the Greek and Turkish delegates to the question whether they would accept the Treaty of Shvres subject to possible changes in Smyrna and Thrace, as the result of a commission of...

evening in a Madrid street while on his way home from the Senate. Three assassins, in a side-car, overtook his motor-ear and shot him dead ; they then made good their escape....

was prepared to accept the Paris terms or their equivalent, the Allies would, by virtue of the Treaty, occupy the towns of Duisburg, Rnhrort, and Dusseldorf, on the right bank...

made no effort to impose adequate taxation, either during or since the war. Her direct taxes were not fully collected. Her indirect taxes were ridiculously' low, as compared...

he proposed a temporary arrangement for five years. Germany would pay the annuities fixed at Paris and the equivalent of the 12 per cent. duty on German exports, subject,...

M R. LLOYD GEORGE replied for the Allies, on Thursday, March 3rd, to Dr. Simons's counter-proposals for a trivial war indemnity. The counter-proposals, he said, mocked the Peace...

terrorists broke out in Kronstadt and Petrograd on February 23rd. The Bolsheviks, after denying that troubles had arisen, admitted last week that the Baltic fleet had mutinied...

or letters submitted to him, but when stamped and addressed envelops* are sent he will do his beat to return contributions in case of rejection. Poems should be addressed to the...

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on Saturday night. A policeman found three men trying to break into a bonded warehouse, and arrested one of them. He proved to be an Irishman who had lived in New- castle for a...

£460,900,585, as compared with £809,181,953 for the financial year now ending. We are invited by the Govern- ment's advocates to admire the zeal for economy displayed in these...

mentary question, that they had studied Lord Milner's Report, and had informed the Sultan of Egypt " that the status of protectorate is not a satisfactory relation in which...

under the Unemployment Insurance Act, are not entitled to benefits, but during the war thousands of women, who had been domestic servants, or who in ordinary circumstances would...

Law declared that the Government were economizing in every possible way. A Finance Committee of the Cabinet had been set up. The arrangements under which all items .of...

payment of out-of-work benefits to women described as domestic servants on the lists of the Employment Exchanges. Among all the abuses of unemployment doles these payments to...

the Lords' amendments to the new Unemployment Insurance Bill, and as the Lords did not insist upon their amendments, the Bill was passed and received the Royal assent. Dr. Mao....

military authorities last week to order that the streets should be cleared at nine o'clock every night. On Saturday last Colonel Commandant H. R. Cumming, Military Governor of...

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, won three by-elections at Dudley, Kirkcaldy, and Penistone. At. Dudley on Thursday, March 3rd, Sir Arthur Griffith-Boecawen, standing for re-election on...

Messrs. Home Bros., which appeared in the Daily Express of February 28th, makes some interesting and useful suggestions as to trading by barter and so getting rid of the...

on Monday that they are not a law unto themselves. Mr. James Walton, the Member for the Don Valley, was a working miner and a member of the Yorkshire Miners' Association for...

parts. The first dealt with export trade risks on approved security. For these risks the Government would " guarantee," but would not " advance," 85 per cent. of the value of...

with characteristic ability and clearness, explained his new scheme for export credits. We have not space to deal with the general debate, which showed, however, that the...

of Mr. Duncan Campbell's Clearing Houses had existed, and if to work it there was a Company of Merchant Venturers of the kind we propose I In that case, Mr. Duncan Campbell's...

coal-owners, that it stood for a national wage, and that the coal industry must be regarded as a single concern, the profits from the richer pith going to make up the losses on...

control after March 31st was read a second time, by 277 votes to 72, in the House of Commons on Tuesday. The miners' representatives, who had opposed the scheme of control,...

Friday, March 4th, that Sir Eric Geddes would resign office in August next, when the Government control of the railways came to an end. The Cabinet, he said, had prevailed upon...

us a most luciferous story in support of his proposal:— " A friend of mine travelling in Finland within the last few weeks was. offered an order for, mpproximately, . half-...

Apr. 15, 1920; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 85f; Thursday week, 85i; a year ago, 88g.

REVOLUTION AND TAXATION. H. S LNCE the House of Commons still has the power of shutting or opening the national purse, the friends of sane taxation must induce a majority of...

concluding portion of his communication, makes several specific suggestions for action by those who desire to set up a barrier to exces- sive and therefore ruinous taxation. He...

I T is sad that the Germans seem to be incapable of understanding other people. During the war we had very good reason to be grateful for this peculiarity, as the success of the...

.1 - T is not very edifying to read in several English Liberal 11 newspapers chilly criticisms of President Harding's Inaugural, interpreting it as-a .kind of Tory or...

II IHE working day is becoming shorter and shorter, but that does not mean that fewer and fewer people are by nature industrious. There are a great many people in the world—a...

I F you are walking in a district inhabited, however sparsely, by the stonechat, you cannot fail to see him, and if you see him, to recognize him. For he is a gaily painted...

SOME ADVERSE INFLUENCES. [To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTILTOR."] SIR,—The official estimates of National Expenditure for the new year, so far as they have at present been...

[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 HUGH CECIL ON CHRISTIAN...

(To THE EDITOR or THZ " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Can any of your readers explain how it comes about that whilst the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church were offici- ally denied...

(To THE Emma or THE " Srecreroa."l SIR,—Mr. Lloyd George has promised that Germany shall be made to pay according to her capacity. But when will it be explained to the public...

a way of escape from the dilemma with which Mr. Barnes-Austin confronts us. Most High Church- men would, I think, accept his challenge and answer his first question in the...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May an unknown but constant reader of your paper point out that the article " Egypt for the Egyptians," which appeared in your issue...

THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In your issue of March 5th you call attention to the attitude of Switzerland towards League of Nation troops going on a peaceful, policing errand to...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sia,—I quite appreciate the point Mr. F. H. Young draws attention to in his letter that labour is working shorter hours than pre-war...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The rock on which the League of Nations will split is that of national strategic necessity. As long as we claim the right to control...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPEcTAToa.") Sts,—All lovers of little rivers will be grieved to hear that the "silvery Wandle".that Pope sang and Ruskin wrote of in love and...

Sm.—You quote the book message , sent from the other side by Lady Glenconner's eon, Edward Tennant. It was to be found on p. 14, three-quarters down the page of the eighth...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR, —I read with much interest your very kind remarks about our efforts on this side of the Channel, and beg to state that the result of...

review of Lady Glenconner's book The Earthen Vessel, which appeared in last week's issue, the writer puts the very pertinent question: " Is it possible to arrange a test which...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra,—Your correspondent "C. L. D." says " it would be inte- resting to know how the journal which Mr. Rushbrooke holds up as a model...

"neutral" for ever? Clearly the solution must be one of three—Plot, Clairvoyance, Spirits. Your reviewer seems to have overlooked the appendix in Lady Glenconner's honk,...

aptcrATore."] Sza,—Letters and articles in your columns have given your readers within the last two or three years some particulars of the activities of Sinn Fein in...

(To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, —Will you kindly give me space in your paper to tell the result of a letter written by me- which you were good enough to insert in...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —There is so much misunderstanding on this subject that some definite information and a reference to the Act may prove useful. This...

G. Ruehbrooke I fancied might be a parson as he dates from St. Olave's, Tower Bridge. As his name is not in the Clergy List I am mistaken. May I challenge him on advertisements,...

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DARK NIGHT. IT was in such a night, Far, far from all These western vast-scooped hillsides where Silver waters fall, In such a night when birds Into deep-leaved nests Have...

THE ORESTEIA AT CAMBRIDGE.* Tax test of great art is its independence of fashion and circumstance, and nothing shows more clearly the greatness of Aeschylus than the simple...

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

A DAY-BOOK OF DISRAELI.* CALENDARS from the works of great men are apt to be dreary, probably because the selectors are too conscientious and try to get something appropriate...

NEW OXFORD. —The League of Notions .. 8.18-2.30 [A revue. Beautiful colour, great cheerfulness. and total absence of literary merit.] DUKE OF YORK'S.—Mie Nell o' New...

and arranged the letters with exceptional skill ; he has kept his book within manageable dimensions because he has a true gift of selection. There is not a page that does not...

Ws must congratulate Mr. Orpen on the completion of a second instalment of his history of Ireland from the Anglo-Norman conquest—the only scientific and impartial work on...

THE new "mountaineer's Bible" which has been so long expected by a large circle of British and foreign climbers has at last appeared. Mr. Young is nominally the editor, but an...

THE Bishop of Chelmsford, who was formerly a well-known East End clergyman, has brought to his present office the energy which characterized his ministry at Bethnal Green. But...

PRIVILEGE: A NOVEL OF THE TRANSITION.t IT must be acknowledged that the critical reader will have an uncomfortable feeling that Mr. Michael Sadleir's novel Privilege contains...

real pleasure the appearance of the third volume of Sir Guy Laking's admirable and exhaustive account of Euro- pean Armour during seven centuries. Of this volume we may say, as...

by making portraits in " hair-work " of such subjects as " A Favourite Spani e l named Flirt, belonging to her late Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte." He took to making...

POEMS : 1914-1919.* Or the collected poems in this volume, most have seen light before in book form. Free measures suit Mr. Maurice Baring best. It is in sonnets that the...

net.)—The story of a younger daughter who in classical fashion is made the Cinderella of the family. She takes a situation as nursery governess in Rome, becomes a Roman...

Blackwell. 2s. 6d.)—If these were first poems they would be more remarkable, but they are unfor- tunately not. They are written in two distinct styles—one original, one...

Urartee in this column does not neeeemsrUy preclude subsequent review] The London Mercury for March is most entertaining. Dr. Ethel Smyth contributes a lively article on her...

25s. net.)—When Count Czernin on April 2nd, 1918, said in a speech at Vienna that M. Clemenceau had invited him to begin peace negotiations, M. Clemenceau retorted publicly, "...

lecture on his adventurous march to the Caspian in 1918. Another interesting lecture is Mr. Frank Debenham's on " The Future of _Polar Exploration," emphasizing the need for the...

Palgrave. Vols. III. and IV. (Cambridge University Press. 30s. net each.)—These are two further volumes of the collected historical works of Sir Francis Palgrave. His son, the...

A. Westoott. (Hodder and Stoughton for the G. H. Doran Co. 20s. net.)— This interesting and well-written sketch of naval history from the earliest times down to the end of the...

Nationalist _Movement, which was reviewed at length in the Spectator of May 8th last, has reached a third edition (Murray, 12s. net). To this the author has added a supple-...

: Epsom. By Lieut. -Col. J. R. Lord, C.B.E., M.B. (Heinemann. 12s. 6d. net. ) An interesting account of the conversion of the big Horton Asylum into a military hospital. Colonel...

edited by Mr. Crawford Price (Rolls House Publishing Company, Is. 6d. net), which has taken the place of the Balkan Review and promises to serve a useful purpose in supplying...

admirable Rhodes lecture on The Constitution of the United States at University College in January last. It has now been printed (University of London Press ; Hodder and...

and Hugh A. Fawcett. (Lane. 21s. net.)—This well-written and interesting book is a description of Macedonia as the authors saw it during the war, without any reference to...

Mrs. Austen Leigh has written a charming little book which, though it does not add very much to our knowledge of this great writer, will yet probably serve to correct erroneous...

the British Empire, edited by A. Winton Thorpe (Burke Publishing Co., 52s. 6d. net), is a remarkable new work, containing a full list of the 25,419 members of the order,...