shipping laws, have never been great shipbuilders. That they will do all that they possibly can we are certain ; their spirit is " daily self-surpassed " ; but their yards have...

be represented at the proposed InternationalLabour Conference at Stockholm on September 9th (where they would meet representatives of Germany) has occupied a great deal of...

is that, after all, Labour here no more represents the whole people than the Soviet represents Russia. " The peal " in the fullest sense mutt rule. Labour, and specially...

invitation has not even the value it had when it was originally issued. The Soviet (the Soldiers ' and Workmen ' s Council) does not represent the Russian people, though it...

T EE weekly return of British shipping losses from the ' U ' -boat campaign shows that the position is still serious. Twenty- one vessels of over 1,600 tone have been sunk...

a more intensive Naval policy. As we write it seems likely that there will be much public discussion of an article vehemently advocating the some thing by Mr. Churchill. We must...

policy of passivity, while our merchant fleet is being destroyed at the rate of some million tons a year faster than new ships can bo built, spells certain defeat if it is...

important and delicate matter the Government cannot, without a repudiation of the first duties of a Government, stand aside and look on and accept or reject what fate may send...

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

at Queen's Hall last Saturday, the third anniversary of Great Britain's entry into the conflict. He pictured what would have happened if we had not intervened. Europe would have...

the ' Belgian Prince,' torpedoed by a German submarine on July 31st, is as horrible as anything that the war has brought us. The crow, with fireballs on, took to their boats and...

highly successful spring offensive on the Isonzo and the Carso and in the Trentino, which was printed in Tuesday's Morning Post. TIM Italian Army is fighting with the greatest...

in German - East Africa. With many small columns working from various points, he is trying to drive all the Gorman troops towards the Mahenge kills, south of the P,ufiji River....

week M. Kerensky, despairing of his efforts to Tome to terms with the Moderate parties, announced his intention to resign. The Provisional Government then called a Conference of...

the now positions which we gained in the groat advance from the Ypres Salient on July 31st. They had regained St. Julien the next day, but were expelled from it onFriday week ;...

on Thursday week of a declaration of war on Germany and Austria. Diplomatic relations were severed as long ago as March 12th. The final step was delayed by domestic differences,...

Sir Cecil Burney, who was Second Sea Lord, will be employed on special duty, and is succeeded by Vice-Admiral Sir Rosalyn Wemyes. The new Second Sea Lord is to be relieved of...

Empire and for Prussia. They consist, as before, of officials, with Herr Spahn, the Clerical leader, and another Deputy as Ministers of Justice, and one tame Serialist, Herr...

merely held Bixechoote, but have pushed forward a little way. Tho effect of the Ypres advance on the enemy has been clearly reflected in the comparative cairn now prevailing on...

retreat. The latest reports show that the armies north of the Dniester are fighting with something like their old vigour, possibly because they are now defending Russian soil,...

object- lesson both for Russia and for the small minority here who talk wildly of setting up " Workmen's and Soldiers' Committees" to work for peace. Russia had found that an...

one of the few very great speeches that have been made in this war. He invoked the memory of the Pilgrim Fathers, in whose spirit America bad consecrated herself to the task of...

Trade, and the great industries, has been appointed to inquire into our commercial relations with Belgium, and to promote trade between Belgium and the British Empire after the...

of M. Pashitch, the Serbian Premier, made a most eloquent and moving little speech—one of the finest that he has ever made—in praise of Serbia. "The nation that can sing about...

his new scheme for the better distribution of sugar. His main objects are to conserve supplies, to distribute them equally between rich and poor, and to keep prices down. lie...

suggestion of the Royal Commission on the Civil Service, has reported in favour of a revolutionary change in the examination for Class L vacancies in Government offices. The...

Queen's Hall was an event of international importance, as the Premier cordially recognized at the outset of his speech. Baron Sonnino, who is famous in Italy for his...

view with a correspondent of the New York Times, which is repro- duced very fully in Monday's Daily Chronick. He compared our present position on the Western Front with what it...

of the Strength of Britain Movement and member of the Committee, on grounds similar to those which governed the action of Sir Alfred Booth. Mr. Strachey's resignation is in no...

Ministries Bill passed through Committee, but the now Ministry of Recon- struction was sharply criticized, and a wrecking amendment moved by Mr. Hewins was rejected bya majority...

April 5th

COMBINED ACTION. A LTHOUGH the progress of the British and French Armies in Flanders and France is all that could he expected, although the spirit of our men is high and...

T lIE Kaiser's telegram of August 10th, 1914, to President Wilson, which Mr. Gerard prefixed to his revelations in Monday's Daily Telegraph, is something more than an historio...

T HE favourite excuse of those politicians and those members of the public who resist the imposition of adequate taxation for the purpose of paying for the war is the...

ORD SELBORNE did a useful service in bringing the .1-1 subject of Honours before the House of Lords on Tuesday. We sincerely hope something will come of it. At the same time, we...

S COTTISH myths and legends tell of exiles from Fairyland. Mr. Donald A. Mackenzie in a charming book for children called Wonder Toles from Scollisli Myths end Legends (Blackie...

Bistros or rat " errererea."t 5,74 — Every person, not being an American citizen, who lands in the United States of America has to pay as "Alien Head Tax," the sum of eight...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often. more read, and therefore more effective, than these which fill treble the space.] A PARSONS' AMBULANCE...

" But the Most High Cod made mothera."—Teomes ClAnLYI.E. N one of Mrs. Oliphant's novels, a book full of insight and pathos, there occurs a scene where a charming old...

to " Wanderer's" contribution on "A Cycle of Summers " that appeared in your issue of the 4th inst., I beg to my that I have got the records of British weather for the last...

(To roe EDITOR or THE " Seecraroa."1 SIN,—Your correspondent " Wanderer " does not give the locality from which his observations were made, which greatly restricts their value,...

fTo SUE EDITOR Or TEE SPECTATOR..] Bra,—Mr. C. H. St. J. Hornby (see Spectator, August 4th) can have no adequate experience of the risks that have to be run by those who...

Sin,—The correspondents in your issue of August 4th have perhaps not quite appreciated " Zero's" point. His trouble, I take it. is not so much the smallness of the profit...

city, as far as I have means of judging, coincides with your views as to the return of Mr. Winston Churchill to office. The news of his ap- pointment was received here, in many...

(TO THE EDITOR or THE "SeECIDTOR."1 SIR, — The letter of Lance-Corporal Richards is specially interest- ing to a Briton - who, like myself, has had the privilege of spending...

(To MU EDITOR. or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sre,.—In dealing with the above book by Professor Bones , Kumar Sarkar in your issue of July 14th your reviewer makes two statements which...

readers might like to see them Wraps from Canada to Britain, which appeared in the Doily Province of Vancouver.—I

who has been in hospital for the last year, has re- ceived wound gratuities amounting to .8230. Of that sum ever,' penny has been dissipated in harmless but trifling amusements....

(To rag EDITOR or tee . SPEcIATOR."1 Sra,—I have to-day received a letter from my eon in France (he has been there Since 1914) in which he says: — " To ray mind every man killed...

Courage, brave heart of Britain! Dawn will break! A little while to eager still And- then to wake Clear-aged from out 1115 dreadful dream Of blood and flame, Clean-souled. To-...

LTo rag Ensues or THE "SPECTATOR."J Ste, — Ia your last comments on the "News of the Week " you quote Sir Erie Geddes's smiling admission that (like most railwaymen) lie had...

(To TEE EDITOR or EDE " Sreenrort."1 Sra,—On November 2nd, 1852, Macaulay thanked his constituents in Edinburgh for re-electing him a member of the Hones of Commons. The...

(To TEE Enema or THE " Sermo.rox."1 Ent,—In last week's Spectator you published a letter from an American correspondent on the Irish question, and added a note to the effect...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") Stn,—I notice in the Spectator's columns that the Wesleyans are scheming to utilize the gifts of our wounded soldiers and sailors in the...

[To sae EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.') Sia,—You ask in your article on adoption whether the epidemic of adoption is going to stay. There are many obvious reasons why a childless...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sm,—Referring to the interesting correspondence in the Spectator recently regarding the Besides in France, I take the liberty of rending you...

(To THE Emma OP THE "SPECTATOR.") Fie,—There is one passage in your review of Tasks and Visions in last week's issue which explains why the Church has lost much of its former...

(To ran EDITOR or THO SPIGTATOS."1 Sie,—In a recent review in your paper of The Devout Lady, by Mrs. Skrine, the writer says, with reference to the chapter upon Mary Martha...

"Sreersroa."1 Sin,—On July 5th the Lord Mayor convened a meeting at the Mansion House to inaugurate the "King George's Fund for Sailors," when he was supported by Sir Edward...

BACK TO. LONDON: A POEM OF LEAVE. I nave not wept when I have seen My stricken comrades die; I lave not wept when we hove made The place where they should lie; My heart seemed...

" SPECTATOR:1 Ste,—In Fielding's Essay on Conversation we read :— " When dinner is on the table and the ladies have taken their places, the gentlemen are to be introduced into...

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

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

A GREAT FRENCHWOMAN.. Ws: are glad to see this interesting biography of Mane. Adam, ono of the most remarkable women of our time. She has played considerable part in French...

the Archbishop of Canterbury con- tributes to this book (and a hook to which his Grace has done that honour is very like a black swan) he speaks of its maimed "rare power of...

NEARLY throe years have passed since Marechal Joffe) fought and won the gigantic battle of the Marne, the first and also the last open battle fought in the West by the massed...

(Duckworth and Co. 6s.)—An interesting and elaborate study of the personality of the hero. Incidentally it illustrates the extreme inconvenience which would ensue--besides other...

THE GERMANS IN CORK.• THE ides on which this amusing little volume is based is that Ireland has come under German control and is losing educated in the most approved system of...

Tillg Oxford University Press has been happily inspired in securing Mr. William Crooke to edit this interesting and amusing little classic of early Anglo-Indian literature for a...

congratulated on its determination to teach the history- of its famous city in its elementary schools, and also on the book which Miss Henderson has written for the purpose. So...

—Mexico, except as a refuge for Gorman plotters, is at present in the hackgrotuid, but any day She may give liar neighbours fresh cause for complaint. Mr. Spence knows Mexico...

attractive and interesting book from the documents, which no one before her had studied with care. Her history begins with the landing of Columbus its 1401 and ends with the...

Stoughton. 10s. Od. net.)—The late Edward Bowden and Richard Garnett, and Mr. W. M. Rossetti, who is still with us, interchanged ,e correspondence about Shelley, especially in...

10s. ed. not.)—The history of the Irish postal route from the earliest days to the present time is carefully narrated in this inform- ing volume, which incidentally deals with...

Wake in Ws ,crams deer set neeetaarey preclude retreat reeien,1 We have received the first number of an excellent now monthly, The New East, written in English with a Japanese...

Rev. J. R. Cohn. (Church Book Room. 154—This little book, divided into three chapters on the New Testament " Bishop," the Catholic Bishop, and the Anglican Bishop, puts briefly...

Muirhead Bone. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6d. net.)—Captain Montague's vivid little essay will save our soldiers the trouble of answering the question that all their friends ask...

Co.)—Marry people will not like the stories in 7'citunice Two to less for their sent'unentality. Individually, they are funny, but are a little too much alike in tone to bear...

late Canon Barnett. Edited by his Wife. (1s.)—Mrs. Barnett has put together, as a memorial of her husband, soma of the late Canon's sermons and letters, in a little volume,...

Jenkins. 12s. 8d. net.)—In this elaborate volume, half filled with portraits and illustrations, Mr. Calvert records the history of English Free- masonry from 1717, to...

Visitors' Edition. (Horace Marshall and Son.)—This little pamphlet is intended for very poor, or rather very ignorant, mothers. The advice and information which it gives are...