case.

the Central Association can get sufficient money for its work it may be able to do what, though it seems in one sense a humble thing, may yet prove most important. If it fails...

W E desire to draw the special attention of the readers of the Spectator to the appeal which we make in our first leading article. It is for funds to help the Central...

of the existence of these bodies if they are properly organized and disciplined, no one, again, can deny that they would be a cause of danger and confusion if their energies...

vessels engaged. To this wise reticence no sane man will make any objection whatever—till, of course, the facts are published in Germany and America, which presumably they...

in order but first in importance comes the naval victory off the Falkland Islands. No summary of this news can better the Admiralty's own report, which is splendid in its...

population of, say, thirty thousand people to do some definite piece of military work would in all proba- bility result in nothing, or very little. If, however, there are a...

of arms and worthy of the best traditions of the Navy. While recording it we must be allowed to protest against the talk of injudicious and ignorant people who have been saying...

the people of South Africa, which announces that the rebellion is now practically at an end. The gallant General and Prime Minister of the Union appeals to the people "to...

very little doing during the week in Flanders, but in the centre of the French line—that is, in the Reims district—we hear of many German trenches being carried and of their...

Islands which has touched us deeply, and which we are sure will touch the whole of our countrymen, has been the chorus of delight—no other phrase will do—with which the...

we earnestly hope that it may be found possible for the Union Government to spare the life of General De Wet. It is not a matter on which the Imperial Government can dictate to...

able review of the King's visit to the front. On Monday, November 30th, the King was received with great enthusiasm at headquarters. On Tuesday, December let, accompanied, as on...

be confessed that the news is not as satisfactory as one hoped it might have been, there is nothing which should cause least anxiety. All that one can say is that the Russians...

and the special correspondent of the Times says that the third Austrian invasion of Serbia seems likely to be a greater dad cle than the first. When the Serbs recently retired...

must record that the ' Scharnborst ' and Gneisenau ' were cruisers of 11,400 tons displacement, the ' Leipzig' of 3.250 tons and the Narnberg ' of 3,450 tons. It is to be feared...

on December 5th be conferred a Victoria Cross on one of the first Indian soldiers to earn this decoration since the announcement at the Delhi Durbar that the Indian troops would...

" Eyewitness " of the recent character of the fighting in Flanders. It was dated November 29th, and said that the preceding days had been days of peace compared with the heavy...

rebellion, was drowned in the Vaal on Tuesday. He tried with some of his followers to swim across the river, which was in flood. His horse was shot. He then supported himself by...

28th) on the journals which preached open sedition in Ireland these journals have all been suppressed. The daily newspapers also seem to have ceased reporting seditious...

a letter, written on October 14th, which he had received from the late Admiral Mahan. Admiral Mahan says that he was surprised that the torpedoing of British men-of-war by...

the offerings of the Dominions and Colonies to Britain since the beginning of the war. It is a most gratifying and touching catalogue. The generous gifts of the large Dominions...

the King in the welfare of the Army has produced a deep impression on officers and men. We do not wonder. It is impossible to imagine a better-worded message. The touch about...

of the forces (dated November 17th) describing an incident at the front which will warm the blood of all West-countrymen, and in a very special degree that of the men of...

Aug. 8th.

HOME GUARDS—AN APPEAL. W E publish elsewhere an appeal from the Central Association of Volunteer Training Corps for funds to enable them to carry out the difficult and...

"The attack or bombardment, by any means whatever, of undefended towns, villages, dwellings, or buildings is forbidden." (Article 25.) " The giving over to pillage of a town or...

T HREE months ago—to be precise, on September 12th— we published an article entitled " A Word to America." In that article, with all the emphasis at our command, we urged...

cynicism caused the war was provided in the remarkable statement which Signor Giolitti, the ex-Prime Minister, made in the Italian Chamber last Saturday. He said :- " Oa August...

moved and gratified at the way in which the Boer population of South Africa has rallied to the Empire. Almost equally gratifying is the attitude of the Sudanese chiefs and...

S O vague have been the rumours about the enormous new German siege guns of 42 cm., or 16.5 in. (frequently spoken of as 17 in. guns), that we come across what looks like highly...

O UR national individuality has been threatened, with the result that all English institutions are at this moment specially dear to the Englishman. We are prepared to defend...

T HE theatre has become the most grasping of the arts. In the full flush of its renaissance it seems to feel that there is no field of activity over which it cannot stretch its...

CENTRAL ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTEER TRAINING CORPS. [To TER EDITOR or "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Though the Volunteer Training Movement is only some four months old, it has been...

[To 11717 EDITOR OF 1111 "SPEOTLTOR."] Sin,—Sounds are audible, not too load as yet, of a newspaper clamour for definite instructions from the Government as to what civilians...

[To Tat EDITOR Or rat "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—Taking the interest that you do in recruiting, it may be worth asking you to call attention to a matter of detail in regard to the...

[To TIM EDITOR or TH3 "svEcrsroa."] Sin,—Let us not forget Lord Roberts, nor his plea for com- pulsory National Service. We do not want conscription ; but let the men be...

[To THI EDITOR 07 TIM "EirEcrAroa."] SIR,—In your article of last week headed "The Policy of Mystification " you say : " Such censorship as has been exercised in our columns...

[To rat EDITOR Or TEM " SPRCTATOR."1 SIR,—In view of the articles and letters appearing at this time in the Spectator on the subject of recruiting, I think the enclosed...

SIR,—A phrase in one of Cicero's letters to his brother Quintus seems accurately to foreshadow and justify the action taken by the Censorship in regard to a recent rumoured...

[To TUT EDITOR OP THY " SPECTATOR...1 Sin,—It is the fashion with certain writers and newspapers to disparage the priceless work done in this war by the British Navy. Those...

]TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—The following passage from Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy, written in 1869, ia, I think, interesting, not only as showing the...

that the Censor transferred some of the energy he is at present expending in suppressing news to the task of preventing items like the following being circulated in provincial...

[To TER EDITOR OT TEE "Sritorkroa."] Sin,—From the enclosed circular you will see that a Public School Battalion is being raised for service with the Royal Naval Division....

[To TIER EDITOR OF TEl "SPECTATOR "] SIR, —The difficulty of reconciling " culture" in the English sense with war in the German manner must indeed have troubled many an...

[To TER EDITOR 01 IRS "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Perhaps you may consider the following extract from Lockhart's Life of Napoleon of interest. The characteristics of Napoleon the...

[To TIM EDITOR or TR1 "SrECTATOR."] Sur.,—In your issue of December 5th you refer in an article on "The Waste of War" to the action of the Government in regard to their...

[TO TEN EDITOR 07 TEl "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I invite attention to a point that may have escaped other readers P It may, of course, be no more than a coinci- dence, but...

[To TER EDITOR or TER " SPACTATOR..] SIR, —A great deal of attention has been devoted in the Press to Army contracts. Various complaints have been received by the Secret...

[To TER EDITOR or TH1 "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—Enclosed find draft for £5 to be applied as you may deem best in the interest of the British soldier.—I am, Sir, &c.. FRANK...

*• brECTATOR."] SIR,—It is one of the misfortunes of the war that it so absorbs the attention of all of us that other matters, though of real importance, slip by unnoticed....

[To TER EDITOR OF THY "SPECTATOR."] Stu,-11r. W. H. Dawson's book, which is reviewed in your Literary Supplement of November 21st, is, as you say, "a mass of information," and...

(To TRIt EDITOR Or THII SPICTATOR.' • ] SIR,—All Germans who are Christians should take heed of what St. John says in his first Epistle (see the lesson for this morning): "...

[To ma 11.1105 Or SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I should be obliged if I may claim once more the hospitality of your columns to make an appeal on behalf of the British Field Hospital...

To Ina EnrIen OF TI71 " SPECTATCR."1 SIR,—Your reviewer of my book Animal Sculpture (Spectator, December 5th) is quite right in saying that the horse in Verrocchio 's statue...

[To ILI EDITOR OF Till "Srrcorsr0n. - 1 Sin,—I gather from your note at the end of the letter last week from Miss Ellen C. Tait, on the training of young girls for domestic...

(To 211Z 11)1101 F THE " SPECIATOR."1 Sma,—The increase in the number of women entering upon the study of medicine in London makes it urgently necessary to increase the...

[To THE Ernes OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIR, —May I venture to point out a misquotation in the usually accurate and scholarly Spectator ? In your issue of December 5th you say on p....

NELSON'S STRAIT. Tux Merchant Service scores again, although it isn't long Since very pretty news came through from far-away Hong Kong. The sailormen were happy then ; they...

• THE NATIONAL LOAN EXHIBITION. THE pictures by the Old Masters now being shown at the Grosvenor Gallery have all been lent' by members of the Morrison family, and come...

PRESIDENT ; LORD DESBOROUGH. HON. SECRETARY : PERCY A. HARRIS, Esq. READ OFFICES : Judges' Quadrangle, Royal Courts of Justice (Carey Street entrance). The aims and objects of...

ITo THE EDITOR Or THE "STECTATOIL."1 Sin,—Might I ask you to make known in your columns my appeal for a typewriter in good condition for use in the Hopital des Allies Blesses...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, cr are marked "ComMunicatect," the Edqor must not necessarily le held to be in .agreement with the views therein expressed or with the nettde...

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

THE HARRYING OF BELGIUM" MR. ALEXANDER POWELL'S Fighting in Flanders is unques- tionably one of the most memorable books of first-hand description dealing with the war which...

is already of formidable dimensions, and, as a necessary consequence, it includes works good, bad, and indifferent. Mr. Eric Parker's contribution, though modest in its scope,...

BEATSON'S study of Wellington's brief campaign in the Pyrenees, after the splendid British success at Vittoria, is a capital example of a soldier's close and industrious...

Tun new volume of the Round Table maintains the high quality of this most detached and most political of the quarterlies. Sound information and true insight are its watchwords....

ourselves by an Indian Chief we need to be told something about him beforehand. Lord George Hamilton has given us just what we want in his intro- duction to Impressions of...

MR. EDMUND DULAC is quite at his best in the illustrations he has provided for Sindbad the Sailor, and other Stories front the Arabian Nights (Hodder and Stoughton. 15s. net)....

SOME MORE CHILDREN'S 1300ItS.* The Dauntless Three' is an entertaining story about two boys, twins of thirteen, and a girl neighbour of fourteen. The scene is laid in a North of...

Dunlop. (Duckworth and Co. 3s. 6d. net.) —This artist's black-and-white work is attractive and full of fanciful detail, but the coloured pictures are spoilt by the lurid glare...

THE UNPETITIONED HEAVENS.* Mn. MARRIOTT, whose first novel appeared in. 1901, has already some twenty volumes to his credit, but it would be a great injustice to regard him...

Florence Anderson, and Black-and-White Illustrations by Clara Shirley Hayward. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 6s. net.)—The machinery of fairy-tales is here used in the...

by J. Hancock. (John Lane. 6s. net.)—This is a book about children and fairies to be read by parents. In it Mrs. Woods shows us to what sad straits want of imagina- tion may...

(John Lane. Ga. net.)—This is another 'handsome and " important "-looking gift-book. It is com- posed of a number of short stories, written in a pleasant conversational style,...

M Dent and Sons. 3s. 6d. net.)—Some of these little poems are pathetic, others are lively, but they are all concerned with the appeal of childhood to the rest of the world,...

most useful to junior officers, and the numerous civilians who are now engaged in the training of volunteer corps. Squad Section, Platoon, and Company Drill Made Easy (1s. 6d....

Sinclair's book is as clever as can be. She -writes well, and has a fluent mastery of her emotion and expression ; and she has emphasized delicately and distinctly the...

(The Times, 10s. 6d. net) contains much valuable information and numerous illustrations; but of course it is impossible as yet to write anything about the war which can...

are serving their country," The Happy Warrior, by We Hon. Mrs. Gell (A. R. Mowbray and Co., 2d. net paper, 6d. net cloth), contains the last words written for publication by...

praise which the publishers bestow on Miss Sedgwick's new novel is justified. It is quite true that she has the power of " dramatically interpreting an idea" : she has also, as...

translate The Complete Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Macmillan and Co., 8s. 6d. net) into modern English prose— even for American readers. A very little study would...

[Notice in lids column does act ozccescurily preclude subsequent review.] The Volunteer Training Corps Gazette (Id. weekly ; Offices,. 76-78 Clerkenwell Road, London, E.C.), the...

deserves' and we are glad to receive a competent translation of _t mile Verhaeren, by Stefan Zweig. In the same series are issued enonographs rn Balzac and Flaubert, by M. Emile...

stet), is an impressive picture of the Last Judgment, in which various types of our civilization-such as the Plutocrat, the Agitator, Circe and Mrs. Grundy, Caesar and the...

is Francois Bernier's Travels in the Mogul Empire, A.D. 1656-1668 (Humphrey Milford, 6s. net). This handy edition is revised by Mr. Vincent A. Smith from the version of...

Miss West used the blue pencil too freely for the taste of his friends. She has now produced a second series of these Fragments from Old Letters (J. M. Dent and Sons, 4s. 6d....

can only mention Mrs. C. C. Stopes's collection of Tapers on Shakespeare's Environment (G. Bell and Sons, 7s. 6d. met), embodying many results of original research ; a scholarly...

will welcome a new volume of his essays on occult subjects, The Unknown Guest, ably translated by Mr. A. Teixeira de Mattos (Methuen and Co., 5s. net). It deals with phan- tasms...

Co., 16s. net), is a discursive gossip on feminine charac- teristics and activities in many lands, in the author's well- known style. Twenty-one of Mr. W. K. Haselden's humorous...