elsewhere with the strange situation which has arisen in the Near East, and will only say here that the King of Bulgaria has finally thrown in his lot with the Central Powers,...

in full, is as we write on Thursday afternoon still extremely obscure. There is no likelihood of the Greek people joining Germany, nor, we believe, of the Greek King playing the...

in the Western theatre of the war. The Germans have, we regret to say, retaken the Hohenzollern Redoubt, a specially powerful field fortification, but otherwise we have kept the...

French prisoners is better than the most sanguine people dared to estimate. Railway records show that nearly twenty-four thousand prisoners have been removed by railway, and to...

of the past fortnight is fully maintained. It is evident that the Russians have not only fought the Germans to a stand, but that in the North, that is in the country round...

which shows an extraordinary change in the attitude of Berlin. Indeed, it is not too much to speak of it as a complete volte.face. The Germans have practically conceded...

was and is in command of the submarine that sank the Arabic.' We are inclined to think, however, that be is a fictitious person, a kind of nautical Mrs. Harris, invented by the...

will repay German compliance by attempting to force Britain to acknowledge what the Germans call "the freedom of the seas." This, being interpreted, means that we are to fight...

the spirited and timely appeal for thirty thousand recruits a week put forward by the Labour Recruiting Committee. "If the voluntary principle is to be vindicated, at least...

a short debate on the Armenian massacres. It had been reported that the victims numbered eight hundred thoasand. That, as well as the statement that some of the German Consular...

of the Government, Lord Bryce confirmed the statement made by Lord Cromer that eight hundred thousand people had been destroyed since last May. Here is his description Qf the...

where some ten thousand Armenian Christians were destroyed in one afternoon. They were put on board sailing boats, taken out to sea, and then thrown overboard. Nearly the whole...

on the wholesale massacres of Armenians in Turkey, have evidently moved public opinion deeply in the United States. Several of the leading papers urge on the Administration the...

contributed by a correspondent of the TimeS in Wednesday's issue. In particular, the writer recalls a conversation with Baron Kffilay, the famous Hungarian...

at every turn. Fear, cunning, and inordinate ambition are the chief characteristics of the King of Bulgaria. He loves to pose as a roi incompri , but has moments of cynical...

glad to learn, likely to be dealt with promptly by the Government. The evil is admitted, but cannot be grappled with effectively so long as the police are denied the power of...

week at Bedford College for Women, paid a noble tribute to the reawakening of our ally. The outbreak of war had been a moment of agony for French idealists, but it was not the...

the German Wireless Press is that issued by Lord Cavan to the Guards on the eve of the advance. It runs as follows :- " Divisionat Command of the Guards Division.—On the eve...

American by birth, contrasts the spirit of "I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier" with that of Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic "—perhaps the finest of all the...

Selborne specially appealed to agriculturists to do their utmost to increase food production. He had recently seen a woman ploughing in Surrey, a sight which he believed nobody...

gives in its October issue a most interesting account of a speech made by Mr. Roosevelt at Government House, Victoria, British Columbia., where he was lately a guest. The...

"the man who would not fight was not worth a vote." We are further told that he commemorated in the most glowing terms the gallantry and prowess of the Canadian troops at the...

BULGARIA AND GREECE. E VENTS in the Balkans have moved with great rapidity since our last issue. On Monday the Russians issued an ultimatum to Bulgaria, declaring that unless...

I T is greatly to be hoped. that Lord Derby will be allowed a free hand, in his gallant effort to squeeze the last drops out of the voluntary sponge—an effort in which, as we...

EVENE VEN those people who oppose compulsory military can hardly approve of the action of the Government in making it impossible for Civil Servants to join the Army. It is true...

'E VERY one knows that war means to the soldier a big measure of deprivation. Every week the recognition is made by thousands of womenfolk at home, when they despatch the parcel...

W HEN visiting the wives and mothers of our fighting men at the front, I am often reminded Of the words of one now gone ; one who understood human nature as thoroughly as he did...

- V ENICE was, presumably, the first Italian town to feel the shock of the present conflict, for within three hours of Italy's declaration of war two Austrian aeroplanes were...

rTo TII311 EDITOR 01 TIM " SPECTATOn."1 SIR,---The question of compulsion or conscription appears to be worrying the minds of the people of England very much, and from the way...

recent review of the book Germany Embattled, by Oswald Garrison Villard, of the New York Evening Post, accuses Mr. Villard of special pleading on behalf of Germany, and of...

OV 41111 " SPRCT,STOR.1 SIR,—Your correspondent "H. M. G." refers to an African custom in which the driving of nails into an effigy of a person was intended to injure that...

Sra,—I think this very striking letter cannot fail to interest your readers.—I am, Sir, &e s N. "DEAREST MOTRER,—Thank you very much indeed for your letter which I was...

[To TUN EDITOR OF Till " SPROTATOR.") SIR,—In your issue of September 25th I noticed a letter written by "S." on " Farmers and Income Tax." To begin with, "S." has not taken...

your correspondent who signs himself "S." in your issue of September 25th gives neither his county nor his name. My object in writing is not, however, to reply to statements...

1 - To TILE EDITOR OF TUB " SPECTATOIC.39 SIR, — The average for three years preceding the year of assessment, taken as the basis for assessment for the current year, will...

• [To THE EDITOR OP THE "SrecrAves.."] Sin,—What is the authority for the form of the verse from Chevy Chase about Witherington as quoted in your article upon " Rhyme " last...

mlin EDITOR OP TILE "SPUOTATOR.7] SIR,—Since I saw over a ton of coal-dust sold for a more song at a private sale the other day I have been .experis menting with the few...

pro TUE EDITOR, OF TEE "SrEcTA.rox."3 SIR,—It is now just six months since we started here to teach men who have lost their sight at the front to be blind and to acquire some...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPROTATOR."1 SIR,—The enclosed letter written to the New York Times by the writer of the verses which you have described as "rancid" will perhaps...

In a moving picture exhibited on Broadway, written obviously for the purpose of awakening the public to the necessity of preparedness, the scene opens with the action of a crowd...

rTo TES EDITOR OP THII " SPROTATOR."1 SIR, — In describing a curious numerical coincidence in the Spectator of October 2nd your correspondent writes : "My ticket was numbered...

f To TRH EDITOR OF Till "SPICOTATOft..9 SIR,–'.-At a time of such unprecedented destruction, we venture to urge the increasing importance of preserving every possible infant...

inc "SPECTATOR...1 Sin,—The enclosed extract from a letter written by a Nursing Sister who is with the Dardanelles force will, I think, be interesting to your rea,ders.—I...

to us is finding the wounded, and it is remarkable how they know the dead from the unconscious. When they find a living man they give a low mournful howl to fetch us. We don't...

[To THN EDITOR or TIM "SPECTATOR." J Sta,—May I take this opportunity to thank those who very generously responded to a former letter of mine asking for books and magazines...

LTO TRW EDITOR OP TER " ISPEOTATOR."1 Sta, — As there will this year be no elections to Town Councils and Metropolitan Borough Councils on November 1st, most of the Councils...

[To TRH EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." Sin,—We desire to make known through your columns, at the commencement of a new winter session, the work which the National Home-Reading...

ITO THE EDITOR OF Tun " SPROTATOR."] SM,—It has been brought to my notice that, since the lighting of the streets has been diminished, a number of dogs have been killed or...

• 'Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with As views therein expressed or with the mode of expression. In such instances, or in the case...

(1) To assist recruiting for the Regular and Territorial Army. (2) To encourage men not of age for service in the Regular Forces, or, if of age for Service, who have a genuine...

4.■•••■••4111.-..•••• TO THE LINGERERS: OCTOBER, 1915." HIGH on the battlements of Fame In the place your fathers won Blazoned in flame there stands a...

■■•■■••••••■• GERMANIA MENDAX.* AMIDST , the abundant war literature of the day, no publication calls for more serious consideration, both from the...

M. HANOI:Al:73CE! Histoire Illustree de la Gucrre (Gounouilhou, lfr. each part, about twenty-five parts now published) proceeds slowly but with increasing interest. In My last...

known as a novelist, gives us a book more interesting than most fiction in her Journal of Impressions in Belgium. It bears out its title in being largely subjective, and dealing...

sensible guide.' His method is to take two contrasting pictures and describe them and their painters' aims, and thus he discloses fundamental principles. For instance, he...

THERE is an agreeable variety in the contents of this book, for the author knows how to mingle ancient and modern history, poetry and Nature, for the pleasure and edification of...

Or the war articles in the Nineteenth Century, that of Mr. Robert Machray on "Resolute Russia" deserves special attention for the candour with which the disheartening features...

IN BRIEF AUTHORITY.* THE re-entry of Mr. Anstey on the stage of fiction with a full-length novel is a welcome event, for he belongs to the tribe of benevolent entertainers, and...

Benson tells of the distressful complications that may shape themselves when a famous novelist comes into direct contact with an unfriendly reviewer; so we are glad that we have...

[Notice in this column doss not necessarily preclude subs/vent review.] The new section of The Oxford English. Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 2s. 6d.) contains a short...

psycho-pathology is well known, and his new work, The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (Duckworth and Co., 7s. 6d. net), will be read with interest. The first half...

Practical Guide for the Collector (T. Fisher Unwiu, 5s. net) covers a very large number of subjects. Indeed, the field is so ill-defined as to involve some superficiality in its...

by Walter Hutchinson, Vol. I. (Hutchinson and Co., 10s.), is an elaborately illustrated historical and topographical , account of Belgium. Different districts are dealt with by...

Laurie. 5s. net.)—In his chapter "The Walking Tour" Mr. Haultain advises would-be walkers, if they walk in a populous region, to "carry a pair of light shoes. These will come...

by Filson Young and W. Gordon Aston (Methuen and Co., 5s. net). The whole volume, with the exception of one chapter, is described as having been completely rewrit ten.-Auother...

Paton's List of Schools and Tutors (J. and J. Paton, 2s.).

Take a score of brisk, healthy-looking people at random from those you meet in the street; among them a medical man would be able to pick out a high percentage of sufferers from...