of France, but if the League is to succeed new and larger methods of security must entirely supersede the old ones. It is for this that men who are intent upon saving our...

we have removed to new, offices, 13 York Street, Covent Garden, 2, where all communications should be addressed.

of M. Venizelos and his party. M. Venizelos and all but two of his fellow Ministers lost their seats. Only 118 Venizelists were returned, against 250 members of the Opposition....

Premiers, on Friday, November 12th, signed the Treaty of Rapallo, regulating the Adriatic frontier common to - their two countries. Italy retains Western Istria, the town of...

T HE first Assembly of the League of Nations met at Geneva on Monday. This fact is, or ought to be, a very conspicuous milestone in the history of the world. We wish we could...

made up his mind to die does net mind . very much how he dies. But we do speak of the utter ruin which lies before civilization ; and if a way to avoid war is not discovered...

and Midland Bank, delivered an admirable address before the University of Manchester on the subject of International Exchange. The chief point in -the speech was that the...

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

Should our readers experience any difficulty in 'obtaining the SPECTATOR during their absence from home at Newsagents or Railway Bookstalls, will they please communicate at ones...

the House of Commons on Thursday, November 11th, by 183 votes to 52. Mr. Adamson moved the rejection of the Bill. The Labour Party, he said, did not believe in an Irish...

striketifter having passed, so it is said, ninety days without food. On Friday, November 12th, the Lord Mayor of Cork received a letter from Mr. Arthur Griffith,...

party of English journalists travelling with a police escort near Tralee. The rebels were beaten off, with the loss of two killed and seven wounded. Three policemen were...

large Bolshevik forces which attacked him last week. While he was defending the Perekop lines in the north-west of the Crimea, the enemy forded the shallow lagoons to the...

Ulster had not asked for a -separate Parliament, she was resolved to work it in the beet intereeta of the country and the Empire' He hoped that the Bill would succeed and bring...

lltb: appointed a Select Committee to consider what the salaries 0 1 Ministers should be. Colonel Gibbs, who moved for the Com- mittee, proposed that it should consider whether...

work of the Armenian Republic of Erivan. Having defeated the Armenian forces, they occupied Kars and Alex- andropol and compelled Armenia to sign an armistice on November 7th....

in Brixton prison there was a tremendous outburst of emo- tionalism, and there was a real danger that the Government might give way. Such a concession would have meant that in...

careless minds in this country may be imposed upon by the arts of the Sinn Fein propagandist department. It had been alleged that Ballymacelligott creamery as well as a rick of...

House of Lords on Tuesday. We had, he said, "no right to replace commotion by chaos," as we should have done if we had withdrawn all our troop& from Persia after the Armistice....

Bill conferred very wide powers upon the Irish Parliaments. The Sinn Feiners asked for independence, and a Constituent Assembly chosen at this moment would demand nothing less....

But if any of our readers should try to encourage uneducated cottagers to keep goats they ought, as Lady Bathurst suggests, and we quite agree, to keep an eye on the animals. No...

Lady Bathurst on the subject of goat-keeping. We share her satisfaction at the announcement that the Ministry of Agriculture is warmly advocating the increase of goats....

' temporary buildings set up in the parks and open space, should ' be removed by June next. Lord Gainford instanced the cases of the superfluous Ministry of Shipping in St....

expected to reduce the price of flour before Christmas. That, of course, would entail a reduction in the price of bread. A marked fall has occurred in the price of wheat in...

the Agriculture Bill giving a farmer compensation for disturbance. Sir Frederick Banbury moved the , omission of the clause, but found no support. Sir A. Griffith Boscawen...

they can be. The goat which has been well treated will go with you, or with anybody else for that matter, for as long a walk as you please. It will not stray like a dog. It will...

Bill, adopted an amendment, moved by Sir Frederick Banbury, depriving municipalities of State grants for housing their employees. Dr. Addison repudiated once more the charge—...

Bill came before the House of Commons on Monday, Sir Donald Maclean commented on the alarming increase in the rates, which had gone up by 73 per cent, in two years, and urged...

the Agricultural Bill in Committee. Colonel Spender Clay had moved to omit the debatable section empowering the Board of Agriculture to take action if it thought that a farmer...

Apr. 15, 1920; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 84; Thursday week, 831; a year ago, E01.

HOME RULE AND THE DOCTRINE OF MURDER. TF anyone, insufficiently acquainted with Irish affairs or too susceptible to -the partisan arguments of political writers, any longer...

yet another lesson, and one wonders how long it will be before our political speculators here draw the moral and understand what Experience is doing her best to teach us. We...

MHE overwhelming defeat of M. Venizeloa in the Greek election is a surprise and a disappointment for all true friends of Hellenism. M. Venizeloa is universally regarded,...

O N Tuesday—five days after its unveiling—it was estimated that a million people had visited the Cenotaph. As we write the stream still flows on. It is said that the - first...

'WHERE are still critics to be found who regret that women should smoke. Forty years ago, so far as women were concerned, no one did it ; or to speak quite correctly, at the...

a rillIERE seems to be no doubt that this method of building will soon be generally adopted and will prevail above all in the rural districts, for it -has everything in its...

RAKE'S PROGRESS—A CHECK (?). [To TRH EDITOR OF THE " SPECT/T011."1 view of all that has appeared in the Spectator concerning Government extravagance, I shall not be...

07 Tue " SPECTATOR.") 8112,—In your issue of last week you referred to the increasing burden of taxation. In this. country parish of Lamington, in Lanarkshire, there is a...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which Zl treble the space.] THE CRY OF THE TAX-PAYER. [To...

that the correspondence which the letter from "English and Catholic" in your issue of Novem- ber 6th was sure to quote would have called attention to what appears the greatest...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 Sat.—The practical importance of an understanding of the connexion between currency and prices lies in its bearing on future monetary...

object of Alderman MaeSwiney's suicide, the Cork Examiner published on August 20th the following message from his sister " Ile may not survive till morning; he thinks his death...

[To THE EDITOR or rat " Smart:roe.") Six.—Surely the question at issue in the case of the Lord Mayor of Cork is one of motive. He did not wish to endure a painful death, but...

[To nu Emma or me " Eirsersroa."3 Sta,—Your recent references to the Jutland affair have greatly interested me, and there is a letter from Admiral Bacon in the Times of today...

Sm—The absurdity of the juetification of the Lord Mayor of Cork's suicide by your correspondent "English and Catholic" may be made clear by two illustrations showing...

its THE EDITOR UP TUE " SPECTATOR."] Sut,—There's not much the matter with Suarez. Most of us, with whatever reservations, concede the major premiss that tyrants may rightly be...

Sia,—Apropos of recent reflection on the question of religious influences in Ireland, it is interesting to recall the well. weighed opinion of that eminent Catholic thinker and...

THE " Sercriroa.") Sist,—In the Spectator of October 16th you quote from the Morning Post an extract from a proclamation by General E. A. Paine in Kentucky in 1864, which you...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") Sts,—May I call the attention of your readers to a very inter- esting debate to be held on Thursday, November 25th, at 5 p.m., at 19...

"SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I trust that you will kindly permit me to state as briefly as I can three grievances suffered by some of the retired officers who served during the late war....

[To THE EDITOR OP TEE " SPECTATOR.") Sza,—I have read with great interest, and I hope with equal profit, the review in last week's Spectator of Lady Evans's book, Lustre...

FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY. (In the Metre of the Originals.) THE MINOR POET. (Lucilius ) EUTICRIDED is dead, the song-writer. All ye in Hades, Look out for Eutychides, coming...

(To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") view of alien interference it is not surprising that vote of Scotland should have been practically solid for " ?Co change." This is a matter...

" SPECTATOR.") Sie,—Mr. E. F. Benson in his family recollections records that Robert Browning, asked for his opinion of Austin Dobson's work, replied that "some people, he...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin.—The Spectator has helped many causes. May I plead for its aid on behalf of the Ranyard Mission, which for sixty-three years has been...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or on marked "Communicated," the Editor mud not necessarily be held ti (sin agreement with the views therein expre.ssed or with the mod, of...

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Lure a good many other people. I shall never quite get over my dislike of having to go and see the Russian Dancers at a music- hall. It is not that we dislike acrobatic dancers...

LONDON'S GRAND GUIGNOL.—LITTLE THEATRE. Ow Monday I went to the Grand Guignol at the Little Theatre. We have already dealt with the general aspects of this new enterprise, but...

NATIONALISM.* IN this little study of nationalism Mr. Gooch has offered us a statement rather than a commentary. He has exceptional skill in historical exposition, as readers...

AP0LL0.—French Leave .. 8.90-2.30 [Au amusing comedy of the war. Brigade Headquarters to a nicety.] WYNuHAM'S.—The Prude's Fall .. .. 8.15-2.30 [An admirable and affecting...

GERALD RITCHIE has made an interesting book about life in India during the reign of Victoria from the family letters of his father, William Ritchie, and front his own...

Sin HOWARD D'Eovruz in his introduction to this volume notes recent developments of special interest and importance. For example, he tells us :— " In the area of more domestic...

when they made out a prescription to tack on to the tail of every drug they used a corrigens." To take a simple example, if there was Ipecacu- anha, let us say, there must be...

as little as those of his buildings if Ile honestly strive to deserve his title. For such artist-builders, Professor H. L. Warren's Foundations of Classic Architecture is...

INNISHEENY.f THERE are very few writers capable of extracting humour from the present situation in Ireland ; and if George Birmingham has succeeded it is due in great measure...

WE wish we had more space to devote to this exceedingly readable book. It will give great pleasure not only to those American and English people who know Syria. and the work of...

not it is the fault of the public who, appar- ently, never allow an author who has successfully produced a book of one kind to try his hand at anything different, it is certain...

. . NEWMARKET FAME." MIL MASEFIELD'S new poem is the story of a steeplechase, and he has treated his subject in as technical and expert a way as he did that of fox-hunting in...

iYofiss 5 the solutes does Sot s esssrUy proaas subseq14.4 Forty Days in 1914. By Sir F. Maurice. Second Edition. (Constable. 21s. net.)—We may call attention to the second...

By G. G. Louse. (Surbiton : Philpott. 5s.)—Mr. Loser, a well-known lexicographer, deserves the thanks of those who use " Murray " daily. He has noted in the comae of his reading...

2 vols., 42s. net.)—Mr. Ralli evidently holds that Carlyle retains many followers. For them he has taken the trouble to analyze all C.arlyle's writings and to supply critical...

the useful Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office for the Peace Conferenco and published by the Stationery Office. The most...

A book of essays on rural and literary subjects. Quite excellent for, say, reading in bed, but lacking in that quality which gav° to Mr. Hewlett's earlier romances their...

(Bryce. 12s. 6d. net.)—This is an excellent little book, and will be thoroughly liked by all who care for what Byron described with contemptuous bitterness as the Lakes School...

for the British Academy. is. Si. net.)—The Director of the British Museum dealt in his presidential address to the British Academy, reprinted in this pamphlet, with the question...

Societies to consider whether the metric system should be compulsorily adopted in this country reported against the proposal. Its Report (Royal Society, Is. net) is a very lucid...