place, the French, on its south side, have got far past the terrible, menacing underground fortress of Combles, for such in truth it is, and the time is drawing near when it...

wireless communiques from Berlin and Austria discrediting the Allies, or grossly understating their achievements ; continuous activity on the part of the Church and the...

effort of the Germans to recall the invading armies from Transylvania by a raid into the Dobrudja, the Rumanians are pressing steadily on to their main objective—the freeing of...

long articles on German propagandism in Spain. The number of German residents—mostly business men—has been greatly swelled since the outbreak of war by an influx of refugees...

is that it was achieved without great loss except to the Germans. No fewer than two thousand three hundred prisoners were taken in the course of Tuesday's and Wednesday's...

our troops on the South—i.e., at Salonika—have not been inactive. The Serbians on the left have been heavily engaged with the Bulgarians, and have achieved a position of decided...

• "H ATS off, gentlemen, to our French colleagues in the Great Push !" Like Wordsworth's " Happy Warrior," they are " daily self-surpassed." Throughout the week they have been...

or coherent account of the Greek crisis, for as we write no definite conclusion has been come to. M. Zaimis, the Premier, resigned at the beginning of the week, and though many...

Party in Spain, made a remarkable speech last Sunday. While supporting the maintenance of Spain's neutrality, Seiler Maura declared that it was impossible for her to continue...

case.

gives a striking account of the growth and importance of the munitions industry in the United States. He notes " with surprise " Mr. Montagu's recent statements that the whole...

deal of talk about the so-called seizure of the National Liberal Club, and also of the Constitutional Club, the Conservative equivalent to the National Liberal, by the...

innocent of the art of making munitions when the war broke out." The industry is entirely new, and the outlay on buildings, plant, wages, and systems of protecting works has...

it that Mr. Lloyd George, because he is a Liberal and a party man, should have vetoed a proposition obviously made on its merits, and should have told the War Office staff that...

tion for the Presidency, has undoubtedly suffered from the con- densed form in which it was transmitted last week. The President has been attacked for saying in so many words...

made about Mr. Lloyd George. Apparently' it is Mr. Maaaingham's pose to regard the Secretary for War as a renegade Liberal because he had the courage to insist that compulsory...

articles entitled " Ireland of To-Day," written by a correspondent. He tells us that the Ulster leaders are ready " to stand by ' exclu- sion' " of the homogeneous area of the...

over the National Liberal Club for an urgent public need received by Mr. Massingham,- -the editor of our Radical weekly omitemporary, the Nation:— " Really the seizure of the...

is the obvious fact that he is acting from injured vanity. With a pom- posity and folly which only rendered Win ridiculous, he attempted to veto compulsory service. He failed,...

at Edinburgh on Tuesday, reiterated his demand for a United Air Service. Discussing the last Zeppelin raid, he hoped that in future the Government would so strengthen our...

both Houses on the general situation was deferred till after the return of the Senate, but M. Deschanel, the President hailed the adhesion of Rumania in an eloquent speech. H....

having called forth a good deal of criticism and protest, an official statement was issued in Wednesday's papers. Allegations had been received at the War Office and in the...

our position better and stronger. When peace came the air service must be the last to be reduced, for we were n3 longer an island. Of our two thousand miles of coastline, at...

this week, for, by a lucky accident, the camera has given us a picture of a charge in which " the cavalry spirit " is epitomized in line and tone. Coming straight out of the...

July 13th.

the French front, was entertained to luncheon with his colleague, M. Albert Thomas, the French Minister of Munitions, in the casemates of the Citadel of Verdun. In reply to a...

Street Journal of August 12th summarizes the results achieved by prohibition and restriction in the various belligerent countries. Many of the facts and figures relating to...

an excellent letter in Tuesday's issue on the work done by the Army chaplains at the front. There were fifty-four with the original Expeditionary Force ; there are now over one...

of Ulster's attitude, for we have never failed to realize that the demand of North- East Ulster for exclusion for its special area was perfectly bond- fide. What, however, is...

A PACIFICIST PLOT. "Ye take too much upon you, ye eons of Levi." ?THURSDAY'S Morning Post contains an interesting article from its Berne correspondent, describing an article,...

M R. ASQUITH, who was sixty-four on Tuesday, would be touched if he knew how many people who never liked his domestic policy repeated to themselves the con- ventional good...

increase in prices. What is the good," many of them say, " of having 30s. a week instead of £1 when the £1 will now buy no more than 15s. used to buy before the rise in wages ?...

whole, and Germans individually, of the characteristic vice of envy, merely on grounds that have been revealed since the outbreak of war, he would risk from Germans the charge...

TOMMY." • tCOMMUNICATED.] T O all those who have endured hardships and privations in the great world war ; who have been, for months without end, on terms of tragic intimacy...

NE of the odd little outcomes of our social system is the frequency with which we find two women from opposite ends of the social scale, of very different ages, with no...

BELGIUM'S DAY IN BELGIUM.—A GREAT SPEECH BY CARDINAL MERCIER. (To THE EDITOR OH THE " SPECTATOR."] Sis,—We have now received some particulars concerning the way in which...

THE VOLUNTEERS. [To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sra,—Your article under the above heading has supplied me with the needed inspiration. I am placed in circumstances of some...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sm,—To the Englishman as to the American—though naturally in a smaller degree—Abraham Lincoln is one of the heroic personalities whose...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' Sra,—In three essentially excellent paragraphs in the " News of the Week " of September 2nd you speak of the Charing Cross Bridge. You...

" SPECTATOR.1 your interesting article on "Lord Wellesley's School for Administrators " you have called public attention to a grand scheme, which, though actually set on foot,...

[To TECH EDITOR OP THE " SPBCTATOR.1 Sm,—The fact that other contributors are making suggestions as to your terms of peace emboldens me to make a further one. This war has been...

[TO THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sur,—In order to substantiate the general remarks made by " Ulster- woman " on the subject of relief for sufferers through the Irish...

To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 have read with interest your footnote to a letter which appears in your issue of September 9th under the heading " The Saviour on Exclusion."...

THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sra,—It should be clearly understood that there has been no movement in Now Zealand for an inquiry into the Dardanelles campaign. No such demand has been made...

[To THE Eorroa or THE " SPEOTITOR."1 Sxn,—I had no intention of troubling you and your readers any further. I trust, however, you will permit me to ask Mr. Barnes-Austin what...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Bm,—It is a great oomfort to many of us to know that the Spectator is there at home, always ready to take up arms against all narrowness of...

[To THE EDITOR Or TEE " SPECTATOR. "] Snt,—All men fear. The difference between men's attitude in danger arises either from preoccupation or " soberness "—i.e., discipliner of...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Snt,—Most people who are able to think at all will probably agree with your correspondent " C. S." in thinking that for any one person to be...

SPECTATCIRM Sra,—Now that Rumania has joined the Allies, and Greece is on the point of doing so, only one country remains neutral of all those neigh- bours of the four Central...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] . Bra,—Lord Hugh Cecil will find, I believe, that an Act of Parliament would be necessary to enable Church legislation to proceed by means...

[To THE EDITOR OF TER " SPECTATOR:1 Sre,—At the National Economy Exhibition recently held several interesting lectures and addresses were delivered on economic and financial...

that this discussion which you have so usefully initiated -might profitably be considered from the townsman's point of view. The habit is the same, whether in town or country,...

[To THE EDITOR or TIER " SPECTATOR1 STR,—Will you permit an old reader and admirer of the Spectator to express a little regret that you should have given such prominence to the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " firscrAToR.1 Srs,—In these days your paper may have no room for a dog story, but I will venture to send you the following. On July 29th a lady was...

[To THE EDITOR OF T7IE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin.,—As some misunderstanding seems to have arisen in regard to the attitude of the National Council for Combating Venereal Diseases...

[To ran EDITOR or TEE " SpEoreroa."1 Sza,—The remarkable success of the National Economy Exhibition, which took place at Prince's Skating Club in June and July last, suggested...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " Brzerarort.") SIB,—It is possible that Cagliostro knew that Roger of Wendover, in his account of the naval action in 1217 between the Cinque Ports Fleet...

[To Tux EDITOR or THI Spzenros.1 Oh ye trippers ! I beseech, On the moor or on the beach, Let the relics of your meal, Paper, tins, or orange peel, Bottles you require no more,...

" POST-BELLU3I" AMERICA.* IT is clear that, independently of the normal and temporary ebullition due to the approach of a Presidential Election, American public opinion is...

SPECTATO3:1 &a, — Once again we hope that you will find space to insert a special appeal for gifts of clothes to the Clothing Depot for the Chelsea Belgian Refugees, which was...

JONATHAN, MY BROTHER JONATHAN. BALLOO, Boulogne and Blighty, that's what 'e sez to me, A-smiling from 'is stretcher as cooshy as c'd be A fag stuck in 'is napper an' a twinkle...

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

The writer of this notice once came across a perfect example of the form in a miscellany published in the second decade of the nineteenth century, but unfortunately omitted to...

pure delight, dealing exclusively as it does with beautiful examples, all of a date anterior to the fifteenth century. It is, as it ought to be, almost entirely a picture book,...

;MR. BRIxoc has written a most fascinating book upon the battle of the ;Marne. That dark spot in history under his touch positively glows and scintillates. His lucidity, indeed,...

written so many pleasant essays on the Lake country and the Lake poets, and has done so much to preserve that happy corner of England from being vulgarized, that this new volume...

BLOW THE MAN DOWN.t Mn. lout AN DAY is an American writer with a dozen or so of books to his credit, but we confess to a complete ignorance of his work until Blow the Man Down...

Timm new volumes in the " Loeb Library " for the most part cover familiar ground in a workmanlike manner, though without any very special distinction. To the general reader the...

(Garden City Press. Os.) —In this novel the lish people among the characters form an unpleasant contrast to the Australians. There is both a business and a love interest in the...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] The People who Run. By Violetta Thurstan. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 2s. ficl. net.)—Under this curious...

10s. 8d. net.)—Miss Czaplicka has written an interesting account of the Tungus, the aborigines of Arctic Siberia, among whom she spent a year in 1914-15. She lived for some...

of the India Office. Vol L, " The Mackenzie Collections," by C. 0. Blagden ; Vol. II., " The Orme Collection," by S. C. Hill. (Oxford University Press. 10s. fid. net and 12s....

(Nicosia : Petrides and Nioolaon. 15s. not.)—This book by a Cypriote lawyer is not meant to help a boy to do his Greek prose, but its design is to promote better relations...

(Hutchin- son and Co. 12s. 6d. net.)—The best chapters in this pleasant book of travel in days before the war are concerned with Rumania, our new Eastern Ally. The author, as a...

and Sons. 2s. 6d. net.)—Lord Burnham, in a prefatory note to this little book, says that the future of British industry depends less upon fiscal policy than upon the extent to...

Co. Is. net.)—The Curator of the Salisbury Museum has written a concise and scholarly little guide to Stonehenge, with excellent diagrams by Mr. Heywood Sumner. The chances of...

By the late J. W. Clark. (Cambridge : Bowes and Bowes. Is. net.)—This well-known and excellent little guide has reached its fifth edition and has been carefully revised. The...

Crush Prussian Militarism. By G. de Wesselitaky. (T. Fisher Unwin. Is. net.)— The well-known London correspondent of the Novoye Vremya has reprinted the address which he gave to...

(Duckworth and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—Prince Kropotkin has revised his thoughtful sketch of Russian literature for this second edition, but has not attempted to deal with his younger...

Subjects. By August Cohn. (The Council of Loyal British Subjects of German, Austrian, or Hungarian Birth, 13 Clifford's Inn, E.0.)—There must always be sympathy for the grief...

ls. net.)—This is a practical little book by a practical man, who describes clearly his own experience in Canada and in England, and does not exaggerate the profits of the...

(Routledge. 2s. 6d. net.)—This serious essay by the Professor of Neuropathy at Modena deserves attention. He rejects the theory that the war was caused by a mad Emperor, and...