week on the subject of reprisals. A considerable number of persons and newspapers demand that open towns in Germany should be bombed as an answer to the air raids here. We have...

return of losses from submarines. But the truth is that our losses are still a cause for the gravest anxiety. It is evident that there is a certain periodicity in the German...

of Polish displeasure. None of the concessions he offered in Galicia would appease the Polish wrath. He had undertaken to reconcile the German elements and the various...

Association on Wednesday spoke enthusiastically of the complete community of aim and spirit between Britain and the United States which he hati observed during his mission. The...

Sunday morning. In Kent two persons were killed and sixteen injured. The Zeppelin which visited the East Coast was held off by heavy gun-fire and was apparently damaged. A pilot...

Italians gained a considerable success on the Trentine front on Tuesday. Near Mount Ortigara they captured strong positions and took 936 prisoners. The wish of the Russian...

seemed possible. The abdication of . King Constantze has been received calmly, and some of the mercurial Greek politicians and journalists who supported him are shouting with...

T HE great victory on the Messines Ridge has been followed by the inevitable period of comparative quiet. But the point to notice is that the force of the wave which overwhelmed...

since the fall of the late Ministry, and a corresponding wealth of disquieting rumours. Some light, however, has been thrown on the situation by a telegraphic despatch from the...

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

the hospital ship ' Dover Castle ' by a German submarine in the Mediterranean on May 26th, when on her homeward voyage from Salonika. Fortunately most of the wounded were...

in the situation, though its revolt brought down the Garcia Prieto Ministry and led to the formation of a new Conservative Government under Senor Dato. The extreme Conservative...

the vote to women under any conditions Whatever. He denied that the House had any mandatO to act in the matter, and argued that women had never suffered through want of the...

incident was illustrated by a large demonstration at Geneva on Tuesday. ' The crowd, after passing a resolution that Herr-Hoffoutmrsbotiit be indicted for abusing his powers,...

of the House was quite right. In the abstract we have never been favourable to Woman Suffrage, for reasons—not intellectual reasons—which we have often stated. But we are faced...

the reso- lution of the Duma to which we have referred above. This declares that a separate peace with Germany would be ignoble treason towards the Allies, for which future...

1914 Minister for Foreign Affairs, has resigned his office as a direct consequence of his endeavour to intervene in the German interest at Petrograd. At the request of the Swiss...

deep sense of gratitude to the American people and Government for roming to the side of the Allies and showing so high a spirit in their deter- mination to fight the war through...

Woman Suffrage was accepted-by the large majority of 385 to 55. The House, as had been arranged under the terms of the Reform Bill, was left free to vote without party pressure....

British people or arbitrary action of our Government. It was solely due to the fact that unless we interfered with neutral trade we could not exercise pressure upon Germany,...

in the public mind just now in regard to the eminent men of business who were brought into Mr. Lloyd George's Cabinet when it was formed, and who, it was expected, would show...

full of rumours, half-rumours, and quarter-rumours that the Government are at last going to do what they ought to have done two and a half years ago at Mr. Lloyd George's...

aid of their Government. Yet had they invoked that aid and made an appeal to the country as a whole, the subject was so difficult and so complicated that we could hardly have...

to say that experience has shown that it is not safe or good for the com- munity that the sale of intoxicants should be in private hands. Our conviction that this is so has...

in a nutshell. You cannot on moral grounds allow free trade in the manufacture and sale of intoxicants. There must be strict limits placed upon the trade. But this means...

have very little relation to intellectual force. It depends upon a kind of flair. It is allied to that curious quality which we call c3nnoisseur. ship. A man may often be a...

prove a success in the work of government were many, but they cannot be better expressed than in the words of the inspired writer of Ecclesias- ticus. He put the whole matter...

is to buy the Trade out and place it in the hands of the State. Then we shall at list be masters in our own house. We shall be able to turn the taprof the beer barrel and the...

are being attacked and that their assailants desire to drive them out of business—that is, to ruin them pecuniarily as persons engaged in a nefarious trade—feel obliged to...

iticeship like any other trade, and the men who have done best a: e those who, like Pitt or Peel, Gladstone or Disraeli, early dedicated them - - selves to the conduct of public...

April 5th.

THE DANGERS AND DIFFICULTIES OF FOOD CONTROL. L ORD RHONDDA is, we are sure, a patriotic man, anxious, not to exercise power or to feed ambition, but to render true service to...

W E do not think that anything is to be gained by con- tinual . girding at the Government for appointing Lord Northcliffe. If before the event we had been asked whether Lord...

D URING the long period in which President Wilson was parleying with. Germany, hoping against hope that she was not so brutal or so appallingly cynical as she seemed, and giving...

air raids can any longer believe the platitudinous pretension that human fear can only be held in check by discipline and duty. Excitement, curiosity, sheer irresponsibility,...

rr HE action of the King in abolishing the German titles I. held by members of his family will be universally welcomed. In some well-known instances relations of the King who...

[CoMMuxICATED.] I ARRIVED at a certain place in France, cross, tired, and dirty. My efforts were directed to rejoining my unit, which I had left some six months before, owing...

[Letters of the length of one of our lending paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] LADY BUROUCLERE'S PRISONERS'...

" SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—There is one circumstance in connexion with our class and industrial troubles which I have not as yet seen mentioned in the discussion which is now taking...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The newspapers announce that the British Mission has finished its work; Mr. Balfour has left us. " May he reach home safely! " is on...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] have read with great and largely sympathetic interest your last week's " Appeal to the Nationalists," and • particularly the speech you...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your remarks on "profiteering" you say the rise in the price of labour is'universal. May I make a correction? You should make one...

[To THE EDITOR. OF THE " SPECTATOR."] $m,—May I be allowed to suggest to your correspondent Mr. Ellis that, it is time that the cold light of fact was let in upon the subject...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—In your correspondence, under the heading of " The Clergy and Military Service," the crux of the matter hardly seems to have been...

lay worker of the Church, I entirely support Mr. Ellis. If your correspondents Bishop Robertson and " L. C. F. C." want an answer to their letters, they can find it in the now...

Sin,—When Mr. F. D. Ellis asserts that a clergyman's chief occupation is the work of almoner he entirely misunderstands the office of the parish priest. Our chief work is...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 SIR,—Many of the leaders and other members of the Church of England have shown, by their action in connexion with the Mission of Repentance...

Miss MARY-ADAIR MACDONALD'S three poems ("In the Ward." " Epiphany Vision," and " In Last Year's Camp") have been reprinted from the pages of the Spectator in pamphlet form...

THE' "SPECTATOR.") wonder if you could find a little space in your paper for the following. It is an appeal to the women and children of our own fair land to help to make...

[To THE EDITOR 01' THE " SPECTATOR."] have to-day (June 15th) received a circular from Lord Devonport appealing to every man, woman, and child to help his effort to reduce the...

" ON LES AURA! " Soldat Jacques Bonhomme loquitur :— SEE you that stretch of shell-torn mud spotted with pools of mire, Crossed by a burst abandoned trench and tortured strands...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Communi- cated," the Editor MINN not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode...

CENTRAL EUROPE.* THE German policy of Mittel - Europa, which has been explained to all the world in Herr Naumann's book, seems more important as the war proceeds. There are...

THIS selection from Swinburne's posthumous poems, which, as we gather from Mr. Gossc's Preface, is not necessarily final, if not calculated to enhance his reputation, at least...

ALTHOUGH James Connolly acted for many years in connexion with the extreme Socialistic Party in Scotland, the United States, and Belfast, it was not until the Dublin strikes of...

GRAND CHAIN.• Aer eminent statesman in one of his occasional addresses; some twenty years ago, while commenting on the alleged exhaustion of normal themes for fietion,...

EVERY one to whom India means anything should road this hook. It " covers tho period which intervened between Drake's circum- navigation of the world at tho close of the...

2d.)—It is to be hoped that every neutral and every Pacifitist will read this book. Mr. Prothero's reasoning is not to be gainsaid. In the form of an admirable " imaginary...

Maniates. (Hodder and Stoughton. 5s.)—A charming little American story of the struggles of a widow's large family of children. Tho eldest is the heroine.—Curious Happenings. By...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subseptent review.] Likrty. By Sir James Crichton-Browne, M.D., Major-Genera Long, Will Thorne, M.P., the Dean of Durham, G....

6d. net.)—This slim volume of verse in various manners is notable for its originality and restraint. The grim little " Devil's Game," with the Kaiser, neck in noose, on a...

(No. 1), the exact scope of which is best described in the words of its Preface—namely, " to give in concise form the powers and duties of the various Local Authorities as they...

Fisher Unwin. ld.)—This interesting survey of the present position of the war is reprinted from an article by a distinguished Japanese Rear-Admiral which appeared originally in...

6d.)—A word of welcome is due to this new volume of a catalogue that is found indispensable by all who have to deal with books. Last year's books numbered 9,149—the smallest...

and others. (Allen and Unwin. ls.)—This is a draft scheme for an international Alliance to keep the peace. It differs from the League of Nations Society's programme in not...