7 DECEMBER 1918

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A strange incident in this wirepulling is the emergence of

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Miss Christabel Pankhurst at Smethwick as the one and only woman candidate enjoying the approval of the Coalition. Major Thompson, the Unionist candidate, had begun his...

The Prime Minister, speaking at Newcastle on Friday week, defended

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the Coalition Ministry as the only possible alternative to government by Mr. Asquith's Liberal group or the Labour Party controlled by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald. His Unionist...

The attempt of the Coalition Whips to apportion most of

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the British constituencies among approved Unionists and Liberals has caused much heart-burning in both Parties, as might have been expected. In Central Wandsworth, for example,...

Tuesday's papers contained an interchange of letters between Mr. Gulland,

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the Liberal Whip, and Mr. Churchill, regarding the adoption of twenty-nine Unionists and twenty-eight Liberals as Coalition candidates in Scotland. Mr. Gulland asked how Mr....

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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W EDNESDAY was Nomination Day. According to the Times, a hundred and eight Members were elected without opposition. Of these, seventy-one—forty-one Unionists, twenty- nine...

The Government apparently did not realize at first that the

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British public, who think of one thing at a time, are primarily inter- ested in the punishment of the German Emperor and his accomplices and tools. Mr. Lloyd George's general...

Mr. Asquith at Huddersfield on Thursday week attacked the Coalition

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with more vigour than he has shown of late. The forcing of a General Election at this juncture " was a profound blunder." The present bartering of seats and ticketing of...

I s * The Editor cannot accept responsibility for any articles

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

THE PAPER SHORTAGE.

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TO OUR READERS.—It is now necessary for readers to place a definite order for the " Spectator" with their Newsagent or at one of the Railway Book- stalls. Should any reader...

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Sir• Valentine Chirol has done well to remind the public,

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in the Times of Friday week, that Mr. Ramsay MacDonald has never yet withdrawn the baseless charges which he made against our Govern- ment in the early days of the war. He said,...

The Morning Post of Friday, November 29th; with a courage

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and public spirit which deserve the gratitude of all men who care for the honour of their country, deals (for the second time) with the rumour that Lord Reading is to be one of...

We had hoped to be able to avoid the supreme

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humiliation of publicly protesting before the civilized world that the Lord Chief Justice of England was not a worthy representative of the Empire on so great an occasion as the...

The recent purchase of the Daily Chronicle in the interests

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of Mr. Lloyd George is no doubt one of the instances of collaring the Press which Lord Salisbury has in mind. We were told that the Daily Chronicle under its new management was...

" They cannot abide the Referendum because the vote of

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the people themselves may upset the little scheme for which they have plotted and squared and wirepulled," Lord . Salisbury expresses his own opinion that though buying up...

This method of argument, pursued to its logical culmination, gives

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Mr. Lloyd George the credit for having secured, in the face of long and perverse opposition, the amazingly brilliant services—as we all admit them to be—of Marshal Foch. But the...

The Morning Post of Monday published an admirable letter from

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Lord Salisbury containing reflections on the General Election. There are many ways, he says, of mismanaging a nation.. There are, for example, the well-known methods of the...

If any attitude on the part of the Government could

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give a handle to Bolshevism, the art of making wild promises which cannot be fulfilled would do so. Fortunately Bolshevism is foreign to the mind, temper, and blood of the...

His conversion to the principle of vesting the supreme command

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in a single person apparently oame during the terrible crisis of March, 1818. As a matter of fact, as is incidentally admitted in the article in the Daily Chronicle, Sir Douglas...

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Dr. Percival, the late Bishop of Hereford, died on Tuesday

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at the age of eighty-four. He had won fame as the first Head-Master of Clifton, and, after an interval in which he was President of Trinity College, Oxford, as Head-Master of...

The President's Message seems to us in every way sound

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and wise. Reading between the lines, we see there his ever-present consciousness of the fact that the majority in both Houses of Congress is now against him. For good or for...

The Admiralty is now able to say with certainty that

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over two hundred German submarines were sunk in the desperate effort to starve us into surrender. A hundred and twenty-two U '-boats had been surrendered up to Sunday last, and...

President Wilson in the Message which be read to Congress

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on Monday said that American industry was returning quickly to peace conditions. Shipping, however, must be controlled, " perhaps for a long while," and Belgium and Northern...

The w hole Marconi business is so distasteful to us,

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and the raising of it just now involves consequences so disagreeable from the national point of view, that we are loth to enter into details in support of the line we have...

It now appears that the German Emperor did not abdicate

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on November 9th, as Prince Max of Baden gave the world to under- stand, and that when he took refuge with his Dutch friends he was still Emperor and War Lord. A Berlin telegram...

France has lost a brilliant poet-dramatist in M. Edmond Rostand,

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who died on Monday. He was only fifty, but he had been famous the world over, for more than twenty years past, as the author of Cyrano de Bergerac, that tragi-comedy in which...

The contempt of -the Navy for the toasters of "

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Der Tag I " was pithily expressed by Admiral. Beatty in a speech to the company of H.M.S. Lion,' before the First Battle Cruiser Squadron went stately forth to sea, to shepherd...

Marshal Foch and M. Clemenceau, Signor Orlando and Baron Sonnino,

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arrived in London last Sunday to attend an Allied Con- ference, and had a wonderful reception from the dense crowds that assembled in the streets. At the French Embassy on...

Before he slunk across the frontier the Emperor told a

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correspon- dent of the Cologne Gazette that he had not wished for the war, and had not taken part in the Councils of July, 1914, at whioh the fatal decision was reached. Herr...

The Allied armies crossed the German frontier last Sunday and

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began their march to the Rhine. By the end of next week they are to occupy the bridgeheads on the right bank east of Cologne, Coblenz, and Mainz, as well as the whole left bank...

Bank rate, 5 per cent., changed from ii, per cent.

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April 5, 19174

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TOPICS . OF THE DAY.

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HOW OUGHT WE TO DEAL WITH THE KAISER ? T HE question that heads this article is one which is in the minds of us all. What is the true answer ? The abstract reply is easy enough...

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HOW SHALL WE VOTE ? N EXT to the question, "How

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ought we to deal with the Kaiser ? " conies the question, " How shall we vote ? " We shall at a time so momentous as the present make no apology for offering an "appreciation "...

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THE TRUE DOCTRINE OF NAVAL WARFARE.

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rr IlE war has left us with rival doctrines both military and naval, and the critics of the future, if their writings are to be of any value, will have to decide these issues....

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THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR FISHERIES. T AST week the National Sea

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Fisheries Protection Association 4 presented an important Memorandum to Mr. Prothero, proposing that a Ministry of Fisheries should be created. As every one knows, the official...

THE BOTTOMLESS PURSE.

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( IF all the features of the electoral contest the most con- J spicuous is the eagerness of almost every candidate to promise unlimited largess to the electors and to their...

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SECLIN.

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T HIS is the story of Seclirt, a small manufacturing town lying some ten miles to the Arras side of Lille. It contained when the war broke out about a dozen factories, chiefly...

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THE POSITION OF ASSISTANT-MASTERS IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF ENGLAND.

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I N the work of reconstructing England, Education is rightly to be given a place. Recent legislation is a sign that English people are not as purblind on this question as they...

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LETTERS TO THE :EDITOR

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. [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.] AN INDEMNITY FROM...

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MR. LLOYD GEORGE AND THE HOUSING QUESTION. [To THE EDITOR

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OF THE " SPECTiTOR."] SIR,—May I, as one having considerable experience regarding one, and perhaps the most important, subject in Mr. Lloyd George's speeches dealt with by you...

HELIGOLAND.

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letter on Heligoland, which is a matter of some importance to the great sea-fishing industry as the centre of productive fishing-- grounds. I regret an error in typing. For "...

TIIE KIEL CANAL.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sie,—In your comments on the letter from Mr. R. Price on the Kiel Canal you state " that the Danes do not seem to want more than the...

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WEEKLY INTEREST PAYMENTS UPON WORKERS' SAVINGS.

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[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—There is a . proposal before the War Savings Committee which, if adopted, will have far-reaching benefits for the homes of our...

THE GENERAL ELECTION.

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[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sta,—I understood—as I think most people did—that one main object of the recent Reform Act in enfranchising the soldiers and the women was...

" CA' CANNY."

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sta.—It is often denied by the defenders of the Trade Unions that the " ca' canny " policy attributed to them has any founda- tion in fact....

UNIVERSITY ELECTIONS AND " PLUMPING."

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[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—In the University elections the Single Transferable Vote is being used for the first time, and I have had very many inquiries from...

" JOAN AND PETER."

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sig,—Let me add something to " Ulsterman's " remarks about Joan and Peter. I want to examine Mr. Wells's pretensions to be a military...

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THE ' STAR- AND GARTER ' HOME.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—You were good enough to publish on October 26th a -short appeal for the 'Star and Garter' Musical Fund. The following note on the...

SOLICITORS' MEMORIAL SERVICE.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—A memorial service for those solicitors and their articled clerks who -have given their lives in the service of. -their King - and...

THE PUNISHMENT OF WILLIAM II.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The Congress of Vienna did not trouble itself about trial or procedure in the case of Buonaparte. On March 13th, 1815, it issued a...

SUNDAY, DECEMBER Dm

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(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—No man can more entirely admire and acclaim than I do, as illustrious representatives of glorious France, Marshal Foch and M....

WAR MEMORIALS.

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[To Tire EDITOR OP THR " SPECTATOR."] Sta, — There seems to be a widespread desire that the names of men who have -fallen in the war shall be recorded, and the usual suggestion...

A MEMORY OF 1860.

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(To THE EtETOR or TES " SPECTATOR."] Sis, — Now that this long and murderous war with Germany, in which our American cousins have 'joined hand in .hand with us in successful...

DEAFNESS.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—You were good enough to publish,. some time ago, a corre- spondence dealing with moral conditions affecting the deaf. May • I through...

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BOOKS.

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GOURKO'S MEMOIRS:* 'Onitsam, GM:TRIM; after - holding high commands on various sections -of the Russian front, acted as Chief of the General Staff when General Alexeieff...

POETRY.

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'THE -BATTALION IS NOW ON REST. " WALKING the village street, to watch the stars and find Some peace like the Old peace, some south for soul and-mind; The noise of laughter...

AN 'EXAMPLE OF INDIAN HOME RULE.

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(To-rus-11mroa or THE " SnersToa."l "811k, —The lion.tagn-Chelmsford scheme has forced us to discuss the - fitness Of Indians' to manage their own affairs. Permit me to place...

'NOTICE.—When "'Correspondence" or Articles are signed aria the writer's name

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or iaitiala, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agree- ment with the views therein expressed or with the mode...

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THE TOURNAMENT.*

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Mn. CRIPPS-DAY'S History of the Tournament in England and in France will afford no small pleasure to all who care about the pomp and circumstance of the Middle Age. Its...

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ECHOES OF THE WAR.* SIR Dams BARRIE is almost unique

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among contemporary writers in his appeal to youth. Peter Pan is shortly to resume his annual sway for the fourteenth year in succession. But these fanciful and pathetic sketches...

THE MAKING OF MODERN YORKSHIRE.* ADDRESSING an assembly of Yorkshiremen

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in London in the year 1682, the then Dean of Worcester said : " Our County, as the Curious observe, is the Epitome of England : whatsoever is excellent in the whole land being...

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TRENCH-FEVER.*

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WITH the approaching demobilization of our huge and far-flung forces we must recognize the extreme likelihood, or rather the certainty, that we shall be brought face to face...

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FICTION.

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THE MAN FROM THE CLOUDS.t Ma. STOREH CLOUSTON, having written one excellent spy story, nas successfully challenged comparisons with himself in a second venture. The Man from...

AT HOME IN THE WAR.-

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IT is often piquant—and sometimes cruel—to contrast a man's latest book with his earliest. Many years ago, when Henley was Consul, Mr. Street turned author with• The...

GIFT-BOOKS.

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STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. THE true story of the Navy during the war, so far as we know it, has been more romantic than any tales of naval adventure that we have read....

RIcaniams NOVELS.—The Burning Glass. By. Marjorie Bowen. (Collins. 66. net.)--Mlle.

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de Lespinasse is the heroine of "Marjorie Bowen's " new romance. The false emotions of the artificial age in which she lived have never been more vividly. depicted than in this...

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SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

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[Notice Is this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.) THE DNCEMBES Monienaes.—The Nineteenth Century contains an instructive article by Mr. J. A. R. Marriott...

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Peraonalia. By E. S. P. Haynes. (Selwyn and Blount. 4a

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6d. net.)—In this pleasant little - volume of essays may be found reminiscences of the late Edward Thomas; of Master George Pollock, who was a son of the famous Chief Baron and...

We have received a copy of the Message addressed by

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the Governor of the Gold Coast, Sir Hugh Clifford, to the Legislative Council in regard to the Estimates for 1919, which throws an interesting light on the Constitutional...

Reveille. No. 2. Edited by John Galsworthy. (Stationery Office. 2s.

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6d. net.)—Mr. Galsworthy has enlisted many distin- guished contributors, like Mr. Hardy, M. Brieux, Sir Owen Seaman, and Mr. Chesterton, for this second number of his quarterly,...

Messrs. Edward Stanford have issued in good time for the

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Election an excellent coloured Two-Inch Map of London and its Environs (7s. (kl.), showing the new Parliamentary divisions, many of which differ widely from the old, especially...

Map Work. By Seymour Bryant and T. H. Hughes. (Clarendcn

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Press. 5s. net.)—As a stock-pot for lecturers on topography and field-surveying. Map Work will be warmly welcomed by teachers of such subjects, both military and civil. An...

Tory Democracy. By Henry Bentinck. (Methuen and Co. 3s. 6d.

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net.)—Lord Henry Bentinck professes himself a disciple of Disraeli. In this enthusiastic little book he expounds the case for the New Toryism with its gospel of the Commonwealth...

Selected Speeches and Documents in British Colonial Policy, 1763- 1917.

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Edited by A. B. Keith. 2 vols. (H. Milford. 4s. net.)— These two little volumes in the "World's Classics " contain a well-chosen series of speeches and documents illustrating...

The Round Table for December suggests that, as the Peace

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Conference " at its first session cannot hope to produce a written constitution for the globe or a genuine government of mankind," it should " estatilish a permanent annual...

The Saxon Bishops of Wells. By J. Armitage Robinson. (H.

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Milford, for the British Academy. 55. net.)—This valuable though highly technical essay by the Dean of Wells deals with some of the difficult problems of English history in the...