FROM JANUARY 5th TO JUNE 29th, 1918, INCLUSIVE. TOPICS OF THIS DAY. A C QUISITION of Land, the ......300 Air council, the New a America and the Self-Determination of...

resolute attempt to retake Jerusalem. One Turkish corps attacked from the north along the Nablus road, while another corps attacked from the direction of Jericho. The London...

week were heavier than they have been for some time past. We lost sixteen large vessels over 1,600 tons and three small vessels, as against twelve large vessels and one small...

in his Annual Report, summarized in Wednesday's Times, some of the immense activities of his Department, which, it is common knowledge, has already yielded great assistance to...

T HE nation enters upon the New Year with good omens and in much better spirits than were observable a few weeks ago. We have remarked before now that the rise and fall of...

nation, asking all civilians to do their utmost for the cause, just as our men are doing their utmost on the sea or on the battlefield. " No sacrifice that we who stay at home...

last Sunday. He advanced on a front of two miles against Welsh Ridge, and effected a lodgment on our right and our left. In the course of the day he was expelled by our...

undisturbed during the week, have given the Austrians in Italy the first taste of their quality. Last Sunday, after a furious bombardment, the French stormed and captured Monte...

were mined or torpedoed in a fog off the Dutch coast on the night of December 22nd. Thirteen officers and one hundred and eighty men were lost in this unfortunate affair,...

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

the French Chamber on Thursday week that he could not recognize the Petrograd Anarchists as a Russian Government They had negotiated with the enemy, before consulting the...

Westminster on Friday week, accepted the Memorandum on War Aims drawn up by the Parliamentary Committee of the Trade Union Congress and the Executive Committee of the Labour...

reserve, addressed a National War Aims meetingat Carlisle last Satur- day. The aim of thisavar, he said with Aristotle, was peace. Events , had fully justified us in going to...

having allowed Russia to collapse, when Labour delegates at Stockholm might perhaps have talked her into sanity. He suggested -that- the Allies should have tried to detach...

not only must the 1919 class of conscripts, who will be nineteen this year, be prepared for active service, but two classes of old conscripts who had been released must be...

The bank officials have gone on strike, and trade will presumably come to a standstill for want of money. The elections for the Constituent Assembly are still far from complete,...

Russian Anarchist peace movement by making wholesale arrests among the leaders of the Independent Socialists, the only Germans who have any sympathy with Lenin and Trotsky. The...

proved too much even for the Petrograd Anarchists to swallow. Trotsky on Wednesday told his followers that if Germany did -not " loyally consent to the free disposal of the...

made by Count Czernin at Brest-Litovsk on Christmas Day. He said that the Central Powers were in favour of " an immediate general peace without forcible acquisitions of...

the governing condition of an Allied surrender to the German formula, the enemy did not mean " to appropriate forcibly " the occupied territories, or to " rob of their...

matters which would have to. be settled in the event of a general 'peace. As for the occupies territories, the Anarchists proposed.ethat the Russians:should -evacuate Galicia,...

turist Mr. Jesse Collings is President, has sent us a loaf partly made of potatoes " for review." We are so enchanted with the loaf, both to look at and to eat, that we wish to...

part of the British Museum for the use of the Air Board. Ths collections are to be removed to make room for Lord Rothermere's clerks and girl typewriters, for whom the Hotel...

better than the ordinary bread we have lately been eating ; and it was made by a working man, not a professional baker, and baked in an ordinary cooking range in a country...

demanded compulsory rationing so as to assure to each person, rich or poor, his fair share of the available foodstuffs. The resolutions adopted contained the plan which Lord...

food distribution which the local Food Control Committees may adopt, so that each family may have a fair share of the available supplies of butter or margarine and tea. The...

for about three- quarters of an hour in a warm place, covered as before. Next cut it up into loaves of the desired weight. Mould these on a board. Leave them for about...

IS reported in his first interview to have criticized our Censorship very severely, while at the same time disclaiming any such intention. " The moral of a nation at home is...

new cers, six Privy Councillors, twenty Baronets, and fifty-one Knights. The New Year Honours List was very long, including four new cers, six Privy Councillors, twenty...

the Prime Minister's letter, which was read at the opening of the Conference. Mr. Lloyd George pointed out that a statement on war aims must be made by the Allies as a whole. He...

April 5, 1917.

THE CONSCRIPTION OF CAPITAL. T HE Conscription of Capital is the subject of more con- fused thinking than any other at present before the public. We shall only deal very shortly...

I F the Russian Bolsheviks should continue their negotia- tions with the German representatives at Brest-Litovsk on the lines hitherto followed, the proof would be absolute that...

O N Thursday the new Air Council came into existence, presided over by Lord Rothermere. This was an important day in the history 'of Flying, for by the creation of a new...

gas for lighting and heating purposes, and incidentally they have succeeded in extracting from the coal numerous by-products, some of which are of very great value. But the...

r 1 IRE Church of England is being urged by strong sections of her Communion to reorganize her constitution, and frame a system of representative government. The...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fit/ treble the space.] MR. LLOYD GEORGE AND HIS...

" T HIS inconvenience just serves to show what people are made of," said a girl in a large provision-store to the present writer. " I have every opportunity now to know the...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—The Spectator happily does not account it to be mortal sin in its readers to differ from some of its judgments. I find myself in...

of the clergy of the Diocese of Oxford on December lith to elect a Proctor to the Lower Homo of Convocation, the Vicar of Cowley St. John, Oxford, proposed a resolution...

your issue of December 22nd entitled " The Meaning of the Hereford Controversy " seems to have been written under two misapprehensions. May I correct them? In the first place,...

" SPECTLTOR."3 country friend sends me the following MS. addition from an old family copy of The Pilgrim's Progress:— " Now while Christian was thus shrewdly beset with...

for your " leader " upon the " Hereford Controversy." and for the sane, clear-sighted criticism of the " Life and Liberty " movement therein contained. Some weeks ago you...

of your articles relating to this movement in the Spectator of December 22nd I was puzzled by the sentence : " We ought in fairness to say hero that the opponents of the ` Life...

view of Count Czernin's opposition to the passage in the Russian peace offer concerning the "self-determination of subject nationalities," it is unfortunate that this principle,...

Church Times who are also readers of the Provincial Lettere of Pascal can scarcely fail to have noticed the parallelism between a passage in the leading article in that journal...

(To ME EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sea,—By all means let those, who can, work for a union on the lines suggested by the Rev. Robert Bewick. But with the echoes of the Kikuyu...

six months, please advise which of the following methods is the best to adopt in the national interests: (1) Borrow from a bank the amount and invest it in War Stock, then pay...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECEATOR.V] have read with much interest the article with reference to our fish supplies in the Spectator of December 22nd. It has taken a long 'war,...

[To THE ED/TOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Are not many so-called incapacities and detects really due to mere carelessness? This, I think, is true of unpunctuality, and of the...

THE " SPECTATOR."] SIRS I enclose copy of a letter that has been sent to all land- holders in Surrey by the Chairman of our Executive Committee, who is himself a practical...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—In order to finance the war all in the country, rich and poor, should be obliged to invest at least from ten to fifteen per cent. of...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR...1 SIR,—In view of certain erroneous statements which have appeared in a portion of the British Press with regard to the 'lumbers and age of...

SIR,—The writer of the racy article on " Common Incapacities " tells something of the evils of procrastination, or unpunctuality. There is an opposite evil—from which I...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") notice in the Spectator of December 22nd a letter by Miss Constance Miles in which she contradicts a statement by one of your correspondents...

[To nut Enrroa or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—In a paragraph in the Spectator of last week you make a very kindly allusion to Lieutenant Joseph Lee, the author of Ballads of Battle...

[To ma Enrroa or THE " Sperm"] &H,—Permit me to call attention to the following passage in that fascinating book of Colonel Meadows Taylor, The Story of My Life:— "My assistant...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In a letter by me that appeared in the Spectator of December 22nd, either from my careless writing or by a printer's error, I am made...

[To THE EDrroa OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It was notorious before the war began that the King's Bench Division of the Irish High Court of Justice was overmanned. The High Court...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sna—Would you allow a "mere naval officer" a word in support of the much-abused Public School system of education? Com- menced in 1913, the...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The letter of your correspondent on the opening line of Canto VII. of the Inferno recalls to me a discussion I had in Malta on this...

Ws 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...

THE STRANGER. (1918.) Is shadowy council, see, they sit, The old, old Years that once drew breath, The Years of Pericles and Pitt; Of Pharaoh and Elizabeth, Of Cromwell,...

year when the war broke out, a man of letters, happy in his country home and his garden, enlisted in September, 1914, served in the ranks for a few months,. received a...

SOME HAWARDEN LETTERS.* This book deserves a more attractive name. To any one whose memory reaches back twenty or thirty years, the mention of letters written to, or from,...

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...

and substantiated of late by Mr. Altschul. against a great number of the elementary historical text-books used in American schools cannot be laid to Dr. Chamiing's charge. Of...

THE writer of this book is a German who has spent many years abroad, chiefly in South Africa. He hastened home on the outbreak of the war, to join the colours, but was invalided...

and Co. 15s. net.)—This interesting book, written by a travelling scholar of the University of California from a study of the Spanish documents at Seville, describes fully and...

THE SETONS.• PLEASANT memories of " O. Douglas's" first book, Olivia in India, encouraged the hope of further favours from her pen, and they have been more than fulfilled in...

series of sketches, of which the first is the most interesting. It is a spy story of life in Brussels.— Come In. By Ethel Colburn Mayne. (Chapman and HalL 6s.)— The first story...

Wolice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsepteal testes Taz JANUARY MONTHLIES.—The Nineteenth Century publishes an interesting and thoughtful ode in blank verse,...

M. Hesilrige (Dean, 45s. net), has to record an unusual number of changes and additions, arising mainly out of the war, from the alteration in the name of the Royal House and...

Biological Association (Dulau, 3s. 6d. net), the Director, Dr. E. J. Allen, has an instructive paper on " Food from the Sea," which bears out, to some extent, the arguments of...

by C. H. Horford. (Chatto and Windus. 12s. 6d. net.)— This fine volume, a small quarto printed at the Florence Press in good type and with broad margins, contains Sholley's...