the reasonable compromise made by the Allies in regard to the Adriatic frontier of Italy. The Allies have, of course, been much to blame in leaving the question unsettled for so...

at Paisley who are not in general sympathy with Mr. Asquith vote for him on the grounds we have mentioned, he will not consider that his mandate has not limitations. For...

repeated his complaint that the Coalition was " invertebrate " as a fighting force in the constituencies, and urged that it should be transformed into a single party "which will...

The local Unionists have put forward a candidate Mr. MaoKean, and it is said that, besides the Labour Party candi- date, Mr. Biggar, there will be a fourth candidate for the...

had come forward as a candidate for Paisley because the country needed an instructed and effective Opposition. Tho House of Commons represented a passing mood. It was incapable...

Dutch Government have refused to hand over the ex-Kaiser for trial. In a Note presented on Friday week, they reminded the Allies that Holland had no part in the Peace Treaty and...

p OLITICAL interest at home revolves round the Paisley by-election, with all its implications for the future of the parties. We have written elsewhere on this subject,...

resign from the Cabinet, and though the statement is not yet officially confirmed there is little doubt of its truth. At the last General Election Mr. Barnes decided to remain...

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

have issued a manifesto demanding immediate peace with Russia. The manifesto is signed by Mr. Bowerman, Mr. Brace, Mr. Brownlie, Mr. Clynes, and others. The signatories state...

at a lower price to manufacturers and to reduce the prices of mannfactured goods, or, alternatively, to-increase the millers' wages still further. They evidently think that ....

favour when he presented himself to the Chamber last week. His Minister of the Interior, M. Steeg, was made the object of a bitter personal attack on the ground that he had been...

on Wednesday, had the' hardihood tonoraphtin of the high pribe of coal. Inasmuch as the cost of coal:getting had been greatly increased by the miners' own action in insisting...

under the chairmanship of Cardinal Logue and adopted a long resolution on the political situation. They declared that in the case of Ireland "the acknowledged right of civilized...

Erzberger, the Roman Catholic leader who is Finance Minister in the German Coalition Government. Herr Erzberger received two bullet-wounds, but was-not seriously injured. The...

a majority of about three - to two in favour ' of resuming work on the terms flied by the arbitrators last July and accepted by all the other engineering Trade' Unione. The...

to murder Serjeant Sullivan -While he was going by train to Tralee to give evidence against - the'men who attacked him three weeks ago. The train was fired on, and a policeman...

peace with the Bolsheviks. The other Baltic States and Poland are reported to be willing to make peace also, but they are still obliged to resist Bolshevik attacks. The'...

they speak about the "acknowledged right of civilized nations to choose their own Government" being denied to Ireland, do they intend to deny this right to the Protestants and...

Committee's propoSel to .finenee its housing scheme by issuing paper money °tithe security of the rates. The idea is to borrow money without interest, and thus get cheap...

jug" on the raw wool. The Government, having entered into the risky speculation of buying vast quantities of wool, were bound to make sure that they did not lose money. Their...

last spring a scheme for the supply of a certain quantity of "standard clothing" at fixed prices. This clothing might have been made from the wool sold by the State to the trade...

but Mr. Masetield's incomplete conception of the leaser character. was necessarily reflected in the acting. The ghost who cries ir at the window in the first act, with his...

by their new proprietor, Mr. Munsey, ends the independent career of a very famous newspaper. The Herald was founded in 1835 by James Gordon Bennett, then a poor journalist, and...

eighty-two of Dr. Edmund Warre, formerly Head-Master and Provost of Eton. He was a great Etonian figure, and his influence and his memory will last for generations. He was...

that the terms of enlistment in the Territorial Force shall include the obligation to serve oversee "in a moment of extreme national emergency, but not until the Reserves have...

by Sir Frank Benson at the St. Martin's Theatre. The play ir an attempt to illustrate an historical character with as much realism as may be, and to reconstruct the events for...

drawn that a Territorial soldier need be under no apprehension that he would be required to leave his civil occupation unless there wore a groat emergency. Nevertheless he would...

of clothes and at the large profits made by the woollen trade. The Report of a Board of Trade Committee, published on Tuesday, showed that the Government Kaki not fairly be...

IF REASON RULED. T HE Government Bill for the future government of Ireland will soon be before the country. As to its exact nature we have not been informed, for Mr. Lloyd...

We have decided that after the last Saturday in February- i.e., an Saturday, March 6th—the price of the SPECTATOR must be increased to 9d. We had hoped till quite recently to...

effect, and though it is difficult to judge in such a matter, we should say that the British people arc much more conscious now than they were immediately after the Armistice of...

T HE by-election at Paisley promises to be one of the most important in recent times. It may be a turning-point for the Coalition. There are rumours that Mr. Lloyd George is...

to Hartsleap, the V.A.D. Convalescent Home near Camberley, has passed between the Editor of this paper and Sir Arthur Stanley, the Chairman of the Central Joint V.A.D. Com-...

24th January, 1920. MY DEAR STRACHEY.—In reply to your kind letter of 12th January, I am asked by the V,A.D Committee to say that we should be most grateful if you would put an...

and that is brains ; but money is by no means the most important thing for which brains alone prove a working alternative. At the present moment it is the best educated class of...

T is generally known that in the rich and warm lands of the North of New South Wales and South and Central Queensland one of the worst pests is a vegetable, the prickly pear,...

UNIQUE CHANCES FOR BRITISH CAPITAL IN AUSTRIA. - [To THE EIHTOR OF VIE " SPECTAT 01 L ." Sia,—Having just returned from a six months' visit to Austria, the interesting letter...

(Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than Those which Oil treble the space.] THE IRISH CRISIS. [To THE...

the Government in Ireland has rendered itself peculiarly obnoxious to a section of the working class because of its decision to enforce a special type of identification-permit...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,"] SAL—Permit a very old student of the columns of the Spectator to express hearty approval of the suggestion con- veyed in the article under...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I see that the Times in an article on the murder of Commissioner Redmond adopts the view that these outrages have not the approval of...

Sin,—Can any reader explain to a very bewildered "man in the street" why in present-day economics 90 x equals Nothing. though x is made out to Ile the factor responsible for all...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sie,—One important factor has been overlooked in the discus- sion on this subject. Apart from the Law Officers, and such political...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—As a co-religionist of Mr. Edwin Montagu, may I take exception to your description of him in " National mismanage- ment — IV., The New...

[To TEE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."' S1R,—The letter of "Y?' in the Spectator hardly calls for a reply. The point of my letter was that the High Court Judges of the United...

THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—Surely " An English Churchman" is making a mountain out of a molehill. The abrogation of the right of the Crown to appoint Bishops is not in the...

[To rem EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' Sia,-1 have to thank you for your courtesy in printing my long letter, and, in particular, in choosing it from amongst the many you had...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." SIR,—In connexion with the subject of women and fairy-tales, may I point out that the brothers Grimm did not invent the stories published in...

THE GEORGIAN POETRY BOOK, 1918-1919.* IN his prefatory note to the fourth volume of The Georgian Poetry Book "E. M." remarks that he hopes the collection will prove that "what...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEM " SPECTATOR ."J Sla,—May I offer a new reading of a line in Cymbeline that has troubled the commentators ? In Act V., Scene i., Posthumuq, groaning with...

A MID-WINTER DAY. THE day was mine, was all my own to spend, The- road, the shining road, was mine at last, The forest leaned towards me as a friend— Let me recall my day and...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked" Commu.nicated," the Editor must riot necessarily be held to be in agreement will& the views therein expressed or with the mode...

Mu. 1TARTLEY COLERIDGE has written a highly interesting Life of Thomas Coutts, the shrewd and sentimental Scotsman who made the reputation of Coutts's Bank in the days of George...

ALL readers of the first volume of Marjorie and C. H. B. Quennell's History of Everyday Things in England will welcome the second —and last. The second part is as original and...

IN Modern Roads' Mr. Percy Boulnois writes not merely as a great road- b uilder, but as one fully conscious of the close connexion existing between a good road system and...

CANON Harerear offers no solution of the Irish question. It is well to be clear upon this point, because in the present volume he has achieved the very difficult task of talking...

PARODIES of nursery rhymes are as a rule detestable. They are generally sophisticated, they are apt to rely for effect upon a double meaning, and they almost always miss the...

!Notice in this column does not necessarily prided. tubsnusfat miss./ A weighty and searching criticism of Mr. Montagu's India Act appears in the Church Quarterly Review for...

his parish magazine into a Monthly Review (6d. net), the January issue of which is a spirited and enter- taining production. General Maurice writes on the League of Nations and...

of the forty-eighth Annual Report of the Local Government Board, 1918-19 (Cmd. 462, Is. 3d. net), recalls the history of the series of Medical Reports begun by the late Sir John...

the Bishop of St. Davids. (S.P.C.K. Is. net.)—This pamphlet, written for the diocese of St. Davide, gives a lucid account of the financial position of the Welsh Church and of...

Arnold. 4s. 6d.)—Some seventy years ago there lived in London a young brother and sister who christened their favourite book of ghost stories Sights and Frights. The "thin...

of the mediaeval craft gilds and base fantastic theories upon them should read a short article on the subject by Miss Eileen Power in History, the organ of the Historical...

STORM IN A TEACUP.* Tiaz scene of Mr. Eden Phillpotte's new story is laid in Devon- shire. But readers who are familiar with the tragic atne - phere which invests so many of...

12s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Wyatt's anthology of Anglo-Saxon poetry and prose is an excellent piece of work. It is much more varied than the older books of the kind. The editor has...

University Press. 2s. 6d. net.)—The new Cambridge Professor of Naval History's inaugural lecture is a spirited plea for his subject. He points out how persistently our...

Press. 3s. net.)—This little book should not escape the attention of any one interested in General Maude's brilliant Mesopotamian campaign. It contains much new detail con-...

net) is the thirty-third volume of an invaluable series. The alphabetical arrangement is convenient for reference. Mr. J. H. Slater as usual prefixes a brief note on the...

net.)—Mr. Lippmann has reprinted from the New Republic of New York his comments on the proceedings of the Peace Conference up to March last. At that time he was a sup- porter of...

Palace of Holyrood Howse. By John Harrison. (Blackwood. 25s. net.) —This is an interesting and well-written book, with some good illustrations by Mn W. D. M`Kay. The monastery...

(Macmillan. 10s. net.)—Mrs. Wood is concerned with the housing problem in the United States, where it seems to be even more acute than it is here. We commend her admiring...