well satisfied with their position, and unquestionably during the earlier part of the week took very large numbers of prisoners and accounted altogether for some thirty thousand...

would prefer, though it is added that the Scottish distillers would prefer very heavy taxation of spirits to prohibition. No doubt they would; but we venture to say it is a...

German commerce destroyer, the Prinz Eitel Friedrich: was interned by the American authorities. The captain of the 'Eitel Friedrich' should enter the field of journalism, for he...

that the Press representatives who were at Tenedos hare been banished and can no more use their" specular mount " to watch through strong glasses the ships of the Allies...

prohibition, and expressed our deep regret that the Govern- ment seem unlikely to seize the opportunity to insist that during the war the whole energies of the country shall be...

the remarkable volume of testimony which comes from our officers at the front as to the fine spirit and notable efficiency of the French troops. It is much too little to say...

again very good, but here, of course, the movements are on a much greater scale than in the closely balanced western front. What appears to be happening is that the Russians are...

filHE news from the western theatre of the war is this week distinctly good. Though on the British front there has been very little fighting, there has been considerable...

in our leading colnmna If the Government have not the pluck to "go for" the fence up to which they have ridden, let them at any rate suspend the sale of intoxi- canta in this...

people who think there might be an insurrection or a "terrible strike" if the Government were to prohibit the sale of intoxicants during the war. There would be nothing of the...

M. Venezelos displayed more statesmanship than any one else in Europe. He is evidently a great political leader—far the greatest Greece or any Balkan Power has ever had. 'He...

letter, though it is well worth reading as a crushing, and at the same time dignified, answer to a poisonous and vindictive attack. Two observations, however, we must make on...

of plenty of his colleagues and followers on the platform and in the Press. Labour is to be above the reach of criticism, and those who dare to think otherwise must be...

Greece on January 30th was summarized in the Times of Tuesday. H. Venezelos explained that Roumania was unwilling to co-operate with Greece and Serbia unless Bulgaria also came...

as it does honour on Mr. Lloyd George. Mr. Kyle Hardie has lent himself to the encouragement of the worst and most tyrannous aide of the Labour movement. A claim is almost...

give effect to them. M. Venezelos, how- ever, decided to await the result of the Bulgarian attempt to raise a loan on the German and Austrian money markets. When, a few days...

in which he indignantly repudiates the monstrous accusation brought against him by Mr. Keir Hardie. Speaking at Norwich, Mr. Heir Hardie declared that workers who were putting...

on Monday, described the despair of the Hungarians. They had been fooled for many weeks as to the progress of the campaign, and when they learned the bitter truth about...

off Beaohy Head without warning. She sank in three minutes. Nine members of the crew of seventeen were drowned. On Wednesday week the French steamship 'Emma' was torpedoed, also...

been appointed by Lord Kitchener as the head of a Committee which is to provide the extra labour necessary to guarantee an adequate supply of munitions of war. Mr. George Booth...

the last section was summarized by Reuter on Thursday week, is a model of frankness. It confesses to certain errors in tactics and failures in leadership, and when it comes to...

sent to last Saturday's paper a striking account of the appearance of the Austrian officers and men in the captured fortress of PrzemysL There was a startling contrast between...

Reclhill and now of Old Town, Croydon, has been awarded by the Home Office 2500 compensation for eighteen months' wrongful imprisonment. This unhappy woman was wrongly convicted...

and Germany, by way of Washington, as to the treatment of German submarine prisoners in this country. The German Government protested against the British decision not to accord...

between Bulgaria and Serbia. A strong force of Bulgars—it is impossible to say on the evidence whether there were regular soldiers among them or whether they were all Komitadjis...

Aug. 8th.

THE GREAT OPPORTUNITY. D EVOUTLY do we trust that the rumours current as to the intentions of the Cabinet in dealing with the liquor problem are ill-founded. If they are true,...

0 strongly do we feel about the magnitude of the Government's opportunity, that for once we have an instinctive desire not to mention the word "compromise." If, however, it...

"T HEY'RE growing while you are sleeping." That was the thought which the old Scots laird, who above all things loved his rising woodlands, hugged to his bosom. Patriotic...

T HE Reply of the American Government to the British Notes and to the Order in Council establishing a blockade of Germany, which was published on Tuesday, is truly excellent in...

TT has, perhaps, not yet been sufficiently realized that the country is passing through what may almost be called an economic revolution. Large numbers of the working classes...

a tragic sense, because our friends are dying in battle. But there is a lighter sense in which it is true also, and which is also connected with the war. There is so much work...

T DON'T think people have tumbled to the meaning of 1- all this yet," said a fellow.private in my own platoon to me as we waited at a London railway station for the order to...

T HE words "heroic," "heroism," "hero," "heroine," are supposed to look well in journalistic headlines, and their sound is no doubt vainglorious. Yet M. Maeterlinck has written...

THE VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT, rro Tar Zones Or UM "Srcereroh." J think your readers, especially those who so generously contributed to the Fund opened by you on behalf of the...

[To s117 EOM. 07 7117 • 031 1 7C717011.1 SIE,—Your leading article of April 3rd on "Why Do the Government Hesitate ?" is deserving of all praise, both for its outspokenness and...

[To rue EDITOR or rex "Sreoraron.1 Sts,—Amidet the present discussion, from several sides, of the meaning and incidence of this great precept of our Lord, it may be worth while...

the continued success of your appeal to Britons in aid of the "Spectator Home Guards Fund." I beg to enclose a draft for £35 in aid of this Fund from a Briton who is too old to...

[To 7117 Roues st oat -sescravoa.-1 St,—Will some of your readers in the United States who occasionally send you striking and deeply interesting letteri kindly tell us the...

[To am Emma op ran oSesc - rsion."3 Bin, — I am an American and a constant reader for years of your paper, and having great confidence in and respect for your opinion, I am...

rib ME EDITOR OF me " SP...TAMS.") Bra—Will any of your correspondents kindly tell me whether Commissioned officers live on their pay in certan units? 011 inquiry one is...

am ..13mcnaos..] Sra—I have not been able to refer to the hitherto unpublished material brought together with so much industry by Mr. Ellis Barker in his article in the...

("Clifton, remember," done into Greek.) [To me EDITOR w TU. "Eramams..I Sra—A short time ago I had occasion to visit my old school, Clifton College. In the familiar cloister,...

SIR,—I read from time to time many references to the allow, ance for soldiers' wives and suggestions for adequate pensions to the widows of fallen soldiers. Scarce a word in the...

[To am EDITOR or MB ..liescr.o.^] Si.—In your issue of April 3rd "An Inquirer" propounds three inquiries. The first is of the nature of an inquiry commonly made by a low kind...

[To TEE EDITOR or TR. " SPECTATOR."] San,—German activities reach as far as Los Angeles in California, and I bare received a copy of the Los Angeles Examiner containing en...

Si,—Will you allow me to explain why Napoleon was ever said to he only 5 ft. 3 in. high p It was because a French foot in the old French measure was not 12 in., but about in in....

[To THE EDITOR or ten •`Sercuros."] San,–..In a very few words may I draw the attention of your readers to the work done by the Imperial College, Windsor, and to its present...

[To TRE EDITOR opens " SPECTATOR") Salk—The suggestion in a letter in your last week's issue as to grey shrikes being used for detecting aircraft is very interesting, but I...

[To TICE EDITOR OP Tea " SPECTATOR:] San,—In your issue of the 3rd inst. we notice a letter from "A Government Contractor" who is evidently uninformed on the present position...

[To MID EDITOR 07 7E6 " STSCIWFOR"j 13150,—Many years ago I heard the following notice read out in a Catholic church in England: "There will be a procession next Sunday...

THE BALLAD OF THE 'EASTERN CROWN. ' I'VE sailed in ' ookers plenty since first I went to sea, An ' sail or steam, an ' good or bad, was all alike to me ; There ' s some ' ave...

delightful I think I have ever heard was the statement of a Town Councillor in a Hampshire town some years ago, during a discussion on projected expenditure on town...

[To ran EDITOR OF ran “Srsc-rArox."] suggest that the reason for placing the comma after the word "done, " in the Lord ' s Prayer, is that (in the words of the Bishop of Oxford)...

[To ran Emum or Ins Braor•ron."1 sometimes wcmder how far the editor of the Spectator is able to gauge the variety of types of mind and vocation repre- sented among his...

stationed in Ireland, I was paying an afternoon call upon the wife of the vicar of a oonntry pariah. The housekeeper opened the front door, and I was at once greeted by the...

PnEsmxxr, 4 LORD DESBOROUGH. How. SECRETARY PERCY A. HARRIS, Esq. RIAD Omens: Judges ' Quadrangle, Royal Courts of Justice (Carey Street entrance). The aims and objects of this...

the Ulster Party, writing to me some time back, said "Before the Home Role Bill is enforced Asquith will have to walk over many dead bodies— his own included. " I think this...

rrr initials, or with a peendonym, or are marked "Communicaled," the Edifor roust not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of...

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

THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND EPISCOPACY.* CANON MASON'S book is a by-product of the now almost forgotten Kikuyu controversy, but to judge by his preface lie seems under the...

written by Mr. Bullen shortly before his death, in the full consciousness that it was his valediction to the public whom he had served so strenuously as :Magmas, journalist,...

Sin VALENTINE CHIEOL in his brief preface to this book balls Malabari "one of the most remarkable characters that modern India. has produced." That, we think, is not an...

THE war is still with us, end we are apt to forget that victory will fall to the side whose soldiers and sailors have been brought up in the best homes. We depend. on men who...

• ninepin of Edanstioa. By E. IL. Sewell. London: Longman: and Co. • &Whirrs. /ndia. Painted by Lady Lawley. Described by P. E. Penny. WE have here a pleasant, readable book,...

As the Nineteenth Century contains no fewer than nineteen articles, of which fifteen deal directly or indirectly with the war, it is obviously impossible for us to do more than...

the past generation of art-lovers had they been invited to read the • Benson, and other StuAiss in ihe History of Art. By Richard Horton, kneennsof Pino Arts, Boston. London:...

THE SWORD OF YOUTH.* Tile appearance of a new story from the pen of Mr. James Lane Allen, while welcome in itself, is doubly so for proving the persistence of an element which...

of Constitutional Law of England, by Edward Waren Ridges (Stevens and Sons, 15s.).—We are also glad to notice the issue of a new edition of Sir Charles Lucas's Historical...

compiled under the direction of Mr. Charles W. E. Leigh (Longmans and Co. for the Manchester University Press, 21e. net). This interesting collection of about eight thousand...

of War in Eastern Europe (7s. 6d.). It covers, on a scale of eighteen miles to the inch, East Prussia, Poland, Galicia, the Bukowina, Transylvania, Hungary, and parts of...

to read Saint-Simon's Memoirs at all would not prefer to read them in the original rather than in a translation. But since Mr. Francis Arkwright has not only translated but...

1915 (S.P.C.K., is.) has just reached us. —We may also mention Philips' Pictorial Pocket Atlas and Gazetteer (George Philip and Son, It net).

Hall. 6s.)—A spirited and glowing story of the Perugia of the Renaissance, arranged in a number ef contrasting scenes—A Shadow of '57. By A. U. Scott- Moncrieff. (T. Fisher...

[Notice in this minas Atm set neceuarily preclude awbeeguentreniem] We have no doubt that Mr. W. N. Robson's Principles of Legal Liability for Trespasses and Injuries by...

popularity, is in its tarn threatened by the new variation " Nullo " Auction. The new edition of How to Win at Royal Auction Bridge, by" Out Cavendish" (T. Werner Laurie, 2e....