to approach the north.end of the Downs and were seen by a patrol vessel. The enemy fired about twelve rounds and steamed off home to report that they had shelled the open town...

SUPPLEMENT.

German onset, the high skill with which the German troops have been handled, and finally their wonderful equipment, it is amazing that the Rumanians have not lost not merely...

but as we write on Thursday the position appears to be as follows. The Germans have consolidated the junction between their army coming across the Danube from the south and the...

better in the future than they have in the past in the matter o! destroying their enemy's formations, and that when we write next we shall have to chronicle some big German...

between 11.30 a.m. and noon. A German aeroplane flying at an immense height—it was seen by a few persons as a speck in the haze— dropped six bombs. Nine persona were...

have very greatly increased her line by her invasion of Rumania. She will have, besides another huge congeries of artillery positions to be kept supplied with big guns—the...

the Rumanian trenches at the first rush and re-enact the tragedies of Liege and Namur. It is far more likely, however, that they will be obliged to sit down in front of the...

A NO' 1 • kiER Zeppelin raid has taken place and ended with glorious credit to the defenders. On Monday night several airships crossed the East Coast in misty weather and...

degree. A little reflection, however, will show that 'whatever may be the power of the Germans for future evil, they have not as yet accom- plished any great success in Rumania....

case.

very hopeful and helpful action which took place on Tuesday, November 28th, in the extreme north of the kingdom—i.e., closer to the Russian frontier. At a point in the "wooded...

his original demand. The - ultimatum • embodying the rabrixnuan demands of the Allies required that ten- mountain batteriefnehoukl be handed over by December -1st and the rest...

to record: That does not show that nothing is being done. There is a time of preparation as well as of action.

why this has not been done is that guns cannot be in two places at once. If there aro not enough guns- to supply our merchant ships to-day it is because when last spring the...

under the powers- of the Defence • of the Realm Act, have taken control of the South Wales coalfields, where a fierce wages dispute had lately broken out. The Department...

known before these lines are published. So far King Constantine and his Government have remained obdurate. Although, there are many ;grave signs, the politeness of Admiral du...

own mat There will- be literally thousands of people who, though inclined to think that Mr. Balfour has not been as active and stimulating a force at the Admiralty as be might...

the newspapers the better. It is an open secret, however, that the action of the Govern. meat is not directed against the men, nor should it in any way be taken as an...

flit, a transient and embarrassed phantom, across the scene at Vienna. He left the dead to bury their dead in some fertile and pompous fashion peculiar to the Hapsburg line. To...

our opinion they are sound, timely, and appropriate. They mark, as they should mark, the Government's appreciation that the time has come for 'increasing the influence of sea...

of Mr. Charles Booth,, known to the public as a leading philanthropist and student of industrial life, especially on the statistical aide, and to the com- mercial world as a...

a notice calling public attention to the urgent need that exists for the assist- awe of women, not already connected with agricultural industry in the work Of food production,...

July 13th.

to establish a South Slav counterpart of the new kingdom of Poland. The purpose of this is of course to legalize the conscription of Serbs to fight against the Allies. Such an...

in view of the need of more men for the Army, the Council should make no more claims for their employees to be exempted. A copy of the resolution—which, however, was...

Sir Hiram Maxim the fertile and racy American inventor who became a naturalized Englishman. He was best known as the creator of the Maxim gun, the first of modern machine guns,...

` Braemar Castle,' which was sunk by -a mine -or torpedo in the Aegean Sea, near the place where the ' Britannic' was sank. She was - bringing wounded' home from Salonika. Only...

was se severely criticized that the Government agreed to remodel it in accordance with the wishes of the House. Mr. Hogge moved an amendment (it was only one of many on the...

the Belgian Minister in London on the subject of the deportations in Belgium:— "Your Government will not expect from their Allies any elaborate expression of the horror and...

the Royalists laid themselves on the railway in front of a train loaded with artillery that was being sent south in response to the Allies' demands. We have read lately of the...

and unveiled a War Memorial to the hundred and sixty old boys who have fallen out of a total of twelve hundred serving in the British forces. In his brief but admirable speech...

• RM. FOOD SHORTAGE AND HOW TO MEET IT. "U NLESS the Government are frightening us without cause over the food shortage question, which is inconceivable, the situation is...

the supreme com- mand of the Navy were of course decided upon some time ago. Every one who knows anything at all about naval organization knows that many preparations must be...

D URING the past week the air has been full of rumours about a great movement in America for the enforcement of peace, engineered by Germans in the background, but with a first...

have dealt in the article which precedes this with Germany's dream of a food embargo and how it will be defeated by internal and external influences. Here we may say something...

A DUEL to the death between two ships of war always captures IAA_ the imagination relatively more than an affair on a much larger scale between many ships. One need not look far...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Bra,—In view of the smart echec which the above-mentioned gentleman ' s ambitions have experienced by the loss of Monastir, it occurred to...

(To THE EDITOR OP MS "SPECTATOR.") ere, — Are the Germanio Empires on the road, unconsciously of eourse, to become fulfillers of prophecy—of a sinister kind for them?...

the letter of the Head-Master of the Persse School in your issue of November 11th, may I—with all deference to him—say that I, for one, rejoice at the prospect of the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Sxn, — Excellent Punch is asking for the moon. Germany does not possess two tons for one. According to Lloyd's Register of Shipping for...

[To VIZ EDITOR OP TIII " SPECTATOR.") Sri,—The Master of University's reply to Dr. Rouse may deserve your epithet of " crushing," but I am not sure who will be crushed by it....

(To THE EDITING or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sra,---The demands upon us are increasing. Wo are now told that, upon the Somme front alone, we must provide one hundred more huts...

"SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Sir Arthur Evans stated the common problem when he said in his Presidential address at the British Association that the failure of modern education lies in...

does not alter facts. I wish it could. I would forgive him freely any epithet he might apply to the writer or his modest plea. I cited facts from Scotland, where Greek has...

always been a very good friend of the Volunteers, and the excellent article in your issue of November 18th will, I believe, be welcomed by thousands of us who are exasperated...

[To THE Emma OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sia, — It is, no doubt, very difficult to judge between the various claims; and the difficulty may appear, to the potential giver, as a...

THE EDITOR OF . THE " SPECTITOR."1 Sta,—I think it may interest your readers to know that Colonel • Walsh, late Somerset Light Infantry, who acted as subaltern to Colonel...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your articles have been excellent, and compulsion should be instituted at once, both for the sake of the nation and also to avoid...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—A small Residential Club has been opened in Westbourne Terrace, W., for the accommodation of a limited number of naval and military...

" SPECTATOR."] Sus,—We have recently received the following postcard from an English prisoner of war at Doeberitz Camp, and feel it impossible to let such an appeal pass...

About fifty years ago, when old George the Third was King, And the Prince, the star of fashion, was the light of pleasure's ring, Lived a fine old country squire, a man of high...

SPECTATOR.") Sra,—The article under this heading in your issue of November 18th reminds me of a song I heard sung by a farmOr at a harvest-home at Sutton in Salop about sixty...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sus,—Of course we demand nothing from the great Republic across the Atlantic but the most scrupulous neutrality. But those of us who have...

" DEAR FATHER AND Marnint,—I am pleased to inform you I have been one of the fortunate prisoners of war to be exchanged in Switzerland. I left the Schillerschule on the 24th...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPEOILTOR."] Snr,—All parties seem anxious for an Irish settlement, and np to the present none has been found. There has been much talk about the...

[To ins EDITOR Of THE " SPECIATOR."i Sta,—Your correspondent in the last issue of the Spectator quote. a passage from Measure for Measure, Act II., Scene ii., as pointing to...

[To THE EDITOE of 7211 " SPECTATOR."i Sta.—Considering that bread is now not only the staff of life, but is becoming also the staff of thought, and about the one topic of...

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

[To THE EDITOE Of THE " SPECTATOE."i Sur,—In your issue of the 18th inst. Lord Cromer began his excellent article or review of a book by remarking that it is very difficult...

WE have received the following additional subscription. to the above Fund :— £ a. d. Previously acknowledged • -• .. 171 6 6 Miss A. Richardson „ • • .. 10...

same 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...

ME 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 of...

Owreo 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...

a tit FALLEN POET. Now, when the soul has left its throne Behind your mortal eyes; And light, and colour, and sound are gone From the body's palaces; Still in his wood the...

METAPHYSICAL PACIFICISM.• Ma. BERTRAND Russ= evidently belongs to a class who are not generally very popular in private life, and whose views on public ques- tions are almost...

REGIMENTAL histories of some sort are probably as numerous as the regiments in the British Army. Many are unworthy of their subject. It is strange that many regimental...

Da. Born-CARPENTER'S Further Payee of My Life falls roughly into three divisions. There are chapters which deal with the most intimate passages of his home life ; chapters which...

WE strongly advise all young officers to read and study the little book by Sir Alfred Codrington which forms the subject of this review. Wherever the best qualities of the...

IT is always interesting to see an English anthology made by a foreign hand. Dr. Valgimigli, who has taught Italian at Manchester for many years, shows his wide knowledge and...

Ise this useful book Mr. Lewin examines in detail the development of Germany's ambitious designs on the Near East, typified in the phrase "from Berlin to Baghdad." Every one, we...

PILOT.* Tucen is a widely current notion, springing from a narrow application of an old proverb, that people who have succeeded in one line ahonid be content with their...

C. C. Penrose Fitzgerald. (E. Arnold. 128. 6d. net.)—In this volume the Admiral continues and completes the autobiography which he began in Memories of the Sea. Ho started...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude sub.mptent revis:o.1 The Gate of Ada. By William Warficld. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. $2 . 50 net.)—This American traveller...

(W. Blackwood and Sons. 6s.)—An Anglo-Indian story in which an account is given of an expedition—which was a failure—to a native State in the extreme North-West—The...

Aircraft, by an Air Pilot, cr 8vo (Newnes) net 216 Anftaki (M.), Nichken, the Buddhist Prophet, 8vo..(Oxford Univ. Press) net 516 Ashman (Marget), Isabel Carleton's Year, cr Lye...

This volume, published for the Polish Information Committee, contains eight papers, all but one of them by Polish writers, on the history, economic condition, and intelleotual...

10s. 6d. net.)—This new Life of Mehemet states the main facts clearly and is sympathetic in tone. The racy pages of Ockloy and Gibbon give a more vivid idea of Mehemet the...

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CARLYLE'S " FREDERICK."• IT has often seemed to us a providential thing that Carlyle wrote his Frederick in numerous stout volumes. As a portrait of the Prussian King, not as...

but when Mr. Sims describes his reminiscences as " Sixty Years Recoreetions of Bohemian London" his claim is fulfilled by the contents. As a matter of fact, his memories...

LONDON: DECEMBER 2nd, 1910.

TnE Bishop of Zanzibar has written a book which is at once an apologia, as he says, for his attitude in the recent Kikuyu controversy, and also a clear statement of what he...

Tn Bishop of Oxford tolls us in the preface to his little book that it has been written " to meet a need, which is just now clamorous— the provision of a manual of instruction...

would of itself justify the existence of the "National History of France," which Is appearing in six volumes by different skilled hands. It is the book for which we have long...

A CERTAIN unreality was lent to Mr. Labouchere's amusing talk by the fact that he always made the worat of every one, including himself. Mr. G. W. E. Russell tells us this about...

MORE CHILDREN'S BOOKS.* Princess Marie - loses Children's Book' is an excellent collection of short stories, verses, and pictures, by many well-known authors and artists, It...

THE stern necessities of war have, of course, restricted the output of the attractive gift-books which usually pour in upon us at this season of the year. For the children there...

Boys of this generation can find every day in the newspapers the most astounding examples of human bravery and endurance, and the realities of war surpass the adventures...

Tax war is not only the subject of many new stories, but has also been described in its various aspects in numerous books.for young people. One of the best of these is The...

The Boy's Own Annual (R.T.S., 7s. 6d. net), the thirty-eighth annual volume of the Boy's Own Paper, is an excellent miscellany of stories and articles which proves the continued...

2e. Gd. net.)—These drawings bear the test of collection in book form remarkably well, and it is pleasant to be able to enjoy them again, for as they " were first published in...

W. Note- stein. (Harper and Brothers. Cs. net.)—Two Professors of the Univer- sity of Minnesota illuatrate, by the eight typical cases in this book, a very good method of...

6d. net.)—The late Dr. Tristram (1825-1912), Chancellor of London and of four other dioceses, and Commissary-General of Canterbury, was one of the best-known ecclesiastical...

Towards a Sane Feminism. By Wilma Meikle. (Grant Richards. 3s. (id. net.)—If Miss Meikle's views on "feminism" were to be accounted " sane," we should despair of the future....