-T "past week has been full of great events and of what are, or at any rate seem to be, the beginnings of developments on new lines. We have dealt in our first leading article...

first place, that if the German fighting vessels attempt to run our blockade of the North Sea, they are pretty sure to be mopped up by British cruisers which keep their vigilant...

the larger sense of the word. We have, however, had a very successful achievement from the moral, or rather fighting, point of view at Hoop. It may be remembered that on July...

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on Friday afternoon, and is on sale at all Messrs. Smith and Son's London Bookstalls and all London Newsagents. All country readers can now obtain the paper on Saturday morning,...

began a heavy bombardment of the fortress of Kovno, some cannon of 16-in, calibre being employed. For two hours the hurricane of fire was maintained. About three o'clock in the...

the staff, and the artillery work was done with great skill. The storm of shells which burst continually over the earth- works accounted for a great many of the German deaths,...

was announced on Thursday. The Admiralty communication begins by recording the destruction of a small armed patrol vessel, the 'Ramsey,' which was sunk by a German armed fleet...

Bug or some distance east of it remains to be seen. All that is clear at present is that to the north, in the centre, and in the south . and south-east the Germans are involved...

the usual heavy bombardments, but no event of any great moment is recorded. The Italian news also calls for little comment, but we note with great satisfaction the statement...

Canadian Premier, has made several excellent:speeches.. We have only space to note that delivered at Bristol on Monday • on the occasion of •his being admitted to the Freemen's...

great importance that newspaper readers should get the name of the landing. place at the earliest, possible date. At the same time, if the Press Bureau policy is persisted in,...

landing-place to the north was at Karachali, a place on the coastal road from Enos to Kayak, where it joins the road to Bulair and the rear of the Turkish positions in the...

the name of the landing-place in. the north was strictly withheld from the British official communication, though, as we have shown, allowed to leak out in the Turkish telegram....

hostile airships raided the East Coast on Monday night and Tuesday morning between 8.30 p.m. and 12.30 a.m. Fires caused by incendiary bombs were speedily extinguished and no...

which comes from the Dardanelles. Unfortunately, however, it is, as we write on Thursday afternoon, of . so fragmentary and ambiguous a character that it is impossible to state...

in the Baltic, in which a German fleet of nine battleships, twelve cruisers, and many destroyers were beaten off at the entrance to the Gulf of Riga. Three German ships—a...

regretted, the net result from a military point of view is most satisfactory. The efficiency of our land defences against Zeppelins in conditions most favourable to the raiders...

difficult to co-ordinate. In the first place it is stated that the Germans have massed some three hundred thousand men in Bosnia and Herzegovina, ready to attack the Serbians....

Convention, which forbids the taking of hostages, but pro- ceeds tie threaten with death any person who, having obtained knowledge of a designed attack of any kind, fails to lay...

has sent a remarkable account of the exodus from Warsaw, 'following the announcement of the authorities on July 15th that the official evacuation would• begin on Sunday, the...

obvious, precaution belongs to Prince Louis of Battenberg, who, though he privately advised a correspondent of the facts last April, withheld their publication till now from a...

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issued to the Fleet in the lest days Of July last year has now been cleared up. Hitherto the generally accepted view has been that Mr. Churchill issued the order to the ships to...

to the inhabitants of Warsaw by Prince Leopold of Bavaria. We say without hesitation that it is one of the most unjust and one of the wickedest of all the German violations of...

that the Germane have been well received in Warsaw and that the Poles look upon them in the light of liberators. We may be sure that if this were so there would be no need of...

Registration has been going the round of the Press. It appears that a young man not only refused to fill up his paper but crumpled it up and flung it back in the enumerator's...

in the Sea of Marmora was supplied by the Turkish official communiquis published on Monday, which announced the sinking, with most of her crew, of the battleship Hairredin...

THE WOLF BY THE EARS. T HE Germans have got the Russian wolf by the ears. That sums up as correctly as any such metaphor can the situation in the Eastern theatre of the war. The...

B EFORE the next issue of the Spectator is in our readers' hands the forms to be filled up under the National Registration Act will have been . returned, and that arraying of...

fairly familiar with the arguments put forward by the Parliamentary War Savings Committee in a series of excellent little leaflets, many of which have been much discussed in the...

• [Colistuivackren.] , MODERN German policy, is no longer guided by • intelligence, by the pursuit of the national interests, but by the momentary impulses of the ruler, by...

of articles may be quoted in whole or in part by any newspaper desiring so to do, provided that the usual acknowledgments are made as to the original publication by the "...

HOW TO FILL UP YOUR FORM. CUT THIS OUT AND II/DIP IT POE NATIONAL REGISTRATION DAY (SUNDAY, 15= AUQUST). THINGS TO REMEMBER. (1) GENERAL. (1) Keep your form of questions...

W E heard the other day an amusing story of President Wilson. On being pressed by an importunate inter- viewer to give his views upon woman suffrage, he replied: "I cannot...

1■1 A NY of the most romantic and picturesque titles hays already been appropriated. There is a sonority and Splendour in such names as Montrose, Clarendon, Dunraven, Fingell,...

PROFESSOR WHITE'S INTERPRETATION OF MR. HENRY JAMES'S ACTION. rTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SFECTATOIt."j have been asked so frequently during the last fort- night as to the real...

[To Tits EDITOR Or THE " SPROTATOR."1 Sin,—Germany has long clamoured for "a place in the sun." As a " place " which occupies this position Brazil saute aux yeux. Not only is...

[To !RR EDITOR Or TWA "Ersoveroa."1 SIR,—I am only an ordinary individual, •having no great acquaintance with Germany or the German people, but my limited experience entirely...

"srscrAres."3 "Army of Fiends fit body to fit head, Was this your discipline and faith engaged, Your military obedience to dissolve Allegiance to the acknowledged Power Supreme...

[TO 21111 EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Stu,—The Kaiser has declared: "Before God and history I have a clear conscience. I did not will the war." How similarly, in Schiller's...

[To TIIR EDITOR OF TUS "SPECTATOR."] Sia.,—The enclosed extract from a letter of F. D. Maurice to Kingsley (dated January 3rd, 1855) may seem to some of your readers apposite at...

[To TIIE EDITOR OW THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—As a constant reader of the Spectator and a mother of soldiers may I try to tell you how much the sane, hopeful, and manly tone of your...

SPECTAT016."] Sia,—Parallels to the Kaiser have lately been drawn from ancient and modern sources. May I submit to you a fresh one, taken from Plutarch's Life of Pyrrhus? I give...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Every decent-minded man and woman in the country is getting sick of the eternal cry in every paper for con- scription, while the gods...

[To Tar EDITOR OF TER " SPECTATOR."] SIE.,'"rAt this moment when Russia is bearing the chief burden of the Allied campaigns, many of us are anxious to give to the Russian...

[To TUB EDITOlt OP TER " SPECTITOR."] Sin,—Would it not be a good thing in coining more money during the war to carry on the idea which is generally attributed to his late...

[To Tea EDITOR OP TUE ° SPECTATOR:9 Srn,—Referring to the correspondence on the subject of a " Wratislas" dynasty in Bohemia and of a. branch of the Wratislaw family settled in...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE .4 8,XCTAT014"] Szn,,—I wonder whether many a reader of the Spectator beyond the seas (and we know that their name is legion) would not like to know...

[To TAD EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Perba,ps the enclosed extract from a letter written by a sergeant of cavalry, whose squadron is at present in rear of the' fighting...

r To TRH EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR,"1 SIR,—The following extracts from letters written from Dublin in 1803 by Dr. William Drennan to his sister in Belfast are of interest at the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPE CTATOR." Srit,—The letter by "I. B. H." in your issue of July 31st touches a very real evil among us at the present moment. Some of us are, in fact,...

[To TUN EDITOR OF THE "SPECTLTOR.1 Sin,—Where the ground is not too rough for the scythe, the easiest way to kill bulbs and perennials is to mow them con- stantly. If your...

correspondent "W. M." (Spectator, August 71h) has invited attention to an indisputable blemish in Lord Killanin's "Sickbed of Cuchulnin." I hope, nevertheless, that the article...

rTo TIM EDITOR OP TIM "8esersren.1 SIR,—Hymns are meant for congregational singing ; and it is surely mere pedantry to object to their wording being altered so as to adapt them...

[To TUE EDITOR OF TOE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Your correspondent in Northern Rhodesia writes in last week's issue that "there are a considerable number of district officials in...

[To THE EDITOR OP TER " STRCTATOR."1 SIR,—In the Spectator of July 3rd, which is the first number I have seen for months, I have read with much interest "Longs and Shorts." The...

and irregular nowadays, so perhaps shall be too late to recall Bacon's "Conference maketh ready man," and De Quinoey, in his essay on "Conversation": "Lord Bacon has been led to...

Sia,—It might interest your English and American readers to be reminded of the poem written by the American poet, G. H. Boker, during the time of the Crimean War. It is...

[To TRH EDITOR OP TER "SPROTITOR."1 SIR, —Whilst thanking you for so kindly finding space (Spectator, August 7th) for my letter, allow me • to correct one printer's error. I did...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Si,—In your review of Dr. Holland's Bundle of Memories, in last week's issue, your reviewer states with complacency that Doan Gregory used...

MEMORIALS AND MONUMENTS.* THE author of this book tells us that he has undertaken his work with a definite purpose, for be wishes to prepare the public mind on the subject of...

IN MEMORIAM. Lieutenant Frederick Edward Halton Sams, D.C.L.L, Athlete, Priest, and Soldier. [Born November 21st, 1881. Educated at Harrow awl Trinity College, Cambridge. Took...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—May I beseech ".C. L. G." to alter one atrocious word in his delightful contribution to the Spectator of July 31st ("Nairnelaire...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of...

PRESIDHNT ; LORD DESBOROUGIL Hon. SacarrAnx : PERCY A. HARRIS, Esq. HEAD Omens: Judges' Quadrangle, Royal Courts of Justice (Carey Street entrance). The aims and objects of...

Nov a few readers may be disposed to regard the title of this book as a contradiction in terms, in view of the dehumaniza- tion of the German people, and there is unfortunately...

a cookery-book written by a man and one written by a woman. To a man an excursion into the realms of domestic economy is a pleasant adventure. He can come and go at pleasure,...

Road towards .Peace which is of most immediate interest for Englishmen is that which reprints from the New York Times of November,and December lasthis correspondence with Mr....

quite been able to live up to the ambitious title of the book which be calls The Soul of the War, k but he has certainly painted a very striking phan- tasmagoria, based on...

IN his article, "Dwellings in Berlin," in The Town Planning Review for July (The University Press, Liverpool, 2s. 6d.), Me. T. C. Horsfall gives some interesting figures as to...

THE GREAT TAB DOPE.* Or the group of brilliant soldier-authors who have graduated in " Maga's " pages, "Ole Luk-Oie" has a place that is specially his own. He has many...

he is able even now to look on at the world with an optimism so cheery that we cannot but envy him, and sketches in his portraits with a laugh at his own, irresponsible efforts...

Stoughton. 6s.)-A swiftly, easily written adventure story of the German spy system in Con- stautinople.---711kont Nineteen, By Florence Warden. (Ward, Lock, and Co. 60—Miss...

upon Lowland Scotch as Spoken in the Lower Strathearn District of Perthshire (Oxford University Press, 5s. net). This is one of the first accounts that have been written of a...

Co.) is a good example of the careful writing of local and family history which deserves so much encourage. meat and imitation. The Calwich estates in Staffordshire have had an...

with China, writes in Our Chinese Chances (Chicago : Linebarger, $1.25 net) of the opportunities which American trade may find in China during the European war. Half the book is...

was translated some years ago by Miss Campbell Smith and has now been reissued (Allen and Unwin, 2s. net). The principles upon which peace must rest are stated in the form of a....

[Noties in this column doss not necessorilY preduils subsequent reuicts.] Here is a Rumanian folk-tale which explains why cats always like to lie and bask on the doorstep :— "...

1915 (Herbert Jenkins, 78. 6d. net), gives a con- spectus of the official calendars of the several universities of the British Empire.—The Christian Movement in the Japanese...

(The Map House, 67 St. James's Street), have just published for the Balkan Committee a most interesting diagrammatic map of the Slav territories east of the Adriatic, drawn by...