NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE essential fact of the week is that on Thursday the Russians were within twenty miles of Cracow on their left and within twenty miles of Thorn on their right. At the same time East Prussia is about to be invaded in force by the Russians. If, as ought to be the case, the condition of one's enemies, and not the sum of one's own losses, anxieties, and fears, is the standard by which success or failure in the war is to be measured, then, in spite of the appalling sacrifice of life in Flanders and the frenzy of the German attempts to break through, the British people should be of good heart. Nevertheless, we are not nearly out of the wood yet. We are not even half way through it, and we shall have many dark hours. There will be, for example, the anxiety which it would be idle to pretend will not be felt deeply in this country whenever the German raid is attempted. In war, however, the necessary thing is to discriminate as to what is essential, and to judge by that and not by the non-essentials.
