in Brazil, and we were losing ground in the Argen- tine; we had reached a grave erinio in our trade, including the coal trade. The 'Macro desired to meet the increased cost of...

it obviously needs careful discussion. There are objections to giving a railway expert like Sir Eric Geddes the sole control of all means of transport. He will have a natural...

S IR ERIC GEDDES, who'is said by his friends to have an unlimited capacity for work, should find enough to do as Minister of Ways and Conmmnications, if the Bill intro- duced...

made a reasoned and judicial statement of the case for the immediate appointment of a Statutory Cemmission to inquire into the position and conditions of the coal industry. This...

was the Ministry of Health Bill, which was read Another largo measure that came before the House on Weduawlay was the Ministry of Health Bill, which was read a second time. All...

required reorganization. There was a very bitter fooling about the housing question. That did not surprise him, for the conditions in some quarters were degrading. He asked for...

submitted to hint, but when stamped and addressed envelopes ore Sent he will do 1,18 best to return contributions in case of rejection.

TO OUR READERS.—it is still necessary for readers to place it definite order for the "Spectator" with their Newsagent or of one of the Railway Bookstalls. Should arty reader...

wit, which better than any phrase we have seen sums up French feeling about the League of Nations. "The League," he said, " is impossible and indispensable."

on Tuesday, Mr. Brace moved that the Commission should report on miners wages and hours not later than March 12th. Mr. J. H. Thomas said that the minors, railway. men, and...

Government under M. Padereweki, which bad been accepted by the newly elected Polish Diet. On Monday M. Paderewski offered his resignation, but was asked by the President,...

public meeting on the subject of the Peace Conference. He said that national claims bad been, advocated with moderation, and that America was regarded as the impartial friend of...

George's speech in the House of Commons on Monday. Mr. Adamson, Mr. Hartshorn, and other miners representatives expressed the view that the men's demands for higher wages and...

Bavaria on November 7th last—two days before the outbreak in Berlin—and who had since acted as Prime Minister, was murdered in the streets of Munich on Friday week by Count...

murderous attack made on him lest week, though the bullet which entered his lungs cannot be extracted. His doctors have ceased to issue bulletins, and will permit him to resume...

leader, on Thursday week in regard to the threatened coal strike. Mr. Lloyd George then spoke to the same effect as in the speech we have just summarized. Mr. Snuffle admitted...

no better reason than that the Allies cannot agree how to divide the property. In the House of Lords on Wednesday Lord Lytton certainly opposed the desire of France to have...

be taken out into the Atlantic and sunk in deep water seems too foolish to be true. Of course there would be a certain impressiveness in such a ceremony ; the 'Kaiser's pirate...

Vivian Phillipps about the Lloyd Goorge-Asquith correspondence. Mr. Phillipps stated that he had just received a telegram from Mr. Asquith concerning the statement by the editor...

in India In regard to the opposition which is being directed against the Bills for dealing with Anarchists. These. Bills are based on the unanimous recommendations of the...

mind to resign "ever since it became clear that Lord Northcliffe N as constantly dissatisfied with the policy of the. Times, on the ground that it differed from. his own...

verdict in the libel action which was brought against him by Mr. Tilak. For four years an immense burden has been borne by him in the preparation of his defence. A weak man,...

rifle strength of the Allied and enemy forces on the Western Front last year. On April 1st the Allies had 1,246,000 men in the fighting line and the enemy had 1,569,000. On Juno...

the Very Rev. H. O. Beaching, Dean of Norwich. He was only fifty-nine, and had held the Deanery for eight years. He first showed his knowledge of English letters and his charm...

at Laghman, south of Kabul, on Thursday week. He was born in 1872, and succeeded his father, Abdur Ralunan, in 1001. lie visited India in 1907, and was so much impressed by the...

widely known. In a• letter which wo published last week Captain Frederick Guest, the Coalition Liberal Whip, said of the staM- merit by the editor of the Atlantic Monthly:— "...

resigned the editorship of the Times and had been succeeded by Mr. Henry Wickham Steed. Mr. Steed is a well.known writer on foreign affairs, and particularly on the history and...

THE MINERS CONFERENCE. W E wonder whether the miners realize how immensely they will gain in public sympathy if they allow the nation to hear and understand their position...

T HE discussions of the Representative Church Council which have taken place this week at Westminster should be most carefully considered by all British men and women who...

rilHE question whether Germany should pay an indem- 1. nity over and above the cost of reparation has been troubling men of conscience as much as it has troubled the financial...

SECRECY. J UST now " the world thinks," and, in a sense, " I think so too," that-Secrecy is the worst of ills. We ought to abolish it and hve in glass-houses with all the doors...

O F all the problems of Reconstruction which should he engaging the attention of the nation at the present time, that which concerns its health is by far the most important. It...

" TP I with my present experience could begin life over I again ! " How often have we heard this exclamation in the mouths of men and women who have passed their youth and not...

to tire pleasure of the old Spectator by my own fireside. Most of your readers must have read their old friend by the light of the penny dip until "Lights Out," and now back...

ITo THE EDITOR. or TEE SPECUTOR."1 Sta,—It is just as well that the public should know what the recent demand of the miners 'for a 30 per cent. increase of wages together with...

[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.] SOLDIERS ON LABOUR UNREST....

Its Tat Emma or ens " SPECTATOR...] S1E,—With reference to your interesting review of Lord Je11iooe's book, The Grand Fleet, 1914-16, I think you COD,Oy a wrong impression of...

(To THE Enna. Or THE SPECTATOR.") Soo,—Mr. Arthur Pollen in his reply to "Commander, R.N.," defends his criticism of Lord Jellieoe under the Idea that every one who criticizes...

Soe,—In common doubtless with many readers of the Spec- tator, I have for years been a profound admirer of the mental agility displayed, on numerous occasions, by Mr. Asquith....

and are accustomed to being rugged up. when not at work; therefore they will suffer horribly if turned out, especially during the cold weather. (2) Army draught-horses are not...

" Maevitte ". in his eery interesting letter (and Ism especially grateful ter the justice he does to the East African native) maintains, quoting Lord Cranworth, that " the...

Sta,—The letter by "Mnevius " in the Spectator of February 15th seems to call far some additional remark. The remark quoted from the Alm Khan and the extract from Lord Cran-...

ITo THE EDITOR or rut " SPECTATOR.") But—In answer to the letters in your issue of February 15th upon memorials to our stead, may I say that Lady Kennedy has drawn np a Petition...

final recommendation to the Com- mission is as follows i- " Each headstone will accordingly bear with some varieties of arrangement, the badge of the regiment or other unit,...

[To ran EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."' Sue,—I would like to ask your correspondent Mr. John H. Harris if he can substantiate his statement—mode by him as en "historic fact "—that...

THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") Set, —There are many difficulties in profit-sharing, especially where profits fluctuate widely. Once a workman gets a share he expects it...

(To THE Emcee or me "Strzersres."1 Sia,—The able if somewhat apologetic article under this heading in your issue of February 15th, like the curate's egg, is good in parts, but...

ITS TIM Emma or THE " SPECTATOR "I Sur,—At this moment when the question of the after training of educated women about to be demobilized from the various Government offices and...

[To THE EDITOR OF ERR SPECTATOR."1 Sie,—As a constant reader of the Spectator, and one who thinks that the principle for whirls Great Britain fought co hard in the war has not...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SEELTATOR."1 Sts,—Men and women who here been trained and disciplined by war are coming home, not only to their industrial, com- mercial, and professional...

WINTER MORNING. Tun stars faded out of the paling sky, Dropped through the waters; etill the Morning Star Grew hrigher and brighter, and as day was sigh A pure wind troubled...

THE OUTBREAK OF THE WAR.* PROFESSOR OMMT has written a very lucid and interesting account of the outbreak of the war, from the British standpoint. It is the first book in which...

the mountains of morn distilled on the shores of the sunset; Gleams of the glory of Greece, gilding our ultimate clime; Slow, sweet pipings of Pan, quick blasts of Athenian...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are ;narked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be hekl to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of...

THE advertisement columns of the Press are giving prominence to an appeal on behalf of what is known as the Central Church Fund. It appears in large type, under the arresting...

and studies is here presented in a spirited English version by Mr. Edwin Evans, is much more than a French musical critic of distinction. Ito is an ardent believer in the French...

Ws are slowly getting to know something about the life mud customs of the Japanese, but little comparatively is yet known of the natural characteristics of the country. The...

others' eyes is always interesting, but not always so pleasant an experience as Mr. William Edgar gives us in his recent letters on England. These letters were written to his...

[Naive in this coition does not necessarily peelude trabssyreal noise.] The Anglo-French Review. No. 1. Edited by H. D. Davray and J. L. May. (J. M. Dent and Sons. Is. 6.1....

THE SECRET CITY.• So much space is devoted in Mr. Hugh Walpole's new novel to the mystery, the aloofness, the impenetrability of Petrograd, where the scene is laid from start to...

and Unwin. 6s.)—A fanciful story relating to an innocent secret society of which the members are children and their friends and well-wishers. The hero is a very attractive small...

Polish scholars have cooperated toproduee this compact and informing handbook about Poland as it was on the eve of the war. It deals not merely with the hiatory of Poland,...

Paine. (Eff i ngham Wilson. 6d.)—Mr. Pain's paper, reprinted from the monthly financial report of Lloyds Bank, puts the ease with admirable clearness against the mischievous and...

Ms. net.)—Captain Saundby, while serving as an airman on the Somme front, used to draw from memory what he had seen in the air, and his drawings, aa General Ashmore says in a...

Stoughton. 5s. net.)--What a woman can do, alone and unaided, in the mission-field is shown in this curiously interesting book. Mrs. Forsyth, revisiting South Africa with her...

is now so well established as to publish a Bulletin (6s. not). In the second number, which has just appeared, will be found, among other articles, notes by Dr. Glee on the...

Fisher .Unwin. 21e. net.)—Mr. Hobson has served Cobden ill by printing masses of his private correspondence, especially with Henry Richard of the Morning Star, which remind us...

Unwin. 21s. net.)—The fortune of war sent Mr. Briggs, who is an architect, to Egypt, and caused him, as an officer of the SanitaryCorps, to spend much time not only in the...

Lucien Wolf. (Spottiewoode, Ballantyne, and Co., for the Jewish Historical Society. 10s. 6d.)—There is much curious matter in this book, which is designed to help the Peace Con-...

Bernard Beckham. (Victoria and Albert Museum. 3s. 6d.)— Since the Japanese occupation of Corea, it has been possible to examine the ancient cemeteries of the country and to...

Classon. (Oxford University Press. 10s. 6d. net.)—Under the auspices of the Carnegie Endowment, Professor Giessen, of Trinity College, North Carolina, has written a candid and...

not.)—This interesting book of travel describes a journey in 1913.14 through remote Shansi, to the west of Peking, and then through Eastern Siberia to Saghalien. The author...