THE HOME GUARDS. [T. - E.- Or - ",91o. To. ] SIp,-In sending my mite to the Spectator Home Guards Fund I should like to say that I hope that you will not measure your readers'...

THE 60TH RIFLES. I TO .U EDITOR OB To. S-CTATOR.-] SrI,-With reference to the letter from your American correspondent printed in your issue of last week, and to your article on...

THE GERMAN PROFESSOR. [TO -u EDITOR 0T1 - "CTATOR.'J SIB,-In current discussions on the inside of the German academic mind a pungent passage in William James's A Pluralistic...

PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION ADOPTED IN DENMARK. rTO EDITOR 0- THE S-E-TiTOR.'I SIR,-Yonr readers will be interested to know that the new Danish Constitution (which it is...

THE CANADIANS AND THE VICTORIA CROSS. [To u Eniux or THU ' SPECTATou.' ]| BiR,-As one who has served in .iM. Army, I must say I read what you said of the Canadians in your last...

THE CENTRAL ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTEER TRAINING CORPS. PRESDENT: LORD DESBOROUJGH IToN. Ssc.asr-: PERCY A. HARRIS, Esq. HEiAD OFICES: Judges' Quadrangle, Royal Cour of Justic...

HEINE ON PRUSSIA. rTo -. E..TOX 0 T.. S"ECT-TOR. 1 SIR,-I have just come across Heinc's estimate of Prussia. It occurs in the Briefe aus F.a.kreich, and is especially...

THE INVENTOR OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. [TO -IR EDITOR 0OR ISPECTATOL'] SIR,-I have read with much interest the letter in the Spectator of March 20th which makes a claim to...

FIELD GLASSES FOR THE FRONT: LADY ROBERTS'S A'PPEAL. [TO EDITO- 0O T-E SPECTATOK. Sm,-At the commencement of the war my father, Lord Roberts, made an appeal to the public for...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. A VOICE FROM AMERICA. [TO -IX EDITOR ow ni- SP-CTATO-.'] Sir.,-It is amusing to observe in the New York newspapers the continual floundering of the...

THE GOAL O0 WAR. rTO TH- EDITOR OF T-R "S-CTATOn..] Sie,-We must not let our anxiety not to hate our enemies lead us to be angry with one another. Still, there can be no harm...

It seems almost certain that Mr. Lloyd George will have to I abandon his liquor tax proposals. The trade dislikes them, I and since it commands the Irish vote and also a...

During the week the air has been full of rumours about the I action of Italy. Though the best opinion seems to be that Italy is on the brink of war, it is quite possible that...

| Last Saturday "a series of small affairs," in the Admiralty phrase, occurred in the North Sea in the neighbourhood of the Galloper and North Hinder lightships. The British...

Last Saturday the American oil-tank vessel I Guifligbt' was torpedoed by a German submarine off the Bishop's Lighthouse. The captain died of shock and two seamen were drowned....

Mr. Lloyd George opened his Budget on Tuesday. We I have dealt with it at length elsewhere, and will only say here that "for the present" he proposes no new taxation. Later in...

Whats we have said as to the fate of Italv if Afstria s-d I Turkey win applies with equal force to Roumania, Greece, and also Bulgaria. Even if they could tolerate an ultimate...

A victorious Austria will tell Italy-quite unjustly, of I course-that her neutrality was treacherous, that she proved it so by her demands for territorial concessions, and,...

At the end of last week Dunkirk was bombarded by heavy shells, and an ambiguously worded statement issued by the French Government gave rise to the general belief that the...

I The papers of last Saturday published a particularly vivid account by the Canadian Record Officer of the stand of the Canadians at Ypres. Such heroism as is revealed in this...

WAR BY POISON. THE nature of the gases by means of which the Germans have won undoubted local successes is gradually being ascertained, and the more we know of the gases the...

BOO KS. THE SUBMERGED NATIONALITIES OF THE GERMAN EMPIRE.* I Wm had occasion a fortnight ago to notice the curious fact that though the German Empire is from many points of...

P O E T R Y. THE SCHOOLMASTER. ALTISOUGH the Veld has made me wise, (Anld that's the sorest way,) And though I sleep 'neath open skies On many a holiday; I am youn,,g in all...

STUDIES IN NEUTRAL TINT.* Ms. GsjLSWORTHY's new volume of studies displays all those qualities in his work with which we are most familiar. His craftsmanship is as polished as...

THE MAGAZINES. DR. ARTHUR SHADWELL'S paper in the Nineteenth Crufp-y on the causes and meaning of German hate of England is the best analysis we have yet seen of that...

PERIOD FURNITURE.t WE can recommend this book to our readers, not only for the learning and the artistic good taste shown by its authors, but also for the enthusiasm with which...

A POLISH PEOPLE. POLAND has always met with a sympathetic understanding from England, and has gradually come to look upon the English as her avowed champions, chiefly, no...

FICTION. ANGELA'S BUSINESS.' THE author of Qued in taking a novelist for his hero, or at any rate as his chief male character, has followed a precedent which may perhaps limit...

I The Keerer of the Door. By Etbel M!. Dell. (T. Fisher Unwin. 6s.)-It would be unkind of us to approach Miss Dell's work in a critical spirit. Her zeal is so disarming; she...

CRIMINAL WARFARE AND RETALIATION. [TO T. E EDITOR OF TH "SPEITATOX.' SIR,-May a humble reader congratulate you on your correspondent's article on the above subject in the...

AGRICULTURAL RELIEF OF ALLIES COMMITTEE. [TO T-l EDITOR 01 TE. ISPECTATOR.] SIB,-Will you be so kind as to allow me, as Treasurer of the above Committee, to bring before the...

CARDUCCI'S POEM ON QUARTO. [TO TNJ EDITOR 0? T'- "SPKTTATOU..] SiB,-Knowving the deep interest the Spectaior has alays taken in what touches Italy, I venture to send you this...

BELGIAN REPATRIATION. [TO -X E...OX O. T.E SP-cTATOX. SIB,-The Belgian Repatriation Committee at their meeting this (Thursday) morning had under consideration the exeellent...

The annual volume of the Palestine Exploration Fund for I 1914-15 (2 Hinde Street, Manchester Square, W., 45s.) is of peculiar value at the present time, since it deals with...

I BooKs OF REhFERENCE.- -An exceedingly valuable addition to the existing number of book. of reference is provided in the Ind-z to Periodicals, of which the first volume,...

The current view tbat the Church in Scotland before the I Reformation was plunged in profoind ignorance and stagnation I is vigorossly combated in Prc-Refaematio= Scholars in...

The Alan Who Was Afraid. By William Westrup. (HIurst I and Blackett. 6s.)-Mr. Westrup has undoubtedly hit on a capital idea for his latest story, although the reader must...

READABLE NOVELS.-.77w Making and Breaking ofAlmanaur. I By Clarice M. CresswelL (Chatto and Windus. 6s.)-It is I a pity that this Eastern novel is not free from the physical...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK. I [Notice in a... column does ... .c.esily rr..clnd. suben..t -eieW.] I MIr. Roosevelt's book upon America and the World War was I noticed by us at...

I We have received the annual volume of Tile Year's TI-ol iss Classical Studies, edited by Mr. Cyril Bailey on behalf of the Classical Association (Jobn Murray, 2s. 6d. net)....

What has really happened seems to be that the Germans,| acting from the region round Cracow, delivered a very strong attack upon the western flank of that portion of the Grand...

We have dealt elsewhere with the Gelmans' new plan of using asphyxiating gas. Considering their elaborate preparations and the tremendous effort to back up their chemical...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. T HE week has been one of activity in all theatres of the war. In the western theatre Sir John French has I been busy re-forming his line, or perhaps it...

In the eastern theatre of the war it is difficult to understand I exactly what has happened. We may say generally, however, that it has become clear that the Germans have...

It is to be boped that the British meoIe will mark jh lesson of these operations. No shore force, however large and however brave, has ever yet succeeded in preventing a...

I From the points thus won the Anstralians pressed on, and throughout the morning and afternoon there was a constant series of attacks and counter-attacks, our shore forces...

Mr. Ashmead-Bartlett's story of the landing is a remarkable narrative. The battleship in which he was a guest belonged, he tells us, to the division which was to land at Gaba...

The news from what we may call the Levantine theatre of the war-i.e., in the Dardanelles-is distinctly good. In the House of Commons on Thursday afternoon Mr. Asquith, at the...

I In both Houses of Parliament on Wednesday the condition of British prisoners in Germany was again discussed. Lord Albemarle begged the Government, for the sake of the...

Herr Ba.M before war was declared bad written to him a private letter stating that Germany desired peace. The letter contained nothing remotely resembling the charge against...

The Note, in fact, appeared to be a contingent ultimatum. I When the American vessel 'Evelyn' was sunk by a mine it could not be proved that the mine was German, and nothing...

In the House of Lords on Wednesday Lord Hylton drew attention to the communications from Herr Ba11in the nature of which had been exposed in the Timea. Herr Ballin had first...

Speaking at a meeting held on Tuesday to facilitate the I enlistment of men engaged in the distributing trades, Mr. Asquith quoted some interesting figures. The number of shop...

I The papers of Wednesday published some facts as to the treatment of the thirty-nine British officers who have been placed in closer confinement in Germany, and as to the...

In the " Eyewfitness's " narrative published on Monday there was a description of one of the most gallant deeds ever performed by our gallant airmen. On March 26th the...

Last Saturday the Chinese Government replied to the I revised Japanese demands. According to the Peking correspondent of the Times, China offers considerable concessions in...

TOPICS OF THE DATY. NATIONAL CONCENTRATION. THE need for the concentration of national energy holds the field, but unfortunately it is too often the field of talk not of...

ARRAYING THE NATION. WHAT specific action ought we to take to get more W men and more munitions of war? It has always seemed to us that the answer is to be found in both cases...

A HISTORY OF PERSIA.* COLONEL SYKES has accomplished a work at once ambitious, laborious, and valuable. Since Sir John Malcolm's Histosjy of Pe-sia was published a hundred...

THE BUDGET. IN order to understand Mr. Lloyd George's Budget speech on Tuesday it is necessary to recognize that it was only a preliminary statement intended to lead up to some...

THE STARVING BELGIANS. T HE two hundred thousand Belgian refugees who are being provided for in the United Kingdom have made us feel that the refugee question is part of our...

PRESENCE. Y E all smile and feel some sort of pleasure when we V observe the complete indifference of Nature to human distinctions. It strikes us with a sense of momentary...

S. R. JEYES.* - I THE late Mr. S. H. Jeyes, who died in harness nearly four years ago at the age of fifty-four, was an excellent example of the ability and intellectual force...