- would sacrifice a great deal to keep it in office; we are not blind to the Posrson ABROAD ID. fact that the present situation has a good many difficulties, and that it behoves...

much mistaken the German offensive is doomed to grow weaker and weaker. Movements like the great assault on Verdun, if they are to succeed, must succeed in the first three or...

very alluring picture. " X " might indeed be pardoned if he declared that if his supporters had nothing better to say of him than this, they had better cut out the eulogy "...

an ex- tension of the policy of compulsion, and the sooner this is recog- nized the better. To say that compulsion has failed because the number of compelled men is not going to...

supposed pledge by Mr. Asquith to resign rather than extend the field of compulsion. We confess that that is not how we read his words. And we note that the special stress which...

the King's Government must be carried on, and carried on in accord with the developments of the military situation. If there are certain members of the Government not willing to...

T HE air during the past week has been full of rumours as to the possibility of the break-up of the Ministry. We have heard of" audacious intrigues" to overthrow the Coalition...

any case.

our readers can help us to meet the Paper Famine is by informing the Newsagents, Booksellers, or Railway Bookstalls from which they are accustomed to purchase their paper that...

? Since even the Germans cannot go on losing a hundred thousand men a month, and that is what they would have to do if they did not break off at Verdun, what is likely to be...

by Mr. McKenna in the House of Commons on Tuesday —but must record here its chief facts and figures. Mr. McKenna estimates that the net revenue next year will be £502,000,000....

splendid act of generosity and public spirit by the King, which was announced in Monday's newspapers. The King, through the Keeper of the Privy Purse, has placed a gift of...

not imposed upon commodities of all kinds entering our ports. That would have acted as a check on imports, and so have relieved freights, and at the same time there would have...

to obtain a new revenue of £21,800,000. He expects to get £5,000,000. a year by an Amusement Tax—i.e., a tax of the kind we have so often advocated in these columns on the fees...

that the- Ministry have not made a better use of the incident. We should have thought that what they ought to have done was to ask the King to allow them to make his act the...

line with the Income Tax payer, and generally with what we may call the rich man's taxes, we cannot help feeling somewhat disappointed. that he did not enlarge his field of...

to bring in £800,000 a year. Up to sixteen horse- power the licence duty is to be doubled ; over sixteen horse-power it will be trebled. In the case of motor-cycles the tax will...

to the normal Income Tax of Is. 6d. in the pound. This makes the normal rate for the future 5s. in the pound. Owing, however, to the system of abatements, earned incomes up to...

the Zeppelins, and a fine feat was performed by Lieutenant Brandon, R.F.C., who at 9,000 feet got over a Zeppelin and dropped bombs on it. Being doubtful of the effect, he...

tho end of last week by strong military preparations. Officers and men on leave were recalled. The Government kept their own counsel and wild rumours spread. It was said, for...

by the King to General Townshend at Kut on February 14th: " I, together with all your fellow-countrymen, continue to follow with admiration the gallant fighting of the troops...

Zeppelins approached the coast. Only one arrived over England, the other having turned back. This one Zeppelin killed sixteen persons and injured about a hundred. Eight houses...

on Friday week, had an extraordinarily enthusiastic reception wherever he appeared during his stay. The visit was described as "private," but that did not prevent Londoners from...

activity of the King of Spain in conducting searches for missing persons (whether soldiers or civilians) in the invaded territory, and in providing for the repatriation of...

Zeppelin raids. The first was on the night of Friday week. The Zeppelins were organized in two squadrons and one detached ship. The two squadrons visited the Eastern Counties,...

He is the first British Prime Minister to be received officially by an Italian Prime Minister, and we trust that the bond of sentiment which has long bound Britain to Italy will...

official notice issued on Thursday and published in the evening papers of that day, "a Zeppelin attacked the North-East Coast about 9.50 p.m.," and was driven off by the fire of...

welcome news that a German submarine was sunk on Wednesday "by an Anglo- French flotilla." The officers and crew were taken prisoners. Though this is the first official...

powder factory in Kent by which two hundred casualties were caused. A fire broke out by pure accident, as the official account says, and the explosions were the result.

8th, 1914.

" PER MARE, PER TERRAS, PER COELUM." ".1 :111Y sea, by land, by air." The past week, in spite of 1 , the air raids, has not been one of capital events in any of the theatres of...

I N all combats, whether they be those of the prize-ring or the battlefield of warring nations, there is nothing more important than to daunt your enemy. In the last resort war...

the Clyde, which had been hinder- ing the work of the munition shops for more than a year after a settlement had nominally been reached, offer a more hopeful prospect to-day...

into the House of Commons on Tuesday last does credit to himself, to his colleagues in the Cabinet, and, above all, to the country. Every citizen of the United Kingdom is...

TN this issue of the Spectator we are compelled to bring to an end the correspondence on the subject of the conscientious objector. But before the subject is dismissed We should...

T HERE is a personality about buildings—an aura that WO feel the instant we go in. That there should be such a spiritual atmosphere pervading a house is natural. The character...

[CODDIUNICATED.] T HAVE made what I believe is a great, and possibly a very I_ important, discovery. I believe that, in spite of the large amount of apparently good evidence to...

Em,—I am sure that, with your sense of justice, you will allow me to claim that the first begetter of the idea of a Via Sacra from Switzerland to the sea was my friend A....

[TO TELE EDITOR OF THE SPROUT/n..1 p. 27 of Mr. Spender's Foundations of British Policy (1913) we mad: "1 have seen no satisfactory answer to the careful argument by which Sir...

[TO TER EDITOR or sag " EincrATOR."1 Sra,—We are certainly a nation slow to move, and though we may eventually "get there" all right, it will only be by balling and painful...

THE "VIA SACRA." ITo THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.'1 SIR,—I have just been reading an article in your last issue about the ia Sacra. The name, the whole idea, came from my son,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR.'] Snt,—The following General Order, written by Lord Collingwood after the victory of Trafalgar, shows forth the spirit of those great men who...

THE " SPECTATOR?'] Sin, — As an example of light-heartedness in the trenches, you may perhaps see your way to print the enclosed. It is one of a series of letters from my...

any of your readers keen enough recollections of Thucydides to be struck by the curious parallelism between the ghastly fate of Belgium and that of unhappy Melos in the war...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—It is impossible for the Spectator, or indeed for any other journal, to record even typical examples of all the remote and, unheralded...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Are not the following words of Dr. Martineau (in a review on the Ethics of Christendom) worthy of our careful consideration at the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIII,—If Mr. G. C. Armstrong's letter in your issue of March 4th means anything, it means that Christ has...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SI11,—Perhaps you will kindly allow me the use of your columns for a suggestion. It is touching to see the bravery of our soldiers, and the...

[To TPIE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR-"1 SiR,—I see from the papers that all men attesting under Lord Derby's scheme, and also all men engaged on war munitions work, receive badges...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Your correspondent Mr. J. Crichton, of Edinburgh, does public service by raising this question. It is not satisfactory that those who...

[To TUE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Fin,- --In your interesting article (Spectator, March 25th) on maps you suggest that the Public Schools do not teach geography on the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' Sre,—In my letter on the late Mr. Stopford Brooke I fell into an error in speaking of him as being curate at Kensington to Dr. Meclagan. I...

ITo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR?') Snt,—The notices of Mr. Loftus H. K. Bushe-Fox, the well-known oar, which have lately appeared, have been mainly concerned with the...

1To THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR.'J Srn,—May we call the attention of your readers to the fourteenth Vacation Term for Biblical Study, which will be held this year at Oxford...

SIR,—From the correspondence in your columns and elsewhere it is evident that the capital complaint against Quakers and other conscien- tious objectors is that they are mean...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'J Sin,—By the " cables " it is said that you have recanted on Free Trade and advocate a 10 per cent, ad valorem duty and preference to...

BELGIUM.* ON August 4th, 1914, the German Chancellor made a singularly out. spoken and truthful statement in the Reichstag, for which he was severely criticized by the Press in...

(Died of wounds in France, March 9th, 1916.) WE met upon the stressful day of war, I read you and I loved you as I road ; I saw ahead the day I'd love you more. Thought never...

NO MAN'S LAND. No AtAles LAND is an eerie sight At early dawn in the pale grey light. Never a house and never a hedge In No Man's Land from edge to edge, And never a living soul...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Communi- cated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode...

particular value which belongs to no other yet published about the early fighting in the war. He hal not only described the immortal work done by the first seven divisions of...

equal part. During the first half, till he was forty-eight years old, he was unknown beyond the very limited public interested in the affairs of the Hudson Day Company. Ho went...

Blume FRODSHAM has gathered together some of the articles he has contributed to magazines and newspapers, and the result is a volume which, he tells us, gave him pleasure to...

Ova of the liveliest of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch's lectures on The Art of Writing, recently reviewed in these columns, is that in which he examines the false prose or " jargon "...

Ix the Nineteenth Century Professor Hearnshaw insists on the dangers of a premature peace, with special reference to the Baltic. He bases this view on " the awful sequel to the...

THERE is a tradition current in Dublin of an American visitor who summarized his impressions of that city on the correspondence portion of a picture-postcard, thus : "Teems of...

A GREAT SUCCESS.* Man. Humeastir WARD'S new novel, which is rather a long short story than a full-length romance, is primarily and essentially concerned with a duel between two...

[notice in flat e)litmo (t )es 713: ace;utriti prc I sul•stritn! reties] Oar Fond Supplics. By eh:islet:her Tumor. (County Life Offices. 23. fid. net.)—Few of England's...

ledge. 258. net.)—This is really a dictionary or catalogue, for few persons reach the distinction of two lines to their biographies, unless their names are very lsag. It claims...

1916 (Dean and Son, 7s. 6d.), is a "Who's Who" of Members of Parliament, Judges, including the Colonial Bench, and Stipendiary Magistrates. It has also a brief table of the...

(Ginn and Co. 15s. net.)— Here arc recorded fifteen awards given at the Hague. It might have been conceivable that such questions should have led on to wars instead of...