FROM JANUARY 3rd TO JUNE 26th, 1920, INCLUSIVE. TOPICS OF THE DAY. A Adr DRIATIC Dispute, President Wilson and 032 „Itlatic, America and the E99 Africa, South, the Problem...

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else that we read with regret in the evidence. According to the latest reports, curiously ingenious punishments were invented. A public scaffold was raised by order of the...

T HERE was an extraordinary affair in Phoenix Park in the early hours of last Sunday morning, and probably the exact truth as to what happened will never be known. There is no...

evidence given before Lord Hunter's Committee which is inquiring into the Punjab riots. The evidence shows how extremely grave the riots were, and how much reason there was for...

Act last week, issued a Proclamation to the Indian peoples, informing them that another epoch in Indian history had begun. The Act " entrusts elected representatives of the...

Indian frontier for some months past, have made their sub- mission. The punitive columns sent against them had some sharp fighting last month, but the tribesmen soon saw that...

and hemor- rhage caused by being accidentally killed by a shot fired by one of his own party while on patrol." In the case of Kennedy, they found that he was " killed on his way...

comes out of Ireland. The soldiers did not give their evidence at all clearly ; they were in fact as confused at the inquests as they apparently had been in the fighting in...

the coast and the Hedjaz Arabs At Damascus and Aleppo, has led to. some difference of opinion.as to the boundary between the French and Arab spheres of influence. A French...

the coast districts of the Black• Sea. No doubtwhat policy is to be adopted by .the Allies towards Russia .will again be discussed by Mr. Lloyd George in Paris. We hear -less...

the German war-plans has been removed by the publieation in Berlin of the text of the secret Turco-German Treaty signed at Constantinople on August 2nd, 1914. Turkey agreed to...

on Monday that ,new and heavy taxes must be imposed, to the extent of six or seven thousand million francs. The total deficit for the current year was twenty-five thousand...

out to inquire into the schemes for irrigation and for developing agriculture ; to inquire whether the expenditure charged against Army funds was confined to services necessary...

Admiral Koltchak's force, making a terrible winter retreat through Siberia, has experienced something -like a disaster. One can hardly imagine the conditions under which this...

the Protocol relating to the, Scapa Flow episode. The Allies were, they said, prepared to reduce the demand for 400,000 tons of floating docks, dredgers, and tugs if it could be...

were £130,000 'in 1915-1916, £270,000 in 1916-1917, and £100,000 in 1917-1918. As the cost of running Mesopotamia was of course far higher- than that, these , figures. must...

had discussed the Turkish question with Mr. Lloyd George, and that the bases for an agreement had been fixed. -Mr; Lloyd George had said to him : " Our two countries must keep...

spoke in the Italian-Senate on Monday .concern- ing the Adriatic question. They took exception to: M. Clemen- ceau's recent reference to the matter. They claimed Dalmatia under...

the eminent Canadian physician who had been Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford since 1905. He was a great man as well as a great physician, and his popularity and personal...

believe in education. Mr. Rockefeller's Christmas gift of a hundred million dollars is the largest of its kind, but it is typical and in ne way exceptional. Mr. Rockefeller has...

Kingdom Peerage, was Secretary for War for two years in Mr. Belfries Goireilenent, and was also Secretary for Ireland for three years. He was, of course, leader of the Southern...

sixty-five years of age. While his recent advocacy of "Dominion Home Rule " and his coquetting with Sinn Fein had distressed most of his old friends, his political eccentricity...

Engineering Employers' Federation is to confer with the three Iron-Moulders' Unions which have been on strike since September. The Parlia- mentary Committee of the Trade Union...

Thursday. Lord Midleton, who was a Viscount in the Irish Peerage and a Baron in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, becomes an Earl. There are • three new Berens, Sir Bertrand...

Some classes of workers, notably agricultural labourers, are excluded from the Bill, but even so nearly twelve millions of workers will be dealt with. The Bill, of course, is...

Unionist candidate, was returned by a majority of 1,071 over the Labour candidate, Mr. Hodes. Last December Mr. H. W. Forster polled 16,840 votes for the Coalition against the...

Smith at the age of eighty-six. He went to India before the Mutiny to take a professorship, and afterwards joined Mr. Meredith Townsend, the late co-editor of the Spectator, in...

be 15s., but the contribution from both workers and employers will be 3d. per week instead of 21d. For women the benefit will be 12s. and the contribution 2.1(1. The Government...

Bar. The Sex Disqualification Removal Bill received the Royal Assent last week, and on Monday two women entered as students at the ancient Inns, one at the Middle Temple and one...

6, 1919.

EGYPTIAN UNREST. T HE position in Egypt is undoubtedly serious, but there is no need for anything approaching despair if only the authorities here do not lose their nerve, and...

prospect that within the next few days Germany will sign the Protocol of the Peace Treaty, and there should then be no delay in depositing the ratifications. Within a few days,...

A FEW months ago no one could have foreseen how rapid the recovery of our trade now seems likely to be. It is true that when the war was still going on there was a common notion...

A N amusing picture appeared recently in Punch representing a literary man vainly endeavouring to persuade a butcher to exchange a poem for a ()hop. In these days when cash...

T HE decision of the Minister of Transport to raise the railway rates on merchandise has been accepted with equanimity because every one knew that it was inevitable. The hard...

T HE historian of the war of 1914-1918 is certainly not a man to be envied. If no previous conflict affords a theme so splendid, none has ever presented a task so beset with...

[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.] IRELAND—A PREDICTION...

[To THE EDITOR OF TILE " SPECTATOR.") Sol ,—Your correspondent "Irishman " incidentally supplies a scathing commentary on President Wilson's wildly misleading phrase...

[To THE EDITOR. OF THE " SPEOFATOR."] Sia,—Is there any conceivable use in proceeding with a scheme for Irish Home Rule which, apparently, no Irish party wants P Would it not...

THE " SPECTATOR.".1 SIR, —In your paragraph with regard to the outrage on Lord French, comparing it with the Phoenix Park murders of 1852, I think there is a slight error of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Ent, —1 have read with much interest the correspondence on this subject and the article which inspired it, and I have just discovered some...

THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In a letter under the heading " A Question for Miners " in your issue of December 20th the writer asks: " What would be said if the coal-owners decided...

" SPECTATOR."J SIR,—The interest aroused by Mr. Graham's book has called attention to the problem which, though apparently found in an acute form in the Guards, yet exists...

paper of the dissatisfaction amongst some of the London V.A.D. Detachments, I think the following facts may show how difficult it would be to give any gratuity for part-time...

Sze,--T am afraid Mr. If. F. S. Morgan's suggestion in the Spectator of December 27th limiting profits on turnover instead of on capital is also open to a serious objection. A...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—May I also say that I was a voluntary whole-time Red Cross worker at the Passport Department, Folkestone Harbour, for nine months and...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, —In your issue of December 13th " R. W." appeals to Bishop Lightfoot as " the greatest Biblical scholar that Britain has produced for...

(To THE Roma or TIM " Sencrwroa.") Sia,—Please excuse my saying that I think you are unfair in your remarks on General Dyer. Had he hesitated ever so little, he and his small...

[TO THE EDITOR, OP THE "I3PEDIATOR."] Sia,—After many years of reading (and lecturing on) /await, I have oome to agree with the statement that an eighteenth- century mind is...

THE EDITOR 0* THE ` } 'Eterkesroa.°1 Sus, —I wonder if any of your readers can tell me what to call a bird that frequents ray garden and feeds daily on my bed- room window-sill....

tie " gererirott."3 Sis,—The eicellent letter of the Rev. Sheerly Gripper upon the eviction of natives in one part of Mashonaland is an indication of the serious pbgition of...

no position to say whethen..Lucan is read in our Public Schools now, but I remember reading the Pltarsalia in the Sixth Form at Repton in 1861 or 1862. This is impressed on my...

iTo - rite Einton or THE " %mentos.") Sta,—The writer of an article with the above title in the Spectator of December 27th says that " No woman has Written any fairy-stories of...

[To see Eerros OF 'ME " SPEOTATOR."] &n,—May I, as one in the same predicament as your corre- spondent (the Rev. J. F. Hamlyn), suggest that he may find a partial solution by...

MGRS JANUA. VITAE. Orm death were not enough to purge my inner sight, or to atone my spirit with the Infinite. How should I burst at once into the very shrine of holy God...

MR. CHESTERTON ON IRELAND.* PART of the training in literature to which Flaubert subjected Guy de igaupassant was to make him study a tree until he saw how it differed from...

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SIR Josmua REYNOLDS, remarking that Rembrandt " exhibits little more than one spot of light in the midst of a large quantity of shadow," reproves him for " that ostentation of...

THERE are three pointi of view from which we can regard the nursery schooL There is the point of view of the child, of the child's mother, and of the teacher into whose hands...

Ma. Wyswr BURY, one. of the dew Englishmen who, have. made a special. study of South-Western Arabia, has written, an instruct- ive little book on , the relations between Islam...

Nor even a good comedy is so rare as genuine satire, and when an example of the latter is produced some indulgence in super- latives may well be excused, for a long interval is...

[Notice in phis wham does not necessarily preclude subsequent reeists.] THE J_A.NUARY Hoe-relles.—The Nineteenth Century gives prominence to a most appreciative article by Lord...

MRS. MARDEN.t Me. lItCHENS has essayed in his new novel to show the effect of the war on the minds of those who, without being aggressively irreligious, cynical, or unkindly,...

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book, written by an expert, and based largely on official records, is of great interest. The author maintains that our submarine service was far better than the enemy's, and he...

Is. not.)—Lord Robert Cecil discusses in this interesting pamphlet the League of Nations, Industry—the problem and the remedy, Finance, Parliament, and Ireland. As to Ireland,...

Devine. (Winchester : Warren and Son.)—Mr. Devine contends that Montenegro is as much entitled to " self- determination " as any other country, and he asserts that the Serbians...

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(Kelly's Directories, 3 vols., 64s. net), the hundred and twenty-first annual issue, is a wonderful compilation. We always feel that the editors who produce year by year this...

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