THE BLACK M AN'S IN THE WAR.. Ste ArrorrArro GEDDES said day that, for every man in the Army who was actively engaged in fighting at a given moment, twentvfour men were 'hard...

'LONDON NOVEMBER 3rd, 1917.

Mn. Aesms Densest has composed a delightful miscellany, partly original and partly " conveyed " from other men's writings. It is the very thing for those odd quarters of an hour...

title of his book, for the problems with which he deals are, most of them, European. Some are more distinctively European than British. Yet since Great Britain has, under the...

ring, and finds expression in its little compass, than in any other bit of jewellery, however perfect and charming it may be. Is it that when we give or receive a ring the hopes...

Tux home customs, beliefs, and superstitions of the Balkans are almost as various as the peoples who-inhabit that disturbed part of Europe. Yet they have certain strong points...

A FEARFUL interest attaches to tide little book. In it the last chapter of Armenia's martyrdom is set forth. It is full of horrors, but they are not hearsay horrors. They are...

READERS of Mark Twain will remember how when Tom Sawyer was condemned to whitewash his aunt's garden fence, he induced his friends, by presenting the task to them in the light...

to the reader of the present volume is with the Diary of Samuel • TAs Diaries of Iwo Toldoo: rose, Pd. A, 1547.185.2. Translated from the Hun= by C • J. liesarth and A. sthth....

Imperial Obligittott, is a very moving picture by Louis Raemsekers, the famous Dutch cartoonist. It represents ono of the now pathetically familiar figures in hospital blue suit...

IT was inevitable that the people who owed instruction or comfort, or perhaps something still deeper, to Dr. Illingworth's writings should wish to know more of the man behind...

TnE object of this excellent volume is to advocate a reunion of the English-speaking peoples of the world :— " An Alliance of the United States with the British Common- wealth...

" THIS book sets forth from the author's wide experience with students of to-day the practical means of making the years of study pay dividends in spiritual and mental mastery."...

net), is a readable book, which begins with the history and development of the steam engine, and purses on to turbines, gas and oil engines, the petrol motor and the locomotive,...

CINEMA PLAYS. Cinema Plays. By Eustace Hide Ball. (Stanley Paul and Co. Is. 6d. net.)—Any one whose ambition it is to write a cinema play cannot do better titan study Mr....

Girl's Own Paper and Woman's Magazine, which is nearly as old (R.T.S., Is. Rd. net each), may once more be commended as attractive and wholesome reading for young people. The...

of Malory, The Romance of King Arthur (Macmillan and Co., 10s. 6{1. net), with many clever illustrations in colour and in black- and-white by Mr. Arthur Beckham. Mr. Pollard...

by A. Teixeira de Mattes (Hodder and Stoughton, 6s. net), is the sixth volume in English of the great French entomologist's writings, and is as interesting as any of the others....

FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. Sin Hmenv NEWHOLT has written another excellent book for boys —and for their sisters too—called The Book of the Happy Warrior (Longmana and Co., 6s. net). He...

Co., Is. Rd. net), has a taking title, mut proves to he a we]]-written collection of episodes familiar to the readers of Esquemeling. Sir Henry Morgan is given his due...

(T. Fisher Unwin. l2o. 6d. net.)—Mr. Butler has written an interesting account of Lapland, and of his travels there before the war, mainly for the benefit of the adventuress:,...

attractive and touching little book describes the work of the hostels which the Y.M.C.A. maintains In France for relatives and friends visiting soldiers who are dangerously ill....

on Belgian topics, appears an attraotive study by M. Henri Pavignon of Lc Soldat Beige Feint par liii.tninss (Paris : Van Oest, 70e.), which shows by soldiers' letters and:poems...

Barker. (J. Murray. 3s. 6d. net.)—This little book, a reduced and rearranged version of a Swiss collection of leading Germans' views on annexation, is well worth reading. The...

The Road and the Dm. By James John Ilissey. (Macmillan and Co. 10a. net.)—In hie-new book Mr. Iliasey describes a delightfully haphazard journey. " My plan of travel was to have...

and Wegnalle. Os. net.)—This interesting little volume is a record of the Allied Missions to America in the spring and early summer of this year, with an account of the...

Charnwood's important and valuable quarterly, Recalled-I:0.We (Bale, Sons, and Danielsson, Is. net), which is " devoted to the care, re- education, and return to civil life of...

gives much information about the commeroe and industry of Brazil at the present time, with some historical and geographical chapters. It is not generally known that the United...

Fetter Law, E.O. 4 ; sad Publiebed by Atreus Eglasoa.for the "SPECTAT04" (Limited), at WIC 0 Olos. - Iso. Welhatdoo Street (W.C. is the Ileum!. of the Savoy, Wend, In the County...

O UR Italian Allies have sustained a grave and unexpected reverse in the Julian Alps en their eastern front. Ten days ago they were holding tho whole Isonzo line—except round...

the Aisne front by pushing the enemy across the Oise-Aisne Canal. They captured during the five days of their offensive no fewer than 11,157 prisoners and 180 guns. The French...

Cividale last Saturday and Udine, which had been the Italian headquarters, on Tuesday. Meanwhile the main body of the Italian Second Army withdreW westwards, abandoning Gorizia...

Fleet in the Gulf of Riga last week bombarded two of the small Esthonian ports. No fresh landings were attempted, and the detachments which obtained a footing on the Verder...

billets and aerodromes in Flanders, have during the past week made four raids into Germany. Our airmen twice attacked the important railway junction at Saarbrucken, doing much...

successful offensive along the Isonzo from below Tolmino to the sea. Above Tolmino, to the east of the river, they held the lofty Monte Nero, but the enemy still held Tolmino...

front. In concert with the French, he attacked on a wide front on Friday week, from the Menin road northward to the swamps west of Houthulst Forest. The Canadians forced their...

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FOR TEE [Rnaimmeno s tin. WEEK ENDING SATURDIY, NOVEIIBER 3, 1917. Newnesene. f By Poss 01u. PosrsonAn5OSo I IA

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

later the 2nd Woreesters were withdrawn from the Ins to rent, there was a re- markable illustration of the intensityof LordFrench's appreciation of what had been accomplished....

de- feated in the Chamber on Thursday week by 314 votes to 96, and resigned. Its fall occurred on the morrow of the greet enemy offensive on the Isonzo, but was in no way...

the House be given to the officers and men of the Navy and the Army, of the forces from overseas, and of the mercantile marine, and that the House " doth acknowledge with...

worshippers, will be disagreeably impressed by America's readiness to spend her dollars on the war. The second Liberty Loan of £600,000,000 has been a triumphant success. Over...

Win- kelried, " gathered the spears of the Prussian legions into its breast and in perishing saved Europe." He praised the Territorials, who held the breach while the vast...

suggest that there should be a ceremonial recognition of Wednesday, October 31st, the anniversary of the critical day in the First Battle of Ypres. We have no doubt that this...

Ypres they had already run short of ammunition. Whether this be true or not, the number of their guns and the amount of ammunition they used were out of all proportion to our...

little for menthe past, has now dealt the Turks a sharp blow. On Wednesday, after a night march, his troops attacked Beersheba, the old town, twenty-five miles south-east of...

four smaller vessels by mine or submarine attack. In the previous week we had lost eighteen large and eight small ships. It is note- worthy that only one vessel is reported to...

crossing the South-East Coast. On Monday they were met and driven back by our air patrols before they could penetrate far inland. On Wednesday they came in relays to London,...

statement of policy in the Chamber on Thursday week. He declared that Alsace-Lorraine must be restored to France. Germany must be compelled to make reparation and restitution,...

attempt the recapture of Gheluvelt. There was an open gap of five hundred yards between the village and the South Wales Borderers, who had not retired and were holding on...

of the Franchise Bill which will legalize proxy voting at a General Election. Sailors and fishermen at sea and soldiers serving on stations so far distant that their postal...

say here that the new Vote is to supply the necessary funds up to the first week in January. Mr. Boner Law made a handsome acknowledgment of the great financial assistance which...

Admiralty, early in 1916, advocated an unrestricted submarine war, affirming that it would compel Great Britain to conclude peace within six months. Herr Hellferich, in a secret...

to pay landowners a royalty of ninepence a ton for petroleum found under their land was rejected by 44 votes to 35. The Bill vesting all discoveries of petroleum in the State...

of last weak, but has not been equally fortunate in solving it. Seiler Date, the Conservative leader, who brought the country through the industrial disturbances of August, was...

war upon her on Friday week. The President had drawn the attention of the Brazilian Congress to the fact that four Brazilian ships bad been sunk by German submarines and that...

in London, that Germany recently made an offer of peace to the Belgian Government, through a Belgian manufacturer who was sent to Paris by Baron von Lanoken, the German...

Mansion Howie on Thursday and Friday of last week to formulate a consti- tution for Ireland. Seventeen hundred delegates attended from twelve hundred Slim Fein clubs, which are...

moved a Vote of Credit for 1400,033,01). Though the financial figures which Mr. Boner Lsw passed in review were indeed alarming, he made them seem appreciably better than had...

April 5the

THE NEW BIRRELLISM. T HE New Birrellism appears to be a thing of more rapid and luxuriant growth than even the old. The Old Birrellism was always suggesting that the best cure...

T HE seriousness of the misfortune to the arms of Italy must at once be admitted. Even if the German state- ments are an exaggeration, the is no dispute about the fact that the...

O NE of the most curious political episodes in the war has been the determined support given by a good many British Liberals to the idea of maintaining the Hapsburg Empire after...

I N the course of last summer, as the result of what almost amounted to a revolt by independent members of the House of Commons, the Government consented to the appointment of a...

To All whom it may concern (and whom, indeed, at this Hoare concerneth it not ?) that do worthilie bear Armee or by bearing of them in the field be enfitulated to 'em in...

I T is no longer possible to take a bird's-eye view of life. Like a dog in a crowd, we must be content to follow our noses till destiny may deliver us. In ordinary times we do...

[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.] THE CLAIMS OF ITALY. ITo me...

strongly to support the excellent letter from Mr. A. E. T. Newinan which appeared in your last issue. He puts the case very clearly. The Bishop of Oxford's friends seem bent,...

(To Tat Hearse or rile SPECTATOR:1 Saa, —" Mernixi.oe," very interesting, if somewhat metaphysical, letter would have gained in lucidity if he had told us precisely what he...

[To me Earroa or rag " 9rcersros."1 Sts,—Will you allow a few words in reply to Mr. J. S. Little's letter, "A Word to Housewives," in the Spectator of October 206, in which he...

[To rue EDROM or Tee 8reeTATOIt."1 Sin,—In the twenty years during which I have been a reader of the Spectator I have learned to esteem its imperturbable temper of equity in...

able article on this subject in the Spectator of October 20th. The arguments in favour of this policy are so clearly net out in this article that it would he presumption on my...

(by Mr. J. S. Little) in your issue of October 20th entitled "A Word to Housewives" the writer suggests that women of the more prosperous classes, instead of crushing into the...

your correspondents curiously- twist or miss the point of my remarks, all of them indirectly give anpport to the niain purpose of my letter. Obviously, I am not so simple as to...

CTo THE EDITOE or ens " Semearet."1 SIR,—Your correspondent "L. L.," writing upon a League of Nations, stays: " Surely we shall by now be wise enough to distrust any League that...

Or THE " SPEOUTOR."1 Sla,—I ;shall be very glad if you con find room for the resolutions adopted on the Education Question at a numerously attendel meeting of the National...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTAT011."] 812,—Your espousal of Captain Bowen-Colthurst'e cause most appeal to all lovers of justice in Ireland, to whatever party they belong. I do...

[To THE Earros or THE " SPECTATOR...1 Sur,—In removing the covering papers from the bindings of some old volumes, parts of a Decree of the National Convention of France came to...

[To THE EDITOT or THE " SPEMTOR...] Sea,—May I be allowed to add to my previous letter the sugges- tion that the monthly magazine East and West, founded by Beramji Malabari, and...

[To ran EDITOE Or THE " &LEV/TOE...1 Sea,—The reviewer of Mr. Michael West's little book on education in Bengal (Spectator, October 20th) touched on some of the infirmities of...

[To IRE EDITOR or THE SPECTATOR. " ] Si,,—Until Boloism was lately exposed, I had never met the name except in the case of Miss Bolo, whom Mr. Pickwick found such an...

ITO TTIE EDTTOE OF THE EIPECTATOR...3 Sin,—The phrase " Who holds Hoathulst Wood holds Flanders " is flying about, and it seems to be generally attributed to Marl- borough. Can...

[To ran EDITOR or THE SPECTATOR.") Sm,—The most interesting church in Salonika was that of St. Demetrius, which, unfortunately, suffered considerably from the recent fire. The...

[To THE EDITOR OP Tat SPECTATOO."] SIR,—The writer of a letter on this subject in the Spectator of October 26th asks if the saying, " It's na along o' Colly Wes(t)on," has...

[To me EDITOR or ma fivzortroa."] tile, - 1 have noticed that you continually allow appeals to be made to your readers, who are numerous and scholarly, in refer- ence to...

[To TED Emma or TEE " drzersroa."1 Sta,—The recent publication of the Short Account of the Charity and Library Established under the Will of the late Rev. Daniel Williams, D.D.,...

[To THE Earroa or rsa " Sescrsvon."] SIR,—I think the following extracts from a letter describing the latest fighting conditions in Flanders might interest your eaders " They...

[To nu EDITOR or nu " flescrwroa."] Ste,—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's letter to you in your paper of October 90th on the subject of divorce and separation touches a question of the...

fTo rns Emma or THE " Serchtros."1 Sta.—Professor Haines in his list of what he designates as Tenny- son's false rhymes puts your readers somewhat at a disadvantage by not...

(To me EDITOR or rue "Setornos."1 Six,—Seeing a correspondent in the Spectator wishes for recipes for potato sweets, I enclose two excellent ones.-1 am, Sir, Rc., POTATO...

(To ran Emma or THE " Eleeernes.") Sin.—Regarded from the economical housekeeper's point of view, the reasoning of Mr. A. Blomfield's admirable letter on the barley question in...

(To ma EDITOR or THE " SP ECT ATOR." Sit,—In view of the fact that wherever one travels nowadays throughout the world there are thousands of men who regard the Army Young Men's...

[To THE EDITOS or ma Eine:ma:] Sta.—Amongst Landor's contributions to the literature of the Irish question, the following lines ought surely not to be for- gotten:— "Ireland...

[To THE EDITOR or THE 131•ECISTOR:1 Ste,--The fourth Christmas of the war is now in sight, but to the British prisoners in Germany or Turkey I fear its once merry chimes will...

[To THE Earros or sus Seecrasea.") Sra,—About a year ago I asked your help for a very admirable community for supplying surgical requisites for the wounded. Gratefully...

[To THE EDITOR or THE SPECTATOR."I should like to tell you about my tame rook. Whilst she was still a fledgling her parents found her too much of a handful nod east her out of...

TO ITALY. Time art the world's desired, the golden fleece, Of Time's adventurers faring down to Hell, Bat Helen's self dwelt not so far from peace Nor so beset since lofty...

I SAW a vision in the night, And through the clouds a misty light. Below me in the myrtle trees The leaves were rustling in the breeze. On horses red and bay and white The...

A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLAND.• WHEN we saw that Mr. Chesterton had written a History of England we made a fairly safe guess that, whatever other peculiarities it • A Shod Hialorg...

We 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...

name or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Com- municated," the Editor roust not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the...

years of residence in Oxford, has taken occasion by an address to the Oxford Society for Historical Theology to describe the changes which he Ices witnessed during that period...

MANY qualities in a writer go to the making of a Real War Book, the kind of book which brings home to those who play no fighting pare the work of those who do. The author must...

READERS of Blackwood will remember " Walter Greenway," the heroic spy and ex-prisoner, the story of whose marvellous exploits in Mesopotamia reached Mr. Robert Holmes (the...

THERE are some books which are a pleasure to many and some which are the delight of the few, Mr. Cook's book falls into both categories, for, while it will fascinate the smaller...

5s.)—A pre-war story concerning county and nouveaux riches intermarried families who live in Sussex.—The Frantic Boast. By Mrs. Victor Rickard. (Duckworth and Co. Os, net.)—The...

not nano:wily prellote seboeqnent rearm.] TOE NOvEMBER 310ETHLIES. — The Nineteenth Century contains a remarkable article written at Petrograd in June by Mr. John Pollock, which...

Tokyo, contains some plain speaking by Japanese writer. about Japan's relations with this country and with America. The editor of the Asahi Shimbun states that some Japanese...

Economy League's simple and practical Handbook for Housewives, by Lady Chance (2d.), now in its twenty-fifth edition, and to its new penny pamphlet on Potatoes and their Use in...

THE DWELLING-PLACE OF LIGHT.• TEE author of Coniston has chosen for the subject of his new novel the life of a New England manufacturing town, inhabited mainly by immigrants...

in good time for posting to our armiee far away oversee, a series of calendars and diaries which are well printed and contain the information that a Churchman needs throughout...

in 1908, has been thoroughly revised in a second edition just published by Messrs. Edward Stanford (21s. net). Koch of the eighteen provinces and the four dependencies is...