2 FEBRUARY 1918

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If Lord Curzon% remarks were timely and serviceable, the position

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was further • improved by Lord Derby's speech at the Aldwych Club on Tuesday. We learn from that speech that our surmise last week as to the reasons of the reverse at Cambrai...

In the House of Commons on Thursday week there was

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a debate on the Cambrai affair, and Mr. Bonar Law deprecated discussions in the Press on strategy and the qualifications of individual officers. Mr. Faber asked whether any...

NEWS OF THE WEEK

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T HE attack upon the Higher Command has faded away for want of support since we last wrote, and looks like being a complete failure. If the critics of the Higher Command applied...

Speaking at Cardiff on Friday week, Lord Curzon said that

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in his belief large forces released by the collapse of Russia were sure to be used in the West by Germany. The armies might be called on to endure the greatest strain which they...

LOrd Derby's concluding words were as follows : " There

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has never been the least wavering on my part in my allegiance to those two °Mesas Vit. Willits' Robertson and Sir Douglas Haig] who are bearing such a heavy burden on their...

As we said last week, there is a strong suspicion

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in the Army that " the politicians " are behind some of Lord Northeliffe's newspapers. If there is any substance in this, it is extremely discreditable that the Government...

On Monday in the Daily Mail Mr. Lovat Fraser continued

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his Criticisms in the form of a letter to Lord Derby. It is unnecessary to look into his strategical arguments, which have not become wiser after a week's thought. Two points,...

Lord Derby was exceedingly wise in his comment that the

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line might quite well have held if the lesson had been learnt that it is essential to give as much training as possible to young officers and men with their units when they are...

THE PAPER SHORTAGE.—We trust that readers of the " Spectator"

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will give definite orders to their newsagents for a copy of the " Spectator" to be reserved for them each week till countermanded.

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While the Western Front in Flanders and France has been

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quiet during the week, our Italian Allies have gained an important success in the mountains between the Asiago Plateau and the Brenta Valley. At dawn on Monday, after a...

Count Hertling went on to say that Germany condemned an

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economic war—the one thing which she fears most—and that she would talk about the limitation of armaments. Great Britain must discuss the colonial question with America, but...

The Admiralty return for last week of losses by mine

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or submarine was less favourable. We lost nine large merchantmen over 1,600 tons and six smaller vessels, as compared with five large and two small vessels in the previous week,...

Austria-Hungary, Count Hertling continued, must reply to President Wilson as

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to the Italian lands under Austrian rule, the South Slays, and the Balkans, and Turkey would reply as to her territories, the integrity of which and the security of her capital...

Ho did not say that the Prime Minister himself had

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confidence in the military leaders. This is the point which must now be cleared up. We agree that in ordinary circumstances it is quite unnecessary for the Prime Minister...

Count Czernin, the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister, spoke at Vienna on

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the same day as Count Hertling was speaking in Berlin. He adopted a most conciliatory tone, doubtless by pre- arrangement with his ally, and began by -declaring in regard to...

Enemy airmen, about fifteen in number, made a raid on

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London on Monday night, favoured by the moonlight and the exceptionally calm weather. Four or five machines reached the capital and dropped bombs between nine and ten o'clock....

The London defences were put to the test again on

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Tuesday night, and this time were completely successful. Fifteen raiders *noosed the coast, but none contrived to penetrate to London. One enemy, approaching from the north,...

Count Hertling, the German Chancellor, made an uncompromising speech in

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the Reichstag on Thursday week, in reply to Mr. Lloyd George and President Wilson. Mr. Lloyd George, he said, had changed his tone, but still implied that it was " his duty to...

Lord Derby, speaking in the House of Lords on Wednesday,

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said very truly that it was the duty of the Government to get rid of persons in whom they had lost confidence, and it was equally their duty loyally to support those in whom...

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Herr von Kuhlmann, the German Foreign Secretary, addressing the Reichstag

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Committee on Friday week, blamed the Russian Anarchists for the delays in the peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk- Germany wished to treat the views of the small German minority...

The saving of life by the transfusion of blood from

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a healthy person to the patient has often formed an incident of romances. A remarkable article in Wednesday's Pima shows laymen that modern surgery has rendered...

The House of Commons on Wednesday, after an animated debate,

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rejected the proposals of the House of Lords for a full scheme of Proportional Representation by 223 votes to 113. The Govern- ment left the question to the House. Mr. Balfour...

complaining of the weakness of the Treasury, said that his

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Select Committee, in trying to promote economy in the Departments, felt as if they were baling out water with a sieve, for the War Cabinet had granted in bonuses since August no...

General Smuts, addressing the Royal Geographical Society on East Africa

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on Monday night, said that Germany had been develop- ing her lost colony as a plantation for the production of raw materials, forcing the natives to work for low wages and...

America, the land of plenty, has been asked by the

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President to reduce the consumption of wheat and meat so that Great Britain, France, and Italy may be fed. Mr. Wilson desires Americans to abstain from wheat on two days a week...

Lord Rhondda has moved another step towards the compulsory rationing

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of foodstuffs. He announced on Thursday week that the Food Committees for London and the Home Counties must be prepared to ration meat, butter, and margarine from February 25th,...

Count Czernin said, in regard to Italy and the Balkans,

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that he would offer nothing. " I refuse to place a premium on the military adventures of our enemies." Italy might have gained a great terri- torial expansion without war ; she...

The Anarchists of Petrograd have soon shown how loosely they

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construe the right of a nation to determine its own fate. They recognized recently the independence of Finland and the Ukraine, but they are already endeavouring, by violence,...

Dutch correspondents, quoting the censored German newspapers, roport that strikes

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on a large scale have began in Berlin and in the shipyards at Kid, Stettin, and Hamburg. The Berlin strike leaders, including some of the Majority Socialists, who co-operate...

Bank rate, 6 per cent., changed from 5} per cent.

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April 5, 1917.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY. •

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AMERICA AND THE SELF-DETERMINATION OF NORTH-EAST ULSTER. E VERY patriotic man must hope that the Conference arranged between the Prime Minister and leading representatives of...

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THE GERMAN PEOPLE. T HE condition of Germany provides at the

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moment more material for speculation than at any time during the war. If there are many signs of a thoroughly discontented and alarmed state of public opinion, both in Germany...

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LABOUR AND 171..e. COMMUNITY.

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T HE attempt of the Labour Party when in conference at Not- tingham last week to reorganize itself on a national in- stead of a ()lass basis is an interesting sign of the times....

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STATE CONTROL.

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T HOSE of our readers who wish to see how State control works out in practice would be well advised to purchase the Report of the special Sub-Committee to the Commercial...

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SERBIA DURING THE WAR.

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T HREE weeks ago we published some account of the invisible conditions of Belgium under German rule. Even less is known of the state of affairs in Serbia since Germany organized...

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ENGLISH FOLK-SONGS IN WESTERN MOUNTAINS.

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I T has been said that the history of man is the history of his efforts to express himself. Certainly this is true in so far as man is an artist, and most obviously so where...

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F RIENDLY observers of Portugal's internal affairs since the Revolution of

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1910 have often spoken of a new spirit discernible. They were mistaken because the essential condition, Ole overthrow of a party which, in the name of the people, had set up an...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] SIR WILLIAM ROBER'RSON. •...

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fTo THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—With regard to

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the statement of your correspondent " G.'• that it appears to him that a man that is fit to be a Dean is equally fit to be a Bishop, may I venture to point out that the...

A NORTHCLIFFE MINISTRY.

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(To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sra,—I have read with interest your article on the above subject. and I agree with you that a Northcliffe Government would be a national...

THE GOVERNMENT AND THE HIGHER COMMAND. (To THE EDITOR OF

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THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,--Several letters I have received from correspondents indicate some misunderstanding as to the object I had in view in inter- vening in the debate in the...

THE HEREFORD CONTROVERSY.

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(To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sus,—I think there is a strange darkening of counsel in the tone of many lettere respecting the Hereford controversy, and I am sorry that...

MR. BROM:CLEM:MST'S ANSWER TO THE BISHOP OF OXFORD.

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ETo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") " I am going to pass to the other extreme [the 'other extreme ' refers to the Resurrection—T. P. B.] of Our Lord's Life in order to...

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PREMIUM BONDS.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sis,—Although the Government has, in the language of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, given up the idea of " proceeding with an issue of...

"BUSINESS" AND POLITICS.

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(To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Sia, —It is singular that the well-known passage from Eccles*. ticus should be quoted in your columns a second time with a complete...

MAN-POWER.

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[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your article on Man-Power in your issue of January 19th there is a suggestion, and I think it is the second time that it has been...

[To rat EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.")

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SIR,—In your article of January 19th upon " Premium Bonds" you applaud Sir Robert Kindersley's objections to the scheme. 1 believe his objections and your own to be wrong, but...

(To THE EDITOR. OF THE " SPECTATOR."]

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Sia,,—Polities and the Press are hindering the country from getting on with the war. Confidence in Mr. Lloyd George has been on the wane since his Paris speech. He did his best...

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LESS FOOD—CONTINUED FOOD DESTRUCTION.

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[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra,--I observe that Mr. Winterton, Secretary, Strength of Britain Movement, in a letter in your last week's issue advocating the immediate...

WASTE OF PUBLIC MONEY.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR ,—I received the attached Weekly Bulletin of the Ministry of National Service in an O.H.M.S. franked envelope. Is there any need for its...

THE LATE LIEUTENANT G. F. GROGAN.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR.—You published in your paper from time to time verses written by the late Mr. G. F. Grogan, and when his book, A Drop in Infinity, was...

MR. HENDERSON ON PROHIBITION.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—As the Press generally does not seem to have given much publicity to a very important part of Mr. Henderson's speech at " The Strength...

THE MENACE TO LOCHABER.

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(To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Your columns have ever been hospitable to weak minorities. I therefore beg permission to invite public attention to a scheme now being...

GERMANY'S VIEW-S.—NOW AND THEN. (To THE EDITOR OP THE "

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SPECTATOR.") Sia,—The extracts given by " P. W. C." from Professor Lemme's discussion about Christian ethics with reference to the enmity to all culture of the Turkish race may...

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THE VATICAN AND THE WAR.

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[To TIE EDITOR or THE " SPEETAT011."1 Sie,—Your correspondent " E. M." challenges me to produce " orders -from the Papacy " to the Romish priesthood as to their course of action...

POTATO BREAD.

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[To TEE EDITOR OT THE " SPECTATOR.") Sie,—The sixth edition (1846) of Eliza Acton's Modern Cookery—a work commended by Barham in the lines- " Buy a good book of cookery ! I've...

THE WOMEN'S FARM AND GARDEN UNION CLUB AND LIBRARY.

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[To me Emma or "Seserseoa."1 Sni,—In your issue of January 26th Mr. 011ivant describes land workers' libraries started for the use of women working on the land. These are, we...

[To ZEE EDITOR. OF THE " SPFLTATOIL"3 Sia,—May I offer

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you the accompanying very explicit recipe by our cook for your readers who have had no experience in bread- making ? When bakers' bread causes trouble, it is probably due to...

SUGAR FOR JAM-MAKING.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."3 Bin,—The Food Controller will make a grave mistake if he refuses to allow a supply of sugar - for home-made jam. Any , experienced...

AN APPEAL FOR OLD CLOTHES.

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(To TEE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Nearly eighteen months ago you were kind enough to insert in your columns an appeal by me for old clothes,for the use of the patients...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Perhaps the enclosed

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cutting from Monday's Morning Post, particularly the report of Dr. Fogarty, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Killaloe's letter to the Clare County Council, may prove of some...

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AN IDEAL FOR THE NATIONAL CHURCH.

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(To TEC EDITOR. or THE " 13PCOTATOR."7 SM,—H ie not for a Wesleyan minister like myself to comment upon " An Old Churchwarden's " letter so far as it affects the Church of...

CHRISTIAN REUNION.

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[To TER EDITOR or THE " Sennseos."3 SIR,—Has not Canon Rawneley in your issue of January 5th taken too despondent a view of the progress we are making towards such a...

" OPEN COMMUNION."

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(To TEC EDITOR OP THZ " 8pecuTos."3 Sta,—Does "An Old Churchwarden " really think that the King can, by a " decree," abrogate a rubric which is part of an Act of Parliament? We...

THE AREA OF NEWFOUNDLAND.

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(To THE EDITOR or um " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—/ cannot imagine how you allowed a letter to appear in your columns stating that Newfoundland had the area stated. It is roughly some...

A DANTE CRUX.

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CTO THE EDITOR Or THC " ElrEonacat.") Sns,—The letters of your correspondents on the opening line of Canto VII. of the Inferno remind me of the following passage in the Memoirs...

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"BURY OR BURN."

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

BOOKS.

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THE LIMITS OF PURE DEMOCRACY.* Mn. MALLOCK'S very able and interesting book on the nature and limits of pure democracy would have been welcome at any time, but it is doubly...

"FROM A V.A.D. HOSPITAL."

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Miss MART-ADAIR MACDONALD'S three poems (" In the Ward," "Epiphany Vision," and "In Last Year's Camp") have been reprinted from the pages of the Spectator in pamphlet form under...

" NEW YEAR RESOLVES."•

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AT the request of many of our readers our leading article "New Year Resolves," which appeared in the Spectator on Decem- ber 29th, 1917, has been republished in pamphlet form....

"CHRIST IN FLANDERS."

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THE poem entitled " Christ in' Flanders," which appeared in our issue of September 11th, 1915, has been reprinted in leaflet form. Copies can be obtained from Messrs. W....

POETRY.

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THE WAR AND ONE MAN IN THE STREET. WHAT has the war meant for my part, What has it shown to mg? The splendid wealth of many a heart— And my heart's poverty. Through this...

"A STUDENT IN ARMS."

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THE leading article in the Spectator on the death of Lieutenant Hankey and his article " Don't Worry " have been republished as a leaflet by Messrs. W. Speaight and Sons, 98-99...

MR. LANSING'S ADDRESS TO OFFICERS.

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Wm are very glad to be able to inform our readers that we have received permission to reprint the noble Address by Mr. Lansing which was published in the Spectator of September...

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

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name or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agree- ment with the views therein expressed or with the...

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THE ROMANCE OF COMMERCE.•

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MR. SELFRIDGE'S very interesting book will be a surprise to many readers. As a highly successful man of business in the United States before he transferred his activities to...

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NEW VOLUMES IN THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY.•

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MR. BERNADOTTB PERRIN has reached the fifth of the eleven volumes assigned to Plutarch,' the parallel Lives here given being those of Agesilaus and Pompey, Pelopidas and...

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LI THE GRAND SECRETARY.* FEW Englishmen have lived so long

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in China as Mr. J. 0. P. Bland, and few understand the strong and weak points of the Chinese social and political system as he does. Captain Basil Williams, the general editor...

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ENGLISH CHURCH WOODWORK.* [Collar:Nies:ran.]

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Massas. HOWARD AND CRossr.EY have respectively written and illustrated a very scholarly and inspiring book on mediaeval ecclesi. astical wood-carving. It is an altogether...

LUDUS L1TERARIUS.*

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Tars is a reprint of a Jacobean treatise upon education by a Grammar School master of the seventeenth century. He taught at Ashby-de- la-Zouch, and wrote a book embodying his...

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WORLD-BUILDERS ALL.•

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IN this little book Canon Burroughs has collected some addresses given to Public School boys, during the National Mission, upon "the call of the war to the rising generation ":;...

THE CARE OF THE WOUNDED : TWO TEXT-BOOKS. t IT

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is not often that one comes across a handbook with such pretty pictures in it as are contained in Miss Waddington's lVhat Every Masseuse should Know.' They are outline drawings,...

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FICTION.

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THE CHRONICLES OF ST. TID.• MR. EDEN PEILLYOTTS is a writer of many moods, sombre and jocund, but, apart from his delightful studies of the "human boy," we have seldom known...

READABLE NOVELS.—An Airman's Wife. (Herbert Jenkins. 8s.) —A poignant account

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of the thoughts and fears of a war bride, fears which in the last chapter are only too well justified.— Sins of the Mothers. By Marius Lyle. (Andrew Melrose. 5s.)—This novel...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

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[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] Tan FEBRUARY Monestz.nts.—The Nineteenth Century gives the leading place to an admirably clear and...

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WORKS or REFERENCE.—The Catholic Directory, 1918 (Burns and Oates, le.

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6d. net) gives very full details of the Roman Catholic Church in Great Britain. It estimates that there are in England 1,890,018 Roman Catholics, and in Scotland 546,000 ; there...

A curious article by the Rev. Dr. H. J. Lawlor

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in the English Historical Review for January shows that there is no foundation for the legend that Dean Swift was buried in his friend Stella's coffin, though the story was...

An Old Gate of England. By A. G. Bradley. (R.

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Scott. 6s. net.)— This very interesting book, illustrated with many attractive pen- sketches by Miss Marian Bradley, is devoted to Rye and Winchelsea and Romney Marsh. It is not...

The new Quarterly Review opens with en instructive article by

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Sir Frederick Pollock on " Imperial Unity : the Practical Con- ditions," summing up in favour of an Imperial Cabinet with Dominion representatives and an Imperial Council or...