THE VATICAN AND THE WAR. THE Morning Post of Wednesday contained a most interTesting but, to our wav of thinking, a painful communication from the Vatican. This communication...

[To T.E EDITON or T- " SPECTATOR."] SIR-As an Honorary Missioner for the Deaf and as Organizing Secretary of the Guild of St. John of Beverley, a society existing to help the...

[TO TEE ED-Oa Or TE SPEC.TAOR. ] F.-T hav-e ja-t seen s-oull issue of November 10th in wbich "A It. ic Srhoolmastei tentatively suggests that the auth.or of .it I.o.......s...

[TO -E EDITOR OF TE " SPECTA.3 S1,-I hose read with great interest the protests of the three h-hoslnaster -Hrtics against Mr. Alec Wughl's account of school life inl Th L.oo-...

DEAFNESS. [TO - EDITO- O- SHE "SPCTATOR.'] SIR,-! think we deaf people are porhaps inclined to be so absorbed in our own great affliction, with al1 the deprivations, and often...

BOOKS THAT ARE WORTH WHILE. [TO -oR EDITO - OF THE SPECTATOR.] SR-The, iS an organization already in existence for supplying troops witl reading matter. Bat often I feel in...

THE LATE JOHN PAYNE. [TO THE EDITOR o- rHE 'IS,--,,.,`] , am egaged upo. a biography of Jolhn I'oyv, the di,,tingJiloned Iort .nd translator. Will youl ,llo mo to oay that I...

LECTURES FOR THE DEAF. [TO 7- EDITO-L OF T-EE SPECTOT]:J Sut,-It may initerest your deaf readers to kn.ow thait, at the MAetropolitan Museum of New York this i iter, Miss Jalle...

[TO TH_ EDITO- OF TU Sr.CTATOI. ] SIR-I rCfl-b-1Jer re1 ading the lines which l re referred h by your eorreoplidenit "toqoitor " in the last issne of thin Spec-tahoe abo-t...

A WORlD TO HOUSEWIVES. [TO ToE EDITO. or T-E ' SP,,CTATO..'] SIR,-I have rend the above-named -orrespo.deiice with some interest. 31M. Little in his letter doted No-en-ber 3rd...

"A COMICAL 'TALE." [TO THE EDIToI OF TE "SPECTATO... SIR-One s-an alwov. s find coni sort of toni fort, oo iie thing to hug to onle's soul, even inl the most on.inpathetie...

AN EPI'rAPII. [TO To E.ITO, oF e S PrsTho::. | SIR,-Th'1e epithph " e teere It slay'le bht ray 'I " ;3, n the -hIre .....yard of Ch'riatehurelt Priory, Ito tte. It a utippoweti...

CHRIST IN I'LANDERS." | [ TO TnE EDITO OF T ,E SE,-. ] SIn-The Liti,,9 ( i a -ligi ols -,ekly pq-er plisihed i, tho Uniited States, -tali-,ii i the ik lie iliitril O toher Cth,...

THE BRONZE SrAE O1F' 19l1. [TO -H EDITOL OF THE "SECmaT...] SIR,-I feel that you should amplify the lparagragph ini last week's Spectator alluding to the brouz 1914 star which...

The battle of Canibrai took a new turn 6n Friday week, when I the Germans made a determined effort to overwhelm General Byng and reoccupy the sector of the Hinldenburg line...

The encuiv had effected a surprise and gained an initial success, I 1,ut they could not keep all that they had won. General Byng brought up his reserves, and in a few hours...

I General arall, the new C.ommander-in-Chief hn Mfesopotamia, ha- struck his first blow at the Turks on his right Riank. On Monday his troops crossed the Diala near Kicil...

Our French Allies havc had a relatively quiet week. The. enemy have been testing the strength of the Frenih line, Cspe)ciaIly at Verdun, by small local attacks in the hope of...

I In Palestinc the Turks have been heavily reinfr.ecd, and have delivered a number of local attacks on our advanced posts to the north of Jaffa and in the hill-country...

On Monday the Germans renewed their attacks in great strength onl the southern sidc of the salient. By -hecr weight of numbers they broke through o-r lines south of Marcoing a...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. r HE Magnificent gallantry of our troops in the desperate fighting at Cal brai has thrilled us all. On Friday ,weck they w.-ee suddenly attacked in the open...

I (h, the Italia- front the enemy isuincd the offnidvc on Tuecsday, after a week's bombardment of the Italian hill position9. 'thci enemy's forces have been reinforced sinee...

On NVedesdav our airmen inadlc two raids ito Clennany andi ibombed the railway junction at Zweibriiken and the munitionl lorks at Saarbriiken. These attacks habd beeC iiite...

Mrs. Champneyand Mr. Frcre Champney hae made an attractiv e collection of Japanese fairy-tales under the title of R1oma1ce of Old Japan (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 12s. Gd.), which...

Ce-itral Aonerca. By AV. H. Koobol. With 2.5 I -I-dtrahiml tmn a Map. (T. Fishor Iri.in. l0s. (Id net.)-Mr. K-fhol, wvho lI written seoeral books upOnI the history -nd...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK. [Ndkiee in this column du.. not necescily p e.l.ade .obaeque . reci-j.] THE DECEWIDER MONTELIES.- -The Ni-temtdl Century has a I highly interesting...

I Ado&sce,,cc By Stpen Page 2t. -Co 1sa~f ~u Cup,. 7(1.) --- Mr. Stephen Paget, who has justly nado himself a great rep-ti. tion as guide, philosopher, and friend to young...

W.o ha-e received from the .Voirieno Natioi"l 1,L- Ser- io Corps, at 50 Uppl!er Baker Street, X.W. 1, a most eseottrerigi Report on tho work dune during the ycnr endinag i,...

We have received from the authors a copy of The Chhir S.n" Book, being trench versions of popular songs by Lieutenants Side. botham and Pogson and Second Lioutenant Taylor, of...

The Ro-nd Tablk for D-comber (Nl-muill- tll C'., NO I. G nd contains soveral valuable nnd sggestive -rticles. " The t-eneois of the Presaot Situation in India " is a balan1cd...

STORIES FOR BOYS. ' T.rFRAtIL'S " new naval story, The Sub (Hodder and Stoughton, 5s. net), is a full, true, and particular account of the career of a youngster from his...

RE.DA-Lk No.r. ...-..o.L .1 adam at (lapps. By argaret! - A. . . I a. a' I r I Baillie Satinl . (HEtfthinson and Co. GO.)-A -Yer delightful $ no-el eo -Merioed srith the lifc...

STORIES FOR GIRLS. IBSS BESSIE MARCHANT has found a fresh setting for her romantic story, The Gold-Marked Charm (Blackle and Son, 5s. net) In the remote Eastern Sudan, up the...

GIFT - BOOKS. MORE CHILDREN-S BOOKS.' Tar, tenth -olume of Herbert Strangse A mssf is full of good reading, .ad will no doubt give complete satisfaction to the young people...

h- - -v e The new German Chancellor, Count Herdling, addressed the Reichstag on Wednesday week. German arms had, he saie, been successful " almost everywhere." " Our iron wall...

The President asked Congress to declare war forthwith on Austria- Hungary, as the vassal of Germany. The (3overn.,ent ol Vilenlna, having become the mere instrument of Berlin,...

I Oi Tuesday and WVedniesday the House debated the question of Irish Redistribution, in respect of which the Franchise Bill was recommitted after a series of divisions, in...

I Fifty thousand munition workers at Coventry, mainly ej g Lged in the manufacture of aeroplanes, were out on strike all last week. Differences had arisen in one factory as to...

I Mr. Bonar Law has felt it necessary to pblish a letter in ch he denies point-blank the rumour that the State wnll repuiliate its liabilities in comnexion w ith the National...

Baron von Kilhlmann, the Gennan Foreign Secretary, in his I speech to the Reichstag Committee on Friday week was careful, like his chief, to ignore America. As the ostrich...

Sir Albert Sta-lev. the President of the Board of Trade, explained in the House of Commons on Monday the Non-Ferrous Metal I Industry Bill, which is designed to prevent the...

Th. neace we shall make. continued the President, insist free I Belgium and Northern France, and deliver the peoples of AustriaHungary, the Balkans, and Turkey in Europe and in...

I Two of the Countess Marckieviz's Boy Scouts were arrested at Belfast on November 20th, with a portmanteau full of high cxplosives which they had brought froni Glasgow for...

[TO .oi EDTIOR 0 TEE SPECToTOR. - J51,-In reading w.th admirat-on yonr article 1i the Spectator of November 24th on this subject there seems to me to be another point of...

I THIE CONSCRIPTION OF CAPITAL. [TO TEE EDITOR or o- " SPECTATOR."I SsR,-Yoss refer to a proposal that every person should be legally deemed to have died once a year and that...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. [Letters of the Ingth of one of our leading paragraphs are often ! mote read, and therefore mr effectie, than those which fill trehie tile -eae.l- THE...

T1HE CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR [To TE. EDITOB or -HE S-CTo.'3 Sta,-The objection of the conscientious objector is to bloodshed; he objects to the taking of human hfe, or even to...

FRENCH PATRIOTISM. [To -E ED-OR oF - "SP-TOM."] hSIR-In ith Echo de Paris for November 4th 1 sea that the "Ligue des Patriotes" visited lately the tomb of their founder, Paul...

THE PUBLIC SCHOOL IN FICTION. [To - EDITO. OF T-IE "SPECTATOR.." &Ss,-Unless the Sine of the intellect may be justly regard-d as worse th the sins of the flesh, the most...

LORD LANSDOOWNE'S LETTEI:. [TO THE EDITOR Or THE SPECEATO. 3 SIR,-Lord Loesdowle's dic-rvic,.l)e lotte ,sill cao.1c all of to think furiously. It is just simpqly fttile to talk...

A PLUCKY SKIPPEV. [TO SHE EDITOR Or THE Sp"ETOI.") SIB,-Possibly the following extraots from a letter ,hich I lev received frosu a frienld who ras board the lifeboat refer cd...

AN ITALIAN EPISODE. [To - EDITOR OF TH "SPECTATOR.'] Ste-The followving extract from an official publication may be of interest as illustrating the spirit which animates the...

ITALY'S TRIAL. | lifE had a peacock at our hospital on the Italian front. Ho I was very beautiful and dignified, but his friendship for I Clarence, a vulgar and bombastic duck,...

!TO T., EDITo. OF Tll. 'PICToa."] Ss.,.-Might not this be Latinized as "Pro par t, lttle irili"' I --I , Sir,&., W. J. HUlMBLE CROITS. I f'a~dron RcetolV, Stussez.

P OET R Y. IN MEMORY OF A. G. B. (KilliSd hiis Al rat *gipnuiljt.) Coran not how, long be lived by months or seasons, But by the minutes of life's closing hoor. Nor writs thia...

[TO T.OE EOITOa oF THi SPECTATOR." Sll,-1 do dno-t -e the Spe?!(ltoe till it is lore t-i ;s -ee k 1 1, .ud sO lny an.swer may he belated. I do not think the sentitn-'t ['lay...

" CRANNOCK " AND " SKEP." [TO TIE- EDrTO OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-AvWhen I -a a hey ili the lwilds of Essex sixty seai agothe CO---on tw-khindled basket ill -Se il the stablo...

THE HEART-CRY. SHE turned the page of wounds and death With trembling fingers. In a breath The gladness of her life became oulght but a memory and a name. Farewell! Farewell! I...

" COIY WESTON." [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "PECTATOT."1 Ss,-'llo expression It's all Catly Westo " is prevalent, I am told, in parts of America, as well as in the numerous English...

BO O KS. SIR HENRY NEWVBOIT ON POETRY.' IN calling his book a " New Study of English Poetry " Sir He-uy New-bolt strikes a challenging note which resounds throughout its...

" PLAY THE GAME." (TO THE EDITOR OP TOO SPr.CToTOo."] S,-Many o, us connect "Play the game" vith Sii Ileasy Ne\^l~it's poems "Vitai Lanpada." The "ggame" he speaks of is in...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. QUIETNESS AND CONFIDE NCE. " Do ?yo- l 1i e Ilf""'- ! 11 ec t t9. --,Contraofio with t.o-,ded soldier at Mle froo. recorded by Mr. Philip Wibbo, 'Daily...

THE ESSENTIAL LEAGUE. JVS we read President Wilson's splendid declaration of Amenrican determination to go on till complete victory was won, on the ground that only upon the...

Now that the last German force which was holding out in German I LEst Africa has been posited over the frontier, we may read with a 11111 scnse of satisfaction Admiral von...

AlilitarY historians have often remarked that the nninber of I prisoners taken is the true measure of progress in a war. At a time when the tiermans are making much of the...

I The first sign of disillusionment is visible in the Russian Anarchist Council's wireless report of their negotiations with the German Generals for an armistice on Wednesday...

I Meanwhile the Anarchist Council has strengthened its hold over the disorganized armies by capturing the General Staff at Mohileff on Monday or Tuesday. Krylenko with some...

Mlonday's Times contained an impressive account of the burial . in France of Corporal Gresham, Private Enright, and Private Hay, the first Americani soldiers to fall fighting...

I President Wilson's Address to Congress on Tuesday will-invigorate the Allies, and cheer the faint-hearted people among us who dwell overmuch on the Italian reverses and the...

The military representatives of the Allies at the Russian Head- quarters made a joint protest a fortnight ago to General Dukhonin, the Commander-in-Chief, against the...

Twc-cnty-fiic cnei, -crop)lanOes made a raid on South-Eastern I EAgland early on IThursdy morning, when the moon shone m a clear sky. In five groups the raiders made for...

Last week we lost by mcine or submarine sixteen large merchant- m over 1,6O0 tons, an I one snaller Iessel. Seven were attacked uiieuccessfully Thin, - 's thie third bad week...

The Anarchist Council at Petrograd on Wednesday week cent I; three emiss-ries to the Gcrnmau lines to negotiate for an armistiec I ou all fronts. The Gnciuan Government,...

I Dr. Harold Williams, the Petrograd correspondent of the Daily Chronicle, warns us that the desire for peace is by no means confined to the Anarchists. Whether they stand or...

THOMAS HOD(;KIN.* Mas. CIS--o-'s biography of her old friend Dr. Hodgkin is a worthy r enorial of a remarkable m 1a. In the w.orld of conssssere. he was known as a leading...

A PLEA FOR CAVALRY.' WE have received a copy of a brief but most suggestive pamphlet, A Plea for as Efficien Cva7[lr, by an officer on the active list. RH cites an offisisi...

F I CTI ON. KING COAL.' AMroNG American no-eli.ts with a pnrpo-o M. IUpte- Sinllir hbs long been prominent. Dle. Coorg Br-ndcs in hic lJntod-ti'-n spoals of him "n one of the...

A WVOMAX FARM WORKER IX LAN ELAXD. rlHE Lakeland dale in which I have been labouring uince spring1 time has growxi accustomed to my appearance; but iuv leggings and breeches,...

THE TRUE CONSCRIPTION OF WEALTH. A FORTNIGHT ago we wrote strongly protesting against A proposals for the conscription of capital which had apparently been in part enldorsed by...

AMERICA'S UNPREPAREDNESS.' T.ERE is nothing of the diplomat nbout Mr. Roose.elt. When he hns formeld anl opiniont ho holds it wit~h all hsis might and expresses it with all his...