well-known Pan-German, and General Lfittwitz, a commander of the " Defence Force," had demanded a change of Ministry. The Coalition Government refused to resign, and ordered the...

Rule Bill in the House of Commons is as striking an example as one could quote of applying a threadbare formula. Not that we should object to the failure of the present Home...

: What are the troops doing ? We know that there are many officers of ability in Ireland, and they could doubtless carry out the necessary work of protection with discretion and...

T HE chief event of the week has been the outbreak of a military counter-revolution in Prussia. As we write on Thursday morning it is reported that Dr. Kapp, the insur- gent...

a proposed fusion of the Unionists and Coalition Liberals. We had no sooner been told that the Unionists were enthusiastic to have Mr. Lloyd George as their future leader than...

Parliament as soon as possible upon the state of Ireland as distinct, or as far as possible distinct, from the question of applying Homo Rule to Ireland. This is a matter of...

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

is the beginning of a new and wonderful era. But does Mr. Asquith treat it as such ? Not at all. He moves the rejection of the Bill. No doubt it is in his judgment a very...

his soul, in the Revue dee Dear Monek,s, in. a scathing criticism of the. methods of the Allied Supreme, Council. M. Foineare declares that the Allied Premiere, inceesantly...

The results, so far as they were known up to Thursday morning, showed a large increase in the Nationalist strength and a still larger accession to the Labour Party, chiefly in...

As it is highly improbable that our imported wheat will fall below 100s. a quarter, the Prime Minister's statement im- plied that the controlled price would be raised by about...

of Lords on Thursday week and drew from Lord Curzon an import- ant statement. Lord Curzon said that the Turks were deliberately trying to make the execution of the Peace Treaty...

Here is a typical extract from the correspondent's diary for February 7th :- "To-day the girls of the - Rescue_Home were all killed. There were about eighty of them. To add to...

Sir Edward Carson in which he pointed out that the Timm had, charged him with suffering "a terrible and humiliating defeat" because the Ulster Council had decided to support a....

Tuesday. On the previous night some of the Turkish plotters had been arrested. Resistance was offered at only one point, where two British soldiers and nine Turks were killed in...

Sunday last showed an overwhelming German majority. In Flensborg three German votes were cast against each Danish vote. In the whole district the German voters outnumbered the...

diplomatic relations between France and the Vatican. This is a strange reversal of the anti-clerical policy which the.Republic adopted some twenty years ago, but the French...

his Civil Service Estimates of 557 millions. He said that the figure had been reduced by three-fifths. What further item could be left out ? The truth was that the Government...

feathers of egrets in which the traders deal, and this means that the feathers have to be torn from the mother birds while the young are still in the nests. The young birds are...

Standing Committee on Trusts deserves consideration. They In effect accuse the Committee of making a mistake in the figures dealing with the firm's Income Tax. They say that...

the Trade Union Congress for " direct action " to secure the " nationalization " of the mines, decided on Thursday week to adopt new tactics. On the plea that the Government had...

Sir Robert Horne. He examined the present economic conditions in a really enlightening review, and his answer to Mr. Asquith's doctrine on Monday that " inflation had nothing to...

with £157,000,000 for the current year. Mr. Long in a Memorandum published on Tuesday showed that £19,000,000 was required to meet liabilities in connexion with the war, and...

on Thursday, confirmed a widespread belief that the industrial assurance companies and collecting societies are working on a bad system which promotes extrava- gance and waste....

the Protec- tion of Birds on Tuesday did something to strengthen the hands of those who are working for a Plumage Bill. As Mr. H. J. Massingham told us in the last of his...

high prices did not help very much. Mr. McCurdy played variations on the perfectly true theme that the first and fundamental cause of the rise in prices is the actual lack of...

6,1919. 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 874 ; Tnursda:r week, 88k; a year ago, 95.

THE GERMAN COUNTER-REVOLUTION. T HE promoters of the counter-revolution which began in Berlin last Saturday have done their country a great deal of harm. Whatever may be the...

on the Income Tax, which was issued as a Blue Book on Wednesday evening, may be described as an essay in the simplification of a siniple tax. It is impossible to conceive a tax...

T HE results of the General Election in South Africa are worth careful watching. for the future relations of the political parties in South Africa are now being determined, and...

MARKET." W HEN a popular novelist writes a book he writes it with an eye to the tastes of his readers, but the publisher—at least the old-fashioned publisher—does not design...

LTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."i SIR,—I regret to find that the restraint which I felt ii necessary to employ when referring last week to the im• provement in the national...

[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.] TFIFI POSITION IN IRELAND....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. 'I Sus —I have before me an article in t'Action Francaise of March 8th commenting on the subject of the attitude in England to the Reparation...

the West of Ireland exactly describes the state of things as at present obtaining in Co. Cork. It is incredible, and certainly reflects disgrace on our Government. Raids, more...

article on the above you say : " What, we should like to know, are the soldiers doing ? . . . If the tr000ps in Ireland are not there to keep order, what are they there for ? "...

to find the Spectator upholding inaccuracies of translation. A paper that prides itself upon the meticulous nicety of its diction ought to be the last to throw stones. Why deny...

OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I have read, and I have little doubt that many of my generation have read, with the greatest interest the corre- spondence in the Times and the...

good English and all seekers after " edification" will thank you for your article on the Revised Version of the New Testament. The N.T. in R.V. is so meticulously literal that...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—You object to the appointment of Sir Auckland Geddes to the British Embassy at Washington on the . ground that he "spent a large part of...

why the reading of the Revised Version is becoming " more and more prevalent," which the writer of the above-named article deprecates, is that the clergy are learning to value...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.' SIL—Lord Fisher in one of his recent books draws attention to the small numbers of statues of great seamen that embellish (?) London and...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.' Sia,—Having read his letter in the Spectator of March 13th, may I be permitted to assure Mr. Pixie that were I to sell for .t1 an article...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR!"] Sia,—It may be of interest to your readers to have pointed out to them the effect which the above Bill, which will shortly come before...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR,—Under the above title you published in your issue of March 13th a letter from Mr. Alex. Devine, in which he points out that Montenegro,...

OP THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR, —A work which sets forth the vital periods of European history in a manner suitable for children in Syria is Cesare Balbo's Summary of the History of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—I was strolling along ploughland in the suburb where I live (in the south and some six miles from Charing Cross) on the 19th of this...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sni,—A novel experiment in educational sight-seeing has just been made in Birmingham under the auspices of the Juvenile Organization...

[To TM EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I regret my error in speaking of Jowett's translation of Thucydides as earlier than Crawley's, but I had not the least intention of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR "] SIR,—The Westminster Branch of the Children's Country Holiday Fund is at present without an honorary secretary. If any of your readers...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." ] SIR,—With regard to Mr. E. J. Thompson's article on the above subject in your issue of February 14th, I am told that crocodiles have not...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sm.,—In your review of The Roman Mischief - Maker you allude to St. Alphonsus Liguori as " the eighteenth-century Jesuit." If the other...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The poesy from a sampler quoted in your interesting review of Sussex in Bygone Days (Dr. Blaker's reminiscences) in your issue of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—May I suggest that the authority for the description of the Serbonian Bog is Diodorue and not Herodotus, and that it is grievous to...

[To THE Enema or THE " Specraroa.:"l liner—Plans have been laid to start in the East End a library, which was long used by both officers and men of the B.E.F. at Havre, under...

VALEDICTORY. Foiewsti., friend Thomas: now you go the way Appointed unto cats as unto men: Those yellow eyes, that patch of fuzzy grey, Wo shall not see again. You slow your...

SIR,—The lines in- which " the lone inventor by his demon haunted" is so dexterously sketched by Prior will be familiar enough to many Johnians, as from the Ode which he wrote...

" JOHN FERGUSON " AT THE LYRIC, IIAM.MERSMITH- GRANGE the name of John Ferguson to What's in a Threat P or The Brother's Revenge, call the Fergusons the Meadowsweets (giving us...

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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...

RED TERROR AND GREEN.* Mn. DAWSON'S little book on the evolution of the Simi Fein movement deserves to be widely read here and in America. It shows that the Nationalists of the...

Cowries. WARD'S amount of his experiences in Siberia in 1918-19 with the 25th Middlesex is very welcome because it is obviously honest and sincere. He says that he wrote it from...

of Recollections ought to attract readers of many and varied tastes. It is the fashion in these days to depreciate the Victorian age, but there are signs that this fashion is...

THE progressive veering round of taste through a phase of barbaric formlessness towards a revival of Victorian ideals brings as an almost inevitable corollary the reissue of...

Two books upon Tanks have preceded Colonel Fuller's Tanks in the Great War—Major Williams-Ellia's, which is for the general reader, and Sir Albert Stern's, which is presumably...

refuses his traditional weapon and plays with a broomstick is a chivalrous one. Mr. Chesterton has defended the institution of marriage against the advocates of divorce, and has...

TRLS is one of those religious works, of which there are so many, which, thoughtful and well intentioned as they are, leave us in doubt what the writers would be at. For there...

MR. HARVEY'S VERSE.* MR. HARVEY has drunk at the same well as Mr. Harold Monro, whose delightful pieces of realism and pseudo-realism, " The Dog " and " Man Carrying a Bale,"...

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THE SWORD OF LOVE4 Tug vogue of historical romance has been affected by the tremendous realities of the last six years. But already there are signs of a return to old and...

[Notice is this column does not necessarily preclude subsequeid review.] Of the Imitation of Christ. By Thomas ii Kempis. The Edith Cavell Edition. (H. Milford. 2s. 6d....

contains, amongst much interesting matter, an illustrated account of the new flagstaff which was erected on October 18th last. This remarkable present from British, Columbia is...

By Eliot Crawshay-Williams. (Allen and Unwin. 2s. 6d. net.)—The poet did not hold with the war," and therefore his thoughts are troubled.—The Gate of Bronze. By T. W. Earp....

paper on Southern Najd by Mr. H. St. J. B. Philby, of the Indian Civil Service, the only living European who has crossed Southern Arabia from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea....

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the handbook on Nursery Schools which has just been published by Messrs. Bale, Sons, and Danielsson (5s. net). It contains the official Reports and recommendations, so that the...

very readable sketch of.the history of the British Navy up to the final scuttling of the interned High Sea Fleet at Scapa has been written by a Canadian author for Canadian...

George Worley. (Cope and Fenwick. 4s. net.)—Few Church- men know the stories of all the lesser saints in the English Calendar, so that Mr. Worley's modest compilation will...

Fleury Mottelay. (Lane. 7s. 6d. net.)—This little book contains a brief Memoir, an appreciative Introduction by Lord Moulton, and chapters of a technical nature on Sir Hiram...

of this curious book, by a Daily News corre- spondent, may be judged from the following sentence : " In the Jehad we have just fought against Germany, the low material object of...

Plot." By W. G. Moore and Alfred Smith. (Romance Publishing Com- pany, 53 Sydenham Park, S.E. 26. 2s. 6d, net.)—Mr. Moore in 1917 began to cultivate a small piece of waste land...

(W. H. Smith and Son, and Wyman and Sons. ls. 6d.)—The mere title of this attractive publication arrests attention. The British Army is not only on the Rhine, but is so well...

V. Lucas. (Murray. 2s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Lucas's attractive memoir of. David Williams is here reprinted from the Quarterly Review and followed by a pleasant survey of the oratory at...

the Village Centres Council at 31 Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C. 2, which contains the first Annual Report on the Enham Village Centre, near Andover. At this centre a hundred and...

(Dundalk : W. Tempest. 7s. 6d. net)—Part of this work consists of an exposition, brief and necessarily incomplete but sound within its limits, of the philosophic work of John...