demands from both the Right and the Left that the Govern- ment should disclose their aims in the war by refusing to say any- thing. The Junkers complain that he is controlled by...

on Wednesday night, shows a further improvement. The number of railings and arrivals was higher than in the previous week, though not quite so high as in the week before that....

British waters of a flotilla of United States destroyers to co-operate with the Navy. Rear-Admiral Sims of the U.S. Navy is in general command of the .American naval forces...

T HE news from the Western front is a record of eentinuous counter-attacks during the week delivered by the Germans and successfully resisted by our troops. The weight and fury...

few hours between Lens and Vimy. We were compelled to yield a portion of ground as the result of- the third attack. Sir Douglas Haig diverted some German attention from this...

the Socialists consented to join the Provisional Government. The composition of this Coalition was annoa need in the papers of Thurs- day. Prince Lvoff is still Prime Minister....

a heavy blow to the beliefs of Pacificists. They had persuaded themselves that Germany, having " learnt her lesson," was ready to come to terms. But there is not a trace of this...

have been watched with deep sympathy here, and we are glad to say that events point to success in spite of the disappearance or threatened resignation of statesmen and Generals...

of their new blow on the Isonzo. They have taken not only some important tactical positions, but three thousand three hundred and seventy-five prisoners, including ninety-eight...

give definite orders to their newsagents for a copy of the " Spectator" to be reserved for them each week till countermanded.

these words unties our tongue. For the last two years we have been wondering why the attacks on Zeebrugge have always been so tentative and so half-hearted in character—why,...

come of newspaper writing in regard to the engineers' strike, or from discussion of what are the various causes at work. At bottom the movement is due to the desire of a certain...

publish, and Reuter's Agency to despatch here, the following very frank and, in our opinion, well-justified criticism of the Zeebrugge bombardment :— " Foresight would have...

only say that though we have not much hope of any result from it, no sensible English Unionist would raise any objection to the proposal. On the contrary, if it offered any...

delegations consisting of all the members from the excluded area and a delegation of an equal number from the Irish Parliament. This Council by a majority of votes of each of...

important area at Zeebrugge had been heavily and success- fully bombed and bombarded on the morning of Saturday, the 12th. We may add that a Zeppelin of the latest type was...

of the Council recognize the profound sentiment in Ireland for unity. But though they are prepared to introduce a Bill on the above lines, they feel that it would be idle to...

on the one side and the majority of the Roman Church on the other, will say to this proposal, we shall not attempt to guess. Again, we shall express no opinion whatever as to...

the Primo Minister to Mr. Redmond, giving the Government's general proposals for an Irish settlement. A copy was also sent to. the acting leader of the Ulster Unionists. The...

possible spirit, and the Woolwich correspondent of the Daily Chronicle, writing in Wednesday's paper, states that in a London district, apparently Woolwich, where the members of...

Gruban did not assume, as many men would have done, that it would be unsafe to bring an action alleging fraud against a powerful Member of Parliament, in which his origin would...

nation in the history of the war, but perhaps of nothing more than of the part played by a British Judge and jury and a semi-judicial tribunal, the Ad- visory Committee on...

Judge's summing up, no attempt being made to influence the jury in either direction. As we have said, we must refrain from editorial comment till we know whether the subject...

April 5th.

ho who, with the true commander's eye, not only saw that a gap had appeared between the two German armies opposite him, but instantly realized what could be done, and therefore...

news:-- " For tho purpose of economizing the food supply, the United States Senate has adopted an amendment to the Espionage Bill for- bidding the use of grain in the...

and witty orator, Mr. Choate, whose death took place last Monday night, made friends innumerable during his tenure of the American Ambassadorship in this country, and since his...

the Admiralty changes generally, we are bound to point out that what matters is not so much the soundness of the principles in the abstract as the manner of their application...

what has long been wanted at the Admiralty—a true Naval Staff—and to free the First Sea Lord from serving tables and doing adminis- trative and routine work rather than brain...

engineers' strike remains obscure. In any case, the inconvenience caused to the public is a good deal less than one might have anticipated, and it is being met distinctly with a...

the uncompromising declaration by Colonel Roosevelt at a recent meeting of a Farmer's Club on Long Island. He told them that, in his opinion, the United States "should see that...

an- nounced that Sir John Jellicoe was to have the additional title of Chief of the Naval Staff, that Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Oliver was to become an additional member of the...

by the King's Proclamation. It has unquestionably done far more to bring home the need for food-saving than any other means yet adopted. We are glad to say that that most...

French, but with a bolder hand, have been altering their high military commands. At the French Cabinet Council on Tuesday General Petain, who was lately made Chief of the Staff,...

LORD ROBERT. CECIL'S SPEECH. I T is very seldom that one- is able to feel whole-hearted 1 admiration for a speech in the House of Commons. We feel it, however, for Lord Robert...

W E, being persuaded that the abstention from all nn- necessary consumption of grain will furnish the surest and most effectual means of defeating the devices of Our enemies and...

Smuts's speech at the dinner in his honour in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords are not likely to forget it. It was a speech not only eloquent but full of ideas and of...

W E sincerely hope that the new Reform Bill, when it comes to be considered in detail by the House of Commons. will be discussed, and dealt with generally, in the spirit of...

N O one who bears in mind the events of that annus.mira- bilis of revolution, the year 1848, needs to be told that revolution has something infectious in it. Having appeared in...

W AR-HOSPITAL patients are of many sorts. It is a common mistake of the armchair newspaper devourer to lump all soldiers together as quaint, bibulous, aitch-dropping innocents,...

[Letters of the length of -one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] NAVAL POLICY. (To THE...

TNmodern war the Signal Servic) is equipped with all that Science can provide, so that, at first sight, it would appear unlikely that any lessons of value could be learned from...

[To site EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR,—There was an important announcement in the Times last week in reference to the feeding cf horses, to which all true Englishmen will...

[To THE EDIT0a OF THE " SPECTATOR."' Sis,—Your article last Saturday on " America and Ireland" con- tains some home truths and much good sense, but it is vitiated by ignoring...

SIR,—The argument of President Lincoln as to the Virginias, quoted in your admirable article of last week, is unanswerable. By constant repetition of the phrase " on the...

upon the task of per- suading Nationalists and Sinn Feiners " to be reasonable and not to demand the heads of the people of North-East Ulster on a charger," as you very properly...

Six,—As a reader of the Spectator for over forty years, and as one who has always considered its judgments well thought out and reasonable, perhaps you will allow me a protest...

(To Tag Barrow or THE " SPELTATOVI am greatly indebted to you for the manner in which you have criticized my letter of the 12th inst. Permit me to join issue at once with your...

(To THE EDITOR or THE n SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I observe that you call attention in your issue of the 5th inst. to an account given in a letter by Mr. J. Hay Thorburn in the Morning...

(To THE EDITOE OF THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR,—I am sorry to see you still persist in repeating that calumny about the working man being responsible for the drink traffic being...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIE,—The Land Council wish it to be known that they are now appealing for five thousand strong women willing to take up the summer season's...

tTo THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] have pleasure in enclosing copy of the two resolution.; to be moved at the meeting at the Albert Hall next Saturday "That, in order to...

(To EDITOR or THE '" SPECTATOR."1 Sie,—Mr. Atkins's collier would doubtless regard with the utmost respect the opinion of a Republican like Garibaldi on the above. subject. Here...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Replying to your correspondent on the above subject, she will be able to get a leaflet about it from the National Canine Defence...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Stre,—May I call the attention of your clerical readers to the suggestion which the Principal of St. John's Hall, Durham 'University, makes...

111E " SPECTATOR.") Sra,—On May 7th died at Leeds, after a long illness, most bravely and patiently borne, Mrs. Lucy Whitmell, writer of the poem, Christ in Flanders,"...

[To THE EDMOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Do any of your readers happen to know any one who has written about dew ponds in a practical way, giving particulars how to make theM,...

THE PATROL. Five men over the parapet, with a one-star loot in charge, Stumbling along through the litter and muck and cursing blind and large, Hooking their gear in the...

ECONOMICS AND CITIZENSHIP.* IN publishing his Newmarch Lectures (delivered at University College, London, in November and December, 1916) Mr. Henry Higgs ) describes them as...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Yon were so very kind, some months ago, as to allow me to call attention to the work of the Vestiaire Marie-Jose, an under- taking...

Ms. DUFF, who has already given us an excellent rendering of Aksakoff's Years of Childhood, has added to our indebtedness by this translation of what is generally admitted to be...

THIS book is very good company. It is simply the entertaining talk of _ a soldier who has seen much active service, who has gained a wide • A Soldier's Memories in Peace (ad...

CHANGING WINDS.* Changing Winds may perhaps be not unfairly described as a set of variations on the theme of Mr. St. John Ervine's book, Sir Edward Carson and the Ulster...

seems, that just now, when Skanda, the fierce and ruddy son of Rudra, has put the Three Worlds in a turmoil of savage slaughter, his smiling genius once more bids him tell us...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] Enforced Peace. (New York : League to Enforce Peace.)—This little reprint of the proceedings of the...

6d. net.)—Much of this book seems curiously pro- phetic to-day in the light of the events which have marched so rapidly in Russia during the past few months. The author writes...

the adventures of a party of people who go for a cruise on a yacht in the early days of the war.— Teddy, R.N.D. By Edith Mary Moore. (Hodder and Stoughton. 5s.)—A sentimental...

Edited by Sir Charles Fortescue-Brickdale. (T. Fisher Unwin. 15s. net.)—General Hallam Parr's letters and diaries contain interesting references to the Zulu War, on which he...

7s. 6d. net.)— If any layman turns the pages of this gossipy book about Fleet Street and " the provinces," he will suggest as a motto for it the old music-hall refrain, "...

Kernahan writes pleasantly in this book of friends so diverse as Swinburne, Watts-Dunton, Whymper, Oscar Wilde, and the Rev. S. J. Stone, who wrote " The Church's One...

Government Board, 1915-16, contains a Report on Child Mortality by Sir Arthur Newaholme, Medical Officer of the Board (H.M. Stationery Office-, Is. net). This is the fourth...

enlarged edition of their Handbook for . Housewives, How to Save Money in War Time, copies of which can be obtained at the offices of the League, 3 Woodstock Street, Oxford...

6d. net.)—Any book about Napoleon is bound to be interesting, more or less, and Mr. Grant's chapters on the great man's dealings with literature, the drama, art, music,...