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T HE latest and best news of the week is that Flight-Com- mander Hewlett is safe and well. Friday's papers announce that the gallant officer was picked up by a Dutch trawler and...

has been a good deal of activity all along the line from the Swiss to the Dutch frontiers. Not much progress counted in mileage can be claimed, bat such as there has been is...

for us and our allies. On that day Walfisch Bay, the small British coast colony in the centre of German South-West Africa, which was taken early in the war by our enemies, was...

distinctly good. The German attack in the centre, in front of Warsaw, appears to have spent itself, and the Russians are gradually making their position on the Bzura stronger....

during the week been chiefly concerned with accounts of Christmas in the trenches, and with the strange and touching scenes of fraternization which took place between the...

On the other hand, there is little to criticize. Lord Derby and Lord Chesterfield are made Knights of the Garter and Lord Lovat a Knight of the Thistle. Lord Aberdeen becomes a...

the other side of the Carpathians—the Russians seem to be doing exceedingly well, judging not merely from their own accounts, but from German admissions. Thursday's papers...

beginning of the war appeared on Thursday and Friday of last week. On Thursday week, about eleven o'clock in the morning, an aeroplane circled over Dover and dropped a bomb,...

language, would, we venture to say, run as follows: "Surely you must see what a mess your interference with our trade is getting us into with our commercial people. We quite...

must call attention to the following passage in an article in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, quoted in Friday's Times. It needs no comment of any kind:— "The real injury to...

Office jargon to the American Note, but we shall be greatly surprised if Sir Edward Grey's answer when translated into common speech does not run somewhat on the following lines...

" In conclusion it should be impressed on His Majesty's Govern- ment that the present condition of American trade with the neutral European countries is each that if it does not...

a new decoration for distinguished service in the field, entitled the Military Cross. Commissioned officers not above the rank of Captain and Warrant officers are eligible to...

principle involved in the controversy between the American and British Governments as regards interference with neutral commerce. Here we may notice the text of the Note (not...

subscriptions to the Fund which the Spectator is raising to help the Home Guards movement have reached the sum of £1,820 lls. As the Christmas holidays are the worst possible...

six hundred agricultural workers. In finding work for the refugees the aim has been to prevent the exploitation of a possible source of cheap labour. The assistance of the...

percentage of wounded men who have recovered, or are recovering, and are, or will be, fit again for service. The figures are taken np to December 1st :- Wounded, but fit for...

October to investigate the problem of finding employment for Belgian refugees was issued last Saturday. Of the estimated million of Belgian refugees, over a hundred thousand...

as the Board of Agriculture points out, is not more than ten to twelve per cent. higher than wend. The rise of prices is not greater than is caused by the failure of crops in...

points out how extraordinarily unprepared for war British East Africa was in the first days of August. The King's African Rifles were in Jubaland, and bad to be hurriedly...

the measures taken by Sir Reginald Wingate to ensure the loyalty of the Sudan. They were measures of remarkable wisdom and energy. He took the Sudanese into his confidence• He...

Aug. St.h.

issue of the Morning Post, insists very strongly upon the deep hatred felt by the Magyars for every- thing German, and states once more that the rift in the Dual Monarchy is a...

on January 4th have been issued by the Treasury and the Stock Exchange Committee. The object of the restrictions is to prevent the forced realization of securities and opera-...

THE WAR AND THE NEW YEAR. T HOUGH the corning of the New Year makes, and could make, no difference at the front, it does present a convenient opportunity for taking stock of...

I T is as a general rule a very unsafe thing to praise Englishmen. In their hearty matter-of-fact way they are very much inclined to consider that praise crowns the work, and...

rr7 action taken by the United States Government in 3resenting a friendly Note of protest against the British treatment of neutral trade will certainly not provoke any...

T HE artists who used prophetically to represent a sea battle of to-day as bringing together every kind of arm in one confused conflict—dirigibles and aeroplanes attacking one...

"To describe the effect of the war upon Eton is far from easy: and to do so fully would be undesirable. That is to say it is principally a matter of atmospheric change a deep...

p lUSHKIN, Dostoevsky, and Tehekhoff, these three writers, if they are not the greatest in Russian literature, are at all events the most Russian. It is to them rather than to...

THE TASK BEFORE US. rTe ens EDISOS Or en ••Sesorms."] Sin,—With the New Year Englishmen are hoping that the great effort of preparation which the country is making will...

question raised in Mr. Mallins's letter that you have favoured me with a copy of, this is by no means the first occasion the title of my Association has been chal- lenged. It...

HOME GUARDS. pro ran Eamon or no "Syncrarca.'9 Sra,—I hope that the name that you have suggested for this new force will be officially adopted. Its present title is unsuitable...

[To T. Emma 05 T. Sis,—Some of us who have watched the teaching and the policy of the Spectator for years past must have fully realized the restraint with which its views on "...

[TO T. EMT. or T " Sescrivoa."] Sia, — In view of the interesting articles which have appeared in the Spectator on Italy's attitude towards the war, I dare say a short account...

• think that your readers will be interested in the following passage of a letter just received from an observant and trustworthy American friend, who has been visiting Canada...

have just been reading your last issue, and I see that, in enumerating the military forces in England at the present time, you refer to National Reservists as guarding points...

Ma nil EMT. ON TIM ..E.C.T.Olt...] • read with great satisfaction the letter of your corm- 'pendent from Winnipeg, with your appended note in approvaL There must surely be...

Sia,—Travelling about the kingdom as I have had to do on my business for the last thirty years, I make a point of always reading my Spectator, and I am interested in Mr....

[To TIM EDITOS or THY ••erarraron."] SIR,—Your correspondent Mr. C. R. Hahne protests in your last issue against the use of the word " British." The usage depends upon nothing...

last to see (in your issue of December 26th„ 1914) a protest against the headgear which has been adopted for our soldiers in the fighting line. Any one who has done much...

a slip in your last issue. Ireland has never been known as Parva Britannia. In Gregory of Tours and later chroniclers Britannia may stand equally well for Great Britain and...

endorse all that Mr. F. D. Drewitt says in hie letter in your last issue. I wish I could agree with your note, but the experience of seven years has given me the knowledge that...

[To TON EDITOR or rue "Srsomor...] SIR,—Referring to a letter you kindly published a week or two ago, will you allow me to supplement it with some further remarks, the result of...

[To THE EDITOR 01 TRY "SPECTATOZ."] Sin,—In your issue of December 26th, 1914, a correspondent calls attention to the shape of our Army cap, and condemns it as unnecessarily...

[To TEM EDITOR OF vas 4.8rseravos."1 Son,—The writer of the following letter to the New York Evening Post is a very well-known member of the New York Bar.—I am, Sir, Ste., S. R....

PHD " SncrraTox..1 SIR, — " Kitchener's Army " has not yet found a marching song. I enclose mine (to the air of "John Brown's Body"), which you may care to place at the service...

[To ma Emma or ma "Brecraros..”1 81'4—It is seldom in recent years that full justice has been done to James Thomson as a thinker and patriot, who had a truly rhythmic, if...

wonder bow many people who have read this touching incident in the Daily Call have been reminded of the horse of Herminius in Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome.—r am, Sir "One man...

[To ras Kenos or me " firscraros."3 Sris,—It is understood that in the event of invasion the Government will publish regulations to guide the actions of the civil population....

[To vas EDITOR or vas .. SPHOTAT01...] SIR,—The Turkish Press at first assured us that the sinking of the ' lifessudiyeh ' was due to a leak. This explanation recalls Artemis...

[To me EDITos or rem "wsecwsc"1 8114—The correct spelling of the name of the Sultan of Egypt is Husain. In the Arabic the "e" is not double either in Hamm or in Husain, which...

[To ran EDITOR or rem "srsreaess."] SIR, —My keeper told me yesterday that during the last day or two he had distinctly heard the sound of cannon-firing. He is an old Marine...

Stn,—Your correspondent "F. B.," like many other people, seems to think that anything which it may be good for a human being to know may be taught in an elementary ' ,shoot I...

Srn,—Your correspondent " F. B.," in your last issue, touches upon another aspect of the domestic service problem which appeals to me very strongly—the teaching of domestic...

tar ”Srrersroa."1 Sin,—The attention of my Committee has been called to a letter in your issue of December 12th, 1914, in which unfavourable reference is made to this Society,...

[To ram Enema or TR. 4 ' Bexar..."1 Sts,—Our Army horses are suffering unduly from the present wet weather. From an economical as well as a humanitarian point of view, this...

PRESIDENT LORD DESBOROUGH. Eon. SECEISTART PERCY A. HARRIS, Esq. HEAD °nun: Judges' Quadrangle, Royal Courts of Justice (Carey Street entrance). The aims and objects of this...

THE HEROES. Ire that Valhalla where the heroes go A careful sentinel paced to and fro Before the gate, burnt black with battle smoke, Whose echoes to the tread of armed men...

LETTERS OF LADY HARRIOT ELIOT." Mn. CUTHBERT HEADLAM has done a great service to students of the Pitt period in editing these letters, a copy of which we have been allowed to...

name or initials, or with a pseudonym or are marked "Communicated," the Editor mu t not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mods...

SUBSCRIPTIONS for this Fund should be sent to the Spectator Office, or direct to Messrs. Barclay and Co., Goslings' Branch, 19 Fleet Street, London, E.G. Cheques should be made...

IN this volume Mr. Hardy has collected the poems written for the most part in the last five years or so, a considerable number of which have been published separately. As they...

their colleagues to talk too much, but a few are admitted to talk well. So if most school- masters' books are merely two covers and some conversation, some of them may be none...

Ma. Gaovsuuv Boman bas published under the general title, The Tory Tradition, four lectures delivered before the • A Schoolmaster's Apology. By C. A. Allogton, Howl-Maeter of...

enhanced by this collection of letters. They were written during the last ten years of an overworked life, and certainly the later lettere suggest that Miss Mitford, though she...

A DROP IN INFINITY! Gnorrear, whose name is unfamiliar to us in the realm of romance, though his spirited verses, if we mistake not, have appeared in these columns, has given...

Philips relief map to all students of the war, and especially to schoolmasters and persons who desire to explain to others the geographical, strategical, and general military...

of the Oxford New English Dictionary. This is Mr. 0. T. Onions, who has undertaken the latter part of " S," and now issues the section " Su—Subterraneous" (Clarendon Press, 25....

Thomas and Kate Pavitt (William Rider and Son, 7s. 6d. net), is written mainly for those who believe—or pretend to believe—in astrology and kindred superstitions.

edition of the well-known Handbook of Folk-Lore (ga.), revised and enlarged by Charlotte Sophia Borne, which is intended as a guide to travellers and others who aim at eliciting...

and Ce. 6s.)—A book of short stories, amusing, but too trivial to be worthy of the writer's powers.---The Orchard Pavilion, By Arthur Christopher Benson, (Same publishers. 3s....

and Stoughton. 6s.)—In reading "Ralph Connor's" latest novel, we have found ourselves wishing a hundred times that hie men and women would not explain to us, by meare of casual...

6s.)—A. story of American school life is likely to prove new and rather difficult ground for the English reader who is unversed in the technicalities of baseball and the rival...

much to interest them in two American books just published by Messrs. Macmillan and Co. The excellent work of the Juvenile Protective Association, organized some years ago in...

travel in Nigeria, which she calls With the Tin Gods (John Lane, 12s. 6d. net), in allusion to the metal in which her companions were chiefly interested. She saw much that few...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily proclude milmcguont norm) A rousing note is struck in These Glorious Times (Longmans and Co., 2d. net), in which Mica L. H. M....

will welcome his latest fantasy, d Syrup of the Bees (Methuen and Co., Is. net), as an anodyne for their present anxieties. It is described, as usual, as a translation "from the...

known as a high authority on the history of The Spanish Dependencies in South America (Smith, Elder, and Co., 2 vols., 21s. net). In this learned and interesting work he deals...

call "The Service Kipling," in "a form which it is hoped will make them more convenient for general use under present conditions." Eaoh volume of the ordinary edition is now...

is Who's Who (A. and 0. Black, 15s, net), the new edition of which for 1915 contains 2,376 pages of terse biographical facts about English people in whom an inquirer is likely...

signatures to the " scrap of paper" which was supposed to guarantee Belgium's neutrality. It can be obtained for 3s. 6d., in a neat black frame, with the subscription, "In...