developed into one of the noblest and toughest fighting forces that the world has ever seen. The armies of the First Republic and of Napoleon could show no finer body of men...

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

been great, but it has been met with equal bravery on the part of the Russians, who have disputed every inch of the ground. What is most satisfactory is that the Russians have...

of ammu n i- tion, though things are going better than they were, but it is nothing to the shortage whicli existed at the beginning of the war. We merely did not feel that...

A YEAR has elapsed since the first war issue of the Spectator. We have tried elsewhere to say something in answer to the question. " How do we stand? " Here we only reply very...

nation's men of light and leading attended a solemn service in St. Paul's Cathedral to invoke God's help in the second year of the war. Throughout the country there were similar...

the Germans had occupied Warsaw. Writing without official confirmation we will only say that if the city has fallen the profit and loss account, when it is made up, will show...

shall find our superiority well maintained. Here, no doubt, we started ahead of our enemies, not behind them, and therefore we cannot expect that the change should be relatively...

case.

of the Dominion of Canada. His speech, which showed a finely tempered spirit throughout, will, we trust, be read throughout the nation and the Empire. Unfortunately our space...

satisfactory. We have made.a slight advance, but, what is more important, the Turkish oonater-attacks have shown very little deter- mination. In this connexion we may mention...

to our cotton policy. A correspondent of the Times recommends that in order to clarify the situation and strengthen our own position we should, to begin with, declare cotton...

at the London Opera House in a speech which will not easily be forgotten. After dwelling upon the great services of the British Fleet, not only to ourselves, but to all the...

of the Imperial Demo, called to consider the present crisis, show that Russia remains "unshaken, unseduced, unterrified." As the President finely put it in the closing words of...

the chief pressure was from the north, and that on the Narev front the German troops were fighting desperately to deecend upon their prey. Again, on the west front of...

the week renewed attempts on the part of the Crown Prince's army to advance, but these have all been checked. In the British section of the line there has been fierce fighting...

expect to do better than—their fellow Guardsmen will be the earnest and confident hope of all who know and have seen anything of this fine battalion. The distinguished soldier...

In the Sea of Marmora one of the British submarines torpedoed a large steamer off Mudania Pier and a small steamer, probably a gunboat, close to Karabogha Bay. Lighters were...

on August 3rd the British, French, Russian, and Italian Ministers at Athens called upon the Premier and made to him collective representations, their object being the settlement...

Guards. The ceremony took place in the courtyard of Buckingham Palace. The King's speech was singularly felicitous. After mentioning his pleasure that a regiment raised in the...

the desperate Austrian efforts to regain the lost ground in the Cars° plateau have all proved failures. It is quite possible that we may hear of the faIl of Gorizia in a week or...

Edward Grey observes "there will be no substantial interference with the trade of neutral ports except in so far as they constitute ports of access to and exit from the enemy...

article entitled "A Year of Naval Warfare," glorifying the achievements of the German and be- littling those of the British Navy. To this Mr. Balfour has replied in a letter...

Edward Grey and the American Ambassador on the British blockade of Germany were published in Wednesday's papers. On July 16th the American Ambassador wrote that his Government...

charaderistie telegram addressee by the Kaiser to his sister, the Queen of Greece, but evidently designed for Balkan consumption: "My destructive sword has crushed the Russians....

laying was not a very glorious method of warfare, though perfectly fair when used against warships. The only new thing in the German use of submarines was their employ- ment...

a still closer alliance with Japan, were repeated by the Ministers to the Council of Empire. It should be added that speakers of all parties welcomed the renewed declaration of...

of the Baltic and Black Sea Fleets against superior numbers and the increased activity of the workshops and factories. Equally reassuring was the statement of M. Bark, the...

of Surrey, now numbering about twelve thousand men, took part on Bank Holiday in a most interesting field day on Eanmore Common, under the command of General Sir Josoeline...

8th, 1914.

WARSAWAND RUSSIA, O N Thursday afternoon the German wireless news announced the occupation of Warsaw. Official con- firmation is lacking as we go to press, but in any case it is...

E are not going to weary our readers with another digest of the first year of the war. They have had plenty of such epitomes in the daily papers—many of them quite excellent...

Century an article of striking value which he calls "The Industrial Factor in the War. " His qualifications to write upon this subject are well known. He has studied industrial...

the cause of the Allies in a book, The Evidence in the Case, which has already been reviewed in these columns, has developed in an actual Court of Justice some important and...

in part by any newspaper desiring so to do, provided that the usual acknowledgments are made as to the original publication by the " Spwrivron."3 TT is far more difficult to...

M OST men offer conditional forgiveness to those who have offended them personally. The condition is an apology. There are a few rancid characters before whom a man if he...

I N fighting several common weeds that occur in my garden I have conceived a profound admiration for their persistence and vitality. Of these the first is the wild garlic or...

THE TURNING-POINT IN GERMANY'S HISTORY. [TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") have read the illuminating article under the above beading in your number of July 31st with the...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") have just taken up my weekly Spectator with the usual keen interest of its intelligent and thoughtful articles. and I see the first...

[To TRIM EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] San,—The best summary I have ever seen of that feature of Trade Unionism which Mr. Lloyd George on July 28th spoke of in the House as...

[To TIER EDITOR OF TOE "ETECTILTOR. ° ] Sin,—In the article on the "Problem of Public Assistance' in the Spectator of July 81st you refer to the abuse of the maternity benefit...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOTC.1 SIR,—In your issue of October 10th last year you published a letter of mine entitled "The Biological Effects of Voluntary Enlistment." The...

pro THE EDITOR Or MS "BriteTATos.'l SIR,—The day for large sums having passed, we have now to think how we can get at the smallest purses. I suggest that tho following plan...

{TO THE EDITOR OR TH1 " SPECTATOR.") SIR, —Are we in earnest P Do we really wish to win F Do we indeed desire to right the hideous wrongs done to our friends and neighbours as...

Sin,—You cannot be accused of being a pessimist, and you will, I am sure, be pleased to accept a correction of a state- ment in your• issue of July 17th, which is worthy of the...

folloWing extract from a letter of a young subaltern may be of interest, and confirms all written under the beading of " God's Strong People " in your issue of July 24th. After...

[To THE EDITOR OF Till "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—May I through your columns call the attention of those whom it concerns to the fact that there are a considerable number of district...

Sun—Mr. H. E. Morgan, in advocating economy, says we must develop every foot of land. That would surely be the best possible kind of economy—not merely the most careful use of...

"SPECTATOR!'] SIR,—Try as I will this question stares me in the face. I have just read the Daily News and Leader (being the only available newspaper for me) of July 31st. I...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Viorld the following not have found its way to English friends already (it has come to me via Switzerland) it may serve to show the...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —The writer of "The Pacificiet Vision in America" in your number of July 24th has the gift of thrilling quotation; and I for one thank...

(To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Referring to the letter in your issue of July 10th, offering hospitality to convalescent officers who are so situated that they cannot...

ITO THE EDITOR OF THE "Sriceurom."J Sra,—We should like to thank you for so kindly inserting our appeal in the Spectator of July 24th on behalf of Raine's School, who are doing...

rTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Hymn-books, more is the pity, are no authority on this subject, editors in general having been unmindful of the anticipatory warning...

pro THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' Sin,—We are constantly finding that Shakespeare can be oppositely quoted on almost any event that takes place. But it is also noticeable that...

I enclose £1 for Industrial Reeerve, especially for Raine's School.—I am, Sir, &a.,

[To SHE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—" B.'s" letter in your last issue recommending " bul- rushes " or "rushes," or ,Arundo Phragmites, as a substitute for hay when summer...

OP THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—As I was looking through the Spectator last night I came across the appeal for Poland, and the thought struck me, " Why not a Poland Book ? " We have...

connexion with the love of song evidenced by the German soldier of to-day, the following lines from the Him. pogon, or Beardhater, of the Emperor Julian seem to me to be of...

[To THE EDITOR OF TIIIC "SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—As we are all looking forward expectantly to the work shortly to be performed by our "bantam battalions," it may be interesting to...

[To THE. EDITOR OP THE . srserAroa.”] SIR,—It may be of interest to call attention to the fact that this question was raised in the July to December volume of Notes and Queries,...

[To TUE EDITOR 07 TIM "SPECTATOR.") Sut,—Permit me to say, in reference to the letter of Mr. James Baker in your last issue, that be is mistaken as to the Rev. A. H. Wratislaw...

again for several months I have asked my fellow-rankers in and out of hospital the following question: Which do you like best—the V.A.D. Hospital or the Regular Military...

ere THII EDITOR OF TH1 " EIZZOTAT011."1 SIR, —May I add one word to the correspondence on the subject of the V.A.D. nurses and their recognition by their professional sisters P...

[To TRZ EDITOR OP TER "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It is a great pity that other newspapers have not followed your example in laying stress on the probability that men who are " fetched "...

sincerely the treatment which V.A.D. nurses in hospitals occasionally receive from the staff, it is only fair to take into consideration the trials of the trained nurses at the...

THE ONLY SON, WHO'LL love and comfort you, mother of mine, Should I never return and be killed in the war P If you've died like a man as your father before Then you'll live in....

PRESIDENT LORD DESBOROUGH. How. SECRETARY : PERCY A. HARRIS, Esq. HEAD OFFICES: Judges' Quadrangle, Royal Courts of Justice (Carey Street entrance). .11•■■••■•■1 The aims and...

rTo THE EDITOR. OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin, — What think you of the following from the Nineteenth Century for July, p. 169, where the writer speaks of " the pre- ventive of...

VENICE.* THE entrance of Italy into the Great War makes specially appropriate the publication of a new and revised edition of Hazlitt's Venetian ,Republic. The late Mr. William...

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 the mode of...

WHEN the primitive savage of the economic text-books left off bartering deerskins for arrowheads, and took to exchanging goods for cowry-shells and cowry-shells for goods, be...

for publishing a collection of "fragments." He is anxious to protect himself effectively against a terrible temptation—the temptation of talking about himself. For the time is...

BARON DE KUSRL, in spite of his foreign-sounding name and title, glories in the fact that he is an Englishman. He was born in Liverpool in 1848 and educated at Cheltenham. In...

SINCE the beginning of the Great War we have come, most of us, to look on the Mexican insurrection as an affair which is past and over, a rather trivial matter after all. It...

WITH " The Industrial Factor in the War," by Dr. Arthur Shadwell, which is rightly given the place of honour in the new Nineteenth Century, we deal in another column. For the...

SALUTE TO ADVENTURERS.* Mn. BUCHAN is a writer with many strings to his bow, ranging from such awe-inspiring subjects as the taxation of foreign income to eerie or crepuscular...

is strange now to read a novel of the Boer War, but Miss Southey's story is spirited and happy.--A Lady of Russia. By Robert Bow- man. (William Heinemann. 6s.)—The interest of...

[Notice in this eau= does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] The Dublin Review. (Burns and Oates. 55. 6d. net.)—The July issue of the Dublin Review contains a...

Address for the English Association a remark onto made to him by George Meredith : " Concentration and suggestion, Colvin, concentration and suggestion, those are the things I...

Frederic Hamilton. (Eveleigh Nash. 2s. 6d. net.)—We have found it exceedingly difficult to determine to our satisfaction the relative proportions of fiction and fact in Lord...

is. net.)—Sergeant Michael Cassidy possesses the happy power of repartee, which reached its zenith in the days of the horse omnibus; but in his telling of stories, as in all...