W E have dealt in our leading columns not only with the very important news from Salonika and the Balkans but also with the good progress that has been made during the week on...

a second time in spite of her screen of protecting and presumably vigilant destroyers is an extraordinary feat. Thus the encounter of last Saturday ended not only relatively but...

goods" from passing from Sweden into Germany. What are called prohibited goods have not, in fact, been prevented from going to Sweden ; they have been allowed to enter the...

the power of the anti-suffragists to resist the demand for the vote if it is made after the war by the women who have been doing war work, we are most strongly of opinion that...

to the first Admiralty statement, "but learning from their scouts that the British forces were in considerable strength, the enemy avoided engaging and returned to port." In...

Parliament in the House of Lords on Monday, Lord Cromer dealt with the subject of votes for women. Only two solutions of the question, he declared, were possible. One was the...

first. They say that they sank "in the waters of the English east coast "—a fine euphemism for somewhere east of the Dogger—one small cruiser and one destroyer, while another...

took place on Wednesday night. We quote the official report :— One hostile airship crossed the East Coast shortly before midnight. A number of incendiary and some high...

on Thursday, that the Russians are now on the crest of the Car- pathians. Their new advance has taken place near Mount Kowerla, a mountain some six thousand feet high which lies...

returning that day from the North Sea reported that last Saturday he torpedoed a German Dreadnought of the 'Nassau' class. While the ship was being escorted back to harbour by...

co-se.

the Suez Canal shows that the enemy lost half his force. This numbered about 18,000, and the casualties, including nearly 4,000 prisoners, were about 9,000. The war material...

to storm before we can see final victory," added Mr. Lloyd George. "We shall need more men, more munitions, more guns, more equipment, and we shall need all the courage and...

wound up the debate on the motion for adjournment by a very striking survey of the war. Though he did not want to give a military estimate of the situation, he asked the House...

the case of German N.C.O.'s who are pris ners of war. In Germany British N.C.O. prisoners have been brutally ill-treated for refusing to work, in gross violation of the...

in command of an Army in France, who has held, that is, a position in the military forces of the nation second only to that of the Commander-in-Chief at the front, has been...

we may remind our readers of how the projects for meeting the registration problems now stand. The Act for keeping Parliament in being in spite of the Parliament Act has been...

work required of him in India with that devotion to the public service and that sound sense and capacity which have marked the various phases of his previous career. The nation...

These patriot mothers have borne their anxious weight of care with a nobility of mind which has been truly magnificent. There have been no tears and no upbraidings, nothing of...

Mr. Sheehy Skeffingt a on, Mr. Dickson, and Mr. MacIntyre, began its sittings in Dublin on Wednesday. We cannot find space to summarise the evidence here, but we may say that...

refused to be " filmed " at a Council in order to supply a turn at the "Movies.' It is easy to imagine how the unfortunate proposal came about. Some seductive impresario,...

our offensive on the Somme. The enemy had either to bend to it or to meet it. They chose the latter alternative. But this meant they had no spare troops with which to proceed...

denies them the right to take their legitimate part in the services of the National Church—and an aggrieved parishioner takes the case into Court Dr. Field will find that our...

at Southport at a Council Meeting of the Lancashire Division of the National Unionist Association. He was a firm believer, he said, in the attitude that Sir Edward Carson had...

to obtain exclusion, that is to apply the Home Rule principle to themselves, was evidently regarded by the Home Rulers of the South and West with the utmost detestation. That...

us, in regard to a statement made by us as to the comprehensiveness of the National Church : "Do you really mean a thing of which every Englishman is not only potentially but...

of Volun- teer Training Corps, which has presided over the fortunes of the Volunteers and brought them safely through evil and discouraging times, has been asked to continue in...

the public exhibition of the cinema films of the Battle of the Somme, shown at thirty-four theatres and halls. Excellent are the films which show the life immediately behind the...

in sympathy. Nothing would please us better than to see an agreement on the Irish question and a settlement analogous to that made in South Africa. We must confess, however,...

cold-blooded way about one who was once a moving, breathing man, one who at the moment recorded in this particular attack gave his life for us and for all we hold dear. And yet...

July 13th.

men go over exactly as if they were engaged in a race. Not only is there no straggling, no slightest sign of reluctance to enter the valley of the shadow, but a visible...

is about to be brought to the test. Before long we shall have clear evidence whether it was right or wrong to go to Salonika, and we have little doubt ourselves that it will be...

THE BED-ROCK OF WAR. T HE week has been a good one on the Western front. Both we and the. French have made advances which, if not very great in themselves, when added together...

Irish Rebellion, and the fact that we are engaged in the greatest struggle that the world has ever seen, and in defending a cause in which the issue is, Shall liberty or tyranny...

O N Tuesday the Times published a remarkable letter addressed to M. Henri Bourassa, the leader of the French-Canadian Nationalists, by his cousin, Captain Papineau. The letter...

been written about Chelsea, one thing can never yet have been told as it may be told now. Not Holbein himself, not Sir Thomas More, not our old Carlyle can have seen, as we do...

T HREE weeks ago we printed a letter describing the effort made by the Cumberland Education Authority to dissuade people from spoiling places of natural beauty—not to say...

(To TIM EDITOR. OS THZ "SPHOTAT01.1 had expected some-comments on Dr. Rashdall's letter from an abler pea than mine. No one who has felt the keenness of Dr. Rashdall's...

AN ULSTER WOMAN'S LETTER TO THE "SPECTATOR." [To ems EDITO3 OT SPZUTATOZ.1 Ste,—I am very glad to see that my letter of June 17th has done some good service and has reached...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Six,—Whilst reading your recent interesting articles upon the subject of British Agriculture, it has occurred to me that you or your readers...

Snr.,—In your article "Speed the Plough" of August 19th you say, agricultural experts tell us that if England were properly farmed we could be nearly self-supporting, and you...

[TO THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR.") Sre,—Towards the end of your article "The Military Unity of the Allies" which appeared in your issue of August 12th, you refer to a...

[TO THE EDITOR Of TRII 'SPECTATOR."] SIE,—In the very interesting article on "The Adventure of Death" in the Spectator of August 19th, Dr. McKenna' s reviewer makes a rather...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Ent,—I have the permission of the Archbishop of Canterbury to send yen a copy of a letter recently addressed to him and also a copy of his...

[To THE EDITOR 07 TEl " SPROTATOR.") ErIR, — Will you kindly permit me to make an appeal to the people of our Empire for their generous practical recognition of the invaluable...

EDITOR 07 T111 " SPEOTIT071.1 Stm — In view of the anxiety which is being felt in many quarters about the position of educated women after the war, who have been temporarily...

"Srseraromn &R, —Queen Alexandra's Field Force Fund is now making preparation to continuo its work of forwarding comforts to the troops overseas during the coming winter. The...

(To rus Eorroz OD WEI " 8rEcTATos." 513, — Lord Cromer, in his masterly sketch of the character of Abraham Lincoln in the Spectator of August 19th, says that " his manner',...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPROTATOR.1 Sra,—In your issue of the 19th inst. there is on page 218 an advertise- ment for a Vice-Principal for St. Andrew's College, University of...

(To THE EDITOR OF T " SPECTATOR:1 Slit, — The most remarkable definition I have come across was in volume published a few years ago. I quote it from memory, so may not give the...

[TO Till EDITOR OF THE SPROTATO SIE, — The President and Council of the British Academy would be much obliged if you would kindly find place for the enclosed notioe.— CROMER...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEl " SPECTATOR:1 Sut,—With reference to my offer last week to give information as to different ways of tracing our men who may be prisoners of war, I received...

STECPAT01.1 11114—I think you may like to see the enclosed extracts from letters (written on July 30th and August 7th) from Salonika by an English " Here in Salonika we have...

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 of...

ma "anaemia.") Sra,—The following account of an experiment in pint de terre as carried out by a correspondent in South Africa may interest your readers :— " I had to build some...

[To THE EDITOR OF THB " SPECTATOR.1 Sin,—In your issue of August 19th, there appears a review of The A.B.C. of Military Law, by Captain Griorson, of which we are the pub....

"SPECTATOR."' Bin,—Having seen the letters of Mr. Marston in last week's and to-day's issues of your paper, I should be very much obliged if you would publish in your next...

OF PRAYER. Two things do I desire to know, and to declare Virtue its own reward, and its own answer prayer. This canon I have found all-comforting and staying To pray for...

[To zee EDITOR OF THR " SPECTATOR:1 Sra,—A friend from China has just displayed before my dazzled eyes pieces of marvellous old silk embroidery, brought thence—unfaded as when...

AN EIGHTLENTH-CENTURY ROY ANCE.* MISS WEBSTER has made the loves of the Chevalier de Boufflers and Mine. de Sabran a peg on which to hang a vivid and highly interesting account...

Tens is a striking, not to say startling book, which admirers of Words- worth may regret, but which no student can ignore. That the true Wordsworth was a poet, "realist" rather...

writer, this volume of "Studies Irish and Anglo-Irish" claims attention for its intrinsic merit. It is not only written with eloquence and charm of expression, but it is...

Psychology says that in these days of seientifio enlightenment many reasons are given why we should not pray, "but in all this very little is said of why we do pray, which is...

Tires book has been "edited under the auspices of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America," and in it we find journals, and extracts from diaries and Reports...

THE rf A T.F-PRIESTit TEE reader who thinks that by plunging into a romance of Italy in the late fifteenth century he will forget for a moment the horrors of war will find...

fircens has never been a novelist who possessed a greater gift of atmo- sphere than Fyodor Dosteievsky. Like Shakespeare, he takes the reader into a world of his creation. It is...

net.)— This spirited little essay, in the "Writers of the Day" series, is worth reading for two reasons. It recalls to one's mind many of Henry James's earlier stories that one...

(Cambridge University Press. 4s. f3d. net.)—In these six lectures. delivered in America in the autumn of 1914, the Archdeacon of Ely illustrates a much-debated theme from his...

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little fairy play in which Mr. Malleson sots forth the ideal of a world purified by universal love. It is written with a good deal of poetic feeling.

Trench, and Co. 5s. net.)—The main proposition of this intelligent but somewhat dogmatic book is that Russia must secure the Dar- danelles if she is to develop as a European...

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E. Howe. (Williams and Norgate. 6s. net.)—The " false " Demetrius, the Perkin Warbeck of Russia, claimed to be a son of Ivan the Terrible, and was thus a contemporary of James...

"Personal Recollections" by the well-known American essayist and biographer, this time referring more particularly to people and things of the Stage in America and in this...

6s.)—An attractive little story, but to the mere Protestant the morality of the end seems more than doubtful.— The Woman Who Lived Again. By Lindsay Russell. (Hurst and...