the Lusitania.' Before this famous liner sailed from New York the American newspapers had published an advertisement signed by the German Ambassador in Washington to the effect...

remnants of civilization the Germans allow to survive, all civilized countries are involved. We do not, of course, mean by this that they must necessarily come into the war, or...

and Germany elsewhere. We need only record here that President Wilson has sent a Note to Germany which asks for a guarantee that non-combatants shall be able to enjoy their...

up at the inquiry which is to be presided over by Lord Mersey. Was the reason that she was too early for the harbour tide sufficient for slowing down in the danger zone? Was it...

S INCE our last issue every day has been to packed with incident and emotion that it is difficult to see events in their right perspective. The diabolical crime of sinking the...

651, and the survivors number 772. Those who perished either by drowning or by the explosions were thus 1,134. Among the Americana lost were Mr. A. G. Vanderbilt, Mr. Charles...

been torpedoed off the Irish coast. No escort wan supplied by the Admiralty. Mr. Churchill explained that it would be impossible to send destroyers to escort all the vessels,...

this week's issue the "Set:crazes " will go to press on Thursday night to enable us to despatch the paper by all mails leaving on Friday evening, and also to ensure its reaching...

West Africa. He has occupied the capital, Windhoek. He found the town undamaged and three thousand European residents remaining in their homes. The great -wireless station was...

barbarous course of sending British subjects and French citizens from Constantinople to Gallipoli, which is being bombarded by the Allies. Sir Edward Grey has informed the...

could be learned quickly. We wish that we could bear much more talk of high explosives than of aliens. We wish that the Government would array the strength of the nation so that...

We offer the French our hearty congratulations on their progress. On Wednesday night they carried by assault the whole village of Carency and the wood north of the village. The...

them a retreat never seems to bare a demoralizing effect—are recovering from the German successes of last week. Since our last issue the Germans have entered Liban, but the...

German Government sent to America on Tuesday. In this Germany says that submarine commanders have been instructed not to harm neutral vessels, and that if such vessels should be...

battle may not be ended for several days. The posi- tion at present is that the Germans have made no real progress anywhere, while the French advance has been a brilliant...

we have said, of a threefold battle. On our right we have attempted an advance from Larentie and Reuse Chapelle, along the Aubers Ridge towards Lille. Oar attack began last...

'Luaitania ' was addressed to naturalized Americans. In the course of a speech at Philadelphia on Monday night he said i- " America must have the consciousness that on all...

Thursday. Signor Salandra, the Premier, was believed to hold strong views in favour of intervention in the war. Those who advocated neutrality were no doubt more powerful than...

at between the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the representa- tives of the trade were announced on theevening of Friday week In place of the proposed new whisky duties, which...

Grey from Sir Alan Johnstone, the British Minister at the Hague, describing the shooting of British prisoners of war by German troops. The despatch contains the declarations...

employers and working men, would administer the scheme, but while localities would be consulted and measures worked through local Committees, the whole supply of liquor in the...

on Southend. One woman was burnt to death in her bed, her husband was injured, and considerable damage was done to property, a timber yard and a boarding-house being burned out....

promised statement as to the treatment of alien enemies in this country. The Government propose that of the forty thousand non-naturalized aliens at present at large, all adult...

of the sinking of the • Lusitania ' and the employ- ment of poison-gas in Flanders, have accumulated throughout the week. On the more legitimate expressions of this feeling, as...

Maori,' a turbine-driven torpedo-boat destroyer of 1,035 tons of the " F " or " Tribal " class, which struck a mine while operating off the Belgian coast on the previous day....

Government. Though they bad up till now lagged behind the feeling of the House, and still more behind the general feeling of the public, he did not think any better plan could...

Aug. 8th.

GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES. PRE text of President Wilson's Note to Germany on X the sinking of the Lusitania' has not been published at the time when we write, but there is...

T HE torpedoing of the ' Lusitania,' the poisoning of our men in Flanders by the most virulent gases yet known to science, and the poisoning of the wells in German South-West...

T OWARDS the end of last year the Prime Minister appointed a Committee to inquire into the outrages committed by German troops during the present war, and the Report of the...

I N a letter which will be found in another column Sir Alfred Hopkinson draws attention to a very important step towards repairing one of the ravages of that barbaric fury to...

...A LTHOUGH his troubles were great, yet they were not so continual but that he had some intermissions." This was written of George Fox when he was a boy, and suffered tortures...

U NLIKE en English village, a Moravian village is an autonomous whole. It has its own Mayor and Council, and its inhabitants form, as regards their occupation, a self-...

THE LIBRARY OF LOUVAIN. (To Tax EOM{ or TIM ”Srsoraroa..] Sra,—In the Bulletin of the John Ryland. Library, Mani:Leger, just issued, will be found a short statement of steps...

I N Paris, ten days ago, on my way to visit the Urgency Cases Hospital at Bar-le-Due, I came across a picture- postcard, made in Italy. Biprodusione vietata, says the post-...

[To me EDITOR OP TEE " Sia,—The general anger caused by the sinking of the gami- ne's ' has led those who hare advocated the internment of the German - born, whether naturalized...

[To me EDITOR OF TOT " SPECTATOR:9 SIR, — Newspapers and clubs here teem with talk of what America ought to do and must do. Only Americans or those acquainted with American...

have read all your editorials under the heading of " A Great Danger," or something similar, and last night I IMO reading the last one which has come to me, of a date most three...

[To ran Earroa or via "Sracreros."] Sir..—I note in your issue of April 10th that you say you have no knowledge of the supposed British Report stating that the Belgian refugees...

[TO THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOE."] note in your issue of April 10th that you say you bare no knowledge of the supposed British Report stating that the Belgian refugees in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—I have read all your editorials under the heading of "A Great Danger," or something similar, and last night I was reading the last one...

rTo EDTPOR OP vas esexcerreasi Stn,—I have been reading, with great satisfaction and the respect due to so eminent a master of history, Dr. J. Holland Rose's Origins of the...

[To rat EDITOR OP PRI eerecrerea.-] Sire—In your article on the above subject in your number of May 1st you say that " Mohammedans themselves must, of course, choose their...

[TO THR EDITOR OP TIER "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—A few days ago I noticed a letter in the Spectator written by some one who was concerned as to the welfare of the birds in the battle...

[To TER EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Lieutenant R. W. Poulton Palmer, Royal Berkshire Regiment, the Times describes him as, and adds that he was probably the greatest Rugby...

[To TER EDITOR Or THI "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The fact that since the present awful war commenced several of its younger members had enlisted in the Britisk Army caused the Yearly...

PTO THE EDITOR Or MI "SPOCTATOR."1 SIR,—Some time ago you kindly inserted a letter from me appealing for support for the circulation of a pamphlet with the above title intended...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Decades of wealth, power, and prosperity have made the male population of these islands adverse to discipline, and the appeal to help...

[To :Ex EDITOR. Or TEE " SPECTATOE."1 SIR,—The Master of the Charterhouse really need have no fear that the claims of that well-known experimentalist, Stephen Gray, have been...

[To Tin EDITOR. Or TICE " SPICCTAT03."1 hope you will allow me to place before your readers the pressing claims of the Wounded Allies Relief Committee, of which I have the...

Passicswr ; LORD DESBOROUGH. Hon. SECRETARY : PERCY A. HARRIS, Esq. Hain OrrIcies : Judges' Quadrangle, Royal Courts of Justice (Carey Street entrance). The aims and objects...

[To TEE EDITOR Or TITS g•Srscreron."] SIR,—There are many claims upon the public generosity just now, and certain charities must be content to stand back a while in favour of...

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...

DR. SVEN HEDIN WITH THE GERMAN ARMY.* Ma. JOHN LANE need not have apologized in a special preface for publishing this book. It is a book which Englishmen will do well to read...

You, killed in action, leading men ! I hardly yet believe it true : For me you're still the boy of ten, Blue-eyed and curly-haired, I knew. You looked so gentle and so mild, I...

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

—as we think—condemns as unfortunate and misleading "the customary antithesis between 'American' and `English' literature." As he puts it, " the works of Anthony Hamilton and...

Perez Triana, who was at one time Colombian Minister in London, has collected under the appropriate title of Aspectos de is Guerra' a number of articles on the present war which...

[COMMUNICATED.] OwrNo no doubt to universal military service, the publics, tion of books, except of those connected with the war, practically ceased in Paris during the past...

a reprint of certain articles which appeared in the Evening News, together with a good deal of new matter. The writer, who seems to be an Italian, has, for reasons which he does...

ANDREYEFF, a man of about forty-five, is one of the two or three outstanding figures among the present generation of Russian writers. His reputation may be less to-day than it...

UNOFFICIAL* NOVELS with a. war motive are already beginning to pour from the press. Mr. Bohun Lynch, however, has wisely abstained from any premature attempt to extract...

society of which most of them know little, the great Spanish families of the sixteenth century. Her hero is Don Martin of Aragon, a descendant of John II., King of Aragon, and...

THE vivacious author of Sea-Pie went to sea in 1877 as boy- cook on a Grimsby fishing smack. In the course of the next sixteen or seventeen years he obtained a wide experience...

[Notice in this column doss not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] Boon (T. Fisher Unwin, 6s.) is a work of an ambiguous character. Its title-page runs as follows :...

1870, and went as an envoy from the French Govern- ment to Vienna and London to attempt to induce Austria and England to intervene in the war on the side of France. He...

fables Windmills (Martin Seeker, 5s. net). The reference in the title is not to Don Quixote, but, as we gather from a quotation at the beginning, to A Tale of a Tub. Swift, in...

writer of Starveacre is certainly at his ease in a dramatic situation. There are powerful emotions flaring against the quiet country background of Thunderton, and those...

Sons. Se. 6c1. net.)—" On the Shelf," says a contemporary writer, " we are alert in every nerve, and feel the life, what is left of it, in every limb. Some of us are proud to be...

and Co. 6s.)—There is some humour and some pathos in this story of Canadian life; but we cannot deny that on the whole it is lacking in interest.—Gold and Thorns. By Max...

collection of legal anecdotes, which met with some popularity. He has now brought out a second volume of them with the title More Anecdotes of Bench and Bar (Grant Richards, 3s....

Society, of which the Princess Christian is President, a specimen set of some of the portrait stamps which are being sold by them on behalf of the "Lord Roberts Memorial Fund"...