremony...

An interesting description of what is called the Censor's Museum

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was published in the Times of Tuesday. The exhibits are all things stopped on their way to enemy countries. There are, for instance, carefully rolled newspapers which are found...

Bank Rate, 6 per cent., changed from 5 per cent.

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July 13th.

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THE MILITARY SITUATION.

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A • LL the messages from the Western Front indicate that 11 during the past week the British movement has been marked by what boxers call " in-fighting." The comparative...

TOPICS OF THE LDAY.

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'THE - FUTURE GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND. WE deal elsewhere with the causes which led to -Mr. 'Ilicimmid's refupal to seize the extraordinary piece of good fortune (from his paint...

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THE IRISH FIASCO.

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W E held, and still hold, that it was a most grave mistake to break the moratorium which had been placed on the Parliamentary side of the Irish question during the war. When,...

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THE MESOPOTAMIAN INQUIRY.

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M R. ASQUITH, saying he would ne'er consent, has consented to the appointment of Commissions to inquire into the Mesopotamian and Dardanelles campaigns. He was doubtless right...

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LITTLE " ANZAC."

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tCOM1WN1CATED.] " A NZAC " was not at all like an English child. She was not 13.. yet six when she came from the Land of the Southern Cross, but she had the independence and...

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ON CONSULTING THE DICTIONARY.

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A T seventeen one does it by stealth, ashamed of being ignorant of anything ; at twenty-seven and for ever after, if one is sincere, one keeps one's dictionary at one's elbow...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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IRELAND, LORD LANSDOWNE, AND MR. LONG. [TO TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' Slit,-I find it most difficult to go along with the Spectator as to the new policy of the...

THE HOME RULE SCHEME.

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[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " spEcTATor....] Slit,—I read the " Appeal to Unionists " in the Spectator of July 15th, and have delayed writing expecting some further advice in the...

ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sts,—May I, through your courtesy, extend a pen-and-ink handshake to " W. V. H.," who in your issue of July 15th writes ono of the most...

CORRESPONDENCE.

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SIR VICTOR HORSLEY. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' Gm,—Let me try to say something of what we have lost by Victor Horsley's death. I knew him for thirty years. There was...

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SOLDIER OR M.P. ?

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:I Srs,—Many of our gallant defenders have these qualifications at the present moment, but their time is strictly devoted for the most part to...

A SHAKESPEAREAN CENTO.

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[TO TM EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.''j SIE,—The following is a Shakespearean address descriptive of the present military situation. I only claim that in it there is not a...

WAR AND PEACE.

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[To THE EDITOZ OF THE " SPECTAT011 Sue,—The philosopher Hegel (born at Stuttgart, removed to Berlin in 1818, died there in 1831) taught views about war that may be stated as...

. THE DISABLED SOLDIER.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTAT011.1 Ste,—Roferring to your correspondence on this subject and the sug- gestion that there should be a " Soldiers' and Sailors' Friend " in every...

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" TOMMY'S " GUARDIAN.

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[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sla,—You have so generously lent your valuable space to the Volunteer movement and the drink question that I venture, as a " Tommy " of the...

THE DECCAN HORSE.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] Sm,----The other day, walking southwards (the direction is important, as you will presently see), I met a young man in khaki, who, with...

THE EMPRESS CLUB . BATHS. .

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—If cleanliness be next to godliness, then surely the B.E.F. strives after the good ! In the trenches all ranks inevitably become, and...

ITO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR..']

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SIE,-- The letter of Colonel Chrystie gives welcome news to many unofficial soldiers' friends, that the name and address of the special Soldiers' Friend "—i.e., the...

SOLDIERS AND THEIR RELIGION.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR "] SIR,—In your issue of June 24th your correspondent Mr. Lawson has given an explanation of " Soldiers and their Religion." Could I venture a...

THE CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR.

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[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPEOTATOR."] SIR,—The problem of how to deal with the conscientious objector is rather a difficult one for the authorities. The conscientious object();...

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WAR MEDALS.

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[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR., SIR—It may interest your readers to know that plaster oasts of thirteen of the German war medals acquired by the British Museum are now on...

A GREAT NATIONAL ECONOMY.

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[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR...1 SIR, —On reading the letter signed " J. R. F." in your last issue, I half expected to find attached a form of application for shares in...

THE LATE MR. STOPFORD BROOKE.

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[To TEE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR:' SIR, —The British Empire is a wonderful entity, so vast geographically speaking, ea small in reality, bound together as its component parts...

DR. GERALDINE HODCSON.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTRTOR."1 SIR,—We, the undersigned thirty-seven past students of the Secondary Training Department, Bristol University, loam with consternation from...

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POETRY.

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THE NEW ZEALANDER. MONODY ON THE DEATH Ox A MEMBER OF THE NEW ZEALAND CONTINGENT, WHO, GOING TO REST HIMSELF ON THE BEACH, WAS KILLED IN HIS SLEEP BY A DISCHARGE OF SHRAPNEL....

BOOKS.

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THE TERMS OF PEACE.• IT is very frequently necessary to insert what is called an "interpretation clams " in Acts of Parliament in order to explain the precise meaning which,...

NOTICE.—When "Correspondence" or Articles are signed with the writer's name

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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...

SWIFT ON GREAT BRITAIN.

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ITO VII EDITOR OF TES " sraerarea."; SIR,—" Steele the rogue has done the impudentest thing in the world : he said something in a Tatter that we ought to use the word Great...

WEEDS.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.1 SIB,—I was glad to see Mr. Allen's letter in last week's Spectator ; but could not weeding be extended to the farms ? I travel constantly in...

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SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLAND.• Its this wonderful book does not deliver the

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more pedantic interpreters of Shakespeare from the thraldom of crankiness and mania, probably nothing ever will. Here you have extraordinarily particular knowledge culled by...

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" THE CLOUDS " AND " THE. WASPS " BY

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MR. ROGERS.* Some little time back we noticed an edition of The Scholia on the" Birds," and referred •to it as a remarkable example of that combination of technical knowledge...

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WHAT IS COMING ?*

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" Fon some of us modems who have been touched with the spirit of science prophesying is almost a habit of mind." So writes Mr. H. G. Wells upon the first page of his newest...

FOR ECONOMIC STUDENTS.*

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WE are all economic students nowadays. Some of us think that we are grown-up economists and therein err, for the science grows faster - — ••(1) A History of Political Economy....

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THE QUARTERLIES.

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Or the topical articles in the Quarterly none is more likely to attract attention than the first instalment of Mr. J. M. de Beaufort's " Voyage of Discovery in Northern...

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Burden's Hospitals and Charities, 1916. By Sir Henry Burdett. (Scientific

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Press. 10s. 6d. net.)—The veteran editor of this familiar and indispensable book again asks in his preface for a successor, as he has worked for the voluntary hospitals through...

READABLE NOVELS.—The Sheltered Sex. By Madge Mears. (John Lane. 6s.)—A

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pre-war book deamibing the adventures of a young lady who very properly objects to living at home with nothing to do. Tho problems involved would hardly arise at this...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

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[Noiies in this column does not necusarai prietnis stout:mit rsois v.) Antwerp, 1177 - 1559. By Jervis Wegg. (Methuen and Co. 21s. net.) —Close connexions have existed between...

Patriotic Food Economy for the Well - to - do. (National Food Economy League,

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3 Woodstock Street, Oxford Street. 6d.)—The authors of this pamphlet, taking for granted " that every British housemistress wishes to live up (or down) to the standard required...

We have received the tenth volume of The London Topographical

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Record (Office of the London Topographical Society), a series which ought to interest every Londoner with a grain of local patriotism. Tho special articles in this issue include...

FICTION.

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PROUD PETER.* hie. W. E. NORRIS has been writing novels for nearly forty years, but though he must have close on thirty books to his credit, ho has never declined to the level...

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Chemistry in the Service of Man. By Alexander Findlay. (Longmans

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and Co. 8s. net.)—Professor Findlay writes for the intelligent reader who knows a little chemistry and would like to know morn. He explains the leading principles of modern...

Philosophy and War. By Emile Boutroux. (Constable and Co. 4a.

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6d.)—While combating the idea that German philosophers of the past can be held responsible for the use which is now being made of their doctrines, it does not follow, says M....

The Nation and Alcohol. By A. W. Richardson. (Student Christian

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Movement, Chancery Lane. Lid. net.)—A reprint of some very useful articles contributed to the Student Movement by Miss Anne Richardson, the public-spirited Vice-Principal of...

The Village Gods of South India. By the Right Rev.

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H. Whitehead, Bishop of Madras. (H. Milford. 2s. 6d. net.)—In this little volume, the first of a series on " The Religious Life of India," the Bishop of Madras describes from...