be told of Disraeli before the signing of the Treaty of Berlin in 1878. Whenever a nasty snag impeded the progress of Disraeli in his difficult negotiations with Bismarck, he...

that a comparatively small but extremely well-equipped force could bring about a collapse of Bolshevism in a short time. If that is not so, the Government ought to act very...

to happen, the very slow progress, of affairs in Paris does give pause to all those who hope for a settlement with the League of Nations in the forefront. Here are the four...

Russia we do not know, and it would not be frank to suggest that we see clearly what it ought to be, for we have not the necessary information. One thing at all events is plain....

Odessa as a great military success for the Bolsheviks. Apparently the retirement has been caused, not by any means as the result of fighting, but because of the difficulty of...

another totters over into the embraces of Bolshevism. This process is not likely to cease while men are hungry and have not the wherewithal for reviving their industries. A...

M ESSAGES from Paris during the week have contained a great deal of rumour and very little fact. None of the main points about which public anxiety concerns itself seems to have...

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

be that he is confident of carrying. his audience with him when once he is back in the House of Commous, as he has done over and over again,, by sheer dialeetieal brilliance....

Bolsheviks was reflected in the House of Commons on Wednesday, when members of all parties followed Mr. Edwards in denouncing the suggestion that we should recognize Lenin and...

of-Asia Minor, to repress disorders. The province, which the ancients called Pamphylia, was assigned as. a sphere of influence to Italy by the.Treaty.ef London of April, 1915....

Spa and agreed to a compromise over the landing of Polish troops from Fr.anee at-Danzig. He maintained-in forinthe dame of the Armistice permitting the Allies to use Danzig for...

suddenly changed to gloom at the end of last week. The Russian anchFinniah. auxiliaries -under General Maynard in the Murmansk region were said to be mutinous. In the Arch -...

sent a telegram. to the Prime Minister in Paris informing him that the greatest misgiving exists throughout the country at the persistent reports that the. British Delegates in...

Lloyd George saying :- " My colleagues and I mean to stand faithfully by all the pledges which- we gave to the constituencies. We are prepared , at any moment to submit to the...

murder of Captain Fryatt. It decided that the Court-Mattial which-eons damned Captain.Fryatt acted in accordance with "international law." It expressed regret, however, that the...

Ihetweek to negotiate with the Hungatian Bolsheviks. He invited them to,recognize the Armistice and, the neutral' zone towards Transylvania to which Count Karalyi declined to...

Bolshevik.rule. The Socialist Ministry under Herr Hoffmann removed to Nuremberg,. and announced- that, as representing the majority of the newly elected Parliament, it still...

and. firm measures. It seems clear that there was a widespread conspiracy, inasmuch as the railways and telegraphs were attacked and damaged simultaneously in different parts of...

Friday week at the age of-eighty-six. 'He made his reputation as long ago as 1861 by discovering the rare metal thallium, and he followed this up by studies of electric...

disappointed at the slowness of the Local Authorities in preparing schemes for the Board's approval. - He explained it, charitably enough, by the absence of many officials...

which the Court of Appeal on Wednesday decided for the plaintiff, wileranle in the aeries of famous trials in which -English Judges have defended the rights of the'subjeet...

interesting. and hopeful speech on.his new Housing Bill. He estimated that - the war-had - prevented three hundred and fifty thousand workmen's houses from-being built, apd that...

in the Commons on Friday week, when the Women's Emancipation Bill Was-mead a second time without a: division. Its.aim is 'to enable women to .hold- any civil or judicial office;...

reading to the Military Service - Bill, Lordeluckmaster alone opposed it as unnecessary, and suggested that' the Pleet might take over the watch en the Rhine. An ex-Lord...

showed a general approval of the measure, except on the part of one or two " Single Taxers," who would sacrifice any praetieal reform to the interests of their absurd theory. A...

for housing purposes under Sir James - Cannichaele The country was divided into eleven districts, in each of which a local Housing Commissioner would give expert advice and...

TH EY CAN CONQUER, WHO BELIEVE THEY CAN." " Hi proprium decus, et part= indiEnmtur honorem, Ni tenant ; vitamque volunt pro laude pacisei. Hos suceessus alit ; possunt, quia...

FJ VERY one with a faculty for argumentation must have despaired sometimes when he found himself opposed in a discussion to a person on whom logic had no effect, for whom...

I regard .the prospect of the separation of .Church and State with- the- utmost ,anxiety,., and would-fain da all- in my power -to prevent the- secularization of the -State. It...

T ' Spectator has already, dealt with the scheme sup ' - portedby Dr. Temple and others for. endowing the Church of England with a system of self-government. That the. policy...

is the subject of these papers, I must- apologize for. my temerity in undertaking the task:which is before-me,. That I, who am not, and do.not make the slightest. claim to be, a...

O N Friday week -the jury returned a verdict for the proprietors of the Daily Mail in the libelaction brought by-Sir Hedley Bas. Sir Medley Le Bas based his action on the ground...

WHAT 18 TRUTH ? T T was natural, nay, inevitable, that I should he asked I_ why before I guessed at Truth I did not state what I meant by Truth. There are several ways to...

L AST month (March 12th) a debate took place in the House of Lords upon the subject of museum and picture gallery guides. Lord Sudeley and the Archbishop of Canterbury made...

O NE morning not long ago, I, in company with other Ameri- can officers, leaned over the ship's rail and across the waters of the Irish Sea saw the shores of England ariseout of...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fat treble the space.] -- THE SHARE OF LABOUR. (To...

[To THE Entree or THE " SPECTATOR."7 SIR,—Many months have passed and the position has greatly changed since attention wes called in the Spectator to the steps then being...

[To Tat EDITOR OF VIE EPECTATOR."3 SIR,—With reference to your paragraph in the last issue of the Spectator regarding the present practice of lumping husbands and wives'...

" SPECTATOR.'l Sia,s—While all of us stand aghast at the wholesale destruction of factories and machinery by the Germans in Belgium and France, I have not seen it pointed out...

ETD THE EDITOR or TEE " SPECTATOR."3 Stn, Some of your readers may not have come across an amusing and, from the linguistic and pathlesl point of view, significant anecdote...

- ITO THE EDITOR or THE SFECIATOR."3 have read with much interest the splendid article in your issue of March 8th on "Switzerland during the Great War." From May-October, 1914,...

• CTo THE EDITOR OP THE " SPDCTATOR."J SIR,—I have read with much interest the splendid article in your issue of March 8th on " Switzerland during the Great War." From...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " Specmm . 1 Sia,—Some of your readers may not have come across an amusing and, from the linguistic and political point of view, significant anecdote...

" SPECTATOR."1 SIK, — While all of us eland aghast at the wholesale destruction of factories and machinery by the Germans in Belgium and France, I have not seen it pointed out...

[To THE. EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") 5:5,-1 am loth to trespass once more on your courtesy, yet the letters of " A Seeker after Industrial Peace " and Lieutenant Withey in your...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—I occupied a new house in Montreal for about a year in the winter of 1895-96. It was newly built and comprised two stories of eight...

Sus,—I have read with very deep interest the letters published in the Spectator on the above subject, and as one who has benefited by working for a company that many years ago...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."3 SIR,—With reference to the recent discussion in your columns. it may he worth while to bear testimony to the success of Prohibition in...

Sta,—I cannot refrain from giving my personal experience of the ventilators in brick walls. I had my house built by a well- known architect, Mr. Philip Webb, and depended...

LTo THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR."] there is an intense necessity to secure a permanent and powerful buffer against Teutonic dominance eastward, it is urgent to bring the&chs...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPEETATOR."1 SIR,—The Spectator has had so much in it lately about India that I think the following may interest your readers. My husband was chaplain...

ITo THE EDITOR. OP THE SPECTATOR."] SIR, — The natural and pathetic interest in the grave: of our soldiers (shown by the letters on the subject week by weeks should rewind us...

or THE g. SPECTATOICI SIR,—It may be of interest to put on record what I know of the late Sir Mark Sykes as an antiquary. After the fire six years ago at Sledmere House some...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sue—Allow me to thank your coreespondent for his interesting letter about the black-headed gulirin Si James's Park. As the bird has been...

[To THE EDTTOR or THE "SPECTATOR.") SLE,—As an admirer of the works of that mucsh maligned and misquoted man, Thomas Carlyle, I should like to point out the injustice done to...

opinion (Spectator, January 1111() will commensithe approval-and support of all loversof. animals. As he says, the home is the chief sufferer, end conditions with regard to it,...

[To THE .EDITOR OF run "SPECTATOR.") Sur,—In the Spectator of March 29th it is pleasant to read of the soldiers fondness for their hereee, and you may like to hear of a...

Sue—Both yesterday- and to-day (April 3rd) I watched in St. James's Park the black-headed gull which Mr_ Crook described in your issue of March 29th. In point of fact there...

[To TICE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIII,—Can any of your readers help to identify, or complete, the.following fragment of a poem, found written on a postcard in the...

says : "The English are the kindest people in the world to dumb animals." Is he quite sure that the Norwegians would not bear away the palm 7 From my observations I should think...

Ito THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR, ---I wonder if any one can give me the clue to the following. It lies, I suppose, in , the source of the verses concerned. In High...

LNDLAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.* DR. VINCENT &ma has written a little book on Indian reforms, with reference to the Montagu-Chelmsford Report, which every one, and especially...

A DREAD IN SPRING. MOTHER she calls to me: " Here, Bess, Slip up t' Beacon Farm," she says, " An' take their basket back again; Au' keep an eye for firie-wood." She thinks the...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are snarled "Communicated," the Editor must taut necessarily be held to he in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of...

We suggest that there can be no better Present in Peace or War than an Annual Subscription to the Spectator. He or she who given the Spectator as a present will give a weekly...

ANECDOTIC tradition has encouraged the belief that Archbiahop Thomson owed his early and rapid preferment to worldly rather than spiritual gifts and influences—to his...

The distinguished French historian, M. Emile Bourgeois, has written a very valuable and instructive history of modern France from the morrow of Waterloo to the eve of the war....

once an irritating and a suggestive hook. Its defects lie on the surface. The author's tone is often needlessly offensive ; his Greek, to borrow Poison's phrase, is "sadly to...

Future,' is particularly to be commended for one thing, and that is its strong advocacy of what might be called the cigar-box house plan with aplainlid-like roof. After a...

Tnouou the comparative serenity of Mr. Franek's vagabonding in South America would seem to belie the reputation of that country for loud excursions and alarums, we cannot agree...

Ma. PLOWMAN'S title is innocently misleading. He was no rival to Barnum or Buffalo Bill, nor did he pass from Fair to Fair for fifty years, accumulating scanty revenue • but a...

Weights and Measures, Stamp Duties and Coinage published by the British Bank of South Africa, which gives particulars of these subjects for most countries. A comparative table...

(Cassell. 7s. net.) — A romantic post - war story in which it appears that South-Eastern Europe is to remain a seething centre of political intrigue with eoimtless little...

just been issued for use in schools, under the care of Mr. A. Wilson-Green (Cambridge University Press, 4s. net). The young French students for whom such fascinating books as...

is. net.)—In the first part of this interesting book Mr.Freeman has collected personal narratives of the battle of the Falklands as viewed from H.M.S. Cornwall,' and of the...

Cutlack. (Sampson Low. 10s. 8d. net.)—The Australian Corps surpassed themselves last spring when they were hastily moved from Flanders to the Somme to check the enemy's...

CHRISTOPHER AND COLUMBUS.. THE author of Elizabeth and her German Garden is now to be added to the long list of war-novelists, though the principal characters in her new book...

6d. net.)—Mr. 0. A. Stephen, the City Librarian of Norwich, has compiled a very full bibliography. with notes, of the writings of the late Dean of Norwich. To this is prefixed...

[Notice in Mit column doer not necessarily pre•lale suldrytent review.] The Taxation of Capital. By Sir A. W. Seward and W. E. Willan. (Waterlow. 18s. 6d. net.)—The authors...

fie. net), gives an account of work among the soldiers in France by a lady whose mission appears to have been to go as near the front lines as possible and "mother" the troops....

6e. net), now in its eighty-seventh year, has been corrected up to the middle of February and notes the by-elections then pending. Its short biographies of Members, especially...

10s. net.)—Among these instructive papers on problems of the war, from the international lawyer's standpoint, we may note the statements of the Belgian and Dutch views...

12s. 6d. net..)--Dr. Westcott, an instructor at the United States Naval Academy, has made an interesting and representative selection of passages from the writings of Admiral...

of the American Rhodes Scholars (Concord: W. W, Thayer ; la.), is devoted to the British Universities' Mission a hich visited the American Universities last year. The main...

interest. Commander Roncagli, of the Italian Navy, describes, with maps, the " Physical and Strategic Geography of the Adriatic." Colonel Winterbotham explains in detail the...