the endeavOur to form a GoVernment able to command a working majority in the new Reichstag. Herr Mueller, the ex-Chancellor, was first entrusted with this task, but failed to...

month, Kieff has been recaptured by the Red Armies. The advance of an infantry division, which broke through the thin Polish line north of the town, coincided with the irruption...

between the Upper Tigris and the Upper Euphrates swooped down upon a small British post at Tell Afar, forty miles north-west of Mosul, on June 3rd and killed the three British...

T HE Republican Convention at Chicago on Saturday last adopted Senator Warren G. Harding, of Ohio, -as the Republican candidate for the Presidency of the United States, and...

proper or for Erivan, which is threatened by Turks, Tartars and Bol- sheviks, the Armenian remnant in Cilieia seems also to be doomed, despite the presence of French troops....

of occupation are being very hard pressed by a sudden rising of the Albanians against foreign domination. At the beginning of the week it was reported that all the inland posts...

Cabinet. He thus takes office as Italian Prime Minister for the fifth time at the age of 78. It seems to be generally felt in Italy that Signor Giolitti is the only possible...

the steps taken by the German Government since the San Remo Conference to carry out the disarmament clauses of the Peace Treaty. He said that a German official statement was...

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

Commons on Tuesday as to the proposed changes in the organization of the Foot Guards. There is now no intention of disbanding the Irish or Welsh Guards so long as they are able...

corn prices when the financial resolution for the Agriculture Bill was taken in the House of Commons on Tuesday. The British farmer is to be paid for his wheat next year at the...

it, has done great services to the nation. By maintaining an absolute independence of all parties and all politicians, by its conspicuously honest endeavours to sell us true and...

to do is to fix a maximum of taxation, such as we can afford to pay without weakening our industries. When Parliament has rationed the Government by determining the total that...

Wintringhana was returned for Louth on Wednesday, defeating the Coalition Unionist, Mr. Christopher Turner, by 2,505 votes. At the General Election the late Unionist Member had...

may take comfort from the silver market. Silver has fallen, at first steadily and then, in the last few days, very rapidly, so that it is now worth, at 44d. an ounce, just half...

week. On Monday the Government carried a unanimous amendment to clause 10 by which, while the Council pf Ireland is to control the railways, either the Northern or Southern...

Whilst the Irish railway delegatea were assembling at Bristol for their conference with the executive of the N.U.R. on the question of handling munitions in Ireland, news was...

the Association of Chambers of Commerce have entered, Mr. McKenna has come forward as a valuable ally. As an ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer who is now the chairman of one of the...

session in London on Wednesday, commended Persia for applying to the League in regard to the Bolshevik violation of Persian integrity at the Caspian port of Enzeli. Lord Curzon...

Palestine that they had nothing to fear, and things were begin- ning to settle down. Suddenly, however, the Moslem and Christian population see named as administrator and...

the form of a mandate to administer the most seething of all the seething pots of the world—namely, Palestine. It may be right—we are inclined to think it is—to see whether it...

these appalling evils, evils as degrading to the persecutors as to the persecuted, is publicity. This is just one of the cases where publicity, though it may sometimes seem to...

withdrawn. All we can say is that we most devoutly hope that obr fears will prove to be absolutely without Warrant. Anyhow, Mr. Lloyd George has taken upon himself a most...

sonal or racial. We believe him to be an honest man and an experienced if somewhat timid and weak-hearted administrator. He is rich, and, unless We are mistaken, is connected...

5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 85t; Thursday week. 84$; a year ago, 94,

summed up by two homely aphorisms. In the first place let the Jews remember the Biblical warning, " Ye lake too much upon yourselves, ye sone of Levi." Next let them beware of...

an appointment we cannot tell. Probably he never gave it more than five minutes' thought, but acted, as so often before, on the principle of finding a good job for A.B. rather...

of the Jews and secret societies which, though in our opinion written in too sensational a key and thus having a provocative effect, are from the historical point of view of no...

to buy by private arrangement houses and lands, or in the case of waste lands to get concessions to reclaim them, but never to do more than to endorse private bargains in the...

THE CHICAGO CONVENTION AND SENATOR HARDING. O UR English " high brows " are very apt to wag their heads over the follies and futilities of the American Party Conventions held...

the ghastly Irish imbroglio, and that is Sir Edward Carson. Whatever Irishmen, whether Sinn Feiners or Nationalists, may say to Englishmen, and whatever conventional Radicals...

changing his mind about Russia. Last week he was receiving the Bolshevik envoy Krassin as a representative of Lenin and the Russian Soviet. This week he has permitted his most...

D URING the last few years the energies of science were diverted into military channels. Our leading investigators of Nature turned away from their cloistered walks to dabble in...

ULLEN clouds hang low over flooded meadows and muddy 1...j roads. Everything is soaked. The foliage has a beaten look. Truly an unpropitious May morning ! On such a day the...

91HE catastrophes which have attended our conquest of the air and the rattle of war which still echoes in our ears have brought the word " crash " into great prominence and led...

[To Ills EDITOR OF TIER " SPECTITOR."1 SIB., —A very able—indeed a remarkable—speech was delivered by Mr. McKenna last Monday evening at a gathering of the National Union of...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than these which fill treble the space.] QUESTIONS FOR PATRIOTIC...

" SPECTATO/L"1 Sut,—It is interesting to note that Mr. Lucien Wolf in his " refutation " of the Jewish peril is also anxious to refute all evidence on the activities of the...

[To THE EDITOR or Taz " Seecriroa."1 Sim,—After reading the words of the Belfast Professor quoted in the Spectator of June 12th, I read again the chapter, " The Black...

(To THE EDITOR or TEM " SPECTATOR."' SIR,—Your correspondent Mr. Lucien Wolf refers in last week's issue to the work of the Chevalier Gougenot des Monsseaux, Le Juil. le...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " Seccoveron."1 Sra,—Mr. H. J. Massingham's letter in your last issue opens up so many lines of attack that I hesitate which to choose. But I trust you...

(To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."' Sra,—Mr. Churchill had the temerity to assert some time ago that Labour was not fit to govern. If he had said that Labour, or rather the...

[To THE .EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."' Sin,—I have now read Mr. Thayer's delightful life of Roosevelt, and the biographer on p. 228 certainly suggests that the Alge- ciras...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sia,—What was the object of the Woman's Congress held in Geneva last week? That is a question which a few even quite well-informed people...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—As an old Punjab civilian may I offer the following remarks on some aspects of the Hunter Report? • I was for eight years in charge of...

[To TIE EOM& OF TYl " Qrevr►roa."] Sia,—A.s a life-member of the English-Speaking Union, I was pleased to read the kindly letter of Professor Jared S. Moore, of Western Reserve...

[To roe Marro& OF FRB " 131.120TATOR."] Sin,—To one whose privilege it was to know Robert Morant intimately for more than a quarter of a century, and who felt for him that...

the letter under the above heading which appeared in the Spectator of June 5th from my friend, Dr. Jared S. Moore, of the Western Reserve University, Cleveland; together with...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In offering you our very cordial thanks for the notice, in your issue of June 6th, of Specification, 1900, we would beg permission to...

[Taeirs EDITOR OF THE " EPEOTLTOR."] Sin,—It is interesting to find that " A New Science," under which title you review Mr. E. A. Craddock's Class Boom Republic, is, at any rate...

CT° SKR EDITOR . OF TBr, " SFEDIATOR."] SIR,—Archdeaoon Beresford Potter writes in your issue of May 8th that " the Zionists in Jerusalem are objecting to the crosses on our...

To rim Elmo* or ins "Sreorerwit.") Sm.—Perhaps you will permit me this year, as in previous years, to give your readers a brief amount of the above Confer- ence of Anglican...

me "Sescrerois."] Sta,—A. letter in your correspondence columns (Spectator, June 12th, 1920) eneouragei "the hope of inducing game pre- servers to give the buzzard fair play."...

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

TERMS 01? SUBSCRIPTION. U Including postagedo m £2 to any part of the Y ear 1 2 ly. OVZ,RSOAS POST:AGA. Including postage to any of the British Dominions and Colonies and...

MR. MUNNINGS' PICTURES OF GIPSIES. Ix a treatise on the arts a long chapter might be written on the successful filling up of corners and odd spaces between important parts....

• LETTERS OF TRAVEL.* MR. KIPLING, when he is acting as special correspondent to the nation, to the Empire,-0r perhaps we should say to the English- speaking race, is always...

STORM—AT THE FARM WINDOW. THE unruly member (for relief Of aching head) clacks without care : Pastures lie sullen : hung with grief The steading : thunder binds the air....

THE concluding volumes of the life of Disraeli, which have appeared this week, are singularly opportune. The book was delayed for years, first by the difficulty of selecting a...

and reprint from the quarterlies a number of his recent articles on economic and political questions. False theories are being advocated with more zeal than ever, and it is...

WITH overweening pride in the achievements of the past century, and especially the latter half thereof, combined with a wide- spread ignorance of history, we have readily...

Miss Thorrmes useful and interesting study is founded mainly on the records of Yorkshire parishes, and particularly those of the North Riding, yet, as she claims, " in substance...

ME. LANSBUItY, the chief British apologist of the Bolsheviks, has written a little book about his recent visit to Lenin. It is entitled What .1 Saw in .Russia, but a more...

Prestige, one might guess, set out to be an exposition of the ways of popular journalism and then had a novel containing no fewer than seven love stories thrust on the top of...

POTTERISM.* MISS Ross MACAULAY'S new and coruscating entertainment brings home to us the need of revising our classification of novels in regard to the War. Pre-war novels we...

DAEDAL WINGS.* Tax poet who chooses to be known. as " Willoughby Weaving" has achieved a remarkable book in his Daedal Wings. It is striking for one thing, because although it...

(Notice in this column does not neceesarily preclude subsequent rp v i o o. The friatorical Sources of Defog's" Journal of the Plague Year." By Dr. Watson Nicholson. (Boston:...

(Hodder and. Stoughton. 7e. 6d. net.)-4 story of South-Eastern Europe concerned with the ownership of a castle in the mountains of the kingdom of "Grimland." A local legend...

York ; G. H. Doran ; and London : Hodder and Stoughton. 16s. net.)—Many Americans have written books about Lincoln's religious views, mainly because his former law-partner,...

(Cambridge University Press. 7s. 6d. net.)—Dr. Anderson, who is the Bengali Lecturer at Cambridge, has written a scholarly and practical little manual—the first of a series of "...

and Blackett. 16s. net.)—This is a translation of a French book which made a stir in France last year. M. Domelier, a Charleville journalist, remained at his post after the...

francs.)—This scholarly essay on Parisian French will interest all serious students of the French language. The author com- piled a grammar, a syntax and a dictionary of the...

(S.P.C.K. 4s. net.)—At the last Pan-Anglican Congress, in 1908, a fund of £363,000 was subscribed for Church work over- seas. This work shows in detail how the money has been...

6d.)—This attractive and readable account of the Dominion, the annual publication of which was suspended during the war, has reappeared. As the editor says, Canada has changed...

net.)—Mr. Ashton's interesting book, embodying portions of a former work, The Battle of Land and Sea, is a close study of the West coast from Barrow to Aberystwyth, with many...

India Committee, and the Croy,* Agents for the Colonies.) —Mrs. Burdon, the wife of the Administrator of St. Kitts, Nevis and Anguilla, has written a very complete and...

Doran ; Hodder and Stoughton. 42s. net..)—Mr. Chase, the American artist, was sent by the American War Department to France to paint portraits of the leading American generals...