January 15, 1918. I D E X . FROM JULY 3rd TO DECEMBER 25th, 1915, INCLUSIVE. TOPICS OF THE DAY. A FRICA, German South-West, the Surrender of .. .. 69 Africa, South, the...

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Poland and Galicia, and the Germans have been thrusting forward. The papers speak, indeed, of two million Germans invading Russia under Marshal von Mackensen. The Russian...

in the Trentino and on the Isonzo, and have been able to deal successfully with all counter-attacks. It may be pre- sumed that by next week the German and Austrian reinforce-...

the Russians are likely to go on retreating, indifferent whether the retreat is, as now, on Russian soil or in Galicia, until they feel they have drawn the enemy on far enough...

F ROM the western theatre of war there is little to report. Fighting still continues north of Arras, but no great gain has been made. In other parts of the French line there has...

that all engaged did well, but that the chief factor in the success " was the splendid attack carried out by the 29th Division, whose conduct on this as on previous occasions...

Peninsula since the landing was issued by the Press Bureau on Wednesday evening and published in Thursday's papers. The communication, in effect, contains Sir Ian Hamilton's...

appealing to them for unity and co-operation in the work of crushing the enemy. After expressing his firm faith in the inexhaustible strength of Russia, he calls for unanimity...

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

Meanwhile the Washington correspondent of the Daily News says that Germany is planning a special submarine campaign. A statement, he tells us, is made in semi-official circles...

above has unfortunately during the last few weeks been greatly increased by our bogy-mongers here. Small States are naturally timid, and it is asking almost too much of human...

elsewhere, but may note here that it would save a certain amount of trouble to individuals and officials if the mobilized women members of Voluntary Aid Detachments were told...

Long in the Commons on Tuesday, for making a National Register. Here we need only mention the main principles of the measure. Its purpose is to register all persons, both male...

sentatives of Labour did not speak for the rank-and-file. He was informed that at the recent Conference one-third of the delegates voted against the proposals in the Ministry of...

sent to Wednesday's paper an interesting article on the conflicting emotions of the Balkan States. He is convinced that popular feeling in Roumania, Bulgaria, and Greece is...

the Leyland liner ' Armenian' by a German submarine. The vessel was bound from America to an English port, and encountered the submarine on Monday night when fifty-four miles...

Houston had said. When the Cabinet resigned the supply of ammunition to the Army in the field bad increased by over two hundred per cent. since last August, and this without...

of Munitions Bill. The debate was notable for the flue spirit in which the Labour Members as a whole pro- mised their support in producing ample munitions. Nothing could have...

of a considerable number of women, where hitherto their work had been prevented by Trade Union regulations, was contemplated, and if a woman did as good a day's work as a man...

papers of Tuesday a thrilling encounter in b e air between British and German aeroplanes. Two officers of the Royal Flying Corps, while reconnoitring in an aero- plane at a...

Times is not the mouthpiece of the British nation and the British Government. We admit that the Times has kept its head a great deal better than the Daily Mail, but...

of industry was on a false foundation, and that sooner or later the nation would have to pay for its unpro- ductive expenditure. He had a special warning for the men who control...

Aug. 8th.

correspondent, wrote of the astonishment with which he had learned that the Russians had been charged with atrocities in Galicia. While with the Russian troops he bad not only...

Wright the Lecomte triennial prize of £2,000 for Lis remarkable bacteriological work. The Times of Monday published from its medical correspondent some account of Sir Almroth...

the Guildhall on Tuesday to inaugurate a national campaign in support of the War Loan. The chief speakers were Mr. Asquith and Mr. Boner Law. A resolution, moved by the Bishop...

29th, gives some interesting figures in regard to recruit- ing in Ireland. In the last ten months, it tells us, Ulster has given forty-five thousand recruits to the Army and the...

BOGY-MONGERING. T HE last part we have ever desired to play is that of " soothers " or " smoothers " to the British people. Our files stand to show that during the past ten...

S EVERAL cross-currents have appeared lately in the domestio life of Germany, and they are well worth examination. We must not overstate their importance, for we know only too...

W E congratulate the National Government upon having taken the first and most essential step for arraying the nation, not merely for the fighting line, but, what is equally...

on Tuesday, which was addressed by the Prime Minister and Mr. Bonar Law, was announced as a prelude to a general campaign throughout the country in favour of thrift as a means...

lugubrious to bepublished seems to think that, because we are determined not to adopt the Mrs. Gummidge attitude, therefore we have not been aware of the need of prepara- tion,...

Eastern General Hospital" at Cambridge has already spread far, and we welcome an account of the origin, methods, and marvellous successes of this hospital by the Master of...

N EXT Tuesday will witness the quincentenary of the martyrdom of John Has at Constance. But for the war the event would have been appropriately commemorated both in Bohemia and...

S OME men only deal in virtue on a large scale. In every- day life they are perhaps rather selfish, rather careless in speech, rather apt to call retail scruple scrupulosity....

LT° rue ED/TOR OP Tun " SPIWTATOIL,"j San,—There is one privilege which an Englishman has which is not shared by any other European nation. That privilege is neither asked for...

NATIONAL REGISTRATION AND COTTON FOR EXPLOSIVES. [To Tar EDITOX or TUX " SPROTATOR."] SIR,—As one who has been advocating national registration as the first step towards the...

[To TII• EDITOR or TER "SrsorAroa.") SIR,—Sir Alfred Hopkinson recently announced, through your columns, the generous action of the John Rylande Library at Manchester in...

LTO TIIE EDITOR 07 TOR " talP/ICTITOR."] Sin,—The need which is arising for increased taxation for the current year will no longer be questioned when it is realized that, on our...

W. Paine'. letter in your issue of June 26th, perhaps you will allow me to give you another instance of the unfair way Super Tax is assessed. A man retired from business at the...

[To THE EDITOR OP TR! ..sramros."3 Srn,—Your note to my letter of last week describes my "ignorant and arrogant" remarks about our diplomacy as based on the "ill-informed...

[To nis EDITOR Or TIIl "Finecreros."1 SIR,—You have published several very interesting letters on the anomalies and inequalities of the Super Tax. Will you allow me to call...

[To TAA EDITOR Or TUX "SrsorsTon.") SIR, — May we bring to your notice an admirable work which has been started here lately by our British Vice-Consul of Montreux—M. Marcel...

[To THE Enron OF TIIE SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I venture to ask the hospitality of your columns to bring before the public the enclosed appeal, which even at this time, when the...

[TO Thr EDITOS OF TUB ' 1 SPXCTATOne .. ] SIR,—De-alcoholization is a subject which surely calls lot much more than a passing reference. If practicable and widely adopted, it...

[To THZ EDITO6 or Tag " Srurwron."1 Stn,—The letters you receive are incontestable testimony to the widespread distress experienced by Christian men in the painful and difficult...

[To THE EDITOR Or THg " SFECTATOR."J Sru,—The letter which Mr. Le Bas writes to you had already appeared in a well-known Liberal daily, with an addition implying that Mr....

SPECTATOR."1 SIR, — The article in your issue of June 19th on " Territorial Hospitals at Home" will be appreciated by the members of Voluntary Aid Detachments who are working ....

[To rut EDITOR OF THZ "SPICTATOISt"] SIR,—Your article on "Longs and Shorts" (June 12th) seems to invite contributions to its collection. Under the heading of " Shorts " (of...

[TO VIZ EDITOR Or THE "SPrOTATOR. 1 SIR,—May I trespass on your valuable space to ask if any of your readers could tell me (a) the correct rendering of the following lines ; (b)...

parson who died thirty years ago, when he was a young man once heard Robert Montgomery preach. I have heard him tell the story more than once, and he spoke of his own delight in...

at Cambridge what was called "tile Daily Telegraph version of Uncle Ned" was popular, and I well am:ember one who is now an ornament of the Judicial Bench singing it with...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE ”SPECTATOR.") Sin,—In the name of the French Wounded Emergency Fund we must express our grateful thanks to you and to the readers of the Spectator for the...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] BLE, — The systematic investigation of animal psychology has helped to throw a considerable light upon the mind of man, and the Spectator has...

[To TER EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin, — Will you allow me to say, with reference to the letter in the Spectator of June 26th under the heading of " Favourite Hours," the...

[To TVs EDITOR or TER "NrEcTATon."] you allow us to draw the attention of your readers to a movement approved by Lord Kitchener and the Army Council, already initiated with...

PRESIDENT: LORD DESBOROUGH. Hole. SECRETARY : PERCY A. HARRIS, Esq. fixtvn OFFICES: Judges' Quadrangle, Royal Courts of Justice (Carey Street entrance). The aims and objects...

ORDEAL BY BATTLE.* Mn. F. S. OLIVER has here submitted the causes of the war, the spirit in which both Germany and Britain conduct their affairs, and the relation of democracy...

writer's name 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...

0 NArurtn, we arraign thee now Because a smile is on thy face, And woodlands wear their wonted grace, And birds sing joy on every bough ; And nothing heeds the grief of Man,...

TO Tux EtOTOR or TUN "SPECTATOR."1 SIR, —In October last Miss Grace Ellison was entrusted by the French Government with the task of procuring three hundred fully trained British...

"SPECTATOX.'l SIR, —May I take this opportunity to thank those who have kindly sent books for the Dardanelles hospital at Alexandria, and at the same time may I ask that any...

HIS CHANCE ALWAYS cheery and loyal and keen, And never a slant of luck ; Egypt, Afridiland, Magersfontein, A wound and a fever, and still in the ruck. Never a cross for the...

4 Grand Trunk Road South, Howrah, India,, desires to thank the unknown donor who so kindly sends him a copy of the Spectator every week, which is very greatly appreciated.

be established, a discovery of a very important nature has been made. Nothing less will have come to light than the original version of Leonardo's portrait of Mona Lisa. The...

To the Bohemians " Austria is a government and not a fatherland." This is the gist of a new book about Bohemia which cannot fail of a wide public at the present crisis. Even...

the second half of Juvenal's line, feat indignatio versum, in so far as they express the burning patriotism and righteous wrath of a true son of Belgium. But M. Cammaerte was a...

airships in the present war "has come as a surprise even to their most convinced advocates." The brilliant exploit of Lieutenant Warneford- whose untimely death, by the irony of...

A FAR COUNTRY.* Tien emptiness of worldly success and its crushing effect upon the soul have been among the commonest themes alike of the artist and of the moralist since the...

Wm are glad to welcome another volume of an interesting series. In this book the technical learning of the writer is wrought up with so cunning a hand that the amateur may, with...

are two good things in The Raft. One is the character of poor Ocky Waffles, who "was like the jerry-built houses in which most of his life was spent : the angels who made him...

(William Blackwood and Sons. 6s.)—They are great folk, for the most part, who move through the pages of this "story of the nineteenth century "—the Marquess of Westshire, and...

course of lectures delivered by Professor Carl Meinhof and translated by Miss A. Werner, Lecturer in Swahili at King's College (J. M. Dent and Sons, 4s. 6d. net). The book is...

chosen by Dr. Norman Moore for this year's Redo Lecture at Cambridge (Cambridge University Press, 2s. net). The hospital was founded at the beginning of the twelfth century, and...

[Notice in this column does not necossavily preclude subsequent review.] The aboriginal inhabitants of Newfoundland have always been something of an ethnological mystery. From...

(Grant Richards. 6s.)—Miss Austin's , adventures in China were sometimes lurid, sometimes amusing. The book is delightfully illustrated by Mr. R. M. Crosby.-- The Consolation...

Greek world. Her early history—that is, down to the time of Alexander—is investigated by Miss A. G. Dunham in her History of Miletus (Hodder and Stoughton for the University of...

of The Clan Campbell has been made from the Sheriff Court Books of Argyll at Inveraray (Edinburgh: Macniven and Wenace, 21a. net). The work has been prepared by the Rev. Benny...