out of the remote oasis of Siwa, three hundred and fifty miles west of Cairo, and driven their main body into the waterless desert. Sayed Ahmed, the Senussi leader, was brought...

finished this year, the Allies must not hesitate to continue it. We must regard the question of an inadequate peace " with a square jaw " :- " For the sake of our own...

NEWS OF THE WEEK We are threatened with Food Shortage of a most serious kind. That being so, the Government should surely say : " Not a grain of food shall be turned into...

raids on the Western front, all of them flattering to British . arms. On the Ancre we have advanced since the New Year an average distance of three-quarters of a mile on a front...

convinced that the decision would be reached on the Western front :- " Do you think," the correspondent of the Haves Agency asked, " that the decision can be reached by...

overt act." It may be that it will come as aresult of the voyage of the unarmed American merchantmen into the death zone mentioned later. This passive challenge by America is...

though the submarine threat is of course serious, the increase of losses among Allied and neutral merchantmen does not anything like reach the figure the Germans contemplated....

to boast. We may be perfectly sure that he did not say a word more than he felt the situation entitled him to say. There is a kind of courage which does not shrink, however,...

in munitions, but we still needed more guns and more railways. The need of more guns will always remain, for we can never have too many. If we could make the sky dark with...

the remarkable expression of confidence which Sir Douglas Haig has used in speaking to several French journalists. Although this " interview " was not a military event, it has...

is much stronger in its tone than might have been expected, and protests vigorously against the barring of certain' zones to neutrals. The Note flatly pronounces the blockade "...

international hew was made known through the British Foreign Office a statement was issued from Washington with regard to the negotiations opened by Germany with the United...

their inability to follow President Wilson in breaking off relations with Germany, a neighbour whom they fear, the neutrals who are less directly menaced by German armies have...

seems to have gone rather far in taking counsel with Count Bernstorff and sending to Germany a suggestion of his own for a compromise over the submarine question. Mr. Barthelme,...

amounted to -£1,950,000,000. • From the beginning of the war to March 31st, the total expenditure will be £4,200;000,000. Despite a heavy-increase of taxation, the National...

matic relations between the United States and Germany Mr. Balfour has very properly taken occasionte-eonvey to Mr. Page, the Ameri- can Ambassador, the deep appreciation of the...

reached Switzerland on Sunday night. He has made no official statement, but the American correspondents who came with him report that the German Foreign Office, with its usual...

exemption from submarine attack, the German Government have stopped the exchange of British and German incapacitated prisoners, who have hitherto been convoyed to and from...

worked by American crews; sailed from New York fof Bordeaux on Saturday last, calmly ignoring the new German decree. The vessels are unarmed and unmarked, and, it is said, carry...

now closing. The result of the appeal to the nation's pockets has yet to be announced, but the omens point to a decisive success. The Loan was not only issued on more generous...

proposed the Prohibition of drink. We have seldom found ourselves in agreement with Mr. Leif Jones, but so far as his advocacy of Prohibition relates to the war we are...

headed " Mare Liberum," addressed to Germany by Mr. Henry Van Dyke, one of the most distinguished American men of letters, a former colleague of President Wilson at Princeton,...

the . tenches withouttheir rum, we have not heard' of any serious demand that they should be deprived of it. We should not support such a demand. Our soldiers have earned and...

love of field-sports, in Captain Bathurst's announcement in the House that .the masters of foxhounds have decided to hold fewer nieet.. to slaughter most of the hounds, and, in...

to the people to do without drink could be based only on necessity. Well, that is the very ground on which the Government themselves have based their appeal for self-sacrifice...

Year's Day, was issued on Tuesday. Non-political in character, it is in the main confined to the recognition of the war services rendered by civilians. The only peerage is...

the House of Lords on Tuesday by Lord Beresford, who, though critical, expressed his full confidence in the capacity of the present Board of Admiralty to overcome the barbarous...

sixty-nine we record with much regret, was the premier Duke and premier Earl of England, and- the unquestioned leader of the English Roman Catholics, in whose affairs he took a...

mer- chant marine. Since the war began, our merchantmen over 1,600 tons have decreased in number from 3,890 to 3,540, and in tonnage from 16,850,000 to slightly less than...

" Bread versus Beer " issue remains untouched. We have read the report of this debate partly with bewilderment and partly with humiliation. The only consolation in it is that...

THE LAST PHASE. A LL the signs show that the nations at war are approaching the final stage of the great conflict.. The beginning of the end has been reached. If students of...

O N Monday night Mr. Bonar Law asked for a Vote of Credit for £550,000,000, which is the largest single sum ever asked for in our history. In explaining and justifying his...

T HE Criminal Law Amendment Bill which the Home Secretary is introducing in the House of Commons raises questions of great importance from every point of view— moral,...

I T is time that attention should be called to the grave danger which Great Britain and her Allies are incurring through the popular clamour for the confiscation of enemy...

p ERUGIA has always been the home of a fighting brood. As one stands beneath the great Etruscan gateway, wanders down narrow alleys between tall, grim palaces, or, looking up...

W HAT is, sleep? Nobody knows. Every human being ex- periences it, and therefore knows - it at first hand ; yet no one has yet understood it or explained it, from the point of...

AN APPEAL. The situation created by the Shortage of Food and the continued destruction of cereals in the manufacture of intoxicants is so serious that we have determined to ask...

SIR,—In reply to a letter written by " An Officer in the Front Line " in your issue of February 10th, may I say that I have been in the trenches in winter in France, and was...

[TO THE EDITOR. OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The Food Controller has allowanced us in regard to meat, bread, and sugar. Asking my wife about our own household, 1 was at once told...

Sta,—After the silence of the daily papers, it is refreshing to read last week's Spectator with its protest against (ho present injustice of the food restrictions. Women are...

BREAD VERSUS BEER. [To THE EDITOIL OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sfe,—The country owes much to you for taking up, with a deter- mination that must surely win success, the cause of "...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.''] SIR,—Many years ago Lord Rcsebery (if I mistake not) said that if the nation did not throttle the Drink Trade, the Drink Trade would...

THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra,—The following extract from Bishop Berkeley's Siris (40) may be of interest at this time :- " But why should such a canker be tolerated in the vitals...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Ste,—In a footnote to a letter signed " An Officer in the Front Line " (published in your issue of the 10th inst.) you state inter alba:...

[To THE EDITOR. or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—I have just read in your issue of January 27th a letter signed by " An Officer on Active Service in France " under the above...

[To rue EDITOR OF THE " SPECTLTOR."] Sia,—" Why is the Church throughout England no longer that effective force and moral witness that it is meant to be ? " Tho reply to this...

ITo THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Your review of Mr. Crane's Church Dirisions and Christianity tempts me to lay before you a suggestion of a method -sehich has long...

(TO THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, —Are the members of the Volunteer Force expected, or invited, to join the National Service? Under the latter there is pay attached,...

" SPECTATOR.") have been reading with the closest interest the articles which have recently appeared in your columns on the subject of our national reorganization when peace is...

(To TER EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIa, Will you let me speak through you to your readers on a matter that is more than life itself to many of the mothers and wives of our...

Or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—It seems clear either that President Wilson has been plagiarizing from Dom Pedro, or that Mr. Frederic Harrison has been parodying the President. I...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sun—When this letter is read the time allotted for subscription to the " Victory War Loan " will have expired and thoughts will be...

[To TUB EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—As a country solicitor and trustee of a local savings bank, I have some knowledge of the ways of the small investor, and I believe...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The frequent references in your articles to the policy of President Lincoln during the American War, and his attitude towards the...

retaliation for outrages may be right or wrong, but the alternative you seem to recommend—viz., " a threat of punishment against guilty persons, however highly. placed "—is...

" SPECTLTOR."] SIR,—Let us hope we shall be as successful as Amphitruo in dictating our terms :- " Si sine vi et sine hello velint rapta et raptores tradere, Si quae...

SPECTATOR."] Sig,—May I draw the attention of your readers to a book entitled The Turks and the Germans After the War, written by a certain Ernst Marro and published at...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sm, — I see in the review of General Sir George Higginson's book in your issue of January 27th the remark : " The Duke in his old age had...

"SPECTATOR."] Sia,—When the problem of Poland is discussed at the Peace Con- ference after the complete overthrow of the Germans, the claims of the numerous Poles settled in...

Ta "BrECTiTOR.") Greece a short extract of Lord prospetts of that country, as reported by his friend Major I'arry, from their conversations during the last weeks of his...

[To THE EDITOR OF Ina " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your correspondent " Scotus " misquotes Hogg's song, " Cam ye by Athol," in one or two slight particulars. / The lines read:— " I...

allowed to point out that the American officer named Lee, who accompanied Major Mordecai and McClellan as a member of the American Military Mission to the British Head- quarters...

ins " SPECTATOR."] Ssa,—Perhaps you may think the enclosed letter from Salonika worthy of a place in your columns. The writer, a scholar of his College (Oxford), who took a...

Good morning, my loves. The weather has been so beautiful and bracing to-day. that I feel almost as though I were at home. I am very well now and happy, in spite of some...

[To MR EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —Some of your readers may be grateful to have their attention drawn to the following passage from George Eliot; which occurs in the...

[To THZ EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—In a review in your paper of Mr. Macphail's Book of Sorrow you refer, I see, to his inclusion of . Shakespeare's " Fear no more." I...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sse,—Your article on "A Crimean Veteran " reminded me that I had not paid my respects this year to the only survivor I have the honour of...

fTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Srn,—It may interest your readers to know that this morning I saw and heard a carrion crow on the tower of the Congregational church ....

Owixo to the large and continued demand for copies of the poem entitled " Christ in Flanders," which appeared in our issue of September 11th, 1915, it has now been reprinted in...

THE 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...

fTo ma EDITOR or 71(Z " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—A letter in your paper some time ago referred to the increased value of the potato if cooked in its jacket. I showed the letter to...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Yon may care to print the concluding words of the novel Richard Carve', by Winston Churchill, as bearing upon the present situation...

RELIGION AFTER THE WAR.• THE clergy are no exception to the rule that men of all callings are meditating how their own spheres can be reconstructed after the war. Here we...

CONSCRIPTS. " FALL in, that awkward squad, and strike no more Attractive attitudes! Dress by the right ! The luminous, rich colours that you wore Have changed to hueless...

SIR,—In your notice of "Recent War Poetry" in your issue of January 20th you quote the following lines from a poem by Mr. F. W. Harvey:— " To see above the Severn plain,...

name 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...

LEACOCE calls his new book Further Foolishness, and in a sense the title is true enough. It is a book which would probably have grieved the hearts of Herbert Spencer and other...

JULIET tried to persuade Romeo that his surname did not matter. To her he was just Romeo, and not a Montague. But modern man, in a society that becomes increasingly complex,...

AMONG the large supply of books poured forth from the press during the Tercentenary year, Professor Creizenach's survey of Elizabethan drama occupies a place of distinction. It...

Tins very shrewd and able little book deserves attention. The author begins by noting the strong points of Germany's economic system before the war, and then considers how we...

THE LEATHERWOOD GOD. - f Ma. HOWELLS'S recent volume of Reminiscences gave welcome proof of his unabated powers of thought and expression. We are not sure whether this story is...

most interesting book not only to the student of theology, but to the student of human nature. We do not remember anything quite like it in the history of religious controversy,...

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Gd. not.)— The revived activity of our long dormant Prize Court has reminded lawyers of their debt to William Scott, Lord Stowell. As Judge of the High Court of Admiralty from...

5s. net.)—Mr. Cobb is an excellent craftsman, but the present book, though accomplished, is not up to his usual standard of interest.-----A Little World Apart. By Ceorge...

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ucetim in this column does not ncesssuity :11J.14 Is xBaxp•a:a' rams The Cambridge History of English Literature. Edited by Sir A. W. 1Vard and A. R. Waller. Vols. XIH.-XIV....

and Tombs. 4s. 6d.)—Three of Miss Baughan's seven agreeable essays are enlarged from articles which she contributed to the Spectator. Soma readers will remember " The Finest...

Press, Is. Gel. net.)—This well-written pamphlet gives a dispassionate account of Irish affairs during the last half-century. It shows that if Ireland has a grievance, it is...

and Stoughton. 12s. net.)--The discomforts of life in Buenos Ayres, a great city in a new and rich country where prices rule high, are vividly described in this book. The...

mentary Guide. (Kelly's Directories. Gs. net..)—The January edition of this familiar work includes a complete list of the new Ministry, and in other respects is revised to the...