T HEgreat railway strike took the public unawares—in this it followed the fashion of most wars. For this strike, which is the most considerable attempt ever made by a section of...

..■■■11:..■■■• THE RAILWAY STRIKE. T HERE is little to be said about the strike except to urge the country and the Government to hold firm. The country, and by the country we...

W E have dealt with the issue in hand, the issue of preventing the country from starving, and with the need for making it clear for all time that no section of the people shall...

H. — THE ANALOGY. R EADERS of what we wrote last week in regard to the genesis of the French Revolution may perhaps say: "But what has all this got to do with us ? The...

SIGNOR D'ANNUNZIO'S adventure at Fiume is IJ causing the Italian Government and the Allies some anxious moments. The poet took possession of the Istrian port on September 12th,...

W ITH sighs of regret or relief, the holiday-makers have returned to harness. The...many are sorry, the few are glad. Among those who work for their living, some live for their...

A T any rate that's how it is labelled in the daily papers, and they ought to know. It suggests that His Majesty's ships, wreathed in roses, with the ship's company dancing the...

INFANT PSYCHOLOGY. [To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Miss Margaret Drummond in her book, The Dawn Mind, which you reviewed about a year ago, remarks that th,s study...

When Barbara was ten months old she began to try to pull herself up. She was heavy, and we discouraged it, and she became a rapid and expert crawler. Now at iourteen months elle...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are Toften more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] NATIONALIZATION AND THE...

the Spectator under this heading has been a revelation to me. Always disliking strong drink and dreading the influence that it might exert upon the moral and material aspects of...

who are keen on Temperance Reform ought to be extremely grateful to the Spectator for its advocacy of State Purchase and for opening its columns to a discussion of the subject....

have followed with great interest the articles and correspondence in the Spectator on "Nationalization and the Liquor Trade," and I have been struck by the element of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I notice that in every letter but one appearing in you? issue of the 13th inst, the writers thereof apparently consider or take it for...

just had the pleasure of reading your splendid article, "The Bond of Letters," in the Spectator of August 23rd, and I hasten to offer you my sincere, though somewhat belated,...

recent article in your paper entitled " The Bond of Letters," followed by a letter from Lady Dunboyne, causes ins to invite the attention of your readers to the work of the...

THE PROBLEM OF IRELAND. Sia,—The letters of Mr. George L. Fox and of "Irish Loyalist," as well as your comments on the recent speech of Sir Edward Carson, have prompted the...

occurred in the case of all previous strikes affecting transnort, the present one will result in every old, decrepit, and half-starved horse, who is now ending his miserable...

THE KING'S PROCLAMATION. (To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEC-MO:01 SIR, —With reference to your short paragraph on the above in your issue of September 20th, I can.fully bear out your...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sat,—Neither of your correspondents has given the origin of mangel-wurzel," which has a peculiar interest. It is of course the field beet...

SIR,—Your correspondent Mr. Wilson King asks what I mean by the word " mangel-wurzel " and where it is used. The answer is that the word is used in Germany, and means that very...

[To THE ED/TOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sie,--Soafell Pike, the highest mountain summit in England, by the goodwill of Lord Leconfield, the lord of the manor, is to be...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECPATOR."] Sia,—Of the general tone of your review of my book, PeaceMaking at Paris, I do not complain, although your political bias has, I think, led...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I do not know whether or not the enclosed 'statement may be of interest to you; but it shows what can be done in the trying...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] question may have been asked and answered long ago, but I have failed to get any information from friends. The question is as to the origin...

MONEY AND PRICES.* A Bill3UNDEILS'rkNDING of the relation of money to prices accounts in part for the political and. economic evils which afflict us. We may therefore draw...

"Immeasurable! compass me! " Underneath Thy winnowing hand How can false defences stand? All my shelters swept away, Naked, as on natal day,

THE immense magnitude of the recent war is aptly illustrated by Lord Cranworth's description of the conquest of German East Africa as " a side-show that is believed to have cost...

inaptly, as " one who has considerable experience and who is fairly free from prejudice." This is, perhaps, to say that he is not very like a Bishop. This impression is...

So many of our most useful as well as our most ornamental plants have been introduced from abroad that there is always a presumption in favour of the newcomer. In a recent Kew...

me not, in mournful numbers, Dinner is an empty dream, While one still can get cucumbers, Salmon, strawberries and cream ; " " I drove a golf ball into the air, And I conclude...

DEEP WATERS.t THE title of Mr. W. W. Jacobs's new volume may possibly excite misgivings in his numerous admirers. But they will be speedily reassured. The night-watchman still...

(Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] THE OCTOBER Moxruuxs.—The Nineteenth. Century has an instructive article on " Nationalizers ' and the...

to Speak Convincingly HOW I LEARNT TO BECOME A CONVINCING TALKER IN ONE EVENING. By GEORGE RAYMOND. " Have you heard the news about Frank Jordan ? He's been made secretary of...