more record that no operations of importance have taken place, and this though there has been a good deal of fierce fighting. For example, the German wireless reports claim the...

undertaking the attack on the Dardanelles, even though it may Illeall the deflection of a certain amount of naval and military energy from other places. we do not fail to...

wonderfully rapid„,for the weather has been anything but favourable. During the earlier part of the week a stiff gale was blowing. Admiral Carden, indeed, was in the / position...

action at the Dardanelles on the Mediterranean and Balkan Powers, and the news since derived from Rome, Athens, Sofia, and Bucharest amply confirms our view. For the Powers in...

T EE advance made during the week by our naval force in the Dardanelles has been snout satisfactory. As we write our ships are engaged with the great group of forts at the...

Chief to handle his ships under conditions of gale and mist in these narrow waters with their rocky shores and swift currents, and with all the ordinary navigation problems...

cow case.

must not forget, however, that the German General Staff are a good deal more involved in the fog of war than they care to acknowledge. It is easy enough to say that they will...

fashionable race meetings during the continuance of the war, and have added a note expressing our agreement. We should like to say here also that, though we are in no way...

were to be cut off from all human aid and every merchant ship that dared to approach our ports torpedoed and sunk, has ended in what can only be called an amazing fiasco. In the...

than escape, witness the plucky action of the Newcastle steamer • Thordis.' Captain Bell when off Beachy Head last Sunday morning saw the periscope of a submarine. A torpedo was...

the most important announcements of the war when he described the new naval measures to be taken by Britain in response to the so-called blockade by German submarines. We have...

solely good. There seems little doubt that in the north, on the extreme of the Russian right wing, the German advance has not only keen checked, but that the Germans are...

Defence of the Reale' Act was in Committee, when the Government made various concessions. The principle is that civilians are not to be subject to martial law unless the...

spread over our military forces. It is not too much to say that there is no one in this country outside Lord Kitchener's immediate personal staff who now knows how many men are...

must record a splendid feat of arms accomplished on Wednesday by the French airman, Captain Happe. He dropped bombe on the great German ammunition factory at Rottweil in Baden...

forthcoming. Great as was the need for men, the need for war material was still greater. "This is an engineers' war." He did not wish to tell the enemy the state of our...

a summons to the Clyde engineers and their employers to resume work on the following Monday. It was pointed out that a serious situation in the production of war material was...

of Germany's answer to the American Note on the use of submarines against merchantmen, of unanchored mines, and of neutral flags. The German Government say that they would be...

Mr. Joynson-Hicks demanded much more drastic measures. Mr. McKenna replied that since November 11th control had been entirely in the hands of the War Office, and Lord Kitchener...

speeches of his life at Bangor. The urgency and solemnity with which be spoke about the labour troubles that were retarding the output of war materials were emphasized rather...

that a blockade of German East Africa would begin at midnight on February 28th—March 1st. The blockade includes the whole coast and the islands. Four days' grace was allowed for...

growing success of the new Welsh Guards. The life of the regiment formally began last Saturday, when more than five hundred men recruited for the Grenadiers took up their...

bought by a German-American) took an unexpected direction at the end of last week, when the vessel was seized in the Channel by a French cruiser and taken to Brest for the...

Aug. 8th.

Sturdee's action off the Falklands and Sir David Beatty's action in the North Sea. The facts are already well known, but we must mention one point. Admiral Beatty emphasizes the...

THE FUTURE OF CONSTANTINOPLE. W E sincerely trust that our Russian allies will not be perturbed by rumours as to the attitude of the British people towards the future of...

M R. BONAR LAW has a happy power of focussing public opinion in his speeches. He has never shown this power to better advantage than on Monday night. The country in general...

A FEW weeks ago Britain and the United States were drifting towards a very dangerous situation. The American grievance was that Britain was destroying the trade of the United...

T HE summary financial statement which Mr. Asquith presented to the House of Commons in moving for a Vote of Credit on Monday raises questions of supreme national importance. He...

W E are sorry not to see more support accorded to the suggestion made by Lord Roaebery and endorsed by i,ord Derby for the issue of a badge to the men who have presented...

O NE of the most marked features of life is its plotlessness. Just when things seem to be going to take a dramatic turn they do not take it. Instead the unexpected happens, very...

S HE was too beautiful and too idiotic for words. She had a fascinating smile of which only her close friends had fathomed the meaning. She would draw back her upper lip...

ASCOT IN WAR TIME. [To Toe EDITOR OP TIM ...SPECTATOR.") SIR, — There has been much discussion recently over the question of the Epsom Grand Stand. As to the rights and wrongs...

[To ens Enrroa He THE ‘. Sracrvroe."1 . 1 EIS.,--011every-side you hear people asking the same question How is it that the working .classes .do not realize the serious position...

..HMOTATOR."ll Sin,—May I trespass on your space to put in a plea for the general practitioner at tire present time? Many doctors have left their practices in the service of...

the ability to give you an idea of the heart- ache and eoul.hunger that possess many thousands of men and women to-day and the failure of the Church to satisfy their longing....

find the "simplified religion" he wants in the Church of England, if he will look not on the outward appearance but on the heart. The only religions principles which deserve and...

LT. Tan Eerron or Tux "Serc-rsron."1 Siu,—Your remarks on colds contracted by the use of huts interested me. Twenty-five pare ago, under the then Commander-in-Chief, Lord...

[To rem Enrron OF TUE " Serer...on:1 Sim,—As a reader of thirty years' standing, I have noticed with great interest your opinion on the Government's dye-ware scheme, and am not...

SIR,—I have read with much delight the timely letter of " Expectans" in your last issue. On some such broader and more liberal lines the Churches will have to proceed if they...

rro TEE EDITOR or cos nSrocnoroo."] Si,—Readera of the Spectator will, I am sure, have observed with regret the death of Mr. Frank T. Hellen at Madeira on the 26th ult., for...

me TOE EDITOR OF THE ..Bssrmos.'i SIP.,—I have only to-day received from my house in Italy, whither It had gone, the advertisement of a press-cutting agency enclosing "S. R....

[To Tee R.owon OF THE "SPROTATOR:1 SIB,—III your issue of the 27th ult. you give many pleasing examples of bird-sentinels in war times. You omit, however, the historic case...

the following lines may serve to excuse the nnluelry slip of thepen mono of your "News of the Week" notes last Saturday.—I am, Sir, Ste„ BCAMANDER. "Bunt duo rivorum madam...

Sea—In the Spectator of February 27th on p. 288 Alcibiades is said to have "lost the sea empire of Athens "—at Aegospetami—" on a gamblefs throw." 4 - 1-rate in his history in...

rTo ros EDITOR OP TEE "SPECTAT08,1 Sass—On reading your amusing article "On Commas," it has occurred to me that the writer may have been in his youth the school inspector who,...

birds good sentinels P I once spent a pleasant hour in Devizes Gaol with a notorious burglar. He told me that he had given up a well-planned burglary of a large house in...

pro lam Enrroa OF VIE .. 8EacrraTox."9 Son,—A review appeared in your columns last week of a book called A Journey to Nature. It is not stated that the book is an old one or...

[To Tun EDITOR or Tex "ErsoreTon."] Silt,—The Publishers' Association of Great Britain has on its own showing been unsuccessfully endeavouring since 1911 to bring about a...

Passinzwr ; LORD DESBOROUGH. Hoer. Sneeze - rear u PERCY A. HARRIS, Esq. HEAD OFFICES: Judges ' Quadrangle, Royal Courts of Justice (Carey Street entrance). The aims and...

[To THE EDUCE or Tun "SerorsTon.'1 Szn,—.Tuat before the outbreak of the war Viscount Bryce expressed the view that the provision of a wider and deeper education in...

[To Tux Eniyon or TER " Synorsros.") Szn,—I venture to tell you that I am very much obliged to yen for inserting my appeal for orders for Alpine and herbaceous plants to raise...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must NCI necessarily be held to be in agreement wills the rime therein expressed or with the mode of...

DIES 1RAE. PATIENCE a little niece and then the Day Which hurls us 'gainat the Foe in deadly strife. 'We know the price our Fathers had to pay That bought for us, their sons, a...

Fund should be sent to the Spectator Office, or direct to Messrs. Barclay and Co., Goslings' Branch, 19 Fleet Street, London, E.C. Cheques should be made payable to the...

PARIS WAITS.* MRS. CLARICE, an English resident in Path, has written a, diary of events from the eve of the war till Christmas. It is notable for its gracefulness, fine shades...

BULLS, as Mr. Percy remarks in the preface to his agreeable but somewhat chaotic, collection, are not an Irish monopoly, though the Irish bull generally has a peculiar quality...

and the United States which the two countries are celebrating this year did not open with much promise. The war of 1812 might easily have been avoided, and the Treaty which...

the Great Novgorod ?" So ran the mediaeval proverb which expressed the civic pride of the great trading city which laid the foundation of modern Russia. It was the people of...

THE world posiesses few books of this chum more entertaining or more valuable than the "truthful history of the Conquest of New Spain" which was written in his old age by Bernal...

Miss Utingiusitr.. has shown herself on previous occasions a learned and accomplished expositor of the mystical writers. In her present book she assumes the ride of preacher,...

TINDER the heading "The War of Purification Dutch- man's View" in the Nineteenth Century, Mr. I. I. Brants con- tributes a striking paper on the " Germanization " of Holland, •...

WITHIN TIIE TIDES.* MR. CONRAD'S stories, though they may never appeal to a wide circle of readers or enter into competition on the score pt • Wition Ore Tides. • Taloa by...

slender, and exists as the foundation for a good. deal of religious thought and conjecture.

on her important anthropological expedition into Siberia last summer, and gives a vivid account of her experi- ences in A Summer on Cie Yenesei (Edward Arnold, 10s. 6d. net)....

Schools (or grammar sehoola) in England dates only from the time of the Reformation. Apart, indeed, from Eton and Winchester, it is generally believed that no Public Schools...

[Natio* in it,, column does not necessarily preclude sutorquint roviina] The March number of the Round Table (Macmillan and Co., 2s. 6d.) contains as usual many thoughtfully...