of last century congratulating Lord Cromer on the miracle, as it seemed, of being able to obtain both Efficiency and Economy. "There is no miracle," replied Lord Cromer. "The...

rapidly advanced and occupied Kieff on Friday week. They are now endeavouring to free the Ukraine. The Ukrainians have already secured Odessa. The success of this campaign...

of Labour would be prosecuted for violating the law of 1884, which protects Trade Unions in "the study and defence of their economic, commercial, and agricultural interests." As...

I F the world were ruled by reason and not by alternating paroxysms of panic and optimisticfatuity, there would seem nothing fantastic in regarding the unveiling, in Henry VIL's...

in Paris on Tuesday. Turkey is to retain in Europe the Constan- tinople district up to the Chatalja lines. A League of Nations Commission will control the Straits, which are to...

on Tuesday and has resigned. The nominal cause of his fall was a minor dispute in regard to the Post Office. The Socialists and the Clericals combined against him and refused a...

Carranza, the President, had to flee from his capital last Sunday, after having his political prisoners butchered. He owed his maintenance of power from 1915 onwards to the...

or letters eubmitted to him, but when stamped and addressed envelopes are sent he will do hie beet to return contributions in case of rejection.

in the Liberal Pasty, but we may venture upon a few remarks merely as out- siders. We can imagine the scorn and acidulated irony with which such scenes would have been commented...

it was only to be expected that they would explain themselves to the world - as soon as possible. Sir William Harcourt once remarked : "Suppressed speech is - a very painful...

highly interesting development of Imperial practice. Mr. Boner Law explained on Monday that the Minister would be appointed by the King, on the advice of the Canadian...

who is going to Canada to attend the American Trade Union Con- gress, is to be invited to lay the question of Jim . Larkin's imprison- ment in America before the Congress. Jim...

Federation was held at Leamington on Friday week, when there were extraordinary scenes which are bound to have a marked effect on the future of the liberal Party. Several...

the resolution, was praotically shouted down. He, however, managed to complete several sentences. His colleagues who followed received worse and worse treatment. Dr. Macnamara,...

that Liberal Coalitionists had still much support in the country. Almost while the unseemly scenes at Leamington were going on Sir llamas Greenwood was being successfully...

Southern Ireland. On Monday three policemen were shot dead and another dangerously hurt on the road near Timo- league, in County Cork, while a sergeant was murdered near Cookie...

will, Mr. Lloyd George could undoubtedly eollect a good deal of money from rich Coalitionist-Liberals and start a machine of his own. And another thing he will certainly try to...

Coalition Liberal, was re-elected for Sunderland by a majority of 8,434 over his Labour opponent, Dr. Rutherford. An Inde- pendent Liberal, Mr. Howe, who also stood, failed to...

well illustritted in Mr. Chamberlain's comparative statement, made last week, of the direct taxes per head here and in other countries. Our burden per head has risen from 11...

newspapers give figures to show that prices, are faille It seems certain at least that there is a fall in some retail markets which .are free of control. We are glad to see that...

Keyeer's Hotel, which was delivered on Monday, ranks with the great historical decisions that, before the war, had secured the rights and liberties of the subject. In this case...

of Durham, which occurred last Saturday. At Cambridge Moule was dis- tinguished both in Classics and Theology. In 1882 & great opportunity came to him for impressing on his...

in the House of Commons on Monday. Mr. Asquith moved to -omit the word " Southern "in the first clause, raising the question whether Ireland should have two Legislatures or one,...

House of ;Commons on Tuesday, Mr. Chamberlain defended himself against the charge of hiving failed to reduce expenditure. He had a he said, effected &reduction of £822,000,000...

that the price of household coal would be raised by 14s. 2d. a ton, and that coal for household and industrial purposes would be sold at a uniform price. Coal for home...

on Thursday week that America, Australia, and Argentina would have less wheat to export this year, and that the price was likely to rise and to affect other commodities. Sugar...

5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 85-1; Thursday week. 84; a year ago, 9.31,-

THE JEWISH PERIL.* W E sincerely trust that The Jewish Peril : Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion (London : Eyre and Spottiswoode ; 1920), of which a somewhat alarmist...

T HE debates in the House of Commons on the Home Rule Bill prove that Mr. Asquith and all the other Liberal and Labour opponents of the Bill assume something to exist which does...

I N the preceding article we have confined ourselves to the principles upon which alone Home Rule can reason- ably be granted to Ireland. But the terrifying prevalence of crime...

Bishop of London to consider the future of the City benefices have naturally excited much indignation by their proposal to demolish nineteen out of the forty-seven churches,...

N OT long ago the beautiful buzzard might, so far as Rngland is concerned, have been described as a mere tradition bird whose name one occasionally came across among old-...

the English people would appear to be the most leisured people in Europe. It is a law of Nature that all races of men should devote the larger portion of their time to making...

SIR,—On Wednesday week an important deputation of representatives of the British Chambers of Commerce and the Federation of British Industries waited on the Chancellor of the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sia,—A letter which appeared in your issue of December 6th, signed by Miss L. Gardiner, Secretary of the Royal Society for the Protection of...

Sem-mm."] SIR,—I deeply regret that Archdeacon Potter,on the authorityof certain unnamed persons, should declare that "the Zionists in Jetusalena are objecting to the crosses...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The successful attack by rebels on the police barrack at Cloyne during the early hours of last Sunday morning fills me with such...

Si,—it was with a feeling of sick disappointment which words cannot express that I learned that once more the Plumage Bill was shelved. Only them can realize the tragedy of it...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 have just seen some paragraphs in your issue of May 1st saying that you "have read in the Daily News articles by Mr. Erskine Childers in...

SPECTATOR.") Si,—Whell in Suffolk the other day I was called on by an ex- naval officer who begged me to buy an ingenious device—care- fully described on a leaflet which he...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTITOR."] &R, — Being a regular reader for many years of your esteemed paper, I-would be obliged by your insertion of the following statement about...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECUTOR.") Sin,—In your last issue, under " News of the Week," you refer to the case of the man who was convicted of bigamy before Mr. Justice Maule...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I 'scarcely know whether it is worth while answering Mrs. Mackellar, who makes a very vehement and childish attack upon me in your...

build houses of sun-dried bricks in Nigeria, I was very interested in Mr. Somers Clarke's account under the above heading of his experiences in Egypt. la my case, ene house had...

[To THE EDITOR OF ' THE " SPECTATOR.") Sia,--As no competent Hebrew scholar has yet answered Mr. Somers Clarke's question in his letter of March litk as to the correctness of...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") gilts—AA Chairmen of the London and Oxford Committees of the Child Emigration Society, we crave the hospitality of your columns In order to...

[To THE EDITOR OP TILE " SPECTATOS.") Sie,—Your reviewer in the article based on my book, The New Children, in your lest issue, asks me several questions. Having been swept up...

[TO TM EDITOR OP "PRE "SPECTATOR.") &n,—Yon gave us "Sortes Virgilianae" on the War. May we have some on the. Peace? The Georgics were written primarily to promote the policy...

[To TRIP EDITOR Or 1712 "SPIOCTATOR."1 SIR,—In the review of From Authorit y to Beason which appears in last week's issue of the Spectator reference is made to "Mr. Nagle, late...

• [To aare Rome or me "Sezersroa."i Sin, — The review of the book, Secrets of Animal Life (Spectator, April 10th), expresses so much sympathy with the otter that am tempted to...

LA 'LANGUE DES PETITS OISEATTX. (" Le francais c'est /a hingue de petits oiseaux.") PAR un jour d'orage, aux nuages 'nonevents, Par la bruine et la him sous un ciel ingrat....

"THE SKIN GAME," BY JOHN GALSWORTHY, ST. MARTIN'S THEATRE. Rusum called the human race a heap of agonising maggots, and it is upon this tart that Mr. Galsworthy has preached in...

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

THE JEWISH PERIL.* WE have dealt in our leading columns with what we consider should be the attitude of sane and cautious men towards this amazing pamphlet. Here we must write...

Madras, already known to students by his edition of the astonishing diary of Dupleix' native steward, Range Pillai, has written a masterly,book on the struggle between France...

Tfra inveterate tendency of mankind to affix one label at a time to a public character, and to deny that he is entitled to two labels, or perhaps three, has borne hardly on...

NATIONALIZATION: THE CASE OF MINING ROYALTIES. tTo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR"] SIR,—Before mining royalties, or the minerals carrying royal- ties, are nationalized, the...

Sra,—Permit me to thank you for your article on the Unionist Party. There is surely a danger of opportunism, even a con- scientious opportunism, landing us in a false position...

[Letters of the length o one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] THE FUTURE OF THE UNIONIST...

THE " Townshend luck" Is proverbial, but not omnipotent. It was outweighed in the brilliant campaign of 1915 by the incompetence of the Indian military administration, and it...

IT is sad that Mr. Rees should have died at a comparatively early age. He was an acute observer of Nature and a master of style. Like many first-rate naturalists, he began by...

indeed in breaking, the back of the builders' camel " Labour " has been freely and severely censured. When one hears of specific instances where the observance of Trade Union...

FAREWELL TO GARRYMORE.* THE rural Ireland so lovingly described in Mr. Ra,thkyle's volume is the Ireland of fifty years and more ago ; before Disestablishment and Land...

LEDA.* THERE seemed at one time a danger that Mr. Aldous Huxley would turn into a second Mr. Ezra Pound. Now it is perfectly arguable that one Mr. Ezra Pound has a place in...

(Mills and Boon. '78. net.)—Attractive pieces of nonsense and fantasy.—Admirai Teach. By C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne. (Methuen. 7s.)—Compounded according to the original Captain Kettle...

unt.1 Griffyth Fairfax. (Murray. Ss. 6d. net.)--War poetry. Con- servative in spirit, admirable in quality.—'neeen Clyde and Tweed. By Gilbert Rae. (E. Macdonald. os. net....

lay not in the Reports but in the evidence, which few people have had an opportunity of reading. We may call attention to the Evidence of Mr. Frederick Mills, Ebbw Vale, of...

7s. 6d. net.)—The stoutest reader quails before the serried volumes of Saint-Simon, though he knows them to contain many fascinating things. We are grateful to Mr. Tilley for...

(Oxford University Press. 2s. 6d. net.)—This "critical review" of the historioal relations between Great Britain and America is the substance of a lecture given last year to...

Scott Holland, D.D. (Murray. 12s. net.)—Whatever may be thought of Dr. Scott Holland as a Regius Professor of Divinity, his influence over men of very various types was wide....

not like dialect. Why do most of us feel as if we were committing a kind of intellectual snobbery when we shy at such lines 416 " Solomon Eagle" quotes in his Books in General,...

[MOW in Ws column does .sot vasossarily prided* sobseparst review] The Battle of the Marne. By G. H. Perris. (Methuen. 10s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Perris, who was attached to the French...

University Press. 8s. net.)—This is another most attractive book, containing selections from good French prose and poetry of all periods and reproductions of French pictures....

aet.)—Mr. Ingham rightly believes that "uninformed demo- cracies are the greatest danger confronting modern States." But his proposed remedy in the shape of a Government Pub-...