that Turkey has ceded to Bulgaria the Turkish portion of the Dedeagatch Railway and Turkish territory west of the Maritza. It is said that this cession implies no engagement...

T HE news from Russia : published in the papers of Thursday afternoon requires us to add little to what we have written at length elsewhere about the character and progress of...

In the Val Daone they have established themselves by occupying the heights dominating the right slopes of the valley. On the southern Cayso ridge they have captured the ....

Munster. On Tuesday they completed the conquest of a very strongly organized German position along a front of a mile and a quarter. The height' at this point, which are now in...

till September 14th. Replying to critics of the seven weeks' adjournment, he said that it was not a question of holiday-making. Members had had no holiday since the beginning of...

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, and...

been splendidly stubborn. With Marshal von Mackensen remaining .motionless, as he has done for some days, the great German enveloping movement is still a long way from...

was received with the greatest enthusiasm by huge crowds. How real the danger to the Union has been was shown in the remarkable revelations he made in a speech at the banquet...

night was remarkable for the speeches in its sup- port made by Liberal Members. Captain Guest, who raised the question, declared that if we were to win in the present war, and...

in the Commons on Friday week. It provides that municipal and local elections shall not take place during the national crisis. Mr. Long explained that by suspending work on the...

that Germany was receiving too much cotton, but he deeply resented a remark that the Government were fighting with their gloves on. There had been much ignorant and offensive...

without a difference. We mean in any case to stop the shipment of cotton to Germany, and whether . it be 'stopped under one name or under another the distress—ao far as there is...

price of coal passed through the Committee stage. The Govern- ment accepted an amendment by which a contract is not to be rendered void because the price named therein is above...

on the question of .war munitions. Sixteen national factories had already been set up, but, while measures were. being taken largely to increase the supply of 'shells, bombs,...

be was told the men could easily turn out twenty- five per cent. more shot and shell and war materials if they would shake themselves free from the domination of practices which...

exaggeration as to the miraculous effect which would be produced by declaring cotton contraband. If such a step is likely to do good we believe that the Government will take it,...

withdrawal of the Welsh Church Postponement Bill. The only purpose of the Bill, be said, was to avoid controversy during the war, but 'as the Bill was not supported in nil...

with the war, but a word of sympathy is due to the United States for the heavy loss of life suffered in the Chicago river disaster on Saturday last. The excursion steamer...

March 30th against the British blockade has reached Washington. It maintains that Britain has held steadfastly to the broad principles of international law, and that if a...

published in the papers of Monday, and about which we have written fully elsewhere—was followed almost imme- diately by another outrage against an American vessel. On Sunday...

lucid case for adjourning the second reading of the War Pensions Bill. He pointed out that in the Commons the whole , financial basis of the Bill had been cut away, and such a...

War Pensions Bill was continued, Lord Balfour moved that the Bill be postponed. The critics were not satisfied with Lord Crewe's proposal that two representatives of the...

seventy-ninth year, of Sir James Murray, the editor of the New English Dictionary. Though it was not permitted to him to complete the great work to which he devoted•the last...

Edward Grey had telegraphed to Washington asking that the Note summarized above should not be published at present, as the British Government are preparing another Note. At the...

Aug. 8th.

steps of St. Paul's Cathedral. Detachments of the City regiments from the various camps, to the number of between three and four thousand men, marched from Trafalgar Square with...

great importance of arranging for the administration of pensions as quickly as possible, the critics were justified in their contention that not nearly enough consideration had...

case would have resorted to an accommodation for diplomatic, or, as we may say, brotherly, reasons. We cannot admit that the Order in Council under which cotton is at present...

THE GREAT STRUGGLE IN RUSSIA. T O many thoughtful students of war the groat battle in Russia, which has already lasted more than a fort- night and has not yet reached its...

p liESIDENT WILSON has reached the conviction that it is useless to argue with the German casuists. This conviction is written all over the face of his latest Note. We have not...

end of the war the country will have to face the very serious problems created by the social reform legislation of the past ten years. The broad fact is that, whereas in...

O CCASIONALLY the historian is able to point to a certain moment and say : " This was the time when the future of the nation was decided." Prusso-Germany, which hitherto has...

[This series of articles may be quoted in whole or in part by any newspaper desiring so to do, provided that the usual acknowledgments are made as to the original publication by...

" O NE thing is certain, we shall have, to lire quite differently—whatever the Income Tax may be, and however long or short a time the war lasts." This is what we all hear many...

(AN IDYLL OF BUITI811 COLUMBIA.) G LEAMS from a lantern came through the bedroom windows, and the voice of Lucas, on his way to milk, called from the outside darkness : "...

THE DANGER TO THE UNITED STATES. [To TUX EDITOR 07 THZ "SPECTATOR:] Sift, -- At the annual meeting of the New England Street Railway Club at Boston, 'U.S., Mr. Clarence Barron,...

[To TEl EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—The article in your last issue on "The Pacificiet Vision in America" is yet another proof of the patient friendliness which the...

clocks of time are ticking rapidly towards the completion of the first year of this unparalleled struggle. Nevertheless we islanders still fail to grasp the fact that the...

TT. THE EDITOR or ran "srecomoical Srm—Arising out of the letter in your issue of July llth on " How to Save" are many points of importance. It is generally agreed that the...

fro TUN E1I1F014 OW rim e SPNCTATOILl SIItr7Aa , we shall probably soon have to accept compulsory military training for all ablmbodied young men, if only for the purpose of...

[To TUN EDITOR OF TSR "SPECTATOR."] Sin, — The letter of your correspondent " W. H." upon the Wratislaw family in England is of great interest at the present moment, but your...

SrEoTAToa."] Sin,—Can our view be put better than in the following words ?— " Nobody chooses warring for warring's sake or gets up a war. For such an one would seem to be a...

Stn,—It is satisfactory to know from your correspondent " Red Cross 'Pro '" (Spectator, July 24th) that there are some hospitals in the country where the V.A.D. gets her chance...

letter of " W. H." in your last issue regarding Count Wratislas, it may be of interest to add that the Rugby School Register (1875 edition) contains the following entries. In...

[To THE EDITOR OF TSR "Sescraroo."3 Sin,—The issue of armour to troops in war is much more modern than many people suppose. Steel or iron helmets were sent out to the Crimea for...

[To THE EDITOR or TEE " Bracmroa."] do not know whether people in this country are aware of the value of bulrushes as a substitute for hay when the summer has been too dry to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Six,—In the review of a new book by E. CE. Somerville and Martin Ross in last week ' s Punch the reviewer ends with these words : " I could...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " ElrECTA.TOR."1 SIE,—That the smallest dogs should attack the greatest has been a problem to me as contrary to the law of self - preserva- tion and hardly...

" EirlarATOR.”] Stn, — The greater part of Polish territory being temporarily in the hands of the Germans, I find it necessary to publish certain extracts from letters lately...

[To THE Emma OF THE "SrECTATOR.”] SIR,—As an example of " Longs and Shorts " the accompany- ing version of a well-known nursery classic would, I think, ,be hard to beat. It was...

sorry to disillusion your correspondent " W. H., " but history does not know anything about a Wratislas dynasty. Several Kings of the name of Wladislaw or Wladislaus have sat on...

PRESIDENT LORD DESBOROUGH. Hon. SECRETARY : PERCY A. HARRIS, Esq. HEAD OFFICES: Judges' Quadrangle, Royal Courts of Justice (Carey Street entrance). The aims and objects of...

fTo TM: EDITOR OW TUE "SPECTATOR. "] Slit,—Few things about your journal delight me more than that frequent note of domesticity one finds relieving your weighty columns of...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor 'mist not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of...

SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Having been engaged for some tune on an illustrated book dealing with Madame Vigo° Le Brun and Some of her Sitters, with especial reference to such of her...

NAIRNSHIRE REVISITED. (To E. K. H.) ONCE again, from Lonflon's flurry, Grown a trifle too acute, To thy shores, 0 Firth of Moray, Have I hastened, to recruit— Moray, where the...

fTo TUE EDITOR OY THE " SYECTATOR,"1 Sin,—Tho war has constituted a turning-point in the position of medical women, and there are new openings and now opportunities for thorn...

fTo THE EDITOR 07 TUR "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—There is a slight error in your article, "Tho Pacificist Vision in America," which appears in last week's Spectator. The Venezuelan...

WALTER BAGEHOT.• WHEN a successful novelist may reasonably expect to attain the dignity of a complete edition after he has been a dozen years or so before the public, it is...

who contributes an intro- duction to Professor Wiener's Interpretation of the Marian People, qualifies his praise of the author's "remarkable objectivity and impartiality" by...

Miss BRADBY'S volumes, besides being full of interest and attraction for the general reader, will be found of the highest value by those who care to make a special study of the...

man. He began his collecting at a time when there were still possibilities of finding real old masters in back-streets of Italian towns. In the "eighties" every obscure early...

trust to doggerel boldly and explicitly in this attempt to describe the emotions of a British soldier in the earlier stages of the war. Easy thought and easy rhyming are matched...

sailed east and west, driven forth from quiet homes by a new spirit of enterprise, some few of them disinterested explorers and adventurers, most of them traders desirous of...

THIS extremely interesting book owes its origin to a British Committee presided over by M. Paul Cambon. The profits are to help French sufferers from German barbarity, and...

Mr. E. John Solano —a well-known military expert, and the inventor of the various targets and accessories which have helped so greatly to increase the usefulness of instruction...

of this notice had the good fortune to be in a Cornish village at the time when the Naval - Reserve was called out, and was able to see something of the dogged strength and...

IN MR. KNOX'S COUNTRY.* As the inimitable joint-authors of In Mr. Irnoir's Country remind us, it has been said that " in Ireland the inevit- able never happens and the...

not either a lawyer or a politician. But there is almost sure to come a moment in the life of each of us 7 --at a lecture, at a dinner, at a bazaar—when a speech of some sort...

and Co. 6s.)—It is at those moments when Mr. Moore forgets that he is a novelist that we gain the greatest enjoyment from his novels. The plots of his stories tend towards an...

Dr. W. H. Dall (J. B. Lippincott Co., 15s. net). Baird was a, well-known American biologist, who died in 1887, after having been Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution at...

his wife, Mrs. Viriamu Jones (Smith, Elder, and Co., 10s. 6d. net). Viriamu Jones will be remembered as the first Principal of the University College of South Wales and...

[Notice in this column doss not necessarily preclude subssquotreutsw.] Colonel George W. Goethals is known everywhere for his work in Panama during the construction of the...

a volume entitled J'Accuse, by a German. This work has now been translated into English by Mr. Alexander Gray (Hodder and Stoughton, 5s. net), and we may once more strongly...

Co. 6s.)—These stories of the retreat from Moscow are full of hairbreadth escapes and desperate adventures indeed, they are capital reading. The House of the Foxes. By Katharine...