case.

Nv E deal on the next page with the evacuation of Antwerp and its occupation by the Germans, which took place ou Friday week. The results of the fall of the city have been moral...

has retired into France, and will there take the rest which it undoubtedly needs after two and a half months of bard fighting. King Albert is with it. We have no doubt that by...

newcomers to this particular piece of French and Belgian Flanders, and have not yet, we presume, had much time to dig themselves in, we feel quite sure they will give a very...

to give any coherent account of what has happened or is happen- ing in the Polish theatre of war, so conflicting are the Russian and German official statements. For example, we...

published on Friday an exceedingly interesting letter from the Hague describing the experiences of "a well-known Dutch journalist," who has lately returned from a tour through...

improved their position during the week. The well-kept line now stretches from Dunkerque to the Swiss frontier, and all along it there has once more been a slow but steady...

if it is as formidable as the Berlin reports allege, leaves us wholly unmoved. With the winter coming on, in a country of bad roads, the further the Germans penetrate into...

of the 'Emden's' collier. -On Thursday the Secretary of the Admiralty reported that H.M.S. ' Yarmouth ' (Captain Cochrane) had sunk the German Hamburg-Amerika Line steamer...

most delightful news of the week is that of the landing of the Canadian contingent at Plymouth on Wednesday afternoon. As may be imagined, the reception given to the Canadian...

the German occupation of Antwerp, but it was not until Monday that the full story was published, together with the news that in the last few days of the town's defence British...

near Trieste an Austrian cruiser had been destroyed by fire, which broke out on the scaffoldings. Though the flames were finally got under, the ship is said to have been most...

to Antwerp has been severely criticized in some quarters, but we do not attach much weight to these criticisms. Apart from the unlucky loss of the First Brigade, the casualties...

defence, and from that moment the evacuation of the city seems to have been inevitable. The Government was withdrawn to Ostend, and great numbers of the inhabitants fled along...

difficult and so anxious, and therefore necessarily slow, is the work of guarding and convoying a great fleet of transports), and though also the weather was very rough, the...

appears that no fewer than five aeroplanes were concerned in the raid, and that twenty bombs were dropped, killing four persons and injuring twenty-two. One of the bombs fell...

weather—something more like their own glorious Indian summer. The men, we are told, have only one regret, and that is that they were not taken at once to the seat of war. They...

little to report except that the vigilance of our patrols is as great as ever. The dread of the submarines, which has become some- what acute of late on shore, is largely a...

Aug. 8th.

of the Zeppelins, rendering transport by road impossible and camping out dangerous. Temporary sheds are handy targets. They must therefore make the journey at one trip from...

Pelesh, Sinaia, on Saturday last, in his seventy-sixth year, and is succeeded by his nephew, Prince Ferdinand, born in 1865, who married in 1893 Princess Marie, daughter of the...

drastic. Martial law has been proclaimed throughout the Union. Lord Buxton announces that the Government is taking the most vigorous steps to stamp out the rebellion and inflict...

of South Africa, announced that Colonel Maritz, who had been entrusted with the forces in the North- West of the Cape Province, had gone over to the enemy with a number of his...

gives an account of the effect of aerial bombardment upon Antwerp and other Belgian towns which is worth noting in this context, and should be read by those, if there are any,...

article on airship raids, with special reference to Zeppelins. The Germans, as the writer points out, are naturally interested in spreading as much dread of a Zeppelin invasion...

help thinking that it would be a good thing if our newspapers suppressed the weather forecasts and all information as to barometrical pressure, which are very probably...

Pallada ' in the Baltic on Sunday last. An attack by German submarines bad been beaten off on the Saturday, but during scouting operations on Sunday in company with her sister-...

RECRUIT ! RECRUIT ! RECRUIT! T HE time has come when we must deal with the recruiting problem in earnest. Our essential need is more men. Unless we can get them rapidly and...

Sovereign and his Consort deserve greater honour than the Belgians and their King and Queen. They have drunk the cup of misery and horror to the very dregs. "Their heads are...

T HE fall of Antwerp has, not unnaturally, set all our croakers croaking, and the pessimists have, in private, been indulging in a series of dismal prognostications. Starting...

In attempting to estimate the importance of Colonel Maritz's action his own personality must be taken into account. Not only has he behind him a record of hostility to the...

T HE long periods of darkness and absence of all direct news which add to the gloom of this war are illuminated by the flashlights of soldiers' letters. Letters of the deepest...

R EPORTS from a beleaguered city are necessarily vague and conflicting, but there seems little reason to doubt that one of the consequences of the siege of Antwerp ha, been a...

W HEN it was announced in April that the Secretary for Scotland had ordered a fresh inquiry into the case of Oscar Slater, the German Jew who was convicted in 1909 of the murder...

LORD CROMRR ON AN AMERICAN PARALLEL. [TO TES EDITOR or TIM "BPscrkrox.,"] Sin, I think that the following letter from Lord Cromer will interest your readers, and especially...

SIR,—Another of General von Bernhardi's books (How Germany Makes War, Hodder and Stoughton, 2s. net) has been translated ; and probably many, like myself, have been dis-...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — I send you an extract from a letter just received from a valued friend in the United States, resident in New York, and at the time he...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOE."] SIR, —Dr. Holland Rose hits the right nail on the head in his letter in your issue of October 10th. Just as Sir John French cannot in war...

statements in the Spectator that the sympathy of Americans is with the Allies in the present war, I enclose an extract from a letter which I recently received from a firm of New...

" SPZOTATOE."] SIR, — I venture to write to you, as personal experience gained since the beginning of the war in connexion with the lodging of troops in tents, in billets, and...

[To Tlia EDITOR OF THE "SPFCTATOL.n SIR,—Next Sunday week (October 25th) is the anniversary of St. Crispin's Day, on which five hundred years ago, lees one year, Henry V., with...

[To THE EDITOR OF THY " SPNCTATOlt."] SIR, — In conversation with a large number of people whom I have met in the course of some recent business journeys in this country, I have...

[To TEE EDITOR 07 THE 4 . EPECTATOP...1 SIR,—In your interesting article "At Loggerheads" in last week's issue you say, in reference to the German men, guns, aeroplanes, and...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTLTOR."1 SIR,—The real origin of "loggerheads" is this. A logger- head is a baton-shaped long peg of hard wood which went through holes in the thwarts...

SIR,—According to Tuesday's Morning Post (p. 8, coL 3), the Army Order which was said to have been issued by the German Emperor, expressing contempt for our Army, would appear...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The evils which have come, and are still to come, from this war are so much dwelt upon that a few good things arising from it are...

"SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—Seventy years ago Macaulay, in his essay on Frederic the Great, wrote :— " The King of Prussia had fully determined to commit the great crime of violating...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —Having regard to possibilities, it seems worth while to inquire whether hydrants and hose are fitted in and around the Abbey and other...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—To many outside our staple trade who read the Spectator it may be well to state just now that Lancashire is face to face with a...

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...

issue of October 10th your correspondent " E. W. J. B." has given an interesting nautical origin to certain words and phrases now in common use, but I doubt whether his...

GEORGE THE THIRD AND CHARLES FOX.* SIR. GEORGE TREVELYAN has now given us the second volume of George the Third and Charles Fox, which is the concluding part of his History of...

[To THE EDITOR OD THZ SPeCr►TOR."] SIR, —I should be greatly obliged if you would allow me a few lines, while thanking you for a generous notice of the above work, to point out...

THE CALL. HARK 1 'Tis the rush of the horses, The crash of the galloping gun ! The stars are out of their courses ; The hour of Doom has begun. Leap from thy scabbard, 0 sword...

singularly ignorant of the conditions prevailing in the youthful daughter or sister State which is in many ways so like the islands of the United Kingdom. This ignorance is...

Sin THOMAS FRASER'S reminiscences are in two respects unlike the ordinary military memoir. The book is as much a family history as an autobiography, and it contains no record...

THE eleventh volume of The Cambridge History of English Literature deals with the period of the French Revolution, and has for its outstanding names Burke, Cowper, Wordsworth,...

Tam purpose of this volume is to give from the reports of Courts-Martial which are preserved in the Admiralty Papers some picture of what the Navy was like during the period •...

Mn. FROUDE felt that the years between the defeat of the Spanish Armada and the death of Queen Elizabeth formed something of an anticlimax, and he deliberately refrained from...

THE HOLE OF THE PIT.• IT is an open secret that under the pseudonym of "Adrian Ross" Mr. Ropes has for many years contributed to the gaiety of nations as the author of scores,...

the great Tyrone family who entered the Spanish military service and returned to lead his countrymen after the outbreak of the Irish Rebel- lion of 1641. By the time he reached...

by Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton (1s. net each). By far the most interesting is In the Firing Line, compiled by A. St. John Adcock from the picturesque letters of our soldiers...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent reniew.1 The Clarendon Press sends us another batch of the timely and admirable " Oxford Pamphlets " on subjects...

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popular editions of General von Bernhardi's Cavalry and Major Stewart L. Murray's The Reality of War (Hodder and Stoughton, 2s. net each); The Kaiser Unmasked, a study of his...

Hall. 2s. net.)—A new and cheaper edition of Mr. Phillpotta's novel.—The Letter of the Contract. By Basil King. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—A sincere attempt to analyse the emotions...

owe to the Navy, there ought to be many interested readers for Mr. F. T. Jane's excellent historical account of The British, Battle Fleet (S. W. Partridge and Co., 10s. net),...

net.)—At the present moment we can find only an academic interest in this able American plea for a federation of the United States and the British Empire. We are reminded how...

(Cambridge University Press, 2s. 6d. net), is very well chosen, and would make an entirely desirable present for children of all ages from seven to seventy.

aesthetics is to explain the causes of the pleasure which we take in certain aspects of art and nature. Mr. E. F. Carritt has made a very creditable attempt to tackle this...

S. Eddington. (Macmillan and Co. 6s. net.)—Professor Eddington's learned monograph deals with times and spaces so vast that the mind reels before them—but they are a wholesome...

of "the dismal science," is also an enthusiastic admirer of the laureate of chivalry. In his essay on The Life and Genius of Ariosto (Macmillan and Co., 3s. net) he gives a...

writer on Egyptological subjects, and we can only call attention to the appearance of two trustworthy handbooks for beginners from his unwearied pen—A Short History of the...

be grateful for a sensible volume on Sick Room Cookery Simplified, by Mabel Baker (G. Bell and Sons, ls. 6d. net).

sound advice to those who have undertaken the bumble, but useful, duty of supplementing the work of the police.

Them. By Walter M. Gallichan. (Holden and Hardingham. 7d. net.)—How many of our town-bred readers can name all, or even a decent percentage, of the birds which they see in a...