give the Egyptian Nationalists a sharp reminder that there are limits to British patience. Last Saturday, Said Pasha Zaghlul, Limit Pasha Sidky, Mohamed Pasha Mahmoud, and Named...

a general strike and a new insurrection. The correspondents describe the street fighting as severe, and say that the Govern- ment troops under the direction of Herr Noske, the...

in Paris, stated in last Saturday's Times that the American delegation was favourable to the claim of France for a secure Eastern frontier. Mr. Simonds predicted that France...

IIIHE Peace Conference is reported, unofficially, to be nearing the completion of the Peace preliminaries. The corre- spondents in Paris indicate that, at the instance of Mr....

week ' made the grudging admission that the new Indian reform scheme would, after all, probably invoke communal repre- sentation. He described it as au " unfortunate expedient,"...

principle to a League of Nations, but that there are wide differ. slices of opinion regarding the details of the scheme drafted in Patio. Mr. Taft, himself a strong supporter of...

that hunger is the chief ally of the Spartacus fanatics is strengthened by the latest reports from Paris. But it does not accord with the refusal of the German delegates at Spa...

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

Military Service Bill on its second reading in the House of Commons on Thursday week. Captain Guest stated plainly the reasons which have impelled the Government to ask...

of Sir Richard Redmayne, the Chief Ir.spector of Mines ; on Tuesday. He declared that the immediate reduction of the miners nominal day from eight hours to six would mean a...

figures in support of their case, they objected most vehemently to the returns submitted by the collieries through the Mining Association. Presumably they did not want the...

the fullest support in his refusal to be hectored by the Police Union's officials, acting in the guise of a Repre- sentative Board. It may be hoped that the Home Secretary will...

Union- ists last week that the Government had asked the two bodies to take over the national shipyards. After all that we have heard of late about Labour's desire to control...

for war purposes has been illustrated in various ways. But no single fact given in evidence has impressed us more than the Admiralty's statement that it was forced by the Coal...

anew in the case of " Valentine v. Hyde and Howard" in the Chancery Court last week. The plaintiff, a man of sixty- one, had been employed for twenty-four years at the Bridge-...

ranging over a wide field. The miners representatives have set themselves to confuse the issue by irrelevant appeals to political passion and sentiment. Whenever an employer or...

competition, much to the annoyance of the miners' advocates, who like to pretend that Great Britain has no rivals in the world's markets. Mr. B. Talbot, for the iron and steel...

gave the Moderate or Municipal Reform Party a new lease of power. The redistribution of the London boroughs has increased the elected membershipof the Council from 118 to 124....

the Canadian troops quartered at 'Unmet Park, nem RhyL The men are awaiting ships to take them home, and an naturally impatient at the delays which have occurred for want of...

well-deserved tribute to the magnificent work of the Navy in this war. He explained that the Admiralty could not deter- mine its future policy until the Peace Conference had...

explained, on behalf of Sir Albert Stanley, who is ill, the Govern. ment's policy in regard to trade. Goods from any part of the Empire and all raw materials could be imported...

distinguished zoologist, has been appointed Director of the Natural History Museum. The scientific world had been much exercised by ■ report that a lay official was to receive...

House of Commons on Tuesday so as to apply to houses rented up to £70 in London and up to £52 in the country. The period during which the Bill will operate was extended to...

to attempt the Atlantic flight later in the year, made an excellent trial trip on Thursday week from the Barlow Aviation Wodu in Yorkshire. The opening of the shed doors—each...

m reply to a question, that he was communicating with the Prime Minister in regard to the construction of the Channel TunneL This reply convoyed nothing to the ordinary mind....

THE GREATEST OF IRISH " BULLS." T " passionate desire of the Irish Nationalists to exhibit before Europe the greatest of Irish " Bulls " has been very specially apparent during...

it4 B. SMILLIE said the other day at the Coal Com- 13J, mission that, out of the total wealth produced in Great Britain before the war, only a third went to the workers. He...

W E congratulate the Congregation at Oxford upon their wise decision not to make Greek a compulsory subject for Responsions, and we most devoutly trust that Convocation will not...

ENGLISH CILIRACTRRISTICS. T OLERATION, moderation, the spirit of compromise, an unwillingness to push things to extremes; an illogical ability to find something of a right line...

rilHE biographical convention which leads a writer to record only the virtues of his hero has become the constant subject of gibe and satire. All the same, it is a convention...

[COMMITNICATED.] EVENTS have followed one another so rapidly in Portugal _LLI that it may be well to recapitulate briefly the history of the last few weeks. The death of...

certain sum per week." So far as miners are concerned, I have nothing to my, except that the truth of that statement appears to be borne out by the fact that miners prefer to...

[To THE Emma or sue " Sescrisms."1 Snt,-1Vhen Mr. Hayes Fisher, now Lord Downham, was President of the Local Government Board, he was very anxious to encourage the provision of...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragropha are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] -- MINERS' HOUSES. [To sus...

SPROIATOR.") Sia,—At the beginning of this term at Oxford, when so many young fellows were being released from the war, and crowding back as fast as they could to their old,...

(To toe Karr. or Tin " firsorma."1 Sia,—Your excellent and timely article on Ruskin will greatly commend itself to all his admirers. There are two passages of your discussion...

ITO ERE EDITOR or exe "Specesson.") Sra,—It might have boon expected that one result of this awful war would have taught Englishmen how foolish it is to think that we can...

(To THE EDITOR OP THE SPLCTATOR."1 Sna, — I am glad that " A Professor " has brought to the noliss of the public through your columns the additional hardships which, owing to...

(To THE EDITOR or THE "SPEGTATOR."3 See,—As against " Ignotus's" " guess at truth " re the Irish and the Irish problem, will you set this ? I bad it several years ago from a...

ITo THE EDITOR or vas " Srzereroe."1 flue,—To most people the proposed double ecclesiastical fran- rhise—a baptismal qualification for the electors, and a com- municant...

THE " SPECIATOR.") Sre,—I thought that possibly a few words about the Reforms Report might be of interest I write as one who is specially interested in that body of English...

ITo THE EDITOR or me " Smenroa."1 Sin,—The description of Lady Ritehie's ghost story in the Spectator of March 8th is more easily explained than your correspondent-is aware...

ITo THE EDITOR or THE " SPECrATOZ."1 ffia,—" It is coining." So said that most Christian Bishop of Carlisle on February 13th at York Convocation when, at the instance of the...

ITO THE EDITOR or ran '‘ SPECTATOR 1 SIK,—I think the following memorandum found among old papere is likely to interest your readers. It appeared in a provincial journal in...

[To THE EDITOR or THE SPEIITATOR."1 Sta,—The following nlay prove of interest to some of your readers, to whom the name of Thackeray recalls much that is best and most...

[To THE EDITOR or THE SPECTATOR."I Stn,—The account of His Majesty's visit to Westminster on Shrove Tuesday recalls pleasant memories of Pancake Days when I was a boy. I...

ITo THE EDITOR or THE " firtuaroa."1 Sin,—The great. sale of Lord Mostyn's collection of early English plays which will be held at Messrs. Sotheby's new galleries on March...

(To ens Enna or vas "Sesarerea."1 Sub—In view of the hardship euppoeed to he inflicted on children by the Daylight Saving Act, which has the effect of com- mitting them to...

(To rex Entreat or in "Sescuros."1 Su,—At the request of Mrs. Choate. I am engaged upon the biography of Joeeph Hodges Choate. I ehall be obliged, and eo will Mr. Choate's...

THE PRINCIPLES OF WAR.* Ma. EKLLOO has done well to translate one of Marshal Foeh's two famous books, and will, we trust, find time to translate the other, on The Conduct of...

(To TIM EDITOR OT THR BPI:CW[01s") ie, I think, commonly held that in times of war more male children are born than female. In this small parish of two hundred and thirty...

"NOW TO BE STILL AND REST. . . Now to be still and rest, while the heart remembers All that it learned and loved in the days long past, To stoop and warm our hands at the...

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

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 pleasure, as well as a weekly reminder...

volumes Dr. Norman Moore, the most dis- tinguished living representative of the long line of scholarly physician attached to St. Bartholomew's, has nobly repaid his aperrhpts to...

to the inner circle of the Sinn Fein movement for sixteen years, has written a clever and whimsical little book to explain Sinn Fein—" Our- selves Alone "—to the outer...

who prefixes to a theological treatise the statement that " he would gladly take for his model the tone and temper of a former lecturer on the Articles "—the learned and...

THE TUNNEL.• IN a study of the art of the late Lady Ritchie in the Times Literary Supplement the writer commented in particular on the "spaciousness and composure" of her...

"THERE, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford." The famous phrase—assigned not to the sharp-tongued Marian martyr but to Richard Baxter, who may, for all we know, have...

brief chronicle of the life and work, the achievements and the ambitions and hopes, of twenty...five young men who died cheerfully for their • Crime and Criminate. By Charles...

American story of crime and its detection. The author does not quite succeed in making her readers realize the personality of Betty Shaw, the heroine, as completely as she does...

net.) —This very shrewd little essay on the limitations of history—a science perhaps, but only an inverse science, like geology, because "its followers are continually...

a new sixpenny weekly which is to be " a platform for any responsible industrial opinion," and which starts with instructive articles by Mr. Whitley on "Industrial Councils,"...

'Notice to !hie totem date sot Reemerge predate zaielscat wc,tic.1 Lea Garanties de la Paix. DeuxiSme Partie, "Examen Critique." Par Yves Guyot. (Paris: Alcoa. 3 fr. 50...

6d. net.)—Mr. Galsworthfs semi-official quarterly devoted to the disabled sailor and soldier opens with a caricature of Mr. Sargent by Mr. Max Beerbohm, and contains some...

6d. net.)—The President of Harvard in this book has abridged his well-known works on British and European Governments, and has revised the text so as to incorporate the new...

(Cambridge Bowes and Bowes. ls. 6d. net.)— Dr. Stokes's interesting lecture on the book trade at Cambridge was suggested by the late Mr. Robert Bowes's gift to the town of a...

by S. Zimand. (Macmillan. 7a. 6d. net.)—The American editor of this little book has put together the speechee made by the late Dr. Liebknecht from the ()Meet of the war to...

Crafts Exhibition Society. (John Hogg. 2s. 6d. net.) —This collection of short and suggestive essays by Miss May Morris, Professor Lethaby, Mr. H. Wilson, Mr. Okey, and other...

net.)—Many town-dwellers will think Mr. Webeter's book as superfluous as a treatise on diamonds, for firewood was never so scarce as it is now. It is, however, an interesting...

S. B Miles. (Harrison and Sons. 31s. 6d. net.)—The. late Colonel Miles was stationed successively at Aden as Resident, at Muscat as Consul, and at Baghdad as Consul-General...

Murray. 7s. 6d. net.)—Sir George Aston's collected papers on the war are noteworthy for the emphasis laid on the waist prin- ciples of strategy, and for the attention paid to...

Burney of India for 1916-17 (Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing, 3s.) says that the famous Ajanta frescoes are decaying, and that an Italian expert has been asked...