landing of a British force at Enos, the most westerly point of Turkish territory in Europe, the point just beyond which the new Bulgarian frontier begins. As we write no...

made an important war speech. We have dealt elsewhere with the passage in which he maintained his position in regard to the liquor question, a passage which, we must repeat...

endorse in the spirit and in the letter i- " Alluding to utterance. of Mr. Asquith's at Newcastle and Mr. Lloyd George'. in the Donee of Commons, Lord Derby said: • Thongh I...

the game will be played, and we may see developments of a per- fectly different character which it would be indiscreet to canvass jest now. We can only express the hope that...

speech, which was nnqueetionably a cause of great satisfaction, and did great good as far as the local situation was concerned. It is to be regretted, however, that Mr. Asquith...

T HERE are two very important military events to record during the week. The first is the capture by the British of Hill 60, a part of a ridge which runs close to the south of...

Hill 60 may become a second battle of Ypres, for the German attacks are said to be spreading on both sides of the bill, the Germans bringing up large bodies of troops and some...

used language width gave the impression that we need now have little anxiety in regard to the production of high explosives. Probably be meant to sae this expression in its...

in the course of the debate on the Army Estimates, made the following statement in regard to recruiting:— in the House of Commons on Thursday night Mr. Tennant, in the course of...

in regard to Kees lost in the secondary areas was precisely the same as that adopted in regard to similar losses at the front in Europe. On the general question of information...

tions in East Africa, Nyasaland and the Cameroon. As against the failure at Tanga and the recapture of Jassin they had to set the oceupation of the German island of Mafia and...

to the Government for further information as to recent operations in the minor theatres of tsar. It was not generally realized that the forces of the Crown were engaged in no...

deal of criticism by Mr. Long and others of the Censorship. With the essentials of that criticism we are entirely in agree- ment. We must point out, however, that it is most...

"out there" means Flanders. as we presume it does, and if we bass six times six divisions—i-e-, thirty-six—and if a division is twenty thousand men, our force on the western...

in regard to men of military age what the political parties do in regard to voters. Let the country be canvassed by a hot:me- te-house canvass such as the politicians use to...

an observation thereon. If Lord Kitehener, as one gathers from the message, means later to make a great recruiting appeal to the country—notice he says not if. but when—be will...

important to secure Roumania's co-operation, without which it would be hazardous for Greece to join in the war. But the dangers of remaining impassive spectators of the struggle...

of the Royal Literary Fund not to hold their banquet this year. At the same time, it is very greatly to be hoped that those who usually attend the banquet will make a special...

the battle of Neuve Chapelle, issued by the London Newa Agency, was printed in the daily papers on Monday, and proves an illuminating commentary on Sir John French's despatch of...

Association entered a caveat against the opinion that a universal reign of democracy in a somewhat extreme form must necessarily connote the inauguration of a universal reign of...

regard to the democratio control of diplomacy. Speaking as one who for a quarter of a century was behind the scenes of the diplomatic stage, he asserts that " there have never...

the side of the Allies are set forth in a masterly letter addressed by M. Venezelos to King Constantine on January 11th last, and published in the Westminster Gazette of...

the officers and men; the doctors, he adds, were worthy of their patients and their patients were worthy of them. Summing up the results, he observes that since the blow dealt...

Aug. 8t11.

NEUTRALS AND THE RIGHTS OF NATIONA LITT. `T EAST said, soonest mended " is as a rule the best JJ motto to observe in regard to those Neutral Powers which are just now...

T HE speech delivered by Mr. Asquith at Newcastle, considered in regard to its local effect and apart from a defect noted by us elsewhere, showed the Prime Minister at his best....

W E congratulate the Chancellor of the Exchequer upon his speech in the House of Commons on Wednesday. He has refused to be bullied into any repudiation of the perfectly true...

G ERMANY has begun a criminal war, and has con- ducted it with criminal methods. She has trodden underfoot all the laws of God and of man, international law, the law between...

W HEN the rich become poor they admit that fear is the worst part of poverty. The loss of the sense of security is the greatest loss entailed by the loss of money. They feel...

W E have laid him to rest—the man whose life-work stands upon a foundation that will endure beyond his mortal span of seventy-three years. Some forty years back Mr. Martin, the...

cypress-wooded hillside above Sethignano. The road winds between the tree- @terns, and the kill falls steeply away at one's feet to the fringing olive groves at its foot, Over...

AMERICA AND THE WAR. LTD fn. EDIT. Or an .. SrscrATos..1 am, of course, personally unknown to you and to the readers of the Spectator; and what I am now offerin g may not...

[To IBA Emma at WS ..erecrArna."] Smi,—If your correspondent Mr. F. J. Jones wishes to find the explanation of his perplexity, I would recommend him to read shape. xi. and xii....

[To ruA Emma or es..83maTAToo."1 Stn,—Supposing it were pointed out to your sailor friend (see Spectator, April 10th) that six weeks prior to the sinking of the `Falaba' (an...

March 20th there are two letters regarding American popular sentiment about the war, in which it is stated or implied that the Middle West is on the aide of Germany, largely...

to a number of your readers in the States to see numerous letters in the English papers coming from Boston and New England wherein you are carefully informed that the sentiment...

[To T. EDITOR or 71/IN Srxcnroa..] SIR,—Sir John French's latest despatch contains an appeal for continued supply of ammunition that goes to the heart; it must be responded to...

[To nut Enna 01 nu .. 8rsorkroo...] Sra,—In reply to Mr. Ellis Barker's letter in answer to mine, I have first to Bay that his letter does not carry the question of the real...

out to Mr. F. J. Jones, and still more humbly to yourself, that all the moral questions involved in the present war have been adjudged ages ago by the Catholic Church P It may...

" upon this topic in the Spectator of April 17th you express the opinion that the Pope's claim to infallibility has been shaken because there has been no decision en cathedra...

Its 77M Emma or FM "t3recrrroo.n Stn,—With regard to your recent advocacy of the cessation of racing, may I say that this question may safely be left to the discretion of the...

iTo eel Soros or TIRO "araor•ros."] Sin,—In a letter which appeared in your issue of the 17th inet. the Bishop of London forcibly supported your plea for national...

[To Two Emma or row uSrxer.eroo.*1 Sax.—While fully recognizing the advantage of doing away with excessive drinking at all times, and the absolute necessity of doing so now,...

To ran Bono, or vox “Banemaroo." SIB,—As a Canadian reader of your paper, may I be allowed to enter a protest against racing in England during the war ? It seems to me the...

CT. ran Eons. Or Tom •• BrOC2,701..1 Silk—Reveille sounding at 6.30 every morning rouses us from our bunks, ready to face another day in Holland. We have little to do before...

[To rex Eons or run " Srucraroz."] reply to " X?' in your issue of the 10th inst., my own experience may be helpful. I was recently granted a temporary commission in a service...

Seoond Lieutenant in the Lonsdale Bat- talion (11th Border Regiment), and he has been with them at Blackball Camp, Carlisle, since their formation in September last. He has paid...

Silk—Your correspondent "X." asks in your issue of the 10th inst. whether "commissioned officers can live on their pay in certain units." As a Lieutenant in a New Army...

(To TOO EOM/ Or TEO ° EMT...70101 Stn,—However anxious a recruit may be to follow the King's example of abstinence, it is in practice almost impossible for him as matters are...

(To SOB Burros or run “Srocraros.1 Sea,—I was much struck by Mr. 011ivant's excellent sug- gestion in your last issue with regard to the work which might be done by members of...

In order to reply suitably to numbers of inquiries I receive as chairman of a hospital and head of a manufacturing firm engaged in making war munitions.] am writing this letter...

(To sea EDITOR en EIPSOM01:9 Sin,—Those of on who deeply value what we may still call the spacious character of our English Church—that die. tinctive glory which, alas I she...

erscrxrean Sut,—The Committee of the Press Contributors Emergency Fund will be greatly obliged if you will kindly publish the enclosed appeal and give it any assistance in your...

were good enough to publish a letter from me on the above subject in your issue of March 27th. and perhaps you would kindly allow me a further short space. I was glad to notice...

[To 276 Seems Or 271 ••errevsroa."1 Srn,—The loyal attitude of native races daring the present great war is widely recognized as smatter for national thankfulness. Sir Harry...

fma Tan gorroa oewe -firm- moan Ent,—Mr. Towyn Jones, M-P. for East Garmarthenshire, discussed the Welsh Church Postponement Bill at Car- marthen on April 10th thus : "The...

PRESIDENT LORD DESBOROUGH. HON. SZCRETART PERCY A. HARRIS, Esq. HEAD OFFICES: Judges' Quadrangle, Royal Courts of Justice (Carey Street entrance). The aims and objects of this...

(To MB arm. or 71sa ..17.102lT014.1 StE,—Ryonkmyoung is a small village on the right bank of the Irrawaddy River, some seventy miles north of Mandalay. In this village is the...

be Rent to the Spectator Office, or direct to Messrs. Barclay and Co., Goslings' Branch, 19 Fleet Street, London, E.C. Cheques should be made payable to the " Spectator Home...

issue on the subject of Girls for Farm Work, the Hon. Venetia Baring should have been given as the Hon. Treasurer of the Boys' Country Work Society, and not Lady Wantawa, who is...

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...

SOCRATES! TILE Socrates of Plato is an acknowledged masterpiece of literary portraiture. Xenophon, after his formal fashion, has tried his hand upon the same subject ; the...

CHAPLAIN TO THE FORCES. [.. I have once more to remark upon the devotion to duty, Courage, and con- tempt of danger which has characterized the work of the Chaplams of the Army...

Ma. lameS. COBB is an American journalist who, starting from Brussels with three of his colleagues, to quote his own words, "blundered into the German lines in a taxicab." After...

BEFORZ the outbreak of the present war the famous French Commander-in-Chief had only twice seen shots fired in anger. Be was a cadet at the Boole Polyteobnique—the French...

IN his editorial article in the new Edinburgh Mr. Harold Cox discusses the emergency measures passed by the Govern- ment since the beginning of the war. These fall into two...

Tule volume of poems by the Broutia, which Mr. Arthur Benson has just brought out, does not pretend to be more than a selection, in spite of the considerable number of pieces...

it needed all Mr. Brett Young'■ skill to carry through the task he undertook, he ham proved himself a master of the technique of his craft, and has achieved a brilliant piece of...

long novel was a disappointment to us, for he did not seem at his ease away from Dartmoor; but the results of his experiment are now evident. He has come back to his familiar...

HEAVE." WE hove often had occasion to note the predominance of the spindle-side in modern Irish or Anglo-Irish fiction, and the popularity of Mrs. Conyere's novels only adds...

manuscripts of the tenth century. Mr. G. F. Hill treats the queatiou of their subsequent changes of form in a study upon The Development of Arabi. Numerals in Europe Ex- hibited...

series of the .Register of Magdalen College, Oxford, by William Dann Macray (Humphrey Milford, 10s. 6d. net). The volume contains an index of Fellows of the College, and an...

graphy as an essential preliminary to the investigation of documentary historical sources. Mr. Hilary Jenkinson's Palaeography and the Practical Study of Court Hand (Cam- bridge...

(Smith, Elder, and Co., 7s. 6d. net), is a collection of letters written in the last yearn of the eighteenth century by Thomas Baloney, a clerk in that Ellen institution, to his...

of Mies Cooke's dialogue is strained and affected, but much is clever: we feel that she is capable of more serious work.—Where There Are Women. By Marguerite and Armiger...

is the subject of a short study called The New Slavery, by Mr. H. Percy Scott (T. Fisher Unwin, 814. 6d. net). Mr. Scott believes that the evil is caused by the growth of...

(P.O.. in Ws columo Om not womanly preclude wslargasatrmiso.) Sir Charles Lucas has published a moat valuable series of six lectures upon The British Empire (Macmillan and Co.,...

edition of The Greek Philosophers (Smith, Elder, and Co., 18e. net), which gives a survey of thought from Thalee to Prod.,. Very considerable alterations and additions have been...

lie near the @bores of Lake Titicaca, over twelve thousand feet high upon the plateau of the Andes, provides one of the most romantic and mysterious problems of archaeology. Mr....

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COLLEGE LIFE: ITS CONDITIONS AND PROBLEMS. ° THE title of this volume, which is published in New York, suggests that it is an original work on College life in America; but the...

LONDON: APRIL 24(11, 1915.

American edition of Lingard's great work is is little misleading. Lingard's labour ended with the Revolution of 1688; Mr. Belloc takes up the narrative with the fall of the...

AIR. BALCH tells us in his foreword that his aim in writing this book "has been to combine scientific accuracy with a readable style, which shall make an otherwise possibly dry...

"A MADMAN'S head "—that is what his contemporaries said of Blake's portrait. Was he mad ? Mr. Yeats in his biography of the poet says that he was sane. Yet the man he depicted...

MAST years ago, when Mr. Kipling was a junior member of the staff of the Allahabad Pioneer, he discovered that the amateur journalist in those days was a power in the land of...

Miss Davm started her inquiries from an examination of the references in Aristophanes to the Dithyrambic school of litera- ture. The Dithyramb from Plato onwards has always been...

Mae. PRIINELL draws a sharp line of demarcation between those Americans whom she calls " old-fashioned," "Americans by birth with many generations of American forefathers, who...

the British Museum to investigate some geological formations near Karungu, on the east coast of Lake Victoria Nyanza. The scientific results of his journey have already been...

pub- lished by Professor Theodore de Laguna, who holds the Chair of Philosophy at Bryn Mawr College (Macmillan and Co., Is. 6d. net). His treatment of the subject is in the main...

King, D.D., has just been published by Dr. Lawrence Mason (Humphrey Milford for the Yale University Press, 68. net). It will be remembered that Henry King, whose dates are...

WE do not often do more than call attention to the fact of new editions, but G. P. Waite, by G. K. Chesterton (Duckworth and Co., 3s. 6d. net), is so well worth reading that we...

millions, they are now reduced to a small community of about a hundred thousand souls, and, since they have deliberately refused to permit converts to join them, their numbers...

Mr. G. L. de St. M. Watson, in spite of a somewhat exuberant style, gives an exhaustive and satisfactory account of a con. troversial incident in the last chapter of Napoleon's...

Tale of a Tub is not among the best of Ben Jonson's comedies, but there are some points of interest connected with it, extraneous to the play itself, which justify the care...

by Mr. Alfred Home (Cambridge University Press, 22 2s. net). It is intended rather for the use of the English student of Italian than of the Italian student of English, and the...

Co., 6s.), is a somewhat grandiose name for a gossiping account of travels in Japan. It is an unpretentious and pleasant book. The word-pictures of Japanese temples, Japanese...

of fifty thousand square miles which occupies roughly the north-west angle of Cape Colony, an angle formed by the Orange River and the Atlantic Ocean. Mr. W. C. Scully made a...