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

week read the text of his reply of July 28th to the Bolsheviks. In this note, drafted at the Boulogne meeting with M. Millerand, the Prime Minister defined his proposal for a...

envoy has concluded this week an agreement with the new Albanian Government, by which Italy gives up Valona, while retaining the island of Saseno, in the Bay of Valona, and the...

T HE rapid Bolshevik advance upon Warsaw is the most 1 striking event of the week. The Allies apparently assumed that, as soon as the Poles agreed to an armistice, the...

on Monday. Mr. Lloyd George contended that the agreement simply gave effect to Article 235 of the Peace Treaty, under which the Allies might advance money for food and raw...

Should our readers experience any difficulty in obtaining the SPECTATOR during the summer holidays from Newsagents or Railway Bookstalls, will they please communicate at once...

Bolsheviks at Baranovitchi on Friday week. The Bolsheviks informed them on Sunday that they must negotiate for a peace as well as for an armistice. The Poles, having no...

on Friday week, and received a vote of approval by 356 votes to 169, despite the severe criticisms of the Parisian Press. The agreement, he said, would secure to France four-...

Owing to the Government having taken over our present premises, we shall remove to new offices, 13 York Street, Covent Garden, W.C. 2, on August the 14th, where all...

strong protest against the Turkish Peace Treaty in the House of Lords on Wednesday, asserting that Smyrna.and Thrace were Turkish and that India would be aggrieved at the harsh...

paper that never had such disorder been seen as took place at the White Star dock when Archbishop Mannix embarked in the 'Baltic.' The Archbishop's Sinn Fein supporters carried...

by a Sinn Fein gang on Friday week in the offices of the Dublin and South-Eastern Railway Company at Westland Row, Dublin. He was conversing with a fellow-director of the...

kidnapped by Sinn Feiners on June 26th while fishing in a remote valley, escaped from his captors on Friday week and made his way to Pallas. A military motor-lorry took him to...

address at Caxton Hall on Thursday week on Sinn Fein in the United States. It is a real satisfaction to read the words of an American who sees the Irish problem in its true...

large deputation of Unionist members who waited on the Prime Minister on Thursday week to emphasize the gravity of the situation in Ireland and the close connexion between Sinn...

States represent "the worst elements of the Roman Catholic laity," and although their numbers, in his opinion, do not exceed five per cent. of the whole population and twenty...

in the papers of Friday week that the Vatican has expressed "great surprise" at the recent utterances of Dr. Mannix, who was lately Archbishop of Melbourne. The Vatican points...

Monday his promised Bill" for the restoration and main- tenance of order in Ireland." It provides for the trial of Irish criminals by a court-martial, including one lawyer, or...

to them," Mr. Fox went on. "They are all of them of the most worthless character and absolutely contrary to the best public opinion." The large majority of Sinn Feiners in the...

Bombay last week at the age of sixty-four. He had spent his life in fomenting disaffection and, as a high-caste Brahman, he did not scruple to excite Hindu fanaticism against...

our readers to the fact that the Spectator is about to change its offices, and that after August 14th all communica- tions should be sent to the new address. Our departure from...

by holding a public conference last Saturday to form a "National Communist Party." The Times states that 170 delegates attended and that they represented perhaps 5,000...

debate on the Report of the Select Committee on National Expenditure with regard to the operations of the Ministry of Munitions and the Disposal Board. Sir Gordon Hewart, the...

hundred years in our present offices, but we must fall short of the century by nine years. The Spectator, which was founded in 1828, was published for one year at 159 Strand,...

in the Blue book published this week, are very much to the point. The North Russian campaign began with the landing of 150 Marines in April, 1918, at Murmansk, the ice-free port...

we are sure, did what apparently he was required to do to the best of his ability. But we are frankly amazed that the Government, who have had their attention called repeatedly...

the recent appeal of the Marriage Defence Council for funds to conduct a campaign against Lord Buckmaster's Bill. The Union states that the Bill, so far from granting facilities...

Apr. 15, 1920; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 84k; Thursday week, 841 1 ; a year ago, 93f.

BOLSHEVISM AT HOME AND ABROAD. T HE anniversary week of the outbreak of the war finds the Western world, instead of contentedly settling down, repairing the fissures in its...

of misunderstanding about the Policy of the Plough which Lord Lee and the present Ministry of Agriculture are doing their best to expound and enforce. At the very back of that...

P OLITICAL invective is a lost art, or at any rate is fast becoming so. No one will seriously regret the fact, for what used to be called the "literary assassin "—the man who...

THE St. Gaudens statue of Abraham Lincoln which was unveiled in the Canning enclosure last week ought to be a rallying-point in the spirit, if not in the body, for all who hold...

VV E are delighted to have the opportunity of setting before or readers not only in this country but in the British Empire and the United States Mr. Root's speech at the...

D URING the week the Press has been full of enthusiasm over the Scouts' Jamboree at Olympia, which closes to-day, and everyone who was able to visit Olympia must feel that the...

A LL our minds have been turned for weeks past upon travel and its expense. Never, we suppose, since Bradshaw was first published has so much been thought about the matter. Yet...

BOLSHEVISM AND FINANCE. [To THE EDITOR or TEE SPECTATOR."] Sur,—In my last letter I referred to the unparalleled depreciation which has occurred in high-class investment...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are of ten more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] - THE CONDITION OF...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR29 SIR,-It were idle indeed to look for lively sympathy from the idealist Radical Press for outrage and injury inflicted on our countrymen in...

[To THE EDITOR OF TER "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In the interesting comparison of your correspondent Mr. Bushnell under above heading in your issue of July 24th he makes a grave...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SIR,—In your issue of July 24th you quoted remarks of mire relating to the hostility of certain Trade Unions to ex-Service men, and in your comments...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPWFATOR."3 SIR,—You lave most clearly indicated the outlines of the mill policy which can relieve us of the heavy burdens entailed by a military...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") • BIL—May I, as an Anglo-Indian, and a descendant of the Lawrences, proffer my heartfelt thanks and admiration for your courageous...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—As there is a prospect of the Plumage Bill being revived (the three Government Bills that followed it did not succeed in obtaining a...

[To THE Eiirrou or THE " ilezersroa."l Bra,—Mr. Thomas Anderson, editor of the Bed Dawn, gives in your issue of .Faly 24th what purporbi to be a very frank, uncom- promising...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") the History of the British Army, by the Hon. J. W. Fortesaue, Vol. i., Book iv., Chap. i., I find the following passage dealing with the...

SIR,—Mr. Dovrnham has made the confession which no doubt the Hon. Secretary of the Plumage Bill Group desired. In regard to the proportion between moulted and "shot" plumes...

[To THE EDITOR Of THE " SPECTATOR."] Stu,—To the deep delight, I feel sure, of all your English readers, the Spectator is so seriously interested in every sign of a good...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—You must not be too hard on Mrs. Elizabeth Humfrey and her not yet wholly defunct class of scissors-and-paste people. Exempli...

Sia,—The amusing Parliamentary incident regarding Mr. Eradstone and Disraeli recorded by Lady Frederick Cavendish is told in Modern Parliamentary Eloquence, being the Reid...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE, — Sir Edmund Harry Elton, Bart., died at his beautiful home, Clevedon Court, Somerset, on the 17th ult., in his seventy-fifth year...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sps,—The question of the utilization of the bracken in the manufacture of paper raised by a correspondent in your issue of July 31st is a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—The visit of the Glastonbury Festival School to London has created two dominant impressions—firstly, that the Glaston- bury...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked" Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOII."] gia,—The following incident in the Oxford life of my old con- temporary Paravicini (we were born in the same year, as was also...

LOVE IN THE SPRING. CALL it not Love, this splendid lust of thine, That makes the sky grow warm, and heaven above Rain mellow gold ! which, like long-guarded wine, Drugs...

[To. THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In reply to your inquiry in your issue of the 31st ult. as to the author of the lines; "Pure water is the best of gifts," &e., I beg...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] write in the interests of English people who are wishful, after these past years of strain and anxiety, of having a real rest for mind and...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-A year or two before the war a fight took place near Waternish, in Skye, between a so-called thresher and a whale. It was seen at close...

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THE ESSENTIAL FALLACY OF KARL MARX.* FEW kinds of exposition are more useful in these times than the statement of economic truth in language which can be under- stood by all....

144.YMARRET.—Mary Rose .. 8.30-2.30 utssargana or R.I.P.! Their tears blind the audience to any familiarity in the conundrum.] CsrrEstoN.—Lorci Richard in the Pantry .....

EVERYONE has heard of Colonel Lawrence, the young Oxford archaeologist who showed veritable genius in organizing the undisciplined tribesmen of the Hedjaz and waging a long and...

IN writing a spirited, coherent and accurate history of Italy, from the third century to our own day, within some five hundred pages, Mrs. Trevelyan has accomplished a feat...

Trrz industry and versatility of Sir . Ernest Budge are truly amazing. Only a few months ago two stout volumes describing his travels and adventures in quest of antiquities were...

THIS is a scholarly, a judicious, and, on its own ground—which is that of a study of the ecclesiastical authorities on its subject from the sub-apostolic period to the Fourth...

BEAUTY AND BANDS.* THE combination of qualities with which Viola Chalfont, the heroine of Mrs. Felkin's new novel, was endowed reminds one somewhat of the epitaph which...

SAmtTEL BUTLER is the one writer to whom Mr. Bernard Shaw acknowledges a debt and even a discipleship. Therefore the careful but selective analysis of the similarities and...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent revietvj THE AUGUST Maw zneEs.—The Nineteenth Century gives first place to Colonel G. B. Hurst, who answers...

SIGNPOSTS ON THE PRIMROSE PATH.* THE careful study of a certain amount of thoroughly bad poetry is necessary to the budding poe as well as o the critic. It is often in...

7s. 6d. net.)—Otherworki. Cadences by F. S. Flint. (The Poetry Bookshop. 5s. net)—Interesting, but, as Tolstoy would have said, "too bookish."—Th,e Tempering. By Howard...

interesting psychological study, the subject of which is the character of the hero, Charles Hovland, whose self- absorption never varies through good and evil fortune. The...

Georges Roth on the correspondence between the Strasbourg revolutionaries and the London Revolution Society in 1790-91, which illustrates the prominent part played by Alsace in...

6s. net.)—All that Bishop Gore writes will be welcome to Anglicans of his school ; and the Introduction to these studies of the Epistles of St. John, which contains a...

them under public management as at Carlisle. He has de- nounced the Carlisle scheme on the grounds that it made ex- cessive profits, that Carlisle was still notorious for...

and remote, although they have left so easily traceable an influence behind them, and Mr. Bernard Muddiman (The Men of the Nineties, Henry Danielson, 6s. net) has written in the...

it? By Captain R. T. Hinekes. (Hereford Times. 3d.)— Captain Hinekes discusses the prospects of the world's wheat supply and concludes that prices will not return to the...

Press. 5s. net.)—These lectures to teachers on the story of Cambridgeshire, "as told by itself," are an admirable example of the way in which history should be taught. Dr....

Salmon. (S.P.C.K. 4s. net.)—This attractive little book, well illustrated from old maps and plans and photographs, contains a short history of Plymouth, which is now...

Allen and Unwin. 10s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Goodhart, an American scholar who is a Fellow of Corpus Christi, Cambridge, was sent to Poland in July, 1919, with Mr. Morgenthau's mission...

Scott Keltie and Dr. M. Epstein (Macmillan, 20s.), is more useful than ever now that the political map hai been transformed by the war. We are delighted to note the success with...