may disregard the wilder rumours which were current at the beginning of the week, but it is obvious that the utmost the Poles can do sow is to save their own country. The...

main clauses of the Treaty with Turkey. Min'or concessions were drafted, and it was announced that the signature of Turkey to the Treaty with these amendments would be required...

the. Allies of the German indemnity. It is difficult to take much more than a mild academic interest in such a discussion, for he must indeed be an optimist who hives for any...

A T the Spa Conference the Allies, when we go to press on Thursday, are on the brink of a decision which will have a very important bearing on our future relations with Germany....

Tuesday, Governor Cox, of Ohio, was nominated Democratic candidate for the American Presidency. The nomination was not effected till the 44th ballot. The proceedings of the Con-...

the Germans led by Herr Fehrenbach, the German Chancellor. As it had been arranged that one of the first questions to be discussed was disarmament, it was a surprise to the...

America, Prohibition and the League of Nations, Mr. Cox is understood to be ready to modify Prohibition by admitting light wines and beers, and to favour , the acceptance of the...

reached at Spa when we write, we must content ourselves with recording the events which have led up to the present situation. On Thursday week Mr. Lloyd George, Lord Curzon, and...

letters submitted to him, but when stamped and addressed envelopes are sent he will do his best to return contributions in case of rejection.

Should our readers experience any difficulty in obtaining the SPECTATOR during the atmanter holidays from Newsagents or Railway Bookstalls, will they please communicate at once...

Budget. Last month alone there had been seventy-six can- cellations of orders for big ships. That had naturally affected other industries—iron, steel, marine engineering, &c....

the findings of the Army Council in the case of General Dyer. In the Army Council's opinion General Dyer cannot be acquitted of an error of judgment, and they note that no...

a deputation from the Federation of British Industries on the subject of the proposed increase of the excess profits duty from 40 to 60 per cent. The deputation urged that the...

revelations, but though we profoundly mistrust Mr. Churchill, we are bound to say that the document does not add very much to the opinion we had already formed of Mr....

knowledge of the Cabinet. If there be any substance In the charge it is, to our mind, something much more important and more significant than the revelations of the Archangel...

of the seven departments on which, according to Tuesday's announcement, Mr. Chamberlain's seven testing Committees are to report. The Departments to be investigated are the...

and expenses of the Ministry of Transport, the work of the Ministry was again discussed. Mr. Asquith said that, in his judgment, "there was no justification for the formation of...

what Mr. Chamberlain described as "that hardy perennial," the question of the merits of "those charming sisters, direct and indirect taxation," was, as usual, raised. This year,...

of Libel when newspapers are concerned, and the great public advantages gained by not allowing our newspapers to accuse public men unless they can prove their charges up to the...

published last Saturday a document which is said to have fallen into the hands of the Bolsheviks at Archangel. It describes an interview alleged to have been granted by Mr....

the least, unjust to General Dyer. General Dyer, in our opinion, ought to have a court-martial. The verdict of a court-martial is something which every soldier respects and...

be specially commended for the impartial way in which it gives opportunities for the statement of both sides of political issues, contains so excellent a statement by Lady...

ence between the slave, the man who cannot even command his own body and who is always at the disposal of his owner, and the freeman, however poor, is enormously great. No one...

attention to the deplorable and unhygienic state of the London and Windsor barracks. We fanoy that be might with truth say the same thing about some other barracks. Is it not...

" What they had got to do was to combine that national feeling with that passionate desire for international comprehen- sion and international amity which was the stvest...

Commons Standing Committee has become a scandal. Day after day no quorum is formed and the Bill thus makes no progress, although it has already been passed by the Frouse of...

have been a very grave accident indeed to the Prince of Wales's train in Western Australia ended in nothing worse than some bruises and laughter. The train was running on a...

Institute of International Affairs and with Lord Grey of Fallodon's speech last Monday. Here we must say something about the im- portant and striking speeches made by Mr....

forward with great success the question of Government extrava- ganoe. He urged the Government to appoint commissioners with due authority to reduce, before the winter, the...

per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 651 ; Wednee lay week, 841 ; a year ago, 93g.

AN EXTREMIST LABOUR PLOT. Behind that assertion Mr. Smillie is rallying forces that are nominally "supporting troops," but are really intended for a second line of attack which...

W E welcome the foundation of the British Institute of International Affairs which was announced at a meeting of original members held in the rooms of the Royal Society of Arts...

W ITHIN a few days the Government nuist finally make up their mind whether they mean to renew or to denounce the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. In ordinary times, so important a...

W E are glad to note the protests recently made in the Lords against a very dangerous claus in the Government's Official Secrets Bill and Lord Curzon's promise of amending...

W E have no word to express the lighter side of symbolism, yet very obviously it has a light side which comes into prominence whenever what we ordinarily mean by symbolism...

T HERE is a strange fascination about travel which impels us to speculate on the impressions that others before us have received from the scenes and monuments we are ourselves...

[To TEE EDITOR Or THE " SPECurOin SIN, — There are so many matters of widely divergent character affecting the City at the present moment, that instead of dwelling on one...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTAT0111.") would ask a small space in your columns for a few words about a distinguished Oxford scholar who has pa,.-ed away. Francis de Paravicini...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] LORD FRENCH'S SPEECH. (To...

ITo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Snz,—As Mr. Baker's letter (June 26th) is simply Mr.Brooks's in slightly different language, I will beg your permission to answer only those...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR, — Your correspondent Mr. James Morgan has given an admirable summary of this in your issue of June 26th, but it should be supplemented...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In the month of July for several years past the Spectator has published a slight anticipation of the Wesleyan Confer- ence. The...

(To PER EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sie,—One of the common errors of any particular society on arriving at the stage of communal self-consciousness is that its own peculiar...

" SPECTATOR.") Sca,—I hope you did not fail to notice recently the resolutions of the Roman Catholic clerical managers of the Irish schools. The first resolution denounced the...

MG THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—The Government have stated their intention of spending some three million pounds on the provision of full dress for Household Troops, and...

[To 'MR EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I am writing in the hope (as one of your readers) of en- listing the advocacy of your paper to expose another breach of faith on the...

[To TRE EDITOR OF TNE " SPECTLTOR."1 Sia,—Some two years ago you were kind enough to appeal for us in the Spectator for funds for the Victoria Home for Invalid Children at...

[To TEL EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sri,—Having suffered the loss of two sons during the war, I have received several letters from the War Graves Commission on the subject of...

[To TRE EDITOR Or TYE " Eascrnoi."] Sia,—As a member of the American Legion may I state that naturalization in every phase is part of the very spade work of each well-organized...

[To TNT EDITOR. OF TIE " SPECTATOR."] Sis,—For want of a very moderate sum of money needed for repairs to the house, this excellent home for ladies of small means nearly closed...

" SPICTATOR"] SIR,—At the end of the war, on October 31st, 1918, the library of the University of Nancy was destroyed by an incendiary bomb, and the English section in...

JEUSHID IN EXILE. • CALLED by his name he trembled at the word : Through the dim languor of the exile's eyes, While memory clove him like a two-edged sword, Jemshid beheld his...

MASKELYNE'S "THEATRE OF MYSTERIES." I H.AD not been since I was fifteen and slightly superior—or rather endeavoured to appear superior, because I went with a younger brother....

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

(To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOE."3 SHE,--It is, I believe, generally accepted by ornithologists that the eggs of the cuckoo usually resemble in colour, but, of course, not in...

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GENERAL LEONARD WOOD.* CAMPAIGN literature is generally dull, but the work before us is an exception. Mr. Eric Fisher Wood, the author, and, by the way, no relation whatever to...

Under this heading I shall each week remind readers of the name and nature of four or five plays which are worth seeing. ST. MARTIN'S.—The Skin Game .. 8.30-2.30 [Galsworthy....

* (1) The Grenadier Guards in the Great War of 1914-1918. By Lieut.-Colonel the Right Hon. Sir Frederick Yonsonby. 3 'Vols. London : Macmillan. [CS Si. net.]—(2) History of the...

Jr is of course a great temptation to say of "Daisy Ashford's" new book, which includes four new novels by the author of The Young Visiters and a fifth by her sister entitled...

to have read Hegel," said Jowett to a pupil ; "but now you must go away and forget all about him." The Master probably thought that the young man was, in the Psalmist's sense of...

a recrudescence of racial rioting in Chicago gives no little interest to a book upon the riots of a year ago written by Mr. Carl Sandburg, with an intro- ductory note by Mr....

water-colours, the practitioner of an art which he has followed intermittently all his life, and which he loves as men love the achievements of their left hands, rather than as...

THE RESCUE-t MR. CONRAD returns once more in his new novel to the in- exhaustible treasure-house of his Malayan experiences. Yet to those who have followed his literary career...

both amusing and interesting. It errs, perhaps, in not giving sufficient credit to the fact that It was English missionaries who introduced the printing press into Bengali, that...

Sons. 7s. 6d. net.)—This volume contains : "The Lord of Misrule," "Tales of the Mermaid Tavern," "The Wine-Press," "The Search Lights,' "A Belgian Christmas Eve," and "A Salute...

SOME COLLECTED POEMS BY MR. EZRA POUND.* AN American critic once remarked in the course of conversation that Mr. Ezra Pound made a living by being impudent. Mr. Pound has just...

(Mills and Boon. 7s. 6d. net.)—Miss Wylie's latest novel is concerned with the development of the character of a grocer's son who becomes an officer. lie has contracted a secret...

The Contemporary .Drama of England (John Murray ; 7s. 6d. net) a very sound book of reference, and that it contains a great many intelligent judgments. When we open a book of...

Bogart and J. M. Mathews. (Springfield : Illinois Central Commis- aion.)—The elaborate history of Illinois, written to commemorate the first centenary of the formation of the...

Southampton, where she was joined by the emigrants who had come from Leyden in the Speedwell.' Plymouth was her last port of call in the Old World. Southampton has therefore...

(New York : Macmillan. 2 dollars.)—These lectures delivered at Hartford and Princeton by a well-known American missionary who has spent many years in the Near East show very...

treatise on the design and construction of ships' boats is written by a naval architect who has served on Lloyd's surveying staff. It is necessarily too technical to be...

15s. net) is the eighty-third annual issue of an invaluable record. The editor states that 7,327 new books and 1,295 new editions making a total of 8,622, were published in 1919...

first book published by the League of Nations. It has been compiled by the economic section of the secretariat, under the editorship of Mr. J. A. Salter, as a guide to the...

[Notice in ikis oolumn does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] Two excellent little handbooks for the mothers of young families have just been published by Messrs....

Field. (S.P.C.K. 12s. 6d.)—In this scholarly and interesting work Mr. Field has compared the Communion Services in the First Prayer Book of 1549 and in the Restoration Prayer...

how to sing and play " Looby Looby," "London Bridge," and "The Jolly Miller," but there are a great many games in an admirable little collection called The Girl Guides' Book of...