M CLEMENCEAU arrived in London on Thursday. • Of course he will discuss with the Prime Minister the extraordinarily difficult situation which has been created by the refusal of...

THE HOUSING IMBROGLIO. T would be difficult to imagine anything more unsatisfactory than the Government's new Housing Scheme —propounded in the House of Commons on Monday—for...

of Dublin has contributed a hundred guineas to the Sinn Fein funds, and his letter to Cardinal O'Connell, of New York, in which this contribution is announced was published in...

use which is being made of coal and the improper use which is made of bituminous coal in open grates all over the country. Our domestic chimneys send up into the open air every...

W E publish in another column an appeal by Mr. Witt, the Tice-Chairman of the National ArtCollections Fund, asking for the support of the readers . . of the Spectator for his...

Englishman's vocabulary has become a commonplace. The fact is constantly lamented in jest and earnest, in conversation and in the Press. The fashiom is recognized and followed...

I T is extremely difficult to make a general statement of the present position of Policewomen. Not only is much of their work necessarily confidential, but their appointment...

[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.] THE NATIONAL ART-COLLECTIONS...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."" SIR,—I think the following letter which appeared in the Belfast Northern Whig of November 29th should be noted by those of your readers who...

Mrs. George E. Sevey, an American woman, well known as a traveller, writer, and lecturer, who has been in Europe for the past four months studying reconstruction in the...

THE " SPECTATOR."] SIX,—The absurd charge that " England cannot understand Ireland" is.so persistently repeated that I fear she is pathetically beginning to admit it. There is...

[To THE EDITOR OF THB " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Regarding your admirable article (November 29th) on the Irish in America, as one who lived for many years in an old and distinguished...

SIR,—As a long-time student of American-English problems and relations, I was naturally much interested by your comments in your November let issue on the Treaty status in the...

[To * THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—The visit of the Prince of Wales to the United States has enriched the intercourse of English-speaking nations. The peculiar...

[To TEL EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—Your correspondent "A Convert " reminds me of a passage in one of Scott's novels in which he says, speaking of the inhabitants of a...

(To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sra,—The eyes of many hard-pressed unbeneficed clergy are turned towards the Bill now before Parliament. Speaking generally, no section of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sur,—Will you allow me to point out that there is no controversy whatever upon the cardinal facts of the "differential duty "...

Sra,—Was not controversy over this question disposed of by the research of Bishop Lightfoot, the greatest Biblical schohir that Britain has produced for many a year, who wrote...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I have read letters in your issues of November 22nd and 29th which impugn the accuracy of Mr. Stephen Graham ' s account of his...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sta, — The .Secretary of State for India in replying to a deputation of ax-officers of the Indian Army stated it was impossible to extend...

[To IRE EDITOR OF THE " SPE/TUTOR." I Sna—Once again I venture to draw the attention of your readers to the above Fund for providing musical instruction and instruments to the...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPEcraoa.•] Sra,—Will you once again afford us the hospitality of your columns to plead the cause of the Fellowship of St. Michael and All Angels and to...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") Sni,—We have read with interest the article that appeared in the Spectator a few weeks ago on " R,ed Cross Women." While we agree with all...

[TO THE EDITOR OP TEE " SPECTATOR."] 8114—By your agency the campaign for ending the infamy of the plumage trade has taken large strides during the last few weeks, and I hope...

am very thankful that something definite is being done now in the noble effort to save at least some of our rare and beautiful feathered friends, and I enclose a small donation,...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Tie lines you quote from Pope's " Dialogue on Medals," and your own remarks on the medallist's art, recall the superb poem of Gautier,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Stn, Will you permit me to add a word or two of comment to " S. ' s " delightful article ? He has cited " boulingrin, " a very ancient...

lTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, — I have been immensely interested in the correspondence re the association of colours with letters and numerals. But mine differ from...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—I should be glad if you or any of your readers could identify the following phenomena. At about 10 p.m. on the 6th inst. I was motoring...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] wonder would it be possible for you to find out for me the authorship of the following quotation, which for some time I have been trying in...

SYMBOLS. Wm the glad sun sinks down behind the mountain, And sadness comes upon the evening breeze— Then sit I down by Memory's dim-lit fountain And in her waters find my...

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...

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

MAYNOOTH AND THE UNION.* IT is a piquant surprise to find a Professor in the Faculty of Theology at Maynooth analysing and rejecting most of the familiar arguments used by the...

THE Duke of Bedford and Mr. Spencer Pickering have earned the gratitude of all fruit-growers in this country for this admirable book, and for the extensive and intricate...

A RECENT libel action arising out of a case of corporal punishment in an obscure town in Nigeria reminded us that the English Courts may take cognizance of the affairs of our...

THE authenticity of these entertaining reminiscences is vouched for by the publishers in a brief " Foreword," but it is abundantly vindicated by internal evidence. Moreover, as...

have between them produced a remarkable book. The reader who wants to know something of the services rendered by our merchant ships during the war, and who wants besides to get...

TEE three authors of this eminently practical guide to success in athletics,= a volume illuminated by some 200 equally practical illustrations, are an athlete who has won many...

to land in France, and physically at that time perhaps the finest body of twenty thousand men that has ever coalesced into the instrument of a commander's will—the very cream of...

MANY THERE BE. • DICKENS died nearly fifty years ago, but the vitality of the Dickens tradition is not yet exhausted. Mr. Sherrard's novel— obviously a first novel—is a spirited...

STORIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. As all girls nowadays read their brothers' books, and some boys at any rate, read their sisters' books when they cannot find something more amusing,...

CHARLES El' NGSLEY'S delightful fantasy The Water Babies— one of the very best books ever written for children—has been reprinted in a handsome quarto (Hodder and Stoughton,...

Within the Magic Gatemayst is the story of a quiet, imaginative little orphan girl, who after her mother's death was taken from a country cottage to live in Fleet Street with...

(Yolks in this nolunin does not neceesartly preclude subsequent review.) We have received the second number of the Owl, which is published in London by Martin Seeker. It is in...