Constantinople, but we should like to say something here about the population of that great city. For the opinion is widely held, even among those who would be glad to see the...

Independent Socialists and Communists organized a demonstra- tion in front of the Reichstag to protest against the Industrial Councils Bill, which they regard as too mild. Some...

and resulted, like the Chamber elections, in the return of a large majority of Moderate candidates. The French people, in fact, recorded a fresh vote of confidence in M....

T HE German Peace Treaty was ratified in . Paris last Saturday, after the German delegates had signed the Protocol requiring Germany to make reparation for the scuttling of the...

festival last week advised the party not to compromise with the Republicans over the Peace Treaty, but to make the Covenant the leading issue of the coming Presidential...

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

their advance towards the Black Sea. General Denikin's forces, abandoning much of the costly war material which we sent them, appear to be concentrating on Odessa in the west...

attempt at Paris this week to arrange a compromise over the Adriatic frontier between Italy and the Southern Slays. It is said that, while agreeing among themselves, they failed...

Socialist members returned at the last State elections. On Monday it refused, by a majority of two to one, to reconsider its decision. The action of the Assembly cannot possibly...

issued, gratis, an Eight-Page Supplement, containing the Half- Yearly Index and Title-Page—i.e., from July 5th to D..cenzkr 27th, 1919, inclusive.

Nationalist who informed an English visitor, during the days of the Land League, that there was no such thing as crime in Ireland. The visitor had no sooner left the house of...

accepted the latest Government proposals. To all outward appearances, therefore, the railway crisis is at an end, and everybody will be heartily thankful. The railway delegates...

of the delegates the issue was in doubt, and the final decision to accept the Government offer was rather a surprise. Outside observers do not find it easy to understand why the...

of Home Rule the Southern Unionists would be in a most anxious position. They deserve all the sympathy we can possibly give them. Their welfare and safety should be a charge...

Irish lawyer, was made at Tralee on Friday week. Serjeant Sullivan, who is an ardent Nationalist, has provoked the anger of all the criminals and the " bad men " of the secret...

eta "You are the man I want I" fired a pistol at Serjeant Sullivan. Three bullets narrowly missed Serjeant Sullivan. Serjeant Sullivan dropped on his knees to help Mrs....

which is one of the best statements we have ever seen of the reasons why the creation of a Parliament in Ulster, in addition to the proposed Parliament in Dublin, would...

Irish Legislature including Ulster would be overwhelmingly hostile to England, and that the presence of the Ulster repre- sentatives could not really allay this hostility....

the North of Ireland, friendly towards England and the loyalists of the South, would prove to the world that there existed in Ireland two opinions, and by influencing the...

Government offer—the•offer which was the result of months of negotiations, and which had been commended to the railway- men by Mr. J. H. Thomas as an honourable settlement that...

the Labour Party was unfitted to take office, and would fail through incompetence if it essayed the task. Mr. Henderson attacked the Coalition as lacking in principle and as...

of public money on various forms of social service, including poor relief, education, public health, old age and war pensions, and insurance. This remarkable fact is stated for...

once more to accept the terms which their leaders had made for them with the Engineering Employers' Federation, with the help of the Executive of the Trade Union Congress. The...

have been more careful to keep the world in darkness about what was being planned for the disposal of the fate of millions. The policy of secrecy is particularly selfish and...

publi- cation in the Weekly Dispatch of last Sunday of an article by the Lord Chancellor disparaging the political Coalition to which he belongs. Lord Birkenhead says that the...

the Government offer was then accepted by the Conference. That item referred to the standardization of railway work by the elimination of a large number of grades. Every other...

it is obviously a mistake to attempt to give a performance of a metaphysical play in so vast a theatre, Mr. Martin Harvey's production is by no means without Interest. Mr....

services increased fourfold between 1891 and 1918, if we deduct the cost of war pensions. In England the cost in 1891 was £20,696,000, and it rose to £37,845,000 in 1901, to...

Thomas and his companions visited Sir Eric Geddes at the Ministry of Transport. The public, when we go to press, are still unin- formed as to the nature of this answer. All we...

the past week, seems to be mainly due to an insufficiency of railway trucks. It Is uncertain whether the railways need more trucks or whether the existing trucks are not used to...

1919.

THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION. S OME months ago in writing on Political Vampirism and Mr. Lloyd George we declared that the time must soon arrive when the Unionist Party, and also the...

I N strong and significant contrast to Lord Salisbury's letter is the article a h:ch the Lord Chancellor published in the Weekly Dispatch of last Sunday. Lord Birkenhead...

has no more difficult question to settle than the future of Con- stantinople. The influences which are pulling in contrary directions are all strong and are all familiar. The...

of Versailles on Saturday last has brought us at last to peace with Germany. The ceremony, which, unlike the Armistice or the signing of the Treaty last June, gave rise to no...

T O say of a man that he is " a judge of men " is equivalent to saying that he is fitted to be a ruler of men—and it is a compliment which no man on earth would scorn. To be...

The publisher has grown aware of the desire of the classical student, now rude dwuttus, to renew his acquaintance with the haunts of his youth, and we have him making concession...

[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.] --- NATIONALIZATION OP...

" SPECTATOR."] S1R,—There is one statement in the Sankey Report which has apparently not received the attention it merits, and it is of the more importance as it very clearly...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Snt,—Though totally disagreeing with your views on the Turkish problem (but to which you are naturally, in common with all men, freely...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."3 SIR,—An undesirable result of the Spen Valley election would be any general impression that the Unionist wing of the Coalition Party was...

LTO IHE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTLTOR."I Snt,—In your issue of the 10th inst. both you and Mi. Humphreys appear to assume as a matter of course that the return of a minority...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Advocates of Proportional Representation will welcome the support of the Spectator. Proportional Representation was never more...

[TO THE EDITOR Of THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, —We, the undersigned, on behalf of the Russian Red Cross Organization in Great Britain, beg to ask you to give publicity to the...

SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I have read your articles on the new Home Rule measure of the present Government with much pleasure. You may remember that frequently in your influential...

THE " SPECTATOR.") BIR,—It is well that our Press should at last break silence and do homage to the late Emperor Nicholas. We now see how persistent and formidable were the...

THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—The Church Times of January 9th reproduces an article' on " The Election of a Bishop " from the Lincoln Diocesan Magazine which is of more than local...

[To ENE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] feel that some apology is due to yourself and the public for the use of your columns in order to communicate with "Members of a London...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —In your sympathetic notice of The Nursery School in the Spectator of January Srd your reviewer saTs that the book "gives practical...

tTo THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") SLE, — The discussion which commenced under the above heading seems to be drifting into a dissertation on likenesses of Pope. To return to...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] Silt,—Mr. Stephen Simeon who in his letter to the Spectator of January Srd refers to Grimm (the Brothers Grimm, of folk-lore fame) as " the...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") is worthy of notice that a considerable part of the excerpt from Macaulay reprinted in the article on " Trade in the New Year " in your...

JANUARY. THE NEW YEAR. THE QUICKENING OF ALL THINGS. Sae huth stirr'd in her sleep, the Earth, Ev'ry Rider hath tightened his girth, Steeds whose hoofs are a winged might...

ITO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Snt,—I had hoped that you would make some comment on a letter from Lord Fisher in the Times of Thursday, January 8th. The language of that...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Forgive the great liberty I am taking in writing to you, but after reading so many articles about the Guards and their depot I feel I...

tTo THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR, —Will you kindly allow me to acknowledge with grateful thanks a generous donation of ten guineas which has been sent to me anonymously...

MR. KIPLING'S VERSE.* WE have often asked in these columns for an edition of Mr. Kipling's verse which should be inclusive, which should not only give every piece of poetry...

A DRYDEN REVIVAL. rrox what sort of a play will the curtain rise when the Phoenix Society produces Dryden's Marriage a la Mode on Sunday and Monday next ? When it was first...

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...

Ma. Jonat MURRAY has done well to enlarge the memoir of his father which he contributed to a recent number of the Quarterly Review. His little book, admirably written, is a...

MR. NAPIER has dividel his work on Thomson of Dudding- stone,' the Scots landscape painter, into two parts, the first and longer of which is a dissertation on art in general and...

LORD HALDANE'S defence of the policy adopted by the Liberal Government towards Germany between 1906 and 1914 deserves attentive reading. His little volume, mainly composed from...

OF the life of Thomas Traheme practically all that is known is that he was the son of a Hereford shoemaker, that ho was educated at Brasonose College, that he became private...

book has a double attraction. In the first place it gives us a most interesting insight into the routine work of a Y.M.C.A. but at an advanced post on the Western Front. Most...

an invidious task to he asked to comment on the first volume of a three - volume novel, for this the opening book of the biography of Harry Coggin avowedly is. It can only be...

a Bishop to address a Charge to his diocese on the occasion of his triennial Visitation provides an able man with a unique opportunity of saying what ought to be said on...

SIMON.* MR. STORER Caousror affords the rare and agreeable spectacle of a writer beginning with high-spirited extravaganzas—border- ing on the farcical—who has developed into...

net.)—Miss Robins contrives to make the rather threadbare scheme of the governess-spy quite interesting. The account of the visit of the American girl Nan Ellis to the spy in...

in his A Book of R. L. S. (Methuen, 7s. 6d.). His criticisms and biographical and bibliographical information are arranged alphabetically, and this arrangement, which is so...

1Notiee in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] Judicial Settlement of Controversies between States of the Ameri- can Union. Cases Decided, and...

little handbook, covering insurance t he all kinds, is designed to inform those who are not lawyers of the legal prin- ciples underlying insurance transactions. It is well...

S. King. 10s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Rawlley's learned and dispassionate study of the silk trade deserves attention both from an economic and a political standpoint. He sketches the...

Diehl, one of the brilliant band of French Byzantine scholars, has condescended to write a short history of the Byzantine Empire. It is a very able and stimulating little book....

a useful series of " Preliminaiy Economic Studies of the War," edited by Professor Kinley, of Illinois (52. net each). We may mention among them Professor Fairlie's compact and...

0. Lock. (R. Scott. 7s. 6d. net.)—Major Lock has produced a readable sketch of a large subject, with a brief Introduction by Lord Allenby, the latest of the conquerors whose...

Black- well. is. 6d. not.)—This well-written pamphlet is an attempt " to give a non-mathematical description of some of the loading ideas of the theory of relativity and to...

(Collins, 2s. net), is a tragedy of the agrarian troubles of 1830, and, though a good deal of the dialogue is a little conventional, the play would probably prove to be not...

Riley. (Clarendon Press. 12s. 6d. net.)—This instructive book is a product of the Oxford School of Forestry, and is published with the assistance of the Development Commission....

Zoological Society of Ireland. Is. net.)—Mr. Bretherton is one of Mr. Punch's nest of singing birds, and his work is characterized by the ease, the polished neatness, and the...

6d. net.)—This readable book by an ex-gunner describes the Palestine campaign from the first advance beyond the Canal to the final battle and pursuit of the routed Turks, The...

Allan. 10s. 6d. net.)—It was a pleasant idea to begin a new " Scholar's Library " with this scholarly edition, by Mr. K. N. Colvile, of select passages from a famous...

" a good political map of Africa, printed in colours, on a scale of 254 miles to an inch (4s.). The political destiny of the ex-German colonies is indicated tentatively, though...