"THE GAME OF POETRY." * MOST men and women are bored by the subject of education. But no one could be bored by Mr. Caldwell Cook's new book, • though it bears directly on the...

LONDON: OCTOBER 2nd, 1915.

list his very interesting study of the character and history of . the German Emperor, Mr. McCabe starts from the fact that his left arm is useless. With many men this defect...

EDUCATION is one of those things of which the practice can be carried on while the theory is still in debate ; and it is as well that this should be so, because the theory of...

with a good array of notes at the foot of each page, furnish ample reason for the publication of Mr. Lipson's Introduction to the Economic History of England. It deals, indeed,...

quietly at home : we cannot go to win the brave rewards of fighting ; we seem to have no call to any sacrifioe. Yet even to us the war, in its infinite generosity of good as...

THE RUSSIAN VODKA MONOPOLY. The Russian Vodka Monopoly. By Arthur Sherwell. (P. S. ring and Son. 4d.)—Mr. Arthur Sherwell's pamphlet, which is in part a reprint of articles...

Sir Almrotb Wright's monograph upon Wound Infections (University of London Press, 2s. 6d. net), though addressed primarily to medical men, will be read widely by all those who...

A Woman's Diary of the War. By S. Macnangliten. (T. Nelson via Sons, is. net.)—As a member of the Red Cross, Miss Macnaughtan went Out to Belgium in September of last year, and...

The Human Side of Plants. By Royal Dixon. (Grant Richards. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Dixon is an enthusiast in the study of plant life, and he has written this book in the hope of...

The Pulse of the World. By Malcolm Stark. (Skeffington and Son. 5s. net.)—Mr. Malcolm Stark, for long connected - with the Glasgow Herald, has written his reminiscences, and...

Some entertaining. stories are told by Mr. W. D. Westervelt in his collection, Legends of Old Honolulu (Constable and Co., Cis. net). The adventures Of Pikoi the Rat-Killer are...

Milford, 2s. 0d. net) has been based by Professor I. Gollancz upon two manuscripts in the British Museum. Nothing is certain as to the date or authorship of the poem, though...

and Co. 3s. not.)—This is a reprint of some pleasant essays which have appeared in the Selborne Magazine, &e. Mr. Rope does not pretend to say anything new on the subjects dealt...

7s. 6a. neb),its it collection of studies, partly critical, partly biographical, upon nine English writers, who have little in common: They are not all even poets or Puritans;...

of the excellent Spanish monthly journal America-Latina, which (as we have more than once informed our readers) is distributed free of charge in Spanish-speaking countries with...

LTD., at the London andCounty Printing Works, Drury Lane, W.C. ; and Published by ALYRID Evanson for the, "%SPECTATOR" (Limited), at thcir Office, No, 1 Wellington Street, in...

flanks, especially on the right, while in Artois on Monday and Tuesday they gained ground towards the crests east of Souchez. Wednesday afternoon's communiqué re- ported the...

T HE news from the Western front is much the most im- portant since the battle of the Marne. The prolonged bombardment of the enemy's trenches, which had continued for five...

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

Thomas, the French Under-Secretary for Munitions, have done well already ; they must do better. That is, however, a statement which, it it errs at all, errs on the Bide of...

on a front of twenty miles overran the German first-line defences between Auberive and Ville-sur- Tourbe—between the Suippe and the Aisne—piercing them to a depth varying from...

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chief interest of the war has shifted from the Eastern theatre; but operations are nevertheless continuing there with unabated activity. At the moment when the attack began upon...

tinued last week, and on September 23rd the important town of Luck was reoccupied by theme Subsequent reports upon these operations coming from Vienna suggest that our allies...

an evasion of the demand for recall has failed. The American Government have refused to grant Dr. Dumba's request for a safe-conduct so that he might be able to reach Vienna "on...

Bulgarian mobilization which we recorded last week. On Thursday week M. Venezelos had an audience with the King of Greece, and expressed the view that a Greek mobilization was...

south of this point by the armies under Marshal von Hindenburg between Vilna. and the Pripet marshes—a front of perhaps a hundred and fifty miles. The Russian army from Vilna is...

that the Anglo-French Loan would be for B100,000,000, at the rate of 5 per cent. Lord Reading, in a statement made on Wednesday, stated that the negotiations had resulted in the...

reviewed the Balkan situation in a firm but temperate speech. Great Britain had always shown a warm sympathy with Bulgaria, and there was no question of our disturbing those...

the papers printed the semi.official statement issued at Sofia on Thursday week. According to this docu- ment, Bulgaria's mobilization was a declaration of armed neutrality. She...

the Italian front. We have to record, however, with much regret the loss of the Italian battleship 'Benedetto Brin ' by an explosion following on a fire as she was lying in the...

a notable success against the Turks in Mesopo- tamia. Telegrams received from General Sir John Nixon stated that the enemy's positions astride the Tigris, near Kut.el-Amara,...

Note in the same sense was despatched to all the European Powers, and M. Radoslavote has addressed specific assurances to Greece and Serbia disavowing any hostile intent. The...

been announced that the third German War Loan has produced over 2600,000,000, or a little more than the second British Loan. For our part, we remember that the War Loan Banks in...

of small amounts—i.e., 100 dollars—will be issued, and subscribers will be allowed to make payment by instalments. Finally, the syndicate formed to take up the whole issue will...

Lord Haldsne—attacks of which an example is to be found in certain questions put to the Prime Minister during the past week. If those questions were meant—as apparently they...

Wednesday, when the main questions raised were concerned with the price of sugar and the new import duties. In defending the latter Mr. McKenna denied that he was giving up his...

a question from Captain Guest, earnestly appealed to the House to abstain from further discussion of the recruiting problem. We had reached a critical moment in the history of...

a number of selected areas during the past three months have led to important action by the Central Control Board. In a statement issued on Friday, the 24th, it is announced...

with the special constables of all the areas in England and Wales affected by their Orders, the good effect and smooth working of which were unanimously acknowledged. The...

followers of General Hertzog in the Free State are openly advocating a Republic and declaring their sym- pathy with Germany. Some progress may possibly be made in these mad...

8th, 1914.

TrIE WESTERN VICTORIES. T HE splendid successes on the Western front have "overthrown more than our enemies," because they have overthrown misgivings and doubts, which are...

Commissioners sent out on behalf of the British and French Governments have succeeded in negotiating a loan in the United States is most satisfactory, OQ far as it goes. In the...

allowed to drive on to disaster for want of the plain or firm word that would have saved them. It is astonishing how often, both in foreign and domestic polities, one sees a...

T HE fate of every weak country lying in the track of the progress which Germany dreams of would be certain and miserable. Belgium is only an extreme example. We hear little of...

and indirect taxation will be enormously increased, and the increase in the cost of the war is likely to lead to higher and still higher taxation in the future. From the point...

WHEN men first learned to lay up stores of song by • writing their poetry down in books, it must have puzzled them that you could judge of your treasure's quality without...

THE suggestion that peat should be used instead of coal • had unlocked within the heart of the Celt fiooda of old, fond, glad recollections. Rites and ceremonies in connexion...

S UCH are the limits of the human imagination that the destruction of the glories of Reims, which was only a name to me, has touched me less than the wanton desecration of a...

"MUDDLING THROUGH." rTo TEN EDITOR OP TIDO " BPRCTATOR."T But,—If the present war has taught us anything, it has at least taught us the propriety of abandoning the illusion that...

your issue of the 11th inst. I found a letter from " Batavier "regarding Germany's financial position. Although he is quite right in calling it very precarious, I think he...

(To Tan EDITOR Or Tar " SPEOTAT0R."1 Sin,—Might not the Male Servant Licence have been with advantage largely increased under the Budget—say from 15s. to £2? Such an increase...

article on the Budget in laat week's issue that you approve of the tax on war profits. It seems to me, however, that while it may be quite right to tax firma making large...

[To VIII EDITOR OF mu " SPEOT■TOR."1 SIR,—I have read with interest your article last week under the above heading, and am in general agreement with the conclusions. As regards,...

[To TED EbITOR or THE " SPECTATOR:1 reviewing Germany Embattled, by Oswald Garrison - Marta (Spectator, Aughst 28th), no mention is made of ' the important fact that Mr....

To THAI EDITOR or TIM "speceiros. " 1 Sins — It is a pleasure to see in Mr. Creery Stevenson ' s letter in your last issue a reference to the sadly neglected pamphlets of the...

[To TER EDITOR OF TER "SPICIA/011. - ] SIR,—A proper of the discussion in your correspondence columns respecting the meaning of the word " Bosehe, ' it ma.) not prove...

[To Tins EDITOR 01 Thy" EriCTATOR.") Sr,—Perhaps the enclosed account, received this afternoon, of a stirring episode in one of the oldest Episcopal churches in New England will...

8PECTATOR."3 Snt,—The odd manifesto of the " Indian National Party " published (in excellent English) by the Germane in Holland is probably the result of the fact that several...

[To THE EDITOR OF Ulu "EFROTAT011...] 6131,—In view of Sir James Ram say ' s letter in. your last issue, in view of the threat of revolution from the railwaymen addressed to...

correspondence about Dr. Watts's hymn, "Our God, our help in ages past," it may be of interest to quote a passage from the preface to A Collection of Hymns for Methodtsts, by...

rro TRH EDITOR Or TRIO " SPECIATOR.") Sin,—Mr. Lloyd George has given a rousing call to the nation, and it is perhaps not too much to hope that within a short time we shall at...

[To rue EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR.") SIU,—In the discussion on Dr. Watts's hymn there is a view of the case which I think merits more attention than it has received. 'kis that in...

[To TRW EDITOR OF FRE "BPRCITA1OR."] SIE,—The people who "no longer care" for reading, according to the writer of the article "Books and My Food" (Spectator, September 18th),...

SPECTATOR."3 Sin,—Your correspondent has failed to notice an additional 13 in his sequence. Not only did the digits of 8,203 total 13, but this number contains 631 times 13....

"Slum-mm."1 Sra,—The Army Council having accepted the offer of the British West Indies, British Guiana, and British Honduras to supply a contingent for service with the Imperial...

rTo Tits EDITOR Of TEl "8rReTATO-R.'"} SIR,—May I point out what is, no doubt, a slip of the pen in the article on "Mr. Roosevelt and the American Pacilleists" (Spectator,...

[To Tile EDITOR OF TUB "SPRCTATO5...1 Si,—As your cordial sympathy towards animals is so well known, I venture to ask if I may announce in your columns that I have started a...

"EFECTATOR."1 Sin,—Your correspondent "F." writes in the Spectator of September 11th of the curious custom at present in vogue in Berlin of the faithful being "invited to drive...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must clot necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of...

TO MY PUPILS, GONE BEFORE THEIR DAY. You seemed so young, to know So little, those few months or years ago, Who may by now have disentwined The inmost secrets of the Eternal...

GERMAN PATRIOTISM.* No greater mistake can be made by a nation that is at war than to underrate the strength of its antagonists. Napoleon, whom Clausewitz termed the incarnate...

PRIDSNr ; LORD DESBOROUGH. How. SECRETARY PERCY A. HARRIS, Esq. HiAD Orrices: Judges' Quadrangle, Royal Courts of Justice (Carey Street entrance). The aims and objects of this...

Mn. 13Entali EVANS'S interesting study of Mr. Lloyd George's political character has the advantage of being written by one who has worked with Mr. Lloyd George in close...

written which fail to serve their original end and aim. The most familiar example is that of the story-book intended to amuse children which finds its most appreciative audience...

TREI subject known in military parlance as " map.reading " includes a great deal more than the mere ability to study a map with intelligence. Its mastery—still more, its...

book has not paid great attention to literary style, she has nevertheless succeeded in giving us a series of vivid pictures of life as she saw it in India and Burma. Her...

the North-West Amazons is very attractive reading. Captain Whiffen does not claim to have made any great addition to scientific research by the publication of his book, but...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude sulosequentreviete.] Anthropologists will be interested by Professor G. Elliot Smith's controversial monograph upon The...

—Miss Willeockee latest novel is very uneven ; she is afraid of no experiment, and writes of men and women whom she does not understand, as well as of those whom she does. But...

Foskett. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)—The "local colour" of this Indian prize novel is detailed and careful ; its characterization is less satisfactory.—The Romance of a Bed...

With Illustrations in Colour by Averil Burleigh. (Greening and Co. 6s.)—Let us admit at once that the illustra- tions are delightful, and that the "Popular Novelist" has done...

VICTORY. THERE are two unusual features about Mr. Conrad's new novel. The first is the appearance of a quotation from Milton as a motto on the title-page. Mr. Conrad is greatly...

read with delight by many, and it is satisfactory that a third collection of them has now been issued in book form with the title of Diversions of a Naturalist (Methuen and Co.,...

years have had much cause for gratitude to Miss Jetta S. Wolff for her admirable little books of dialogue (Les Francais en Voyage, Les Francais en Menage, &c.). She has now...

and is spoken by the natives of Mashonaland, Southern Rhodesia. A Manual of the Chilcaranga Language has just been compiled by Mr. C. S. Louw (Philpott and Collins, Aberoorn...

anthology, to se o which of our favourites have been omitted and which included, to read through familiar beauties once again, or to come unexpectedly upon an unknown gem. Mr....

having come originally, according to tradition, from Huntingdonshire. In 1232 King Alexander U. conferred upon Neis Ramsay, his physician, the barony of Bamff, with which place...