Allies are unable to worry the Germans while they are making their last two forced marches on Paris, and also while they are making their final preparations for investment....

T HE German advance, magnificent from a military point of view for its rapidity as well as for its solid weight, has not yet spent its force, and probably will not do so for the...

first on Thursday and a supplementary list on Friday. Altogether the numbers are 10,345. The killed amount to 54 officers and 179 men ; wounded, 135 officers, 941 men; missing,...

against it in the hope of taking it. Even if successful, all they can then do is to toil on for the conquest of the rest of France. In existing circumstances, and with the...

ease.

have put in our leading columns—What are the Germans to do next when they have got to Paris and invested it ? Of course, what they would like and what ought to happen,...

is to keep on falling back when opposed to superior numbers. This is what our Army has been doing, as cheerfully as if it were on Salisbury Plain, for the past fortnight. Truly...

what has happened to the British Expeditionary Force during the past week. The only thing that we can gather from the fog of war is that it has fallen back, but never with the...

anything now. We are far from asserting that there will be no surprise developments which will be favour- able to the Allies, and we admit that there are not likely to be any...

good news and bad news. It is evident that the Russians suffered a very severe reverse in East Prussia and lost guns and great numbers of prisoners—the Germans say eighty...

two German cruisers, and was engaged for thirty•five minutes at a range of about three thousand yards. She suffered some injury and casualties, but drove off the two German...

of the eighteen or twenty others were badly punished, and escaped in scattered flight. The British destroyers freely engaged the German cruisers with both guns and torpedoes,...

fought in the North Sca by our ships. The completely successful enterprise is the most reassuring event that has yet happened in the war. It proves the Navy to be con- summate...

items of news from the North Sea. A steam drifter struck a mine on Thursday morning, thirty miles off the East Coast, and sank, and a quarter of an hour later H.M.S. 'Speedy'...

the naval action by an officer who took part in it. It is well worth reading, but we have room to quote only a few lines. At the end of his narrative the writer says :--- "...

have unanimously accepted the advice of Sir Edward Carson that all the Ulster Volunteers who are qualified should enlist at once in Lord Kitchener's new Army. No conditions are...

are coming in—first, because the numbers are not really very large ; secondly, because boasting stops recruiting, and it is essential to get new soldiers rapidly ; and...

is chairman, is urging its branches not to join in the Prime Minister's recruiting campaign. In the view of the Committee, "a sort of moral pressure will be inequitable and...

Dublin, and Cardiff, and to the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, proposing to hold meetings in order to stimulate and organize public opinion and public effort " in the greatest...

to damnify the position of the Irish Nationalists. if a settlement were not reached by negotiation, the Home Rule Bill ought to be placed on the statute book according to the...

manifesto is that of the Parliamentary Committee of the Trade Union Congress which was issued on Friday. It is a capital recruiting appeal. " On the result of the present...

Nonconformists, has published in the British Weekly a stirring recruiting call : " Set Down My Name, Sir ":— " Faun g ath letes should be in the field, and there should be a...

all the Ministers addressed a proclamation to the country which must be described as fully worthy of the occasion and of France. It declares that the French Cabinet have decided...

friendly to the Kaiser or as members of " the Potsdam party " if we protest against a passage in a letter written by Mr. Frederio Harrison to the Times of Monday :— " Be it...

described the wave of enthusiasm which is passing over India. The desire of the Indian people to serve side by side with the British Army in Europe was intense. As it was well...

House adjourn till Wednesday, September 9th. When on August 10th he had moved the adjournment of the House to the 25th he had said that the postponement of business must be...

an expeditionary force sent by the Govern- ment of New Zealand. Germany first went to Samoa in 1879, when she annexed a harbour. The Treaty of Berlin of 1889 made the islands an...

is a specific suggestion for committing a bombastic and theatrical personal outrage such as our forefathers, thank heaven, absolutely refused to allow in the case of a worse...

Aug. 8th.

THE POSITION IN NORTH-EASTERN FRANCE. S EDAN Day has passed, but there has been no second Sedan, as the Germans so fondly hoped. Indeed, as far as one can yet learn, the day...

are plenty of excuses for the War Office for having hitherto managed the recruiting business rather badly, and we are not going to be so unfair to them as to "rub in" their...

excusably befogged by the repeated references in the Press to the financial difficulties which are blocking the way to a general resumption of international trade. The sea has...

hundred other ways in which a business firm would deal with the sudden multiplying of its employees. We shall not, however, trouble our readers for the moment with many more...

has been addressed by the High Sheriff of Surrey to all newspapers published in the county :— SIE,—General Atlye, the General Officer in charge of administration in the...

G ERMANY has dealt herself the hardest blow which she has yet suffered in the war. By burning Louvain, killing we know not how many of its inhabitants, and turning the rest (say...

T ONDON changes day by day, and the London of the first few days of the war lies far in the past, distant for all of us by differently measured aeons of time. The trainloads of...

VER since the world began great trouble has been sur- rounded by ceremonial. From age to age the cere- monial changes. It tends to become a bondage or a hypocrisy, and bold...

WALTER SCOTT ON THE SITUATION. LTO TIM EDITOR OP THZ " BPECTAT014"1 SIR, - / have come across a passage in one of Sir Walter Scott's letters which seems singularly appropriate...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE"SPECTATOR"] Six,—We have read with great interest Mr. Redmond's fine speech in the House, reported in the Times of August 28th. He says he is proud of...

[To THE EDITOR 07 TER " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I suggest that some of the normal public services may, for the time, be curtailed in order to give patriotic young men the...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sra,—While we all hope that the brisk recruiting which has distinguished the first days of this week will be maintained, it would be...

a few questions with regard to your interest- ing " Suggestion for a Recruiting Advertisement" P (1) " For how long shall I have to serve ? " " Till the end of the war and no...

having a fair trial. The Government should make the nation understand that Germany is striking at us through France ; that we are her objective. The expression "helping France "...

[To THE EDITOR OF Ta1 " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—Yon may care to print, as appropriate to the present situation, the following passage from "The Draft in Balthus- vile," written by...

have just sent a copy of the following letter to be read to the employees of a small estate in Gloucestershire, where, amongst twenty men, there are possibly of suitable age and...

SIR,—I gather with regret from Dr. Rendall's letter that the camp at Tidworth for public schools in the Southern Com- mand—and for Eton and Harrow—was to be open also to...

excellent "Call to Arms" in the August 15th issue of the Spectator, may I ask you whether you think the Empire would be better served by the addition to the Army of a few...

you say : "Enlist, if you are young enough, and if not, see to it that every man whom you can influence shall do his duty by enlisting." Well, I am not young enough to enlist,...

[To TEE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Z think you may be interested to see the enclosed circular, which shows how in North Somerset the political Associations have already...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR " ] Sia,—I have been greatly interested in reading the article "A Sheriff's Week" in your last issue, and I would suggest that it would be...

[To THE EDITOR OE THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—Why should not some of us elderly stay-at-homes, who can afford it, offer to help relatives and close friends who are going or gone...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "sracrAroa.1 SIG,—Whatever the issue of the war, is it too much to hope that the Mother Country will take a lesson from her loyal sons overseas ? New...

[To THE EDITOR OE THE "SPECTATOR." j SIG,—Do not some of your correspondents, like Mr. F. R. Cave, in last week's issue, make an error in writing as if we were a nation of...

[To vas EDITOE OF T•HE " SPECTATOZ."1 Sin,—A telegram from Poona to the Times, dated August 27th runs as follows :- " The Indian agitator Mr. Tilak, who was sentenced to...

[TO THE EDITOR or TER " SPRCIATOR..."] SIR, — With reference to my letter " Objections to Joining," published in your issue of August 29th, I regret its having been written,...

[To ene EDITOR ow THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In your issue of August 22nd (p. 273) you say that the equipment of Cromwell's Ironsides comprised a pocket Bible. This statement is...

[To THE EDITOR Or THIN " SPECTATOR. " ] Sim,—Two thousand years ago Plato taught how a philosopher on the throne would rule his people for the benefit of all. In our own day a...

[To me EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—In your valuable article upon "Trade Unions and the War" (Spectator, August 29th) I have been particularly struck by the following...

[To MS EDITOR OF TEA "srzoriroz.'9 SIR, —I have not seen any reference to the quotation from Milton which seems appropriate to the Kaiser and his Chancellor. Perhaps you...

BACKWARDS. IN wars of countless years beyond our ken, When Stomach was the ruling lust, to seize Some prize of fruit the greediest monkey-men Gibbered and stoned each other in...

THE GERMAN EMPEROR AT HOME.t THE author of these reminiscences, which are written with much ability and a charming lightness of touch—a touch, however, that is likely to...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR. "] Sus—Everybody knows the description of the first sea fight between Romans and Carthaginians, and how Duilius flung overboard the fowls...

I TO THE EDITOR Or TER " SPECTATOR...] SIR, —In the House of Commons on Monday Sir D. Brynmor Jones, Chairman of the Welsh Liberal Party, said they were entitled to have the...

THE " SPECTATOI.."] STR, — It has been strongly urged in various quarters that the Girls' Friendly Society and the Young Women's Christian Asso- ciation should co-operate in...

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

IF any single officer is competent to deal with two such complex and different subjects as war operations by land and war operations by sea, Colonel Sir George Aston is the man,...

WE recommend this little book to our readers as a very useful work of reference in matters which already seem ancient history—the beginnings of the war. Mr. Courtney's...

READERS of these columns will be familiar with some of the abuses involved in the trade in patent medicines, the ventila- tion of which has been largely due to the publication...

IN one of the most suggestive contributions to this monu- mental work Sir Charles Lucas tells us that " the great safeguard of the British Empire" is the fact that "the Empire...

THE most interesting paper in the new Nineteenth Century is that by Sir Harry Johnston on " The German War and its Con- sequences." Writing as one with many German friends, he...

THE WALL OF PARTITION.* THOUGH some people may be tempted to condemn novel reading for the time being, on the ground that it is calculated to blunt the edge of the national...

Health. in Field, Camp, and Quarters. Compiled by Surgeon-Major H. Waite. (Gay and Polden. 3d.)—This excellent little book contains a number of simple health maxims for...

[tinder this heading we notice such Books of the weak as has. not been re served for review in other forms.] Why Britain is at War. By Sir Edward Cook. (Macmillan and Co....

6s.)—Few will be able to solve this admirable detective story, the only fault of which is its excessive length.—From an Islington Window. By M. Betham-Edwards. (Smith,...

6s.)—The author probably intends this book as an allegory. The scene is a desert island and the personages a shipwrecked company of five very terrestrial men, who are...

very timely publication contains a summary of the discussions on naval questions of inter- national law which were held last year at the American Naval War College at...

Seat of War in France (2s. 6d.). It takes in the whole of Belgium and France to south of the Loire, as well as London and Strasahnrg, on a scale of about eighteen miles to the...

Harrap and Co. ls. 3d.)—This is the first volume of a series of "Tales of Travel" which aims at presenting to young readers the history of various countries "in the form of a...

and thirty-seven hymns and tunes is intended to be used along with any existing hymn-book, and to include "the choicest work of modern hymn writers and composers." It concludes...

Tract Society presents its hundred and fifteenth annual Report. "The Committee can detect no dwindling in the need for that part of its work which the Society, for more than a...

5s. net.)—There is, it appears, no recognized text-book dealing with the general legal position in which alien enemies stand at the present moment. It is a hundred years since...

2s. 6d. net.)—This curious little essay attempts to prove, from the-prophetical books of the Old Testament, that we are on the verge of the establishment of the millennial...

of Schools and Tutors (.1. and J. Paton, 2s.), a well-known aid to parents in the selection of schools for their children; a timely reprint of George Hooper's excellent...