'E13,' while proceeding to the Baltic, had grounded on the Danish island of Salthohn, and that fifteen men were missing. A further Admiralty announcement made last Saturday...

T HE dark news from Russia of the past few weeks has been relieved by a considerable naval success in the Gulf of Riga. We heartily congratulate our brave and much-enduring ally...

sailors, and their sympathy with the defenceless crew of the submarine, will not soon be forgotten in England. It was worthy of "the gallant, good Rion." We are not surprised to...

also torpedoed in the Baltic by a British submarine, though the evidence is not conclusive that she foundered. Part of the German plan was a landing near Pernau. Several...

way with our own failure to force the Dardanelles in March. It is true that the Gulf is a very much wider water than the Dardanelles, but the actual channel is narrow. The...

As a result of "very severe and continuous fighting," with heavy losses to both sides, our fcrdes, though they have not yet gained the objectives aimed at, have made a decided...

advance at other points besides Riga, and where speed is an essential element in a great German success this is to the good. Nowhere have the retreating Russians been caught and...

or Friday afternoon, and is on sale at all Messrs. Smith and Son's London Bookstalls and all London Newsagents. All country readers can now obtain the paper on Saturday morning,...

about three-quarters of a mile and "secured a system of strong knolls and under-features," but on the rest of the front, though the advanced Turkish trenches were stormed, our...

Belgium, we can only say that she proposes to do for the cause of Britain, France, and Russia what their own diplomacy has hitherto failed to do for them. She would show...

the week. Berlin communiques of Monday and Tuesday announced that an enemy fleet of forty ships had shelled the German coastal defences at Zeebrugge on Monday morning, while...

time" to lower the beats, and if lives were lost it must have been because the boats were unseaworthy. Finally, the fact that lifebelts were ready on deck showed that the...

Turkey. The reasons which prompted this decisive step are given in a circular addressed by the Italian Govern- ment to their representatives abroad. This document states that...

Bernstorff has requested the American State Department to defer action until be has bad an opportunity of presenting it with the report of the German Government. He asserts that...

been a violent and practical one. The White Star liner Arabic,' 15,800 tons, outward bound from Liverpool to New - York, was torpedoed without warning sixty miles off the Irish...

found in an undated despatch from Bucharest in which the Times correspondent in the Balkans describes the plans for a new Austro-German invasion of Serbia. Large forces have...

not release her from her own standing pledge to act, it seems to be generally thought that she will break off relations. If this should be the course taken, it would be a....

lines suggests that the American Government hope that some concession from Germany may improve the situation. For ourselves, we bold to the view that President Wilson, though...

if the commanders of German submarines always warned passenger vessels and placed the passengers in boats before sinking the vessels. We do not believe for a moment that America...

hesitate to send cotton destined for Germany, because in future both ship and cargo will be liable to con- fiscation. We cannot see, from this point of view, that our new policy...

French Governments have decided to declare cotton absolute contraband. The British Government in publishing the decision say that, though "circumstances might have justified...

speech made by Dr. Helfferich, the German Minister of Finance, and we hesitate to say what the true version may be. One report attributes to Dr. Helf%rich the statements that...

86,1914.

of the numbers of the German forces now in the field and the German casualties at the end of a year's war. The writer estimates the forces on the western front at 1,800,000, on...

communications, or tell us bow many men of military age are employed in Germany on work of a military character and on railways. As regards the casualties, the estimate is un-...

THE NATIONAL SERVICE CONTROVERSY. T HE new movement in favour of National Service, which we desire heartily to support, has caused a singular outburst of recrimination, and we...

S IR ED*ARD GREY has shown much wisdom in deciding, since Parliament is not sitting, to answer the extraordinary speech of the German Chancellor by a letter to the newspapers....

r HE current issue of the Bound Table contains an I_ important article on " England's Financial Task," the main purpose of which is to press home the need for both private and...

brought England into closer union with the Allies, and Englishmen into closer uuion with one another. They have realized what a German victory would moan for themselves, for...

rrHERE is no desire of the human heart more instinctive -L than the desire for change—unless, indeed, it be the love of the habitual I How often we have all longed to break with...

I N 1820 the young Piedmontese poet and playwright, Silvio Pellico, was living in Milan. 411e had been tutor to the children of Count Porro lambertenghi, and at his Lcuse had...

O NE sometimes imagines that the number of people interested in the preservation of our wild birds is on the increase. With the steady growth of city life, the school- boy is a...

AN ANSWER TO "BATAVIER." r To THE EDITOR, OF THE " SPECTATOR.n can and will not leave your readers under the impres- sion that " Batavier" spoke last week in your columns for...

New York, —, 1915. Dr, HUGO KIRBACR, Recording Secretary, German University League, New York. DEAR am in receipt of your letter requesting me, as a former student in certain...

"SPECTAT016.1 Sin,-1 think your readers may like to read the enclosed letter written last spring by a distinguished American University man to the Recording Secretary of the...

[To TE2 EDIT011 OF TII• ..SPZCZATOZ:1 SIR, — Nothing can shake the conviction, steadily held by the vast majority of the American people, that Great Britain and her allies are...

rro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR."1 am loth to trespass on your space, but a word of elucidation seems to be due to the writer of the article under the above title which...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The leading articles in which you have reviewed the proposed conscription in Great Britain have interested ma deeply. In support of the...

[To TEl EDITOR OW TEL SPECTATOR."] Sses,—The securing of the food supply during the war is so vitally important that many of us wish we could have some definite assurance from...

will, I think, be admitted that it is very necessary there should be some clear thinking upon the question of our war finance and its effect upon the wealth and prosperity of...

[To TILE EDITOR OF TILE "SPECTATOR"] Sin,—From the year 1886 to 1911 I have at intervals stayed in Germany. At Minden, Elberfelcl, and Dresden I have been in homes of various...

rTo T. EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] Sin,—Time, it is affirmed, is one of the chief allies of this country in the war. Why, then, are we allowing the precious days, weeks, and...

(To THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOIV] SIR,—Some of your contemporaries point out, justly enough, that we have a threefold national task ; that we have to provide not only fighting...

[TO TEE EDITOR OP TEA " S2ECTATOR:9 Sin,— One experience of mine as an enumerator may be useful to the authorities. It has been that large numbers of forms give the actual...

[To TILE EDITOR OP TUE " SPECTATOR. " ) Sus,—We should like to thank you for inserting our second appeal on behalf of Raine's Foundation Schools for money to purchase a...

[TO Tun EDITOR OP TUE "SPECTATOR:9 SIB, — It is interesting and instructive to careful readers of the Spectator to refer occasionally to a file or bound volumes so well indexed....

THE .'Srscrivos.."] Sirt,—May one who has served nearly ten months with the Expeditionary Force say one word as to the attitude, as it appears to him, of a greet many people at...

[TO VIE EDITOR Or TER "SPEOTATOR."] SIR,—Some little time ago you printed a letter from me con- taining a Greek translation of some lines by Sir Henry Newbolt. Will you now let...

(To Tun EDITOR OF Till "SPEOTATOR."1 Si,—You may think it worth while to notice some words of Dr. Rudolf Sohm, Professor of Law at Leipsio. They occur at the end of his...

[To TRH EDITOR OF THE "SPEOTATOR."1 Sin,—Re Lord Cromer's article "Germania Contra Mundum —IV.," I should like to mention that, besides the two therein named, at least one...

[To THE EDITOR OF Tina "SPRCTATOR:] Sin,—Russian is unknown to me, but I have been interested in the transliteration of other languages, and have arrived at the conclusion,...

[To THE EDITOR 07 TEE . EPIECTATOR."1 SIR, — Southampton folk cherish the tradition that "There is a land of pure delight" was suggested by a sunset on South- ampton Water. But...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The late Mr. G. F. Watts once told me that through the death of Dean Milman he lost the opportunity of decorating the drum of the dome...

[To THE EDITOR 07 TUE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—May I thank the writer of the review on "Memorials and Monuments" in your issue of August 14th for an admir- able and pregnant sentence...

Sin,—Tn reference to the very excellent suggestion in the Epeetator of the 14th curt, relative to the collection of designs suitable for war memorials, Mr. Robert Duncan,...

pro THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." Sin,—You may care to print the following notes recently sent me by a Belgian officer at the front.—I am, Sir, &c., A. M. S. "La 6 dolt, 1915....

[To TES EWTOR 01 , THE "arserAToft.") SIR,—The Parliamentary War Savings Committee advises the formation of village War Food Societies, but I should think there is more land and...

HIS ONLY WAY, I STOOD to-day high on the Downs And talked long with a shepherd lad; I found him pondering by his sheep, Motionless, etaring-eyed, and sad. But, leaning on his...

THE GERMAN HISTORIANS.* AMIDST the numerous results which have ensued from the present war, one of the most notable assuredly is that the mask has been torn from the face of...

[To TEE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOS."1 St,—I should like to call the attention of your readers to the admirable work which is being done by the Kensington War Hospital Supply...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicale4," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with The views therein repressed or with the mode of...

PansiDENT : LORD DESBOROUGEL How. Sacas'rARr1 PERCY A. HARRIS, Esq. HEAD OFFICES : Judges' Quadrangle, Royal Courts of Justice (Carey Street entrance). M.•••■■•■•■■•,.. The...

nowadays. It is even whispered that a few weeks ago the War Office discovered that horse manure, which till then it had carefully burnt, was a useful article which could be sold...

desirable to take note of his antecedents, heredity, and environment. He is the grandson of William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist; be was born in Germany, which is still, we...

of lectures given at the Union Theological Seminary in Virginia ; and perhaps the terms of the trust required their publication. Else it is hard to see why they were published....

bad considerable experience in both the old Volunteers and the Territorial Force, is now doing good service as Regimental Commandant—a rank corresponding to Brigadier-General in...

best to help us with good advice, and among the many books on this subject which are now appearing we would give a high place to Mrs. Peel's last volume. She tells us that the...

Christ in America, at the request of Christian missionaries in Japan, recently appointed a Commission on Relations with Japan to inquire into the possibilities of removing the...

(Mills and Boon. 65.)—It will be obvious to Lady Bell's many friends and admirers that she took a long sea voyage before writing her new novel. The most important scenes in The...

LAND OF OF THE SCARLET LEAF.f Tun fact that Mrs. Taylor's story won the Canadian prize in Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton's 21,000 all-British novel com- petition will ensure it a...

Jane, has reached US (Sampson Low and Co., 21s. net). The Admiralty has decided that the entire section dealing with the British Navy ninst be omitted from the public edition...

es.)—Although this story of mystery by Mr. Marsh—whose recent death we regret to note—is long-drawn- out and rather pointless, it has moments of keen excitement. — The Yellow...

10s. 6d. net) is an attempt at the analysis of the essential characteristics of the different nations taking part in the war, a separate chapter being given to the discussion of...

Jack London has gone too far. In his last book he raised in our minds the question how far a novelist may be justified in writing of physical horrors ; now, in his analysis of a...

Faithful (William Heinemann, 3s. 6d. net), is based—though he does not mention the fact—upon an episode in Japanese history at the beginning of the eighteenth century, which has...

the last few weeks, but not many of us have much conception of the city's appearance or of its history. Mr. Rothay Reynolds given us plenty of information on both these points...

[Notice in thio column does not necessarily preen& oularcquent review.] The Vocabulary of the Greek Testament : Illustrated from the Papyri and other non-Literary Sources. By J....

tutions and Manners, by Mr. Gilbert Stone (Q. G. Harrap and Co., 7s. ed. net), is an authoritatively written short history of the Welsh • people. Especial emphasis is laid ....