recog- nized by the Allies and America as the leader of Anti-Bolshevik Russia, the arrangement with Esthonia ought to have been made by him. But we imagine that General Marsh,...

we need not take these too seriously. Kronstadt, owing even snore to its position than to the skill and resolution of the Bolsheviks, which are probably not of the highest...

great importance. The Bolsheviks admit that they have been driven out of the important towns of Kherson and Niko- laieff. It will be remembered that early this year the capture...

situation in Russia we must mention the appeal which has been issued by the Anti-Bolshevik Russians of Archangel. The appeal, addressed to the Allies and America, implores us...

and America, addressed a meeting of Russian notabilities of all political parties in order to form this Government.. He pointed out that it was essential that the Russians...

NEWS OF THE WEEK A N extraordinarily successful dash by British naval motor- boats was carried out in the early hours of Monday morning against the Bolshevik naval forces at...

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

wonderful little craft did great work, as in reasonable weather they could rush across to the Belgian coast and back again within the hours of darkness. We remember hearing at a...

what has happened during the past five years. Again and again the Turks and Kurds, not to say the German-inspired revolutionaries, would have overthrown the Government if...

discussion was that of America's share in Getman reparation. President Wilson told Senator Lodge that he had left the question open because he did not feel he had any final...

Persia has been published. The Agreement was'signed on August 9th, and was the result of negotiations which had lasted for nine months. On the British side the negotiations have...

rather bitter attacks upon the Anglo-Persian Agreement. It may be that this is due to a misunderstanding of the facts, or it may be, as has been suggested, that the French...

characteristic of the country, read more like those of a tale of the Wild West than of a political quarrel. In reply to a demand by the State Department at Washington for the...

Agreement should be made with Persia. The Anglo-Russian Agreement had inevitably lapsed as a result of the Russian Revolution. The Persians always disliked that Agreement, and...

in the Times, during the week from General Ludeedorff's book about the war. It is evident that the inten- tier of tin3 book is to vindicate the soldiers at the expense of the...

praised for their persistence and clearness of vision at that time, as we remember only too painfully that after the Battle of the Somme the Prime Minister invited us to regard...

the question of standard rates of pay have at last reached a settlement. The original proposal of the Railway Executive Committee for a rate of 7s. 6d. to 12s. a day for drivers...

Arthur Roberts explaining his resignation as Honorary Chief Auditor of Works Account at the Air Ministry. Having acted as Chair- man of the Board of Financial Control and as...

high prices. War-time machinery is being revived, and every effort is being made to search out " pro- fiteers " and hoarders. So far, however, this endeavour to reduce the cost...

Lord Sumner was Chairman, appointed to inquire into the affairs of the British Cellulose Company, was issued as a White Paper. The Report recalls that criticism was directed...

remarks about the pay of naval officers, that we were in error in stating that the junior officers in the Navy would have their modest pay reduced instead of increased by the...

authorities on August 8th, an official Memorandum, issued from the Chief Secretary's Office, Dublin Castle., and published in the newspapers of August 15th, states that :— "...

in the House of Commons on Thursday week, an amendment moved by Mr. Tyson Wilson was agreed to, by which the Board of Trade is empowered to obtain from all available sources...

of opinion that less than justice has been done to the Company. The official support given to the Company was completely justified by the needs, and it holds that " there has...

of Lords on Friday week. Lord Milner stated that the only, real remedy for high prices was increased production, but that it would takt time, and meanwhile some immediate action...

WHAT WILL HE DO ? T HE long speech which the Prime Minister delivered i n the House of Commons on Monday leaves in the mind of the nation a series of huge queries. What will...

the Liquor Problem upon which the whole country, with the exception of the extreme Temperance people on the one side and the Liquor Trade on the other, is agreed. (1) The first...

IL—WHY THE SIX•COUNTY AREA MUST BE MAINTAINED. W E shall probably be asked to say why we appear to consider the Six-County Area as something sacred, and whether, even granting...

O NE of the important subjects with which the Prime Minister dealt vaguely in his speech on Monday was agriculture. When the Royal Commission on Agri- culture has reported, the...

W E constantly hear it said that there are at present no very great men. Especially in literature is their dearth lamented. Where, then, are the immortals ? Alm! they live in...

A CORRESPONDENT writes to us as follows in regard to Lord Lee's appointment, and the speeding of the plough, with which we have dealt in the preceding article :— " Lord Lee, if...

F IVE years ago all the younger and more able-bodied mem- of the academic world were hastening to exchange IVE hers the pen for the sword and to become pupils once more—in the...

THE AFGHAN TREATY. [To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") Fra,—The news of the conclusion of peace with Afghanistan is to be regarded with satisfaction. We end our hostilities...

[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.] THE USES OF ADVERTISEMENT....

LTo THE EDITOR .0T THE " SPECTATOR.") Sis,—Certainly just now (if not always) the nation should " hold it very stuff of the conscience" to be guilty of no ex- travagance. We,...

oft repeated comes to be believed; therefore the more unthinking people are confronted with the necessity of saving and working, the better chance of their doing so. How is this...

greatly interested in your article in the Spectator of August 9th on the subject of an advertisement campaign to tell the people of these islands the truth as to our position as...

(To THE EDITOR OP THE '1 SPECTATOR.") SIR, In rummaging among some old , papers I have come across the following lines, which .seem to me to be very appropriate to our present...

THE " SPECTATOR.") • SIR,-4, do not know whether your English readers are interested in our hyperborean affairs, but , the Spectator is more than an :English — it is an Imperial...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Your correspondent "H. J. M." is strictly accurate in denying that the coal-mines in the Forest are nationalized. My object in calling...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sur, — From a 'Canadian, point of view, I doubt if it is altogether wise to dismiss "New 'Zealander's " difficulties as almost pedantic. As...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — It would be foolish indeed to think there could be any. royal road to national prosperity, ornny " panacea " for .the economic and...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —Our Lord asked His Disciples, when gathered for their evening meal, to realize His presence with them by `" Sharing a Broken Loaf and...

THE " Beeomos.") Sre,—As you have been good enough to allow me to appeal for years past for contributions towards. the Necessitous Ladies Holiday and General Fund, I venture...

amusement the strictures of Mr. Buttle and Miss Plows-Day on my 'leiter. I have some knowledge of child life, I have had some experience of-adopted children, and I do not think...

THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your generous review of my book, The Problem of the Pacific, which appeared in the issue of May 3rd, is the following sentence: "We are somewhat...

• Sia,—Ae a• nation we take up an attitude of almost criminal neglect towards- the illegitimate child; with averted eyes 'we carefully . pass it by; instead of studyings the...

THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, — You were good enough last year to insert a paragraph in the Spectator in connexion with the Musical Fund started by me on behalf of the wounded...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—For the first time I have seen in. one of your corre- spondents' letters an experience similar to mine regarding shapes of things...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—May I venture to point out that the verses on " Drum- whirn Bridge," referred to under the above heading in your last issue, cannot...

obliged to you for finding space for my letter on " Carlyle as a Poet." Mr. Elliott's reference to "Drumwhirn Bridge " is interesting. It is not the case, however, that Carlyle...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Does the difficulty of establishing a claim for originality not lie in the fact that where several minds are seeking the same object or...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The Denison House Committee on Public Assistance desire me, as their Chairman, to inform you that a substantial portion of the reform...

much interest your correspondents' descriptions of their mental images of the days of the week.' My own corresponding mental pictures are not connected with colours, but only...

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.* PEOPLE with a taste for history may find consolation in the thought that the difficult times through which we are passing help us to understand the...

writer's name or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are narked " Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or...

[To THZ EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Srs,—The references to " W. G." and the hymn sung in Marl- borough College Chapel on the Sunday after " W. G." had been bowled for three...

THE CENOTAPH LISTENING-POST. Us! foolish hearts of men! Take thought of us here! Es proud! This is no empty tomb set up for a heedless crowd. We are here, we wait for you,...

We suggest that there can be no 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...

THE EDITOR Or TEE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—There are thousands of gulls in Wick, all of them more or less tame. I send you a photograph. They perform the same sort of service as the...

the most curious in our literary annals, and lends point to many old saws and sayings- Mediocribus esse poetic K. 7. those who are not witty are the cause of wit in others ;...

THE problem discussed in this pamphlet is so momentous that any assistance towards its solution cannot but be welcome ; unless Labour and Capital are to be locked in a...

Tins " gentle cynic " of whom Dr. Jastrow writes is the author of the Book of Ecclesiastes. But why ' gentle' 1 " will surely be the thought of every intending reader as he...

on the need of the public possess- ing a greater knowledge of health matters that almost any reason- able attempt to instruct it would have met with our approval, but that such...

DR. Cotriersev Durne has collected a most extraordinary mis- cellany " grubbed up from ancient and scarce books, obscure pamphlets and papers." Every sort of subject finds a...

JEREMY.t Tins record of a boy's life from his eighth birthday to the day of his going to school a year later belongs to that quasi-auto- biographical department of fiction in...

attached to these letters of the war, with their record of daily hardships cheer- fully endured, of sudden desperate moments, of gay anticipa- tions of leave, of resigned...

Hodgkin. (Headley. Is. 6d. net.)--Mias Hodgkin's Swarthmore Lecture traces through the ages the persistence of silent worship, which is commonly regarded as peculiar to the...

Herford. (Manchester University Press and Longmans. 9s. 6d. net.)— Miss Herford's handbook, lucid, scholarly, and admirably illus- trated, will serve, as she hopes, to introduce...

iNetice in this MUMS does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] Cecil Spring-Rice: In Memoriam. By Sir Valentine Chirol. (Murray. 6s. net.)—Many friends of that very able...

H. 0 Lock. (R. Scott. 7s. 6d. net.)—The best pages in Major Lock's short history of the war in Palestine are those in which he describes his own experiences of the very arduous...

W. Arrowsmith. 6s. net.)—This book, as the title announces, is a love story pure and simple. It is prettily told, and is just the thing for idle holiday reading.—The Trial...

existence, but the results of its meditations on various subjects continue to appear in twopenny pamphlets. We are surprised and glad to find among them a well-written and...

1787. By J. Brown Scott. (H. Milford. 10s. 6d. net.)— Mr. Scott holds, with Franklin, that the American Federal Convention of 1787 might set an example for war-worn Europe,...