A GERMAN WAR INDEINITY. [TO THN EDITOR OF THE " SPETATOR."I SIR,-I write to make a suggestion to you which might bo brought out at a more proper season. WVhen and if an...

CHARLNG CROSS BRIDGE. [To THE EDrIOR OF TIE "SPEorATOL"I Sut,-With reforence to your most interosting suggestion3 a3 to Charing Cross Bridge, may I point out a difficulty with...

THE SPECIAL CONSTABLES. [To iH1 IDITOZ Of TUC " SPiCtATOR."I Snm,-With a great deal of your article headed " The Volunteers" in your issue of the 2nd inst. I am in entire...

MISSING. [To THE EDItOa O0 TIE " BrETAToL"I SIR,-Do you think you could help me to obtain any news of my brother, Sergeant Frank Clayton, 209, West York,3hiro Itteginiont ? He...

EVADING INCOME TAX. [TO THB EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOEL"' SiR,-MKany of us serving on Advisory and Tribunal Corinnttte2s are amazed at the largo proportion of appellants whoo...

THE ELECTORAL REFORM CONFERENCE. [TO TiED EDITOR OP TH " SPEOTATOR."I gr,-Tho importance of the Conference on Electoral Reform cannot be overstated. " It is to work out," to...

The choice of an archaeologist to fill the post of President of the I British Association is, we imagine, something of a rarity, but it was amply justified by Sir Arthur...

The London Gazete on Wednesday announced in calm official language one of the most poignant romances of the war:" The King has been graciously pleased to approve of the...

The modernness of the life revealed was extraordinary:- " The elaboration of the domestic arrangemeniiq, the stnircases story above story, tho front places given to ladies at...

All the direct protests of the French Government having proved I idle, says M. Briand, "we lay to-day our proofs before the neutral Powers, confident of the judgment which the...

The French Government are to be congratulated upon the serious and unsensational way in which they have set forth their case. Most impressive is this tale of misery and...

We shall leave our readers to inform themselves of the details I by a study of the pamphlet itself, but we may quote here one horrible example of brutality in the carrying out...

But the most interesting part of the address was that in which be gave grounds for the revision of the older view that Hellenic civilization sprang, like Athena, fully...

Air. Balfour, after making a two days' tour of the Clyde shipyards and munitions works, addressed on Tuesday night a meeting of Trade Union delegates and members of the...

The letter which M. Briand, the French Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, addressed to the French diplomatic representatives, asking them to draw the attention of...

I The Germans, Mr. Balfour continued, were mistaken in thinking they could inflict a deadly blow on this country by their submarines because, and only because, we had produced...

It would be difficult to exaggerate the gallantry of Lieutenant I Robinson's exploit, and all who admire intrepid youth will sympathize with his method of celebrating it. " I...

Lord French's report on the raid bears witness to the efficacy of I the new measures for the reduction and obscuration of lights. The raiding squadrons, he notes, " instead of...

] It must not be supposed that while wc have becn fighting in the southern part of the Somme theatre of operations, we have neglected the northern. There has been activity both...

Lest the element of the humorous should altogether be wanting in the proceedings, a Hertfordshire Coroner's jury solemnly sat on the sixteen charred bodies at 'The Plough Inn...

I To be somewhat more specific, General IHaig has stretched out his hand and laid it upon the whole of Guilleniont and part of Ginchy, while the strong place of Combles is...

But when all is said and done, it is a shame, in spite of Shake- speare's example, to laugh at the Coroner's inquest and " crowners' law." There is something very...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. THE greatest and the most unsuccessful of the air raids on Enigland took place on Saturday night and Sunday morning last. Thirteen airships crossed the...

The news from the Western Front is wholly good. During the course of the week there has been a constant, if also a slow and gradual, advance both by ourselves and by the...

POETRY. OUR ISLAND WEATHER. A RECANTATION. (To my Wife.) Do you remembor how we took That April day our walk together From Froshwater to Carisbrooke? And how we cursed the...

BO O KS. GLEANINGS FROM ARABIA.* RE would be a bold man who, being a European and a Christian, would "sscrt that lie had secured a firm grasp of Eastern mentality, and that he...

FOREIGN PHRASES. [TO THE EDITOR 0 TUB " SrECTATOiLI Srxt,-'Tnable to purchase the Spectator on the date of issue and at the original price, six of us, for some years, have put...

"THE SECRET OF CONSOLATION." " Give me a man that Is not dull, When all the world with rifts Is full I But unamazed dares clearly ring, Whenas the roof's a-tottering." MLR....

TIE EMPIRE AN]D THE LAND. [COWIMNICATED.] Then Pollio praised my strain, M-Iaecenas praised, And spurred me on to try a larger theme8 Aiding Augustus in his high endeavour To...

THE GENERAL SITUATION. TI HE optimists, among whom we are proud to reckon TH~ourselves, not merely during the last two or three months, but from the very beginning of the war,...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. - -T THE BURNING OF THE ZEPPELIN. THE bringing down of the Zeppelin at Cuffley is of course of no military importance. Nevertheless, it remains one of the...

It remnains to be said that in the early part of the week the French made excellent progress to the north of the Somme, and that on Thulrsday it ws-,Ls reported that they had...

I We desire to draw the special attention of our readers to the French official Report on the deportation of women and girls from Lille, just published on the authorization of...

I Ar. Gosling in his Presidential address dwelt on the " super- importance " of Labour as demonstrated by the war. Labour had been the personification of real patriotism; every...

The news from the main Dart of the Russian and Eastern Front I is full of geod omens. General Brusilof's troops have gained a fortified position from the enemy and captured...

In the neighbourhood of Leuze Wood. for various reasons which I we need not discuss, artillery bombardment could not conveniently be practised by either side. Accordingly...

Satisfactory reports of the progress of General Smuts's campaign culminated in the announcement made by the War Office on Monday that Dar-es-Salaam, since 1901 the official...

On Saturdav last President Wilson acceted renomination an Democratic candidate for the Presidency. In a speech delivered at Long Branch the President declared that the United...

On Tuesday the Congress discussed the invitation received from Mr. Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labour, to a proposed International Labour Congress...

So much for the general outline of what has been happening I during the week. The special correspondents at the front have been able to clothe the dry bones by telling us of...

The Trade Union Congress was opened at Birmingham on Monday. Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Lord Mayor, in receiving the delegates, welcomed the astounding changes brought about...

The Italian news is meagre, and it is to be feared that the fighting, I at any rate in the high Alps, will soon be stopped, as the snow is reported to have begun to falL In all...

The news in regard to the Rumanian advance into Transylvania I is very satisfactory, and, like the Russian news, shows a large haul of prisoners and materiaL Our most easterly...

I A Political Hieforv of Japan durini the Meiji Era, 1867-1912. By I W. Nl. MoLaren. (Allen and Unwin. l2s. Gd. net.)-Tho American author of this book was for sone years a...

TAe Srinck Lad. By Alioe and Claude Askew. (Eveleigh Xah. I lOs. Od. net.)-M1r. and Mrs. Askew woreo in Sorbia, attached to the First British Field Hospital, during the...

I Wandering8 before the W1ar. By W. R. Stathor Hunt. (Tloath and Cranton. 7s. Od. net.)-Mr. Hunt is an enthusiastic wandorer, and delights in travolling "quite apart from...

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK. [Notice in ais column does not necSanriZy preclude subsequent review.] Some time ago we mentioned two of the pamphlets issied by the Polish...

| With Gypsies in Bulgaria. By " Androas." (Henry Young and Sons. 2a. 6d. net.)-An account of a week's journey from Varna to Rustchuk in May, 1913, with a band of Bulgarian...

I A History of Scptlure. By }1. N. Fowler. (3facmillan and Co. 7s. 6d. nct.)-To write tile history of £eulptirc, from tlc First Dynasty in Egypt to the hundred and thirty-six...

I Impero e Liberta nelk Colonzie Ingteei. Di C-:r:lo Paladini. (Flornce : Bemporad e Figlio. 12 lire.)-- Signor Paladini, a woll-informod and sympathetic student of British...

READABLE NovLts.-Armchair Stort". By I. A. R. Wylie. (MI3 and Boon. 6s.)-The best story in this collcotion, "The Hidden Circle," has an Anglo-Indian setting, and deals with a...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SERBLAN RELIEF FUND. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOL-I Smn,-In enclosing a copy of the Report of this Fund and statement of accounts for the past ycar,...

" THE CRICKETERS OF FLANDERS." [TO THE EDITOR OF THE SrPEOTATOR."] SiR,-What more appropriate site could be found for the bronze statue advocated by the inspiring lines of the...

SPEED THE PLOUGH. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SmR,-The best reply to Mr. A. ML Laws's arguments on the above subject is to be found in the last return of our imports...

EDUCATION, HUMANISTIC AND SCIENTIFICL [TO THz EDrroR or THz " SrEcTAToE.l SrR,-The following resolutions, drawn up by a Conference representative of the five Associations...

THE SAVIOUR ON EXCLUSION. [To THE EDITOR O THE " SrEcrATO'i' &1R,-Surely the whole question of tho relation of Nonconformity to Christianity (which is, or should be, the Church...

MGR. BRUCHESI AND FRENCH-CANADIAN LOYALTY. I [TO TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sim,-In your article on " Nationality and Empire " (Spectator, August 26th) you quote from the...

"I BURY OR BURN." [TO TnE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Re your admirable article "Bury or Burn," would it be possible toreproduce this as a leaflet for distribution to...

" GENTLE SHAKESPEARE."s " IN the future it may fall to the lot of some artist, from a study of Shakespeare in his works, aided by the testimony of his fellows and by such...

THE MODERN STUDY OF LITERATURE. IT would be quito impossible within the limits of space at our disposal to give anything like a full analysis of Professor Moulton's M3odern...

THE BOOK OF TALIESIN.* DR. J. GWEYOao\vYN EVANS'S introductions to tho Welsh and Welsh. English volumes of his poems from the Book of Taliesin, which he hai edited, amended,...

The Two William-s. By Paul Louis Hervior. (Eveleigh Nash. | 7s. &J. no-t.)---This is a readable book of go3sip about the domestio life of the Gorman Emperor and the Crown...

TIHE MANIGAAZINES. THE most remarkable article in the newv 'ineteen!h Cetdury is that by the Viseonde de Santo Thvrso, " Some Reflections by a Friend of England." The Viscondo...

F I C T I O N. MEN, WOMEN, AND GUNS.* "1 S"PP-E's " war stories and studios are amongst the very beat that have come to us from the trenches, but the quality of his third...

LORD WELLESLEY'S SCHOOL FOR ADMINISTRATORS. THE world has been very busy of late talking about education. There were two or three nights of serious debate in the House of...

LABOUR AND DEMOCRACY. Gus 7RGOSLING'S address to the Trade Union Congress Nir strikes a new note in Trade Union politics and degcrves commendation. Hitherto Labour leaders have...