the Turks on hie right flank. By an enveloping movement he drove the enemy across the Diala River at Kizil Robot, and forced them back into the Jebel Ballwin Range. This success...

and by raids, in one of which, on Friday week, a hundred prisoners were taken. The enemy, numbering at least eight divisione, trusted to the natural strength of the quarries and...

at leek on the Ypres front on Monday. Time " minor operations," in Sir Douglas Haig's phrase, resulted its the Capb11113 of the German defences on a front of four or five miles...

active at the front. Naval annum have co-operated with the Plying Corps, and Australian airmen have begun to take part in the daily scouting and bombing. In four days of lively...

of the Gulf of Riga, and their Riga squadron after a disastrous action hat, retired to the Gulf of Finland. When Oesel was lost, the German Fleet at once entered the Gulf of...

offensive on the Upper Isonzo, between 'folmino and the northern part of the Bainsizza Plateau. For the first time the Italians are being attacked by a strong C9 , 914111 army...

VRANCE has blazoned another great victory on her shield. 1: She has also given the lie to those who whispered that she was war-weary and exhausted, and could do no more than...

of the narrow " Hog's Back " which rises up north of the Aisne and separ- ates that river-valley from the course of the Ailette, beyond which lies the plain surrounding the old...

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

give away the position of London in these circumstances by using them. French accounts inform us that when the pilots of the Zeppelins. tried to switch their engines on again...

of London wee partly given by Mr. Boner Law in the House of Commons on Monday night, when the adjournment was moved and some particularly superfluous speeches were made. The...

heavily armed German raiders attacked a convoy in the North Sea on October 17th, midway between the Shetland Islands and the Norwegian coast. The convoy consisted of twelve...

Holland that they will receive no foodstuffs from America " so long as these countries continue to assist the Central Empires directly, or by indirect methods such as the use of...

were unhappily larger than they have been for some time post. We lost seventeen large and eight small vessels, whereas the week before we had lost twelve large and four small...

of Moon Sound, and therefore of Moon Island. The enemy also occu- pas(' the outermost island of Dago, meeting with little or no resist. unee. Last Sunday the Germans, rapidly...

the loss of the convoy, declares that " we have not yet found a /11811 or a not of men at the Admiralty with the instinctive genius for carrying on our naval share of the war,...

was that the most ill-informed and empty-headed clamour about the mismanagement of the defences of London had full sway for wore than twenty-four• hours, until it became known...

point of view, the most disastrous of the long series of aerial raids on England took place on the night of Friday week. It was remark. able because it was generally supposed...

last week. H. Painleve on Friday week defended his Ministry against the charge of being weak in its foreign policy sand timid in its domestic administration, and the Chamber...

decision this year, but the temporary collapse of Russia had postponed his hopes. Nevertheless time, once " a doubtful and dangerous neutral," was now on our side. America, with...

might occupy would want to recover seine of the reputation and authority he has lost as the result of misjudgments in the past. If he found himself at the new Ministry, he might...

sirens was at the root of all the kinds of help that we could give to our armies, and that rigid economy on the part of all amerce could alone prevent the constant increase of...

speech which, if it had been made and acted on a few months earlier, would have eased the situation. He said that the Govern- ment would not permit either direct incitement to...

Portsmouth on Wednesday declared that Great Britain had received no offer of peace, and that she would not make peace without the consent of the Dominions and the full approval...

Churchill may possibly be appointed as the head of the proposed Air Ministry. Other statements say that Mr. Churchill will on no account leave his present position as Minister...

a Vote of Censure on the Government's Irish policy as not tending to create an atmosphere in which the Irish Convention could achieve any result. He criticized the Government...

hold at the Albert Hall to open a new campaign in favour of the National War Bonds. We must, he said, praotise thrift more strenuously than ever, and prepare for a long war as...

war aim as the end of militarism, the end of standing armies. A good peace must obliterate Germany's " war-map " and deprive her of every inch of her temporary gains. It must...

readers that we have received permission to reprint the noble Address by Mr. Lansing whioh was published in the Spectator of September 17th last. The Address was originally...

April 5th.

THE TERMS OF PEACE. \TOTHING could be more satisfactory than the declaration _LI made by the Prime Minister in such unmistakable terms on Monday. The Allies are to meet at once...

I F we may take the Prime Minister's speech in the House of Commons on Tuesday night at its full face value, es we are sure we may, there is to be en end of the ridiculous game...

Li VLNG dealt in the preceding article with the revealed attempt of the Sinn Feiners to co-operate with the enemies of the whole human race, we want to say something now on the...

THE members of the National Executive of the Labour 1. Party are to be congratulated on the promptitude they have displayed in recognizing the importance of the Repre- sentation...

- 1L1ROB time immemorial every Fire Brigade dog has been named _I: Bob, and Bob of the London Salvage Corps was no exception to the thle. The story of his parentage and early...

T "proposal to recognize the sorriest of the linnet during this war has our heartiest sympathy. It will indeed command universal assent, for we all admire the devotion and...

L AST evening, upon a wet and lonely road, I saw approaching a figure in oilskins. As the figure swung past me it said : " Good night, Tom ! " To which I made reply : Good...

[To sae Boma or THE " SPECTATOR.") Ss,—The Report of the Institute of Bankers, which you dealt with in your bum, of October 13th under the heading " A Decimal Coinage for the...

LT° THE Zones or THE " EirEcuroa.") Sur,—When Mr. Redmond spoke of the extension to Ireland of the Franchise Bill, with the exception of the Redistribution clauses, ae a "...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] "BE JUST AND FEAR NOT." [To...

entitled " More Beer (October 1311,) Yon use very moderate language in dealing with this matter. For "the furious farce," as you call the Government action, might easily and...

given in my first point, your "point" and its converse are equally incapable of proof. You admit this a- regards the convenes, so I fail to see how you can argue that - " your...

[To run EDITOR or TILE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—In your article under the above heading iu the Spectator of October 13th you say .— " They [the Government) urge us upon every...

interest your article on "A Decimal Coinage for the Empire" and relative letters from correspondents. I have taken a keen interest in the subject for many years, and am...

Sin,--1 have a pretty fair knowledge of the thoughts and feelings of a fee- of the many races that inhabit India, and I cannot accept without protest Mr. Houghton's confident...

B. Houghton is no doubt right in bidding us study public opinion in India on Indian subjects. But India is a big place; there are many Indies; the Punjab, for instance, is not...

[To THE ED1701 or rue " Serersroo."1 Stn,-1i is difficult to understand bow any one, if he has had lengthened experience in India, or is conversant with the wide range of...

THE " SPECT■703."] STR.—What can be the purpose and elyift of demanding Confirma- tion as a test of Church membership? Is it, as we are sometimes told, that Confirmation is...

under the above beading is, I think, a little bard upon the class to which it refers. There are few women of the "more prosperous classes" anion my friends who have not reduced...

[To sue Enrron or THE " SpEcTrrom."1 Sni„—As a Quaker who has taken up arms in defence of liberty, I write to thank you for the very fair attitude of your paper on this...

[To THE EDITOR • OF THE "SPECTATOR.') Sni,—Whatever else may be doubtful, there can be no doubt that the proposals of the Bishop of Oxford are a definite declaration of war...

[To THE Emma or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—With reference to Mr. Stanley Little's letter, "A Word to Housewives," in your issue of October 20th, I would like to point out that in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—One dislikes intensely losing sleep because a (lemma is overhead. But when the next morning's papers come and the evening papers too,...

establishment is not no easy as the writer of the letter in your impression of October 20th seems to think. Is most eases it is not a question of doing part of the work oneself....

[To me EDITOR or 71AL " SPF.CTATOR.") Sie,—Before now I have urged iit your columns, and elsewhere, that people would be both patriotic and thrifty to cultivate that which...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sts,—]fay 1 supplement "Septuagenarian's" letter by saying that to " hunderd " and " sperm "—a pronunciation I well remember—may be...

Pro ram Burros or THE " grzormes."1 Srs,—The lamentable errors in the quotation from Cattalos were not due, as the editor kindly suggests, to the excitement caused by the...

See is a alight error in the quotation from Landor, as printed in your first leading article last week. The poem begins:— " You smiled, you spoke, and I believed, By every...

OF 1902. ITo THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sta,—A proper of your leading article of October 13th on Mr. Roosevelt's ultimatum to Germany, it may interest you and your...

Szs,--I consider that Tennyson (one of our greatest artiste in verse), agreeing with a celebrated forerunner, did not attach importance to the facility affected by " rhyming...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR.") Sts,—There can be no doubt as to Tennyson's own pronunciation of " Flores " and " Azores." The present Lord Tennyson in his Tennyson: a...

expression known in Lancashire, and in my experience used to denote the position of a building which does not stand in a line with a road or adjacent building. In directing a...

SPECFATOR."1 firs,—The American Y.M.C.A. is engaged in the creation of an American Expeditionary Force Library for supplying books, periodical., and magazines to American...

[To THE EDITOR or vu. " SPECTATOR.") SIR, —.1 see with regret that the idea that no one reads Byron nowadays is true, otherwise you would scarcely have printed your...

(TO THE EDITOR or Tao " SPECTATOR.") Snt,—When I was a boy in Cheshire sixty years ago "Colly West " (not " Weston "I was a term often used, and perhaps I. now. It was used to...

forty years ago the word "collywess," sometimes pronounced " connywees," was in frequent use in this part of Lancashire, and may still be heard to-day in the speech of the older...

" Seeceithe."1 Sut,—In the eighth volume of the Hon. J. W. Fortesthe's History of the British Army, reviewed in the Spectator of July 28th, the author, in describing the...

(To TM EDITOR OF sae SPROTAT011.") SIR,—Will you allow one whose sympathies and interests have for many years lain largely in Italy to thank you most cordially for the...

(To sae Boma or THE "Sersrarea."3 Sta,—If Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had the courage of his startling convictions, why should he stop short of legalised polygamy ? He frankly...

THE HAWTHORN-TREE. Nor much to me is yonder lane Where I go every day; But when there's been a shower of rain And hedge-birds whistle gay, 1 know my lad that's out in France...

THE CLAIMS OF BOHEMIA,* Throng are three great Slav problems all bound up intimately with the future of Amtria.Hungary. They are problems almost as old as European history-,...

" STECTAT08.") fiaa,—It is just en three years since you lent the weight of your rateable paper to help forward the work of the Central Associa- tion of Volunteer Training...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked Com- municated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of...

IP we were asked to name the quality common to the largest number of men of genius, we should answer Opulence. When we consider • Gouge Wenflha. - 12e”gn:Cg. fly Chalks 1....

Loins REDESDALE ' S last book contains the meditations of a culti- vated man who found in literature an occupation for his leisured age. In his Mentori