the signatories include patriots like Mr. Clynes and Pacificists like Mr. MacDonald and Mrs. Snowden, the manifesto appeals vaguely for " a peace of international co-operation "...

themselves opposed in their old constituencies by Coalition can- didates, some of whom are Liberals, though more are Unionists. Mr. Asquith himself apparently is not to be...

p ARLIAMENT was dissolved on Monday, and the prepara- tions for the General Election on December 14th are in full swing It is one of life's little ironies that the late House of...

field, but it remains to be seen how many will present themselves for nomination on Wednesday next and pay the fee of £150, which is returnable only to thore who poll at least...

he said, be " no tampering with the essentials of Free Trade." Irish Home Rule must be " promptly translated into a working reality." The temporary restraints on personal...

Fein Party will contest ninety-nine out of the hundred and five seats. Mr. Dillon is promised a fight in East Mayo, and Mr. Devlin in his Belfast stronghold. As the Sinn Feiners...

week a manifesto, appealing to the electors to support the Coalition Govern- ment in making a just and lasting peace and in dealing with " the difficult transitional period"...

Monday defended the decision of Mr. Lloyd George to go to the country novf for a new mandate, on the ground that Reconstruction was too vast and intricate a task to be assumed...

TO OUR READERS.—It is now necessary for readers to place a definite order for the " Spectator " with their Newsagent or at one of the Railway Book- stalls. Should any reader...

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

that his services will not be lost to the country during the discussion of Peace terms. Lord Robert Cecil has emerged as a recognized master of the affairs of the Foreign...

of the German High.Sea Fleet appeared off the Forth and surrendered to Admiral Beatty, commanding the Grand Fleet. Germany's nine most powerful battleships, five...

and Queen Alexandra, reviewed in Hyde Park last Saturday some twenty-five' thousand men of the London district, all wearing the. silver badge " for services rendered." It was...

Welsh Church, and the fact that the Coalition have promised better financial treatment for the Welsh Church than the Act provides by no means releases Lord Robert Cecil from his...

of this election, which should never have been forced. Mr. Clynes, the Food Controller, has announced that he will resign when the new Parliament is elected. He has, in .fine,...

suggest that the Government will be guilty of a great mistake if they do not make the fullest possible use of the long official experience of Sir Eyre Crowe. Sir Eyre Crowe has...

figures by the Admiralty this week. During the war the Navy has suffered 39,768 casualties to officers and men, of whom 33,381 are dead. It is inevitable, unhappily, that in...

rode into . Brussels on Friday week, and were joyfully welcomed by the citizens, whose four yearn of bondage had thus come to an mid. After reviewing the Allied troops as they...

the present conditions millions of absent soldier-voters will be virtually disfranchised. Mr. Boner Law said at Glasgow on Monday that eighty-five per cent. of the fighting men...

freedom of the seas," if interpreted in the German sense, would have meant " the inevitable and rapid triumph of Germany " in this war. America, when she entered the war,...

deal with such important matters as these. But for the existence of the Central Fund the Archbishops would have to make sectional appeals, which are always a slow and...

has made known some facts which demand atten tion. The first two needs for which the Fund provides are the training of the ministry and the support of the Training Colleges for...

of the war which were found in the archives of the Foreign Ministry. These doct.reents fix upon the Central Powers the entire responsibility for planning and procuring the war....

in Paris was freed from its mourning wreaths on Monday, for on that day, after forty-eight years of German rule, Strasbourg was restored to France. Marshal Foch entered the old...

France must be held as soon as possible, without any attempt to reform or extend the existing franchise. He declared, however, that the present Chamber, elected in 1914, ought...

Commission to choose an inscription for the great stone which is to be placed as a monument in each of our sadly numerous war cemeteries abroad. His choice will commend itself...

this was new to them, and we have the Vorwdrta bursting out with suoh an indictment of the Kaiser as this :— " Wilhelm declared in a proclamation that the enemy attacked us in...

be got out of the way in order that Germany, in accordance with her traditional custom, might appear to be quite innocent when she was most guilty. " The Imperial Government...

and this reform was anticipated, in one respect, by the installation of a train ferry between Riohborough—on the Stour, near Sandwich—and Calais or Dunkirk, and between South-...

Allied fleets, having cleared the passage of the Bosphorus, entered the. Black Sea last week and sent cruisers and destroyers to the chief Russian and Turkish ports. Now that...

continues to accumulate as our unfortunate men return. Our Government.have warned the German Higher Command that they will accept no excuses for the shocking condition of many...

April 5, 1917.

THE NEMESIS OF PARTISANSHIP. T HE Liberal papers are very indignant, and no wonder, at the way in which the General Election has been forced upon the country at a moment when...

'VT R. LLOYD GEORGE made two speeches at Wolver- hampton last Saturday. In them he further elaborated his political programme. In almost all his abstract statements and in many...

the coming General Election is not encouraging to believers in democracy. On the one hand we have the Government Whips in the Central Office in London sending down the names of...

Germany makes it intensely important for the attitude of the Associated Nations towards her to be as vigilant as ever. So far as we can disentangle the facts from many...

I T is sincerely to be hoped that in the consideration of Peace terms our statesmen are not losing sight , of the enormous possibilities for archaeological research which are...

T HE scientific spirit, which has entered so fully into literature within these later years, if it has added to our knowledge of the ballad's technique, has tended, in the minds...

" T CALLS it child-stealing, that's what I calls it," said the 1 Quartermaster to the Corporal of the gangway as the draft c ame over the side. Certainly they did look a bit...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sia,—A League of Nations to prevent future wars is a fascinating idea, but it derives little encouragement from the experience of past...

[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 COALITION POLICY. [To...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPEcTATon.") British and Danish patriots should be grateful for your protest against Lord Northcliffe's unceremonious disposal for the benefit of the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 Sia,—I suppose there never was a time when lofty moral con- siderations were so much talked about, and openly avowed as the guiding star of...

ITO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,-I should like to endorse the letter of Mr. Black in the Times of the 23rd inst. in reference to the island of Heligoland, and I may...

" &Warm") Sia,—The whirligig of time brings in its revenge. In March, 1848, a rising of the mob at Kiel was joined by the local Holstein forces, who broke their oath of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—The notorious enemy agent, Frau Rosika Schwimmer, who has tried to use the woman's movement and the Pacificist move- ment in neutral...

Ulster and Great Britain" points a way out. But why "England" ? Surely North-East Ulster, racially largely Scottish, Presbyterian in religion, and geographi- cally adjacent to...

the Six-County Area of Ulster should be incorporated in the Kingdom of England as a single English county, if adopted, would remove some administrative difficulties which have...

[To THE Emma or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The proposals of Mr. Dennis Milner for a State Bonus, as outlined by Mr. Pickard in your issue of November 16th, embody a most attractive...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sia,—The most disconcerting thing about the Sootsmen I hale known is that they are always being engagingly funny, presum- ably in an...

[To THE ED/TOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] have a copy of the Spectator before me dated June 29th, with a letter from a correspondent with the above heading. It is a letter worth the...

" SPECTATOR.") Sia,—In your issue of November 23rd you state that "every inch of the cloth used for our aeroplanes has been manufactured in and around Belfast." May I point out...

SPECT LTOR."3 Sia,—My attention has been _drawn to a letter in your last issue by an old Wykehamist, in which-he expresses the-hope that "old Wykehamists who are against .the...

AN IMPERIAL MEMORLAL SCHEME. (To THE-EDITOR OF-THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The Veterans' Association venture to ask not -,only the courtesy of your columns, but also your cordial...

Sui,—:hLay I as another old Wykehamist and a regular reader of the Spectator: for over forty years be allowed to .support the appeal of " Old Wykehamist" in last week's issue ?...

(To THE EDiToR Or THE " SpecriToR.") Sia,---rIt is proposed to erect a suitable public memorial to the late Mr. William Willett, whose laborious, protracted, and -wholly...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE '" SPRETAIVel PGR,—.Plunierous suggestions are being made regarding the best way to perpetuate the memory -of those who have fallen in* the war. May I add...

[To THE EDITOR or TEE " SPECTATOR."] Sza,—You quote some extraordinarily appropriate verses of Byron on Napoleon. The following are scarcely lees apposite to the present...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Saa,—May correct a small error in the paragraph on the Italian victory in the Spectator of November 9th? The number of the Austro-Hungarian...

[To am Emma or ms " Seroraroa."] Sza,—Mr. Arthur S. Owen in his letter in your last issue says : " as a matter of fact, it [the war of 1870-71] ended on May 23rd." In the...

[To rim Eerroa or THE " SPECmTOR.."] Sza,—Once again have the readers of an English literary review been misled by an ill-informed correspondent on the question of the origin...

THE " SPECTATOR."] Sze,—Now that the oldest reigning Royal House in the world, the House of Hapsburg, has ceased to hold sway, it is interesting to recall the famous quotation...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sza,—It is regrettable that Colonel Burgoyne's question regarding the embargo on the clergy should have failed of its object. With the...

Sza,—The-Report-of Mr. Justice Rowlatt's Committee on Sedition in Indite has at length been published in. England, after a pro- tracted delay which, in view of the disclosures...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] does not appear to have been noticed that Admiral Beatty's signal to the Fleet, after the surrender of the German ships, in which he states...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—Having read in last Saturday's Spectator three prayers for children sent in by one of your correspondents, I wonder if any of your...

THE SMELLS OF HOME. I SHUT the door and left behind The reek of wounds—the cries Of "Sister! Sister! Go steady, Sister,"— The hateful sight of flies That come like mourners...

THE " SPEETRroit."] SAS,—In reading Mrs. Humphry Ward's very interesting Recollec- tions of Matthew Arnold and Tom Hughes I was reminded of an essay on a kindred subject which...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] gie,—It is a pity that correspondents so frequently omit the initials of an author whose work is quoted, together with the data of...

Sin,—Surely Lady Glenconner is mistaken. The first two stanzas she quotes of " Jeremy Taylor's evening hymn " are from Bishop Ken's well-known evening hymn. As she writes them...

that almost all children's prayer-verses refer to the fears and dangers of darkness. The truth of the matter is to the contrary—the child at last in bed is safer than it has...

name or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agree- mant with the vieuts therein expressed or with the...

FOLK-LORE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.• lux author of The Golden Bough has turned from classical mythology to the Old Testament, and applied the comparative method to illustrate some...

Professor of. Philosophy in the University of Cambridge, has finally revised and considerably expanded his Encyclopaedia Britannioa article " Psychology." The Cambridge Press is...

THOUGH recent events have affected some of the problems considered in this survey, it remains a most valuable book, as might be expected from the credentials of the writer, who...

ARTS.* A VERY interesting lecture by Mr. Laurence Binyon upon English Poetry in its Relation to Painting and the other Arts was lately delivered in connexion,with the British...

Tins is in reality a history of the English novel written by an American. It is packed with well-arranged information and resplendent with well-chosen quotations, but the...

by Mr. Robert Holmes in his new volume have been " selected out of some three hundred ex- convicts I have had a hand in seeking to help these twenty years— not as my regular...

UNDER the excitement of Tinker Beira impending dissolution the normal theatre audience responds en masse to Peter Pan's urgent appeal, and surrenders unconditionally to belief...

Co. 6s. net. )—An account of a rather impossible genius who writes a gospel of the war, the introduction to which attracts universal attention. He, however, burns the manuscript...

ILLUSTRATED BOOKS. UNDER the. title 0 The Springtide of Life. (W. Heinemann. 10s. 6d. net) Mr. Goose has colleoted and arranged Swinburne's delightful poems of childhood....

THE NEW WARDEN.* THE title of Mrs. Ritchie's new novel inevitably carries us back to Trollope, but the resemblance is a false trail. The scene is laid in a Cathedral town, but...

of the little " Trench Books " written to keep up the spirits of the German soldier. This pamphlet, which has been pieroed by a bullet, is an essay on America and the U-boat War...

(J. Murray. 3s. 6d. net.).—Mr. Jerrold has been he.; inspired in preparing this uslestion from Nelson's sayings, taken fruin Harris Nicolas's edition of the Dispatches and...

[Notice its MO column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.) The Reform of Political Representation. By J. Fischer Williams. (J. Murray. 2s. 6d. net.)—We imagine...

7s. 6d. net.)—These sketches of the literary Bohemia of Paris twenty years ago seem to belong to a very remote past. War-worn Paris evokes very different emotions nowadays. We...

University Press. 4s. 6d. net.)—This is a most instructive little book on a large and important subject. The author points out that Germany has taken immense pains to cultivate...