Lan- cashire Territorials for a mile along the ridge nearly up to Pas.eben- daele, the capture of the remaining enemy positions in Poelcappelle, and, on the left or northern...

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

part to challenge our success. By Sunday last he had collected enough reinforcements to make two resolute attacks to the north of the Menlo road, round Reutel and Polygon Wood,...

he dealt largely with air policy. The German practice of striking at Great Britain through its non-combatants, he said, would prove a terrible bootherang. " It is not the people...

vessel, and three fishing-boats were sunk last week by mine or submarine. In the previous week we had lost ten largo and three small vessels. Only two ships are known to have...

a firm hold of the southern part of the ridge, where it is crossed by the Menin road, the two recent attacks were designed to extend our hold of the ridge northward towards...

Fr MS has been a great week for the Allies in Flanders. They _L have dealt two more hammer-strokes at the German positions in the Ypres region, and in each ease have shattered...

Ypres, the Frenoh have had to deal with several German attacks on their positions to the north of Verdun, where the enemy fire has been heavy and incessant all the week. On...

Dominion troops are being made to do more than their share of fighting, the War Office has stated that since July 31st 84 per cent. of the men engaged in active operations wore...

of bombing Gorman towns on military grounds. And on those grounds we cannot dispute the decision. Several correspondents who have written to us seem to think that General...

the Roman Catholic Bishop of Killaloe's speech, we-expressed our curiosity as to the nature of the Censorship in Ireland. We have learned since from the Times of Monday, and...

the debate became the occasion of an important speech by Herr von Kuhlmann, the Foreign Secretary. He said that the Belgian question was not the chief one in dispute. The...

the German Government have yet made to divide France and Great Britain. It is quite trite that we are pledged to Franco. It is also true that we shall not break our pledge. As...

be regularly undertaken when there are not objects of superior military importance nearer at hard and when aeroplanes can be spared. To try to paralyse German industrialism is a...

Reicha- tag on Tuesday that there had been an attempted mutiny in the German Navy. The Russian Revolution had, he said, turned the heads of some of the sailors, who had...

obtain satisfaction for the unlawful sinking .of the Peruvian ship ' Lorton' by a German submarine. Uruguay has done the same for the excellent reason that she desires to show...

the Socialists and the middle-class parties. The Democratic Conference hold last week in Petrograd failed to arrive at any decision, but its failure induced the party leaders to...

died after forcible feeding in Mountjoy Prison. So far as we have read, the Nationalist and Sinn Fein newspapers are deliberately attempting to mix up two very different...

Order of the Day of September 10th which was printed in Wednesday's Times, suggests that M. Kerenaky at Petrograd first accepted his proposals and then threw him over. His...

Marseilles who was in the service of the- ex-Khedive, has led- to the discovery that he was a German agent. He obtained no less- than £330,700 from Count Bernstorff through...

Minister of National Service, he did not propose to drive any one, but rather to give a lead. He made no general appeal for men. " When I want men for a job." he said, " I...

week an account of the very serious deficiency in the food supplies of France. The harvest had, ho said, been the worst known for half-a- century ; the yield of corn was less by...

making bread. They may mix not more than one pound of potatoes with every seven pounds of flour. The Food Controller recommends the dilution of the wheat flour with maize,...

Lord .Rhondda has made a concession to the farmers as to the maximum price of home-grown beef. It will be remembered that the price of meat, live-weight, was to be reduced to...

of Oxford said : " The fundamental ground for the present demand for such Church refocus as will give the Church freedom to manage its own affairs is the sense that the Church...

on the whole subject of the situation in Ireland. Our readers will probably bear witness that for many months we have refrained from mentioning Ireland at all. It was understood...

Ireland. If we can forgive and forget such things, it is because Mr. Birrell might conceivably be acquitted as a " first offender." But if such things are allowed to happen...

Tuesday at the age of sixty-three. He was the second son of the Khedive Ismail, and was raised to the throne in December, 1914, when his nephew, the Khedive Abbas II., was...

followed President Wilson's general prohibition of trade with neutrals, except under licence. The object is, of course, to prevent the Northern neutrals from continuing to...

5th.

THE ANGLO-AMERICAN BASIS OF PEACE. we arc convinced that with America's help we shall win .1 the war, we are equally certain that with her assistance, and on no other...

W E desire to make a most earnest appeal to the Govern- ment fora very careful consideration of the case of Captain Bowen-Colthurst. We can well believe that the Homo Office,...

N the course of the past summer the Institute of Bankers I appointed a Committee to consider the question of decimalizing the present coinage of the United Kingdom. After due...

W HEN the Cabinet decided before the summer to increase the permitted barrelage of beer by 33; per cent. we ventured upon a prophecy. We said that although the Government spoke...

l'illiOUGH we touched on the matter last week, we 1. feel we must return to the splendid gift made to the nation by Sir Arthur and Lady Lee. It is the most far- seeing and...

[COMMUNICATED.] / THE appointment of Commissions to investigate the causes of industrial unrest was one of the wisest stops taken by any Government in dealing with labour...

times the menliou of an August holiday iu t h e High- t. brings to oar minds visions of station platforms crowded with eager sportionen, dogs and guns. But no such sportsmen am...

[To THE EDITOR or THE ‘. Seecrrron.") Si's—With regard to the false and seditious words of the Bishop of Endo° quoted by you last week, a reference to the Life of the...

must kindly allowed some correspondence to appear in the Spectator in reference to this cage, may I be given the opportunity of saying how grateful many of us feel for your...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often snore read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the spare.] THE SITUATION IN IRELAND....

Sui—Is it not sad that the love of justice for its own sake seem, to have no power to move English statesmen Their only care seems to be to pious° those who clamour. This is...

Eorrus or TEE II SPECTATOR:] SIH—SprilkillE at the Connaught Rooms on October 4th, General Sleets accused the enemy of being still at that elementary stage el development which...

[To THE Snares or THE SPECIATOR."l Sm,—The great Marine charities of this country have through long years rendered continuous and much needed service to the seafaring membors...

(To THE Ennui Or THE SPECTATOR.") • is seldom that a speech of first-rate importance contains e a many interesting historical instances and literary allusions as the one...

[To THE BOMA OP TAE " Ec. m o %."1 Sun,—I have no qualms about bombing German towns if thereby we can put a stop to the air-raid pest in this country. But before calling upon...

(To THE EDITOT or one " Sezereroa."1 Stit,—On getting in my pass-book, I find I have T200 surplus. If I buy War Loan, I shall be investing it to my own profit. If I give it to...

[To THE EDITOT OF THE "SPECTAT03."] Son,—The article on Mrs. Besant in your issue of September 20111 requires correction on one or two points. All will agree with your...

Sts,—I am sorry that Captain Williams-Ellis should think that any part of my letter in your issue of September 15th pallid:, of the nature of "nonsense"; but, with no desire to...

[To 7UE EDITO1 OF THE " SPECTATOR."' SIII,—Whet your correspondent " L. W." in the Spectator of September 11th appeals for the suppression of National Schemes in favour of the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATs,...1 Sot,—There is a point which I have not seen noted in the matter of Ifr. Brailaford's contention that Russia was equally guilty with Germany...

CT° ran Emma OP THE SPECTATOR...1 SIR,-1 ells much interested in your note to the letter on the above topic in your issue dated July 28th, and being an enthusiast, and in...

[To THE EDITOR or THE SPECS/TIM - 1 Ste,—The longer this war proceeds the more manifest does it become that, on the part of the Central Empires, of Germany first and foremost,...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE SPLCIRTOR."1 San,—As a long-time render of the Spectator, and as one who for an number of yens has been interested in the recurring anal keen controversy...

a mother—as well as grandmother—who has given hostages to the present war of diabolical ambition, the letter iu your issue of September 1st on " The National War Memorial "...

[To TIER EDITOR or sax "Sescraros."1 Sun,—It is a pity that either the " Westminster boy." or " His Father," or the printer did not look up the text before asking you to print...

Sescritos."] Spa—Australian mails which were sunk last month mutained the issue of the Spectator for May 26th. Thus the only intimation I have received of your review of my...

Sia—The following extract from n letter written by Sydney Smith to John Allen on Murat 10th, 1814, requires little alteration to adopt it to the present European situation:- "...

[To THE Enron or rpm bererrrox.") SIR,—Although most of us would prefer to have too many trees than too few, Dime is sound wisdom in what your correspondents have said as to "...

[To THE EDITOR or TUE •• SrECTATOs. - 3 SIR,-1 do net know from what "geography books" your corre- spondent takes his deseription of Heligoland as " a low-lying but the cliffs...

[To TUE EDITOR OF TUE •• SFECTATOR.”] Sta,--Allow me to thank you for opening your columns to a letter on this subject. At the outbreak of the war the British Dental...

[To TUE Eurms or our "Sencriros."1 Sta—Last Sunday I read iu church Mr. Lansing's address to Da. O.T.C. in New York, reprinted by you iu your number of Septem- ber 15th. It is...

Ifs THE EDITOA or THE " SriferATOS."1 Sis.—You have been so very good in grannies me spur V in your paper for two letters regarding the gift of fruit-trees for France from the...

[To THE EDITOR or THE SPECTATOR."] Sce,—Children's humour is so delightful, because it is so truly un- conscious. There is, however, in its reflex often a curious reflection on...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.“] SIR,—Will you let me draw attention to the happy influence if the regulations made by the Central Control Board (Liquor Traffic) upon...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECT/T02.“1 Sin,—Can any of your readers tell me when the practice origi- nated (and whether it is a correct one) of referring to the letter " aiteh"...

[To THE EDITOR. OP THE " Seeenvon."] Inc,—In his' interesting article, entitled as above, in the last Spectator Professor Hearnshaw observes that the word " hundred" is nn...

[To THE Emma or me " Seeerme."1 Ste.—In an article in a recent issue of the Spectator on the author of The Fairchild Family a letter from Mrs. Sherwood, dated MO, is inserted,...

[To THE EDITOR or THE SPECTATOR:1 think you might like to read the enclosed brief description of a lunar eclipse in Mesopotamia. It is taken from a friend's letter, and though...

[To THE Enrroa or THE " SPECIL7011."] Se,—elf the author of the kindly review of my hook looks up again the passage relative to Spolato ho will see that I was referring to its...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTSTOR.”1 Str,—There are, I do not doubt, among your readers many laymen D110 do not read Church newspapers, but who are interested, with great...

Tug article under the above heading, dealing with the desecration of beautiful places by the scattering of pieces of paper and other picnic debris, which appeared in our issue...

WIRELESS. EThewt.reless set mods Hielins, and meditstos thereon. Bolos mune what of a parvenu. his politeness tows rds the doyen of all signallirg methods is lockets.] VISUAL...

°wise to the large and continued demand for copies of the poem entitled " Christ in Flanders," which appeared in our issue of September 11111, 1915, it has now been reprinted in...

Tun leading article in the Spectator on the death of Lieutenant Hankey and his article "Don't Worry" have been republished as a leaflet by Messrs. W. Speaight and Sons, 98-99...

THE PASSING OF THE GREAT RACE.* IT is a curious fact that books about primitive Instil are multiplying at a time when modern man in his millions has reverted to primitive ways,...

or initials, or with in pseudonym, or are marked " Com- munierded," the Editor meet not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode...

Miss MARY-ADAM 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...

generalizer who, travelling in India and watching the grave faces of the poorer castes in the streets, asserted that Indians lack a sense of humour. Sir Rabindranath Tagore, eo...

Warlotyr any special distinction of genius or talent-, without rising to any very high place as statesmen, warriors, or men of letters, the family of Hotham have done something...

IF, as is sometimes asserted, there is one method of treatment, and one only, applicable to each and every topic, wo are afraid Miss Sinclair's literary admirers have a...

of the proper attitude of a Christian Church towards war, there can be no doubt that war is a searching test of faith and a supremo challenge to conduct. It is not that the...

Montagu of Beaulien. (Car Publishing Co. 61.)—Lord Montagu looks ahead and foresees that after the war flying will becomo an international question to be regulated like...

(Sake lAie column does not necessarily preclude saldesueni ' , screw.] Christine. By Alice Cliolmondoley. (Macmillan and CO. Cs. net.) —This very interesting and pathetic book...

WIrnham (I Murray. Cs not..)—In this a'ole and attractive book Mr. Whotharn suggests a whole series of administrative, financial, and economic measures that might help the...

scherzo, in which the hero endeavours to servo as model to an author whose methods of literary work will remind the reader of those of the immortal Bent Pitman in the sister art...

not.)—Miss Bethstn-Edwarda, who has done so much to reveal France to her countrymen and who helped to prepare the way for the " Entente," has collected in this volume a number...

SUMMER.. Mts. WrianTox's new novel is en admirable piece of literature. Tho simple plot is unravelled with ease and precision, and the passages of description show a keen...

— To English readers who want to understand our French Allies, so far as an understanding cal be gained from books, we would com- mend Mr. Jerrold'. most interesting volume. As...

611. net.)--'this well.vrritton pamphlet presents the truth coneorning the attack by Austria on Serbia which led to the Wee. The enemy statesram still talk of the " provocation...

in its useful series, The Commonwealth of Australia, by Mr. Evans Lewis, and New Zealand, by Mr. H. Scholefield (Allen and Unwin, Is. not each). These pamphlets give, in...

6d. net.)—Mr. Pollard's admirable essay on the illustrated books of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries has after twenty-four years reached a second and cheaper edition. If in...

5s. net.)—Mr. Robinson lives in an Elizabethan manor house, of which he gives us some delectable photographs, and he has found, that the old open hearths and wide chinmeys,...

Square have printed A Short Account of the Charity and Library to commemorate the bicentenary of the trust founded iu 1716. The Rev. R. T. Herford, Mr. S. K. Jones, and the Rev....

Co. is. net.) — Mr. Lucas's new volume of light essays, which are as usual very good reading, takes its title from a paper on Ihn KlmIlikanys biographical dictionary of Arabian...

patriotism, se commend to our readers Mr. James M. Beck's address to the Patriotic Service League in New York, which is published under the title Warns the Committees (Patriotic...

—Visa Doty, an American journalist, spent the summer of 1916 in Germany, partly in carefully aupervised tours, partly in visits to Socialist friends who were working secretly...

author of this book describes the increased material prosperity of Ireland in recent years and analyses it into its com- ponent factors individual private enterprise, the growth...