p ARMAMENT reassembled on Wednesday, and it instantly became clear that the House of Commons was alert for information and satisfaction on a variety of questions. First and...

THE ESSENTIAL QUESTION. THE ESSENTIAL QUESTION. T HERE is only one question before the country, the question of economy, the question how to save the nation by spending less and...

M R. LLOYD GEORGE'S speech on Tuesday to a meeting representative of all the agricultural interests was a milestone in the progress of British farming. Indeed, it was more than...

IN October 11th we published a letter from a correl_l spondent propounding an idea which greatly attracted us. He suggested in substance that a good many men of education •who...

UTE have called attention to the critical position in VI which the old Universities find themselves at the end of the war. For four years their revenues were depleted for lack...

?THERE is happily no need to assume that the readers of the Spectator are unfamiliar with the subject of this article, since, apart from the fact that the editor himself has...

A LL individuals and all communities wish to be happy. Now and then the natural wish of the community becomes a passion, and then we say that there is " a serious condition of...

[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.] NATIONALIZATION AND THE...

Sna,—I have just finished reading the Spectator for September 6th last, which contains a letter from Mr. George L. Fox, of New Haven, Connecticut, on " The Irish Question and...

" SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I ask for your powerful aid in exposing an erroneous idea which seems to have got a very firm hold, and which is probably responsible for a large...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra,—I do not wish in any way to minimize the importance of the question of the present position of national finance, but it is never wise...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOIt."] Sin,—It would seem that the cost of carrying out housing schemes is to fall on the rates, and that the already ha rdpressed ratepayers...

[To THE EDITOR of THE " SPEOTATOR."3 Sus, —A statement has recently appeared in the papers to the effect that no civilian may be a candidate for employment in the Post Office...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Ein,—There is one fact which every man in Great Britain must never forget—namely, that, whatever scheme of Preference may be devised,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIB,—In your August 16th number the reviewer of Towards Reunion says: "It is difficult to reconcile the kind of unity which she [the Church...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The obituary notices of the late Lieutenant-General Sir James Wolfe Murray, K.C.B., recited the many great military offices which he...

SPECTATOR."] SIR,—At a time when the question of the position of women is S3 much under discussion special interest, not necessarily confined to Edwardians, attaches to a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sut,—I am constrained to appeal for funds to preserve from demolition one of the most interesting relics of mediaeval religious life in...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—May I through the Spectator call attention to a small error in the interesting biography of Sophia, Comtesse de Franqueville; reviewed...

SIR,—The letter from the Secretary of the National Equine Defence League, presumably written as representing the League's opinion, answers this in the negative. If this is the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, Will you permit me to clear up a slight ambiguity in my letter of last week ? I meant to say that the increased wages of the railwaymen...

• [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—It is not often, I know, that the Spectator publishes notices of the drama, but I think . your readers may . interested to hear of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") am in perfect agreement with Major Clement Hopkins, now stationed at Lncknow, about " the degenerate phraseology " which is maintained in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Si ,—Will your correspondent . " D. R. B." kindly give a reason for asserting that the Mansfield portrait of Betterton is " authenticated" ?...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1 Ste,—Mr. Birrell in his essay on Pope in Obiter Dicta (Second Series), when giving an account of the Rev. Whitwell Elwin as editor of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,— Having seen the cat and dog story which appeared in last week's issue of the Spectator, I thought your readers might be interested to...

A SONG. TDB red's in the heather, the gold's on the fernHeigho! Heigho! A nip to the wind and the year at the turnHeigho, Johnny! The aglet and rowan shine bright on the...

[For previous notes on this building see the " Spectator," August 30th and September 20011 Description. — The house has six rooms arranged on one floor of areas, and cubical...

BURLINGTON HOUSE EXHIBITIONS.—THE PAST AND THE PRESENT. HE who now enters the Upper Hall at Burlington House must. make choice of three turnstiles. That on his right admits...

A GOOD EMPLOYER'S VIEWS.* THE late Sir Benjamin Browne of Newcastle was known in his own district and throughout the engineering industry as a good employer and a wise man. From...

THE development of British musical criticism in the last halfcentury is a curious and interesting study. In the " sixties" and "seventies," as represented by Davison and...

serves merely to confirm the -impression left by all his later work, that he has long since withdrawn from all human society to inhabit a two. dimensional .werld peopled by...

MAJOR SANDES has written an interesting book on the earlier phase of the war in Mesopotamia, which will serve as a pendant to Mr. Candler's account. Major Sandes was attached to...

T Reports of the Archbishops' Committees have beeome a feature of English Church life. A natural process of centralization, analogous to that to which, as much perhaps as to the...

[Nonce in this edition does not ntottattarily proluds eubsegnent mint.] The Edinburgh Review opens with an iwerructive article on " Munitions and Mr. Lloyd George " by...