T "papers of last Saturday published a full report of the proceedings when the Prime Minister received a deputation from the Trade Union Parliamentary Committee and the...

THE IRISH IMBROGLIO. A SCHOOLBOY in a General Knowledge paper once asserted that the policy of laissez - faire consisted in a Government bringing things to a crisis and then...

T ET .us assume for the purposes of argument that j there is a real demand for Dominion Home Rule, that the British people have been converted to this solution., and that...

to the Trade Unionists of this country by describing the recent attempt to bring about a general strike as a " fight for Trade Unionism," but, as - certain extremists concerned...

V ERY seldom can the work of a quasi-private Society have attracted at its opening so much attention as was deservedly bestowed upon the meeting of the League of Nations Union...

E VENTS in Russia are moving rapidly, but exactly how and where they are moving nobody seems to be able to say. The first thing to notice is that there is a remarkable change in...

" W HAT ! it be within benefit of clergy to delay the /King's message on the high road ? To intercept the great respirations, ebb and flow, systole and diastole, of the national...

W E are by no means worshippers of the past, and think that in most things the present is infinitely better. In one respect, however, we are obliged to admit that there has been...

E VENTS that do not happen may sometimes tell a story of their own, and the remarkable indifference of the great trades of London to the railway strike and its developments may...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often nwre read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] NATIONALIZATION AND THE...

[To THE EDITOR-OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,--Y011 ask for instances of buildings in Pise de Terre in England. Presumably you are also interested in such buildings in Scotland. In...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] EIR,—I should like to thank you for your very clear and courageous analysis in last week's Spectator of the causes and results of the...

is over, but your readers may perhaps still find interest in the following strike episode. Coming from church on Sunday morning, my daughter and I took a short-cut home by the...

EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Set,—I have no desire to rake up anything connected with the recent strike, which is happily now being forgotten, but I think you will agree that...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") am glad to see the letter from Messrs. Travers Buxton and J. H. Harris which appears in your issue of September 13th, and trust it will...

statements contained in a letter signed " Alice Werner " in your issue of August 2nd to go unchallenged. In referring to contemplated legislation in the South African Parliament...

ITo THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") hope that your readers will note well the concluding sentence of the interesting letter of " E. H. W." published in your last issue, in...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Sra,—In your issue for August 30th was a letter from Mr. Gerald Ritchie containing a flattering reference to the conduct of my grandfather,...

[To THE Eerroa OF THZ " SPECTATOR.") Stn,—With regard to the article and correspondence which have lately appeared in your columns in reference to the "Pension Scandal," the...

[To THE Berms or THE " Srecraroa."] SIR. —As one of what may be called the " unoovenanted Red Cross nurses," I should like to endorse most heartily the suggestion in your...

[To TEE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sta,—May we ask space to say that this Fund, which has been imperfectly advertised, will be closed on November let? The sum of £1,600 has...

[To THE EDITOR or TEE SPECTATOR.") Sin,—In thinking of an inscription fit for the war memorial one instinctively turns to the model of the Greek epigram. I have aimed, I hope...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Snt,—The extremely low level of artistic and literary ability which obtains in India is, I think, the reason for the employ. meat here...

They won the victor's crown in many lands. Afar they rest. At Home their token stands. In many lands the victor warriors rest. Here - he their saving valour over blest. The...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I have just seen the correspondence on this subject. There is in existence at least one authenticated picture by Pope—the portrait of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Humpliry Ward in Sir George Tressady quotes Lord Fisher's " Nevers " as follows: " Never regret, never retract, never apologize." The man...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR ."l SIR,—Perhaps this eat and dog story may interest your readers. My old Cocker spaniel is now—for his protection—taken out walking on a lead....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —The porcelain storks in the dairymen's windows—referred to by your correspondent—are associated with the popular -German legend (as...

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 pleasure, as well as a weekly...

MEMORIES. THE long expanse of shining sand And the green links and ruined lane Of childhood's unforgotten land In happy dreams I see again; Again I hear the sounding main,...

DIVERSIONS OF A MAN OF LETTERS.* FEW men of Mr. Gosse's literary distinction lay themselves open so carelessly to the assaults of pedantic criticism. He chats about his subject...

GENERAL LUDENDORFF, who was in fact the German " War Lord " from August, 1916, to the autumn of 1918, has written a very able and interesting book on the war. It is not a good...

are beginning to realize that the great housing programme which was offered them at the last election has , not advanced far towards fulfilment. In fact, it has only had small...

Ma. NORWOOD Youxo has been well inspired in writing a new Life of Frederick II., King of Prussia, whom men still habitually call " the Great." The researches of German,...

APART from the personality of. Lafeadio Hearn, these lectures on Victorian poets have a peculiar interest from the circumstances of their delivery. They were never written down...

THIS book, which has recently been brought out under the authority of the " Publishers to the Church of England," is a plea for " the absolute obligation incumbent upon all...

of the circulating-library novel as : " Why they did not marry until the end of the third volume " ; the problem of Hamlet may be stated with similar brevity as : " Why did he...

UP, THE REBELS ! • THE publishers' view of " George Birmingham," expressed on the " jacket " of his novel, is that " as he always approaches Irish problems in the right spirit...

[Notice in this Mums does not neccniWilai preCiniie subsequent PeniAllM History (Macmillan, Is. 6d. net), the quarterly organ of the Historical Association, publishes in its...

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