sabre to frighten Servia but had actually drawn the sword with the definite determination of punishing her smaller neighbour. This view of Austrian action was borne out by the...

anxiety. On Saturday it became obvious that Austria- Hungary was bent upon action very different, not merely in degree but in kind, from her accustomed bickerings with her...

sketched could only be described as tremendous. The consequences for Italy must also be tremendous. She could be expected to take such a course only if she received from...

W E give below a chronicle of events. First, however, we must touch on the essential question : Is it still possible to avoid the outbreak of a general war ? We believe there is...

Austria-Hungary we do not propose to go now, except to enter a caveat against the too confident opinion as regards Beryls which one sometimes hears expressed in England. People...

of Europe more than any other has been the attitude of German - y. It was at first hoped and believed that "at a price" Germany would intervene to prevent her hot-headed ally...

any case.

impossible task to record all the phases through which Europe has passed during the week. As we write on Friday morning the difficulties of presenting an intelligible account of...

a strong Committee to deal with the National Reserve, a Com- mittee which we suggest might be presided over in chief by Lord Roberts, with Sir Edmond Elea as his Vice-Chairman...

in the right way, that is to say, they have done their very best to stop the war or to minimize its effect, but, at the same time, and with a minimum of provocative action, they...

It was supposed that as the Servians had evacuated Belgrade the Austro-Hungarian troops would have occupied it immediately on the declaration of war. Strange to say, however,...

end to Sir Edward Grey's well-meant attempt at intervention. When, with all due diplomatic courtesy, Sir Edward Grey asked that the Ambassadors in London of Germany, France,...

predict its result, but at least we can feel in this country that we have done nothing to provoke the strife and that we shall be fight- ing in self-preservation and fighting...

enough. Since we have neglected to make the nation abso- lutely safe by the training of our whole population to arms, we must, as on previous occasions, have recourse to a rapid...

made by Mr. Asquith on Thursday is discussed so fully in a leading article in to-day's issue that we do not propose to deal with it further here.

the troops, and a street riot resulting in the death of three persons and the wounding of many others took place in Dublin on Sunday, and threw the city into a ferment of...

Mr. Birrell, in an official statement, said that Mr. Harrel, the Assistant Commissioner of Police, had requi- sitioned the troops on his own authority, although the Under-...

fine example of the contempt with which the Irish Nationalists treat their patrons) :— " That Sir John Ross be suspended and put upon his trial. That an immediate inquiry be...

position of the Government in the Austro-Servian crisis. So long as the dispute was between Austria-Hungary and Servia alone Great Britain had no title to interfere, but if...

Public Trustee on investments. The members are Mr. F. Huth Jackson, Mr. R. Martin Holland, Mr. R. M. Kinderaley, and Mr. J. H. Mullens, jun.—an excellent choice.

the jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty to the question whether she bad committed wilful murder. The Times correspondent says that no other verdict could have been...

receiving the telephone message, ordered all his available men to Clontarf, on the road to Howth. Two com- panies of the King's Own Scottish Borderers were also called out by...

July 30th. Consols (21) were on Thursday 691—Friday week 75.

and Germany fulfils her threat to Russia to regard a Russian mobilization as a declaration of war, and if there- upon France, in order to carry out her obligations to her ally,...

BRITAIN'S DUTY. T HE British nation is always at its best in a war crisis. What is, or at any rate what appears to be, apathy or indifference in small things turns in great...

A USTRIA-HUNGARY'S attack upon Servia, has changed the face of the world. Nowhere are the marks of that change to be seen more clearly than in our internal political situation....

which we have placed at the head of this article represent, we believe, the orders likely to be given to the masters of ships by the agents of the Marine Insurance Clubs on the...

Exchange, which is but a pale reflection of the crises on Continental Bourses, will help to bring home to everyone the intimate connexion between money and war. It has often...

justifiable one_ among those who take careful note of public tendencies, that the popular excitements of to-day correspond less and less precisely to the events that provoke...

W IT, like war, has settled a good many questions. Yet it cannot always be said to have elucidated them. The rights of the point at issue remain, as a rule, obscure. Very often...

T HE plea put forward the other day by a Member of Parliament that the House of Commons should rise earlier in August, so that he might have a chance of spending some time with...

THE WELSH CHURCH BILL. [To TUS EDITOR Of ras "SPECTATOR. "] Sia,—Yon have treated me so generously in the past that it is with considerable diffidence that I ask to be...

[To THE EDITOR OF vu " SPECTATOIL"" Sia,—May I call your readers' attention to two statements in regard to the military training of lads in New Zealand and Australia ? Both...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."' Sin,—Mr. Ellis Barker's comparisons in last week's issue are vitiated by a somewhat serious oversight on his part—he has made them in...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —I enclose herewith an extract from The Shipbuilding and Shipping Record of July 16th with reference to naval shipbuilding in...

[To THB EDITOR OF SPECTATOL"] Srn,—Perhaps it may be of interest to mention a difficulty that I sometimes meet. It is my belief that Slater had nothing whatever to do with...

[To THZ EDITOR OF TER " SPECTATOR.. "] Sin,—The letter in your issue of July 18th deals largely in generalities, and contains more assertions than statements of facts....

"SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —Do any of our statesmen still read Horace ? It is doubtful—but to any who do I would commend the Seventh Epode. It is curiously—almost...

SIR,—In reading your review of Messrs. Frank Bullen and W. F. Arnold's book of sea chanties in a recent issue, I notice that, speaking of the songs that sailors s'ng, you say...

[To TIM EDITOR or THE " SPECTITOE."] SIR,—Your review of the book of " chanties " by Messrs. Frank Bullen and W. F. Arnold, in the Spectator of June 6th, brings back to my...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...1 SIR,—I have been interested to read in your columns of " Rabbits " as a lucky ejaculation. Sailors take a very opposite view. Many years...

letter in last week's Spectator of "Rabbit the fellow" and "Rabbit me," as forms of impre- cation used in Fielding's and Scott's works reminds me that in quite recent times...

your article in the Spectator of July 25th on " A Motto for London." How would this do ?- "Love the Brotherhood, Fear God, Honour the King." But perhaps it has been mentioned...

[To THE EDITOR OF TH1 "SPECTATOE."] SIR,—Much that is excellent has been written in your columns on the subject of " A Motto for London." If, as many think, it should be a...

thinking led you last week to an exhaustive definition of the conditions which should obtain in the choice of a motto for London. These are that such a motto should be at once...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Having regard to the seriousness of the Bee question, if disease among them continues to spread, and noticing how very fond are our...

suggestions I have seen for London's motto the most obvious has been omitted : " No Mean City." St. Paul's words are specially appropriate when we think of the legend connecting...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Srn,—The death of Sir Francis Campbell, the late Principal of the Royal Normal College and the pioneer of the higher and musical education...

do for the London motto ?— "Be strong, be just ; Maintain thy trust." It is simple, easily understood, and hortative.—I am, Sir, &c., Cedar Lodge, Lambridge, Bath. P. VERE...

PARTY POLITICS. BROAD in the limelight the arena lies, Wherein fanatical opponents meet, A weltering motley crowd, 'mid dust and beat, Mouthing strange shibboleths and...

[To ms EDITOR 01 THE "SPECTATOR." J SIB, ''''"/ think you may be interested to know that amongst some old family relics we have lately found a manuscript book, 7 by 8 inches by...

Sra,—My attention has been drawn to a letter in your paper of July 18th criticizing my use of the word " after" in Punch of the same week. I am not prone to justifying either...

Sur,—What would be the objection to the simple word " Fidelis " ? A motto I am very fond of is "Tandem fit succulus arbor " (Dutch Republics' or " United Netherlands ").

[To THE EDITOR 01 THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Neither Mr. Arthur Norman (Spectator, July 18th) nor "C. P." (Spectator, July 25th), in discussing the Irish use of " after," has...

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...

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THE English reader is indebted to Miss Wylie for a very enlightening book. Happily, too. it deals with a subject on which enlightenment is very much needed. Germany is only...

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