MR. BALFOUR'S INTELLECTUAL HISTORY.* WE are not sure whether the ordinary reader will not follow the argument of Theism and Humanism with greater satisfac- tion if ho begins...

LONDON: NOVEMBER ath, 1915.

A REMARKABLE picture of the minute and comprehensive thoroughness of the German expert is to be found in the examination of the national food supply, an account of which was...

and another Russian philosopher of later date added the words "of the end." The sentence is the key to Solovyof's War and Christianity, a, book which has recently been...

that " Tiger Slayer to the Government of Bombay" is a title still held by an official in the Bombay Presidency. This book is a series of reminis- cences by Mr. Digby Davies, who...

Creed, a prominent member of the Legislative Council of New South Wales, has many interesting things to relate as to social and political life and thought in the Commonwealth...

valuable and devoted work in connexion with the Red Cross in France during the past year, has published a. very interesting selection from his experiences under the title of War...

THIS volume of memoirs is obviously the genuine recollec- tions of a real person, and not merely imaginary accounts of interviews with celebrities fabricated to meet the demand...

IT is always interesting to see what an intelligent foreigner, unperturbed by the patriotic bias, thinks about the acts of one's own country. The Truth about the War 1 is a...

On opening Sir Dyoe Duckvvorth's Views on Sons Social Subjects (George Allen and Unwin, 7s. 6d. net), we turned first to the chapter on " Christian Science and Faith Healing."...

The County Records Committee of the Nottinghamshire County Council, under the Duke of Portland's chairmanship, have been active in the examination and rearrangement of the...

leader of religious thought and action will be glad that six of his sermons preached on occasions of special interest during the past year of war have been published in a volume...

POUR ON A TOUR. The energy of the American tourist is always a source of wonder to the Englishman, for whom leisureliness is often one of the attractions of a holiday. Mr. and...

the London and County Printing Works, Drury Lane, W.C. ; and Published by ALSUED EYEDSON for the "firacrrikTOs."(Limited), at their Onioe.Na.1 Wellington fitnet, in the Precinct...

on our friends in Europe was doubled owing to the attack on Belgium, we seemed to prefer to make war on that ground rather than on the ground of helping friends in a tight...

the Day to his troops. His Majesty tells the New Armies how he had watched their progress from their first recruit drills to their departure as fully trained and equipped...

the Serbian crisis became acute the Government showed a certain clumsiness in handling the matter. Instead of at once making a public declaration of the freest and fullest kind...

Asquith's speech, which recorded and decided several matters of the highest moment. They are : (1) Compulsion if for any reason Lord Derby's recruiting scheme should fail. (2)...

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

careful, of course, to bring aid to our gallant ally in the most efficient way. We should be thrice foolish if, because it looked better at the moment and had a more spectacular...

W E greatly regret to record a serious accident to the King. When His Majesty was reviewing troops of the First Army on the Western front the cheers of the men startled the mare...

as graciously as we might, we are making them good, mid the Serbians must remember that it is our way always to do a good deal more than we say we shall do. John Bull instinc-...

case.

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and forbid the sale of intoxicants, we could, as we have pointed out before, not only save some hundred and fifty millions a year, but greatly increase our industrial...

no progress being made in the German attack on Riga, in spite of very strong attempts to foroe a way to that city. The latest attack, according to the well-informed Petrograd...

the early part of the week, but on Thursday came the news that on the French front in the Champagne district the Germans resumed their counter-attacks, and succeeded in making...

our Mesopotamian expedition. After praising the skill and success with which the operations had been carried out, Mr. Asquith added : "Sir John Nixon's force is now within...

letter of resignation addressed to Mr. Asquith on October 12th. Being in entire disagreement with the decisions taken by the Cabinet on October 11th, he felt that he could not...

less bad news from Serbia than was expected. The main German attack goes distinctly slowly, and the flank attack of the Bulgarians, which was much more dreaded by the Serbians,...

that in the current financial year we have already made advances to our allies and others which reach £423,000,000. To meet such expenditure as ours there must be, said the...

good A Petrograd communigith published on Thursday states that in the region of Dvinsk the Russians carried two heights which had been strongly organized by the Germans, made...

France. The first thing to be said is that the fall of M. Viviani's Government is no sign of faltering or of a, change of policy on the part of France in carrying on the war. It...

announcements in regard to compulsion and the Cabinet and his own position. It remains to say something here as to the other sections of his speech. As to Serbia, Mr. Asquith's...

has been good. At first there was an inclination in certain portions of the Press to represent it as a failure, but the tide soon began to turn, and it is now generally admitted...

some frank admissions. Perhaps the most illumi- nating parts of this portion of the speech were the following sentences in regard to the project of forcing the Straits: " The...

mine- sweeper 'Hythe' off Gallipoli after being in collision with another vessel. About two hundred and fifty men were on board besides the crew. One warrant officer and nine...

Friday week he visited Lord Kitchener at the War Office. The meeting of the Cabinet which bad been arranged for that afternoon was transformed into a different kind of...

8th, 1914.

Right.Hon. George Cave, K.C., to be Solicitor-General in succession to Sir F. E. Smith. Mr. Cave has won the respect of all parties in the House of Commons for his wisdom and...

published of the fall of the Greek Ministry: In the course of a debate between the Minister for War and the Venezelos majority on certain military proposals the Government...

Monday. It describes the operations from the beginning of June to October 8th, and therefore includes the battle of Loos and the subsequent German counter-attack. In summarizing...

an eloquent and courageous speech, and shows the utmost determination. " Any failure to maintain the dis- cipline imposed by the vital interest of the country will be...

47th London Territorial Division, having captured Loos and Hill 70, pressed on with part of their strength a mile beyond the hill, capturing villages and mining works as they...

of its great size, but it seems that M. Briand will work through a small War Committee. He is certainly not a man to suffer delay patiently, as all his past dealings in politics...

civil employment, as one of the Labour leaders declared it to he, several holders of the Surrey badge have stated that they could net, without such proof of their willingness to...

deal of opposition to the very wise proposal of the military authorities to give a badge or armlet to persons who have offered them- selves for the service of their country but...

relating to the accession of Japan to the Allies' declaration of September 5th, 1914. By this declaration Britain, France, and Russia engaged not to make peace separately. On...

COMPULSION, MORAL AND LEGAL. W E do not agree with those who think, or profess to think, that Mr. Asquith's speech was unimportant, "a mere torrent of words," aud. so forth. •...

W E have discussed above the passages in Mr. Asquith's speech dealing with the question of enlistment. Not less important are those parts which set forth the Cabinet situation....

I T is a threadbare maxim that you cannot — reform a, man by Act of Parliament. It is, of Course, per- fectly true that you cannot, and in a general way we are not in favour of...

N O definite information is yet available as to the extent to which the Trade Unions have actually suspended their restrictive regulations. Frequently in the course of the...

" y OU all understand that education is a special personal means of seconding the efforts of our Armies. Its rae is, indeed, so to act that the entire country shall know why it...

O NCE more England is, for me, the land of chi va l r y. Careless of herself, not counting the cost, the Nation watches—and I watch with her—as wave after wave of radiant youth,...

H ER religious and philosophical outfit was rather different from that of her brother (so admirably described in last week's Spectator). She had been educated at home, and had...

Tax "Brsorrroa."1 SIB,,—I have been reading for the first time a clever book by an American author of the school of Henry James. I was nearly put off reading it by the frivolity...

AN ENGLISHMAN PHILOSOPHIZES. (To TEM EDITOR or TIM " SPROTITOII. " 1 BM—Whoever wrote that article signed " D." on an English- man's philosophy in the trenches has, in my...

[To VII EDITOR Or Ter e sieccuros. " 1 Stu, — The public has demanded that London should be pro- tected by more and better guns, and by more and better flying machines. The two...

[To 7R111 EDITOR OP TOR "SpEcrAro6.”] Sin,—The article by " Vigilans" in your last issue is both necessary and timely. Forty years' experience as an Income Tax Commissioner has...

[To TUE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR."] have read with great interests in your issue of October 23rd, a letter by Mr. J. T. Rbys regarding the action of the Good Templars in their...

['To Tar EDITOR 07 TIER "SPECTATOR. "] SI is generally assumed that the tenant of a London house will, under the terms of his lease, be liable to rebuild his house in the event...

pro TUN EDITOR Or TRU " SPECTATOR."] Sirt,—In a communication in your issue. of October 30th regret is expressed that " the common-sense plan of collecting Income Tax from...

ITO TYR EDITOR Or THE "sezerATon."1 SIR,—I came across the following passage in the writings of the late Lord Brougham illustrating the character of the greatest of the...

[TO SRI EDITOR 55 TRH "SritoTaToa."] SIR, —It is suggested in the Spectator of last week that a recruiting sermon should be preached in every parish on a given Sunday. A sermon...

[To THE EDITOR Or TUN "SrECTATOR.1 Sin,—A propos of the message of King George to the French Army, to which you refer in last Saturday's number, might I enter a mild protest...

[TO TOR EDITOR Or TIll "BesconTott,"1 SIR,—Lately I came across the enclosed poem by Henry John Bulkeley. It is published in a small volume entitled Poems and Verses, by Father...

[To TH1 EDITOR Or Till "SrECTATOIL"] SIR,—It may interest some of your many readers who have subscribed to the fund you have been instrumental in raising for the Central...

[To THN ED1TOIL Or TIIR "SPEOTATOIL."1 ' S mi—It is generally admitted that the condition which proved so serious a source of suffering and loss amongst our troops last winter...

[To THE EDITOR OP TED "SPECTAT011."1 SIR, — Even in time of war much will be written and said about the batting of the immortal cricketer who has just died ; and yet it is not...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SrecrAron."1 SIR, — Several of your correspondents have written lately about rhymes to difficult words. One quoted in the Spectator of October 16th about...

[To 71(11 EDITOR Op THE "SPEOTATOli. " ] Stu,—Has this passage from Ruskin any bearing on our present troubles P— "I have sometimes thought a day might come when the nation...

THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") • SIR, — Contempt for ,shopkeeping is, According to Ilamerton, also characteristic of the old noblesse of France. In his delightful. book, French...

[To TRH- EDITOR OF TRH " SI•ECTATO11,1 have just read the letter of sympathy from the women of France to tha women of England on the execution Of Edith Cavell. A statue will...

SOUTH AMERICA. * POLITICAL prophecy, provided the prophets are wise enough to confine their predictions to wide generalizations, is by no means so difficult or so hazardous a...

S/11,—Wa should be greatly obliged if you could find space to insert a special appeal for gifts of all kinds to the Chelsea Clothing Depot for Belgian Refugees, which was...

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 iif...

EDITH CAVELL. IN that last hour divinely fortified Against your captors with you surely went Sweet, holy thoughts, to light the dread descent, Of childhood, home, the English...

PRESIDENT; LORD DESBOROUGIL HON. SEORRTART : PERCY A. HARRIS, Esq. HEAD 011TIORS: Judges' Quadrangle, Royal Courts of Justice (Carey Street entrance). The aims and objects of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPROTATOR."] Sin,—Visiting our stricken soldiers in British hospitals and cos- valescent institutions, we find how much they desire and enjoy s, game of...

THIS diary by Mrs. R. L. Stevenson is a book for Stevensonians to acid to their library. So much that is untrue—what so futile as uninformed worship of a literary hero P—has...

UNDER this somewhat unattractive title Mr. Rawlinson has collected into a volume five singularly interesting tracts for the times. His general point of view in theology will be...

Mr. Arnold Bennett's artistic quality, there can be no doubt that he is a thoroughly competent literary workman. Whether he is compounding plays, or elaborating sensational...

book into two main sections— trees in relation to painting, and the growth and structure of trees. In the first part a good deal of attention is paid to pictorial composition,...

and illustrated book will be given, we are told, to the Indian Widows Fund. It is dedicated to His Highness the Maharaja of Barwani by His Highness's " most obedient servant and...

THE crisis in the Balkans is treated from wholly different points of view in two articles in the new Nineteenth Century. Dr. Niko ? 2upani6, writing on the strategical...

THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS.• THE genesis of this spirited and ingenious story is told in a brief dedicatory epistle. Mr. Buchan confesses to having long shared with the soldier...

chapters to The Bottle-Fillers, where Denis O'Hagan, master of the steamship Sphinx,' loses his boat in a storm, and subsequently his certificate, are as fine as any in the book...

[Now in this column does not necessarity 2 , reclucto subsequent review:1 then went to Gutach, in the Schwarzwald, and afterwards to Wertheim, where she remained till the...

Co. 6s.)—A well-written but somewhat disconnected novel, much of which is a satire on the anti-vivisection controversy.—A Rip Van Winkle of the Kalahari. By Fred, C. Cornell....

gives a short description of the chief charac- teristics of the great tract of country conquered by General Botha. Its physical features, its climate, its fauna and flora, its...

Lane; 6s. net.)—The author is an American who studied in Europe, and. especially under Sir Frank Short. The work makes no claim to be exhaustive, but gives a brief account of...