it is as odious as it is unjust to talk about Lord Derby having failed to keep his word or having " s'.uffied" in his explanations. He never concealed, but rather emphasized,...

northern and in the middle sections, but best of all in the South, where the Austrian opposition is growing distinctly feeble. When we remember that the struggle here is visible...

other men often better able to go than themselves are selfishly refusing to bear any part of the burden. The Government meanwhile flog the willing and spare the unwilling horse....

enlarging at both ends their definition of military age for voluntary enlistment. We would like men to be allowed to enlist up to forty- five, provided, of course, that the...

Derby scheme have no grievance, and in reality suffer no avoidable hardship, since even if there had been no exemptions our military needs would have required the calling up,...

TN our leading columns we have reviewed the military situation .1 at length, and will only repeat here the most salient facts. They are that the French during the week have been...

are not grievances in the true sense, though they are hardships —of the married men have not yet been dealt with in any authoritative Ministerial statement, though such a...

The present issue of the " SPECTATOR " is produced under the limitation of the supply of paper made obligatory by the Government restrictions. But though we have been compelled...

case.

Swede of a recent visit to Germany. When asked what was the strongest impression he had formed, he replied that what struck him most of all, outside Berlin and other large...

leave no doubt whatever that she was torpedoed. The wake of the torpedo was clearly soon by the first and fourth officers and the look-out man. At the moment when the crime was...

but we cannot help thinking that the impressions/ of the Swede have a considerable significance. Someday enlighten.: went must come to the Germans, and then the effect will be...

destroyers off the Belgian coast. The German destroyers ran for Zeebrugge, but before they escaped two of them were observed to be hit. Our casualties were four men wounded....

carried out on Monday, when sixty-five machines, mostly British, but including nineteen French. and some Belgian machines, bombed Zeebrugge and Hoettave. Zeebrugge is now a...

round the British Isles renders - the resignation of Grand-Admiral von Tirpitz the more curious, for one would have thought that there never was al policy more after his own...

third undesignedly points to the truth. The Germans mean to try to sink everything that floats, whether belligerent or 'neutral, in the neighbourhood of the British Isles. They...

naturally being watched with great anxiety. : . Congress is under no illusions as to the risks of the undertaking. It has authorized the raising of another twenty thousand men....

the afternoon. _ The first-dropped. six bombs inDever Harbour, and then some on the town.. The second dropped bombs on Deal. The third and fourth bombed Ramsgate. About...

in the absence of Mr. Asquith owing to an indisposition which we hope will be brief, announced that Mr. Runciman will be the principal British representative at the Economic...

the Globe came before Mr. Justice Peterson on Tuesday, when the defendants agreed to pay £1,000 to Mrs. Asquith in respect of the libel, and to indemnify her against any...

Reserve in guarding vulnerable places on the coast as well as inland, it is not its whole work. Class I. of that Reserve were at the beginning of the war drafted into the...

faced so successfully, the disagreeable task of bringing the disseminators of slander to book, and we hope that people in a public position will note and follow her plucky...

Sovereign had deemed it expedient to authorize the formation of a corps to be entitled the Royal Defence Corps, the corps to be a corps for the purposes of the Army Act, and the...

military authorities, which we have always regarded as inconvenient, was not to let the men retain the name of National Reservists, but to give them another designation. Under...

ought to have power to allow a freedom to the virtuous A and B which has to be denied to the careless and irresponsible 0 and D. In theory this is perfectly true. In practice,...

" Heroes and Heroics " by " A Student in Arms " which incidentally deals with some of the problems connected with war hospitals. Nobody has a better right to express his views...

live under artificial conditions, and these conditions are made much more exacting when to the ordinary difficulties of controlling human beings are added the extra difficulties...

the recruiting difficulties, and Sir John Simon played his usual part oi showing how the tribunal.s mangled the letter and the spirit of. the Military Service Act. It is very...

8th, 1914. .

■ •■•■19■••■•• COMMON-SENSE AND THE COMMAND OF THE AIR. T HE fierce controversy now raging in regard to our needs in the matter of air power, and our...

AV E have at length passed the dead point in the war. If one imagines the military operations as a great steam engine fantastically slow in action, we have an illustration of...

T HE _powerful speeches which Mr. Hughes has been delivering in London have undoubtedly helped to strengthen the determination of English people that after the war they will not...

N ° questions during the past week have occupied men's minds more than those which have arisen over the torpedoing of the Dutch liners. What object have the Germans in view in...

A S a nation of map-makers—if it is a rational use of language to grade ourselves at all in this art—we take a very log place. We are poor map-makers, because till recently...

" F ACILLS descensus Averni," and the Avernus of the journalist in war time is a fatal facility for writing heroics. Every one who has handled the pen of a scribe knows how the...

[To THE EDITH& OP THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—It seems that there are two opinions in naval and political circles in Germany at present as to whether the entrance of America...

GAINS AND LOSSES IN THE WAR. [To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —The more I read the Parliamentary debates and correspondence in the London Press by residents in the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."' Ern,—In your comments last week upon Mr. Lloyd George's declarations to the deputation of the Temperance Council of the Christian...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."' Sue —The following two stories are, I venture to think, worthy of publication, if only for the facts they reveal, lot alone the remedy...

[To THE EDITOR OP TES "SPECTATOR."' Sin,—It is obvious that it is more economical to consume seven ounces of tea in seven days than to use eight ounces in six days and none...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR,—Your , " Our ' Down Glasses' Policy " in your issue of December 18th is my apology for informing you that some of us out here have...

[To THY EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."' Pan,—On March29th a by-election is to take place in the Hyde Division of Cheshire, the two candidates being Mr. T. Owen Jacobsen, J.P....

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The appended extract from an account of a show of forced spring flowers reveals one of the many weak joints in the nation's armour—...

SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, —The Urgency Cases Hospital—you let me write of it some months ago—has been at work now for just over a year. Its work has been crowned by the help...

Sra,—If the principles of Christ's Kingdom are to be defended by the sword, why did Christ state so emphatically to Pilate " My Kingdom is not of this world: if My Kingdom...

[TO THII EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.. "] SIR,—AS a supplement to the letter of Captain Lewis Longfield in your last issue, it may be mentioned that the two texts he cites (St....

THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —The investigations of the Royal Commission on Venereal Diseases have thrown a strong light upon the disastrous effects of this scourge on the life of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sm,—Some ten years ago I met in Dresden a German advocate who had settled in Rio Grande do Sul, and who was very frank in his state- ments...

TO A YOUNG ATHLETE KILLED IN THE WAR. [Lines suggested by a Latin version of Mr. Housman's poem, "Smart Lad to Slip Betimes Away" (A Shropshire Lad), written by a schoolboy In...

SPECTATOR."' SIRS I have received certain letters asking whether the writer of the diary in my article, " A Book of Wisdom," was killed ? I think I had better confess openly...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—Many of your readers must have been greatly pleased with the wise and timely article you had recently on a future French occupation...

" SPECTATOR:1 SIR, —You give me credit I do not deserve in your article about the Boys' Country Work Society. The Society was founded in 1905 by Miss Iles and Miss Brooke...

THE FALLACIES OF PACIFICISM.* Mn. COULTON has rendered a real service to the British publio. He has pulverized the arguments of Mr. Norman Angell and the Union of Democratic...

[TO THE EDITOR or mini SrEersTOR.1 SIR,—You may be interested to know that a meeting will be held at the Kensington Town Hall, on Friday, March 31st, 1916, at 2.45, when...

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 mode...

Tax events with which Miss Campbell deals are already known to _ all of us—the swift onrush of the Germans through Belgium up to within a few miles of Paris and then the...

to the world a singu- larly delightful gift. The Peace of the Auguatana is in no sense written down. The reader never has the galling feeling that his author considers him " For...

which we desire to congratulate, not only the author and the publishers, but the University of Oxford, beneath whose shadow the learning has been amassed which has made it...

THE RED CROSS BARGE.• ARTILLERY fire may achieve an accuracy once thought impossible, but Cupid, as Mrs. Belloc Lowndes in effect reminds us, throws his darts as erratically...

Murray. Is. net.) —A further collection of Mr. Graves's rhymed chronicles of the war. As readers of The Long Retreat know, Mr. Graves's " doggerel " often reaches a much...

in London (Western Gazette, Yeovil, ls.) contains, besides some charming articles in the Somerset dialect, the words and music of a Somerset song which is now to us. It is...

By Lord Frederio Hamilton. (Eveleigh Nash. 3s. Od. net.)—" P. J." is already well known as a detective on the track of German spies. This second series of adventures is even...

Notice in this column does op: necessarily preclude subsepsenl realm.] The Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem. By H. W. Fincham. (W. H. and L. Collingridge. 6s....

Office. ls.) —Most of the contents of this paper-bound lock were written for the Architect : we are not told at what date. The writer gives an account of the buildings, mainly...

R. Sykes. Part I., " Vedic Times to the Coming of the English.' Christian Literary Society for India, 35 John Street, Bedford Row- 28. net.)—Miss Sykes has compiled an...