was unable to hold the line of the Tagliamento, partly because the river was low, partly too because the enemy pressure from the northern hills on his left flank was too great....

in the Commons on Thursday week an important statement on the work of the Navy, in a maiden speech which received universal praise. He began by describing the reorganized...

wortthe smallest recorded in any week since the enemy opened his new campaign in February. The number of ships entering and leaving British ports increased by one hundred and...

steadily reduced the toll taken by the enemy submarines, our offensive measures had become much more successful. In the three months ending at Michaelmas the Navy sank as many...

Turks held a long line running from the sea-coast near Gaza south-eastwards to Beersheba, at the foot of theJudaean hills, and the valley running up to Hebron and Jerusalem....

rapid advance which followed it compelled the enemy, as we ventured to anticipate last week, to evacuate all his remaining positions on the northern slopes of the Chemin dos...

rums has been a glorious week for British arms. In Flanders Sir Douglas Haig has completed the work of months of hard fighting by the capture of Passchendaele, the crowning...

selves on the outskirts of Passchendaele a week before, finished their task on Tuesday by taking the whole village and the adjacent hamlets of Mosselmarkt and Goudberg. The...

give definite orders to their newsagents for a copy of the " Spectator" to be reserved for them each week till countermanded.

violent agitation. M. Kereneky, in an interview with an American corre- spondent last week, ridiculed the idea that Russia was "out of the war," but added that she was now "...

clearly why the fast German cruisers which destroyed the Scandinavian convoy on October 17th were able to escape scot-free. Their first shot by ill-luck destroyed the...

full offensive power of the Navy is being laid under contribution. The question has become more pertinent - since the American Navy joined us, and our preponderance of strength...

cot touch the real questionings of those who have doubted whether the strength of our magnificent Navy has been used to its full effect for offensive purposes. It is unfortunate...

Friday week, the day after the First Lord's statement when our naval forces operating in the Kattegat, immediately to the north of the Sounds met and destroyed a Germare...

day an "electrically controlled high-speed boat" attacked our Belgian patrols and was destroyed. It has since been reported that the boat, carrying a cargo of explosives but no...

to shipbuilding. " We must lay our plans for a long war," and make up the arrears in the shipyards, which were neglected while the armies were being, raised and equipped. Four...

regard to China, which was published at Washington on Tuesday. America recognize!. that Japan " has a special interest in. China, particularly in that part to which its...

privileged to publish the first account of the new British battle-cruisers, commonly called " Hush ! hush!" ships because, though they have been in commission for a year, their...

heroic death was mentioned by the Prime Minister last week ea an illustration of the bravery of our fishermen, was honoured in the London Gazette of last Saturday with a...

by the large potato crop. Although there is something like a glut of potatoes, the price continues high, and both inside and out- side Parliament there has been an attempt to...

Lord Mayor's Banquet will be held as usual. Although the dinner will doubtless be a comparatively simple meal for the City fathers and their guests, we cannot help regretting...

of the Central Association of Volunteer Regiments, which Informed us that the Association had accepted the enormous task of making itself responsible for the recruiting of boys'...

which took place in the House of Commons on Tuesday. The Pacificist resolu- tion urged the importance of an immediate peace by negotiation. As usual, the Pacificist spokesmen...

the men on the question whether men of military age who have entered the coal mines since the war began, and unmarried men of military age who were employed them before the war,...

utterances seem to enjoy a ready audience in Germany, do not recognize the splendid opportunity they have of influencing German opinion. They all agree that there must be a...

imperial Chancellor and Minister-President of Prussia in place of Herr Michaelis, the obscure official who took the poet on July 14th last and failed to please his master or any...

your plans to the bogy of Uncertainty. Let the Association of Volunteer Regiments proceed with the boys' scheme as thoroughly and as quickly as it can If we give in to one...

the causes of what he called the " perfectly intolerable delay " on Germany's part in carrying out the agreement as to the exchange of prisoners. More than four months have...

of the corning year as a special day of prayer and thanksgiving in all the churches throughout the Empire. The war is entering, the King says, upon its last and most difficult...

5th.

THE GRAND MISUNDERSTANDING.—I. H OW is it that John Bull makes mistakes so many and so fatal in his attempts to solve the Irish problem ? That is a question which...

F URTHER information has only confirmed what we said last week as to the causes of the Italian disaster. They were, as we supposed, political and psychological rather than...

IT is a pity that the excellent speeches which the American 1 Ambassador delivered in Edinburgh on Thursday and Friday of last week were not more fully reported in the news-...

known as the Whitley I_ Report in the summer focussed public attention upon the necessity for creating some machinery for bringing employers and employed together so as to...

LCOUMUNICATED.] r HE school story, formerly a tale written to amuse schoolboys, 1 has been adopted recently as the chief weapon in the armoury of those who assail the Public...

I T was while we were sitting smoking in the after suporatructure .1 in the dinner-hour that the idea was mooted. Lofty, after gazing at what he called our guts "—i.e.,...

ITO can Exuma or ens " Setoreiroz."1 Su,-1 take pleasure in sending you two volumes (the eighth and the eleventh) of the Publication of the Italian Supreme Command on the...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more rend, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] POLAND AND BOHEMIA. [To THE...

[To vac Emma or 1116 " Sencrime."1 Sra,—1 think it probable, now that the United States is not merely eympathetio with the fight of Great Britain and her Allies but Is taking...

yes " SPECTSTOR."1 SIR,—Your excellent artiole of October 13th has resulted in the usual crop of varied recommendation«. It still seems insuffi- ciently realised that the...

[To van EDITOR or rue "Seserama."1 Sia,—You always endeavour to cultivate a good understanding between Great Britain and the United States, and I think you may perhaps be glad...

reader of the Spectator for more than twice the number of years claimed by a correspondent in your last issue, I crave permission for a few words on the subject of the Church...

Sas,—As a former clergyman and diocesan official of a self- governing Church, and as a present member of the Church Self- Government Association, it is in a friendly and...

[To THE Knows or THE " SPECTATOR."] Pm—As our object in trying to ascertain what should be the malification for membership of the Church of England should be the desire to...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " Seemeroa."3 Sse,—In response to Mr. H. F. Walker, 1 should like, as a Non- cenformist minister of forty years' standing, to refer to tho ".Cheltenham"...

[To THE ED170.1 OF THE " SPECTAT01."] :4m—A greater authority thou Mr. Asquith is against both him and Mr. Aneurin Williams (whom I had the pleasure of knowing exactly forty...

[To THE ED7701 or rue " Sescreme."1 Sts,—Your correspondent "L. L." in the Spectator of October 20th 1 think writes under misapprehension of what the large majority of believers...

[To THE EDITO1 or THE SPECT/701."1 Stn,—May one who has read emseeteeee',"letter, and is unutter- ably wearied by the continual conflict of thought and practice respecting the...

(To run Ewen or run " SPncTA7s3. y I Ste,—Teachers of disloyalty have loud voices. They shout in the street and grumble in the Preas, and think that they carry weight in...

Sta,—I am sorry if my letter was no wanting in lucidity as to let Mr. Quick suppose that "' Mcraiestrat seems to rest his criticism of the Church on rho contention that the...

[To THE EDEMA or run " Serceraroa."] Sta.—Every Unionist in Ireland, and indeed all who abhor anarchy anywhere, meat be grateful to the Spectator for its recent Irish articles,...

Sts,—Tbe trials as to which your correspondent "Stultus" asks for information are evidently the Three Trials of Wiltaim Hone for publishing three parodies—viz., "The Late John...

&corm.") Sia,—The interesting correspondence which has arisen out of my article on Tennyson in your issue of October 6th seems to call for reply in two particulars only. First,...

Sum—Your correspondent "Stultus" refers to The Three Trials of William Hose—December 18th, 19th, 20th, 1817—for publishing three parodies which were alleged to be blaephemoue....

(To THE EDITOR OF me SPECTATOR.") Sut,--Fletcher of Saltoun quoted with approval the saying of a very wise man who " believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads,...

ITO THE EDITOR or THE SPECTATOR.") Sin,—The trial referred to by " Stultus" is that of William Hone. He was tried three times at the Guildhall in the City on December 18th,...

with interest the correspondence under Shit, heading. May I give you my experience as Commandant of it small auxiliary hospital of nearly three years' standing ? We have fifty...

(To ran Emma or ran " SPEGTSTOR."1 SIR,—As we all know, Mr. Lloyd George's speeches are more famed for picturesqueness than for facts. But ;surely the Spectator ought not to...

(To THE EDITOR or vu. " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—Mr. Robert Holmes in writing of Walter Greenway sham- ming deafness at the police station remarks that he appeared "surprisingly...

(To THE EDITOR or TEE " SPECTATOR."3 Ssa,—I had a tame rook many years ago. I picked him up under the rookery and brought him up by hand. At first he was housed in a cage, but...

[To ear EDITOR or Tat " SPECTATOR."3 Su,—Mrs. Tennant in the Spectator of October 20th does not state •half' the question in her remarks on your criticism of the above subject....

(To THE EDITOR or ran "Seto-mos "I Sm..—The generous public will doubtless subscribe largely to the Pond for Nurses," and this without in the least realising that by so doing...

Pro THIS EDITOR or TUT " SPOCTATOR."] Snt,—I am loth to trespass upon your valuable space, but as Mr. J. S. Little seems to have taken exception to it sentence in my last...

(To THE Emma or ran " SPECTATOR."] Sot,—The case of Walter Greenway, "Hero and Spy," had almost faded from memory when your publication of September 15th came to hand (two days...

[To rue EMMA OF THE n SPECTAS03."3 gle,—YOC were kind enough to insert n letter of mine in your issue of September 22nd on the subject of my husband, Captain Bowen-Celther2t,...

[To SAE EDITS: OP Ion SPECTATOO."] Sm,—It is not often one catches a Spectator reviewer making such a " howler." On p. 448 (October• 29th) he speaks of Hus as not only " the...

[TO TEE Ralson or Tan n SPECTATOS."] FIR, — We beg to be allowed to say that the Committee of this Society, which from the first has made every effort to secure a fell inquiry...

HEU MISERANDE PURR. "Tars will recall us," FO we inured of yore, As the young faces of our boys we scanned, "When our last form is taught, our labour o'er, And we have passed...

[To ran EOM!: or ran "SPEC1,7071."3 Pro,- - Ton hare reminded us of the Bolos in Africa and of a Bolo in Mr. Pickwick's Bath. But the " Bole " that has, like the Pasha in Paris,...

TIM n SPECTATOR.") Std,—Your discussion only proves once again what one has always stated—viz., that the old English words and phrases are best found in America, particularly...

tell me the author of the quotation—. " Out of the stress of the doing Into the peace of the done " We are petting it on n Roll of Honour of special entry cadets.—I

Spectator on the death of Lieutenant Hankey and his article "Don't Worry" bare been republished as a leaflet by Messrs. W. Speaight and Sons, 98-91 Fetter Lane, London, E.C. 4,...

Wa are very glad to be able to inform our readers that we hare received permission to reprint the noble Address by Mr. Lansing which was published in the Spectator of September...

the writer's name or initials, or with is pseudonym, or are marked Com- municated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement w i th the mews therein expressed...

Miss MARY-ADA= MACDONALD'S three poems (" In the Ward," "Epiphany Vision," and "In Last Year's Camp ") have been reprinted from the pages of the Spectator in pamphlet form under...

Ara Mr. Raennekers's admirers—and what lend of the Allies is not full of them r—n•ill welems, the new volume of 7'he Gras! lint To say that it is neither so powerful tine so...

TURGENEV.• BY gathering together the various Prefaces contributed by him so his wife's translations of the novels and testae of Turgenev, and adding some supplementary chapters...

IN the days of our youth we used to read, in the fascinating pages of R. M. Bellantyne, of the exploits of Greenland whalers how in small boats they issued forth from their...

book on the Gallipoli affair as viewed from Constantinople. As a member of the American Diplomatic Service, he was attached to the Embassy to Turkey from April to September,...

of "Katharine Tynan's" charming Irish stories. The heroine is an attractive creature.—Hawk of the Desert. By G. E. Mitton. (Sense publisher and price.)--An extremely exciting...

THE BAGOTS.• Me. WALLAS'S first and very promising novel takes the form of a story of Ireland of to-day and ymterday, and shows so many superficial convergences with Mr. St....

Gs. net.)—Mrs. Humphry Ward's book is almost too poignant to be borne at this moment. Tho agonies undergone by a war bride whose husband is missing are only too faithfully...

of the Historical Association (Macmillan and Co., Is. net), contains an examination by Professor Firth of the accepted dory of the expulsion of the Long Parliament by Cromwell,...

(John Murray. Is. net.1—This wise and witty pamphlet ou " Church Reform " should be widely read. Mr. Fawkes disbelieves in s the agitation for narrowing the Church, and in the...

[Notice is Mi. column does not neresearity preelale tabrevient moles•.] The Council for the Study of International Relations ha pub- lished at 10 Adelphi Terrace, WC., a...

and Co. 14s. net.)—Professor Du Pleads, of the Dutch Reformed Seminary at Stellenbosch, made an extended tour of the Central African mission-field in 1013-16, covering a...

2c.), now in its twentieth annual edition, may be commended to parents as the beat guide to the choice of a school for a boy or a girl. It is well arranged and abundantly...

Which may be obtained at the offices of the Association, It Ec,cleston Square (Is. 64.), records excellent progress by this unpretentious but very useful body of women workers...

The "Rtudedt's Handbook to the University and Colleges of Cambridge (Cambridge University Press, Os. net), revised to June last, though tie " three thousand resident...

—Xirnenca, the stern Franciscan who at the ago of fifty-six was summoned from his cell to become confemor at the Castilian Court of Ferdinand and Isabella and a few years later...

Co. Is. 3d. net.)—Mr. Gwynn, in this new volume of the " Writers of the Day " series, shows himself at once a sympathetic and a severe critic. " Future criticism will not...