A FTER a very long delay, which can never be wholly ex- plained or excused, the public has been given the full facts about affairs in the Punjab, in the Bombay Presidency, and...

same type of uniform on all occasions; real economy would be achieved, as his best uniform would gradually become his second-best and be used for ordinary daily work. The re-...

Government, guided by the Army Council, propose to clothe the Army once more in red. It is estimated that the return to pre- war uniforms will cost £3,000,000. Newspaper rumour...

where Miss Sherwood had been assaulted must crawl, it is described as "offending against every action of civilized govern- ment." It is admitted that General Dyer " displayed...

a return to the old uniforms that officers in any case must have more than one uniform, and that when they change into mess uniform they are doing nothing more expensive than...

letter—though the letter is signed by Mr. Montagu it is no doubt the judgment of the Cabinet—begins with the occurrences at the sunk garden at Amritsar on April 13th, 1919. The...

we cannot say that the background of the many unfortunate events into which Lord Hunter's Committee inquired has been fully ex- amined. Sir Michael O'Dwyer, the...

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

week across the Caspian to Enzeli, to demand the surrender of the steamers in which General Denikin's garrison had escaped from Baku to Persian soil. It does not seem to be...

was from the first a failure. But the General Confederation of Labour, which ordered the strike, did not admit its defeat till Friday week, when it invited its members to resume...

Church in Moscow, returned home last Saturday with a party of refugees. As Mr. North has lived in Moscow for the past fourteen years, and as he has been in constant...

the principle of a fixed sum to be -paid by Germany had already been definitely accepted. We cannot imagine a worse impetus to German-industrial reeovery—which we all desire and...

Whitsuntide, Sir Donald Maclean opened a debate on the Lympne Conference and on the Polish counter-offensive against the Bolsheviks. In regard -to the Conference, Mr. Boner Law...

that the League of Nations should have intervened to prevent the Polish counter-offensive. The League, he thought, might have checked the -aggressive designs of the Bolsheviks...

General Obregon a fortnight ago, was overtaken in his flight and assassinated by General Herrera, one of the new dictator's lieutenants. The Mexican climate is not healthy for...

accept the mandate for Armenia. He reminded the Senate of its resolution in favour of a " stable government " for the Armenians. It was " a very critical choice." But the...

new demand for still higher wages. At its meeting last week Mr. Watson, the general manager of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, pointed out that, despite the increase in...

passenger fares on the railways still further. Well, we are all in favour of the railways being made to pay. At present they are being subsidized. But the experiences of...

shore in London. from buying up their small neighbours. This seems good in the abstract or at first sight. Everybody sympathizes with the efforts of the small man to keep his...

neigh- bourhood of other large stores—Whiteley's, Harrod's, Barker's and Self'ridge's. Perhaps the explanation is that when a great store is established and prospers the quarter...

Workers, which held a congress at Aberdeen on Monday, denounced " direct action " in the strongest terms. " The vote was the instrument for making laws. The strike was the...

to gaol for six months. This man, Harold Percy Burgess, the manager of Miss Sylvia Pankhurst's organ, the Workers' Dreadnought, was convicted at Bow Street last Saturday of...

ago some dockers refused to load a ship with munitions for Poland. Last Friday week the National Union of Railwaymen instructed its members not to handle " any material which is...

on which attention was drawn to the number of winners spotted by the Daily Herald's tipster. On making inquiries we learn that the efficiency of this tipster who calls himself "...

a caus e of astonishment even to those who believe most in the wonderful adaptability of the British publie. The roads were filled with an unending stream of motor-cars,...

per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 86} ; Thursday week, 815i; a year ago, Oq,

MR. LLOYD GEORGE AND LORD NORTHCLIFFE. W E had hoped to be able to avoid further notice of the personal conflict which has arisen between these two public men.' It is, however,...

Y ET another attempt is being made upon representative government. It would be well that the Government and the nation should recognize fully what is being done before small...

T RD LEE, the President of the Board of Agriculture, 4 is to be heartily congratulated on having inspired a Bill which will put the business of farming upon a more solid...

T HE student of the literature of Pise de term will remember that through all writings on the subject during the last hundred years there flits the phantom of Mr. Holland's...

M ANY doleful laments resound to-day about the decay_ of manners. Yet there is not a child so ill brought up that it has not been taught to say " Thank you." That one piece of...

S OME day the art of living—living one's daily life—will be brought to perfection. Even now, while it is only in slow and confused process of development, one can mark the...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.' BIR, -- 43 the great rise in commodities extending over many years about to give place to a general slump ? That is the question which is...

MINERS' PAY AND OUTPUT.-THE REAL FACTS. (TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Ste,-Widespread misconception exists about miners' wages and their relation to the cost of coal....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—While Parliament sits at Westminster discussing the details of the Bill which is to be forced upon Ireland as the only means 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] TIIE READER'S POINT OF VIEW....

THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—A year ago, in your issue of May 24th, 1919, you wrote a meet interesting article on present-day politics, entitled " Political Vampirism : a Study in...

SPECTATOR."] Slit,—As one who admires the Spectator for the courage it dis- plays on public questions I cannot allow the statements made by Sir Andrew Macphail, in your issue...

" SPECTATOR.") Sia,—In your article in the Spectator of May 22nd you say : "We should like to see the cost . of the troops, and of com- pensation to the families of murdered...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, I am desired by Mr. G. Morgan, President of the Euro- pean Asociation of India, to ask you to be good enough to publish the fact that...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Iu an issue of January last you drew attention to an organization in the United States called " The American Legion," and urged the...

THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Relying on your well-known practice of putting all sides of a case before your readers, we ask some of your space to plead the cause of the National...

[To THE EDITOR or THr " fietcravoa.") SIR,—I hope you will allow me space to call attention to the existence of a systematic revolutionary and atheistic propa- ganda among...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " EizzorsToa."] Siu, — It was with much pleasure that I read Dr. Weizmann's letter in your issue of May 15th. My letter was an appeal to Jewish leaders to...

" SPECTATOR.") SIR, — Apparently the chief trouble of the Government at the moment is to raise sufficient money to pay off an enormous floating debt. I should like to suggest,...

(To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sia, — May I be allowed to thank you for the interesting article on the Buzzard which appeared in your issue of May 15th. But does not the...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sta,—The letter from Mr. H. J. Massingham in your issue of the 8th instant is typical, if you will allow me to say so, of the general...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—At this time, when the necessity for economy in the national public service is so urgent, I think that an impartial inquiry into the...

[To THE "EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The Dean of Durham's letter in your issue of to-day will gladden the hearts of those who not only loved Bishop Moule as a man, but who...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Lady Scott is of course quite capable of taking care of her own argument, but Mr. Cato Hutton has become involved in such confusion...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Referring to your review of Professor Keith's lectures to boys and girls, I am reminded of a story which appears, I think, in Lighter...

BELOW THE ALPS. OF all small jewels ever wrought of God I think the grasses Beneath these Alpine passes Are fairest to mine eyes, long weary of drought Where the sun sears the...

"PASTEUR," SACHA GUITRY, AT THE ALDWYCH THEATRE.—MME. PAVLOVA'S BALLET AT DRURY LANE. THE two dramatic performances that I witnessed this week were almost as dissimilar as it...

(To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR ,—I noticed in your edition of May 1st that Mr. Somers Clarke, in writing of the Nile crocodile, asks the question, "Do crocodiles...

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

IT is no exaggeration to say that the people of this country were amazed when America " went dry." Although a numbet of States had been Prohibitionist for many years and...

THE BOLSHEVIK MENACE.* X Mrrarxov, the well-known Russian Liberal, has written an instructive account of the origin of Bolshevism and of its develop- ment as an international...

Ma. Hurrennrsow has written an agreeable volume about a number of well-known people who flourished between 1880 and 1890. It is intended as a sequel to the late Mr. Justin...

Warns° very gaily on " Servants " in the London Mercury, an essay to which we have referred before, Mr. Max Beerbohm says what many of us have been thinking. Our thoughts,...

Ma. BUCHANAN'S former work, to which this interesting volume is a sequel, was entitled Comptes Rendus. His present book is called Accounts Rendered, thereby reminding us of the...

THE TALL VILLA.t THE idea of a woman finding consolation for the delinquencies of a living husband in the companionship of a spirit lover is a theme which craves wary walking....

IT is said that the recent " slump " in war books is now over and that the public is beginning to read this sort of litera- ture again. Certainly Major Hesketh-Pricharil's...

Stage by Kedar Nath Das Gupta in a new version written by Laurence Binyon. With an intro- ductory essay by Rabindranath Tagore. (Macmillan and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—The Indian...

A FIGHTING REACTIONARY.* Me. ALFRED Novas sets out to be a reactionary. His is the type of - mind that is so turned toward " the " good old times that he becomes a sort of...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review. The March on Paris, 1914. By General von Kluck. (E. Arnold. 10s. 6d. net.)—General von Kluck's account...

Is. 6d. net.)—An interesting novel in which the feelings of a man undergoing imprisonment for manslaughter during the first months of the war are poignantly described. Although...

10s. 6d. net)—Captain Roosevelt, a younger son of the late President, did good service with the British Army in Meso- potamia and has described his experiences in this readable...

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Milford for the British Academy. 21s. net.)—This is the fourth volume in an important new series of hitherto unpublished records Illustrating English social and economic...

Hilda Torras. (Swarthmore Press. 6s. net )—A pair of hedge- sparrows built their nest in the author's garden, close to the house, and a cuckoo deposited her egg in the nest....