north of Gorizia, Monte San Gabriele is still partly held by the Austrians, and the summit, swept by shell-fire, is untenable for either side. On the Carso the Italians slightly...

there has been much fighting in the air. On Tuesday seventeen hostile machines were " brought down "—that is to say, destroyed —and another was shot down, while only one of our...

men advanced on a six-mile front from the south of Tower Hamlets to the east of St. Julien, and again captured all the positions which they wished to occupy. South of the Menin...

have become a matter of absorbing interest to the people who live in the South- East and Emit of England. For the recent development of flying by night naturally means that...

push our men back. Indeed, on Friday week our line was advanced a little further at Tower Hamlets, south of the Merlin road, and also to the east of St. Julien. Late on the same...

the offensive has had some further successes on a small scale along the Pakoff road. But the enemy is now seen to have been transferring the bulk of his troops further to the...

the ships of our Belgian Coast Patrol on Saturday last and again on Tuesday. A German report that we had shelled the Cathedral last Saturday was promptly contradicted by the...

opposing them made numerous attacks on a small scale, especially in Champagne, which were easily repulsed. On Monday, however, he made a considerable effort north of the Bois do...

may be called, began early on Thursday week. On a front of eight miles cant of Ypres, from the Condors Canal on the south to Langemarek on the north, British and Dominion troops...

were sunk last week by mine or submarine. The week before nine large and eleven small vessels were lost. A British destroyer was sunk by an enemy submarine in the approaches to...

T HE British Army has during the past week achieved a fresh -series of great victories in the Ypres region. Sir Douglas Haig has made two successful attacks on a wide front,...

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

in Kent and Essex, and a few of them followed the line of the Thames to London. Never had so terrific a bombardment been heard in London since the war began. Such noise as there...

day that it is scarcely possible to mooed it in detaiL Since we last wrote the extremists of the Petrograd Soviet seem to have recovered a good deal of the power they had lost,...

to form the German line in Belgium so far back that German raiders would be obliged (1) to fly an impossibly long distance to London, and (2) to pass over so much hostile...

than even Germany uses, welcomes the Pope's idea " that the future arrangement of the world must be based on the elimination of armed forces and on the moral force of right and...

Austrian answers to the Pope because indeed they require few. Why are - there all these feverish protestations by Germany in favour of peace ? Is it because the Germans have...

and must credit the Kaiser with a neat saying about Heligoland. The late Sir H. IL Stanley compared Lord Salisbury's bartering of Heligoland for Zanzibar to the exchange of a...

on Friday week. To the Allied peoples it must seem the quintessence of hypocrisy, inasmuch as it represents the' aiser as 'a man of peace who was dragged into war " against his...

to create panic while professing to allay it have suggested that these raids can be prevented only by bombing the populations of German towns. If what is generally meant by "...

a mystery. It is perfectly obvious from all the political movements that are happening in Germany that the Germans want peace. One would have thought, therefore, that they would...

our own opinion. Having regard to the progress of the war on the Western Front, and to our maintained command of the sea and our increased pressure on the enemy by means of the...

P. Taft, one of the supporters of the Barnard statue, is an art collector of excep- tional discrimination. We have also heard it said that Mr. Roosevelt was overwhelmed by the...

published on Monday that much concern and indignation had been caused by the news that Mr. Barnarcre statue of Abraham Lincoln was actually east and ready to be shipped to...

prices seems to have been that " something must be done," although the need for doing something was by no means proved. The danger of industrial unmet is alleged, but it seems...

had steadily condemned the Paris Resolutions as being economically vindictive against the Central Powers have now approved a policy for subjecting Germany to an economic boycott...

indiscretions " have supplied a fresh proof of the impossi- bility of dealing with the present rulers of Germany. Count Luxburg had, through the Swedish Minister at Buenos...

morning for an immediate rupture of relations with Ger- many. Fifty-three votes were given for the resolution and only eighteen against it. As the Argentine Senate adopted a...

which we cannot follow in its details. The only points that need concern us are that the American Centenary Committee have offered to London a statue of Lincoln, and that the...

situation have been so various that we confess we have been unable to follow them, We are now embarked upon a new Food Economy campaign. Nothing is more necessary, and yet we...

April 5th.

THE PROGRESS IN FLANDERS. If1HE characteristic of the war on land has been the JL rapid and wholesale changes in methods of attack and offence. It must not be supposed that...

Horace V Walpole in 1759, " what victory there is for fear of missing one." Just now we look every morning for fresh disclosures by the American Government for fear of missing...

M R. ASQUITH, we think it fair to say, has been the orator of this war. His speeches have not had the warmth, colour, and driving-power of much that has been said by Mr. Lloyd...

A LTHOUGH the mind of the British public is for the moment absorbed with problems nearer home, the question of the future government of India will shortly become urgent. Mr....

" Whence have they this mettle ? Is not their climate foggy, raw and dull, on whom, as in despite, the sun looks pale, killing their fruits with frowns ? "—SHAKESPEARE. H...

TN tbp teeth of a fierce opposition from parents, grandparents, 1 relations, friends, and public opinion generally, we've done it. After being at the front since the autumn of...

Sta,—Not even the most conscientious objector can possibly object to your fair and just treatment of this subject in the Spectator of September 15th. It is a mental refreshment,...

Ste,—Your thoughtful article in year issue of September 15th dealing with the position of conscientious objectors was of great value. The legislation enacted in the early days...

[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.] THE CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR....

or Ten " SPEOTATOB.") Sts,—On renewing, to-day, for another six months, my subscription to the Spectator, I should like to express the satisfaction it has afforded me, ae an...

CTo sae Servos or me " Sezerstos."1 Ste,--Just fifty-five years ago, organised pugilism was one •of the sports practised in a certain great Public School. The masters, of...

CTo Tee Maros. or rue " Breersroa."3 Sus,—With the beat will in the world, it is not easy to arrive at "L. W.'s; " attitude to the Housing Question from his letter in your...

[To roe EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."] Bowen-Coltburst's pathetic statement as to her husband's position published in your last issue cannot foil to arouse the indignation of your...

Srn,—It seems hard to one living in Ireland to realize that there are some people in England who wish to see justice done in the case of the unfortunate Captain Bowen-Colthurst....

[To ens EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") 810,—May I express the amassment that I feel at your confession: The Psalms leave us cold "! If we ourselves are cold, the Psalms Roiling...

THE SPECTATOR.") R711,—The subjoined extract from a letter giving the experiences of a Public School boy in a labour camp during the recent summer tolidays might be of interest...

[To THE EHITO1 or THE SPEETATOR.v] L/11,--I, for one, sympathize with and fully endorse the views and feelings of your correspondent in last week's Spectator with regard to our...

(To THE Emma or THE " Sercreree."1 Sift—The delightfully terse and pointed article which you pub- lished in the Spectator last week on " The Snotty " reminds me of a story I...

[To me EDITOR or ten " Seeerivoa.") Ste,—Walter Greenway's pride in his nationality. and the heroism he displayed in the service of his country, must stir the blood of every...

" SPECTATOR.") Ste,—In view of misrepresentation of fact in certain quarters, we hare made out a complete statement of our gifts to War Charities up to date, and submit as cony....

Ur DEAR DAD,—This letter is being written on the eve of our • going over the top in a big attack. It is only because I know by this time what are the odds against one's...

MO THE EDITOR or von " SPECTATOR:'] wonder whether you would care to give place in your paper (which I read weekly with pleasure and interest) to the letter I enclose. Such a...

[To THE EDITOR. or TEM " SPECTATOR: 'J Sta—Referring to Lady Bective's appeal in the Daily Telegraph of the 19th inst., I should like to suggest to the clergy that this is an...

Seecrivon."1 Sts,—Are your good readers going to prove good friends to "sweaters " again for this, the fourth winter of the war? We have made a good start with 10,999 comforts...

THE "Semmes."' Sia,—One is often tempted to wonder why The Fairchild Family is not relegated to the limbo of forgotten things, and why Mrs. Sherwood herself can still claim so...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."] persons seem to forget that a vast amount of work not directly connected with the war must still be performed, and consequently that patriotic...

(To THE Enrroa or min " firscriroa.") Sus,—In the Spectator of September 15th there was a beautiful address by Mr. Lansing to young American officers. It is such a striking...

LTo THE EDITOR or THE " Seeerwroa."3 you kindly permit a twenty-five years' reader of the Spectator to inquire through your columns as to the present where- abouts of an...

LTo TEE EDITOR or rue " SPECTATOR. " ] Sie,—My attention has been called to the " Notes " in your issue of the 22nd, and I am desired to say that the National Party, whilst...

ITo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin, — Referring to Lady Mordaunt'n letter on this subject in your last issue, it may interest some of your readers to know that "the little...

SIR CHARLES DILKE.* Mess TUCKWELL is to be congratulated with Mr. Gwynn, who was called away to the war, on the completion of an interesting and difficult task. Her biography of...

PRAYER. I amen God's voice in the thunder as I knelt by my bed and prayed, While the lightning stabbed the darkness, and this is what He said : " Arise from thy knees, thou...

MISS MARY-AMIE MACDONALD'S three poems (" In the Ward," "Epiphany Vision," and "In Last Year's Camp') have been reprinted from the pages of the Spectator in pamphlet form under...

Owisto to the large and continued demand for copies of the poem entitled "Christ in Flanders," which appeared in our issue of September 11th, 1915, it has now been reprinted in...

THE leading article in the Spectator on the death of Lieutenant Mulkey and his article "Don't Worry" have been republished as a leaflet by Messrs. W. Speaight and Sons, 98-99...

name or initiate, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communiesited," Me Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the aims therein expressed or with the mode...

Tax article under the above heading, dealing with the desecration of beautiful places by the scattering of pieces of paper and other picnic debris, which appeared in our issue...

IT was a happy thought on the part of the editors of this book,' at this moment when the Republics of South America are ranging them- selves beside their big sister of the North...

Ix has become the fashion amongst recent. commentators on Shake- speare to regard the Quartos in which nineteen of his plays first appeared in print as pirated editions devoid...

Tins book may be described as a long historical essay. It is written to prove that Portugal is in the truest and most modern sense of the word a nation and not an artificially...

THE RED PLANET.* Ma. Locxx's new story of an English country town in war time. skilfully oonstruoted and worked out to a dramatic close, is notable as a study of a physical...

Unwise. 3s. 6d, net.)—Mr. Tomkinson, who writes as a landowner with a practical knowledge of farming, regards import duties and bounties as dubious and uncertain methods of...

the Oxford English Dictionary contains the fifteen hundred and eighty main words from "Verificatory" to "Visor," edited by Dr. W. A. Croigio (Clarendon Press, 5s. net)....

(Relics in flu column don Sot aseesserau products micemma recime.1 CODMilinity. By R. EL MacIver. (Macmillan and Co. 12s. net.)— Professor MacIver's " attempt to set out the...

(Paris Felix Alcan. 3 fr. 50 e.)—M. Yves Guyot in this interesting and highly controversial volume reviews the whole question of alcoholic liquor, in its physiological,...

(Methuen and Co. 5s. net)—A semi-mystical novel concerning the doings at Biarritz and in London of a Rajput Rajah.---Under the Hermes. By Richard Behan. (W. Heinemann. Co....

N. Jarintzov. (Oxford : B. H. Blackwell. 10a. 6d. not.)—Mme . Jarintzov has followed up her very able and stimulating book on the Russians and their language with this...

Co. and Manchester University Press. 15s. net.)—In this book is printed for the first time a review of the Presbyterian and Congregational Nonconformist congregations in England...

reached a fourth edition, to which maps illustrating this year's campaigns have been added. These unpretentious and clearly printed maps, on which the battle-fronts aro not...