appointed fresh Peace delegates to sign the Treaty. The military party is clamouring against the terms, and leading politicians are suggesting that the Treaty will only be...

which they will require for the Scapa outrage. Our own sugges- tion is that here is an excellent opportunity for revising the Peace terms in connexion with the Kiel Canal. In...

sign with reservations, reminding Germany that the Armistice would expire at seven o'clock on Monday evening. On Monday morning the Germans applied for an extension of time for...

pointing out that the scuttling of the ships was an act o! gross bad faith in violation of the Armistice and, a deliberate breach in advance of the Peace terms accepted by...

T HE German Government informed the Allies on Monday afternoon that they would accept and sign the Peace Treaty. The Germans protested and blustered to the last, but when they...

German warships interned at Scapa Flow were scuttled by their crews. Nine out of ten liattleships, six battle-cruisers, five light cruisers, and thirty destroyers sank in deep...

the Peace Treaty was unacceptable, found on Thursday week that the Assembly would not support him in defying the Allies. The Roman Catholic or Centre Party, led by Herr...

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

declared in their Report that State management, inevitably influenced by politics, would be fatal to the coal industry. Nationalization would not cheapen coal, increase output,...

week, after the Chamber had shown that it could no longer support him and his Foreign Minister, Baron Sonnino. We think of Signor Orlando as the statesman who took the helm when...

the question in dispute had been submitted to the District Council and the National Council and they had been unable to settle it. It is significant that the miners' six...

case had been made out for nationalization. He proposed that in each district the collieries should be amal- gamated under a statutory company or Disttio . :, Coal Board, paying...

Independent Ireland campaign in America. We hope that some friends of England and of equity, and there are plenty in the United States, may be found to put the following...

the week. Senator Knox's proposal to ratify the Peace Treaty without the Covenant had a mixed reception. Some influential Republicans protested against it. Mr. Root has advised...

continues the victorious advance which he began in May. He has freed the Donets coal and iron fields from Bolshevik terrorism, and is approaching Kharkoff on his left and...

coal-mines by the State on "fair and just" terms after three years, during which Local and District Mining Councils would be set up under a National Mining Council and a...

roving inquiry, presented four Reports, which were published on Monday. The thirteen Commissioners agreed that the State should acquire the coal royalties ; all but the three...

said about the new Loan because it is profoundly important that the Loan should be a success. In spite of all the explana- tions Made on behalf of the Government, one still...

by the generosity and public spirit of the anonymous correspondent of the Times who announces that he is going to take a largo sum of the new Loan and cancel it, as a...

countless number of short-dated Loans, Treasury Bills, Ways and Means Advances, and Exchequer Bonds, they cannot re-establish the credit of the whole community. They cannot be...

of the "Triple Alliance" to take no part in the Industrial Council set up by the Government. Yet the Industrial Council was the means of having drawn up, with the unanimous...

tricks of publicity that success has generally to be organized by creating an atmo- sphere of success. Some people, for example, may be inclined to conclude from all they read...

Labour Party Conference at Southport, devoted his opening address on Wednesday to a severe condemnation of what is known as "direct action." lie is a miner, but he does not...

significant in its departures from precedent. Machine- guns, tanks, gas-masked infantry, and an aeroplane provide the chief "turns," whilst women figure for the first time. The...

that good sense is coming to the rescue. We fear, however, that in this case it is not quite safe to be charitable. If the " Triple Alliance" should ask for a speedy General...

* ") advanees firing its pieces until stopped by a fifteen-foot-wide canal. Its cargo of infantry tumbles out of its steel ports to man the canal-bank, whilst from within the...

"—have called a full Conference in London on July 23rd to consider means for compelling the Government to comply with their demands concerning Conscription, inter- vention in...

THE BRITISH - MONROE DOCTRINE. W E protest with all the vigour at our command against the attempt by a section of the Press (witness the recent utterances by the American...

rpHE Reports of the Coal Commission are before the public. They will not be able to be buried like the Reports of so many Commissions. There are too many grim spectres at the...

N EVER on the eve of Peace was there so much uncer- tainty whether there would be Peace after all. When we write on Thursday the German Government have not yet appointed the...

Germans could always be relied upon by a wonderful faculty for diplomatic blunder- ing to help the Allies when the Allies found themselves in tight places in their relations...

necessaries of civilized life is certain to revive the Sunday observance question. "Surely that is settled ! " we hear some one cry with impatience ; "Sunday has been...

T HE intimate life of the Navy is rather a wonderful thing. The Navy resembles a huge family whose sons leave home every now and again for different parts of the world, and...

Su,—It is late to offer a commentary on a book of such wide and deserved popularity as Mr. Hugh Walpole's Secret City, but perhaps the opinions of a Russian might still be 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.] THE COAL INQUIRY. [To TEE...

[To THE EDITOR OF rnz " SPECTATOR."' SIR,—Surely no Peer of the Realm has ever turned the beauty of achievement to more inglorious purpose! The last para- graph of Lord...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sza,—I suppose most people cherish ideals. May I present one, arising out of the review of Sir Charles Walston's book in your issue last week...

[To ME Ear-OR Or THE "SPECTATOR.") do not wish to take up the valuable space of your paper unnecessarily, but I cannot refrain from expressing my delight at reading two letters...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sis,—The views of the Government of India on the Montagu- Chelmsford Reform Scheme are given in extenso in its letter No. 1 of Mardi 5th,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—How black an injustice appears to be when it touches oneself ! I think that many women readers of the Spectator would have felt more...

[TO TRE EDITOR OF THE " SPF.CTITOE."] SIR ,—Readers of the defence of Erastittnisna in Mr. Strachey's excellent papers on Church and State may be interested in the following...

Sin,—Mr. Andrew de Ternant makes the mistake of calling the Rantzaus a family of "pure Danish origin." They are to 'him day Holsteiners—i.e., belonging to a purely German...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sta,--The Spectator, June 14th " They [the Reformers] minced it [the Bible] up into texts and administered it to them- selves and others in...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sta.—At the International Conference on Alcoholism, repre- senting twelve countries, held during the sittings of the Paris Peace Congress, I...

[To THE EDITOU OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR , —The law by which Englishmen resident in India and the Colonies cannot claim relief from British Income Tax Is not, in view of...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I read with much interest the article by "Ignotus " under the above heading in your issue of last Saturday. Any- thing that would help...

(To THE EDITOR, Or THE " SPECTILT011."3 Sur,-4 propos of Dr. Habberton Lulham's delightful poem in the Spectator of May 24th, I was chatting with a shrewd Yorkshirewoman the...

wonder could you find space in your valuable paper for the following. I am an Englishman, and at the age of twenty- two I emigrated to America, and now after being away twenty-...

was it more difficult to secure accommodation, never have prices soared so high as in this victory year, when tens of thousands of our young wage-earners are anxiously hoping...

" SPECTATOR21 SIR,—The incident reported in the enclosed extract from Tues- day's Daily Mail furnishes proof of a gentlemanly and generous feeling on the part of the aircraft...

[To vris Rome or me " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I read with much interest the article in your issue of April 12th on " Museum Guides.". I am a Londoner born, and more than half my life...

(To THE EDITOR OF TER " SPECTATOE."3 Sre,—Though in the ease recalled by your correspondent (May 17th) the phrase non e Cristiano may be supposed to have a theological...

THE OXFORD HISTORY OF INDIA.* Dn. ViNoster Sams is one of the most distinguished of the scholar-administrators of whom the Indian Civil Service is justly proud. He is a veteran...

VERONICA. (Born May 13th, 1919.) Wm shall remember this night for you, Veronica— The mild May night when a south wind blew, And the stars were big and bright and few, With...

name or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be heldto be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode...

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...

seldom satisfactory. If you have read the novels yourself, you are seldom in agreement with the critic. If you have not, you are too much at his mercy. The second drawback is...

history of the Congo State, he must have been reminded of the protest of Aeneas on being asked to recall the tragedy of Troy :— " Infandum, Regina, jubes renovare dolorem." The...

IN such moods of pessimism as the recent upheaval of our hitherto comfortable world was bound from time to time to induce— moods that found us wondering whether good or evil was...

DR. NICOLA]; the Professor of Physiology in Berlin University, was deprived of his Chair and of his private property for criticizing the German war policy in 1914. He was...

A REALLY thoughtful and interesting book dealing with the psychology of the " movies " is very much needed and is sure to come. We shrewdly suspect that The Art of Photoplay...

THE Vice-Chancellor, who disguises himself not at all opaquely as "A. E. S.," made in the autumn of 1918 a tour of a very large number of American Universities and Colleges,...

" C'EST rue d'un philosophe erudit et vertigineux ; mais l'histoire n'existe guere pour lui." This judgment of a French critic on Mr. McDowell's suggestive treatise is less a...

as told in the Apocrypha has all the qualities of simplicity, barbario drama, and religious fervour whioh make up so many of those wonderful Eastern tales, qualities that raise...

naissance du Livre. 3 fr. 50 c., with temporary increase of 30 per cent.)—The larger part of M. Aulneau's excellent volume is devoted to the Australian Division in France and...

Zfircher Zeitung reprint.)—The well-known Professor of History at the University of Zurich has reprinted in this pam- phlet some interesting and authoritative articles on our...

(Notice in This column does not necessarily preclude subseguent review.] The current number of the American, Oxonian, published quarterly by Mr. W. W. Thayer, of Concord, New...

LOVE LAUGHS LAST.* THE lady who writes so pleasantly under the pen-name of "S. G. Tallentyre" generally finds her inspiration in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries....

8s. net.)—The interest of this story is in its picture of the war in Italy, the heroine being a professed nun in the convent of the Order of Poor Claires. The book may be...

number of its Bulletin to a bibliography of Walt Whitman, by way of celebrating the centenary of the poet's birth. The library possesses a copy of the rare first edition of...

(Cassell. 6s. net.)—The author of this interest- ing book was in the Cornwall,' which, in company with the Glasgow,' sank the Leipzig' in the decisive action of December 8th,...

(Chesham : The Carlton Press.)—In this pamphlet Lord Kitchener advocates the emigration of " men of the right class" with some capital to British East Africa. He takes a very...

Paterson, D.D. (Blackwood. ls. net.)—The Moderator's address at the close of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland has been reprinted, and deserves reading as a...

Law, the historian of Hampton Court, describes in this interesting and well-illustrated pamphlet how Wren planned and planted the famous Chestnut Avenue in 1699 as an approach...