will create a Ministry of Health and a Ministry of Ways and Commund cations. Other measures will deal with housing, the fulfilment of the pledges given to the Trade Unions at...

Trade Unions. Trusted and experienced leaders were attacked and undermined, so that it was difficult to make agreements with their Unions. Some of the intriguers aimed at...

AddreaS as Leader of the Opposition. The industrial situation, he said, was almost as menacing a danger as the war itself. He admitted that much of the trouble was due to " a...

at the absence of Mr. Asquith, and at the genuine misunder- standing" which had severed his association with his old chief. He deprecated very strongly any debates on the Peace...

T HE King opened Parliament on Tuesday with a Speech of exceptional importance. He spoke first of the victory achiered by the British and Allied Fleets and Armies, and reminded...

unrest. Its legitimate causes were, he thought, ovenvork and strain during the long war, the fear of unemployment, discontent with bad housing conditions, and the restrictions...

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

TO OUR READERS.—It is still necessary for readers to place a definite order for the " Spectator" with their Newsagent or at one of the Railway Bookstalls. Should any reader...

the proposal for a Conference of Russian delegates at Prinkipo ae the only alternative to war against the Bolsheviks, which America and France declined, or the desertion of...

in Paris during the past week bee been to settle the conditions on which the armistice with Germany, expiring on Monday next, may be renewed. The French Minister of Finance on...

Constitution, met at Weimar on Thursday week. Herr Ebert, the Chancellor, said that the old Hinge and Princes bad gone for ever. Germany had lost the war through the fault of...

of intrigue as it is given, rightly or wrongly, in the Atlantic Monthly. What we do want to insist upon is that the publication of Cabinet secrete is absolutely fatal to the...

came into being as the result of political wirepulling and personal intrigue." Again, the Adantie Monthly speaks of Mr. Lloyd George as the "recreant leader of democracy." The...

Paris, contributed a very frank article on President Wilson to Tuesday's Times. He said that the President came to Europe to plead the cause of a League of Nations without...

the Atlantic Monthly with regard to the negotiatione between Mr. Asquith and Mr. Lloyd George just before Mr. Lloyd George became Prime Minister. It may be remembered that last...

but striking insertion of Mr. Lloyd George's memorandum on Rumania. That memorandum, the effect of which was to show Mr. Lloyd George as the far-seeing strategist, dealt with a...

the same effect as Lord Curzon. If there was not peace in Russia, he said, there could not be peace in the world, but he could not suggest any moans of pacifying Russia. Tho...

George has described as a very brave and very wise speech to a meeting of railwaymen, the majority of whom look to him as their leader. Some of them, he said, called the House...

inquiry, while offering an immediate increase of a shilling a day to meet the higher cost of living. A Committee, including miners' nominees, would consider the position of the...

very grammatical title—publishes an article by Lord North- cliffe himself on Mr. Lloyd George. Lord Northcliffe writes absurdly enough of Mr. Balfour, Mr. Long, Mr. Austen...

others, and in order not to lose confidence must be sure of support even though it be the support of ' kept' news- papers and polities.] opponents." We may find an opportunity...

Jellicoe's book, which was published on Wednesday, but some of the statements in the book are startling enough to be put on record without delay. Lord Jellicoe says that at the...

a aerie-comic rivalry between the two railwaymen's Unions. The smaller Union of drivers and firemen, which had followed the small minority of its members on the Tube railways...

secret session, rejected the Government's reply to its demands. The miners' demands were put very high. They asked for an advance of 30 per cent. on their present earnings,...

rare conditions under which publication is desirable. A man who has not this instinct is not really a statesman, and never can be. Our readers may remember that we strongly...

1917.

GRAVITY NOT TRAGEDY. ' Dana la poliaque it foul fee preadre riga an tragique, et tool au N EVER has it been more important than it is now to remember that in politics...

THE Prime Minister's review of the situation on the opening day of Parliament was a thoroughly " will-of-the-majority " speech. If Mr. Lloyd George holds to the principles...

T HE centenary of John Ruskin's birth, which fell on Saturday last, has afforded no small pleasure to his old admirers by reminding them that he is still a living influence....

T HE news this week has given us two ghastly glimpses into revolution. Any one who is apt to let the word "revolution" slip too lightly off his tongue, and to forget what...

QEVERAL times lately it has been remarked in the Press kj that the majority of men in high Governmental positions in the British Empire are not, correctly speaking, Englishmen....

V 0 en old resident, whose memory can &nee back over the beat part of half-r.-century, the choice of Weimer as the scat of Republican Germany's first National Awl-eddy his come...

LABOUR DEMANDS IN THE COAL TRADE. [To sus Roma or viz "Sescrsvos."1 Sts., — Men engaged in almost every employment are putting forward demands for an increase in their rate...

my protest to that of other bereaved mothers against the proposed form of the memorials to the fallen ? Their comrades instinctively laid them to rest under a cross, the symbol...

article in your paper of February lot. and the letters, I am writing to ask you if you know that last October, before anything was known of Sir F. Kenyon's Report, the...

Sta.—It is right and natural that people should wish for a cross to mark the resting - place of their beloved dead, and, as 005 of your correspondents points out, this form of...

[Lettere of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effectire, than those which fill treble the apace.] THE WAR GRAVES. ITo vas...

appeals of Lady Florence Cecil and Lady Kennedy and your sympathetic article in the Spectator of February 1st will surely call forth a response from many wh.: are personally...

Sui„—Tlie proposals of the War Graves Commission furnish a striking and unpleasant proof of the significant and dangerous growth of the bureaucratic spirit since the...

(To THE EDITOR. or THE " SPECTATOR."1 Fin,—By attention has been called to your article in the Spectator of January 25th. May I correct some statements therein? I have lived...

[TO THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTAT08."1 SIR,—In writing upon this matter have not you and your corre- spondent " Utinam," whose able exposition of the subject it has been a...

fTo THE EDITOR or TEE " SPECTATOR.") Stn,—In LitteWs Living Age, an American publication, I find 1111 article copied from the Spectator, in which you greet Mr. Wilson, aml...

OP THE " SPECTATOR:I Stn,—As a Volunteer officer I spent three months during last summer with a "Special Service Company " of Volunteers engaged on East Coast defence. My...

(To vim EDITOR or THE "EirterscoR.1 Sim—In view of the fears expressed by some people as lo the attitude of President Wilson at the Peace Conference in regard to certain...

(To TOO EDITOn or THE SrITTATON.”) Sue.—The letter of " Connuansler R.N." in your 1:I•1 raises some interesting problems. His loyally to mi Adolicd of singular attraction...

or Tan " SFECTETOR.") Sta,—The "general principles and special points" of this projected League remind one of the Constitution of Diadem- niania (King Poppp, by the Earl of...

[To tax Enema or rim "Sererorces.") Sin,—Though auther late in the day, I would like to refer to the article in your issue of September 7th last regarding Indians in East...

7111 `• Eltscraroz."] Sia,—Has it occurred to the Government that in conferring e peerage on Sir P. Sinks, and in making him Under-Secretary of State for India, they have...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SesCEsxOs.") Sts, — I have, after four years of compulsory silence, received a letter from a Belgian friend, and venture to send you a few extracts, in...

[To ter EDITOR or THE " Eirocranut."1 Son,—There are two weak points in the question of proht- sharing—first, the question of the feeling of the employees when a year shows...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,--The possibility of discharged Service men being able to make their living on ten acres or less of land is at this moment receiving a...

ITo on Eons. or THE Snarrron.") firn, — Your interesting article on '"floe Effect of Light" in the Spectator of February Sth prompts me to suggest that the cause of the...

ITo THE Entree or sea SPECTATOR...I Suo,—My f riend Mr. Siraey, if he will kindly re-read any letler of February lot, will see that it only refers to "innkeeper..." I quite...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR ") Sm,—The author of The Cloekmaker makes use of this word in The Alf ache, or Sam Slick in England:— "Mr. Slick proceeded to the...

THE SPZETATOR..] FIR,—The paragraphs below speak for themselves. The first two are from the current Fish Trades Gazelle; the last from the North-Eastern Sea Fisheries...

[To TIM EDITOR or THE SPECTATOR.") November the Verse School telebrated its Tercen- tenary. Since 1902 the present Head-Master, Dr. Rouse, and his c olleagues have been engaged...

[To THE EDITOR or THE SPECTATOR..3 Sis,—In Mc. Sponge's Sporting Tour (1952) Surtees in- troduced his readers to "Mr. Thomas Sloeltdolager, a hard- riding, hard-bitten,...

by the poet Con-per in the its, 1781 seem such a striking prophecy of tire et-Kaiser's present circumstances thnt I cannot resist asking your permis- t Ma to lay them before...

FORTY DAYS IN 1514.* TAM is the best book that we have yet seen concerning the war. It treats, to be sure, only of the first six weeks of its duration, but these were the...

THE ROMAN ROAD. I LOVE the grass-grown Roman Road Crossing the bosom of the downs, To conjure up the life that flowed From all the busy bygone towns. Beneath the sward, the...

[To THE EDITOR or TER “SPECTATOR."1 SIR, — In your issue of January 4th Mr. Grieve rebukes me rather severely for using a title for some verses of mine which Mrs. Reasons...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be heldta be in agreement with the views therein expressed ortuith the mode of...

D UMB new books by Mr. G. D. H. Cole, who is at once a Fellow of Magdalen, Secretary of the Fabian Research Department, and the chief inventor of the latest Utopia, known as...

Savor by those who make a special study of French literature, Lamartine is now little read in England. Lamartine himself set lees store by his fame as a poet than his...

Cernaar. PALMED. has added to his fascinating books on the war a volume describing the growth and exploits of the American Army in France down to the opening of the Argonne...

Mn. HAVELL 11 , 3 a conviction that English historians have misinterpreted the whole spirit of Indian history. He does not quarrel w:th their findings of fact ; he would have...

THE writer of these reminiscences had perhaps the greatest good fortune that can fall to any man or woman—a full and varied life, enjoyed to the finger-tips, in a corner of...

THE ROLL-CALLt Mn. ARNOLD BENNETT'S now novel is a story of irregular " mite. stones " beginning in the early years of the present century and ending in the early months of the...

Mike in this column dace not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. Fourth Series. Vol. I.—Professor Oman's presidential...

States and Prussia. Edited by J. B. Scott. (Oxford University Press. 8s. Od. net.)—This volume, published for the Carnegie Endowment, contains the text of the old...

G. Adami. VoL I. (Colour, Ltd., and Rolls House Publishing Co. 5s. net.)—Colonel Adamre interesting book on the Canadian Army Medical Corps begins before the war, for the...

By the Bishop of Oxford. (Hodder and Stoughton. la. net.)— Dr. Gore sees in the League of Nations not only a means of averting future ware, but also en opportunity of giving...

Ayscough's " charm of writing will make this book acceptable as a whole to readers who do not hold his religious point of view. It is however autobio- graphical, and will...

Stoughton. 2e. fid. net.)—Mr. Beck, whose vigorous book, The Evidence in the Case, did much to persuade his fellow- Americana that they must take part in the war, urges in...

Be. not.)—The Principal of Aberdeen Uni• ✓ arsity went to America last spring, travelled twenty.two thousand miles, and addressed one hundred and twenty-seven meetings on...

on The Need for Saving in Peace Time, by Mr. Hartley Withers (2d.), who has taken most of it from his book, Poverty and Waste. He demolishes once again the popular fallacy that...

IMS been delayed in order that the menhir of the General Election might be included, though the new Ministry is not given. The familiar and indispensable book, which is now in...