make a move, " Hit hard ! " is undoubtedly a good maxim, and one upon which the Germans have always been taught to rely. There is nothing, then, surprising in their choosing the...

latest facts. According to a French official cone muniqui in Thursdays papers, them were in the early part of tho week night attacks by infantry on a front of about fif teen...

H AS the groat, the decisive, conflict in the West come at last ? Are the Germans going to make their " win or lose " effort to break through the barrier of the Allies ? It...

have begun the great attack we are well aware that there arc certain considerations to be pleaded on the other side. For example, the Germans know, by their own experience and...

German military critic, admits that the Grand Duke has conducted his campaign very ably. With a charming candour, ho declares that " the fall of Erzerum is, of course,...

their groat attack, something comparable to the advance of the Old Guard at Waterloo, may bo shortly stated. In the first place, Verdun, as was proved during General von Kluck's...

writing in Thursday's paper, the situation at Constantinople has become most critical.. The news of the fall of Erzerunt hal gradually leaked out, with the result that the...

at Verdun but should begin now are plain. Germany must do something to win the war, and must do it promptly. As she found last year, time goes at a gallop for armies in the...

number of prisoners made and the booty captured at Erzerum proved quite as heavy as was at first supposed. The latest news shows that the Grand Duke is not resting upon his...

any case.

in the Mediterranean, having with them many aircraft. It is to be remembered that two Japanese merchantmen have been sunk in the Mediterranean. It would be natural, there- fore,...

the Duma meet, but for the first time in its history it was opened by the Emperor in person. After prayers had been offered, he delivered a speech to the assembled members....

such happy auspices in Russia, Sir Edward Grey, as Foreign Secretary, presided at a political dinner given to the very important deputation of Russian publicists and men of...

stating that the English ship Westburn,' flying the German flag, and having on board a prize crew, had lust come in. She had two hundred and six prisoners taken from five...

the many :evolutions in which ho was an interested spectator, had always on his lips during the fighting the words : " We are winning I " When, however, an injudicious friend,...

Lorraine frontier, on Monday night. The Zeppelir, which was " 1277," of the latest naval typo, was moving against a fresh head wind when it was discovered by searchlight and wig...

appeared over Lowestoft just when people were going to church. After dropping some bombs they climbed to a great height and disappeared, only to return a quarter of an hour...

her on Friday week passed off very favourably for the Govern= ment. M. Ferry wanted the Government to assume control in the war are:*, complaining that General Joffre had so...

a VOte" of 'Credit for £420,000,000. He explained that the total Votes of Credit since the beginning of the war, including the Vote now proptioed, would amount to 11,782,00,000....

Africa, has already to the credit of his Army an affair of good omen. On February 18th a German force of four Europeans and two hundred native soldiers attacked the post of...

We can only presume that the dispute as to whether Fritz, Francis, or Ferdinand is to bell the cat is still going on. The moral effect of the hesitation of the Central Powers to...

this reply, or to imagine that it shows that the Government am capable of committing the supremo folly of killing the force by telling the Volunteers that they are not wanted...

we had already gone as far as the United States ever did in the doctrine of continuous voyage, quoted figures to show that imports into Holland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark were...

interview' with Mr. Boner Law, who pointed out the disadvantages under which a democratic country labours in making war. - Such .4 country, unlike autocratic Governments, is...

to £168,900,000. The Government hoped to repay "substantial rams "to the Bank of England before the end of the financial year. They did not yet know what they would have to pay...

has been rendered rather indecisive during the week by the number of exemptions granted in advance to whole classes of workers. If the letter of the law of exemption were acted...

the House to declare that the blockade of Germany could bo stricter without infringing international law or the rights of neutrals. The spirit of the Declaration of London, he...

that at the present moment no less than six members of the Spectater Experimental Company have obtained commissions, and that two of them aro Captains. Considering that only...

a most interesting letter on some experiments he and Professor H.' IL Dixon have conducted on the advantages and disadvantages of swimming in clothes—a subject which may be of...

a short discussion on the status of Volunteer Training Corps. After a good ninny speeches had been made in criticism of the Govern- ment's policy, and declaring that the zeal...

3t 1 .1, 1911

JUSTICE AND SECURITY. W E do not wonder that Mr. Asquith's speech in the house of Commons on Wednesday night created a profound impression, both on those who heard it and upon...

W ALTER BAGEHOT would have cherished the promotion of Lord Robert Cecil to the Cabinet as an instance of the easy and unostentatious workings of the C-onstitution. If Lord...

VIPHE greater portion of the Press during the war has fi played an admirable part. It has been sane and sknified, whether, like the Daily Telegraph, it has given a reasoned and...

I N moving for a. new Vote of Credit this week, Mr. Asquith stated that every effort had been made to reduce unnecessary expenditure. It would be well if that statement could be...

F EAR is communicable like an infectious disease. Sugges- tion and imagination are as powerful as the most virulent bacillus to plant a disease. We have all road of the bound...

T HE vast majority of men and women do not desire any very radical change in their lot. We are more funda- mentally content than we think. Most of us, indeed," would lie quite...

• I SOMETIMES wonder whether our Lord is altogether pleased at the sense in which we use that phrase of His, " lost sheep." Disciples who have " found - salvation • so often...

THE ZEPPELIN RAIDS. [TO THE EDITOR OP MR " SPECTATOR."1 SIR, — May I plead for a little cool thinking on the subject of the air raids ? We seem, indeed, to be in danger of...

Sra,—A week or two ago it was officially stated in Parliament that the making of anti-aircraft guns for home defence is being given priority over all other ordnance. I confess...

[TO TIM EDITOR OP Till " SPROTATOILI 13133, — I have read Mr.. T. E. Harvey's letter in:your issue .of the; Nth inst., in which he argues that, as Quaker women share the views...

(TO TUE EDITOR OF TUE " SPECTATOR:] Slit,—I have great respect for the Society of Friends, but think that their position at the present time is one of considerable danger to...

tTo TUE EDITOR OF TUE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — In connexion with the attitude to war adopted by the Quakers and others, a very apposite incident is to be found in the Apocrypha, 1...

[To TUE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sra,—Here is an open letter to a conscientious objector.—I am, DEAR L—,—Ever since the war began I have been wondering why you have not...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE °' SPEOTATOR.1 SIR, — Ever since Mr. Joseph Chamberlain hurled the bomb of Fiscal Reform into the Unionist camp I have consistently urged that the only...

[TO TaE EDITOt OF THE " SPE:TATO:Li Sin —Your article under the above heading in your issue . of February 12th raises a question that is of considerable im- portance and is...

[TO TDB EDITOR OF TIIR " SPECTATOR:1 t Sm,—We who, though loyal Americans, have found in the Spectator a fuller and more fair expression of our sentiments and deeper feelings...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR:] Sm,—Against expert advice, we were culpably under-insured in an unsound Mutual Office of our own formation. Consequently, we have to go for...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR 1 Sm,—It is told of Sir Edward Chichester that when he got under way in a leisurely fashion, and placed his ship between those of the Germans...

[To TER EDITOR Or THE " SPEC/ITOR:] Sra,—I see that a tribunal in a market town in Essex has decided that a grower of peaches need not send his two assistants (young men and...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Snt,—Has not the time come when a tax might be placed with great advantage upon advertisements ? I refer particularly to those which are...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR."] • Sue—In your striking article under the above title you say that the feeling of which you speak " never will have a name." Is it •...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sue—By way of commentary on the practice adopted by Ger- many in the present war of sinking passenger and cargo steamers, belonging to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Snt,—I can fully endorse what " Sixty, but Willing; says in your issue of the 19th inst. He only voices what is going on all over the...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPEOTATOR."I Sin.,—A letter came from Germany a few days ago and ran thus "Without putting you to any expense, would it be in any way possible for you to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—In Devon there still exist large numbers of houses and farm-buildings with mud walls, termed " cob." It is a very old method -of cheap...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."( Sin,—Mon are never tired of saying that history repeats itself. and perhaps the three following literary parallels, which I have recently met...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE " Merman Sra,—I have just returned by the ' Baltic,' arriving yesterday (Saturday), and find she had three hundred barrels of "Canadian whisky" on board,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SrEcTATOR.'9 Sin,—Lord Byron's letter to Galignani's Messenger, quoted by Mr. Cyril Mayhew, has been published, and will be found, with an exhaustive...

A FLEMISH VILLAGE. GONE is the spire that slept for centuries, Whose image in the water, calm and low, Was mingled with the lilies green and snow, And lost itself in river...

[To TEE EDITOR OF TILE " SPECTATOR:1 Sun,--The recently published Report of the Committee on the settlement of discharged soldiers and sailors on the land in England and Wales...

THE THIERS MEMOIRS.* RARELY has a statesman in any country been placed in a position of such responsibility, or has had to encounter such formidable difficulties, as M. Thiers...

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 nwde of...

THOUGH this book contains much that is encouraging to English readers, its message is primarily addressed to America, and it is a message of warning. Mr. Skaggs, who writes as "...

MOLTKE is reported to have said once in the Reichstag : " The Great General Staff is so much impressed by the advantages of obtaining the initiative at tho outset of a war that...

already been written in these columns as to the advantages of compulsory military training, and wo have urged again and again the benefits, physical, moral, and spiritual, which...

THIS is an entirely admirable little book. That Mr. Newton's special abilities have found most full and useful scope is clear from his C.O.'s appreciative introduction, and the...

it is the great excellence of a writer to put into his book as much as his book will hold." Judged by this standard—no mean one—Canon 011ard has achieved remarkable success....

to avoid nothing more eagerly than the telling of a story, Miss Richardson writes only of the year or two spent by an English girl at a German school, of her impressions of...

MISS VELAITTY'S DISCLOSURE.* Tins is at once a very curious, interesting, and well-written book, by, so far as we know, a newcomer in the field of fiction. . In one sense, she...

Co. 4s. 6d. net.)—Although the writer of this book (we assume it to be a record of fact) was living at her delightful house - at Huiry, near Quincy, when the war broke out, and...

IYaiice in (his calioas da , s not necssrtrily metals inemegamt reeis:e.] Instruct and Intelligence. By N. C. Maenamara.- "Oxford Medical Publications." (Hodder and Stoughton....