HE Treaty of Peace with Germany was signed last Saturday afternoon in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. Five years before, to the day, the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was...

■ •■•••••••■••■ THE TREATY OF PEACE. T HE Treaty of Peace is signed, the League of Nations established, and a new world with new States, new boundaries, new institutions, and,...

"HOUGH Colonel House, like Wordsworth at. Yarrow, will leave " Ireland unvisited," it will, we hold, be distinctly useful to ask what Colonel House would have learnt had he...

1 F the investigations described in the. article which precedes this had been made in the South and West of Ireland, we feel sure that Colonel House would not have committed the...

W E promised a postscript to our article in last week's Spectator on Nationalization. In the first place, though we are opposed to the Nationalization of the industry, we agree...

S IR DOUGLAS HAIG has won the respect and gratitude of the nation by his great services in the field, and by his personal honesty and unselfishness in very trying circumstances....

B ELIEF in lucky and unlucky days dies hard ; perhaps it will never entirely die. The older civilizations were full of it. The oldest was enslaved by it. The star-gazing priests...

" rpHE men who have changed the universe," said Napoleon. "have never succeeded by capturing the leaders but by addressing the masses." Whether this maxim be true or false, its...

AN AMERICAN SOLDIER'S IMPRESSIONS OF IRELAND. [To THE EDITOR Or TED " SPECTATOR.") SIE, — Perhaps it might be of interest to yourself and to the general public to know the...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fin treble the space.) PRESIDENT WILSON AND THE...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I have visited Ireland for fifty years. and have had a helve in the West of Ireland for the last fifteen years. May I add a few words...

" SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Your article of May 10th has suggested to me to recall an historic event, so that it may be enshrined in your columns and not pass Into oblivion. At the...

(To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.") am delighted to see that the Spectator (almost alone amongst the great papers) is keeping up steady opposition to nationalization, and I...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sus,—It is quite impossible for the plain man to understand why our Government should not pass a ten-line Bill empowering Nationalist...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SEECIATOR."7 SIR;—I read your frequent references to Trade Unionism and agree with most of them. Cannot some scheme be devised whereby when a strike is...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sm,—We are told that the Government has removed some of the restrictions which have been imposed upon the Liquor Traffic during the war,...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR;—Millions of British can easily endorse Mr. Algernon Salt's "real misery at witnessing the deplorable eontinuins stream of women and...

[To THE EDITOR WOE& "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Tbe high cost of living makes life very hard for the number of people dependent upon pensions of £211 a year, granted to them, by votes,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIE,—I should recommend your correspondent "Father of Scottish I.C.S.'s" to go to India and study both sides of the Reform question, as the...

[To THE Ennon or ma " Seacsaroa."] 8111,—We all talk a great deal about the extravagance of the Government, thinking, in a detached sort of 'say, that the latter its something...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] fear that I did not make my letter clear enough. I was "it referring to a tax on bachelors at all, but to the suggestion either approved by,...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Si,—You have very kindly allowed me, on previous occasions, to give your readers a brief account of the Cheltenham. Conference, which has...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE" SPECTATOR."] Sus—Doubtless some of your readers who are versed in the lore of the bee could throw light on the origin and antiquity of the interesting...

[TO THE EDITOR Or TH11 " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The letter in your issue of June 21st raiees a wider question than the protection of the common raptorial birds. The avifauna of this...

Sra, — May I plead for help for the Nursery Schools of Miss Margaret McMillan, whose splendid work your readers are fairly well acquainted with ? They are not perhaps aware that...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The Women's Holiday Fund is this year strained to its utmost capacity to meet the demands on it, for while those who need rest and...

GLIMPSES OF ENGLAND. Orme looking downward from an attic high Above the roaring street, I wondered long If this were England's dim reverberant sigh. That floated upward from...

THE ARMED NEUTRALITIES.* THE stern experience of the war has taught us all that our forefathers were right in refusing the "freedom of the seas" to neutrals when Great Britain...

Arne an interval of seven years Mr. Braithwaite has given us a further contribution to the History of the Society of Friends projected by the late John W. Rowntree. His earlier...

[COMMuNICATED.] A COMPACT yet comprehensive account of the part that the British Navy has played in the war is greatly needed ; but we are frankly disappointed with the attempt...

Russian history, literature, and philosophy, which was published in Germany in 1913, well deserved to be translated into English. It is not an easy book to read, for the...

takes a considerably greater interest in the niceties of acting than experts are inclined to suppose, should be given the opportunity of seeing Mr. Louis Oalvert's Problems of...

THE MAN WITH THE LAMP.* As in her last novel, Before the Wind, Miss Laing draws her inspiration from the war, but lays her scene entirely on a remote corner of the Home Front....

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review]. THE JULY MommiES.—The Nineteenth Century devotes its first four articles to the "Peace—or Truce ? " Mr....

"Dear Sirs, "I feel I must write and give you a hearty appreciation of the results of the Pelman Course. May I • first be permitted to make a few observations regarding its...

"The outstanding feature of this work was the famous raid on Cuxhaven on Christmas Day, 1914. After a varied war experience in many theatres of war, from the North Sea to Aden,...

"Now, Sirs, what is it about Pelmanism that is so wonderful ? There are three practical results arising from Pelmanitam. There is the War 'use, the Professional use s and...

"That is the outstanding result of Pelmanism as I see it. No one can go through the Pelman Course without realising this matter vividly. Some people may be against materialism,...