luncheon with the Lord Mayor and met several prominent citizens. It is said that ho discussed with them the possibility of disarming the Volunteers. In the evening he returned...

to have suffered something in the nature of a setback in Tirol, around Rovereto. The Austrians, who are almost as accomplished romancers in this respect as the Germans, claim to...

Italians entered the war. During that time their Army has fought, under physical difficulties which have been almost incredible, the most gallant of fights. Their soldiers are...

account, derived mostly from official figures, of the German exactions in Russian Poland. There have been both illegal and quasi-legal exactions. From Lodz £3,300,000 worth of...

on a motion introduced by Lord Loreburn the day before expressing profound dissatisfaction with the administration of affairs in Ireland. Lord Lansdowne said that if Lord...

the ruins of Saekville Street, he conversed with Sir John Maxwell, Sir Robert Chalmers (the new Under-Secretary), and several permanent officials. It is generally believed that...

liveliness, but no decisive action on either side. On the Belgian coast British destroyers and monitors were engaged with German destroyers on Tuesday afternoon. After a short...

• T HERE is little news of importance from the Western Front. The attacks on Verdun continue, but they have made no real headway. There seems some reason to believe, however,...

readers can help us to meet the Paper Famine is by informing the Newsagents, Booksellers, or Railway Bookstalls from which they are accustomed to purchase their paper that they...

case.

Volunteer Training Corps received its baptism of blood—unhappily, not at the hands of the foe, but in civil strife—and have told the thrilling story elsewhere. As we have also...

in regard to international law and authority, and American and British co- operation. We only wish we had space to deal with a piece of political philosophy so sound and so...

debated in the House of Commons. An important promise was made by Mr. Long on Monday that the tribunals should be instructed to exempt, under certain conditions, men who are the...

offers et work, for we know very well that the moment enrolment has taken place the military authorities will probably ask not too little but too much of the Volunteers), we are...

the Government with all the power at our command the need for prompt settlement- of the small outstanding technical points connected with the application of the Act of 1863 to...

in a recent interview with Mr. Edward Marshall, the very able journalist who has become known throughout the United States as the king of interviewers. The subject of the...

but we shall not trouble our readers with a precis of his re- marks, nor shall we dwell upon Colonel Churchill's mischief-making intervention in the debate. We may note that...

for the formation of a new Air Board, over which Lord Curzon is to preside, was laid before the House. A good deal of criticism has, of course, been levelled at the Government...

in the return of Mr. Hicks-Beach, the Coalition candidate, by a majority of 5,689 (Mr. Hicks-Beach polled 7,127 votes, and Mr. Boosoy, the Independent candidate, 1,438 votes)....

day, and will come into force on Saturday night, when every house- holder before he goes to bed must put his clock forward an hour. The Act, it is hoped, will save some five...

reminder that the two generations when we were without a rival on the sea were the period when many small States grew to independence. " Belgium became a State, Greece secured...

and aims made by Sir Edward Grey to the London representative of the Chicago Daily News. It is a remarkably compact survey of how Germany persisted in making war ; the...

Sir Roger Casement opened before Sir John Dickinson at Bow Street on Monday. It was a surprise that a second prisoner appeared in the dock with Casement—D. J. Bailey, a soldier...

companions in a collapsible boat from the submarine is, we suppose, the most extraordinary and dramatic story of its kind ever told in a Court. AU the details which make up the...

at the very least. If we had, we might have something like two hundred thousand always on duty. The arms question is not going to prove in practice so great a difficulty as was...

McKenna's Fort Casement was found concealed. He said he was an author. Richard Morton, of Denham, Buckinghamshire, and that he had written the Life of St. Brandon. The...

Washing. ton Press Club, said : " If I cannot retain my moral influence over a man except by occasionally knocking him down, if that is the only basis upon which he will respect...

local vengeance, which looks as if he knew that the countryside was already aware of the insurgents' plans. This may perhaps account for the curious fact that so many people...

pointed out, numbers—until embodiment takes place—are of a special and pecu- liar importance. As must always happen with men who are half- time, or quarter-time, or even...

Brigade " as a means of escaping from imprisonment, described the journey to Ireland in company with Casement and a man called Monteith, vim is said to be still at large. On...

on Wednesday. The Irish Constabulary witnesses described how Bailey had offered to make a statement and tried to bargain for protection and a guarantee. Ho said that he had...

8th, 1911.

IRELAND AND COMMON-SENSE. y all iT E would ask our readers to clear their minds of a V rumours and counter-rumours, vague talk and vague sentiment, about the Irish situation,...

desire to waste words and energy in praise of anybody, whether it be the nation as a whole, the Prime Minister, or his Government. We want to give, and we mean to give, the...

will have the right to bear themselves with pride and confidence. They will remember that men of their own type and organiza- tion—men wearing the familiar " G.R." brassard—were...

I N spite of the war, we have the Irish problem with us again, happily with this modification, that on all sides a desire is expressed to mitigate rather than to magnify...

I F the war goes on long enough, a considerable number of people scattered up and down the world will have learnt that when they want to know what Englishmen have accomplished...

of one of the most important Italian newspapers, La Stamps, in its issue of April 13th devotes a long and memorable article to the English forces in the field, dealing specially...

A TRULY democratic society exists nowhere, but we may find something like it in public conveyances. Birth, educa- tion, or money gives no advantage to a passenger in a 'bus. On...

Sta,—I think the idea of " Philadelphos " in last Saturday's Spedales is an excellent one, and I have much pleasure in enclosing £5 for the same purpose. I consider that yours...

Si ,—Will you please appropriate the enclosed cheque for £3 to the distribution of " as many copies of the paper as this will cover to the base hospitals on the Continent weekly...

Siu,—The generous offer of your correspondent " Philadelphos," and your no less generous response, prompt me to send you a further £10, so that, by your backing this amount...

THE "SPECTATOR" AND THE BASE HOSPITALS ABROAD. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIB,—May I be permitted to follow the excellent example of " Phila- delphos," and ask your...

STATE CONTROL OF THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC.—III. [TO TUB EDITOR OF TEE " spEcTATon.1 Sin,—One of the supreme advantages of a scheme of direct State control would be the facility it...

[TO THE EDITOR 07 THE SPECTATOR."] Srn,—Antiquarians may be interested to note that in the war on the Western Front, conducted by sapping, mining, and counter-mining, we have a...

[To TER EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 Brn,—May I be allowed to give a few remarks, through the medium of the Spectator, regarding " Economy and Domestio Servants" ? I would like...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.") 8rn,—Will you let me point out the insulting manner in which Ulster is being treated by newspapers and public men, who conceive that the_...

To Till EDITOR 07 THE "SPEOTATOR.1 Ere,—The ill-success of Mr. Birrell's administration of Ireland is accounted for by Tacitus, or perhaps I ought rather to say by Thrasea, in...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sm,—In view of the insidious attempts of tho German Preis to minimize the importance of England's adoption of compulsory service, and to...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TER "SPECTATOR. "] Pm—Looking over your valuable paper, I am reminded by its patriotic attitude on the liquor question that just a decade ago a startling...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sat,—May I try to interest your readers in an " Open Air Club " that we hope to start at Bramshott, Hindhead, for the twenty thousand...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Ste,—In this Terunknary time it may interest some of your readers to knew that thirty years ago there lived in the obscure village of...

ITO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Snm,—It is with some reluctance that one makes an appeal for funds when there are so many appeals for funds, most of them good, many of them...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR,—To enable the Council of the Royal Army Temperance Association to deal efficiently with the extra work thrown on the Association by...

[TO THE EDrroR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") enclose a short notice in connexion with the Annual Meeting of this Association, and beg to ask whether you will be so good as to insert it...

[TO TIM EDITOR OP TUB " SPECTATOR-1 Sla,—The cry of certain newspapers for a " business " Cabinet reminds one of Artemus Ward's " Interview with President Lincoln" :- "' How...

[To THE EDITOR OR THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Your reviewer of Riches and Honour, by Mr. W. H. Adams, in last week's Spectator, refers to Miss Grimwood as having of late " intro-...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPEOTATOR."] SIR,—Desirous of complying with the many and constant appeals in the Press to save waste-paper, I have for several months past (naturally, at...

[To THE EDITOR OF THU "SPEOTATOR."J SIR,—You are always so willing to encourage all movements of a patriotic character that I feel sure you will find space for a brief account...

THE RETREAT FROM MONS.* Examsn politicians and journalists deserve some credit for the manner in which they have dealt with the attitude assumed by the United States of America...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " EPEOTATOR.1 Sm,—I have been waiting to write to thank you for inserting my appeal for spinal chairs for the New End Hospital, Hampstead, till I could...

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...

(To TUE EDITOR OH THE SPECTATOR." Ste,—It is intended to publish a volume of letters written by the late Rev. Stopford A. Brooke. His executors and family would be very...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SFROLLT03"[ Sin,—A National Economy Exhibition and Conference will take place at Prince's Skating Rink from June 26th to July 8th. The Government deem...

THE OLD SCHOOL (Confirmation .Day, 1916.) AT school, some forty years ago, Thanks to my zeal for Greek and Latin, My place was only one below The seat the Senior Prefect sat...

Elicusu readers will turn with the liveliest curiosity to these essays by the famous author of Jean-Christophe to see why they excited so great a commotion in Paris and why M....

THE "Shelburne Essays" of Mr. Paul Elmer More, of which this volume forms the ninth series, represent the high-water mark of the reflective and critical comment on life and...

Collecting Old Miniatures and Collecting Old Glass are two small guide- books by Sir James YoxalL On the whole, they are distinctly good, though not quite, all that their author...

A stonx striking and affecting book than Prisonnier de Guerre, by Andre Warnod (Fasquello, 3 fr. 50 c.), would be hard to find among the war literature of France. The writer...

ford. (Cassell and Co. Gs.)—An ingenious and delightfully written social comedy of manners. Anna of the Underworld. By George R. Sims. (Chatto and Windus. Gs.)—A spirited story...

of the Girls' Own Paper and Woman's Magazine. ls. net.)— This is a little book that will please those women who can find relaxation in elaborate needlework. Now that we are...

5s. net.)—If we call this a timely book, Lady Wolseley will say that it is only so in the sense that to-day people may attend to the subject and wish that they had not left it...

THE TRIUMPH OF TIM.• MIDDLE-AGED readers, who have grown a little weary of the modern scallywag hero, will not quarrel violently with Mr. Vachell for his revival of the...

Entice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsepsent review.] The Ruling Caste and Frenzied Finance in Germany. By M. Millioud. (Constable and Co. 4s. Gd. net.)—Sir...

(Grant Richards. 10s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Hibbert's knowledge of the entertainment world— from the days of Cremorne Gardena to the present variety syndicates and the cinemas—is...